skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here (also Germany). Worse yet, even if a german broadcaster was offering it, chances are you would only be able to get it dubbed in Germany without the option to switch to the original language.
Gmail's interesting auto label nesting behavior
http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/
Nice work on the new site design, really clean and neat!
I've apparently flagged too many submissions which I thought weren't HN material as last week the flag option disappeared for me. Perhaps flagging a submission is heavy-handed (I rarely used it for comments), but as there's no downvote option on a submission that was the only signaling mechanism.
I'd be all over this if you'd support the Opera browser :)
This seems ridiculous... BBC America is airing this seasons opener on the same day as BBC1 in the UK! (http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/doctor-who-to-retu...)

So why do we have convoluted workarounds in Australia if another ex-colony gets it fine?
I presume you live or have lived in India? In that case, consider yourself that the people targeted for this earn less than Rs. 25 per day - that is the official poverty line in India. Please consider yourself what you would be able to afford to buy and eat and that price. For yourself and 2 children. If you live in India please attempt to go to a store and buy food for the same price and see what you get.

Thanks!
Where to start learning about servers and hosting stuff?
I'am a programmer but I'am not really advanced in servers and hosting stuff.

I'am afraid if I start a big web app I will not know how to scale since I do not know anything about servers and stuff like that.
so where I can start learning about this stuff ?
Yes, they do.

Whenever the topics of Firefox's memory leaks or performance problems come up, there are always people who claim that it has none. They hold this position even when presented with mountains of evidence to show that there are in fact problems. Then the next version of Firefox is released, and the release notes go on and on about how memory leaks and performance problems have been fixed. Strange, how could they fix these problems that supposedly never existed in the first place?
Controlled detonation for WWII bomb found in Munich
Sorry, if I could not explain it well. Lets say I am one of those poor affected. This is happening since years. What should I do:

1. Wait for free food to arrive every six months.

2. Note the pattern that the current job/work/profession is not working out and shift to something else instead.

3. Wait for somebody else to protest for me, and stubbornly insist for a free food package every time my village goes hungry.

If I were the person I will opt for 2).

But I take your point that we must protest. But protest against what? These men are in need of jobs, the maximum we ask for is the government to pass reforms which can create jobs.

Without this we can very well fix corruption and solve this for the moment. But they will need food again in the next six months. Like I said before, now this time where will you get the free food from? and how long will this continue?
I hate to be ungrateful but I'd like to see HD versions next time - in a lot of Australian broadcast areas there aren't any HD stations over the air any more.
This is a question that requires more than a HN post to answer.

In broad outlines though

1) On the one hand this is our social safety net, and the floor to ensure that farmers are guaranteed a floor price for their efforts

2) We HAVE boosted agricultural productivity, which is why we have stocks which are now rotting.

3) We are stuck (edit: Didn't finish this point) with the legacies of our past. Which include our own step backwards in the 1960s.

4) > We must avoid giving Freebies. Giving away things for free/subsidy is the root cause of the problem.

The food isn't free. Its at a nominal subsidized rate.

The poverty line is about 32 rs a day. This system acts as a social safety net, while also at the same time ensuring a floor price for agricultural produce.

NREGA, a right to work act; may well be digging holes to fill holes. Yet it also is working to support a minimum wage across the country.

Can they be scrapped? Yeah.

Will it be good for India? No, it will likely be a disaster.

The transition from an inefficient, old school system to a modern system will immediately close out entire generations from the economy. No amount of education and retraining will close that gap.

Expect a gradual transition, as alternatives to western systems are dreamt up which work in an Indian context. Some of them are redundant, but are what people will swallow and accept.

-----------------

Other fun stuff:

Heck forget freebies, you should check out the reverse taxation mechanism that recently got introduced and is applicable from mid year.

The larger firms now are responsible for collecting the taxes they pay for obtaining services! If you work for a large firm and rent a car, if the final bill contains service tax, you are now obligated to pay that service tax to the government separately.

