skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the same impression. Why they feel the need to punish power users is beyond me though. Power users typically know the keyboard shortcuts and right-click menus pretty well. Adding all these buttons to the interface is just taking up space.

Point of reference, my explorer menu: http://i.imgur.com/YEXha.png
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Like many here, I've been feeling really down because of Steve's passing. At first, it was confusing ... I never even met the guy. Why am I grieving so much? Seeing all the posts on HN and FB, it is comforting to know it's not just me who never met him, and yet is profoundly sad at his passing. He was a personal hero to so many of us.
Next Hacker News DC Meetup on Wednesday, October 12th
I think there is a point of diminishing returns when you are sacrificing simplicity and straight-forwardness for mouse clicks.
I am absolutely unsurprised that Westboro is doing this. Nothing they have done has ever suggested that they possess an ounce of logic, or reading comprehension.
... "and if we were still in 1981".
I've read two books so far on the ad-free version of this Kindle, and I've seen the degraded quality when I study the page quality, but never while actually reading.
If NeXT hadn't produced a pre-emptively multitasking, memory protected, highly object oriented operating system and software development ecosystem, NeXT wouldn't have been acquired by Apple, and Apple wouldn't have had the key technology that has powered every major success they've had outside of the iPod in the last 10 years.

Remember that Apple wasn't shopping for Jobs, they were shopping for a modern OS; they only turned to NeXT after Gassée fucked-up their deal to buy Be.
Prepare for the inevitable crisis
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The old adage on HN is that you shouldn't say something that you wouldn't say in person. In that respect, your comment is spot on.
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In the verifier.php I see a problem here:

$uid=$_COOKIE['uid'];
$uname=$_COOKIE['uname'];
$sql="SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$uname'";

The $uname is set from the value of 'uname' in the $_COOKIE array, but I see no input validation here.

If I were an evil attacker, I could send arbitrary cookie data to the server, it would end up in the $_COOKIE superglobal. If I include some SQL code, ... All input is evil!

Later, in the welcome.php the $_COOKIE['uname'] is echoed without any escapes.
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Of course they do.

MR-world has cool cars, is clean, the govt seems to have only one flaw, and Tom Cruise will wander by and save the day.
Yes, that's a very cool feature.
perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags
The best thing that I think B&N has going for it is their seemingly ongoing commitment to quality. I bought the original Nook shortly after its release and only recently decided to grab the NST to replace it (due almost entirely to simple gadget-envy). The Nook that I retired was a significantly better product than the Nook I originally bought. B&N continued to release relevant software updates for their original Nook for years. These weren't just bugfixes, but also major performance improvements, design improvements, and entirely new features. Basically, the Nook was, for me, the opposite of a disposable product because it kept getting better. That definitely built some brand-loyalty for me.
I did, was removed.
Wait, you're accusing Hacker News of only caring about bad patents when the victim is an underdog, but you're using as your example a case where the person doing the suing is in fact much smaller than the entity being sued?

If you're going to accuse people being driven by unconsidered emotions, perhaps you could come up with an example that suits your case?
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Some more: http://aws.amazon.com/search?searchPath=amis&searchQuery...
Just as you thought it was an interesting fact in its own right, I have no doubt that among the extremely large HN audience, so did others. Many will have thought "That's interesting!" and up-voted it.

And that's the behavior that is now emerging (or indeed, possibly has always been the case) that people up- or down-vote simply on preferences, rather than on whether something is "deeply interesting." This isn't a criticism, HN is what it is, and that is my personal observation. As I've discovered in a recent email exchange, not everyone agrees with me.

So personally, I found it an interesting fact, and it led to some interesting reading on related facts. But I didn't up-vote it, and I seriously considered down-voting because of the "deep interest" question.

But this is getting a bit meta (too late, it's actually very meta already) so I'd be happy to hear from you via email me if you're interested in discussing it further.
I have all my ideas over the years documents. Somewhere just over 30 right now, 3-5 good ones a year, and at least 8 that another company took to market within a year or two of my conceptualization.)

I just lack of a technical co-founder. I'm too busy drafting up executive summaries, figuring out monetization strategies, making contacts, researching multiple methods of capital acquisition, and marking up preliminary prototype web interfaces to sit down and learn ruby :(

I even have a background in Digital Media & IT, server & database setup, and network administration, as well as working knowledge of calculus, physics, simple data structures & programming fundamentals, and basic digital / analog circuits. On top of that I had a minor (almost second major) in business, with a focus on entrepreneurship, finance, and venture capital.

