skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we agree. Doesn't matter if the people defining the 'right' way to live are Catholics, Jews, Christians, Warmists, Marxists, Anarchists, or any other.

Group A, demands behavior B, threatens consequence C if people don't adhere to the rules.

Sometimes the threat is positioned as a natural consequence "if you give up your civil liberties you give others the power to disappear you", sometimes the agent is more faith based like "if you don't accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior you won't get into heaven and live with the angels."

Much of the warmist rhetoric is akin to religion "If you don't change your ways you will burn in an over warm planet." Much of the warming science is about understanding cause and effect. Trying to talk science with someone whose opinions are based on faith (or emotion) is generally unproductive.
Dropping the production database ranks up there.

Of course, giving an intern privileges on production might be the biggest mistake an employee can make.
http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=remote|telecommute
not to suggest the official twitter client is actually good, but you've been able to see the thread for quite a while now. Just double-click on one of the posts in the thread. It's not perfect, but it works most of the time.
Go's model is such that, compared to JVM-based languages, you have the control to create (much) less garbage in the first place, greatly reducing the size and impact of garbage collection pauses.
Show HN: Hipmob is Olark for mobile apps. (Live support chat, now on Android)
The best solution is to write the idea down. This will help you remember it later or develop it further. Writing helps you think. So, you might come up with more ideas while writing.

For Mac, I love the full screen mode on the iA Writer. There is no way to spend time formatting your text and no other distractions.
Do you know if the wi-fi coverage is sufficient to where you could ditch having a cell phone? Just use an iPod Touch with Skype + Gtalk or something?
Step back for a second. Your 'criticism' is extremely far fetched -- there's nothing whatsoever to indicate that the three trolls in the picture are supposed to symbolize men in general -- but somehow you did choose to go down that road of thought because you had a need to neutralize and downplay the issue here.

Where does that come from? A knee-jerk reaction to the concept of 'feminism'? A primitive tribal association with a gender?

In any case, it is disconcerting to see.
Lets welcome Web 3.0 - The marriage of technology to real life
The Tech Block was born of our dissatisfaction with the tech blogosphere, which, frankly, we felt was out of step with the carefully designed products it focuses on. Contrary to, say, Apple, which is obsessive about quality control, from where we stood, most of the tech community’s loudest voices weren’t self-conscious at all, and that translated into ugly imagery, wonky sites, and uninteresting, often-unedited news. We couldn’t take it anymore, nor could we stomach the idea that half-baked content from a few mainstream sources drowned out the hard work and original perspectives of lesser known writers, photographers, videographers, and designers.
Senator Patrick Leahy on Standard-Essential Patents
Looking at your posts in this thread, there's nothing I could possibly say that would change your mind on any of these points. All I can say is that third-wave feminism is valuable, and I hope you come to see its wisdom one day.
Can anyone name simple alternatives to Juggernaut that also free the developer from having to think about browser support?
I would be interested (in an academic sense) of seeing documentation on the process you've set up and how you tied it together.

I use a far simpler method, akin to a pile.
Well, the obvious starting point is this[1] SA Thread that directly led to the Reddit-embarassing that resulted in the dropping of the pedo boards. You may or may not be able to view it, but the short version is that they created a "Reddit bomb"[2] and sent it to a number of news agencies. There is a followup thread which confirms that several goons were the some of the first SRS subreddit mods, but with the exception of the thread below, most Reddit threads end up getting shitcanned because of the eventual devolution of the thread. I'm hunting through the archives, but I'm unsure if the thread even exists anymore, as the search can't find it.

Edit: It doesn't exist in my post history anymore, so I'm pretty sure that entire thread was purged.

[1]http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=346...

[2]http://pastebin.com/PenXAGz7
Are they using this SDK in the Facebook iOS app? If so the ratings don't speak too highly of the SDK. If not why not?
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Interesting strategy. They're pulling out profile, place, friends views into an SDK. Looks like they are going to try to be THE profile view, place view, and friend view for each App on your phone.
So you perform audits of the recycling firms that you use?

I get the impression from the tone of your reply that even if Apple were to continue achieving EPEAT that you still wouldn't buy them.
Security patches, while not trivial or cheap, are vastly simpler than either the backward compatibility problems I described or the issue at hand with incompatible video drivers.

You can't just add programmers to mate cutting edge OS kernel features (ie leveraging recent videocards) with old hardware. None of us can speak authoritatively on the case in point, but it seems painfully optimistic to think you can pull this off without introducing a lot of complexity. And then, what happens if the 10.8 team tweaks the kernel during a point update? Yep, better double or triple the testing team.

