skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes yakuza are criminals, but the article also highlights that like many subversive organizations they also provide a number of community functions typically provided by the police (e.g. the article talks about how Yakuza communities tend to have lower crime rates; safety tends to be a service provided by the police). Terrorist organizations often do the same; Hezbollah has been a huge provider of social services in Lebanon, running schools and hospitals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah_social_services

Hernando de Soto talks about how the Shining Path provided social services to build legitimacy in his incredible book, "The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World":
http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-Path-Invisible-Revolution/dp...

Sudhir Venkatesh also talks in his book about how drug dealers in Chicago provide similar services, in order to be not be rejected by communities inside of public housing projects.
http://www.amazon.com/Gang-Leader-Day-Sociologist-Streets/dp...

Yakuza - like drug dealers and terrorists - are capable of great violence, but the photographer's point was that within the yakuza community that he experienced, violence is seen as a last resort. And that community activities that provide legitimacy is an important tool as well, in order to be accepted by the local community and also as a recruitment tool. This is definitely a common theme in the literature and my personal experience as well.
If it were a light grey rectangle, sure. But this looks like someone scrawled on it with mspaint.
I can understand that that app does not fly; recognizing faces and showing matching animals outsode the original photo just does not look too enticing.

I can think of various ways to, IMO, make this an interesting app:

- put the heads in the photo, and tween a movie between the two (probably fairly hard because you will have to reliably cut out the background)

- use the camera to record video, animate the animal head in sync with what the head does (ideally, adjust the voice sound; more bass for a bear, twitter for a duck, etc) (probably not too hard to do)

- make it a game: using the camera, "let's see who can make his face best like this elephant", with solo games for practice and for fun ("can you beat your record of ten faces in 30.34 seconds?) (technically simple, but it probably will be a lot of work to get the game 'right', collect funny animal photos that humans can learn to match, etc)
Care to back that up with evidence? Can you prove Linux would actually have enough of an edge over WinCE that a user would be able to perceive a difference, given identical hardware?
I just came off my 18 month stint of doing something similar and it was the greatest 18 months of my life :) Good luck! You'll learn more about yourself during this next phase of your life than any other period thus far.
Definitely, as other comments have indicated the perspective seems slightly off and the whole display as a slightly unreal quality to it. And since iOS 5 there hasn't been a requirement to connect to iTunes.
Started freelancing proper around Dec 2009.
Once Upon A Time At the MIT AI Lab
It was almost certainly an automatic takedown from Vobile, which they use (http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2010/07/16/launch-of-improved-mea...).
Someday, somehow, someone will take down the Super Bowl or the World Cup final off "network television". I don't know how it will happen exactly -- maybe part of the network stream will go over the internet on it's way to/from a satellite feed, or something.

That day, the shit will hit the fan.
The difference is quite makred. A conventional marketer focuses on using, well, conventional methods. They use already made marketing tools to get their messages across. Seldom do they dare innovate in any regard. They basically apply the same thing to every idea.

A growth hacker:

builds his/her own tools (including software)
is always developing new marketing tools
works to combine conventional with new

Its not a new term, but has been getting some attention in the past years.
An Ode to Apple Developers
Hi, also You can try to do some small code component and sell in http://codecanyon.com
It's a great way to earn extra money. And once it's there, you keep getting money without worry about it.

You have a great family, a great wife. Let chase your dream ;). Try your best and wish you luck.
We need to reboot the MPAA. Here is how.
Philips, Police, & Sony at Risk in Latest Breaches
Admitting Failure
The people who wrote "How To Design Classes" seem to think the same thing:

"Diagrams Draw them by hand. Diagrams are the programmer’s doodling language. Using a tool that draws them for you from the existing code defeats the purpose. Assigning students to do so defeats the purpose of learning to doodle."

Its the first statement in the book.
They do video fingerprinting with Vobile, which probably found a match and triggered an automated takedown.

