skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I Can't understand. Why this happened to such a peaceful nation ?!
"Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas acknowledged that the Xfinity software hijacks Firefox’s settings."... Anything after that is irrelevant
I think that strategy is the most careful and probably gives you the best success ratio, but as the introducer, it takes a lot more time / mental cycles to keep track of everything. That would cause me to make fewer intros. The guy can still ignore you if he doesn't to engage. And I pretty much only intro if I think there's a 60+% chance that the other party will want to engage.
chuckle And vi (et. al.) is just so cute if all you want to do is edit, too. ;-)
Google Engineer: Java Options “All Suck”, Android “Needs to Negotiate a License”
Most of the time, in my own experience, when I am close to falling asleep while driving, I would have never been able to realize how tired I was before leaving on the trip. Even if you feel wide awake before you leave your destination, a late night drive on the highway can induce sleep, with the hum of the highway and the flying by of the lines on the road.

You're basically suggesting that people decide to not get in their cars if they even slightly think they might be too tired to drive. You know as well as I do that there's no way to measure this (unlike drinking, where if you consumed any alcohol in the last several hours you shouldn't get behind the wheel.) So, it's a bit of a pipe dream to think drivers are actually in the position to make a judgement call about their own risk of falling asleep at the wheel before leaving.

Regardless, my point was that these safety systems are meant to protect responsible drivers from irresponsible ones. I'm skeptical that the presence of safety systems could somehow convert a responsible driver to an irresponsible one.
Once again, they won't benefit if the systems aren't a hell of a lot better than Mercedes was capable of producing in 2006.

And unless you know what's going on "under the hood" well enough to either evaluate their code or design a real-world test that you can perform in an empty parking lot…you're left to decide based on what Mercedes says. And they're never going to say "our system can't detect the cause of a skid…it just reacts based on detecting the speed wheels are spinning and assumes the driver is completely incompetent."

Some of the systems are great. There's no reason a car sold today shouldn't have ABS: the driving techniques required to get similar performance out of non-ABS brakes are very skill specific and time-intensive to develop. It's not worth it for >99% of drivers. And there are "good" traction control systems. Subaru's computer-controlled differentials in their AWD system are pretty good. But that system isn't capable of making a mistake as bad as the "active braking" systems that are coming out.
Another Google account deletion
I use Backupify to at least maintain a copy of everything with a second, separate service, just in case. It's free at my volumes, and I think a prudent idea for those of us with everything in "the cloud".
How did we ever survive before Twitter?!
Google Says It Rejected $100 Million Java Deal From Sun in Patent Trial
A fair point.

Still, I have a hard time seeing any Minecraft scenario under which "there's not enough cobblestone" is a valid complaint. Even without using cobblestone generators, it's incredibly abundant.

The other resources I listed (wood, water, charcoal) are all renewable in a practical sense.
I cannot find that string in the linked article, or the TweetLonger post that the article links to.
What are you talking about?
A Robot that Flies Like a Bird ( No, Really )
If it makes you feel better, the first thing I thought upon seeing the headline was 'well, the Xbox market certainly isn't shrinking'.
Crashes, mostly.
I liked agility.js. But why are you using REST by default ? I know it's "cool" (= you can read this "other's use it" or "it's cacheable/more easy to understand" etc.) but i really hate when someone dictates me something.
> I guess I just feel like they have more important enemies, from their perspective, to attack.

What do you believe their motivations are?
I just verified that it works in IE8 without Chrome Frame. I think what they mean by "legacy support is enabled" is "it's fugly but it works."
Uh, yes they do. The options are 64/128 for the 11", and 128/256 for the 13".
Their more important enemies are also probably more difficult to attack.
Ask HN: How to keep entire office up to date of metrics?
Hi HN,

In an attempt to make our team more aware of our key metrics like user signup, sales, amount sold, etc., we were planning on putting up a monitor on the wall.

