skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you expound on your thoughts a bit kayla? I'm unsure on your position.
I am in Osaka too. If the schedule is good, I can join for the beer too.
I saw a Second City improve last winter, and one of the better sketches exploited Facebook similarly, albeit in a more lighthearted and humorous way.

Prior to the performance they would find an audience member's Facebook page using their credit card or mailing address (presumably), and write a sketch based on the details extracted from his or her page.

They incorporated the lucky patron's inevitable reaction into the sketch under the pretense of reprimanding him for disrupting the show. After letting him squirm a bit under the spotlight, the punchline was projecting his Facebook page on the screen across the stage.
Smartpones can already detect that you are travelling above a certain speed on a public road and display a notification that texting while driving is dangerous. Not something I would endorse (too many false positives), but I wouldn't be surprised to see it, either as a result of a law, or as a voluntary "enhancement".
I know, it's effing creepy.

I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway!
IPhone 4S in-depth review: don’t judge this book by its cover
It will still be possible to build your own computer

It will still be possible to build your own desktop. Unfortunately, I need a laptop to work, since I often need to carry it around with me.
M. Schaub Texans
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It's completely irrelevant because it has little to nothing to do with the original post, much like how you wouldn't link to a paper on algorithmic complexity in a post about Facebook, because "they're both about computers."

Additionally, the author of the paper displays some worryingly crackpot-like symptoms. He claims that it's "Nobel worthy", (!!) but Citebase can find no citations.

I know nearly nothing about condensed matter physics, but skimming the paper reveals that his theory doesn't really make any testable predictions, much less the "grand slam" predictions that would result in a Nobel, like room-temp superconductivity.

Impact factor is tremendously flawed, but as a quick sanity check, when you're not sure if something makes any sense at all, it is of great use.
ARPANET's coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage
Macros in Perl6
Really smart people are capable of admitting they are wrong and acting upon it.

If you already realize you were out of line then why can't you act on it?

Is being the third hit for 'Patrick McKenzie' in google worth the continued damage to your reputation?

The only controversial bit in your posting was the fact that you used a well known HN'er with an extremely good reputation and a nice guy to boot and attempted to use his reputation for your own gain, in the process turning what would have been a possibly interesting piece into the low point of HN over the time of its existence.

That blight will soil your reputation forever more and it will cause me and people like me (no idea how many of those there are, maybe they'e a minority, maybe not) to remember as long as that piece is up. Its continued presence on the web shows that you have not learned yet.

You go on and on about philosophy and appreciation, if you really had some class you'd realize how silly this discussion is and that it should have never gotten this far. You can't build your reputation by kicking others or dragging their personal life in to the spotlight. Your points should stand on their own without reference to other people.

You could have made your points just as effectively without naming Patrick, but then that would not have gotten you the eyeballs that it did.

Cheap, cynical.

Standing by that is just dumb.

But keep at it, time will tell if you're right or not in persisting in doing this.
At 11 stops up from ISO 100, you're getting to have a great deal of noise at the max ISO I would have thought even at full frame.
Yeap, they should limit themselves to a higher zoom level. I'm guessing they used geoip, and it barely close.
That's remarkable, given that the roads in that country are not nearly bad. The question one should ask though is what can technology do to fix that public safety hazard?
If it's the best tool for the job, why not? They keep using and promoting Java despite Oracle suing their pants off over it.
"It will still be possible to build your own computer"

That's like saying it will be possible to build your own tablet or laptop, because that's what most people will use in the future. People are moving away from PC's so that's not a very good argument.
A couple of days ago a tutorial "PHP MD5 Secure login script" showed up on Hacker News:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084834

The article has later been removed from the site.
OmniTouch: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere
Turn anything (even your clothes) into a touchscreen
Apache Cassandra 1.0 released.
I'm excited and a bit afraid at the same time.
Excited because hardware supported web pages is something I had wanted for years. I'm not even talking about some fancy possibilities here, just the fact you don't have to worry about performance when user moves a few DOM elements too much is awesome.
At the same time I'm worried, because with every new feature like this the web loses a bit of it's greatest beauties, which is simplicity and minimalism.

It's not about web development - developers will be fine. Actually, a few more things to learn for a common 'jQuery/CSS guy' could only be a good thing. My point is: without this simplicity the web could transform from being a fast and accessible source of information into heavy, bloated piece of multimedia provider which drains your batteries, CPUs usage and - foremostly - your patience.
The ability to load a "Quake 3" level with a web browser is amazing but the internet made with websites that load some sort of "Quake 3" levels 90% of times is not a lovely perspective.

Well, I think I can sum up my "rant" saying it's another "books versus TV" type of conflict.
I wrote the case study. The results we publish actually depends on what our customers care for in those particular tests. We don't actively recommend them which tests to run (unless they ask for) so if they don't measure impact on sales (which we would have recommended had they asked for), we can't ask them for the data.

