skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It absolutely moves to fast. Love the site though. I would think about putting more information above the fold or incorporating it into the slider a little better. Make the about more clear. Love it though.
"The recent release of the big-budget Dick Tracy movie had been a disappointment"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_%281990_film%29

Budget	$46 million[1]
Box office	$162,738,726 (worldwide) $60,611,000 (rentals)

disappointment?
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Great idea, but like many similar ideas (eugenics, human experimentation, doctors prescribing placebos, licence to breed) too 'unethical'.
We use it extensively since we require logging and the ability for remote troubleshooting.
IPhone 5 Will Have 4-Inch Screen, Launch in Summer?
Don't forget to bubble errors up the callback chain along with return values (I always forget that too):

getFromCache = function (id, query, callback) {
asynchronousCache.get(['id', id].join(':'), function(err, myThing) {
if (myThing == null) {
asynchronousDB.query(query, function(err, myThing) {
callback(err, myThing);
});
}
else {
callback(err, myThing);
}
});
};
This is why geeks should be required to run things past an English major before talking to normal human beings.

If we call a thing "jailbreaking", we're going to be battling negative perceptions forever. We're trying to explain to people who really don't care that they should take time out of their day to help legalize something called "jailbreaking". The RIAA, MPAA and ESA would struggle to dream up a more dubious name if they were embarking on a spin campaign to criminalise it outright.

Why couldn't we have called it "derestricting" or "liberating" or something? Why couldn't we have chosen a positive, all-American sort of name? I know, I know, these are our devices and we're having our freedoms taken from us, so we're totally like POWs, not criminals. We're the good kind of escaped prisoner. Now explain that to my mother in a few short words while Bill O'Reilly accuses you of supporting Al-Qaeda.

For a bunch of geniuses, we do some really dumb things.
Europe proposes a "right to be forgotten"
A Foothold For HealthTech: Ultra-Cheap Pacemakers
Collection of YouTube bots that probably impacted your experience with YouTube.
I suggest also encouraging people to go donate whole blood, and signing up for the marrow program there. Maybe even help them find a collection place and set an appointment. Two birds, eh?

I've donated blood, platelets and (last year) 1 liter of bone marrow. As feel-good as it is to help a specific person against very large odds, blood and platelets help many more people.
The etherpad developers were hired to help work on wave. Google docs implemented collaborative editing independently of etherpad and the wave team.
You don't need a raspberry pi.

http://d116.com/ace/

http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/WebServer
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Maybe it’s the warmth of the lights set to the contrast of the cold days of the season. Perhaps Christmas lights out on the streets are just an extension of the tree in our living rooms carefully covering our Christmas presents.
I'd like to see a marketplace for small acquisitions like this, flippa is full of turnkey crap and i'd be more than willing to spend up to low 5 figures for a decent small SaaS app or even buy one of the thousands of half finished apps i know you guys all have.

So, if anyone's selling, email me. contact@myusername.com
Oh yeah, sure. Anonymous stole your source code 6 years ago. Give me a break.
And therein is the problem. The lines have blurred and many people think WWW when they hear the word 'Internet'.

Let's face it, the Web is the most visible aspect of the internet. Even email is used by many people through their web browsers.

This whole debate is worthless.
If you're open to doing it in-house, you could get someone to train themselves using this course: http://www.appsumo.com/kopywriting-kourse-eg/?rf=srch

Then you may be able to do so yourself. It's only $69 to take the course.

Disclaimer: I do not work for AppSumo. Just speaking from personal experience.
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Interesting that this is using jQuery, and doesn't seem to be using YUI at all. You'd think they'd be showing off their own frameworks...
hehehe... This stuff is really cute. Though it looks like that it is hard to breath when your head is inside it. Want to try this stuff once it is available in the market.
>Because, in theory, you care that they can vote and mail in their taxes at a reasonable price, even from places that are economically unfeasible to have a mail delivery system.

"A reasonable price"? A reasonable price, in the long run, is what the service costs. And there aren't any areas that are economically unfeasible to deliver mail - just not for less than a dollar. I'm okay with people out in the sticks paying, say, $2.50 to send a letter. Are you trying to tell me there are people who can't afford, say, five bucks a year to send two letters (even assuming they do vote by mail)? If money's that tight in rural Nowheresville they can move to the city and get a desk job like everyone else.

>Whether you actually care is up to you, but the US government has decided US citizens care.

Sure, because rural voters have proportionally more voting power. There's no secret why the system is the way it is.

>It's similar to the gov't money that was paid to run telephone lines to rural areas (ref: freeconference.com article from the other day).

