skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a recent road trip I showed my toddler how to watch model train videos on my iPhone through YouTube. Big mistake! he wants to use the phone more than me now. I think it's because he can choose another train video after one finishes. He became the master of his own domain. My phone is now locked in the office as well :)
I think it's a great idea. PediaPress is great but (like Wikipedia itself) a little utilitarian.

I have thought it would be a great revenue source for the WMF. Make little books based on certain articles like the List of Common Misconceptions. Sell them as impulse purchases near checkout counters in bookstores. Step 3, profit.

The fundraising team at the WMF isn't really into it, they don't want the hassle of making & distributing physical objects that may not even sell. But it would be a cool project for the right team -- maybe if you want to build your resume as a book designer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
Wikipedia is not a profit making organization and their commitment to keep the content free and accessible is admirable. Once I start earning I will donate lot more to them. I will be happy to see them not having advertisements.
Diagnosing children starting at the very young age of four years and prescribing them drugs for ADHD is what's ridiculous.
I wonder if it's possible that it was a MongoDB glitch and not a user error. From what I've read, it's notorious for randomly losing records. Maybe the loop save triggered it?
s/glass/gloss
Still, writing factually correct and positive things about a company or advertiser becomes unnecessarily suspicious.
That is really, really old news :-)
there is contact information at the bottom of the document.
Up to a point. Someone interested in monitoring what you do could still capture the display data and the data transmitted from whatever input devices you use. This is especially true if you plug this into a computer of uncertain provenance, but still potentially true for a monitor, TV, etc.

It definitely seems like an improvement in security over just booting or running a VM from a secure flash drive, though.
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Facebook allows multiple personal profiles to manage a Page. See http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=187316341316631
It seems that Canvas 2D isn't accelerated by Firefox 7 on Linux at all. I'm only able to get about 600 objects, versus ~4200 with WebGL. Chrome's Canvas settles at ~4200-4300 on the same system (WebGL does ~6100).
Well, the site's starting to bottom out. If anyone's still reading this, does anyone know what's a good way to pull in more traffic?

I've been kinda relying on reddit and deviantArt the past couple of days.
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This is nothing that can't be resolved with properly formulated agreements.

Perhaps the problem with formulating such agreements is that there is no precedent.
Reading the description of the bill below, it does seem awful. But like I said, up to this point I hadn't even read it, and the reason for that is there's so much noise coming from the pro-torrenting lobby, I just tune out the whole debate these days.

(i should note that i don't live in the USA, otherwise I probably would have read about the bill itself by now)
wikipedia only needs "help" because it spends so much money.
You've got the first part right, but I also happen to work for a university so I associated my .edu email address to my Dropbox account. Doing that will double your referral bonus to 500MB per referral, and double your maximum free space from referrals to 16GB.
Ahem. Most COLOR laser printers have tracking "watermarks". It's because the US Treasury frowns on printing your own replica currency, which would be unastonishingly easy to do with a color scanner and printer.
Reminds me of the typewriter registration in East Germany.
A good part of game logic is done in a "scripting" language these days. For example Lua is used in WoW & Starcraft 2 and the newer Civilization games use Python. Generally they do use the core C++ engine to all the math heavy tasks like collision detection.
That's exactly how some of the most popular open source projects work-Firefox for example. A large portion of the income that funds and supports development and sharing of the browser comes from a partnership with Google that puts it as the default search engine. The developers are volunteering their time just like Wikipedia editors.
While not professionally done (and some done much better than others), this is quite similar to 'Young me, Now me':

http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/
"Unfortunately, our service is now so deeply connect to the AppEngine framework that leaving this service is currently not an option..."

I am reminded of a story about sharecroppers: you're on someone else's land and you're at their mercy.
I'm really excited by this and the other online classes. Has anyone else taken these? I'm wondering if I've over done it with the sign ups.
They already said multiple admins for +Pages will come...
If, and really, if the thief knew how to perform such action he wouldn't be a thief...
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You're an outlier. Most people don't mind ads.
As long as you realize that it would severely reduce the amount of money donated to non-profits.
I definitely don't attribute this to MongoDB (or MongoEngine or pymongo or Django). I haven't seen it lose any of our documents to date. Silently dropping documents when saving them without making any changes would be a huge problem. It's astronomically unlikely.
Well-known, I'm afraid. You can find more information here:

http://www.eff.org/issues/printers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography

It's probably related to the counter-measures against printing currency:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/photoshop-and-curr...

There's some interesting information about what causes an image to be detected as currency here:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/projects/currency/
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Seriously, if wikipedia just put adsense ads, they would make $500K in a few minutes probably.

