skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brilliant... This is going in every software license and terms agreement I write from here on out. What a tremendous insurance policy if I perhaps hit on the next Facebook. 1/7th of the planet responsible for saving lil ol' me.
There are a number of different review teams and Apple has outright told different things to different teams.

I'm not an iOS dev and this is why.
Great idea! One recommendation: Currently, your site loads a complete instance of the audio player for each track, which causes Flash's memory usage to shoot up by a couple hundred MB (Chrome on Windows). Might I suggest something like Yahoo's WebPlayer instead? It handles long lists of audio files more gracefully, with a single Flash object. That alone should greatly impact your page load times and responsiveness.

http://webplayer.yahoo.com/
It's evident from some of the comments that many HN readers have misunderstood ESR's points about Alan Turing. What ESR is saying is that "a homosexual who committed suicide because of anti-gay oppression" has become a key part of the Turing narrative, not because of the facts of the matter, but because it serves the political agenda of those who propagate the myth. This dynamic manifests itself both in the co-opting of genuine giants (Turing, Noether) and in the creation of false greats (Lovelace, Carver).

Not that ESR is not contradicting any of the following:

* Alan Turing lived in a society generally intolerant of homosexuals
* Anti-gay oppression is bad
* Triumph over adversity is laudable

To see where ESR is coming from, imagine that people knew Einstein as "a physicist whose persevered in the face of antisemitism". ESR might say, "Yes, yes, antisemitism, etc., but the man helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics and discovered both special and general relativity. His triumph over antisemitism is at most a footnote to his story." To which the HN commentariat might reply, "OMG, I can't believe that guy hates Jews!"

To ESR (and to many other non-progressives), this sort of politically motivated myth-making diminishes the object of the myth. When he writes "Yes, yes...", what he's saying is and it's just so damn tiresome.
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PS I'm also a composer, when can I upload tracks for others to buy? :o)
Also, no mention of thorium (or other liquid-salt) reactors, other novel reactors such as WAMSR, or the fact that a coal plant dumps much more radiation into surrounding environment than a nuclear plant ever does.
Echoing the above, I don't have timeline yet either. Does it have something to do with the age of the account, I wonder? I've been on FB since sometime in 2006.
Silicon Valley Is Not A Meritocracy (And It's A Good Thing Too)
re: spinning vs stationary heatsink.

There is of-course no theoretical difference, except this presumably gets much high air flow rates than a conventional fan + static finned heatsink. and you don't have the problem of stalled pockets of warm air in corners of a fixed fin that don't get flushed out.

One of the problems with small heatsinks is that the bulk convection flow you model at high delta-T/high power don't always work in practice with small fans and small heatsinks - this design should scale down a lot better.

My concern was that in order to get good conductivity across the air gap you would need very close tolerances which are hard to make reliably in practice on cheap consumer gear.

Also, although the fin blades themselves should clear dust - I would worry about an oil/dust/dirt film building up in the gap if it's relying on constantly forcing new air through this to make a cushion
Planned feature: https://github.com/prose/prose/issues/120 For now, please enter the URL manually to access repos that live within organisations.

http://prose.io#:org/:repo/:branch

In future we'll also allow browsing user and organisation profiles by accessing:

http://prose.io#:user
http://prose.io#:org

Need to find out if there's a way to fetch the default branch, so you can just

http://prose.io#:org/:repo
I'm definitely interested too :-) Thanks Wil for putting this up here, I hopped on a flight shortly after posting this on the blog. If anyone has any ideas of how to spread the word enough, I'd love to hear them here or via email at eric at padmapper. The hard part is getting the small landlords with a couple rooms or some building to hear about and use it.
This is really cool. And a little bit depressing that the typography in the preview is better than the typography on my actual site. I should really fix that.
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QoS can be a good. QoS is not magic, however, and you need to actually prioritize by packet type. No one who follows Atwood's advice is going to do that, however.
Nope. They'll start recording video from CCDs to it in the form of 30 fps sequential, uncompressed full-frame images. 40 hours of video later they'll wonder why the "infinite" drive you provided them is so small.
Hipporemote Pro. Works with any VNC sharing client. http://hipporemote.com/ Use it all the time for my TV-attached Mac Mini.
I'm pretty sure a html 3.5 subset is what's rendered by mail clients. At least, gmail uses font to change fonts, and span to change color. they were both ignored.

