skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean instead of "seconds since this story was posted" it should use "number of stories posted since" ?

Sounds like a pretty good plan.

Though as other people mention you could also add pageviews in the mix, as well as "number of comments since". I'd say a nice linear combination of all three, softmaxed between some limits, added to the number of seconds. The latter bit because you wouldn't want things to go crazy when a huge amount of pageviews or things are posted.

But it's a good idea. Especially since I'm in a non-American timezone, which means that if I want a story to be seen I need to take into account US office hours as well, and your suggestion might sort of take the timezone effect out of it.
The question I'm really trying to get at is whether it's good or bad to be an X for Y company, or at least for people to think of you that way.
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Please change the title to include the string NSFW.

[EDIT: Thanks for updating. Nudity, no matter how innocent, should probably have this warning.]
This article was a bit annoying to read, as it was full of a lot of the deification of Jobs that's been around since his death.

"What it was that Jobs actually did is much of the mystery of his life and his work, and Isaacson, frustratingly, had seemingly little interest in that, or any recognition that there even was any sort of mystery as to just what Jobs’s gifts really were."

Why this insistence on mystery? Why this insistence that Jobs had some magical special sauce that all of us are lacking? I see this over and over in the article, as the author tries to complain that not enough lip service in the quotes he brings up is being paid to the Great and Mysterious Steven Paul Jobs.

We pride ourselves on all being innovative and hopeful engineers and business folks, right? So, why do we see so much praise for these unexplainable qualities? This has got to stop.

The article is particularly bad when quoting a definition of innovation and then simultaneously arguing that Jobs wasn't a mere "tweaker" and that innovation doesn't require completely original thought. Unless I completely misparsed that section, it appears that the author is trying to assert contradictory claims: if Jobs wasn't a tweaker, and he was innovative, then he must have been completely original--yet the author states that this need not be the case! This is crap rhetoric, and I'm bummed to see it appear in an otherwise good blog.

Some of the assertions made are also laughable:

"The Macintosh was no “tweak”. Pixar was no “tweak”. The iPod is maybe the closest thing among Jobs’s career highlights that one could call a “tweak” of that which preceded it — but it’s hard to separate the iPod, the device, from the entire iTunes ecosystem in terms of measuring its effect on our culture and the way everyone today listens to music. Does anyone really think Apple’s entry into the music industry was a “tweak”?"

All of these are tweaks, as substantiated by the quotes used by the author. The Mac was a "tweak" insofar as it was modification to cheaply make a Star. Pixar work prior to '86 was very much laying the groundwork for future CG--Job's purchase perhaps gave funding but likely little else. The contortions used to try and justify the iPod without calling it a "tweak" are hilarious. The online music aspect might get a pass, but still, it's basically just "RECORDS.... ON THE INTERNET!". None of the examples really address the "Jobs was a tweaker" argument.

"If anyone is the “tweaker” in the PC industry, a la Gladwell’s 18th century steam engine inventors, clearly it’s Bill Gates, not Steve Jobs."

And then this. It's completely extraneous, serving no other function than to scratch the fanboy "Fuck Microsoft" itch. It needn't have even been mentioned--and yet, here it is. No real attempt is even made to justify why it is there, nor to try and explain all of the damning with faint praise of senor Gates.

This article is a well-written but poorly justified. We deserve better.
What a crap article, especially to go on here.

1. Everyone on here except the tinfoil-hat brigade know that governments can't crack modern encryption that's been properly implemented. If they /do/ have the capability then it's tucked away somewhere very secret and they're using it for far more important things than catching criminals.

2. "with the cryogenic RAM freezing technique, presumably" - errr, no. With the "sit down at the computer and turn off the encryption/copy the data to an external drive technique", I think you'll find. Obvious bullsh*t to anyone technical but sounds 'cool' to your average 14yr old who reads these sort of sites.

3. "a risk to national security" ... "vital for the prosecution of child porn and pharmaceutical spam barons". Okay, so we eventually get closer to the truth. But hey - 'national security threats' sound much more urgent - let's put that in the article.
Or just use a Black and White Laser Printer?

