skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation you describe is sane, but it's not the way the law works. Take a look at the GPL for the most obvious example: derivative works are required by law to also be covered by the GPL.
I don't know how postal codes work internationally and I'd imagine that geocoding them might be a bit easier but not as simple as it could be.

I'm a big fan of giving users a map and letting them drop a pin at a specific zoom level. This lets them be as specific or as fuzzy as they want and it gives the benefit of not needing geocoding.

Will make the choose site more attention grabbing.
3D Systems is taking preorders for (relatively) cheap 3D printer "Cube"($1299)
Ah yes, I'm not sure there. I think maybe whoever compiled this collection scrapped it themselves. I'm not aware of TPB themselves making the proper database publicly available yet.
It's a similar measure that's often used in NLP. Sentences, documents etc. are usually stripped of common or popular terms first and the remaining ones tend to have higher information value.

It's not entirely a surprise that it works for meta-language constructs like the web and site popularity.
For me, Hulu's death came when they added subscriptions, but still forced subscribers to watch ads.
Yeah, I did read Warner's proposal. It's full of awesome, as his ideas usually are. Were you around that time that he showed Memento at his house, but with the scenes in chronological order?

As I explained in a late edit to my comment, this is distinct from your "password-derived key" case because it eliminates the major drawback of that case: "This is not as secure as the previous setting, since most user passwords are not nearly as strong as full-strength crypto keys." If you generate high-entropy passphrases, that problem goes away.

128 bits is overkill for defense against brute force. You can do maybe 2³⁰ crypto operations per second in a custom crypto-cracking processor, pack maybe 2²⁰ of them onto a custom chip, use maybe 2²⁰ custom chips in your Crypto Cracking Center in your evil genius volcano base, and let it run for maybe a year, 2²⁵ seconds, before you get bored. That's still only enough to search 2⁹⁵ keys, so you should be pretty safe with keys that need 2¹⁰⁰ operations to crack, at least for a few years. Or, if you don't have a supervillain or major intelligence agency devoting their full computational resources to reading your browser bookmarks, 2⁸⁰.

I do think it's actually feasible for someone to memorize an 11-word phrase encoding a 128-bit key, but it would take several minutes and careful practice over the next few weeks to be sure they didn't forget it, and using a decent PBKDF with a 7- or 8-word passphrase is probably a better option.
Rails has an explicit, permissive license. Most of the sample/starter code for school projects does not.
Yeah, that's badass. You guys have me convinced. :-P
Co founder negotiation 
My partner had a previous company which had a loss and was a money pit. He wants our new venture to pay for part of the bill because we are basing off of previous design and concept. The problem is that this guy doesn't know much about technology and the previous company was basically a learning lesson. Any suggestions dealing with this negotiation.
The issue seems to be that CPython is optimizing the locals access for the exec_code_object_and_return_x by using indices into the array, instead of the normal lookup by name (which, by incident, is what the compiled code uses).

If I understand http://bugs.python.org/issue4831 correctly, CPython 2.7 should not be optimizing the locals access in this way with an exec statement present.
Question re. LIDAR (slightly OT to the specific article, but relevant to the general subject). How will LIDAR behave when there are multiple sources transmitting similar but overlapping scanning patterns across the terrain (like, say, a highway full of self-driving vehicles)?
I presume you mean mobile, not social there?
In general sense, yes. Parliament can (legally) do what it wants. There is no list of things parliament cannot do, nor a list of things that it only can do.