Way better than that huge begging sign on every page.
What!?

This is just incorrect. They aren't creating light from vacuum - they are simply creating light in exactly the same way that antennas create light.

Antennas create light (electromagnetic energy) by vibrating electrons at the same frequency of the light they want to create.

Here they are also vibrating electrons at the frequency of light. "several billions of times a second" - frequency of microwaves? Ghz. Exactly the same.

Accelerating an electron (actually any charged particle) creates light. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron_radiation You can shake the electron, force it to curve, anything and it will radiate light.

I've often thought that this would be an awesome way to make a laser if you could find a material you can vibrate fast enough.
Better yet, at least in the US there's a long history of non-commercial media like PBS (public television) and National Public Radio mentioning sponsors in exactly this sort of way, and no one objects, so the resistance should be pretty low.
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I'm so glad there are some voices of reason here. I don't get that view either! I couldn't believe I was downvoteed for that.

Seriously, guys, if someone creates something that others enjoy and benefit from they can choose to keep it to themselves or distribute it. If they charge money for it they are entitled to do so and we should be lucky they've chosen to give it out at all rather than withhold it.

I really honestly, seriously would like someone who disagrees to explain why I'm wrong. Forget the idealism surrounding "freedom" because that's not at issue and I probably agree with you on that. I'm talking specifically about how taking anything that costs money and distributing it freely (like torrent sites) by circumventing the creator's chosen channel and depriving him/her of their chosen fee is at all okay?

I hate all this rhetoric about "evil corporations" and how everything should be free. It's okay to have that view and put it into practice yourself and with people who feel the same but why do we have to force that belief on everyone like its the One True Way? Live and let live. Some people put food on the table with the stuff they sell. Others give it freely. It's a choice. Maybe businesses do engage in price gouging and other unethical practices but that's not the issue. The issue is simply why do some feel it's okay to distribute paid content by means of piracy? In this context the definition of piracy is circumventing the chosen distribution channel in a way that deprives the original creator of the fee they would otherwise collect.

EDIT: As to the downvotes, I'm beginning to believe that many people are either not understanding the issues discussed in other people's comments as they are too busy thinking up arguments against them as they read. This goes for the original posts too. I'm seeing the comments stray far from the real point of the authors and I'm talking about first replies, not replies to replies or deeper. Let's reflect on what we read before going into automatic "My views don't support this"/knee-jerk reaction mode where we shut out anything that doesn't fit our worldview. You don't have to change your mind, just make sure you at least listen to something different otherwise it's not a discussion but an echo chamber.
You never connected to your live database using `mysql` (pg, whatever) with a privileged user? Using the frameworks shell is almost the same, except that all client-side validations work.
She was probably creeped out by Jimmy's mug staring her down, eerily grinning at her. "Hi there. I'm watching you."
Here's a list of printers that do/dont do that, compiled by EFF.
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
REALLY old news.

The EFF has something on this and cracked the code a long time ago:

http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/

http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
In fact, if one has sufficient savings and has no worries about career, quitting the full-time job also makes a lot of time/energy for the kids. That's pretty drastic, but I'd consider it myself in the future.
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As one of the unfortunate who has had to attempt to hack at mediawiki... I hope some of that cash goes towards improving their code base. It's gotta be costing them in maintenance (to say nothing of the ability to add new features).
This isn't an unusual dilemma in publishing - print or online. If for-profit companies can adequately maintain editorial integrity despite pressure from ad partners, I think an ideological non-profit like Wikipedia can manage.
To be eligible for acceleration depends in most cases on your position in the company. If you are higher management or of critical importance for the company because of your talents, you probably have more chances to get accelerated vesting on your stock options.
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Gmail - email (duh)
Google Apps - email for companies
Calendar - syncs with phone
Docs - store scanned receipts, documents, etc.
Google Voice - Barely use my cell phone anymore, do all my calls and texting from my computer during the day
Google Reader - RSS
Google Maps - daily for directions or general orientation
Google Search - hundreds of searches a day

Of course I also use Google Website Optimizer, Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc. for business.
For hackers, the best thing about ADHD is hyperfocus, which is a lesser-known, but common symptom of ADHD. Hyperfocus is the tendency "to focus very intently. [...] At times, the focus is so strong that they become oblivious to the world around them." http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/612.html

Like when you happily program for 12 hours straight, forgetting to eat lunch and dinner. Sound familiar?
All the while they print as much as they like. Hypocrites.
Actually, it's because consumer electronics manufacturers don't have the spines to stand up for their customers.
This is plain old stupidity at its finest on Backify's part. They should have at least called, confirmed, and triple confirmed in writing that client files would be saved if they unilaterally terminated their contract.

