skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it does go through and border searches for pirated media become a reality, it would be terribly unfortunate if random people had encrypted files on their computer that they don't know the password to, entering the UK. In fact any unexplained binary file of about 3mb could be an encrypted mp3. Handover the password: or rot in contempt of court. EFF are right about encrypting your disk as a new years resolution. This could be a disaster if it gets fully ratified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agree...

"exempts travellers from (border) checks if the infringing goods are not part of large scale traffic"
I'd love to know how they expect border security guards to determine what's part of large scale traffic and what's not.

"jailed over computer password refusal":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831
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I was reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and he wrote about philosophy in a broader sense. The context I remember is that he was hoping that a philosopher would take on the challenge of figuring out how best to shape and rig a sailboat, because at the time it was all more of an art than a science.

Point being, up until the 19th century some or most people who would consider themselves philosophers tended to be more pragmatic/practical in their pursuits.
I picked up an OpenPGP card and reader a few months ago and love the technology. My only beef is that the reliability of the software that talks to the smartcards is awful on the Mac.

Right now, it's definitely an approach to take if you are crypto nerd -- it's not ready for regular humans.
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Yeah, because teens would never lie about their age to get around stupid restrictions.
Philosophy is for the people who are pre-determined to be interested in philosophy. People who are not pre-determined to be interested in philosophy will never be able to see value in the act of studying philosophy.
> Rejecting foundationalism means accepting that we
> have every right to hold basic beliefs that are not
> legitimated by philosophical reflection.

No, that's an utter non-sequiter. It certainly does not follow on from a rejection of foundationalism that you can hold arbitrary basic beliefs.

For example, you may instead set a standard of evidence whereby you expect the set of your ideas to have an internal consistency, and where you consider the weight of new evidence against your existing map. Your tree could be influenced by philosophical reflection.

Of you might consider your belief to consist of parallel hypotheticals. I may be a brain in a vat, but I'm also open to being a geek tapping on a computer in a newtonianish universe.
I can't see how google+ "failed" being smaller doesn't yet mean something/someone failed. Already google+ had established its own nieche and it seems it's doing well, from this point on i belive it will only get better and better. G+ has its own strenghts and unique features like hangouts, desktop sharing, and different approach to content curation, I don't even have to mention integration with other Google services.
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Resources about programming won't make a child passionate about it.

If he's interested, spending time with him doing some Alice or Kodu might have an effect over the long term.

But passions and interests build over time and at age 11 are heavily influenced by the interests of peers.
What happens after 999? It wraps around back to 000! This is cool.
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I respect philosophy, but am more persuaded by Richard Feynman's perspective, when asked what he considered a philosophical question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aWBcPVPMo

This NY Times story gets that philosophy isn't that necessary, but then got so bogged down in philosophical writing it was a chore to get through and I don't consider it worth my time to have read it.

Socrates said "The unexamined life is not worth living." I've examined my life a bunch and have benefited from the examination, but the people I know who seem to enjoy their lives the most haven't examined theirs at all.

I tend to examine mine less now and I think I'm living better. But maybe that's from figuring things out earlier.
Valid point, and PUT would indeed be appropriate. But are there any benefits to this approach? I'm sure there is an edge case I can't think of right now; as I see it, there is one more trip to the server, plus extra code to accommodate it versus a simple POST to a collection endpoint.
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You don't need every comment tree in RAM just the last few days worth plus a few older threads that get linked back to. They are currently using 200 machines so let's say 10 of them are used to cache 1 weeks comments. 30 GB of ram * 10 machines = 300GB of cache. I would be vary surprised if they generate 200GB/week or 10TB of comment data a year.

Edit: For comparison Slashdot spent a long time on just 6 less powerful machines vs the 200+ Reddit is using. Reddit may have more traffic, but not 40x as much. And, last I heard HN just uses one machine.

PS: The average comment is small and they can compress most comments after a day or so. They can probably get away with storing a second copy of most old threads as a blob of data in case people actually open it which cost a little space, but cuts down on processing time.
This is a subset of "I don't want to be second guessed". I'd happily give up Google's guess of what I want, and I realise that sometimes I'm going to need to type an extra word.

I type slowly, about 60 words a minute. That extra word is an extra second of typing, but it makes the results a lot more useful to me.

