skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it could be argued though that Jobs probably had a good idea of what is feasible with current technology, and this allowed him to push his team to deliver something that is just slightly beyond the envelope.

I'd consider this similar to how he was said to have very good taste in design, even though he may not have been able to design things all by himself.
I don't know. One of my "frighteningly ambitious startup ideas" would be a product that lets one man fight an army of lawyers and legal red tape. That way the bar to sue competitors out of existence raises dramatically. Dramatically enough to give start-ups a chance of actually defeating entrenched monopolies with large legal teams.
Great design for a common word used in Facebook 
A commonly used word in Facebook and Skype. The design is made by popular logos of sites online and in addition, it looks interesting.
Hypothesis: A relatively small number of relatively well funded defendants could have a huge impact on the system.

EG: Martha Stewart could have done more good if she'd fought her conviction all the way to the supreme court (even if she lost, she wouldn't have gotten more time.)

Thus an organization whose sole purpose is to underwrite (via providing lawyers or funds for outside lawyers) drug defendants who want to fight their charges could shift the equilibrium state.

Maybe only %10 would take this organization up on the offer, but that could be enough to have a big impact. (Again this is a hypothesis).
The Pirate Bay  to be Raided by Police.
The Android Font: Roboto
Thanks. My fork (bigger fonts, less wide page): https://github.com/strogonoff/Cleaner-Hacker-News.
This should definitely be made permanent.
I should probably fix this, but right now I'm not too concerned since it's not like hundreds of people are using the style. Thanks for the tip though.
Thanks! I guess I can now rm -rf moz-spdy-indicator my work-in-progress. :)
Can't believe I didn't know about that. But I can't find it? (all I can find is that is supposed to be in about:flags) Is it available in stable chrome releases?

Edit:
Never find what I'm looking for in chrome settings...
It's in Options -> Under the hood -> Content settings...
(or just chrome://settings/content ) and then you can enable click-to-play under plugins.

Thanks!
While I don't have any additional context on the above quote, it's worth noting that game industry 'middleware' vendors are very interested in the gpu performance of various devices. Engine providers (e.g. - Unity, Epic/UDK, etc) are often referred to as 'middleware providers' in their relationship to the console manufacturers[1].

And then you have game systems that I actually consider more 'middleware', like Speedtree, Bink, etc. Those systems also need to have in-depth understandings of the target environments to optimize their output as best they can.

1: http://unity3d.com/company/news/wii-press.html
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DDOS attack http://twitter.com/Namecheap/statuses/178906079147728897
This is an unobtrusive app that does the job for Android (root required/recommended): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.org.amip.Cl...

My ZTE Blade/CM7 was obnoxiously bad at keeping time, probably a software bug or something.
I think he's trying to say that defending our rights will sometimes mean defending bad people. Not every case will be in defense of an innocent 12-year-old, sometimes you have to stick up for rapists too.
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So this sort of happened to me last year while in my senior year of high school.

A friend and I started a Facebook group called "Sleeping students of GHS" and we had people send in pictures to an email address I created and we'd upload them to the group page. Which was quite interesting because we couldn't be held responsible for actually taking the pictures.

Well the group went viral in a matter of a few days, first a hundred, then a few hundred, then 2-3k. And in a relatively small southern town, around 13k people, that's a pretty big deal.

It was crazy. I felt like Julian Assange for a couple weeks. Nervously posting things and worried about the school big dogs hunting me down. (of course this wasn't anything like WL, but the same idea.) Parents were starting to be like, "Wait, why are these students sleeping? What are the teachers doing about this?" and this in turn caused a big uproar in the school. Schools hate bad publicity. The next day I get called into the office and a couple assistant principals and a police officer were like, "Do you have permission from all these students parents to upload these pictures?" and I said, "No. I didn't think you needed it." They in turn told me that the school was liable for a law suit, yada yada, and that I need to delete it.

They had me login to my account in front of them and delete it. THIS WAS MY BIGGEST MISTAKE. Damn it. I was furious with myself afterwards. Lesson learned I suppose. It didn't take long for an outsider to the school to approach me and make another joint account. That way if it's outside the school they can't do anything.

At this point local news agencies were calling me and emailing me asking to interview. It was on the front page of newspapers. I learned that it is indeed not illegal to take pictures of minors in a public place and the school was just BS'ing me to get me to delete it. I was a little scared in that office. I was in contact with the ACLU and a digital rights lawyer in San Francisco, just in case they issued any kind of punishment toward me.

It went on for a couple more weeks, we even had tshirts made, and then bam, Facebook shuts it down. No notice, no warning, just bam. We get an email saying "Your page was against our ToS, sorry" and that was that. It all ended in a haze. To this day I wonder why Facebook shut it down. I tried contacting them but to no avail.
Reminds me of the radio clock that I have in the bathroom.

