skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I said.
"Unless child porn prosecution proponents can limit themself with some strict definition of child porn (which they would not do), I say we lose by criminalizing possession of random pics that were considered OK thirty years before."
If the logical expression is true, real child porn can remain illegal. The problem is - the logical expression is false right now.
"Honk Kong"?
Sounds like a great idea to me. The rental market here in Cambridge is always fairly vibrant for the size of the city, but the agencies don't seem to make many friends with either landlords or tenants. I expect you could make a very tidy profit (and a lot of friends :-)) disrupting their market!

It's probably quite seasonal in a place like this, but on the flip side, if you could land a good deal with the universities to help place all their living-out students, that might be worth a quid or two.
Why is almost all housing in London so shitty? It was my big shock when i first came there. Almost all except the very top of the market (over 2000GBP per week, and there are few flats that expensive) appear so terrible... Is that only London or all of the country is like that? Why? Something like tax laws making it prohibitive to renovate housing? Why there is still a lot of 100+ years old rotten houses in London, definitely bearing no historical significance, their planning clearly showing they were build before electricity? I was very surprised since i came from a country many times poorer than the U.K. and yet the housing stock looks so much better there.
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I am jealous as hell. :)

To answer your question, the most useful two pieces of advice I've received are:

(1) Your attention is enough. Just be interested in her, pay attention to her, enjoy the experience.

(2) Don't be afraid of rejection. Will she dump you? Sure, it's possible. I've been dumped before. But if so it likely won't be because you made a mistake. Don't try to predict what will happen, just go for it. If things grow, great, if they don't, you'll still be glad you had the experience.
Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/09/05/short-selling-de...

the idea is that you promise to sell stocks in the company at some future time (at a price fixed now), then diss the company so that their stock drops, so that by the time you need to fulfill the contract you can buy the stock cheaper than the agreed price.

(no idea if this is true or not - had not heard of citron until this thread)
I've been using this format everywhere I can for years now. Quite often, when first exposed to it, folks go directly from "Huh?" to "Oh wow, that makes a lot of sense."

One person at a time.
I really wish it worked on Google App Engine. It would be cool to have abstraction layer, so there's no vendor lock-in with GAE.
I'd agree if it weren't for the confusion it generates, as ISO country codes GB/GBR counter-intuitively don't map to a TLD.

Also, Ukraine got shafted into another mismatch (UA is TLD and ISO alpha-2, UKR is alpha-3), although in their case one could say the country wasn't around when ISO codes were formulated. Some Linux distributions used to have a UK keymap which was... ukrainian. That was a lot of fun to fix (not).
An excellent addition to this article is Leondard Adleman's (the 'A' in "RSA") story: My involvement with the movie sneakers http://www.usc.edu/dept/molecular-science/fm-sneakers.htm
For the astronomy nerds out there (and really, which of us isn't even a tiny bit of an astronomy nerd?) check out Universe Sandbox:

http://universesandbox.com/

You can run simulations similar to what's described in the article and really get an intuitive understanding of how these galaxies form and change on a timescale of millions or billions of years.

I know nothing about formal astrophysics but could play with that game for hours (and have). Also kind of makes you realize that studying what's out there is somewhat akin to studying the bubbles that form in a bubble bath -- lots and lots (and lots) of randomness, but still so much to learn...
"for some" is a hedge because you know there isn't strong enough science to back up your claim, I think.

People have always hurt each other. Video games do not appear to have changed this.
Sequential sieving: Go vs C
> Some PR or marketing guy wrote them then showed them to the person to whom they'd be attributed to get their ok

I happen to know the guy that AFAIK was in charge of preparing the press release and he's actually a major contributor to the codebase, a geek par excellence and have been nagging people to get him quotes on the development mailing list.

The fact that apart from hacking C code he also knows how to write a catchy press release just makes him all the awesomer :)
Google Native Client - Attack Surface and Vulnerabilities (Part 4)
I had a fascinating discussion one time with a friend who was active in the local Asian-American arts community. She told me she had a filmmaker friend who was having trouble screening an art movie he had produced about East Asian sexuality. He had been claiming establishment discrimination is working to suppress his expression of the sexuality of a key demographic.

Thinking it was an interesting topic our conversation went something like:

Me: East Asian sexuality? That's a pretty focused topic.

Her: Yeah, he had a hard time getting actors who would have sex with each other on film.

Me: So....it's a porno?

Her: No! It's an art film!

Me: But they actually had to have sex on film?

Her: Yes! Of course for authenticity! It's about the ways in which East Asians feel their sexuality is repressed compared to the West!

Me: Compared to the West?

Her: Yeah! The West is so open about sexuality, L.A. is the home of porn, Playboy is from the U.S. etc. etc.

