skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how this affects the overall economy, not just the studios. What would your friend have spent that money on otherwise (obviously a Mega account was a lot cheaper)? Who is now $100 poorer because iTunes+studios are $100 richer?
I remember reading an opinion here on Hacker News not long ago where it was suggested that in the future with self-driving cars we don't all need to own a car. Instead a car could come and pick us up and drop off at the destination. Do you think that this micro transportation (instead of mass transportation) option could be environmentally friendly?
Surely these chefs have heard of Noma. Key points being that it's arguably the best restaurant on Earth, unarguably the trendiest, and that it doesn't provide utensils.

I wonder to what extent they're copying it? Their arguments for eating with one's hands are remarkably similar to those of René Redzepi, Noma's chef.
Yes! Speaking too quickly has probably been my largest problem. Even in normal conversation, I tend to speak faster than normal; when giving a presentation, it becomes even worse.

For me, slowing down not only makes the speech or presentation better, but also calms me down. When I concentrate on speaking slowly and clearly, I have less time to worry about other things.
As a hacker/founder who has also taken up the art/design role, I disagree and think that developers who can draw reasonably well should try designing the art assets for their startups.

When you design your own art assets, you can iterate on the design in a much more incremental way because the transaction cost of going out and finding a designer is quite high. When you can design your own assets in-house, the art can work its way into the core of the product better and ends up in more places. For instance, many of the modules my startup has released have silly cartoons that I drew: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/browserling-open-sources-90-nod...

When there are external barriers to art, you're probably going to use it less. Contracting out for all of those silly readme cartoons would be wildly uneconomical but for me it provides a nice refuge from coding all day that happens to help us establish credibility with potential customers and expand our product exposure.

If you are a developer who is going to try your hand at doing the art yourself, I wouldn't be too concerned if your initial attempts look amateurish. Our earliest prototype looked really bad:

http://substack.net/images/screenshots/browserling-1.png

but we iterated and made it a little better:

http://substack.net/images/screenshots/browserling-3.png

and then did a redesign recently:

http://browserling.com/

Make some art!
I think he meant that the mouse was eaten by a rat. Rats are much bigger and hunt, kill and eat the similar but smaller mice.

In fact there is a term for it: muricide.

Rats also practice infanticide.

So, yeah rodent morality is also complex.
Because an "empathy-towards-animals" gene would not improve reproductive success. And although we are capable of transcending our genes, it's not something we do by default.
Goto cops?

Yes. Why wouldn't you do this?
It is about gender. Men don't want to work with women because they are afraid that the women won't be able to reason logically. They're afraid she might hide her insecurity behind politics and power trips, and she will be unable to be assertive without being controlling. Heaven forfend that this woman, like many women with careers, is bitchy in general! In that case, she may be outright incapable of working with logical technical types.

They're not afraid of this by chance; this is a rational fear arising from a hundred, a thousand previous encounters with women, even women in management, who were abjectly unable to interact with men in a way that left them feeling comfortable. This is of course not to say that such women do not exist, as they surely do. But after a decade or two of experience, why roll the dice?

Now that I've flipped the genders, do you see how offensive your comment is?

My general view: if women are avoiding computing due to the stereotypes and intolerance as you describe, then good riddance.
Ask PG: Will you increase the font size?
Anytime a lot of reading is going to take place, fonts should probably not be rendered smaller than 14px high IMO. 16px would probably be better. I'm not a designer. But I read a lot of HN and I hate having to zoom in because I just have to zoom back out after HN links me out.

Surely I'm not the only one having trouble reading this.
Very interesting page on rat social behavior: http://www.ratbehavior.org/norway_rat_ethogram.htm#SocialBeh...
Journalist humiliates European Central Bank technocrat ducking hard questions
So then what was the Dropbox video MVP?
Little Red (Litigious) Shoes
Well, consumption doesn't have to be physical stuff you buy. Paying for services or digital content is still consumption.
I wonder how that guy makes money though.
Might it have been Filequest and Simba?
I would chalk those up as industrial accidents of the type that can occur anywhere, rather than nuclear accidents per se. Other energy technologies kill people directly. Natural gas explodes. Dams break. Coal mines cave in, catch on fire, and kill miners with toxic gases.
So I may be a 30 something professional who's resources vs cost point is that I don't need to look for crappy versions of files. My time is much more valuable, but I believe that everyone is not like me. My contention is that if you took a sample of the younger population, or perhaps less affluent population you would find that their pain threshold is at a different time/cost level.
Why not get an S3 account, upload the file, make it public, and share the link? Amazon will charge you a few cents for it, or maybe even nothing if you stay within their free tier.
Rehearsing probably helps for speeches, but I think other sorts of public speaking don't need it as much. Particularly, I am not very likely to deliver a speech; I am much more likely to give a talk or presentation on some subject. Given that I know the subject well, I find improvising the exact wording--not the content or structure--is best for me.

