skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see how it's interesting to general HN population, but if you insist: you better replace jhat with Eclipse's memory analysis tool.

jhat is a wonderful tool that introduced me to memory analysis, but it fails on large memory dumps and has long initialization times.

Anyway, memory analysis is a wonderful thing which I'll surely lack if I'd move into C/C++ or dynamic languages (non-JVM hosted). It makes you deeply understand your program's memory consumption.
True to a point, although I think this is a but of a false dichotomy. I'm not 100% sure having to do slightly less tech support is really worth the cost of giving one company complete control of our computing experiences anyway.

For years the most common cause of people's computer issues was a combination of the terrible security or MS operating systems circa Windows 95 - XP and overly complex programs with badly designed UIs.

I'm sure it is possible to create a platform where one can install whatever software you like but not run a huge risk of malware. For example you can run applications in a sandbox which will stop them from damaging the system. Applications would then only be able to break out by exploiting the OS itself, so you build it on top of something like OpenBSD.
How does "windows" qualify as an open source application? Certainly not as Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) I suppose.
Mozilla's Rust v0.1 is out
Sorry, iBooks, paper books still win on specs
The site is based on arc.news, which is included in the Arc language distribution that is given away as open source. Yes, it is the same design as hacker news because the sites are both running the same code, but I am planning on improvements as time goes on. And besides, I like the simple design!
Isn't that... odd, considering they don't host copyrighted content? They don't even run a tracker anymore.
Honey is more expensive than HFCS, so if you use it as a sweetener you are a smidge more likely to run out of money before you become diabetic.
Bribery:

"Bribery, a form of corruption, is an act implying money or gift given that alters the behavior of the recipient. Bribery constitutes a crime and is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in charge of a public or legal duty."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery
If you want to get rid of Hollywood, there is only one way to do it...

Start funding shows, movies, and productions.

Or figure out how to get 100MM people (or more) subscribed at $10/month (or more) to check-mark which shows and movies they want created. Then use the revenue from that to make the production.

Maybe even make the process completely democratic, where actors (known, and unknown) can send in their auditions and you get to vote on it. Then use YouTube or NetFlix for distribution, and provide downloads.

There is more to it than the above, but that pretty much cuts the studios off, and Hollywood in general, at the knees, and gives control to the consumers.
What You (Really) Need to Know
The intended focus is 'More Hacker Less News', which could best be defined as articles about programming, finance and other things that interest me. Currently it's basically a journal of things I find on the internet that I feel like publishing, but by using it also allows all the features of regular HN, such as creating accounts and publishing your own stories.

I am finding most of the news sites I read (HN, Slashdot, etc) are not covering real 'Hacker' articles anymore by pandering to the masses. This is just a grassroots site by a hacker for hackers. Most of the articles I post on my site also get posted to HN but hardly get any attention, so HN is really just turning into a more into a news site, which personally, I'm really starting to get enough of.
Creating Custom Annotation for validating Domain object’s field value
I have 4. I am better than you! =)
The gray overlay when playing a trailer is actually over the trailer, rendering the whole thing unwatchable.

Chrome 17 windows.
Jail time for agreeing not to cold-call employees of another company? ~~There is no evidence for anything more, and I don't know if there is any evidence that they actually followed through~~ (the history of cartels show that those agreements were rarely adhered to strictly, it seems even more unlikely considering how those companies are hurting for talent).

Edit: OK, kryptiskt has a point.
I generally don't use it too much myself because I agree it tends to add a bit of confusion. A tiny bit but still.

I think that in that particular case the fact the array[m] is used in the next line makes things not as obvious as they could be visually. I feel that the following requires less reading:

m -=1;
t = array[m];
array[m] = array[i];
array[i] = t;

To me, it's faster to parse.
Dodd's just doing his job. Now, that job is one that most of the populace would consider 'corrupt', but that's another story. What's amazing is how explicit he is in that statement with regards to how the system works.

I fully agree with the hope that he continues to do this. I honestly can't believe that this battle is devolving this quickly.
I'll second this.

From my personal experience, I occasionally try to see some stuff from the Youtube channels, but for one really good video there’s lots of stuff that really doesn’t appeal to me.

And I can’t really say nothing about Netflix, since it is not available in Portugal.

There is already lots of good independent production out there, amateur or professional. I just don’t know how and where to find it.

