skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mr Hand, I've been thinking. If I have access to the files. And you have access to the files. Then doesn't that make them "our files"? - Spiccoli
7 glasses of wine over 2 hours ~= 6 glasses of wine in 1 hour for a reasonably healthy person. A 140 LB male drinking 6 glasses of wine ~= BAC of approximately .16. I weigh twice that .08. However, a full stomach can significantly delay the amount of time to takes alcohol to enter the blood stream. Not that I would actually drive like this, I do these calculations using the 140lb model to play it safe.

In a fasting individual, it is generally agreed that 10% to 20% of a dose of alcohol is absorbed from the stomach (the volume of alcohol affects the absorption) and 75% to 80% is absorbed from the small intestine. Because of this peak blood alcohol concentrations are achieved in fasting people within 0.5 to 2.0 hours, (average 0.75 - 1.35 hours depending upon dose and time of last meal) while non-fasting people exhibit peak alcohol concentrations within 1.0, and in extreme cases up to as much as 4.0 hours (average 1.06 - 2.12 hours). http://www.intox.com/t-Physiology.aspx

PS: Again, this assume 'standard' glass of wine many people poor more than twice that into a single cup and call it a glass. If your actually going to drive play it vary save and or drink beer with alcohol content printed on the label.
>I say RAID is fine for a media NAS box

In that case I still wouldn't call it a backup. I'd just say that the array itself was failure-resistant enough that you've chosen not to maintain a backup.
"And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
Why mobile is more about customer loyalty than customer acquisition
Explain the reasoning why one company has the right to limit your freedoms while another doesn't?

If you look at the specific examples Marco spelled out (" region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use.") those are restrictions that benefit only the studios and inconvenience the customer. The iOS restrictions Apple propagates benefit Apple, but for many customers (not HN types) they are beneficial.

It's a fine line, and Apple has had their share of jackboot actions but it can be argued that it's not exactly the same. As for Apple defending Apple policies, I'd bet most of those examples demonstrate the benefit to consumers. (and has he defended the really egregious Apple missteps, like the security officer pretending to be a police officer?)
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MPAA CEO Responds to SOPA/PIPA Delay, Talks About Dangerous Foreigners
awesome — we've got some work to do for sure. looking forward to any thoughts you have on what to improve.
Okay, I will make bar-chart the default view with an option to switch to pie-charts if desired.
Oddly enough, I think the linguistic bit is inaccurate as well. I don't believe there's any dialect of Chinese where sensei is pronounced the same as in Japanese — it's pronounced "sehn-say" in Japanese, "shyan-shung" in Mandarin and (IIRC) "seen-son" in Cantonese. (Also, though it kindasorta means "teacher," the word is more closely equivalent to "mister" in modern Chinese. Actual teachers are laoshi.)
My first thought when reading the title was similar: "well, what about pushing it just because it's the right thing to do?" (admittedly, the definition of "right" won't be universal…). But you have to remember that it's easier to use economic arguments with politicians.

If Microsoft were to say "we support gay marriage just because", politicians on the other side could just shrug and not take a risky stand for their re-election. By saying that they are having issues hiring top talent Microsoft is hinting that maybe, possibly not allowing gay marriage would mean that they'll be less competitive, thus less money for the state, less jobs, less economic activity, etc. which politicians respond to. Plus it gives politicians arguments to justify themselves: they don't have to then say "well, it's the right thing" and upset some people, but instead "I'm doing it for the economy".
Jan. 20th, 2012-Mark Wahlberg Suffers Beating, 7-Eleven Owner Charged
Please cite some evidence for this. I can't find any. The policies are still in place, and the last statement I can find from Google dates to October and says they'd be supporting pseudonyms in some vague form in a "future update".
On the other hand, the US's first-past-the-post election system makes a multi-party system pretty difficult to maintain, so who knows.

The UK has a first-past-the-post system and has maintained a three party system for over one hundred years now. It has largely been between two parties (Labour and Conservative) but the third party (Liberal Democrats) have still been a vocal minority in parliament.
true, otherwise you could just run your program by piping it into cat.
Yesterday I uploaded a video to Youtube w music in it that was immediately identified, credited to the artist on the video page, and I know that royalties are paid for that video. I'd say that's a pretty big difference in behavior of the two companies.
I think his point was an honest, sizeable third party, as opposed to the small grass movements of Nader, etc.
"The power/guarantee trade off isn't a fundamental one, even though in current languages you often have to choose between the two."

It is on the Pareto frontier of the two. Which verges on tautological, but it's still a useful observation. If you can trivially extend the power of a construct while maintaining the same guarantees, the construct was simply broken, and extending the guarantees of a construct without affecting its power means simply that the guarantees were excessively conservative in the first place.

