skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fascinating... but how?

Short of AI I don't see how automation helps.

It's illegal to practice law without a license, so you can't find some dramatically lower-cost way to do legal advice and advocacy either.

Perhaps insurance against red tape? Like a retainer fee, but built to scale up to zillions of clients.
Court Declares Newspaper Excerpt on Online Forum is a Non-Infringing Fair Use
Choosing a template for a geek's website. Did I do it right?
Jobs was a video game programmer in the mid 70s. From what I've read, it was he who brought Woz in on the hardware project for Breakout.

Of course there was a gulf between his technical skills and those of Woz, but few people in that era had any programming or hardware design knowledge at all.
> But I think if you put us.pool.ntp.org,us.pool.ntp.org,us.pool.ntp.org for the server your computer will try to spin up three ntp connections.

Close, but not quite; ntpd appears to be smart enough to realize you have three identical "server" lines in ntp.conf, and collapses them. Try this instead:

1.us.pool.ntp.org,2.us.pool.ntp.org,3.us.pool.ntp.org

Changing "us" to your country code, of course. Just tested, and it appears to produce the desired behavior.
"foofy" margins actually have a purpose - to improve legibility. Something that HN is in desparate need of.
I know rdate is awful but when that's all you have and don't feel like crosscompiling for a device which does not even requires a minute of precision, it does the job.

Technical excellence is not always required, and having more choices usually is a good idea.
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Node.js is becoming a first class citizen on Windows, so I'm not entirely sure what the point of this is. IISNode even allows you to host your Node.js apps in IIS.

If you're desperate for some kind of evented web framework in C#, check out SignalR - https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR
Exactly, Rand was a master of telling half-truths. While the quote makes sense on the surface, she gently shuffles aside the many economic ways you can control an honest man (denying him food, resources, housing etc).
Honest question. Why am I being downvoted?
Just in case you ever want to backup your Route53 records...
https://github.com/Hack56/Route53-To-S3
For a moment I thought that said "Great CEOs Must be Ethical..." Of course, that's false.
I wish that google would add this font to GDocs already. Love it.
At least on the iPhone, I use an app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id434787119?mt=8). You can find hackernews apps on iPad too, but browser works fine for me.
I think he means it the same way: "If everyone wants what you owe them at once, you're hosed." This goes for people buying stocks on margin as well as for the justice system, which in theory owes each defendant a jury trial, but in reality only has enough bandwidth for 10% of them.
I'm surprised you think that margins decrease the signal-to-noise ratio. I find generous margins make text easier to read - which is why print magazines and newspapers will split text into columns even when the entirety of a page is taken up by one story.
Mozilla Firefox Beta 11 Portable on Downloads App
Have you figured out how could a website determine if your app is installed? It'd be cute to have a reddit style notification when people reply to your comments in a forum etc.
I feel your pain. I had something similar happen to me -- though not to the same degree. Recently I was selling posters based on a meme unique to my campus -- the designs were our own (so we had the copyright), but the original concept the memes were based on was not. (Imagine you sold a photo of your own cat with the text "I can haz cheezburger" -- it's still your copyright, right?)

Anyway, some guy started posting that we were fraudsters, were raping culture, etc. It's funny, our troll sounded just like yours -- obviously intelligent and articulate, but took something trivial (internet memes) way too seriously. I really can't understand the mindset of these people -- when I noticed that reddit was becoming a waste of time, I didn't post a long rant about it -- I just stopped going to reddit.

If it's any comfort, know that such people likely have little else going on in their life, and trolling in defence of their online "tribe" is all they have. If you're actually creating stuff, being entrepreneurial, putting yourself out there, you're already beating them.
The law being objective does not change the fact that the law is _acting_ in this situation and there is no sense in which the cop can be termed a criminal.

That is to say, a cop on a power trip is legal if he doesn't get caught. It is the _law_ that is on a power trip in that case.

We use the word "illegal" to refer both to things that have been punished and things that could be punished.