The solution, thus, is simple:

* Develop a boxee like setup box for around 50$/50€ with an internet connection;

* Distribute it around the world, no region locking whatsoever;

* Have a really good recommendation engine, based on social or whatever. It should allow you to input ‘titles’ that may not be available on the platform, but work as a ‘preference indicator’ (for example, ‘I like House and Battlestar Galactica’)

* It should allow for social subtitling, perhaps even with a reward system - for free;

* Charge 1€/1$ or less per paid TV episode, 2€ or less for film. Better yet, 10€/$ flatrate per device. But make the device still useful for anyone not willing to pay for that, with lots of properly selected free content;

* Commercials are acceptable: one brake per half an hour, not more than one minute : for non-paying customers.

This is not something terribly innovative (except for the recommendation system), but properly implemented it could be quite disruptive.
Was wondering if there is a comparison study using some of these solutions?
Follow the traffic: What MegaUpload’s downfall did to the web
I know there are lot of users who will be sad about this anti-piracy campaign...even me, I have tried to use the torrents especially for those licensed software that cannot be download for free.
> I'm just saying we need some light direct democracy influences in the republic

Yes, that is what proportional representation and a plurality of political parties achieve. In the last elections here, I first selected one of the major blocks of parties, and then a specific party within that block. That way my vote gets a little bit more power, I get to say something about the general political foundation, and I get to say something about specific issues that are important to me.

If the party I generally vote for does something I'm completely against, I don't have to abandon the fundamentals, I can still keep my vote within the bigger block, but shift it to another party, which means the entire block shifts direction ever so slightly.

This way, outside voter forces act on the blocks to change them and shape them, instead of that process being completely internal and driven by their perception of popular opinion.

> And I'm only asking to postpone the bill and have set-up some kind of open debate process

The biggest problem with this is that politics is all about compromise. It's about giving and receiving, about making deals. It allows parties to get their way in issues they and their voters care deeply about, in exchange for not getting their way in less important issues.

But if you add an open debate process, you lose the bigger picture. Different parts of the public, different organizations will get involved in different issues, and completely ignore others, and each organization will act as if their issue is the only important one, and not be willing to budge an inch. For every issue you can always find enough people that cares very deeply about it, but it's much harder to see the bigger picture, how many people actually care deeply about a certain issue? And I think that only by giving them the power to vote can you really find out.
$500 = bribery

$5000000 = lobby
This isn't a generational thing, not in the least.

Not understanding the internet transcends all ages and social classes. It isn't a symptom of age, but of ignorance and incuriosity. The people we're talking about haven't even tried, they haven't bothered to look up "the internet" in an encyclopaedia, haven't bothered to ask a savvy intern to explain it to them. They're people who habitually hold strong opinions on things that they know less than nothing about - c.f. climate change.
This ignores the fact that H.264 often has full hardware acceleration in the CPU or GPU of nearly all modern desktop and mobile platforms, which also covers set top streaming devices.

WebM can often use some portions of this (colorspace conversion, etc.) but until the entire stack is natively supported, there will always be battery life advantages to using H.264.

Not to knock WebM - there are projects out there to implement encode/decode in hardware (http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/ for one example) - they're just lagging about 5 years behind H.264 in this, and getting CPU/GPU vendors to dedicate space on a chip to a less codified standard will be difficult at best.
> Primary problem with producing movie/TV shows is money. It costs A LOT of money. Even shows you think can be done with a lower budget, it can't... currently.

Sure it can. Read: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex...

> The ATT guys had correctly understood that the income from $20-a-month customers wouldn’t pay for good web hosting. What they hadn’t understood, were in fact professionally incapable of understanding, was that the industry solution, circa 1996, was to offer hosting that wasn’t very good.

Maybe it's impossible to make TV to your current standards with a small budget. Keep your mind open - it may be your standards that need to change.
The simple approach would be limit corporations to 1,000 people in size and prevent them from directly owning or investing in other corporations.
Extortion:

"Extortion (also called shakedown, outwresting, and exaction) is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime groups."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
We should, really, because big pharma is terrible at creating drugs that actually, you know, cure people. But this is something that can only be done by government or some other not for profit entity as it's the very fact that big pharma consist of companies that need to make a profit that is the problem.
That's a dangerous game.
Once you've convinced Google and Facebook to start lobbying and they realize they like it and it is effective what happens next time congress thinks about changing laws on say privacy?
I realize this presentation was made for personal use on a specific browser, but it makes me sad anyway.

I was reading HN on an iPad and couldn't even read the slides. This shit happens all the time, and it's very annoying when you don't have a laptop in reach. There's an amazingly capable browser on every modern phone/tablet and yet they're left out of some content for no reason (and they even use webkit too).

