skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure as far as the law is concerned, they can go screw themselves silly. Linking to them, even with the most insidious and nasty terms, is 100% fair use and legal. If it weren't, you can bet things like the Santorum google bomb would have been stopped in court years ago.
You can download chrome. Not everyone knows how to do this, or even that it is possible.
> You can link with text as much as you want.

That turns out not to be the case. Quoting from the linked article, which in turn is quoting from the terms of use:

> ... no such link shall portray us or any other
> official London 2012 organisations ... in a ...
> derogatory ... manner.

Feel free to actually check your facts, and double check that my quote is faithful to the original meaning.
Are there any implementations of this available?
The problem with these: Every half a year we hear about new revolutionary image transformation.
Today it's super-resolution, last year it was low-res PC games graphics interpolation, year before that - filter that could resize images by one direction (e.g. width) while preserving proportions and throwing away less interesting parts. The image will become 2x narrower and you'll hardly notice.

Sadly, this is usually first and last time we see the technology in question. They do not seem to produce any impact that could increase our quality of life. They just sit on some dusty shelves somewhere.
Because "community" is a bit of a misnomer here. We are talking career development, not book clubs. I can afford being excluded from a book club but I need to make money. As such, I can't afford to be excluded from career-making-or-breaking networking groups, conferences etc.
What are the main differences between you and your methods and FiveThirtyEight?
Nobody mentions wikipedia? I think this is one best sites for understanding historical things (amongst others of course).
By my count, it's very sparse - only 0.003% occupied. I suppose the initial size declaration could make it dense, but then it would use a considerable amount of (virtual?) memory. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Safari to test that.
Not really -- most datacenters or upstream providers aren't really engaged or interested in the data your application uses (outside of illegal activities.)

Carriers are definitely concerned with the bits being passed around.
I use Google News a lot. I have set up several topic-specific sections on topics I wish to follow closely, and have closed some of the default Google News sections (e.g., entertainment and sports) to devote more time to more serious news. Google News is also useful for switching over to concentrated views of newspapers from particular parts of the world, e.g., India or Pakistan, or Africa.

I cultivate my Facebook circle of friends into mutual teams of news-gatherers. People friend me specifically to follow the links I post that they've heard about from other friends, and I follow most closely friends who scan news sources for new reliable links. I share out links I discover here on Hacker News, and share into Hacker News some of the best links I learn about from my friends.
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I think this is brilliant. There may be concerns about speed, but I think that for now the convenience and features should overcome that.
At this point it'd be too early to know if "Amazon" phone would have less cachet than "Android" phone, to most phone users.
Since kindle has a pretty good brand they could call it the Kindle phone. Altho that would take with it some unwarranted/disconnected association. (long battery life/monochrome)
Hmm. Dunno if it was syncing, or what, but it just sat there consuming CPU (170% across both cores) for a while. Finally killed it.
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No. You are criticizing a company's products under the assumption that everyone has the same needs as you. Weight, form factor, battery life and reliability are all more important to me than serviceability. I'm not alone in feeling this way.

If you value the ability to service a product more than the qualities I mentioned, you should choose to buy from a company other than Apple.

> We are criticizing the way the company does business.

I love the way Apple does business. They focuses on creating products that almost perfectly fit my needs.
Hi, Dalton here. Please let me know if you have any questions for me about this.

I wrote a blogpost about my thinking behind this here: http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal
Remember how Kindle Fire was going to totally disrupt Google and Apple as well?!
Some of these images are in uncanny-valley territory for me. The bicubic images just look resized to me, but super-resolution images look real but "wrong". Given how much more "real" they still look than many computer graphics (especially realtime), I guess we won't leave uncanny valley behind us anytime soon.
This is fantastic and solves a huge pain point. Google docs is a crutch for most people, but the interface and accessing it is generally terrible. The onboarding was simple. This is a good start, I'm looking forward to what you guys do next. As for feature requests, I'd like to see collapsible sidebars, the real estate on the editing is a bit small. Good luck guys!
You are right. But just answer honestly one question - is this data that sales people provide for their reports really 100% honest??
If you had CRM on top of the communication tool - or even better - CRM reports like pipeline would be in real-time generated based on real life customer interactions - that would be much more valuable right?

That is exactly what we do with Discourse ( https://discoursehq.com ) - there are couple of usecases where this makes a lot of sense:

- real-estate brokers can track pipeline based on real life customer interactions
- car sales
- financial services sales
- telco services sales

We have integrated Discourse with Facebook fan pages so leads generated on fan pages can be immediately converted into prospects - right there on the spot.

