skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Hitler built the Autobahns, shouldn't we say thanks to him for that?

Also the rebels where never able to build something as marvelous as the Death Star :-)

Success, efficiency and morality are three different things. Though many people mix them up all the time. If someone (or something) is efficient and successful that doesn't mean we should overlook the harm (or good) it is doing.
The focus of the one taking the pictures hasn't to be the same as the viewers one.
How would you handle security at a 10,000 people event where laptops are likely to be left unattended ?

It seems given that scenario tagging laptops and checking them on entry/exit is probably the most effective solution.
"returns to that asset class, they've been pretty bad."

Renewable energy assets have a pretty good IRR, in the mid-teens to low 20% - and even higher if you look at the 1995-2004 vintage.

To any LP that is an above average return, in fact, it is above any equity return threshold for asset manager incentives/carry.

Where did you get the data for you to say that "they've been pretty bad"?
I am not sure whether the conclusion is right. But the explanation is lame since the second game depends on the your cash status which could be affected in a favored way to make the second game a winning one.
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Why) is it important that a unit test not test dependencies?
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It didn't seem like much of a paradox to me, since game B is really two different games, and interleaving plays of game A changes the likelihood of playing B1 vs. B2. Interesting, perhaps, but not terribly unintuitive.
One lawyer I consulted told me not to read the patents- they were irrelevant. And the troll agrees. He said he didn’t really understand my business and didn’t care. We just looked like other companies he has sued.

This is kind of important. We spend a lot of time worrying about the patent. Its the least important part of the equation. The important thing to understand is that you're being mugged, and the police aren't coming. They know its bad, but there are much bigger things on their plate than petty crime. The actual patent is just the gun/knife used in the mugging, a completely common and non-unique weapon.

What the entrepreneurial community needs is a common sense guide to surviving a legal mugging just like the ones that address realworld muggings. There are simple things that a person can do as the victim of street crime that can greatly improve their chances of survival while minimizing loss. What might these best practices look like for startups facing trolls?
The death of "record" stores is just part of a larger tragedy in retail sales where cashiers have become scripted popups during checkout rather than being able to interact like with customers as intelligent adults. When I buy some pens at the office supply store, the poor cashier has to give me the same pimp for copy paper and the online survey she just gave to the two customers in front of me.

The bookstore is the worst. I remember when (Hey! You kids get off my lawn!) bookstore cashiers were expected to ask about or remark upon or share knowledge about books. No I don't want to buy the gold discount card, subscribe to People or go online for a chance to win. If I wanted to go online I'd already have ordered from Amazon. And get this, Amazon doesn't ask me to fill out a survey or pimp magazine subscriptions.
Not true. If you specify the Content-Encoding headers, Chrome and Firefox decode and display the images properly.
Good question.
Why doesn't chrome decompress it when their header suggests they will?
Yes it's unneeded and discouraged, but if developers do send gzipped content such as images (which as we all (including the blogger) know, they definitely shouldn't!) surely chrome should just go ahead and decompress it as normal?
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Actually.. Hitler didn't built any Autobahns :)

http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth08.htm
I wonder what the returns on social media and fiddly web apps will be looking back 10 years from now.
Neither is Google+. It's not representative of anything.
Site looks like it's struggling now, but when I looked there didn't seem to be many so maybe someone was paying attention and pulled them.
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It actually DOES support the gzip content encoding for images. I just tested in Chrome 21.
I'm surprised PEP-8 wasn't mentioned. When I used to do Python development, this was the main reference for "pythonic" code conventions.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Isn't it ironic that we have come to only 2 alternatives to Hacker News when there are zillions of websites?
Can this be a possibility of another website?
It's an accident of history that's it's primarily used for Json and not Xml, but you can hardly argue that the API itself was an accident.

Frankly, the importance of json in this matter is pretty minor anyhow: if it hadn't been around, you can bet some nice JS library would have come up with a different way to easily decode server data into JS objects. The scripted communication was key.
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And of all the pictures containing standing men, pretty much most of them are focused on their breasts or backsides. On the nerdomat photo the photograph clearly took a position where the pixel man points his fingers to the crotch of the guys standing there.
egor83 graphed several polls here:

http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=2175...

http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=3298...

http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=3786...

original:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4398621

original Hacker News demographics post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397332
Yeah I was right, bitch.
The photos in the bottom 1/3 of the page reverse the trend. Guys from the back, women from the front and side. I think it balances out actually.
Thank you latj for pointing this out, so i didn't had to :)) like you were reading my mind!
What is the problem with this picture? Am I missing something?
Did you send the response header "Content-Encoding:gzip" when serving the image?
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I guess some clarification is needed here. The submitted page is a collection of photos by Stefan Landrock. Stefan Landrock runs salon.io. The submitter "lrock" would be Stefan Landrock (his e-mail address is lrock@...) unless someone is faking. While the account is old, this is the first submission and the first comments.

