skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But... this is the standard method of squashing bills. This is politics and the only way to get things done is to have the money or mindless drones parroting your soundbites. Lamar Smith has the money and tech journalists have mindless followers. They have to rally the troops with sensational oversimplifications ("Lamar Smith is the devil! Let's all attack", "SOPA will kill facebook and youtube", "SOPA will kill the internet", "SOPA will save/create US jobs"). This is absolutely how SOPA was defeated last time and seems a decent strategy moving forward. It may not (just) be sensationalism for ratings/ad-clicks sake. It may be the necessary battle-cry at the start of a potentially nasty battle.

I don't want to defend Lamar Smith or BoingBoing. I hate SOPA, sensationalism and politics. But I also get tired of people constantly surprised how ugly and dirty politics is. Some young folks don't know yet but that doesn't make this very noteworthy.
Agree. Most stories that paint apple in an unfavourable light that I post never seem to go anywhere. Yesterday I saw this on the verge and posted it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4222245 , to the sound of a deafening "meh".
And? Lots of people get their assets frozen. They don't get to make demands as a precondition of submitting to justice.

Asking for special conditions that are never granted can only mean one of two things: either he is utterly ignorant of how law works or he is just trolling for more attention.

I choose to view him as non-ignorant, but since my view is not fawning, apparently I get a massive karma downgrade. I'll live.
Someone's Photoshop mock-ups could have new ideas to introduce, yes.

This doesn't. It's just triage of messages as they come in and an all-attachments view, coupled with hand-waving about typography and design by someone who hopes a developer will contact him.
Why we have Silicon Valley
I did the same thing. What's nice about the Phoenix approach is that you start with a known state (base Ubuntu install or whatever) and end with a known state (running your setup) and completely ignore all other possible states. A tool like chef or puppet has to have a lot of complexity around examine a node, determine what state it's in and figure out how to get it to the desired state.

I also use boto in my fabfile, so that I can run a single command to launch an EC2 instance, install & configure software on it, save an AMI and terminate the instance. It's a like having a Makefile that compiles machine images:

> fab build:<role> <region>

I wouldn't go as far as Fowler's "disable the shell" idea, but it doesn't take much discipline to do all significant changes by building new AMIs.
The Patriot Act didn't need to get 'undone.' It came with a time limit, and Congress has been basically hitting the snooze button every time it comes up for renewal.
Only US?
Study the Science but don't forget the Art
If you think HN is anti-Android, then look at what happens to stories and comments about Microsoft. Stories are flagged and comments are downvoted based on party line voting.
This would be a good time to introduce keerthana-bootstap:

https://github.com/zachrose/keerthana-bootstap/

It's the complete opposite, for people who want to learn how to make webpages.
I intentionally avoided chiming in on that thread so I didn't sound like a sourpuss. I'm not sure if it's jealousy alone, but I feel like it's bit improper for people to be moving those kind of volumes on products so early in their design cycle. So many things can and do go wrong especially with what's a reasonably complex software/hardware ecosystem - it sounded like they hadn't really started a lot of it yet. Projects are hard to bring in on time even when you're pretty experienced with the platform etc. I'm not saying they're not going to be successful, it's just from a statistical point of view I would expect some of these high profile long lead time deals to implode.

Which isn't to say I object to them as obviously the interest is there, but I'm not sure I'd feel ok taking millions in orders before I had at least done a tiny engineering sample run, had a set of testable software etc. Because even the people who are pros have to go back to the drawing board sometimes.

Anyway I do agree with you - I feel a bit of resentment about some of these big kickstarter deals, but I try to keep it to myself. Ones that are simpler or are really just using it as a pre-order tool don't bug me at all.
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Exactly. Images-for-text was never cutting-edge.
Actually there is at least one:
http://www.ohmstudio.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4eRu7iHR_I&feature=playe...
I'm kinda baffled by memcachier. Who is your target market? I would think everyone who uses memcache would be frightened by WAN latency to your service.
When you launch a flight contest, there are real people on the other end who are searching just for you, so we need to let you know when they've found a great flight. As for asking how you found out about us, we're just gathering information on what works best for customer acquisition.
This site originally became popular because it felt like the opposite of what you describe (ironic as it now seems).
They:

A. don't know their systems well enough to know how to make it ssl
B. don't know Glyph

WTF?
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Get on the darknet/CJDNS in under 10 minutes with zero technical background
You're not going to be adding a new video card to a Tegra 3 SOC.
I completely agree on the specs; a Tegra3-based platform has more than enough grunt to deliver a "game console" experience for the sort of indie and free-to-play games this platform will attract.

