skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I don't agree. There are some very important game changing ideas. The concept of zero is historically important. The concept of gravity is historically important. Those were not companies, they were only ideas. Yet they changed the world. So I don't think it is that simple.
What did the content creators intend when they accepted investment to realise their works. Or what did they intend when they agreed to provide their creative input to a movie for a fee. Or what did they intend when they signed the rights to their work over to a distributor in exchange for some form of compensation or royalty payments?
60% gaydar accuracy after viewing a face for 50ms! That's really amazing. If the findings are backed up by additional studies, this could be a blow to argument that gayness is a choice and is not (much) affected by physiological factors.

It would be interesting to see is there's any difference recognizing gay men and women by straight men and women.
You're saying the same thing in a different way. He repressed his grief because he couldn't cope with it. It wasn't a healthy reaction.

It was an understandable and normal reaction, given his youth and the pressure he was under, but it wasn't likely good for his mental health.
He says his application is two years old, but Who's Here has been around since 2008. While I think they are being a bit harsh, it would seem that they have a case.
"How can businesses determine which users are OK with being tracked, and which are not?"

Easy: we need a new header: RDNT, Really Do Not Track. This would be off by default and power users can turn it on indicating an explicit intention.
I don't know how this is going to work. If you and I both make a Twitter app. And you ask Siri to tweet something, how is she going to know which app to send the request to?

And how is she going to decide which messages are to be considered for tweeting to begin with. If I make an app that checks hockey scores and you ask for the baseball game, how is she going to know the difference between the two and that my app can't do baseball scores.

It all gets very complicated very fast. I won't be surprised if API (if any) is very limited. So don't get your hopes too hight.
At the Vintage Computer Festival one year I set up a PDP-8/M running FOCAL-8 connected to an ASR-33 teletype. To load the program you keyed in a boot loader sequence, a really trivial one, and then loaded the real boot loader off paper tape, then loaded FOCAL off of paper tape.

One of the really humorous things was the sound that a teletype makes, when reading paper tape or typing out listings at 10 characters per second, has been so immortalized in early movies as the sound a 'computer' makes that people would be drawn to the sound, having never actually seen a Teletype in the flesh before!
Not just sustainable, but perhaps more importantly, credible, for redefining education.

After all, educations need the signaling factor, and credibility is required for the signal to be effective.
Someone worked really hard to make something, then you take it without permission. You want others to live for your sake. That makes you a parasite.
The TMDb API v3 is good. We're scraping Torrentz for the results, might do our own indexing later.

Oh, and "his".
I think coming from an organisation like the IEEE it wasn't meant as a hip and trendy self-referential term
I think it can be argued that a dashboard isnt as great as this post makes it sound. The implication is that there's one person or one team looking at the dash and making sure things are running smoothly. Instead you can break up that big dashboard into a series of smaller ones each being watched over by the specific team for which each dash applies to. If your company's teams all work well together then the suits can focus on business and everyone else works together to keep things working arguably more efficiently. It's like have decentralization of responsibility instead of a top down system where one person/group is charged with knowing what's going on everywhere at once.
You prefer Udacity to Coursera? I thought the opposite. Udacity has a small number of courses and they are focused on a specific project. Coursera mirrors a university course and tries to broadly cover the subject.
"Where do you draw the line?" is almost always a trivial rephrasing of the slippery slope fallacy. We live in a world where there are no lines, and we draw them in arbitrary places so that we can make the world work. If that bothers you, you are just going to have to adjust your worldview to be compatible with the reality you were born into.
Light Table funding successful, including Python support (over $300k raised)
... and audio waves can be well into the ultrasonic range and into the UHF regime.

Theoretically, at sea level on earth, the mean free path of air molecules allows for 3.4 GHz. But attenuation is proportional to f^2 which results in an upper limit of 100MHz. You need a medium denser than air at sea level for higher frequencies.
i like it, but needs the ability to preface/comment on the posts, as well as picking up/aggregating comments from other share sources. also being able to search. i like the presentation style though.
Ah my mistake. I saw Po and confused it with Pu.
Somewhat OT: but is it standard practice for the app developer to review their own app on the App Store (sort of like how a dev would 'seed' their newly built social network/forum I guess..)? OP appears to have done so. Or is it possible to leave reviews under arbitrary names?

