skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to sheep-shearings - as long as the sheep is regularly sheared, it'll know what's going on and won't be upset; it's not painful (as long as the person with the trimmer is expert enough not to nick the skin), and the wool starts peeling off in chunks anyway if you don't shear it during the summer.

Caveat: I have no idea if there's some horrible mechanized way to shear sheep at greater scale. But on the smaller scale the most efficient way is to keep the sheep calm and cooperative. The cheapest way to keep large numbers of sheep also seems to be to let them wander over a large area of cheap land (rocky, steep, uneven, etc. -- unusable for cow grazing or farming is just fine). On the Isle of Skye in Scotland there are simply sheep wandering everywhere, often in the roads, as the sheep farmers don't always bother with much fencing.
OMG! I thought I was one of the Only ones this happened to!!!

I had nearly $40k (ALL of my upstart company's capital) held for 180 days, and I almost went out of business. My products unexpectedly sold better than we had planned for, and we received a few chargebacks, that we had asked Paypal how we should handle before they occurred. The chargebacks were a very small amount, but they held the ENTIRE BALANCE. I couldnt pay for any of the inventory, which led to a chain reaction of chargebacks.

What made it even worse - THEY NEVER REFUNDED the customers on time and did not allow us, the merchant, to process the refunds --- IT WAS THE ULTIMATE BUSINESS NIGHTMARE!!! We started out as victims of our own sucess. Instead of helping us, we almost became victims of Paypal!
Worth mentioning as well is TinyPNG - http://tinypng.org/, a free web service that uses lossy compression to shrink PNG images.
I was making a crack about JS-only people.
Look, I get tons of spam: I have had the same email address since 1997 and have never been shy about posting it anywhere and for any purpose with visibility to anyone. However, spam filters actually work well, and to the extent that don't work it doesn't take much time to deal with: spam is very obvious. When spam isn't obvious, I will argue it is actually a malicious phishing attack, and not spam.

Given this, you must realize that >99% of this spam is from random people whom are not actually subject to this law because they aren't at all traceable. If I have heard of the service, then it will be trivial enough to killfile (such as, "reject all messages from this domain; example: *@pcworld.com"), and much easier to do so than even clicking a single link to unsubscribe as you can make that a hotkey in your client.

(Sadly, people believe that they should rely on spam filters for this use case, which is ludicrous as there is no real way to differentiate "I signed up for PCWorld in 1999 and have since decided I no longer care" from "I never signed up for PCWorld, but they decided to start sending me things O hate" from "I like PCWorld and would love to hear about their new articles, so I subscribed" using remotely objective algorithms.)

(Even a human is going to get it wrong half the time, especially of they're as spam-touchy as the people on this thread reporting services I might personally use and like to Google as "spam" when they can and should either killfile the sender or take the extra 30 seconds to unsubscribe; people who do this just damage the effectiveness of spam filters by messing up the training sets with data that isn't truly indicative of the spam we need machine learning to filter.)

In essence, this law spends a bunch of time figuring out how to regulate people who were either never the problem in the first place, or we're the problem only because they decided to hand your email address to a third party they maybe shouldn't have (although the idea that you will combat spam by keeping your email secret is already a losing battle). Meanwhile, the people who cause the >150k spam messages I receieve per year to saurik@saurik.com just get to keep on spamming.
"How Tumblr is Built for iOS" to be grammatically correct. Sorry, this really bugged me for some reason.
The C# version has the overhead of looking up the Encoding and creating a byte array each character. This can be avoided by using the libraries correctly.
[The mother is more] important physically, yes. But not emotionally, emotionally both are very important.
Amazon itself publishes many public domain books in the store (for free). And, anyway, they have a specific policy for public domain: https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2OHLJUR... which basically boils down to "our policy is to not publish undifferentiated versions of public domain titles where a free version is available in our store." Seems reasonable to me.
What you're saying is odd, because I own a first.last@gmail.com email address and I know the person that owns the equivalent firstlast@gmail.com email address.

Also, the email address to which the message was sent appears clearly in the "To:" header.
Sounds like no exclusive publishing rights exist. I mean that in a "first principles" sense, not in a "what the twisted US copyright law says" sense.

Aren't most of the stupidest "IP" conflicts actually conflicts between what makes sense and what "the law" says?
Parallelism isn't concurrency and concurrency isn't parallelism.

Parallelism is simultaneity. Parallelism can be deterministic.

Concurrency is by definition, non-determinism. Concurrency does not, by any means, necessitate or mean simultaneity.
I'm not a big user of Python, but it seems to me that any language that requires you to embed a different language for performance is inherently broken.