So I really do not get what this is about. The title sounds like some armchair hostility against ... whom? And people are reading some sexual harassment into the photos and blame the event instead of the photographer?
what would you like to see in a 'post engagement' system? do you want to be able to see a list of everyone that attended so you can follow them on facebook or twitter? have a place that teams and post updates on the projects that they worked on? curious as to your thoughts on how the 'post event' support system could be better.
The page is just photos, so a text cache like Google's won't help here.
What exactly is your agenda here? Spamming your site? Questioning the event? Promoting your photos?
So exactly, what harm IE did to your delicate soul?

Me personally is pretty happy it killed the buggiest and shittest browser ever lived - Netscape4
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He clearly did not, because if he did he would have noticed that it works. That IE tries to decode anyway is a bug.
See "Loudness War", above, and the comments below that one.

Yeah, MP3s can be great if producers actually use them for greatness.
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When the request is sent Chrome doesn't know the content type of the response, so it can't know that what it's requesting is an already-encrypted file.
Doesn't this mean that IE is doing content-type sniffing?
Not sure. I got a nice badge and were allowed to enter the camping area even if you don't camp!
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It's not a matter of optimization. Compression removes redundancy. A compressed file will have very little redundancy, so compressing it again is largely a waste of CPU cycles. This is supported by mathematical principles (cf. information theory).
Kinda like flying a plane inside another plane.
Hello HN! It seems like there's a need for old Bootstrap documentation once new versions are pushed to http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/. I created http://bootstrapdocs.com/ to serve that need. If you're a fellow developer who uses bootstrap, I hope you find the site useful!
Science != spirituality.

The domain the author speaks of does not fall within the remit of science. Further, it cannot since spirituality is subjective.

It would be like saying the an accurate and extendible description of a thing is like actually standing next to the thing. Like reading of the Grand Canyon is the same as being at the Grand Canyon...

Also, the title of the article is critically misnamed. He is almost entirely describing spirituality not religious experience.

Non-religious people, including atheists, accept that it is possible to have spirituality, i.e. to form a deeper connection with others and yourself, including via science. It is the means by how that is achieved that is the source of friction outside of science.
thanks for the all the input! ill share my idea once i have refined it more. but the key things i want to focus are:

- give a chance for everyone to network with each other

- put people in situations where teamwork is needed

- put focus on creativity and make things fun. FUN is the focus here.

- learning is still the goal here but not in a stressful/lack of sleep environment.
Were pictures removed? Because I don't see any creepy pictures.
Yes it does. It always has done.
I would argue that Math does have side effects: it runs on mathmaticians brains.
After all math is a chain of logical equivalencies based on a set of axioms (I'm not a mathmatician so that is most probably not a very complete definition). Every computer can trivially spit out many, many such logical equivalencies - what makes math interesting is the human factor:
www.xamuel.com/mathematics-objective-or-subjective/
Mathmaticians are doing this incredibly well, when you think of the fact that a lot of math was discovered decades before its applications. The idea that maths is somehow completely decoupled from the guys 'running it' seems slightly false to me.
You could obviously argue that brains are not computers, but then you'll find yourself in an argument with a lot of angry singularists.
Please don't downvote me if I'm completely wrong, this is partially fishing for an interesting argument.
I feel bad that there is a large and unanticipated tariff that is affecting him, but he basically built his business on the promise that he was an American made company, and it turns out they do a critical part of the work in Hong Kong.
Well, this implies that Swedish prosecutors should travel around the world questioning suspects currently abroad. How silly.
If there's no suitable American manufacturer then is it better for him to maintain his naive integrity and shutter the company, or to compromise on one part of the assembly?

And in any case, it's irrelevant to the tariff discussion.
These procedures trade my freedom and privacy for security.
I always have someone keep an eye on my stuff, but I've also been at similar events (Chaos Communication Camp 2011) where keeping something unattended was not a problem at all.

