skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's hope SOPA dies a fiery death, but what about the next attempt? Will Congress and the public accept a watered down next-step towards a Great Firewall of America?

Take a look at the "fetal personhood movement" (ie, a shady corporate group looking to drop a legal nuke)... they lost the fight in Mississippi, but are now looking to 12 other states where they'll attempt to buy a constitutional amendment... if they succeed, they can now whore themselves out for whatever industry needs amendments that benefit their bottom line.

The root of the problem is that legislation is for sale and some of those 1% are interested in buying.
It's not just you. Ron Johnson, from the article:

No one came to the Genius Bar during the first years.

I have a hypothesis about this: People didn't instinctively walk up to the Genius Bar because they had to be trained to accept the existence of a computer store employee who wasn't going to waste their time.

Of the retail-chain employees that you're likely to encounter in a store, there are two broad stereotypes: The ones who don't really understand the products, and the ones who are trying to close new sales as efficiently as possible. The Apple Geniuses fit neither category, and that does indeed feel odd.
Right, which brings us to the question: who actually owns the data, i.e. where did IMDb get its data? Is a movie's crew public information? Will the studios give this information to me if I ask them?

I think it would be interesting an very useful to have a db of information of all Hollywood movies (my guess ~50-60K) and make it freely available.
foo@bar.com is a real email address
There are also a lot of young people being brought up conservative. I don't believe conservatism is going to magically disappear after a few generations, we can only hope that exposure to global cultures build tolerance: to spread global culture we need an open internet so it's our responsibility to fight for this, as I see it (though, that statement is a given in here).
It would be a technical challenge, but they could MITM your entire browsing experience. Fullscreen to canvas, then show what looks like a browser. When someone types something in the URL bar the attacker's backend proxies a request to the real site, loads the content, then renders a canvas page of it.

It would probably be too much work for too little payoff to actually make a browser that rendered to canvas, but they could do it for a couple of major target sites like gmail and banks.
Really nice, although if I type for example "omellete" (notice the typo) instead of "omelette" it gives me an HTTP500..
The code is linked in a few places:

http://bobbelderbos.com/src/moviecollection/getMovieData

It is annoying though; a link doesn't do those using screenreaders (or search engine bots!) much good.
I don't particularly care about having multiple monitors or even a large monitor. I use virtual desktops with keyboard shortcuts I've configured to facilitate easy switching, and I find that suits my workflow best. If I had a larger monitor, I might use fewer virtual desktops, but the virtual desktop is free whereas the larger monitor isn't. I just don't see the return.
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Yea, that's hard. I think if you have good config files and deploy scripts that make sure environment specific settings stay active in their environment, you can get a lot of mileage with this approach.
It doesn't matter who owns the information. If you break the Terms of Service, you don't get to use their service to access the information.
Developer Hacks Siri to Control More Devices
Your images are a virus. They are everywhere on the Internet
And? I think it's a lot more people than you realize - at the moment my comment has 7 points, and that's despite getting downmodded a few times.

This stuff with narrow lines may have been tested on poor readers perhaps? I don't know. All I know is I hate narrow lines - and I especially hate them on websites.
Considering Matt's day job, that might not be an accident! :-)
As for A, how do I keep the majority shareholders from voting to bring in expensive management, rent expensive offices and equipment, then issuing more stock when they run out of money and repeating the process until I am diluted to nothing?

I mean, I've worked at many places where that looks like the company plan; they spend all their revenue, which is fine, but then they act like the investment money is revenue as well. It's like they plan for explosive growth, which is great, but they buy stuff that only makes sense if that explosive growth were real, and it ends up killing the company when the growth turns out to be only reasonable.

Sure, if the majority shareholders end up voting themselves huge bonuses or spending most of the company money on consultants that happen to be their friends, sure then I can sue them and maybe get something back; but the first case I describe is far more common, and the result, really, is the same.
Excuse my ignorance (I'm follow Android much more closely than iOS), but what did they pull with their Gmail app?
The right thing is free-width of course. You have a personal need for narrow lines - no problem.