It is labeled "DCF signal - precision time", yet is off by hours most of the time (jumps randomly).

I keep it for the entertainment value. Guests always have a good chuckle when they enter the bathroom at 16:41 and leave it at 23:41.
Not really surprising given the cross platform focus in Node now.
Otellini has done a fine job of selling Intel's existing products, but they haven't won in any new categories in his tenure. Intel may have missed the boat on tablets and phones by not developing anything competitive with ARM-based SoCs, which may replace 90% of desktops in the next 10 years. It's too early to say, and there may be something big around the corner. But if Intel stays the course and doesn't expand beyond the shrinking desktop market, Otellini will exemplify the problem the article cites with salesguy CEOs : failure to chart a winning course through the next technological disruption.
I removed the bit about NTP as it was mostly half-baked ramblings. I obviously didn't mean "ping" the tool, rather the process of "pinging" a remote address and gauging the response time, at the most basic.

My ntpq -p output:

remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
time.apple.com .INIT. 16 u - 512 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
Conforming should not be seen as a value in itself, for sure, but it can be a useful thing till you can get yourself the heck out of that place.

Sometimes it's neccessary to reach a bigger goal.

And sometimes it's just easier to conform in some small areas you don't care about. Some people can't deal with the level of 'weirdness' they see in others - conform in some areas and get better relationships to them (and don't say you don't want relationships to those, sometimes one can't choose).
Pass the Books. Hold the Oil.
"For that matter, you'd think there would be a better service out there that would research anything like that."

You're asking for the Semantic Web.

No, really: if everyone's data were available as data, so you didn't have to scrape human-readable representations, this would be approximately trivial (at least, it'd be trivial for Google, because they already have this kind of raw computational horsepower, and experience with embarrassingly parallel programming).
I think we're totally on the same page. Sometimes when I talk about 'fixing the system' by 'reinvigorating our institutions' people will ask "Which institutions?" and one of them is the judicial system.

If you combined the author's idea of everyone requesting jury trials, with a widespread outreach and education about jury nullification, it would be a really interesting thing to watch. When the people were speaking directly through the process as to what they the people felt should be illegal and what wasn't.

Yes it would be chaotic, the question though is if we could exit that chaos into a better place.
I think these communities are worried about the culture they've created becoming more commercialized than it already is?
It's a landing page for a software to-do list. Somehow the guy lands the HN front page with a vague blog post every 2-3 weeks.
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My first post, and not directly to the point, apologies.

But if you haven't checked it out, please do check out Khan Academy. One of my favorite videos is his ~1.5 hour informal session at MIT: http://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/v/salman-kha...

I really hope he can actually take his ideas to fruition. Getting rid of the "blob" (industry term he uses sometimes). Getting students to understand 100% of a topic before moving onto topics that use the previous topic as a foundation. Paying fewer, good, teachers $100k+ (this may sound bad, please watch the video to understand what the entails) rather than many (maybe good) stretched-too-thin teachers the wages they get now. etc. Amazing watch and well worth an hour of your time.

edit: clarity.
That's a fair point.

If we're defining "technical" as having a deep understanding of where technology is headed, and what its implications on various markets will be, then yes, being technical seems to convey a pretty distinct advantage in the C-suite. Conversely, lacking such an understanding dooms your company's fate to chance. You could get lucky and avoid disruption, or stumble into evolution. But, just as likely, you could miss major upside or fall into major downside. In this sense, to be technical is to have the ability to steer your own ship (for better or for worse). Not to be technical is to allow the currents to carry you where they may (often for worse).
I actually like Hacker News' condensed retro web look. It has a very lightweight bare metal feel to it. I am not really a fan of designs that have "foofy" margins which make the noise to signal ratio higher.
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(It's not available in the US App Store on my iPad for some reason (iOS 5.0.1).)

Navigation by subtitles is interesting. I wish that existed on the website. Sites like MIT's Udacity have broken away from the barrier of losing the user's focus or being redundant by dividing videos into even smaller segments of just a few minutes with continual questions / exercises for instant feedback. I wonder if Sal is considering something similar.

I've seen the Exercises feature, but it lacks exercises for most of the videos.
Wouldn't this be reasonably easy to do if you threw money at the problem?

If a certain person or organisation had a decent chunk of change, they could hire a large law firm to specifically volunteer to take court appointments. Just as most court appointed lawyers advise their clients to plea, the hired lawyers could advise to go to trial and since most people listen to their lawyer, that'd would do it.

Obviously im oversimplifying it here, but surely its just a case of 1) get money, 2) pick a city, 3) hire lawyers, 4) get court appointments, 5) crash the system.

