skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much freer would the Internet have been if the DMCA had not been passed? Think of all the hours YouTube alone spends in policing itself and handling copyright takedown notices and imagine those hours spent improving YouTube or coming up with new video sharing services.

The current copyright regime is tolerable. Tolerable and good are worlds apart.
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All of the top notification banners are the most annoying part of SO, IMO. Every time I go there I end up clicking close 3-4 times.
Very nice! It seems about as simple as it could be. One suggestion though, my resolution is quite high and I hate looking to the extremities of my monitor. I don't know how you could solve it nicely but just some feedback!
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24 hour battery life while connected by BT, 3 days while used just as a watch.
Let me phrase it as carefully and unambiguously as I can:

Given that a man has two children and at least one of them is a boy, what is the probability that the other one is also a boy?

Do you agree or disagree that the answer is 1/3?
Spoiler: Tuesday was the name of his horse.
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Agreed; I have long since given up caring about being called a fanboy. I like what I like and I make no apologies for it.

That's one reason I prefer Apple kit -- I am no longer fascinated by twiddling with things to get them to work. Apple gear tends to work without twiddling more than the other crap (though not always). I'm not interested in trying to get stuff to work that doesn't.
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Say you get four weeks paid vacation at your current job and the new one's only offering two for new hires. Don't try to force them to give you four, just force them to toss you a bone to make up for the ten days per year of your life you're going to be giving up by coming to their company. I'm sure that's worth another 10-20% to both parties. Alternately, walk away if the four weeks really is a deal-breaker for you.

Are the people who "can't" negotiate and who blackballed you living under the same paltry vacation package you were offered? I'm assuming you didn't ask about vacation until after they made you an offer. To do otherwise is to chase off a possible opportunity before they've committed to you. Once you've got an offer, recognize that multiple parties at the hiring company are committed to seeing the deal go through, so you have more bargaining power than you did at the "we're still deciding who our top candidate is" phase.
I have two children. One of my children is a son born on a Tuesday. Of course, my wife is still pregnant with the 2nd, but she will be thrilled to know there is a better than average chance she is having a girl!
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The fact that its even possible for this law to be considered should give people another hint at how dangerous and negligent our "representatives" are. Other obvious hints are apparent also, such as the Patriot Act and about 100 other things I won't mention.

People just need to face reality. Its a corrupt system. The government is full of fraudsters and even mass murderers. I know its hard to accept that, but that's the truth.

The other problem is that its the very structure of our government and society that creates these outcomes over and over again.

We need to do some agile engineering on society, starting from base premises.
I was somewhat dissapointed with Siri a few days ago. I asked it what 350/16 was. I was expecting it to read back the answer to me and I could get on with my day. Instead it displayed a giant page of equations showing every possible answer to 350/16.

I really don't think that's the answer people want to quick calculation questions.
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I love the watches but I would somehow love to take a stab at re-designing the landing page.

Somehow your background colors are not supporting the watches well.

Edit: Just tried removing the background and the orange element. You really should consider making the background darker. It will make your watches look more digital and crisp. (You should also considder getting a proper photographer or photoshop wizard to re-do the pictures of those watches)

Again love the watches, but can't stand seeing them not presented properly.
Lua tables are a general-purpose associative structure that are used for both map and list functions in that language: there's syntactic sugar for both consecutive integer keys and simple string keys, and the former are used to make sequences (with internal, semantics-preserving optimizations in the Lua runtime for storing them). They strike me as one of the best options for a single core data structure if one were limited to one.
Ask HN: Why is Craigslist Canada down?
Craigslist Vancouver result: http://www.craigslist.org/about/domain_tou_violation
A little too late to the dinner party....
http://www.air-watch.com/reports/gartner-mdm-magic-quadrant....
To be honest, it was a limitation due to our custom BT stack and limited processing power on the micro. We tried implementing SPP, but quickly ran out of space.
> I have two children. Child A is a boy, born on a Tuesday, what is the probability that child B is a boy?

We have no knowledge of child B so the probability is even for it being a boy or a girl.

> I have two children, at least one of them is a boy who is born on a Tuesday. What is the probability that I have two boys?

We have incomplete knowledge of both children, we are constraining a probability space in 2 dimensions (i.e. the 2 children) rather than refining it down to 1 dimension as before. In this case the probability is 13/27 as these tables (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290349) nicely show.

When the father says "one is a son born on a tuesday" this can be read as him selecting a child and then asking you about the second or as giving you some information that can apply to either child and then asking you about both.

