skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also hold down the open button and a list of alternate applications that can be used to open the document drops down. Pretty handy.
I don't feel like having SWAT storm my house at 3am because some idiot posted a death threat using my wifi.
One I'd like to add from my travels across the US. 'Freedom' is not just freedom. Less so in the north-east, but in the south and southwest in particular, you can hear the capital F when people say it. It's a political entity that you can either love (with us) or hate (against us). You can't be pro-Freedom if you're not pro-American sort of stuff.

Elsewhere 'freedom' is definitely a desirable quality, but it's not a concept that has a life of its own and must be tended to like a pet. 'freedom' isn't something that will stir in your breast and make you fight harder. 'Freedom' seems to be a word that has been incorporated into the US religion of state, and seems to have a tangibly different meaning there.
A day in the life of a Code for America fellow
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/your-ideas
Free-Falling Groupon Has Its Problems, but Bankruptcy Talk Is Bunk
Do people want to print photos? Wasn't there an article a couple years ago about how Flickr was making less than $1k per year on people clicking the "Order prints" button?
Would I buy a car if I could never change the battery?
While it's disappointing that it's taken this long for the book to get finished, the publisher Manning has provided downloadable drafts throughout the whole process - a great feature. Thanks to that I've had access to the book (such as it's been) for pretty much the entire time, and that's what pushed me to buy it when I did.

Can't wait till my paper copy ships - guess I better make sure my address is accurate still :)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/world_gdp

Better go correct those guys at the Economist too.
As bad as that sounds, I don't think that HP is currently making much money off flash memory, so they still have an incentive to get the memristors to market soon. They just have chosen to make enough concessions to secure the cooperation of a DRAM manufacturer so that HP doesn't have to build the whole memristor business themselves. (The way HP's been managed in recent years, I wonder if they would be able to get and hold on to enough capital to mass produce memristors and bring them to market without help.)
You are incorrect - a music "track" consists of two separate copyright - one is the copyright in the sound recording (the audio that you hear), the other is the copyright in the underlying composition embodied in the sound recording (in other words the lyrics, the arrangement, the composition of the music).

There is no compulsory license for sound recordings in any territory for downloads or interactive streaming. You have to explicit permission from the copyright owner to make the recording available for download or interactive streaming, i.e. you can choose when to listen to it.

There is a compulsory license in most territories for the composition side, under certain specific conditions, in which an entity like Grooveshark would obtain a mechanical license for the composition from the copyright holder of the composition (usually music publishers) in advance of its public availability, and then account and pay royalties for its use. This requires Grooveshark to know the songwriters, publishers, and splits of each work, which is not something that comes from the user uploads. It may be the case that their terms of use pass this responsibility to the uploader.

In short, however, you need sets of permission (sound recording and composition) to legally distribute music for download or interactive streaming.
Want To Glimpse An iPad Mini? See An Archos 80 G9 Tablet.
If it said "Human striving to be a good person, husband, father, software developer. In that order." would that make any difference to you? Because that's what all the moderate christians I know see their faith as meaning first of all.
I'm a bit confused as to why this exists? What is wrong with existing test frameworks?
Humanity is calling. Will you answer?
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A neat trick these days is to make spectrometer with a diffraction grating made by removing the backing foil of a CD-R so only the transparent plastic remains (I did it a few years ago so it may have been one of the other CD types. Basically if it looks rainbowy afterwords you should be good to go ;)).
I'm more surprised at how surprised so many people seem to be at this. This isn't a college student building a music-sharing app here. This is a huge corporation preparing to deliver disruptive technology. Naturally they're doing enormous amounts of market research.
Ask HN: Custom Videos?
If anyone knows of a company who makes short promo videos for websites, send them my way. I'm looking for (but not limited to) a video like this http://thumb.it/
But how do you stop artists from signing up and then labeling others' songs as their own?

I really don't see how the 70 cents are ever going to help an artist.
Note: I've recently accepted a full time position. As such, I will not be available for consulting work.
I thought a Dropbox to (Walgreens/Sam's/Walmart/Target/etc.) app would have popped up by now. Right click on a pic, select send to your store, pick up an hour later. Maybe not.
While odd for what has historically been a PHP shop, .aspx shouldn't be too surprising: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21458486/
Well It sounds like you have already made up your mind. I still think you should finish your degree now while you are on a roll.

We saw these kinds of quick boot camp style schools during the last dotcom bubble and a lot of people got taken advantage of and wasted a lot fo time and money. (Not saying that's exactly what this is - App Academy seems to have some good people teaching)

Do you have a bunch of years of programming experience already? If not 10k and 9 weeks is not going to make your an iOS programmer and it sure as shit is not help you write simulation software of thorium reactors.

