skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the big reasons that JSON took off is because it removed the attribute/value dilemma, e.g. should I do this:

<color pattern="checked">blue</color>

or this:

<color>
<pattern>checked</pattern>
<value>blue</value>
</color>

or even this:

<color value="blue" pattern="checked" />

And lots of variations. JSON simplified everything into just maps and arrays, so there's one straightforward, simple way to do it.

Using HTML for your API response re-introduces all the confusion as to what to put where, and now you've got to decide which random HTML tag to use for which element. For 99% of the cases, I see no benefit to it.

The only thing I think of is if you're returning a very large and complex data set, and you want to take advantage of jQuery/similar to use selectors to extract certain patterns of data, which could be a cool thing do to. Have to say, I've never needed that before, though.
CodePorting C# to Java Conversion Engine Explained
the bounce is a bit harsh I'll admit. but the point I wanted to make was that if I don't want that type of message then return the message to sender.

i.e. if I don't have a to-do list app registered, don't send me a to-do.
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Steps To A Fitness Friendly Office
The attack of TaskRabbit clones
I think most people get that reference (and I don't know shit about poetry).

It just makes it all the more confusing and misplaced, so I'm guessing the one person that doesn't get it was the author...
The article does mention staying at home and watching TV
Minimum capital requirements aren't useless. A limited liability entity is only liable up to its capital assets. This ensures that the company has capital assets to level against if it is sued by creditors, etc.
I agree. I still don't know what the article is talking about.
It will double the cost of a typical consumer laptop ($500 laptop used for 4 years) or add a third to the cost of a high end $1500 laptop.
That is the kind of thing I would like to see in case studies. I always see articles about starting the next facebook or something, the 'sexy' startups. But when it comes to building stuff to niche markets like, say, agriculture or logistics, theres not much said.

I'm actually trying to find something for myself, though acquiring the domain knowledge is something the puzzles me. How do one gets, as was suggested, immersed on a given field, knowing that no one will pay you just to learn.

I studied computer science, but this just teaches one how to use technology to build stuff. Now I'm on the weird position of not knowing what to build :D
It's confusing because the computers aren't actually dying, they're just being left behind.
For most people it's: "Lobbying is bad when it's for things I don't like."

The ability to petition the government was so important to the Founders that they wrote it into the First Amendment. (Madison, among others, was hostile to the Bill Of Rights because he thought those were things that were obviously not allowed to government, and that delineating them would cause people to think that the Constitution was a list of the people's rights instead of a list of the powers granted to the government.)

In the modern day, though, the government has so much power and influence over people's lives that it becomes necessary to spend a significant fraction of your attention -- or hire someone else to do it -- to government to make sure they aren't about to legislate you out of existence. See Uber as an example.

Influencing government is usually a zero-sum game that people are forced to play. It would be swell if "the other side" unilaterally disarmed so we could disarm, too, but they don't trust us any more than we trust them.
Ah, that makes more sense. I don't make appointments over email, so bounce an invitation and they can see me in person. I've always liked the idea of email as a non-guaranteed protocol.
Apps can use 'the real pixels'. The lastest builds of Final Cut Pro X and iMovie can show full 1080p video at native resolution in their tiny 3-inch preview windows, and most games will let you set the resolution to the native 2880x1800 .

That wouldn't actually improve this situation, though. Showing this image at native resolution would make the text not be pixellated, sure, but it would also be near-unreadable at 1/4th the size.
Open Software Integrators' Andy Oliver on Spring Data, Hadoop, Neo4j and MongoDB
Title makes it sound like security issues. But really it's just a list of 'improvements' you can make. Fun.
The goal of having capital is if you order a bunch of Aereon chairs and fail to pay, or your delivery driver runs over someone, these folks have some hold of collecting because by law they can't come after you personally. $25k is an arbitrary number because it can't be anything but arbitrary in this situation.
I think he means most people won't know how to update from Kies or something, and that OTA updates would've been preferred.
The ultimate iPad email client? The endless search.
Why has no-one created this? I know Sparrow for iPad is on its way, and no doubt it will be pretty good. I was just wondering why the limited take up to the challenge, just in case I'd missed anything.

