skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I can't help but feel that most lawyers do not
much more than present an obfuscation layer around
standard forms.

I bet non-technical people also have that feeling about engineers.

"It took you a second to change the behavior of this. You're obviously not working very hard." ..when in reality, it took a lot of effort to make a system flexible enough to adapt its behavior quickly to changes in requirements.

...but I'm getting off topic now. :)
The difference between an honest person and an asshole? Tact.
This looks like a rebrand of SmallParts which Amazon bought a while ago. Pricing and searchability were always worse than McMaster and it doesn't seem dramatically improved now.
I see. It can be added on mouse over, similar to vote up action.
Why is it bad to ask? The linked page does not render well on mobile device.
Was anyone else looking at those die photos and thinking that it'd be better to put 4 more cores in that space occupied by the GPU?
No, it's a great point, and one well taken.
It would be an interesting project, if nothing else simply as a statement about copyright, to write a program that automates this process and automatically rips a font file this way. By producing samples with characters placed at different fractional positions, you should even be able to infer the hinting information without directly reading it.
To be fair, if they can't use CVS right they're not going to use anything else right, either.
The issue is just transparency. You want to know how much memory you actually have available for use if you need it. How would you like it if your car's gas gauge was close to empty all the time because the car was caching gas for long trips?

It would seem there's a simple solution -- another number on the system monitor displaying how much memory is available for use if needed.
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It feels wildly unnatural to see such a cult of personality around an incubator that idealizes free and forward thinking.
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Unfortunately a PSD is not a design, esp. for a website, but I'm sure people will find that out if they choose to buy them - I think a better model would be to offer to sell services, not a 'design' which, while pretty, is static and probably in many respects wrong.

Design is a process and a way of thinking, not decoration.
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Yeah, but at what cost? I already have an unfavorable view of it - just based on the name (that's human nature) - going into it. In this case, the project isn't really all that clear on what it does - I need to do a bunch of stuff to see it's benefit. I'm busy, I've lost interest. See the problem?

That's just my point of view, of course, but how many others will share it? I'd wager a good number would.
I know what MU means because of the original site. I asked 3 doctors and a dentist about "MU" and "EHR" and only one knew what both were.
Maybe technically, but unless you strip every screw on your way into the machine, they won't know you ever had the cd drive disconnected. Just put it back when you take it in for service.
THE GEOGRAPHY INDUSTRY AND MEDIA WANT YOU TO THINK THERE ARE ONLY A HANDFUL OF SCIENTISTS WHO DOUBT THE SPHERICAL EARTH THEORY.
No need for an army of lawyers. Most patent shops, either NPEs (ie, trolls) or large corporations big patent warchests will use legal case management software, eDiscovery systems, and patent ownership/submission tracking software.

In short, patents, like people, offices and other "assets" are managed using enterprise software.

I would assume that it's pretty easy for a company to take a set of claims/wording (ie, patents asserted in Yahoo's suit) and search using their systems against a corpus of both internal (patents, etc) and external sources (case findings and news - ie, like Lexis Nexus) the best fits to meet a given "need" - either the company is being sued, filing suit, or in this case, helping an ally/customer (note: Microsoft also owns an not-insignificant chunk of Facebook).
Link, for the interested:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
Ask HN: How many project have you started but haven't shipped?
Starting a project is easy, but finishing is hard. I have a folder with 20+ unfinished/unshipped projects. Am I the only one that has the problem of being unable to ship things?
I found it curious that this repo only contains the Chrome extension, but not the Firefox extension.
I stopped reading during the second instance of floating circles - it's too much visual annoyance for too little payoff.
I've used it. It's awesome.

I mean, there's not a whole lot more to it than what you see. You sign in, pick some clothes, and they ship it to you on a schedule. Saves me a trip to Costco every 6 months (or from feeling guilty about not going on that trip that often).
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I'm the (co)author of the project. Please note that it's just a one-day proof of concept, imagine what a well motivated corporation could do.

It's nothing new (someone correctly pointed the EFF project) but I wanted to make a real world demo out of it.

The demo doesn't store each bits of info separately, it simply creates an hash out of them. If I stored the data separately I could for example identify small user agent updates or screen resolution changes or newly installed plugins and so on.

Also, many of the info can be gathered without JS and actually browsing with NoJS puts you in a very restricted niche making you even more trackable ;)

The demo is far from perfect but I believe that even a 90% reliability is alarming. Anyway I'll put all the source code on Github for you to review. I hope to be able to add the NoScript code as well soon.
I've done a lot of ordering through McMaster Carr, and the ease, delivery time and selection are amazing. It's strange to say this, but they're the one company that I don't see Amazon being able to distinguish themselves from. McMaster is already operating at that level.
It's painful guessing how many hours of my life I could have back if only I had known about this before. Thanks for the pain, thought_alarm.
Per the article, LEO has immunity:

"if they were acting within their scope of authority and the conduct was not willful, wanton, or reckless."