Me: You...are aware that something like 50% of all porn on the planet comes out of just Japan. A country with half the population of the U.S. and several countries in East Asia tend to be visited by foreigners almost entirely for sex tourism? There are several studies that indicate the ready availability of cheap pornography catering to just about any proclivity imaginable has been a major contributor to the declining birthrates in the more developed East Asian economies? If anything, much of East Asia is oversexed!

Her: ???

Me: It sounds to me like your friend just wanted an excuse to make a porno, but saying it was an art film kept it from being part of the seedy underbelly of society and gave his project an air of legitimacy. He didn't, by chance ask if you were interested in acting in it were you?

Her: Yes, he did. sigh

So, I think people who are interested in the titillating parts of porn, but who are turned off by the various associations it has, will jump through all kinds of mental hoops to pretend that various attempts at it, perhaps by coming through non-traditional channels, are in fact not porn when they most certainly are.
Is shameless self-promotion of your science a good idea?
The site has no appropriate way for users to deal with stories they disagree with. They can flag, which cause problems as you describe, or they can make negative comments, which are supposedly the big reason HN is going downhill. Correcting individual cases will not stop this until an appropriate outlet is given to express this.
Why limit to Sat-Mon? If one has to offer such a feature, might as well go all the way and make it an arbitrary day. One standard plus one variation can be special-cased, but with two variations you might as well code things properly.
This is our weekend hack. Would love your feedback.

The app is primarily for people doing customer support to understand if their users are using supported browsers and right plugins (like flash etc).

Info link - https://aboutmybrowser.com/?nr (no-redirect since we want it to be zero click for your users)
I prefer older houses, they're usually better soundproofed for starters and have higher ceilings and sash windows which provide better ventilation.
The high cost in London is simply because of the demand.
Great, but I'm looking for a flat share. Do you do those?
Great site!

FYI, you have a small typo on the FAQ page:

"OpenRent are here to ease the administrative burdon and reduce costs." Should be "burden"
Porn as prescriptive propaganda. There's already, and has always been, a market for depictions of non-crazy sex between couples in a relationship. It's just a minor market amoungst many, and IMO, not any less perverse and odd.

Complaining about porn not being real is similar to claiming soccer isn't real. "Real people don't run that fast." "He's just trying to impress the cameras." "What he just did was super dangerous." But it is real, because those are human beings having sex, so if "real" as a word has any meaning, it's real. But the word is being used as a prescriptive code as in the phrase "real women," which simply means "women who are not thin."

Just because models being used in "real" campaigns are not thin does not make them representative of the general population - they are more attractive, their bodies in rarer proportions, they are still thinner, and they lack the actually thin - because 'real'ness is simply a reaction to thiness. The usage of the word "real" in that industry is simply disguising that reaction as a call to authenticity, something that advertisers have done since the beginning of advertising.

If the models were as the general population, why would anyone pay to look at them? If professional footballers played the same game as wekend footballers, why would anyone pay to look at them? If people in porn looked like you and your girlfriend and had sex like you and your girlfriend, why would you pay to watch?

If "real" models become the standard, and you are a thin person, will you have to go underground to find representations of people like you in the media?

I'm just being silly, though. This clarion call for real porn is cyclical, and predictable in its failure - because that market is already being pandered to, and because most people would rather have real sex tham watch it. We have terms for people who want to watch averagely attractive people have average sex within a loving relationship. Peeping Toms.
Why would you name this after a type of HTTP DoS attack?
Google Chrome 21.0.1180.89 m but also no spehrical deformation in Firefox and no sign in the code of anything that could cause it.
I can confirm it being the case in both Opera (12.01 1532) and Chrome (21.0.1180.81). It's very notable if you remove translation and rescaling.

And from the code, it's what it's supposed to do. It's a convincing effect unless you pay attention to the details.
Amazon will remove Kindle Fire HD Special Offers for $15
The article submitted here is a response to an article from the popular press (The Telegraph newspaper published in Britain) that was submitted to HN four times last week:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463519

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4466528

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468436

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468783

A submission to HN from a wire service

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4473985

is also related to the same research.
Here's why a landlord will pay a reputable estate agent a 10% fee. They will:

- market the property on places like rightmove, findaproperty etc

- show prospective tenants around (so you don't have to take time off work)

- take pictures, measurements and construct floor plans

- do credit, CRB and reference checks

- provide a boilerplate tenancy agreement (which you can amend as you like)

- sort out posting of deposits to the Tenancy Deposit Scheme

- collect the rent

The amount of time and hassle all this saves is a lot...
Of course there are crummy agents so do your research.

Incidently - your "no risk" claim is a worrying one and suggests you don't know much about the lettings business.
Distances and speeds on our road system are always measured in miles. As such most British people generally have a much stronger intuition of Miles than they do Kilometres (except strangely runners who quite often use Kilometres).
>It has been conclusively proven that pornography can be harmful to families and relationships.