"Oh, it looks like it'll take some work to get 10.8 working with all of our old AMD chipsets - either we delay release until fall (after Windows 8, unfortunately) or we put some of our "A" engineers on it."

Complexity is the keyword. Complexity and mediocrity go hand in hand. Backward compatibility is a noble goal in many ways, but every generation back of software/hardware you try to maintain exponentially increases the complexity you deal with instead of putting a better new product in user's hands.
Ahh, I should have made that more clear the first time.
Well I heard about it because of an article about harassment but I donated because Tropes vs Women is an awesome and entertaining youtube series.
FWIW there's an entry in the prefs regarding syncing, which allows one to use Tweet Marker. Didn't know about that service before.
How can you possibly compare HN, reddit and Grooveshark? The first 2 aggregate links to content, Grooveshark distributes content (often unlicensed). That's akin to comparing IMDB and iTunes, because both have movie related content? It's nonsensical.

If you want to use reddit as an example we'd have to pretend that reddit downloads the content from any submitted link and serves it, so let's pretend that happens: if a company went to reddit and said please stop downloading our website content when it's submitted from the domain website.com, would you do that? Would you tell them to fuck off? While profiting from that content?

Grooveshark could if they wanted without any effort comply with what companies like Universal want. They choose not to. It's not about whether or not they comply with the law. It's absolutely not unreasonable for any artist to expect their music not to be on Grooveshark, Grooveshark made a business decision to use the DMCA to their advantage.

> They aren't supporting Rihanna, and I'm fairly certain that they don't have to.

That's fine, they don't have to support Rihanna, but what they should not then do is take her content anyway. If they're not willing to comply with the wishes/expectations of the rights holder (which probably isn't Rihanna but let's pretend it is for simplicities sake) then they SHOULD NOT be making money from that content!

Grooveshark is a business that takes other peoples content WITHOUT PERMISSION and then makes money from that content and uses the DMCA to get away with it, doing the bare minimum to be compliant. How can anyone defend that?
And this could be true of lots of "recyclers" in the US and EU.
Can you think of systemic risks or circumstances that would cause a significant portion of the tech industry to fail simultaneously? I'm not saying they don't exist, but I can't think of a good example.

That is clearly not the case for the banking system.
Without further information about their controller (and the rest of their environment, really), I'm hesitant to just jump right in.

And, sure, most developers won't put time in to customize a game for a specific platform, but I'd personally be ashamed if I didn't make it good on every platform I say I support. If it isn't done well, I'd rather not do it, know what I mean?

I'm not even sold about supporting the Nexus 7 I've got, because I don't know yet whether I can make it awesome enough. Trash-flood games ruined XBLIG and make finding worthwhile games on the iOS App Store and Google Play way harder than it should be. I won't contribute to the pile of crap.
I'd like to stick Novoda on it but we are a company of developers rather than an individual: http;//www.novoda.com but I can only sign up as an individual on Facebook.
Sure, it would be amazing if the knowledge on Wikipedia could be presented to me in a more interactive and enlightening way. But there are a lot of hurdles between here and there. Interactions take a lot of talent, skill, and work to design -- will Wikipedia contributors have this skill? The possibilities are much more open-ended than a simple encyclopedia article, will Wikipedia contributors be able to collaboratively design and refine such a thing as easily as they write and revise a simple article? The code that implements those interactions needs to be sandboxed -- how do you prevent a random Wikipedia contributor from modifying the interaction's code to steal the viewer's Wikipedia credentials?

I'm all for Alan trying to make his vision a reality with the STEPS project, and I truly am interested to see if he demonstrates a new way of thinking about computing. But when it comes to ideas, the proof is in the pudding: the web is enormously successful, Wikipedia is enormously successful, so his criticism of them rings hollow.
What is old news to you may be new news to others. Or as Bob Dylan sang, I was so much more 2.0 than, I'm more beta now. Or was that The Beatles? Hmm.
I think NFC might not work too well, as the range is fairly small. So you may need to swipe your phone near it? But I am not sure.
I said I doubt you'll get schematics and data sheets on all the parts

Was in reference to OUYA, not Rasp Pi.

Regarding Rasp Pi, you don't get a data sheet on the SoC though, as you do for Beagles or Arduino. So, calling it "open" is a bit of a misnomer. Rasp Pi is only "open" till you want to know what all the register addresses are or similar, then you need an NDA which is rather "not open."

But now I'm digressing from the point. Being open doesn't matter for OUYA, just like it doesn't matter for the Rasp Pi. Even without schematics, Rasp Pis would sell like hot cakes, it's a $30 computer for crying out loud. Same thing with the OUYA. It's a $100 game system _WITH_ and SDK. That's an unheard of price the same way $30 for a computer is.
No, but relying upon outdated recycling standards instead of evaluating devices and doing your own research is sloppy.
Unless you can get an insanely large price, licensing seems to make more sense since you won't lose control of the app. You can relicense, including to those brick and mortar stores, and possibility hold out for a larger sum after initial success.