However the UK is part of the European Union, and the Council of Europe, and so there are higher courts (outside the UK) which can give out about the UK, and force them to do things. Some of these obligations are part of UK law, but they have to do a weird legal hack thing. E.g. if a law would go against one of the European Human Rights Treaties, a court can issue a declaration that the law is not in compliance, however the court cannot throw out the law, nor strike it down.
sorry, i mean software installed on my computers. i use many different software packages installed on remote servers, but i don't need or want any of that stuff running on my computers.
Ah yes, I was trying to remember what the name of that project was. Seriously, with a few tweaks this will allow you to write console apps that can check termcaps to decide if they should be writing out HTML. From there, you can imagine building a "websh" that does the right thing to enable all of those TermKit ideas.
This is really just a list of incubators and some hypetastic maths to give it a better shot of winning HN and the blogosphere which'll rewrite it in their own attempts to win HN. They don't even use a consistant measure:

1) YC, because $7.8 billion in value, where by value they mean the valuation on termsheets and more specifically they're talking about Dropbox and AirBNB

2) TechStars wins 2nd place based on 73 of their participants raising a total of $134m between them, and helping other incubators

3) DreamIt get 3rd, or is it DreamOt - they don't seem to be sure - because Scvngr raised $15m at a $100m valuation

4) AngelPad win 4th place because they were founded by a bunch of ex-Googlers

etc.
"$65,000 in revenue"
"My profit margin was not monstrous"

So, not sure what the actual profit was, but nice nonetheless.
Hitting Ctrl-F or :ControlTFlush so I can open a file that Rails or Git or whatever added to the project directory is one of my biggest issues with Command-T. Sublime Text 2 gets it right, but it's Vim compatibility mode isn't quite there yet.

Will this automatically update its cache as new files are added?
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If you already know Java, then Wicket[1] is a good choice in that it does a nice job of separating the HTML from code. You can let a designer have at it and work on layout and what-not, and seamlessly tie that into your Java code.

As a side note, though, it should be perfectly possible to use JSP as a view layer with fairly minimal bleed-through of Java "stuff." If you stick to JSTL tags and absolutely, totally and completely avoid scriptlet code in your JSPs (write a custom tag if you have to) it's possible to have JSP pages that a web developer can work with, without excessive difficulty.

[1]: http://wicket.apache.org/
"Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration." - Don Knuth
Selected Papers in Machine Learning
The 'creative' accounting on their initial IPO paperwork was a scandal of sorts, but I don't think it left the IT blogosphere.
Actually, you'd be surprised. 4chan pretty well understands the difference here, as a lot of their memes are the non-image-macro types. They were the ones that invented the concept of the "forced meme" and other meta-meme terminology.
Presumably the board members are leaving because of a yet-to-be-public scandal.
While mobile apps can certainly provide a better user experience for _some_ tasks, people often seem to forget that everyone in offices across the world still sit at desks and use a desktop pcs (or a decent sized laptop).

This isn't going to change. I can't work on an iPad or on my phone. While we all have two arms and two legs people will be working at desks and while people work at desks they will also occasionally browse social sites at their desks.

Mobile is big, but it's not ever going to completely replace web applications designed to be viewed at desks. We haven't even begun to see the start cloud based software, this is all on top of the fact that a huge percentage of the worlds population isn't even on the internet yet.

The web is changing, as ever, but outrageous claims like this are either a product of ignorance or shameless marketing.
Looks like this idea isn't totally in the free-and-clear from content farms.
I think someone scrapped it and created that torrent. You might be asking for some sort of distributed automatically up to date database of pirate bay torrents. That would be cool to have, but its not possible with magnet links like that. The magnet link is based on the content of the file(s). If someone were to upload a new torrent, then the contents of the database changes and the hash changes, and the magnet link changes.
Google on the other hand knew it was leveraging something it had the code to (and like a third of the original team) and yet it often takes a very literal interpretation on license requirements when that interpretation suits them.

They had the code but they didn't use it, so the license doesn't apply to them. It's not an interpretation of the license at all.

An example of that was the lack of any requirement to put any of their changes to Linux back into the repo because they didn't "ship" Linux, they just used it in house.

That's not their interpretation, that's the FSF's interpretation. The GPL does not, and has never required anyone to "contribute back". Its whole purpose was always to "pay forward" by giving your users the same rights you got. If you're your only user, you don't have to share the code to anyone.

