skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Green" has successfully affected revenue: people value green products and green companies, and "green" affects purchasing decisions. Patent trolls, by definition, have no products to purchase and no interaction with consumers; how consumers view them will have no effect on their revenue. Name-and-shame tactics don't help.

Massive public opinion campaigns could still prove useful in this case, but only insofar as they affect the legislative and judicial systems that support patents and patent trolls.
Oh, OK, that is possible, I actually have no seeds from the demonoid tracker. However, DHT gets me other peers fairly quickly, so I don't really care.
What's more baffling is the lack of design:

"If you or the friend then taps the name of a song in
your online Google account, it starts playing
immediately, rather than being added to the queue as
you’d expect. A Google rep explained to me that you’re
not supposed to tap a song to add it to the playlist;
you have to use a tiny pop-up menu to add it."

Who thought that this possibly was a good idea or an acceptable way to release the product?

No, it's not OK to explain that you must use a popup menu to add it. It's plain fucked up. It means that someone, all too easily, can mess up the current playlist by tapping at a song. One little movement with your finger and you just ruined the mood by cutting the tune. You can't trust shit like this. People will be afraid to open up the playlist. This strikes me as just thrown together enough to work, but not designed to actually work well, in every sense of the word.
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The researchers mentioned in this article were generally measuring empathetic, selfless, or compassionate behaviour, and the effect of wealth (or perceived wealth) on that. So “human” in the sense of “humane”.
Well, it certainly doesn't help readability if parts of a line are cut off or the editor has to do an ugly linewrap, spoiling indentation. So as long as it doesn't significantly decrease readability for those corner cases and the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, I'm all for certain code conventions.
At least Microsoft Research in Cambridge is using Linux, and have admitted though. They develop ghc, the most prominent Haskell compiler, there.
I'm finding this stuff out a lot, lately. Especially about Kurzweil. Is it fair to say that the futurist movement is less about cynicism/skepticism and more about idealism and optimism for the future, or is this just the case for Kurzweil? Are there other members of the futurist movement who would disagree with this endorsement by the homeopathic community?
I was in a similar situation.

- For the sim cards. Any monthly prepaid plan like the $50 T-mobile 4G with unlimited data, text &talk is fine.

- For internet try check verizon, att, t-mobile or timewarner. I currently have time warner. It's a bit expensive. FIOS with 20mb/s for $45 a month.

- For the event checkout http://www.eventbrite.com & http://www.meetup.com and search for the events.

- Fro the transportation, get a cliper card. You can take the bart and the bus with it. Unfortunately a car is a must have for the bay area if you are planning to driving around palo alto, ...

And, it's a good idea, we should setup an hacker news meetup !
Holy balls, it does so less and costs $300? It's cheaper to buy an old unlocked Android phone on ebay and an HDMI cable at that cost. You get a lot more features that way.

Also, at 300 bucks, honestly it's going to be much cheaper to set up a raspberry pi or its equivalent with some hybrid franken-software setup. Add a few batch files on watch folders for video format conversion and I think you're good to go.
>> But let's make sure we understand what we're lynching them for before we get out the torches and pitchforks, ok?

Have you ever used Hipmunk? It's user friendly and all, but it's not rocket science in the 50s. I think it's fair to assume that any patent they're violating is probably bullshit without too much research.
Visualizing Logdata With Logstash, Statsd and Graphite
Seems like average price is the wrong metric. You're vulnerable to errors in your database like vendors setting the price to $999 to indicate that it's out of stock or vendors never updating the price of products that don't move.