I think this is pretty much the way it works everywhere in North America - sworn officers are ( rightfully ) immune to prosecution while in discharge of their duties. _unless_ their conduct qualifies as malfeasance. Arguably, ( in my mind at least ) arresting people for simply recording the public conduct of an officer already falls into this territory.
I may be slightly confused here. If it is legal to do something - take a picture - then why do you need a specific bill to allow you to sue a police officer for arresting you for doing something that isn't a crime?

Doesn't this get a bit infinite-set? Do you need a specific bill to allow you to sue a police officer who arrests you for doing anything else that is allowed in the Constitution?
I'm a huge believer in unbounce, for one simple reason. Once development barriers diminish all of this process will return once again to the control of marketers.

I think they see this and are pushing this as a tool for the masses of people who can't code, but love to sell, and want to do it better.
This is one of our main points in a presentation my co founder and I give when asked to speak at events.

Our product has useful features for people who struggle to heat their home (our product isn't software, its made of plastic) and our VC sat us down (before they invested) and said that we needed to focus more on the making money side of things and not helping poor people - helping poor people would come as a result of being successful, staying in business and delivering on customer demand. His main point was that without aiming to make money then we wouldn't stay in business very long as no one would invest in us and ultimately no one would benefit from our product.

How you make that money on the other hand, well that's up for discussion, there are a multitude of unethical business practices that make the desire to make money seem unpleasant. Avoid those and wanting to make money is fine.
A non-exhaustive list of great MSFT products (I work for Google, no pro-MSFT bias here beyond a dash of meta-contrarianism):

* Windows 95

* Windows XP

* Windows 7

* Office 2010

* Zune HD

* Windows Phone 7

* XBox

* XBox 360

* Mice and keyboards

I'm sure I'm forgetting tons of stuff. Before you start pointing out minor bugs or flaws in these products, or making irrelevant arguments (e.g. "Zune HD had low market share"), remember that Google products aren't perfect either. Google Docs has no equation editor (Word does). Android sucks as an mp3 player compared to Windows Phone 7. I can't play Starcraft 2 on Chrome OS. Etc.
This reminded me of the Quechuan porters (or Chaskis, in their language) that work on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. For four days, they carry 24 kg of camping gear and tourists' bags, ascending and descending as much as 1,200 meters in a day, including one steep 900-meter ascent to an elevation of 4,115 meters (if I'm remembering correctly). Oh, and they do it all in worn-out sandals.

Apparently there is a movie about one such Chaski, though I haven't seen it: http://www.michacrafilm.com/.
Reminds me of Godaddy
It's not the technology, it's just that I do not want a "preview" feature for every post on HN. When I see an interesting title, I click on it - otherwise I ignore it.
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Proud of my home state for once.
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"It's definitely getting slower but that's expected since it's such an old system."

I see this sentiment a lot, but I disagree with it. What are "iTunes, Xcode, Safari/Chrome, and a mail client" doing now that they weren't doing four years ago? Is it enough to justify their latest versions feeling less responsive than their versions from four years ago?
Agreed this report comes across a bit underwhelming, but the integrated GPU boost is really what I've been waiting for. And it's more power efficient to boot.

I don't play games, but I do have a crazy-big monitor and want a bit more oomph drive the display before I get a notebook without a dedicated graphics card. Still waiting on the dual core ...
I saw the Ginger video demo, where is any real-time functionality needed?
Ask Me About Your Upcoming YC Interview
A long time ago I wrote a couple blog posts with advice for people who were applying/interviewing for Y Combinator. They still get quite a bit of traction every 6 months when it comes time for the latest YC batch. Every time a few intrepid founders just personally email to ask a few more questions.

Inspired by that and patio11's ama from a few months ago (which I hope you took him up on) I decided I'd throw my hat in the ring. If you are a prospective YC startup, feel free to email me at matt@bluefroggaming.com with questions. I'll do my best to help. I'll keep any conversations private unless you agree otherwise.

Also if you want a public answer, comment here.

