skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it is a piece of garbage compared to everything else. Now it looks like every TV manufacturer will be using it as their TV's OS, so things may change in the future. TVs will resemble the Android phone landscape.
Sorry if I look harsh, but this is not the meaning of "hacker" I like to see promoted.

On the movie, also, the girl was not trying to crack into a computer - she seemingly had full MySQL console access.
Reminds me of this: http://www.scott-a-s.com/cs-is-not-math/
How much effort is "little effort", in dollars?
Good timing. About 5 minutes ago I pushed this live on my site. Click any of the video thumbnails here to see (and report bugs if you find any..:)

Also, I'm using hashbangs if the browser doesn't support pushState (like IE).

And if you're visiting from a mobile browser, I don't do any of the pushState fanciness either.

http://fandalism.com
It might well happen then if everything goes well, but I'm not sure they've ever given a specific date. In public statements that I've seen, Elon's been pretty consistent about saying he wants a "steady cadence of launches" before a public offering, because that's what it takes to convince Wall Street that something as exotic as a space launch company is a sustainable business, particularly if the CEO keeps talking about colonizing Mars. He went on in COTS-2/3 press conferences to define "steady cadence" as a launch a month or so, which would be a breakneck pace for any other organization on Earth.

If they launch everything on their manifest successfully, they may be on path to do that by the end of next year --- but that, too is an ambitious goal. (Heck, even if he can produce all the rockets, his customers may not have the payloads ready!)
And if you get a food-borne disease from it....you were just holding it wrong.
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TOPIC: GRAIN - Romney's birth certificate evokes his father's controversy
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You seem to be unaware that businesses (and governments) can legitimately buy keys that allow MITMing SSL connection or they could just be a CA themselves (no problem for China).

It is annoying that people downvote you instead of explaining your error in your assumption about SSL.
The American electoral system is slanted towards an effective duopoly dictatorship with FPTP. Even the most brilliant political analyst will vote against their favourite candidate in favour of one the lesser of two evils that are likely to win. The only way for that favourite candidate to win is to get as much popularity possible. But with many candidates, it's really difficult. Unless, they have a huge amount of money and influence.

With bi-partisan decisions such as more security over movement and Internet, American voters have no other choice.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiHuiDD_oTk Is your Cat confused about the referendum on the alternative vote on the 5th May?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE&feature=rela... The Alternative Vote Explained
The key element of both (all) types of patents is that, rather than "protecting" your property, they actually allow you to prevent others from independently inventing or designing the same thing by giving you a legal monopoly. In that regard using the law to prevent someone having rounded corners on a handheld device isn't too different from preventing them having a touchscreen device that you unlock by swiping.
Mueller's likely cooking up another article of baked shit right now. He will write about how Oracle actually won this case (even with all the verdicts and judgements going against them), so it was actually bad for Google.

I guarantee he posts an article tomorrow lamenting how Google will only face more lawsuits like this and they won't luck out with an "incompetent" judge and google-loving jury next time. He has been so off the mark with every article he's written on this case he's got to have zero personal pride in his work.

It's a shame people go to him for information. He's a poison in the software community.
In 30 years working with Unix, I've never encountered a situation where "defragmentation" was the answer. File system too full? Dozens of times. So, what usage pattern am I avoiding to live such a charmed life?

Anecdotally, I run a couple virtual machines on my laptop whose storage is on an external drive that sounds like Geiger counter at Fukushima Reactor 1 when the drive is busy. That is, when I've booted Windows 7. Not when I'm running anything under Windows, Windows just needs to be booted. When I'm running only a Linux VM, it drops to background level.
That data is old, it's when Wayne was still working at Intel, he's been working here since 2001, so I'm guessing that is a pentium pro or similar.

I'll ping him and he'll probably answer tomorrow, it's late in his day in Indiana.
Yes, this is indeed the case! I shoot with a prime, so the ability to change the focal length doesn't really come to me. But I think it's very important that you brought up specifically the fact that the distance spatially between the camera, the subject, and the background are very important!
You mean annihilated? The original meaning [0] of decimated meant a one-tenth reduction leaving 90% remaining.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
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Speaking of image processing, is anyone aware of any libraries or APIs that check image quality?
Things have changed, with Harp 2.0. Harp was the government program to allow underwater homeowners with good credit and no late payments refinance. It ended up being a flop because Bank's dragged their feet. Enter Harp 2.0, which started Fall of last year, but had a good number of bank's participating since April of this year.

Go google Harp 2.0, and then go ask your bank about it. And then go talk to other banks.
Tell/Ask HN:  Cooperatively owned datacenters?
I do basically all of my grocery shopping at a co-op and I love it. My friends cooperatively own a farm. There has been a big movement here (in Vermont) to get people into credit unions.

