skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be a constitutional amendment protecting the Internet and its underlying structure. Maybe not today, maybe it's premature, but one day soon this will seem appropriate and needed. It would put the Judicial branch on our side.
my folks, older than yours, also have their tech..... that doesnt mean they get how every detail works. there is no blanket statement here, but it is largely true that those who grew up with black and white tvs will not see things the same way. they may like the internet, but those of us a bit younger watched it hatch and explode globally. those even younger wont remember a tome without it and will have an even different perspective.
Fueling Silicon Valley
To extend your analogy: it would be more "human" and also more specialized. Take a look at all the tiling window managers--more sophisticated than those created by Apple or Microsoft, and used only by a few. I could also see it being more community driven: many open source projects I use have very transparent development policies and welcome suggestions.
If you contact Apple support they'll let you redownload all of your purchases.
Too little too late... And, this quote (from the article):

"If we don’t protect our intellectual property, international criminals — as well as legitimate businesses like payment processors and ad networks — will continue to profit dishonestly from the work these Americans are doing every day. And that puts these millions of jobs at serious risk."

...is some serious FUD.
Cogent shares slump 23 percent after Megaupload Raid
My wife uses it. She uses it because there is a button for it in picasa. Mainly to tweak photos for her blog and add text into them.
Totally agreed. This is a bunch of rhetoric coming from someone who has no business telling other startups that what they're doing isn't important enough. Every word in that post is written with a hint of "At Asana we're doing amazing world-changing things, and your shitty startup isn't". And guess what, Asana isn't doing anything important either. Asana is adding social networking features to a chat app for business right in the middle of a Social Network bubble.

The reality is unless you're curing cancer, building a space station or cold fusion reactor, chances are you aren't doing anything all that significant in the long term history of mankind.

Mr. Rosenstein can come down off his high horse now.
Why? What does he really have to lose? He's 25, assuming no real obligations.
I like Helvetica.
What Now? Hiring
Yes. Those pedal planes require an extremely fit athlete working near the top of their range. And they efficiently exploit the leg muscles. I haven't tried, but I would not be surprised if it is provably impossible to sustain flight with just your arms.
I also got the same email for the Machine Learning course. I think they're sending them out for all of the courses that were scheduled to start in January.
The client list seems to be impressive, but I haven't seen those icons on any mentioned customer... is it true at all?
BitTorrent Tests Video Streaming
I'm over-simplifying a bit of course. Programming English teachers can be hard if they are really good. Good meaning, open to alternate interpretations of the material and different kinds of writing styles, but still demanding a high quality of critical analysis - the "how" you arrived at a conclusion, not that you matched their favored interpretation of the material.

Sadly, most of the teachers I've encountered since 1st grade were not of this ilk. Most had particular favorite interpretations of the literature and if you didn't regurgitate their favored spin on a subject you'd get C's or lower.

It took me till near the end of High School before I figured out that "game" so it's not trivial by any means. But there were always clues. For example, a particular lit class I took consisted entirely of Women's lit material, I was the only male in the class, and the discussions circled around various women's causes. The professor never specified that Women's issues were the flavor of the class, but everything else made it trivial to hack out 5 page essays about the plights of various female characters at the hands of their male tormentors. I ended the class with an reference letter and an introduction to study Lit at Oxford -- which I turned down for many issues.

Note: I'm not putting down Women's causes in the slightest, only the lack of rigor in the coursework for the particular class I took.
"They want you to give them money"

Clearly not.
(you had me questioning my sanity for a moment there)

short answer: I did. It got slower!

They're not doing what you think they are. Each string only gets measured twice.

To factor them out I will need to start allocating extra arrays just to keep their values: the extra malloc and free is slower than measuring the strings twice. I also tried a Reallocing version that didn't need them but it was twice as slow.

I use this code for composing text in places where speed isn't my first concern; especially error messages. But its plenty fast enough for 90% of what anyone would need. You'd rarely be concating more than 6 things together.

note: it's really hard to talk about pointers on HN as you can't type an asterisk without a code block, but it's:

while(s != 0)

not

while(*s != 0)
It always amuses me to see people whose jobs would NOT exist if NOT for piracy now complain about piracy.

A history lesson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company#...

Which needs to never, ever be forgotten.
Correct definition of 'cat' -- a tool to concatenate one or more files sequentially into a single output stream. E.g., cat file1 file2 file3 >output-file

what is wrong with... -- "grep word file" takes fewer keys to type and uses fewer resources (important on a heavily loaded server with tons of processes which may well prove compromised and you're trying to peruse the logs for evidence. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and donated it to the local shelter).
More power, more choice, to make the same decisions that they have made over and over again.
Cool, but, I don't think framing it as "killing" something is the best way to name the RFS.
Barefoot Coffee (off topic)
Pictos & Pictos Font have been around for a while, and my bet is that the vast majority of UX/UI Designers know of Drew Wilson's work. This is an extremely clever solution for an age old problem: As designers, we can now enable our clients to swap out icons to match their updated text/copy content.
It is a human right to only work voluntarily. The alternative is slavery.