Treating all you attendees like potential thieves is simply a bad premise for a hacker event.
Ask HN: Feedback about idea/prototype
Hi all,
I have been playing around with a idea/prototype (accessible at www.onlify.com) for a few weeks and wanted your opinions on 1) The validity of the problem (if regular people in fact have this problem that I am trying to solve) 2) Thoughts on how I am trying to solve the problem.

Now coming to the problem. It all started with my frustration with trying to find anything worthwhile to watch on online streaming sources (Netflix, Amazon Prime etc). Once you run out of the mainstream movies to watch, you are pretty much destined to read one movie description after another without actually seeing a movie. So I thought, wouldn't it be cool if there is place where people can submit awesome non-mainstream movies available on various streaming sources and let the community discover/vote on it. That's the idea behind Onlify.com, a place to tag ('onlify') and share non-mainstream movies. Besides what I have out there on the site, I also want to add a few more things

1. Use gaming techniques to give people incentive to hunt down the nicest movies they have seen on various streaming sources. Points, unlockables, leader boards etc. 2. Come up with a movie description language to help match a user's mood to a movie. For e.g.

I want to watch a movie about 'stylish gangsters' with a lot of 'bullets flying' and a bit of 'humor' results in Reservoir dogs. Metadata searching on steroids.

So if you guys can take a look at the site and give me feedback (either related to my 2 original questions, or just in general), I would appreciate it. Please keep in mind that it is just a early prototype. If I am convinced the problem is real, I will give the UI a overhaul and add more features.
Some weird bugs where enemies end up on the walls and you can't progress....
Intellectual Ventures, at least, is structured as tens of thousands of theoretically independent corporations each owning one or a small number of patents. The idea is to have as few assets as possible in the suing agent so that there's no point in countersuing for any misconduct in the proceedings like barratry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_%28common_law%29 Misconduct may not be the best phrase, since there are a million ways to be liable that don't involve wrongdoing, but the idea is the same - you want to construct an artificial you that's as poor as possible so you have that much less to lose.

It's why the RIAA does the suing rather than the record companies themselves - you've got a long lawsuit to prove that anyone pierced the corporate veil before you can get anywhere near touching the entity with the actual monetary stake.

IANAL, so don't go too crazy with this.
I always return to this bet with John Kay:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6BLqprHdwygC&lpg=PA15...

returns for the most successful railroad companies were mere 5% - competition kept things down (although speculation in early years lead to phenomenal returns - if sold)

However, a moderate VC return is 3fold over ten years - which is ~12.5% YoY (unless my maths is bad). But then that is 12.5% of millions and millions not just one company.
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> Personally I like lossless for practical reasons (e.g. conversions without quality loss).

That was the clincher for me. At first my music collection was a mish-mash of different bitrates. I converted the whole lot to the LAME V2 preset (~192kbps VBR) a la the mp3 scene standard, then no sooner had I done that than the standard changed to V0 (~245kbps).

Screw it, I figured. Storage is cheap. Might as well go lossless.
Have you actually read the article?

It's quite clear that the author at least knows that.

Also, there is a general concensus that pep 0008 and the zen of python are not the only definition of pythonic.
http://www.thestudentcloud.co.uk/hn/test.php doesn't work for me in Chrome 21, but does in Opera 11?

Source:

<?php

header('Content-Encoding: gzip');

header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');

$fin = fopen('test.jpg', "rb");

$fout = fopen('php://output', "w");

$gzipFilter = stream_filter_append($fout, 'zlib.deflate', STREAM_FILTER_WRITE, array('level' => 6, 'window' => 15, 'memory' => 9));

stream_copy_to_stream($fin, $fout);

stream_filter_remove($gzipFilter);

fclose($fin);

fclose($fout);
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My interpretation of "Pythonic" is "idiomatic in Python". It's just a simple mashup of the two words, with the added bonus of being quite easy to say, and perhaps sounding cool/interesting/appealing.

It's a bit harder for us poor C programmers to come up with a matching term. "C-nic" (rhymes with "scenic") just looks weird, but of course the double meaning would be amusing: "this code doesn't look very C-nic"!
There's a big downside here too: by publishing lots of very big and crufty (and ill-thought out) API's, they make it very hard to come up with alternate implementations. And once devs are locked into those API's, it's very very hard to port things to a different engine.

So you might respect XmlHttpRequest, but it's also a fairly small API in comparison to some of the other things MS produced.