Straight from the horse's mouth in the GPLv2 FAQ:

Does the GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public?

The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free
to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them.
This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can
make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it
outside the organization.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#G...
The problem with that is that my code tends to start out a mess -- get the shit done. And then it will be refactored into something that is prettish.
Pets.com was not ostensibly a tech company either. Their business model was also criticised. There was much collateral damage from their decline.
Turning up the heat: windfarms lead to local nighttime warming
It's like a hipster search engine. It's only interested in things before those things are cool.
I'm guessing the business model, or at least Groupon's implementation of it. The stories of companies who lost absurd amounts of money on Groupon deals and made none of it back are starting to pile up.
Mostly the shoddy/incorrect/fake accounting issues that have gotten them in hot water with the SEC.

Actually, that is (in my mind) the biggest current one - the sales stuff is bad, but the accounting and operations stuff is Bad.
we'll be reading the same about Facebook in a couple of years? most probably.
Thank you - very refreshing! DuckDuckGo should implement something like this just for the spirit of it.

The web just got more interesting. :)
Is that offloading the task of scanning file names to the find command?
Warning: this links to a PDF.
>>Do your best to leave and find a place where you can demonstrate your awesome.

Not your, you're, it's a contraction, knowing the distinction shows you're skills are awesome.
> Imagine a search engine that simply removed the top 1 million most popular web sites from its index. What would you discover?

A lot of my competitors who are still on the first page of Google results.
I don't like the idea of using a single app for everything. I have tons and tons of (personal) reasons, but the most obvious and un-solvable reason is: I can switch between terminal emulator and web browser with Command+Tab. If they were both the same thing, I couldn't do it and I would be very disturbed and confused. The same reason I don't use GMail web app and use Mail.app instead, or Reeder.app or iCal.app or iTunes.app.
That's really fascinating information, thanks! Who's a "serious game developer"? I'd think that things like Angry Birds and Bubble Bobble would work just about as well in Jython as in C++, but I guess they're not "serious"?
This is pretty amazing. I didn't know that the old internet was still there! This may become my new favorite search engine.
After reading through the bug you linked, now I agree with your statement and not with my first comment here. Will the madness never end?
Yes. Probably no stock available to borrow. There are put options but those are likely already at a premium.
Yay NaCl chrome only app!
Yay for standards!

Oh wait a minute...
Funny, on my first query I found an obscure HN scraper:

http://tazod.com/
> The pharmacology nerd inside me is reeling.

Yes, I guess potent would have been a better word choice, but you get the idea. I was trying to explain it without using terms like bioavailability and analgesic potential... I assume that anybody who understands those words doesn't need me to point out my main point, which was simply that it's hard to make a argument based on biochemistry and pharmacokinetics alone for the current drug schedules!
I agree with you but I often question when people list "lock in" as an issue. How often do you see projects where they decide to move from one db to another? Even in cases where an ORM is used, making the migration process painless in theory, I doubt many projects take the risk and exercise their freedom of not being locked in.
I haven't read McLuhan and have no opinion on his work. But from the article you linked to, the original phrase was "the medium is the message"

Your linked source also doesn't say anything about criticism of the phrase.

"The title is a play on McLuhan's oft-quoted saying "The medium is the message"."

"Why is the title of the book The Medium is the Massage and not The Medium is the Message? Actually, the title was a mistake. When the book came back from the typesetter's, it had on the cover 'Massage' as it still does. The title was supposed to have read The Medium is the Message but the typesetter had made an error. When McLuhan saw the typo he exclaimed, 'Leave it alone! It's great, and right on target!' Now there are possible four readings for the last word of the title, all of them accurate: Message and Mess Age, Massage and Mass Age."
If you're sending a resume to a potential employer, don't just provide a link to your Github account. Provide a few links directly to your best projects, the ones you think are worth looking at.
I really like this. Right away I found some new sites about that I hadn't seen before with interesting content.
LetsLunch launching in Los Angeles
Summary of the very cool:

http://thebigboss.org/quasar-a-window-manager-for-ipad
No, not at all. Google is driven by many signals that SEOs try to optimize on, but the methodology is still the same. Top-ranking sites have high-quality sites linking to them, good content, and are supposed to not look spammy (though that's debatable).

