skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, for those interested in seeing a LIVE demo of very similar technology, there are many examples, but here is one:

http://voxels.blogspot.com

It is not likely to be the exact the same technique, but I am guessing they are using similar methods.
Linked here for easy reading:

The agressors twitter stream: http://twitter.com/#!/YuriVasilyev_

One of the threats on Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/N3x50nzN
I think regardless of the reasons why, people who want to be leaders, on the whole, clearly shouldn't be. Since these people comprise a small subset of the total of all people, simply choosing randomly will tend to not choose them. I doubt it has to do anything with fairness.

Maybe "leaders" aren't as necessary as people think, and actually are a drain on productivity.
Apple iCloud’s great pricing dissipates as it grows
For Webpop (http://www.webpop.com) we ended up going with TinyMCE as our rich text editor after trying both CKEditor and WymEditor because Tiny was the only one that handled pasting into the edit area fairly well.

It's really tricky to handle right, and the Paste plugin for Tiny has to use a lot of tricks to do it properly. The onpaste event doesn't really work for this, because even in browsers that supports it, it just gives you plain text with no formatting. Same with a hidden textarea.

It's ok if you want to strip all styles, and then let your user go though and apply all the same styles from his Word document manually once again (frustrating!), but otherwise it wont cut it.

The paste plugin does a lot of browser specific stuff, but basically handles it by creating a contenteditable div and redirecting the paste event into that, then grabbing the horribly broken HTML browsers produce when pasting from anything and cleaning it off before moving it back to the place the user pasted too...
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Setting up a MongoDB-Server on RedHat
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can someone with the earlier skype (the iphone one on an ipad 1) receive video from someone using this new version?
5 years ago I told my wife how the startup world was drastically underrepresented in bookstores. I suggested that it would change fast. And the book world has in fact caught up. Now it would seem time for some TV action. The challenge will be making the hard work behind a startup entertaining enough for TV. Of course, the HN crowd would find it entertaining even if they were to scroll through code for an hour solid. :)
disclaimer: I don't understand finance well and don't claim to.

Can someone explain why such a large portion of the money in both this deal and the Groupon deal went to insiders instead of being used for infrastructure/personnel/normal business-growing costs?

Also, is this a more recent trend or have things commonly worked this way?
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This feels akin to counting all time in gmail as "work" regardless of what one is reading/writing. The most dangerous distractions are those which disguise their presence.

The mental burden of task switching is about changing mindsets, not applications. The damage here is equal whether you're looking for an album in vim or a gui.
I find it funny that people have no problem understanding that 9/9 = 1 or .5 * 2 = 1 or 1/9 * 9 = 1 but suddenly when represented as 0.999... = 1 the matter becomes debatable.
Hi. Thank you for taking all the things I said out of context. I am going to try my best to do the same despite the fact that I believe this is what HN is trying to avoid, moderator.

> My trivial point was that your claim about the down votes was contradicted in the first sentences. It seems you missed that, too.

I am sorry you think your thoughts are trivial and despite your grammatical errors I would love to know how a first sentence can be plural. I have no doubt that I missed a lot things prior. That was my entire point of my following posts. Maybe if I knew which first sentence you were referring to I could have a better response.

> Quite fun to do personal attacks like that after such creative way of misreading.

There were no personal attacks in the previous posts unless of course you are Perl. In this post maybe there are many only because you made it so.

And I would appreciate if you read this small thread, moderator, and came back with an intelligent reply.

Yes I could have not been a dick on this but you reap what you sow.

Edit: Thank you for trolling moderator.
And that's all?

Security, speed, all that's don't outweight http protocol support?
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"Sorry your browser is not supported at this time"

Really Opera, a modern html5 compatible browser "is not supported"?
Wikipedia has a great article on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.999
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wait .52 = 1 ? view source "or .5<i>2 = 1 or 1/9 </i> 9 = 1"

ahh .5 * 2 = 1
Well, yes, it works, but there isn't an upload process, so I thought the image is linked to your local drive-- which is useless.

In closer inspection, the image gets transformed to a base64 encoding (data:image/gif;base64,[...]) which is useless in this context.
I didn't say it was done the best way. I said it was done fairly. As in, nobody had any advantage.
Live tweeting of a kidnap/extortion threat ...
This appears to have started with this:

YuriVasilyev_ Yuri Vasilyev

"@DuncanBannatyne @HollieNicole85 give us
£35,000: http://pastebin.com/N3x50nzN
"( http://twitthis.com/b36qr9 )

to which Bannatyne replied:

DuncanBannatyne
I offer £25,000 reward for the capture of
the coward who calls himself @YuriVasilyev_
Double if his arms are broken first

Duncan Bannatyne is one of the Dragons on the UK "Dragons' Den"

http://twitter.com/DuncanBannatyne

http://twitter.com/YuriVasilyev_

http://pastebin.com/N3x50nzN

http://pastebin.com/tyXbfujL
No kidding, markup italicized it.
I'm not sure if they're offering it this year, but previous years' entries would automatically get $25 in free AWS credit. That alone made it worth to enter.