Yes, the telephones, the roads, airports, mail... still don't see why people can't pay their own way. Look, there are things I pay more for where I live. Housing, for instance. Why aren't they paying part of my rent?
I pay $1,000/month for a room in a 2BR apartment in the middle of Hayes Valley in SF. If you live in a less central neighborhood like the Richmond, Sunset, Glen Park, Bernal Heights, etc. it will be much lower.
Strongboxhub: Share files with your customers on the cloud
> Google, the institution, just has not to be evil, as they have defined evil. That there's obvious internal disquet about their new direction should be fairly disqueting to you.

Could you point me to the obvious internal disquiet? Is this in reference to Larry Page's supposed "ultimatum"? Because I was under the impression that that was a simple expression of his commitment to his vision for the company, misrepresented by a hostile media entity.

It seems to me that the bulk of your objection boils down to Google's continued and expanding collection of personal data, and an impending but vaguely characterized misuse of that data.

> That's part of the problem, I don't think anyone does really. We're in uncharted territory and part of the reason it's so tricky is so much can be inferred about you from seemingly innocuous data, or from analysing your social graph.

I generally find warnings about vague, ill-defined threats to be unconvincing.

> Once they have the data and it's been mined for further meaning, it's inevitable they'll find new uses for it.

This does not seem at all self-evident to me.

In fact, it seems to me that Google's incentives are such that it's pretty much in their interest to use the data well. They have no incentive to sell it, since it allows them to target search results and ads better. And they have every incentive to keep their users' trust. And as far as I can tell, they've taken the issue pretty seriously. The Google Buzz disclosure incident is the only accidental exposure of information I can remember, and they handled it pretty well.
Nothing happens on an Apple device without Cupertino’s knowledge, and as a result Apple can perfectly tailor its devices for its users (and ratchet up record-breaking quarterly earnings in the process).

Stopped reading at this point.. Does apple know if I tap the home screen? Does apple know that I just used twitter? No. This claim shows their willingness to throw around unsubstantiated ideas as fact.
This looks great, but I'm sure if we were able to see who was registered and not registered online, it would help accelerate registration. What are the complications here?
Declaring node a 'giant' step backwards is a stretch. Callback spaghetti isn't the problem it set out to solve. It is meant to provide easy(-er?) concurrency. If you measure it against its goals, I think it's pretty good.
Yep. Same thing with "hacking" and "hackathons". Whenever I tell non-techies I'm going to a hackathon they think I'm going to break into someone's network, or something.
If I learned one thing from my family of physicians (specifically pathologist parents), it is that anyone who makes broad, sweeping statements about "cancer" knows absolutely nothing about what they're talking about.

So no one survives cancer? I would say plenty of people survive B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, since the average survival for a negative ZAP-70 is over 25 years and many people don't even get treatment for it because they'll die of other things long before B-CLL.

Educate yourself before making statements like "we need to terminate the cancer industry."
Flash is more widely supported
I'm not sure it's as bad as you think. The cell phone industry and the carriers are the ones who built the jail, and the inmate is you. It is probably worth making sure that nuance is communicated, but it's a powerful image. If you're not a criminal, why are you in jail?
To be fair, it was done by http://www.periscopic.com/ and not Y! internal. Y! probably didn't specify any specific technologies. Perhaps a missed opportunity, but still, cool stuff.
weak investigation. Using __slots__ would probably improve the situation too. It's not the classes that's the problem, it's the crappy implementation.
If you like. But you didn't say anything about effectiveness, you said they haven't innovated in years, which is patently false.
Is an anti-virus even the right approach, especially for an experienced user? Wouldn't some sort of permissions management (maybe like SELinux or AppArmor) coupled with a firewall be just as secure? Getting the majority of your software from a repository (e.g. with yum or apt-get) also seems like it would help significantly.

I'm not a security expert, but it seems like you can have a perfectly secure computer without an anti-virus.
Basically, be MSE: unobtrusive. I haven't written anything for windows since high school, so I don't know how it stacks up for devs, but it's great from the user's pov. Free, lightweight, and invisible: everything I want in an antivirus program.
"just show me the most relevant links"

Here's the rub - for a given query there is no such thing as the list of link that are "most relevant". Different people will have (potentially widely) divergent opinions on what the most relevant set of links are for the exact same query.

The goal Google web-search [1] is to show you the links from the whole web that are most relevant to you. Knowing more about you allows a search engine to make better decisions about what links are relevant to you.

You would be hard pressed to find an engineer at Google that thinks search is remotely close to a "solved" problem.

([1] for the cynics - yes, Google makes a lot of money from showing ads on search result pages. That is a nice effect of having a great search engine. Making money isn't the goal of web-search. Showing relevant results is. That was true when Larry and Sergey were cobbling together machines in their dorm room. It is still true today)
Physicists Discover Quantum Speed Limit
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Answer: Good definitions are crafted so that are intended to detect not only all existing versions seen but also allows room for change and file characteristic changes so that future versions of the malware family can be caught with the same definition.

