skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe there would be a legal basis for taking down a site cataloging metadata about files

Laws can be changed. The copyright cartels have the money and political connections to change the law in their favour. We have seen them do it before and they're going to do it again.

Torrent sites (like The Pirate Bay) are essentially just that (sites cataloguing metadata about files). They have not be immune to legal troubles, and they are certainly not "beneficial to copyright holders".

You're essentially describing current torrent sites. We have them, they are very valuable and useful. They work well enough. However they can (and are) shutdown. We need better.
Chemotherapy can backfire, make cancer worse by triggering tumor growth
Maybe something like what emacs does when using a full command? It helpfully informs you of the shortcut for it, if one is available.
I'm not backing it because there isn't a real need for it. It would be nice to use a twitter like service ad-free as a customer and not as a product but whenever you charge for a service like this attracting people to it is very difficult. A lot of people I know love and user twitter. None of them would pay for this. So, why would I pay for this if none of the people I care about are using it?

To me it seems like Twitter pissed this guy off so he decided to try and build a competitor. It's a nice idea (and something us geeks can get behind) but if he did any market research I bet he would have discovered very quickly it's a lost cause. The vast majority of people aren't going to pay for a product they can get for free and people are the most important aspect of a social network. Without people it's doomed to failure.
Market Saturation – How Much Is Too Much?
The future of email is Not Twitter
Virtual assistant. Cheap off-shore outsourcing via the internet, a staple of lean startup.
I was thinking maybe one inside you would react to outside metal like say keys or a belt or a metal chair/desk
I agree. You need to look at that net time saved, not the gross.

In addition, if you're at a terminal on a new server, or someone else's station, all those aliases will be gone.

For me, that means any special aliases or scripts had better be awesome enough to convince someone else to use them... Or infrequent enough that I can't be bothered to remember the whole command. Or just so useful that it's worth overriding the above.

Shortening a 3-letter command into a 1-letter command is not going to fit into the above. Especially when I will have typed 'git' before I remember that I can just type 'g' instead, since I touch-type without looking. It just flows out.
The problem is, that if more and more people use these "consumption" devices, the choices becomes increasingly closed and restricted for the producers.
Isn't the friction dependent upon the normal force which on Mars would be less. Therefore, shouldn't the force required to overcome that also be less?
Seconded, especially if you're open to relocating to Denver. I know for a fact that we could use a data person where I work.
"Software is a service industry under the persistent delusion that it is a manufacturing industry."
The 140 character limit is important though. It's necessary for the service to work over SMS which is hugely important to users in many developing countries. It's also been the key to twitters success in various uprisings in the middle east when internet access was shut down.
You've said "drug laws are bad" at least two or three times, so I feel you must want a response...

Drug laws are not bad. The current state of drug laws in the states, however, is appalling. I believe, for instance, that some substances should always be strictly controlled / banned like Heroine or Cocaine for instance.

I believe Marijuana should be legal (at the VERY least, decriminalized) and treated similarly to alcohol and tobacco.

Psychedelics are clearly a gray area, they seem harmful but really not enough research has been done. Creative breakthroughs aside, I'm not really sure how addictive or destructive they are.

In summary, drug laws are not bad in general; they are just bad at the moment, in the U.S. specifically. It's just such a shame that democracy doesn't lend itself to perceived criminal leniency.

No politician looking to get elected is going to advocate taking it easier on criminals even if those criminals he wants to be easier on shouldn't even be criminals in the first place.

I blame Nixon. /endrant
This is a life saver. No more huge Gmail filters! GitHub I salut you!
Ask HN: Anybody submitted a proposal to seedrs.com?
I've just submitted a proposal for a funding request to seedrs.com, for a project I'm trying to get off the ground. It's the first time I've ever done anything like this.

Has anybody here went and got funding from investors from seedrs.com or a similar site? In your experience, how likely is the funding goal to be reached?
$5K Web-App MVP
I will build your web-app MVP for a flat $5K. No mobile apps, sorry :(

You know, in advance, what you are getting yourself into.

I will do my best to do a 6 - 8 week turnaround.

Once we both agree on the scope, then I can get started.

Here are two things I have created for myself - CompVersions.com & LeadsRiver.com.

Email me: marc @ compversions dot com.
Are there any plans to add-in any realtime feeds? Like say weather data and the Dow jones close to see any correlations?
http://www.hyperswitching.com/post/28849912133/on-why-apple-... my posting about this :-)
It's also worth pointing out that many current CLIs are still grossly crippled. The DOS / CMD.exe environment in Windows. Oracle's sql client. Sun/Oracle's default tcsh. Cisco's IOS. All of which lack one or more of readline, tab completion, command history, pipelines, and other, really basic, modern shell features.