Don't kid yourself that you have a chance to win, but spend 10 minutes filling out the app to save $25. Not a bad deal.
I am a bit disappointed there weren't any graphics but a reasonable explanation nonetheless.
Dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836935
...That's a terrible analogy.

A house getting robbed isn't 'small stuff', and is in no way comparable to getting a bad customer review.
I was expecting a graphic illustration.
I don't think I'd be too interested in watching this but I'd very much like to see a one off documentary on YC - maybe following a few of the companies through the 3 month cycle and including interviews with pg et al, some members of the alumni network and prominent valley investors who have worked with them.
"Because: it isn’t there. There is no difference. They are the same."

Was Mt. Everest still not the highest mountain even before it was discovered? The need for "seeing is believing", applied to math is pretty childish.
For Rational Investors, Market Uncertainty Equals Profits
With the debt-ceiling deal now in the books, as weak is it is, investors are turning to the U.S. economy, and don't like what they see -- save for rational investors, who see the escalating market uncertainty, which they equate to profits. Rational investors like uncertainty, since it creates clear investment opportunities that can be analyzed via fundamentals, and not via emotion.
So I suppose that you don't want to try the same programmer's Vmail[1] - a Vi-interface for Gmail? (Oh, or even better Twim[2] - a Vi-interface for Twitter!)

More seriously, I thought of it as (1) a cool hack and (2) akin to Zawinski's law[3] about the way that software expands to consume more tasks. More serious Vim hackers might object that it amounts to the Emacs-ification of Vim. (Given the number of plugins to add calendars, todo lists and Org-mode to Vim, I think that battle may be lost.)

[1] http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html

[2] https://github.com/danchoi/twim

[3] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
This concerns me because I can see it reaching an even bigger scale across all markets, especially in light of these new "reputation monitor" rackets where companies try to improve small b/m reputation online in places like Yelp & Urban Spoon.

Right now, there isn't any easy way to defend against it.
Firefox 8 comes with nice animation for re-ordering and detaching tabs
I know that it's posh to hate on Adobe, but in all measures of truth and relative endearment, Adobe isn't really that bad of a software company. Like any software company, they've (still are?) going through a bit of a wobbly period. Macromedia was an essential buy for Adobe, but with it Adobe picked up a lot of legacy ideologies that Macromedia fostered within their products. Not to say Macromedia was a poor software company. I think Macromedia was bought by Adobe just as it had itself managed to find itself within its industry.

Flash is proprietary, yes. A lot of the software you use everyday is proprietary - or at least to the point where codec/patent hounds aren't sniffing at your door. We can now see that Adobe is trying to right the ship here with Edge. People still gripe about Adobe as if they have something up their sleeve. Well, of course they do. They are trying to make a profit on creating creative authoring tools. Flash is a creative technology. Just because it's locked up doesn't change that. Now HTML5 + JS libs are making a run for creative minds (over developer ones) and Adobe sees that and is fine with it. In fact, overall, it's probably easier for them as they don't have to maintain their own language or pay any licensing fees so long as they don't include support for infringing patents. It's nice to see Adobe didn't take the developer/designer lightly when one of their flagship products was being gunned at from every direction. Personally, I thought Adobe would have to go through a much longer period of self-reflection before Edge would be seen.

I know Steve Jobs hates Adobe, even if at times it doesn't really make a whole lot of business sense to do so. And I know Adobe is imperfect, like a lot of software companies are. But Edge smells of change and I like it.
Clickables:

http://twitter.com/DuncanBannatyne

http://twitter.com/YuriVasilyev_

http://pastebin.com/N3x50nzN

http://pastebin.com/tyXbfujL

http://mobile.twitter.com/statuses/97772296508420096
0.(999) = 1 - 1/inf
this should be intuitive.

and since 1/inf is 0

0.(999) = 1

Check the same reasoning in mathematical notation: http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/6/f/a/6fa510b44742046a167b4...
How much does that _really_ help you? The C code to detect an overflow given the context (adding, multiplying, subtracting, &c) isn't difficult. The reason integer overflows are pernicious is that they're easy to miss.
While I tend to agree in general, I've actually found pianobar much less distracting than the Pandora web interface.

F5 (my hotkey for Terminal.app), n, Alt+Tab can happen without me really thinking about it, whereas the web interface requires firing up the browser, locating the "Next" button and clicking it.

