skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/technoweenie

He's on the Github team. I assume he's speaking Ex Cathedra.
thanks for the suggestions - I'm going to check them out, always looking for something new to listen to! :)
You mean completely unstable and essentially useless? No thanks.
I visited the new Microsoft store in Boston recently and felt that the experience was on par with my expectations.

On three separate occasions the Windows 8 tablet and the POS systems froze. The employees were as confused as I was when demonstrating the device. Everything was made of metal colored plastic. The Windows Phone challenge was very rude and condescending.

I'm a full time Ubuntu user and use Thinkpads so I reasonably expected a solid build quality. I was left with a sour taste after I left the store. I felt like Microsoft was fine with cloning the Apple store and then putting down users who did not use latest and greatest Windows toaster.

Again, all on par with my expectations.
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YouTube should have removed the video based on their own guidelines. This can be classified as a hate speech.

http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines :

We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on their contracts. If such documents even exist.
Appeasement is the policy we've adopted towards trying to keep Israel and the Islamic countries from fighting. Do you remember the shitstorm at the DNC when they forgot to put "and Jeruselem shall be the capital of Israel" on the platform? What is that if not appeasement?
I'm currently enjoying its usage as well. Whoever said it was unused doesn't know what they're talking about.
Hello HN,
I developed Gambit out of the necessity to speed up and improve the process of collecting the data needed to choose good soccer bets. With the collected data the algorithm performs computations and statistical matches in order to assign a risk factor to each match, and then sorts the available bets of the next two days by their risk.

This tool helped me so much in my betting activity that I decided to turn it into an actual product and beta testing (actually my users are friends and friends of friends, since I am launching today on HN and before yesterday the site was private) is giving good results and I just wanted to ask you for suggestions and feedback, plus you can earn some little money if you are into sports betting, which never harms :)

The website is still really in development mode, with no time zones, no good documentation, not rendering properly on IE and, yeah, it's pretty basic. But the algorithm is good and working, so feel safe to use it for testing your betting hypothesis if you like. I am still thinking about how to monetize it, and suggestions are welcome. Thanks a lot for your time and attention, love HN.

You can reach Gambit at http://www.gambitboard.com
I wonder if the Hyperloop is a maglev propulsion system contained within a vacuum tube? That would essentially be space travel - on earth. It would also allow for efficient use of energy, as long as the vacuum could be easily maintained.
I agree. It seems like we're setting up the IPv6 address space to be wasted.
I think you mean mattress.ly
Not sure what confused you. It's a rhetorical question using essentially the White Houses "incitement" argument.
My understanding of how mobs work might be wrong, but I think it cannot be that that mob used it as an excuse. It could be the case that there was a political/religious leader who used the video as an excuse as masses are not eager and willing to kill anyone.
Most of these ports are maintained by volunteers. Would you pay for working tools?
"for political reasons"

I would say this is more of a security issue. If the protests had been peaceful, and had there been no deaths, I doubt this request would have ever been made.
He's just refuting Khosla's agument and pointing out that if VCs were really repelled, then the valuations could not be high (since these are determined by the demand of the market).
I loved those books to death, but the parent is right. Mars is a rustier version of the moon with slightly better scenery.

Imagine a life where you as a native Martian never get to go outside, never get to feel fresh air, never get to meet a stranger, never get to storm off, never get the chance to live truly alone, never get to punch a wall, and never get a chance to see another world. No streams, no swimming, no oceans, no forests, nothing.

The footprints you make will still be there a hundred million years later. Mars is a one-way trip to a terribly cold and lonely place.
You haven't followed some of the news from the health care debate and pressure on family services from the government. The rule making would not be described as "appeasement".

People don't see how much groups like Catholic Family Services or ELCA help in a lot of places the government has ignored. They don't advertise how much they do.
Appeasement is different from addressing the concerns of constituents in a democracy.
For me, the battery issue is a deal-breaker, I have a Logitech "darkfield" bluetooth mouse & the thing goes through 1 AA battery every 3-ish days (heavy usage) which drives me a little nuts sometimes...two devices to feed with batteries is to much.

Good to hear that they are comfortable to wear all day though!
Expensive is relative. 12 cents/GB/month for %99.999999999 reliability is cheap in my opinion.
Has anyone here implement something like this before with Rails?

- Can you recommend any libraries/material I should check out on the subject? (It's called RBAC right?)

- I'm in the middle of developing my own SaaS app that will need this functionality. Should I launch my MVP without it and then add it later, or is it a lot easier to add something this technical before going into production?
Not just PR but selling potential future customers using reciprocity. College students who find value in this may someday be in a position to promote it.