And despite all that I'm still a super social person :)
I've come to the conclusion that I just really need to learn ruby myself, because a technical partner in the southeast is difficult to come by.

I actually recently considered publishing all my ideas in an attempt to attract co-founders.
He was talking about Google's private fork of Linux for their servers to run Google search.
Kickstarter is lucky that the America Invents Act that Congress just rammed through includes a porkbarrel clause that Sen. Chuck Schumer stuck in for the banks, making it much much easier to challenge business method patents in the finance industry. (Source: http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=b967fda5...) "For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘covered business method patent’’ means a patent that claims a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of a financial product or service"
The screenshot looks amazing. You should be proud! Well done!

Are you planning to make a profit? Did you always intend to open source it?
Samsung c3303k weak signal or no network problem solved
This is a discussion on Samsung c3303k weak signal or no network problem solved within the C Series forums, part of the Samsung category; Samsung c3303k weak signal or no network problem solved...
Show HN: The Tron Car
As soon as I saw this car, I knew I had to pay homage somehow. I purchased the domain for the sole purpose of forwarding. I want this concept car to become a reality. Let BMW know just how much you want to see it on the road as well.

http://thetroncar.com
Does anyone know the mechanics of how the ads are pushed to the Kindle? Does Amazon observe user behavior and content of the ad supported Kindles in ways they didn't with the Kindle 3?
I thought the article was impossible to read at 16 px - just not enough density - too few words per line and too few lines per screen to read comfortably. I'm 46.
The Kindle has one feature that the Nook does not have: Electronic delivery of personal documents. You can't email a word doc or PDF to myname@bn.com and have it converted and delivered to your device. You have to save it from a computer, convert it, plug in the Nook, and copy the file over.

For book readers that might not matter. But it can be pretty attractive if you go beyond reading books by using something like Instapaper to "bookmark" articles throughout the day, then have them all automatically on the Kindle.

This can be the feature that makes a huge difference once you start to use it.
And yet another short, functional solution:

pairs = (>>= \ ~(x:xs) -> map ((,) x) xs) . init . tails

EDIT: Or as a list comprehension:

pairs xs = concat [map ((,) h) t | (h:t) <- tails xs]
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clickable: http://thetroncar.com
Learn to write dynamic language interpreters with PyPy
Course taught at HHU Düsseldorf by Carl Friedrich Bolz, David Schneider and Armin Rigo using the PyPy toolchain to build dynamic language interpreters. Slides and code CC-BY-NC-SA mostly in English, with a sprinkling of German for flavour.
It's your turn Apple.
Innocents will only be hurt during the transitional period before they learn that they should avoid relationships with patent trolls for the same collateral risk reasons they avoid befriending gang members, child-molesters, and other anti-socials.
Why should it hurt anybodies feelings to point out that Steve Jobs wasn't all fairy dust and benevolence? This need to whitewash people when they die is truly bizarre.
I would only add that Luck Surface Area does not equate to Luck itself. You can buy half the tickets in the Lotto and still lose.
It's OpenStreetMap. Not Open Street Maps. You can use as reference the domain http://www.openstreetmap.org/, the logo with the word OpenStreetMap, or the title element of the page, which says (wait for it) OpenStreetMap. Maybe cut and paste that text, or line the browser windows up to reference.

/end ragefest. But come on, guys. It's not 'The Wikipedias'
> Aerons go for $400 - $500, if you can get one for $350 it's a fantastic deal. Criterions go for $100 - $300.

Do you prefer the Criterion's ergonomics to Aeron's? Or do you feel the Criterion is just a economical alternative?
So I guess I should have mentioned that I'm a Linux user? But I use Ubuntu Linux instead of that GNU/Linux ;)
What missing features are those?
Berating someone on spelling and grammar on an fleeting internet forum that no one will read in a few days is reflection on your social skills too. For shame.
I'd say that you're talking about a different measure of "return". You could get very lucky and become the world's foremost bag pipes player, but you probably don't have the likelihood of returns than your average real estate hustler.

Luck is probably something closer to the OP's equation. Though you could be right in that certain fields may have a lot more people willing to help you out - perhaps cleantech people are all about making the world a better place, they make more intros, etc.

