skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linus is an incredibly egotistical ass. Yes, he's right about a lot of stuff. But when he's wrong, he cannot possibly even admit to that possibility.

Case in point, #6 there where he slams the HFS+ filesystem. This started an extremely long flamewar on the Git ML[1], between me and Linus, with everyone else piling in on the whole "Linus is always right" bandwagon. If you read the thread, you'll find that I was giving an explanation for why HFS+ stores filenames the way it does and why it actually makes sense in context, whereas Linus basically resorted to "it's crap because I say so". More specifically, he couldn't even admit that there were two approaches that had sensible arguments (filenames are human-readable strings, which HFS+ uses, vs filenames are sacred buckets of bits, which Linus believes). Instead, anyone who disagrees with him is obviously a moron.

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/70688
Granted I have a pretty high end developer laptop (i7 + 8gb ram + SSD), but ubuntu+gnome3 is very snappy and usable for me.

I basically just run chrome and emacs.
A few differences. We have sound, unlimited video length and have a much heavier focus on content creation. The current app is entirely for content creation while the web end is consumption.
I'm disturbed by some of the "chill effect" responses here, in the crime/law enforcement space. Why does an anonymizing product, one designed to protect the user, get so many questions about use by criminals and ways for law enforcement to get around it?

Frankly, the job of law enforcement is up to people in law enforcement. We're not responsible for them. Their physical inability to do certain kinds of harm is part of the balance between civil rights and law enforcement.

Most people who benefit from Burner won't be criminals. It'll probably end up reducing crime by protecting potential victims. Most people are good, so when this thing is doing it's job, it's mostly going to be protecting good people. The additional safety will encourage people to have a better feeling of safety in their lives, as they'll be taking smaller risks when using their phone and interacting with other people. In single life, this thing is frankly a godsend, and can really make a substantive improvement in many peoples lives... Especially for those who've previously been victims.

Worrying about whether to protect people, versus easing the jobs of the people who protect people, is absurdly myopic.
this has huge potential if they do it right. Let vendors pay with bitcoin. Let them pre-ship product that can be unlocked with a qr code. suddenly the silk road gets a lot more interesting.
Criticizing the entire idea of a theocracy, and that a religion should (of course) have a homeland to dominate, does not make you an antisemite, nor covered with antisemitism "shadow." More an antisemitism smear.

Now, I am suspicious of the people who are irate about Israel as a Jewish state, but are all about the Dalai Lama. I don't see how that makes sense unless you have something against Jewish people.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon unboxed
>Knowledge is power.

I do not think that phrase means what you think it means, given the rest of your post.
Did you end up getting your order shipped there? I was given the option ship an order to one of the lockers in SF on Monday, but when I tried to select it, I got an error. In any case, it suggests that they should be available in SF soon.
Disingenuous title (and poor grammar as well) -- the response to this petition won't necessarily consist of any legislative change.
I built something very similar a few months ago

http://www.newsola.com
For some reason ground looks very damp on every picture of Mars surface I've seen.
Presumably changing the IP address that Wikileaks uses doesn't help because the bots doing the DDoS grab the IP address from DNS. Assuming Wikileaks doesn't mind the downtime (they're going to be down anyways) why not set the wikileaks web-related DNS entries to point to an IP address that fbi.gov or whitehouse.gov uses for, say, their email server?

Perhaps law enforcement might then have a vested interest in discovering the source of those attacks if their ability to receive email gets shot to hell.
Yeah, I don't want to imagine what sort of search your friend would be doing on your computer that would bring up your porn subscription, your emails to your mistress...
My Amazon experience for clothing and shoes is roughly the same as for all other Amazon products; I visit a physical location to actually peruse/test the product (in this case, try it on) and then order it cheaply online.

Do you have specific pain points, or is it the innate difficulty in online shopping for clothes?
Day later...http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/08/grid-launch/
DC resident receives semi-automatic rifle after ordering TV through Amazon
Amazon also had years to perfect it's apparel and shoes service. That didn't stop zappos from kicking ass. And look how that turned out. The idea that an incumbent, by default, can't do something because an entrenched giant can't is laughable.
It would be an ironic sale, considering Gabe started at Microsoft, and his early employee stock-cashout was seed funding for Valve's inception.
You're missing the point. He doesn't have to create a closed platform for paying members only. He just need to have enough paying members to maintain the platform.

Wikipedia is free and has no ads, but survives thanks to its "paid members" (i.e., donors). Still open and free of ads for everybody (well, except for that one month that you see Jimmy Wales' banners all the time :)).

Yes, somebody has to pay the bills on app.net. Maybe it'll be 10,000 core hackernews users. If it gets traction, maybe he'll find enough corporate supporters and donors to keep it afloat. Maybe he'll be able to create an ecosystem where devs pay to get premium services, or some revenue sharing model (like Apple/Android).