Considering the multitude of free resources in this area, It's a smart move.
Actually, the evidence does show that many (most?) antidepressants have little effect over and above placebo. Look at the meta-analyses and you'll see that. I'm not sure why it's ludicrous - that's precisely what the science says.

Now certainly antidepressants can help many people (my wife for one), but again it is likely to be mostly the placebo effect, which is actually very powerful, especially in depression. For some people a placebo can be the 'kick' they need to get help them get out of their depression. In my wife's case she also used CBT with an excellent therapist, and I think that was likely more useful in the long-term (she is now free of depression).
I think that is a perfect example of what jat850 is saying. It was pandering not appeasement, which backfired quite a lot with the booing.
I'm not a billionaire (yet), but that's why 100% of my charitable donations go to the SENS foundation. Every marginal dollar has a much higher expected utility there than anywhere else that I've found.
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Seriously? What is "cryptic" about db = sql.Open(...); db.Exec(); db.Query(); db.Close() etc.?

From https://github.com/bmizerany/pq/blob/master/conn_test.go:

func TestExec(t *testing.T) {
db := openTestConn(t)
defer db.Close()

_, err := db.Exec("CREATE TEMP TABLE temp (a int)")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}

r, err := db.Exec("INSERT INTO temp VALUES (1)")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}

What is it exactly that you tried and failed? Because looking at conn_test.go the API is dead simple and pretty much like any other db API of this kind.
What are the full names, home addresses, business/home/cell phone number, e-mail address (etc.) of every principal and/or shareholder of Uniloc USA, Inc.?

I found the following, but I'm sure there is much more:

Mr. Bradley C. Davis, CEO

Mr. Craig S. Etchegoyen, Co-Founder

Mr. Michael Lin, CFO

Mr. J. A. White, VP Sales & Business Development

Mr. Joe Mordetsky, VP Engineering

For many states where companies are incorporated, much of this is often required to be released as public information for articles of incorporation and annual report filings--even for privately-owned corporations.
Not that hard to imagine and plan for:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8554766938711591377&...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312367066

http://citywire.kuluvalley.com/view/E586AD51-418F-C8CE-442B-...

http://michaelgr.com/2011/10/24/aubrey-de-grey-on-the-diseas...
I've just bought a pair of Klipsch earbuds that have worked pretty well so far.
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So just because you ate X for lunch today you should eat X for lunch everyday? See it makes sense with could but with should it's a nonsense claim.

The WH, just like you me, the GOP, ze Germans, Al Qaeda, whoever are all free to request that YT review any video. Is this the end of the world? Does making such a request ever attach a weak compulsion to review and request the same of any other video that might weakly overlap the criteria claimed in the first video? That's laughable. That's not how logic or anything in the world works.
They could have quietly clicked "Flag as inappropriate" as anyone else.

Instead, they made a public "request" whose intent was to put pressure on Google outside it's normal "review process".
It's a quote from a very famous baseball player/funny man Yogi Berra [0]. It's sarcastic -- normally, a place being very popular would be considered a sign of success. But Yogi describes it as a negative -- as if the place is a failure because it's "too crowded".

Likewise, it's normally considered a positive thing for a company to get a high valuation from investors. This suggests that investors think the business is very valuable. But Vinod has described high valuations as a negative. PG is using a famous quote to point out that it's not something one would normally view as a negative.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
"It was just a request"

And one that not only shouldn't have been made, but one that shouldn't even of crossed the mind of anyone in the White House. The oath is to protect the Constitution.

The video is not the cause of the deaths. The actions of people who made personal decisions to be murderous killed people. The world would be a better place if we started blaming people instead of some stimulus or tool.
automated failover in the case of too much load is usually not what you want to do. automated failure in the case of hw/network failure is usually what you want to do. differentiating the former from the latter is left as an exercise for the reader.
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> Obama's civilian employees

A strange way to put it. One of USA's civilian employees was killed.
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> ...masses are not eager and willing to kill anyone.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob
on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get
out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? ...Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

― Herman Goering

Many think that you can make the masses eager to kill.
Sign me up. It's Mars.

I think the disconnect here is that there are in fact people who have considered such things and still want to go. It's the pioneer spirit. Hardship is part of the appeal.
The two languages are very similar. What I would really suggest is see which has the more active user group in your area. This is actually how I ended up learning ruby. If I had found another user group as active in my area I would probably be coding in that instead. Having someone infront of you to ask dumb questions is amazingly helpful.

