skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/06/librarians-desc/

Does reading your library records count... How do you know the same hasn't been done with your email? You don't. Because it's secret. Is this an open society? A free society?
I couldn't agree with this more. What's more, I think you can take what you said about the manufacture of things and say it again about the manufacture of software. I don't mean outsourcing -- obviously, most software is still written in the US -- but rather that it is something modern users consume with infinite hygiene.

Gone are the days that you had to run things from the DOS prompt with the concomitant risk you might discover QBASIC. Or, on a Mac, the risk that you could run into Hyperstack.
* Adding an index to myisam takes the same time as recreating the table (additionally taking as much space)

* Any operation on myisam table locks it from writing
There's a lot of enjoyment to be gained from watching the same shows as your friends at the same time, and that's easier to co-ordinate when that time is "when it airs".
Ctrl + F displays number of instances found in a page in Chrome but not in Firefox. Can you please fix it.
That's one reason why switching auto-increments to bigint does help (a lot):

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/integer-types.html
If you want challenge through gameplay, for example a Dwarf Fortress player, then you are a very different creature than someone who is there for loot/run efficiency.

Wouldn't changing the game type/changing expectations like this make them lose a lot of players?

As an extension - wouldn't the RMAH launch delay will end up costing Blizzard more than they anticipate, since its pretty much the Key stone of D3s item/economy.

But yes, the changes in the reward schedules will make it a lot less addictive.
I want Game of Thrones on airplane trips.
Oh, and I don't know where Joyent announced this news - it certainly wasn't on their blog... and the article doesn't provide any source. The only time I saw anyone mention anything about 0.8's release date, was here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/aRC2pbFN8NU/YXpB_vuCT...

There are (at least) 7 more open issues before 0.8: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues?milestone=10&state...

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I feel guilty upvoting this story; specially given that submitter is just a dummy account promoting this blog.
terrible link bait by the techdirt junk site. flagged, see below for my explanation.

it is not a piracy tax. Germans have a right to copy stuff for their close friends. that's not piracy but a lawful right. that the fee is outrageous is another issue.
D3 is even worse than that. I was having so much trouble with A2 inferno that I went and bought fantastic gear from A4 inferno on the AH.

Normal mobs still pretty much 4-shot me. I have to kite EVERYTHING. I'm pretty sure I could have the best gear possible in the game and still die in less than 10 hits, less for elites/champions.
First of all, a levy on storage media? That is so weird!
How the hell did that come about?

Erm, multiple countries have levies like this. They, and increases in them, are for exactly what they say on the tin: the money is given to the recording industry to cover the expected cost of any piracy that occurs using that blank media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

Your diatribes would be much more effective if they either had a bit more research behind them or did not succumb to poe's law.
I think that it's not just a matter of separating exits from liquidity, but that it is reasonable for anyone with any serious net worth to diversify their assets. If you are worth $20 million because of the equity in your company and 100% of that $20 is tied to that company, it is completely reasonable to diversity some of that $20 million. However, I would say that you need to be prudent about signaling. Diversifying all the risk away from your own business isn't a good sign, but diversifying up to 50% is reasonable. I will add that it's quite ridiculous for investors to be highly diversified and than judge entrepreneurs for wanting to diversify some of their assets when all their net worth is tied up in their startup.
That will probably be the second. The first will undoubtedly involve a penis of some sort/shape.
> Knowing how your own facial expressions, gestures, voice and words really work is a crucial survival skill in human society

You may want to rephrase this. I'm willing to accept it's useful, but it's clearly not a survival skill or there would be a lot of dead nerds out there.
That's piracy tax. Other countries have this.
It's called "fair use".

In general, and in fact I sort of believe it is also that way in Germany, not a law that allow you to copy stuff to your close friends.

It allows you to make copies for yourself (backups, etc), and to view/listen to those copies or the original with your family. NOT giving or copying it to them.

Anyway, since you're letting your family view/listen, etc. they lose money on "fair use". Thus they made a tax so you pay for it.

And you know what? That's piracy tax with any name. So the site might be crap, I don't know. Germany may or may not have this tax, I don't know.

I know some countries do. France certainly do. And calling it piracy tax is insightful. Its there because of the so-called piracy. It's just a way to steal money really.
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The first serious plan to colonize Mars within our lifetime
> I don't really care of the teacher is curious or intelligent. I just want them to know how to deliver information to my child in the most efficient way possible.

Adding to other excellent answers, there's also this thing that children are not robots. You can't just open a channel and upload the knowledge to their brains. You need to work them on emotional level, make them curious / interested in what they are learning, even if because it boosts efficiency tremendously.

> It would be nice if the children were engaged, and if the teacher had a clever way to even make it "fun" at times, great. But it's not a prerequisite.

