skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a terrible quiz for several reasons.

1) Some of the questions simply don't make sense, i.e. "Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries." The what resources?

2) It completely conflates personal beliefs with those I would want to see forced upon society at large.

3) Some of the questions have totally ambiguous interpretations in terms of the two given axes. If I agree with "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth", does that make me more or less authoritarian? What about "Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all"?

Also, the points assigned to famous political figures are totally arbitrary. Neither Hitler nor Hu Jintao have taken this quiz, so the author is simply making up answers for them.
I just wanted to say that you need to calm down and address the issue here. He is obviously an avid follower of this type of bill and he pays attention to the news and likes to post his opinion here.

I'd like you to watch this video and see if you might fall into this category. I know that I frequently do.

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_...

Would you define reality as what the media is telling you or do you have experience living in America? I'm just not sure, but your post implied that you don't live here and get many of your facts from the news. That doesn't give an accurate representation of life in America.
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"Outdated technology" is a hard thing to say.

Focus on energy/mass ratio.

That is the main constraint.

Petrol is not "outdated" on that metric.

For good or bad.
I hope you don't mind me asking:

Did you have a business model? Did you charge users? Or was it a free service?
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Everybody, let's just read the bills together:

Lieberman-Collins “Cybersecurity Act of 2012:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s3414/text

"Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011" aka CISPA:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3523/text

This link is about an Executive Order, which I cannot find a link to the text, but this is getting there: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/241/3026867/White-House-draf...

Now that we are all on the same page, let's debate it.
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It's worth noting that older non-tech-guys haven't been able to tell the difference between Macs and PCs forever, even when they have wildly differing designs, to the point that it's a tech support cliche now.
Last I knew, it was justified under public safety. People who had already been sentenced and served their time in the past had been listed on newly-created sex offender lists. Court ruled that it wasn't a punishment, so it couldn't be considered ex post facto punishment. Wikipedia indicates the case that decided this was Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003).
This really seems to make the most sense. It's just a name. An entry in a registry's zone file. It has nothing necessarily to do with your infrastructure (which does not need names to function; even email can work without domain names). A name is just a name. It provides no "availability" of network resources. But how many customers understand this?

The problem that flows from this lack of understanding is registrars (people who sell names, entries in some registrar's zone file) push hard for the "upsell" and succeed get customers to sign up for all these other services that are quite different from registrar services. They are qualitatively different services and require significantly more resources than just selling (renting, actually) names.
I'm not sure I follow your logic. GoDaddy may make it easy for you to install WordPress but it's still up to the owner to go in and update WordPress and Plugins. I'm not saying it wasn't GoDaddy but claiming it was definitively seems a little silly...
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Ask HN: Privacy Policy generator for mobile app?
We're about to launch our app and need a privacy policy (without legal fees). A quick search reveals all sorts of different generators and templates, but before we use one of those, I'd like to ask you all about any particularly good sources for this type of thing. How have you gone about getting a privacy policy for your app/website/unfunded startup? Some background: we're a mobile game and have a bare website at the moment.
Navicat[1] works well for me. Plus side, I can use the same app for all databases.

http://www.navicat.com
No, that's like saying that Ford would violate Audi's trade dress if they combine slim headlights flush with the body, a large front grill in trapezoid shape with the logo on top, and two air intakes at the bottom edges. It would.

That's all design is: a combination of functional and aesthetic choices, that lead to a particular look.

Silver wasn't very popular until not long ago. Black was the default, and still is for many manufacturers. It is also currently possible to make the frame even thinner, or non-existent. The choice to make it that thick (and black) shows that it's not about technical limits or 'evolution'. You can absolutely make a computer that doesn't look like an iMac; in fact everybody has been doing it for years.
They do not offer that service.
Why not overcome...

---

This is a short one; why flog a dead horse when you could be chasing much large opportunities? We started FitFu expecting - based on numbers we wanted to believe - that it could be a $1b opportunity. But that was very naive and I'm convinced now that there's few if any fitness apps that can achieve that. I hope to be prove wrong of course as I know a lot of hard working startups and friends in this space and I want them to do well.

Ultimately, I'm not interested in a small exit or a lifestyle business. Even the money doesn't motivate me. I'll settle for nothing less than a home run :)
One thing worth noting is that "redirection of streams" is a poor metaphor.