As for the credit card allegations it seems to me as LiveDrive was just trying to protect people who used Backify's service.

We are Backify's reseller -> They cancelled their reseller account through us -> All purchased accounts through Backify are now null -> Are they committing fraud using our services?'
- That's at least what they'll be arguing in court as they're being sued by a stupid company that will undoubtedly soon be sued by their clients for lost data.
They are finally catching on.
This was posted on hackernews two years ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=619681), and the topic finally being discussed and covered by the media (http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/15/technology-destroying-jobs/).
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Wow, a software rendered WebGL context? I hope browsers blacklist those drivers/cards, because that doesn't sound very useful at all...
>What happens during the experiment is that the “mirror” transfers some of its kinetic energy to virtual photons, which helps them to materialise.

how is that different from just saying that their vibrating EM field radiated the energy (a vibrating EM field does radiates the energy and this radiation is photons by definition) without bringing in "virtual photons"
When reading about this I came up with the idea of rendering a JPEG on a canvas element with a PNG (or grayscale JPEG) as a transparency map. This would give you alpha-channel JPEG on most browsers right now. Sweet huh?

... and of course, it's been done: http://jim.studt.net/jpeg-alpha/ :) It's even been on Hacker News, though not to much attention: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772760
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Difference is, Google will be integrating the Google+ pages and profiles into the Google search results, something Facebook only has a slight chance to do with BING.
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No, sorry, I wasn't talking about ubiquity - I don't disagree that OSX runs on less hardware than Windows. I simply didn't think it made sense to say that OSX had "lost" since it had very little market share at first and has grown a lot (I also disagree it's been holding steady at 5% for a long time), whereas Windows started out as a monopoly with nearly 100% and has declined somewhat since. That doesn't sound like any definition of "lost" I've ever heard.

If you want to include classic MacOS as well, I'd tend to agree more, but originally you just said OSX.
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The current era has the lowest interest rates of several generations. It is well worth considering.
Love the subtle weed reference on your splash...
Make the Internet an unalienable right. Kill SOPA and future, similar Acts.
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Someone should let BackBlaze know that this crappy company is promoting them...

*w/affiliate link :-/

Backify is no longer in service.
LiveDrive has terminated Backify's reseller account, and Backify.com is no longer in service.

If you are looking for a better and more reliable backup solution, check out www.backblaze.com.

BackBlaze.com offers unlimited storage for backups, for as low as $3.96/month.
No. Beyond technical stuff and Apple, Wozniak is a simple man with a good heart but still a rather simple man who apparently doesn't appreciate money all that much. Beyond math, science and Google, Brin is an idealist with grand ideas about the world. Expect much more from him in the future since he does indeed have a lot of money, understands money's potential very well and is careful about investing in anything now knowing that later he'll be even more mature and will make much wiser investments.
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What we really need to be campaigning for is a measure to "protect" us from SOPA.
inoremap # X<BS>#

This has been annoying me forever, but I never got around to fixing it. Not sure how the solution works, but it does!
Yeah, I can see your point but this too feels like its really reaching for something that's just not there. They should be held to a higher standard but our strong opinions about SOPA seem to be blocking our ability to look at this realistically.

The example in the post can be compared to any one of us embedding a video on a personal site or blog. It's really obvious the guy isn't willfully infringing. We can be technical and argue semantics all day but in the end there really is a big difference between a representative supporting legislation we disagree with possibly technically violating that same legislation with a seemingly innocent video embed and a website that provides a search feature allowing you to access hundreds of thousands of copyrighted files. Big difference.

There is definitely a point to be made about the alleged hypocrisy but in the end nit-picking little things like this and arguing semantics comes off as petty to people and could really do more harm to the opponents of SOPA than good.
Software development? We're doing it wrong.
Another great take on the extent to which Walter Isaacson biography misses the mark is John Siracusa's criticisms on the "Hypercritical" podcast. Skip to about 17 minutes and 45 seconds in, which is when they start discussing it. It looks to be part 1 of an epic two-fer.