I would need to know more about your business to see how it fit your larger strategy, but turning internal tools into the core of the business has been a successful pivot point for others. The prime example the comes to mind is 37signals that went from a web-dev consultancy house to making productivity apps.
Spoiler Alert: The article says the biggest mistake an intern can make is making the same mistake twice.

I think it is safe to say that that can be applied to pretty much everybody.
We are the kings of tired and overdone jokes yearning to be free!
I recently wrote a blog post about the Facebook iOS app that may answer some of your question: http://www.cocoacontrols.com/posts/2012/07/06/a-primer-on-hy...

As for the rest of it, I'm guessing the answer is "maybe, but not in the currently available version of Facebook for iOS."
Me too, that was the only one that works naturally, w/o a conscious battle against distractions.

Also, we can infer from that: "if you're on HN now, take the rest of day off (and don't feel guilty) because its lost anyway" and surprinsingly this tends to be true for me.
You cannot establish a draft that a) will select enough of the military age population to be perceived as fair, and b) supply the number of personnel the armed services actually need.
There is nothing wrong with calling out misogyny in media.

There is also nothing wrong with people making fun of other people when they feel like it. It happens every day.

You might have a point if she wanted to ban or censor games – but she does not.

What was his point though? He said "I find the more extreme reactions and death threats disappointing and sad, but do not feel a lot of sympathy for such a person." Would you feel sympathy for someone who has studied poisonous snakes but then got hurt because they dove into a pile of them?

Gamers and game developers don’t have a right to not be criticized.

Neither does this woman.

Furthermore, games are a huge business and everyone is playing them. They are not some obscure thing that can be ignored. They are pretty central in our society, just ignoring them is not an option. Like racist media before it, misogynist games will have to face the criticism.

So what? You can't get away from Football, Baseball or Hockey either (well, maybe Hockey :) ... Plenty of women are into sports and don't have a big problem with the fact that all the players are men. They also don't have a problem with all of the misogynistic men who follow sports.

The problem that will never be solved is that someone will always get offended at something and I'd rather see people thicken up in order to deal with that instead of crying foul.
>burden is on the person being defamed to prove his case, including that the stated facts are unjust

So if I say you are a child molester - you have to prove that you aren't !

How exactly were you intending to do that?
You may be right. I may be crazy. And it just may be a lunatic you're looking for. Or a werewolf. Hmm.
what im saying is what grooveshark does is normal software business, and since the victims are people that are trying to destroy digital privacy for their own gain I dont give a shit and neither should you.

so lets put this together
1. this is the status quo to use eulas to protect your ass

2. the 'victims' are rolling in money and are shit people anyways

so given a limited amount of energy and political will why the hell would you ever champion this cause.

why would you make such a big deal out of this issue thats CLEARLY in a gray zone, especially when the people hurt are the idiots who are screwing you over
Hey, that's the spirit. Thanks pxlphsr! More on the way soon.
So, the VCs, who often are funding disruptive technologies, are now facing the new kid on the block, pretty disruptive himself. Oh, the irony.
You may not be aware that the truth is not an absolute defence against libel under English law. Not only do you have to prove what you wrote was true, you also have to prove it was in the public interest to publish it.
>The only difference between kickstarter and a VC is that consumers are deciding if the company will eventually deliver a product they want. You just cut out the middleman. The VC.

I don't know if that's necessarily true.

The biggest difference is that VCs have an interest in the continued success in the company because they are looking for a return on their investment, not just the product in question.
I think the biggest mistake I made as an intern was accepting an internship . . . I quit my internship last week and am running my own company full-time now.
Vooza comes with Kleenex. It's your lucky day!
In most churches the advice given to men and women in terms of prioritizing your life is: God, spouse, family, work. I realize that you think that his God isn't real but that really stops you from ever caring about someone? If your father had cancer and believed in God would you speak to him in this way? Why go through life being so harsh?
Actually, she is dealing with it by speaking out for change.

People don't (at least, in a free society, shouldn't) get to ban what they don't like, but they can show the damage that certain attitudes cause. The responsible adults among us, including the members of the gaming community, will hopefully see the problem and join in the demand for change. If nothing else, capitalism will step in to help. If there is a market for enjoyable games that don't make the player feel sick to his stomach for the attitudes they portray, someone will step into the void and make games for that market.