Ustream is incompetent, but Vobile is the villain here.

http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2010/07/16/launch-of-improved-mea...

http://www.vobileinc.com/
Tweet Heat – The hottest Tweets of the Month [Aug 2012]
That would be the case, if "The Elements of Style" would be a good book.

Read your favourite authors (be it fiction like Jane Austen or non-fiction like the Economist). Pay attention. See what makes their styles tick.
Good point. I had not considered it. May you include some guidance as to which type of exmaples you would be interested?
The fact that they're now supporting it, while a few months ago they were saying they would never support it, speaks to a real failing in marketing and messaging. I honestly think nVidia would be better off letting their engineering team do the talking, at least to the Linux community.
Interesting last few lines for the article. I recollect the time of YouTube copyright infringements and now we have VEVO. How times change!
They are over-hyped for sure, but I am curious about your take on computers, and their upgrade cycles.
Entrepreneurs are the New Labor: Part I
Gefeliciteerd!

There are more than enough nice companies in the Netherlands to go for. I like the same as you; small teams, hacker culture, getting things done. I found that in my companies over the years, but there are plenty of those around depending on what you want to do. Even in slightly bigger teams, it can be hacker culture; q42 (den haag) comes to mind.

Just take some time to talk to people and search around, apply for some stuff! Succes!

Edit: you can of course just start something for yourself; it is very common in NL (ZZP) and it works really well. On your own it's not hard to find gigs, but you have to like that kind of thing. More interesting is to do this with a few like minded folks, work on freelance jobs at companies for a few days a week and in the rest of the time make a niche offering. For instance Jurg van Vliet (9apps) would be someone who did something like that well in the cloud hosting niche.
" - In a year, you won't be who you are now. "

I don't think this one necessarily gets filed under less than good news. Presumably if the guy is uprooting his life like this, becoming someone else is part of the goal.
HN inspired me to quit my job
Publish a Facebook Post in Python – The Basic Sauce
Kill us all? Exaggerate much? Even if they tried they couldn't kill all that many people.

And lots of companies can cause massive deaths. Dam operators for example.
There's no way the NFL is going to distribute their video over a public platform. CDN, yes, but CDN's don't have the same pressure from copyright holders that public platforms do, and don't fingerprint.
I was with you until:

In a year, you won't be who you are now.

Unless you mean "you will be the wrecked shell of the person you once were", I don't think that making a startup actually changes who you are. We glamorize it, but a lot of people set up their own business every day and don't change a bit.
You're very good at conspiracy theories.
Can you turn like.fm into a dating site? Last thing I want to do is share my playback history with other humans.
Github has remote employees.
I don't see any. As long as they comply with DMCA takedown requests, they should be under safe harbor status.
To which I add:

- Time will now move at a different rate. You will get desperate when things don't happen fast enough, and you will get desperate when things are going to fast. The trick here is to find a good rhythm.

Good luck.
Social micro-donations
Why would he need to cover up that he is working for a government agency?

Considering that you apparently aren't fooled by that cover up, it can't be that much worth anyway.
I don't know how this makes me feel.

Should I be upset, because a company aims to purposely lie to the public?

Should I be happy, because any sufficiently large organization will inevitably make stupid mistakes like this one?

Or should I be terrified, because it's likely that better-done versions of shit like this is done by supposedly trustworthy corporations and governments every day?
Perhaps its popularity "problem" is an advantage.

Most DEs have a long way to go before reaching what most end / enterprise users would consider the same level of polish of OS X, or even Windows relative to their experiences and needs.

In Linux, those of us who use it use Linux on the server for reasons of reliability, and on the desktop for reasons of convenience (similarity). We don't often need an "enhanced multimedia desktop", and don't need the environment burdened by compatibility issues with 5+ year old office programs.