With enough money you could replicate the system elsewhere too.
I really couldn't follow this. Can anyone explain it?
the help page says that the ipad and blu-ray player need to be on the same wifi, and the blu-ray needs to be hooked up to the internet. I would presume that they're using some internet-accessible service not wholly dissimilar from a NAT traversal to establish the connection. example:

1. ipad connects to the service over the internet from some ip address, tells the service its local ip (or mac address or something).
2. blu-ray player connects to same service from the same ip, asking for the local address of the ipad coming from that internet ip address.
3. profit.

there are some wrinkles there, but i imagine that's the basic idea.
Comments are closed on that page, so instead I will comment here.

There's no need to use xargs, and pipe to sh in this scenario. The same functionality can be achieved by using only find:

PROCS=8;cuffs=`which cufflinks`;find `pwd` -name 'accepted_hits.bam' -type f -exec qsub -l ncpus=$PROCS -- $cuffs -p $PROCS -o {}-cufflinks -g genes.gtf {} \;
The thing to remember is that behind every meme is a person. Someone spent time and effort to make a funny image or story, and they probably never got paid for it. Then someone comes along and tries to make money off of it: how would you feel?
Sometimes the search index takes a while to update -- if you make sure to follow the direct link then I think it should work.
Your computer has not successfully contacted the time.apple.com server. If it had the refid would not be INIT and your "reach" value would not be 0.

what happens if you change your time server to us.pool.ntp.org? (Substitute your country code for "us".)

Preferably you should have more than one server. The ntp reference implementation on osx is a little goofy because of the GUI configuration. 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. Atleast three, never two...

"A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure."
Please, no more bootstrap.
It doesn't appear in the app store for me either (UK), but I can get it by following the link here.
Languages a well-rounded programmer ought to know
There's obviously a lot that goes into making a well-rounded programmer. Examples include, but are not limited to, having a deep understanding of multiple programming paradigms, knowledge of different data structures and algorithms, understanding of computer architecture and operating systems and networks, knowledge of higher mathematics, and lots of experience actually writing code.

However, this post isn't about those things. This post is just a very subjective sampling of very useful languages that are either useful for the ways of thinking they help you acquire or for the application domains in which they excel or for both. I consider these the bare minimum of languages that a hacker should know.

Here they are (with double newlines because I couldn't figure out how to do single newlines on HN):

A LISP dialect (preferably either Clojure, Common Lisp, or Racket)

Python, Ruby, or Scala

Haskell, ML, OCaml, Erlang, or Scala (don't pick Scala twice)

C

A Bourne-derived UNIX shell (Bourne, ksh93, or Bash)

HTML/CSS/JavaScript (at least basic proficiency)

Optional: Any logic programming language

Agree? Want to rip my eyes out? Let me know!
Also, at the same school I mentioned before, later in the year they started cracking down on Facebook. Teachers were getting reprimanded for being friends with students. Students were getting suspended and banned from the prom because they posted a rant about a teacher or worker at the school. It was ridiculous.
Not quite sure if you're talking about the underlying hardware and all. But awhile back I ran across the book "Building a Modern Computer from First Principles". I haven't actually read it due to being in school myself but it seems extremely interesting. Basically it walks you from low level boolean logic up through processor design, compilers, operating systems, and languages. Most of the book can actually be downloaded from their site here: http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/plan.html.
Nest is certainly one of the leading candidates, as far as one could tell this early. A thermostat is exactly the right sort of apparently harmless thing to start with.
Ping is not a good way to check that, since it could be blocked. Try

dig @dns1.registrar-servers.com [some-domain]

Here it's slow but working.
When I was a kid, my dad would always set our clocks by tuning the radio to one of the atomic clock broadcasts from Fort Collins. This might be the same source as your automatically synchronized clocks, but the advantage is that it's human-listenable, and not going through any computer networks or algorithms between Colorado and you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock#List_of_radio_time...
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I worked for the Public Defender during an election year. The local D.A. was trying to divert attention from a sex scandal and instructed the ADAs not to negotiate down on any crimes so that he could "look tough" on crime. The thinking was that most criminal defendants would cave and he would get a boost with the mostly-conservative voters of the county.

So the lawyers of the Public Defender (and a good portion of the private criminal defense bar) banded together and convinced about a quarter of our clients to go to trial (up from 1 in every 100 or so). I worked in a specialty division (mentally "disordered" defendants) where we got to make the decisions for our clients, and we took almost every case to trial.

We also made sure that every defendant going to trial refused to waive his right to a speedy trial, meaning that cases had to go to trial within about 2-3 months or they would get thrown out.