To regular pythonistas: Is this a common issue with Python, or only in the author's contrived scenario of summing a ridiculous amount of numbers?
What I meant by that actually, was everyone says to use it as an IDE, but it felt like I was trying too hard to make it work like an IDE, than accept ti for what it really is, just a text editor with some useful scripts.
I have a Thinkpad E420 which is my main computer. Occasionally I'll work at my kitchen table, but usually I work at my "command center" desk. I have a 25" LCD monitor that helps supplement the horrible 1366x768 screen on my laptop.

For peripherals, I have a basic Dell optical mouse [1] and an ancient Microsoft Trackball Explorer [2]. I use a Logitech Ultrathin keyboard [3] as my main keyboard, but also utilize the laptop's keys too since they are very nice.

Basically, by having two sets of each peripheral, I can swap between them to keep from feeling sore. If my hand starts to get cramped from the mouse, switch over to the trackball for a while. If my wrists are getting tired with one keyboard, close the tray and switch to the laptop itself.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VBZWZ6/ref=as_li_tf_tl?...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005853Z/ref=as_li_tf_tl?...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F51G16/ref=as_li_tf_tl?...
Cypher: Text adventure reborn?
An update to my prior post -- I just read this:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/public_health/And-the-lat...

A quote: "...most controversially, Velasquez-Manoff claims that if you “fix the maternal dysregulation” that causes inflammation, “you’ve most likely prevented autism.” This is an outrageous claim with absolutely no scientific support beyond some preliminary studies and an early (phase 1) research trial to which he refers."

Well said.

EDIT: I see the original HN post is yours. Sorry -- I seem to have moved in an imperfect circle.
If the book is publicly available in a variety of formats already, who needs Amazon at all?
No they are lower. The 9 bay area counties have a lot of diversity from San Jose which is on the southeastern tip of the bay to Sausalito on the northern end. From rough patches in East Palo Alto to gated communities in Portola. Things that affect prices: schools, commute, amenities (near the woods, libraries, county services, etc), and micro-climate (farther south is a lot warmer than closer to the water).
So these new Surface Pro things are going to be like a current ipad-style tablet, but with a keyboard, heavier, have shorter battery life and be more expensive. That sounds very much like a device I already have, which is called a laptop. It runs Eclipse pretty well on the rare occasions I want it to.

Less than $100 is still a pretty hefty tag in this market too; that's half the price of a Nexus 7! I think Microsoft are going to have to learn that this market isn't going to allow them the huge margins they've traditionally enjoyed on PCs.
Yes, but copies of videos aren't kids. They're not even property.
The "for iOS" suffix can sometimes be considered part of the app name.
This might help you:

http://raymii.org/cms/p_Small_Linux_PCs_overview
There's nothing I'm looking forward to in 12.10 other than running the latest version.

There was once a time when I used to count the days to the latest and greatest. These days, I have more important things to do. Once Unity was stable enough for my day-to-day use, minus some feature I don't realize I need, the current development is faced with a meh.
Sony Goes After Leica With Full-Frame Compact RX1
It's a great idea.. I usually am a little confused about my career.. Sometimes I ask for advice to people I acknowledge as experts.. but it's frequently difficult to contact them
"SQUARE" (square.com) does.
perhaps macports is better, but AAPL will f* you over with time, after the honeymoon. And this applies to OSX updates too, even if you fork over the money

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4433082

back to linux. (it has ruby too.)
Interesting. I actually love the Command key. I see it as a Control key for GUI operations, leaving my actual Control key free for doing things in my Terminal. This is actually a big sticking point when it comes to trying to work on Linux workstations like we have at work -- GUI and console stuff end up munged under the same modifier key (and this is harder to change than you'd think, even with a lot of xmodmap work).

That said, I've also ditched my Caps Lock key entirely and turned it into a second Control key. Control-A has never seemed difficult to me, at least with this arrangement, but I'm not a home row typist (or an Emacs user -- I just use the Emacs bindings in text boxes and terminals).

Otherwise this more or less mirrors my experience, although mine was ~7 years ago (so the Linux desktop environment was even less mature at the time). I haven't found a need to shop around for as many alternative applications. In particular, you can have Terminal.app when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Bender for president - hackers rigged a voting system
People in other parts of the world have been arrested for having stepped on marijuana particles: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1884201...

America's CP laws are quite similar to this. If you even have a 32x32 thumbnail cached in your browser history, whether or not you were even looking for it, you'll get arrested and imprisoned in most places. I think New York is the only state to have ruled this out and require you to knowingly save it.

And yes, people quite frequently have drugs planted on them or have a friend leave something behind without their knowledge and get charged with it.
>Apple is the innovation leader. What, after all, has Amazon (or Microsoft) actually invented here? Nothing.

It's not like Apple invented anything either. As with most things they do, the ipad's secret was not innovation but polish, taking existing technology and putting in the integration and software effort to make turn it into a great user experience. I'm not saying this isn't valuable, but it's fundamentally no more or less innovative than what Amazon's doing (making the same experience available at lower cost).