Linux is doing very well on the server, and good enough on the desktop - for those that need it.
Interesting. A startup which facilititates transfer of digital property anyone? It will be cool if we have a digital "will" to handle this.
For #2, we had this video made to show such a screen "in action"

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/31/video-demo-of-what-a-4-i...
We're not talking about a high school football game here. Ustream must have known that they were carrying the Tony's, and should have had a human in the loop.
dank je!

The same suggestion was made to me on twitter. I will surely have a look!
Hey, I was in a similar boat. I also resigned to start my own thing about a year ago.

I had a well paying job in one of the top tech companies. However, I felt unsatisfied with my job responsibilities and disconnected between what I enjoy doing and I was actually doing.

Therefore I took a year off (this month marks about 1 year and 2 months off) to work on my own thing/project. With that said, I hope to share some of my experiences with you.

1) Take regular breaks and avoid burnout

I was working on my project 24/7, from the moment I woke up to the moment I fall asleep ... 7 days a week. In hindsight, that was a recipe for burning out. I was mentally fatigued after 6-8 months into this routine.

Looking back, I should have taken regular breaks from work and not think about the project at all. Maintain an active social life, go on trips, spend time with friends, or as simple as forcing myself to take a day off every week would have done wonders for my own mental health.

2) Maintain your physical health

Physically and health wise, I was in a fantastic shape before I left my job and started on my own venture.

However, my health quickly deteriorated because I neglected my physical well being. For example, I exercised less and eventually none at all. I ate less than I should (I would go as far as eating 1 meal per day). My sleeping schedule quickly fell out of whack.

Take good precautions and maintain a good physical and mental health. This will go a long way in preventing you from falling into a negative feedback loop and damaging your well being.

3) If you build it, they will not come (think about marketing)

I gave vague thoughts to marketing while working on my project. I demoed my product to my close friends and family. They loved it, so i thought, if I build a great product, users will automagically show up. Boy, I was wrong.

It is good to develop a plan on how to reach your protential users and/or customers. Think about SEO. Think about finding a niche or community of [potentially enthusiastic] users to whom you can demo your product. Think about finding bloggers who can help you spread the word.

4) Everything will take twice as long to implement

Think a feature will take a week to implement? It will probably take two weeks if not more. I saw the iceberg effect firsthand while developing my own product. So be careful, be cautious, and plan accordingly.

5) Just ship it. D@mn it.

You will always notice issues, flaws, bugs, and imperfections within your product. As creators/founders/makers, we all do. However, we can spend eternity tinkering and fixing those issues, but our product will never ship.

Therefore, you should give yourself a rough deadline or an idea as to when you'll ship, no matter how imperfect your product is.

6) You'll need to hustle after you ship

Shipping is only half the battle. It is unlikely that tens of thousands will show up on your front step after you ship.

Therefore you'll need to go out and hustle. You'll need to think about things like marketing, customer acquisition, customer, retention, customer service, and so forth.
> I wonder what proportion of "pure" CS algorithms can be conceptualized as an application of one of the fixed point theorems and/or properties of monotone operators.

You might enjoy http://www.amazon.com/Graphs-Dioids-Semirings-Algorithms-Ope.... It has some cool ideas, but you'll first have to wade through a sea of abstract nonsense a la Bourbaki.
I agree it's a fascinating piece but lately HN has been a dumping ground for popular reddit posts. I see it on reddit then 15 minutes someone reposts it here.
> in which successful people have similar qualities and strategies of those in hacking and in any entrepreneurial business

Yeah, there's a great article by 37 signals about how to break your competitors kneecaps so that they'll be crippled for the rest of their lives.
They'll send your ISP a DMCA claim. Even if you're your own ISP, unless you're a tier 1 they can DMCA your transit provider. Now that CloudFront has transparent pricing there's no reason not to use CDN if you can afford it.
Most bloggers and commenters would be improved by taking the last item to heart:

10. If you want ACTION, don't write. Go and tell the guy what you want.
Infiniband: Back from the dead?
Hi Sandeep,

Just emailed you asking for some help. I hope you don't mind :)
Hey dreamdu5t,

Just curious but have you actually seen the mentor list?

http://www.facebook.com/notes/startup-semester/startup-semes...

