skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revenge of the Electric Car (Movie Review)
That's the whole point - "your" definition. There are billions of people in the world, any many of them disagree with your definition. Pretending your definition is the only definition is the height of egotism, and I wish that we as a people, could understand that and have sympathy and constructive conversations about the future.
> In Seattle, for instance, the last big protests (against the World Trade Organisation, in 1999) looked mindless. If they had a goal, it was selfish—an attempt to impoverish the emerging world through protectionism.

Wow. While a case can be made that the anti-globalization movement would of had that effect, that was not its goal. I really should stop reading the Economist.
Canada, eh?
It is a violation of the YouTube EULA and there will also be bandwidth/rate limits imposed.
Reminds me of this: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2011/08/cperformance-compariso...

note the retraction after he tried to keep everything updated for a while.
Microsoft Bid for Yahoo
-1 ?
We used shiftbrites in our 7x8 window at Hive13 adnd it worked out very nicely. Last week we got it working with OSC and Processing - http://www.hive13.org/?p=527 - which should make connecting to it with a wide variety of software pretty easy.
Well, not the ones planning to go home. But perhaps a more welcoming route to becoming a citizen would help keep some of the ones leaving upon completing their degree.
They cannot refuse you for BEING black, but they can refuse you for any other reason that isn't "protected".
Very little - millionaires tend not to pay much tax.
Especially foreign ones whose income is difficult to trace.

What happened in Vancouver when Canada did the same thing is that people bought the houses as an insurance so they had an escape route if Honk Kong went bad.
Most of the houses either sat empty, were rented out, or the kid was dumped there to go to college.

It did a lot for the local housing market - not clear it did quite so much for local entrepreneurial growth.
It downloads videos in FLV format ... any way to opt for MP4?
What I Learned From Hitting The Front Page Of Hacker News
You are incorrect.

A debt is a future payment. If there is no future payment, there is no debt. A hot dog stand can refuse cash for instance, with no issue.
In most of the country, $250,000 is quite a nice house. Let your mind think outside the Bay Area every now and again.
The Fed is broke. America is as rich as ever.

We were taxing the rich progressively for decades and doing great as a country. The past decade has been great for the rich, but horrible for the country. The number one factor preventing investment today is not taxes, but lack of confidence brought about by a crippled economy brought about by haphazardly lowered taxes.

How Congress managed to convince us this is a moral issue instead of one of straightforward math I'll never understand.
> Is it worth my time to learn Clojure or Haskell, when I don't even know what I'll use it for?

I don't know if it's a binary decision between investing a lot of of time, or investing none. You could skim the reference manual, and if anything jumps out at you, you have a topic for future investigation, or a non-zero quantity of information to base your decision to "is it worth more time?" on.

If you mean on a very abstract level, the balance between learning what others are doing and producing your own stuff, you might enjoy Richard's Hamming essay "You and your Research", pg hosts a copy on his site: http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
Sounds like they're clamping down on auto theft -> scrap metal rings.
Reading through the wikipedia article, it's apparent that one of the controversies was he neglected to mention that he received a free-trial of a service during an interview. This wouldn't apply to dropbox, unless you have some reason to believe he exceeded his free allotment of 5 gigabytes on his project, and was receiving a free upgrade courtesy of the dropbox team. Do you have any evidence to suggest this?
I'm not sure who will take "advantage" of this program -
- $500,000 CASH investment
- You get a 'resident visa', so you can not work here
Source: WSJ.

How about we give incentives to people already in this country?

I propose: You get priority processing on your green card application if you buy a house worth more than $150k, and you can't sell for at least 3-5 years.

Disclosure: I'm on the H1B visa. I bought a house last year while the 'first-time home buyer' $8k credit was available.
Yes, select the "Optimize for iPhone" option
"Compensate somewhat for the increase by lowering the actual tax rate."

Why should we be "compensating" anything? "The Rich" promised to hire vigorously if we kept Bush tax cuts. They didn't hire then and they aren't now and it's still the same rate.
Tell me - does Irony just mean "made of Iron" here?
For chrome you can go to chrome://net-internals/#hsts and enter news.ycombinator.com and Chrome will automatically only make requests to https.
The HTML5 Development Reading List
Am I still going to be writing code for some
corporate overlord 5 or 10 years from now?

Isn't that up to you?
Amazing the shift of perspective...

How many who voted for Obama (or at least against John McCain) would expect their vote would elect a President who would violate the sovereignty of Pakistan with a special forces operation, murder an American citizen without due process, and enter into armed conflict with Libya without the consultation of Congress and eventually assassinate a sitting head of state?
So who are they then? Are they supported by those people in the country?
glad to know that. Great tool!
And yet, consistently it is demonstrated that providing high-quality, low-cost alternatives to piracy does have the effect of eliminating some piracy.

