skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First i wanted to write a critism for article but then i give up because almost everythings is false in this article.
New Twitter Design: Tightly Coupling Web and Mobile
The trouble is, copyright infringement is so widespread these days that the burden of proof is quite a burden indeed. It isn't just on the consumer end that copyright law hasn't yet caught up with the times.
The expand thing is strange but it looks like it's a latency improvement so that they don't have to fetch the counts for all the posts on page load.

The cursor is a hand for me though on Chrome though.
It will currently fall back to using plain ol' HTML img tags, but Flash and WebGL renderers are in the works.
Sounds like you never actually used it.
This is pretty incredible customer service.

I'm on my second Up now--my first one died after two days. It's a fun idea but it's not really implemented that well. There are a couple fundamental problems both with the device (why do I have to turn on sleep mode? can't it figure that out itself?) and the app (why can't I use Facebook to find friends?). I'm glad Jawbone is standing behind their reputation and improving this product.

And even though it's not that useful, I still wear it everyday. I like the way it looks :)
You can push the logic even further : as even sustaining your body in a small tank becomes unsustainable, one might really go all virtual : get rid of your body, and upload your mind in a piece of silicon (or whatever replaced silicon). The silicon would be much less expensive to run than your meat brain.

Even if you don't believe your upload wouldn't truly be you, you might take the option, if the alternative is certain death by starvation. Better die and spawn a ghost, than die and leave nothing.

Now it's not all pretty: if you assume a capitalistic, competitive environment, one could set up "interesting" forms of exploitation. An upload could be saved, stopped, restarted, spied on, tortured… Robin Hanson produced quite interesting (though horrifying) speculation about how such a world might look like.
Downloading songs usually isn't charged that way. Usually the uploaders are charged with violating copyright.
What Twitter for iPhone 4.0 and Twitter’s New-New Design Tells Current Users
UPDATE:
Did some offpage seo in last two days and now I'm 3rd when you search how to have twins, just bellow about.com articles!
Got two questions for you guys:

1.How I am third when I type how to have twins on google without "", but seventh when I type it with ""?
Isn't it logical that I have better rank with "" (cause less results)?

2.I also made twitter account(http://twitter.com/HowToHaveTwins).Is there a faster way to get more people to follow you?

EDIT: well I was third for hole 5-10 minutes :)
not anymore
I've got a serious mental contingency bomb setup to explode whenever my mind wanders and thinks about reflection. I think about it, the bomb explodes, I stand up and go for a walk and when I come back the whole thought process that lead me to consider reflection is wiped clean, ready for a fresh redesign from scratch.

It's not that I don't see value in Reflection, it's just that I'm sick of debugging it.

Abstractfactories are not that bad, actually if you're in the habit (like me) to always step in and write an interface before you start any abstract, you pretty soon understand why it's a good or bad idea - interfaces of factories are so damn trivial that even an abstractfreak will see this as redundant work and will want to write an interface of this factory interface and then a factory interface factory through code injection, preferrably through annotations, but it could be from other means such as a properties file or xml configuration, so they think about a factory interface abstract factory (and of course its interface). By then, even the craziest persons give up and just do their job.
I find it amazing that browsers do not block Flash from running by default. I've posted the Chrome help page[1] that shows how to block and selectively unblock plugins to my Facebook/Twitter, as I really don't want to return home for the holidays to have lots of repair requests.

[1] http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&...
"un" is a productive negation prefix. That means that it can freely be used just about anywhere it makes lexical sense to use it; there is no list of approved verbs with which it may be used. Undesign is a perfectly valid word (and preferable to alternatives like dedesign in terms of aestheitics). Dictionaries cannot be expected to contain every variant of a word created by valid and systematic use of affixes.
Right now, it's about the experience of spending. Having fun with it, be seduced and/or rational about it. It's open-ended in that regard. After a while, under 'My Stuff', you find a more general breakdown of your spending which may or may not give you insight into your own behavior and desires.
Ycombinator is the world top site number 1715 according to the Alexa Global Traffic Rank:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com
You can select which circles appear in chat (but only from the G+ chatbox as far as I know).
I wasn't talking about college admissions, I was talking about a university professor extending help to a high school student with a science fair project.

The OP wrote:

"These high school placements into university labs are a classic example of how privilege plays out, converting socio economic status into plausible credentials."

