skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The column approach seems to make things clunky to me. From my viewpoint it would be better to see flagged posts grayer - just as comments with negative points, possibly with setting threshold in preferences (since it would be quite stupid to see eg. all page of 'grayed' posts).
Revenge is found across all cultures, e.g., see Jared Diamond's New Yorker article "Vengeance is Ours":

http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/war/diamond-vengeance.pdf

It has nothing to do with Christian dogma. In fact as the OP asserts, most religions/social systems attempt to control the individual's desire for vengeance.
Same thing happened to me. I just ignored the request.

"The most dangerous type of asshole is the one that thinks he's not one."

The only benefit in accepting this guy's "connection request" is that you would be introduced to his social graph. These are people who either think he's an a-hole and arent interested in meeting you (as his connection) or who are accepting of the way he behaves. Either way I dont think it'll benefit you.
4G LTE Galaxy Tab 10.1 goes on Sale on July 28
Yes, you should avoid reading patents that relate to areas that you actively work in.
Try these shortcuts

Arrow keys - As it is :)

Spacebar - Scroll down

J - Go down the sections

K - Go up the sections

F - Hide sidebar

R - Refresh

T - Top News

Btw this is what the chrome webstore App is, why is everyone shocked!??
http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/
> I think the present emphasis on prisons as solely a form of rehabilitation is misguided.

I don't think that's currently an emphasis outside of a handful of countries with extremely liberal views on the matter, Norway being probably the most extreme case. In the U.S., for example, punishment and a desire by politicians to appear "tough on crime" seem the main factors. I certainly don't think sentence lengths are calculated based on statistical evidence about which sentence lengths would actually be most effective in reducing crime.

I'd make the opposite claim, myself: I think the present emphasis on prisons as solely a form of punishment is misguided. In particular, I have no interest in my money being used to subsidize somebody else's desire for revenge. I'm okay with paying a minimal amount of taxes to lock people up when absolutely necessary, but I'd like that to be scientifically determined so people are locked up in the most cost-effective way, when actually needed to deter crime and reduce recidivism. But paying into a "socialized revenge" public subsidy? No thanks.
"Strange thing is: There are almost no sounds of revenge in Norway."

I'm certain it depends on whom you ask. The ones who would seek revenge most fervently would be direct family members. They are currently in mourning.
That's because it's not a mobile app but a Chrome browser app.
Anonymous targets Norway killer’s manifesto
Bufferbloat 2: The Need for Speed
Overall, a nice idea. I'd have a very close look at what successful wine sites have done in this space. Allow the best of what they've done to influence your initial product.

Specifically:

1.
Hire a designer. Based on your design, you're a programmer. You're likely a very good one. Stick to that, there's more money in it :) The words you've used and the general block layout you've created are well done, but you need to have the site styled up. Whiskey is sold based on style and your site will live or die in it.

2.
This is a user generated content site but you're not promoting the ugen aspect of it. For example, check out this listing page: http://www.whiskeynotes.com/releases/Jameson-18-Year-Irish-W... Without registering, it should be blatantly obvious (and attractive) for the user to contribute photos, video, reviews and ratings. It should also be easy for users to provide feedback on other user reviews.

3.
How can I see the highest rated whiskey's?

4.
Is there a way for users to buy the whiskey directly from your website?

5.
Have you called the sales reps at the whiskey companies that are highly rated? You should talk to them about how you can integrate your site in to their marketing. This extends beyond simple advertising. They will likely be happy to provide you with custom, unique photographs, direct people to add honest reviews, etc.

6.
You should sell an regularly delivered document to whiskey industry folks. They'd be interested in a summary of reviews, ratings and trends. I'd do this from the start and charge a healthy monthly fee for it.
Twilio Client Lets Developers Integrate VoIP Calling Into Any Application
Original Source:
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/guides/paperplanes/0,,20...
I think the headline should be, "FireWire is insecure and can be used to dump the contents of your RAM." But that's always been true, regardless of OS.

Edit: the WinLockPwn tool has been available since 2008, you can just plug one computer into another and dump the RAM. You can then use "signatures" to search for passwords for various systems, including Windows. http://web.archive.org/web/20090402130220/http://storm.net.n...

I like this part:

I'm also pleased to note... the guy who did it by plugging a Cardbus Firewire card into a laptop that didn't have firewire, waiting for it to auto install it (while at the locked screen!) then winlockpwning it. That's awesome. :)

So, even if your laptop doesn't currently have firewire, you're still not safe.
Good point, thanks. I have to admit that while I try to avoid driving when I'm weary I haven't thought about this in context of the story above.

You are totally correct, again thanks for pointing that out.
Ah, wonderful explanation. Thanks. That circular reasoning issue is very interesting, too.
What we really need is a crowd-sourcing platform for prior art research

Something where someone could submit a piece of prior art and for each of the claims in the patent describe how the prior art invalidates that claim. Plus some sort of discussion forum for people to discuss the prior art.

