skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot to be said for baggage. You mess with stuff like that at great peril.

We already have a great example for this: the military.

The military operates on zulu time for things like air operations. You want to know exactly when the C-130 is going to arrive, not screw around with offsets or local time diffs.

But they still operate for mundane stuff on local time: 'Assemble for formation at 0745.' 'Mess opens at 0530'. Like that.

Because we live on a big globe and people like having '0530' be 'too early in the morning' no matter where you are.
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Canonical/Red Hat/Novell or any big commercial Linux outfit should stand up right now. Its their problem too.
Indeed. It's not like knowing what time it is, is not valuable. Just think of all the interviews you could make on-time!

Of course, if you want to show up on time, on the correct day, you'll also need to license out access to our date server, in addition to the time server.
I would prefer to use http://browserling.com/ all day. The home page design is way more awesome.
For reference, Earth's interior gravitational acceleration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EarthGravityPREM.jpg

As you see, gravity gets stronger up to a maximum in the outer core, because the core is much more dense.

But the issue here is not about spherical Earths at all. Earth deviates significantly from a spheroid and even an ellipsoid shape-wise and gravity-wise. Just saying "location X lies closer to the center of the earth and therefore experiences less gravity" is somewhat irrelevant here.
Metallica.
Hey, I tried your app but didn't order a card. Here's why:

I had to manually enter addresses instead of being able to select them from my address book. This is really annoying, I'd rather have only the option to select pcontacts than being able to enter custom addresses

The second reason is I had to enter my CC info to orde a card. I'd rather do this through inapp purchases and then wouldn't mind paying a dollar more for it.

Finally, 4-6 weeks delivery really is too long for a "I'll just send a card from my vacation location" type of thing.
Me too. I love him so much. I am sure he is in heaven and see us
I think it would be useful to add a column to specify if the hosted services provides an API and if it is REST-ful.
Awesome! Congrats on launching :)
I don't mind the occassional visit to sarcasm and humor on HN, especially when it is relatively high-brow, poignant, and relevant.

Not that I would claim I always manage to instill poigniancy into my jibes.
The military does. It's called - or used to be called - zulu time.

It's only used by guys who -must- use it. Air plane drivers, strategic guys, comm center operators.

Everyone else uses the local time.

I suspect if UTC / zulu were really the bee's knees some general would mandate everyone use it.

Heck, they got me - a dumb American from the sticks - to think in metric pretty easily. UTC would be a breeze.
If anyone happens to lose money through this vulnerability I think that provides enough evidence to make AMEX knowingly culpable.

Without that, this is just run-of-the-mill incompetence. But the Disallow: /us/admin/ indicates that they knew that URL was wide open, and failed to act.
Poll: Are you interested in hardware hacking/EE?
I just picked up robotics as a hobby and am teaching myself EE. So far it's been a great experience, so I was wondering if anyone else is interested in this.
Doesn't interest me
Interested but have no experience
Interested with some experience (I could repair my headphone cables if they break)
I've completed a few larger projects myself (home automation systems, hobby radio, RC vehicles, robots, whatever)
I consider myself a hardware hacker
This was a big topic of discussion at PyconAU this year.

Having listened to several Python core developers as well as core developers of some major web frameworks and libraries, I have no doubt that Python 3 will replace Python 2.

I think the key tipping point will be when the major web frameworks support it.
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Is satire, which often makes very heavy use of sarcasm, to be considered uncivilized?
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A lot of these changes actually go beyond what the copyright industry has been able to do in the US. There's no data retention provision in the US, for example.
Alternative medicine is any healing practice:
"that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine
Joining the other commenter, only 70% of the article reached this recipient's brain.

I would appreciate if you could help me fry it completely by offering a little more than an even shorter one-liner using a function I just read about the first time. Please?
Most people don't think twice when their doctor tells them to change their diet. They just ignore it.

It's only when a diet is some outrageously expensive and super-implausible idea like "only eat berries and uncooked food" that it enters the realm of alternative medicine. "Diet & Exercise" is even in the American vernacular.

The only people who want to co-opt diet is alterantive are the CAM proponents who are attempting to use it as the thin edge of a wedge to get themselves funding and legitimacy.
Actually I wouldn't be so sure. Very often it's the legal people who push for that stuff and the founders are told to not worry, everything will be fine, until they are left with a PR disaster.
In my opinion, there'a lot of value for informal communication that all participants understand that e.g. 8am local time is morning everywhere. E.g. before you fly to another country, you can agree to meet with your hosts at 10am and know intuitively that it's quite sensible time.