I assume the risk if Apple rejecting the app is also high and given the likely time investment of building a native app that might have a put a lot of people off.

Still. Seems strange.
Not clear to me from the article. Why did the universal lawyers believe the DMCA Safe Harbor rules wouldn't apply to pre 1972 music?
Innocent until accused it seems.
To be fair, there's actually a lot of interesting work happening with this technology, and it is fairly recent. There's a group at Tufts using these devices for ultra-cheap non-invasive real time brain scanning (it turns out that human skulls are mostly transparent to light at these frequencies). My spouse briefly worked with them.
And no one will be able to run it for 2 years.

Though looking at developer.android.com it does seem that it would be safe to target 2.3 as a minimum.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Unlike with iOS where it is easier for users to upgrade their OS if their phone supports it, Android version upgrades come most often when people upgrade their phone and that means at the end of a 2 year contract for most people.

Targeting the most recent Android version seems like a poor way to get people to use your app.
GPS Navigation for Ukraine: Vacation Package
Actually dropbox and truecrypt work really well together, even with large truecrypt containers because of the way truecrypt updates its container on file changes.
I guess I can understand the bit about not wanting to pay for data overages when downloading over 3G/4G. But why not offer a wifi option instead of forcing the use of bloatware?
Free Tattoo Designs for Women
Jellybeans for (almost) everyone -- Google releases Android 4.1 source code
As Stage 2 Approaches, Important Stage 1 Opportunities Still at Hand
The meaningful use stage 2 Final Rule is expected to be released later this summer, but don’t lose sight of the Stage 1 opportunities still available.
It's great to read some of these advanced optimization techniques, especially for us web devs that aren't working on these larger projects.

I'm interested to know more about how and why you are using this "Levinshtein distance" (Fast Levinshtein) algorithm. I looked at the Wikipedia and the explanation makes sense; it's just not sinking in as to where I might think about making use of it in my own code.
I thought the general consensus was that ML is more stable than Lion?
Are We Compatible Yet? - mobile web vs Firefox Mobile
The limitations of AsyncTask are hard to put in two sentences. It starts with AsyncTask referring to an Activity. Now let's say you create a configuration change by rotating your device, and the Activity you had is destroyed. There begins the tale of woe. Here is a good writeup: http://andreas-kluck.blogspot.com/2012/02/asynctask-and-asyn...
What if they put a big sticker on him that labels him as a diplomatic package?

I'm only half joking. ;)
I think the debate is whether TCP/IP would be useful without Google, or Wikipedia would have happened without TCP/IP. Personally I would say that IP changed the way people think about information, which made Wikipedia seem plausible.
methinks the point of this is to do it without installing other tools.
Shut up and give this guy $10.
text only cache
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BZM_fc5...
I used to work for Grooveshark. It's an amazing company full of awesome people that are really passionate about music and helping artists. I'm happy they got this win.
From what i've always understood, if he is transported in a car together with a diplomat, the UK police are still not allowed to stop them. So he himself doesn't have to be a diplomat.
Yes. The government can railroad guilty people as well as innocent people.

In fact, it can be worse when they railroad guilty people, because the next time the government cuts corners, people will just think "oh, it's okay, the government wouldn't bring a case unless they had proof. Remember the last guy who claimed that? He was guilty, too."

Dotcom is completely guilty AFAIC, but the state still has the burden to prove that guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury of his peers.
The Android Support Package enables you to back-port apps written for the latest API level and using a Fragment-based UI implementation all the way back to Android 1.6.
Why is it that when I suggest we emulate Canada's system (which is province-by-province single payer) the Democrats accuse me of being a Ron Paul right-winger (Nooo... not the States!) and the Republicans accuse me of being a socialist (Nooo... not single payer!)?