And it's _those_ things that are "possible" in IE that were precisely the problem. If your API consists of little more than exposing coincidental implementation details, of course lots of things are possible. They're just impossible to maintain afterwards in the face of any change.
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It could be that businesses are used to paying for services since it typically increases business. Therefore it's a justified expense.
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Your apt rant brings up a tragic point: It's not just the loudness war anymore. As David Lowery pointed out in his essays, recording studios are expensive beasts and audio engineering takes a lot of time by skilled labor. As the money drains out of the ecosystem all those corners get cut. Unfortunately, mic technology isn't as good as our ears and just aiming mics at a stage and pressing record won't give you high quality, even if we assume the live mix is good. Which is not always the case.
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Better submit the original link from 2005. I couldn't use the arrow key on this one which is always annoying.
Neither did my Croatian
My "agenda" is to give you an impression of a big "hacker" event in Berlin and let you decide, what you take out of it. The event is questionable, but what isn't?

BTW: Are you pro or anti fb?
Yeah: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4422015
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Except that it obviously did, because I spent an hour or two yesterday going back and forth with people about that content.

But hey, it's cool if you wanna be really wrong.
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As far as I know, the HTTP standard doesn't require browsers to decode content with a decoding mechanism if and only if it has been specified in the Content-Encoding header. I don't think this is a bug.
Actually, I think the idiot in the room here is you.

Read his response again. The author is asking why, if Chrome does not support gzipped images, it sends "Accept:/ Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch" (in other words it states that it will accept any Gzipped content). This is the question no one in this thread is actually answering, instead choosing to nitpick on why the author tried to do something.

Also, calling someone an idiot because they lack understanding of a certain field in computer science? Really? Maybe you should lighten up.
Yes, the primary added value was user experience. However, devs also built apps for the corporate market that go beyond consumption use cases.

Granted, Twitter has been working on their own business services and apps that fall under that category will probably remain unaffected (for now).
There is nothing about App.net that is decentralized. Why do people think it is decentralized? It is a walled-garden with a better gate policy.
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Who said anything about encryption?
Sometimes you can fix this with better equipment (although the fact that your vinyl worked fine suggests that your equipment works fine).

But, yeah, it is all kinds of frustrating to discover that the band you like has no listenable recordings. There's stuff that literally just needs to be played in the car.
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You, on the other hand, imply that countries around the world somehow have to send random people to Sweden, for no other reason than to save the Swedish prosecutors the effort of traveling there to ask questions. How silly.
I respectfully disagree with Ryan Whitwam's arguments and conclusions.

Personally, I do believe that the 3D printing revolution will happen at home. The Internet has "democratized" the production of digital content at home (photography, blogs, self-published ebooks, music, videos, podcasts...) and 3D printing will similarly "democratize" the production of physical goods. If people with creativity and the right tools have produced AMAZING digital goods, given the appropriate framework they will produce AMAZING physical goods.

The author's argument revolves around 2 key premises, both of which I disagree with:

1) "The overwhelming majority of homes don’t need a 3D printer, and that’s not really going to change."

The beauty of technology is that it is impossible ascertain in advance what people do and do not need. The real beauty of innovation lies in providing solutions to problemes that people don't even know they have, or create products that they didn't believe they needed and now cannot live without (Ford motor cars versus faster horses is the obvious example, but there are many others). Anyone who knows even a little bit of technology should not say things like "that's not really going to change" or "everything that could have been invented has already been invented" (Charles Duell, commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1899) because history has shown us time and time again that humman innovation always surprises us. Beyond our wildest dreams. Perhaps the overwhelming majority of homes don't KNOW what they can do with a 3D printer TODAY, the same as they had no idea what they could do with a "blog" 20 years ago.

2) "There’s always the hope that 3D printing will provide a way to fabricate replacement parts when something breaks or wears out".

Why? This is a pretty leading statement, and there are definitely many other applications for this 3D printing technology. Some people might go there (domestic printing of replacement parts) but others will focus on creating their own product lines such as http://www.brickarms.com or http://www.brickforge.com. Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, WordPress and other amazing companies have been successful because they have provided the means to do something and then people's creativity took over and did the rest.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm quite passionate in this issue and I believe that in a decade or two everyone will have a 3D printer at home.
HN seems to wake up to bitter pedants. Have an upvote.
UDP+DHT+NAT Traversal is very powerful. I implemented a new p2p radio platform called HD Radio.NET (http://hdradionet.zapto.org/) which is completely based on them. It shows to be very effective. In this news, Jason is a new idea, it may bring some benefits, for example, running something in browser.
According to that link, he didn't invent them. They're not claiming he didn't play a role in building them.

Titling the article as a "Myth" smacks of about.com linkbait.