skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey man I think its pretty cool, I'm using it to replace my default shorthand to document.createElement. Added a handy dandy outputStrings mode so i can run it in node.js without a dom. Check it out $el is it, plus uses $node for the string output mode https://github.com/andrewluetgers/loot
Well, if it's possible to upload own picture, perhaps it might make sense to cache images in the cloud, at least when hotlinking is disabled.
Reasons to pick Amazon AWS over Rackspace and dedicated hosting
Big Data? No. Big Information as a Service
There's little relationship between Dynamo and S3. Riak is based on the former but not the latter.
New Amphibian Family Discovered in India
More on shitty services...

I have an hbo account through verizon fios, and typically watch shows through hbo go. Its hbo's streaming answer to being able to view the content you already pay for. The service is terrible, it constantly stops buffering and looses its place in the show / movie and you have to restart the player constantly. This can't be due to my connection because speed tests report everything as fine and dandy.
I don't know how it ends and I can't read the end. Every time I try, I have this strange feeling that as long as I don't read it, it can't happen; what ever it is; that the story, and the fate of all those strange and magical personalities hangs in limbo until I - specifically, I - finish reading, at which point the whole house of cards will simply spontaneously combust and leave me with a pile of ashes in my lap and smoke in my hair. I've never been involved with a book like IJ before.

Well now, that sounds pretty silly, doesn't it?
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http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1637143363405832...

Google images has been litigated and the result is incredibly pertinent to this discussion. Check out the section on fair use...

"(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."

And in addition, the court considered what the service was offering to the public. They seem pretty concerned about the fact google never deals with the full sized images... etc. etc.

The whole case seems pretty relevant. It includes discussions on the other types of infringement as well including material contribution.
brilliant. Shouldn't you be catching up on your codeacademy classes?
A previous related discussion cited in the article: A Short Rant About Hosting http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2926825
I assume you aren't on OS X where Wireshark is fugly, clunky, and takes forever to boot.
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Exactly. I landed my current job solely through relationships created during a recent local hackathon and the exposure it afforded me.
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I'd argue that the people on HN are the ones you are likely to get the least benefit from. Show your work to people who can actually use it. Not likely to be HN members unless you're making development/server tools.
I'm not sure that this is the case.

Back works as expected - it takes you to the previous page you were at. Fragment identifiers don't break the back button. That's all from a user perspective's point of view, which is mostly all that matters in the end.

If you look at this from a technical standpoint, then back is a refresh of twitter.com, yes.
TL;DR - "They flagged my video as containing their content, even though it doesn't, which means they get my ad revenue."
Without copying and pasting, how do I type this letter on OS X?
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This article is a wonderful articulation of some of what I've been feeling since I replaced my Palm Pre with an iPhone 4 nearly a couple years ago.

There are simply some things that WebOS's UI got better than iOS - and nearly two years later, using what is generally lauded as being the best mobile UI in the industry, I still miss some of those things.

I have a recurring daydream where Android incorporates the best of WebOS into its next release, and it's suddenly far-and-away the best mobile OS.
# less readable, unpythonic, but a single expression
reduce(sense, measurements)
http://natalieportman.jpg.to/r+l+jpg
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This implies discipline and Agile (big 'A') are mutually exclusive.

No, I would say big 'A' brings discipline, but if you already have tons of discipline, it can't add any more.
The title was confusing. I thought it was a new article, looking back over 5 years, not a 5 year old article.
To be precise.

"ones" is not "recursively applied to itself". "ones" is not a function. "(:)" is a function.

In actuality, "ones" is both an argument and a result of the (:) function (aka "cons").

This works in Haskell because "ones" is not an atomic value or function; "ones" is a "lazy" structure, where some of the elements's values depend on other element's values, and Haskell uses a "call-by-need" graph reduction algorithm to evaluate arbitrarily complex* computations down to values, not in any sort of sraihtforward order suggested by "argument -> function -> result -> lvalue" in an imperative or strict language.

Laziness is at the core of the runtime system's model for computing a result from a program, and it's not something you can translate line-by-line from a non-lazy program, even a functional language program.

I'm not just being pedantic.
Haskell (with a runtime like GHC, required for this conversation to really make sense) really is different from other programming systems. ("Programming system"! Not just "language"!).

The runtime system ("RTS") is not just a C runtime that provides a statement language and shim over OS system calls.

The RTS is not "just" a VM like Java VM.