But a lot more people than you realize do not like narrow lines.
Wikipedia has loads of movie data. You can use the API to extract it, or use dbpedia.org for a more friendly view.
MapsGL - Google Maps + Web GL = Awesome and Smooth
This is a great article, but the title reminds me (fondly) of titles of academic texts that couch everything in qualifiers: 'A Sketch Toward Some Notes on a Proposal for an Investigation into a Re-evaluation of {Insert Topic Here}.'
Gateway used to have their own stores, Sony has their own stores, I don't think the uniqueness of Apple comes from simply cutting out the middleman.
From the video in this link, it looks like they might start going for the tabbed thing. That window that the search results are pulled up in looks a lot like a tab to me. Just a matter of time, Google...
Who would be paying for this DB to be hosted? It's always interesting to talk about making things "free", but in the end someone is paying for it.
There's also a CPAN DIstribution for that: https://metacpan.org/release/TMDB
Looks like a very cool technology, wonder if they will release the data to the public?
Why are they all sized differently if they have standard sizes?
Voice recognition: has it come of age?
Someday services will be offered in Canada too.
Made the SQL portion a little more readable: http://pastebin.com/MNzD0NSE
You're absolutely right about the pawn-the-customer-off-on-the-vendor aspect of retail.

Further, not only is the Apple store the final stop in the responsibility train, Apple does a fantastic job of handling this.

I've recently had to deal with a QC issue with my macbook. I travel full time, around the world. I bought the macbook on one continent, took it into an Apple store in another to get it repaired, they examined it and had it back to me in 30 minutes. They replaced one of the parts, but told me that another needed to be replaced as well. Due to visa issues I couldn't leave it with them (as they didn't have the part in at the moment) and left.

Months later on a completely different continent, I walked into an Apple store, and handed them my computer. They were aware of everything that happened at the other store, and did the repair at that location.

Not only did I not have to wait for my computer to be sent off somewhere to be repaired by some questionable vendor (which is the norm with a lot of Apple's competitors), but they did it on the spot, even though I'd bought the computer in a different country!

The Apple store is not only the best support experience going, its also global and homogenous. If I got to tokyo, I know I won't have have any problems because I'm from the US and my computer was bought in europe.
"Worse" is subjective and contextually dependent. Describing kids' manners as worse the previous generations' manners is entirely subjective. Bucking tradition, shaking things up - these are characteristics that create innovation and efficiency.

I would argue that a healthy contempt for authority keeps the world advancing positively. Why should I "respect" some supervisor that instructs me in methods that are inefficient at completing my work? That kind of contempt for authority is welcome.
> knee-jerk reaction

Fixed that for you.
Interesting in principle, but I couldn't open the About Me or FAQ, so hard to tell. Won't give up credentials to who knows who the people are.
You may want to check your front page links. Having most of them direct to http://www.identity.io/comingsoon while your virtualhosts file is out of whack (so prompt to download a httpd/unix-directory) doesn't inspire confidence that you will protect my identity.
I totally disagree. In fact, I would say the only thing that's saved us thus far is that those in power don't understand technology. If they would have been able to see what the internet was capable of, they would never have allowed it to be so open. When the day comes that the power hungry know technology as well as we do the real fight will begin.
I went to a gateway store. It was a pretty bad experience. The machines were locked down and you couldn't use them. The sales people were the same kind you'd find at CompUSA (unknowledgable and myth spreading).

Sony is a little better, as they at least try to put some interesting design into their stores.
the article states "Whatever happens, we’ll all know about it. Every piece of data gathered by the robots will be made available in real-time (and for free) to anyone who registers."
Lessons from notch - creating an overnight success
A lot of the date documentation is unfortunately in info only. Debian (and derived distros) do a good job of updating the manpages.

That said, I can't find "-I" documented anywhere.

What I like about the timestamp I use is that it's semantic but sorts lexically as well. Though yours does as well. Hrm.
"CSS and AJAX has some uses where the output will look exactly the same"
Putin Is Booed at Sporting Event
Congress spends, Presidents don't. Kind of a myth. Interesting data nonetheless.
You know, the dystopia in which I'm forced to share pictures of my newborn son with my family, and talk to friends on the other side of the country that I haven't seen for months, is better than pretty much any other dystopia I can imagine.
Not sure why the FAQs didn't load for you =/
http://www.identity.io/faqs/

This one (is a start) to answer your Q

Who's behind Identity.io?

Identity.io is by run by computer security and privacy experts who are serious about putting you in control of your information. We work out of the NYU-Poly Bloomberg Technology Incubator in New York City.
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Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3259400
I wonder if the savings in script size and parse time matter if jQuery is referenced from a CDN [1]. It may save 500ms (or less depending on the mobile browser) with the small size and parse time, but it may also add 500ms (or more on slow mobile networks) in latency.