I don't know how this engine ranks but I assume it's a similar system, they're just chopping a good portion of the results out. For what you said to be true, the top 10K/100K/1M rankings would have to be there entirely due to intervention from an SEO, and that's just not the case. The Wikipedia's of the world have enough going for them that they don't need SEO, so they'll always show up in Google, and never in this engine.
Not at all if your Android device does not support the Google Accounts in the first place.

It was really difficult with the ADP1/G1 back in 2008. But meanwhile it is not that difficult if you don't want to use the Google services.
As the parent of two young boys (one of whom will be 16 in ~10 years) I can't begin to tell you how excited this makes me.

Ford Taurus introduced a 'parent key/child key' concept a few years ago that did things like limit stereo volume and top speed. This takes it one further.

No fretting about stupid accidents! No fretting about drunk driving!

"Sorry son, you can't ride with Johnny - he still has a manually controlled car."
The problem, though, is that as soon as a self-driving car crashes and kills someone, people will declare self-driving cars to be evil and unwanted -- even if they're actually safer than human-driven ones.
Google: Changing Link Building Forever
The best part of the story to me, is the Apple Attorney who decided to give a slap on the wrist before moving on to the potential legal carpet bomb mission.

In the age of organizations such as the RIAA suing teenagers or the elderly without such gestures, it is refreshing to read.
1st NYC CoderDojo Meetup - This Saturday
Hi HN,

For those that don't know, CoderDojo is a free non-for-profit movement to help young people (ages 7-17) learn how to code.

We will be hosting the 1st NYC CoderDojo this Saturday. If you know any youngsters that may be interested in joining us for an afternoon of learning and fun, please share this with them.

The event is free and we will have laptops available for kids that don't have one. Also, parents are welcome to join!

Event details: coderdojonyc.eventbrite.com

Live in NYC and want to volunteer? Awesome! Please sign-up here: http://eepurl.com/kJZDf
Show HN: House of Cards video rendered in real-time
Spine.js vs Backbone.js
A week of a student's electrodermal activity
Facebook is bubbly, but there's a world of difference between having your value inflated by a bubble and what's effectively accounting fraud.
Cheers! Really enjoyed making it!

I compiled a JSON index of all the tracks from various sources. The site loads the index and calls the YouTube API to find the best match video. Simples! I manually blacklisted and whitelisted some video ids as reports of missing/broken tracks came in last year, but it's pretty robust as videos come and go.
Not sure if you mean Airbnb tech talks of Yehuda's past talks. Some of Yehuda's previous talks can be found here: http://yehudakatz.com/tags/conferences/

Previously recorded airbnb tech talks will be posted here this week:
http://www.airbnb.com/tech_talks
Not sure I understand the difference between motivating employees and not demotivating them. What makes employees motivated or demotivated?

If I work for a company that makes it clear that hard work is rewarded, then I will be a motivated employee. If it seems that I will be in the same role ten years from now or the path forward is unclear, then I will likely be demotivated. In either case, my productivity level is an effect of motivation.
kodablah isn't saying the developers will like the platform, he's just saying they'll be drawn to it once the consumers are there.
Clickable links:

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Volunteer Sign-up: http://eepurl.com/kJZDf
you'll get a lot of bruises if you take too much
Every few months I see a grand announcement on Facebook from someone or another about how they are closing their account. It always strikes me as a plea for their friends to beg them to stay.

In this case obviously he is a writer so he probably has the idea that he will write a pulitzer-prize winning article about his year spent offline.