So I guess I can see this being an improvement if all you're looking to do is skip to the next song. If, as you say, you browse through your albums, etc, then I imagine this would be just as distracting.
I don't think you realize the severity of his lies over Fable, and Fable 2.

Back when it was Project Mayhem (can't recall exact name) he promised very life accurate features, graphic engines that would redefine presentation, and gameplay mechanics that still do not exist today.

He didn't say, "We are toying with the idea," or something like that. He said, each blade of grass would sway in the wind. That you could free roam maps like never before.

Among the features not delivered in Fable 1,2 or 3:
- When you die or age, you can play as your child to advance the plot.
- You can workout to increase your strength. Not working over time makes you weaker.
- You can roam freely thorughout the world.
- You can steal anything.
- You can break anything.
- You can use any object as weapon.
This list goes on for pages that I do not care to relive.

What did fable II feature? A dog? What the hell is that? How is this related to the core concept? Peter is the result of giving a 5 year old a gaming company. All the grandest coolest plans in the world and in the end having neither the resources, discipline or skill to carry it out.

But it is okay, because people are willing to accept an inferior product, and really just forget all the lies he tells. Just like your comments.

Isn't this supposed to be capitalism where this type of behavior gets you punished?

I'd rather shove a stake in my eye than take his advice on how to be successful. I could learn more about how to be successful interviewing a child about a lemonade stand. They atleast would have interesting comments on sales techniques, that don't rely on your audience not minding being abused.
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Sounds like you want to play World of Warcraft. Who would want to sit through a 2 hour tech demo of rendered waterfalls and oversaturated sunsets?
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I never had an issue with 0.999....=1, but after seeing so many articles on internet I wonder if I'm missing something.
The purpose of a patent is so that the original inventor can make money from his invention whilst not having to keep the actual invention a secret. Patents have a time limit (not sure what that is) in which the inventor gets to make his money before the invention is open to society.

Maybe we should ask to change the law to say that because of the nature of software and the rapid change of growth in emerging technologies, the length of time a software patent owner gets to generate money from his invention is limited to a much shorter length of time, say 1 or 2 years. This way, legitimate patent owners as per your example still have time to generate income and establish themselves as market leaders in whatever technology, but there is much less incentive for people to patent troll, since the patents aren't intrinsically worth as much.

Also, perhaps you shouldn't be allowed to sell patents on to other people. That seems completely against the spirit of the whole thing - I should only be allowed to license you my patented idea. If I sell you my patent, does that mean you came up with the idea, suddenly? Buying and selling patents is surely only for evil purposes...
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DST Invests $50 Million Into ZocDoc
I'm actually considering doing this now you've said it. If there would be enough interest that is. There are very few "non-python" complete hg implementations.
Wow, I really assumed you were exagerating but you were actually pretty accurate, they clearly know absolutely nothing about tea, or how to even have a semi-interesting conversation.
Retrospect is a wonderful thing. I won't be posting on Who's Hiring again although for the record, out of those that contacted me, I have already arranged interviews for three of them and there are potentially more to come so at least those that read my post in a positive light might actually get something out of it.
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Again with the "Startup" tag. AirBNB got it yesterday. How does this 4 year old billion+ valued company with hundreds of employees still get called a "startup"? What definition could people possibly be using? All companies "started" at some point. I don't see people calling GM a startup but then again I think they actually made money last year.
I agree with you that the claim that this is some sort of "productivity enhancement" is a bit weak, but as an actual feature, it is pretty impressive. The productivity side of it is immaterial, IMO.
But that's a good thing. If you had signed up with high hopes, expecting something else, and then the product disappointed you, then you might write a bad review/blog post etc. potentially turning away other users who might have liked the features[1].

So if the features don't appeal to you, it's good in the long run for the creator to not have you as a beta user.

[1] the counter argument is that any publicity is good publicity :)
Kudos to the author. His research/due-diligence in tracking this guy illuminates to the community his nefariousness. If everyone took this type of a pro-active defense in injustice, the frequency would be much reduced.
Directions from the author (I think) on installing Crayon Physics on Linux. Doesn't work with my touch screen yet...

http://www.kloonigames.com/forum/index.php?topic=7684.msg199...
Interesting - that one's clearly been flagged dead - we'll see if this suffers the same fate.

Personally I find it interesting that the technology both permits the threats, and at the same time can "crowd-source" the detective work and potential reprisals. It's recently been said that the internet is a reincarnation of the Wild West - perhaps this is almost a demonstration of that.

Others claim the analogy is far-fetched and irrelevant. Perhaps this suggests the parallels exist and are worth considering. Perhaps there are lessons to learn from history.