Edit: This post is the main one: http://mattmaroon.com/2007/10/19/advice-for-y-combinator-interviewees/
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Throwing more cores at the problem isn't really terribly efficient, though. You don't see as much of a return as you might expect, especially when most things aren't properly multithreaded.
Ask HN: Timed programming tests
I want to gauge my thinking speed as a programmer, so I'm looking for sites that have timed programming tests, and that show how your response compares with others. I'm rusty with algorithms, so I'm looking for tests that require more basic techniques, such as for loops. I know of Codility, but, sadly, they only have two tests available. Are there others that meet these criteria? TopCoder, spoj, and others don't fit the bill.
yeah, it's not directly attacking your 'inactive' memory. Just the disk cache, which shows up in the chart as 'inactive'. I'm not familiar with other cases that fit into the 'inactive' piece of the pie.

I have regularly seen 1-3G of ram get free'd up on a 'purge'
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> If you're doing networking stuff, we've got EventMachine for doing event-driven architecture

There's a big difference. EventMachine is an asynchronous library built with Ruby. EventMachine has nothing to do with Rails apart from them both being written in the same language. Now, go and try use both EventMachine and Rails in one project: it's a nightmare because they both follow different design principles. If you want to do event-driven architecture with EventMachine you will miss an ecosystem because a) there is none like around Rails and b) you cannot use Rails' ecosystem. Compare this to Node's ecosystem of 8,000 packages which follow all the event-driven architecture.

> ... that's a heavily proven library in production.

Heavily? Source?

> Sinatra pioneered the microframework niche, and most microframeworks in other languages like node.js are almost a carbon copy.

You are right and Sinatra was groundbreaking. But what's the goal of a microframework if the underlying stack is too complex for easy deployment or breaks with every patchlevel?
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Indeed. One nice thing though is that they honor Amazon Prime free two-day shipping.
Is higher rez always better?
Yes, it is rebranded SmallParts. From their FAQ (http://www.amazonsupply.com/help/200223050/ref=sp_ft_au):

What happened to SmallParts.com?
SmallParts, Inc., joined the Amazon family in 2005. In the past seven years, the dedicated team at SmallParts helped us expand our service and selection until we have grown well beyond our original focus of tubing, parts and fasteners for the medical supply and research industries. We have chosen the name AmazonSupply to help communicate our new, broader selection....
sorry, it doesn't work. I saw different finger prints when accessed the link from a different machine and different ip address
Are the two NPC's at the very beginning supposed to say nothing? I see a blank speech bubble when I walk to them.
You are not. To be fair, I also have a few products that I've shipped but that didn't go anywhere -- of course, I didn't really expect them to as I didn't really do anything in the way of marketing or anything, but they're out there (or shuttered).

In my case, for the most part, I'll either come up with an idea or a challenge. In some cases, I'll work towards an idea and usually, I'll get further along with those because I start with the boring stuff like logins, user profile pages, etc.

With the challenges ("How would you build a web site that did <insert something novel here>?"), those are pretty much guaranteed to be DOA. I do the hard part, sometimes realizing my initial approach was stupid, starting over, and then doing it more elegantly, and then uhhhh, well, that's it. The chance of me writing all the boring crud for something like that to make it multi-user is infinitesimal.
FYI: The default resolution a 27" thunderbolt display is 2560x1440. If you're interested in supporting a lot of different resolutions, you may consider starting there and scaling down.
There is actually a video of Feynman himself elaborating further: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPfKI4b-dg&feature=relmf...

I would say that the death of his first wife Arlene and the aftermaths of the Trinity Project affected Feynman greatly, as exuberant as he is usually.

Feynman's magnificent exuberance and puzzle solving enthusiasm was also illustrated during his last days, where his coworker Christopher Sykes remarked "Look at this man. He faces the abyss. He doesn't know whether he is going to live through this week. But he was consumed by it, and he worked on it all day long...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h11m46s

Feynman was the epitome of the "Doing things for the fun of it" philosophy. His last words to his artist friend Jirayr was "Don't worry about anything~! Go out and have a good time~!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h32m10s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h32m10s
Isn't this what POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED is for?

http://linux.die.net/man/2/posix_fadvise
Regarding Perl DOM parsing, you might want to check out HTML::Query. Its selectors still fall short of jQuery but when I was evaluating it against pQuery it came out ahead (IIRC).
Flawed analogy: you use up the gas and your car stops. You use up memory and … the kernel swaps pages around. Now, if the kernel isn't giving you back memory, that's a problem, but the OP doesn't actually show that this is happening.
Obviously it's not meant to be a high end gaming chip. Sandy Bridge was pretty excellent in The Sims 3 and Guild Wars, amongst others that I've tried. If Ivy Bridge is as better as the graphs show, there's a whole new category of games open to it.