Citation needed. I've seen studies which suggest that specific kinds of pornography (e.g. rape fantasy) can be damaging, but nothing to support a general statement with that kind of certainty.

>The second being that there would be a legal market for kidde porn? How could this help kids in any way?

How about if it lead to fewer kids being, you know, actually abused. Both by discouraging the production of new kiddie porn (because the market would already be flooded), and by giving those with unfortunate urges a safe outlet.
I don't find this article deeply offensive or anything but agree it's not that interesting in practice (the concept is interesting) and this particular source is a low quality compilation (e.g. little personal contribution, you have to follow several links deep to find original sources).

However, I'd really like to see pg try article downvoting for a short period like the "no scores on comments" experiment. Ideally, without affecting karma negatively (so a -1 article has a 0 effect on karma). In an ideal world there could be a page that still worked for those who wanted to ignore karma downvotes and view the site as-is, but I'm not sure on pg's database structure.
It doesn't sound like there could be any "let HTC off the hook". The whole point of this is that HTC is seeking an injunction against Apple. Even if Apple withdrew all complaints, HTC could still seek that injunction.
JSON isn't much like hstore, as JSON can be recursive. I don't think hstore can.

Still, there's no reason why you couldn't write a function to index JSON however you like.
Looks very nice, I love these type of real estate projects. I've heard before that agencies in the UK are a royal pain, but surely this isn't the first website that tried to bypass them. What sets this one apart?
Only because of road signage and a failure to complete the move to metric.

I tend to use both miles and KM. Miles in the car, KM on the bicycle.

I understand and can visualise what a KM is better than what a mile is though.
Good spot, and thanks for telling us! Have updated it for inclusion in our next release (once we've ridden the HN wave.)
Build solutions, not software
This is a great example of the concept that ideas are worthless and it's execution that is everything. I've been thinking of doing _exactly_ the same service for some.. 2 years now, mostly for myself by potentially also for the benefit of others. And voila :)

Congrats!
Some things that fall under current child porn laws (e.g. the aforementioned teenagers sending pictures to each other) really are petty crimes.
I am not complaining about the costs, that is okay. But overwhelming majority of housing is in really terrible condition, the one that covers almost all of the market except the very top. Other places i used to live in, those with 20-50% of U.K.'s per capita GDP, have much better housing, new and old one.
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Just curious, how do agent fees normally work in London?
Working From Home Makes You More Productive
Just to add a second to this, when I was last flat hunting some 5 months ago this was a huge problem for me online - searching for '1-bed' would show me studios and flatshares when all I was interested in was a proper 1-bed flat. Glad to hear you're working on it, I've bookmarked you for the next time I move.
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Interested to see how Appharbor goes. I've been using a .NET MVC-based setup to achieve a similar thing here in Aus (for friends only currently as I've been relying on scraping for data). Really impressed with your customer dev efforts by the way.
> And I think in other countries, it's said the other way around, right? "Today is the tenth of September?" That would actually be okay sounding in the U.S., too, though a little uncommon. Can you say "Today is tenth September"? That sounds very weird to me.

You mean in english? Because in portuguese we use cardinals to refer to days, and not ordinals. "Dez de setembro de 2012"—literally: "Ten of September of 2012." I'd guess it's the same in spanish.
He will be crushed there. If the domain doesn't have a revenue stream (and isn't generic, EMD > ~3600/m) then maybe he will get $50 or maybe $100 tops. add $30 fee + 5%.
Apart from giving them a feel of a power, what does the fact of closing a thread (whether legitimately or not) give to the mods? Do they have some karma incentive to do so?
Rss-motor v0.1.1 is out (few corrections) ~ boost up your RSS Apps
Something doesn't seem right...
Quick check with another source shows IE still in the lead: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-201108-201208
I think it's just basic economics. There are some areas in the UK where there is such a concentration of interest that demand far outstrips supply, and London is the biggest example. That leads to dramatically higher prices in those areas, and presumably makes the market less competitive in terms of quality as well.
I have been researching other GO web frameworks last two days and this one is undeniably the best looking yet. But, I really wished they had integrated an ORM from the start. Also, I wish could know "why" they chose play framework as an architecture reference.
Well if you can afford housing in London then maybe you were at the very top of the market in other countries?
I left London partly so I could afford to live in a nicer house.
I'd imagine it's a similar story in places like Hong Kong, Singapore, New York.
Here's what OpenRent offers (take a look here: http://www.openrent.co.uk/landlords):

- We'll market the property on places like rightmove, findaproperty etc

- We'll do credit, CRB and reference checks

- We'll provide a boilerplate tenancy agreement (which you can amend as you like), AND we'll provide a digital agreement for online signatures.