A few companies did launch in this space about a decade back (offering bounties that would be paid by companies getting sued over the patents), but no-one seems to have really succeeded in gaining traction.
Thanks for pointing that out.

I find it more difficult to discern these things in the online format. With the regular newspaper, there are plenty of visual cues that make it clear about what is the author's opinion vs. the papers. Not so with the online edition.
How to : Make Official Vanity URL for Google+ User | Google Plus Users
A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns
Unfortunately, you still need to deal with this crap, thanks to the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and more broadly the Paris Convention. While it goes without saying that neither of these treaties means that a U.S. patent is enforceable in Europe, a party with deep enough pockets can file an international application in all the Paris countries, entitling them to the protections afforded by those countries. While the PCT does not mention anything about patentable subject matter in international applications, you still need to be familiar with your jurisdiction's patentability requirements.

Thankfully, Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention is pretty sensible in that it does not regard discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods, aesthetic creations, and "schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers" as patentable subject matter.[1]

[1] http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2010/e/...
That's for the "All Access" package which nets you a tablet app and a smartphone app. The cheapest package is $3.75 a week.

I would have subscribed, but they gave me a free year after introducing the paywall.
And by some magic they still manage to stay more or less current: iOS4.x by some sources takes 95%-98% share:
http://www.macpost.net/221/apple-ios-distribution-stats-95-o...
http://www.marco.org/2011/03/24/ios-device-and-os-version-st...
Free Cityville Cheats
The Software/Techno Relationship
"Because your definition depends on the reader's expectations, and different readers will have different expectations -- not to mention different weights assigned to those expectations -- then we still can't reach true objectivity in 'interesting' content."

The value of this definition is that it lets us objectively predict what someone will find subjectively interesting. And although this may sound kind of useless at first glance, I think it's actually highly actionable and lets us build a lot of cool things.

"Not all great writing is profound."

What I'm primarily talking about is writing that creates value by communicating ideas. The reason why H2G2 is cool is because the writing itself is really clever. This is a lot of fun, but definitely outside the scope of what I'm talking about. Eventually I'll probably revise this to make a note of stuff like that.

Also, if you liked this there is another essay on my blog that's entirely about what makes something insightful:

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2010/03/how-to-blog...

This essay is basically set theory applied to literature, although there are actually some really intriguing differences between my theory and set theory. (E.g. one way of being insightful is by pointing out when X is not mutually exclusive with Y, which doesn't really have any analog in math.) People seem to have more trouble with this essay than the other one, though it might be partly because I published them out of order.
New Study: Piracy Increases The Quality Of Content
What data are you talking about? As far as I know it seems that polyphasic is a popular hoax, just as 'we use only 10% of our brain power' - popular but fake. Dr Piotr Wozniak, who seems to know a bit about sleep deals with it in few articles on his site. Also most first-hand reports I've read (sorry for no links, I can dig into my history later) usually ended up in people saying they are tired and rationalizing why do they go back to normal pattern (ie. many people had problems admitting that they failed).
... The NYT uses a subscription model these days (though you get a handful of articles for free every month). That's what he was talking about. He was still wrong from a business point of view though.
Agreed. While reddit's great for many conversations that never occur on HN, tech discussions are definitely not their forte.
Should the 27 Club Be a "Thing"?
Startup on Kickstarter: Gis.to
MongDB on AWS (RDS-Style)
MongoDB is drawing crowds, lately. Some even dare to call it the new MySQL. Together with Usabilla we built a 'choas monkey proof' MongoDB replica set on AWS.

We used AutoScaling and Route53 to build a replica set that we can grow and shrink on demand, by just launching or terminating instances. Our default set has 2 large primary/secondary members, and 2 arbiters.
Beautiful site.

HN is called out as a site with poor contrast (the text in a self post). I do find myself frequently tilting my monitor back to improve the contrast of posts here, but I think only on the downvoted ones, which, I suppose, is the point.

But now, looking up at the now-clicked-on story link, I see that visited links have rather low contrast, too.
Wait ... I want to verify if I read this correctly ... Europe does not have software patents?
Is there any way to get around this? If so, is it implemented in any OS?

I'm no encryption expert, but it seems like you would need to store decryption keys (or in this case, the login password) in plaintext so they could be used by the OS.

An explanation from an expert would be appreciated.
DOS << Windows << Browser << Facebook
Bad idea. The world needs to see what kind of a lunatic he is. The world needs to know his arguments in order to repeal.
"The main problem with Data Furnaces, of course, is physical security."

*The main problem with Data Furnaces, of course, is summer.
No, it's just another coincidence. Tons of famous people have died at the same age as a bunch more. It's like noticing when a streetlight goes out when you walk past, you wouldn't notice it any other time, or be around when it occurs without you but people seem to think they have some mystical connection with them...