Why not a datacenter? I will probably spend something like 1k usd this year on hosting various things, I would love to put that into something I had a small share in.
I'm about to apply and I'm definitely down for the idea of finding living space with others that would be attending.
And all I want to know is: will this version have input lag?
StartX Stanford accelerator's Demo Day livestream (5:15 pm)
My guess is that John Carmack could kickstart rocket projects with his own checkbook better than we've seen financing from kickstarter.

Rocket projects are very expensive!!
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No one thinks the iPad 3 is too slow and any modern Atom processor is quite a lot faster so it shouldn't be a problem at all. These machines are extremely limited by the OS so hardware limitations are a distant concern in my opinion.
Wow, these classes actually look interesting. I'm glad they aren't just sticking to computers. It would be neat if they could somehow tie up all of the subjects together. Such as a course on computing applied to physics.
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My apologies, I completely misread the title of the post and therefore misunderstood your comment as well.
click the titles with the middle mouse button
I'm most impressed with the 8-bit sound umbrella.
I would love to have research done on this. Such as using both approaches on similar product launches simultaneously. One product that clearly states its launch is pure research, and another disguising it.

It would help ease my cognitive dissonance.

On the one hand, I believe people lie about what they'll buy. Whether they lie to us or to themselves, it doesn't matter. On the other hand, I also can't stand this validation tactic. So I hope such research would show it's not necessary to deceive. But if not, I can more easily look past people doing so.
Isn't the whole point of a preview that users run it and find and report errors? Otherwise why not just go RTM?
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If people want to ask for spec work that's fine. They just can't expect that the best talent is going to show up.
Dropbox also started pretty much like this. Contrast this approach to Coda 2's[1], or with the "build and they will come" mentality.

[1] http://andyet.net/blog/2012/may/25/maximum-viable-products/
I thought part of the case was already a patent lawsuit. Our are you referring to the possibility that Oracle might get patents specifically on the Java APIs and sue with those?
There are a few 3d user interfaces.

(http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml)

It's kind of a shame that VRML and these interfaces were being developed when hardware wasn't powerful enough and when networking wasn't fast enough.

With good displays, and smart people working on them, and much nicer hardware, I think these techs could provide interesting results.
I like it, but in 3 months she got 2/5 in rails, 2/5 in javascript and 2/5 in git? I doubt thats even possible...

I've been working with each of those for ~6 years and I'd still only put myself at a 4 and if I was being generous. It's funny the longer you work with something the more you realize how little you understand it. I probably would have put myself at a 2/5 in those categories 5 years ago, but looking back, I'd rate myself at 1/5 instead.
"Makes me wonder: what system was in place in the time of the Apollo missions for determining the exact location of a reentering spacecraft?"

The system was called the Apollo Unified S-Band System. For further reading, this document describes the various telemetry parameters, operating spectrums and transmission details:

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/TM-X55492.pdf

This is a nice resource as well. Don't miss the articles at the bottom of the page from CQ that discuss the system. The Proceedings of the Apollo Unified S-Band Technical Conference document is definitely worth your time (it's also at the bottom of the page).

http://www.ab9il.net/aviation/apollo-s-band.html
They look a lot more intuitive/natural than iOS. I actually had to use Google when I first got my iPad to figure out how to do some pretty basic things. In fact, I didn't even think to look into it until I accidentally put my whole hand on the screen and unexpected things happened -- it made me question what else was there.
There is no difference. "Should" is a word used by people insecure in their beliefs who feel the need to convince others that they're correct solely for the purpose of self-affirmation.

I am able to put forth new ideas into the world without convincing others that my ideas (and by extension myself) are acceptable, and others should be too.

Oddly enough, by actually giving an in-depth explanation of my beliefs and putting forth an idea I believe deserves further exploration, I will no doubt be downvoted anyway. So why would I care about being constructive in a place that rewards popular ideas and punishes unpopular (although possibly valid) ideas?
I don't know about a majority.

This poll, while hardly conclusive, suggests at least a sympathy for the "IP is imaginary!" crowd.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555088
Ask HN: Personalization & Search Engine stack for Porn [SFW]
This is something that has been on the back of my mind for a while now. Given personalization is so prevalent, I wonder why there are no (that I know of) applications of this to porn - sort of like "Porn-dora". I'd like to believe, in the most decent way possible, that each one of us has our tastes when it comes to porn. And considering the size of the industry this might be a big opportunity. Yes, there is privacy issues and all, but one doesn't need more than a throwaway account/login and the servers needn't log any more information than they do now.

Are there any reasons why the personalization wave hasn't swept into this part of the internet yet?