There's other advantages. (Maybe these aren't as obvious or real to other people.) Thinking about the words I use forces me to think about the problem, and forces me to think around what I'm doing and why.
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I'm not a lawyer only a humble developer, I think the only thing we can do in EU is to put pressure on EU parliament to not agree to the pact - that's all.
We've recently launched an Direct Debit facility and faced these exact problems. Luckily our DD provider works with some huge companies and so is already insured against any "indemnity claims". This insurance is reflected in our transaction fees though.
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With respect to them, do they have a policy where staff members are forced to write blog posts? Because this one looks like it took 5 minutes to think up, and then 5 minutes to write down. And it isn't the first one. Sorry.
Think they hired a videographer recently, presumably to do this very sort of thing.
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Yes and no. I would say that GPUs are the middle ground between traditional serial CPUs and truly parallel FPGAs.

FPGAs are not a silver bullet. If you can express your design using a GPGPU instruction set, then by all means please use that. Its going to be more efficient by an order of magnitude, from power consumption and especially cost.

High end FPGAs can easily run in the $30k for a single unit range (this is what NVidia is going to buy to simulate their latest design in hardware, its not likely going to end up in a shipping product). They are also relative power hogs. Their strength lies in highly concurrent systems, especially around data streaming from disparate interfaces to other interfaces, when you can't put enough I/O bandwidth into an existing processing solution.

GPUs are good at processing and will floor an FPGA there. They are relatively terrible at I/O.
80/20.
They get more searches for the short tail(and more advertisers therefore), so they're trying to push more people that direction.

Makes good business sense, although it might be annoying for some SEOs
ACTA is not an "internet censorship treaty". A very good analysis of what it ACTUALLY is was posted a few days ago on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/or8ag/ive_read_the...
Having a product that no one wants, or that most people actively dislike even, is not much of an impediment for enterprise sales.
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In a RESTful API that I'm currently working on I did wonder about how best to create URIs for resources that you want to create via a PUT. To try to stick to the rule that "Servers must have the freedom to control their own namespace" (which is sensible if you are going to have multiple difference server implementations with different technology stacks) I chose to return a template URI for the container resource and then allow the client to use this template to create URIs. Along the lines of:

http://foo/bar/{name}

or

http://foo/floop.ashx?path=/bar/{name}

The client replacing {name} with the actual intended resource name.

Not sure if this is a good idea or not - but it seems to work!
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Buyer gets the delivery, then claims they didn't. It's then buyers word against sellers (this was before the new system of protection for sellers if they post to the Paypal registered address).

They then claim non-delivery. Next thing I know I'm out $300.
No, I didn't say it was inevitable, I said don't count them out. But you make it sound like it is inevitable that they won't ever become a threat.
Show HN: osod.im (one sentence, one day - a one sentence journal)
I'm trying to get the motivation up to actually finish building out a "real" product, and I found myself needing a "win" to keep my momentum up. So, I hacked out a little one sentence journal app last night. I experimented with a few UI things (e.g.., the autosaving of the sentence for today and so on), so it was a good learning experience also.

You can check it out at: http://osod.im
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Yes and no. (Hmmm, sound like a Tolkien elf there.)

The opportunities have never been greater today and the barriers to entry have never been lower or cheaper. There are books and websites galore. If that doesn't help, there are forums and sites like stackoverflow.com. Never has it all been more exciting. Things that required large amounts of time on supercomputers are now doable at home in real-time.

On the other hand, now that I'm in the old and crusty bucket, I'm personally having less fun as a programmer. I've been programming since 1981 and it was a blast. But now with a wife and family and pastoral responsibilities and day jobs and a growing congregation, the available time to just sit down and take time to learn something new (because it looked fun) just isn't there. And that takes some of the sparkle off my relationship with technology.

That said, perhaps it isn't all gloom and doom. I do what I can to use technology in my life to help get things done. I have the church data backed up with Dropbox. I prepare my sermons using Markdown and Pandoc and preach off of a Nook. And just this week, I prepared the church charitable giving letters for the congregation using a combination of CSV data files, AWK and LaTeX. So I may not be the trendiest programmer in town, but my data is backed up constantly and I have some of the best typeset documents you've ever seen!
Blizzard is selling old World of Warcraft servers for charity on eBay
I have to say, having to buy the book (no independent description or studies of the process) and $200 seminars (indoctrination) sets off my "woo" alarm. As does anything mentioning "NLP".
Great products and Great marketing happen when there is no politicking and infighting that sometimes corrupts big companies. And that, according to the author, is achieved by secrecy.
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Exactly.