See http://i.imgur.com/BPypw.png
It's equally hard to measure how much of a threat terrorism actually poses. One could easily make the argument that the reason it's perceived to be so little of a threat today is because we've gotten damn good at stopping terrorist plots. See the recently intercepted ALQ documents which describe how good the West has gotten at tracking their movements and foiling their plans.
I'd imagine that Siri could ask the user which app they prefer to handle the query. (Akin to which app should open a file type.)
SpaceX Dragon Parachute Deployment And Splashdown Video
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey - This article and it's responses tell me that there should be something available for anyone who just wants to learn from other people's experiences. To just throw something out there, imagine that something could be an app or website, possibly called "experienced" with nothing but a search bar when you arrive at it's homepage. Type in anything, click search and you get other people's experiences and stories on that subject organized by ratings. Quora is closely related to this idea, however Quora is about asking anything, it's not focused. The goal is to have a database of experiences, stories, quotes, etc. that people can quickly and effectively search through and learn what to do or not to do resulting in gaining confidence to accelerate to their goal in their current situation. Your thoughts?
It was extremely useful for debugging. You could tell if you dialed the wrong number. You could tell if it was having trouble handshaking due to noise on the line. You could tell if the modem on the other side was slower than you expected.

Even non-technical users would get used to a certain sequence and could tell if things changed suddenly.
But isn't it true that if any lawyer were to take the case, the legwork suggested will advance the cause?
How does a site get on this showcase? Scraping HN or manual intervention?
Oh, yes, I can definitely guess the thinking behind it, I'm just saying this thinking is antiquated and doesn't work well in 2012.
It's okay. We'll just add this line of code in: http://xkcd.com/534/
There's RAIDZ3 now!
That's a ridiculous reason to make fun of someone for!
I don't know where it is "clearl illegal" but it must be a very strange law.

Would anyone sane make illegal someone that says: "You can download Game of Thrones from www.example.com".

That's basically what the torrents are, just a hint where to find the data you seek.
So, I'll take the time to set up our website blog, and then I'll let you check back for it :)

We'll communicate about our work on the site. We use GitHub a lot to manage issues / collaboration within devs, it's an awesome tool.
Well, but here's the problem: If I want to watch a movie right the hell now, torrents aren't a good solution, because the pieces you get are random. You can't start watching the movie immediately, you have to wait until it's loaded completely. There are some experimental p2p streaming protocols, but there isn't anything really good on the market just yet.

Sure, I'm on an awesome tracker, and I can download an HD movie to my seedbox within 5 minutes. No problem. Then I just stream it over my home connection (which is rather slow.) So there's a 5-10 minute delay, which I can live with. But, if somebody would offer me an insta-HD-streaming feature (Netflix doesn't count, I'm in Europe,) I'd pay for that.

But nobody does, so I torrent.
2). I really don't understand why we should use Twig : Smarty is older, why using yet another template engine ? Or I've got a better idea : we could use the template engine used in phpBB2 : he's older !

I'm agree that standardization would be just fine(c), and I like the Twig syntax, but I think the "YATL, we should use Twig" argument is not relevant.
As i said, the work is being done on APIs. Infact in developer channels of the browser, I think all the html5 APIs are accessible to everyone. As for background pages, there is no way of running a background page that is hosted somewhere else because there is an internal api that allows communication between pages's javascript in realtime. And such communication would not be possible with a hosted file.

And there is a thing known as installable web-apps. Which basically means you can install an app with just one manifest file hosted online. (it used to be in about:flags but now i think it has landed in stable release, but not sure). Which means no hassle of webstore or even maintaining a separate crx file, just upload a manifest.js once and forget :) Unfortunately background processing is not possible in hosted apps, just in installable ones.
That may not be enough. If the browser receives an instant connection error it will continue with the other parts of the page.

You want to link it to a machine that will never reply - or worse will start to reply and then just sit there.
> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for you are crunchy, and taste good with
> ketchup.

I am passing on, almost verbatim, the advice I was given most strenuously. Included in that advice was the comment that not everything in legal circles passes the "That sounds right" test.

Certainly in this case, no, I can't quote cases where this has happened. But, you know, like, I'm not a lawyer. There are things that happen in legal circles that I don't know about, but which I have been given legal advice about.