Yes, it is. Even teachers who are experts in their domains may (and in academia, often are) poor teachers. Because it doesn't matter what you say (they can read up the details in textbook/on Wikipedia; that's what they're there for anyway). It matters how you say it.
Yes it is very common.
I have personally experienced and seen Chrome get “stuck” and kind of just fail to update itself until a manual re-download of the installer is performed. It does usually work, but sometimes just stops. For example, I recently saw a bug report from someone who thought they were on the most recent version of Chrome — 10. (It’s currently at 19 or so.)
When I was taking these sort of tests, I learned to delay processing of non-question text until I've read the question. Reading comprehension, in most of the standardized tests I've taken, was nothing more than ability to quickly pattern match keywords from a question to unstructured data preceding it. This kept me from building models of questions in my head and thusly prevented any preconceived notions or facts divert me from the answer the test considered correct.
Well, based on his comment above - its obvious that D2 has provide play time beyond the 12 years till its successor.

Its successor in turn can't promise 1 year.

The game is fine as it is - you pay more $$ to get less value from other things in life.

Yet, its not in the same league (at this patch juncture) as D2, its ageing predecessor. Which is what the OP is referring to as shameful.
Pirating these shows in the US often leads to nasty threatening letters from the content owners, and that's the best case scenario. You learn pretty fast not to do that again. Maybe I'm just an awful pirate.

I have been willing to pay HBO anywhere between 10 and 30 a month for years to get access to all of their content on demand on the web. Really glad someone took the initiative to let them know about it. Not that it will necessarily do anything, but at least the customer desires will be very visible.
And really Tim was right, a more general embedding tag, including text chunks, would have made the web better over the last 20 years.
It's the way we're killing thinking in children.

If I say that dogs bark when they're cold and then ask a five year old why dogs bark, I'd expect something like, "when they're cold! and when they're angry! and when Amy [sister of this 5yo] steps on his tail, hahaha". Or whatever. Reality is not bound by what someone written or said few moments ago. If you want to test reading comprehension, you have to control for prior experience in the subject which might be (and probably often is) greater than test author's.
First, if you're not entirely sure about the article, relax a bit. The source of this weird site is a well-known and respected IT site, heise.de.

I'd ~translate~ ZPÜ as 'Central authority (Z) for private (P) rights to create copies (Ü)'. They are, for all I can tell, part of the 'GEMA' group, the German "We're responsible to collect money for artists whenever you run a radio/play music in a public place" guys.

These guys set a ~tax~ on anything you can use to create copies. Cd burner? Check. Hard drives? Check. Empty cds/dvds? Check. All of those, if bought here, are supposed to give a portion of their price to that organization. So I guess you can call it a tax on storage media if you want.
Let's say it's a .. disputable thing.

The rest of the German article is well-written, reasonable and .. well .. IT biased, of course. They discuss that all manufacturers and traders are a tiny bit unhappy with this situation, but do expect to fight for the next years to correct that idiocy. Until then, prices are expected to be adjusted in Germany: They claim that the prices for a 8 GB SD card currently costs 6-15 EUR and now needs to factor in this ~tax~ of 1.95 EUR for the time being -> Prices for consumers go up.

Edit: To save a click on my profile: I'm German, so that's my native language.
As aw3c2 mentioned, it is not officially intended to compensate for losses caused by illegal copying (that would be highly debatable juridically) but for the fact that it is legal to make a few copies for friends and for personal use. At least as long as there's no copy protection. Not much of a right when you have to collectively pay for the "free" personal copies anyway.
The most important thing money can buy you is independance and freedom. Some things where already mentioned. And this independance can make you happy. On the other hand, money can also take all freedom and independance away from your life. In this case you have become a misserable slave of your bank account.

But I can completely understand that selling the company you started you built from ground upcan also be kind of sad. And yes, in this case the money that helpfully comes along doesn't make you happy.

Congratuations to Ryan for a successfull exit anyway!
Glass is preferable because it can be reconfigured by software to fit the application, allowing dead-simple, focused interfaces rather than bloated, inflexible catch-all input devices.

The tradeoff was the loss of tactile feedback, meaning good luck dialing a number, choosing a song, etc. while driving. Tactile glass would be the best of both worlds.
This is Apple we're talking about!
Except that in real-life I wouldn't put the lens too close to the glass, because a) the microscope seems (by the description) to be able to crush the glass, and b) I wouldn't bet on myself remembering which way to turn the knob to raise the lens instead of lowering it.

IMO this is a thinking vs. saying what they want you to say problem. It pops up often when a kid has more experience with subject matter than the test author.
It seems every other week there's an article about Estonia on HN. Could be observational bias since I've moved here, but it seems Estonia is doing great tech-wise.
For me the nicest variant of this idea was the TouchStone thign from Palm/HP/Web OS.