Inspired by http://loggly.com/blog/2011/03/woot/,
we now want to play a loud sound when a sale is made. Preferably a cash register sound.

Is there some type of cheap mp3-wifi-enabled gadget that can poll a specific url and play a mp3 when a sale is made? Or a similarly effective method of notifying everyone?

Thank you.
Often, schoolyard bullies attack peaceful bystanders of high status, if they think they can get away with it. Often, they even think of some justification for themselves. I think the same principle applies here.
Ironically, most of those in incubator end up working for Google anyways.
I could use all the RAM available. Ideally I would need 8 GB. But my thinking is that with the high I/O throughput of the SSD in the Air, swapping from disk won't lead to a perceptible performance drop.

I will occasionally have access to a server for particularly intensive tasks. But I would like to be able to code from my bed, in a coffee shop, library, bus, etc. Hence my fascination for the Air.

What kind of stuff do you do that uses up 32 GB RAM? Is your data set huge, or are your algorithms RAM intensive?
It's important to know that it's not Microsoft as a whole that hates Linux, the company is really split into three ideological factions: (1) The Gates Worshipers, (2) The Open Source Geeks and (3) The iWorlders

Those in (1) are the old guard, and opinions are hard to change. They tend to be near the top and want to return to the Bill Gates way of the iron fist.

Those in (2) are most of the programmers/devtools folks at Microsoft. They grew up and went to school (and maybe even came from academia) using Open Source and still love it. They are why you see things like F# being open sourced.

Then there are those in (3) which tend to be more on the XBox/Windows Phone side. Just like Apple, they don't really care about Linux. What they want is to offer another walled garden so they can take your money with little effort.
Google has a support problem. I'm amazed after almost a decade of offering services like email and advertising, they still haven't done anything to develop a reasonable support system for customers to address issues like this. Maybe they have a few open lines with their top 1% of customers but the attitude that "it's free, you are a meaningless statistic in our giant revenue stream so too bad" for the rest of their customers in unacceptable.

Your data in Google could disappear in an instant, and you may never know why. That is just scary to me. Advertising, email, - everything - with no one to call and no recourse to get it back.

I will be actively trying to move all my services off of Google starting today.
And if your out to sow terror, then why not attack someone like Norway. If they can get countries as 'moderate' or whatever the word is as Norway (or Canada) to panic, and clam up, and think twice about international engagement (Norway does/did have a non trivial presence in Afghanistan as others have pointed out), then they're good.

I mean really, what is Norway going to do to you that America can't?

For a really twisted and super simplified frame of reference, think of the Joker's plan in Dark Knight. Put some 'innocents' in a screwed up situation to bring out the worst of them.
Use capistrano to deploy Rails apps to Windows servers
Google+ makes getting backup of all your data really easy (https://www.google.com/takeout/). I'm really worried about Google horror stories but I like using their services, so I'll just settle with doing regular backups.
FWIW Bejeweled [Blitz] requires skill. I'm moderately good, second in my circle of friends and I go off the boil if I've not played it for a while, it takes time to get back into the groove. That said they do manipulate the scoring a lot and there is a lot of pressure to buy, buy, buy to get a higher score (that I've resisted, that's not my thing).

Bejeweled is a very well constructed Skinner Box that has been effectively optimised over time. TBH it should be part of a course on addiction psychology, it probably is.

Interesting comments nonetheless. Thanks for sharing.
It's funny because this would be a feature for Facebook that people want...
The problem with distributed command & control, is that sometimes small groups of people working on their own initiative can talk themselves into wacked-out stuff. There is a lesson here for startups.