So yes, it is.
> Write it wrong, and it crashes, or the answer is wrong, and you get an F.

As a former math/cs student, this seems a tad dramatic. A large portion of the marks on tests tended to be awarded to the process of how your worked out your solution, not just the final answer.
My apologies, I took your comment a bit too seriously. I guess it was too clever of a joke.
"Work hard, don't work hard — everyone gets the same," he says. "So people don't want to work."

Many people point to this idea as the main weakness (or stupidity, depending on whom you speak) of Socialism as originally proposed by Marx. However, AFAIK (and I'm definitely not an expert on this), Marx saw socialism as a post-industrial step, to be developed in countries like German, France and the UK. On the other hand, his ideas were instituted mainly in mostly feudal countries like Russia and China. His model of human nature and projections for capitalistic growth were also totally off.

Wikipedia says "Despite Marx's stress on critique of capitalism and discussion of the new communist society that should replace it, his explicit critique of capitalism is guarded, as he saw it as an improved society compared to the past ones (slavery and feudal)."
Ask HN: Salary for computer science researchers
I will soon get my CS PhD degree and I plan to work in an industry research lab in the US (preferably Google, Microsoft or Intel). I really would love to know the salary range for research scientists in these companies. There is some data in well-known salary sites like glassdoor, payscale etc. but I really want to get an idea of the current salaries...
Thanks in advance !
>When a striker is fouled in the penalty area, he doesn't stop as long as he still has control of the ball; it's only when he's beaten that he turns to appeal to the ref. SOPA shows Hollywood is beaten.

Love the futbol analogy, but it opens the door for counterattack - many times when the striker is beaten it's by an illegal tackle (dangerous, from behind, or where the defender went for the player rather than the ball) and his appeal to the ref is justified.

Of course, many times he's faking and acting, but Hollywood would argue that's not the case here - if they're being beaten it's by illegal means and requires ref intervention.
I think a decent case could be made for the fact that the internet tends to cause people to converge more, not less - the same anti-long-tail arguments apply (for example, see http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/11/08/t...).

That being said, the general point is valid - the current business model for generating entertainment is broken, leaving it ripe for disruption, and the OP's fallacy is the assumption that the current business model is the only way for content to be created and distributed.
I don't think the RFS is revenge over SOPA. Rather, it notices a great capitalistic opportunity. The point is not that Hollywood is evil but rather that it is vulnerable.

Basically, the aim is not to kill entertainment but to wrest control of it away. This is more akin to Kodak getting "destroyed" by digital cameras than the internet starting a vendetta.
Ludum Dare Survival Guide
I was disagreeing with

> Coming to authentic, common ground is very hard work.

Or rather, with the implied meaning that coming to a common ground is at all desirable. It is not. They (MPAA/RIAA) out to get us (complement of MPAA/RIAA in the set of people) for monetary and political gain, and we should aspire to make it impossible for them to do that, and take back what they have already won (e.g. reverse the Mickey Mouse Protection Act)
I just got an email for the Machine learning course as well. I think they are delaying all the courses. They still are not giving an exact date for the start of the courses, which would be nice. However, considering this stuff is free I am pretty ok with that :)
Yes. That and this, "If this bill really did some of the things people have heard it would do (like shutting down YouTube), I would never have supported it." indicate that he still doesn't technically get it.
Ask HN: Who is actually doing something with "Big Data"?
I'm not doubting the validity of the term. Obviously it exists. The big companies -- Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. -- all have enormous datasets to work with, so of course it's real.

But I read this term so much that it seems as though EVERYONE is working with it, and that just doesn't seem feasible to me.

Do you work with "Big Data" at your (preferably not aforementioned) company? What do you do with it? Where do you get it from? Are there any significant pain points?
> "I'm really not optimistic on getting people to stop watching TV or movies."

Why do we need to?

I hear this sentiment from gamers sometimes, where passive (story told to you) entertainment is almost used in a derogatory way, as if the fact that the audience is not actively participating makes it worse. It seems to me a kneejerk reaction to years of everyone treating gaming as an illegitimate artform.

Why do we need to change this behavior? What is wrong with consuming stories about other people?
The problem is uninformed people then. We should do a better job informing people. No 30-second Super PAC ad can be as effective at sitting down with your friends and colleagues and explaining the issue to them.
Doh! You're absolutely right. I'm sorry I got them mixed up, I probably confused a lot of people.