If I have two streams,

1 ---------- 1'

2 ---------- 2'

and I redirect the 1>2

1 ----
\
2 ---------- 2'

it seems to work okay.

But if you have three,

1 ---------- 1'

2 ---------- 2'

3 ---------- 3'

and try "redirecting 1 to 2 then 2 to 3", the natural reading would be

1 -
\
2 -----
\
3 ---------- 3'

But that's not what you get, because you're not "redirecting streams" - you're copying file descriptors. This is partially fixed by informing people to do the operations backwards, but there are corner cases where that breaks down, and "copying file descriptors in the order they appear on the line" never does because that's genuinely what's going on.

1 -> 1'
2 -> 2'
3 -> 3'

foo 1>2 2>3

This is "run foo copying fd 2 to 1 and 3 to 2"

which gives

1 -> 2'
2 -> 3'
3 -> 3'
The article seems to confuse the development costs and the marginal costs of production, which are two very different things. The marginal costs are estimated at $20K-32K per unit for a car with a base price of $40K, so the idea that GM is losing money on each Volt is simply wrong. The way they get there is to burden the first model year with the entire development cost, which of course is absurd even for a normal car. It's even more absurd for the Volt, which represents a strategic investment in an entirely new automotive platform, an investment that GM absolutely had to make if it wants to be around 20 years from now.

Rest assured, every Volt GM sells is a positive for the company.
This pretty much sums up my take on PATRIOT, with the addendum that Obama had basically zero chance of rolling PATRIOT back given the political hand he was dealt.
"You're verbosely bitching"

<CR's> are not verbosity.

Re-read what I said because the submitter was not "whoringly complicit" (I like your creative use of language by the way I'll give you an upvote for that.)
Im glad Josh responded to those accusations. When I read the news on The Verge. I do not really have to worry about how biased it is. Which is a welcome change. I can read some quick facts about what is happening and move on.

I will say, I liked it better when they did more robust stories. It seems they are trying to cover news more like a newspaper. At the beginning it felt more like a magazine.
Note the difference between that and the jobs page on their blog:

http://blog.swagsy.com/#mypage-115

"Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting co-workers."... indeed.
I switched to yyyy-mm-dd for almost all my own records shortly after I learned about it when I started using Linux in 1996. Having any consistent format helps in searching, and as you pointed out this is the simplest to sort.
I use division120.. never had any problems, easy to use, clean simple interface.

http://www.division120.com/
Presumably, the inventions at PARC were protected by nothing but trade secret, so the only release of IP involved was to literally reveal the secrets to Apple.

You'll notice that Xerox never filed a patent suit, that Apple's industrial design and trade dress were in fact remarkably different from Xerox's, and that the Lisa and Macintosh interfaces were remarkably different from that of the Alto in any case.
Not to be snarky... but unfortunately their status page is down as well.
His name is listed in the README. I think the next level of recognition would have been for him to contribute code, and for whatever reason, that didn't happen. It could be because TJ is busy doing other things, because development was closed, or because they disagreed on things, or a combination of reasons.

I looked at the source and found that the initial public commit contains 79 files.
Kindly ignoring the snide fact that, yes, git wasn't available in 1993, I'll point out that ASCII has been around since, what, the late 1960's? Of course, I will admit I was being a bit snarky too, but backups have been around forever, and text compresses really well. Of course, I can appreciate the permanence of ink, or even stone as a media (http://books.google.com/books?id=CgeHW-geducC&lpg=PA6...).
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I've always done

(cmd 2>&1) > file

to redirect stderr and stdout to a file. I always thought the parenthesis were necessary, but according to this I can just do

cmd > file 2>&1

It seems very unintuitive, though. Does anyone know the rationale behind ordering of redirects?

(That said, I'm going to use 'cmd &> file' that I just learned from now on)
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Easily being the appropriate word here. In that article you wrote they had to manually setup sharding. With something like CouchDB I can press a button to add a new node in the cluster. Again. Easily is what I am talking about.

And again V8 is nice and all but it is rather bolted on as opposed to something that is was built from scratch to support JSON. This shows in terms of feature support and most importantly ease of use. I can't just annotate HashMaps, Lists etc in my Java classes and have them serialized to PostgreSQL in JSON format.