EDIT: And by "wacked-out" I mean, "wack by even the standards of Al Qaeda." 9-11 didn't help their cause in my eyes, but I can see how they justified it to themselves. Whoever bombed Oslo - is a WTF on top of a WTF.
This isn't the first post on HN about this. The other one has the reply from Google.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2793784
Using an iPhone still feels like a clumsy solution. I think the real application will use some ASIC in your insulin pump to do the processing, and immediately adjust the dosage.
Dissecting Autism as a culture
Looks like the comment was intended for this thread:

Didn't Get Into TechStars? Don't Sweat it (currentlyobsessed.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2794477
Well, it's just the way he interprets the bible. He says that Eve was a courageous person. She ate from the tree of knowledge, thus breaking a rule that would otherwise have prevented her personal development.

But feel free to buy the book anyway. :-)
This is an incredible possibility.
There are also several sections of the official Minecraft forums dedicated to finding or hosting servers.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/49-starting-up-looking-f...
Building API Developer Business Models
You don't make the decision to drive and then that's it. At any point, you can decide "i'm too tired," and pull off.

Take a nap in your car. Let someone else drive if you're not alone. Call a cab and pick up your car in the morning. Call Safe Ride, and they'll send a driver and a moped that will fit in your trunk if you're somewhere they operate.

There are always alternatives to putting yourself in a dangerous situation. And, I believe these systems will lead people to drift further into these types of dangerous situations before even thinking about safer alternatives.
I've been following this on Twitter, and frankly the search is useful for one thing only: identifying people who tweet from there. For any real information, you have to go directly to their full streams. The search results are cluttered to no end with retweets and it's hard to tell if the retweet you're seeing on the front page of results is of a story from two hours. Just identify the usernames of most commonly retweeted people and get the information from them.

Incidentally Google News has been very useful in locating more official accounts.
Why Mobile UX is More Than “Users On-The-Go”
I would think it certainly could. Whether it SHOULD, depends on the reason for testing blood alcohol levels:

Blood alcohol vis-a-vis alcohol intoxication: With widespread use of breathalyzers, I don't know if this technology would be an improvement. Having to get a tattoo to test for blood alcohol levels seems overkill (at least the tattoo would be necessary in the current stage of the technology's development). While not perfect, available technology (IMO) seems to be doing a sufficient job.

Liver disorders, cirrhosis, hepatitis, other liver disease: There are other diagnostics more appropriate than testing for blood alcohol content (BAC)for these. Ethanol is metabolized by the liver relatively quickly.

There may be applications for testing blood alcohol, but I don't think this technology is enough of an improvement to make it viable. A doctor may disagree. That is just my opinion.
Does TC have any shares in Color Labs?
That's pretty cool, if it is correct.
I haven't played it much, but I've always felt it would make an interesting iPad game. Seems like it wouldn't be too complex to put an objective-c wrapper around the code.
I used to play World of Warcraft and I used a separate email address for all my WoW activities on web -- emailing, blogging, commenting on blogs, etc.

One day I was about to leave a comment on a blog when I got a message saying Google disabled my account due to the fact that they "perceived a violation." There was a little form I could submit an appeal/explanation to, and they said they would review my account within 30 days.

Being cut off from the WoW blogosphere wasn't the worst thing in the world. About three weeks later I did get access to my account. Turns out I was hacked and the hacker used my account to spam a bunch of people -- not surprising especially since I used a pretty crappy password. Luckily my actual Battle.net account was under my main e-mail address, so ultimately no damage was done.

Still, all I could think was, "man, if this happened to my main email address, I would be so incredibly hosed it wouldn't be funny."
Not liking all that html/js mixed together in every single example...

Each to their own! :-)
I'm trying to understand your point of view, but I'm a bit confused about something (I'm probably just completely misunderstanding it). In the context of select boxes, it seems like the only advantage of mouse-down activation vs mouse-up is that you could click, hold, "drag" to your selection, and release. This would only be advantageous if your selection is near the top.
I was at work 3 blocks away from the bombing. If there were several bombings, they were detonated simultanously. I heard a single bang and our building shook once.