(This can almost be copied and pasted any time anybody claims two properties of a program aren't in conflict, the most common probably being security and ease of programming.)

We may be wrong about where the frontier is... but I doubt we've very wrong.
There are ETags too, but they suffer from the same problem (and usually dynamic pages don't serve them).
This is great. I think it would be helpful to add the percentages here too. Perhaps in the key so as not to clutter?
Indeed, but the piece is primarily anti-MPAA. See-

"The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us."
They still do and I actually prefer doing this instead of using a service like Skimling. I try to write for the professor that is grading my paper, some of them have different styles they prefer. Writing to their style usually ensures a good grade, especially if you ask them for feedback and adjust your work accordingly.
They want you to be a couch potato
Corollary:

Including Common Lisp.
The unsuspecting (but intended) victims of SOPA and PIPA
But not the best: https://github.com/Diablo-D3/dot_vim

Edit: Woah, that guy needs to learn how to use Vundle and not embed third party files in his git repo, and let Vundle fetch it for him (look at mine for example)
As he points out, most people feel that being treated fairly is the most important thing (this has more to do with not being demotivated by an unfair split than being motivated by the equity itself). The beauty of this kind of post is that once it achieves a certain level of notoriety, it automatically becomes “fair” in everyone’s mind.

For example a new employee comes on board. You explain, “We use the Joel method for allocating and vesting equity.” Oh! Great! That’s fair...
Same with a free Google Apps account -- the domain administrator has to explicitly enable Google+ for your domain, along with a bunch of other dependent services like Picasa, and sees a bunch of warnings in the process. And then, every user has to opt-in. I just tried it yesterday.
Simple.

File in two widely separated places: pretty safe

File in three widely separated places: safe

File in only one place, no matter where it is: unsafe
What do you know, that I don’t know, that I would benefit from knowing?
Now You Can Jailbreak Your iPhone 4S and iPad 2
IPhone owners get ‘Samsunged’ in new Galaxy S II ad [video]
>For complex template rendering/delivery, Erlang will probably beat anything out there because of Erlang's intelligent use of immutable data and I/O lists.

What templating engine are you talking about? I'd assume ErlyDTL for obvious reasons, but it is certainly not beating "anything out there". Are you just comparing it to scripting languages or what?
This isn't as related to SOPA as it is the DMCA. There is speculation that MU did not comply with the DMCA, which they had to do since they had American servers. If they can prove that it complied with takedown requests and that its service was not intended for illegal uses, they could have a case.

EDIT: Fixed wording.
We (I'm speaking for the entire internet community, which is probably a bad thing to do) could also stop pirating as well.

I mean it would be really something if everyone halved their entertainment budget and halved their "illegal downloads/sharing". That would be a significant message as well. It wouldn't be very easy to convince Joe SixPack, but it might be easier than true campaign finance reform.
You misunderstand my point. Not backing up files on your hard drive because they're in Dropbox is not safe. Dropbox has built in functionality to delete those files from your hard drive. If any one of your clients or your account is compromised, or the Dropbox service is hacked, these files could disappear. Hence why you need backups.

Also, if the FBI starts pulling servers in a random order to shut Dropbox down, are you confident that wont cause Dropbox's systems to incorrectly send delete commands to your client just before the service disappears? If you are, you shouldn't be. Not after the "log in to any account without a password" issue of last year.
Student Math Scores Jump 20 Percent with HMH Algebra Curriculum for iPad
I think you overestimate the "common" knowledge that Megupload is used for illegal file sharing. I can bet you that 90% of my parents' friends have no idea.
Doing well on essays is part of doing well in school, and doing well in school leads to a better life!

That line is particularly appalling and represents one of the many things that is wrong with our education system. That logical progression is what encourages people to cheat (plagiarism and paying for essays count).

Maybe try something more like "Getting feedback and incorporating it into your thought and work process will help you get it right the next time for your whole life."
Lets have a contest to see who is the oldest!!!!!
So, I made a little web app for fun, that could consider trying next time you're drinking. It's dedicated to all of you who, like myself, get to a certain point in the night and then cannot stop drinking more.

http://www.drinkpacer.com

unfortunately once I get into this state I also stop using the app.. so... it's a work in progress :)

and yes, native android/ios apps are planned :)
I wonder how common these sorts of deals are?
And how common just blatent wage fixing is.

There are a number of jobs in the UK that seem to be always paid at exactly minimum wage, mostly retail etc.

I've always wondered why the "free market" does not dictate that these wages should rise slowly over time.
I'm sure this will go away eventually http://wordpress.org/.htaccess since they started hiding it on wordpress.com
Hence the ascendance of dynamic languages! The compressed feedback loops keep you munching those power pellets:

Action RPGs (Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Python, anything with a REPL) vs. PBEM chess (C, Java, C++, your favorite statically typed & compiled language).

