skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See if bash's ignoredups and erasedups helps.
Radio is free -- you're only paying to watch live broadcast video (or to watch video that's simultaneously being broadcast, so live streaming of a TV channel counts).
What's the best way to identify bottlenecks?
The whole article is thick with sarcasm? The only other bit of sarcasm/joke in the last nine paragraphs is that the author booed/jeered barnaby when he came to the stage. If "the whole article is thick" with sarcasm why is the last 37% so straight forward and not funny?
Could you give me a source on this, please?
This is a not-so-subtle way of saying "we own culture" by the elites who 'finance' the 'entertainment of the masses'.

Anyone who can get their bony fingers so far deeply entrenched into the fleshy government/tax-/levy bureaucracy and demand "fruitful payoff" in the form of public taxation is probably working for the Mob, not the Artists, and not content Creators, in general.

Entertainment industry, ruled by the Mob? Big surprise.
Good work. I made something very similar a while back (with a slightly different UI):

http://chetan51.github.com/panels/hacker/

Now, users have some choice :)
The one reason why I moved back to Firefox (mostly) after years of Safari and Chrome was the "load tabs on demand" feature. I love it.
You can script it with JavaScript from the browser.
Anyone feel pretty depressed after reading this? Literally everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

Absolutely fantastic reporting by The Verge here.
Yes, it's a good habit to get into because . is allowed in user and group names whereas : can't be; it's the field separator in /etc/{passwd,group}.
It seems there's a discussion on your forum now. [1]

Unfortunately, to chime in on the discussion one needs to log in with Facebook, which might keep a good chunk of those 'Please support something else' voices out. I know you wrote (both here and in that entry) that you plan to support other authentication methods. The reason why I post this is just to point out the flaw of asking the subset that willingly gives out their FB details in the first place.

1: https://dev.onx.ms/forums/topic/onx-authentication/
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The real problem IMHO is not how high the charges are, but how the money is distributed back to content creators. Ask a German musician or writer how much they get back from the system. Often, the answer is "zilch".
You wouldn't think that the availability of HBO online for say $10/month would change that dynamic much, particularly if the additional cost on your cable bill to get HBO is less than that.
Ask HN: Need Advice on Separating from partners
I have been working on software for several years with two partners. However, without going into too many details, I don't think we make a great team. I want to continue working on the same software, including similar products, without them. Therefore, I think there needs to be a separation.

After I break it to them, what should happen? How do separations among partners usually become resolved?
Yes I think I have an inaccurate view; that's why I'm posting here to find out from the people inside and there are some really insightful points here.
> Chrome is faster

Slower for me. Hits the disk more.

> has great extensions

Not nearly enough. Not by half.

Also, there's the issue of respect: Chrome doesn't respect me nearly enough to let me configure my browser to how I want it. I did away with the speed dial 'feature' in Firefox; I can't do that in Chrome. Not possible. That's just one example of many.

Firefox respects me. Therefore, I use it.
This struck me as odd:

"You could drop the indices completely and add them later, but with a table size this big I didn’t think it would help much."

Surely this is one of the main reasons why the load speed went way down as the database size increases. It has to be better to add an index later, possibly much better.
I really like the idea of the EU, a single market no more protectionism and other simular idotic shit. In reallity the EU is just another layer of stupid regulations and now we get protectionism and interventionsim on EU level too.

Im happy that Im not in the EU (Switzerland) but I belive only getting the good stuff from the EU (open borders ...) will get harder and harder with the EU becomming more like a country.
This is all about Tizen. Samsung, and its associates and partners in various markets around the world, knows that iOS can be competed with, rapidly, by a Linux-based alternative. It has been proven already with Android, and as we all well know .. there will be next generations.

Tizen could be a next-gen mobile/integrated platform, and it could well be that Samsung are the only ones who have anything to do with it, because there is one thing about a Linux-based approach: it is multi-variate. Tizen will be Samsungs Linux, but HTC might do something similar, and Creative Labs could even dust off Plaszma/ZiiOS and produce a shudder effect through the lower-end markets, too.

The Distro Wars won't be over for a while, I think, once this starts happening.

Edit: I want to add that I think that things like the Sharp/Samsung engineers' experience with AngstromOS and so on are sort of behind this.
Poe's law strikes again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
This is actually a good thing. Diablo II spoiled you with unique items so no magical and almost no rare items could ever be useful. In Diablo III, a very simple item can be very useful because of stat bonuses.
I like the concept. You can also just submit it to reddit/HN - if already submitted, it shows the thread. Get the standard submission bookmarklets from:

http://www.reddit.com/bookmarklets

http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
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Appsumo does something similar but yeah, I think it might have some legs...
Here's the video of Barnaby Jack hacking ATM at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, July 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwMuMSPW3bU
amazing app...
Sun did it back to improve StarOffice, though with only a few.
would be awesome if there is a facility to send an update directly to a specific friend?
I agree - if you don't want that, it is unfair. Making it opt-in would be more fair, but probably much more difficult to enforce.

