skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this isn't your intent, but...

>"See, there is something physically wrong with you, and you need treatment."

...could be a pretty stigmatising way to talk about mental health problems. I know you're not saying that people with minor depression are "making it up"; but I feel the need to say that an illness doesn't need to be 'physical' to be real.

Sorry for the slight de-rail.
The problem here is specifically with how SQLite does not implement ALTER TABLE fully. From the documentation:

"SQLite supports a limited subset of ALTER TABLE. The ALTER TABLE command in SQLite allows the user to rename a table or to add a new column to an existing table. It is not possible to rename a column, remove a column, or add or remove constraints from a table."

http://www.sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html
The "crappy" google problem that only seems to plague republican candidates. When Michelle Obama was depicted as a monkey, it was taken out of the search results twice (once in an article and once in images.google.com a few months earlier).

It's funny how Google just seems to shrug its shoulders when it involves candidates it doesn't like. They have more control over their content than almost any company in the world. If they aren't removing it, it's intentional.

I for one, don't like corporations that use its media presence to control politics.

This, to me, is evil.
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"The overwhelming majority of their users will never touch it."

Oh Thomas, Thomas, Thomas. You of all people should know the unimaginable power of porn and the incredibly stupid things people do in response to the promised delivery of the same.
Sorry for that, looks like my last git commit accidentally turned debug mode on. I fixed the email issue too. Thanks for the heads up.
In other words you will always have your data.

In what format? If addresses and mail are stored like Apple stores my iTunes metadata, I'll never get them back if I stop using Apple products.
Italy Ends Property Tax Breaks For Churchs
Countdown to the first cyclist who gets shot by a cop for having a headlight that looks like a revolver at night.
But it is rather odd to complain that getting a briefing to a "biased" reporter is unusual. It's like Thurott getting briefed on Windows stuff, S.O.P.
We are working on this issue -- where are you located?
Messages (iChat) has been around far longer than HipChat.
3 Features New to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion That Ubuntu Already Has
It didn't break Qt, it broke Perian.

That being said, I've got a couple of 8GB MKV's and they all work perfectly. So caveat emptor and all that ... :P
Perhaps toxic, but Adsense/Adwords are what make Google possible. Without revenue there's no Google.
NoSQL or NoREL? A Short Account of Taxonomic Development
I think you missed the point of this post.
And there are still people arguing that we should no longer go by anything other than our real names online (facebook I'm looking at you).
That's definitely what FMF does. If you happen to be watching your phone when somebody else tries to fetch your location, you'll see the location services icon appear in the status bar for a couple of seconds while it does its thing. It's not transmitting anything about your position except when people are actually looking for you.
If my math is correct, they only need one more before XI
Ah, too bad, I was thinking how this could be done with one table. It sounds like it would be too much of a hassle, as it would keep growing.

I don't think it's too much of a problem to have different tables, though, most people would have single indexes, I guess.
Which make the concept of war even more obscene.
You shouldn't have to prove that you're "serious about development" by paying money to write and distribute software. How many developers started as hobbyists?

Charging $100 just to be capricious is not a good move and is certainly not a good omen for OS 10.9 "Tabby" wherein you can be almost certain they will remove the option to run unsigned software (for your own protection, of course! You don't want to pay Apple $100? What are you, poor? The computer cost $1000! $generic_strawman_argument!)
> The whole thing comes off as sickeningly conceited.

So like a typical Gruber piece, right?
"He's got a chance!"

"Yeah, in France!"

"Bet you'd vote for Palin!"