I think if you're truly fed up with technology, just drop out. No need to make a big announcement about it.
I started to buy broken iPods that were still under warranty, mailing them back to Apple and receiving brand new refurbished iPods for the cost of shipping. This was the most lucrative venture of all but it was the primary reason why an Apple lawyer had called me that day. Understandably so, they did not like me taking advantage of their transferrable warranties. They knew that I was a kid and let me off the hook

I don't get it. If you were buying units still under warranty and Apple had transferable warranties then I'm not sure what they let you off the hook from. You were not doing anything wrong. It sounds more like just another dick move from Apple.
Heh. I need a prescription to buy Vitamin K because it is in "prescription-strength" doses. Lovely self-circular logic.
There is also another and properly much bigger issue -- you end up hiring the people who are the best promoters, not the best coders.

And it is biased towards those who are in webdev, because they are those who share there source code most.

But there is properly nothing we can do to prevent this. Fortunately jobs aren't that hard to come by, these days.
It was intended to be two seconds [1]

[1] http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20120427
Here's one guy's experience of life (5 months of travels through Africa) before cell phones and, in general, most modern technology.

http://www.quora.com/Mobile-Phones/What-was-daily-life-like-...
I am unsure if you're being ironic, but the grandparent did use "your" correctly - if you take "awesome" as a thing someone possesses rather than as an adjective.
Back then selling products online was enough to make you a "tech company", it's a very different landscape out there now.
ActiveRecord 4.0 will support postgresql custom types, by the way. https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/4775 Thanks @tenderlove!
> by giving free access against the wishes of the original authors

Here's what one of these original authors, Dan Bull, has to say: "I want to hear why Geoff Taylor is causing the closure of The Promo Bay, a wonderful feature which gives unsigned musicians the exposure that the BPI's affiliates never will. In the same week that The Pirate Bay allowed an unsigned musician to hit the charts, the BPI has had The Pirate Bay blocked - supposedly to protect the interests of artists like me. It is bullshit. We don't need the BPI"[1]

Some stats about Dan's campaign.

In 3 days TPB = 55k unique visits for Dan's landing website from which 10k unique people clicked on paid links generating potentially (probably) thousands of pounds worth of revenue for the media industry.

More than double the number of people who clicked on a free download link, clicked on a paid download link[2].

1: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/press/releases/2012/apr/30/pir...

2: http://itsdanbull.com/single/
So awesome CoderDojo is now in NYC!
Full Show 4/27/12: Inaccurate US History Lessons
I would like to see the search engine adhere more strictly to quoted search terms. It seems that they are partially ignored, which gives it some of the same problems that the major engines have.
It's funny, though, how everyone already takes similar trade-offs all the time. E.g., we're trading a high risk of dying a violent death at the hands (or claws) of enemies and predators (life in the primeval savanna) for a lower risk of dying of obesity, diabetes, and so on (modern "civilized" life).
Agreed. If he's looking to "disconnect" it'd be more interesting to see him also go rural for a year.
That's It.

I finally broke. I have been reading for going on two years about SOPA, PIPA, GCHQ snaffling everything in sight. And this is the straw that broke the camel's back.

I have just ... written to my MP.

Dammit. It will achieve nothing, but I am going to keep pushing. I know why they are doing this, but ... please please please, stop choking off industries that might just help us compete against the global behemoths down the road.
Getting kids into code is what it's all about. Let's do it
I've only seen people move to postgresql (generally from mysql). I've never heard of people moving away from postgresql. Granted, that's a small sample size.
Shameless self plug: https://github.com/hoeck/schirm. It does exactly that, rendering arbitary html (inside iframes) between lines of a vt100 compatible terminal emulator, using escape-sequences to denote document data and images. Works quite well as a proof of concept. What annoys me so far is that its relatively slow (running find on a large dir may take ~20 times longer than on gnome-terminal) and the headaches around (automatically) resizing iframes.