Lowest price from a place that lists it as in stock seems like a far better metric. Or even something like 25th percentile price.
If Hackers Didn't Exist, Governments Would Have to Invent Them
I know that this was not purpose of your post, but when I actually see the thing on photos - holy damn, that thing is big. It's really bigger than I imagined.
The title of the linked piece is "Lie More, as a Business Model", and serves just fine as a headline for Hacker News. Not sure why the headline was turned into a linkbait question instead.
I love this story. I believe the government actually loosened its requirements just a bit to allow him to compete. I think it was a terrific idea. [I'm kind of rooting for him more than I'm rooting for my home country! -- shhh, don't tell anyone]
Thanks for this, I noticed the same thing on chrome with other tools like codepen.io and wasn't able to figure out why it was happening.
Fenêtre arquée & oscillo battant, porte coulissante, PVC, en acier à la Rive Sud
Fenêtre arquée, coulissante, hybride, PVC, à baie vitrée, fenêtres sur mesure, guillotine & oscillo battant. Prix de porte de garage, d'entrée & patio. Fabricant de portes en fibre de verre & acier au Québec, Canada à Laval, Montréal & la Rive Sud.
Awesome idea. We previously had audio/video quality problems with all tools but Skype. How do you solve this problem? As I understand providing high quality video and audio is still quite a bit challenge.

Is there any only mic version? Or do you think it defeats the purpose?

Finally, a small suggestion, make question lines bold in the FAQ which will make it much easier to read.
Can you explain a little more about the mechanics of selling the eBooks? You mentioned 8.9% going to a fulfillment provider. Who? What exactly did they do for you?

Great article.
Except not all competitors have equal access to them, which is a huge difference. Other sporting equipment is much less affected by this problem, and disciplines eventually converge to an equilibrium point where all serious athletes are using roughly equivalent tech.
Selflessness and compassion (at least, for that which occurred from wrong behavior) are common among people who are ignorant of the importance of justice (which may be defined as revealing things as they really are) and the danger of compromising with injustice. Also, in order not to lose all of one's money, one needs to be careful not to be deceived (which requires keeping oneself and acting to serve oneself and the world, rather than selflessness). Are you sure the experiment was able to control for those two issues?
This isn't about spreadsheet crunching, or even shareholder value. It's about personal incentives - unlimited upside, limited downside, and no concern on the ethics involved.
Much of the excitement around Clojure seems rather buzzwordy. You should check out some of its criticism, such as http://jng.imagine27.com/index.php/2009-08-19-011225_clojure... and http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42
Even the toned-down link text given here is somewhat unfair to the article, which is really about how we deal with an introduced plant (in this case the eucalyptus tree in California) that has both good and bad effects on the local biota. There is no clear The Right Thing to do here, and it's a fascinating issue to consider.
This is awesome. Nice job guys!
A Response to Andrew Kim's "The Next Microsoft" [Scribd]
-Learn x86 assembly (to start).

Or better yet build a single bus architecture in something like Logisim[1]. It's much easier to learn a simple instruction set architecture down to the logic gates then it is to learn x86 assembly.

http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~burch/logisim/
This isn't on point with the main conversation, but anyway: other 'western' countries that are similar to the US (I'm talking about UK, Aussie and NZ here, I don't have much knowledge of the others) look at patriotism differently to the US, so it's a fair point. We still support our sports teams (those of us who care for sport) etc but it's not as extreme as the 'America fuck yeah!' style patriotism that seems to constitute US patriotism (it may not actually be like that, this however is what media teaches us).
Why the Higgs Boson Discovery Is Disappointing
Human Speakable Programming Language
“Do you know what they call ‘alternative medicine’ that’s been proved to work? ‘Medicine’.” — Tim Minchin
Bwoken 1.1 Released: Now test on your iOS device
I (the author) familiar with functional languages, have implemented a compiler for a small one and such. However, for every day applications that are non-algorithmic attempts to express them using functional constructs have often been a strain. I've been watching projects go late due to this. There are many things, however, that I find much clearer to express in terms of functional programming constructs. But nominal business apps which show a GUI and CRUD from one location to the next or do a fairly simple data transform with a bit of boolean logic? Not so much.

The formatting is a result of the copy-editing process. The code excerpts were all from the beginner tutorials linked from the sites or wikipedia.
As would any number of other f-words that also were not correct in context.
"The Nexus Q is easily hack-able. That's an important feature."

