skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just unusual if you think about it. It helps to have been alive in a time before the web was significant. Think of all the companies you give personal information to. Think of how much information you actually give them. Think about what they are permitted to do with that information.

Then think about sending a list of all your friends, family, colleagues, your personal thoughts and commnications on personal matters, to a random, characteristically anti-social CS major you've never met. It's just plain weird. And Zuckerberg was absolutely right in what he said: we're dumb to do it. The problem is this didn't phase him one bit. He went right ahead as if it was all going to be OK. And we just kept sending him more and more info.

Granted, Facebook calls itself a company, and the situation has grown quite large and complex, but I still think of Facebook as one CS student's website. It is what it is.

You send your personal info, in some cases more personal info than you would give your personal banker, your doctor, or your lawyer, through the web to total strangers, many of them are anti-social kids like Zuckerberg, to be posted on his website.

It's a disaster waiting to happen.
You were right. They were on www

A small bug : sometimes when I click Next, nothing happens, so I clicked Next many times. That ended up in the song history becoming like this : http://i.imgur.com/yUcj5.png
Awesome. Will this allow us to load images into canvas without security errors?
Surely buckling strength applies when you're taking off as much as when you're landing?
There are a lot of schools of thought that address the paradox of short term sufferings involvement in the overall scheme of kindness. Buddhism refers to it as "idiot kindness" or "idiot compassion" if you're kind in the short term without considering the long term value of it.

True kindness is a long winded, structured and considerate thing. Feeding a junky drugs because it makes them feel better is an example of it done wrong, I would still entirely consider it kind and compassionate to will someone through a process such as what you've illustrated here if you had a genuine understanding that it was going to provide them these kind of benefits.

Clever and kind are never that clear or opposed in the sense of dichotomy. At the extremes of it maybe 'clever' looks like not helping people at all because it frees up resources for the rest of the community, or 'kind' is euthanasia. The subjectivity of it all is the integral, and hardest, part of the process of assessing what's 'best' for an individual.
20µs == 20 microseconds == 20 * 10e-6 seconds. 100ns == 100 nanoseconds == 100 * 10e-9 seconds. 2 GHz == one clock cycle in 0.5 * 10e-9 seconds. And that's how long that one comparison would take; not accounting for branch prediction and other interferring stuff inside the processor. It's not an attack, it's a joke.
I like it. Is there a volume control?
Android v. iOS Part 5: Android Is A Two-Legged Stool
I used the server 1 root URL (https://level01-2.stripe-ctf.com/) and the response from there as the attempt.
Netflix Needs To Prepare For War
Nice job, like hypem-lite. My only minor gripe is that the "more obscure" needs to be "more more obscure" for my taste...but, that's probably just me.
Great execution, no barrier to playing.
If I understand what you are doing correctly (scraping mp3 blogs), most of the music is provided to the blogs by artist (or PR) for purposes of promotion, so legally it's relatively solid.

I'm curious to know what blogs you are scraping, and how the crawler is moving on to new blogs? I chase a lot of music blogs and host one myself, and know how inconsistent they can be design and format-wise!

Also suggest linking to the original blog the song was found from, somewhat of a courtesy to the blogger, but even more as a means to find more information about the artist (without you having to input that data yourself)
I get the impression that a lot of the anti-Apple camp get the same sense about people who "support" the decision, and I use that term loosely. I'd like to offer the following:

Apple has been consistent in actively defending any design element, hardware or software, they feel is uniquely identifiable as Apple. This has always been about brand identity, but something so amorphous and difficult to regulate have few tools to protect them so instead the fights focus on technicalities. A patent here, a copyright there, a trademark, whatever. It's always fun to point and laugh at the specifics, but it's the bigger overall picture at play that's defining the actions, not the actions themselves. Long debates exist over whether the ends justify the means ect. so no need to get into it here.

Samsung is just the latest in this trend and sort of the current poster child of businesses who's modus operandi is mimicking the successful designs of market leader products (whether it's software, hardware, appliances, whatever) and offering them at lower costs to cannibalize (couldn't think of a better word) the market as much as possible. There's nothing explicitly illegal about it since they aren't 100% knockoffs, but they skirt a very fine line, and I, like many others, seem to find it a morally detestable practice which can have a negative long term impact on the market and can debatably hurt consumers in ways they aren't always aware of. (apologies, still looking for a source on this).

