skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like them for being able to modify normally persistent structures to build them faster but still hand back a persistent one for the guarantees they allow throughout the rest of the system, threads or no.
Dilbert on Firewalls: A teaching moment
Fun piece that uses a Dilbert comic to explain some basic firewall considerations.
Can anyone explain why all these documents are not available for free? Why does the only place you can download them charge for the privilege?
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The trick is to alternate between high intensity and low intensity work when it feels right to do so. But to always be making some notable progress. Some days I just need to zone out, I can't concentrate, so instead I brainstorm, make a todo list, download some new github project, upgrade your tools (I spent yesterday installing Lion and almost nothing else). Do all that housekeeping work on those off days when your brain needs a rest. Don't worry so much about extending those super-productive peroids, but rather learn to ride the lower-productive ones such that you get back in the groove quickly.
Percentage of what? This is not Aaronsw but someone inspired by his actions.
Congrats guys. Google+ saw a trend within small groups and decided to enter that market. However, I would assume small groups aim to limit your time spent with those who aren't as close to you. Now, I have tons of circles, and connecting with even more people than ever. Its organized well, but whats the point? Facebook has Lists right? Buying out Fridge and growing a community from the ground is a much better/sustainable strategy for google. Just an opinion :)
The Future of Restaurant Tech, According to Boston Startup Textaurant
Why Is There No Sprint iPhone?
If the national reputations have been damaged, it is the fault of the nations in question, not that of the nameless executive. Nobody forced the prosecutorial abuses explicated in this article.

Be assured, however, that the thin blue line will continue to protect them just as much as Cisco will protect its executives.
iPad moves ahead of Android at corporations
When does data access become data theft?
Square what? Dwolla shows the power of cash networks
> They can't even come to a conclusion on climate change.

Who? Economists? Well, when the spectrum of climate change policies range from doing nothing to geo-engineering or reverting the economy to a time when there was mass poverty, disease and starvation, and given that warming predictions haven't panned out, I'm grateful economists haven't concluded anything.
True. If they would go and work for IBM, would it still sound so good? How come getting a job at Google is seen as a small Nobel price?
> Why does the only place you can download them charge for the privilege?

Because they can.
Scribd should index and host these. I doubt that would greatly add to their current huge scale. They could make a dedicated site for it. They could also probably get the help of the FOSS community to help make the search faster.
Yes, and while the behavior of Cisco was reprehensible there is also a requirement that the judiciary be a bit more skeptical when the government is so imprecise in their claims.

It would be a good thing if Canada imposed stricter evidentiary standards to extradition as a result of this.
Quite ironic, I just watched their promo video.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/TRYntzWLJ7Q

It literally says: "You don't have to worry about other people seeing what you posted, not that random person from school, not Google"
>Even something as uniquely American as hip-hop was taken, adopted by young disadvantaged Londoners and transformed into grime instead.

Actually, for years in the 80s the underground UK rap scene was dominated by british MCs rapping in fake west coast american accents. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h3Jd_PCrwQ

Throughout the 80s and the early 90s there was an ever growing minority of MCs who rapped in english accents and mocked the imitators. A lot of this involved incorporating jamaican accents, which is a characteristic of the modern london accent generally. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahFJmFcY98

Eventually this became normal and most people have forgotten this earlier americanised stage.
I'd say that the recent prominence of such lists, and articles, means that at least the general population is becoming somewhat aware of the issue. Without that, nothing much is likely to happen.

Perhaps it's difficult to assure you're being given what you're told, but at least people are starting to ask.

And when preservation such as fishing regulations are proposed, this will make sense to more people. Maybe all the more so when they realize that their individual decisions don't matter, aren't sufficient, because they're bing lied to.

I hope. The alternative is pretty dismal.
Pretty unfair that the "Emended Edition" of Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals gets the top spot. Daniel Styer really lucked out on getting the editor gig for that...
Why Bother with Marshall McLuhan?
MongoDB vs Cassandra
Hello,

This page should help:
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-examples-of-startup-...

Also check out http://startup-videos.com to find great videos for inspiration as well as a list of startups/freelancers offering that kind of services.

Hope it'll help.
True, the deck is about to be reshuffled again but I have my doubts about India and China, at least in their current contexts. Too many people, not enough water and other resources.
http://50grove.wistia.com/

http://grumomedia.com/

http://demogirl.com/
also, the summit in the mission (SF) is really cool too.
You can handle a much larger number of connections provided they don't do anything useful. However if you expect to do anything useful, you are likely to need some horizontal scalability once you have thousands of connections.