When the law is corrupt, nominally illegal things become nebulously legal.
Came here to say this. GNU Parallel is great.
"Fast forward to today, and as a recent insightful post pointed out, even the "non-technical" members of famous founding pairs like Gates/Allen or Jobs/Wozniak have been extremely technical."

So, uhm, when were either Gates or Allen ever considered non-technical? (even relatively speaking) Which of the pair is supposedly the less technical founder? Both were extraordinarily technical. Hey Rao, your ignorance is showing.
There are various C# solutions for frontend web development.

SharpKit[1] is probably the most mature.

[1] http://sharpkit.net/
I love it when I spend time writing open source software that people use for free. If a business uses it and earns money because of it, I'm even more delighted.

If you choose to put something creative out into the ether, you should have the expectation that if it's good there are going to be copies and other derivations. If you can't stomach this or can't afford legal counsel to enforce your IP, keep your creative works off the Internet.

The world is a better place because of "unsolicited collaboration".
They take a lot of the same flak. I expect it died down somewhat once they (at least, I use knowyourmeme) became vaguely reliable and useful.
"One sperm aliquot (experimental) from each patient was exposed to an internet-connected laptop by Wi-Fi for 4 hours, whereas the second aliquot (unexposed) was used as control, incubated under identical conditions without being exposed to the laptop." I'm no scientist, but this just screams "too many factors" - IIRC other studies have shown a link between offline laptop use (this was sometime in early 200x IIRC, before ubiquitous WiFi) and decreased sperm motility due to the higher temperature; this is an interesting point for further research, but using this as "proof" that "EM nukes sperm" [note the clever "nuclear" insinuation] is, uh, not very convincing. (I don't see this SIG complaining about wireless analog phones, microwave ovens, or other established 2.4 GHz technology. Is there an agenda? Those "EM prevention devices" ads linked at the top perhaps?)
Where can that data be found if it is publicly available?
The powers that be would have to assassinate him

Or just ensure that he doesn't get enough cooperation from Congress to change the law.
That already hit HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3362163 . Nonetheless, the commoncrawl foundation is a big thing.
I agree with the point of your question, but I do know that in some cases it's a matter of codebase count. Which is to ask would it be better to have 1 codebase that serves as your website and native views? Or is it better to have X number of codebases for your views based on the number of platforms you'd like to be on? Especially when in all cases the views should be the same regardless of platform/native.

Sometimes native is forgone to provide more centralization of views. It's not always good to custom build for every platform when you want consistency in your UX across all platforms.

It all depends.

EDIT: Grammar.
It is strange and interesting to see the perception of a language change. Javascript has probably had the fastest and most extreme change in my mind - going from a tool for building doo-dads and alert boxes to one that has MVC frameworks, server-side code, etc.
Yeah, can't imagine how this submission made it to the front page of HN.
I do as well. Just having every function that you write instead of returning values, return values through a "do_plugins" function.

It's such a simple and easy thing to write into your code with almost no effort, yet if you do it for every function your app would wind up being extremely pluggable.
PSN automatically "roots" your Facebook, no permission granted.
I have been meaning to link up my modern warfare 3 account with facebook (new feature) so I could see which of my facebook friends play. Today I finally did it and paid very close attention to the permission I was granting to the game. Call of duty asks for permission to access all your basic info, view your photos, and post to your wall. A bit hefty, but I wanted to see who else was playing modern warfare 3 so I agreed. I was logged in, and when I went to my friends list i was informed it found no results so was pretty much pointless. Immediately I checked my account settings on facebook thinking I would just remove access and forget about the whole thing. I was not so shocked to find that call of duty had allowed itself more access than it asked for. I WAS however shocked that there was another app allowed in the last 24 hours called 'Playstation Network' and it had a pagelong list of access permissions all of which were completely open and I had never been asked to allow that. (I'm pretty sure it just opened up every permission setting possible on facebook) Seriously, check it out yourself if you have the game on ps3. I would take a screenshot but I was so disturbed the first reaction was to of course revoke all access. Obviously any information they could access would have been crawled and indexed in sony's servers in those few minutes, but it was all I could do of course. Has anyone else been disturbed by this? It is particularly ironic that sony not so long ago lost all psn users' personal and financial data to crackers, and now they want to underhandedly grab more of it from our facebook accounts. Please help me bring some attention to this.
Things have a tendency to resurface. I personally had not read it before. Though since the HN search is so good (Probably in the top ten I've seen so far for content search on a site.) theres not as much of an excuse for resubmission.
I notice in your Overtone + ClojureScript screencast you were using VIM on Mac, but this looked different. Are you using SublimeText here or Noir itself as the editor?
Optimizely: A/B testing software you'll actually use
Also, what editor/tools do you recommend for general Clojure, ClojureScript, or Noir development and why?
I recently came across SignalR, it's a very well written and simple framework to use.