There's tons of options to make money without having to sell its user base like twitter/fb. That's the approach he's taking.

It's not an easy challenge, but kudos to Dalton for trying. I'm a backer, and a strong supporter of the initiative. Not because I'm against ads (quite the opposite; I work at a marketing agency), but there's a clear conflict of interest between companies whose product is to sell their user base - fb, twitter - versus those that focus on users - wikipedia, dropbox, etc.
"Instacart simply takes customers' $10 or larger orders, sends a staff shopper to a local merchant to load up on fruits, vegetables, meats, and the like, and then delivers them." How are they going to scale this? Sounds like it would require a huge workforce in each of their markets. And what about the grocery chains' delivery services like Peapod?
If you build a web app in emacs you may be interested in a fully featured emacs lisp Redis client http://code.google.com/p/eredis/
So I continued my search and veered into iOS integrations which I should have mentioned was my initial intention.

This may interest some,

http://www.politepix.com/openears/
(free + does not need network)
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

I think that no-network piece is vital since alot of the solutions require a ping to the server because of sheer vocabulary limitation.
Hope that helps!
Bambuser has done some great things. I think there's still a lot of room for improvement in the live video sharing space.
There's some truth to that w/ respect to the "cloud" storage services out there. Basically it costs $X dollars/month to host your data in a datacenter (with bandwidth and cooling costs). So what we have now are several providers that basically offer the same service (a special folder and/or syncing) for roughly the same price.

Look out in the next few months for companies that will disrupt classical client/server datacenter based storage with peer-to-peer protocols and in home devices (which don't have the same cost constraints that datacenters have). These product offering will in some ways be similar to dropbox, icloud, etc, but they will be an order of magnitude cheaper and an order of magnitude faster.

I work at one of these companies. http://spacemonkey.com/
If you're interested in P2P storage and distributed systems check us out, we're hiring.
If you want to post your domain name, I'd be happy to have a look and see if there's anything obvious causing the problem. The tools others have listed here should give you at least enough information to know where to start.

Do you pay for google apps? If so, go into the help section - there's a 1800# to call for tech support. Depending on what the problem is, they may or may not be able to fix it (if it's not a google problem), but I would be shocked if they weren't able to tell you why this is happening. (if you don't pay for google apps, it might be worth paying, for the tech support).
In case anyone's curious-

List of missions to Mars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars
I think the problem Amazon has dug for itself is by operating at razor thin profit margins, the volume has to be massive. That of course means crossing into more and more markets, and spreading itself more thin
But could you admit the possibility that you're wrong?
Many many Android users are terrified of apps that ask for AccountManager-related permissions, especially the Manage Accounts permission if an app wants to use Android to store their own credentials. Developers don't want to scare away people who are unsure about certain permissions.
Radar prototype tracks Wi-Fi signals to spy through walls
In a high-tech area, sure. In an area where vendors/customers don't even know what "a QR" is, Bali et al. will simply be wasting their limited storage space on a vastly unpredictable demand for products.
The first point still stands - I like the product. I also appreciate the humility angle.

Maybe an easter egg, buried on the about page?
But you're logged into personal e-mail at work?
Lisp hacker to Lisp hacker, that is very cool.

Really off topic but: it is great to be a programmer and write whatever we want for our side projects.
wow. yeah, that could be awesome. I'd like to write an elnode adapter for that.

Is it packaged and in MELPA or Marmalade?
$10 for one-hour delivery and $4 for three-hour delivery seems extraordinarily cheap, given the someone is actually going to a grocery store, buying this stuff, and delivering it to you.

If those are the actual operations, it appears like it would be very difficult to turn a profit. However, it does seem like there are plenty of good ways to make the operations more efficient once demand is high enough while still remaining light on assets like warehouses, trucks, etc.
I really want to use this professionally. Lisp is so much more productive (for me at least) than other languages. I just don't want to have to use much else.
"... But (perhaps without realizing it) you and the people upvoting you represent one of the worst forces at work in the world. ..."

I feel a disturbance in the force.

"... Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names ..." ~ http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is why my ideal solution for pretty much everything would be being able to publish directly from Byword.
Back of the envelop calculations: A typical delivery would cost 1 hour of someone's time. At minimum wage this would cost ~$5. So $99 buys you 20 deliveries. If you batch up 3 customers every hour than $99 can pay for 60 deliveries.

If your order twice a week for 50 weeks than customer gets 100 deliveries for $99. So net/net Instacart would have gap of 40 deliveries = $33. So in essence they would eat up $33 per customer as loss which you can simply be viewed as customer acquisition/retention cost.