AdWords charge about $1 per click. Lets say your hardware budget is only $1 per connection. With 10K connections you still have enough money for 10 servers if you wanted.
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Not Everything Has to "Kill" Something Else
Deep packet inspection used to stop censorship
For Mashable's Follow introduction video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLazF5KxUc ), we used Epipheo: http://www.epipheostudios.com/
Sorry, the "they" was too vague, I meant politicians. There are many in Congress that don't believe that climate change even exists. It seems that most scientists believe that it is the case though.
Interesting observation about the French depiction of Americans in film. I've spent a lot of time in France and the UK, and I'm amazed (and depressed) with how pervasive the notion of French anti-americanism has become in the US. While there is certainly plenty of political tension, the personal hostility to Americans attributed to the French has been (just my experience) wildly overblown.
Five reasons why you should rejoice about Kotlin
"It's what I had to do to keep my job" isn't some sort of cure-all justification for unethical/criminal behavior.
A Minimal (168-byte) Mach-o ARM executable for iOS
Yeah -- I totally agree that Apple's done a better job making this usable for developers and thus users, but that's what Apple does with everything.

I wish someone would do a great iris biometric app for the Mac and iPhone, and would incorporate a hw tamper-resistant chip for password to key mapping (to reduce all brute force attempts to "online" vs. "offline"). iCloud kinda solves the latter by potentially letting you push auth out into the cloud.
If you don't have friends that can be your cofounders, these events really are the next best thing. You can immediately see who is interesting, who works hard, and who just talks a lot.
It makes a ton of sense to find co-founders at Hackathons.

Lots of startup teams find each other at previous jobs or when working on a school project.
Lytro's First Supermodel
I was just thinking of buying some Cisco routers (low-end for them -- I'm sure it's a drop in the bucket for them), but I'm definitely not going to now. This image of Cisco will be hard for me shake.
More explicitly stated:

Robin Hood did not "rob from the rich and give to the poor". He attacked oppressors and protected the oppressed (only rarely giving them money). While the oppressors tended to be rich and the oppressed tended to be poor, there were exceptions. IIRC, there is even a tale where Robin protects a wealthy knight from peasants who are trying to rob him.
Scientific publications/journals are highly ineffective, but what is the alternative? The current system is so entrenched in the politics of science - you need publications in respectable journals to advance your career or to get grants.

It's going to be very difficult to break.
So, zero? That's disappointing.
I have and if you use blocking IO or NIO its like twenty lines, code just about any one can read and maintain. Why make it more complicated than it needs to be?
Is this[1] the "manifesto"?

If not can someone post it so I don't have to get around the block.

[1]: http://cdmirror.textfiles.com/JSTOR_01_PhilTrans/1st_READ.tx...
EDIT: I should delete this because it is wrong, but I won't so as not to confuse the reply.

Thanks, gwern. Sorry for not RTFA first, but I've adopted a habit of reading comments first.

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I believe these documents are still under copyright, so that would give them significant liability. They exist as a DMCA compliant company, so they are protected from their users' actions; but, pro-actively doing what you suggest would remove the DMCA protections.
I like Austin, but a group I was part of used Fridge and it made my pull my hair.

Thanks to Fridge, I now know how my grandmother feels like using a computer. The UI was really overwhelming and I could never find what I was after or why things were sorted a certain way.
You Need To Be Thinking About Mobile Market Research Now
If I could add something to this list, it would be to stop judging people (sounds religious) because everyone is different. Hence, surrounding yourself with different people makes you realize new markets, and helps you come up with different ideas. Most people have a simple side to them so identify it, and mass produce their simple solutions in a concrete fashion.

Smiling usually helps in the initial introduction to meeting different people :)
Another article mentioned frid.ge had 40.000 uniques and 20.000 groups. Does that say something?
So, the solution to one publisher locking up and charging for access to public domain material is... copying the material to another publisher that likes locking up and charging for access?
Watch Harry Potter Megavideo
Watch Harry Potter Megavideo
This is more sad the Harry Potter film yet but what is more problematic is that it is also the most mysterious Viewers who have not read the books or seen the previous films lost a complex plot
Nokia's Newest NFC Phones Won't Support Mobile Wallets
Airlines need to do 2 things to speed up the boarding process:

1. Charge for more than one carry-on item, and do not charge for checked baggage.

2. Get checked baggage off the plane and to passengers in a reasonable amount of time.
What we really need is a latex compiling tool like pdflatex except the output is a series of HTML files. And while I know that there exists some versions out there, we really need one that doesn't suck, along with internet appropriate style files, that just spits out html+javascript+css.
As the political structures become more like the networks we rely on, there's no hierarchy to subvert, just protocols and sites to exploit. Galloway and Thacker's books _Protocol_ and _The Exploit_ have an interesting philosophical discussion of how power struggles will play out in the coming years.
Tell HN: I want to solve your problems
As a developer or an entrepreneur, what are your biggest problems?
Quit Being a Dick, Cowboy Up and Pay Your Taxes
I'm sure the content is interesting but the website's design seems dull and generic.
I've got an idea about this in the concept phase. Think OSS meets science.
> The portion of the collection included in this archive, ones published prior to 1923 and therefore obviously in the public domain, total some 18,592 papers and 33 gigabytes of data.