Good definitions will go on killing items in the wild well past the date the initial zero-day came out (the one that caused the need for the definition in the first place).

This is why brand new generations of malware drop and they are detected by a few security guys. This is also why some people have huge #'s of FP's -- because they allow so much room for flexibility to catch future malware - that they accidentally kill off legit files in the process.
Only if you swear at all the interviewers Holman. (jokes :D)

The biggest problem with google acquiring github is that github would be expected to integrate with google's infrastructure; which would be a monumental engineering task. I can't see that happening in any way that wouldn't hurt github somehow. The best case would be that months of github's engineering time is taken away from new features. The worst case is that github is integrated with google code somehow; which would probably result in a revolt by github's users.

I think an acquisition by google would only hurt the open source community. Google likes us too much to risk that.
The sad thing is that for a lot of magazines and newspapers, the person who writes the article isn't the person who writes the headline or headers.

This often means no matter how good the writers understanding is of the subject, the headers always make the article look retarded. It would be like assigning a 12 year old to subheader Stephen Hawkings next book... the sad thing being the 12 year old would likely do a better job than the 40 year old who does this for their living.
Oh cool, it's Tyrian!
How did anyone find this? (It's not in robots.txt, fyi)
It could be running on NetBSD... If it runs on toasters, teapots are the next logical step.
This would be great if it had a reliable style sheet.

This one, however, breaks on iOS, for example.

May I recommend BS2?
Google+, nicknames, and pseudonyms: snap poll results
The name of the .exe certainly matters.

When going through airport security, do you think it matters at all if your name is Osama Bin Laden? Such a person is going to experience a much larger degree of scrutiny from TSA then a person named John Smith.
As far as I know, by definition (coming from someone with a predominately Java background) concurrency requires multi-core processors, or, for example, a distributed application with at least 2 nodes that communicate with the same central server / "hub" (which would still require a multi-core processor, as far as I know, on the server). The central tenet mentioned with concurrency is often that of "race conditions" where it cannot be predicted which thread or node will access a resource first. If a task isn't executed in parallel, such as it has to wait for the other to finish before it starts / proceeds, I don't see how it could cause a race condition. Admittedly though, I don't have deep knowledge of how high level code translates to actual CPU instructions so it could be possible, or even likely, that if the processor is switching between tasks in such a way that each line of code, so to speak, that is run is from a different method that concurrency issues would occur even on a single-core processor. A language like Java has robust and mature aspects of the language to deal with this so I would be wary of using something like node.Js if this wasn't well documented. Concurrency issues are nasty and I have seen firsthand the mayhem they can cause in legacy applications I've worked on.
Do you have a source for that? Interesting in seeing.
Can you explain the downvote.... what the hell, i know i could have been commented better, but this is not a reason to downvote.
Encrypting data on your computer won't protect you from crime investigators.
A suspect in a mortgage fraud case has been ordered by a federal court to decrypt a hard drive that may contain information that incriminates her. This is the first time this issue has squarely landed before a judge, according to her attorney. In this case, the judge has found that the Fifth Amendment doesn't protect one from having to provide an encryption key, though some disagree.
Getting back to the pedantry of the op technically the holes of a donut are at minimum filled with vacuum and on earth with air.
I know my wife has trouble breathing warm air, specifically rebreathing air, because it causes her asthma to flare (I have no clue why, it just does).

I personally don't have a problem with it, but I'm not particularly sure I'd be comfortable sitting in a perfectly lit break room with my head in a sack. This might just be a product of my environment from going to an all boys highschool, but I'd never get to sleep from the perpetual feeling that someone's just going to come up behind me and smack my head on the table. Then again I have less than a handful of naps a year so I don't think this product is really targeted towards me.
Great job! Im already a donor. Joined about 3 years ago. I hope to help someone soon!
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best you will find.
This is the war on general computing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc
Because the video page doesn't give any info, here is the blurb...

Wed, Jan 25 from 12-4pm and Thurs, Jan 26 from 5-9pm.

500 Startups Demo Day is an invite-only showing for our 3rd batch (Fall/Winter 2011) of accelerator companies. This event is primarily for accredited investors, 500 Startups Mentors & Advisors.

To find out more about the companies visit: http://500.co/accelerator/accelerator-startups/

source:http://plancast.com/p/92pv/500-startups-demo-day-jan-2012
Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet
Large lists like this should be taken with a grain of salt, especially in such a rapidly evolving space. The date of the original post June 6, 2011 and the fact that there were no updates until 6 months later is a red flag that the author is not detailed about keeping it accurate or up-to-date.