Different genres with widely divergent playstyles and reward structures.
There's a backlash here though.

I've actually stopped telling people I don't watch TV because there is now a "holier than thou" aura around it. I think most people hate how much they like TV, but if you mention how you just stopped TV all together, they think you are just rubbing it in, like you're better than them. Like the guy who always talks about he was just "hitting the gym". No one like that guy either.

Any suggestions?
Where can you rent a $50 a month dedicated server with 2 TB disks? In the United States preferably.
Conference was great last year! Speakers were all interesting and talking with the attendees about their projects was fascinating.
And I repeat, "they shouldn't be looking at the content in the first place." I don't see how anything in your reply addresses this point.
Interesting! But I think $70k salary for early employees is not realistic. They will probably take $10k-$20k less than market price for significant shares.
I may be alone, but I actually feel like I lose power when using say dynamic languages. There is less power of expression. Sure I can do whatever I want, but in reality programming is communication, and I find them much less powerful in that respect.

So using an untyped language only to run an analysis on it later doesn't really seem all that appealing to me, even if it could somehow provide the guarantees of Haskell or dependently typed languages.
I understand that everyone does what they can to get ahead in school and as a parent I know everyone wants their child to succeed, but I can't help but feel that a service like this, especially if it becomes common, will be put kids with limited means at an even greater disadvantage compared to their more well heeled peers. OP: I know this is probably impossible, but any chance of "scholarships" or a pro-bono service for poor kids? In any case if it genuinely achieves greater understanding and isn't just a "pay a teacher to clean up my essay" service, I hope it's a success!
Even ubuntu 12.04 alpha 1 still uses 1.10.4, so it seems NO ubuntu versions were affected
This is cool.

The results of the first poll I looked at surprised me and I wanted to read the comments, so I think it would be useful to have a link to the actual poll (on HN) because I had to google it.
Another small thing is that the "HN Charts" in the nav bar doesn't really behave as expected. For example, on that page : http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=3298905 the link doesn't do anything. On other pages it brings you back to the home page.
I found this article to be so abstract it could apply to any IDE. XCode, Eclipse, whatever. It didn't specifically address any of VS 2010's actual shortcomings.
I don't think it's an outright error to relate this to SOPA. These latest sets of laws (such as NDAA) seem to be more about legitimizing the recent actions of the Executive Branch (Bradley Manning) than about giving them a significantly larger amount of more power.
Bummer I missed this last year. Definitely planning to attend this year.
> Seems I can't create a semi-anonymous email at gmail anymore?

Since using a non "real name" only disables the G+ part of the Google account, you are still able to create a semi anonymous gmail.
I think the structure of the page is probably confusing people. The big header on the page is "Data guarantees: Things we promise on how we manage your data," and the first subheader underneath that is "ACID-ity". This strongly (even if unintentionally) suggests that you guarantee ACID-compliance.

I'd suggest rewriting the copy as something along these lines:

# Data guarantees: How we manage your data

## Not quite ACID (and that's not a bad thing)

Although the principles of ACID are important, strict conformance has its costs. Sometimes it's the right tradeoff — but not always. By relaxing those requirements, Sensei can offer superior performance and durability. Here's how we approach the four ACID principles, and why you might prefer to do things Sensei's way:
Division, brand, subsidiary, however you want to spin it. Common ownership, common responsibility. An entity cannot be "at odds" with a parent entity, such an assertion would be laughed out of court. Internal politics don't matter to the outside world.
The Datacenter As a Computer - Barroso of Google
So all I have to do to be exempt from SOPA/PIPA is to host a single server in the US?
Your comparison is invalid. Apple's bootloader locks are a better comparison (Not referring to SIM lock which is provider mandated). Or the fact that you can't change batteries on your devices? Seems to me the purpose behind that is for you to change your device when the battery can't hold a good enough charge instead of just changing the batteries! How does that benefit the consumer?