I'll add that the blast was unlike anything I've withnessed, even 3 blocks away.
It's not the average drivers that need help, its the bad drivers. The ones who roll through a red light turning right, but look left the entire time, which is a very common way for pedestrians to get hit by cars. The system in the article would probably prevent tons of those accidents. I'm all for taking control away from bad drivers, even if that means we also have to take control away from the average and good drivers.
Headsets would also decrease your ability to hear other things. You'd hear the prius with the transmitter but not the real cars or other pedestrians or bicycles.

Dumb idea.
It's actually not that hard to get the basics if you're used to ASCII graphics or using a tileset. I was able to figure out how to play it (with the help of the wiki for laptop-friendly controsl) in only half an hour of poking around, mostly.
Norway is a Western nation.
If I had to choose a single game to play for the rest of my life, Dwarf Fortress would be an easy choice. The ability to build massively complex systems in a massively complex world appeals to the part of my brain that made me an engineer. There is so much potential in this game. So many things... hidden. So many stories to share.

Just watch out for the Elephants. Or Carp. Or Badgers. Or the random, world-swallowing bugs.
The "logic" escapes me.

So, if you didn't make it into a program that gets 600 requests and accepts 2%(1) go ahead and apply to a company that four years ago got 1,000,000 applications a year and only accepted 0.05%. (2)

I get what he's saying but Step 1 being simply "get a job at google" is just baffling.

(1) http://ask.techstars.org/how-many-companies-apply-to-techsta...

(2) http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-receives-1000000-j...
From Cuba, Venezuela's Chavez governs via Twitter
AP is a co-op,
From their about page [http://www.ap.org/pages/about/about.html]

"AP is a not-for-profit news cooperative"

The techdirt article makes it sound like AP just figured out how to hyperlink.

If you read the original article,[http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/ap-will-link-back-to-newspa...]

its easy to see that that AP is proposing to link the actual story (scoop) from its member news organizations and only from their member news organisations.

Running as a non-profit co-operative news organisation presents its own set of challenges other than just technical, I guess.
Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Hack That Kills Or Corrupts Batteries
So you are in favor of technology that takes control away from drivers as long as it works? Perhaps we are actually on the same page here...
CodeLesson Challenges University Model
What everyone should know about the human eye
2 iPad1,1
1 iPad2,1
1 iPad2,3

3 iPhone1,1
2 iPhone1,2
2 iPhone2,1
1 iPhone3,1
1 iPhone3,3

2 iPod2,1
1 iPod3,1
2 iPod4,1

4 AppleTV2,1

+ tons of Android devices

Really, you need a lot of devices as a developer if you are going to seriously test anything, given the number of firmware/device pairings seen in the wild, especially given that Apple actually refuses to allow developers to manually reflash their phones with non-current firmware versions. :(
I've been using them since their beta. While I haven't had need to download any of the backups, I'm grateful to know that if something were to happen I won't have lost access to my data.
But, see, the trouble here is that these users aren't customers. They're product sold to advertisers.

When I was spending a few million a year on AdWords, guess who had a direct line to Google, both via email and on the phone? I could talk to those guys whenever I wanted about campaigns, get advice on improving my keyword mix, budgeting strategies, any of that stuff.

From this business' point of view, individuals just don't matter. You could piss off hundreds or thousands of them and not make any dent on the bottom line, since they're not the ones who put money into Google's pockets and they're easily replaced.

The incentives are lined up in ways that, for the most part, work fine, but if you expect Google to care about you at the scale they operate, with the business mix they currently enjoy, you'd better be on the advertiser side of the equation.
And if they're running through a red light, that means the cross street has a green.

The pedestrian might be in slightly less danger if the car reacts properly. But then the car stops unexpectedly and the driver wonders what happens…and winds up stopped in an intersection for some nonzero amount of time.