Most customers would know if their sales were negatively impacted during a test, so if you happen to increase demos while still not negatively impacting sales there's nothing wrong with that.
It doesn't seem to be listed on HN-Books. Seems like quite an omission considering the number of articles that get posted from randsinrepose.
Excellent point! No, I don't think they controlled for this.
It's a 4.9% tax, designed to target pro camcorders. Story from 2007: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/07/17/tech-eu-cameras-tra...
Google is a very big and diverse organization, I'm sure there are some that do promote pretty much every language you ever heard of (and many you didn't).

Actually, I remember some years ago reading about some Googlers that used C#, no clue what for, and it was a while ago, but it is not unrealistic.
It's a duty that goes back a long way (back to the start of the VCR revolution) because the EU wanted to protect its own manufacturers from cheap technology coming from abroad. So they (we) enacted a bunch of laws that place quite high duty (up to 15% IIRC) on some technologies.
Thanks, I just bought some cards using bitcoins to complete my Unglued collection! My first bitcoin transaction for real goods!
Neutral or stability shoes? Hack into your running
Stealing physical goods was a crappy comparison in the GP and you didn't improve it a tiny wee bit.

The company hasn't lost anything, while both examples talk about 'taking away' and 'you want it back?'. This is the standard copy != theft analogy failure.

Note that I do understand that the company (and people affected as customers) wouldn't want him to keep a backup of whatever data he copied. Still, please don't compare it to theft, robbery or whatever.
Your Statistical Result is Below .05: Now What?
This is a genius idea. I'm sure it will go viral and everyone (including their mother) will give this site a test drive.

I can only assume that it is designed to do one thing - data mine.
The Rise of Cross-Channel UX Design
How to enter mobile commerce
Shows a good path for online retailers to enter mobile commerce
But when you live in the city like I do, just crossing the street can be made dangerous by these same people.

[EDIT] Plus people walking and texting in the city can be just as bad when driving in Chicago when they walk out into an intersection without looking.
Biofuels and Obesity stir worldwide sugar shortage
Thanks, very interesting.

Regarding GTalk / GMail: I just want to point out that GTalk features a decent mobile client (at least for Android, WebOS - no idea about the rest), a desktop client (at least for Windows?) and a widget that you can use not only in GMail (think google.com/ig for example). Or - connect with a decent 3rd party IM app on just about every OS.
I wonder if it would be possible to for the app to send you an sms (or even call you!) with some creepy "I'm outside, baby" message at the end of the movie.
Marco has another bookmarklet currently available for testing by subscribers that lets you send individual articles directly to your Kindle, bypassing your Instapaper queue entirely. I haven't tried this yet, however.
"After all, the biggest problem with democracies tends to be the voters."

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill
On the other hand, most of Google's (adwords) customers still target their ads based on keywords. That is, they don't care if their audience is an engineer or a farmer, as long as they are currently interested in their product. And it clearly works well, based on the prices of keywords. So it's not like adsense won't work without G+
Whenever I see the phrase "First State", I think of Delaware, not Australia.
Http://grails.org
This is FUD. Is windows 8 shipping? No. Are there any systems in the wild locked to windows 8. No. Have any vendors come out and said they plan to restrict FOSS from booting so I know who not to do business with? No.

Call me back when someone has actually locked out FOSS.
My 64bit flash player 11 on Linux crashes right away!
> If you already realize you were out of line then why can't you act on it?

I did.

> That blight will soil your reputation forever more

Okay dude, now you're being silly. This is why people can't have reasonable discussions on the internet - I take a moment to respectfully acknowledge your points, think through them, and explain why I disagree, and you keep melodramatic ranting.

You don't like how I handled it? Okay, noted. But this is why people just ignore criticism - I respond with my thinking to you in good faith, and you keep ranting about "dumb" "blight will soil your reputation forever more", "Cheap, cynical", "dumb" - and you're attributing malicious intent where it isn't there.

Before you reply, stop and reflect - I've addressed all of your points and then some, and I disagree with you, but I've tried to be reasonable and respectful. If you want to insult people that do that, you won't get anyone responding to your discussions any more. Indeed, that's what happens on most internet forums eventually - people who do things publicly just stop responding to anonymous critics, because they don't tend to lead to reasonable discussions.
Nice idea, but very jerky for me (FF7)
Err, I wouldn't.