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3980096/we-didnt-start-the...
I was hoping the threat of execution was one of the usual sabre-rattling, grand-standing moves Iran keeps making to piss off the international community or just to get back at them. Now it seems they're taking it too far. Surely the bosses in Iran can see how stupid this is.
I did spell shemales wrong! Luckily, I spelt "schemaless" right.
And a bunch of developers use Macs because they offer sane GUI on the top of UNIX.
We'll be rolling out beta invites over the next few weeks, but we're taking emails now for the first large beta access of our Mercurial support.
For what it's worth, and focusing on this isn't worth much at all, I read it completely differently. Gruber was trying to convey a sense of how different this is from the Apple of days gone by. He's trying to demonstrate that Apple has gone from having huge keynotes at Macworld to having medium-size keynotes in their own auditoriums to having one-on-ones with key members of the press. The point isn't "look at how awesome I am", the point is "look at how completely different this is from everything they've ever done in the past".
The lag time surprised me, too, but if you're going to tell your app developers they can no longer sell directly to their customers without jumping through a few hoops, you definitely at least want to give them a long head's up. I'd bet the trend of early preview windows correlates very strongly with how much it impacts developing on OS X.
Whereas what you've written...
Something like the free
http://www.leandomainsearch.com/?
Is it standards compliant for different markets? Is it legal to use in, for example, the UK or Holland?
I'm not sure about mail because I don't use it but you can export your contacts as a Vcard.
Show HN: Loco, an iPhone library that simplifies location acquisition
Dartium: Google’s New Dart Programming Language Comes to Chromium
oh, without a doubt. I kissed the earth when I found that IE 8 supported border-box, my point was just that there were hacks around the issue before now.
Even if he were a citizen, perhaps they may not have done much with regimes like Iran, e.g. see the case of two Swedish photographers sentenced to 11 years in Ethiopia (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/12/27/uk-ethiopia-sweden-...)
Macros: their power and challenges — (take 5 william-byrd)
Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store
Nope, and you don't have to. But for those users that are new to the platform (and I have watched quite a few) it makes them feel at home. They instantly know where to look for their apps, they can re-arrange them however they like. It is not for those of us who grew up on Mac OS, then Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, it is for those that have had an iPad or an iPhone and know there is a single location (home) where all your apps are. Launchpad fits that bill nicely.
I think the point to be made is that not everyone has the same comfort zone as you do. You may not care about strangers seeing you naked, but other people do. Being naked in front of someone can be an intensely vulnerable experience, and the feelings of vulnerability can be compounded by a wide range of factors, including power differentials, the fact that they are strangers, or that those strangers may be letching on your naked body.

For instance, I don't particularly care about being naked in front of people, but when I feel like I'm being objectified/letched on, that makes me uncomfortable, regardless of my state of dress.
Broadly, our scheduling algorithms are based on the same ideas of spaced repetition that inspired Anki, SuperMemo and lots of others, though the devil is often in the details.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

However, neither Anki nor SuperMemo enrich and speed up your learning with mems (crowd-sourced mnemonics), which provide a huge and well-documented boost to your learning rate and retention.

Perhaps most of all though, we've worked really hard to make Memrise a really happy learning experience. It's harder to put numbers on that, but hopefully you can feel it when you try it!
I don't think that's quite true. If you read stories in the New Yorker, or the Atlantic, or similar publications, then you'd find equally "naval-gazing" writing from "real" reporters.

When I write a post, or when a journalist writes a story, or when you write a comment, you want to have an angle: something that sets your writing apart from the other thirty people who are writing about the same thing. Many publications today will cover detailed information about Mountain Lion. Gruber knows that. Further, there's not actually much new in Mountain Lion: Gruber successfully summarizes the new release in a handful of words in a middle paragraph. While I suppose he could go into more detail on interface minutia between Contacts and Address Book, or pontificate on why Notification Center on OS X looks more like Growl and less like the iOS pull-down, even doing that would provide him relatively little material.

Instead, Gruber focused on the culture of the event. From a company so well known for massive product releases and on-stage demos, the idea of doing not just one, but a large number of in-person demos across the country represents a substantial shift. It could symbolize any number of things, from a lack of confidence to a desire to repair image damage from Foxconn, which is why Gruber finds a need to emphasize how polished the presentation was and how the event was set-up in detail.

I can understand why this might feel like naval gazing, but to me, it's anything but. Gruber is in a unique position to comment on the cultural shifts of Apple, precisely because he's so involved with that selfsame culture. If he's going to comment on Mountain Lion's release this morning, that's going to be his angle. It's completely fine if you don't find it interesting, but questioning his competency, or calling this approach conceited, is wrong.
Pinterest should file for an IPO
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It's nice, but they're going to have a really hard time competing with Latitude and Find my Friends, given that they're baked in.

there’s also a company philosophy that realtime location sharing is the future. They believe that startups like Foursquare, which requires manual updating, represent out-of-date technology.

While I'll agree that check-ins are a little messy, they represent an important difference that goes unmentioned- I check in when I want people to know where I am. At all other times, my location is unknown.

That's important to me. I don't want everyone knowing where I am on demand- not that I'm doing anything shady, but it just weirds me out and I don't see the benefit in it. Glympse and my own project, Taxonomy (http://www.taxono.my) do selective sharing- I manually choose who I want to share with, and when. For me, that's much better. But maybe I'm not representative of most people?
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What does this mean for other open-source developers. For example - Linus Torvalds, GKH etc. Or what about Tim-Berner's Lee ? Will they be executed if they every visit Iran ?
'They' = me. :) I feel bad there's such a lag, but publishing three a week (and as a side project) actually ends up being a lot of work, so I've got a backlog I'm trying to work through. Frustrating, but there it is.
Technically it's public but you need to be responsible with how you deal with your client's data. Even if the NDA says nothing about releasing handshake details, you still have to explain to your client why a WPA-cracking website has details about their infrastructure.