Honestly think that the whole 27 club thing is just another way to pad out some celeb news...
just wait until you have your first kid ;)
Half-baked idea: Standard machine readable output for command line programs
Hi! Andre Behrens, creator of the app here.

You can't scroll because I happen to think scrolling for reading is broken. Scrolling is a mechanism for micro-managing the position of content at a pixel level. As a creative producer, when I'm producing creative, I like this a lot. When I'm reading, I find it borderline exhausting; Scroll, re find position, think about when it's time to scroll again, do so, re find position. Did I scroll to far? So Skimmer uses pages whenever it can. You just activate "next", and there's more to read. "Next." "Next." "Next."

This wouldn't work at all for editing a photo. But if you haven't tried it for reading longform content, you really ought to try it.

Of course, if you really do like the classic web scrolling approach, you can just use nytimes.com, and neither I, nor anyone else at the Times would complain.
I actually wanted to create something like this a few months ago, but the idea never got any momentum. Instead, I've been working on software that facilitates prior art search by semantically analyzing "literature," generally. I'm primarily focused on using genetic algorithms to construct a complex search query (compatible with LexisNexis/Westlaw) to find even more prior art (in the form of research articles and whatnot) -- not just patents. Luckily, every patent issued since 1976 already has a full-text version, and there are OCR'd versions of the patents from around 1910-1976 available on google. Unfortunately, academia is much larger than just the patent database, so it's important to broaden our searches further.

I was hoping to use this program to build support for, and ultimately raise enough money to request, ex parte reexaminations of issued patents.

Would any of you have interest if I kept pushing for that idea?
I'm no security expert but it was always my understanding is that once an attacker has physical access to a computer it can no longer be considered secure, no matter what. Also, my understanding is that this is a widely accepted fact in the security community. How can a website called "Security Week" ignore this very relevant piece of knowledge then?
Correct. The way it is limited may of course depend on the local law. For example in Finnish patent law only "real things" can be patented, not products of human intelligence, which limits stuff like algorithms, software, business models etc. outside the scope of patentability.

There have been several instances, however, where large American companies have tried to get Europe to allow software patents. Luckily so far all of these have been blocked:

http://eupat.ffii.org/log/intro/
I haven't looked into this, but it's definitely a possibility, provided the events are sane.
莲花岛农家乐
No, I never do: I figure anything worth reading will get voted up to the main page, so I just stick to checking that instead of the new page.
I spend most of my time in new. I'd spend even more time there if the pages didn't time out so quickly.
I got to try this out at a little mini-conf Twilio organized some months ago. It is, if anything, even more fun than "Hey you can reimplement Skype in 3 lines of code", because one of the parties to the call can be a computer. You can use the client as a "programmable audio pipe" direct to the user's browser.

We all got to do little weekend project demos. I made a website for learning the Japanese numbers where the computer would audibly quiz you, drill to kill, etc.

You can also make more intuitive interfaces for those underrepresented demographics in the world by having the computer programmatically narrate what they need to be doing on your website. (If you haven't tried this before, I recommend it: it works even better than the standard popup-based product tour.) Say you're eBay. Somebody is trying to list a antique China doll and can't seem to find the submit button. Why don't you ask if she would like you to walk her through it? If people aren't going to read on the Internet don't force them to read.

Or those lovely little "Heya I see you are browsing our website why don't you chat with me" applets. How's about making that vocal? "It's OK ma'am, just talk at your computer. You're looking for the buy button? Try the purple one on the top left of your screen. Yes, we do offer free shipping. You have a good day now."

You can also do the usual Twilio magic for business process automation. "Oh look, we can provision an entire call center with everything they need to do inbound or outbound work for the cost of headphones. No gazillion-dollar VoIP contract or phone lines required."
Every Book Is a Startup
Sprouter is Shutting Down
The Future of BI: Interview with Cameron Ludwig
Nope, the patent office should adopt a more sensible policy on what can or can not be patented. As another HNer pointed out in this thread, the European policy is pretty good:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807082
yes, since the community is more cohesive/engineer/enterpreneur than reddit that has lots of noise/funny/look_at_me these days. So in Hacker News, the news tend to be "faster".
The Vatican's website, redesigned in the style of WhiteHouse.gov
The thing she misses or doesn't emphasize as much is that self-created identities are just as valid as your birth name. The same goes for your avatar versus a mugshot. The phenomenon of universal full names is relatively recent across history and in many societies those people with names could change them at will.

Insisting on real names also creates a burden for young people who might want to leave certain things behind. There needs to be more balance to facilitate self-expression AND social interaction.
The point of my comment was that I am certain that if you look hard enough you will find any number of nonstandard constructions that you would reject, despite it being included in Chaucer and Shakespeare.