Not only is the US healthcare system broke and broken, but nobody in power is willing to imagine a solution that might work better (probably because such as system would require tackling the major corporate interests across the board, like big pharma) :-( I wouldn't be optimistic that we'll get things fixed.
While I'm typically excited for upgrades to anything (OS, Individual apps, etc) I really have no desire to upgrade to Mountain Lion.
If you want your Apple products to be "properly recycled" then take them to Apple when you EOL them. Relying upon a shiny EPEAT logo/cert to make your decision easier is ignoring that there are other ways to be environmentally friendly.
Now this is the kind of stuff I love to see on HN!
JSON wins because it's easier to manipulate JSON data directly in your language of choice because the data is already in a usable structure. If you instead receive data as HTML, you have to read that data into some native structure before you can work with it, which is too much hassle just for the minor benefit of having the data be directly presentable in a web browser.

... and by the way what if like most web designers I don't agree with the HTML layout of the data? For example I don't want list items in a bullet list, I want them in sortable table or in a combobox droplist instead. Then I have to convert the data into some readable structure so I can change it's layout, which means reading the data into a Javascript object perhaps ... gee, I wish the API just gave me JSON output in the first place.
From another source:

A judge has handed controversial music streaming service Grooveshark a major win in a dispute with record label Universal Music, rejecting an argument which would make Grooveshark responsible for determining the copyright status of all pre-1972 recordings. Arguing in a New York court, Universal had attempted to claim that safe harbor provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) do not apply to recordings made before 1972, as the recordings were not covered by federal copyright law at the time of their creation.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/11/3151127/grooveshark-dmca-u...
It made me want to see if they were hiring. Excellent blog post.
There's an even easier solution: AT&T serves the updates from within their network (during off-peak hours), and doesn't charge the user for it. The occasional extra 100MB per user seems like a small price to pay to keep the phones updated, especially if said updates come with better network handling (easing AT&T's burden) or patching up security holes.
I was wondering about the root updated themselves, given a large number of nodes.

Ill admit that im thinking of a wide area applicstion. Maybe another version of the question is what are you targeting as a max number of nodes (30? 30,000? 30M?) What is your goal for invalidation latency? And, not to quibble, but how much invalidation latency can you have without being considered eventually consistent? I assume you do guarantee the order of the invslidations?

Perfectly cool if the answer to these question is "maybe later" or "maybe not".

Can't wait to see your deeper explanation. I really love this project because it's a whole different take on distributed memory. I'm embarassed that I has settled into thinking that a DHT was -the- way to distribute shared memory, and hope this project provokes lots of us to think more broadly. I don't know for sure that it will have a large number of applications, but I am really glad that we'll all be able to think more broadly about distributed systems as a result of the open work you are doing.
Please don't feel sorry about it. I'm actually quite happy to see it's still useful for someone today. I'm just not sure what to do with it next. Right now it doesn't cost me anything to run it anyway. Thanks very much for your idea :)

I was in searching of such a data dump before I wrote AirportCode, but like you said, it's not really available. Some websites sell these data for big fees, which I couldn't pay for, so I ended up scraping Wikipedia for the data. And these things change over the time, which makes it rather complicated to maintain.

I'm thinking maybe something like open source data would be helpful to make these kinds of data available to the public, and let the public to update and maintain it so everyone could benefit from it.
highly under-used: grep -c -e . -r .
There's no PayPal in my country (I use Google Checkout and Skrill). If there's an option to donate in a different way I'd do it asap!
Note the: Targeting 4.1 and using the support package gives you full access to Fragments and Loaders while still supporting the older SDK versions.

Sure, if you target 4.1, you can't necessarily use every single new feature in Android on older devices. However, from a design/UI point of view, Android's backports of many new features (and projects like ActionBarSherlock) such as the action bar means you can design for 4.1 and have the code work with many previous versions.