Then again, maybe it'll be killed.
The http protocol was definitely the dealbreaker. That said, if you think hg is less secure than git you've bought into some FUD (the models are so similar it's almost silly, and the security quality is identical). The speed differences between hg and git aren't perceivable for the bulk of projects, even at sizes larger than most corporate repositories I've heard of. There are some operations that are faster for git (notably history rewriting), and others that are faster for hg (notably blame and per-file log). The two systems are very similar and just make some slightly different tradeoffs.
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Has anyone booked with ZocDoc? It seems pretty amazing. I was shocked to see that I could get appointments all over the city for as early as this week. It seems usually you have to wait weeks or months.
What are the differences between the two versions? I doubt a different version got approved that quickly.
Quick thoughts on Edge (Adobe's html5 keyframe animator) workflow & practicality
Edge[1] is Adobe's upcoming html5 version of Flash. I just finished giving the free alpha a shake.

It uses a timeline and keyframing similar to what you see in the Flash editor.

It spits out a list of keyframes as as js list, which is then translated by edge's js into the appropriate series & combination of jquery animations.

Some of the reviews are overly pessimistic because the editor starts blank and all you can add are boxes & text. But you can also load up existing html and work on that.

The workflow to get anything useful to happen is kind of annoying, since it won't handle templates properly and you need to inline your css.

1. Inline your css
2. Load up the desired template in a browser
3. View & save source to strip the templating
4. Load that html into Edge
5. Create animations
6. Dig out the animation js object and add it to your project

So that's pretty annoying for now! But the keyframe animation editor is a huge time saver compared to editing jquery animations by hand, so if you are using lots of them all in one place, the time savings might be worth it.

The biggest gain is going to be making slight tweaks to a complicated animation, since it's a nightmare to stretch, squeeze, and re-organize the timing of a long string of animations by hand.

A less common case which is also a huge win for Edge is if you're doing something like rotating, scaling, and moving all at once where the resulting coordinates are going to be non-obvious.

[1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/
As I'm sure you've guessed, it's sometimes an emotional defense mechanism on the part of the survivors. Don't know anyone who wants to envision their loved one's last moments in agony, even if true.
Apologies, not all of us are able to see straight through to the truth in every case. This argument convinced me (not least because it occurred to me too a few years ago ;) - I hadn't seen it anywhere before at the time, though I'm sure this is because (a) I hadn't spent much time looking, and (b) to those skilled in the art, it is so obvious as to be barely worthy of comment.

If you're simply not convinced by his line of thought (it's hard to tell...), an alternative argument might be: noting that 3 multiplied by one third is 1, consider what that would look like if written out in decimal notation.

(I am sure there are plenty more arguments too, probably much better than mine.)
The key is to make sure you always have goals. They can't be too big or complex, or you'll find a way to not do them! While it's generally acceptable to make goals that are as large as a days work, I find that even that is too big when you have issues with procrastination.

Too big:
- Setup new server

Better version:
- Install Debian
- Install MySQL
- Setup database/permissions, deploy database snapshot
- Install Jetty
- deploy latest build

There are two wins here, the tasks are small enough that you'll feel progress and want to keep going, and it will force you to really plan out your work before starting. If your task was just "Setup server", and you got stuck half way through, you might feel there is still so far to go and you'll end up breaking for the day. Then the cycle begins, and you won't want to pick it back up.
isn't it "keystrokes make you believe you get you there faster, but you actually don't"?
Handheld magnetrons for making crop circles?
Download Skype For iPad Released Brings Video Calling Feature Over WiFi And 3G
Graphics don't improve linearly with the number of pixels or polygons added. I'd say the improvement is closer to logarithmic. E.g. 500 polygons/second is a step better than 50, 5000 is two steps better than 50, etc.

Improving the rate by 100,000 times is only a six step improvement and that's if they haven't surpassed the limits of the human eye. I much prefer 72 frames per second to 36, but giving me a thousand frames per second is a waste since my optic nerve can't process most of them.
Thanks. Will check out Pixelpipe.
When I take out my web pages, I do it with a sniper rifle, and it does not result in a 500 error, rather an HTTP 410 (which in my opinion would take make more sense in this case).

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

410 Gone

The requested resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address is known. This condition is expected to be considered permanent. Clients with link editing capabilities SHOULD delete references to the Request-URI after user approval. If the server does not know, or has no facility to determine, whether or not the condition is permanent, the status code 404 (Not Found) SHOULD be used instead. This response is cacheable unless indicated otherwise.

The 410 response is primarily intended to assist the task of web maintenance by notifying the recipient that the resource is intentionally unavailable and that the server owners desire that remote links to that resource be removed. Such an event is common for limited-time, promotional services and for resources belonging to individuals no longer working at the server's site. It is not necessary to mark all permanently unavailable resources as "gone" or to keep the mark for any length of time -- that is left to the discretion of the server owner.
I confirm that it's possible to receive video on the original iPad. It's not perfect, but bottleneck here is probably camera or WiFi connection.