The buzzwords are web sockets, comet, ajax push, etc.
Retina iPad? That Means I Am Going Digital Only for Comic Books
"given the way fields are getting narrower and narrower and the way the academe has devolved, I see little real connection between stuff being shown in academic research papers and the technology that we'll be hyping in 2032."

I think that's a myth. The fields I studied aren't any narrower today than they were two decades ago -- the fields I studied didn't exist two decades ago. They barely existed ten years ago. And now there's a vibrant field of research. The same is true all over the biological sciences, computer science, chemistry, biochemistry, bioengineering, etc. The fields where a PhD means something are constantly re-inventing themselves, because the frontier of technology keeps getting bigger.

In the 1980s, Rodney Brooks at MIT was doing some interesting academic work with simple, toy robots, while everyone else was building thinking machines and planning systems and industrial robots. Twenty years later, and there are multiple companies commercializing the technologies emerged from that work. Some people might look at iRobot and say "what an innovative startup!", but I look at them and see a company that has done a good job of commercializing 20-year-old technology. They've definitely refined it since then, but the core technology was invented at MIT, in the 80s. The same applies to nearly every "hot" technology that startups are pimping today -- dig a bit below the surface, and you find an iceberg of academic research.

And that's what I mean when I say that the startups of 2032 will be hyping academic research done in 2012. It's all a matter of perspective.
I don't think there is a commonly agreed practice.
My opinion (and what I tell my students):

Independent of the specific license, I would suggest listing sources (and uses) of all external code in your LICENSE file, and at the header of each file. This makes it much easier to check for license compliance later on. Most open-source licenses require attribution but do not explicitly specify how this should be done.

Example: "check_for_update() from stackoverflow.com/... (CC BY-SA)"

Depending on the license of the code you are using, you might be required to mention its use in your application's documentation (e.g. BSD, CC BY).

If the code is in the Public Domain or is not sophisticated enough to be protected by copyright (thin ice!), there is no need to mention it in the source code.

If it is just a few lines of code, try to put it into its own function and add a short comment. This also allows you to easily remove problematical code later on.

Generally, if it is just a few lines of code, dealing with the license issues is usually not worth it. For example, you can not legally mix CC BY-SA code from Stack Overflow with GPL code. I would suggest just looking at the SO solution and writing your own implementation of the algorithm (not completely safe but probably the most convenient solution).
>I think the potential is there, but tablets need to become more "disposable" first.

And then instead of throwing out some biodegradable/easily recyclable paper, you have a pile of plastics and rare earth metals that you are throwing out, thus obliterating the supposed "green" impetus for going paperless.
Mozilla and Google aim to level up gaming on the Web
The app feels much like the WebOS version, so I will guess that they borrowed some of the WebOS code and used it in the iPad version to save time.
Yeah, for the developers that have a brain small enough to handle multiple programming languages.
You want to exploit something you consider "garbage" but which has a certain value to the people that create and/or perpetuate it, and you find it odd that it would piss those people off?