App Academy guys: I work down the street from you. I'll buy you all lunch and you can try change my mind if you want. Contact in profile.
I'm not sure if I'd want anyone touching my servers who thought that fabric had a 'steep learning curve'. That just sounds irresponsible.
So you do agree that browser sniffing is a short-sighted method to test for browser capabities and that clj has been preaching on it since 07?

I'm not judging or anything, but sticking around on clj and trying to argument could have been very beneficial for both jQuery anc clj itself. There are ways of ignoring people in usenet, you know.

Also, Juriy, whom you cite in the book's preface, was a regular there long before his website really took off. That means you didn't dislike every member ;)
Amazon is playing chess while the brick and mortar stores are playing checkers.
More technology driven hyper-deflation on the way.

The future: high inflation in food, energy, fuel, and consumables, hyper-deflation in everything else except to the extent that it depends on or consumes the former.
It's cute, but a lot more is doable at that level. Make a Van de Graaff generator, big enough to spew at least half a million volts, or perhaps a tandem generator for a full megavolt goodness. Now connect that puppy to a vacuum chamber. That's a lot more serious stuff than a measly 45 kV thing.

Also, people have built cyclotrons at home. Just sayin'.
So, tell me - what would this tool offer over, say, RunDeck or mcollective? Why only use SSH keys? (What if I'm using LDAP across all of my machines?)

I'm not trying to knock your product - I really do hope you get Kickstarter funding! But I just wanted to say that, to me, as a systems engineer, I only see a pretty interface, but not much value add over the other two products mentioned above

I also feel that comparing Commando.io to Puppet, Chef, or even Capistrano is disingenuous - Puppet and Chef are configuration management systems that are meant to keep your systems 'in policy', and Capistrano is meant for repeated tasks over SSH (mainly for deploying software, but it can be used for other things too.)
Ideas about d3.js (and backbone)
Why not fabric? In what universe does fabric have a deep-learning curve?

Good lord.
Well, a CRT is a particle accelerator. It just isn't a very good one. I'd be more impressed if he built a cyclotron.
tl;dr: In 2011, Netflix raised prices for their combined dvd + streaming service, then shortly thereafter decided to split dvd off as a company named qwikster. Subscribers didn't like the price hike or the inconvenience of split companies and separate movie lists, etc. The change was walked back, but netflix lost roughly 800k subscribers (of 23.6mm in the us in april '11 [1]) or 3% and 77% of their stock price. The reporter claims this mostly happened because four key executives who had been at netflix basically from the beginning and whom the ceo Reed trusted and listened to had left the company and there was nobody left that he trusted enough to seriously consider their opinions.

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I think the reporting is interesting. I'd just assumed this whole thing was basically blunt negotiations between the studios and netflix over streaming rights, and that the studios had wanted to get paid per subscriber, whether that subscriber wanted dvds or streaming or both. Netflix can basically buy dvds and do whatever they want because of the doctrine of first sale, but if the studios don't license content they can't do a damn thing.

What's also interesting is I've heard a lot of grumping about netflix from an employees' perspectives. People seem to get randomly fired. This jibes with what happened with qwikster. Reed had already started staffing qwikster up so employees that agreed to switch or had been hired basically got dicked. This lost them one of the key executives that had built dvd fulfillment and customer service.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix
dev-ops for me also includes provisioning - and based on " ... you can use shell, perl, ruby, node.js ..." I don't see a strict system for that in place.
Stalker-esq. FB is on a roll of strange product decisions and 1 star apps. Oy.
Why The Humanities Are Important
Just after 10PM? Wikipedia gives the landing time as approximately 05:31 UTC August 6th, which is 1:31 AM EDT.

I'd like to be wrong, since I'd like to stay up and watch, but I have work in the morning :(

Also, I expect there will be quite some delay between actual landing and confirmation received by NASA, given Mars' distance from Earth.
Wow, that is awesome! Sorry to be a noob, and thanks for the info!
Can you turn that off? Many people use password managers.
I wonder if OP is going to go to that place. I'm sure there will be a lot of other Redditors there
Founder of NodeSocket, creator of Commando.io here. The steep learning curve was geared at Chef and Puppet, but wanted to list some other popular options.
Massive amount of edits on your end, not sure what i'm replying to. Glad the middlefinger was removed, i'm afraid i won't be availble for a SVN vs. Git war.

We have our reasons to use SVN for the time being, externals being one of them (git modules don't work for our setup), tooling support being another one. We are eager to give people commit rights, provided they follow a small set of rules.

