skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A request for future posts from extremetech.com (and essentially all other "news" services like this).

Please look for a 'Print' view, which displays the content on 1 page and in a much better format:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119031-canonical-reveal...
Partnering For The Perfect Giveaway
Also, any chance of getting the source on github?
Hey guys I predicted the future https://twitter.com/#!/Rob__ot/status/170525085269098496

1. Remake Clear in CSS3 2. Post it on hacker news 3. ALL of the upvotes
TL;DR as a service?
INTERNET SOFTWARE EVOLUTION -PART 1-
Lion made this even easier by stealing iOS's input scheme: Hold down a keyboard key for long enough and you can pick a special character out of a context pop out. îïíīįì šéē
Don't you think that submissions are motivated by getting to the home page? So with time, submissions become similar to what's on the home page.

If the home page is so bad according to you, wouldn't you agree that the actual submissions still be a sub-par source for your filter, and a different source would be preferable?
According to the comments, 4chan's /v/ played a part as well.
Ah!!! Its so awesome to get some recognition on my beloved huevos!! (webOS)

I've been a huge supporter since the original Palm Pre. Now I carry my Pre3, TouchPad and iPhone. iOS has nothing on webOS!!

I think devs should at least give Enyo a try at learning to make apps for webOS since they can port them to Android and iOS with Phonegap. And if webOS takes off after it is open sourced they will be set with skills to make apps for webOS!!
Sounds like this could be the plot of the next Stross book. In 2020, the ordinary tax base has almost been destroyed. Everyone channels their illegal earnings by generating and reselling Kindle books. The main character of the book is a government bot program designed to analyze books and dig through BitCoin chains to determine whether the transactions are fraudulent or genuine. But as all goods have turned to electronic form, are they even any humans at the end of these transactions? Everything changes when the computer program has to analyze (some religious/philosophical book).

I wonder if anyone has written a book from the point of view of a computer program (and not just yet another human-like AI in a strange glowing suit). Stanislaw Lem's books may be close.
Yeah, I've fallen for a few of those too. I like using them though, it keeps everyone on their toes.
My domain name strategy
https://github.com/yyx990803/HTML5-Clear
I absolutely understand people's objections to Google's tracking, but the answer is not a hack like Scroogle.

If you disagree with Google, don't use their services- simple as that. Use a competing search service, e-mail provider, etc. and don't just hide behind a proxy like Scroogle.
Replacement: http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html
It's really unbelievable...

It's not really that unbelievable: Microsoft is berating Google for sending invalid P3P headers and this paper describes that Microsoft is sending invalid P3P headers.

Microsoft does not always fully comply with the letter of the law...

In this case what constitutes the letter of the law isn't really clear. As far as I can tell this is the latest specification for the P3P header:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-marchiori-w3c-p3p-header-01

I'm going to quote a small portion:

This Internet-Draft will expire on August 6, 2002.

So it's at least arguable that there isn't a standard for the P3P header, and whatever anyone wants to put in it is just whatever they put in it, nothing is invalid and everyone is fine.

Only IE supports it anyway, and it's not like it prevents websites from doing things they've said in their P3P headers that they're not going to do. And the header is required to make IE accept 3rd party cookies (which are needed for lots of quite normal stuff on the web) you need to send it one of these headers.

RFC 6462 also has some interesting comments:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6462#section-4.3.2
Yeah, I knew about Phil Haack but he's been pretty silent on what he's working on. Hoping to hear more soon.
please leave the novelty accounts elsewhere
Does the density & mass calculation affect what the surface gravity would be? If the planet is more massive than Earth, but less dense, would someone standing on the surface experience a greater weight than we do here?
How to do cheap backups
The TOS section quoted by simonbrown doesn't say anything about letting third parties lay claim to others' content.

If it's a DMCA claim being filed by the third party, the third party is committing perjury. If it's via an extralegal agreement set up between YouTube and the third party, then the third party is at the least defaming the legitimate uploader, and the third party taking direct action to receive royalties for a video they did not create is fraud.

Furthermore, the current copyright laws which apply the synchronization and public performance rights of music owners to home videos of dancing babies uploaded by amateurs need to be revisited. The present situation is entirely unfair and unproductive to society at large.
Slow boot? Blame systemd
No, but your comment implied that "it" is hard to do but if you slap on some social, "it can be done." You don't need to do anything so serious as "add social" to do "it."
The fact that Clickpass even exists made me realize openID was DOA.

I spent a day implementing openID for the users of my website, because I realized, hey, what a cool idea,
a URL can represent a single user on the internet, and that user can authenticate against it universally.