This has nothing to do with "the internet" or Reddit, or 4chan or whatever. You try to do this with some local group of people that's involved in whatever kind of hobby or activity you consider weird, or "garbage", and you'll get more or less the same response.
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[17:16:45.286] missing ; before statement @ http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest.js?var=speedtest&callb...

<b>Fatal error</b>: Call to a member function getAffiliateOrStandardUrl() on a non-object in <b>/var/dropbox/deploy/cloudharmony/lib/util/CH_SpeedtestUtil.php</b> on line <b>802</b><br />

[17:16:45.352] speedtest is not defined @ http://cloudharmony.com/js/run-speedtest.js:144
I don't get it. If there is such a need for this, why wasn't it met with software on any of the sylus based tablets that came out over the last 15 years? Was their hardware to heavy and clunky? Because it seems to me that for serious work, especially making fine notes on a blue print, the accuracy of a stylus over a fingertip would be very valuable.
Treat it like a citation in a paper. Add comments acknowledging and saying where the code came from. If nothing else, it'll help refresh your memory on why you needed it.

Also be aware of the original licensing for the code. If it's any more than attribution you'll need to determine how it affects the rest of your code and if you might need to reimplement.
I under-appreciated licenses for a very long time and only recently realized the very real risk of writing some code, posting it to github without any licensing, it being picked up by some commercial organization, and then them licensing it and (possibly, later) taking action against you for using their code without a license (ha!).

I am not completely sure about US copyright law. However, at least in the European Union, you are the sole owner of your code as soon as you write it. Therefore, anyone putting their license on your code would be violating your author rights.
why the noise bg? can that ponytrick die already?
History repeats itself: the tactic being advocated here worked pretty well for the Industrial Workers of the World in the early 20th century. Their tactic was to provoke authorities into arresting an IWW member (it helped that, then as now, the police are eager to arrest people who are insufficiently deferential, crime or no crime), then bring in hundreds of IWW members and others, flooding the jails. In the jails, they'd have a ready audience of other imprisoned activists to make contact with and could talk about the IWW's goals, tactics, and mission. So they won converts with every round of mass arrests.
make the up arrow key work
I don't understand why they haven't added it to the Google Web Fonts directory yet.
Planning that. Will do it soon. :)
Instagram reaches 27 million registered users, shows off upcoming Android app
:D thanks.
Reminds me of the 'goes to' operator:

for (int i = 42; i --> 0;) { foo(); }
Report on their blog:
http://status.namecheap.com/?p=7309
chronyd is a lot more mindful of battery/power considerations than ntpd. It is an interesting approach to endpoint time synchronization compared to the ntp reference implementation.
Apple says a big F U to Final Cut Studio 2 users with OS X Lion
Nice overview of the 2010 Thesis theme debate: http://www.metafilter.com/93802/WordPress-Thesis-and-the-GPL
Confessions of a Ruby Sadist
While we're at it, I'll throw in my demo of node.js style closures triggered by events on I/O with PHP and libevent: https://github.com/hinathan/edges-php
1/(0-0) = -∞, 1/(0+0) = ∞
Hermes’ Dirty Little Trick
Looks like something I did a while back. http://comfy-helvetica.jottit.com/

Anyone up to porting this to more browsers? Cause I'm still using it, and that has to be for something.
There's practically no difference between using 10 lines of GPL code and using a whole package. In either case: you must comply with the terms of the GPL license; your own code is now GPL'd. The exceptions to this rule aren't worth litigating.

If you're not interesting in (say) GPL'ing your code to match the 10 lines you lifted, you would be better of just reimplementing those 10 lines yourself.
like i said, this is speculation based on the information cited from the help page. i think you're being downvoted because I believe i was pretty clear about it, saying things like "i imagine that's the basic idea."
I assume you are blissfully unaware of the Luddite anti-vaccination movement.
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Compare hatke http://compare.buyhatke.com/ is a revolutionary dynamic meta search engine where you can choose from over millions of products from sites like flipkart, ebay etc. Guys please have a look at the service and give suggestions as to how it can be made better and how the user experience can be made faster.
It uses energy to do so— just like a heat pump can heat your home with greater output than electrical input, but not no electrical input.

