skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Seasons is a simple Noir (http://webnoir.org) site that notifies users when new seasons of TV shows hit iTunes.

I made it partly because I was annoyed at having to check iTunes for new seasons of shows I like all the time, and partly because I wanted to try putting together a small but useful app in Clojure/Noir from start to finish.

I'm mostly a Python programmer and I threw this together in a few hours this week, so I'm sure there are lots of heinous things happening in the code. #Clojure on Freenode helped be clean things up a bit, but feel free to comment on GitHub and tell me if you see something wrong/ugly!

Overall I liked using Clojure and Noir for this. Some things felt clunky compared to what I usually use (Django), like implementing my own user log in and log out. I think for most normal CRUD/CMS-style sites I won't be leaving Django any time soon, but for sites that don't fit into that model as well it's pretty nice.

GitHub: http://github.com/sjl/newseasons

BitBucket: http://bitbucket.org/sjl/newseasons
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Thanks. I hadn't caught that.
Italy and Spain are dangerously over-leveraged in a low growth environment and thus vulnerable to a speculative attack that pushes interest rates up long enough for them to go into default. It is not clear yet whether the European establishment will toe the line on not letting a sovereign default on its obligations, but if they fail to do so, then such an attack becomes much more likely.
My love letter to Steve and Apple
A wee blog post recollecting how I fell for apple, and the man behind it all.
> I've never had a dad but I did have heroes. Steve Jobs is one of them.

Funny — I was reflecting on exactly this today. No dad, either. Thanks for sharing it.

I think Jobs is the only person outside of my immediate family whose passing could hit me in the gut quite this way. I grew up looking to his example. A man I never met but who nonetheless showed me, in small but meaningful ways, how to be a man.
Facebook now the size of the Internet in 2004
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I wonder what the definition is of something being "on" my phone.

Suppose that in the course of searching my phone, a cop runs the Facebook app. He sees one of my friends make (purely as a joke, as someone who knows him would understand) some asinine, but apparently threatening comment. That comment wasn't there when I last looked, indeed, it's not "there" at all, but on Facebook's server. Could I be considered to be complicit in my friend's (joking) plot?

Now change the circumstance slightly, so instead of FB, it's a SMS text message. Again, it just arrived, so I don't even know it's there. My friend is jokingly asking if I've completed some illegal activity. Can this be used as evidence against me?

The purpose of these 4th Amendment protections isn't just protection of privacy. It's also because in many cases, the evidence implies incorrect conclusions when you assume that the suspect knowingly and intentionally possessed something (of which he was really unaware).

For me, this idea was really driven home by the movie "The Star Chamber"[1]. On the surface it's just a crime thriller, but the idea it posits is really worth thinking about.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086356/
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Nice comments all.
You are pathetic...
As soon as I saw the news I headed to HN to share in the moment.

The site slowed to a crawl, pg kept things afloat by dialing back the number of stories on the front page, the black bar came out, and here we all are.
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Booklyt - Steve Jobs, tech visionary: 1955-2011 — Apple News, Tips and Reviews
Or, if you are a A Song of Ice and Fire fan, Tyrion Lannister. Sorry for the off-topic.
I'm not a Mac person myself, but I do respect their design philosophy in the sense you don't have to do wild new things -- just standard things really well. So, by proxy I respect their engineers quite a bit. My only beef, really, was with their marketing department and some of their draconian business decisions.
It's about having a functional system, not about absolute wealth or even comfort.

Laws that serve the common good. Economic policies that promote progress and well-being.
The title seems misleading, unless I'm misreading something.
From the article:

> "the judge ruled that the examination of the cell phone was legal because
> police were allowed to survey the impounded car for their own safety, and
> to preserve evidence."

The number of traffic stops where an impoundment occurs is clearly a very small subset of all traffic stops. Shouldn't this be titled 'California appeals court approves cell phone search during vehicle impoundment'?
I mostly avoid Macs. I prefer PC. But I dig the iPhone despite the various lock-down restrictions. I moved on to an android phone, and for the most part liked the new freedoms the android offered, but it was a step down in user interface design, general UX and is less "fun to use".

I'm grateful that Steve invested in Pixar. Those animations are inspiring.

So for me it's iPhone + Pixar. The rest, with respect, is just normal computer business - iMacs and so on. That is, build them cheap in China, sell them expensive in fancy stores with marble floors and huge glass windows. Not a lot going on there except manufacturing and clever business, and half-decent product design including the OS if you're a fan of that style of computer.

But for sure, it's sad he died young and he was obviously a hero to many. I liked his speech to the uni students, he seemed to have a calm outlook and interest in life and death and everything in between.
Westboro Church announces Steve Jobs funeral protest
Come back and say it on your real account, chief.
Aw, I was expecting a QR Code that would be readable by both human and machine. Anyone want to try it?
Very pretty, but would like to see more details of the methodology. Trades usability/transparency for visual flair.