Inductive charger that triggered a configurable mode on your phone -> Drop the phone on a magnet, get a clock or whatever and the phone charges without searching the plug beneath the bed.
We hit the "opinion overload" problem at dotCloud about a year ago, at 10 employees. It took us a while to fix it. We could feel the beginning of a vicious circle where an eloquent opinion brought the same peer recognition as a working piece of code. The symptoms were more talking, less coding, recurring debates which everybody was sick of but nobody could put to rest, and worst of all, a tendency to say "I told you so" and blame each other for oversights. We noticed this when junior hires started mimicking the most verbose "opinionaters" instead of the most prolific doers. The wrong "genes" were reproducing in the company's dna!

Fortunately we found a solution and the group self-corrected wonderfully. The team is now 20 strong and an awesome no-bullshit engineering culture. We found that the key to a constructive conversation is to have an owner: someone in charge of the subject at hand, who is held responsible for the result, and in return has authority on how to go about it. Everyone else in the conversation is a peer, voicing their opinion non-authoritatively and acknowledging that the owner has the final say. Rule of thumb: ask "who's the owner?". If there's no clear answer, you're not getting work done.

In a group of smart and trusted people, this creates a culture where you earn your spurs with what you do, not what you say. Opinions become more like washing the dishes: useful and necessary, but not something that will get you pats in the back either. In fact if you take your dishwashing skills too seriously you might find yourself a source of amusement.

We later found out that Pixar uses a very similar peer feedback system for its productions.
Don't worry, in Inferno it's very very hard, even with AH. You gotta farm for days before u can buy better stuff from AH.

But in reality you'll just run-die without killing mobs and only killing bosses. Like everyone else. So that you can farm the bosses later / play hardcore, etc.
Fair enough. Please accept my apology, anigbrowl. You are correct, tptacek, to suggest I should assume good faith.

Looking back, I think what riled me was the word 'folks'. As in, "nothing to see here, folks", although he didn't actually say that.
I doubt status is the correct answer here.

Firstly, you can't use a term like status and then apply it across the entire D3 player base. The edge cases here are complete player types which make a sizeable portion of the player base.
If you were really determined to buy it outside Aus I suppose you could buy an iTunes gift card from here and then login to iTunes via an Aussie proxy. Happens surprisingly often in the other direction.

You really would be paying the 'gold price' too as the $AUD is pretty strong due to the price of gold and other commodities mined here.
I completely agree, really a great post. Even without a company to sell, I confirm that quitting a job you actually did like alot kind of feels the way. Only that in this case the millions are missing... :-)
Danish Iconfinder Raises $1.5 Million
Iconfinder has received a $1.5 million (€1.2 million) investment from VF Venture (Vækstfonden) the Danish state-owned funding arm, and a follow up investment from an American investor who has not yet been disclosed. The company has built a name for itself by providing easy search for icons used by web designers, app developers, and even anyone making a powerpoint presentation. With the funding, the company says it will continue to develop the core product and work on commercializing the large amount of traffic they see. Iconfinder's founders also say they're ready to take on Google's search in this niche area.
No longer in the dark with summer approaching!
What precisely is your dissertation about? Inferring motion from compression artifacts? Exploiting the fact that many codecs have already done motion estimation so that you don't have to do image flow again?
German native speaker here.

Sadly the basic facts of the article are correct.

There is a levy on different media and also on machines capable of copying content (yes, there is a levy on computers in Germany). The height of the levy is negotiated with the producers of the product, represented by Bitcom, and the respective "Verwertungsgesellschaft" which in this case is the ZPÜ.

The "Verwertungsgesellschaft" negotiating the levy for (paper) copying machines would be the VG-Wort.

Negotiations for USB-Sticks failed, so the ZPÜ made a unilateral move and simply set the new levy to said price.

Bitcom states in the original article (on heise.de), that one part of the underlying law has not been properly respected, namely §54a, Absatz 4 which stated that the levy has to have a sane relation to the price of the media.

They are expecting a lengthy lawsuit with the adverse effect that the producers of sticks have to set aside some money for the case of losing. In addition to that they expect the european market to become skewed since there is no such levy in switzerland and other neighbouring countries where consumers can easily order sticks.
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And not just driving. Take the iPad, for instance - it's fun and kind of magical, but a lot of us dismiss it because you can't really do "serious" input on it. Even though I really like it, I have to confess that I can't really type that fast, nor is typing comfortable enough to do for very long. But if typing on my iPad were as easy as it is on a chiclet-type keyboard - just a step or two down from my laptop keyboard - then suddenly things would equalize a bit. And what is for many people the major barrier to using a touch device exclusively would disappear.
It's not. You make what you measure. But it works both ways, because it's a feedback loop (otherwise measurements would be useless).