I agree with the grandparent post: design for 4.1 and set 2.2 as a minimum. In cases where you want to use new APIs, you can use conditional classloading techniques.
I'm not sure if helping artists would be a great phrase for it...How about a list of this months top 10 streamed tracks from users in the United States? I'd like to see how many of those tunes in the top 10 list are from actual artists whose music is legally licensed to be on Grooveshark.
Fix animal antibiotic use by feeding animals more chemicals?
U.S. Medical ID Theft Cost Jumps to $41 Billion
Looks like a great app, but testflight says I can't install it on my iPhone 4S - is there any reason you're not supporting this device?
Responsibility-centric vs. data-centric design
Exactly right. Railroading obviously guilty people concerns me greatly. That's how mob justice works, and it is the reason mob justice is generally seen as unappealing.
The question of course is. Did anyone try to just leave at "normal" time?
Why should whether the ride is scheduled in advance matter with respect to things like maintenance? And to the extent that they matter, isn't Uber in fact more like a limousine service than a taxi?
Perl Python Ruby PHP C C++ Lua tcl JS and Java benchmark/comparison
Except our inflation isn't particularly high at the moment in the US, we were undershooting our 2% target for a while then the Fed printed a bunch of money (because they can't bring the Fed Rate below the IOR Rate) and now we're on target again.

EDIT: The fact that we could print money to get out of debt if we needed to is a big part of why we don't need to, though.
I imagine that the natural thing is to add a square, triangle, circle and cross to differentiate the buttons but that some mega-corp thinks they should own that idea ... another natural alternatife would be inset arrows, but then ...
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the full version cache includes donation links

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BZM_fc5...
This has nothing to do with hardware, this is an OS issue. You can still install Windows 8 or Linux on these machines.
You can bring your MacBook to an Apple Store to download Mountain Lion faster.
Sometimes when browsing HN on my iPad, certain posts appear smaller (although I don't recall any larger). Does anyone know if that's a bug, or if it's a result of down voting? I don't see it on my desktop using Safari.
The idea of mdadm on top of EBS volumes makes me cringe.

Mark Mayo's thoughts on abstracted block storage are spot on: http://joyeur.com/2011/04/24/magical-block-store-when-abstra...
Odd. I remember being able to use Hangout from my iPhone a year ago. It must have been dropped in the makeover.
I don't know anyone who doesn't have an unlimited texting plan.
Leveraging venture capital
A Dutch guy I know moved to Berlin to work on his startup there. We didn't discuss the reasons, but it seems Berlin has something better to offer.

If I start guessing - probably a better startup community. Amsterdam and Netherlands are corporation-friendly, with quite some big companies having headquarters there; but startups and corporations have different needs and make different communities.

UPDATE: Another point I can think of is the size of local market.

Maybe not too important for web startups that go global right away, but if you start locally (and thus use Dutch), you have 16M people in the Netherlands (+maybe 5 in the Dutch part of Belgium), while in Germany you get 82M, five times as much; plus another 8M in Austria and some more German speakers from Switzerland.
This is really sad news and I will donate to his Trust fund but I can't help but feel strange knowing that I am donating to a fellow programmer. I see posts like these on Facebook and other collaboration sites and I rarely even bother reading the articles.

I wish we could take care of all the sick and elderly equally but such is life. Instead of blaming it on the government, the system, society or anyone else, I suggest we donate to the cause to help this man live as well as he can, while he still can.