The RTS is (metaphorically) like perl's "perl -nple" or a SQL RDBMS query planner, where the runtime is itself a program that takes your code as input and does its own extremely sophisticated computation that is not at all visible in your program's code.

[] Arbitrarily* complex, but still "causal" structures that admit at least one valid order of evaluation. Trying to define "ones = ones" or other non-disentanglable cyclic dependencies leads to a runtime failure ("<loop>" exception).

[] In some cases, the graph solver might practically fail to solve a graph that is theoretically solvable. Let's ignore that.
They in fact cannot even display a message, there is no way AFAIK to distinguish between this situation and someone simply not being logged-in. Even if they could, they would still leave IE users without some functionality. Again, I do not want to be Google's advocate and I do not know their specific use cases, I am just saying they are legitimate use cases for both not having the privacy policy that restrictive (eg. when processing and passing over the users data is actually part of the buisness model) and for doing third party integration, which the security model as implemented by MSIE makes impossible to handle.
Good stuff, I found it useful info whilst trying to decide between Backbone and Ember for a project.
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It sounds like he's mentioning almost everything great about webOS except the lack of polished or first-party apps. Everytime I use my Touchpad I get sad that I don't have the same experience on my WP7. webOS makes iOS and Android feel like kludges to the solution of an OS designed for mobile usage.
Is there no penalty for incorrectly claiming others' content?

Perhaps the "guilty until proven innocent" mentality is justified by saying that there is so much infringement, that due process would always be 3 steps behind the uploaders.

Even if that's true, is there no financial penalty for incorrectly flagging others' content? What incentive does the RIAA currently have for not flagging every video on YouTube simultaneously, other than public opinion?
I assume it was a typo - you meant 2038 right? Not aware of a crash impending 10 years after that one :)
It's for hackers.

I personally don't care so much for founding a company. I'm interested in freelancing and cool technology.
Having a couple different common cases and configurations benchmarked wouldn't hurt...
Yeah, it's important to note that it's a key-value store; that's what attracted me initially.
With mod_lua, embedded lua interpreter.

I just couldn't resist, I had to try it at once. It works! (no pun intented, for those who get the reference).

edit: fixed typo
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It's interesting how these dyed-in-the-wool capitalists are getting so butthurt over getting their asses kicked by more able competitors.
System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources > Enable: Kannada

The letter is SHIFT + ' (or just ") to yield ಠ.
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What would be the advantage of that, other than devo/testing purposes?
For a while there he was running Linux on a PowerMac G5 tower as his primary desktop:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/12/13

Many open source OS projects have core developers on non-x86/amd64 platforms so as to find errors, x86isms, and other code quality issues reveled by fundamental differences in the underlying architectures.
At the other hand, if one can come up a wireshark fork that outputs a nice web UI to you local browser, will that be useful to anyone?

I found modern web UI is really much more advance than what existing desktop UI implementation. I was thinking of making a wrapper app around tcpdump/pcap app and generates a nice Web UI for localhost user.
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I never got to try WebOS, and I really wish I had (I know I can download an emulator, but you can't emulate day-to-day usage).

That said, I'm using a Windows Phone these days, and it's fantastic. No, really. The UI is amazing, and going back to my old Android phone feels incredibly clunky by comparison. I wouldn't recommend one just yet- there's still work to do. For one, third party apps can't interface with native apps- for instance, the Messaging app seamlessly combines SMS, Facebook and Live chat, but I can't hook in GChat. If/when they get that set up they'll have a very loyal customer in me.
Linux users just type <C-shift>uxxx, where xxx is the hex code point. (That actually works for anyone running X11).

Unfortunately, you apparently can't do it on OS X without bringing up a menu and/or changing your keyboard layout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#Hexadecimal_code_...
Set it to read my todo.txt file in dropbox and now I have awesome, easy, simple, 'just works' cross app synchronization! (Though, they use + for project notifiers, and @ for locations. hmm... )
Not 100% sure but I think this is a chroot.

From the features page [0]:

Ubuntu and Android share the same kernel. When docked,
the Ubuntu OS boots and runs concurrently with Android.
This allows both mobile and desktop functionality to
co-exist in different runtimes.

[0] http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android/features-and-specs
I have the opposite reaction, I love Android 4.0 on my Touchpad, while I very much hate using WebOS. In particular I don't like the cards, I find them too gimmicky and I always end up missing my home screens & my widgets and the speed and flexibility of Android.