this was the raw string gmail generated:
abc <b>def</b> <i>ghi </i><u>jkl</u><i> </i><font face=3D"comic sans ms, sa=
ns-serif">mno</font><i> </i><font face=3D"courier new, monospace">pqr</font=
><i> </i><font size=3D"6">stu</font> <span style=3D"background-color:rgb(25=
5,0,0)">vwx</span><div>
You could vote things down if you behaved properly ;)
I think it is a practice that probably should fall out of favor but this article is really a great example of what I call "UI designer babble." UI or UX is like the new vogue, designers are the hottest commodities, or so they tell you. They want to give you all this "scientistic" basis for all of their claims but it just falls flat. So here we have: "“Click” Puts Too Much Focus on Mouse Mechanics." Really? When you see a link that says "Click Here" are you really focusing on "mouse mechanics."

If you want to say "click here" is unnecessary and you'd do better by providing a more specific call to action, fine. But don't try to tell me you are using some kind of sophisticated psychology to divine the text of links. Maybe if you had provided a study that used CAT scans or something that show that but honestly that probably just be silly and pedantic.
Nicely done!

A lot of the commenters here think you're charging too little and I agree.

Have you thought about having two pricing tiers: one for non-exclusive use and much higher one (maybe $100 per track?) for exclusive use?

If I were a game developer and I thought I was making the next Angry Birds, having a recognizable theme that I knew no one else would have would be an easy to understand added value.
All your ASUS servers iKVM/IPMI may belong to other
Asus iKVM/IPMI implementation has multiple flaws, which in the end allows a remote attacker to acquire all the users and passwords defined in its configuration.
Eh, I think some of these are circumstantial. The dating one probably applies to a very specific type of person.

Yeah, some of these are gross oversimplifications; others are just wrong. Take the shaving one for instance. You can get a very close shave and not cut yourself, and have been able to for as long as straight razors have been around. The reason people cut themselves is not because they want a closer shave, they want a shave that takes less time and money. If you didn't cut yourself this time, you obviously didn't go fast enough and don't need to buy a new razor. Razor gets dull and nicks you? Don't sharpen it (that takes time), chuck it in the trash and buy a new one.

And working 90 hour weeks? That assumes that you provide more value for those 90 hours versus 40, which may not always be true. Work smarter not harder.

As for the dating one, cruel, aloof or insensitive people are by definition not the type I would want to date.
Telehealth may reduces hospital visits & deaths, but may not save money
yep, that's what I was getting into. It seems FB wants users to use their facebook email as their regular email address. So it would make sense if they get emails from newsletters, online bills, strangers, anyone...
Cool idea...it seems pastebin (et al) have been used for this sort of thing a lot lately...
This might be blasphemy, but why not turn Sharepoint into a platform for the enterprise that developers can create software like Yammer for instead of snatching up these enterprise software companies for billions?

I've used and implemented Sharepoint. It's software that looks great on paper (or slide deck) with many bullet points about "integration" and "business requirements", but it's an absolute nightmare to use and deploy well.
I run my own company and have a home office and a regular office, each with a mouse, keyboard, and big monitor. With my laptop I can just take it back and forth - all files come with me and the machine is in the exact state when I boot it up at home as when it was at the office.

If I need to go out of town, I just take the laptop with me and I can do everything I would normally do, just with a smaller screen.

At least for web development, speed usually isn't an issue ... putting in an SSD drive a year or so ago, though, was the best thing I did - very noticeable speed increase!