Also, the social media functions seem to be broken. Tweeting to share my results tweeted a blurb about the site, but no link at all.
Unreal Engine 3 Comes to Flash 11
Why? So the hordes of mawkish Steve idolisers can downvote the blasphemer? There are penalties from differing from the hivemind (slowban, hellban etc). Anonymity is the only way to communicate my level of amazement at the current mania.

So forgive me if I don't do that.
All I can say is that I hope we did not lose a visionary due to a reliance on alternative medicine.
Can you give some concrete examples of why things are currently stacked in the favor of a 1% and against the 99%?

If such things exist, what would your solution be to make things "fairer"?

IMHO, things ARE pretty fair, and these protests are just basically "We don't know how to make money, we messed up buying crap we didn't need, but you lot are rich. therefore it's not fair and you must have some unfair advantage"
The difference is that Princess Diana made very little difference to most of our lives. Steve Jobs made such a huge impact in all of our (technologists, programmers, consumers) lives. Do you remember what mobile phones used to be like before the iPhone? How OSX kick-started the style of graphic design that is still in-trend, with aqua? How ugly consumer devices generally were? How he made design matter again? How darn productive he made many of us, thanks to amazing tools.

We're sad because today the world of technology seems a little less exciting than it did yesterday. We owe that man a debt. If you don't like reading this stuff, come back in a couple of days.
> The exchange of the oocyte’s genome with the genome of a somatic cell, followed by the derivation of pluripotent stem cells, could enable the generation of specific cells affected in degenerative human diseases. Such cells, carrying the patient’s genome, might be useful for cell replacement. Here we report that the development of human oocytes after genome exchange arrests at late cleavage stages in association with transcriptional abnormalities. In contrast, if the oocyte genome is not removed and the somatic cell genome is merely added, the resultant triploid cells develop to the blastocyst stage. Stem cell lines derived from these blastocysts differentiate into cell types of all three germ layers, and a pluripotent gene expression program is established on the genome derived from the somatic cell. This result demonstrates the feasibility of reprogramming human cells using oocytes and identifies removal of the oocyte genome as the primary cause of developmental failure after genome exchange.

"Oocyte" = egg cell. "Somatic" = normal (non-ovum/sperm) body cell. "Pluripotent" = capable of developing into all cell types.
This was returning an empty document for me, but http://digitaljournalist.org.nyud.net/issue0712/y_walker08.h... works.
Straight Outta Tunis
Except, you can't leave your valuables on the street and then arrest someone for breaking and entering when they're stolen!

Agreed, that would be theft:

Theft by finding occurs when someone who chances upon an object which seems abandoned takes possession of the object but fails to take steps to establish whether the object is abandoned and not merely lost or unattended

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_by_finding
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Why I Turned Down A $100,000 Job
>Anyway, maybe you should visit their websites and read what they want.

From what I've seen from the posts all over the internet, it runs the entire political spectrum from the very progressive liberal/socialist(tax the rich, end wars, socialized medicine) to the very libertarian(end the federal reserve, go back to the gold standard). There is also a lot of anti-globalization stuff in there, as well. That's on top of the anti-corporate greed goals(which are what I assume the entire thing started about, but quite frankly, I'm not sure anymore).

The problem for me, even as a liberal, is that a lot of the demands are either impossible(removing the fed) or so unspecific(there is a lot of talk about "personal liberty") that they could mean anything to everyone that it's hard to state that I support them or am against them.
The reports of Jobs' treatment elections are conjecture.

"although neither Apple nor those close to Jobs were willing to discuss the treatments he elected or the course of his disease," the community continues to assume that rumors about Job's health coming out of financial publications (Forbes) are somehow accurate.

This post is trite and condescending no matter how long it came after Jobs’ death. Dealing with death is a personal matter. You have no right to demand that anyone submit themselves to the cold, alienated approach of aggressive medical treatment. Let people pass with dignity, however they choose.

The purpose of life is not to be a mobile mass of cells for as long as technologically possible. In fact, the statistics show that people who skip the N+1th round of chemo and switch to hospice care have better outcomes. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_...
> We are, however, more than bodies that breed genes. We have developed into something that goes beyond the substrate from which we came and we owe it to ourselves to some day outgrow the need for that substrate completely.

I'm not sure I accept that, and I have yet to see an argument that demonstrates this convincingly. What substrate are you talking about? The physical world? We are a part of and a result of the physical world, not separate from it. The notion of moving beyond it is nonsensical. If you're talking about the biological substrate, then I agree, we may see technology evolve beyond us. But this is still the self-replication pattern that is being propagated, not humanity itself.

>Imagine what our culture could be like if we didn't have to start from scratch every 70 years.