My main point was, that I personally agree with this model, and it is generally not that disadvantageous as the article and many comments here portraits it. Moreover, even the term "tax" is questionable in my opinion, because in this case you are getting rights for private copy of copyrighted content, it's not that you are paying for nothing specific [like in normal taxes].
I don't know about full-length, but there are some >10min videos on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Black+Hat+2010+b...
This is my thinking too. $500k would cover about 2-2.5 developers at Apple/MSFT, and they have many many thousands working on their OSs.
In that case it's somewhat cheaper than GoT, since their $60 million only pays for 10 episodes.
No, it has nothing to do with loyalty but with utility and how you weigh the different feature sets of each browser (speed et al. being features as well for the sake of this discussion). I find such claims disingenuous because they assume that Chrome can act as a drop-in replacement for Firefox which can be trivially shown not to be true. You seem to compare the browsers from the point of shared features or features exclusive to Chrome which understandably can lead to wrong conclusions about Firefox users.

Chrome's features don't constitute a superset of Firefox features and vice versa. Examples for features exclusive to Firefox:

1) Tab groups
2) Awesomebar (which works very differently than the Omnibar)
3) History sync
4) Load tabs on demand
5) Bookmark tags
6) Livemarks
7) Better resource usage (especially memory)

And I could easily add several more, both native as well as the ones added by extensions. You may not care about some or all of these features because they don't fit into your browser usage pattern, but others do. Speed is also important to me and I'm glad that Firefox gets improved with each new version currently but it's not the deciding criteria as long as it doesn't inhibit me from using the browser as I wish.
Not sure about 'best', but the way I go about it is to measure the total time required for an application to complete a task, then attempt to measure the individual components (time spent in PHP, data transfer, rending on client side etc.) and keep narrowing it down until you find the exact cause, such as a database query which requires optimisation.
Most awaited app for facebook :)

I guess u guys should also make an mobile app for AirGol.
Yes we are working on it, and available for all very soon :)
Gema is really nuts. I don't understand who lobbies for them, but instead of producing music that people like to buy, they rely more and more on taxes. Even back in the 70s they managed to put an extra tax on tape cassettes, because you could copy vinyl on them. Back then, this might have been the most likely usage for cassettes. But for CDs and USB sticks this is a rip-off.

There is one more nutty thing that falls into the same category. From January 2012 on, every german household has to pay for public TV, even if the household does not have a TV set. The reason is, that you can receive TV programs via internet and thus also a computer is a TV (well - ...).

So also the TV stations, by simply broadcasting their stuff for free in the internet, managed to get an extra tax. Although, there is no medium like the internet where it is easier to make users log in and let them pay exactly for what they use.

(Note: I indeed never owned a tv set. I indeed watch the daily news on my computer and I'd be happy to pay for this. But only for the news, not for the remaining crap).
I don't want to divert this discussion too far here and obviously you're somewhat ~biased~ by default as an FB engineer, but take this from an engineer that doesn't particularly like FB:

* Friendship for me is something offline, mostly. I don't believe that 'remote friends' make a lot of sense. That's a digital version of pen pals (email?) or collecting trophies from trips around the world. Socializing doesn't happen online for me, 'friends' that I cannot see offline will most probably not make it with me into the future. Facebook is a way to drag those people along that in my world just wouldn't have made it anymore.

* You totally ignored the biggest complaint in this discussion: Sharing stuff with a company that has a less than stellar reputation for respecting privacy. I'd argue that the bad reputation among engineers mostly stems from this issue, not from a weird kind of 'maintaining friends is a waste of time' idea.

That said, I _do_ use FB right now (living in IL, parents and family in DE) to connect with family and I have to admit that this works to some degree. I'd have preferred to do that more privately (diaspora? blogs?), but convenience and ease of use have won here.
I really enjoyed the hamminess. I found it a pleasure to read.
you can beat D3 hell without AH. I did it myself only with items found by me or my friends.
"I think it's a bit more resource-hungry than Chrome"

Depends on what you measure and your usage patterns. Firefox runs circles around Chrome with regards to memory usage and features like "load tabs on demand" can further lower the general resource usage drastically.