Why? Because the govt knows it can't go after the unorganized sector directly. So they make it inimical for the un-organized sector to remain disorganized.

MNCs will transfer their work to companies like Hertz, or other rent-a-car companies and so on.

Smaller firms will have to register and become compliant to survive.

Widening the tax net, and increase compliance.

At the expense of the more established firms.

Bizarre? Yeah, its par for the course.

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Side note:

2 MBA students actually tried to live at 100 Rs/day and then Rs 32 a day. At the 32 mark, they said travel was out of the question because the calorific/time effort required to move that distance to get to a bus station would have curtailed other equally important activities. (http://rs100aday.com/about/)
I think it's pretty neat as well.
Wrap it in $() to execute. And even if you pipe it into a file, no chmod is required. "sh file" works as it should
"Besides India is such a big country that monitoring these things is nearly impossible."

I disagree very strongly. Monitoring food distribution scales really well. You add monitors. That's it. If you want concrete examples of effectively monitoring things over large areas I can provide some.

If the monitors themselves are corrupt then the problem is not that somehow monitoring big things is impossible. The problem is corruption.

Edit: For sillysaurus, because he asked. Walmart effectively monitors food distribution over the US. Power companies effectively monitor the power grids over large areas. Electoral commissions (in some countries) effectively monitor elections over large areas.
On multiple occasions, my wife have caught me watching Videos of Aston Martin Cars.
Visual programming means anyone can be a coder
One I learned for the first time the other day is 'paste'. Good for people like me who never fully grokked awk, it joins lines from separate files into a single file.

Say you have two files, one with lines of numbers:

1
2
3

... and one with letters:

A
B
C

$ paste numbers letters

1	A
2	B
3	C

Want CSV?

$ paste -d, numbers letters

1,A
2,B
3,C

Or, with '-s' you can join lines from inside the same file. For instance, you can sum numbers:

$ paste -sd+ numbers

1+2+3

$ paste -sd+ numbers |bc

6

(Thanks to a Stack Overflow post somewhere for suggesting that one!)

Useful example: the total resident memory size of all chromium processes:

$ ps --no-headers -o rss -C chromium | paste -sd+ | bc

793180
I'm not keen on the look of OSM. I know you can create your own tiles, but I suspect many people wont.

For me, there's too much detail, making OSM difficult to look at and parse.

OSM has a long way to go design wise. I also think there's a lot of room to innovate with design in cartography (Apple have done well in this regard).

I general, design and open source haven't managed to find a rhythm. Probably because design by committee always fails, and open source design is always going to be design by committee. But that's a whole other conversation.
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Time zones.

BBC America can show it on the same day as BBC1, and it's a few hours later.

If ABC was to show it on the same day as BBC1, it would be several hours earlier. This might merely be embarrassing for the BBC, or it might cause a political row in the UK. "Why are TV licence fee payers paying for the new series of Doctor Who to be shown in Australia before it's shown in the UK?" "Brits paid for Doctor Who to be made, so Brits should get to see it first" etc.
In bash...

$(grep -i 'pattern' file | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/^/cmd/g')

?

Or surround in backticks

`command which outputs text you want to run as a command`

I prefer $() as they nest better.

Or have I misunderstood your question?
Because you were the colony of criminals ;)
It would be nice but it's part of human nature. It's simply a form of survival. You'd need an external non human entity to prevent it, which inevitably leads to bad science fiction stories being recalled...
"Abstain from all appearance of evil."

1 Thessalonians 5:22 King James Bible

I'm sure if you dug around in Buddhist or Confucianist writings you'd find something similar. Being mindful of how your actions look is very useful in avoiding trouble.
USA - a lot better than it once was, I've heard. So is the UK compared to the 18th Century. Much remains to be done in both cases... Anybody got an effective analysis of how the changes for the better happened (if they really did)?
Tools and jQuery plugins to help you design a website or a web app for mobile
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I have 3 years doing full time Flex development. Have yet to see these problems. We deploy to Windows/Linux and Flash Player has been the closest to write once/run anywhere that we've seen. We have nothing but good things to say about Flex development.
MATT TAIBBI: Greed and Debt - The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
Couldn't they just ran the adverts in the stream?