If you have a discrete video card already, this won't replace that and isn't meant to. If you are looking to buy a laptop and want to play The Sims while you're on the airplane, that's what this is meant for.
It's worth it when you realize someone else has been logging on as you over the weekend.
There were real time discussion updates in the video
Actually, libxml (lxml for Python) is very, very good at handling real-life HTML content.

I'm currently on a contract where I do a significant amount of ETL and web scraping as part of the project, and I almost exclusively use lxml and XPath for parsing real-world HTML.

XPath is, without a doubt, the best tool for DOM manipulation that I can think of. And that's just XPath 1.0 -- 2.0 is reputedly even better, but no 2.0 support is forthcoming for lxml as near as I can tell.
Do they seriously not have SSL support for their own login page?

I really cannot bring myself to put in a password to a non-encrypted web page, let alone trust them to protect my files.

Is there an ETA on this?
As the product evolved, the real-time needs (surprisingly) became less than we originally expected. I think this will change as we continue to evolve.

That being said, after the initial page load, almost everything happens without a page refresh or full page load. You see new messages (with favicon notification), votes, unread counts, etc. all in real-time. I think Ginger would feel a lot klunkier without the real-time bits.
Oh sure, I understand it's not in Intel's interests at all. But it would sure make my builds faster if I could default to 'make -j16' (hyperthreads). I guess I'm not the target audience here.
My last web scraping activity consisted of using PhantomJS to drive and injecting my own javascript that submitted the pertinent data to my own web service. http://phantomjs.org/
16GB is an insane amount, regardless of the price.
It's exactly the same crappy stuff they have on the regular site.

everything there i could find on amazon.com, and from my experience buying small lab tools from them, it's a 80% return rate.

last one was a set of precision tweezers which only 1/3 of them properly closed in alignment.

The good brands are 2x and 3x the price at a proper store.
The difference is that here you are able to sue the police officer rather than the police department, as you usually would. The theory is that this will discourage officers from acting in a certain way, since they would be personally liable.

However, one could also argue that this is bad for victims, since the officer's pockets will almost always be shallower than the municipality's. However, if this law were to pass, a smart attorney would probably file a suit against both the municipality and the officer.
Ask HN: Bootstrap preference?
What would you say is the best Bootstrap preference that allows for the most flexibility? I'm choosing between Twitter, Foundation, or 99Lime?

http://foundation.zurb.com/
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html
http://www.99lime.com/
Domainers are entrepreneurs too
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Why salesmen should care about website content
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ah... good catch :)
Not really, allow me to explain.

One of the challenges of GPU performance is getting the connection between the CPU and Memory correct. That is why for years and years you've had the 'special' video card slot which was optimized for that, and then the general purpose slots that didn't have the kinds of demands that video offered. So if I get back space for a 'regular' slot and can put the GPU inside, that is a win for me, even though I predominantly use them in servers which brings me to ...

CUDA, or more accurately, running general purpose compute tasks on shader engines. Having the GPU there, even if I am not using it as a GPU, can provide some impressive benefits if I can program it to operate on in memory data in a fast parallel way. So in this regard it stops being a GPU and starts being a kind of funky but powerful co-processor.

And of course the third thing is that keeping the power draw sane is important. Its a small chip and pulling a lot of heat out of it is very difficult. Additional cores, additional heat, higher operating temps (or more exotic cooling systems).

One of the things that would be interesting (but won't happen on an Intel part any time soon) is if there were a bridge port so you could run dual-CPU and the GPUs could run in a crossfire/SLI mode where they each rendered every other line or something along those lines. Since I use dual cpu motherboards that would give me additional compute options that I don't have at the moment, but it won't happen at Intel because it would disrupt the market positioning of Ivy Bridge.
You can view all the links you've made here: http://dropbox.com/links

Also, when something is linked, there is a link icon on the right side of the file browser on http://dropbox.com/home
Tangentially related personal anecdote:

This morning on my walk into work, I passed two private security guards standing in front of Bank of America on Market Street [1].

I noticed they were standing on little rubber mats to reduce the strain of standing there all day - as I looked at one, I glanced to the other to see if he also had a mat and see if it was the same size as the others'.

As I did so, the short asian guard said very intently at me, in a way he was trying to assert his authoritative role, and said gruffly "GOOD MORNING" and glared at me as I walked by - so I continued staring at him.

I said back to him "What? Do you think I am not allowed to look at you now? What the fuck are you thinking"

He glared at me with his hand on his gun.

I wanted to go back and take his picture, but it would certainly aggravate this already moronic figure with an authority complex.

[1]: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=one+market+sf+ca&hl=en&...
Looks quite nice. I like it.

For long questions, the polls don't wrap, and you end up with text on top of other text.

http://polls.io/ffc

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