What resources are best depends on what level of programming experience you are starting with.
For Ruby:
0 experience I recommend starting with Learn to Program by Chris Pine
Have some experience go straight to Learn Ruby the Hard Way by Zed Shaw
After you have some exposure to the ruby language start on rails with the Rails 3 Tutorial by Michael Hartl. It goes step by step through building a twitter clone.
Follow the Rails 3 Tutorial with Agile Web Development with Rails. It builds a shopping cart using a different methodology than the Rails 3 tutorial.
After that I the classes from code school are pretty awesome and the railscasts by Ryan Bates is the best $9 I spend a month.
It wouldn't provide any meaningful security; think of how difficult it is to make a CAPTCHA that is both readable for humans and hard to beat for computers. Adding security to a conversation is a solved problem in the technical sense (use encryption such as GPG), the only reason that it's not in widespread use is that people can't be bothered.
I have my own /24 routed to my basement. Back in the early/mid 90's could get their own provider independent block.

If I knew now what I knew then, I would've gone for a class B block. lol.
I've been using my HD-280s for about 2 or 3 years now and they're wonderful. They're not audiophile cans but they still put out some nice sound, they're comfortable on my ears (I hate things in my ears or things pressing my ears down too much, which limits headphone selection a lot), and they successfully block out all noise while only playing at a moderate volume.
How does this video meet that definition?
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Jailbreaks can destabilize your phone on iOS. From what I understand, pirating android apps usually requires no modification of your phone's OS.
Nobody said they weren't "free" to do it. The point is that the message it sends is that they are anxious about the availability of the video, and the implication is that they would prefer that it be removed.
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Exactly.

Now, my question is, why _doesn't_ this video violate that guideline? Isn't its entire purpose to denigrate Islam?
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Not relevant in this case. No one here is trying to hide anything or not draw attention to something. The white house did not make the video more visible in the Muslim world by making a review request; Arabs protesting the video didn't make the video more visible in the western world (the video is trash anyways).
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down for a link to the video. Thanks.
Given what the BBC was reporting the crowds in Tunisia were chanting, these are the more likely stimulus.

That being said, murder should not have been the result and anything other than personal responsibility is a crock.
That movie is terrible. I think it should be censored based on quality and acting alone.
This is not entirely true, in an ideal world a CMOS device just sitting there not switching would use basically no power, but in actual application there is some leakage (both form not being fully off and some current jumping from the gate). This leakage gets worse as the transistors get smaller and when you have billions of transistors even the tiniest amount of leakage adds up, the result is leakage current can be a significant amount of the power used by a modern processor.
Sounds like a nice idea but just not impressed with the site. Also there are not examples of work. If I am going to pay someone to make my presentation pretty I want some examples of past work.

I am involved in Deck Foundry (http://deckfoundry.com) and we make amazing investor decks. The site looks nice and we have examples of work.
I don't think I disagree with you on any particular point. Even figuring out which Android phone is the latest and greatest is a multi-hour exercise in Google usage.

But I think your salient point is this "Peace of mind that they've got the latest, greatest device"

There is a risk, I can't say how strong, that the iPhone 5 might actually not be sufficient to provide that peace of mind. It might feel like a 3 or 4 year old phone model when the competition is constantly frothing up with newer and even more latest and greatest models.

We'll see over the coming year how this will play out. My prediction (and I'll be glad to be wrong) is that it won't play out well for Apple.
> It's routed to go places no one wants to go.

Big. Red. Flag.

The Minneapolis light rail uses the same equipment as Houston's light rail. The big difference is that the Minneapolis light rail goes between the airport, downtown, and the Mall of America. People can immediately see its value. Houston's light rail doesn't go to either of Houston's airports, even though it's sorely needed.
No I didn't mean "could".

Of course, the White House "could" ask for any video to be censored/suppressed. The question is "should" they on the same "it incites" Middle Eastern mobs premise.
This is AMD not microsoft; if they chose to do a favor for a partner so what? thats called business..
In this case Microsoft doesn't need to fight Linux. The burden of proof is on Linux to succeed. If there are no Linux drivers, that's probably just because no one paid for them to be written.
Not me, but my friend (Amit) = V-Moda Crossfade LP2 Limited Edition
LOL typical from a linux fanboy I guess.
So basically it's the same as rsync and a little scripting, but without commands and scriptability? I don't use Dropbox so I'm curious. I'd like to know if they're offering something to paying customers that S3 does not, apart from their particular combination of python and rsync. If we just focus on storage is Dropbox more expensive? If yes, by how much? I think this is a valid question.
He did too much LDS in the 60's.
The facts of this case seem to tilt things in favor of a rewrite more than other other examples I've seen.
- reasonable confidence that large portions of the current codebase are truly dead
- lack of tests in the existing codebase
- a fair amount of real world experience showing higher productivity in rails over java web stacks
- a problem domain that the decision makers can actually wrap their heads around (vs a legacy system that manages commercial mortgage repackaging or something where there is no one person who actually understands everything important that the system does)
- a new development team who's going to have learning curve anyway