I think you'll find that most people who support the decision also agree that the need to weaponize a patent on an arguably questionable "innovative UI" in order to convince a bad actor to stop copying other people's work is absurd and has a serious chilling effect that can hurt more than it can help. IANAL, but my feeling is that if the market is significantly large enough scale the tools available that would be more appropriate to use don't carry enough weight behind them to create an equally compelling incentive to "play fair". Many companies seem to be resorting to using patents, copyright, and trademark instead to create an incentive compelling enough to negotiate some sort of mutual agreement (forced or otherwise). I think we can all agree that this activity is an abuse of those "protections" and a very compelling argument to have a good long look at them and determine what positive and negative motivational forces they create. However, while two wrongs don't make a right, it doesn't negate the fact that there is a genuine grievance in this case where the systems, as they currently exist, have not been able to resolve without heavy dependance on technicalities that taken individually may not mean much to the original issue. This is at least how I've personally been able to rationalize the disparity I have of the two positions and I get the feeling from other "supporters" that something similar is going on.
Start-up savior? Killing convertible debt
Works on iphone (without autoplay of course). Oddly the skip and play icons are reversed, but the functionality is not? Almost made me give up thinking iOS might not be supported.
Humans don't gallop, either. It's no fair improving over galloping, but then rejecting further improvements made by kangaroos.
Enterprise Mobility: iPad Mini Will Hurt Amazon, Google: 10 Reasons Why
I've mentioned this here before, but similarly I caught Chris Hedges plagiarizing in one of his articles, in a very similar situation where he had blatantly copied someone else's mistakes. But when I emailed his editors to tell them about it, they basically told me to go fuck myself. I'm pretty sure that most journalistic organizations these days know what's going on and just don't want any of it to come to light unless some other organization forces the issue, in which case they then do everything they can to throw the person under the bus.
64 to 30: Commodore's game-changing computer enters its fourth decade
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I agree some regulation is in order, but I think you have to carefully distinguish squatting from legitimately transacting in patents. ARM is right now a practicing entity. They do the design, which is their expertise, and license their patents and other IP to companies who integrate and manufacture processors. This is an example of a patent being used to facilitate a useful division of labor. Now, what happens if ARM wants to get out of the business? Could they sell their IP to a third party who doesn't want to design micro processors, but just wants the right to receive the licensing revenue?

It's easy to define squatting in ways that prevent that, IMHO, legitimate transaction.
Fully-assembled iPhone 5 pictured side-by-side with iPhone 4
I think there are many cases where packages may not be in one language repo, but in another. However, Python does have a lot of testing packages available that do a swell job. Also, the JUnit test-report format these days tends to be what I see a lot of.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy

Also, as far as SQL, and even Object Relational Mappers goes, there's SQL Alchemy.

You can verify they are present here, in PyPi:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi
I'm confused by what you are saying. Are you suggesting that techdirt should have explained processor emulation in their article?
You probably can, but consider that you will be competing against probably 20 other people if Google hires 1 out of 20 interviewed. This is just based on rough estimates,but: Ten will have a BS, five will have a MS, and one or two will have a phd. keep in mind this is if you get an interview. Everyone will be afraid of looking bad if they hire a dummy. What would you do?
I'd love to see it... for what it might guide to do on services other than S3
Nicely condensed
Kippt, Pinboard Help Digg Users Find New Home For Old Data
Sorry, I missed there actually was yet another source the article referenced - you sometimes have to follow these repost chains for dozens of sites.

http://pic.digi.sohu.com/group-376571.shtml

http://m4.biz.itc.cn/pic/new/n/39/61/Img4176139_n.jpg
http://m1.biz.itc.cn/pic/new/n/40/61/Img4176140_n.jpg
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Tokyo court: Samsung didn't infringe Apple patent
Don't those require going to an Apple store, officially, which gives them a chance to check serial # vs. stolen list? (It used to be possible by pulling the RAM, but on modern MBA's, the ram is soldered to the main board.)
At the top of the page:

"You need a Facebook account to register for Spotify"

At the bottom of the page:

"or

Create an account using my e-mail address"

Awesome design there!
Apple accuses four more Samsung devices of infringement in second patent suit
> I believe it's a matter of time until users begin questioning the Microsoft tax when they can get a useful OS sans viruses and malware for free.

You sound like mac users 5 years ago. There are viruses and malware for linux systems today. As the market share goes up, so too will the attacks.
I have no problem with sign in by facebook and promotions, as long as I'm given the choice or ways of logging in be that google, msn, and few others and or a local account option. When I'm not I don't use that product as I dont want a facebook account, my choice and any situation were I'm forced to I walk away. My choice.

I can undestand why so many do it, they have IT on the cheap and instead of doing a local login option you pick facebook and leave all authentication down to them and there API's. But that's there choice.

Eventualy some law will pass forceing companies to allow the user to pick which social login persona they wish to use and that will be that, repeat of the whole unbundle IE affair remixed for today playing out with social media login's. We shall see, but until then everybody has a choice they just need to execute it more often than they do.
Comcast and Road Runner Customers Love Uploading Their Stuff to The Pirate Bay
This might be the most insightful comment I've read on HN. I think this is the point people either miss or don't bother to address when claiming that they can just search for "arcane" facts instead of memorizing them.
Although I might not agree with the iPad comparison, that's a really great idea I'd buy into.
Apple’s Secret Employee Training Manual Revealed
this is awesome! simple and excellent idea, clean (and fast!) interface, and just well done overall. what are your plans for it?
The site is incredible. I love the design and the extraordinary simplicity in functionality.