And I don't believe that is how this high school student connected with the lab she worked in (some sort of privilege connection) and I don't believe it is how the majority of kids who are participating in the ISEF and other competitions 'get into' university labs to do their work.

If you're working on an ISEF project or other high profile science fair organization project, and you are a good student who can communicate what you are working on, you don't need wealth or privilege to get a university professor in the same area of research to read your email and respond.

I reacted emotionally to the author's implication that only 'rich connected kids' even have the opportunity to do well in these science competitions because their social status gives them connections and resources that are not available to others, and so the work they can do will always be more impressive than what other kids can do.
Google Currents: First Impressions Of Google’s Flipboard Competitor
Well, we are a competitor to godaddy and this really isn't their fault the way I read the story (as much as I would like to heap on them, which I could do for other things, this isn't one of those times).
Steve Jobs vision of the world
> give credit where credit is due

Sure. Just don't forget they profit from Windows sales and, thus, will do anything to justify the deployment of a Windows server instead of a Linux one. Including contributing to a Unix-native product. If, in the end, Redis' codebase becomes cluttered and performance and maintenance suffer, we all lose. I mean, all of us except Microsoft, who wins both by us losing and from gaining space for their own future offerings in this segment.

There is no good or bad. It's self interest. When their self-interest coincides with the society's, I'm for them. OTOH, it's been a long time since it last did. It certainly never happened after the mid 90's.
Obviously no, essentially by definition.
I have a hosting account on Rackspace cloud for $100/mo for unlimited sites. The traffic is low enough, that I could probably do it on cheap shared hosting, but I already have the account for bigger sites as well.
Seems quite interesting. I wish there was a more thorough explanation about how lthreads map to actual threads and the effects of that. What can run in parallel, when does the scheduler take over, what state can be shared without locks?

It seems clear that there has to be some limitations compared to traditional single-thread coroutines, but the documentation doesn't explain that. (Conversely, it needs to be more explicit about the advantages of lthreads as well. Coroutines in C are not that all that well known...)
Sure, but if I only want certain pieces of the view to update when their corresponding model value changes, as opposed to re-rendering the whole view, I have to build an update method that does so. Not horrible in the scheme of things, but awful nice to not build manually. Is Amber.js essentially re-rendering views in their entirely, or is it more precise with its binding updates?

Another difference I suppose would be binding classnames and attributes to your model may require several lines of jQuery to manipulate, vs I believe in amber.js its done by naming convention and an options object (to use different class names).
Well, yes, meaning that elite colleges use other discriminators to choose their students now, once you've gotten a good-enough score. It'd actually be more egalitarian and meritocratic to use scores, though, especially if there were a revised test to differentiate the almost-perfect-and-perfect crowd from one another.

Those other filters--the meaningful extracurricular activities--often enough amount to "let's let in the girl who got a paper published in high school through a special internship or the guy who climbed Mt. Everest" that they're sort of a joke, in that people with special resources and parental connections have an automatic edge over equally qualified people who don't.
My favorite hardware store (Dunn Lumber in Seattle) does the same thing. It was difficult to get used to at first, but it's really nice to just take a number, wander around, and then not feel like you're holding anyone up if you don't order your lumber as fast as is humanly possible.
absolutely! The holidays are always slow for hiring. A lot of company budgets start in Jan.
"Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest developed nation
The open era for EGL begins today (EGL Blog)
I assume this burden of proof did, or still does exist, and SOPA is the industry attempt to change that because it's too much of an inconvenience for them.

Those familiar with Nick Davies' Flat Earth News[0] will know that copyright is a prime candidate for a flat earth story. The lobbyist angle is so pervasive that it has, to the media at large, become a fundamental truth.

[0] http://www.flatearthnews.net/
McIlroy's code lends itself very well to literate coding! Here's a try:

# First, tr anslate multiple s queezed occurrences of the c omplement of A-Za-z (non-word-characters) into a line separator

tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' |

# and then lowercase every word.

tr A-Z a-z |

# Sort the words with a disk-based mergesort.

sort |

# Count the unique characters :: [String] -> [(Int,String)]

uniq -c |

# And do a reverse numerical disk-based merge sort.

sort -rn |

# And write the first $1 lines and then quit.

sed ${1}q

Personally, I'd change the last two to be

sort -rn -k 1,1 | head -n $1

but that's just bikeshedding. And the parts it's made from are so modular, and so focused, that you can wrap your head around all of the problem, without worrying about how sort works, or how tr expands character ranges.