But current model is too complicated, mainly due to daylight saving time (DST). If we would get rid of DST, and map timezones based on longitude and country borders (and state borders for larger countries like Russia, USA, Canada), things would be much simpler. Of course, when countries are split or merged, some updates would be needed, but usually then other data (city-country mappings etc.) needs to be updated too, so this wouldn't be that big issue.
I had a similar reaction to grandparent. On reflection, my issue is that while the author may intend this as a tribute to steve, it comes across to me as exploitation. The author uses steve's death to advance an ideology. You say "poetry", I say "crass marketing". On the occasion of his death, let steve be steve, not a way to argue a point.
We can totally crowdsource time. If everyone inputs what time they think it is by looking at the sky, we could just take the average of all those inputs and know the absolute time [wisdom of the crowd]
Not true. Corporations are supposed to bring long term value to share holders. In many cases we see lawyers go for a quick buck at the cost of a tarnished image, which is very debatable whether that's good long term.
Offer HN: (1) $200 round trip PHX ↔ SFO for Startup School
Thanks to the Delta card I have, I have a cheap companion ticket available for any domestic flight.

I’m almost certain this means I can offer one Phoenix-area Startup School-bound person a ticket. At $200, you would save a good bit off standard fare, and you would help subsidize my own ticket.

Working full-time on our startup has made me pretty broke at present, and this would really help me out.

(Relatedly, if anyone would consider letting me crash somewhere, even your floor, for a night or too, that would be very much appreciated as well.)

You can email me via http://alanhogan.com/contact (or, my address is <that_url_path>@<my_hostname>).

Thank you!
>If synchronized clocks are a problem, I wonder why they don't race the neutrino against a photon. Obviously the photon would have to take a different path - maybe bouncing off a satellite.

how about just inside the fiber. How good is the ping between CERN and Gran Sasso ? :)
It's an unfortunate event, but it's a bit ridiculous just how many links are relating to this.
The talk about "Bad Steve" reminds me about Gundotra telling the "Icon Ambulance" story the day that Steve stepped down, in which Steve calls him up on a Sunday because "we have an urgent issue" involving the color gradient on the Google iphone icon.

https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKx...

For many people, that kind of anal attention to detail (and describing it as an "urgent" matter) would be the key sign of a "bad" boss. I think it's acceptable in Steve because if anyone has shown a good grasp of the cost-benefit analysis of such perfection, it's him.
Depends on the use. Plenty of systems have a local memory cache and queries database only for large chunks of data.
Steve Jobs didn't really create that much. It's easier to choose than to create. Jobs was a "chooser" of other people's good ideas.
"Steve Jobs" is now link bait.
All this talk makes me want to build a replica....
http://www.brielcomputers.com/replica1.html

If only to relive a bit of history.
A very helpful advice that my mentors imparted onto me is that when you choose your business partner/cofounder, do it such that the person you chose complements you. What that means is that he/she is strong in the areas that you are weak at. This allows you to focus on your strength and compensates for your weakness.

Another important note is that you need not like the person you work with. Think about it, what are you working for? I hope your answer is money, if not then please ignore this. If you think about it, money has no feelings. As should you. This by no means, means going and robbing a bank or anything that extreme, but it does mean business should involve no emotions, while at the same time be ethical.
Pictures of Steve Jobs right before he passed away
Is your startup prepared to deal with a death of a co-founder?
Kindly lay off scolding. I understand the temptation, but succumbing to it will cause HN to become a place for silly meta discussions. I mean just look at how much longer you made this thread.

PS there was an actual point there. You can disagree if you want I guess, but meta discussions are always stupid - post the disagreement instead.
Why not also add this to kickstarter or something of the sort? $10 for a T shirt (or more) + remainder donated to cancer research in Steve's name?

BTW I would also love to see that logo on the shirt. That's it. Black shirt, white apple with steve's face. Quotes may not be necessary.
> The solution is not to redefine corporations as non-greedy entities.

Wouldn't it be easier to take measures to make undesirable behavior unprofitable than to throw away capitalism?
I find myself hoping the iPod/aquarium story is true.
I am tech minded, hence to meet such people I would either go to Tech conferences, talks and universities. I find it the best way to get inspired while at the same time meet new people. Even better is volunteering in such conferences as you get to meet many new people
Bogus with a capital B: repeated A/B tests.
Here are some tech related Topchan.tv channels. The GoogleTechTalks channel has some pretty good programming talks.