Really, anything you print, no matter what it is printed on with enough time an effort could be track back to at least the model and type of printer.
Couldn't they just force you to give the decryption keys ?
The Rumors are true, I'm leaving TechCrunch.
A LIVE Twitter feed highlighting popular US Govt Communications
GovDelivery is a SaaS platform used by a very large portion (probably over 50%) of the US Federal Agencies to communicate with constituents/stakeholders. Over 70K unique messages are sent through the platform (via billions of emails and text messages a year) to people that opt-in for this information.

@GovDeliveryLive is a twitter feed that grabs those messages that people are actually opening, reading and sharing with their friends.

Think of it as the live trending of official government communications. Always amazed at what our government 'says' verses what people actually read and take action on. Interesting stuff.
My prediction is that is exactly what we'll be doing in a couple years. Smart phone processors are getting fast enough to be a primary computer for the average user. Why have separate devices when a smart phone and an external monitor/keyboard is all you need?
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Presidents Cup 2011 live Free coverage Day 3.
Steve Jobs is Henry Ford / Thomas Edison.

Bill Gates is John D. Rockefeller / Andrew Carnegie.
Adblock is used by a tiny tiny percentage.

Anecdotally, I tried using adblock, and quickly found it irritating. I was seeing a censored internet. I like my internet uncensored. I like rewarding websites with my visits that don't piss me off, and punishing websites that do piss me off, by not returning.
Que son los sentimientos
From purely circumstantial evidence, this appears to be Backify's issue completely.

It's run by Tarandeep Gill, who seems to have garnered a bit of a reputation. He was behind the "IE users are stupid" hoax.

source: http://blog.forret.com/2011/10/is-backify-512gb-backup-for-f...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AptiQuant

I'd avoid his other companies (AptiQuant and atCheap.com) as well.
Dog bite lawsuits in Martin County, Florida.
A bug is code that doesn't behave as the author intended it to. It doesn't matter if the bug is due to some subtle interaction in the language, or just plain bone-headedness on the part of the programmer.
I am not so sure about that. MS has had significant contributions in research that is not directly relevant to Microsoft's current revenue streams - but I haven't heard if Gates was directly involved in any of them. Brin, on the other hand, appears to be spearheading that stream of research and development.
<ethics
Ha! I read that just before writing the Thoonk blog post!
Not if you forgot it.
Most people click on ads.

Most people buy things based on ads.

I'm inclined to think that this means most people find advertising useful, so I'm skeptical that people would want to block advertising if they could.

Also it's kind of an antisocial thing to do, depriving free websites of income.
Not even impressions.
So in other words, it is not responsible to ever use the word "smart" in a headline?
> Also what where they thinking when calling the phone "Galaxy Nexus"? There's a Nexus One, a Nexus S, a Galaxy S, a Galaxy S2 and now the Galaxy Nexus- all released within the last two years. When I was talking to coworkers over lunch, we quickly drifted into utter confusion when trying to compare phone features.

Anecdotally, I didn't actually know that all of the phones with Nexus in the name weren't the same phone until I read this. And I am an Android user.
Plead the Fifth!
I'm not sure what the benefit of the SD card is in this case -- something physical, you can be legally compelled to hand it over, since it's a physical object.
> Only 7% of open-source projects are actively maintained.

I doubt that the percentage is higher for closed-source projects.
Forth Day is tomorrow, Nov. 19th
I don't think you understand the point of DVR.
I set this up 3 hours ago and I've had 2 "Joins" and one "Completed". The 2 joins were from France.

So far I have CPC on auto and capped at $0.15.
Budget is at $10 per day
Limited to US, UK, CA, FR
English and French
A mix of specific keywords (dropbox, drop box, dropbox registration) and non-specific (send large file, share files, etc.)

Adwords isn't showing any data yet. Also signed up for academic Dropbox, which I did not know about. That converted my old referrals (from back when it was new) so now I'm at 4.8GB.
The US government is made up of people like you. If you really want to enact change, you can. Government officials don't just become government officials.