I agree the convenience is attractive but I wouldn't want to put myself in that position.
I don't think that Gruber would argue that this piece falls into what we would call stereotypical journalism. It's not a piece that purports to be a View From Nowhere.

I think that this piece is akin to pieces you might read in the New Yorker or the Atlantic, in that you see a writer's analysis of a topic or event through their experience, both past and present.

It's doubtful that Gruber is rubbing this in all of our faces. More likely, he's noting it's novelty as a change (or a confirmation, really) of Apple's motivations.

Gruber is a competent writer. His pieces exhibit voice and clarity, though you might disagree with him (I often do), but a contrary opinion is no less competent for its, well, contrariness.

That's the spirit of HN. If you disagree with someone but they challenge you and add value to the discussion, you upvote and challenge back, sharpening both of your stances.
Or else what?

If there's an actual law and due process, ok. If people are just supposed to automatically comply because somebody in a government agency says so...well, I hope we haven't sunk that far.
I discovered where your confusion came from:

"I guess this would be useful to prevent malware being installed, but it's not going to be massively useful to remove already installed malware. Especially if that malware can interrupt the polling."

You mistakenly read that as if I wasn't talking about malware that exists today. No. There are two situations:

1.) revocation cert issued before malware installed
2.) malware installed before revocation cert issued

I was talking about situation 2 occurring in N years time. You can tell this by the way I wrote "Especially if that malware can interrupt the polling." Which of course, isn't a feature of any malware that exists today, because the polling method doesn't exist yet.
Easy. iCloud syncing and storage costs money. Notifications go through Apple's servers, which also costs money to run. Apple wants its 30% share of the price to cover these costs. Make sense?
An Apple ID is indeed free. I've had an Apple ID for downloading Xcode for years now. At the moment the only way to get an app signing key is by purchasing a $99 license (which also gets you publishing privileges in the App Store) but it is extremely likely that in the future getting a signing key will be completely free and will not require a $99 license fee. It won't get you App Store submittal and won't get you publishing on the App Store, but I think that is fair.
Google docs is amazing.
How to Stop Being a Pinterest Sexist
> If we gave this test to random people 75% of the people who test positive are healthy. So this clearly isn't a useful test as a first screening

Unless I'm misreading what you're saying, I think you have Bayes's rule confused in that statement. If 75% of positive results are false, that's actually right in line with what you might want for a first screening.

Of course, you want to know not just P(X|Y), but also P(Y|X) -- you really need the joint distribution to determine how useful the test is.

For a rapid screening, you generally want a low false negative, and you're willing to compromise by having a high false positive rate as a result. The real thing you care about is P(test positive | have MDD), not P(have MDD | test positive). You don't care about the latter (within reason - obviously you could just have everyone test positive, but you're also trying to maximize the former probability subject to some constraint - usually time/money).

Psychiatric conditions are notoriously difficult to test/evaluate/treat because they are oftentimes heterogeneous, so I don't know what kind of numbers we should be looking for in this case, but I just wanted to clarify that having a majority of people who test positive ending up being healthy actually doesn't necessarily rule a test out as being a useful rapid-response screening, in the general case.
I wouldn't risk it, personally. Although it might make a difference if you are an Iranian citizen or not.
Except it doesn't work quite right. My friend and I both have iPhones and iPads. If I send her a "text" from my iPhone, sometimes it ends up on her iPad, if the last place she sent me a message was from her iPad, and vice versa. This results in missed messages both ways. If iMessage delivers a message, it should deliver to all registered devices for the user. The process is so opaque that you can't really see what it's doing to try to get it to work right. In that sense, it's kind of like Siri, the concept is the right one, but the execution sucks.
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I think iMessage on Mac will be somewhat crippled relative to on an iPhone, ss there is no fallback to SMS. That makes sense, and also is what Apple says on its site:

"it lets you send unlimited messages to anyone on
a Mac or an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running
iOS 5."
Why are the valley's top investors backing Lady Gaga's startup?
I really admire Peter Norvig and have learned a lot simply by reading (and re-reading) two of his essays: How to Write a Spelling Corrector[1] and Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle[2].

What fascinates me about these essays is that in one, he is able to get good results from using a simple algorithm over a large corpus of data (books from Project Gutenberg). In the other, he is able to get good results through the application of a clever algorithm (constraint propagation). Both of these approaches (lots of data, clever algorithms) are used in AI. My question would relate to their relative merit, and would be something like the following:

"Have advances in Artificial Intelligence been driven more by the discovery and application of novel algorithms and techniques, or by an increased ability to collect, store, curate and analyze increasing bodies of data?"

However, I would also really like to know how he feels about John Searle's Chinese Room[3] argument.