Here is a quick video I made yesterday of the latest Android build for the Touchpad http://youtu.be/qqn8etizQqY
Yes. I'm not aware of OS X issues.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_heartbeat.html

It frustrates me when people use ASCII instead of packed bitmaps for things like this (packet transmitted once a second from potentially hundreds or thousands of nodes, that each frontend proxy has to parse into a binary form anyway before using it). Maybe it's a really small amount of CPU but it's just one of many things which could easily be more efficient.

Some of this stuff is so simple and useful it's a wonder they weren't there before:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_form.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_session_dbd.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_buffer.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_data.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_ratelimit.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_lua.html

"mod_ssl can now be configured to share SSL Session data between servers through memcached"

"mod_cache is now capable of serving stale cached data when a backend is unavailable (error 5xx)."

"Translation of headers to environment variables is more strict than before to mitigate some possible cross-site-scripting attacks via header injection."

"mod_rewrite Allows to use SQL queries as RewriteMap functions."

"mod_ldap adds LDAPConnectionPoolTTL, LDAPTimeout, and other improvements in the handling of timeouts. This is especially useful for setups where a stateful firewall drops idle connections to the LDAP server."

"rotatelogs May now create a link to the current log file."

Very nice that they rewrote the mod_rewrite and caching guides with more examples and ease of use in mind. Here are the API changes: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/developer/new_api_2_4.html
Awesome, thanks for the pointer to MetaOptimize. I always forget to check there for info.
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It seems to me the biggest issue with these sites activity is when they replace a user's desire/need to visit the content creator's site. It's no longer collecting URLs or sharing favorite things -- it's recompiling copyrighted work into a new work and leaving out the original content creators. It seems that's the infringement (at least in my gut).

What if, instead, Pinterest were to behave more like google images and provide only thumbnails. Where to see that "12 uses for baking soda" you had to click through to the blogger's site? Could that preserve the service and the community, but protect content creators as well?

There is certainly an experience trade off here. Discussion is less likely to occur on Pinterest, the user may have no further reason to go to that blog -- they only wanted to see the list. These sites might not be able to handle the traffic...and on and on.

But it would seem you'd be closer to sharing your favorite things while not taking advantage of copyrighted material (possibly even being more legal about it), and often providing a marginally better experience. As a user I've now discovered this blog not just the uses for baking soda. For pins where the image wasn't enough, I didn't have to deal with the second click.

Trade offs trade offs trade offs...
"I have a recurring daydream where Android incorporates the best of WebOS into its next release, and it's suddenly far-and-away the best mobile OS."

Its happening already. Matias Duarte ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias_Duarte ) has been working his magic for sometime now.
I still feel that WebOS's GMail application is one of the best yet on a mobile device. I have a TouchPad, an Android Tablet and an Android Phone. When I hear the email 'chime' go off, I always grab the TouchPad first. The sliding panes UI design to me is brilliant.
Check out the flickr stream. The stories are haunting. http://www.flickr.com/photos/41042736@N07
Benchmarks are like porn. The real thing is always better. Figure out what your stack is, try using all the options available, and go with the one you like best.
Other than the odd exceptions, people staying on IIS has little to do with VBScript or other legacy code at this point. In the enterprise I would wager the two largest IIS hooks are .net and sharepoint, neither of which have anything to do with VBScript.
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This article reads better: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/pirate-bay-r...
I agree with almost everything in the article, but for me, webOS's achilles heel is speed. Even with my touchpad overclocked to 1.7ghz, it still feels sluggish. But after a day of using it over my iPad 2, when I return to the iPad, I find myself swiping things that don't swipe on iOS.

My one disagreement is on the keyboard. I like that it has the number row, and behaves more like a real world keyboard, but on iOS my typing is much more accurate.
1500 days ago discussion about the same article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97709
You know what, I'm totally new to this party in that this is my first ever written comment on the situation. But I have to admit, I'm starting to get pretty pissed.

The thing that really gets me, and the thing that has recently dawned on me is that file sharing isn't the only thing that is eating away at "sales" - I realized just yesterday I have never paid for a CD, or bought a DVD. In my younger years I "acquired" content in the common, frowned upon, ways but in the last 4+ years I can say the same for my content purchasing habits - I just don't do it.

You know why?

Netflix. Spotify. Love-film. Youtube. iPlayer. 4od.

