skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You wrote that you thought the Jews controlled the information in the US media... That is less than one step from the Zion protocols, quoted in the Hamas charter etc.

This is not quite what I wrote, but whatever. Even if it were, it's not just the Okhrana, the Nazis and Hamas who say stuff like this either, it is also Zionist lobbyist Haim Saban
(Link: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/10/100510fa_fact_...)
The fact that he said the same thing doesn't make me a pro-Israel billionaire either, anymore than the Protocols make me the Tzarist secret police. The point is that you can dismiss something if it is untrue, not by calling names. You still owe me an apology.

> Even if the army follows the war laws. That is very different from targeting and glorifying murdering children, which I wrote about.

Israeli Tshirts depict pregnant Palestinians in sniper crosshairs, captioned "one shot two kills".
Link: http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/15245946
That's two apologies you owe me.

> You have nothing to say about that the Arab countries destroy Palestinians' lives more than Israel ever did?

How? The Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians caused the refugee problem in the first place
Israeli Link: http://zochrot.org/en

> Or my other points re double standards?

Again, see http://mondoweiss.net

But let's say you are right for the sake of argument that "Arab countries hurt Palestinians more than Israel ever did"

How is that justification for suppressing the factual reportage
"Israeli authorities are threatening to demolish the installations in six of the 16 remote West Bank communities being illuminated by alternative energy, arguing the panels and turbines were installed without permits."
?

It is not. You are using untruths and smears to try to suppress the facts.
the order version - http://www.logitech.com/en-roeu/mice-pointers/trackballs/dev... - which i think is still available can be used by the left hand too.

i have the newer (blue) one and it has certainly helped. i have it positioned between my body and the keyboard, on the left, angled so that my arm is in a very comfortable, relaxed position when using it. it sounds odd, but works well.

it might be worth adding that even after many months of use i still don't feel as accurate with it as with a mouse (and a friend with one feels the same). but it is certainly "accurate enough" (i have a logitech mouse, configured to use the same usb receiver, but haven't felt the need to use it). if you do need very fine accuracy i think the best solution would probably be to combine one with a wacom tablet.

before that, i found that switching hands with the mouse helped. it doesn't take long to become proficient at left-hand mousing.
Fair points.

Given what you've described I'd suggest you take just one more friendly unbiased look at Rails 3... and if after that it's still not your cup of tea then fair is fair. Maybe you won't choose to develop with it, but maybe you also won't choose bash it. It's pretty cool and I believe it was an attempt by Rails developers to address your very concerns. Most major components can now be easily swapped via Railties thanks to the decoupling efforts.

http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/Rails/Railtie.html
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I am the developer. Regarding price, we decided to start charging because the serving costs were non trvial and I had been getting a lot of email requests for support that were taking up my time. Then Google App Engine prices went up too.

We didn't expect many paying subscribers and that is how it turned out, but we have enough to make it worth leaving the site up and running.

For low volume users we are thinking of offering a pay-go pricing option AWS style, with a low per-query price.

But this is not our main project now (WeatherSpark.com is) so I don't know when we'll get around to making changes.
I'm interested in how

> a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the totality of their movements, even if those movements are in public.

translates to actions on the public internet. This has potentially huge ramifications if it were to apply to the web, where the "totality of one's movements" can be much easier to track and perhaps even more revealing than where my car goes.

Can the FBI, by this standard, potentially need a search warrant to:

1. attempt to create a complete profile of my semi-public internet content (surreptitiously friend me on Facebook, follow my Twitter feed, and monitor all other sites where I am active for recent posts)

2. look at the browsing history of a public terminal I regularly use at a library

3. capture packets I'm sending over unencrypted WiFi in my home

None of these things are very much private nor does any involve any trespass by an investigator--perhaps 3 carries the greatest expectation of privacy by the average technically uninclined citizen. A lawyer could argue, however, that in capturing one or more of them, the FBI approaches capturing nearly all of what somebody does on the internet.

I think the Supreme Court has done a very interesting (and perhaps unprecedented?) thing here in creating an expectation of privacy in a public environment by invoking the work totality. With cameras getting smaller, and networks wider, and databases larger, it only seemed inevitable that within a few decades, all of our public movements within urban centres could and likely would be recorded. Similarly, people are already to starting to consider the internet to be "forever," since content never seems to be really "deletable," and Google/Facebook increasingly lower the effort needed to profile somebody's web content. Tell me that in a few decades, our movements on the internet will not be as important as our movements in the physical world, if that isn't already the case.