There are probably plenty other inaccuracies by now, and other metrics worth taking into account when choosing between providers.
Dude... are you converting from Perl/Catalyst? :)
At which point, the parentheses are removed and you wind up with LOGO.
I agree with you, and I think that Christopher Poole (moot) explained it very well at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011[1].

> Google and Facebook would have you believe that you're a mirror, but in fact, we're more like diamonds.

> Identity is prismatic

Those quotes may not be the best ones, but he explains well the dangers of the concept of identity according to Google and Facebook. An article about it was also featured here[2].

> If you try to use one to help the other you will produce a soup of irrelevant garbage.

I definitely agree. My different interests already enter in conflict on Youtube; and Google got trouble dealing with the fact that 90% of my searches will be in English and the last 10% will be in French, and I do not want it to filter my results towards one language or another.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e...

2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3123086
I just logged on to my Facebook account, and it's working fine on my end.
The Pirate Bay and 3D Printing: Big Booty?
I worked on getting the first Benefit Corporation legislation passed in the United States. Specifically, Maryland was the first state to pass this type of corporation and a company I co-founded was the first company to change from a Delaware C Corp status to a Benefit Corporation. You can check my affiliation out here: http://brandoncwhite.com/blog/a-new-type-of-company-a-benefi...

There are still a lot of questions and issues around this type of corporation as has been pointed out. There certainly is a void that will ultimately get filled through case law at some point in the future. Having said that, I think it's a step in the right direction for companies that want to add some level of protection around their "Triple Bottom Line" philosophy. Ben and Jerry said that has this sort of corporation existed they would not have sold Ben and Jerry's. But, it does not mean that it's a fit for all companies. The start-up that I am working on now is not a benefit corporation and we probably will not become one. Not because we do not want to take into account the aspects of a triple bottom line, but rather because at this point it's not something at the core of what we are doing.

Overall, I think it's at least a good option for those that would like to focus on a triple bottom line. How exactly the law is interpreted will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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Dumb question -- is it possible to win? I can't beat the boss. :)
Why don't you form some tie up with amitgupta's website. It has received so much publicity for the cause so all that effort don't go waste.
> for the average hacker/maker

Sure there are use cases, but most of us don't need to print 1000 of something. I run a retail automation business and I was thinking of using 3d printing for the tablet enclosure. My business is really too specialized to need 1000 printed (then entire US market is around 10,000), so we decided to go with laser cut acrylic and using a strip heater to bend it into shape. Total cost about $20 per enclosure.

I was shocked when I saw the price tag, Ponoko seems to advertise direct to the diy consumer, so I was thinking much cheaper. I just can't see how many people are going to spend $500+ to get something 3d printed.

Btw those statues are awesome!
Why didn't you install the AV software on your machine, get the false positive, then call the company on your own behalf?

Or just impersonate your father on the phone?
Thanks. For whatever it's worth, I just signed up and wouldn't have if you hadn't posted that.
The philosophy of responsible disclosure is something only pushed by security vendors, people who use open-source software (it's being a good member of a community) and brainwashed white-hats.

The security professionals who do this for a living, and study this should disclose fully, but a corporate entity will never. They cannot because of shareholders, and there are way to many bugs out there and it would be embarrassing cleaning up that much crap.

Security vulnerabilities are sometimes architectural problems, some are related to ignorance, but a LOT more are just stupid bugs and people not writing code that is correct. A good attacker doesn't care how they get in, there is always a way.

It's a losing battle, just ask EWD.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340....

\\ Edit: Words are tough.
I was about to ask this question. I also can't figure out if the powerups stack or if they're distinct. I wonder if it's possible to win if you get all of the powerups without dying.
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Fair enough, I suppose what I meant was that I had not seen anything innovative from them in a long time.
The key question here is, when did they become aware of the theft?
Personally, I'm interested in numbers. What was your opening offer, what did the seller come back with? What did you settle on? (Totally understandable if you're not comfortable sharing that information).

Also, user information would be great. # of users prior to purchase, # since, changes in conversion rates, changes in revenue, etc.
Yeah, the blue laser feels more powerful than the third wide powerup.. but there's a point with the boss where the only place you can be without any chance of getting hit is off to the side, so I bet the third powerup is good for that. (If you don't hit the boss, it doesn't change firing pattern.)
I don't own an Android, but afaik it's underlying Linux system is not as robust as Darwin.

What are you basing that on? You can easily install Unix tools on Android devices. Here's a complete development environment that doesn't even require rooting: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spart...
Any companies you can recommend? Or where you thinking more DIY build/buy the printer yourself?
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Yes. There are at least two places you can just park the fighter during the boss.