I was already well aware of it's long historical usage, I simply would only rarely see someone say "Chaucer used it, therefore it's fine to use on a resume!" The spelling "aks" for "ask" is one such example that you could find nearly as many high profile historical usages, and no one argues that it is an acceptable spelling.

(Also half that list is exactly the kind of people that you would find an enormous amount of nonstandard usages; Chaucer is Middle English, Shakespeare was famous for writing in common vernacular, Lewis Carroll is famous for his literary nonsense and wordplay; hardly the best sources for what would be included in 'high' English)
How to fork & patch npm modules
21,000 users
About 300 customers.
I think the average person tends to use their brain less and less over time. It's only logical that this might cause loss of brain mass.

The opinion expressed in the article that a need to care for children could be the reason seems completely baseless to me.
The site is timing out for me right now.

Still, whatever the reason for the switch (is Oracle involved?), this seems like a good new default.

I've found Postgres capable, fast, and rock-solid. (At the point I switched from MySQL, a few years ago, I'd be tempted to say that it had approximately none of those three going for it. I'll be happy to hear that MySQL has improved meanwhile, though: is there any particular reason I might consider switching back?).
I take this as great news. Postgres is my preferred SQL database. I wish I could articulate better why I don't like MySQL as much, but it just feels 'strange' in comparison.
If Steve Jobs applied for your job by submitting his resume and waiting for you to invite him in for an interview, he literally wouldn't be Steve Jobs in any meaningful way. He would just be a guy named Steve who didn't finish college and seems to maybe want a job. So the whole premise is nonsense.

The better question is, "if Steve Jobs knocked on your door at 2am and jumped into a long speech about how your industry is begging to be disrupted, and how he is simply so manically focused on creating an incredible product in this space that he can't sleep and he'd probably work for free if that's what it came to" would you hire him?

I think most hiring managers would take a chance on that guy.
OSX Lion, Timemachine, NASes and the GPL
The UX of Learning
Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C
I'm on iPad and got redirected to an iPad landing page. It needs a video.
CSS3 Bling in the Real World
The Cost of Testing or You don’t Know what You are Missing
That's certainly a dastardly dead, but SCO was using copyright and trademark law, not patents. Without copyright "open source" has no validity.

In my opinion copyright has worse problems than patents right now (because patents at least expire).
Well maybe. But at least I can run sites with low contrast through Readability. No such luck with this Heath Robinson powerpoint-a-like they've built.
What a great project.

FYI: the sliders don't show up in FF5, you should maybe add some browser compatability messaging.
I had a herniated disc, and while it was painful and troubling for about 6 months, I'm now back on the computer full time.
After I was able to move properly again, I waited a full month to be sure I was fine, then got a gym membership and strengthened my body. Now I'm in great shape.
> Because your definition depends on the reader's expectations, and different readers will have different expectations [...] then we still can't reach true objectivity in "interesting" content.

I took a course in Classical Rhetoric a couple years ago (it was terribly worth it), and in the first classes we learnt that at least since Aristotle this has been at the core of this art: the very definition of a good discourse is, that which is entirely crafted with its audience in mind.

Two caveats:

FIRST, as we grow used to certain schemata of how to perceive reality (that is, as these schemata become radical to our way of thinking), anything which is radically different from them, while it may still draw attention, is most likely going to evoke repulsion.

This is a little bit veiled in the text because the author uses vision of a physical event as an analogy to the reception of a discourse. If you see a train crossing a wall, there's no denying it, so it'll draw your attention in a sporty manner. If you catch (still vision) your best (male) friend kissing another guy, and he never told you he was into that, there will be many ways you can wrap your head around it — to the point where gay males report feeling repulsion and betrayal when they find out their "straight buddy" was gay behind their backs! [1]

Finally, if you hear someone propose an idea that is completely orthogonal (if not entirely opposite) to how you think, all else being equal, you're likely to experience anything from confusion to repulsion. Because in order to be interested in what is seemingly incongruous with your beliefs, you have to suspend them at least a little, and disbelief can usually only be suspended willingly.

SECOND, it is interesting to turn the idea in its head and ask yourself "but what if I want to spike the interest of the 'every man', what if I wish my audience to be as wide as humanity?" You can't craft all kinds of discourse at this level, but you'll find that there are certain things which spike interest in us all (and conversely, you'll find that we share at least very similar beliefs about a host of things). This concept is named "universal audience" and discussed with great brilliance in a book by Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, called in English The New Rhetoric, which I much recommend.

[1] Disclaimer: I'm using this example because it was discussed over a glass of beer in the bar, yesterday, and to my surprise, everyone at the table had one such story to share; my group of friends being what you may otherwise call diverse and accepting. No, I don't have a link, but I hope there are/will be studies about this.