I think this is brilliant model. $99 for 3 hour deliveries would be very attractive to upper middle class. It also illustrates class of powerful business models which are simply based on swapping time for money and leveraging the exchange rate between time and money to be minimum wage.
I hope they start in with movies as well. That would be truly amazing. Big step in the right direction for Steam.
In my opinion, Nope. Speed-wise, for short distances like in the home, copper kicks fiber's butt (when you talk price/speed). Spend the extra money on Cat6e, and running multiple runs (as many as possible) to each room/jack - this leaves you with the possibility of link aggregation in the future (you can get switches capable of link aggregation cheap on ebay).
> around 50km above the surface of Venus, the temperatures
> are nice, and the pressure is 1 earth atmosphere. You just
> have to to stay up there.

Lando Calrissian just called. He wants his Cloud City back. :)
Ask HN: Why are lots of startups using the .io domain?
It seems lots of recent startups are using the .io domain. What are the reasons behind this? It must be more than just domain availability, as there are lots of domain extensions to choose from with lots more availability that .com and .net.
Wrong about what? I clearly defined how there's two approaches to filenames. One is as a sacred bucket of bits that must never be modified, which is Linus's approach. The other is as a human-readable string, which is what HFS+ uses. They both have pros and cons. I personally agree with HFS+'s approach, but I understand that other people may decide that the bucket of bits approach is best.

The problem is, Linus couldn't even admit that any possibility other than "bucket of bits" could ever be correct in any situation. In fact, he couldn't even admit that human-readable string could be a desirable goal. He basically treated HFS+ as an incredibly bad implementation of "bucket of bits".
Here's the follow-up, I tried to explain a topic I'd like to teach, but there should be more pictures and interactive elements too:

http://guscost.com/2012/08/06/degrees-and-freedom/
Need 3,000 more signatures to force the White House to write a response about why they won't be forcing the TSA to follow the law.
Ask HN: is Mono for Android worth it?
Been toying with doing an Android app on the side. I like the idea of writing it in C# (as far as "standard" languages go, I'm far more comfortable with it v. Java); but not really sure it's worth $400 when I'm not even sure I'll get $40 income from said app to begin with. Anyone that's used it, is it worth the money even if you aren't targeting WP or iOS also (via MonoTouch)? I'll pay if it's worth the money, but I don't want to be 6 weeks in and find some necessary API that Mono doesn't glue particularly well to.
yeah, warez still distributes zip volumes in floppy disk size.
Verelo + Google Analytics: Understand Downtime
Papa would use CoffeeScript. Less ornamentation.
But not all software is created equal: the single-machine sign on limit is OK for games because you'd never try to play two games at once on different computers. But hell if I'm going to buy a copy of TextExpander for my laptop if quits (and needs a password to relaunch) every time I run a game on my desktop.

I'd love to have an alternative to the App Store that doesn't mandate sandboxing and have Apple's mysterious restrictions, but Steam's DRM system is too limiting for me to be comfortable buying "real software" from it.
Appeals to the HN audience obsession with technology, due to the similarity and oblique reference to input/output (i/o).
Why Sendfiles2.me?
It's not accidental discovery per se that I miss. I'm more worried about the subtle moral, social and political implications that the loss of impersonal information might bring about. Will Google rank negative information about my favorite Congressional candidate lower in its search results, because I often email my friends with positive information about him? How long before a Wikipedia article about some scientific fact gets ranked below misinformation that an annoying relative has emailed me about 20 times last year? I'm a firm believer in the idea that the best way to make most people open-minded is to force them to confront diversity in their daily lives. But the more you are surrounded with personalized stuff that appeal to your appetites, the less likely you are to confront the Other. Of course I don't want Google forcing anyone to read anything, but I don't want them to discourage people from reading certain things, either. I want my information sorted by relevance, not anyone's political biases. Accidental discovery was not an unintended side effect of the design of the web. It is a natural consequence of the fact that facts are impersonal.

I'm also not sure whether something like Google Now could fill the role of completely unpersonalized, "objective" information. It is still personalized in the sense that the algorithm is tainted by my current preferences, so it might confirm my biases in more subtle ways. In fact, Google has every incentive to show me results that please my palate as much as possible. "Worried about Obamacare? Why don't you check out this fundamentalist's blog?"
Pinterest Finally Ditches Invitations, Opens Registration To The Public
Looks slick. I've got a use case for this. I help run an online accessories boutique with my partner. She works with editorial teams from numerous magazines in which they trade images, description, pricing, and other misc information for product features for upcoming issues. You know what they use? Spreadsheets. They look atrocious too.