In my opinion the language used leads much more easily to the first interpretation, this is the reason surely for the confusion.
"Think about how strong women are regarded vs men who exhibit the same behavior. A woman that does what she needs to get what she deserves runs the risk of being called a "bitch" or, at the very least, being thought of as unfeminine. "

I think that most men who exhibit the same behavior that would get a woman the title of "bitch" fall under the umbrella of "sociopathic asshole". It just so happens that there's a lot more of those, especially in upper management, so it almost becomes the norm, and thus people don't complain about the status quo.
For anyone else who hadn't heard the Star Wars vs Star Trek comparison, here's the top relevant Google result:

http://androidcommunity.com/google-executive-siri-is-star-wa...

"Well, we don’t like to set ourselves in a head-to-head kind of way, you know, Apple makes terrific products, I think Siri is great; I think it’s really hard in the long run to follow strategy of making kind of an artificial personality. You know, it can be really funny at first, but that uncanny value of just, uh, having a personality that you start to interact with, um, as you would a person, with all the contextual ambiguity you would with a real person – that’s a really challenging approach, and they’re going for it, that’s great. Our approach is different. The metaphor I like to take is – if it’s Star Wars, you have these robot personalities like C-3PO who runs around and he tries to do stuff for you, messes up and makes jokes, he’s kind of a comic relief guy. Our approach is more like Star Trek, right, starship Enterprise; every piece of computing surface, everything is voice-aware. It’s not that there’s a personality, it doesn’t have a name, it’s just “Computer.”" - Matias Duarte
Zynga's IPO roadshow begins Monday
Great idea but right now, I think far too much real estate on the face of the watch is not a screen. The digital part should be flush with the border instead of effectively having two strokes around the screen. That alone would make me wait for another version.

Here are examples I would try doing

http://www.timefy.com/en/design/420-watch-i-steel-by-flemmin...

http://www.timefy.com/en/design/599-slip-watch-white-by-non-...
I wholeheartedly agree, and I think this is what jwz is getting at as well. Hard work can be rewarding, but only if you let it. Hard work which is pushed on you without your consent is rarely rewarding in any sense of the word.
Hi spindritf, it doesn't read much like an article or review because it isn't one. It is the temporary landing page for the book, and someone spotted it and submitted it to HN. So I agree, right now it's a bit "marketing heavy" for this crowd. In the future, this page will disappear in favor of an actual blog on the same subject of the book.
Check out "Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want", by Linda Babcock and Sarah Laschever.

Their earlier book "Women Don't Ask" is well worth reading too.
Just to be sure, what is the obvious reason here?
I host my WordPress powered blog on my own server.. apparently I'm not eligible. What's that about?
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GISMA Business School in Hannover, Germany, was launched in 1999 as a joint initiative by the state of Lower Saxony and visionary private-sector enterprises. http://www.gisma.com
Device should be named "Waldo".
Programming is a branch of math.
I personally haven't visited the DistroWatch page in years. Any reason to think it's a reliable indicator of popularity?
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Building your own Python and using system package manager do not exclude each other. On the contrary, I'd even recommend installing your own built software with your systems package manager
Facebook Settles FTC Charges Over Failing to Keep Privacy Promises
Ask HN: How long do you support iOS4 before moving to iOS5?
I understand iOS upgrade adoption is quite high, but how long do you wait? Do you force users to upgrade?
Riak and Hadoop (Sitting in a tree)
3 Reasons a Facebook Phone Will Work.
Ahhhh, works beautifully. Thanks so much!!!
Misapplication? I thought the Law was meant to describe accidental implementations of Lisp rather than overt ones.

In other words, "the complicated system you made _just happens_ to contain a Lisp, and if you had noticed that requirement in the first place its design would have been cleaner."
Looks like the same device I was able to find here:

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2011/05/31/apple-ipad-compared...
Presumably to act as a pedometer and sleep analysis tool; think Fitbit.
Does it have a mic?
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I love it, maybe I should contribute...
The global internet is quickly becoming a more powerful entity than all the rulers in Congress. Congress will not stop trying to put a leash on it. The more powerful the internet gets, the more you will see Congress trying anything to establish control. Child pornography, digital rights, copyright, Chinese hackers, national security, containing the terrorists, fud... Congress will use military force if necessary if the global internet challenges its supreme authority as global sovreign. Which one day it will.
To everyone downvoting: You know you can click the username and see a profile page of the person who wrote the comment.

(ahoy is short for Amy Hoy )
Any new McCarthy LISP implementation is destined to provoke the programming equivalent of "git offa mah lawn!"
Mr Congressman, you have lost my vote forever. Furthermore, I will be campaigning on behalf of $OPPONENT who still believes in freedom and our greatest liberties. The fact that we have great men like $OPPONENT proves American democracy still works.
If you don't have an SLA, probably the best you can do is ask for your time to be pro-rated. So each hour of downtime should be refunded 1/720 of your monthly cost. So the real answer is: don't depend on one host. At least keep a second host as a backup for when the first one fails.
The point of high-speed rail isn't to be profitable, it's to transport people. You won't believe how unprofitable interstate highways are.
Consumers' interest in Windows tablets plummets, study claims
Oh come on!