I hope this decision is the seed of a legal philosophy that could impede the continued erosion of privacy-in-public by everyone's smaller chips and bigger hard drives. In my mind, the freedom for people to interact in public without fear of lifelong ramifications is vital to democracy and societal progress although less and less people seem to agree with me. So, maybe this is my desperate optimism talking.
Does it matter? As long as people pay enough to ensure the creation of new works, I couldn't care less if every single dollar of revenue is extracted or not.

That's the issue, how do we know how much is required to create new works? perhaps more money would also create better new works? I would also assume that piracy is not necessarily uniform, something popular with a younger more tech savvy audience would be more likely to be pirated (I assume at least).

Sure, that's why I support both going to live shows and buying. I just don't support legal coercion.

We have legal coercion to do many things , for example to pay taxes or honor contracts that you may have signed (including EULAs etc). Not sure why this should particularly be different, you need some method of enforcement otherwise you would be essentially running an honesty system. Very few other industries can exist purely on what would essentially be donations so not sure why IP should be different.

Can you give me some examples?

Sure , Movies (although I suppose you could count cinema as performance) , video games and pretty much all software. There's also a lot of musicians that I enjoy but have no real desire to see live (mostly electronic stuff).

I don't consider that creating a work gives me the right to prevent others from copying whatever they want.

A counter question to this;
If you create a piece of IP then what additional rights should you have over everyone else?
Should somebody else be able to use it for something you might deem distasteful without your permission, perhaps misrepresenting your views in the process?

Should somebody else be able to take credit for your work? For example say you write and record a song and a large company with more resources than you decides to take your song and have somebody else perform it and they make serious money doing this do they owe you anything?

Or if they decide to host your work on a website with adverts (essentially what TPB did/does) do you have any right to a portion of that ad revenue?
Great comment.

I was one of those people. I really don't know if I was filling some void or not. It started when my company was just a startup. I needed clients, and most clients were bloody rich company owners. I had to fake I was one of them, after a lot of faking, I became one. I had to buy a new car every few months. I had boxes and boxes of clothes I used twice. I live 8 hours of flight away from NYC and I would travel there on weekends to buy clothes, cheesecakes of have lunch with "investors".

Then the banking crisis came. We almost crashed, we managed to survive but the social pressure on us was so great that I burned out. I took some time off and went to Railsconf, going back to my programming roots. The last expensive car I have is actually being sold tomorrow. I was talking to my wife about living close to the office so I could just walk to work.

After burning out I quit all managing roles in my company and I'm just a developer there. Thank god.

PS: My sennheiser cost 59 bucks at best buy, this is not expensive at all. There are some 2k+ headphones around.
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I wouldn't worry too much about it. Ive had a very similar thing happen with a small company a couple years ago - I submitted the verified correct solution and got a rejection letter to not come in for an in-person because I didn't style my code according to some BS guideline they use internally but didn't elude to in the instructions.

I honestly was happy that I wasn't selected. I can't imagine how many decent candidates they pass up if it is their normal operation. I'd much rather work for a place focused on solutions rather than coding style (I've been at a place where people argued over curly brackets all day - its horrifying especially when funding gets tight).

Funnily enough, I was browsing jobs about 6 months back and that small company still has the same job opening available a year and a half later.
Popular Science in 1948 had an article "This Capsule Challenges Vacuum Tube" on the germanium transistor calling it a device that may spark a revolution in electronics, and discussing various applications like much smaller radios, better TVs, and improved telephone transmission. They point out that the future success of the device depends on its cost, but mass-production might be possible. Computers are notably not mentioned. Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=YCcDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA117&...
Yes, it would be great if you open-sourced the library! I'd suggest promoting it as an alternative to SimpleGeo's service that provided this lookup, since that will be shut down at the end of March. See https://support.urbanairship.com/customer/portal/articles/31...
This webinar by Brian Mulloy is a nice complement to the post and offers up some great design tips when it comes to designing a RESTful API...

http://blog.apigee.com/detail/slides_for_restful_api_design_...
bummer. That's the name i used for my Jekyll 'helper' tool for creating reports

https://github.com/vlandham/hastie
I wish my university would give away empty bottles. They installed "filtered" water fountains a year ago, which should give people more confidence about the water. However, they don't give away empty bottles first.
The International Space Station really is the pinnacle of human achievement.

As the crew members make a toast drinking from their rocket propellant inspired cups the entire planet can be proud.
Richard Feynman. An essay about his work on computing machines - http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
This guy's experiences are very similar to my own except that mine started in 2004 when I moved my own stuff from location A to location B, injuring my wrist in the process.