this seems like about the perfect situation for starting over. congrats!
The idea with node is that you dont normally need multiple threads or processes because you have nonblocking io.

http = require 'http'
server = http.createServer 'localhost', (req, res) ->
res.writeHead 200
res.end 'ok'
app = server.listen 3000
How it doesn't? This brings in an interesting issue, google based on their own guidelines are in the position of interpreting what is hate speech and what isn't. Who at google makes that decision? Who are these people? Do they have a biased?
It always astonishes me that not only did Heinlein invent the Segway ("The Road Must Roll"), he also invented the idea of people like Elon Musk (as D.D. Harriman in "Requiem").
I was expecting some sophisticated propaganda piece. And not some crappy community theater actors doing some play for a public service television show. "Somebody" is really easy to troll.
The ban in Libya and Egypt is voluntary:

Google said it decided to block the video in response to violence that killed four American diplomatic personnel in Libya. The company said its decision was unusual, made because of the exceptional circumstances.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/technology/google-blocks-i...

More here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/youtube-blocks-access-...
Pagination or continuous scrolling? It's a question
I haven't spent the time to watch the video, but from what others have said, the video is about a person (Mohammed) and not about a group of people. That being said, I don't see how it could be hate speech. The most it could be is slanderous/libelous. A similar video about Jesus or any other individual, involved with a religion or not, would be the same. Were the video about a group of people with some common identifying characteristic such as race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation, it could be considered hate speech.
Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.
Will CPUs access HDDs via WIFI in the near future? Will it matter if they're in the same case anymore?
"There is also lesson to be learned in the fact that their status page had scaling issues due to db connection limits. Static files are the most dependable!"

Seriously, why would a status page need to query a db?
But they blocked the video in Libya and Egypt.
At Airtasker (an Australian competitor) we take the approach that it'ds an open marketplace and both sides need to confirm that the task is complete before money exchanges hands. We've found it's very, very rare that the buyer will "screw over" the runner.

Also it seems much easier for us to scale up new runners than it is to get more task posters.

It's super fun working for a startup that is focused on real-world interactions. Situations like the one you describe are difficult to deal with and definitely highlight the value of good community management and customer service. It's a shame that TaskRabbit let you down. Maybe in the future if Airtasker expands to the US you can give us a try :P

Disclaimer: if it wasn't obvious I work for Airtasker.
Pretty cool both that you are accomplishing so much at your age, and also pretty cool that the industry is embracing that (try doing that in the biotech or financial services industry). Good luck!
And like you said it was rhetorical. And the implication was clearly that asking for review of X implies they "should" ask for review of all things that weakly resemble X. Which your point was to make the initial request seem dumb but I'm pointing out is logically incoherent.
AFAICT it is because:

Individual != Group

even if the group considers that individual to be someone who represents them.
You seem like the type of person who should have a personal blogspot page.
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I didn't know that. A blasphemy law sounds very bad. On the other hand, more general hate speech laws sound much more reasonable I think (although I'd still disagree); the UK has those for example.
I have to disagree. You and I are pretty much stuck clicking "Flag" on Youtube.

The White House gets to use the power of the bully pulpit to make such a "request" and Al Qaeda storms a few embassies and murders diplomats to make their "request".
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They use both, according to Zach Holman (http://zachholman.com/talk/unsucking-your-teams-development-...)
> Given Mars' weak gravitational field...

Actually, that's a big plus. Single Stage to Orbit and the simplified logistics would make access to the rest of the Solar System much, much easier. Heck, we could even build a Space Elevator on Mars with today's technology, if we really wanted to.

> If he would like to get a taste of realistic Martian colonization here on Earth, may I suggest living underground in a windowless tank, surrounded by a partial vacuum, next to a nuclear reactor.

Some people think living in extreme environments to be fun: http://amzn.com/1590786076

The problem with your scenario, is that you wouldn't get to put on a space suit, step out of an airlock and walk on Mars.