GoogleTechTalks
http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/265

TED
http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/264

twit, tech talk shows
http://www.topchan.tv/show/public1/117
Steve Jobs on Charlie Rose (1996)
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Steve Jobs death - 188 articles from Huff Po is not a tribute...
I think some of this is a two part play against domestic policies. Bully foreign interests to implement, and then push the same policies domestically, using the foreign implementations as part of the argument. ("Compliance", "even they're doing it", "parity", "protect domestic interests", etc....)
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Couldn't this mean a number of things? 1. The device isn't fully sealed. 2. Isn't there always going to be air unless you cover each area of the device and seal it off?
I can say that I have mixed feelings about it because it is a very grey area. For a lot of people it is about personal responsibility. There were a LOT of people that knew better but instead choose to believe what the "big money" was saying. The catch to that is they owed it to themselves to look closer at their personal situation and asses if they could afford what they were told they could. I myself paid $215000 for a house that is now worth about $140000. If I didn't inform myself before buying the house I could have lost it. Instead I have put myself in the best situation I can. I position myself to never be "upsidedown" just by being careful. I didn't do things that other people can't. I just did my homework. Does it bother me that my house lost a tremendous amount of its value? Hell yes, but I planned for that possiblity.

My point is that for a lot of people they could have been more careful. The other side is that a lot people didn't have the means to know better. They trusted what was happening around them and it cost them. Is that there fault? Maybe, but I fell like saying they shouldn't have trusted anyone is a worse solution.
What a fitting tribute from the only other artist whose death is certain to make me cry. I hope it never happens.
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And the Steve Jobs reality distortion field has come to an end.
It's when 99% of people don't use google to look up something that can be answered in 10 seconds. :)
I'm just saying we should be supportive of Ted's recovery, rather than enable him, that's all.
Steve Jobs as Frank Lloyd Wright
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You misinterpreted me. What I said is that the extra effort needed to report this vulnerability isn't a fault of the Amex customer service system. Of course it's a faulty deployment process that allowed this to happen in the first place. But as far as escalating a trouble report from an ordinary consumer, what happened does seem pretty reasonable.

Flip it around: what if Amex (or any other large company) made it easy to escalate everything to a technologically capable supervisor right away? Those supervisors would be deluged in uninformed, irrelevant, and just plain wrong security reports. Filtering out the signal from the noise in the security landscape is a monumental task in itself. As tech savvy hackers, we always think we're entitled to say "I know what I'm doing so escalate me over the idiots", but how does a company or CSR tell whether that's actually true?
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Sinclair ZX80 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80
Steve Jobs' Death and America's decline
Don't forget that they are funded by the CIA. Not like "facebook is a CIA tool" conspiracy theory, but actually funded by the CIA, from the beginning.

They're a private spying company that provides services to the FBI and CIA, among others.
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It could be, but I've heard this same story told about a Sony exec. instead of Steve, and that was before iPod's time. It was a camera that he dropped into a body of water though. The rest is same.
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Of course not, but the point is that there are technical measures which could be a lot more onerous. How much would TPB be willing to spend to circumvent more intelligent blocking? My guess is it wouldn't take much before using TPB would require an out-of-country proxy, which can be quite a pain in the ass even for the technically savvy.
Stephen Fry has a talent with the written word that rarely disappoints. Of the many articles, obituaries and anecdotes about Steve Jobs I've read today, that one is the most compelling read.
Good points but I said " what negative effect of unregulated users CAN CAUSE ". I heged what I said and didnt make a sweeping statement. If I said "always cause" then you are right about saying im close minded if i said that.
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> I for one think it's a seriously unrealistic expectation to think that AMEX or insert large corp here will handle security vulnerabilities over twitter.

a) Agree. b) That said, I think the fact that the person on the other end of the American Express Twitter account was accepting to talk to the guy over DM, and thereby actually /was/ willing to handle a security vulnerability over Twitter, is the most damning argument against this guy's rant; he insisted on using a "modern protocol", but apparently telling someone using Twitter, when they were perfectly happy to let him do so, was not modern enough: he insisted it be on his terms or no terms, e-mail or nothing.
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I love Tufte but most likely won't end up going through 179 pages just on how to present data the "right" way. He should develop some form of a Web curriculum or something more accessible for those only interested in the essentials. He did this already quite brilliantly with his Powerpoint essentials.
The key word in your post is "startup". Most CSRs of AMEX have probably not even seen their CEO in person, let alone "call him immediately".
>If you are inside or at the inner surface of a spherical shell, then the gravity from all the atoms in the shell is pulling at you in all directions. Now it so happens that all these little pulls exactly cancel each other out. This can be shown with Gauss' law. [Does anybody know an intuitive proof of this?]

imagine rays through you position that form narrow cones to the closest and the farthest point of the shell - if you're 2 times closer to one side than to another, they'd cut 4 times less (proportional to distance squared) of the shell on the closer side than on the farthest.