[1] http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/05/11/cdn-performance-download...
I think it matters a lot if your intention goes beyond playing with the data into using it commercially. The question is: Can I download the IMDb data (by any means necessary) and use it for my startup. To me their License rules this out.

My question was: if the data is public, can IMDb enforce this hold on it. Probably not, as there's precedent of courts not siding with Museums who tried to shut off access images to the objects they hold, citing the effort required to take photos, etc.
Thank you for sharing this, much better solution!
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What? How does SOPA have anything to do with an anti-abortion movement and constitutional amendments?
What's the warning for?

Same reason as TvTropes. Potential tab explosion/epic wasted time event.
Weeks of working can save you hours of planning.
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Purse Hangers, Laptop Hooks just in time
Making for a better world
I brought my MacBook in the other day because an iTunes upgrade broke it. Didn't have an appt. so I just walked up to the bar. In a few minutes, a guy was helping me. Tried a few things, ran some diagnostics for about 15-20 minutes. Finally found the culprit.

I asked him how much I owed (I don't have AppleCare). "Nothing." Awesome.
Ask HN: Which is better - Foundation, Blueprint, or Bootstrap?
If you use Git, check out Gerrit:

http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/

Open source, not too difficult to configure. Written in Java, requires Tomcat (or similar) to run. I think Android "organization" within Google uses it.

EDIT: It's not cloud-based. Sorry.
Personally, I think it's a huge problem that a service that claims to help protect my online privacy does not have a working privacy policy on its site.
A reference: http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/cus/combinator/birds.html

Also a Combinator Calculator.
Google music os x desktop app
I don't think it would be fun to burn down a Frank Lloyd Wright house or a 1963 Sting Ray coupé or smashing a Braun SK-4 turntable or a Beolit 39 radio.

There are objects that embody more than their function and the NeXT cube is one of them.

It's sad that someone derives pleasure from the destruction of such beautiful objects. I am glad there are people who preserve them for future generations, but only so many of them were ever built. When the last one is destroyed, what will we have? A small, but beautiful, part of our past will be gone forever.
Not money, wealth. There's a big difference.

And it's not even really wealth, since it contains huge but not-real numbers like the notional size of derivative contracts.
Big Shrimpin S01E01 No Rest Till Texas 720p HDTV x264-PREMiER 
Big Shrimpin S01E01 No Rest Till Texas 720p HDTV x264-PREMiER
English | 60mn | 1280x720 | MKV | AVC 2211Kbps@29.970 fps | AC3 128Kbps@48.0 KHz 2CN | 2 GiB
Genre: Reality
I have a domain which is much the same, though I don't get nearly the volume bar.com does. And, I now feel guilty for having used foo@bar.com a few times in the past. Mea culpa!
"oui" is on there... wtf?
I think this is really cool from a technical perspective, but I don't understand the purpose of the guided recipe tool.

Why would I want to create a recipe with the tool in the first place? If I'm just submitting an existing recipe of mine to an online database, then the ingredient/quantity predictions aren't that helpful. If I'm trying to create a new recipe, then why would I want to submit it? I've never cooked it before - it might be terrible!

Even a short blurb on the recipe tool page explaining what I should use it for and why it's useful would be helpful. As it stands, this dumb user doesn't get it.

BTW, I love the design of the main page and the "create a recipe page". Very clean and easy to use. However, while viewing a recipe, I found it a little odd that the ingredients were listed in the right column. I found myself looking at the picture and reading the instructions before ever seeing the ingredients.
C-R was one of a few watershed moments for me. I discovered it over a decade a go as a cow-orker was flying through commands way faster than was humanly possible. "How did you do that?". And so I learned.

It, along with other readline functionality, shell functions, substitutions, expansions, scripts, and the bazillion utilities are what make Linux (and Unix) shell so much more than just "it's like DOS, right?".

Yeah, kind of, in the same way that ... a cross between a Prius, a Mack Truck, an Lamborghini, an F-16 fighter, a helicopter, and a freight train are like a pushcart. It's an interface that helps you manage your computers, the things on them, and the things they're connected to. It's also a hugely efficient and effective way to process information and issue commands and controls in a useful way.
Thanks - hadn't encountered the virtual-hosts issue before, help us out with the link that caused it?
i used to like bootstrap ... that is ... until everyone and their grandmothers started using it
First, let's fire all the managers
I'm really excited about this. With tools like Amazon's Elastic Map-Reduce, it's actually possible for those not affiliated with a research institution to process this data and attempt to draw conclusions from it.
I applaud the effort but the one thing that really irks me about things like this is the same think that irks me about the no-call list, i have to put my name on a list to prevent my name from going on a list.
There's an interesting graphical notation for the lambda calculus here:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/mockingbird...
I personnaly think the Appstore was awful on the iPhone 1G. You would connect, try to find an app. Some app you couldn't download because it was not available in the app store of your country. Then when you download an app it goes back to the home screen and prompt you with a new thing to accept before downloading it. Then you have to enter your password again (I hope for you its a short one). Then finally it's downloading. Of course you were looking at several apps so if you want to install 2 or 3 in the same time or make a queue you can't, you have to go back in the app store et re-find that other app you saw and install it.