To make a side comment, this seems like an ideal MVP. It gets all the core functionality well-implemented, with enough polish to make it captivating.

Some users mentioned that user accounts, despite the use of HTML5 to store user-specific info, is something that would still be useful. I agree, and it makes it an ideal part of your next revision.

Keep up the good work! This is definitely bookmarked.
Ugh... Are we really using the word "social" as a noun now?
Show HN: Community based ask and answer for car questions
A link to download/buy the music or even Artist's profile would be helpful. Love the colors, and the minimalistic UI.
It's not been a good year for This American Life.

First their story about abuse at Apple factories in China turned out to be piece of fiction. Now all this with their contributor Jonah Lehrer.
You’re So Linux and You Don’t Even Know It: Why OS Rules the Mobile Phone...
Built with django running osqa. My question is, how can I grow a community that would find this useful?

Any suggestions welcomed.
Facebook offers developers better access to data
One of thing which I believe hindered in Linux’s popularity right from the early days, was its not so impressive User Interface, compared to Win95/98. I think this is where/when Windows took off and nobody was able to catch up comparably for a very long time to come.

Another aspect was the lack of availability of compatible software. Software back in the days were in the form of CDs-on-the-shelf, and I don’t think anybody made any of them Linux compatible.

So the challenge was just not there from the beginning to get a hold of average desktop user.
I absolutely love mixest, I've used it when it was launched here on hn 3 years ago... <3<3<3
+1 for this. More background info in general (site where you found it, artist(s), album(s) and song) would go a long way. Nice alternative to my hype machine addiction.
Music selection is good.

Simple to use.

Good stuff man
It's a good feature idea (I implemented a similar one in my open source webmail application a few years ago, I called it "freeze folder") but to go as far as "Paradigm shifted. Game changed" is over the top.
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clever and kind are not opposites. stupid people.
Long term memory might not be limited but short term working memory is certainly limited. The short term working memory is important in solving problems in general.
I save all online reading in Instapaper. So that works well. But thanks for suggesting.
I was wondering about her husband. She's 60 years old, so he's presumably in the same age range. How many 60 year old guys, even big guys, have the strength to carry a full grown woman around by her ankles for a half hour?
The second point: "Companies tend to depend on a myriad of applications to run their business, and just a couple of them not running under Linux would be enough to derail a transition to Linux desktops" is the real killer.

This is really the only reason that I can't recommend trying Ubuntu to more people. People site usability concerns etc and while there are some issues there I think it's mostly "good enough" now and we're long past the days of having to compile a .tar.gz full of .c files and fettle with vi in order to get sound to work.

So the issue is how to get third party developers interested. I think the best way is by including a really sexy app store. Ubuntu Software Centre is a start but it's still nowhere close to what Apple has achieved in this area. Nasty looking icons, inconsistent screen shots (some showing gnome2, others Unity) and thousands of free apps with weird names don't make it the most attractive place to shop.

In many ways though , I would consider desktop Linux a success regardless of marketshare for the simple reason that it is now possible to "use a computer in freedom". I think the software world would be a bleaker place if Torvalds , Stallman et all hadn't spent the hours pushing code. Imagine a world where the cheapest HTTP server license went into thousands of $.
I don't think there needed to be so many bullet points to explain why the adoption of Linux as a desktop operating system has been extraordinarily slow and generally unsuccessful.

In my opinion, it would fall under these two reasons

1) The difference between a Linux desktop & a Windows/Mac desktop is negligible, or worse. GNOME/KDE don't really add any compelling features that make them better than Windows or Mac anymore. I remember a few years ago, I loved putting Ubuntu on my system because drivers would be downloaded automatically and I could easily access all Linux packages from one simple package manager. The folder browser was pretty familiar, and the GNOME 2 bar was a nice hybrid between Mac & Windows, but nothing too special.

However, the driver installation & central package directory have been long a competitive advantage with the era of Windows 7, etc. Granted, these weren't "defining" features of Linux, but when I personally used it, these were thinks that struck me then, but are no longer relevant now.

2) The ecosystem. I think it goes without saying that the Linux software ecosystem is much more fragmented, and is often found in the "underground".

It's not an issue of whether or not there are substitutes to things like Office, Adobe Creative Suite products, iPhoto, and other essential apps that normal people/working people use on a daily basis, etc. (although I do think that there aren't adequate substitutes for these and that the friction of trying to get these actual products to work through things like WINE, etc is too much).