That said, giving a talk about something you know well to a group of people naturally interested in that subject is probably much easier than giving a speech (as long as you know what you're talking about, of course!).
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Cloud Assault - Scalability testing that can be 100% API driven.
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First-time specs rarely sell for much higher than the low sixes. After that, a writer usually finds himself jobbing around town on low-paying rewrite and polishing gigs on existing studio projects. It could be years before a young writer, hot off the sale of a spec script, ever cracks mid-sixes on his next payday. And he may even sell multiple specs, never to see a single one made.

So I'd argue that Amazon offers a compelling deal for the young writer. If I were starting out as a screenwriter right now, I'd shop my script to agents and to Amazon. If it's good enough to land me an agent, I'd go with the agent. If I'm getting nowhere with the agency search, I'd try Amazon. Either way, it's nice to have an alternative to the traditional discovery model.
Hulu (which is ironically owned by big media) is doing this, announced last week.

http://gizmodo.com/5876427/hulus-new-original-series-have-so...
I did. Couldn't help much.
it probably will with aggressive advertising all over various file sharing portals and clients like newsbin that make downloading easier than using napster. only entry barrier left is that you have to pay for it but there are already services out there that provide ad financed usenet access.
You don't have to look far in the US to see that PV solar is winning against grid-connected power. I don't know the exact shape of the niche, but it seems to be a combination of relatively low power needs vs the cost of bringing grid power to the location. Safety lighting and monitoring or communications seem to be common applications.

And I'm talking about utilitarian applications, not places where the PR value of appearing "green" gets factored into the equation. One place I've seen things like this are is path lighting in parks or campuses that are run of batteries charged by a solar panel. In the past, they would have pulled power to the location, and the solar option wins out because of lower up-front costs.
Its a super cool move! Totally support you!
I don't see why empathy and pragmatism have to be mutually exclusive. You can think of empathy as a heuristic for choosing an optimal action: in a lot of cases, one way or another, helping out a fellow rat is beneficial, so empathy is an advantage. Especially as a rat, you don't have the capacity or time to use a significantly more accurate method to choose an action anyhow.
I'd like it if the "bro topic tag" specialties randomized themselves on load.
I am a little concerned that such a democratic creative process will lead to the redditification of motion picture; only kumbaya-style movies that make you warm inside, approved by the hive mind will ever be made, while controversial pieces of works that ask questions or raise issues most people are not prepared to listen to yet will never be realised. Which would be a shame because that's one of the important roles of contemporary art in our society.
You have 7 ideas here, all plausible but untested. If you want to make progress you should write down why you think each idea is essential. Or what would go wrong if you didn't do each idea. What would go wrong if you charged iTunes prices instead of 99 cents?
use something like stylish and override the style sheet

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/?src=...

i use it to remove the gray background: http://i.imgur.com/7tR8r.png
Well, I'm not a Redditor, but I've seen some of the most controversial topics make it to the top page. Heck, even the whole SOPA debate, which hardly got any traditional media coverage, was king of HN and Reddit these past few weeks. And yesterday I read a great AMA from a former prostitute. Let's see that subject get any traditional media time.
/r/sysadmin
/r/minecraft
"Used" is a word with a very broad definition. It doesn't just mean "run as primary operating system," it could also mean "capable of reading any of the bits of," or "looked at metadata of." The interpretation of "at the same time" is also rather flexible.

I'm not saying Apple will hunt you down and sue you (to paraphrase Jon Stewart). I'm saying, unless you're a lawyer, and you have another lawyer representing you, it's best for us non-lawyers not to think we understand legalese.
Microtransport works against energy efficiency to the extent that empty vehicles are moving around unoccupied. On the other hand, if they achieve higher utilization, then that is offset to some degree by better utilization of the embodied energy required to manufacture the vehicle.

Further, if self driving vehicles are well coordinated, they could achieve higher utilization of roadways, which would require less land and less concrete and steel to carry the same volume of people. Also, they would potentially be able to operate with more optimal acceleration and breaking.
Oh right, but mass transit has hardly withered. There are probably similar numbers on the mass transit systems as there are in cars (in most cities).
The trial [1] I saw suggested that:

> Using around 1000 volunteer households, trials to date indicate a 19 - 35% reduction in peak load where direct load control demand management is utilised.

There is a 19 - 35% percent reduction in power usage using the technique. Payment for opting into the program looks like a great idea. Could the concept be extended to freezers and fridges? Imagine if you controlled a network of these small appliances and sold the ability to reduce peak demand to your distribution company.