Both ITV 1/2/3/4 (UK advert supported channels) and Channel 4 (public remit but supported by adverts) advertise before, during and after the stream. I don't know if they are regulated but the frequency and length of adverts it seem about the same as the broadcast.
I like Twenty Eleven better to be honest.
It doesn't explain why it's shown a week later though. Why don't they just show it the day after?
"He is also accused of using a proxy server to further avoid detection."

Accused seems like an odd word to use here. In UK and US jurisdictions the fact that you used a proxy to commit a crime does not make any difference to the scale of the crime does it?
Show HN: Shared Labels for Gmail
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Yet again (from HN guidelines):

"What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

This is one of the main things that makes HN such a potent forum throughout the world.
I agree with you in principle.

But the point in discussion is why do people need to be provided food for free? Clearly if they are not able to buy for a real long time- This indicates they are not earning enough. So fixing that makes more sense than fixing problems in the free food program. Because if we fix the affordability issue we will not need the free food program at the first place.

Yes the distribution system is broken. I think a step to fix that was tried- FDI in retail was good. Companies could buy directly from the farmers, eliminating middle men and the entire inefficient distribution cycle. But I and you know well the political opposition to those reforms.
Salary negotiations while moving to a new country..
I've got a job offer at hand from a Dutch company. The problem is I have no idea how to evaluate / negotiate.

Where to find information about salaries, costs of living etc.

Thanks!
I would hope not, but I suppose it would be similar to using a police scanner while evading.
I would argue that the transition from feudal societies to modern nations is a example for such an transition.
On a much shorter timescale, there seems to be quite some variability in corruption[1]. And connecting the plot lines, there seems no show stopper at any value of this corruption metric, so there seems to be no problem in principle to move from a very corrupt society to a uncorrupt one on a timescale of 20 years.

Playing a bit further with the data, the correlation between corruption and GDP is rather impressive [2].

[1] Google public data explorer link: http://bit.ly/PQ12bj

[2] Again Google: http://bit.ly/Ttp24m
My doctor actually Googled my symptoms while I was in the office. It's not actually a bad approach, as he put it any article ranking highly for all of the symptoms and no or few other ones is likely to be relevant.
The framework allows you to build html5-based sites that can be instrumented for google analytics.
I also use Street View quite a lot (Australian here). However, I use OpenStreetMap for everything else.

I don't actually access it from OpenStreetMap though, rather, I use it through http://open.mapquest.com in my browser, or OsmAnd+ on my phone (with offline data). You'll find that for th ehalf of the time you don't need street view, it is really easy to switch of Google maps.
Demographics and such, probably. The people watching TV Saturday evening aren't the same as on Sunday evening, IIRC.
Hmmm,

I actually come from a pretty poor financial background.

What helped me rise is self esteem to never accept help and learn to be strong instead. In fact right from the beginning I've refused scholarships.

I purposefully turned down the option of reservation for my engineering course though I was perfectly eligible for it.

My dad always says if you let people be strong they will be strong. Let them be weak and they will be weak.

What these people need is not free stuff and reservations. They just need to be shown how to be strong and work their way out of the problem.
Has Apple Really Ever Invented Anything?[video]
Perhaps because sending GiBs through read(2) and write(2) unnecessarily isn't a NOP?
How I lost 14kg (30lbs) in 10 weeks.
Thank goodness for companies like Apple that, when needing to rapidly introduce new technologies for users, acquire small businesses already invested in the space like Fingerworks for multi-touch, or Pixo for iPod's interface.