And that started a two-year saga during which several doctors told me to quit my job. Obviously, I beat RSI (mostly), and still code to this day. Observations:

1) Avoid long-term use of NSAIDs: initially they work but ultimately they make you feel crappy, possibly because they do something to your liver causing your liver enzymes to rise.

2) Ice, ice, baby: A key aspect of the cure for me was submerging my forearms in icewater for 10 minutes daily until they became mostly numb. They were inflamed, and cold (though above freezing) is about the only anti-inflammatory with no really negative side-effects

3) Lose the mouse, lose the laptop: I use a logitech trac-ball now (though that penclic pen looks tempting) and a really big screen. If I want to revisit my pain, all I need to do is use a mouse for a couple days or try to use a laptop to be productive. Strangely, touchscreen tablets are fine. This tends to run head-on into the insane focus on laptops at tech companies these days.

4) Yes, it does seem like part of the problem is in your head: I hate hate hated my job in 2004 but I needed the money. I changed that in 2006 and started knocking everything out of the park. That's right about the time the symptoms gradually went away. Also, I started hitting the gym again and lifting weights despite the pain (losing the 15 lbs I had gained during the experience). It seems like once there's been a long-term physical trauma, one's awareness gets rewired to focus on it despite it being mostly healed and then the only way out is to deny its existence to the best of one's abilities.

5) I've become acutely aware of how many extraneous mouse motions and button presses exist right now and that's a real sore point with me.

Stuff that didn't work: yoga, rolfing (felt nice though), acupuncture (except for one time I needed to get something out by a deadline and one needle blocked the pain long enough to get there), various alternative mice and keyboards (Dvorak touchstreams and Kinesis were awful for me), and supplements (though I suspect more Omega-3s might have helped had I known about them)
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Get the degree, but keep the job. Find a way to work on the degree part time, or work at the job for a couple of years and then tell them you want to get a BS.

30k in debt may not seem a lot, but it will feel like that nagging weight at the bottom of your backpack that pulls you down a little. It'll impact your decisions on what car to buy (and how well you maintain it), where you live, whether or not you get married, kids, etc. I'm not saying don't borrow, but do it with your eyes open (which you seem to be). Work for a few years, save up some savings, find a school which will credit your existing education and allow you to focus on the courses you need for a BS/MS and not the silly side classes that all schools force on people to justify the other departments.
This is as old as the hills. A business has an incredibly difficult time cannibalizing a line of business that is profitable. And the music, television, gaming and movie businesses are very profitable.

The music business got lucky with Apple and iTunes. But this caused the TV and movie industry to get upset about having to a) give a cut to another middleman and b) reduce prices.

So piracy will continue until either the businesses stumble into a solution, or someone comes along and disrupts them.

And despite the wailing and teeth gnashing about DRM in the tech blogosphere, I'm not convinced that the public is truly concerned about this to the extent that techies are.
Exactly. Also, the word "technology" is now sometimes used to simply describe a certain piece of software middleware.

While some fascinating Bell-labs-like research is taking place at IBM and Microsoft, newer tech giants have opted to foster creation of lots of competing startups to do research for them, so that they're able to spend money (through acquisition) only on the successful ideas, rather than develop their own large and expensive research departments. The result has been that startups often focus (in fact, they are strongly advised to focus - for example in numerous blog posts that are widely popular here on HN) on ideas that can generate market value within a couple of years. They actually have no choice because otherwise they are losing their chances for investments and/or lucrative exits.

This is not to say that most people working in startups are the same type of people who could have worked at Bell Labs - they aren't. Most of them are "simple" engineers well versed in current "technologies" but are uninterested or unable to break new frontiers (this is not meant as a negative statement). However, quite a few of them are capable and interested, but the money and the Silicon Valley game are simply too enticing.

I often feel angry at Google particularly, who've taken quite a few bright and inquisitive minds from more innovative companies, like Sun Microsystems (RIP), and turned them into application builders.

But the game has changed, money, and a lot of it, could be made from technology much faster now than before, and many minds who could have been used for true innovations are now working on designing social networks (which is an interesting research topic, but not THAT interesting, and there are certainly other less explored avenues that lead to truer innovation).
I am the developer. As noted on the page: Unlike GeoNames, look-ups are based on an actual map of the world, rather than "closest point of interest", which ensures accuracy and that you actually get a result for all locations.

We also have a very fast spatial index rather than a slow SQL-GIS solution, and last time I checked, they have usage volume restrictions that are pretty limiting.

We looked into using them before building our own solution.
I'm a Bell alum. First off: It really was an amazing place. The guy across the hall won the Nobel while I was there, but even going to lunch could result in learning about state-of-the-art in something or another. The data rate of average discussions was quite high; Both parties usually had PhDs.