However, I'd like to believe that as a society we're enlightened enough to realize when treating people a certain way is simply wrong.
I don't think VC has too much to worry about. $99 for an Ouya is definitely selling at a loss; they're going to need VC to actually manufacture and sell the thing. Kickstarter is an excellent way to demonstrate people are interested in an idea though (just potentially not the actual product).
It's true! But really, it will be awesome.
Good one.

But I guess it also depends on how your brain is wired...in my case its more visual, so sketching things help me a lot :)
Bubble memory was doing just fine until a Nobel-winning physics breakthrough allowed the existence of high-density hard drives. If memristors do as well as bubble memory, there will have to be a serious fluke for it not to replace everything on the market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory#Commercializatio...
wow... guess i've been optimizing for the wrong things. awesome post.
You don't have to mathematically prove your case - just that you had reasonable grounds for stating it.
Luis von Ahn (creator of CAPTCHA and Duolingo) Reddit AMA
I definitely prefer Linkedin over Facebook.

The multi-stage approach could work. When a developer creates a nice profile it will probably get interest from people seeking freelancers. You can then entice developers to add social identities with something like "123 people were interested in your profile. Verify your identity and contact them today!".

I forget how eLance does the identity verification. iirc it was on the thorough side. Perhaps more work than you want to invest now but perhaps worth it later.
Reddit allows to post just text, or share a link. Commonly, when someone wants to share an image, they upload it to another site (usually imgur.com, in the case of reddit), then link to it. This way, reddit ends up sharing a very large amount of images/photos.

One suggestion I have would be to have actual content on the splash page to pull me in. Pintrest, Digg, reddit, tumblr, HN and other sites usually let you see what people are posting to see if it interests you, before requiring sign up/sign in. In this case, I see your site, but I see no reason why I should bother signing up. Some examples of popular posts, or new things that people are sharing would be helpful to pull people in.
To evolve is not an act of censorship or banning, it is an act to collectively change for the better.
Since the Play/Market app periodically checks the servers to look for any app updates it's fair to say that Google's numbers comprise just about all devices running Google Play which is probably 99% of devices. The only notable device without Play is the Kindle Fire which is running Gingerbread 2.3.4
Allow it as part of the australian continent, despite the water. The alternative is to not recognize it as part of any continent. Just like how California and Nebraska are part of the same continent despite, what, three deserts and two mountain ranges between them.

Did I mention that any definition of continents is arbitrary?
Apple's Dynamic Adaptive Audio Streaming Implementation
yes, you were.
Really? I can't imagine Apple doing a controller. Especially one with physical buttons. Well, maybe now that Steve's gone.
"A joke is like beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder."
-Steve Ballmer
hey man, that's not cool.
Nice. This reminds me of one of El Naschie's most awesome papers, published in 'his' Elsevier journal "Chaos, Solitons and Fractals":
http://www.el-naschie.net/bilder/file/Photo-Gallery.pdf
From an article I was just reading on Wired about HP's new memristor technology:

“It’s sad to say, but the science and technology are the easy part,” Williams said at the recent conference. “Development costs at least 10 times as much as research, and commercialization costs 10 times as much as development. So in the end, research — which we think is the most important part — is only 1 percent of the effort.”

"Most important"? That contradicts the rest of what he said in the very same quote!

Every link in the chain from a new idea to a happy customer is important.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/
thanks man! glad you found this helpful.
Then skip the alpha and wait for notification center
Here's my problem with it: I have an iPhone, an Android tablet, a gaming PC, and consoles. I don't play the same games on my phone that I play on my consoles or PC. They're different experiences. I expect different game experiences from an Xbox 360 than my PC.

Unfortunately, the perception that I have is that that when this system is released, it's going to be mostly ports of existing Android games.

The problem is that you shouldn't be getting those games for the system. They were designed for touchscreens, not touchpads. They weren't designed for controllers, and almost none of them actually have multiplayer. Canalbolt, which is the featured "Play on your TV" image, is just a one-button runner. Not anything I want to play on a TV.

So this means that for the OUYA to really succeed, they need games that are for the OUYA. They shouldn't be be straight ports of Android games. They should be unique experiences that utilize the OUYA's unique control scheme. Success for the system is entirely dependent on the software available on it, and I just don't see that happening, especially with the short release cycle.
I don't have a mac, can anyone share some screenshots? I can't find any on their site.
Awesome! I wrote the original FOIA that he references in the beginning of this article, I'm extremely pleased that somebody else took the same initiative!

Is there anything else about the government any of you guys want to know about? I'm getting pretty good at FOIA'ing now.
I believe that mistake is called over-confidence. (just kidding)
National Contributions to WCIT - What Will Your Government Say?