We have a growing number of customers and we are looking for more :)
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The more I read about the London 2012 olympics, the more I never want to set foot in the UK. Which is a real shame because I've always wanted to visit, but it just feels like they're trampling all over basic freedoms to an extent that, to me as an American, is just utterly shocking.
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Thanks for answering the question in the headline! Now I don't need to read the article.
I sure do miss USENET. Best model ever.
From the article:

"For more than a year now, New York City has been enforcing a new state law that makes it illegal for homeowners like Hogan to rent out their house or apartment for less than a month. All across the city, police raids have shut down hundreds of similar informal bed-and-breakfast establishments, with nearly 1,900 different violations issued in under twelve months. Often, the fees associated with the citations stretch into tens of thousands of dollars. Hogan was threatened with a $25,000 fine—all for marketing the empty rooms in his house.

. . . .

"The crackdown in New York is similar to ones happening in several major European cities. Paris, for instance, passed a law in 2005 banning the rental of any residential property for less than a year, and began enforcing that law in 2010. London is now engaging in a wave of enforcement in the run-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics."

This is the first journalistic report I have seen of such widespread, persistent enforcement actions. Is this the general experience of HN participants (and, especially, Airbnb participants) in your part of the world? What is your rating of the risk of being cited for a local law violation if you list your place as a short-term rental online?
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Personally, I don't mind his style. It's entertaining, but he has a tendency to draw some ridiculous conclusions by drawing a few lines between here and there. I prefer his New Yorker articles over his books, though, which tend to merely repeat his thesis over and over.
Which (western) countries would make such a link statement effective? I am pretty sure that here in Germany no sensible court would rule in favor of such a "don't link" rule.
I know that this isn't really related to the application, but anyway...
Please, don't let the browser scale the images for you. I don't like opening a site, and seeing something like this (http://sadpanda.us/images/1078451-DUYING8.png).

Beside that, this client seems something really awesome, especially the ability to easily edit docs from different accounts.
Well, I have a scale at home that does Body Fat %, and it is reasonably accurate. (It is consistent day to day, compared to a doctor's office one its off by maybe 1%).

I believe it was $50. There are several on Amazon for that price and lower. If a regular scale is $20, and one that measures body fat is $40, then I don't think it's a big deal. I personally watch the body fat % now rather than weight.
"That's the price for..." implies that this is constant across alternatives, but it's not. One alternative is a hierarchy with subtrees feeding into nodes higher up, so that /r/programming/ruby posts would appear in /r/programming. This has its own set of problems where the price to be paid is not the same as for reddit's completely flat model. I'm not saying this hierarchical model would be better, but it would have different pros and cons.

Call me an optimist, but I can't help but think that there's something better than what's out there now.
He tends to be more of a stream of consciousness writer than an ideas man.

My recollection of reading him is he doesn't build an argument from premise to conclusion, but implies an argument by stringing together perhaps unrelated anecdotes and studies.
This is awesome. Are there any plans to port this to other platforms?
This brings back the doubts I always had about ToS's. How do you even know what is enforceable and by what laws. I can be in country A using a website by a company with headquarters in country B, making a request to a bunch of servers in countries C & D. What about putting silly things on ToS's like "you need to drop your pants while using the service" and similar?

What about content on other websites? Do I need to comply to Facebook's terms if a website has an iframe with a like button?
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Great! All I felt was lacking were some options on how to sort the documents in the sidebar.
Not when a mere accusation has serious repercussions.
Yup did that this year. But I decided to stay at my current position.
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Left-of-centre implies someone moderate like Obama. Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald are much more to the left than "left-of-centre"
Elon have also made a few Dr.Evil references. =) http://i.imgur.com/MgdDr.jpg
A desktop client for a web app that replaced a desktop client. Amazing!
I don't think HN deserves this reputation. Most discussions are shallow, some people don't even bother reading the story. Meta discussions are frequently the most upvoted and stories that takes more than a couple of minutes to appreciate are often left to die.

Partly it's because of the format and the platform. Instead of seeking out the information yourself, you're feed bits of it before moving on to the next bit. It works great for news, commentary, as entertainment or a starting guide to startups. But less so for actually acquiring and/or exchanging information.
I'm not too sure, since I can't find the exact model used by FiveThirtyEight. If any of you can point me to a post of theirs where they describe their model in detail, that would be great.