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42
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The tl;dr or Iceland is that they where told a bunch of bad stuff would happen if they did not spread the private debt out to the public, the public went OWS and refused, a new government was formed and all the bad things ended up being nothing but boogy men. Whether that applies to other countries is up for debate, but many people see Iceland as the model for rapidly getting out of this mess. IIRC they have already started to see growth.
I originally titled this post "I Accidentally All Our Data", but my girlfriend convinced me to change it. I also considered "Delete ALL the Data", but I went for the meme-free title.
Yeah we found really dismal support for X3100 hardware. It doesn't support the return statement in vertex or fragment shaders due to a driver bug, and it doesn't support gl_PointCoord in the fragment shader. Yet chrome and firefox would allow this hardware to open a WebGL context, with no warning that these basic features of OpenGL are not supported.
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To be honest; the Foundation doesn't spend money particularly efficiently. And I don't think that now is a good time for them to end up with potentially limitless amounts of cash.

I know it has been 10 years; but for various reasons the Foundation still isn't 100% there on the organisational level. Particularly on things like communications.

The also spend a lot more than they probably should (for example; the budget for next year is something like $25 Million). That's not a criticism; things are still at the "investment" stage - where the Foundation/community are figuring out what to spend, where to spend it and how to do outreach.

So I don't think having ads, and a flood of money, would work well at this stage (or, rather, work effectively).

However; the biggest hurdle to ads on Wikipedia has nothing to do with perception or economics - it is simply that the community consistently rejects the idea. And the community has pretty strong autonomy :)
> Does anyone have a link to a document that would detail the ways that you could get screwed over by a startup? Or by VCs?

There's really no need, because it all falls under this category: You work really hard, and then they use one of the many powers of the board to screw you out of a payoff. I've seen punitive dilution, reverse splits plus new issuance, firing before vesting events.

If you haven't looked up variable-reward experiments, it's worth a gander because it bears a strong resemblence to startups.
I think people might find this more useful if it did not rely on Highcharts, which requires a paid license for commercial use.

http://www.highcharts.com/license
That photograph where Jobs displays the pre-iPhone phones really doesn't prove anything. The Palm Pilot didn't have a keyboard, and it was an obvious idea to eventually give it calling capabilities (incidentally, my "omg this can't be true, I have been waiting for this all my life" was when I saw the first ad for a Palm Pilot, not for an iPhone). Trust in the big vendors to screw it up anyway, but still. It's not as if nobody besides Job had the capability of envisioning a phone without a keyboard.
If any, or all, of you are fitness nerds feel free to take this idea (http://jnorthrop.tumblr.com/post/12532204999/take-my-idea-me...).

Briefly, it's a unique spin on tracking workout progress. I'm not sure how well I explain it in my post but, most of the ground work is done already so an MVP can probably be built in a weekend.
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> Is it possible (or realistic) to make an arrangement that in the event of an acquisition or liquidity event that your stock becomes full vested?

Note that the reverse is also possible: A change-of-control which restarts the vesting clock.
Learning about startups while starting your own is a balance everyone has to consider for themselves. Depending on how much you already know about startups, a class could either be an eye-opening epiphany which will save you years of work wasted because of silly mistakes, or a waste of time repeating what you already know.

Beware of the Dunning-Kruger effect when deciding which you'll be. I've met one too many founders with an attitude of "I'm too busy working hard to stop and think" that could really have benefited from stopping, stepping back, and reconsidering some of their major assumptions.
I think that's the idea, although you could do it either way:

-Plug it directly into the USB port and use cable+adapter to connect to HDMI.

-Plug it directly into the HDMI port and use cable+adapter to connect to USB.

Actually, a third way would be to use cables on both ends, but that just seems kind of silly.
Because of the positioning it also looks like article titles are captions to the image... which has led to "much amusement" in certain circles.
We use MS Visual Studio to build WPF desktop apps (what MS is calling "Windows Clients" this week) in C#. Why?

1. Great dev environment (IDE, debugger, docs, online resources).

2. Powerful API (3D graphics, networking, local device access, application interop).

3. Versatile security model (can install under user credentials, lock out features).

4. Versatile deployment (local or remote install by users or administrators).

5. Can share code with server and web teams.

6. Targets 99% of our installed base.
I am not convinced that for-profit companies can.
Yeah, I only buy lasers that don't have them, there are lists out there of which ones.

The yellow doesn't photocopy well so if you have to use such a printer, you can erase the tracking dots on your anonymously distributed pamphlets by monochrome photocopying at Kinkos the master copy you produced with your home or business laser.
Starbucks is full of people who like the experience, and they pay the bills. I realize that there is an obvious difference between B&N and Starbucks, but most of the B&N stores I've been in have a cafe, so there are at least some ways to monetize people there for the experience.

Perhaps it would make sense to have fewer aisles and make the whole store more cafe-like? It would be different from what they have now, but if the alternative is slowly going out of business due to online competition, it would be a way to do something online simply can't do.