I'll fix It as soon as I get home. Thanks for pointing it out!
What's really needed is the next level of authoring tools. Here's the startup I'd do:

(1) buy up a near dead MMO, preferably one with impressively realistic character graphics.

(2) retool it as a machima authoring tool

(3) hook it into kinect for motion capture

(4) leverage the userbase to crowdsource additions to the 3D library.

With just this talented hobbyists and unfunded indy talents would begin to swamp Hollywood in an flood of "good enough" tv shows, shorts and full length films.
"Shareholders get access to the film-making process and limited creative input during the development."

Dear God no.
It would be fabulous if I had this problem.
Hmm, isn't Jonathan's blog post just an advertisement for a few e-commerce links on his website - catering to anti-SOPA-crazed technologists that will upvote this post and buy his songs while they're there?

Anyway, people don't change overnight. Once you train people they can find pirated content for free, they'll continue doing this - and it's very hard to compete with a torrent search site.
Video game industry is nearly as bad as Hollywood.
Stock Glasses
I really don't understand this idea of "come together to try to find common ground" - there is no common ground to be had. Hollywood wants to control content and charge every viewer, which is fundamentally at odds with the Internet. (It's of course not at odds with Google, Facebook, Netflix, and all the other prime-time proprietary services that deliver over the Internet, which is perhaps what allows the misunderstanding to continue). I hope content creators can continue to make a living in the future, but restricting every individual's computing and communications devices is not how it will happen.
Facebook's Open Graph expands to new businesses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition

Not really a new or particularly controversial legal construct. The host country can refuse to extradite if they disagree with the charges.
Narco NAFTA
So, find a way to make video games more passive. People like to watch other people play video games. Maybe live streaming of hardcore gamers playing.
Get him in a room with Louis C.K. and Horace Dedieu. Heck, send Louis and John to Asymconf in April.
The fact that they have to make changes to their system in order to not have useless crap appear at the top of the results tells us something: either people are searching for crap or the portion of the web Googlebot is crawling is full of crap.

Neither is something the search engine can fix for you.

With respect to the later idea, the search engine may in fact be contributing to it by encouraging more crap to be created, because it easily percolates to the top of their "intelligent" results and users blindly click on result #1. And no doubt many users see these results as equivalent to "the web". Whatever Google returns, to them, that's "the web".

You can think about the web through the lense of "search engine results" and evaluate the web based on whatever is returned from your search engine queries.

Or you can think of the web as a huge mess of websites some of which are useful, most of which are crap and many of which an aggressive search engine might index.

Are you evaluating search results, or websites?

I'm evaluating websites, individually. Because that is what the web is. To me, Google is not the web. Google might give me some clues about some sites. They do an enormous amount of grunt work crawling them.

But it's up to me to do the final evaluation. To decide whether a site is useful or whether it is crap.

And there are other ways to discover websites besides using Google. How do you think Google learns about existing and new websites? Voluntary disclosure by the webmasters?

It sounds like you want someone to evaluate websites for you.
I doubt you are alone in that regard.

This is not a new problem.

However, unlike you, I do not see Google as providing any viable solution.
Landscape! But that said, I've just spent a lot of time designing an iPad app I'm working on so it works in both - it really takes a lot more time than you initially think!

I ended up using a combination of autoresizing masks and resizing some UIView containers in code when it rotates.

I released a landscape-only app for the HP Touchpad (same form factor as an iPad), and a few of the user comments were that they wanted a portrait version, so people do notice these things if they like the app.
We can attack this by aggressively supporting campaign finance reform to reduce the role of big money in U.S. policy

Blaming money for problems in politics is just like focusing on money when running a business -- you're looking in the wrong spot.

Money is a result of something, not a cause. There's a lot of money in politics as a result of concentrating so much political power in one place. Just like in a business where the money represents value exchanged, in politics the money represents influece -- big, powerful people in groups that want to be heard. Starting off another holy crusade along the lines of prohibition simply because you've managed to distill your problems into one word isn't going to help anything.
Popper talks quite a bit about this, and how Marx was mostly rebelling against a capitalism that we no longer would recognize, I.e. the cut-throat, robber baron, child laboring to an early grave type.

His ideas definitely assumed a more enlightened populous where class camaraderie made people work hard for the good of all, he kind of assumed slackers wouldn't be tolerated or wouldn't exist. As taking advantage of others by making them do a disproportionate amount of the work while you got equal or greater benefit was a bourgeois disfunction that the proletariat would not engage in.
We read the MegaUpload indictment papers so you don't have to
"You can do math? Fuck chemical engineering. Do math."
-Dad's friend when I told him that I was having doubts about chemical engineering.