Requiring IE10 to showcase IE10's new abilities makes sense, but this isn't a demo. Is it the edge of HTML5 or the edge of Chrome?
For some reason HN changed my link when I submitted and removed /news from the end. The link I originally submitted was http://kruhft.dyndns.org/discussion
How Reddit went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force
I'd say Lady Gaga is clearly at a much higher level than Madonna musically. Hear her sing with Tony Bennett. Madonna is good at marketing, but did she write her own music or plays the piano? Behind all the provocation, Gaga is a talented musician.
Wow, this App is actually quite amazing! I've got a python (interpreter) in my pocket ;)
> 2. Corporations are people. (In the US)

I could never understand that point. Corporations are people everywhere. Corporation is just a group of people (shareholders/owners and management/employees) with a contractual hierarchy owning some property (equity). Same way NGOs are people, HOAs are people, football teams are people... And it's like that everywhere in the world, it's a very basic property of human societies.

That's why corporate donations traditionally include donations from "members" of the corporation as donation from the corporation BTW.

Now, in civilized countries, individuals within these groups are given some legal protection from responsibility for the group's actions. There are certain advantages to that approach (more innovation, risk taking, investment, etc) but most importantly collective responsibility is simply wrong.
So back to the beginning of the loop... One has to pay for content.
It's definitely an interesting strategy, but I think it relies on two parts that other companies aren't currently following which require real changes to how they operate, not just better PR:

1. Use the data for something other than solely advertising or analytics, which meaningfully improves the service in some non-trivial way. (Some other companies do this, e.g. people are quite happy to give OkCupid as much personal information as it wants, if they feel it'll improve matches.)

2. Give you enough control over your data that people feel more comfortable giving it in the first place. With Google, there are places where you can delete it; for example, if you let Google track your physical location in Latitude, you can not only opt out again later, but you can even retroactively delete all the location data that was ever collected. Most companies don't want to allow that. Facebook, for example, famously provides no way for you to actually delete your profile, in the sense of it really being deleted from Facebook's servers.

Besides deleting it, Google also tries to make you feel like it's "your" data in the sense that you can export it, via its "Data Liberation Front" initiative that has no real counterpart in other data-intensive companies.
This article reminds us that you can't just look at historic growth rates and extrapolate economic prospects. Environmental sustainability, the effectiveness of political institutions, and demographics start to matter more and more once you get to a certain level of prosperity.

Also interesting is the effect of demographics on technological development. For example, one of the factors driving robotics technology in Japan is probably the size of their aging population and the need to take care of them. Another case of 'necessity is the mother of invention'?
Someone finally took the time to say publicly how things work... what's all the fuss about?
Reddit did two brilliant things:

1. They didn't screw up their site.
2. They scaled. Not without struggles tho.

Pretty good demo of letting competitors destroy themselves.
No more back room deals - Users must have a voice in governing the Internet
because to prosecute, you would need to prove a quid pro quo in a particular instance.
Ubuntu Mono seems to still be missing, unfortunately.
I don't see how encryption would help here, it's only really useful as a way to prevent some forms of snooping, it couldn't really be used to get around a block.

If DNS was decentralized they would just do the blocking on an IP address level.
Strange that they are projecting 38 years ahead and assuming there are no large paradigm shifts that change the figures. Even though one of the biggest game changers ever (China's 1 child policy) directly influenced what they are talking about.

They are not considering possible global wars or plagues, new energy or food sources, AI, robotics or dramatic changes to global national boundaries.

I guess this kind of report is accurate given it's assumptions but I think it's only interesting as a "this is what might might happen if nothing interesting happens for the next 38 years".
It's actually really sad, that it took a a joint effort on some of the web's largest companies to shove it in the faces of ordinary people, what could happen if such destructive legislation would pass.

It goes to show how apathetic the general population is, how representative democracy really hinges on funding from corrupt corporations, and how the entire government structure of the United States needs reworking. It might be the people who vote, but right now, every politician knows that money buys more votes (campaigning, etc) than doing the right thing.
The minute Barack Obama does something I really don't like, the minute I stop donating to his campaign.

There, I said it!

That statement is neither proof that I am a corrupt insider, nor is it sufficient evidence that I have control over Barack Obama.
How to clean your datacenter
Mail Pilot: Email Reimagined
Creating Object using Reflection in Java
A bit of context (I didn't get what this was at first):

"Google Web Fonts is an awe­some source of free, open source fonts hooked up to a world-class CDN. It’s also, sadly, filled with one-off nov­elty fonts vying for the title of “the new Comic Sans.”

"I quickly dis­cov­ered that a good met­ric for higher-quality fonts was the pres­ence of at least one alter­nate. The Google Web Fonts direc­tory does not allow that type of fil­ter­ing, so I built this sim­ple one-off page that allows you to browse multi-variant type­faces."