The sad truth was that I could not expect a single one of my users to even understand what the hell was going on, because for most test openID accounts I set up on yahoo, etc, I couldn't figure out how to use them. Only the hand-holdy sites exclusively for openid even bothered to tell me what my personal URL was and how to use it.

That was when I realized that Clickpass only exists because the implementation of OpenID was a total pooch screw.

If the OpenID standard had required it be simple, like the URL must follow this template - google.com/openid/kevinms and yahoo.com/openid/kevinms, and the user just pasted this into the box, I think it might have been a success. But because they didn't, and they convoluted it more with the concept of your "unique identity on the internet", you need third party services, which are unnecessary layers that are completely confusing to the user.
If users decide that it's not safe to click on ads, and start blocking or looking out for them en masse, Google has a problem.
Thanks for replying.
I created the script using mysql. But I need an opensource tool that can copy the data from live DB to archive DB (has the same structure of live db) efficiently and the archived data should be accessible through the web application. Basically, I need to update the Archive DB and delete old data from live DB.
MIT has a wireless tech that appeared to work with that range: http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/25/wireless_electr/
Nginx config gets pretty hairy as soon as you try and do anything unforseen.

Just read http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil for a start. Lots of things can only be done with ifs (unless you write a custom module) The "What to do instead" doesn't work for things that aren't simple rewrite rules.

There are seemingly arbitrary rules for what contexts you can have conditionals in, what commands can be in conditionals. There is no support for ands, ors, or nested ifs.
I found this article interesting but the title of the submission disingenuous.

The linked article tries to put the gender aspect aside and focuses on the actual controversy: a games writer saying they don't actually like playing games, and the stupid response of many in the gaming community. The title of this submission converts the whole thing back into an issue of gender.

I'm not saying I think either aspect is more important, but I almost didn't click this link because I wasn't interested in seeing another gender discussion at the moment. When I decided to do so anyway I was pleasantly surprised.
People often like to make things like this about the Internet. It's not, it's about human behavior and probability. Saying anything through a broadcast medium has a calculation involved in regards to the likelihood you're going to get attacked over it.

The world is filled with trolls. It doesn't matter what attributes you possess, thick skin will serve you well in life, and that will always be true. If you're fat or skinny, beautiful or ugly, rich or poor, you're going to get shit on, berated, harassed, and so on, at some time or another. Almost any sharp edge in any direction, about any topic, basically, results in blow back. That's not to say all scenarios are created equal.

You can hardly name something that isn't divisive these days. And now you know what nearly everybody thinks about everything courtesy of Facebook, Twitter, et al.

Mediums change, but trolls remain the same.
It in fact does! The surface gravity is 0.91 g[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GJ_1214_b
It creates items with japanese twice
"I found modern web UI is really much more advance than what existing desktop UI implementation."

That is a rather bizarre claim.
Schema.org launch video markup
Simple Strategies for Smooth Animation on the iPhone
I did a double-take at the title and am left wondering whether or not the one-letter difference between this and William Golding's Nobel Prize-winning "Lord of the Flies" is purposeful or not.
Ask HN: who are the most interesting new entrepreneurs?
Who are the most interesting new entrepreneurs that you think deserve more exposure?

The Startup Conference in Silicon Valley wants to give an opportunity for the most interesting founders to share their experience and insights. But who are they? I'm counting on the wisdom of the crowd to tell me :-)
No, he just said 5% had an invalid header, no claims were made about how many had valid headers. And unless he's actually audited any of the websites to see if what they're claiming in their P3P policies corresponds with how they actually use their cookies then how many sites have well formed headers is beside the point.
This is basically FUD being spread (amazingly quickly as well).

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android/commercial-info
Ubuntu for Android licensing

Ubuntu for Android components produced by Canonical are generally licensed under the GPLv3 or LGPLv3. Alternative licensing is available on the proviso that Canonical retains discretionary rights to include work done in the public versions of Unity and Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is and will always be free and open source. The Ubuntu trademark might need to be licensed for manufacturers wanting to ship this with their phones, but that is well within Canonical's rights according to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Bottom line, FUD. The source for Ubuntu TV is out there already. No reason to expect anything different here.
Gravity depends on m/r^2 where m is the mass of the planet and r its radius. Compared to Earth's, m = 7 m_earth and r = 2.7 r_earth, which gives you a gravity 0.96 times the gravity on Earth.
Remarkably similar... But I wonder, if the temperature is 200 degrees, there must be a massive pressure, in order to have liquid water. Where does the pressure come from? Heavy atmosphere?
This just in: some people have family money (or connections, which is the same thing). This is newsworthy, how?
For what it's worth, I would have loved a "skip combat" button on Mass Effect 2. The combat was decent, but it got dull after a while, very repetitive. By the end I just wanted to see the next dialog and make the next choice. That's where the real engagement of the game was for me.