The more exciting detail is that computation itself doesn't increase entropy, at least not if reversible computing is use. Only errors or, rather, their correction do... So things may be more rosy than you might guess: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
This article was pretty good run, it's like using Haskell inside C++. Not exactly real-world useful, except in very limited scenarios, but still an interesting read.
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I'm having a tough time with this one. From Google, possibilities for "epicenter of the housing meltdown are":

- Phoenix, AZ (Maricopa County): DA won the 2008 election, resigned in 2010 to run for state AG

- Cuyahoga County, OH: heavily Democratic

- San Joaquin County, CA: DA in office since 2006

- Stanislaus County, CA: female DA, in office since 2006

- Atlanta, GA: heavily Democratic

- Las Vegas, NV (Clark County): DA in office from ~2003-2012, then retired

None of them seem to fit (I was surprised it wasn't Maricopa County). A mystery...
The TSA Blog: Viral Video About Body Scanners
Not really; it's clear from Asimov's story that the question is about a closed system. The abstract for the paper you cited implies the led was externally heated, acting as a thermo-couple. The closed-system efficiency was still <100%.
For Mozilla, the interesting stuff is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/AreWeFunYet

The current status of sound, gamepad, fullscreen, and other important game-related APIs as well as JavaScript speed and other such performance metrics.

I'm glad Mozilla is focusing on this - particularly on mobile, we need the state of gaming in browsers to improve!
you could infer it from the number of employees and the size of the exit, adjusted by the age of the company. This will roughly give you a dollar earned per person-year, assuming that person-years are fungible (they aren't) and will not tell you about chance of success -- but would be interesting nonetheless.
Neither the C standard nor IEEE-754 specify anything about floating-point operations in non-standard modes like DAZ or FZ. (Nor do they require that support for signaling NaNs be implemented). The behavior of -0.0 suffices to block the optimization under strict fp modes, however.
Still waiting. Unfortunately, I can't seem to transfer the DNS from namecheap to Dynect, my usual DNS provider. It keeps on coming back as "Please try again. 541."

Also, it's been on my todo list for at least a month. No excuses on my end.
What eBay is trying to do is protect themselves from the allegation that they are flagging accounts so that they can profit from the interest on the float.

The easiest and cheapest way to do that - for them - is to simply hold the float in a non-interest bearing account. By contrast, giving the interest to the sellers would add a lot of paperwork and complications relating to taxes and such.
I like idea 2 and have years of experience both as being an expat and an employer who immigrates (Oil & Gas professionals). The revenue is drive from the recruiters side. Simple interface. 'I want to work in....' 'I am good at....' 'My family situation is...' etc. Pre sorted meta data and resume to recruiters who can immigrate the best talent in each sector, pre selected to those who actually want to go to that country/region. Rather than now when you start with a list of people who may not want to move to move to USA when they would like to go to Aus or Singapore etc. I'd love to do something like this. I can't code worth a damn but I am a relative expert in this area.
Maybe the problem is what you're looking for? All of these people you're interviewing aren't capable of being trained to do the job? They're just not smart enough for that or something?
I'm not aware of a country that makes it illegal to abstain from vaccination, but it's bureaucratically difficult in the US once the child reaches school age. I know that the state I grew up in (Virginia) required proof of vaccination upon entering public school. Even my college required proof of vaccination.

Which is something I hadn't thought about when it comes to the anti-vaccination crowd. I wonder what they do when their kids need proof of vaccination for school.
Steve Ballmer is an example of a sales guy as ceo of a tech company. Perhaps he is a victim of bad timing, but I wouldn't call his tenure as successful. He will ultimately leave the company in a worse position than when he took the ceo reigns, partially because his sales-oriented view.