It sounded more like the former than the latter though.
you don't need any evidence as it is obvious that ethnicity is part of the feature vector being fed into the system. Even if we imagine unimaginable - that it (together with other highly correlating data like place of birth) is not fed into the system from the start, the face recognition and other input feature vectors generating modules would produce the configuration in the parameter space where basic generic clustering at the pre-processing stage would also naturally cluster along ethnicity lines thus still making ethnicity an input for higher levels of the system. How this input will play inside that giant neural/statistical net wouldn't be possible to say as debugging such nets is an endeavor in itself. Previous implementations of such a pre-crime detection neural nets - using homo sapiens brain as hardware - produced "being black is a probable cause", and nobody was able to debug it in sufficient detail. Would we be able to produce better results using silicon based hardware?
I am not a Mac fan, in fact the only thing I have from Apple is the iPad. I have an Android phone and I have a windows machine.

Still, Stallman, as a public figure should have remained silent. These kind of comments don't help anybody, specially not the community.

Now I do understand his point of view, what I do not understand is why he can't see the whole picture. That is all. He should have remained silent if he had nothing good to say. His comments have no value at all to anybody.
Oh please. I just got a ticket in the mail because an automated camera decided I did something wrong. It's here now.
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Thank you. I admire your contribution to the public.
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Hacker News Seattle Meetup #3: Video recap, interview with Dan Shapiro
Underdog was probably the wrong choice for the code snippet, surely you understood my point was popular-vs-unpopular.
Dalai Lama will have a conversation over a Hangout (Google+)
Hello. That is because it is a auto-complete search field. If you search for something that does not exist, nothing will happen. If you type for example "Krak", you will get auto-complete suggestion for "Kraken".

Maybe it would be an idea to show a message like "No results..." if what the user types does not return any matches in this search function?
Sure... I didn't say that it would happen automatically, just that it could be done. Everything done on the web is convoluted.

Btw: why would you have to watch resize events? Changing the size of the browser window (even rotating the screen/phone) doesn't change the DPI.
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If that was the case, wouldn't prisons already force inmates to sell their plasma/sperm? I'm pretty sure that would get struck down in a court.
Fastly: Building a CDN with less money and SSDs
Option-click or Ctrl-click on the name of the current folder brings down the menu. Not exactly one click, but not bad.
"Laser Light. Leading the way to the future.

The BMW i8 Concept is not only fast and extremely fuel efficient, it also leads the way in innovative vehicle light technology.. For the first time BMW introduces as part of the BMW i8 Concept the newly developed Laser Light. Headlights that are more efficient than LED lights, highly flexible, ten times smaller, pleasant to the eye and absolutely safe.
BMW i8 Concept Laser Lights

By definition, laser lighting is radically different from sunlight, and also from the various types of artificial lighting in common use today. Laser lighting is monochromatic and it is also a "coherent" light source. As a result, laser lighting can produce a near-parallel beam with an intensity a thousand times greater than that of conventional LEDs. Also, the high inherent efficiency of laser lighting means that laser headlights have less than half the energy consumption of LED headlights. Simply put, laser make the BMW i8 Concept even more efficient.

The intensity of laser light poses no possible risks to humans, animals or wildlife when used in car lighting. Amongst other things, this is because the light is not emitted directly, but is first converted into a form that is suitable for use in road traffic. The resulting light is very bright and white. It is also very pleasant to the eye and has a very low energy consumption.

A further feature of laser technology, which has important implications, is the size of the individual diodes. This opens up all sorts of new possibilities when integrating the light source into the vehicle. These size advantages could be used to reduce the depth of the headlight unit, and so open up new possibilities for headlight positioning and body styling."
Seems reasonable to use strcmp to compare two strings.
Such an awesome event!
I really hate the idea of buying semi-disposable items, particularly electronics. It just becomes one more item in the landfill, one more thing to replace with a newly manufactured version. We're seeing that with computers and it's becoming a real problem. It isn't that I don't love new things but part of the reason that new things are so nice is because the things we're manufacturing are not designed to last. If only there was more money in environmentalism. Then maybe some smart hackernewsers would produce solutions.
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This won't make those scenarios any more likely. Its perfectly legal to sell organs already, as long as they aren't _your_ organs, but rather organs someone else donated.
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I agree that a system like this could be probed and exploited. The real issue comes up after someone is flagged as suspicious. Is this person arrested right away? Is this person subject to additional screening? It would violate basic human decency to arrest someone for appearing suspicious, regardless of whether or not he or she was 'scientifically suspicious'. Taking a closer look at suspiciously behaving individuals doesn't seem to cross that line for me. We've been doing that for years. The only difference now is that we have a machine to help scale that effort.
and that he would take the money and run. lol. who does that?

I want startup life because I want to own my own company from the ground up.