> I didn't create, buy, or even sanction it.

But, you choose to live beneath it. If you don't like the rules, you can work to change it. This is a democracy though, so don't think that everyone will blindly agree with you.

This obviously assumes you are an American. If you aren't, then I really don't see the issue.
IMO You can't compare 'contribution to society' like that, as if you could make a 1-dimensional scale that rates people like the ones you mentioned. It's useless. In some ways Jobs contributions to society have definitely been bigger than Turing or Edison, in some other ways, they haven't. You can't average these things objectively.
Wowwww! Great to hear you had backups and could mostly restore your loss though!

You said you were working from the interactive shell so you didn't have history? Now I always use IPython, which does keep a history (which I set to very long), isn't there some way you can config the default Python interactive shell to keep a history as well? Sounds like that would be useful for all sorts of unexpected things. Otherwise, get IPython, it's really good, but still a plain interactive shell only with extra fancy features.

Glad to hear it turned out mostly all right though. I always feel for these data-loss stories because I can imagine what it'd be like ... that sinking feeling. Brrrr.
self-interest
Why doesn't Netflix let me pay $1 for new movies like Redbox does?
So, I checked out Redbox the other day and for $1 I can rent a new movie. Great. But I don't want to drive to the store to pickup & return.

Is there any reason why Netflix can't just charge me $1 to rent new movies for 24hrs? What's the difference between streaming or dvd pickup to the studios?
Absolutely! If you hadn't posted those links, I would have ;-)
It's neither novel nor non-obvious. It's a minor variation on a well-known and oft-used algorithm. Carmack himself said as much when he started talking about the algorithm.
The comment is cute, but doesn't it make more sense to just map to End itself since A is essentially a shortcut for <End>a

inoremap <C-e> <End>

Technical note: I's behavior changes depending on 'cpo' so you can't just map it to <C-o>^.
Plausible deniability http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
So full disk encryption does what its supposed to do? Great. Next.
agree, missing Berlin Wall photos may be offending to your conservative co-workers as an "in-your-face" reminder that the human race progress can't be stopped.
> Except when I do, and it appeals to me, I usually run a query through a search engine to find the same page, so I can see what the other 9 top results are.

As I say, you're an outlier ;)
I'm currently reading the Steve Jobs biography but I have not finished it, so this comment is based on incomplete knowledge and you should take what I say with a grain of salt.

I will agree that the biography is far from perfect, and of course we can all find a bunch of things that we would have liked to see improved, especially knowing technology as intimately as most of us. But looking at the backlash against this biography I can't help but also feel that some of the criticism is a case of sour grapes, or maybe dashed expectations.

Leading into the release of the biography there were considerable excitement that finally someone would be able to tell the authorized story of Steve Jobs. This person had been granted unprecedented access to the man and people close to him, and had been working over a period of several years to put the book together. Finally, after the "smears" that were books like iCon, unauthorized and frankly pretty critical of Mr. Jobs we would finally get some real insight into his greatness.

And of course, a few weeks before the book is released the person is about passes away tragically at far too young of an age. I mean it sincerely when I say it was a pretty big loss. But look at everything written about the man in the days and weeks after, and the reaction to people who didn't toe the party line of deification. I mean even articles discussing Jobs' "dark side" then went to say how this was actually a positive and was integral to his success.

So now, finally, we can get our hand on the book we were all waiting for, the one where the biographer who actually got to talk to Jobs and people close to him reveals to us that, yes, he truly is as great as you believe. Actually he's even better, honestly he's the man of the century.

Instead, we get a portrait of a man with some very, very sharp edges, a mean ruthless streak that I think would startle most people on the other end of it, and of course a man who revolutionized several industries and did some pretty remarkable things.