And I love playing games in general.
A major makeover? Great!

Not addressing the terrible Cut/Paste "From Yahoo!" logo?

Big mistake.
I'm at a loss here.

I'm very careful not to reject this kind of "My Success Story" thing straight away. Too often it feels to me like the kind motivational self help with no insights or real lessons to be shared — until I find out someone who watched the same video (or attended the same event, read the same article) got a real insight of some kind from it. [1] That said, I watched a bunch of these videos and got nothing from them. :-(

I'm not subscribing at this time because I'm genuinely concerned I'll be subscribing to videos of people rubbing their success in my face, and not much else.

[1] Here's something another member of HN fished from one of the videos: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617651 (though I support the spirit, I don't particularly agree with that sentence).

EDIT: to be sure, I'm not claiming this website is going to offer lousy content, but I am claiming that they're doing lousy advertisement to that content (well, as far as I'm concerned at least — I'm merely a data point here).
A Unix Shell in Ruby
Great points BUT I think saying "checking if the prospective users are already taken" is missing a large part of it.
Before Google, I used Altavista.
Before Facebook, I used MySpace.

I thought those first services were great but then someone else came and executed so much better that I switch.
Accept that fact that you will (almost) never have a truly unique idea and just focus on executing astronomically better than anyone else ever has.
I know this is Ubuntu on Android, but all I can think of is Windows 8. Doesn't this seem like an inevitability for Microsoft? Intel even has x86 mobile chips on the way.
I'm experimenting with that, actually: https://github.com/pfraze/link
This is the last comment I noticed on this post so I'm going to address it. Full disclosure: I'm the aforementioned Exec Director of Arch Grants so I'm a tad bit biased. In an effort to enhance St. Louis' entrepreneurial ecosystem, Arch Grants is awarding $50k + immense support services (free legal and accounting services, reduced commercial and residential rent, business mentoring, access to university support, etc.) to startups. Like Israel pointed out, there are challenges with the model that we're addressing but perhaps more importantly, we're asking ourselves, "can we attract tomorrow's entrepreneurs to St. Louis by providing unencumbered grant funding?" Your comment hints at the fact that entrepreneurs will be doing what they do best, whether we fund them or not, similar to how students have to attend class anyway. As we see it, why not throw our support behind those entrepreneurs and fund their efforts in hopes that the funding leads to successful companies?
You described exactly what the people at http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ are trying to do.

It's still in an early state of development but you may join the mailinglist or read the wiki ( http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox ) if you are interested in this topic.
Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at Fixing It
Twitter mobile app updates for iPhone and Android
Home Health Care Agency
Using hostipal wards discharging patients with their houses sooner along with more sick, individuals are not really geared up and are weighed down. Numerous families don't need their particular loved one to attend an elderly care facility or competent unit. Numerous individuals never actually due to the option for residence health care. Other people believe while themselves new member is discharged form the hospital to home there is going to be somebody right now there One day Seven days weekly, as long as the care is necessary.
To be clearer, I was more taking issue with original comment's blanket rule that adult women can never be called girls. As you said, "It depends on context", and I think the original comment neglects this.

I'm totally aware it's not always appropriate to use such terms.
This was covered a few years ago in a New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html...

"Philip M. Parker seems to have licked that problem. Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history of the planet.” And he makes money doing it."
https link would be nice, unless I misunderstood what was happening there, my password went out in the clear.
Looking at the nerds I've met around Seattle, this is a fairly safe bet.
How legal would it be for a US based company to just not keep logs?
Home Health Care Agency
Your low Medicare insurance home health care agency will get together certain requirements connected with a maturing human population. Analysis of those 50 yrs . old, persistently signifies that practically 90 percent of such need to remain in their houses along with areas as time passes.
Wait, Amazon takes %55 of the list price, and has control over the actual price its sold at.

Meanwhile, Apple takes %30, and you have total control over pricing.