> The documents are part of the shared heritage of all mankind, and are rightfully in the public domain, but they are not available freely. Instead the articles are available at $19 each--for one month's viewing, by one person, on one computer. It's a steal. From you.
That was the point I was trying to make :) OP suggested that whoever made the decision should face criminal liability. I said that all the other people involved should face it too.
The Emperor’s New Clothes and Google Plus
Is modern copyright even valuable? Except for brief moments in time (early music recording, early software sales, the recent iOS store, occasionally writers), copyright has mostly benefited the people who enforce it (the publishers) and not the people whose works are protected (the authors). I morally support compensating creators, but legal (and now criminal) copyright seems to have no benefit.
>Really? Make that one person, but there are surely more.

What liberties do you feel are at stake? Do you feel oppressed - that suddenly your rights may be taken away? Could you expand? I currently have no idea why you would feel this way.

>Who are a bunch of flawed humans to judge anything? Physics operates on a totally open system of merit. Economics as well. Doctors are directly responsible to reality. These are sciences. Government is not a science, and it is an intention of the system that the people should be able to evaluate it.

Flawed humans can judge the things which we have expertise over. Business is not a science either, but in many partnerships, one trusts the opinions of the other simply because they have more experience. You're right, that government is not a science. Yet, that doesn't eliminate the possibility of experts being better versed than the majority of people who have an opinion on the matter.

>Incidentally, we do not "leave medicine to the doctors" in any realistic sense -- there are numerous byzantine legal controls on the medical profession, such as, for example, the FDA. To "leave medicine to the doctors" would be to abolish the FDA

The FDA is a regulating body, kind of like the government. Now, what if they're also corrupt? Unlike government issues, we don't (I know some do, yes) apply as much pressure on the FDA because most people realize they don't understand how complex chemicals work. Yet, they think they understand complex social initiatives because it's more 'down to earth'.

> Ultimately, experience is not a guarantee of competence or even a strong indicator in most fields, be it physics or government.

Agreed, without objection. Yet, how do we know the replacement will be more competent? If we miss that mark, it'll just be someone of the same competency (with slight deviation), without the 20 years of mistakes to learn from. I remember working with an electrical engineer, who pointed out a large amount of issues that no degree of competence could have foreseen - because he had been in the field for so long.

> I realize it about you, specifically. Would you argue that because of their positions, the heads of the DEA and TSA are necessarily more competent than the vast number of medical, legal, and security experts who argue that their actions are often unnecessary and unjustified? There are people outside the government capable -- perhaps superbly so -- of analyzing the merit of government action.

Sure, but how do we identify who is right, out of the thousands of people who are wrong? I'm not arguing that the government is perfect. I'm simply saying it might be the most practical system.
I don't fully understand the logic. Even if the underlying content is free, how are JSTOR scans public domain? If Google spends millions of dollars scanning in public domain books, I don't see how that gives Bing the right to download them all from Google unless given permission.

It also seems we all benefit from allowing companies to invest in scanning public domain works since for whatever reason nobody is doing this by hand now.
Comparing Apples to Workloads: The Pricing Problem with Cloud Services
cool concept. congrats on launching.

these are the same guys who did national geographic's search for genghis khan! http://exploration.nationalgeographic.com
Our Next Chapter at Etsy: A Letter to the Community
The one about white text on dark background is also quite a good laugh (http://uxmovement.com/color/when-to-use-white-text-on-a-dark...).
Please clarify this statement.

Are you suggesting that my distain for LulzSec and its methods are some how the result of brain washing or extreme trama?

And if "We the people" are the Sheriff in this little Robin Hood adventure, who are the poor villagers Robin is trying to help?

What a ridiculous reply. Or are we just naming random psychological phenomenon? If thats the case, I choose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme%E2%80%93color_synesthe...
>The problem with that line of thinking is that there is no universally accepted, objective standard of what defines a just and unjust law. Do we make those decisions based on Natural Law? How about on the teachings of Mohammed? Jesus? etc.

Everything every human does is solely their reaction to their perception. It is as possible to misperceive the law itself as it is to differ on ethical reality; this is irrelevant to the reasoning of any individual. The law is a fluid entity, created by humans, and it is obviously incomplete as evidenced by the fact that we keep modifying it. Furthermore, some notion of ethics has to exist in order to create any law at all.