One of the first selling points for Linux when I first started exploring it a decade and a half ago was that while some of the internals were a tad crufty, the userland (much of it, admittedly, GNU) didn't suck, and didn't suck in a much bigger way than stock commercial proprietary unices did suck.

Pogo stick or oxcart, the point is that many such tools were, or are now, pretty much intentionally crippled.
Knives are necessary, not toys. Switchblades are useless, dangerous toys, and are often banned. So there you go. Anyway, I'm not advocating banning little magnets anyway--I do own some, you know--but pointing out that ordinary non-stupid use of them + a toddler could result in problems.
Apple Drops YouTube App From new version of its iPhone and iPad
Not at this time. We only request your email so we don't have permission to post on your behalf. I understand some people are not fond of FB login, but we'd like to use real identities on the site. If it comes up as a common complaint we will add a separate login.
Feedback:

* I love how smooth the scroll is.
* The loading more UI is lacking and isn't polished like the rest of the UI
* Crashed the first time I signed in.
* I miss seeing the domain (and subdomain) of the linked article
* I don't like having articles open in a web view. Would much rather have them open in the default browser instead.
* The comment UI has an odd white stripe on the left of the screen.
* The extra prompt asking to open comments or article is annoying. Maybe have The middle half of the screen open the article and the right quarter open comments.
* Maybe support flagging or downvoting by swiping a post or comment off the screen. Similar to clearing a notification.
* Notification of replies to my own comments would be a nice addition.

Great start and I hope you continue to develop it.
I have been waiting for the stars feature for years. I want to switch all my watched repos to stars.

I see there is an API for watching, but do I have to screen scrape to star a repo now?
http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/watching/
Considering Mail supports plenty of other mail services that doesn't make any sense to me at all.
> The fact that people are buying aftermarket styli for devices that don't have pens

Are you sure about that? My completely unscientific anecdote is that people buy the galaxy note for it's size, but end up never using the stylus at all. I see a lot of galaxy notes in the wild, but never seen someone who actually used the pen. People usually tell me they tried, found it terrible and gave up.

Are my anecdotes too off? Are you guys seeing something different? Maybe someone has some good data on this?
On a related note, the "forward looking" in FLIR refers to the fact that FLIR cameras are not sideways tracking, or "pushbroom". The name doesn't actually have anything to do with where the FLIR camera is mounted.
Good to know. My medical knowledge in this area extends in so far as my being able to say "there is iron in your blood".
A friend of mine had $3m stolen by his business partner who simply wrote out $500k cheques and took them to the bank. The bank oked the cheques despite knowing that he had no signing authority.

Once it all came to light, the bank then sued my friend and drove him into bankruptcy.

Fuck banks
Can I give you all my karma for pointing out this oversight? I thought my email was visible, fixed and thanks!
SEAC was the first real stored-program computer "in the US". EDSAC was the first one in the world.
Its just sad that people have to turn to these kind of products to 'reverse engineer' the app store. The volume of business app store generates should require them to give more info to the developers, specially around SEO.
Iron in the blood is paramagnetic. It is not affected by magnets.
A statistics application that run on the cloud and looks good too? Yes please! Looking forward to playing around with the data to see what's possible. Where are you guys planning to take this software?
Rock Health Merges Tech & Healthcare
Google Cleans House, Shuts Down Apps and Consolidates Content
Excellent! I've been using watch for bookmarking interesting projects but I didn't really want to see all their activities (commits). Stars solves this problem. I think they're missing a search functionality for stars though.
Here are some more links about what I was talking about. Unfortunately Apple always offers solutions that only work on iOS so are not general, for example using Core Data with SQLite as the backing store:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7003336/how-enable-icloud...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9324746/storing-sqlite-da...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10465612/how-can-i-use-ic...

It seems to me that maybe there would be a way to merge databases if they used the continuous file append method that couchdb uses and then maybe read/write diffs to a central shared directory emulated through iCloud.
Apple to Pull YouTube App From Devices
Which is why each package has five different warning labels on it. Sheesh.
> what I thought was a very well done support email for this feature

Sure, it has the right details in it, but this kind of faux-friendly tone comes across really transparent and off-putting to me.
Does this include the times where the user presses the 'Up' arrow key to retype a previous command?

I think that would skew the results a bit if so.
Even then, you can get back to something sane by using the reflog: master@{yesterday} refers to the master branch as it was 24 hours ago, and you can view the different things you've done to HEAD by just running `git reflog`. It's really really hard to blow away the reflog without meaning to -- you're much more likely to just `rm -r` the whole repository by mistake.
Make a Splash with Water Sports in the Cayman Islands
For comparison, when Google acquired Slide two years ago, the acquired employees numbered fewer than 100 (vs Wildfire's 400) and retention packages summed to $46 million.
100G FPGA based router/switch/web server. Directly coupled storage and memory. High end server and networking hardware looks like 14.4k modems when compared. JVM that can perform GC concurrently and all sorts of neat stuff.
Thanks for trying it out.
We are working on a fix for the issue.
Tonight Game Programming Class. Also, New Schedule.
You know, I really have to question the author's credibility. The blurb at the bottom says:

Todd is the author of “Dispatches From Bitter America.” The book is endorsed by Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Sean Hannity. Click here to get your copy.