Also, it surprises me that a lot of other popular technologies in even a simple search engine stack aren't usually present in a porn site. Example: No spell correction, query expansion, ranking, "inteligent" related videos (these are almost always based on title/keywords) using collaborative filtering, etc.
What sells this os to me, is that it will be an option to Android and the Ipad. Both of these fail in certain areas related to playing windows media content. A lot of radio stations,and a lot of Windows media content will not work with iOs or Android. But they do work with Windows 7 and hopefully Windows 8.

I will ditch my android tablet for a Windows 8 tablet in a heartbeat, if my windows media content works on it and if it's reasonably priced.
Certainly, there's the right way and the wrong way, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. It's still early days for pushstate apps, and they have yet to get their "Rails moment". Middle-clicking problems and the like are inevitable. (Do you remember sites used sessions to remember where you clicked, so tabs didnt work at all? This too shall pass).

You say progressive enhancement helps you out in all these cases, but I just see opinion, and very little evidence. So all I have to offer you in rebuttal is the same - I believe the opposite.

I agree about accessibility. I frankly don't know what to do there. On the one hand, I hate the idea that I might be excluding somebody. On the other hand, I tend to implement things lazily, so if I'm never asked for a feature, I probably won't do it.
Go download the WordPress iOS application. It's non-trivial and open source. http://ios.wordpress.org/development/
I've been having a lot of discussions with friends about open courseware lately. I love what Udacity, MIT, Stanford, Khan Academy and others are doing, but I can't wait until students can earn degree credit from OCW.

For millions of people, a four year degree isn't an option because they can't go to the school's physical location, pay the tuition, and either work part-time or not at all while studying full-time. People in that situation aren't going to put in the time and effort for OCW classes that don't count towards a degree, and they end up missing out on a ticket to a better life. Some people will, of course, and obviously already do, but for the vast majority, it's not the same incentive as the opportunity to actually get a degree.

Of course there's a lot of value in the education itself, but once open courseware becomes accepted as a legitimate way to earn a degree, we're going to see a radical change in humanity's future. As soon as people around the US and the world can afford the time and money to earn Ivy League-quality degrees from wherever they live, they'll flock to them, and we'll see the benefits of an educated society around the globe.
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Fine I'll reply to myself here.

I'm talking specifically about people who name their networks things like "Anal Creampie Snowball" or "Gaping Asshole".

I'm not saying what you're doing should be /illegal/ just that you're being a gigantic prick by doing it, and that you're inviting me to be a gigantic prick back to you.
Shame really, you'd think that if you were producing a device that ran linux anyway, you'd be able to pick up a few extra sales by letting enthusiasts do their own thing with it. Since you're not paying Microsoft anything you've got a bit of wiggle room to be competitive pricewise too. (At the very least you'd think that Google employees might like something to run Goobuntu on).
Google Says Android, Chrome OS Will Eventually Converge
Really, really?

Congrats to her

I remember doing "something similar" in MSX Basic about 20 years ago =)
Darn, and here I thought open source projects were supposed to be free. I think the pay what you want model would be appropriate - and I think that may be what Granger hinted at, not sure.
This may be ignorant and please correct if I am off base but given the same physical medium isn't sending 2k across the network the same cost whether you are at fastE or gigE? Given the network is not saturated?
there is a little wheel on your mouse, right between the left and right buttons. in most browsers, if you click the link with it, it will open in a new tab
>Anti-virus software blocking any meaningful use of the computer

Don't wish for that! In the Hulk 2008 movie, you can see Norton Antivirus scanning the computer right before he uses it.
I think the implications of this case are huge.

Apart from having the non-copyrightability of APIs reaffirmed (hugely important in itself), we're now seeing the whole general broadside of the intellectual property armageddon largely fizzing out. We have huge tech giants throwing whole rafts of patents at each other and seeing time and time again 95% of them dismissed and the remainder get trivially worked around.

Hopefully this starts to change the mentality into one where these companies realize that patents are fairly worthless protection for trivial ideas in the first place and the only way to truly protect yourself is to actually out-innovate and be one step ahead of where the competition is.
You're right; I'm sorry, I should have given you the benefit of the doubt and parsed the sentence that way.

It is interesting about the 'bias' of doctors towards their own experience. I guess my point is that statistically this kind of 'bias' towards the most common syndromes is a net positive for society; it's an allocation of resources thing--we don't have so many doctors that we can afford them all to be running off on weird tangents investigating possible rare diseases that aren't there...

Again, sucks if you do happen to be the one in X thousand that has the rare disease. Am I being too utilitarian?