HTC removes bootloader locks: http://www.pcworld.com/article/228823/htc_ends_locked_bootlo...
Show HN: MVP for my site SoSforguys. Nice things to say to your wife
Hi fellow HN members,<p>I'd like to get your feedback on my MVP for SoSforguys. Two days a month, we will email you nice things to say to your wife / girlfriend.<p>The idea came from my personal life. Several times, my wife asked me to say nice things about her. Being cornered, I found it difficult to come up with something nice to say without being too corny.<p>It is for this reason that I came up with the idea of SoSforguys. On any two random days of the month, you will get an email with nice things that you can say to your wife or girlfriend.<p>What do you think ?
Apple has draconian restrictions on stuff like iOS for the user's sake (and for Apple's partially), and with the huge amount of users they obviously got that right. I'm not entirely sure what Apple's stance on SOPA is (I heard they supported it, but then I heard they didn't), but I don't think it would matter to them. They don't need to sue for piracy because they have the iTunes Store, which only distributes content. Apple even removed the DRM from their iTunes Store media a few years ago. They don't limit your freedom in the way that SOPA or PIPA will. You're comparing two completely different industries.
"immeadiately" should be immediately.
It's been said it'll be attached to the back of an anti-child porn bill so it can't be opposed next month.
Amdahl’s law - Amdahl's original paper
I'll put on my conspiracy theorist hat: maybe they just waited until it was safe to say something about the subject matter.
It irritates me that posts like that get so many upvotes on Reddit when they provide absolutely no evidence for what they say.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it's incorrect, but it is speculation stated as fact.
Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time - Hölzle of Google
A solution I don't see being discussed much is MPAA and RIAA disruption. This is occurring on some platforms like YouTube, iTunes, and Spotify. If artists no longer need to use them as a middleman, they will cease to have money and power. Startups that disrupt these two, and are more profitable for artists, could wipe out this whole issue.
I believe Apple's stated reason for the battery thing is that the mechanism for making a battery removable takes up a lot of space, and by getting rid of it, they can make the actual battery bigger.
Open Source Node.JS PaaS
Top 15 worst passwords 2011
The company SplashData had conducted a study which was developed rating the top worst passwords 2011.
There is a company in India which has not taken any outside funding and doing great business so far. There are many employees who has been toiling there for 10-15 years with expectations that they will become rich sooner as company started doing really well with all hardwork. Recently, one fine day "the founder" in his internal memo says that you can call me the super rich. All shares has been distributed to himself and his family members and now all employees are monkeys with hand full of peanuts. Wake up with shattered dreams.
Guess who is this company?
Yes, you are right, its ZOHO. Period.
The real name suspension only affects the G+ profile (not gmail).
Summify user here. Loved their iPhone app and it felt like the quality of news delivered got better over time. It wasn't just about the frequency of links in my twitter feed (or else I'd get a bunch of crap), but it allowed me to like certain posts and it tracks which topics I'm most interested in.

I'm also looking for news more than once a day to stay relevant. Summify delivered summaries every 6 hours for me - if you could incorporate this in your service, that'd be awesome.
Being 280lbs certainly helps you out :) With that much wine, the ABV makes a big difference as well. I crunched the numbers using 12% alcohol content, 35 ounces (1.4 750ml bottles), 2 hours and 280lbs to get 0.091, so still not hammered, but with 14% ABV it was over 0.122.
Downloads of LOIC Spike as Anonymous Inspires Online Protests
My prediction: Client-side encryption is going to become more popular. All users encrypt files before sending to cloud. Then users decide who gets access to their information. This is just common sense. It might help in areas like medical records (HIPAA) as well.

If you give Dropbox write-access to your Desktop and all your unencrypted original files, you are 0wned.
Putting your files on a 3rd party site like MegaUpload is a lot like buying food at a random food cart in a 3rd world country. You might not get sick, but there's no guarantee. If there was a motto for life, it would be Caveat Emptor.

If they are governed by US laws, it's possible the FBI would return assets to lawful owners, much like the wind-down of MF Global, but that type of thing takes quite some time. Also, as possibly bad as that sounds, if MegaUpload had actually been the cause of data loss instead of an FBI take down, there is no recourse...other than pursuing MegaUpload via a court system! While I don't actually think this take down was reasonable, any expectation of warranty in MegaUpload's service can only be assumed by accepting the laws of the countries MegaUpload operates in.
That would be a distinction. Wasn't entirely clear to me in jamesredman's post.

Thanks.
I could say that the MPAA's restrictions are also for the viewer's sake, and with the huge amount of viewers they obviously got that right. I don't believe it, but I don't see where it's wrong but the equivalent for Apple is right.

Personally, I think Apple's policies are more destructive. They're doing a pretty decent job of convincing an entire generation that locked-down, manufacturer-controlled computing is good.

Not that I'm boycotting them....
Where did I hear this logic before? Oh the hypocrisy...
The red (such as in "Send a private...") is hard to see. Needs more contrast. Same with the footer text. Use this to check for compliance: http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html
I don't quite understand.

Are people suggesting that congress considers legislation primarily based on campaign contributions and that this is the same for both main parties?

So they will only go against legislation proposed by lobbyists if they feel the votes they would lose would outweigh the benefit of those contributions to their next campaign?

If that is the case then I'm sorry to say but your entire government system is not fit for purpose.

If that is not the case then you should be able to beat these bills with good reasoning and debate alone.