If I gave a "professional software developer" in 2011 a problem to count word frequencies, and I got back 10 pages of Pascal that didn't go much faster than code that fits on a Post-It note for my problem, I wouldn't trust that developer with anything else important.
Informative article overall but it also includes this:

"Iran will take care to hide the drone well as the U.S. would likely try to destroy it if its location would be known. When the Chinese collected parts of a stealth F-117 stealth plane that was downed in Yugoslavia the U.S. bombed their embassy in Belgrade."

The second claim about the Chinese is ridiculous. But apart from that, assuming they have the drone intact, what will the Iranians actually learn from it? If I give you a PC motherboard, you can learn from it but to produce one is another thing altogether. Same for developing anti-drone electronic warfare technology. Most likely the drone information will be passed to the Russians, who may have had this idea all along.
My wife and I are planning on leaving the United States and moving to Australia in around 4 years, and right now funding that and getting our daughter excited about the move is our chief goal.
#NewTwitter: Twitter's Big Day
I dont want to defend Microsoft, but i think that if we dig deep enough we found bad "habits" in every big society:
what about Google[1] or Apple suing everybody from Samsung [2] to Luxembourgish restourants[3]?

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...
[2] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-08-02/apple-lawsuit-pu...
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3190944
Ah, under "privacy". Not exactly the most intuitive process, but at least it's possible. Thanks!
> wondering how they can rocket to the center of the universe too

Make lots of money. That's a traditional way to garner press.
"We started the conversation by offering a fair price to show we were serious. We didn’t want to get ignored by starting with a low, insulting offer. After a few emails negotiating a price, we struck a deal for $20k. No equity, just cash exchanged with escrow.com."

This is my business (since '96). You did a great job and bought the name for a very fair price.

If you would post the contents of the emails you sent I would be glad to give some further opinions that might be helpful to others in the same situation. As far as what someone in this business thinks when they receive emails from buyers (I have received thousands so there is no pattern I haven't seen yet.)
Take the day off to play video-games!
Wow, a one word, four character domain for 20K! Kudos!
Well, I for one frequently encounter places where the factory / interface / adapter paradigm is a good solution. And, it's not just to be clever.

This typically occurs when 1) I am doing enterprise application development, and there are many different instantiations of a particular application, or 2) I am doing enterprise integration, and I have many different libraries and services to work with, sometimes legacy, and often with complex business logic that selects some over others.

Granted, I've seen this pattern used all too often and seen over-abstraction, in general. But, I need to be brave and defend this, given that no one else seems to want to. It does have some legs.

I use this when working with a lot of different teams / companies and coordinating them all and agreeing to how things will work in production. That's especially true when some of those teams / companies may be interchanged with others. This type of solution makes a lot of sense.

However, I would much prefer a dynamic typed solution to avoid the unnecessary boilerplate. And, even better, I would prefer to work only with self-contained software companies that have complete control over their code-base and restrained domain logic. That would be awesome! (but wishful thinking).
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The patch provided does not handle persistence correctly (saving blocks), does not make tests passing. The "libuv" part was the trivial part, already solved by the community, see the unofficial win32/win64 port that fixed it natively, with less code.

So nice to see Microsoft contributing code to Redis, but this is not a production ready port and is practically equivalent to what we already had made by the community.

Also, what is the point on having a production quality Redis server on Windows? That it will slow down the Redis POSIX development if we merge the two projects, the WIN32 API is different, there is a lot of care needed to maintain a port, but what is the real gain? Even services based on Windows like Stack Overflow had no issues running their Linux boxes to use Redis.

I've the bad habit of doing the interest of the Redis community, so once I saw there was a reasonable port of Redis for win32 (that is, enough to code under Windows and test stuff, no production ready) I avoided additional efforts in this regard to provide more value in the "real" Redis, the one running where 99.99% of people need it to run well, under POSIX environments.

EDIT: I was not clear in this post about what I'll do. I'll not merge the patch, but I'll see with interest the creation of a "redis-win32" project that has a different repository, different issues page, and so forth, and is not officially supported by me. But I'll be happy to provide a page in the redis.io site about it, to link at the project, to collaborate with the developers, and so forth.
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Thanks David but it was more about persistence... not settling
Glad I am not the only one who exploits similar solution to solve problem for mobile/ajax on server side!