If you don't trust Google with your old messages, then why do you have a gmail account at all?
Except you don't get them "for free". You get them in the form a ton of restrictions on you that you need to be mindful of when writing it in the first place. You just pay for it in different ways. The biggest difference is that in dynamic languages, you can sometimes get away with being lazy and not writing the tests to verify the things static languages enforce to varying degrees (whether or not that's a good thing is another issue).
http://www.r-bloggers.com/
Watch Paranormal Activity 3 Online
Watch Paranormal Activity 3 Online is about young sisters Katie and Kristi come across an unseen being lingering their home in 1988. Even though the entity seems to be nice it afterward becomes hostile then harass the young girls and their family.
You clearly haven't tried GS2
What Can App Stores Learn from Our Constitution?
Less Risky (Than Amniocentesis) Down Syndrome Test Developed
Clustrix Lands Former Hewlett-Packard VP Robin Purohit As Its New CEO
An Internet "wow" Moment
As to my very basic understanding of Aus law they can't, they would need to take him to court and prove he broke the law before they can presue costs, Which is very hard since the police have decided not to investigate the matter because they believe he didn't break the law.
> At 11 stops up from ISO 100, you're getting to have a great deal of noise at the max ISO I would have thought even at full frame.

You'd be surprised how clean some of these things are, especially so if you don't plan on blowing things up big. Plus, with NR software these days, you can easily get usable 12,800 ISO & 25,600 ISO shots if you expose them well.

The real trick to shooting in low-light is nailing the exposure; too dark and you'll have dirty highlights, too light and you'll have blotchy, noisy shadows.
Experiment: Chocolate subscription service
What do you think about this? Does it have any future or no ?
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GMail's two-factor authentication is close. Also, free.
Could that reputation been carried throughout an anonymous identity? The only benefit from having an actual name is verification of identity. But when you talk in a certain manner, identities can become fluid and obvious of spoofs -- eliminating that need for verification.
"...Linux’s Ubuntu operating system comes for free and requires no updates, upgrades or expensive antivirus software to keep the laptop in shape. ..."

This is not completely true since Ubuntu does provide (various software) updates and upgrades.

"... The proximity of the Clintons and the Gates is well known to the world and needs no explanation. ... And the revelations of WikiLeaks only show how the US has been forcing governments across the world to buy expensive Microsoft licenses."

Really? That statement seems a little outrageous.

Ultimately, as the article highlights, why are states "...moving back to laptops for poor rural students preloaded with Microsoft Windows."?

Does a computer preloaded with Microsoft Windows provide a significant advantage over a Linux distribution? For example, what is the goal of providing computer to poor rural students? Is it to make them computer proficient or Microsoft Office proficient?

(Also, presumably, these low-cost computers (provided to poor rural students) are not capable to run Windows 7 or Windows 8 - what version of Microsoft Windows is preloaded?)

Edit: Updated styling.
My book (I do not own an startup, sorry):

"You pass from have driver problems in kernel with local devices, to have driver problems in kernel with remote devices. You forget about bios updates, hot air in the CPD, ordering cords and track hardware life-cycle and status." :)

Why amazon? why chef? why puppet? why don't something like:

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-js

Try to avoid the need to learn and use daily ruby+python+node+AWS+nagios+O.S.foo`(now make a tree of sub-packages of each one) and just focus in your startup node.js code, and just in npm, and not 5 package managers + the distro one.

If I where you, I could just focus in one technology. You do not need to master puppet+chef+AWS to mantain 2 servers or 20 equal servers. It can be passed with ssh+rsync+a bunch of scripts.

They are nice tools... but... is that the focus of your startup ?

Do you need to manage a complex network with many different operative systems (vendor and version), configurations and policies ? or just a production and a developmen node.js environment ?

Has the startup resources, for a person full time, learning to mantain systems? how many systems are needed? how many changes or daily operations in the systems are needed?

There is no "a book" about that. System administration is about practices, policies, know-how and data management, organization, etc.

I don't know a single book that covers all the topics that you may reach doing "AWS+chef/puppet+node.js+monitoring (+DNS, +SSL, +backup, +availability, +tunning, +etc)" sysadmin/devop may reach in a single day/week/month/year.

From this kernel module option that is better because of scenario A, to this api change from last month on sub-package X, or this 0day exploit for service Foo, or this opensource-bug on feature that our plan was relaying, or...

I will not give you book links, but I will give a tip for all those playing to be sysadmin:

Avoid if possible
Backup everything
Test everything (Outside production).
Do it really.
Be prepared for everything.
Do it really.
Do not blame things until you write something better.
I think that you are pissed because you have unreasonable and weird expectations about trivial things.

Bathtubs? Danes are (allegedly) the happiest country in the world because they have free health care, excellent education, wealth, political freedom, stability, etc. etc. Not because of the size of their baths.