We don't start from scratch, that is the greatest advantage of our minds which have created written and oral communication. It has been demonstrated that people grow more conservative as they get older and set in their ways. New ideas are the purview of the young. I can very well imagine our culture stagnating if individuals were able to live indefinitely.

>Imagine what our minds could do if they had centuries to develop.

If we're still talking about organic brains, I don't think we can imagine that. Our brains were not designed to receive more than 100 or so years of input. The yips in golfers arise from mental maps of the body "bleeding over" after too much training. The wiring of the brain may not be designed to handle so much input. I can easily see an analagous process happening in more purely cognitive situations. In short, we don't know what would happen, and it would be presumptuous to think that we do.

> Imagine a society without loss and scarcity.

What do you mean that doesn't appeal to people? It's a utopian fantasy, of course it sounds good. But to say that it's inevitable is wishful thinking. Ironically, it may be our individualistic culture that does what is good for the self, with no concern for the future good that prevents such a development. Our plunder of the world's resources and our destruction of the environment may very well leave the planet unsuitable for human life. This is the idea that I was addressing in my first post, that of course the species does and should take precedent over the individual.
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Which of Steve Jobs’s Products Mattered Most?
> When the debug flag is true on our sites, we have a link which will authenticate us as an admin without any credentials for example!

Well, get rid of that and push for a change in your company's workflow. This kind of control shouldn't be deployable to the main servers at all.

Have separate, staging servers and run your tests and debugging interfaces on it, but as much as possible, don't deploy administrator interfaces to the servers that talk to the customer. [1]

[1] I'm undecided which kinds of heisenbugs would justify breaking that lemma.
to whoever responded with:

"But anyways. Like most of us, I am also very fortunate to be in tech, and have a passion for programming. But I do not pretend that my good fortune some how means I work or harder or am smarter than other people in our society.",

but then deleted their comment:

you really should repost it. it captures my feelings too and i wanted to thank you for putting them into words.

again and again, i encounter people in my circles of well-employed colleagues who do not realize how lucky they are to have interests coinciding with aptitudes coinciding with particular economic demands in their productive years.

and it makes them sickeningly self congratulatory.
Steve Jobs showing the first iPhone
What's really amazing to me is he's talking about proximity sensors and accelerometers and the whole room is dead-silent. He is showing people the future - something you probably couldn't even imagine back in 2007 and it's so silent in there. As if he's "speaking Chinese".

And the second Steve starts demoing the device the crowd goes wild.
While iOS 4 provides great accessibility features, it mostly excels in providing support for visually impaired users. As a touch interface, it has certain mobility requirements that Jimmy didn't like. He would have had to mount the phone inches from his face (where he keeps his non driving hand). Siri seems to greatly decrease those mobility requirements, and he is excited.
10/5 NEVER FORGET.
I think taking an engineering economics class would be incredibly useful (something like: http://ardent.mit.edu/real_options/ROcse_CMI_latest/index.ht...). I'm a fan of the Austrian school of economics (Rothbard, Menger, Mises, Hayek), but micro/macro are good classes to see how to address complex system analysis - though it may be the wrong approach.
What is the best way to learn how to set up an Amazon EC2 Server?
In my mind Jobs was the kind of guy that soils his sneakers while running, not while peacefully walking.
The image painted by Gruber here is a kitschy one - and kitschy is probably the adjective least fitting to Jobs and his creations.
They searched the phone before obtaining a warrant. This ruling is troubling not because of the case at hand, but because of the precedent it sets. It's definitely an area where the law could be better defined.
Unfortunately, I've had this kind of difficulty far too often when reaching out to large companies with disclosures. Most recently, the only thing that worked was blasting off an email to all the internal people I could find through google: the CTO, vp of engineering, and head of support were on the list, as were a few lower level employees. The lower level got back to me right away, eager to cc the CTO on their response =)
Rdio ditches ads, fees
Ask HN: Rumble Bars & Music Test Link?
Ask HN: Read article while back on road test site that played song (Beethoven?) when vehicles ride over rumble bars on that stretch of highway. Link lost & quick web search didn't yield anything - anyone have link to related article in their personal link stores / wiki?
>This post is trite and condescending no matter how long it came after Jobs’ death. Dealing with death is a personal matter. You have no right to demand that anyone submit themselves to the cold, alienated approach of aggressive medical treatment. Let people pass with dignity, however they choose.

Don't know why you're taking it this way but (assuming that it's true, need more facts from reliable sources) this is more of a warning to people not to get taken in by alternative medicine alone and to be a little skeptical of it as a cure-all.
While this is great, it will just mean the trolls have to game the system a little harder and tweak their extortion model so it appears plausible that it's not actually extortion.
Talk to Neo4j through C++ w/out HTTP
Yes - I work for a large company, and we have exactly the same arguments here about "the right way" as against the "cost-effective/pragmatic way". It's not an easy thing to tease out, and keep yourself pointing in the right direction while compromising on the way there.