So, for me it's a convenience factor.
Why my child will be your child's boss
My impression was that Apple intentionally lagged the cutting edge curve to error on stability and sound user experience. I would be very surprised to see them go in the direction of moving parts - instead I would expect them to continue in the direction of all solid state (no moving parts) as much as possible.
The difference being that back in the olden days Macs used completely different processors etc while now Macs uses the same IBM PC compatible hardware.
Colorado Fire Follows in Pine Beetles' Tracks
When Craigslist started they had to overcome this problem. They even had to make the idea of using the Internet for a lot of these kinds of ads something anyone would even consider. If you look into the backstory, this took many years of bootstrapping at small scales before it really took off. Why should we be cheering anyone on who wants to just cheat their way into this space, piggybacking on all of that hard work and dedication building this market?
I don't know, I really liked the `FuckIt.moreConflict()` method, especially when I read the source and realized he actually tested it and ensured `window.location` would not get overwritten (or you'd navigate away from the page)
There's also the mountain-top removal and other forms of destructive mining for coal, that will be a loss to future generations for thousands of years.
Two LulzSec hackers plead guilty to DDoS attacks
Well, yeah. I'm mostly just jabbing at them in frustration at how much other people buy into centering their lives around FB... but I'm not a total luddite. :) Every once-in-a-while, someone from high school wants to get in touch with me and FB is a decent enough honey pot.

That said, I am enough of a luddite to not see the need to have a Twitter account.
Both of those ideas work to varying degrees. You can "trip" the airflow at the leading edge of a heatsink fin by introducing notches and protrusions of different geometries. This will make the airflow past that point turbulent for a certain distance. Depending on geometry you might have re-attachment, which leads to rebuilding the boundary layer. Dimples and surface roughness can help too.

In the end you have to deal with the real world. Some of these techniques are really good to grab dust in the airflow. If that happens, you have, ultimately, created a problem greater than the one you started out to solve.

After all I've been trough I have become a huge proponent of fluid based cooling. I don't think there's any way to have forced air cooling even begin to compare with the potential performance gains of using liquids to mechanically move heat around.
They can. They (Yammer) bought One Drum (http://onedrum.com/) only a couple of months back.

(Checking my twitter feed, they arrived in SF from Stirling (Scotland) on 24 April.)

The guys are currently quite happy; tweeting: "Two startup exits in 12 weeks. I am Midas", "An analyst just asked Steve Ballmer if OneDrum played an important role in the acquisition".
I second the idea of the non-exclusive/exclusive price tiers. I would also suggest relating pieces with one another when they might make sense as a suite (i.e. same genere, thematically similar, techno vs. orchestral, etc.)

And I also second the "nicely done!"
> mostly unlike Erlang, though it does have the process dictionary

Yes and no, while Erlang structures are not mutable (aside from the process dictionary, and the process's message queue), each new iteration of the process loop mutates the process itself, as the process goes from one state to an other.
> Through a process known as Eval-Rinse-Reload-And-Repeat

ERRAR. I like it.
There are methods of embedding backdoors into the RSA key generation scheme, though (e.g. http://crypto.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau/PDF/CS02.pdf).

When you do require a "magic constant" in a cryptographic algorithm, it is common to show good faith by deriving it in a way that would make it difficult to embed a backdoor. For instance ascii text, digits of pi, or the lowest AES encrypted number that fulfils certain criteria.

The initialization constant in SipHash is awesome: "somepseudorandomlychosenbytes".
Thanks, it's clear now. I was confused about the purpose of the cl package. Just checked the manual again and it is not misleading.

I think it was my wishful thinking as I was looking for something more concise than elisp's set functions.
As an engineer working on expensive and safety-sensitive systems, I really have to disagree with everyone claiming (without evidence) that the high cost of nuclear power stems largely from over-regulation.

My experience has been that good engineers genuinely care about building things safely. And we burn through a lot of money doing so.

Every mark on every blueprint gets checked and rechecked by multiple, well-paid engineers. We go through elaborate and time-consuming testing procedures. Multiple layers of redundancy are built in.