From here: http://somadesign.ca/2011/better-google-fonts/
Android App Inventor Open Sourced, Code Released
+1 on this. Very well said.

I also used to voraciously consume endless books about the business side of the music industry, specifically the legal and marketing side of things. I imagine there is still a box full of those books in extant at my parents' home. I too had aspirations of becoming a mogul in the mould of Combs, so I wonder how many there are of us whom had these aspirations and are now hackers?

BTW is your name a hat tip to the rapper Fabolous? I ask because you joined HN around the time of Loso's Way.
Xbox 360 Achievements are Garbage.
Free Former Congressman Duke Cunningham - He didn't get enough in bribes
App Inventor source code
Where were they during this sopa stuff though? They should have gone all out on that.
"Moodle Training | Moodle Tutorials | Moodle Tutorial"
The Ultimate Guide to Moodle suite, you can weave your own web of magic. You DO NOT need to attend expensive courses or have any experience to use this. You will be able to produce high-quality Moodle websites quicker and easier than you've ever dreamed of.
Stock Market Investment for Geeks: A Crash Course
Well, I'm a programmer already and I'm doing Codecademy tutorials on Javascript.
So far, I'm having a good time with it.
While I agree with your points in the technical sense, I think there is a more overarching concept that is the "hard part": There are too many people who want to "make it" in the music business ("make it" means different things to different people: by "make it" I mean make a living). I am sure if I changed the term to "performing arts" it would still be valid. While it is hard to get your music into people's face (which then gets into their ears and then into their hearts and then into their wallets) all the music business does is craft celebrities, images and trends in order to make a profit. In general (I know there are exceptions) the labels don't give a rat's ass about art and music; all they want it the money. They survive because of the money. You are very, very correct when you say there are untold numbers of talented musicians (emphasis on both "talented" and "musicians") in the world. But the fact they are talented shouldn't guarantee them the right to make a living from their craft. The market is just too saturated. In the end, it ends up being a business if you need to make money. This is the point at which one either gets a lucky break or sometimes compromises to become more of a celebrity or image rather than just a musician. I wish every artist could make a living from their craft. Sadly, someone has to grow their food, fix their vans and shuffle their paperwork. I think the best strategy for would-be pro musicians at this point is to self-produce, self-market and self-motivate. Sure, there may be a loss of quality by not using pro services or labels, but if they tour heavily and get a relatively small, yet faithful fan base they just might be able to make a living. I know many, many musicians who do this successfully.
Need testers for Lua bindings to Box2D
Hi everyone. I just created Lua bindings for Box2D and need people who know the library to do some testing by playing with the library.

Video of the bindings at work (uses lubyk): http://vimeo.com/35284041

Bindings: https://github.com/lubyk/b2

Cheers,

gaspard
I think you're probably right about replacing the "filter" part of the URL with a query string instead.
I have a problem buying politicians for the right reasons. We are already paying them handsomely to act in the country's best interests. I'd rather start an organization that supports real governing than pass more money to these goofballs.
Google Chrome OS: Google launched a new operating system
It has been nearly a year after the release of Google Chrome, the very first internet browser, is obtained directly from the US giant Google. About the first issue, a web browser known as ‘the interest of several end users,
I admit to finding the name a bit off-putting. There is an amazing low-fidelity, highly iterative, and agile-friendly sketching tool and it is called a real pencil. On gasp paper.

Not that I don't use digital tools too, but I am often surprised how rarely people go analog when it can be invaluable.
Does this constitute a confession on Dodd's part? Seems like some law enforcement types would, I dunno, investigate that sort of thing...

http://wh.gov/KiE
A Post-PIPA Post
How's that a problem?
Hm... for me it's there

direct link: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Ubuntu%20Mono
Yeah it is. His song "Breath" came on when I signed up and not being able to think of a username at the time I went with it.
I believe google still hasn't pulled h264 support from chrome despite announcing they would do so quite a few versions back.
You make a great point about framing the proposal in terms of their business goals and measurable results. Very true - I'm prone to talking in tech language rather than in the business language they'd understand. Got to avoid that. Thanks a lot for the reply and the encouragement.
sorry, I was unclear and referred to a trial in the country asking for extradition, but you answer is good anyway, thanks.
What is theft?

Apple is suing multiple companies in the name of IP theft. Well I think these anti-poaching agreements are a form of theft. Employees did not receive fair market salaries.

It's not black and white, but you can't say Apple is 100% correct in going after IP theft and yet they are 100% innocent in pursuing these non-poaching agreements.