You're welcome to your opinion of course - just thought you might be curious.
buttons or shortcut keys to go to sibling folders
The referenced "fun" appears to be jokes about anal rape?
I know the paranoia copyright laws create on companies.
Pretty odd place to put a logo.
I think the Raspberry Pi would be more interesting if it were to ship with LuaOS or some such similar thing. The incompleteness of it as a Linux workstation just doesn't differentiate it well enough from the Pandora, or Beagle, or PandaBoardES, or gumstix, in the world and so on..

Maybe someone with a Raspberry Pi, disappointed with the 'non-programmability' of the device out of the box, would be better serviced once they get LOAD81 installed on it?

http://github.com/antirez/load81

Just an idea ..
We are much better off and Republicans didn't 'build that'
What could they possibly want to hide in a photo that already shows the wreckage of a nuclear power plant?
I worked for Colours. A fullservice Internet Agency in Den Bosch. They have a fairly strict "no re-hiring policy". They don't want to encourage people to quit by hiring them back as contractor immediately. Which I can understand.

I've had contact with Jacques before. I will surely contact him again. Tnx
It seems relevant to me because its the only UI environment that runs in a relatively linux-compatible world that is modern, well-maintained, and performant.

What else does Linux have? GTK+? Qt? A slew of also-ran desktop environments that have existed for years without gaining significant reaction in the marketplace?

If we as Linux users want to make a world where there is a competitive, usable-dare I say, desirable-desktop environment for Linux, then Android wouldn't be a bad horse to hitch our wagon to.

And quite frankly, I suspect there would be a lot of money in it. Were I not embarking on a we startup I consider very important, I'd have left my job to pursue this.
This is fantastic advice.

The first time I freelanced I was so paranoid about getting work I took on silly amounts of work for absurdly low amounts of money. I'd also add bits on to 'sweeten the deal' - "I'll also do X and X and X!" etc.

It just ended up depressing me. I'd be working harder than my friends (in their 'real' jobs) for far less cash, with far less respect from the clients.

Now I'll just set a fair price and stick to it. Decent clients seem to respect you for doing it (and understand you have your own overheads) and there's a much more business like approach to the job (unlike the cheaper clients, who I completely agree, end up the most demanding).

Also, feeling much happier and more valued doing the work makes me want to put in much more of an effort.
The Nifty MiniDrive - SD slot hack for the Macbook
Some people attach epic importance to their karma ratings, and making a comment opens them up the possibility of downvotes?

Not that criticizing GNU is at all verboten at HN, though, so your point still stands.
Happy Independence Day!
Most of the content is direct quotes from a single source [1]. I'd suggest reading the original thread instead of this article.

I really wish I had downvoting privileges. Anyone know what the karma threshold is?

[1] https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8L...
A hack that worked for me when I was freelancing, was to put my resume on various job boards as if I were looking for full-time employment.

When companies called me to set up interviews, I said (on the phone) "Turns out I decided I'm going to freelance. What was the project you wanted to interview me for? Perhaps I can help with that, as a freelancer."

I got a lot of business that way and it pretty much started my career.
Sure... for now.

It appears to be a de-facto requirement for these large media distributors to have automated copyright enforcement on them these days.

This would have been completely ridiculous a decade ago, but now it's all over the place, and no doubt will continue to grow. How long until it becomes a de-facto requirement for large hosting providers to have automated copyright enforcement on all outgoing streams from their data centers? How long until it becomes a de-facto requirement for ISPs to have automated copyright enforcement on all incoming streams, or GPUs to do it on content while it's playing, or...?

I'm afraid it's likely to cause negative knee-jerk reactions just bringing it up, but I have to say that The Right to Read is becoming less ridiculous all the time: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Right but when would you ever need to do that with a Mac? The few times you would need to remote in to solve something, you can just use VNC/ARD and "suffer" through the GUI.