All of this costs. And the greater the danger, the more of this kind of stuff we have to do. Nuclear accidents are black swan events. Though unlikely, their impact can be huge. So for nuclear power, the engineering requirements are extreme. This is as it should be.

If nuclear power were deregulated, the industry would still have to spend boatloads to provide adequate safety. And if the industry instead cut corners, they'd eventually get bit by another disaster, and the business would once again stagnate.

This, by the way, is coming from a guy who doesn't work in the nuclear power industry. I'm just extrapolating from my experience with safety-sensitive engineering.
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Yes. Thorium is the yummy chocolate and sprinkles donuts version of todays nuclear reactor. All the benefits and almost none of the drawbacks.
They don't exist, do they?
> If you don't find it useful, don't upvote it

I didn't

> Comment if you disagree with her points

That would be what you're replying to now...
Facebook Quietly Releases ‘Find Friends Nearby,’ Then Quietly Pulls It
Promising. Already now it's quite useful for studying/debugging algorithms. Looking forward to Python support. Recursive call support would be awesome too.
Four ways that technology influences creativity
My comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158468 addresses some of your concerns.
It's cheaper for the consumer directly, but it costs a similar amount to produce (according to this article, which is again not cited anywhere). The difference comes in the government subsidies, which the consumer pays for only indirectly.

I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that small semantic difference.
Not quite, I think? That page suggests that you can only use versions in this manifest: http://heroku-buildpack-nodejs.s3.amazonaws.com/manifest.nod...

...which doesn't list 0.8.
This is a major breach of trust that no one has any right to be surprised by.

Seriously, why is everyone so surprised every time this happens? Are we collectively saying "There's no way they'll every make everyone agree to <insert breach here>"?
Thank you, that's cool! How can I kill the server, though?
+1 for creative name
Prevention is not the same as cure. Historically, cancer has been prevented by dying of something else first.
Displaying FB addresses is not so bad, what I'm more concerned about is that I just tried sending mail to some of my friends' facebook addresses and nothing shows up..
Right, if you were building a wing. The problem is that here we are after heat exchange and, as I understand it, the last thing you want is laminar flow due to the accompanying boundary layer.
Most of the original (boxed) CPU fans are machined. The sheet metal fans are 3rd party and they need costly heatpipes to move the heat away from the (machined) CPU base. It will be costly because the machined metal fan will need great balance and a good polish to stay quietly floating above the base and not jump and rip through the computer's case.

You cannot use plastic as it has a lousy thermal conductivity. You cannot use copper because great thermal conductivity (2x better than Al) comes with greater weight (3 times the density of Al).
UEFI Secure Boot and Ubuntu
This is so much worse than anything Google has ever forced upon users with Google+.
More information: http://librelist.com/browser//webp2p/2012/6/25/kadoh-dht-exp...
I think if we have to ask "Is that thing still around?" it isn't a good candidate to build something on top of. Best to make something new that works.

With dating sites you have the two giant problems you mentioned: people in your DB and pair-wise matching. I think huge time investment is a bit of an overstatement -- you can go with simple okcupid quiz-like matching.

But, in aggregate, the masses don't care about "good" or even "works." Yahoo Personals? A ton of people where you sort by distance. I think most of the dating sites are entirely sort-by-distance with some optional search filters. People don't know how to judge website product quality, so they use whatever either their friends use or comes up in a google search result.

In short, http://www.google.com/trends/?q=yahoo+dating,+okcupid,+match...
Symbolset semantic symbol font: Icons appear as you type, seriously
The OP shows this not to be the case. US costs are in-line with French costs, while the US has much greater regulation than France.
> What are you trying to prove exactly?

Just trying to probe the depths of the reasoning of someone posting something that's contrary to the conclusions I've drawn from life.

> What an immense waste of time.

