skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you expand on the thesis that activist investors are causing the erosion of the middle class?
There should be a followup, "Things That Turbo Pascal is Faster Than". Sure to be included are "loading the wikipedia C++ page" and "loading the photo of the iPhone 5 on apple.com".
Yes, but if there is a way to determine 'chops' without an exemplar or two that would be useful to know.
Fighting Free: Why We Don’t Offer Freemium
This blog post takes the statutory provision in question wildly out of context:

> I've read the Copyright Act many times, but have to admit that I'd never quite noticed this line from 17 USC 801(b)(1)(D), which explicitly states that the role of the Copyright Royalty Judges on the Copyright Royalty Board that sets the rates for internet radio are there: To minimize any disruptive impact on the structure of the industries involved and on generally prevailing industry practices.

This is not referring to the Copyright Act as a whole, but to the purposes of Copyright Royalty Judges specifically. Here is the whole provision: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap8.html.

What are Copyright Royalty Judges? They're judges who set rates for statutory licenses. Statutory licenses are compulsory licenses where copyright holders are obligated to agree to licenses and where rates are set by the Royalty Board and not by free negotiation between the copyright holder and the licensee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_license.

Basically, all this says is that Royalty Judges shouldn't use the compulsory licensing scheme and their rate-setting powers to disrupt industries. It doesn't say anything about the copyright law in general preventing the disruption of industries.

Ironically, this section of the Copyright Act is actually intended to reduce the ability of copyright holders to use their rights to prevent disruption in delivery methods: http://rightsflow.com/resources/copyright-licensing-resource...

"Because Congress was concerned about the potential for monopolistic behavior, it also created a statutory license, section 115 of the law, to allow anyone to make and distribute a mechanical reproduction of a musical composition without the consent of the copyright owner provided that the person adhered to the provisions of the license, most notably paying a statutorily established royalty to the copyright owner."
Those interested in this may also find Factorie interesting: http://code.google.com/p/factorie/
HN users seem to be very anal and paranoid. That's my theory. It's not a knock, just an observation. Hang around the comments long enough and it's pretty clear. Better safe than sorry I suppose. Just look at the answers here. You have to admit they show tendencies toward being anal and paranoia.
I'm accepted too. And I'm flying all the way from Montreal to attend!
Very nice. I wish these were in the core bootstrap to let people who need to use them, use them.
The new Silk Road is made of iron and stretches from Scotland to Singapore
And no one would ever ride a bike again.
Ah, well in that case it's probably partially explained by a lower volume of legitimate email that you get there if you don't really use it much.
my 2cts: just do what it takes to go! Few opportunities can change lives in a positive black swan way... Myself I plan on selling more of our stuff to pay for the trip from Europe. If I can help you with $50 or 100 let me know what you are good at that you could help our startup with. (email on HN profile)
I remember a time when the model folks would come out with a model of what ever was cool in the Aerospace world and you could build it. Folks recreate that experience [1] of course, I'd love the visible Merlin Engine model to build.

[1] http://rocketry.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/build-your-own-spac...
Facebook ignores police pleas to remove pages
I spent some time earlier this year exploring various NLP engines (Freeling, OpenNLP, DELPH-IN, LingPipe, UIMA, and a few others). Of them, FreeLing (http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/) was far and away the technical leader for my needs:

- Decent documentation
- Relatively easy to compile and install
- Working (and practical) example code
- Easily configured
- Extremely flexible design
- Supports many written languages
- Supports Java, C++, and has a simple client-server model
- Good execution time (fast code)
- Solid code base (no crashes in six months)

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_language_proces...
It's for the same reason my cousin flinched every time he heard a soda can opening after returning from Iraq. We've learned a way to protect ourselves, and though the threat isn't biological... self protection mechanisms take some time to fade away.
3D printing: The PC all over again?
And yet their presentation do not work on standard ICS browser :)) Getting "Greetings, Mobile Champion!...." message.
Ron Graham was a close friend of Erdős, so if you were to co-author a paper with him, you would have a Erdos number of 2. ;)
I have a hard time seeing how you made the leap from "car drivers lack the personal qualities to responsibly operate a very heavy, very large machine with 40kW+ of power" to "we need to keep mandatory helmet laws".

Knowing humans, it would be nigh impossible to model any significant part of them to be more responsible without invading on their personal freedom, so the only option is to reduce the occourence of catastrophy stemming from said irresponsibility. That means we need to physically seperate car drivers and cyclists.
To be fair, what you've just proposed is also a conspiracy theory.
You'll also be exposed to: near-stupendous degrees of waste, inefficiency, and general head-in-the-sand-i-tude.

Like: signing up for a $140k/year "consulting" gig, but having a secretary pick your sole "workstation", a 12-inch, low-memory Lenovo model normally given to sales people.

Or: going through an grueling process ostensibly designed to assure that you have truly l33t skills in analytic and quantitative thinking skills... only to be herded into a dungeon-like cubicle farm with crass overhead lightin, poor ventilation, non-stop chatter and blaring overhead TVs, making it impossible to think straight for more than 5 seconds... where you end up plugging away for 10-, 12-, 14-hour days.

Or: being hired ostensibly for your senior-level experience in platform X, only to have every decision "vetted" by utterly inexperienced H1-Bs, whose personal coding style reminds you, without irony, of something you last flinched at seeing on The Daily WTF (http://thedailywtf.com/).

Not to mention: not infrequent episodes of not just hot-headness, but outright bullying and borderline psychological violence.

And generally: a stifling atmosphere which makes it basically impossible to have an honest conversation with anyone in upper management about the day-to-day realities of the environment they ostensibly expect you to be delivering this supposedly highly valuable, mission-critical software under.

Granted, this was at "mid-tier" companies, and I (thought) I knew what I was getting into. Still, the reality was far ruder -- and far more weird and just plain absurd, at times-- than any of my worst expectations.
All startup founders need to watch this.
Can you elaborate on what you like and don't like?
It won't load without JS enabled. Plus it is very buggy when it does load on up to date browsers. Google's JS has been getting buggy this past few months. Even Gmail, which was rock solid.
It creates a small fragment in the iOS market. