skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get it for $27 on Amazon at the moment (normally $99). http://www.amazon.com/Pandigital-Handheld-Electronic-Encyclo...

I'm almost inclined to get one to replace mine, whose screen went permanently dim at some point.

The code is open source, so you could theoretically use it with custom content that you adapt to their build formats. They also provide downloads for a bunch of other-language Wikipedias, as well as Wiktionary, Wikitravel, and Project Gutenberg. You can swap out the built-in microSD card (8GB?) for a much larger one and just put everything on it.

https://github.com/wikireader/wikireader
This is officially the 2nd highest ranking post ever. http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=+&sortb... (HN search is a bit delayed)
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I removed the offending code 15 minutes ago.
$15 shipped - http://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?forumchoice%5B%5D=9&...

Based on this (see: 1saleaday), this item got excessed/liquidated by a distributor last... fall probably. Judging by the low ratings/views on Slickdeals most people just aren't interested in such a device, even at $20/pc. Several players (maker/distributor/liquidator) probably took losses unless they were on consignment.

Judging from the initial response on HN, this item totally could've been remarketed better. :)
I took care to click comments.
You sound like a cop. I hate bijected badges.
What is your definition of ad nauseum? Are you really suggesting that the Geeklist story isn't worth discussing even once, because it falls under the banner "sexism" and is therefore all talked out?
So, I can steal a Bot for the price of a taco order?
How do you square that with OBL being heir to one of the richest families in Saudi Arabia?
> Google really should have some kind of "what you type is what you get" mode

http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/google-verbatim.h...
They definitely would. I saw this, and even though I know it coming to fruition is highly unlikely, my team and I would patronize them almost every day.

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I work with these guys. Totally professional, know their stuff. +1
A clever, temporary solution to this would be to change the link to downvote the article and watch it trickle back to zero. Do it, pg!
My favorite Tacitus quote comes to mind: "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

Of course, the real winners when new systems of preemptive regulation are introduced aren't investors or entrepreneurs, but the regulators themselves, at everyone else's expense.
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Sounds like fun, wish I lived in SF.
Show HN: This downvotes itself
Gotcha! =]
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I found this a little bit ironic (no blame on pg, he does have more important things to do):

pg 1744 days ago

Ok, will fix.
yeah, there was also a similar extension for FF, but it all checks only the frontend
Pdf.js will be available in Firefox Nightly builds starting tonight
Another vote for AngularJS.
Not your father's client-side Javascript library.
Hehe, PG went to fix it too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27686
it's never too late! :) we're thinking about remote employees - might be ready for it at some point soon.
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A slightly unrelated question: What's up with those non-votable non-commentable recruiting links that have been up on the front page recently? Was that another bug exploit?
Gotcha! =]

pg.. please fix
Or xhr with custom header, if you don't want to have to keep track of state.
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> Bonus: I just noticed I'd gotten into a debate with Paul B in that thread. Hah. I was too cocky back then... I should have been listening, not talking!

OT but funny story: back when I was first getting into programming heavily (I had dabbled for about 4 years, but wasn't particularly good), I started learning perl, and got into a flame war on freenode with some random guy I had never seen on before (in the three times I had visited). It was weird - everybody sided with him, so strongly that I was really confused. His username was strange, too - something about "toady".

Yup, I, a perl programmer of 2 weeks, got into a flame war with Larry Wall. Didn't realize it for years, until I saw his IRC nick mentioned somewhere else. Ouch.
Those links are usually recruiting links for YC companies allowed by PG.
I'd go for a carne asada burrito delivered to me in PB.
> Oh, E4X is an official ECMA Standard, by the way.

I just noticed in passing this comment on MDN:

"Note: for each...in is part of the ECMA-357 (E4X) standard, which is not widely supported by non-Mozilla browsers, not part of the ECMAScript standard."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Statem...
Well it really depends. You can make a religious Process out of TDD where you start with something like Cucumber and work your way down through the design. You can TDD your glue code. You can TDD trivial stuff, like when you put a link in your web app to your new feature, you could write a view test that verifies that the link appears. You can, if you really want to, go through an obnoxious iterative process of writing the same function in a progressively less and less broken state. There might even be value to this approach. I wouldn't know.

Or you could do something like this: whenever you have a function that seems to do an actual algorithm, or process some data, or provide a predictable result given an input, you write up a few asserts and programmatically see whether it seems to work immediately after writing it instead of writing it and wasting your time futzing about with it by hand, or tracking down a bug in it after noticing strange results coming out of the whole program.

Or you could do something like this: whenever you get a bug report, create a test case that reproduces the bug first.

Agile Consultants are like anyone else who tries to sell you enlightenment: they wouldn't eat unless there was actually a kernel to truth behind what they were saying. Writing your tests first is a fantastic idea sometimes.
I'm also sick of seeing their site on the first page of google, most of the time their content is completely out of date.

You can permanently block them from search results on Google by visiting: http://www.google.com/reviews/t
and entering http://w3schools.com
"The side effect of this is that ideas I would never have written down before now become fully developed posts. It has hugely surprised me."

And all you're replying about is the look of the UI. Aren't you missing the most important bit?
What's wrong with "bush league"? There's plenty of room at the bottom, kickstarter has already proven that unambiguously.
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I was victim of fraud myself earlier in my life. That won't stop me in funding or crowdfunding something.
Well nothing is going to prevent any investment from becoming worthless. Investing in early stage startups has historically been incredibly risky and rarely returns your original investment. The brilliant (IMO) thing that the senate added is linking how much you can put in with your income which limits the damages. A few people get rich from strait up gambling, many have a good time and gain or lose a little money, and a few get destroyed financially. I suspect the same can be said with this type of investing and I think the net benefit to society is going to be worth the downsides.

Getting back to what you said, some people will commit strait up fraud and some of them will end up in jail. But, overall with these changes I don't think fraud is going to be more of an issue than it already is.
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>The fact that Linus didn't work fulltime on Linux seems to contradict your assertion that some projects require full time workers.

I didn't make any such assertion. My assertion was that coders need full-time jobs.
Those are ads for Y-Combinator companies
You need a Google account to block sites, but you can also manually add items to the list here: http://www.google.com/reviews/t

If you enter http://bigresource.com on that page, it will block that site and all subdomains.
YC funded companies can post such links. Most of them are also found at http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs.
Genius plan, except that there is no downvote for submissions ...
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The biggest issue I see is tacocopter naping. Order a $3 taco, get some lunch and a free drone.
This gives me an idea for a project that uses real world pooted ping pong balls: Electrified magnetized pinging pooted pong balls.
But to Windows? Can you point out a few of these; I've yet to see one.
I'm so sorry to hear that silly bug contributed to your departure! I'm the Lead Designer at Codecademy. We're a lot more stable these days (that printer bug was fixed right away)—if you decide to give us another try, we'd love to hear your feedback about the experience: contact (at) codecademy.com. (Zach, our co-founder, makes sure the whole team internalizes member feedback. :D) Either way, thanks for giving us a shot!
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Depending on where you're from, there's the work&travel programs of some countries. You can make enough to travel afterwards easily too.

I yet have to find somebody who regretted a gap year - go for it.
I like DDG, but I'm finding it hard to break the Google habit.

I did just check out their settings area and it offers a lot of customisation which I love. I might just give it another (duck duck) go!
It would be cool to open-source it.
>As for "respect for intellectual property", I don't see why Chinese should necessarily respect artificial mental constructs that were erected by Western politicians in order to produce some utilitarian value.

I don't either. But you've missed my fundamental claim: lacking any kind of "intellectual property" enforcement, pretty much nothing stops people from treating the code for web-services the exact same way they treat the code for video games or office suites: avast ye maties!

Also, DuckDuckGo seems pretty good to me.
This would be even better if it was possible to annotate the randomly generated "proof" description with links to any actual proofs following that skeletal description.
When I saw the first one of these, I thought to myself that the front-page wouldn't be overwhelmed by these posts. The whole reason most of us are here is that it is a mature community. As the first post was enough to prove the point, why did OP post it again? (S)He apologize and give credit to "http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742742 (GreekOphion) for finding the bug", but why make the post at all? What good does it do? "I would send you the karma if I could!" just seems disingenuous.
Congress passed a new law in February to partially legalize the use of drones: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/07/congress-...
New app is here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Do all countries have similar regulations?
Defecation is human too, but we don't do that in public. Violence is human, but we do that in dojos and sports arenas and shooting ranges, instead of at work or in the streets. Religious conversion is a human experience, but it is considered rude to witness at work. Some parts of humanity are best participated in in spaces set aside for those purposes, rather than imposed on everyone at any moment.

Eating doesn't affect anyone around you (though tuna sandwiches are definitely an issue to get HR involved in...) Sexuality, violence, religious conversion and the stench/filth of defecation affect people around you whether they want to deal with them or not. Ergo, it is rude to make "working" contingent on dealing with your literal or metaphorical shit.
Totally, a simple answers site like this is seriously in need. I wouldn't even mind paying $9/month for something simple and elegant and easy to brand like this.
Australian police plan "wardriving" missions to help secure residents' WiFi
What's to prevent "pump and dumping" of public companies? It still happens, even if there are forces keeping it in check.

Ideally a startup seeking crowd funding is more open and transparent than a larger company would be, and investors would be more knowledgeable about the company.

Additionally, in some ways "pump and dump" is more obvious with smaller companies, you can't easily hide among a large volume of anonymous transactions.

Make no mistake, there will be fraud, there will be pump and dump schemes, there will be people who solicit funding then just take the money and run.

But hopefully that sort of thing won't be terribly common and won't spoil the huge benefit that crowd funding could be toward getting small startups off the ground more easily than they are today.
W3schools is a cancer. They have old, outdated information. Their website, their content, and their business model is all a throwback to last decade. They sit atop of the search results, doing nothing, and raking in cash while providing a poor service. Meanwhile, their very dominance sucks all the oxygen (page views, ad dollars) away, ensuring that better competitors can't grow.

What redeeming feature do they have? If you aren't easy to use, accurate, comprehensive, or responsive...how good a reference site are you?

I've yet to see anyone bash W3schools for no reason, but I see plenty of people defending them for no reason.
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As noted previously, explain "q=weather"
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GET with randomized ids and checking referrer should be good enough to keeps things simple.
So, 25 petabytes ... 25 million gigabytes. Anyone care to guess how much of this data is illegitimate? And how much of that is under MPAA's copyright?

Back-of-the-envelope calculation: Just did a search for "1080" on some unnamed site and it appears a bluray rip of a movie encodes to roughly 10GB. So that would be 2.5 million movies in 1080p quality. I don't think we've made that many, have we? Especially if you consider that movies that came out before the "high-definition era" are encoded to about a 10th of that size (700MB-2GB roughly, afaik).

Maybe I'm missing something obvious.

Not counting TV series for instance (are they also intellectual property represented by the MPAA? I'm not in the USA so I never really dug into that).

Movies duplicated in different quality formats are usually a 10th or less of the size of a 1080p Bluray rip as well, as an upper limit I could add a factor of x1.5 for that.

But then, the "long tail" of movie rips are 700-800MB and do not have duplicates.

Unless ... is the MPAA also representing porn? Because then all bets are off and I can easily accept that this 25 petabyte consists mostly of MPAA protected intellectual properties.

But otherwise, what percentage of these 25 petabytes would you estimate actually represents illegitimate data owned/represented by the MPAA? 2% ? 10% ?

Is that fair to the owners of the other 90% of the data? Even if it's probably mostly porn? (I'm fairly sure most of the data has to be porn)

I'm just wondering. Also because it's interesting to speculate what could be in these 25 petabytes. If you have a better guess I'd love to hear it :)
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Heat engines are significantly more energy efficient at 600 degrees Fahrenheit than 300C (572F). Especially when you want to use a 2 stage system and limit how much your irradiating your turbines.

Despite the risks there is a lot to be said for a Very high temperature reactor (1000C) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_high_temperature_reactor

PS: There are actually a lot of reactor designs out there, but overall most designed are based on a small number vary old basic designs and a large number of tradeoffs. For example many people love Pebble bed reactor's, but they are gas cooled and use a lot of graphite at high temperatures which will burn with just a little oxygen at which point you lose your moderator and things can go vary badly.
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Apparently I want to get you started on "showing results for: $bshere, if you want to see results for what you searched for, click here", because I'm amazed that anyone complains about it.

For the overwhelming majority of my typos, "$bshere" is exactly what I wanted to search for. I particularly appreciate this when I'm searching from my phone (where typos are more common). There have been times when it has gone the other way (searching for "WiDi" aka Intel Wireless Display is the most notable example I can remember), but those are rare enough (and understandable enough) that they don't bother me.
Err, I didn't call anyone anything or be disrespectful. I didn't take it personally. I just voiced an opinion about this case.

As a member of this community, I reserve the right to voice an opinion about what the community does. Clearly this community is smart enough to realize that the subject is relevant. It seems like flagging was used to reflect a dislike of the subject, rather than to reflect its lack of relevance.

Sexism within startup culture is important for us to deal with.
A custom header is not sufficient (blame Flash): http://lists.webappsec.org/pipermail/websecurity_lists.webap...
Notes from UPenn's Forum on Brogramming and Sexism in Computer Science
..."with user-definable stemming and word substitution".
Ask HN: Did ifttt's time-based bot just blow up?
My usual friday bot just went off 16 hrs early…
this is a good reminder as to how different visual and user experience design are. just because you can make a pretty design does not automatically qualify you to design useable software.
What about AskBot ?

http://askbot.com/
I'm fairly certain that unless the referer is the "new" page, it counts negatively toward the story's promotion.
Trying to hire both wasn't an option?
I thought tere was a downvote for users with a high enough level of points.
Sensationalist headline.

One drug in a multi-drug treatment is taking longer to be effective. The malaria is not resistant to the partner drug, nor even to the primary drug - it's just more tolerant in that the primary drug alone may not clear the parasite in under 72 hours.

Cause for concern? Yes. Cause for alarm? No.
Goodbye free Internet!

I might create a few networks just to wind them up.. perhaps "Buy cocaine - [your nemesis' phone number]"
POST alone isn't sufficient. You need CSRF protection, too (which, in this case, would protect from same-site request forgery).
Appears as though this may exist for comments only - not submissions. Though I wonder if a link would work just the same?
I'm curious as to whether this post will ever leave the front page. If it keeps getting points at an alarming rate, is there anything in the algorithm to eventually lower the ranking?
The #1 post on HN is exploiting this and it's working just fine.
>given long-standing academic hostilities towards the business of being in business

Don't you mean the long-standing hostility of business towards research academia? It goes both ways, bro, and I've seen a lot more hostility from "entrepreneurs" towards the prospect of looking at academic research material than I have from academics towards the prospect of making money.
Too busy chopping wood to sharpen the axe.
Only for comments. Submissions can be flagged, but not downvoted.
I'm saying the search engine, email, phone OS, and social forums are Google products which are just tangentially related to their advertising business. It would be interesting to know what the real split in revenue is in the discussion about what their real "product" is.
You have users pay for the taco and a rental of the toy helicopter which they "fly" to themselves (with taco) –– include a webcam on the copter and bam! Hobby/toy.

(I wish it were that easy... tacocopter clearly qualifies as something I absolutely never knew that I really really need right now)
I wonder how many of these posts we will see today?
The biggest issue I see is random hackers ordering a taco then putting a "TPB Transponder[1]" on several of these. The tacocopter then does double duty as an airborne server.

[1] Theoretical easy-to-deploy Android or Raspberry Pi-sized wifi-broadcasting device, to broadcast TPB magnet links.
The referer header is also controlled by the client. Anything controlled by the client should be considered tainted.
Frankly, the idea of pinning MPAA's actions on mostly protecting porn is a brilliant angle to fight back with in political arenas, where MPAA tries to draw human emotions and claims pirates are taking jobs away from honest people and our children are in trouble if pirates keep sharing their works.

Save your children; MPAA cares mostly to keep servicing them porn; end them now!
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"Over the past five years, it has spent, on average, less than three per cent of its revenue on R.&D. Microsoft has spent fourteen per cent, Google thirteen, and Amazon five and a half."

Apple hasn't had to spend a lot on R&D to accomplish what it has so far. Why would simply spending more on it be any better?

"Whether true or not, the public eventually comes to believe that behind every great fortune lies a crime. Having a sweeping research lab, which continues to invent things that help both the company and the public, can soften a harsh reputation. That, in fact, is the model that Bell and Xerox used, more or less. They were both monopoly companies who got some slack because of all the good they did. Microsoft has created all kinds of important things through its extensive R.&D."

Sure this might have worked for those companies, but why should it be applied to Apple? Apple is clearly different in the way it operates. The thing is that this "harsh reputation" has largely been fueled recently by the Chinese labor problems which has been portrayed by sensationalist reporting. Is it really going to last that long? How long is it going to be before people forget about it?
Long-term research isn't in Apple's DNA. They did it before, and it almost ended up killing them (cf. Knowledge Navigator).

They know this fact. Apple has been forthright about saying that they are a company that takes technologies that are 3-5 years out and bring them to fruition.

Look at Microsoft. They've spent hundreds of billions on advanced R&D. Where did it get them?
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I keep an open wifi on as a public service myself. If they start doing this locally I may have to change the SSID to something more annoying.
Looks around guiltily - I still use their site too when I need something quick and I know they have it. Sure, some of the info is old. But some of the stuff doesn't change and is just as relevant now as it ever was. If they come up first in a google result and it's for a query I know they have the answer to, you're darn right I'll click it :)
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zt: maturity has nothing to do with this. Hackers appreciate clever hacks, especially those that are self-referential. That's all there is to it.
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