Sure, technology fads are like a carousel, but that matters most if you insist on staying ON the carousel and make part of your living writing about the fads. I started in this millennium, but I've done it long enough to know that learning and using a new piece of tech is only superficially satisfying. What's exciting is building something that solves a problem. If I lose track of that and get bored, nothing is more motivating than coming across a coder who bangs out code using the tech he knows to solve problems. It's amazing to see what Rich Hickey can do with a pile of Java or Zed Shaw with a pile of C, to name two examples I've encountered. No need to complain or pontificate (or at least keep it to a minimum), just build things and solve problems.
Show HN: vReddit, the visual reddit reader
My first rails/mongodb project. I've been a redditor for a long time and wanted to play a bit with other browsing formats. I find Pinterest hard to read, so I wanted to create something that was a bit more of the traditional left-to-right. It's also more image focused to better suit the content that is typically on the front page.
Column store, compare it with MonetDB (open source) and similar. This design is suitable for read-mostly databases. It's a trade-off, faster reads and much better compression. But the price is writes usually become an order of magnitude slower. It isn't good for transactional work (OLTP).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS

Also the author talks (other comments) about transfer rate when the real issue with GPUS is latency. Most GPUs don't have decent RAM caches and it's very hard to cover the latency.

Also: http://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/oxq6a/a_database_en...
closing down (killing) a self running, profit-generating, sustainable business (even if its MVP) that customers love and recurringly use is a good moral decision?
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Flippa signal to noise is pretty low. Maybe something more "curated" and targeted directly to HN would be better.
Well, they have all the rights to fight-back, but is that good for the users?

Between Google, Facebook and Apple, our lives on the Internet is pretty much owned by these corporations, and then you have government getting uncomfortable.
> Nowadays? Grab a Flash development tutorial and you can do in a week what I spent most of high school learning and doing.

Here's my attempt to hone in on what the problem is - programming is less interesting now, because it's easier. It appeals to a larger audience now.

I think, in an analogous way, the same thing has happened to video games. They aren't nearly as difficult as they were in the past. Most allow you to save as much as you want. The puzzles, if any, are made simple enough that everyone can solve them. As a result, it appeals to larger audiences, and that sense of enjoyment is lost to the old schoolers who would like a challenge.

With games, however, it's possible that companies will make games that sell to old schoolers. With programming, we can't do that - any attempt to add challenge to it would get in the way of what programming is actually for - and that's getting things done.

The culmination of what is happening, some day in the future, is that programming will no longer be any challenge at all, to anyone. You will be able to have a conversation with a computer in plain English (or your language of preference) about what you would like it to build for you, and it will get built.
Going through YC was an incredible experience and even just going through the application process really forced our team to answer a lot of important questions for our business. If you want to do a startup and are in a position to give it your all - it could only help your chances of success to apply.
You probably need someone experienced to semi-supervise the project. A bunch of newbies might end up exploring more than being efficient and productive.
Heh, those passwords are in Romanian

TiganilAFloriNTeleormaN - Gypsies at Florin in Teleorman

Fum4tulP0@t3Uc1d3R4uD3T0t - Smoking can kill awfully bad
The "Lumia" is actually 2 phones, one mid-to-high range and one low-to-mid range. I wouldn't be surprised if the lower end one sold more units.
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interesting app. i signed up. my first entry: "i signed up for one sentence, one day. lets see if i like this"
So let's say there's a resource that you want to update, but you don't know if it exists or not. Either you can GET (or HEAD or something) to see if it exists and then PUT if it exists or POST if it doesn't exist yet. Or you can just have PUT create and/or update it whether or not it exists, skipping the requirement of knowing whether you need to create it or not. (Or did I miss something?)
Yep, Shaun Hildner:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3041-welcome-shaun-and-emily
https://twitter.com/shildner/status/162600458559565824
I tried switching to aptitude, but the fact that its search defaults to OR for terms rather than AND made it completely unusable.