To who?
Oh right. I forgot you are the sole arbiter of what is entertaining or useful to learn. My bad, I'll go figure out how to stop being entertained by long-form journalism stories like this. My bad.
over-reacting a little? it takes 1x to realize you just cut into someone else's song and about 10 seconds after that to figure out how to add them to the Q instead.
It is true that PCs only have the one workflow: airplay audio out of iTunes. And iTunes is a raging piece of shit.

But it is basically a system service on iOS, which does not require iTunes. And with the next release of the Mac OS, display mirroring will be built in - how hard would it be to implement it in iTunes for windows and short-circuit Microsoft's Play-To and DNLA services?

Every platform vendor needs this device-spanning mortar now. And Google doesn't have it.
>I am very skeptical of tools that find security flaws automatically.
I am enthusiastic about automation.

Just my $0.02 here, since I think tptacek has it covered (as usual). The way I explain use of automated tools to our clients is that, yes, the assessment you're paying for is to have a skilled security expert manually assessing your application. That said, in order to get the most efficiency out of manual testing, those parts which can be easily automated should be.

A few trivial examples would be finding open ports, or detecting expired/weak SSL certificates. Sure, an engineer could manually connect to all 65535 ports to see if they're open, and manually grab banners, or he could just run `nmap -p- -sV hostname`. Similarly, he could use openssl to check all aspects of an SSL certificate, but why bother when there are tools to do this for you?

The same is true in application security, although the examples can be a little fuzzier (pun intended?). The more seamless automation can be integrated into testing, the more time for manual analysis can be allotted. I think this is the point that tpatacek was making, and just wanted to expand upon it for those that might be a little confused.
Genuine question: can I control Apple TV / AirPlay / iTunes etc from an Android phone? Or a Windows phone?
Might I suggest editing to get rid of the annoying and unnecessary ALL-CAPS? It'll just get you flagged or downvoted here.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All your examples are examples which show that birth control is perfectly doable and easy; hence modern birth control - often no births at all, rather than spacing or infanticide - easily passes under the 'that would not be reproductively fit but we want it anyway' criterion.
Back to the garage: Innovation in the old style
> I find myself writing a lot of custom fuzzers in python, and am looking to improve my toolkit.

Have you looked into Haskell's QuickCheck? It's essentially a fuzzer for unit testing. You might find some interesting ideas there.
You don't need iTunes if you are controlling Apple TV with an iOS device. In fact I'd think that's the common usage.
More good links for a visual reference:

Compared to the iPad 3:
http://versusio.com/en/apple-ipad-mini-64gb-wifi-cellular-vs...

Compared to the Nexus 7:
http://versusio.com/en/apple-ipad-mini-64gb-wifi-cellular-vs...

To see the 7.85" in real size click in the top right corner.
I was in a remarkably similar situation, PHP dev who worked for a large UK agency. I held it out for a year, slowly refactoring the code, but the biggest problem was it was a home made CMS they used, which was badly fragmented across 50 ish sites. So when I improved the code on one site, I couldn't just drop that code into all the other sites...

Long story short, I quit and went freelance, best decision I ever made :)

My advice to you would be that (unfortunately) it will never be considered cost effective in management's eyes to rebuild the existing sites in a decent CMS / Framework. But you should at least be able to get them to use modern dev standards on any new builds, or complete rebuild of existing sites.
Facebook Enables Followers in External App to See Posts on Their Wall
But if you want to build a career out it, and become and actual expert, these sites fall flat on their faces.

I don't think anyone believes that eight days spent learning how to build a driverless car will make you an expert in AI, but what if you followed up with similar, and increasingly challenging, courses for several hundred days like a traditional student would? Where then would you stand in relation to those who went to a traditional institution?

In other words: Is the problem the delivery mechanism or the lack of content, which should improve with time?
Thanks for your quick feedback :)

I've been thinking back and forth about if we should get a car, but couldn't figure out if it was a headache if we where to stay in SF for some of the time (I've got no clue if it's hard to find parking or anything like that).