[1] http://www.etsautilities.com.au/centric/our_network/demand_m...
I agree that participation should be limited. I understand the desire for open posting but, in my opinion, it's been shown to be a failure by its inability to deal with content decay(both in posts and comments). It's time to experiment with new social designs.
Color me jaded, but the "excitement" about HTML5 is hardly ever about doing new things, it's about doing the same old things, but with different tools.

Almost every HTML5 demo I've seen just reproduces something we could already to with technologies that ran on the desktop years ago. We're supposed to be excited that we can now implement - barely, and extremely laboriously, and with a clunky, buggy, incompatibility-ridden toolkit - the same kinds of things desktop apps programmers have been doing for a long time.

As a web developer pushing 40, I dread seeing our profession head towards making desktop-style apps in the browser, and along way spending the next 10 years repeating the mistakes and relearning the lessons of current desktop app developers. I'm not sure I've got enough time left to stomach that.
That's not a bad solution. But doing things like that should be a last resort. It's just really easy to change the styles on your website to make it more readable. So I'll see if it gets changed. Maybe there's good reason to keep it this way that I'm not seeing?
Meta:
Using my iPad, I first see:

"Dynamic Views in Blogger require the use of a modern browser, and are not currently supported on mobile devices.

You can visit a non-dynamic version of this blog, continue unsupported, or upgrade your browser by clicking on one of the links below."

This is bullshit. I am running the latest version of the best mobile browser on the market. Don't treat me like I'm running IE6. Just show me the simple version; which, for a blog, I's sure is way better anyway.
removing only links instead of files

I mentioned in another thread that this is the most sensible way to handle this, because there's no way of knowing whether some of the links to identical/deduplicated files were legitimate. My previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3489054
The SOPA thing is certainly an instance of "hive mind" behavior, albeit toward a worthy end.
It seems to me that you're arguing only for the sake of it. In my original reply I addressed the perceived cause and effect of why women are under-represented in the videogame industry. I disagreed with the quick and easy finger pointing toward game designers as the original culprit. I redirected attention to historic games that were gender neutral and that were shunned by the female gender, due most likely to social prejudices, that videogames are a guy thing. You replied to my arguments by implicitly inferring that the games I cited as examples were somewhat gender biased. I added some arguments to the contrary.

Now you use Ms Pac-man's logo as the basis of your argument about the genderization in the game? Have you actually played any of these games? The last thing I remember from any of them was the packaging. Do you remember what the actual graphics or game-play was like at all? You force yourself to see "hyper-gendered incarnation" and to me, this is an example of what I believe the problem was originally with games: adults meddling in kids business, because they thought they saw something, that would normally have gone unnoticed to children. That's how we ended up with girls thinking that videogames are for boys. Someone had to tell them that.

Mario could have been after the golden treasure, or the secret chamber, or delivering the princess, or whatever, it made absolutely no difference to game play. People (boys and girls alike who enjoyed these games) didn't care. Ms Pac-man was a round yellow dot walking around in a labyrinth and swallowing ghosts. My friends and I played these without even knowing any English, so we had no idea what was being said in all the written messages, nor did we really care about the objective, we just enjoyed going stage after stage and defeating the "boss". In the case of Mario, we had no clue that the little person at the end of the stages was a girl, let alone a princess that we needed to eventually deliver. That's definitely not what enticed us to play and I don't believe that's what deterred girls to do the same. Mario could have been an old wizard, some type of sea monster and yes, a girl, the outcome would be the same, if there was game play, we would be there.

I haven't played any games in eons, but a quick look in a videogame store showed me evidence that today the offering in games is rather skewed toward young male. I am absolutely not in disagreement and actually agreed with the observation previously, but this was not the argument, but rather what's the root cause of the situation, since it pertains to aspect of the main debate on the thread: women and technology. The 2 games that you cited Arkham City and DC New 52, I've never heard of, so I won't dispute your claims. I would however underline the fact that they're recent releases and bear no weight in our current discussion.
What is the source for this?
Your first link does not show evidence of discrimination. It claims that women are not present in computing because women are different from men in ways that make them poorly suited to a role in computing:

"CS education works best for people who already know how to code before they begin. CS teaches the theory behind a practice in which they assume you already have some skill..."

"CS education also focuses a lot of effort on puzzles and very abstract concepts..."

"Women are less likely to jump up and say “me! me! me!” "

"Recognize the need for work-life balance. Most women still have primary responsibility for children and home."