Of the three Microsoft is the truly innovative company. E.g. many of the ideas behind iOS' sandboxing mechanism originated at Microsoft Research.
Why ignore the evidence? Electronics are not being turned off, which means thousands of flights per day have been made for years with electronics on. Apparently there has been no incident serious enough to up the risk beyond "not guaranteed to be safe". Could you possibly fund a more extensive test of the danger than what is already happening?
If only elisp was replaced with Haskell. One day, one day.
The JS doesn't allow one to type in the first number box in both IE10 and Opera, you can only type in the last 3 boxes which makes it unusable.
So, when you say spam is not a problem you mean it is not a problem for you. You know how to set filters; you're using machines a lot anyway (and thus the extra bandwidth and storage and processing isn't a burden) etc etc.

I'm gently worried about the spam vs ham problem. Some people must not ever have a false positive.

In theory this law encourages good companies to stay good companies and to not outsource to dodgy spam outfits.

It is weird that in 2012 we're still making up stuff about the best practice for sending email.
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If legalising murder somehow leads to consistently lower murder rates, it should be done.

Why the hell not? The main idea is keeping people alive and well. The main idea is NOT the persecution for crimes. That's a tool of limited usability.
Some time ago, thanks to a tip on HN, I was listening to a interview with Stanley Kubrick recorded in the 1960's in New York. He's a genius in the opinion of many, myself included, so I was happy for the tip. This is what makes HN worth reading.

In the interview, one of the films that was mentioned a few times was Lolita (1962). This is one Kubrick film I have never seen. So I did a little research on it.

It's based on a novel from 1955 by Vladmir Nabokov. It just so happens this is one of best-selling novels of all-time, in the "50-100 million copies sold" bracket, according to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books.html

It's also listed as one of the best novels of all-time on the Random House web site. Top 5 I think. I believe it was also selected as on of the best books of all-time in a survey of a book club in Norway, if my memory is correct. But don't take my word as fact. Check these sources yourself; they are linked from Wikipedia.

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

What is the subject of the book? That's left for the curious reader to discover. You might be surprised. I certainly was.

Remember, this book was published in 1955.

Also, though I might not thnk highly of the "messenger", the message in this thread about the "market" for videos of murder was thought-provoking. There was a terrible film about five years ago about this subject, starring Diane Lane.
The film is centered around the Hollywood's version of the internet, so it's a little painful to watch. But the whole premise of the film was the most disturbing. Why was this film even made? And why the heck does Diane Lane want to star in it?

Then there's the recent story of a young person who worked as an independent contractor reviewing uploaded content for Google (Picasa, YouTube, etc.). From the sort of things he was exposed to, he ended up needing psychological treatment.

No one should have to watch this stuff. But even more important, no one should _want_ to watch this stuff. The question is: Why do people want to watch violence and murder?

Maybe we should as Arnold whatever his name is, the Terminator.

Hypocrisy abounds.
Show HN: Startup life, or keeping the balance between hard work and fun [video]
It is also important emotionally:
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/APA-Monitor-attachment.html
He may have been inspired by http://justfuckinggoogleit.com.
More specs here: http://photorumors.com/2012/09/09/sony-rx1-specifications/

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I don't see anything in that article to suggest 1 primary caregiver is best. The sense I got was that children got a benefit from having a strong attachment, but no arguement or experiment to test for weather 1 strong attachment is better than 2, possibly weaker, attachments.

Also, I am always suspisous of 2nd hand science reports, especially when they do not provide a direct link to the original paper(s). If anyone does track down some research papers on the subject, please post it here.
Quora is (or at least was, recently) annoyingly in violation of this, requiring a login (which is difficult on mobile devices when you use something like 1Password)
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You can put periods inside the username part of a gmail address and it still gets through. I'm not sure how what you're saying could be true? Maybe it wasn't always this way.
Something to add into the discussion here are anti piracy agencies. The ones that advertise themselves as 'we can insert bad packets into torrents so that pirating your content takes longer or becomes impossible'. Many of these outfits will issue bogus takedown notices and then use that as proof to gain clients.

An example, Agency A sends a request to TPB to remove the latest Red Hot Chili Peppers album. They don't represent universal but if TBP removes the torrent then they go running to Universal and score a contract to 'safeguard' their content online and make sure infringing websites get notices. The first few notices they send out are almost always bogus. Perjury, but this is now an actual business!
I don't think that's it -- I'm not sure where I saw this, but I believe it's because if there's no global color table in the image, the spec says the displaying software should supply one... but there's no standard color table, so Firefox substitutes the color table from the last image it displayed. With asynch loading that can vary.