Seems much better for us entrepreneurs than Samsung's approach. In the build versus buy equation, I want big companies to calculate they're better off to license or acquire.
Save a cheese
If you really prefer to see things in order then

<foo sort | ...

is an alternative to

cat foo | sort | ...

though I wouldn't particularly recommend it. Instead the overhead of cat(1) should be omitted and it written in the normally accepted form of

sort foo | ...

Providing a filename rather than re-directing stdin allows the program more choice over its method of access.
I'm guessing because it will go out on Saturday in the UK and they want it to be in the same slot elsewhere in the world.

The reality is that the loss of a relatively small number of people who'll watch online ahead of it's screening on TV is a small price to pay for the better viewing figures they'll get on a Saturday evening over a Sunday.

I think they're to be commended for doing this - it's what we keep saying, make it available legally and most people will use that in preference to torrents and other more questionable mechanisms.
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It's difficult to evaluate the "intentionally" part (once you know its effects, is it intentional?) but absynthe comes to mind for XIX century painters, LSD and heroin for a lot of writers, painters and musicians in XX: Dalí, Parker, Huxley...
Minor nitpick from the man page: "egrep is the same as grep -E. fgrep is the same as grep -F. Direct invocation as either egrep or fgrep is deprecated, but is provided to allow historical applications that rely on them to run unmodified."
> When you compare a distributed database that uses immutable data against PostgreSQL, the thing that is immediately apparent to me is that garbage collection is much more difficult in the distributed setting. You can't just rewrite the network interface for PostgreSQL and get datomic, but you might be able to get single-server datomic.

PostgeSQL-XC solves this problem by adding a global transaction management server. I guess it does the same thing as the transactor for Datomic so there really is no major difference here.
Why Zawinski? Do you mean Brendan Eich?
or use
eval

~$ help eval
eval: eval [arg ...]
Execute arguments as a shell command.

Combine ARGs into a single string, use the result as input to the shell,
and execute the resulting commands.
Exit Status:
Returns exit status of command or success if command is null.
Alternative Currencies Rise as the Eurozone Crisis Worsens
self hostable alternative, F*EX and the sex command : http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/
Kids drawn in from the circus by Mark Pincus in the clown suit.
Absolutely.

Also, as said in the article, "broadband in the US is fickle". I wanted to use it in central europe, as surely did many other, around the world, in south korea etc - but this is another company that focused in very few locations (the us and uk), instead of going global early.

Another issue was lack of support for very fast connections, and the bad quality of the current compression. Even if you had a big pipe (say, 100mbit), the picture only looked so-so. Use a local xbox or ps3 and you get a much better - and more fun - experience.

Very sad - but not unsurprising if you look at Perlman's temper.
Who cares if it's been done before? These are fantastic.

I especially like the DMT one - it's impossible to put an experience like that into words, so he does a fantastic job with the diagram of the head and the orbs and "10x more complex"
I'm sad to see it go.
The images are bigger on the tumblr :) ... and if this wasn't posted on Hacker News... I guess I wouldn't have googled "bookshelf" and I wouldn't have seen the images.. which is sad because I spent some pleasant and inspiring 10 minutes browsing the website and I've got some cool new ideas to apply to my bookcase...

Also... it's value on hn is that it also sparked a small discussion about having books/bookcases/bookshelves in your house or having a Kindle....... a google search would't have done that
Don't even joke about that. Ugh.
Who are your customers? The listeners, or the musicians, or the labels?
> "once data is given out, it can never be retracted". That remains the case. If you encrypt your photo so that each of your 770 friends can decrypt it, but then you unfriend Bob for being a jerk, he's still got the key and the encrypted data. So he still sees that photo.

That particular photo, yes. But Bob could also have saved that photo as soon as he saw it or maybe he's got eidetic memory, so crypto can't help with that anymore.

However, any new photos shared through the same channel can't be seen by Bob anymore because I assume the key changes as the members of the access group change.