If you say so. I gained another little data point in my mental model under the section of "Why do some people react so strongly against others who profess to work hard?" So, thanks.
I dunno. Does this clause require me to save you if I'm in favor of said event happening?
Why Are American Kids So Spoiled?
Who would you have decide which rights are "basic human rights"? I'm guessing it's people like you, i.e., progressives. If that's not partisan, I don't know what is.

I also fear you've misunderstood ESR. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158468 for a clarification.
> coal causes horrible pollution

Source? There is a lot of FUD about coal, but modern generation facilities ("clean coal") produce little more than water vapor. We have enough coal to power the country for centuries, and modern technology to have clean power generation. The only problem spot is in mining it, and that's a much more trivial problem to solve than issues like fracking, nuclear safety, peak oil, etc.
> Java is totally capable of hosting them.

No, because your Maybe or Either reference may still be null, so you get "Maybe fuck you" and "Either fuck you, or fuck you". That's the first part.

The second part is, due to the lack of match completeness check (or more generally match) and the shitty type system, APIs forcing developers to safely unwrap or rewrap values are... shitty.
1. A short term one-off opportunity is as important as a long term
one. Want to take your truck and go sale a hundred generators? Could
work, but it would work way better after a hurricane.

2. A bank-run is a good thing. It permits to see which banks have
overextended themselves and, ultimately, punishes them (unless you
have a government giving them cash through the backdoor...).
It's like going to the dentist. Not necessary pleasant on the spot,
but it can save you a lot of pain later.
Verizon, T-Mobile U.S. agree on spectrum deal
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Yes, Android has offline maps, but based on google maps. It would be nice to have an OSM-based app. There are lots of places globally where OSM is more detailed than google's.
How many billions of dollars were spent on classified ads before Craigslist? Capturing 0.0001% of the value in a market is a far cry is 'relatively non-commercial' in my opinion.
True, but there is a fine line. You cannot reasonably move a product forward if a few select people refuse to play along. Every product I release, I'm met with disdain from users that don't want to change, and how it was perfect the way it was. And the next release with a different change, it's the same users complaining how the version that they're using now is perfect, why would I change things?

People love to complain, and people don't like change.
Do Facebook EU have to conform to EU email handling law now they're an email service provider? Are they conforming to those laws?
Yes.

Isn't it even more disheartening to know that such a thing could happen in an "enlightened" society to someone who had such great accomplishments? It was a complete lack of respect of basic human dignity, and people shouldn't forget that, especially presently when the issue(of gay rights) is finally entering the mass public eye. People should be aware of the results of oppression, it makes them more compassionate.
While the parent post wasn't behaving properly -- not adding anything to a rational debate -- it's not true that he could vote things down.

Newbies can't down-vote comments, it's true. But there is no down-vote for articles themselves.
I agree there are two uses for money. If I have a choice between being paid in a form of currency that can do both, why would I voluntarily accept a form of currency that can only do one?

That is why would anyone voluntarily accept Freicoin over any other currency?
My point was that the phones are moving closer to the 7 inch mark. There is now just about 2 inch difference b/w a high end phone and a tablet. So if you need a 7 inch tablet, in most cases a 5 inch galaxy note will suffice. Except maybe a USB port, but there are micro usb to USB converters out there that are tiny. The 7 inch model does not make sense because there isn't much to differentiate b/w a 5' phone and a 7' tablet. What can be seen on 7' tablet can most certainly be seen on phone, best example being desktop websites. They will look very similar on a 5' and a 7' screen. 10' will make a difference though, both because of screen size and higher resolution.
That's a bad data point.

I'm not against working hard, I'm against forcing others to work hard for your benefit without commensurate reward.

What is so difficult to understand about that?
I read through some of the comments. Raymond is clearly arguing that Turing was not the victim of oppression. The mental gymnastics he contorts through to arrive at this conclusion are baffling.
They did this a couple of days ago; I think I noticed it on Saturday...
How Android’s AutoCompleteTextView Nearly Drove me Nuts
How Microsoft’s tablet Touch Cover could change game controls
BASIC-as-a-DSL via Java (plus Game of Life)