The gravitational pull (reverse of the distance squared) per unit mass is 4 times stronger from the pieces on the closer side. Thus 4 times stronger pull per unit mass from 4 times less mass - the same.

(for complete mathematical correctness now make the cones infinitesimally narrow, slice the shell into infinitesimally thin shells and integrate over the 2 angles [pie x pie] to cover the surface of the shell and over the thickness of the shell to cover all the layers - each such infinitesimal would be 0 as described above and integrating 0 would produce 0 in this case. For a general Gauss law it is based on the same distance squared proportionality of the surface element size and reverse distance squared proportionality of the field gradient value (ie. it works only for such fields) )
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Agreed, but the difference is that it should be far easier to migrate away if anything turns out badly for you.
Handwritten in machine code, according to this article: http://apple2history.org/history/ah16/#03
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Comparing him to Miles Davis.

>Maybe it’s Miles who can give the most appropriate quote about what Steve Jobs did: “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”
What are they doing other than protesting for a government response/solution to their woes?

First of all, I think we have to make sure we understand each other what the question is here.

Most of the griefs of the protestors, as far as I understand them, can almost by definition only be solved by a government solution. (Assuming you accept their claim that they are not protesting for their individual well-being, but are instead protesting against systemic issues in society.) Bank regulation comes to mind - obviously, banks cannot be regulated by individuals. The same thing applies to macroeconomic problems such as mass unemployment.

Once you recognize that a given problem can only be resolved by government changing its behavior, there remains the question of how you proceed. Do you simply shout about it on the street, or are you trying to do more?

It is this "more" that I was talking about, which usually happens in movements like this. Of course I cannot give you concrete examples since I am not involved in the whole Occupy Wall Street thing, and outside observers can only see them after the fact, if they have been successful.

It usually starts with people genuinely interested in learning. Groups form where people teach each other and become creative. People spend a lot of time thinking about how to fix the problems, and trying to reach out to those who are already in a position to implement their plans. Some may go on trying to run for office themselves. And so on.

This is often unsuccessful for obvious reasons - changing the behavior of government is extremely difficult. But it's not unsuccessful for a lack of trying. More often, the greatest problem is the fact that the people involved are simply inexperienced in dealing with those type of power structures, and therefore fail to acquire enough social influence to really effect a change.
Thanks for the feedback Pieter. We definitely want to make it easier to put in addresses in the ordering process, so it is definitely a high priority.

In terms of in-app purchases, it is to be used for digital good only: (check 11.3)

http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guide...

Where were you sending to/from? Delivery times differ based on location (limitations of the postal service).

Really appreciate the feedback
I've never worked for Apple and never really aspired to, mostly because my interests didn't overlap with what I thought I would probably be doing there, but partly, I have to admit, because I had heard the stories of Steve the tyrant and was put off by them.

Maybe my ego is sturdier now, because I wonder if I wouldn't have enjoyed the challenges he set people. One thing is for sure, you could know that if you did what he wanted, it wasn't going to be a me-too product.
We at browserling will be releasing something perfect for that in a week or so! Sneak peak: http://browserling.com:9088/
If they didn't filter aggressively, that would mean that their more technical staff would be deluged with crap.

And then quit.

I was operations/development at an ISP once, had three layers of acceptably competent support techs between the customer and I and a serious reputation as a fire breathing dragon if a non-issue was escalated to me - but -still- regularly lost half my day dealing with escalated "urgent problems" that were neither.
Dropbox is my publish button, too. (Nginx + Dropbox = easy publishing)
Swatch tried it about ten years ago. They divided the day into 1000 units they called "beats" and made watches that showed traditional time and "beat" time. Their prime meridian was at their headquarters in Switzerland and there were no time zones; Swatch time was the same worldwide.

It went nowhere, mainly because it offered nothing we didn't already have. Anyone who wanted/needed a time that was the same world-wide used UTC as they have done for centuries.
At least set your servers to use UTC. They dont complain about when they have meals.
This idea of people as heroes or villains strikes me as being myopic. The very idea that people can be either good or bad shows that we're all just mushrooms growing out of a much larger mycelium.

Ever notice that so many of the most popular American tourist destinations are places like machu picchu, the great wall of china, the pyramids, etc? The fact that these places exist says far less about their creators than it does about the societies that produced them. (Although perhaps the fact that Americans are obsessed with the monuments of slavery and fascism says something about us.)
I haven't studied it either, but for the curious the documentation is at http://sources.redhat.com/systemtap/documentation.html
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As I just mentioned elsewhere this thread already, browserling is rolling out exactly this service really soon! Here's a sneak peak: http://browserling.com:9088/
I'll bet you that reporting this on HN is a more effective way than going through channels.