It is definitely not the hagiography that I think some people secretly wanted, and I can't help but feel that this disappointment is behind a lot of the backlash. No biography is ever going to perfectly encompass anyone's life, especially so someone who has accomplished so much. But I also think that it is entirely fair to paint a portrait of the man that acknowledges his numerous flaws, the fantastic luck that accompanied some of his decisions, and the many failures he had. Because without this would his many successes, his vision, and his inspiring drive for perfection seem as impressive?

So in the end, I am actually enjoying the book and I am sure that someone else will come along and work from the notes and publish something even better. But to say that it is an utter mess, or a hack job, or any of the other brutal criticisms I have read is, in my opinion, pretty unfair.
Best approaches for developing Mobile Apps in a fragmented ecosystem
I just ran across this gem of a sentence:

> I know teams which spent weeks fine-tuning a lock-free algorithm, subjecting it to a battery of tests, only to discover hidden deadlock bugs several months later.

How exactly can you deadlock in a lock-free algorithm?
Nothing stays secret forever, so it's probably time to create new satellites with upgraded interfaces. Them's the breaks.

Off-shoring most electronics manufacture in the US is probably a "Battlestar Galactica" size mistake, though. Even if our super-military grade electronics are home grown, where will we get the expertise to continue to make such without a domestic industry?
Ask HN: Rounded design is a trend or there is more?
Probably you all realized that designs in every part of our life are getting rounder and rounder everyday. For example old cars had sharp edges, old furnitures were flat and had sharp edges, most of all websites had more flat design. But today's cars has very smooth edges, furnitures have curvy surfaces and smooth edges, all corners on websites are rounded and other rounded elements..

I'm wondering is this just a trend or is it easier to produce these today? or does it have something to do with psychology? I want to hear your opions.
The great thing about the crappy UI is that there are (even now) very talented and motivated people working on mods to make it all better.

Bethesda games have seriously powerful modding capabilities. If they were released perfect out of the box, nobody would have any motivation to do as much work as they do (-:
Why is it a Bad Thing(tm)? Is this more tin-foil-hat stuff...?
Has anyone used it on any other tablets? Curious to know how well it works.
It's like arguing thick walls and windows and strong door locks make it harder for law enforcement to break in to catch the criminals.

Nowadays, I'm very suspicious whenever they use the phrase "to fight against child pornography", because I just know they have a different agenda/priority in mind if they had to use that, but they'd rather give the child pornography line to the public.
Actually in the UK you can be detained indefinitely even if you plead that you forgot it.
Why does everyone expect Google+ to be as fully developed as Facebook, a product that was launched 6 years ago.

I don't like Google+, but of the complaining about its lack of features is getting annoying. It's very apparent the Google+ team is working as fast as they can to implement their product plan.
It's not his fault AMD/ATi is incapable of releasing a working OpenGL ICD.
Electric motors burnout all the time - most systems would have a separate controller (PLC and/or a Variable Frequency Drive) actually controlling the pump motor - normally able to run standalone (because the pump sites are often remote to the SCADA and comms. do go down) - its a long shot to suggest a burnt out pump motor was caused by a compromised SCADA.
Why on earth would anyone bother forging Canadian currency?

Just ribbing on ya :p

It is true, there are other preventative measures, but any one measure can be beaten. It's like computer security- any computer can be hacked, it's just a game of making it hard enough to hack that it is not worth it, or takes too long.
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Fedora 16 KDE – First Impressions
Even in new computer without net connection vanilla vim is good enough for editing. When sit in an alien computer with vanilla vim. At first I put these lines in .vimrc

set nocp
set hidden
set ts=2
set sw=2
set autoindent
set incsearch
filetype on
filetype plugin on
map <C-J> <C-W>j
map <C-K> <C-W>k
map <C-l> <C-W>l
map <C-h> <C-W>h

For buffer management, combination of :ls, :b and :b# does the job well enough, compiling command-t plugin isn't necessary :). For listing of files there is :sexplore . For code browsing there is plain old ctags. There you go, almost 90% of environment created. Other things like surround or snipets support would be better. But I don't use them most of the time :).
They've only been marketing it "for iPad and iPhone", and they use strict user-agent checking against PCs and my blackberry. I could of course be wrong, maybe their marketing doesn't line up with the devices they actually support.
The problem is that a work about Jobs's private life is not terribly compelling and the author of the work did not understand any of the important parts of Jobs's life enough to provide insight into them. Some of us were not looking for a long-form People Magazine article nor a hagiography.
Give SOPA's proponents a taste of their own medicine
Curiously just this morning I came across Derby (http://derbyjs.com/) which is another realtime framework that has a similar dependency on redis 2.6.