This does not necessarily help you with your dev process of having lots of local changes that you throw away. But that's something git-svn should be able to solve.

Ping me via e-mail at contact at badlogicgames dot com.
Stalking - excellent!
The left down corner letters are hebrew...
Beit, yud, pe (or fe), yud, dalet.
Bipid or Bifid.

Edit: removed extra yud on the end.
I think it really depends on the user experience. Once you have that dialed in it changes everything.
I think this works in the chat but don't see the use of it in a group. I thought I wouldn't like it when it was announced for the chat but now it's nice to see a "seen" message. This kind of thing is a pressure to engage faster since you know when the other person has read something you sent to them in a one-on-one conversation. Then again, as others have mentioned, how can FB know if I've seen something or not. Surely, we'll have eyeball-following cameras in everything soon.
When I grow up, I want to be as hard core as this guy. /sarcasm
Los Angeles Startup: 80sBrickphone Bringing Back Iconic 80's Motorola Dynatac
Are there any mail clients that handle CCed mail quite differently to direct mail in the inbox?

BCC to me, in most contexts, is "You can eavesdrop on this if you want." CC is sometimes "Just showing you that I am on top of this" and sometimes "I'm mostly dealing with Rollo, but there could be a question/task for you in here too."

In inbox terms, something very roughly like this: if I'm CCed on a message from employee Bob to client Rollo, it could say "Bob emailed Rollo about 'The contact form bug' and included you." And maybe alert me if my name/alias/nickname (hard to catch them all) is mentioned in the body.

If BCCed, maybe "Bob emailed Rollo about 'The contact form bug'; you can read it if you want."

In each case, neither should really be given the importance of an email sent directly to you.
Anonymous is nothing more than a group of adults with stunted social skills. They don't get what they want, so they resort to digital strong-arm tactics and claim it's in the name of justice.

I really wish HN and other news organizations would stop giving them press they don't deserve.
Ouch. No volume controls.
Update: It's been solved, but if your interested in trying to figure it out just don't scroll down into the comments
Rovio's new franchise
I remember comversions from back a while ago, and I liked it. LeadRiver is not in my space - so no comment.

With that said... what skills do you have/offer? Do you do iOS? Server/back-end anything? Or just web front-end...

What if my MVP (and I have money to back it) is iOS client with a server component? Can you do this?
(Creator of Commando.io here) Commando.io is extremely early, and while no such provisioning features are built yet, they are certainly in the pipeline. The beta users will dictate features and direction.
You are wrong. America is a democratic-aristocratic-oligarchic republic whose history has consistently pressed for greater democratic equality.

Republics can be almost anything in the world because the classification is based on a single important qualification: the head of state is not a monarch. There is no one true definition of republic.

The American founders created a hybrid democratic-aristocratic-oligarchic republic based quite firmly in Montesquieu's classifications, in that it created what was overwhelmingly an aristocratic-oligarchic republic, built around three administrative federal branches, and incorporated limited democracy for landed persons.

For 223 years, Americans has been hammering out more of the democracy and less of the aristocracy/oligarchy since it was codified in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. This in no way changes, nor will it ever change, the classification of America's form of government being a republican one.

You do yourself and everyone else a disservice by exclaiming the US is a republic and not a democracy when

a) the two are not mutually exclusive and the distinction you think exists does not,
2) nobody argues we are a pure democracy--and even if we were, you'd still be hard-pressed to not call such a thing a republic in the modern (and possibly classical) sense, and
d) both classical and modern definitions of democracy and republic share intertwined concepts and throwbacks, while still being disputed by some scholars as to whether they even form a historical continuum at all.

Statements like this are fodder for bumper stickers, not thoughtful discussions.
This is a feature for groups, not for pages (the way companies generally interact with people who use Facebook). Groups are generally created by people for groups of people that already meet/know each other in person or to discuss a shared interest, not by companies (unless they're company-internal groups, I suppose).

They are for things like for a bowling team in a league or a user group or other ad-hoc group of people who want to communicate with each other - co-ordinate dates and times, send out last-minute updates. The hope, as I understand it, is that it will reduce confusion/anxiety/overcommunication over who hasn't yet read something ("Did Mike read the update that mentioned he is supposed to bring the projector? Should I send him a direct message/phone him?").

Pages already have Insights which gives them aggregate-only demographic data about the audience who has interacted with a particular post ("52/48% female/male, 80% US, ...").