There is a large body of work in the field of ethics, and it is not really unreasonable for most people to try to understand it. While many philosophers disagree on particulars or even the entire foundation, there are many common elements in the philosophy of people as different as Kant and Nietzsche.

So yes, you have to react to what you consider to be a just law, just as you have to react to what you consider to be the law -- how many people do you know who actually know the law? In practice, this does not usually lead to much difficulty, if all of the participants agree to use at least a little logic.

The best analogy I can come up with is language -- everyone speaks their own version of language (even when everyone is speaking the "same language), and if the rules are codified anywhere it is inevitably a tiny subset of the language that is actually used. Despite this, human communication has been quite successful over the past several millenia.
Why would you say he is misguided? I'm not taking his side, I'm just curious as to what the solution to the problem would be.
Don't think this will work out as well. Not only can you get paid to do OSS, but we (programmers) also have the option of obtaining very high paying jobs while working on OSS projects on the side. Not only this, but lots of research requires quite a bit more expensive equipment than writing software. I mean I would love to see something like this work but I have my doubts :)
The whole concept of "intellectual property" rests on a pretty shaky intellectual and moral foundation.

The big problem I see with "IP" is independent invention. If the act of inventing something is so important that we must give special rights to someone who invents, then we should also be looking at the quality of independent inventino. And note that such independent invention happens all the time. Look up the Bill Maher/The Onion "Afterbirther" saga. Who invented the telephone? Who invented the telgraph? Who invented radio? Who invented "the computer"? All cases where there's a legitimate claim to independent invention. So, given that independent invention happens all the time, why should we give ownership to the first person to file papers? Shouldn't we give ownership to the person who had the biggest inspiration to get the idea? The least incremental conception should get ownership.
NeXTSTEP wasn't spartan and understated because they wanted it like that. It was spartan and understated because the original NeXT hardware was (mostly) black and white until 1994. If you ran NeXTSTEP on a colour system it actually had quite a bit of colour. Certainly as much or more than its contemporaries (windows 3.1/NT, OS/2, Solaris and Irix).

I think this current obsession minimalism is just fashion for fashion sake.
Clearly you have not thought through the idea that you simply don't need to buy any of that crap.

I submit you don't actually need to buy anything that Sony makes.
Yup - US only. unhappy face.
I'd draw a distinction between talent acquisitions to go join the general pool of people at a big company, and talent acquisitions to work on the big new focus of a "sleeping giant", in something similar to what you were doing before.
Well, there is a non-zero cost to hosting and delivering documents, as well as creating the infrastructure to allow it.

Those costs must be made up somehow in the business model.

(before I get flamed, I'm not arguing that all documents should be $19 per article. I'm just saying that there's a non-zero cost that needs to be passed on to the customers somehow).
Worked from home for about 7 years ... at first this was a problem, but the biggest step you can take to solve this is getting an office space in your home, where the only thing you do there is work ... it helps a lot if it has doors that you can shut so that you can give yourself the mental feeling of 'going' to work.

The second thing you can do is have set hours ... doesn't mean you force yourself to be up at 9am ... but do make it regular, even if it is from 12pm to 3pm (or whatever) take it seriously. No TV (can't stress this enough), no running to the store, or the post office to take care of that quick thing.

Those two things really helped me a lot, hope it helps you out too.
The radar is not for the planes. The controllers on the ground look at the big picture and direct traffic for appropriate separation requirements. It's their radar that would pick up the craft.

Nobody actually gets "clearance" from the FAA. The administration sets the framework and guidelines for operation. This would fall under an unmanned aircraft of some sort, and would be subject to the airspace regulations it operated in. Believe it or not, hot air balloons actually have the right of way in any airspace since they are the most difficult to control.
Zappos.com Redirect Exploit
Is software the issue? I think the problem is that the only way to get your science out to other scientists is through journals. Yeah journals filter the good research from the bad, but there has to be a better way. The review process itself isn't even great.

A better system would also allow for the release of negative data.
Robin Hood has stood for a lot of things depending on which poem one reads and which people in which century's opinion of him is being counted. One of the most popular traditions of Robin Hood is of him as monarchist supporting the true king, Richard, and opposing Richard's brother, John (the one defeated at Runnymeade. By the way, this is over 500 years old, not invented in the 19th century as some think.) You can think of Anonymous in the same way -- they are opposing an illegitimate regime and would happily stand down should the excesses of the FBI et al be ended by the government.
Well said.

There is no difference between what Lulzsec and Anonymous do, compared with the FBI storming into a data centre without warrants and grabbing hardware.

None at all. In fact, the FBI did more damage.
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I've been using Lion for months, and the lack of contrast still throws me off when I'm trying to figure out which window has focus. They all look inactive all the time.