I didn't bother with your other links.
As an anecdote, I noticed in my tests of Prey that I just don't notice the light in that instant it's turned on. If someone wants to jut get quick pictures of who's using your computer, momentary blinks are probably going to be unnoticed while longer periods of activity are more likely to be noticed.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this is probably what SOPA and its sister laws will eventually evolve into.
So, you're admitting that the problem is financing. You're just proposing one way of incentivizing financing.
Have you seen what Lanyrd have done in this space ?
This isn't a morality tale. This is the story of someone who was willing to pay in either case simply giving his money to the entity that made accessing the content easiest.

When Megaupload disappeared that entity became iTunes. The moral of the story is, if there is one, that the legal services are getting close, but they haven't quite made it yet. There is room for improvement, but reason for hope.
Would the existence of a women-centric programming club be proof enough of the discrimination women face?

Would a whites-centric golf club be proof enough of the discrimination white people face? Would a blog post of a white man in basketball expressing disdain for his black teammates similarly be evidence of discrimination against whites?
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The point I'm trying to make is....shifting the pain point. In this example itunes has been shifted past a particular persons pain (time/cost) point to be a convenient legal solution.
Good point on the non availability in certain regions. At least my experience with itunes is that they are improving the service to lower that pain point in those areas too. You could not get certain content in canada a while ago, so the alternative was to find it on other sources, but as itunes adds more content in more other regions, this pain is reduced and it becomes the convenient service more and more.
Maybe I am misunderstanding you here, but what about using Rails/Sinatra with JRuby?
Actually, I just realized I have no idea how much a scriptwriter makes if they sell a script.

Does anyone know the average payday for a script writer for large-scale Hollywood productions?
Absolute and total nonsense. Do you really think Apple and other multinationals could operate as profitably, or at all, without many of "those services."

Enforcement of Apple's intellectual property? Protection of their brand and trademarks? The contracts they rely on? The banks they rely on? Safe passage of ships and aircraft carrying raw materials and finished goods? The security and safety of their executives and engineers?
don't understand this seeming 100% pro piracy attitude

I'm thinking it's at least partially an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" attitude. Megaupload was about to launch a music distribution service for indie musicians, MegaBox, that, due to Mega's popularity among non-technical users, would have been a significant threat to the major labels, iTunes, and Amazon MP3. They were also fighting Universal to defend their Mega Song. Copyright is out of control, the public domain is stagnant, so maybe some people think that anyone fighting the copyright establishment is worth supporting.

Another part may be that some people here survived their teenage years on downloaded music and developed their skills using pirated software, and would never have become programmers/designers/hackers without it. Maybe they feel like the excessive force shown to combat piracy is like an indirect way of the government and major copyright owners saying, "Your career is illegitimate." It's an attack on their identity.
The journalist is Vincent Browne and aggressive relentless questioning is his default mode of operation. Plenty of his takedowns and general annoyance of politicians can be found on Youtube. My personal favourite is his question to Sinn Fein candidate Martin McGuiness during the recent president elections in Ireland in which Browne asked McGuiness about his activity in the IRA and produced 8 books and numerous reports directly contradicting his account. Browne's style is so recognisable that his show even features a parody of him played by Mario Rosenstock on occasion.
I'm going to toss a totally crazy idea out there, but it may be crazy enough to work long term.

Create an official Hacker News API where every Hacker News client has an API key and plan on offering write access only through the API. This would permit a diversity of interfaces, from browser based apps to terminal based apps. Monitor quality level of the posts per developer API key. Revoke or throttle write access of a client which doesn't maintain a high post quality count.

For example, I would imagine that a client built for vim or emacs would have a high level of quality and that a browser based client would have a lower level of quality. Developers of clients which contribute a lower level of quality would have the burden of solving the quality problem. Basically "push" the problem to the clients. After all that is the origin of of the word "problem" (Old French probleme, via Latin from Greek problēma, from proballein ‘put forth,’ from pro ‘before’ + ballein ‘to throw.’) "Throw" or "put forth" the problem for other developers to solve.

Hacker News would be better off if you could only contribute to it via an interface likely to be used only by hackers. This strategy is not unlike those employed by companies when they require you to submit your resume via curl or to hack into an unsecured server to upload your resume.

Will we lose access to some types of content, like design focused posts? Maybe. Would it be worth it? Maybe. But that's a whole 'nother discussion.

Personally, I would rather see 25% percent as many contributions of extremely high quality than as many contributions as we have today of lower quality.

It's not poor quality contribution overload. It's filter failure ;)

http://blip.tv/web2expo/web-2-0-expo-ny-clay-shirky-shirky-c...
It just continuously refreshes for me (running chrome on os X), preventing me from scrolling up.
As far as I know, constitutional rights apply equally to both citizens and non-citizens. Of course, if citizens aren't protected in this case, neither will non-citizens, but I think the distinction should not matter in constitutional matters.
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Best evidence showing we need SOPA based on 'govt studies' that never existed