- We'll sort out posting of deposits to the Tenancy Deposit Scheme

- We'll tell tenants where and when to pay the rent. ie. A standing order into the landlord's bank account, but we don't collect it as such.

What we don't do:

- The viewings. Obviously this is a huge cost saving that we can pass onto the tenants and landlords, but also, tenants like meeting the landlord, and landlords like meeting their prospective tenants. Who better to show you round?
Good question. This is my experience as well.
I see lots of flat shares listed, but there doesn't seem to be a filter for them, which would be useful.
Social Media Manager Needed
Seems nice. A couple of things:
1) It would be cool if it gets shorter urls so it would be usable on phone.
2) It detects Safari on Linux for me. Im using Konqueror. https://aboutmybrowser.com/848858317
If you access a direct link (to someone's browser info) the page should make it clear that it's not your browser you are visiting. Now it says "share your browser info" even if you opened some other url.
Board Game Maker Releases Alan Turing Monopoly
Regardless of the actual browser, Qihoo demonstrates absolute mastery of the Dark Pattern.
NASA | Magnificent Sun Eruption in FullHD
As someone living in London, I would generally agree with this - compared to a lot of places, London does seem to have a lot of housing in quite bad repair.

To take a wild guess why, I would suggest two factors:
1) The housing stock is old compared to a lot of places, so much of it needs modernization and renovation
2) The lack of space to expand (plus restrictions on greenfield developments) means new housing is limited, so there is not much competition to existing landlords. Why spend thousands of £ on upgrading your property if you can leave it as it is and still charge high rents?
Please make sure searching for 1-bed apartments does not show studios and flatshares. This is absolutely infuriating on many other sites.
Thanks for pointing out the bug. We'll work on it. 'Safari on linux' does sound weird, doesn't it? :)

We'll work on the urls. As such the layout scales down on phones (thanks to Bootstrap 2.0)
A great idea, especially if you do it using webfinger + portablecontatcs. This way you just give your identifier, and your profile is automatically discovered.
Are we all forgetting why people build web apps in the first place? It's not about performance.
> You could buy a .com address years before the internet existed outside the US.

The .com tld was created in 1984, at which point there had already been international links for over a decade, so that doesn't really support the argument.
great initiative. very useful.
I prefer year-month-day. This extends logically into time, and plays well with regular math. Except for switching base every digit.
Nice idea - this could be achieved by dropping a cookie.
Ask HN: Favorite project management tool
I'm looking for a tool to help manage projects with small teams. It's usually me and and a few people I'm sub-contracting to and a client.

What I'm really keen to track are original time estimates, current estimates and time spent so far for each feature. I also want each feature to be assignable easily and to have a comments thread attached to it. At any given time I'd like to be able to get reports on what the progress is like on the whole product and on the next milestone.

Right now I'm using GitHub Issues but the lack of estimates and reports is making my life a lot more complicated then I feel it should be :)

It would be great to have it calculate rates as well but that would need to have options on the visibility as it's not always appropriate that everyone can see everything.

Stuff I've looked at:

- GitHub Issues
- Planscope (planescope.io)
- Sprintly (sprint.ly)
- Trello
- Pivotal Tracker

But none seem just right (maybe one would be if I used it in the right way)

Any suggestions?
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Not entirely sure what you mean. Mturk has an api, a lot of people use it for quality assurance, like checking images for nudity or stuff like that.
Thanks for the feedback. We will fix this..
(Unfortunately) that's not true. All road distances are Miles here in the UK. By this I mean road signs, maps, vehicle speedometers and trips, etc.

I wish we did use Km - I just spent a couple of months riding my motorcycle around Europe, and metric everything just felt so much more intuitive.
However, the problem with Android is version fragmentation - a lot of users have phones that they can't trivially upgrade to ICS, and therefore can't use Chrome for Mobile/Android. Asking someone to root their phone and install a custom ROM, and then install a different browser is a bit crazy if you ask me.
On your site it says "our service now includes: Listing on our site as well as Rightmove, Zoopla, FindaProperty, Globrix, PrimeLocation and more to advertise your property to millions of high quality tenants".

Does this mean that a posting on your site also appears on those portals? If so, how do you do this technically?
nice one. simple but very useful when you are dealing with non-tech users.
As geeks, we tend to forget sometimes how trivial questions such as "What browser are you using" leave some users completely stumped. Heck, there may be so many people who do not even know the meaning of a browser. This seems a simple yet great way to get the required info. Kudos!
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I think if you add a "share via e-mail" feature right underneath it, it would be awesome.
The thought occurred to me that this is a really weird situation for a technology to be in.

Google Glass exists in a kind of public beta. We know it's coming, we've seen some impressive stuff with it, we know it could be huge or a flop. It's possible to buy a pair right now if you really want, but it's not "ready". What other products have been released this way?