Nobody deserves to be robbed of their life like this.
Empowering Users With the Entire AV Industry
Verizon's 2012 data breach report indicated that organizations are having a very difficult time detecting their own malware-based intrusions. The team at Carbon Black saw a way to fix this problem and built a sensor that collects and retains a record of execution, filesystem modifications, registry modifications, new outbound network connections and unique binaries. This week, they enhanced the sensor and built in a VirusTotal plugin, allowing users to leverage the signatures of the entire AV industry and analyze every single binary that has ever been executed on a network. Using VirusTotal, the team showed that the signatures of 43 AV products detected all 75 uploaded malware samples on day one of the test — something no single AV solution could do even after 30 days.
Show HN: Domains for Friends: Find "YourName.com" for You & Friends
FWIW: I didn't encounter any crases in any recent ML builds. Since Apple is on a one year release schedule now, the differences between versions will (probably) not be as big as before.

Also, I never had any problems downloading Lion or Mountain Lion from the App Store. The downloads were always fast (I am on a 120 MBit downstream connection).

One would expect that they also release it on a USB stick as before (or DIY).
Now this poses all sorts of new issues.

The 4th Amendment issues are quite interesting to consider. This is programmable meaning it can search for specific substances right?

Does this mean that the use of this device to find drugs will be an impermissible search under the test Alito articulated for the 3rd Circuit? It seems that this is a very promising way to get the bodyscanners challenged in court as needlessly intrusive, and force these to only look for explosives.
I have an AeroFS account. Never use it; their client is slower than molasses, takes up a ton of RAM, and frequently spikes my CPU. This is on both windows and linux machines...

Personally, Dropbox + 20mb truecrypt volume for more sensitive files is good enough for me.
Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes
Mobile App Developers Rely on Cloud Services
If you are saying the government has not yet proved it in a court of law -- as it is required to do -- you are correct.

If you are saying that Dotcom wasn't explicitly aware of copyrighted materials being uploaded, didn't know people were uploading copyright materials, and didn't set up reward programs for people who uploaded the most pirated materials, then you are very naive.
Does not work: I just see the logo, nothing loads. In the developer console, I only see

GET https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js https://moqups.com/:26
(anonymous function) https://moqups.com/:26
(anonymous function)

failing

(I block ssl.google-analytics.com with my hosts file)
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IF, not since
Check this out: http://johanbrook.com/browsers/native-momentum-scrolling-ios...

It can cause some quirky behavior so test it out carefully but you get much better performance with long lists if using it.
"engaged in bloody wars for lucrative routes"
"threatened personally with a weapon"

Isn't the obvious solution to this problem the enforcement of existing laws against threats and violence?

Or conversely, if the government is so weak that it can't stop the taxi cartels from fighting bloody battles, surely it's also too weak to enforce cab licensing laws.
Really great to see that Universal may be held accountable for their thuglike behavior. Be nice to see some class action suits over the mass litigation against consumers using BitTorrent too.
IDissent: I Think Gotta Be Mobile Is Wrong
In praise of procrastination
Again, is that your opinion / preference, or can you share a source? Most interested to see where this is coming from beyond things I could google myself.
I think Stockholm syndrome is an apt description of this condition. Maybe it happens because breaking the vicious cycle requires a person stuck in such predicament to acknowledge that their time, and to an extent their person, is a resource in the sad, neo-liberal sense.

Usually people have more heroic visions of their person and possibly this is where the honor and pride narratives stem from, such as "I pulled a 10th all-niter in a row ant helped the company make 0.1% more in profits" or "I can't betray my employer".

Another factor is that with a work schedule like that there is simply no time for a person to look for and apply for other positions, so suddenly quitting is a much harder decision to make without a fallback plan.
Not even. My canon 7D murders my free account (at 10 gigs free...)... an hour of leisurely snapping pics can take a whole gig
I launched this startup about 3 months ago under the name Domiy (original thread: http://bit.ly/O5PlKw). Since then I've been iterating on the idea, improving many aspects of the site. I've listened to a lot of your feedback and hopefully I've made things better. I actually used my own service to come up with the new name too.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the overall concept. I think it's make or break time for this idea, either you guys like it and think it would be useful for your own startup ventures, or you don't and I pack it in.

Either way, please let me know what you think.