The only thing i'm concerned about is whether they can get even the hardware they've committed to in a $99 budget. Consider that this has the same hardware as the HTC one X, but without the screen, battery, and 3G connectivity. So they have to not only get the Tegra3 for $99, but also the case and power supply. Even if they manage to get those parts down to $99, they still have to add the controller, which will need it's own processor/controller to track and send the inputs over bluetooth to the console. Not to mention the cost of the controller hardware itself, particularly the touchpad.

The other thing that worries me is the Android base. Is the OS still going to lock code to using the Dalvik/Java-based API? If so then I have no hope of creating any games for the platform in my favourite language, Go. What about native-development, new experimental native game engines or languages? Hopefully they'll open the platform up a bit in this respect and allow some native development through a C API or something.

I definitely hope they pull through and deliver on this project, although I can imagine it not making it's way down to the southern hemisphere very quickly, if at all.
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good way to poach potential future full-times/interns from other companies :)
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Art fears business fears art
When I first started getting involved with [grass roots
politics], I didn't understand the concept of no leaders.
I thought I did; but I didn't. And I'd go up to the
nearest alpha male or alpha female and say, "Here's what
you should do - Why don't you do this - It'd be great if
you all did this - And when are you going to do this?"
And they'd give you this look, that I never understood,
which was kind of ...

I think, "Weird". And I'd go up to the next alpha, "When
are you going to do this - It'd be great if you did this
- Why haven't you done this yet - Why don't you do this
- It'd be wonderful if you did this?" And again, they'd
give me this look, like ...

And after a year, the penny dropped, and I finally
realised what that look meant, because they won't tell
you, because that would be hierarchical, right? What this
look meant was, "Yes, good Idea, why don't you do it
yourself? You print the leaflets, I'll distribute them;
you call a meeting, I'll attend; you organise an action,
we'll come along".

And from that moment, I realised that, my whole
philosophical outlook changed. And from then on, instead
of suggesting things other people could do, I stopped
suggesting things all-together, in-case they expected me
to do them..." - Robert Newman

[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159 and http://www.peakprosperity.com/forum/robert-newmans-history-o...]
Currently, the broader computing community is in consensus that we are in “the multicore era.” Consensus is often dangerous, however. Given the low performance returns assuming conservative (and to some degree ITRS) scaling, adding more cores will not provide sufficient benefit to justify continued process scaling. If multicore scaling ceases to be the primary driver of performance gains at 16nm (in 2014) the “multicore era” will have lasted a mere nine years, a short-lived attempt to defeat the inexorable consequences of Dennard scaling’s failure.

Clearly, architectures that move well past the Pareto-optimal frontier of energy/performance of today’s designs will be necessary. Given the time-frame of this problem and its scale, radical or even incremental ideas simply cannot be developed along typical academic research and industry product cycles. On the other hand, left to the multicore path, we may hit a “transistor utility economics” wall in as few as three to five years, at which point Moore’s Law may end, creating massive disruptions in our industry. Hitting a wall from one of these two directions appears inevitable.
So long as they don't look anything like dollars and you don't ever claim them to be legal tender. (Which has a different meaning in the UK.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar
Thanks Matt, it's definitely something we're discussing at the moment. Fares can disappear at anytime though.
Underpowered? I think not. Look at Nintendo DS: 67mhz Arm9. Who cares? Only developers because it's a pain in the butt to program for the thing. Other than that it delivers fun games and prints money(or so the meme says).

Quad core and an easy API seem like 1000x a better choice than a ps3 with 8 cores, a not so easy api, and a 10,000usd dev kit.

Yes, graphics won't compete with the next gen games, but there's more to a game than eye candy.
I comfortably ignore any comments about email and what it should be from anyone who hasn't used a text email client (well configured) like mutt, mh, elm, or an emacs mode for at least 100 hours.

I comfortably ignore anyone that says "email needs to be fixed" from clients to the underlying system - it's awesome and nothing about it needs to change. People just need to learn to use it better.

I run everything through gmail, but I use my own domain (via an external SMTP server), so if gmail goes down I can just route mail directly to another machine.

I use fetchmail to POP everything off from gmail and I read that in pine. It gets everything regardless of filters, except spam.

My android synchs with gmail (obviously) and using the gmail app I can send as my "real" email address (and this scales obviously so I can send as any of a number of addresses I need to). I make heavy use of filters so I only get relevant stuff on my phone.

My daily ritual is to sit down at pine and scan non-vital email (such as newsletters and mailing lists etc.) that I didn't get on my phone because I filter stuff so heavily, then for each email apply the "GTD" approach of doing anything that can be done immediately, or forwarding it to a Basecamp todo list (using mailmanagr.com) or a Highrise task (depending on whether it's sales related or actual work that I have to do).