> What were the reasons why it started to lose that magic?

I could write a book on this. Much of the problem is that the metric-of-success changed and the organization was not prepared/couldn't make the transition. Measuring output in $$ might be good for biz, but is not good for certain types of R&D, nor is it good when it comes time for annual review. Eventually, many of the young capable people realized that they were going to make much more money by leaving Bell, and as the meltdown in 2001-3 showed, they weren't even going to sacrifice "the stability of a big company". (There was terrible turmoil around that time. The fact that developers were going to turn Holmdel into condos threw many alums for a loop. It was quite a loss.)
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I don't mean to be obnoxious, but at the salary you are talking about you are better off trying to get a job as a janitor at the college. It usually comes with free tuition. Local college just had an ad out for janitorial help at 24k per year, comes with state benefits, including some form of tuition waivers. Full time though, so it may be hard to fit in your classes.
CloudBees Wins a Perfect Trifecta by Sacha Labourey, CloudBees
Ask HN: Any specific marketing tips for an e-commerce startup?
I need some advice on how to promote an e-commerce startup both online and offline on low budget. It will be similar to http://www.flipkart.com but it will focus only on selling musical instruments.

How and where would you market it? Facebook? Google Ads? Myspace? Youtube? Twitter? How will you get first few customers?

I have read "The Noob Guide to Online Marketing" but would like to know if you guys have any tips specific to this kind of business.
That would be really useful to the community. You should definitely open source it.
Hadn't seen that, thanks!
I don't understand why this has to be queried against a server. Time zones don't change that much. Why can't this just be a standalone library download?
> The most obvious comes from the fact that there were a lot of people working at Bell Labs.

There's a number of issues I'd raise with the piece, but the above is not one of them. There were a lot of people in a number of R&D labs, but measuring the output per person (examples: nobels/papers/patents/citations per employee) I'd guess there was something special about the place.

Full disclosure - I'm a Bell alum, so perhaps I'm glorifying the past.
I tend to get considerable pain in my forearms when I've been typing too much for too long, and I've found the easiest thing that helps is rock climbing. As little as an hour a week is enough to keep the pain and discomfort away, and it only takes two or three times of doing it after a "break" before the pain is gone.

I'm not sure why adding more muscle strain to the equation (when I'm in shape I climb 5.10/low 5.11) helps, but I've read that it's important to balance strength with agility, so maybe that's related somehow. Anyhow, climbing is a ton of fun, and anybody with bad RSI who's already using a trackball and an ergo keyboard should give it a shot.
We offer that as a Java library and associated data file. You can read about it on the web page.
The article never mentioned the creation of Unix. How could any tech loving journalist miss this point?!!
What atheists can learn from religion
Seems to be either bad handwriting or a very bad font. Notice the same on "magazine", and "Sam" looks like "Samn".
This would be a great kickstarter project. You may want to modify it though so the station just prints a check or some other instrument other than cash or you will end up with a lot of broken Mechanical Turk Stations.
That punchline is one of the funniest things I've read all week! Thanks.
Similar, but without specialised hardware: http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html
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http://t7melsoft.com/ar/26-02-2012/169.html
Would be interesting to see a comparison to iOS - are there figures available?
Could brain imaging replace the SAT?
Has anybody read "pain free" by Pete Egoscue? His aproach is that due to the continuous bad position certain back and shoulder muscles become weak and the other (not properly suited) have to make the force of the original ones. They finally contract or create pain due to the forced possition( take this explanation with a grain of salt as is from memory). He gives some easy exercices to recover the possition and strengthen the muscles. It is very straight forward.
BTW he is no MD, but the system seems to work. Just as a note my wife is reumatologist and used to be very sceptic of this kind of "structural" theories, as there is very little of this on the medic literature. Now acter trying some of them herself, she thinks they have their place for some kind of pains. ( caveat this only a n=1 enviroment). I think is worth a shot.
Mountain Lion Threatens Facebook and Microsoft
Actually, a lot of homeowner's associations explicitly ban minors; Senior citizens often don't want kids in their neighborhoods.
Got me. It sort of makes sense since you can't have whitespace in URLs.
The author tries to be a little self-deprecating about it, but basically he's the Starbucks customer who engages the cashier in a long conversation about how the coffee is so expensive at places like this, and he's been meaning to start making his own coffee at home again, and shouldn't they lower their prices?
Yea, broken machines or people getting mugged right after cashing out are both concerns. But the people who would benefit most from something like this would be least likely to have a bank account.