I just don't have to buy content any more because I can pay ALL of these guys and get pretty much all the content I can watch. I genuinely haven't opened a torrent app or downloaded from a file locker for longer than I can remember and I am what you'd imagine is that kind of guy.

Just today I got a phonecall from LoveFilm telling me about their new "stream only" packages, and that they're now owned by Amazon so their streaming tech is much better than it used to be.

Not only that, but I'm sure maybe even yesterday I read an article about Katy Perry's (Mmm) millions (if not tens of) plays on Spotify earning her next to nothing.

Now look, I know a lotta guys do fileshare but file-sharing is not the only reason the industry(s) are on their arse, it infuriates me that this whole charade is still going, I know I don't need to tell you guys how ridiculous this is.

This isn't even to mention everything else that us guys read daily about what the industry should be doing differently, or how to improve this and that. This is a set of commercial deals they have in place that give me an extra option in addition to "download illegally", or "buy download/CD".

So I'm of the opinion that if you took file-sharing out of the equation, they still have nobody but themselves to blame.
1 million seconds is 12 days. 1 billion seconds is...
...32 years.

Just thought that was interesting.
It hjas email as of this morning.

and official support for a decent amount of android apps. The problem right now is devs aren't willing to support it becase of a lack of users. Users aren't willint to support it because it has poor app support.

If they could get a few of the big apps (netflix, skype, etc...) to come over that would probably help a bit.
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Pirate Bay ruled to infringe copyright, could be blocked in UK
"6) Even so, your entire rant about specialization has been said far better by a far better human than you: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." Who here doesn't feel their heart stir upon reading that? And I've spent more than a few hours working my way through that list. And yet...

...and yet the great RAH is wrong. A society without specialization is a tribe of hunter gatherers. If you want anything more - be it material goods, services, or even our modern morality - then you need specialization. You get to pick one: A primitive hunter gatherer society, or specialization. If you are not personally gathering all the food you eat and crafting all the clothing and tools you use, then you have specialization. And if you are doing that, then you will eat nuts and berries, wear furs, and have no tools. Full stop. There are no other options."

I was thinking the exact same thing. The author is either very naive or very stupid. However, as they don't make a decent point at the end of their tirade, I'll go with naive. Good luck without specialization.

It's the most hypocritical thing I've read in a while. He complains about calling a plumber to fix the toilet. That we should learn to do things ourselves. Well, if everyone really took that logic, then where would the manual come from? Guess what? Someone who specialized. Whatever about the toilet itself and the plumbing and everything in your damn house, no matter how big or small. You say you want to read to learn more. How would these books have been written for you to learn anything without the specialization you detest? If everyone were a Renaissance man... we would not get very far as a species. I do believe we are very capable, but it's just inefficient to try to learn everything.

If you want to live link a hunter gatherer, be my guest, but you can't take some approach that's neither that nor the current model of all humans becoming highly specialized. I'll take specialization.

It is specialization that has enabled our species to thrive and progress so far. It is generations of specialization on top of specialization that has helped give us all we have.

You either take it all or leave it all. Anything else is pure hypocrisy.
So no SPDY implementation then? Too bad.
No matter how many people stress this very important point there will still be people crying over performance during sleepless nights spent thinking about the one in a million chance that their server will be burdened by some ungodly amount of traffic. I've even been guilty of it on servers that get 14 hits a day (and that's on a good day)!

I disagree that each deployment is unique though. In theory each deployment should be unique but most people just go with the defaults their hosting provider suggests, others don't have control over those setting (shared hosts) and still others just use the htaccess file that comes with html5BP and leave it at that. There's a ton of people That have a majority of the modules enabled but neither use them or know what they do too. I've been guilty of it before too. Maybe around these parts it's safe to say each deployment is unique but out in the wild you tend to see a lot of the same.
9 month old Fab Acquires 5 month old Casacanda, 2.5M+ members combined
is there a better word for that idea?

Quantize. :)
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It's a new music industry that very well may have less revenue and less profitability. There isn't much elasticity for concert ticket prices to go up much more, but there's a lot of room for record sales to fall, which means turning them into a loss leader just means losing money.
What's with all the downvotes? I thought the exact same thing too till I read the explanations on this thread!
Can non-US-citizens sue US corporations in small-claims court?

Because at $5k or $10k a pop, you might find them stop this behavior.

They do it now because there is no downside for them for false DMCA claims.

$10k a pop might become a downside.
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