I am just saying that PostgreSQL is a great and all but it is not a proper JSON document store style database anymore than hacking SQL on top of MonogDB would make it a RDBMS.
Isn't that just a suggestion to get up and running quickly (for example on a dev VM)? There's nobody forcing devs to blindly follow the instruction and pipe it directly into bash. You are free to curl -L -o install.sh get.whatever.com if you want to inspect the install script.
I don't want to be misconstrued a "bad HN commenter", so I'll say first of all, technically amazing. Also, UX is consistent and aesthetically pleasing (though admittedly incomplete; lots of actions are unexplained... e.g. what's the difference between Focus and Shift).

Technical and design accolades aside, IMHO I would not call this an improvement on existing discussion forums. In Part 4 of his post "Building a Better Online Community", he implies that a major problem is the signal to noise ratio. This web app has not solved that problem.

The extremely low barrier to participation, while inline with privacy ethics and democratic ethics, unfortunately removes important incentives to creating quality content. It is however, successful at enhancing anonymity and removing the (burdensome?) requirement of identifying oneself.

Let's take a step back and re-assess what we're looking at. It's not an improved discussion forum, it's an improved chatroom app, plain and simple. And for that, I credit it with certain innovation.
Please don't pretend that privacy policies are carved in stone:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/googles-new-priva...
If you're going to actually read these (and you should, if you care about computer security regulation, but maybe not otherwise since these really aren't far-reaching bills), note that the final CISPA bill the house voted on had several amendments not in the base text; for instance, the final version explicitly struck mention of "intellectual property protection" (not because the House caved, but because the House meant something different by IP protection than what everyone took the text to mean)
Mine is called "A little bit of background" and "Biz Ideas"
We ran it paid as a test in Jan 2011 when we started YC. Apple featured it at $1 and we made something crazy like $10000 in a couple of days. The intention was to have a subscription service as we expanded into a more FitnessKeeper-like space. However, our users were generally not receptive to that and used it in too much of a casual way to up sell. Plus, we started to realise by this point that the opportunity was a lot smaller than we'd thought.

We tried IAPs for a bit but that failed miserably for the above reasons. Ads too for the same reason.
Basically, The Verge is being accused of not being sufficiently pro-Apple in its coverage. It's like people who sit around watching mainstream media all day and scream at their TVs "But, but but, you forgot to mention there are 5 scientists who disagree about global warming!" in every story on the environment.

It would be an interesting experiment if every story about an Apple launch contained references about prior devices that did a feature first.
HP deserves to get roasted in the court of public opinion on this one. Absolutely pathetic. This is the type of stuff no-name Chinese fly by night companies do to make a quick buck hoping they can trick consumers into buying the wrong thing. It's so shameless I'm surprised they didn't change their logo to a pear or something. If HP has any self respect left they need to just discontinue this product now and publicly apologize to Apple.
Can this tool connect to a mysql database and generate html5 CRUD forms based on the database? I have seen a tool like phreeze.com and I am wondering why there is not more in that direction (building web app basic pages based on existing database design)?
To be fair, if you ever install and execute someone else's software without either reading the code yourself or making an attempt to verify that the source is who you intend (i.e. at least checking MD5), then you're guilty of precisely the same security gaffe.
I'm not sure I follow. It's also possible for someone to map everyone with felonies, is this inherently wrong? Someone with marijuana possession is certainly not the same as a serial killer but the website isn't making that conclusion.

If you disagree that having sex with a 16 year old as an 18 year old should be a sexual crime then perhaps you should fight the law itself.
I just added suggestion 5 as well.
Even Coursera is down...

http://twitter.com/coursera
I genuinely care about people being wrongfully accused. Does it shock you?
So let's advertise for these douches?
Reducing coupling and cutting down on code volume is also supposed to be one of the big wins for object-oriented programming. Incidentally, the languages which I've found to do the best in this department are both object-oriented and functional. This is because one facilitates reusing datatypes while encouraging coupling to operations, while the other facilitates operation reuse while encouraging coupling to datatypes[1]. Since it's desirable to minimize coupling in both respects, being able to choose the better tool for the job in a context-dependent manner rather convenient.