Since it's for a long period (3 months), would you sugest rental or should we buy a cheap old model and sell it before we leave?

Btw. In regards to internet, I wasn't thinking about a DSL line (since we don't have fixed place to live) - I was more thinking if it was worth considering some WiFi hotspot plans if that sort of thing even exists (don't know if Starbucks or cafes have stuff like that)
Photo Hack Day 3: San Francisco
Yay, it only takes 10 seconds to figure out a bad interface that will always be annoying.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll think about adding my name somewhere on the site, and turning off whois privacy.
The prevailing sentiment here seems to be that in a case like yours, where the developer is clearly part of the founding tripod (business, UI/UX, backend), be prepared to treat him like a co-founder if that's what he wants. Which it sounds like he does. If you trust him enough, make him the third co-founder and split the equity evenly.
They just copy/pasted the title from the article, which is in all caps itself.

Given the recent trend of the mods being very literal in the title guidelines, I can't really blame them.
Ron Paul starts new crusade of Internet freedom based on private property rights
Unpublished Fraud-Detection Tool Could Shake Up Psychology
you might wanna link up with other startuppers at http://www.hackersandfounders.com/
Your post explains time to first full packet. Yes that matters, not the first byte.
Ron Paul group launches campaign against Internet regulation
Facebook Apps (Including Mobile) Allowed to Create Likes
Disclosure: SU Alumnus here.

Being from India, it is not unusual for all natural remedies (Neem leaves to soothe burns) to be classified as "Homeopathic".

More Examples Here:

http://hpathy.com/materia-medica/indian-homeopathic-drugs/

Note: I am not saying everything in the URL is gospel, just that there are some natural remedies that work.

Hanhemann's description of Homeopathy is:

"based on the hypothesis that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure that disease in sick people." (Wikipedia)

This theory is nonsense and proven to be quackery.

In summary: I suspect that Professor Wadhwa's interpretation of Homeopathy was culturally biased. There is nothing wrong or revolutionary with giving natural cures a closer look, just not under the Woo of Homeopathy. If Wadhwa was advocating Hanhemann's Homeopathy then that is indeed disappointing given prevalent evidence.
Memcache -versus- Redis?
Sounds good. Happy to share in equity. Will confirm if he wants to be a founder and go from there. Cheers!
AirPlay remains uninteresting as long as it is simply a streamer. I can't use it as a remote because it will kill my batteries. It should instead send the protocol/uri of the content and let the player be responsible for retrieving it.
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This situation sounds painfully familiar. Ultimately it comes down to whether or not you can find someone with enough influence that will support you.

A few tips:

1) Build demos and/or sneak in good code when you can. There will always be a subset of people that can appreciate good code once they see it working, increase your chances of finding those people and converting them to the cause.

2) Do not overwhelm them (them being veteran developers and management). You will scare them if you talk about starting from scatch or major overhauls. This is a battle of incremental changes, technically and culturally.

3) Don't burn yourself out. Its a daunting and draining task implementing the kinds of changes you're talking about in an organzation that doesn't want or appreciate it. If you can't find the right support, its ok to give up. If you do give up keep in mind that YOU didn't fail, you're just not in the right position or in the right organization to make it happen.
Wow, I've always enjoyed Vivek Wadhwa's articles, but he just lost all credibility with me. This is the same level as finding out he is a scientologist.
Funny money: Louis CK, on turning subscribers into sold-out shows
Def Leppard Recording 'Forgeries' of Old Hits To Spite Label
When I click a song in my Amazon MP3 app on Android, it starts playing; click + hold brings up a menu. Seems like there's precedent at least.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mp3
So the main selling point for this is that it automatically detects when someone is working. Besides that, how is it different than skype or google video chat? Wouldn't it be cooler/better to write a status plugin for google chat that automatically determines if you are busy or not?
AT&T has a whitelist feature. It's $4.99 per month per subscriber and can allow up to 30 approved numbers to send SMS messages to your phone.