Still, while you can't solve the original problem (Bob can leak everything), you can still do slightly better than that by properly implementing Off-The-Record messaging[1]. This adds perfect forward secrecy, as well as deniability: The latter is very interesting because in OTR it means that both parties can authenticate received messages to be certain of the sender's identity, but they can also FORGE any message to look like it's been signed by the other. This means that even if Bob decides to publish your private messages to him, he can never prove you were the one that wrote and signed them, because he could have forged them himself.

Two problems with that: I'm not sure how the OTR protocol extends to multiple recipients (but I bet there's some research on it), and while this "deniability" might be enough for private (text) messages, it's not much use for photographs in many cases: If Bob decides to publish an embarassing photo of you that he had once access to, it's not going to be much use that you can argue "ha, but you can't prove I sent you that photo!".

Still, for textual communication, it adds a (thin) layer of extra security even though you can never beat Eidetic Bob.

[1] http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/index.php#docs and in particular http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/otr-codecon.pdf
Ask HN: Has anyone tried Payza?  Are they reputable?
Building A Factory vs. Discovering A Goldmine
> I don't give a damn about statistics.

This is a surprising stance to encounter on HN. The article I linked to asserted that although crime in NYC has gone drastically down, incarceration rates have not gone up. I found that interesting, do you?

Elsewhere in this thread you suggest executing bike thieves as they commit theft, and although I'm not sure you were entirely serious, I'm afraid we're going to agree on much about this issue.
And deal with Oracle?!
Drones take South China Sea plunge
Google patents "Automatic large scale video object recognition"
Very nice, will have to check this out for the project I'm starting today. Sick of using Bootstrap to demo when I usually change everything. Just need some boilerplate instead.
This has been posted here before.

If you applied this standard to everyone, nobody would have invented anything. E.g. Apple may not have invented bitmapped displays or the mouse, but they invented drop-down menus, overlapping windows, drag-and-drop, etc, etc. Where do you draw the line?
First of let me say that I am from India.
I have been watching the number of (negative) political posts regarding India on HN for quite some time now[1]

What are the benefits and costs of discussing these issues here on HN?

Some benefits:
1. It gives rise to a discussion which hopefully translates to solutions and actions for future
2. It is a nice break from discussing technology ( ?? )
Some costs:
1. HN being an international forum, it gives an idea that India is choke full of problems that nothing good will come out of India [2].
No wonder latest discussion on India's Mars vision was derided along the lines of "Get food to your people first"
2. It is not of interest to a large number of hackers
3. It is a fertile ground for armchair theorizing.

I am of the opinion these stories should be flagged.

[1]http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=ind...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
Second Accused LulzSec Member Arrested for Attacking Sony
What are some concrete examples of effectively monitoring things over large areas?
Cute! You should add the sound of "Happiness & Zen coding" (someone coding Ruby) and the sound of "Despair" (someone coding PHP), etc.
:)
Is it ?
Is it doing pipes ? because I see only file transfers there which is not exactly the same as you loose the realtime / streaming factor.
Moviegalaxies: a tool to "Discover character interaction, visually"
This makes me so angry and sad. I see such corruption happening everyday.
Uttar Pradesh is a state of 200 million people and one of the most backward and corrupt states.It is another fact that Uttar Pradesh due to the sheer number produces some of the best talent in India and the world. Most of these people migrate out of Lucknow and UP. I wish more of them would come back and try to build companies so that more jobs are created. We just watch from far and lament but do nothing about it.
We have made a small start by being based here, and hope we can make an impact.
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Search for "stream" on the homepage : http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/SEX.html
3 years huh? I reckon you have never worked with Flex 2/3 then? The incident I am quoting is over 4 years old and I understand things may have improved with Flex 4. Specifically the Spark library drastically improved UI performance. However for us early adapters its too little too late. A Java backend with a Swing or HTML/JS front end is the safest route to go when programming for multiple platforms.