It's also much more useful as a teaching tool. Instead of whatever the problem was being silently fixed behind the scenes... then cropping right back up again because it's caused by user error, your client can follow along and actually learn something.

That's my favourite thing about ARD. I can curtain a machine if I don't want questions or interruption, and I can reveal it if I want to teach something.
To me, this is the most important point to be made:

"What promises have they made that can be enforced?"

Until legally binding promises are made for what will and won't be done, I can't really buy into this.

Also, I think it is reasonable to ask whether that $50 price will come down over time, because if we can't expect it to eventually drop to at most $1 per month, I don't see this ever getting any major adoption justifying the $50 investment now.
500, I believe.
Some Thoughts On An Innovation Agenda
Why wouldn't they embrace it? They already have a system flexible enough to make a product like the Transformer Prime feasible. All that's missing, really, is some compatibility work with the new wake lock support in the Linux kernel and a tileing window manager.
Until a *AA gets tired of them "taking advantage" of the law and sues them into oblivion... won't even matter that they were on the right side of the law.
This is good advice. Make sure all of your friends and parents' friends and everyone else in your life knows what you do. Chances are, one of them knows someone who needs you.
I agree. To get to my Series A after resigning my job was nothing like I expected and it was far longer than I had anticipated. I hope whatever you're making has a revenue element to it.
Cool in theory, but wouldn't it be simpler to just launch from someplace closer?
There was a mod for HL1 which allowed you to play as the alien race, similarly to what blue shift and opposing force did for Barney and corporal Shephard respectively. However, I haven't been able to find it on the web for quite some time now. Does anyone know this mod and where it lives nowadays?
México is happening at TC Disrupt
It looks like there is just a hole in the wall there:

http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/120120_2/120120_10.jpg
http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120810_01/120810_01.jpg

(The damage lines up pretty well across those photos)

Doesn't really explain why they masked it out though.
Looking at the homepage of enenews.com, it looks like the website has a pretty strong bias. I wouldn't put much stock in this photo, in fact I doubt Tepco doctored this image themselves.
Want to test a new MMO/RPG?
Hello,

Our team has been working on a new softcore MMO RPG. We're releasing it initially on facebook, and following up with an iPad client later this year.

We really need some feedback, so we thought we'd post here to see what you guys think. The beta is going to open on Thursday, so if you're interested in giving it a go, simple install the game asap and you'll be able to gain access on Thursday.

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And you can install it here:
http://apps.facebook.com/herebemonsters

Cheers!
Tom

ps. We are hiring iOS developers to work on great games like this. If you want to work with us, drop us me a line. We're located in the heart of London, in Piccadilly Circus.
https://github.com/davidbeckingsale/writegood.vim

The Writegood scripts can be handy if you write non-fiction prose in Vim.

A strange synchronicity: I came across the page at

http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voi...

and duly copy/pasted the bash scripts and ran them over some text files. Quite useful. Then I saw this thread and wondered if anyone had done a vim plug in for them. And davidbeckingsale has.
What's jQuery Doing on Standards?
In this talk, Yehuda will give a rough overview of the standardization process, some examples of ways that web developers have helped the process, and talk about how the jQuery project is making a difference.
Besides upvoting for agreement with all the above (I didn't review the code but certainly all this is worth fixing if present), I'll also say that you probably shouldn't recommend people using `sudo` to install your thing in your README / landing page.
> pulled off really well within such a constraint.

That's the thing. They didn't follow the app icon constraint. The only constraint are that they are square with rounded corners.

I get that it's an art form in it's own, but calling them "icons" is just stupid.
Don't let Latin American  VC's lead your round
Minor nitpick: the FEC deals with federal elections, not state legislature races like the one in question [1].

You do raise an interesting point, though. I'm not terribly familiar with the mechanics of Bitcoin transfers, but this seems to throw a sizable wrench into campaign finance regulation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Election_Commission