Regarding tone: apologies; I agree it was an overly flippant comment. It was more a reaction to some of the other doctor bashing that was going on in this thread that fails to see the woods for the trees. I see now that that wasn't your intention...
Unsurprisingly the word is used in it's current sense rather than it's archaic sense.
We've seen invention companies turn into patent trolls. The latest example - a shell company built around the Nortel patents - is a classic case. A telecom company, where it should be easy to sell inventions to upper management, went bankrupt by refusing to innovate. (I know there are other reasons Nortel is dead, I apologize for the simplification.)

I don't believe anyone has ever seen a patent troll "turn from the dark side." It's not just cynicism: a company whose business plan is "aggressively pursue patent licenses" has a fiduciary responsibility to stakeholders to stay the course. It's easier to drive a company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy than convince a majority of stakeholders to unite, pivot, and abandon their cash cow.

The easiest way to defeat patent trolls is to succeed as a startup.
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I find it interesting how the title of this post is tailored to the technical HN audience where as the Reddit post made reference to them getting sued:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ucumx/hey_reddit_were...
There is still some debate -- and this case didn't touch it -- over linking and derivative works. Static linking pretty clearly involves something that requires a license from the copyright holder, but dynamic linking is far from clear. The GPL basically asserts that dynamic linking makes a derivative work, but there's no guarantee that this is how copyright law would actually be interpreted by a court.
hach lukas. sweet.
I grew up in Cincinnati (20 years) before moving to the valley. What he says is generally true.

Obviously success doesn't hinge on location but if I had it to do all over again I'd have moved out here for my first startup in the early 2000s. I'm here for my second startup and the serendipitous opportunities are frequent and priceless.

I know people get defensive and he does sort of take a few jabs at Cincinnati (probably a dumb move on his part) but in the end much of it is true.

Edit: added more content.
It would be awesome if some sort of body was able to release a syllabus with the information you are required to learn and some course materials. Then, after a certain time period, they would give a standardized test that determined if you passed the course or not. It would motivate people to go out on their own and learn things their way. The only disadvantage is that they wont have the social interaction component associated with college.
Do people distribute their non-free code, which then, somehow bootstraps GPL libraries (from GPL sources)? Would that be compatible with the GPL, or is there a provision against that?
The name of this language immediately made me think of the blocky.io (http://blocky.io/) visual programming language, which was written in Common Lisp by David O'Toole before this language was developed. Blocky.io is very similar to this language, in more then just name, it even has its own MIT scratch like interface: http://blocky.io/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Screenshot-....
welcome to the jungle...or even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg&ob=av3e
Hell, software engineering isn't even engineering.

'you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot.".'

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036...

"Software engineering" has little to do with engineering and its principles and everything with applying buzzwords to squeeze the most money out of whomever was suckered into paying for the project.
Yeah, seems like someone with 4 years experience with high demand brick oven/pizza tossing skills could make a killing on their own considering the mark-up on pizza.
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Just wanted to submit this tool I wrote to help me as a VFR Student Pilot and I believe it could help all casual pilots. Where before I would have to go manually check METARs and then calculate the crosswinds to ensure they were within my personal minimums and limitations for solo, now I get a color coded one stop shop :) Mobile versions will be coming soon.

Would love feedback from other pilots!
I need "comment" block.
I have to agree.

Oracle's only possible course in purchasing Sun was litigation. (And I think most expected nothing less from Larry Ellison.)

Google seemed like a vulnerable target.

Alsup was a spanner in Ellison's plan. It could be argued that Google's legal defense was another.
it was just a suggestion...i mentioned in the article that there were alternative ways to do them but i was just giving a suggestion
Just my opinion:

Sun probably knew that at the time but due to hubris didn't want to admit it, so they just willingly looked the other way and kept doing what they were doing. So you get Jonathan Schwartz, in 2007, wishing that Google would take a license, but begrudgingly congratulating them anyway, but not doing the "Official Android Pro SDK" thing you suggest. (http://web.archive.org/web/20101023072550/http://blogs.sun.c...). So that was a small mistake, a missed opportunity, but life went on.

Then at some point (maybe even before they purchased Sun, maybe after?), Oracle decided to waaay up the stakes with this lawsuit. Given how it's turned out, I'd call that a much bigger mistake.

So it was probably a little clear even to Sun in 2007 that alienating Google was the wrong call but/so they decided not to do anything about it, and then Oracle, well, I don't know whether it's correct to characterize this as missing a call vs intentionally taking a big risk in hopes of a big reward.
There isn't. I had to enclose the algorithm in a while (true) loop and if you reach the goal the program stops automatically. Here is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/0mape
I think you should look at 1-5 or 1-10 scales logarithmically. It doesn't take a whole lot of work to become basically competent in a git or Rails (2/5), but to become an expert (4/5) takes exponentially more work.
it's blocked in Turkey as well but everyday i'm shufflin'. :)