[1] http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

[2] http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
It's amusing that Gatekeeper's icon looks a lot like Microsoft Security Essentials, but that (and Messages) is probably my main draw - gotta keep the parents safe on their respective all-important iOS and OSX life-centers.
Thank you for that! I will be getting that book and reading through it. The description seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. If anyone has any other suggestions or materials... feel free to share them. Thanks!
Not to mention DVD rippers and pirated copies of Office and Creative Suite.
Apple has an enterprise version[1] of the iOS App Store available. I'd wager that an equivalent for the Mac App Store is pretty likely.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/
Not exactly what I'm looking for, but thank you for the link.
100M page views per day is 1157 page views per second. I wonder how that's being blown up by a factor of 300?

I suppose if each video's metadata causes a redis lookup and there are 300 videos displayed per page that would do it, but you'd think you could batch those lookups. It seems a fairly inefficient.

Either that or they have some background jobs causing redis lookups that aren't a result of page views.
Yes, but my point was in the future, once apps must be signed, it is not unreasonable to imagine them introducing a fee, with the excuse that they need to do this to introduce more barriers for malware authors.
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That's stupid. It doesn't look like a gun; it is styled after a gun part. That's like saying you'd confuse a car with a tire.
Make it a constant habit to pick out some of those things and figure out how they make money

This is the one that really got me and why I'm often confused by HN "startups" and ideas. I simply can't figure out how they will ever make enough money for the venture to be worthwhile.

It's mindblowing how many niches there are and the huge amount of businesses that exist (take a short drive through any industrial park, write down the business names and then google them, for example). So why do programmers insist on coming up with something that never existed and trying to force-feed it to people? That will work in maybe 0.00001% of all cases when the alternative is so much more likely to be profitable.
How do I deal with the problem of too many talents and personas?
Congress Readies its Next Attack on the Internet
I'm not a fan of ebooks generally, but would love to have a tablet that could replace a bunch of technical books and papers. Any of the e-ink readers refresh too slowly to really allow skimming, but maybe the iPad or Android tablets would be better. Something like a split pane view for PDFs where you could 'dock' a bunch along an edge for quick reference, or even have multiple papers open at once. I don't know that current devices are either quick enough to render pages quickly, or have enough memory to cache the current page +- 10 others.
I think I agree with you for the most part.

I do use Find My Friends for two reasons, one is to share my location with my very, very close friends (4 people) as I really don't care if they know.

Second, my wife is a teacher at an inner city school here in Atlanta. The school is located in a pretty bad area, and I like to know she made it to/from school safely.

Beyond that, I don't use it for anything else. I do find apps like foursquare/path much more interesting from the sharing a location standpoint.
This worries me too, and I hope it doesn't go too far. However I am using Lion and in general I don't really notice it in this OS.

In fact, other than the reverse scrolling behaviour (which would be easy to revert if I cared) I rarely notice any difference in behaviour between my Lion laptop and my girlfriend's Snow Leopard laptop.
I don't know why HN people downvote comments like yours. It seems you raise valid questions on your post.

Anyway, I think Malekpour should not have worked on those things, even for moral reasons. You cannot reason with a snake. For the same reason I do not write stuff about Mexican drug cartels. I have family there, and I want them to remain alive (and in one piece), and I would like to remain able to visit without looking over my shoulder and endangering my family. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google for "mexican blogger deaths".

"Pick your fights" really applies to dealing with criminals and governments such as Iran's.
Prediction: Apple is the company that takes TV past 1080p into much higher resolution displays (when they actually release an Apple TV). Movies are already shot at much higher resolution, and Apple will introduce Apps (subscribe to a show or network, for example).
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When I visit http://spreadingromney.com/ I only see the first definition. Perhaps the creator of the website removed and references to Mitt Romney?
As a counterpoint, the "miserable failure" ranking for Bush was removed by Google too.
Another pedantic remark is that people use $1K instead of $1M to mean $1000.

I think it's fine to use whatever it takes to get the message across.
(reposted from blog): I don't see how the claim that "Backbone by itself is not sufficient for building complex web apps" is controversial. There is a clear need to go beyond the functionality provided by Backbone, as evidenced by the popularity of great projects like Tim's Backbone boilerplate and layout-manager.
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We all know that Facebook has launched a new look for its profiles called Timeline. Going back to F8 official presentation last autumn, the changes sounded amazing.
Addresses exportable as vcards, as noted above. Mail has export options for mail boxes and individual mails, plus icloud is using IMAP, so you should be able to export both from the server and the client.
Why impatience is a virtue and taking your time is wasting your time
dotCloud is a YC S10 company. The submitter is a recent hire.

I doubt there's any conspiracy about the upvoting though: Django, PaaS, and YC companies are all popular topics on HN. Having a professional marketer handling the submission couldn't hurt.