So feel free to ignore it all and take a chance that you're right, and the advice given to me was misplaced. Heaven forbid that you should think I'm advising you.
Digital behaviors user research: seeking participants in NY
The study involves interviewing 6 people (2-3 hrs) and having some of those people take part in a participatory design workshop (about 3 hrs in length). The interviews are contextual and it’s more of a conversation. Ideally for those people with which there is a possibility, some observation at your workplace could be scheduled. We are seeking to understand how people use tablets for work. Interested candidates have to meet the following criteria:

• Tablet or mobile device advanced/power users, who use these devices for work. We are looking for creatives, writers, bloggers, fashion designers, people in marketing, journalists, writers, people in the medical field– anyone who would really be creating content (presentations, work documents, art/designs, records) on tablets.
• Ideally the tablet users are also consuming content for leisure, so maybe playing games, reading or watching TV.

The interviews will be audio/video recorded for internal research purposes (no one except the client sees them). If there is a concern with recording at work, for those people we would just be taking pictures. If you know anyone who would like to be a part of the research, there is financial compensation involved! Please feel free to forward them my contact information: gina.taha@gmail.com
Is it a 'human right' to make money off of Game of Thrones or Batman Begins?

Copyright is a monopoly granted by congress' interpretation of the constitution's directive to promote progress of science and the useful arts. I think it's time to reinterpret.
While we're making feature requests: I'd like it to work better on narrower screens. I'm using the computer plugged into my TV (the one I use for Netflix) and I only have 1024 pixels across.
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> You are aware that there is legal liability for YOU being created as we speak, right?

You keep asserting this repeatedly without citation (and are now doing so in a separate HN post you made on the issue). Kindly cite cases where damages have been successfully litigated around someone posting friendly advice in a web forum.
Do any torrent sites have affiliate links to legit content like Amazon? That seems like a good opportunity. If someone searches for a movie torrent, the movie might be available on Amazon (DVD or streaming) even if no torrents are found. And, more interestingly, someone might search for a movie torrent but see they can stream it from Amazon right now for just $5 without waiting for a torrent download.
Vonnegut was speaking with regards to the English language. He was arguing that semi-colon in written sentences serve no function beyond pretension.
Also, the reference to 1946 is a bit sensationalistic, considering that the current percentage is actually very close to where it was after the previous decline in the 1990s. The boom-bust cycle of housing construction seems to be a pattern that repeats itself on a regular basis, and the current cycle is shaped pretty much like the others.
I AM NOT A LAWYER, but you probably have a pretty sound defense on the grounds of being an innocent disseminator of the post. You are highly unlikely to be under any legal obligation to post a public apology for a statement that you did not make, nor for legal costs which the plaintiff incurred, nor for "damages" absent a legal judgement.

Keep in mind that the intent of a legal letter is often first and foremost to discombubulate you. Do take it seriously, but not too seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_dissemination
Since you asked, I shall explain. Here is my working definition of something that immoral:

Violating the written or unwritten rules of the society one
lives in, in a way that is directly harmful to another person or
group of people, though ones actions.

So taking drugs is fine, since you are not harming another person. Downloading a film is also fine for the same reason. With selling drugs and jaywalking it depends.

Building a torrent site is different though, because under the rules of our society someone who made a movie can decide who sees that movie and who does not. You are taking that right away from them by distributing that movie. If the rules make sense or does not really matter (within reason), it is a rule that we as a society agreed upon.

EDIT: I don't think morality can ever be subject to loopholes and technicalities, it's governed by common sense.

However, the counter-argument that would let count is good intentions: if OP truly believes that the world might become a better place as the result of his action and he has no selfish motivations at all, I might consider it moral (at least from his point of view).
I should add: I'm looking for these episodes relatively quickly after they're aired. The PB links I get when I google for stuff don't seem to be for recent episodes.

A friend of mine generally finds a link through his own sources relatively quickly and shares it, though.
Maybe a better way to do the exploitation phase would be to sample from the different choices with probabilities proportional to their expected payoff instead of just choosing the one with maximum expected payoff.
Please Help Smalltalk
This may sound harsh. But browserling really needs to consider a rebrand. I think this is an enterprise level tool thats super useful but every time I go to it I think its a toy for kids. Even though I run an agency where design is a large part of my practice this isn't something I'd normally go out and say because a lot of branding is superficial, but please, please consider upgrading this brand. You can be fun and professional at the same time and I really believe it would pay off considerably.
I have mentioned several times that I have firsthand involvement with unsolicited advice being given on the Internet resulting in consequences for people. I am simply not legally permitted to talk about it, nor will I say if I was the person found legally responsible.