And Mozilla have it particularly hard, with people questioning everything they do, and misunderstandings rife across the internet (there was an article on The Register recently which made my blood boil).

[I've removed that part of mine too.]
Rdio Announces Ad-Free, On-Demand Music Streaming
As many times as I've flown out of the Shuttlesworth Airport (in Birmingham) I never knew who it was named for. Thanks for sharing, Colin.
As a current paying Rdio user, I'm tempted to stop paying, use the free plan, and see if I listen to enough music a month to pay. Why not?
Why do we care so much about genius scientists but dismiss genius dilletantes?

Also, why do we have to dillute our opinion on people and reduce them to the stereotypes? Is it something we do just to feel better?

Saying that Steve Jobs was just a salesman is as incorrect as saying that Edsger Dijkstra was just an arrogant man. I'm sorry, but both were MUCH more than that.
Ironically the page is available over both https and http.
The question is, is the disclosure of this (technically public) resource location litigation material?

IANAL, but I can definitely see both sides of this debate being highly defensible.
Which sounds nice, but doesn't seem to account for all the voting for austerity and smaller government that we've seen in Western democracies.
Out of curiosity, which down vote are you speaking of? You can't down vote stories. Flag, yes, but not stories.

I love apple and I admire Jobs' charisma. I think that if true this type of story needs to be told. As it reads right now it does not have much real hard evidence though and I would like some more meat to something controversial.
Look, you gotta give people 24 hours to get out their tributes. I don't see anything wrong with that. Just accept that the newsday today will be all about Jobs. You'll live longer if you give in to a little tolerance and patience.

I have similar thoughts about 'mourning tourism' and the questionable relationships people have in their heads with public figures, but we humans are irrational creatures. Tolerating our irrationality is a good policy. I'm not saying you should go and implement sharia law or become a creationist, I'm saying you should just give people a chance to vent and leave them alone for 24 hours.
Steve Jobs biography will be released 4 weeks early; #1 on Amazon
Ask HN: Is anyone else at Startup Week 2011 in Vienna?
It's been great so far, excellent speakers at a fantastic venue. I'm curious if there are any other HN readers here! If you're here, what's your favorite startup so far?
We're not talking about the N+1th round of chemo here. According the article, it was the 1st round of treatment he skipped, the one that probably would have saved his life. More than just saving his life, it should have given him a good quality of life for many years.
Thanks Mike ... really liked doing that HnT and was glad we could veer away from tech topics and talk about the biz. Hope we can cross paths again soon.
I seem to remember voting for Ron Paul in the 2008 primaries. And for the general election, there were more choices than the two you mention.

Instant runoffs are only marginally better than the American "first-past-the-post" system. In particular, they suffer from the perverse effect where voting for your favorite candidate can actually cause him to lose.

There's a mathematical proof (Ken Arrows, maybe? I'm getting forgetful) showing that it's impossible for any voting system to have all the handful of qualities one wants in a democratic process. This is actually a pretty decent branch of mathematics. There exist better options, but none that are perfect.
i had a website doing the exact same idea around 6 years ago when i was in school. due to lack of marketing and sales experiment we scrapped the project since all the local dealers only wanted to deal with Autotrader and nothing new. So we scrapped the project even thought to this day i think it was and is an amazing idea. so good luck to you and i believe if marketed right it has great potential. there is always going to be a $100,000 job for you even if this doesn't work out.

out of curiosity, how did you end up getting the dealers to sign up to bid on the use applications?
> Assuming they lose in court

They sure can't win in court as they're not informed that they're being judged before the judgment is passed. There is no possible defense.

> on something as difficult to prove as "neglecting to secure your internet access"

If the Hadopi said they caught your IP, the evidence is given. They don't have to prove you neglected to secure your access, it's you who shall prove you didn't neglect it by installing a government-approved spyware on your Windows-only PC.

Personally, at the first warning I will get a VPN. The defense is simple.
Steve Jobs' Unorthodox Treatment for Neuroendocrine Cancer
As Brian Dunning puts it:

«No, it's not too early to criticize the misinformation that cut short Steve Jobs' life. It's the best time.» https://mobile.twitter.com/briandunning/status/1217854435356...

I pretty much agree with that.
Proof that Twitter's Bootstrap doesn't make all sites look the same
The general public cannot be expected to make a responsible decision concerning alternative 'medicine' if they are not aware of the facts and situation. If this article is to be believed, it's rather clear that Steve Jobs wasn't content to 'die in dignity' (how is it dignified to reject medicine? baffling...), and turned to science based medicine towards the end. Had he been more aware, he could perhaps be alive today.

The best legacy Steve Jobs could possibly have is to raise awareness of woo and it's woo-isms, so that perhaps just a few more people don't die unnecessarily.