The consequences?
(1) To avoid speedy-trial issues, the D.A.'s office had to transfer cases out to the boonies of our county whereever there were available courtrooms for trials, and ADA's unfamiliar with these cases would take them to trial. They either lost these cases at trial or watched them get thrown out when they could not start on time (frequently, because their expert witnesses could not schedule court appearances on such short notice).
(2) A backlog of criminal and MD cases that jammed up the court docket, pushing back other cases (i.e., civil lawsuits) 5 years or more. 2009 to 2010 was not a good time to file a lawsuit in that county.
(3) An enraged judiciary that began throwing out criminal cases with wild abandon, including almost all drug possession cases, nonviolent misdemeanors, and lower-level non-violent felonies.
(4) The D.A. lost his reelection campaign, by double-digits.

The nuclear option worked, and the next D.A. rescinded the non-negotiation order.

EDIT: I should point out that this worked because massive budget reductions to the court system during this time period artificially reduced the number of courts in the county. Without those budget reductions, we would have needed many more trial-ready cases to nuke the system.
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Tnx. Another option is ClouDNS, they're also free (for up to 3 zones)
It's the impracticality of so many jury trials (i.e. before a sentence is handed down, or even a conviction) that is the proximate cause, the topic of conversation.
Hacking HN content helped me more with readability than hacking the style. I wrote a userjs to apply kill filters https://github.com/dnewcome/hn-plonk
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Ask HN: Dynamically typed languages for Android/iOS/WP7/Playbook etc?
Has anyone succesfully ported/created/implemented dynamically typed languages for Android/iOS/WP7/Playbook etc? Have you written any applications using them?
Who Should Control Pricing—Publishers Or Amazon?
They've been having problems for at least a week.
I've sent you a pull request for moving this to a gh-pages branch. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
Me too: http://ideashower.posterous.com
http://ruboto.org/

http://blog.zerosum.org/2011/07/24/android-apps-with-mirah-p...
If everyone requested jury trials the "chaos" won't be some brilliant revolution, the chaos would be everyone wasting their time on the vast majority of cases that are open-and-shut.

The other thing is that jury nullification isn't a "thing". It's not in the law or in the Constitution. The reason that juries can vote their conscience and nullify is a side effect of the sanctity of a jury trial. Juries can also vote based on the latest baseball game results, if they wanted. And judges absolutely have the right to instruct juries not do do this.

I also think you'll find in practice people tend to support the system. Not everyone lives in your ideological pocket of reality, nor is it necessarily right to imagine they will once they are subjected to "widespread outreach and education". Everyone's got their own pet imaginary revolution and I think part of the reason people live in their own little mainstream-ish bubbles of reality isn't foolishness--it's a defense mechanism against every ideologue demanding their attention.
I generally agree with that sentiment too -- having seen what a bad hire can do first-hand. However, I feel like the industry has gone too far in that direction, and may in fact be selecting for a different kind of mis-hire.

When you spend an entire interview doing college computer science quiz type questions, and none of it on process, code review, coding style, development philosophy, approach to testing, etc.... you end up selecting for people who are good test-takers, but may not be any good at writing maintainable code. Or debugging. Or troubleshooting production issues. etc... etc...
ntpdate is dead and is discontinued. Use an actual daemon to govern your time source.

I thought redhat installed ntpd or chrony by default. I know chrony is the default for the next fedora release. If you have ntpd/chronyd installed your advice is horrible and not just because you pointed everyone to Virginia Tech's time server.
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apparently it is developed with jQuery and jQuery mobile. Would love to see how it fares on Android devices.

Our experience with Sencha Touch (wrapped with PhoneGap) has been not so good on Android performance-wise.
For anyone interested in DB optimization under Django, I recommend to take a look at Unbreaking Your Django Application presentation[0]. It might be more PostgreSQL-specific at times, but most of the advice is applicable to MySQL as well.

[0] http://www.slideshare.net/OReillyOSCON/unbreaking-your-djang...
While I agree with not locking yourself into one company for a lot of services, I'm not sure that using a third party DNS server puts you in a better position. The Namecheap servers were knocked offline by a DDoS attack. Do you believe that third party DNS servers are more resilient to that type of attack? At least with a registrar provided DNS server, you're a paying customer and so you can probably expect some form of customer service that you might not get with a free offering.

CloudFlare is probably better set up to deal with that kind of attack because they have a paying customer base and specialise in resilient website operation, but whoever you're with, if a DDoS is big enough it'll be hard to protect against.
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Not sure why Android does not have ntp built in. My network does not broadcast a time signal, maybe it is just assumed they all do.
I trust code I can see and analyze much more than 1000's of strangers of dubious intellect, ethics and often clear partisan motives and incentives for fraud.