Careful what you wish for. It might end up being implemented as an expensive and useless marketing ploy.
Re: FaceTime on the desktop: If you point at the local video preview thumbnail, a button for changing the orientation of the video you're sending from portrait to landscape will appear. If both you and your conversation partner do this, the problem you describe goes away.

I've never noticed a lot of CPU use from FaceTime, personally.
Sure can. I actually wrote a post about how I'm building and publishing the book a while back which has more details on the fulfillment provider as well: http://www.paperplanes.de/2012/1/12/my-publishing-tool-chain...
Parking in San Francisco from my point of view is a pain in the ass. The parking cost $20 a day or something like $400 a month. (I used to live downtown so i can't speak for the other areas.)

For the internet, you should take the $50 prepaid plan and do tethering with your mobile devices.
James Randi's explanation of homeopathy is incredibly intellectually dishonest. In the video Randi says that homeopathy involves extreme dilution to the point where virtually none of the original substance is left. But this isn't true. There were two schools of homeopathy, high dilutionists and low dilutionists. Only one school of homeopathy believed in dilution like this.

It was homeopathy that pioneered evidence-based medicine, which is why mainstream medicine eventually merged with low dilution homeopathy and began to use its methods. But Randi doesn't mention that either.
Thanks! Video/audio quality is definitely challenging. We use a third party platform to handle our video connections, and sometimes the quality is great, but sometimes it isn't.

The QuicklyChat client doesn't work completely correctly right now if you don't have video, but I've heard a lot of feedback today asking for audio-only functionality, so we're going to look into building that in the next couple of days.

Thanks for the suggestion about the FAQ. I'll go ahead and make that change now.
I would love at some point to hear your thoughts on CSRF/clickjacking/etc. From a traditional security background, "validate all input" goes a long way towards making a program secure. But web apps have this little thing called the browser actively conspiring against you. All the inputs are valid in a traditional sense.

Imagine if someone said to write a secure program for some computer. But, btw, there's going to be an attacker logged in via VNC at all times you'll need to defend against. I'd just throw up my hands and walk away.
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We've actually tried a bunch of different algorithms for pricing and we're still figuring out the best formula.

It's very atypical for a vendor to set the price to $999 to indicate OoS, since they do provide us with quantity information and can also choose to delist parts from their data feed. We generally get pretty good data from vendors and we have internal consistency checks to filter out the few odd cases where something doesn't line up.
I honestly don't understand this. Do you not evaluate each of his points on their own merit, or have you been relying on reputation alone?
Primarily PHP, although I seem to remember classic ASP VBScript not dying if you passed a bad email to CDO (but that's been a long time, so i might not remember that correctly).

PHP would not throw an exception if the mail function got a bad email address. well, using some mailing libraries might, but the core mailing function (basically just a wrapper for sendmail/postfix CLI stuff) wouldn't.
Installing/Compiling iPhone apps without a MAC
I wondered the same thing.

The beginning of the article started with the implicit assumption that one can learn anything at all about "rich people" from watching a couple of folks play a rigged game of MONOPOLY.

It didn't get any more academically rigorous, so I attributed its rise in HN to being link-bait and decided I had more important things to do with my day like getting rich so I can become inhumane.
> The hackers who dominate news coverage and popular culture -- malicious, adolescent techno-wizards, willing and able to do great harm to innocent civilians and society at large -- don't exist

Okay, look. I'll agree that the media, as with most issues, spreads fear, uncertainty, and doubt about computer hackers out to wreak havoc. That said, capitalizing on this "myth" and claiming that these malicious hackers don't exist is flat-out wrong.

I'll be honest and admit that I skimmed the rest of the article after this point. It only takes looking at the arrests made re: the LulzSec hackers and the stunts they pulled off to know that saying that these people don't exist is a falsehood designed to get readers interested. For me, it didn't work.

Look at Anonymous hackers on Twitter, or the AnonOps IRC channel if you want to see some real nefarious youths.

We should take media coverage designed to scare us with a pinch of salt, but we also shouldn't rest on our laurels that "oh, these threats don't exist." They do.
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