(A Facebook engineer, but not involved in this feature.)
This is a result of Aviary's API - http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/10/app-developers-can-now-prin...
Aye, sorry that your EDT, in PDT its 10:31 PM, and the 'fun' starts just after 10 (as in I believe the last big retro burn is around 10 and the final descent begins) now the telemetry from that maneuver will let us know if there is a chance it will make it (did you say 3000 "feet" per second or "meters" per second?)
According to wikipedia, the concepts behind modern bicameralism hearken back to the middle ages, where one house was based on commoners (essentially population), and the other house on the aristocracy (essentially state)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism

The independence of the US and its political system was a great moment in history, but it didn't happen in a vacuum. It improved on earlier systems, but also left much to be desired in itself. One clear example is that later democracies allowed plausible multiparty systems, so you're not left with a mere binary choice.
Ask HN: An editor that let's me write without distraction
I am a writer and I am often too distracted by things like formatting my text, pagination or things that have nothing to do with my writing like gmail notifications on my chrome. I am wondering if the HN community knows about a text editor that let's me write without much distraction. Something that has a spellchecker and a nice font and not much else. If it can shut off my internet while I am writing that would be a plus :) I used to use emacs but its font it too ugly.
Signup didn't work for me either. It kind of makes me nervous to consider them when their own site doesn't work. :-)
It doesn't matter because magnetic platters and silicon chips have totally different manufacturing cost per area.
http://sandwichvideo.com/
World Wrestling Entertainment Turns "Very Opportunistic" About Startups
I bought 2 things on Amazon this week, both with free 2 day shipping with Prime

Item 1 spent 13 hours on a UPS truck driving around my city and was delivered about 7pm in the evening 2 days after ordering.

Item 2 was delivered 14 hours after purchasing by Amazon Fresh at 9am.

For the same price of shipping, which service would you rather have?

EDIT To Add: The delivery guy for the 14 hour item works for Amazon - the whole experience was produced by Amazon without needing a third party. UPS is another company that will be in trouble if Amazon can make this scale.
If you are talking about computing devices, I don't know if your number of 95% is really true.

I don't really care if my oven is hackable or not, but I do care about my computer/tablet/smartphone/other computing device. I am not really a fan of Windows, but it's certainly NOT a deeply locked system: you can develop your own programs and install whatever you like, and even modify the registry. Android is "relatively" open. You can still develop software for it on your own, without any expenses as long as you have the SDK on your computer. True, you can't tweak the system as much as you'd like, and the manufacturers do put some additional locks on the device (preventing root access, for example).

All of this is impossible on any Apple device, out of the box. You just can't produce software. It's just as disposable as your oven/washing machine.

That's definitely not the kind of computing device that I want, no matter how shiny the interface looks like.
What about the comment history feature makes you uncomfortable?
>I'm fortunate enough to work for a company that has a fabulous suite of cafeterias that host a huge variety of foods, but in the startup world, free food just felt like the NYC power lunches of the 80's

Am I the only one who find your comment ironical?
And there is no way to skip over the marketing pitch at the beginning. A tutorial should be friendly and impart useful guidance, not be a marketing tool.
"Our votes are basically ineffectual anyway."

That sentiment was quite prominent in 2000 during the Bush / Gore election. A lot of people voted for Nader hoping to legitimize a third party on the ballot. The common thinking was Gore and Bush were no different.

Given how world events unfolded, that view (in hindsight) was probably a pretty dumb one.
Programming in Paradise
It's amazing how much marketing can make a difference. When the Smart Cover released, it was like no one had ever heard of a BlackBerry.
Jiggy, it's very clear from your posts on this thread that you are clueless about both game and android development. You jump from flawed argument to a different flawed argument after the first flaw is pointed out. You seem to be more worried about criticizing the ouya out of criticizing's sake, instead of being worried about the merit of your arguments. Why are you doing this? What is your motivation to continue with this?

I've already answered your argument in the very post you're replying to. I wonder if you're even bothering reading. Some games already support d-pad, others don't. For the ones that do, it will be trivial, the ones that don't, won't bother porting.
Judge Says Aereo, a TV Streaming Service, May Continue
something like this?

http://www.iawriter.com/
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That struck me as odd, like the author has not really traveled extensively. I spent some time in Sweden recently and was surprised by the the lack of warmth even by the customer service workers.

I've been to several countries that do not "express gratitude and affection" and don't see it as an exclusive US trait. It seems like his only travel experience is with west/southern europe and south america.
Aereo Wins in Preliminary Injunction
On the whole I'd say Boulder, Colorado is the healthiest place I've ever lived. SF isn't bad.

"On the whole, I didn't see these problems in cities world-famous for their educated, vibrant population"?
Amazon is playing a complicated but more rewarding game with millions of moves and therefore ample opportunities to innovate, while old fashioned brick and mortar stores are stuck in a simple game with little to no room for more innovation.