Derby seems to be more of a tradition mvc architecture. I like the idea of feeds in Thoonk, certainly worth some investigation.
On Technology and Organizations as Systems
It might come across as simplistic because it wasn't really written for people like you and me - it was written for non-technical consumers of apple products and the general public.
Could you explain that a little more? I'm not disagreeing, but I'm not sure I understand what's so vital about preventing people from reading the data on my hard drive after they've confiscated it.
2. "with the cryogenic RAM freezing technique, presumably"
- errr, no. With the "sit down at the computer and turn off
the encryption/copy the data to an external drive
technique", I think you'll find. Obvious bullsh*t to anyone
technical but sounds 'cool' to your average 14yr old who
reads these sort of sites.

Errr, actually yes. You may be interested in [1] and [2].

[1] http://citp.princeton.edu/pub/coldboot.pdf

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaicPIgn9U
It's entertaining that you picked a subject that can be used perfectly both ways. ;)
It's much easier to make a SD card unavailable (destroyed, "lost", etc.) vs. an entire laptop, and you wouldn't be as vulnerable if a third party got a hold of the laptop (since all the valuable data is sitting in your wallet (on your person) instead of the briefcase (in the seat next to you)).
They aren't even talking about what happened in San Diego :-\

SCADA controls those power systems too ;-)
Thankyou all for support, game is finally launched
Why doesn't redbox let me get as many movies as I want for 10$ a month? They are pursuing different avenues. The guys at netflix prefer a stead stream of income and carrying a much larger selection. If you want to rent online there are several sources that will allow you to do that. Why demand it of Netflix.
Did that happen right away that you got more space from your .edu? i put mine it and it didn't seem to do anything.
I believe that we will eventually return to "good" old days, when strong encryption was outlawed. If the intelligence sector doesn't get it overturned itself, then I expect that someone in Congress will probably push a bill through to do so under the guise of preventing child porn (after all, who isn't against child porn?).

Oh, and a tip of the hat to Phil Zimmermann, who created PGP twenty years ago this year.
Also, SD cards are really really sturdy. You can drive a car over them, and I know from experience they can survive a fire.

Maybe if he'd use a micro-SD, he could swallow it. Or hide it pretty much anywhere cause it's the size of a fingernail. Dump the empty micro-SD/SD-adapter into one of those typical "computer paraphernalia" boxes always found on any desk, you know, the one that also contains an aged USB stick, three paperclips, a PS2-USB adapter, post-its, ear-phones and some USB cable, and nobody will expect a thing.
While we'll have to see how it works out in practice, I'm happy to see that someone is finally trying to attack this problem in a more systematic, organized way. It's more and more important, as the world we live in becomes increasingly complex.

BTW. personally I don't really trust 'educational games' at all, especially the ones that target children. Most of the stuff I've seen is silly and is barely deserving the name 'games'. I believe that it's much better for an educational game to be a game first, and education second, not the other way around. I don't like the attitude of treating education like a pill for a cat, so that we try to trick children into swallowing it.
When full disk encryption is outlawed...
> First, evidence-gathering goons can turn off a computer (for transportation) without realizing it’s encrypted, and thus can’t get back at the data (unless the arrestee gives up his password, which he doesn’t have to do);

I thought that if they had a warrant, you had to give up the password, much as you'd have to give up the key to a locked door in your house?
https://www.xkcd.com/538/

It's common knowledge that the government has few qualms about violating its own laws. No doubt they won't allow some pesky legal restrictions stand in the way of cracking FDE.