This generally takes me less than 30 minutes and is a great triage exercise.

Instead of teaching kids how to code in schools, let's start by teaching them how to use email! We used to learn how to write letters, why aren't we doing advanced email training in schools?
> I doubt they'll pull this particular one

As I understand the process, applications on Kickstarter go through a screening period that can take weeks. You're right that this "project" is on the borderline of the site's intended use, but I think if they didn't judge it appropriate we'd never have even known it existed.
Walgreens New API: Big Retail meets Startup App
What's wrong with the lwn model of subscription? Don't subscribe and you get info a week old (lwn is a 'current affairs' site like PA is, hence time-dependent), subscribe a small amount and get your benefits.

https://lwn.net/subscribe/Info

The kickstarter thing for a year's business costs are basically an old-fashioned subscription drive - who wants to see brand-name websites doing this every year? Welcome to a new form of spam.
First of all, if I am the sole owner of a business, and I want to run it into the ground, that is my prerogative, and it is completely legal. Secondly, the 'maximize shareholder value' idea is a management principle, and it is not, and never has been, a legally binding requirement for corporations, public or not. Public corporations can be sued for purposefully or negligently destroying shareholder value, but not for failing to 'maximize shareholder value', which would be an absurd and difficult thing to argue in court anyways.
Verelo + PagerDuty: New integration is live
According to the Internet Archive, it hasn't been online since roughly 2009.
That slow multisort doesn't do multisort at all, generally. If it did, it would be relying on (1) the sort algorithm being stable and (2) the properties being in the reverse order from what you used in the second multisort algorithm.

Eg with properties a,b it sorts on a, then sorts the list again based on b. The list is now in b-order (not a-order) and b-equal blocks are only in a-order if the sort is stable. Meanwhile, the 'fast' algortithm is in a-order with b-ordered a-equal blocks.
This looks exactly like Smalltalk's cascading; just allows you to not repeat $message loads of times. To me it's a useful feature which I often would like when working with lots of Java libraries.
They are up right now.
He had 2 options:

1. Agree to the trial being delayed for 9 months so the US can return the evidence... which really should only take a couple days

2. Go forward with the trial without the evidence proving he's innocent.

I really wouldn't say they sold him out
Back when I read PA I remember them saying that they were careful about who they let advertise on their site. Seeing a game advertised there was almost a tacit endorsement of it, and I'm not really sure removing those ads is in the readers' interest.

Aside from Google searches when I actually wanted to buy things, Penny Arcade had the only ads I ever looked at with actual interest.

(There's also the fact that if anyone is seriously bothered by the ads they're probably already blocking them themselves. I think people donating here are doing it to "give back", not because they actually care about the advertising.)
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The programmableweb profile for the API is here: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/walgreens-quickprints.
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I have never encountered a scenario where I need to work on the same file, at the same time as somebody else.

That's what revision control is for. This looks like it was built by people who don't use a revision control system.
It's a lot harder to deal with in non-interactive environments. What I had to do was something like cd to the texmf directory and run the commands that it said were failing (primarily latex and xetex-related). It took me a while to figure it out.

Oh well, got it documented at least. I was mostly annoyed at the responses I got to requests for help. :-)

Just to be clear, we've had version-related issues with other thins in the past too, such as Perl arbitrary math libs changing behavior in ways that caused crashes, the way PostgreSQL changed stuff in 8.3 and 9.1 and a few others. This sort of thing is normal and we can all accept that things change and that if you are going to deal with supporting a range of versions, you are going to have to deal with the fact that behavior won't be the same.

It's more a criticism of the culture I encountered when I asked for help.

Anyway TexLive on the whole has made my life easier with the rare exception. I am a huge LaTeX and XeTeX fan. I have written books using it. And aside from the issues relating to upgrading, the culture around it is very helpful and professional. Thanks for listening to my gripes. On the whole the community rocks.
They're not going to be putting the play store on there for the same reason amazon doesn't put it on the fire - their model is to provide the payment/content ecosystem for the ol' 70/30 split.
You would be surprised how much you might come to regret that choice. Especially when you realize you've only slowed the cancer's growth rate and allowed it to metastasize throughout your body. If you are lucky you will die before you lose major cognitive functions. If you aren't you will slowly lose a grip on everything as you become dependant on others just to survive.

There are things much worse than death, especially for the ones you leave behind.
> As a US citizen, this case makes me sick to my stomach.

MU was the hub of piracy on the net. And from the figures posted, netted 400 million dollars from it.

It's not something that was going to be ignored, even with a legitimate upload service being offered, because the primary monetary driver for that company was tricking and/or getting people to sign-up when visiting a page to d/l pirated content.