I know how the effect of culture shock can be; everything seems weird and even small trivial things are horribly, almost infuriatingly alienating. But culture shock is a psychological, irrational phenomenon. This is about you, not about the country.
MIT can now see through concrete walls
I would like to see some studies on the effectiveness of the various targeting criteria. Sometimes i think marketers obsess on targeting criteria that may not be so effective, missing other psychological effects. For example, i thought google's idea of showing you the same ad across websites to make a lasting impression was a no-brainer, yet it was missing for years. Also what about other factors such as time-of-day, or recently clicked ads?
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup
Jobs tried to buy Dropbox, from Forbes profile of Dropbox and cofounder Drew Houston
I have a similar story except that the executive is the founder and created the original web site over a decade ago. Now, he's not a bad programmer but he's not really a good one either, where he excels are ideas and architecture.

We had been working for months on moving the site to a more modern platform (RoR) when he called us into a room and told us that we were going to move to PHP and Java. Everyone just looked at him like he had just sprouted a second head.

Sometimes its bad for executives to learn programming. :(
Open source jobs: What's hot, where to look
Interesting. Where would these be physically located?
Data center simulations predict energy use
Just a thought: can we find some input, which will turn into a malicious script, when compressed or encoded by an algorithm and saved as a file on the server? The encoded file could contain something like <?php ... ?>. If the server could be tricked into parsing the encoded file for PHP, we are in trouble. I think about uploading an additional .htaccess, which will contain a directive to send .zip files to the PHP parser - of course this should never be possible.

There are some encoder/decoder tools on the web, where it is possible to enter, for example, base64 encoded strings and get these decoded. It is often possible to enter base64 encoded JavaScript plus some closing tags or brackets to break out of the input field. When decoded, the JavaScript will be executed by the browser and we have found a cross-site scripting flaw.
Registered! My first time. Looking forward to seeing you!
Flower - trippy port from flash to canvas/js
Mobile Safari: "You need at least Flash Player 10 to view this page."

Apple saves the day again!
Branson opens world's first 'spaceport' in New Mexico
No, I have not worked with Haskell.

I agree that a good type system eliminates an entire class of bugs (being strongly typed is what makes Java bearable), but I rarely see bugs in well-written software caused by not having considered the full range of inputs to your function.
The article says that over the next 5 years, about 7 Million laptops will be purchased. The price of windows mentioned in the article is about $110 at current rates, which means $770 million order for MS. That definitely is a big order for MS, considering the full laptop is only expected to cost ~$300.
Show HN: Let's bring the power of Reddit's ranking algo to Spotify
Can we at least have it so that the arrows don't disappear when you click on them? I can't tell you the number of times I've clicked on the wrong arrow and been frustrated by not being able to correct my mistake. This is especially bad on a small touchscreen (i.e. phone).
I'm baffled that you'd make such a blanket statement without expecting to get downvoted. There are a lot of things that can be said about 4chan, many of which are certainly not flattering. But you're not going to get away with saying "most users" in conjunction with child porn, without some strong evidence.
Volleyball Team
Welcome to Find A volleyball Team, you have single handedly arrived at the most useful resource available on the internet for team volleyball resources and volleyball team finders.
Greetings Hackers - figured I'd give you the heads up that as of this AM, I couldn't find a solid sub-reddit for Spotify playlist discovery...

And so it came to be that I created /r/SpotifyPlaylists

Would love to turn it into a vibrant sub-community for music discovery.
Cheesus, guys;

This was meant as an absurdist remark, in equally bad taste as RMS' re: sjobs. (See cmoscoso's link)

I was hoping that more readers were aware of this, his most recent sick spew.
That has to be one of the most engaging conferences I have ever seen. The science demos are just too cool. If I have the time I'm going next year!
Android phones released by Sony Ericsson…….
It's still blogspam even if you're only craving attention.
Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users
Have you tried to raise money?
Real Browser Testing w/Jasmine & Events from Happen
Waze Raises $30M From Kleiner Perkins And Li Ka-shing
Let's hope that Canon will allow a hack to escape from their labs to rectify this bug after the camera reaches the end user.

A tax on an integer seems to be a bit silly.
Entrepreneurship Myth: You Require An MBA to Start-up
another one...

who cares? Do you care federal reserve guys can print as many dollars for themselves? Does it prevent you from using dollars to buy stuff in walmart?

Difference from FED is that it happens to bitcoin only once - during initial distribution. After all coins "printed" - no more coins will be thrown into circulation.

Initial distribution have to be made somehow. And I believe people who invested their time and money earlier have to be paid accordingly.

Read paper. This is not money question. This is technology question.
I really can't see any good reason to spend that money to put windows in laptops for poor children. It would be much wiser to use linux and buy more laptops.
Ubuntu 11.10 | Desktop Linux Reviews
Hm, I remember getting excited about this about 23 years ago, when I was still at school.

Can't help wondering if perhaps 50 years ago people were also getting excited about it and expecting to see cool things to come out of it in the near future.

Not saying that there couldn't, but I can't help feeling vary about the "technology of the future claim".
Does the lack of multithreading in Ocaml matter for your applications, I think that is the only thing that would push me towards Haskell over Ocaml.