Remember, a liability does not require a law, and there are such things as torts.
I'm impressed that you continued developing the service with less than 100 customers for 2 years. I admit I would largely have given up by then. Are you optimistic for the future?
It seems reasonable to me that the plaintiff would have to establish the elements of their case before requiring any response from a defendant (though of course response should be allowed). Only after a court has found that the defendant needs to mount a defense should he need to hire a lawyer. Instead, our courts generally work the other way -- if you don't show up, you lose no matter how ridiculous the other guy's claims are.

The legal system would benefit greatly from being framed as a cost/benefit optimization problem instead of as reasoning in a byzantine para-consistent logic.
Good points. I think the tough on Iran story is probably part of it. Also I think it could be a way to test the public/media reaction to news of US cyber terrorism against other nations.
Don't forget that we (EU) have piratebay :) So he might (and hope he will) escape any consequences from big corps.

On the other hand previous french president was pursuing hardcore copyright/IP laws.
Does anyone know what caused the outage at Facebook?
You have something extremely wrong. Maybe it's at the hardware level. Maybe you have a crap SSD. Something. I just created a test database on my workstation, with a spinning disk, with the same type of data, and a temporary view against 50k documents takes 10 seconds to establish. Saving the view, re-running, then adding 10k documents and re-running the view takes 4 seconds to update. The 60k records take up 110MB.

"What the site needs is view updating after every write."

So why not build that into your application? For every write that you want to be consistently shown in the very next client view, ensure that you spawn a thread to immediately issue a query to the view after the write. Remember, CouchDB does not try to be an ACID-level database, substituting the C for raw speed. In fact, you can't be guaranteed that a client won't get the view while a new record is being added, and with no blocking on write, your client now has out of date data. With such a small amount of database traffic, you don't really notice this side-effect of Couch.

"I was excited about auto-compaction in 1.2 but the core problem remains that rewriting every single record to a new spot on disk at every compaction is a tremendous waste of I/O and write cycles on a (SSD) disk."

With the number of IOPS that we're talking about here, your SSD will last for years and years and years, even if you ran compaction once every minute. A 256GB SSD costs $200 at Amazon, and with your Couch instance taking 1.8GB, I'd be more worried about the heat death of the Universe before worrying about running out of disk space or SSD write operations.
sea freight isn't 10 days
Definitely - here's an example: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/02/03/21/0139244/beware...
Can you tell me what is wrong with me?
Isn't exceptionalism just a code word for hypocrisy?
I think you would be more rational exactly at that moment than be emotional.

People react in unexpected ways in extreme situations. The most common reaction is to revert to a default mode of operation. It takes time for the feelings and responses to work their way through you.
I'm just walking into CouchDB, specially with the couchsync mobile part of it, and about to submit my first iOS app with CouchMobile to the AppStore.
It's good to read these kinds of informed posts and comments. Thanks guys.
Some nice images of Dragon that were recently released:

Dragon floating after splashdown:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5grpUD0qI...

Dragon sitting on-board the recovery vessel:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5grpUD0qI...
Speak for yourself, that horrid buzzing noise when a disk was formatted or having read problems haunted my nightmares as a child.

"Aw nuts, gotta format a disk.. okay.. key in the command.."
book it from the room at high speed

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ

"Whew, made it out safe"
Any support for mobile coming?
I'll reiterate this for the benefit of context at this very location, but I have personal experience with a very similar scenario that I am not legally permitted to discuss; it was a situation of unsolicited advice resulting in consequences for people. I cannot say who. I think you'll find if it's a common experience, most people are (wisely) not going to discuss it.
That's just cruel. Good for them that it worked nicely, though.
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I think dominating a country militarily and installing puppet governments and banning their religion and forcing their children to learn your native language is bad enough. If nothing else, the Eastern Bloc was being exploited for the purpose of providing a land buffer zone against military invasion. I.e., the risk of being a front line battlefield was being exported.

If you're looking for a shipping manifest for raw materials from an EB country to the USSR at prices below free market rates I imagine you could find that too. But to me that's not the primary point.
In the best of worlds, developers could make an effort not to do anything shady, like self modifying code, dll-injection etc, making heuristics complaining about such behaviours viable.