And standarized test are poorly calibrated to real understanding and makes the whole school system produce more and more dumb kids with each year.
Agreed. But it doesn't happen merely by hard work either. If it did, my dad would be richer than Paris Hilton.
its ok as a monk i guess.

another issue is that 80% of players (thats a pretty random estimate) are DH.

So here's what inferno looks like:

join/leave/
join/leave/
join/leave/
join/leave/
join/leave/
join/leave/

Because all DH are looking for other classes and don't find it. Its literally a constant spam of join/leave because it's impossible to play with a proper party.

Plus there's some inferno elites you simply CANNOT kill as DH (when the whole elite group as reflect damage for example). you CANNOT have crazy DPS and crazy HP, so the more damage you do the faster you die.
If you die/rez (with the increasing timer) the elite will go in rage mode after a while (kills you in 1-3s from distance, cannot dodge it) and while you're waiting, heal all the damage you've done. It just doesn't work.

One of the many reason why Inferno is not that fun. Most people just skip elites by doing run-die-run loops if they don't have a proper party.
Us freelancers oftentimes live paycheck to paycheck. Getting a delayed payment is more than an inconvenience, it starts a trainwreck of financial consequences.

Sincere advice said with love: charge more. Not being paid on time is a predictable and natural state for a business. The risk of that should be priced into your offering.
why is everybody ranting on this nice technology and ignores the fact that the sites image and css ressources aren't loading?!
"They don't trust the web because everyone has heard of email, credit card, etc. scams. One big reason for Apply to only allow in-app purchases through their system is that, therefore, third-party apps never see credit card information and can't do too much damage."

That's very easily solved. We just need a w3c spec for auth and payments in the browser, using browser-native UI and a pluggable framework so different identity providers and payment processors can hook into your browser.

If you think about it, the current system is equivalent to permanently giving a copy of your credit card to every shop you visit and telling them "bill me if you think i owe you something". The level of trust involved is mind boggling, and a system like that cannot ever become secure.

Nobody should see your cc details except your payment processor. Nobody should see your e-mail address except your identity provider (if a site wants to send you a mail, they should be using a browser-based notification api). The native app platforms have shown this works way better than the current browser model, so browsers need to play catch-up here.
Ask HN: Is this a good idea - Startup Deals?
Many technology startups often find it hard to get early adopters/beta users. It becomes even more difficult if their target audience is non-tech and not in their social circle.

How about creating a platform, StartupDeals, that connect startups with early adopters by offering various deals in a way similar to daily deals sites? For e.g., discount coupons, free 3 month membership, etc.

StartupDeals can then market these deals to its registered users based on their interest. It can also try to promote these deals on social media such as Facebook, twitter, G+ etc.

Do you think this idea has legs? Is there any similar service available?
Sorry, replace "piracy" with "lost sales" in my post; even if we don't believe that, the recording industries certainly seem to.
There are millions of people now who carry around little extraneous keyboards with their iPads - and probably millions more who don't buy iPads or any other touch device because they really don't like typing when they can't touch-type. Maybe that seems like a trivial problem, but any gap in the market keeping people from devices is generally a gap worth working to close.
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Again, is waiting really the point we're discussing? We're not talking about piracy in general. We're talking about HBO and GoT here. Not watching the show within a week of air is not watching it at all. If you participate in this at all, you'd know what I'm talking about. Waiting is NOT an option. If you're going go to an extreme analogy, I will say to some this is equivalent to watching the Superbowl a week later.

HBO should get paid for its viewership but it is not. With the whole HBO being part of Time Warner thing, I can agree that this issue really isn't solvable in an ideal way.
> why loot drops, etc, even constitute a reward. This is not blackberry juice! It is manipulation of RAM that affects the display.

I'm not sure I understood this - are you saying that since its just virtual its not that real?
Same here; it seems like the range of applications is incredibly broad.
Yep, being german I can confirm that. This tax increase is just another proof that the german GEMA system is really broken. The other on is GEMA demanding payment from Kindergartens for singing childrens songs and printing the texts of these things out. And even if I'm to lacy to look up a link to that story, it really actually happened. Guess what? Nobody here did anything about it. With the next guy shouting "PIRACYYYYYY" all the discussion regarding this "single case" just went away. Just my 5 cents.

So I guess I'll be buying my storage in austria or france the next time. Maybe even amazon.co.uk works in this case...
That's awesome! I wish I'd seen that before spending all day... Actually nah, it was fun!
But they still won't refund my unused Windows License even though French law says they have to.
So instead of adapting to music streaming, the German music industry has developed a new business plan: demand compensation from the government for "lost profits" due to piracy.

What is "lost profits" anyway? Is that like "jobs saved"?

I hope the RIAA isn't paying attention.
One of the biggest reasons for art existing at all - before it was ever about money - is as a social object, something to be talked about.
Yeah, the more the merrier!
what is the technical difference? I would have thought the dbms takes care of a performant storage/organization system for me.