Source: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/drm-music-piracy-copy-protection...
This guy is being way too hard on himself. Running out of cash is hard and painful enough, no need to unduly heap blame upon oneself. If people at IBM were talking to him about a deal, then they weren't doing it to coddle his startup or be nice... trust me, if people aren't interested they won't be shy about saying no. I think he got caught out by the slow-moving bureaucracy of a big firm... too bad for them, their loss. As for IBM being a stalwart of the tech industry not needing help from a brash young startup, isn't that exactly how Microsoft got its first big contract?

This wasn't a case of needing harsher advice (too many people are addicted to self-flagellation, as if crushing your own dreams was a sign of maturity) but a case where a fledgling company took a big risk. Risks are risks, there's no way to to apportion blame or change course in hindsight. This just as easily could have been a post thanking his many mentors for their sound advice and encouragement that saw him through to getting his first big sale to IBM. Just because the other party in a negotiation is a big corporation that lumbers along and takes forever to make up its mind, there's no need to berate oneself for not having tried harder or seen x,y,z in retrospect. I say good on him for having gone balls to the wall to bring his vision to life, and good luck with his current venture. But the lesson here is not about advisers, in my view, it is about caution when dealing with massive organizations.
I have optimized the script so that only 200 items are visible by default (change with options = { maxVisibleItemsCount: int }) this makes it possible to add large amounts (100 000+) items into the list without problems (except for sorting, thats sloooow if you have large amout of items).

But I am working on a solution for auto-loading data from callbacks or showing more items in list on the fly. But the problem is that most solutions are dependent on how the HTML/CSS around the list is implemented, which is something I want to avoid. Im thinking a lot about it, though.
Arguably, attempting to predict the future is the very essence of intelligence. (See: Jeff Hawkins.)
If the people in some other Arabic countries did the same thing we would be bombing their ruler's palaces?
He does not make money from a free product.

He makes money from the product for sale, even if it's the same one.

If this is not clear, you can try a thought experiment: how much money would he make if he discontinued selling the product for some amount of money (and did not substitute it with donations or something else)? How much money would he make if he stopped giving it away for free? Arguable less, but > 0, no?
Just created an account and imported my Google Reader feeds. I like what I've tried so far, but it doesn't look like there's an option to sort feeds by oldest first. (Maybe no one else sorts this way, but it's the way that makes sense for how I read feeds.)
I can see what you are saying, but I'd disagree that this would be useful to someone launching on HN. The advice given is very general [besides the "Post on a weekend" suggestion]. Even as children we were told that "sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will never hurt me", a very early version of "filter out the unhelpful".

For me, if the advice seems obvious, I at least want to know how the author came to that observation, why it is beneficial, and how he will use it going forward. For example, check out this blog post on "What I learned from watching notch code":

http://gun.io/blog/what-i-learned-from-watching-notch-code/

You can see that while the author of this piece gave perhaps generic advice with things like "incredibly thorough testing", he told the story of what he observed, how it is beneficial, and at the end showed us how he would use that knowledge to improve himself. I didn't get that feeling with the OP's submission, such as when he said "However, it is important to not take them personally. View it from a larger perspective. Why are they criticizing you? There must be a reason why. Try to understand them and see what you are able to do." What did he do to understand the comments? How did he finally reach seeing it from a larger perspective? What was he "able to do" at the end? The author doesn't touch on this at all, and so all we are left for is very generic advice.

For example, with #5 as well, we get a single instance of how he used feedback to improve his product. But what about the other feedback? What feedback did he disagree with, and why? What we get is just "We saw the top comment was to divide the videos into smaller chunks. We did that."
I don't think energy production needs to change very much. One dimension of computing improvement over the past N years is that cpus are getting faster per unit of energy. So, it takes less and less energy for more and more powerful computers.

Remember that our brains only need a couple thousand kcals per day.
What amaze me is how this same problem was solved years ago by programmers.. Hell, even dropbox used svn behind the scene. I remember when Dropbox was just starting, some friends and me were talking about useless it was. "Duh, if I want to host a svn server, I'll just host mine." ;)

It's also important to look at all the competitors dropbox had and currently have.. and still, they're extremely successful. So, basically, they found a nice problem to solve and solve it. The goal there wasn't to be able to sync all possible folders.. just one little folder where anyone would put their stuff inside and that'd just work.

And, more importantly, it makes me thing about what tools we use every day that the no-techy don't know about.