From the few things I have found out, some differences are that (1) they take into account correlations between states, which I don't as of now, but plan on adding and (2) they use Monte Carlo simulations whereas I have a closed-form expression for calculating the probability.

Beyond the above two differences, I'm not sure what model they use to convert the poll results into final probability estimates.

FYI, in case you haven't seen it yet, my methodology is described at http://prespredict.com/methodology.html
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This one's interesting:

"I'll just write everything this way from now on."
- pg as Paul Graham 3 months ago

http://www.braintripping.com/trips/4f90ad9fb3b88b0300000f3a
I love it. I have three different Google accounts I use for docs and being able to not have to open up a new tab just to see the other docs is worth the download. The only thing I'd want is a little bit less agnosticism about which docs belong to which accounts.
The headline is kind of silly. Logins are far from dead, even on mobile. In fact, I find that I'm logging in more than ever on mobile (mostly thanks to updating iOS apps). But I think I understand where the author is coming from.
It is so nice that Agency for Cultural Affairs tries to explain the law to public as if they tried it to make sense at least for themselves. "You can do this, but you can't do that".

Russia here, and I can't imagine "authorities" explaining laws like this. They can't be bothered. They don't care already. They did when they signed it (did they?), but now they don't. You'll never hear any clarifications unless from court testing.

The reason for bad laws is same, but the accompanying reactions are very different.
> Seriously. Grow up.

If you want to influence someone, use an argument; don't rely on minimization or logical fallacies. That isn't the kind of atmosphere we want around here.
Upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean released
Just got prompted to upgrade my Galaxy Nexus to 4.1 and it's in process.

#1, I hope this works well on Friday the 13th. Nice sense of humor by somebody at Google.

#2, I got a Nexus because it was exhausting trying to keep up with upgrading my phone to the latest version of CyanogenMod or other unofficial releases. Really glad that this version is rolling out so fast after source was released.
Android Renderscript clarifications and thoughts
Why Subversion sucked and Prison Architect won't
Just a comment to the authors, my I suggest that the example magnified photos default to displaying your SR algorithm instead of NN interpolation.
Fixing Common Samsung Galaxy S3 Problems.
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The author of this article seems to have no understanding whatsoever of what Digg before their distastrous v4 launch in 2010 and Reddit, now are. Reddit and Digg are hiveminds where you go to find out what's up on the internet at large. This is not where you go to find out what your friends are doing (Facebook) or what the blogs and personalities you already know about are doing (Twitter.)

Think about it as concentric circles. Facebook is the tightest circle—people you largely actually know, or interact with on a personal level. Twitter is one more out—people you're aware of, and whom you like, some of them you know, some you don't. If those networks are like the orbits of Earth and Mars, Digg of old, and Reddit are like the orbit of Pluto.

Facebook and Twitter did not kill Digg. Ask anyone who used to frequent the site. Where to find this person? Why, on Reddit of course. If Digg had had their botched v4 launch before Reddit was a legitimate competitor, they might have had enough time to clean up the mess and get the site back on track. But instead, they launched a product that betrayed their community, who readily moved over to Reddit, who largely welcomed them with open arms.
Right click in the list of documents and you'll see the option to sort by title, date created and date last modified. Let me know if this is helpful.
tldr; Amazon will give away a free phone because.... Wait. The author never says how this will work, why it will work, et cetera.

"I’m not sure if even Amazon can afford to play the free card...". So he's introducing an idea the author himself is 100% unsure of, with only a vague throw-away reference to anything remotely resembling an idea of how to make a profit off of this device.... For what reason? Because "it's a classic Bezos play". Okay. Whatever. Sorry for being flippant but almost every single "point" brought up makes zero sense. I think this article is just mental masturbation about the concept of a "free" phone.
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Well, if the Japanese copyright law doesn't make sense they'll fit right in with almost every other country.
This is an awesome idea, but the implementation of it I think could lead to scammers.

I'm very reluctant to pull my debit/credit card out for someone claiming to be collecting money for something. Since it's going to be a widely accepted practice it seems anyone with a square reader, phone, clipboard, and a nice suit could go "collect money" for a fundraiser.

Like I said, great idea... just worries me.
Couldn't get past clicking next.
Weird to see the cost excuse in there, since the cost of judging 100 teams on 100 maps for 3 minutes each on 1Ghz 1GB-RAm machines is 30,000 minutes = 500hrs < $50 on EC2 small machines
Apple wasn't a startup in 1998 either.
This is a great example of a Minimum Viable Product. It has just enough features to be useful (multiple accounts, search, editing) and no more. From the website, they have plans to iterate quickly, with the help of what I'm sure will be a lot of feedback from the initial release. This kind of discipline in feature selection is admirable, and something we should all strive for in app development.