I thought it was a mess and that nobody would really get into it.

Then people started making crappy/fun apps to play with their iPhone/iTouch. And this is were it all started. Imo it's because of the huge number of people who got an iPhone/iTouch that it works. Eventhough we were struggling with the appstore, the possibility of getting new apps like our phone was a computer was something appealing.

The appstore didn't make the iPhone, the iPhone made the appstore.
Here are two papers which thoroughly describe capacitive multitouch interfaces years before Apple released products based on the technology:

A Multi-touch Three Dimensional Touch-Sensitive Tablet:
http://www.billbuxton.com/leebuxtonsmith.pdf

Applying Electric Field Sensing to Human-Computer Interfaces:
http://www.media.mit.edu/~jrs/jrs_EFS_HCI.pdf

If you go through the references you'll find dozens of other papers on the subject. Academics in the HCI field have been working toward this kind of technology since the late 70s.

Fingerworks/Apple did not invent the technology, can we put this to rest?
No. I'm proud to affix my name in opposition to SOPA, if descent is outlawed my opposition to this bill will be the least of my problems, because I'll oppose that law with every once of devotion I can bring to bear.
Design is cool and I love the concept. You seem to have fallen into the (lack of) contrast trap with the text though.
This is the part I don't understand - last week there was an article about Salman Rushdie and FB. I doubt anything is going to change by complaining - FB is continuously going to do everything in its power to monetize and lock down it's users. Why not just stop using FB? May be I don't 'get' the importance of FB, but I think people can happily communicate with just email, phone and a bunch of other sites, which are less offensive than FB.
Well, facts are generally not copyrightable. But the specific representation of the data on the IMDB website or through the API probably is copyrightable. So making an unauthorized copy might be illegal, and redistributing that raw data is definitely a violation of copyright.

But if you get the data from IMDB, and "substantially transform" the actual representation into something else, they can't claim an infringement just because you copied their facts.

But then again, if you break the ToS, they might get you on "unauthorized access of a computer system" with commercial intent, so huge fines etc. even if there is no copyright violation.
Here's a way to think about this.

If the business is to survive (and continue to support you & your employees), you have something like these two options:

1) You continue at the existing intolerable grind until you lose it. The entire mass of work that you're currently doing will suddenly be thrown to everyone else, along with whatever else is required to clean up after your personal implosion (will they even know where you are or if you're coming back? will you start throwing servers out the window or screaming at customers?). Somehow with incredible difficulty they may figure it out and rescue the business, in spite of you.

2) You grind up this bitter pill and start giving it now, in little tiny doses. Hand out chunks of responsibility to others, and answer questions but don't micromanage; let them make their own mistakes (and clean them up themselves) until they've got it under control; shuffle things around as needed until folks are comfortable; repeat. Either you will make your way to a business that is sustainable, or you will find that this cannot be, in fact, a workable business that doesn't ride entirely on your back. Which means you should try something else.

It think it should be obvious which path is easier on your colleagues/employees.

If this were me, I think I'd just say "we're going to start having "X got hit by a bus" drills, and you guys have to handle something completely without me". It won't be as good as if you did it yourself, probably, but there's no way in hell they'll get any better without practice.
Two questions upon which this phone's fate will hinge:

1. Will it offer at least as cohesively a sharing-centered user experience as Microsoft's ill-fated Kin? Microsoft may have shot Kin down shortly after takeoff, but it set the yet-unmet benchmark for a "social phone."

2. Will it launch with low-priced, youth-targeted data plans from carrier partners, Kin's fatal omission?
My Windows Phone uses Facebook contacts to augment my contact list and integrates their Twitter and Facebook updates, shows my Facebook photo albums, and allows me to check in or post updates to Facebook and Twitter. I'm sure Android/iOS offer similar functionality.

What more could a Facebook phone launched this late in the game really offer other than lock-in?