All the US gov will have to show is a statistical sample of 10,000 random accounts, and correlate their signup to first entry ... a page hosting pirated content... More or less.

And when that comes back to show that 99% of paid-users d/l pirated content, it's over.

Anyone with access to the Apache or nginx access logs and the hosted files could do half of that in their sleep.

What I'm sick of is there are people who choose to ignore the facts, and idolize this man who's entire history for the last two decades revolves around criminal activities and lawsuits.

But hey, this is America and you're entitled to your opinion.

Perhaps you know of a better country...
http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-...
Could you tell us over what time period?
That's a good idea. Another use case occurred to me after I wrote my comment: to ignore keywords in comments. Sometimes that can be desirable.

I keep going back lately to Rob Pike's idea that breaking files into lines is not the best approach (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4111667). In that paper he proposes a regular expression for breaking up lines into structured content. But maybe there's another way. Like an ometa grammar? (http://tinlizzie.org/ometa)

Anyways, just a few random thoughts.
GWT had a PagingScrollTable - I used it 3-4 years ago. It has been a while since I built a GWT project, so I'm sure it has improved dramatically, but I was able to get lightning fast tables using PagingScrollTable. Here's a demo http://zenoconsulting.biz/com.example.Application/Applicatio... -- try 5,000 rows. It is pretty speedy.
Indeed they are. Thanks.
Google Chrome could not find laktek.com
My first thought upon clicking through was "Wow, a big crowd-sourced database of very cheap flights to random destinations. I think I know how I'm going to plan my next vacation!"

But then: "Sorry, only the contest owner can view flight details." And there's nothing more for me to see here and I go back to what I was doing. Very cool concept otherwise, though.
Relevant Paul Buchheit post, which always comes to mind whenever I see (or think) something really negative about anything ambitious: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-be-right-90-...
Agreed.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130152/the_ten_most_im...

The patents on video game controllers alone might be enough to kill them. Remember the Sony/Microsoft rumble debacle?
So i guess this means they are going to move out of computers and start making hamburgers or something?

Since, of course, there is a near 0% chance of them not being out-innovated by apple in every field in which they compete.
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Its public and customer facing so yes, it should.
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I'm going to have to second this as well. Memcached is one of the simplest services in the world to set up as well.

Maybe if you solve the problem of cache invalidation...
Really? Could you try again?

I don't see an issue in accessing the site.
Very interesting to read about each product and the lessons learned. Looking forward to the follow-up article.

I'm a bit concerned about how long the writer can continue, though. There isn't a single mention of sales or income, both in terms of actual results (which is fair enough) and hoped-for goals (more worrying). Is the aim to get by with funding and deal with revenue later? Sounds high risk to me.
yep, the DNS doesn't seem to have propagated out to me.

http://laktek.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ works though
Typo on the front page: "Javscript plugins"
Who've you got already? Is this meant to be a description of what you've already got or a recipe for where you expect to go?
The $1730 itinerary is for 6 months (Oct - Apr), but the other options are different - one as short as a month (but at least 48 hours in each continent).
Love it.

It would be great to add premium economy in there too. :-)
The only functionality that SMS provides and email doesn't (in most countries) is network notification, which can be easily fixed. It would be relatively easy to replace SMS with email without users noticing the difference.
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So I have a question (Because I'm genuinely curious and I'm not sure where to go to get this information.):

What successful projects received kickstarter funding above 100K? I've seen plenty of smaller successes, but I want to know if anyone who took one of these huge donation piles has delivered yet.
And in general, there is a reply that say what you think better than you could express yourself ;)
Regular expressions are the wrong tool for this job.

For Krugle, we actually parsed the various languages so it actually knew the differences between e.g. definitions, invocations, comments, strings, etc. It affords the capabilities to do all sorts of cool queries and analyses.
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On the webcomics front, the Keenspot Twokinds strip just recently did a successful drive for 8x the asking rate :

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twokinds/twokinds-book-p...

The artist is now quitting his job and doing the comic full time with the kickstarter money, and is making a book. There is a lot of potential in crowdfunding!
What I'm sick of is there are people who choose to ignore the facts, and idolize this man who's entire history for the last two decades revolves around criminal activities and lawsuits.

Providing paid access to pirated content is bad? Maybe hollywood should have taken that business model to heart.
Searching for security vulnerabilities is even more humorous. :-)

I had so much fun demo'ing that ability at a PHP conference one year.
I believe Google Docs keeps all the revisions, so if anyone cares a lot, they could go back and check.

But what I've found with Google Docs is that if someone is making a trivial change (like correcting a typo), they'll just go ahead and make the edit in the doc. If they're suggesting a substantial change, they'll add the suggestion as a comment and let the author decide whether to incorporate it.
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