The lack of native UI styling of 'select' elements is a disgrace though, especially on Mac. Firefox is the last browser to exhibit this and there are no sign that this will changed in the near future. :-(
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What if you download it and then buy it later.. what would you call that?
The indicator controls are a good example of this. They used to mechanically click into one of 3 positions, indicate left, off and indicate right. This made it very easy to switch them off. Now when you want to manually switch off the indicator it's very easy to to go too far and start indicating in the opposite direction. The only way to know what position they're in is then to look down at the lights on the dashboard. It's seems a huge step backwards in usability.
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On Inferno the monsters scale quite massively with each and every player that joins the game. I believe it's 110% of hit points and about 15% of damage per player.

So your party have to synergize alot in order to overcome this scaling. This is further exacerbated by the Nephalem Valor buff's mechanics - a bonus to magic find you accrue after killing hard mob packs - which prohibits changing your skills and runes mid-game. Hence you cannot really have your party members leave and be replaced by someone of different class without losing the synergy (or the buff).

In solo play, of course, you don't have these problems.
Mobile and Web are two different channels , Our first focus is to utilize web channel with webcam that is easily available. Mobile would be awesome no doubt.
> Do several chunked LOAD DATA INFILE queries in parallel. It's counter-intuitive but you'll get a performance boost. I usually chunk large data sets into 100+ pieces and do 40 concurrent import queries. Mileage may vary, depends a lot on your hardware and data set's sweet spot.

I'm super curious about this. Is it because loading data—even in raw CSV rather than SQL format—is CPU-bound rather than IO bound?
Great, since I then pre-paid my fine, I can use my memory stick to pirate to my heart's content.

In fact, since I already paid for it, I will want to use it for pirating, otherwise I paid this money for nothing.
Usual libertarian argument. Then you go on by saying the same of scientific research, healthcare, education…

The reason I believe public funding is a superior option is that the process that decides what is worthy of being financed is democratic (as in one vote per person), while the libertarian argument of everyone does charity with their disposable income is plutocratic (as in one vote per dollar).
What country you do live in? I'm just curious where this doesn't exist. In Slovakia (and also Czech Rep.) you have to pay for empty hard drives, DVDs, ... But pirating movies/music isn't illegal so I guess it evens out?
groan so we live in /this/ era now, where politicians try to weaponize the Internet. Kill me now.
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Pun noted.

In germany it is forbidden to break a copy protection, even if you have paid a fee for your storage media. Obviously it is a better deal to collect the taxes than to copy-protect music.
There's no licence fee for BBC radio.
Personally, I'm glad that SPDY is providing an incentive for people to use SSL.

Also, just because SSL costs money today (it doesn't if you use startssl.com), doesn't mean it will continue to do so into the future. DANE (once the spec is finalised) will allow people to store fingerprints of their SSL certs in DNS records, signed using DNSSEC. This will remove the existing CAs from the loop.
Does "Cable" in the USA have adverts?
Same problem here. It seems to be a problem on the server as url encoding and other client side stuff looks fine at first glance

I like the UI for the "panels" bookmarklet mentioned by chetan51 http://chetan51.github.com/panels/hacker/
Depending on the site page loading can still badly affect interface responsiveness. There are a number of projects to alleviate this under the umbrella of the Snappy project[1] but for all the work the Mozilla devs have have put into it, Firefox as of now (Fx13) is still nowhere near as smooth as its biggest competitor for regular use cases. I'm hoping that the SuperSnappy research project[2] will produce usable results though.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718121
Agreed, after about six paragraphs he dials it down slightly but there's still a lot of text which I found painful to read.
From the looks of it, before.
It's not payment for pirating. The title (and article) is misleading. This is for legal music you are assumed to put there. It's basically the same payment (to the same organization) as radios, concert organizers, and so on have to pay. Royalty fee. It's still stupid though as sellers of the music have to pay as well, so it is double "taxed" (at best).
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257061

The bug is 8 years old and nobody seems to be working on it. I wouldn't hold my breath that it will be fixed soon.
You don't quite get everything-ever. Certain programs (including films) are made available online on iPlayer for a few weeks, but after that you usually have to wait for it to be repeated on TV (and usually again on iPlayer).
That game looks amazing! Can't wait to play it. Already been passing the website to friends :)
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"And I think this entitlement has come out of being able to get away with stealing the content easily"

Probably true. But it seems like it's shifting to some degree; A lot of normal people I know pay for Spotify, for example.

I also feel parts of the industry brought this upon them-self and are just reaping the fruits of their own decisions the last 12 (?) years.
There are so many varieties of vegetarian diet the term is a little meaningless in terms of understanding nutrition.