In my opinion, there's really something to do with the terminal. It's such a crazy productivity boost and, if implemented correctly, might be way more intuitive. For instance, everyone knows people that are scared by all the buttons/windows/popup dialog/etc. For us, geeks, it's so easy.. we see the screen and automatically abstract everything and focus on right part; but for them, it's impossible to abstract so many new things at once.

A terminal, IA based, could make it so easy for no-geek to use a computer. Obviously, I'm not talking about BASH but something that could pretty much understand beginners commands. I.e send a email to bob.. which could guide the user through various questions.

Yeah, it's probably stupid. But hell, I'm sure they're hundreds of product as useful as Dropbox.. we just have to think about it.
I don't see how those statements contradict each other.

Growl 1.3 is clearly not open source at this moment, and the stated intend to "push the source over the wall" seems to very deliberately use wording that avoids any kind of commitment on licensing.

Never mind the odd reason for not posting the source code at this point, given that the entire infrastructure for this is already in place and used for 1.2. I.e., why should other concerns prevent 1.3 code from being published?
I fear you've missed the thrust of Rich's talk. Functional programming may seem "intricate" because it is unfamiliar, but if you're willing do do a little bit of up-front unlearning of the massively complex (but familiar) tools you're used to, you may find yourself able to work on projects of a much bigger scale and functionality.

See the slide at 17:20 -- easy stuff (perl,ruby, blurb) gives you 100% speed at the beginning of a project. If you don't expend effort into making things simple, you will "invariably slow down over the long haul."
Yes! They do in the demo I linked in my edit.
Let me propose a use case, and I would appreciate if you indicated if I'm totally off base.

A virtual world, where actors(users) interact with each other, with the cluster providing validation and consistency between actors over a dynamic geography, where each node in the cluster would be handling the realtime requests of actors that are capable of interacting with each other, distant actors would be on different nodes.

(Would this work for a distributed server infrastructure to say an large online game?)
As to how they were generated, the charts are labelled. The first shows raw acceleration data, plus the first and second integrals of that data. The second shows data from a _simulation_, which was tweaked after the flight to approximate more closely data that they do have.
Implying the OP is racist doesn't seem that constructive.
I would say that a working example on the home page should be required.
Agreed, I removed all of it!
Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, city, zip list
Where can I find the information about regions, state, county, city, zip for United states, I need this for building a geography dimension. I tried looking up various places but could not find the complete information, please help
So Ancient Rome, France during the Renaissance, and feudal Japan weren't civilized?
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yummy: good question, and let me preface by saying I'm generally sympathetic to your worldview.

I think the answer is that this policy is pretty much directly guaranteed to increase the human capital and GDP-per-capita of the receiving country. Canada does plenty of other stuff badly, but if you've seen the latest Heritage ranking they actually exceed the US in economic freedom for the first time ever. With the exception of an enlightened, merit-based immigration policy Canada isn't doing many things right...but it is doing far less that is grievously wrong than the US.

I'd take even odds that once the pending true economic collapse happens (including devaluation of the dollar, tuition bubble pop, Euro breakup, et alia), that Canada will have a higher GDP-per-capita than the US within 5 years and certainly within 10. But this takes us far afield.
Scientists are from Mars, the public is from Earth
You might like the german satire magazine Titanic's recent image: http://www.titanic-magazin.de/postkarten.html?&card=1414...

"Grief about Gaddafi" "He lives on in the hearts of his friends"
I don't think the "dislike" button is good for the web. If you agree with something vote it, if not don't. You don't have a dislike vote in electoral campaigns.
don't want to hijack the thread, but perhaps something like this http://rudasn.github.com/meelo-store ?
Shrug.

NATO saw an opportunity and grabbed it. Were their motives pure? What do I care.
I would say a court marshal ending with a televised execution wouldn't been better.
This man was evil. And he was crazy. A violent death, no matter how, is what he deserved.
String AI is not a hardware problem. It's not a matter of lack of computational power. It is a software and modeling problem. If you had an AI algorithm and a model, you could still run it on any Turning machine. It would just take a lot longer (perhaps years or decades or more) to compute a single thought on current hardware instead of real time or faster than real time on some super fast future hardware.

There are people (like Roger Penrose) who argued that intelligence and consciousness are not computational in nature (and hence no algorithm can be conscious). Penrose goes all the way down to quantum mechanical effects in the brain. I have not really followed developments on this and where Penrose's argument currently stands.
The same Qaddafi who was a "partner in the war on terror" when Prime minister Blair visited in 2004 ?