If that's not right, maybe it's supplying a color table randomly-generated on the fly, but I doubt it's just random memory -- can any random bytes really make up a valid color table? If it were random memory I'd expect crashes or errors, not varying colors.
Strangely your StringBuilder version seems to really slow down for me at around iteration 6000000. If I replace the repeated use of uuid.toString with `String uuidStr = uuid.toString()` it works fine. Looks like the performance of toString differs between versions.
It's a contrived scenario. I've used Python a ton and never needed to break out to C, certainly not for summing numbers. Granted, I use Python mostly for web development, but I do care about performance.

In case of number crunching, I've heard numpy is very good and fast at number crunching using arrays, and the crunchy parts of numpy are written in C.

All that said, why is a language "inherently broken" if it requires you to use another language for tight-loop performance such as this? Game and graphics developer writing in C break out to assembly for things like this -- is C also "inherently broken"?
Checklist / Guide for Testing iOS Apps
fwiw, I published the extension on the chrome web store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfo...
Sigh...

If my landlord's unattended lawnbot runs over the mailbox and destroys a video that my friend sent me, he's going to be held responsible, right?

Property rights aren't absolute. They just aren't, sorry.

In general you can't damage someone else just because they happen to be on your property. Not tenants, not guests, and in some cases, not even trespassers.
Been a member for half a year now yet your first submission and all comments are for your own product?

Classy.
I wonder what other old fashioned gadgets could be studied to improve the user experience of today's software.
Prefer WebTest to Django's test client for functional test
They matter - just look to inner cities here in the US where many do not have father figures and thus end up on the streets then in jail.
"In other news, the Arch Linux Handbook can be downloaded in .mobi format, free of charge, from http://archlinux.ca/arch_linux_handbook_3.mobi "

Problem solved? The benefit of having it listed on Amazon is probably negligible - it's not all that hard dragging a file to your mounted Kindle.
Still waitin on that pebble
How do reviewers get their products from companies?
How do I myself start as a reviewer from scratch?
The coolest aspect of this article IMO was that Gimp's output (with the right options selected) was already the minimum size for a transparent 1x1 gif.

He succeeded in trimming only 6 bytes off of that before he abandoned transparency and that was at the cost of getting errors in some programs with the result (no thanks).
Let's give a standing ovation for this needed criticism of SO. I just hope SO opens themselves to hearing it.

I've said it before, I'll say it again -- the creators of StackOverflow don't know what made the site successful in the first place.

SO is successful because it's an experts-exchange.com clone without the pushy subscription model plus a few social voting features added in.

THAT'S IT.

The problem also is that the site was essentially complete within the first year. But there are still people on staff and they took a bunch of VC money. The people on staff need to do something and the VC money needs to be spent.

So of course they start meddling with their already completed product. Editing is now seen as an Important Thing and many red herrings like "keeping the site from becoming Reddit" are trumpeted in order to justify this meddling.

Nonsense like "Gorilla's vs Sharks"[1] are trumpeted in order to justify this meddling.

And even worse than the meddling on the new stuff, they go back and close old questions, even ones that have been quantifiably validated by the votes of hundreds of people. I'd actually bookmarked many of them, only to find them mysteriously closed months later.

Holy shit, are you fucking kidding me, guys?

[1] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/
By your definition all dynamic scripting style languages (lua, ruby, perl, etc.) are inherently broken. Very few languages out there can reasonably expect to get C like speed for numerical work without dropping down to C. All this shows is how relatively easy it is to do when you need it.

One of pythons really big and popular uses is as a powerful language for tying together high performance low level C/C++/Fortran libraries for serious numerical work (see libraries like numpy, numexpr, scipy and so on), so as such calling C libraries from python is about as standard a scenario as you can get.
Not exactly. It does, but only if the appropriate headers are set (and they're usually not).
How did you start? How did you get the 25 journalists to follow you? Did you start replyng to their tweets on Twitter?
FWIW I consistently get 11-13w at idle, 7 hours battery under use from my Samsung Series 7 Chronos i7. Obviously Samsung takes cues from Apple but I'm pleased at half the price.
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Worse is better selects for orthogonality
I think the increase in rental prices is going to continue for quite awhile. My recent experience moving to SF and trying to find a place was incredible. I was just looking for sublets, but most people that I got to personally meet told me their email rate for a CL ad was 150-300 emails a day. I quickly learned that unless I was discovering the ad within 2 hours of posting there was no point to even replying.

I was only able to get an apartment after (1) enlisting my mother on the East Coast to spend all her spare time on CL forwarding me appropriate listings, (2) calling an ad's phone number 22 minutes after it was posted, (3) making sure I was the very first person that was personally screened, and (4) forcing a check for two months' rent into their hand unsolicited with the message that if they found anyone better I'd just stop payment. It's a rough market and it is still getting crazier. I think someone on a previous HN comment thread mentioned the city gained only 270 new housing units last year.