I guess I could keep using apt-cache for searching and aptitude for installation/removal though.
So now instead of college kids complaining about an influx of teenagers (Facebook), we can have technology enthusiasts complaining about an influx of teenagers! The "what's hot" section has less of a tech bias than it used to already, but I wonder what it will look like in a month.
As far as firefox and full screen going, I suspect that's because 10 isn't a stable release yet.
It makes sense intuitively that heavy appliances would be the most profitable. People don't say, "sure you can have my iPod for $20" but I could see them being willing to part with a washing machine for that price if someone would carry it out of their third story apartment.
I got sick and tired of landing on a GitHub repo that was awesome, and having to manually share it.
I've always wanted to get into the DIY drones crowd, but can't find enough motivation to actually start cranking up stuff. Back in college, I took microcontroller classes and programmed them in assembly, but missed the chance to build a cool robot due to financial issues (parts didn't come cheap where I came from).
What happened to innovative games?
inb4revolutions
Turning linkbait into a science!
In terms of status updates (ie, stories which may mention check-ins or photos or similar, but not Facebook Messages), before Facebook's Timeline launch, there were multiple stores of data depending on age. With Timeline, all the different versions of data over all ages were put back together into a single (logical) store. More about that process at:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/building-timeline-scaling-up-to-hold-your-life-story/10150468255628920
Not all resources are part of a collection, though. It can be a resource linked from another. Let's say 'product' resource you're selling. That may return a bunch of data, including a link to a 'description' resource about the product.

Since you've never created such description, the link will return 404, but you can PUT a description to that URL without having any extra trips, just the visit to the product.
If Google wants Google+ to actually become a serious contender, they need to make it friendly for mobile.

1. Make it compatible with iPad. I generally don't even try to follow links to Google+ when I'm on my iPad, as if the page has anything more than a handful of comments, it will almost surely run the browser out of memory and cause it to exit.

2. Make their mobile app understand Google+ URLs. I wanted to read a Google+ link that was submitted to HN yesterday, so I actually clicked it in the hope it hadn't gotten too big. It had. After pointlessly trying four times, I copied the link, and then I went and downloaded their Google+ app, opened it...and discovered it had no way that I could find to give it a link to a Google+ page and have it display it!
But, bagels!
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Thanks for that link, I had completely forgotten about the "Freiherr". Blast from the past...
Philosophy is interested with the very edge of knowledge and learning why and how we can know about it. Perhaps you forget not so long ago the philosophers Frege, along with and Russell and Whitehead. These guys were trying to create a logic that mapped to language better that their traditional logic. This guy named Wittgenstein came up with this idea called 'truth-tables'. This work eventually lead some guy named Turing to invent the effing computer. It was philosophy, now it's a science.

Philosophy is the creation of sciences. Whether it's computer science of the recent past, or psychology and political science before that, or even physics if you go back to Galileo's and Decartes' 'natural philosophy'. It's easy to disparage philosophy in retrospect, because you don't consider the science you love as being its biproduct.
It has 'Fun' in the header ;)
How is this iPad app any different from what Canto provides from Epic for physicians and MyChart for patients?

Disclaimer: Where I work we use Epic as our EMR and have been on it since 2005.
We are going to change healthcare from the ground-up. Small 1-10 doctor practices can easily make the decision to completely move to a new solution like drchrono. Once you get every private practice doctor using better tools, you can start banging on the gates of the hospitals to let you in and adopt new technology.

It's similar to how Salesforce.com started with small businesses and eventually broke into enterprise sales from the bottom up.
This is completely un-analogous. It would be similar if Microsoft paid Apple $150 million to cease OS development and differentiate themselves merely as a Windows PC builder (which would have made iOS and thus the iPhone and iPad completely impossible). Unless you own the platform, you are selling commodities.

Of course, Symbian was probably headed for the same marketshare hit that RIM (and previously successful Android builders like HTC) experienced this year, so I'm not criticizing the partnership.
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I believe it is - Seeing that I completly ditched facebook for g+, it was with benefit for me. I don't know anything about you, but I have all my android phone contacts backed up in separate file, I use gmail, but I'm not really mail dependant - I would run my own mailbox if the need would arise. Except search I don't really think I would notice if Google or Facebook or any other Internet giant disappear tommorow(ok, i know long term effects - but short term my life would go on)- social sites are just a nice addition, but I would do perfectly fine without them - just as I did before they appeared ;-) But if you are concerned about your life being owned by corporation think about improving your ways so you don't have to worry about issues like this. I would hate to live in a world and use internet where one company has monopoly to everything, best way to archive that is just not getting yourself too dependant on it.