One question here is for generating search engine friendly web pages without javascript, do you guys use server side requests internally to api to get data?
I find chrome and ff are much more often dead-crashed by a single line of Javascript than tons of flash. Firefox even re-crashes when you open it again in many cases, without letting you prevent reloading of the offending Javascript.
Here's the comment (from a new user):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3330038
Going out on a limb here. Maybe the drone crash landed. Malfunctions happen all the time just look at the computer in front of you.
The article cites Apple's roving check out approach as an attempt to "solve line issues". Isn't this close to the most inefficient way to organize the checkout/queuing experience in terms of creating uncertainty and the need for everyone (even their staff) to move around? I can see that it has a lot of psychological value, though.
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Thanks namityadav! A big win but a heck of a lot left to do
Sure. Usually if you give embarrassing people the runaround, they eventually go away.

It was, admittedly, way too optimistic for the government to assume every seized domain would work this way. But for them to assume this one specific one would work that way is actually depressingly likely.

Governments illegally seize stuff all the time, especially when investigating anything drug-related. They can seize and auction off your stuff basically even on suspicion of it being bought with drug money.

What happens if it wasn't? Well, they owe you money back if your lawyer is good enough to make that happen.
That too. I just saw a BBC video about this incident and a pilot was saying exactly that - that the pilots should know who is in control and he should pilot the plane to the safety.

But I was thinking about training more in another sense. If your instinct tells you to do something that is opposite of the right thing than you should receive more training to brake your instinct.
In this case the right thing to do was probably to push the nose down to gain speed. But if your instinct tells you that going down is not the right thing you won't do it. You should make a concious decision and you are not in the position to do that without prior exposure to the situation.
Despite all the conspiracy theories you read from news sites, black programs do not outsource to other countries.
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So how does it come about that you interpret support for restrictions on political campaigning as an attack on democracy?

If you believe that the additional political speech that greater donations would allow, would break the democratic process, then you have little faith in the ability of voters to weigh the facts and cast a rational vote. If you don't think that voters can do this, then it seems to me that you don't believe that democracy can really work.

I'm not saying that the people who want to limit political contributions are opposed to democracy. I'm saying that it reveals that they have little confidence that democracy can work.

Your implicit argument seems to be this: If you can't point to an obviously correct place to draw the line, then no line should be drawn anywhere.

No. I'm saying that for such restrictions to be implementable, there must be a line defined somewhere. If you want to make a rule, you've got to add something to it that still allows me, or me and my buddies, or whatever, to still make political contributions.

Secondarily, I'm hoping that expressing that distinction might reveal more about what these people are trying to accomplish (or not accomplish, as the case might be). Sort of a black box test.

Individuals and corporations can both invest money in political speech, but the amount any individual or any individual corporation is allowed to put in is limited to (some credible estimate of) the largest amount a not-entirely-crazy person

So you're prohibiting me from pooling money with friends in order to send a message of our own. Is that your intent?
Having worked on drones, I'm not speaking out of turn on them. I didn't work on this particular program (in that case I wouldn't have posted b/c that would be most likely illegal), but similar programs.
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There's always Scheme Shell: http://www.scsh.net/
Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe
Case 1 and 3 would be new business, you'd still have to convince those users that Instapaper is right for them, there's nothing automatic about it. Also what makes you think Instapaper is the popular brand on Android?

Case 2 I'll concede but that's hardly "a lot" of users.
"Even if that control signal is encrypted pattern recognition during many flights over four years would have given them enough information to break the code."

That was an interesting speculative leap. And about where my suspension of derision broke, reading the article. The US military gets a lot of things wrong with their gadgets, but comsec is not usually one of them.
tl:dr; we offered money for the purchase.
I'm going to seize your mobile phone for a year. See, it has some music on it, and there's no way for me to know that you legally bought every song.
This is pretty awesome. I'd never even heard of the Up before, but when they finally start taking orders again, I may just have to buy one after seeing customer service like this.
"The idea of using the term “group” or “room” didn’t excite us; group was overused and room felt stale, reminiscent of AOL."

I agree with this, but then I went to hall.com and the very first thing it says in the software window is "Team Room - Hall.com"!

Huh?