You could make it print out @replies on twitter or something. How freaking cool would that be?
It's actually $120/hour. ;-) More seriously, you'll probably find the book to be less "marketing heavy" than that. Here is what Peter Cooper, of Ruby Inside fame had to say about the book (he was an early reviewer):

"Technical Blogging confidently straddles the line of showing exactly what a blog can do for you or your career, while being grounded and practical enough for us technical folks not to start running away from marketing speak. Antonio has done a great job."
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Most reputable stores recommend photocopying your thermal paper receipts if you'll ever need them for warranties because they fade so fast.
They could likely make decent additional revenue through paid placement for front-page subscriptions via their app which is then monetized by advertiser via micro ads ("Today's crossword courtesy of Toyota"). However, as the printer is thermal they can't sell ink but it does have one significant consumable: the paper. If the paper is a custom size or with an incompatible spool mount they'll hopefully get some refills before the novelty wears off and/or it breaks down.
Nice, clean and minimal. Kudos!

There's just one little glitch : In IE9, icons are not shown correctly and a javascript error is raised whenever you try to perform an action , or visit a url you just "generated"
From Devolver's Twitter:

> SS: Kamikaze Attack is being updated on the Amazon App Store. There was a remnant permission from testing that is unused & will be removed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/devolverdigital/status/1415672294...
The appeal of hiring someone who is actively involved with open source tech has less to do with heroic coding skills and more to do with identifying someone who is a curious, enthusiastic, and community-minded problem solver.
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Very cool! You've easily written the best UI for this kind of thing I've yet seen (though a language syntax picker would be nice).

Quick question though, why redis vs something disk based? Are you worried that if this sees a lot of usage you'll hit memory limits? Seems like a great application for a disk based KV, or just plain SQL.
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Heya - I didn't really test in IE, but tonight I'll get it updated and fixed for IE9. Thanks for the feedback
I think you have captured the spirit of the law. The project in question was the development of a scripting language for something-or-other, so this wasn’t an accidental implementation of Lisp, it was done with malice aforethought.
That doesn't change anything. You can't host on wordpress.com—whether it's a subdomain or your own—if you need to do any kind of customization beyond CSS tweaks, and you can't use affiliate links.
I see your point - we can compare the powers that n is raised to, but without knowing the constant factor we can't know the proportion of the result that it is responsible for.
Well, yes. I was mostly using the numbers for illustration's sake; substitute 1 40 hr/week employee vs. 2 20 hr/week employees if it makes the point clearer. (And it should make the point clearer: if you've ever had to manage volunteers, I bet you'd take one dedicated full-timer over a team of 10 half-time volunteers.)

I suspect there's an equilibrium point where the gains of human capital are offset by the losses of fatigue. My point is that you get declining efficiency in both directions; if you try to speed up work by adding more people, you incur costs in communication & learning overhead.
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While I admit that this article hits a lot more than just Node, I do think that it's good to see IBM starting to publicly think about Node. They are the though leaders for the enterprise world. Hopefully with their backing, and I hate IBM, companies will be more open to the new tool.

As a side, I'm a Java developer working on SOA ESB tech. I think Node is a perfect fit for this. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to convince a manager to start using a v0.6 of a JS based environment.
Hey - Thanks for the comment.

You can set the language by just changing the extension in the URL, if it guesses wrong.

the open source project also has an optional disk store you can use in place of redis (http://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-server), but my hosted version uses the redis store.

Thanks again!
Great questions, and thanks for taking the time!

1. Excellent point, and I can go through the blah blah of how we take security seriously, adhere to standards, and that we are proactive, but instead of boring you with what you can read on the site I'd like to really answer your question. Aside from getting piece of mind by reading the terms of use and the privacy policy (which no one reads anyway), trust is something that is hard to win over on the Internet. In the real world I like to think that trust has to be lost not gained (at least with me personally). However, on the Internet its a new game, you have to show that you are trustworthy and reliable somehow before people think about even looking at your service. We've been struggling to find a way to show this because we're a new, small startup with not much more to offer than our word. Still in alpha, we're trying to get some trustworthy partners (specifically service providers such as tmobile) to strengthen our word. However at the risk of sounding like privacy is not our priority (it is definitely our priority), with any company, big or small, trustworthy or not, if its in the cloud its at a higher risk, but in my opinion the benefits far greatly outweigh the small risk.

Short answer: We will do what it takes to ensure that you're data is secure and in your control.