...which leads me to believe this is more political than a case of really wanting to save Bucky Balls. For example, notice how the article is almost exclusively dedicated to the CEO, while the "victim" only gets half a sentence?
Thanks sir! And never underestimate the value of the little cantrips like that to somebody who isn't aware of them. I was astounded that most people didn't know CTRL+F, and I always ask people if they know about it.(http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/crazy-...)
Well for example an uint32_t index buffer - it might contain indices that are outside of what's allowed. If the kernel/driver verifies this everytime, it might slow down somehow the operation. It's totally possible that the driver/chip somehow "clips" this, or being a bit of undefined operation - simply ignores it.

There might be other cases too.
I can think of a good reason: it's a negative sum game, because willingness to proxy-spam a potential employer has no positive correlation with the ability to do the job; if people start doing this, everyone will be worse off. So if you're an employer and you don't want to end up on the receiving end of this kind of spam every time you hire and under pressure to send it every time one of your friends is looking for a job, you should reject anyone who tries this tactic.
Have you actually tried using Tribler, though?

It is not very usable, compared to just going to the piratebay/torrentz/demonoid/just reguralry googling your thing.
We've thought about this, Android is definitely a more accessible option for many potential developers. However, currently iOS still has a majority share of mobile revenue and seems to be more in vogue with people who are looking to build games/apps. Down the road we hope to be platform agnostic as there is a huge opportunity in Android, however at this stage we would like to maintain a sharp focus.
Agreed :).

My point is only that the alternatives aren't all that less silly, at least from an actually-building-and-maintaining perspective.
I don't think this is just limited to startups, most of the stuff here could apply to any company.

Maybe the advice should be, don't "apply" for jobs period.

I always imagine that being an employer advertising a genuine job on a job board (in this economy) is probably a similar experience to being a supermodel and signing up for a dating website.

I wonder how well the networking approach will scale, I imagine it could get annoying very quickly being a company CEO or whatever and getting hundreds of emails every day from people who want to "have a chat about X".
can you cross compile haskell to the Raspberry Pi. That is, compile on your desktop for the PI target?

Seems like overkill to run the compiler on the embedded target all the time.
I'm an average programmer, right in the middle of the bell-curve. I know developers who are a great deal more intelligent than I am.

The market is such now that even little old me doesn't go two days without a few emails from startup HR departments, networkers and recruiters. If I ever find myself in an interview for a full-time job at a startup, it's going to be be me interviewing them.
Me either but I would have appreciated it since it is probably the most used 3rd party service for our company. We will be moving to their enterprise setup in the near future anyway so it should not be an issue for us going forward.
I keep forgetting that bash has tab completion. I only found out when I got fish.
Define "overpriced".
If you want to keep your fingers on the home row, I find `ctrl p` to be more comfortable and faster.
This is the first I've heard of external ratings affecting App Store ranks. Is this true?
Your stuff isn't auto-starred anymore. We kept the existing stars (old watched repositories) though.
Chick-Fil-A Confessional
I believe Chomp was doing something like that, and if they are integrated into the app store as this article claims, it might be true.
The Distributed Graph Database Titan Provides Real-Time Big Graph Data
My unsolicited advice is focus on coding. I wasted my youth trying to configure Linux drivers and wasting time on all sorts of configuration type nonsense. Linux is better now, but I'm there's plenty of similar things to waste time on and not actually code.
Is a thermocouple more efficient than a Sterling engine, or just more reliable because of the lack of moving parts?
What are some potential use cases for pup?
Likely yes. He mentions that he turns off deduplication for the experiment.

You're right that it does not accurately describe his typing, but it does describe which commands he uses most... which is about half as good.
You can automate that nicely with http://grabbox.devsoft.no/ (OS X, free)
You don't share his politics, so therefore you disregard everything he has to say?

I'm pretty sure this article is about the CEO. You know, since it starts off talking about his letter?

I envy your ability to instantly and accurately decide every controversy merely by learning the political affiliations of the parties.
Wikipedia blackout after server cables accidentally cut
Why wall street likes linkedin more than Facebook
How to build a DIY Service Repository
I'm curious how these people know your email, and that you're a programmer.

Did you contact some recruiters at some point? Where are they farming your email address from?
Depends on what you mean by realtime. In most cases (stats-wise, anyway) analyzing a non-stored infinite-length data stream is a very different challenge from analyzing a stored, finite-length data set.