I've been vegetarian for about 20 years, I eat a lot of fresh veg, not much fried stuff, not much processed stuff, try and make sure I mix things up and get some protein. Broadly speaking I think I've got a pretty good diet.

But I also know vegetarian's who are massively overweight, eat crap (and too much of it), drink too much and so on.

As a broad group I suspect vegetarian's eat better but I think that's more likely to be linked to the fact that this is a group of people who have thought about what they eat as much as anything inherent in the lack of meat.
Yes, exactly that. Then filtering them because they don't actually show optical flow, they just show a lot of noise
Not going to work: is that an L (Lima), an I (India) or a 1 (one)?
I don't think there's much "stupid regulation", mostly just actual regulation (which can be a good thing). (There's more to say here, but it gets into politics, which is not good to have on HN)
the way I see it, physical buttons have two uses
one is tactile navigation: the ability to find out what part of the screen you're touching and navigate it without vision.

the second use though is activation feedback, a button has to be able to be navigated separately from its activation. unless these protrusions can tell whether they are pressed or not, it still seems useless to have a lumpy touchscreen...

so I really hope they found some method of separating simply sliding a finger around searching for a button and realizing when the finger is pressing down... this is the exact same issue as the various touch-mice devices

(left click with finger on left side, right click with finger on right side, unless that is you like to REST your fingers while clicking)
Urr how often do you read out shortened URLs? The entire genesis of link shortening is sending them in txt communications to be clicked on (emails initially when tinyurl.com was invented and later bit.ly when twitter placed even tighter constraints on character count).
I think it's tying for shortest - bit.ly will allow you to create j.mp URLs via their API (not sure if you can do it without the API)
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7 platinums * $500k = $3,5MM

15 golds * $100k = $1,5MM

110 silvers * between $5k and $20k = between $550k and $2,2MM

Total = between 5,5MM and 7,2MM
How Facebook tries (and lies) a little too hard
Blomst
En blomst er et af naturens mest vidunderlige og livlige skabninger. Når foråret endelig viser sig frem efter de kolde vintermåneder, er det blomsterne, der først for alvor sætter lys over landet. De lyser op på mark og i skov og vækker liv i selv de mest triste af mennesker. Anemonerne i skovene fortæller desuden også den gode nyhed, at bøgen og resten af skoven snart er på vej til at springe ud. En blomst er derfor et smukt tegn på liv og på det første skridt i årstidernes cyklus.
Google warns of suspected state-sponsored attacks
Why would anyone be shocked at this?

They already spam anyone unfortunate to be in the Address Book of someone who signs up for this awful service and connects with their gmail whatever.
Idea is awesome! working great as well , But guys change his cloths :)
I can get a week on my Android phone if I use it as a phone. Only calls, few messages and occasional time check.
While researching a bit about the interaction between ADHD and food, I stumbled on articles about that kind of diet.

My (real) question is : what do you eat and how do you keep pleasure in eating ? From breakfeast to super, how can you even avoid bread (and cheese), the best thing on Earth ? It seems so impossible to me.
it was not about wether it is 0.10 euro or 1,49. it was more about the reasons why the GEMA and co. are able to pull off what they are able to pull off. This fee is just one symbtom among a lot of others.
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FWIW if you switch Firefox to small icon mode, hide the addon bar (previously status bar) and the bookmark bar, then Firefox only has a few vertical pixel less than Chrome for the content area. That's how I use my Firefox at least.
Yes, it is capable of doing Native IPv6. However, pay attention to it: the version I grabbed a few months ago did not come with ip6tables or their corresponding kernel modules. You do not want your printer visible to the whole internet.
Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds
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The fee pays for public broadcasting, not just public TV. Public broadcasting includes TV, radio, and the internet presence of the TV and radio media. I don't have a TV, but I do listen to public radio and I use public news web sites all the time.

I think the new system is much more reasonable than the previous system, which had loads of people claiming they don't own any kind of receiving device when that claim is just patently absurd for almost everybody today. This was different in the 50s or 60s where not everybody had a radio at home, much less a video device. Today it's just a system that rewards dishonesty. It also lead to an expensive byzantine bureaucracy (the GEZ) just for collecting the public broadcasting fees and snooping (in person!) after people who say that don't own a TV/radio/whatever.

What is crazy is that they didn't get rid of the GEZ when they changed the system, but I assume that'll happen sometime down the road. And of course you're free to disagree with having any public broadcasting system at all, or that it should be financed differently (I agree). But the previous fee system was just broken and needed to be fixed.
And after that twitter came with t.co.
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