2. We plan to implement a freemium model. Once we introduce our full feature set we will begin to charge for some of them. I don't like to argue semantics of whether we're a small business or a startup, all I can say is that we are building a service that we believe in and want to use personally. Its something we believe is lacking in the world, and until iCloud came a long no one was doing anything right (iCloud still lacks platform independence though). We believe that being in control of your data, being able to do with it what you want and take it with you where you like, is a new-era human right.

Short answer: No plans to sell it off.

Hope that answered your questions, and if you want to try the site please provide any feedback you may have so we can improve based on customer needs aligned with our own.
This is a non-production tablet that was on loan for Pixel Qi. Mary Lou Jepsen (Pixel Qi founder) spoke at our Books in Browsers conference a couple months ago. We borrowed it to test reading using the archive.org bookreader and took this pic.

The widescreen aspect ratio actually works better than expected. You can display a full page and still have room to display controls below the text without obscuring the page. Also, the Pixel Qi screen outdoors in full sunlight is great for reading!
I'm afraid this is wrong - you shouldn't distinguish between Bb and bB. In this problem, they are not different states, so counting them messes up your probability calculation.

Someone had a nice link higher up: http://mikeschiraldi.blogspot.com/2011/11/tuesday-boy-proble...
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Thanks for the clarification. I've mostly been using it to find some quick, obvious errors, such as tag mismatches.
I just ordered one! Finally something to do with my Blackberry. Can't wait to get started with the SDK
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Facebook Blog
Skip the book. Start a blog, add Google Ads. Done.

Or post everything for free (without compensation) on Facebook or Google+. I'm sure they appreciate the traffic.

I think it's great that so many people are publishing via Facebook, Google+, but they are really losing out on advertising revenue.

Because seriously: despite anything you post on Facebook or Google+, you are providing value for Facebook/Google, and you are getting shafted!

Fun to watch the fleecing going on!
This reminds me of the other big problem with tablets: touch resolution. Until I can use a stylus on a capacitive touch screen accurate to a few pixels, I'm still not ready to completely leave my paper pads behind. When taking notes, writing is still so much better than typing.

It would be even better if you could combine the capacitive touch tech with the other more accurate tech and switch between the two modes, so you can write one the screen with your hand touching it (another pet peeve of using a stylus with a capacitive touch screen).
I've said it before, I'll say it again - build one with ANT+ and I'll buy a dozen. I don't see any reason why I'd want an adjunct to my smartphone strapped to my wrist, but I can think of countless uses for a tiny device that can read and interpret sensor data via low-powered wireless. ANT+ is the killer app for the "smartwatch".
Custom domains are for hipsters and corporations, not personal blogs.

Get a clue!
As complex as it needs to be. Great project. Now I just wish I had an immediate need for an internal pastebin.
The phone interaction is predominantly so you don't have to take your phone of your pocket right? (I'm assuming if you have a bt headset, it will announce the caller, and you can decide to pick up that way.)

Unless I'm missing something, can I recommend an android app I wrote called NameBuzz: http://goo.gl/rd7df . It's basically a vibration based caller ID, that works based on the number of syllables in the callers name (Or you can add a per-contact pattern).
Will iPhone support ever be possible?
Scaling with Kindle Fire
A Google Calendar/Tasks-polling, Arduino-driven thermal printer with one press printouts has been somewhere on my "eventual weekend projects" list for a while.

I really like this idea. I think the services it supports will make or break it.

As someone who has a smartphone permanently embedded in his pocket, an iPad never more than an arm's length away, and is strongly considering buying a second tablet, I definitely still see a great deal of utility in small, printed infoclusters.

(And for everyone saying "this just generates trash," every moment you've ever spent reading vapid nonsense on backlit screens has been a utter waste of precious energy. What's your point?)
Somehow I fail to equate Zynga with "dent in the universe". Netscape did make a dent. Google did make a dent. If you have the choice of where you'll work, and you want to work that hard, you might want to pay attention to how what actual value will come out of your work for the rest of us...
Indeed. Considering that HN is one of the most tech-aware communities on the Internet, it continually surprises me how much people here want "security by obscurity" in managing their personal online communications.

If there are people who you don't want seeing your public posts, regardless of whether they currently have Google+ accounts or check them on a regular basis, don't make them public. Simple.
Dietrich Mateschitz (Red Bull Founder) has been age 39 and washed up when he started out on a venture that would become RB.

I guess he might feel all kind of issues when he was 45. But I guess he was too busy to rally think how he didn't accomplish anything.
What if you make an estimate of your total compensation package? (i.e. Including benefits)
It's like having an infinite supply of smartphone displays that are set up to show one thing at a time. Limited use, and temporal, but far more long-lasting than the notifications you get that disappear a second later.