I would love to set my own hours at a normal company. But how rare is that? Where do you work that you can do that?
Yeah. Instapaper and emailing files, along with already having a large amount of Kindle purchases, are the reasons I've stuck with Kindle.
Thanks for doing this in Seattle, Zachary. You're doing the Seattle startup community a great service by providing a meetup that we actually want to go to.
I also have Instapaper articles delivered to my Kindle. It's pretty awesome but it isn't a hard to implement feature - why don't they implement it?
I love my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Microsoft discontinued the model for a while, replacing it with a smaller, crappy version that had half-sized function keys and non-standard cursor key layout. I actually bought some 4000 models on eBay to scrounge for replacement parts. <:) I'm glad Microsoft has apparently resurrected this model.
I don't see people holding out for that much more money than the surgery costs, and given the alternatives available to insurance companies I don't see why they wouldn't pay for the organ. Keeping someone alive on dialasis, say, is really very expensive.
Just a regular white guy, but I joined -- thanks for the info.
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Oh, and money.

Or course I'd much rather receive my $2MM+ over the course of a couple years building a company rather than over 40 years of letting a boss or HR decide my pay.

And you bet when I'm done I'll be investing in even more start-ups. I love helping people with dreams in the tech industry.
On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dan Gohman wrote:
> In this email, I argue that LLVM IR is a poor system for building a
> Platform, by which I mean any system where LLVM IR would be a
> format in which programs are stored or transmitted for subsequent
> use on multiple underlying architectures.

Hi Dan,

I agree with almost all of the points you make, but not your conclusion. Many of the issues that you point out as problems are actually "features" that a VM like Java doesn't provide. For example, Java doesn't have uninitialized variables on the stack, and LLVM does. LLVM is capable of expressing the implicit zero initialization of variables that is implicit in Java, it just leaves the choice to the frontend.

Many of the other issues that you raise are true, but irrelevant when compared to other VMs. For example, LLVM allows a frontend to produce code that is ABI compatible with native C ABIs. It does this by requiring the frontend to know a lot about the native C ABI. Java doesn't permit this at all, and so LLVM having "this feature" seems like a feature over-and-above what high-level VMs provide. Similiarly, the "conditionally" supported features like large and obscurely sized integers simply don't exist in these VMs.

The one key feature that LLVM doesn't have that Java does, and which cannot be added to LLVM "through a small matter of implementation" is verifiable safety. Java bytecode verification is not something that LLVM IR permits, which you can't really do in LLVM (without resorting to techniques like SFI).

With all that said, I do think that we have a real issue here. The real issue is that we have people struggling to do things that a "hard" and see LLVM as the problem. For example:

1. The native client folks trying to use LLVM IR as a portable representation that abstracts arbitrary C calling conventions. This doesn't work because the frontend has to know the C calling conventions of the target.

2. The OpenCL folks trying to turn LLVM into a portable abstraction language by introducing endianness abstractions. This is hard because C is inherently a non-portable language, and this is only scratching the surface of the issues. To really fix this, OpenCL would have to be subset substantially, like the EFI C dialect.

> LLVM isn't actually a virtual machine. It's widely acknoledged that the
> name "LLVM" is a historical artifact which doesn't reliably connote what
> LLVM actually grew to be. LLVM IR is a compiler IR.

It sounds like you're picking a very specific definition of what a VM is. LLVM certainly isn't a high level virtual machine like Java, but that's exactly the feature that makes it a practical target for C-family languages. It isn't LLVM's fault that people want LLVM to magically solve all of C's portability problems.

-Chris
I can definitely say that he changed mine. My first WYSIWYG word processing experience was on an Apple //c (they loved those slashes instead of the Is for some reason), and I ended up in marketing and communications partly because Steve Jobs took that calligraphy class in college, and I loved the fonts I could play with...
Design and art aren't really viewed by most designers and artists as a commodity, which is what sites similar to 99 designs try to put accross.

99 designs and similar are at the very low end of the market and the argument is that it becomes harder for skilled designers/artists to find high-paying work as more companies opt for the cheap route. There are more reasons to hate it from a designer's/artist's point of view, but that's the core of it.

That said, kickstarter certainly doesn't fit in that category, if anything it brings more paying work to designers/artists.
Isn't Erlang the oldest language out of the ones we're talking about?
Which isn't true at all. The Rule specifically limits the right of renters to install satellite dishes to renters who have outside rental property where the renter has an exclusive use area, such as a balcony or patio.

Renters without balconies or patios do not have any rights under the Rule to install satellite dishes.
YMMV, but I actually love the screen savers on the Kindle. Worth $50? Dunno. But it's nice to have at least one part of our lives not be infested by ads.
Haha, exactly what I did :)
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