Or the same Qaddafi that provided the `special questioning` facilities when the British secret service sent the current democratic leader there to be interrogated about terrorist links.
Exactly. People do what they do, and make the most convenient excuse.
I was on F1. I think offering work visa to all graduates could not be justified for the US economy. This would just increase the number of applicants for all the jobs. Even as of now, there's more supply than demand for jobs. Although, you're right it would make life so much easier for the international students.

They could offer fast green card processing to those already working (H1B) in this country who buy a house worth $150k+.

Good luck.
Which head of state did the US assassinate?
Did you watch the video? He wasn't talking about tools and he wasn't talking about clojure. It was programming in general and if you have to ask if it's worth your time the obvious answer is no.
Somehow I doubt a public relations agent on Dropbox's payroll wrote up a piece specifically from David Pogue's point of view, in the unique writing style of David Pogue, so that David Pogue could simply submit it to the New York Times, claim it as his own, and collect two paycheques.

I'm all for healthy skepticism, but not purely speculative conspiracy theories.
Observing that preparation generally improves scores =/= you can't score well without preparation. Moving the bell curve a little to the left or right doesn't cut off the tail on the other side.
From Wikipedia:

In 2005, Pogue was the subject of a conflict-of-interest controversy. In a New York Times review of a hard drive recovery service, Pogue noted that the service, which can cost from $500 to $2,700, was provided at no charge for the purposes of the review;[9] but when describing the service for National Public Radio's Morning Edition program on September 12, 2005,[10] he failed to mention this. NPR's Vice President of News Bill Marimow later stated that NPR should have either not aired the review or paid for the services itself.[10] Ultimately, the Times paid for the service.[9]
Also called into question was Pogue's impartiality on reviews of products for which he had authored a Missing Manual book. This controversy necessitated a response from Clark Hoyt, the Times' Public Editor on Pogue's role as a freelance journalist with external obligations.[11] In an op-ed piece, Hoyt wrote "His multiple interests and loyalties raise interesting ethical issues in this new age when individual journalists can become brands of their own, stars who seem to transcend the old rules that sharply limited outside activity and demanded an overriding obligation to The Times and its readers."[11] Of three ethicists consulted, each agreed Pogue's position created a "clear conflict of interest" and placed the paper on "tricky ethical terrain." In response, Pogue pledged to be more open with his conflicts of interest, and while he initially claimed that because he is not a journalist he is not bound by journalistic ethics,[12] he soon recanted and agreed to offer a full "fanboy disclosure" on his website.
In June 2011 Pogue gave a presentation at the Media Relations Summit[13] in which he credits P.R. personnel (of companies whose product he is reviewing) of providing most of his material for columns. The Times' reader representative started an inquiry, which led to Pogue being banned from any such appearances in the future.[14]
They're not the only beneficiaries. I can think of a few moderately-wealthy foreign-born H1Bs (and equivalent) living in Northern California who might have half a million spare and wouldn't mind buying a $500K house and getting a free greencard if it'd save them the trouble of going through the usual immigration process. Picking, just as a random example, say, me.

I'm not even sure whether I want to remain in the US long term, but if offered a free greencard I'd say yes.
Sensationalist fear-mongering spread by a tabloid filesharing blog. If you want to take something from this, just make it "You can find out a person's IP if you know the Skype username and said person is online with Skype by making a hidden call (which Skype should probably prevent)". Skip this, move on.
> This man was evil. And he was crazy.

That's what they said on TV, didn't they? Must be true then.

In other words - how do you know? How do you know the picture you are being fed by the media is accurate enough to assign him a "violent death" as a proper punishment? And without a public trial at that.
Things change. Opportunities arise. Again: Shrug.
PowerInbox CEO: What I Learned from AngelList
That's crazy, isn't it. It makes you realize how important it is to diversify one's sources of information (as well as to be open to different points of view), in order to avoid unconscious brainwashing.
Ben Ali was not shot in the head by an armed mob. Mubarak wasn't killed either. There was a stable transition in either case.

The issue isn't that anyone sympathizes with Gadaffi, but that it calls into question the solidarity and stability of the rebel government. Until now, Libyans have been united by their hatred of Gadaffi but we haven't seen whether the government can pull Libya together in a post-Gadaffi nation or really what kind of government or society will emerge. This execution was an action by Libyans with guns against the express will of the nominal government (which wanted to try him first.) It's a bad omen.
I found this interesting too: "he saw Apple staffers turn into "bizarro people" by the riches the Apple stock offering created. Isaacson says Jobs vowed never to let his wealth change him."

I wonder what he'll consider to be bizarro.
Side comment:
The mobile version of that link was exceptionally painful. A short article was split to 5 pages. Wow.