Incidentally, I find myself wondering why so many functional programming advocates nowadays seem to be caught up on the myths that object-oriented programming and functional programming are incompatible, or that object-oriented code is inherently messy and difficult to maintain. It makes me wonder if there are a whole lot of people out there whose only experience with object-oriented programming is the way things tend to get done in C++ or something like that.

[1] This tension is described fairly well in Philip Wadler's essay The Expression Problem: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~madst/tool/papers/expression.txt
I recently did some DNS performance analysis and wrote a blog post about managed DNS services (along with a free report):

http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2012/08/comparison-and-analysis...

Route53 is a good choice for DNS compared to GoDaddy. It has better DDOS mitigation including custom DNS hostnames across different TLDs for each zone, and zone segmenting across their network.
All the #realworldsex videos submitted to mlnp.tv are curated before they go live on the site. What that means to me is that I watch all the content to make sure that the people in the video are engaging in #realworldsex that is consensual and that they aren't simply replicating porn cliches (certain angles, positions) simply for the sake of it. If I suspect that a creator is doing this - I won't just reject it outright - I'll contact them to get more of a backstory and go from there. #realworldsex is as varied as it possibly can be and we want to keep it that way. We just want to make sure that the content on our site is consensual, cliche free and contextualized. If it's creative and comical all the better.

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> maybe not dangerous per se, but definitely unqualified.

this sounds like a political opinion not corresponding to any established facts.
> I don't understand the "make test" thing. If you're temporarily hosting pages ...

That has nothing to do with user code or hosting pages. Most people install PHP using their package manager (ie "yum install php"). Some people and those that maintain those packages, need to compile PHP from source code (PHP is written in C). The guys who develop PHP wrote thousands of tests that make sure that the binary that is compiled works properly. Those are the tests being referenced.
Nice, but it does not work very well for me (Opera on Mac). It reports the browser and OS correctly, but then it claims I do not have JavaScript enabled (which I do). Also when I click Contact support at the bottom, the page gets dimmed out as if for a dialog, but I see no actual dialog anywhere. So somewhere in your JS code there is a bug that makes it fail in Opera.
https://aboutmybrowser.com/2079851324
I've posted a few things about this in reply to others, but my advice would be; don't make an app.

That sounds really jaded, but if you look at the massive players in the fitness space (e.g. BodyBuilding.com, CrossFit, LA Fitness, QVC ;) ) they are all either selling a dream or selling a sport/lifestyle... and all with large recurring revenues. At the other end, you've got millions of exercise trackers and exercise videos fighting over scraps in the app store...

I don't know what the next big opportunity is in fitness - or I'd be doing that - but I'm pretty sure it's not apps or quantified self or stuff like that. I've not yet seen anything that strikes me as "big". FitnessKeeper might get a great exit though - hope they do :)
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I made a living from buying/selling domain names. I don't have qualms about paying money for a better brand name for my businesses. I don't have a problem with buying low and selling high. I don't think the world owes me anything and I certainly don't believe other people are holding things hostage from me when I never owned them nor had any rightful claim to them.

Grow up.
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Yea, Leo tried to sell it which led to backlash. Luckily Leo was replaced with Meg in time to stop this.
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I am hoping they will be motivated by a Gary Johnson victory.
Though I'm an Apple user myself, the comments from Marco and Gruber and indeed some other Apple users reminds me of Christians in America - heavily imbibed with a misplaced persecution complex.
I would agree if it was the entire package, because those accessories don't help.

However, if it was solely the computer and monitor, I think a difference would be seen. HP has been doing the black bezel for quite a while. You can see it with the way they design their laptops, the HP Touchpad, and even some of their monitors already.

Doing an image search for 'iMac' shows a black bezel, with about 2-3 additional inches of aluminum below the monitor. Doing an image search for 'hp all in one pc' results in seeing HPs monitor, but with an additional 1 inch that appears to be holding a speaker. The Spectre is already present in the search. It honestly looks like it belongs there. The main difference is the touchpad (which just screams Apple. Does anyone else produce those other than HP and Apple?), the fact that the speaker isn't below the bezel, and the switch to aluminum for the stand/keyboard.
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