The first year of engineering at Texas A&M is mostly just stuff that you "need" to know, i.e. excel for Euler's formula. I got pretty bored and did poorly in the class. I was doing research at the time with a really prominent chemical engineer doing neat stuff. Asking around in the lab after a month of tedious lab work, everybody was just like this is basically the day to day life of chemical engineers. I talked to my dad's friend who was a chemical engineer and he said the above. I switched to math the next semester and haven't looked back since. Just my view on why I switched over.
Adsense Publisher Toolbar for Google Chrome
Easy Steps For Entrepreneurs To Self Build A Website
I'd suggest reading Lawrence Lessig's new book, "Republic, Lost". It is a deep, sober-minded inspection of the issue of campaign finance. You may arrive at the other end feeling differently than you do now. (It certainly changed my perspective.)
> "(Side note, that yellow color around the ads in the screenshot? It’s much darker in the screenshot than what I see with my eyes. In reality, the color is so washed-out that it might as well be invisible. That’s something some have felt has been deliberately engineered by Google to make ads less noticeable as ads)."

Sounds like the author needs to go through the process of correctly setting up his monitors using the Apple provided tool in System Preferences, I have absolutely no problem seeing the yellow box in Google's search results.
Try http://nowbox.com/download? (YC W10)
At the time of The Godfather's release there was the same mountain of crap in cinemas that there is today. It's easy to look back on "the good old days" and conclude that the quality of modern filmmaking has decreased, but you'll be ignoring all the other junk that made it to the silver screen. Like any medium, 90% of what's produced commercially is garbage, but future generations will enjoy the films of P.T. Anderson, Tarantino, the Coen Brothers, and countless other artists working today and say "they just don't make 'em like they used to."

Also, since Taxi Driver by Martin Scorcese was mentioned, take a look at his latest film Hugo. I think you'll agree it's every bit as good as his earlier work.
Drew is one of the most prolific designer/developers around. I wonder if he ever sleeps. You should check out his other projects too: http://drewwilson.com/
Limited as in here's a newsletter, here's an occasional online vote to make you feel involved and add value to your investment. Not real creative input.
Since you seem off on the issue, it's quite possible to store a password as encrypted in the database and still be able to decrypt it.

I agree that MD5 isn't what they're using, as it isn't reversible encryption, or even encryption at all, but that ignores the fact that it's very possible to store a salted, encrypted password in a database, the salt on a separate file system, and still be able to send you your password in plain text.
Hollywood, the recording companies, RIAA / MPAA are all intermediaries between the artists who need the funding to create video and music content and the consumers who crave that content.

What we needed is a YCombinator for artists. Invest in each artist like he/she was a startup, then take losses on the flops, win big on the successes. Everything is in place for significant disruption: the artists are upset about low royalties and the consumers are upset about draconian copyright enforcement -- should be easy to offer more favorable terms to both parties.
The complaint that people "just can't adapt fast enough" has been a near constant refrain for over a century. Read even the Wikipedia page about the "Roaring Twenties" and then tell me that the amount of change in that decade was slower than now.

Let's take some examples. Your baseline is the cell phone. The first commercial mobile phone was in 1983, so you're suggesting a time span of about 25 years. (Before 1983 it was possible to connect a two-way radio through to the phone system, but that's not the point you're trying to make.) By 1988, friends of mine had car phones. The StarTac phone came out in 1996 and marks the start of "widespread consumer adoption." But I would say that it took until 2005 where it started to supplant having a land line.

The first commercial (pre-built and for consumer use) radio receiver was in 1920. That marks the start of the "golden age of radio", which ended when TVs became more popular in the late 1950s. Surely that was as fast as the uptake of cell phones.

Semiconductor transistors were invented in 1947. "Transisterization" was so fast that crew of the Minnow had a transistor radio (in 1964) and no one was surprised by it. Transitors made entirely new categories of technology possible, so that we had a transistor-based game console (Pong-style "tennis" and "racquet-ball") in ~1975.

The first commercial (synthetic) detergents were introduced in 1933 (that's when Dreft was introduced) and "by the 1950s, soap had almost been completely replaced by branched alkylbenzenesulfonates." Not bad for 20 years! Actually it was bad, because we then found out it wasn't that biodegradable and had to find a replacement.

The neon light was first presented in 1910 and "became very popular for signage and displays in the period 1920-1940."

Prohibition lasted for 13 years in the US, and had a huge impact on daily life. That surely counts as an enormous change.

Cosmetics didn't become popular in the US until the 1910s, and the flappers of the 1920 used it with a vengeance. (WP says that previously it was too closely associated with prostitution, but the post-war trend was a reaction to the previously popular demure look, and that "[a] skewed postwar sex ratio created a new emphasis on sexual beauty, and because of the influence of Hollywood.)

All these big changes took place on the same time scale as the cell phone. How then do you measure the amount of change now, and compare it to (say) the amount of change in the 1920s? When was the last time that most people were not "tired of learning how to use new stuff"?