My only critique is that in the new user dialog, the app showed a screenshot of adding an account _before_ the screen where you could actually add an account. I found this a little confusing (why can't I click to add my account now?). I wouldn't mind seeing that screenshot after adding my first account to let me know how to add another.
That reminds me of something I've always wondered. Suppose a patent has claims 1 thru 5. Does an invention have to copy all of them, or only one of them, in order to fall in the scope of the patent? What if you come along with a product that does, say, 1, 2, and 3, but not 4 or 5? Have you infringed the patent? Basically I'm asking whether the implied boolean operator combining the claims is AND or OR.

I expect you'll say what lawyers always say, which is "it depends", but it's my question and I'm sticking with it :)
> It reminds of this other company that mailed out CDs

Canonical?
These laws seems to curb an efficient market process, which I don't like if true.

Also I think the government loses out on special taxes from Hotel business, but maybe those taxes could also be collected from these B&B type operations? Hotels have no business using the law to fight a competitive threat, in my opinion anyway. Does not seem to make sense to me.
>Should Torvalds just shut out everyone under 40 in the name of efficiency?

Of course not, that would be putting the cart before the horse. He should recruit those who work together most efficiently - but if it turns out the most efficient team is demographicly homogeneous (and I suspect that the core linux team is) - then why not? Are you going to argue that he should form a less efficient team in the name of diversity?

>Splitting your time between coding and test coverage is an extremely poor analogy to inclusivity in software. For one, your time is a resource, software is output. If you split 8 (wo)man hours into 8 hours testing and 0 hours coding, your output goes down; if you add 8 (wo)man hours to a software project, your output goes up. Even more importantly, coding and testing are not people, they don't have feelings, children to feed, etc. The comparison simply doesn't apply.

You've misunderstood; my point is not that by focussing on testing you take away from coding. My point is that, while a low test coverage number indicates a problem, if you just focus on the coverage number you can end up doing more harm to the problem you were trying to fix.

The post I replied to was saying "look, if only 4% of OSS developers are female then clearly that indicates some problem." My point is that if we focus too much on the number, then we're only going to treat the symptom. Let's fix the problems, but let's not put too much attention on one shallow number.
Google still gets the VAST majority of their revenue from search. And they haven't done a whole lot of innovating in the search space since their initial success and are very busy trying to become dominate in every area, including social. They're probably the most premier example of a company having delusions of grandeur.
We all do it sometimes, and it's no big deal. I just couldn't pass up the smile.
Wolfram has never come across as egotistical to me.

Every single time I read the comments in a post about Wolfram, there is always some nitpicking going on, on words and phrases that don't mean anything special, being blow out of proportion.

I don't know where all this resentment is coming from for this man, but I guess some people just see what they believe, as opposed to believing what they see... Or I've just missed something completely.
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The startup opportunity here is to streamline the process of registering a legal and proper B&B.

AirBnB should be doing this already to clear the cloud around their business, but doing so would be an admission that their current practices are abetting illegal activity.
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He should use this exact phrase on the website. Sarcastic marketing FTW.
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You're American, aren't you?

Hint: "fair use" isn't a valid construct under British copyright law; we have a more restrictive "fair dealing" right. Nor does your First Amendment carry any weight in British law. There's a somewhat weaker right to free speech in the Human Rights Act, but it's somewhat hedged around; meanwhile the whole Olympics mess was enabled by an Act of Parliament that pretty much blows a hole through our (I'm British) civil rights in the name of holding this corruption-fest at our public expense. It's quite possible that LOCOG can make this nonsense stick, in court, thanks to the perversion of our legal framework that they pushed for and two successive governments connived at.

(I am not a fan of the Olympics 2012 arrangements ...)
Agreed. And AirBnB would be wise to get involved politically on that front. There are the armchair ideals of unregulated markets, and then there is the reality of politically connected interests pushing legislation.
That's hardly the case.

The low-res texture stuff is widely used in emulators (both mobile and on PCs) - after all, that's exactly where it was meant to be used.

The seam carving (the "least interesting line removal" thing) is now a major feature of Photoshop (called content-aware scale) and has become really well integrated (I hear there are attempts to do in video as well).

The fact that you don't see this tech in your line of work doesn't mean it's not out there.
Russian government passes anti-protest law