I could definitely see where something like this could be used to replace their current workflow. The fact that this can work on a tablet is even better. You know why? She prefers doing this type of work in the evenings, on an iPad, as we're relaxing away from our desks.

It looks good. Seems easy to use, and looks fashionably well done; complete (really, you should see these spreadsheets they share back and forth).

The only thing I've ever wondered about these types of tools -- with so many good new options coming out seemingly daily, is how you would get people on-board? I can see it working once everyone can agree to start using it, but getting people to completely change there toolset and workflow (especially if other partners are not, can not, or will not adopt it) can be a tough nut to crack.
Does the government publish a version where the deltas are already applied?
I'm not sure, but the only one that makes sense so far is filepicker.io
Ask HN: Victoria Startups
Does anyone know of any interesting Victoria, British Columbia based startups? My days in the hinterland are coming to an end and I'm moving west.

Does anyone know of some interesting startups that are looking for bodies? Technically speaking, I'm a generalist with a particular affinity for user experience, user analytics and front end code. I have a marketing degree (which is a dirty word around here - sorry). And I've been accused of being a pretty good hustler who can sell almost anything....

I'd appreciate any and all help you can provide! There's something immensely scary (but also exciting) about moving without an inkling of a gig...
>Last time I checked SpaceX was a private company, either profitable already, or on track to become so pretty soon.

SpaceX is a private company, sure, but so is Boeing. Much of the funding for their current activities comes from NASA. The easiest business in the world to be profitable in is government contracting.

>And even if you were talking about the NASA mission, I'm still all for it, no matter what Zombie Ayn Rand is mumbling in the basement.

Great. Why don't you pay for it then, and leave the rest of us out? There isn't any reason to send people to Mars, and the effort will cost over a trillion. It's hard to imagine a use for that money that wouldn't be more productive.
I once forgot both my Steam password and the associated secret question and had no way to restore it (even though it was linked to my email account). Luckily that account contained nothing particularly valuable...
There is little to gain (and much to lose) by making it sound like bob was unattractive to the company, even if he was. This kind of thing is best done immediately, and kept as short and as detail-free as possible. If there is a lesson to be learned through bob's leaving, it's best done in a small meeting between the manager/team lead, and bob's immediate co-workers.
The title is misleading. This is a new tool for Closure, and possibly other code if you rewrite your code base to work like Closure.

The built in developer tools are already good enough for finding leaks in most cases. I just use heap snapshots to make sure there are no ugly leaks.
I guess I didn't realize you were talking about scorched-earth-policy shaving rather than regular trimming. I agree that shaving it completely is unappealing, but I was not aware of that being common or trendy. Maybe some of them are doing it for medical reasons as well... ; )
Thanks sir! :) Appreciate the kind words & wishes!
I don't think the problem is so much that they're too diversified, its that their search functionality has done a very poor job of keeping up with and supporting that diversification.

It seems that I only have good results when I search for a specific $productname, and even then I get results for products with user comments reading something like "its not $productname but..." or "get a $productname instead". More frustrating is that these seem to be ahead of what I'm actually searching fairly often.
80 ways Samsung tried to copy Apple (according to Samsung)
A lot of the browsing that I do from my iPhone is via either the AlienBlue reddit app or viewing HackerNews through the Pulse app.

As they strip everything out of the web-pages except the text content (most of the time) it makes reading stuff on the web pretty decent.
Google Earth Time Machine
http://www.extendslogic.com/business/what-i-learned-from-inc...

Best post on pricing in several months, by the way.
Well the press release says right there: "Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular Steamworks features, such as easy installation, automatic updating, and the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so your files may travel with."

I'm assuming my work is more than my save game files. :)
so my ex-girlfriend and her new relationship will eventually die out too? That's a relief...
Does any of this matter with ZFS's license issues?
> But the atmosphere is thinner, so this makes it harder to
> hear? Or quieter?

Sound intensity for a plane wave is given by the equation $I = \xi^2 \omega^2 c \rho$. Here $\xi$ is the particle displacement (the amplitude of our wave), $\omega$ is the angular frequency, and $c \rho$, typically called $Z$, is the characteristic acoustic impedance, where $c$ is the speed of sound and $\rho$ is the density of the medium.

Given that the speed of sound is roughly independent of pressure, and keeping all other variables equal, as $\rho$ decreases, $I$ also decreases. So yes, on Mars, sounds are much quieter.

Sources:
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/672/what-is-the-r...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_intensity
Also it will not show search results from your email unless you click a little button on the normal results page. I'm not sure why they didn't make that super-clear on the landing page but Matt Cutts is on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4357241
I'd like to throw in another vote for prioritizing regressions and specifically adding logistic regressions to the mix. Thanks!
It doesn't "pop up". There's a separate button in your search results that reveals your matching emails. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4357241