However, because things are so much more fragmented on Linux, it being an open system, it's harder for there to be de facto software (unless you lurk in some Linux community, which again, normal people aren't generally interested in).

The user has to make so many choices, which are often arbitrary and needless, and in doing so becomes frustrated and confused. There is too much stuff to explain that isn't necessary to explain, and too much detail to go into that again, is not practical.

The trade-off with Linux is that you get an enormous amount of power and responsibility. The benefit of this is that you get an enormous amount of power & responsibility. The cost is...the same, some people just don't want to bother.
Birds hold 'funerals' for dead
It's not the modules - it's the infrastructure of the CPAN environment.

See this comment on an old Perl thread for some pointers

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4042344
has anyone played words with friends? all the cool kids log in with facebook. that way you can send game requests to girls and stuff.

people login with facebook when they want the experience to be social.
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"As has been alluded to in another comment: Which other languages that compare to perl have you actually looked at?"

I am very familiar with all of the languages that you mention. They are all great languages in their own right. My comment however was about Perl's ability to easily evolve the core language via contributions from its community, as opposed to other languages that require a lenghty process performed by the core maintainers of the language. This allows Perl to evolve at a much faster pace than other languages. A lot of your points do not seem relevant in that context.

"Python has rich meta-programming."

Who cares? So do most modern languages.

"Ruby has (almost) single-handedly super-hyped and re-invented the idea of domain specific languages (DSLs)."

The Perl community has been writing DSL's since before most people had heard of Ruby. Real DSL's. Not just invoking functions without parens and labeling it a DSL, as is often done in the Ruby community. Ruby in no way invented or re-invented anything having to do with DSL's.

"Lisp is of course all about this (as is Forth)."

Agreed. Lisp macros are very powerful. Lisp is a great example of a language that can do this.

"I'm very much on the burnt-by-crazy-old-nasty-perl-legacy-crap side of the fence -- but I can't deny that I see some of the reasons why people would like to use perl -- it's just not for me."

This is a common complaint. People have had to deal with Perl code that they do not understand. It may have been poorly written, or it may have been perfectly written Perl code. If you do not take the time to learn Perl, you would not know the difference. The most common reaction is to blame the language.

"Still -- it's a bit strange to see the claim that perl is somehow much more flexible than other comparable languages."

It may be strange to you because you are not very familiar with Perl.
Spaceless text engine
Announcing my open source spaceless text engine alpha edition.
Whenever this happens I am tempted to "debug" the non-problem but I know it would be a waste of time to find out why something worked. Drives me crazy.
Maybe it'd be safer to swap out the hard drive with a brand new one before crossing the border? :)
Beat you by 15 minutes ;-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4462407
somewhat shocked they pushed Friday before the weekend.
> If a lot of talented engineers from Microsoft and Amazon are having trouble in Google interviews, doesn't that indicate that Google is testing the wrong things?

From my experience the average quality of engineer at Google is very high. I think it simply indicates a different hiring bar.
So, basically, Perl has macros? REAL macros? Like, say, in Lisps? Could I, for example, make fully inlined merge sort, as demonstrated a couple days ago here by a post from Racket blog? Now I'm curious.
It's not that hard to know the types of the variables you created without punctuation in the identifiers, either.
Unless an article is reached that has no link. [A dead-state in the stated finite-state machine]
There is no way something this ugly is the next iPhone.
Not true -- we need all the talent we can get. If someone that's good gets rejected, we'll contact them in a few months and hopefully not mess it up again. Mistakes are made in the interview process, but hopefully they aren't unforgivable.
Interesting view... Difference is that a stock photo is just one part of a bigger picture (as you said). However, a theme is everything that the users sees, not just a part.

I'm using Pastel and it seems perfect for the project.

Thanks for the input, it helped.
Love is a Fallacy --Max Shulman
Many people don't want to be contractors. One of Google's draws is the benefits for full-time employees.
aggregation and then MVCC.. the circle is complete.
I assure you, passing Oregon high school's math classes without abstract thought is VERY easy.
How about exponentially increasing renewal fees? $1 for the first year, $2 for the second, $4 for the first, etc. If the patent is valuable then the owner can keep it going longer, but it will still become unsustainably expensive before too long, and huge portfolios of long-lived patents would be impractical.
>For this to happen, evolution would have had to have accelerated to light speed.

What? No... no. There are plenty of ways that intelligence could have dramatically increased since the '30s without any evolutionary effects.
Unless it's a company that cures cancer over the internet, your startup isn't enriching anyone's life.

We have different definitions. I feel many things enrich my life from literature and magazines to cars and restaurants or walks in the park. And - drum-roll - even Hacker News ;-)

Media and publishing business are dying.

Some are. Many are thriving and growing, including mine.