Streaming algorithms do exist for many basic statistical measures. But in many other cases, the best streaming algos aren't cheap or accurate enough to be useful.

Bucketing can sometimes substitute for a bona fide streaming algorithm. But again, there's plenty of cases where bucketing won't work well enough to make it useful.

I haven't really looked at Statwing yet--the premise is really tantalizing, though. Gotta find an excuse to throw a spreadsheet in there and see what comes back.
Yes, it would be much simpler to add "shared" to $NODE_PATH or to place shared modules in "node_modules" by having NPM check them out over git.
The CPSC is part of the executive branch. The president is in charge of the executive branch, and the only elected member of the executive branch. Who else should he be petitioning?
I like to think that a reasonable man would know swallowing magnets is extremely dangerous.

It's just that apparently there aren't all that many reasonable men. u_u
What's in the software behind NASA's Curiosity Rover?
Just One Month In, Crowdfunding Platform Seedrs Sees Three Startups Funded
Microsoft said to block ability to boot straight to desktop in Windows 8
ICANN, it's not too late to turn back. Please! :(
> Am I missing something here?

The current view from the entitled that since it is easy to get for free, then there isn't any reason why it shouldn't legally be free otherwise. No amount of grand vision writeups on how information wants to be free will say anything different than this basic point.

Everything should be free, except of course whatever the entitled do for work, that obviously should be paid for, because hey that actually affects their income, not someone elses.
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I regularly get generic emails from recruiters saying they came across my profile on Github, or they'll just send me an email via LinkedIn's messaging system.
+1. I really like the intuitive interface and the speed with which I can conduct analysis. It would be great to have a library of feeds for each user that is automatically curated / updated. This library could include both public datasets (fore free) but also proprietary feeds specific to my industry or even my company that are only accessible by me (which I would pay for).
Paper: High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases
http://www.tvnwarszawa.pl/informacje,news,pociety-papier-war...

In a nutshell: a guy had setup a corporate bank account, which at this particular bank enabled him to use a "nightly dropbox" in which you declare amount of money, then put it in a bag and put it in the dropbox. These bags are not scanned before your account is credited (I know, it's insane), so guy just withdrawed the money and dissapeared.
Amazon's Latest Delivery Stop: the Corner Store
1000€ more for comparable PC hardware in terms of technical specifications.
No luck yet, just more PC's from people's garages....
I guess it's a hard balance between protecting kids from poor parenting and freedom for good parents like yourself.
> Did you contact some recruiters at some point?

Yes, and I've had mixed experiences with them. Some of them are great, others not so much.

> Where are they farming your email address from?

I make my email address publicly available, so possibly from my LinkedIn profile or portfolio site.
PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 reaches v1.0
You are different from most of users buying on Internet.
Most prefer entering credit card directly.
Land is rival: the owner needs to restrict others in order to not be restricted from accessing the land themself.

Informational goods are nonrival: any number of people can use them without obstructing anyone else's use.

So normal property laws are not 'just as arbitrary and artificial' as intellectual monopoly laws: they are grounded in actual physical limitations.
This reads like the sort of post that so often goes on bad logic riding on emotion, but it's a completely valid point.

I'm a Visa user, plus I don't plan on going anywhere near the Olympics despite living fairly close to London, but when I heard about this marketing plan I literally thought it had to be one of those hilarious fake news stories. But it wasn't.

Stuff like the McDonalds sponsorship he mentioned (banning people from selling chips) is bad, but at least as a consumer if you want chips... you can still buy them.

But this Visa deal, what on earth are people without Visa supposed to do? I just don't see how anyone sane could think this was a good plan, either from an Olympic organiser's point of view, or Visa's.

Oh, and the OP talks as if there's a difference between how international and UK people are affected by this, but that really isn't the case. Based on my own anecdotal evidence I certainly know many more people who have at least one Visa card than people who have at least one non-Visa card (myself for example, my personal debit card, personal credit card, and company credit card, despite being from three different providers, are all Visa), but there are still plenty of people using, for example, cards from MasterCard.
The Ultimate Guide to Startup Marketing
I can see both sides of the argument. The case for personal responsibility is strong, but I can also see the case that this product is deceptively dangerous, i.e.- it resembles many other non-dangerous products, leading to easy consumer confusion, when in fact it is particularly dangerous. Not many other toys carry a risk of _surgery_.

But all of that aside, my issue is that the CEO doesn't seem to be particularly sympathetic to a product which has hurt his customers. I'm sure I don't have the whole story, but the impression is that the CEO's attitude is one of "well, we warned you, what more do you want?" rather concern for safety and taking creative action to protect customers.
One way it seems is to compile via QEMU [1] to target other architectures.
I haven't tried it myself yet though.

"When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC)."

[1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page
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