Also, unless I'm visualizing this wrong (right turn on red hits a pedestrian in the crosswalk to his right that's parallel to his original direction of travel) the only way the pedestrian would have been in that crosswalk at all is if s/he was crossing against the light and crossing the path of cars going straight on a green.
Barcelona Becomes "Mobile World Capital"
Adobe software breaks down on Mac OS X Lion
More than a dozen Adobe products are not working properly on Mac OS X Lion, Apple's new desktop operating system, continuing Adobe's struggles to make its software compatible with Apple products. Adobe initially claimed Lion dropped support for Flash hardware acceleration. While it later retracted that claim, the list of Adobe products with issues on Lion is still a long one.
The problem is simple: The iPad lacks the horsepower to run the game at approaching a playable rate. Now if you were running it on another machine and playing by remote desktop.... Maybe. But to me this game simply demands a keyboard.
LG says Samsung OLED Display Development for Smartphones and Tablet is Misguided
I hate to be pithy, but if we aren't paying anything are we really customers? This isn't Google-specific, it's a side-effect of the services paid for by advertising model. I think it was Chomsky who said that newspapers don't sell news to people, they sell audiences to advertisers. It's fine because we get the news, but really we aren't the customer.
I've tested LPS in the past. Their primary goal is to provide access to your "enclave" (remote access services offered by your command) while leaving no trace on the local machine. So you could be staying at the Omni Hotel in Belgrad and still check your command email from their business center.

As a practical matter, it verges on completely useless for any serious business. Note the screenshots don't include evidence of Citrix running, or even a web browser. There's no package management. You couldn't install it if you wanted to. As I recall, I never got networking up. That was a snapshot release from ... March, I believe.

I'm glad to see someone in US government working on desktop Linux. I would love to say goodbye to Windows XP. That said, for the advertized purpose, I've found an Ubuntu thumbdrive much more practical.
The Anticipation of Being Re-Tweeted
I have always had an inkling that video games should be considered as applied math. According to Tarn, the author of Dwarf Fortress, who also has a Ph.D in math, making games "scratches all the same itches" as math. That sounds just right to me.
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Your engineers will most likely hate this. A loud sound is going to pull them out of flow and prevent them from getting any work done.

Someone on one of my former teams once rigged up the continuous build to a speaker that played the Star Trek red alert sound every time the build broke. It was a cute idea, but it was taken down after a day or two because it distracted far too many people.
I dunno... That is a lot of leaps of logic there. If had remained the same pattern, then definitely, but I'd like to see his justification for switching up the pattern.
Very cool, guys. Great way to create leads and get feedback for the startups involved.
Third time someone crack it this year.
Hey there, thanks for the feedback. I'm using REST b/c that's what I normally use on the server side (also it's pretty popular).

Feel free to contribute your own adapter - it's really easy to create one! Get in touch if you need help.
Good luck with that. Half the Acropolis has been in London for the past two centuries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles)
Why not just offer a set of patches? It's a lot of work to create and maintain a distro.

Or the DoD could always go back to helping OpenBSD :)
So a cryptographer dismissed this result and the police aren't looking at it. Third or fourth time someone's cracked this, this year. Why is this special? Seems he took a lot of assumptions.

Forgive me. But I've seen Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart (satirically for Jon) make ridiculous connections using numbers. That's what I saw when I read, right after the Virgin Island 340 area code:

This is where it gets even creepier. 3+4+0=7. Right. So you get 7+0=7. 707...707 are the area codes for Vallejo, Napa, and Solano.

Also, is the message decoded supposed to look that nonsensical? What did the other Zodiac decoded messages look like? Were they more coherent?
The thing is.. You know that TechStars and YC are a bunch of VERY smart VCs and entrepreneurs. You have a huge respect and read everything from them. You're passionate about software engineering and had job offers from great companies but said "No, I want to start my business".

And then, those great guys just refuse you. Whatever the way they say it (Awesome other participants, not enough $ to fund everyone), it still mean that they had the opportunity to take you, and they said no. It talks for itself.. Why the fuck would you continue your startup if these extremely smart guys didn't want/trust you?