Yet whenever the iBookstore comes up here, people go on and on about the "Apple tax" and how Apple is trying to drive authors out of business? By taking Less?
I used Apache for years and then switched to Nginx and used it for about a year and a half. I've been bitten by all sorts of weirdness just trying to figure out how to do very basic things in Nginx, where configuration bits go and weird idiosyncrasies of the syntax and how it's parsed.
There hasn't been much in the way of riots but, contrary to the last line of the article, there has been a fair bit of mass mobilization particularly around globalization (e.g. Seattle), the Occupy movement and even the Tea Party.
Yesterday on reddit headline was something like "I can't believe you can play Grand Theft Auto on a _phone_" and my response was "I can't believe we call them phones, they are powerful pocket computers that just happen to have the ability to send and receive phone calls"

I wonder when they are going to come out with portable OLED display sheets and ultralight paper-based keyboards.
Should be completely legal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti...
There's a Quora answer about couching the lawmaking process in software development terms. You might find it interesting:

http://www.quora.com/What-can-lawmakers-learn-from-computer-...
writing two paragraphs that could be serious before saying "obvious sarcasm aside" is not making things better. People are confused for two paragraphs, then are trying to figure out what is and isn't "obvious sarcasm". None of it was obvious. The first two paragraphs are not obvious sarcasm. There are a whole bunch of people that would have written it and been dead serious.

sarcasm. Look, the word sarcasm is in my comment, which parts of it are sarcasm? Obvious sarcasm aside.
PSA:

Putting your email address in your profile is important. I once used to be "rb2k", but then I forgot the password I used back then and ended up as "rb2k_". There is no way to reset the password on an account if you're not adding an email :(
Actually, if you're a sole entrepreneur with a great idea or disruptive venture, we want to read your submissions!
Free vs. Open (feat. Hadoop)
Okay, so I have been sitting on these thoughts for quite some time now. Here are they:

1. I am no HN veteran (or tech veteran, for that matter) but I love this place and respect it much more that any other internet community I have a part of (a handful of them).

2. I have been to reddit not more than a dozen times and probably half of these referrals would have been from here, HN.

3. Whenever I read Reddit bashing in HN, my respect for this community decreases a little. Of course I consider HN to be a superior forum of intelligent interaction than reddit and hence I am on HN and not Reddit. I think that most of us would believe that to be true - but please, for the sake of keeping the sanctity of intelligent and useful discussion intact, we don't have to describe the superiority of intelligent discussion on HN every single time there is a post regarding Rededit! Probably all of us are aware of the differences and those who don't, won't care anyways.

4. You generalized the entire Reddit userbase to be drooling morons - the drooling part of which I guess refers to the male chauvinism. This was done despite the fact that the author of the article is not sure if gender had substantial contribution to the type of reaction the lady had received. In the comment, the another painful point that I see is that the entire community (and not just the people who acted like 'drooling morons') is shown in a derogatory light. Me, being less aware of how Reddit works - but aware enough to see that this is a wrong generalization, just made up my mind that I had to defend this community (even though I am not a part of it) and hence see reasons to probably even see a rationale behind the behaviour of 'drooling morons', not because I support them but because I want to strongly disagree with you. And I am wrong to do that, but that is in my nature and probably there would be others who would consciously or subconsciously feel the same. The point is, ad hominem and sweeping generalizations are illogical and harmful as they entice (or gives freedom to) people to be illogical in response.
Using PostgreSQL's hstore with Rails
Everyone here is completely missing the most important point of this makeover: it's not the design, but the fact that this means Flickr isn't being killed off.

With the sorry state that Yahoo!'s been in recently, the killing off of several interesting projects and websites, etc. Flickr dying was the number one concern for its users.

Stagnation is the death of any website. Any attention it receives from corporate, any money sent its way, any sign of time and effort being put into keeping it alive means they're not ready to chalk it off just yet - which means you don't have to worry just yet about migrating your thousands of photos (and far more importantly, the associated metadata) from Flickr to one of the alternatives.

This makeover is an infusion of life, and is first and foremost an attempt at extending the life of what could have been a dying website (from a corporate point of view). For this reason, and this reason alone, I both welcome this news and hope it accomplishes at least something.
I'm coming around to that view, myself. I've long since switched to playing most games on "normal" difficulty or below, because ratcheting up the difficulty really only adds tedium, not challenge. Once you figure out how to beat the bad guys, you just have to work at it longer on nightmare difficulty. And very quickly, the repetition is not fun.

I've definitely had games where I was enjoying the story and every once in a while I would totally have used a "fast forward combat" button if I had it.
So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 1)
Direct Link to the Video: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-1
I have seen a variant of this (but cannot remember where I saw it):

A duck is in the center of a circular lake. A fox is on the bank. The duck only needs to reach the bank (without simultaneously being caught by the fox) to win. The fox cannot swim.

If both move at the same speed, the fox wins easily. But what if the fox moves 4× as fast as the duck?
Don't use if. Use the Lua module if you need to do complex stuff, or another one.
Direct Link to the Video: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-dev...
SOPA author back and worse than ever
There are so many ideas that I always knew deep within but then somebody has to spell it out for me to believe. This article is another such reinforcement.
Texting in Braille
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End
Cold Contacting vs. Spamming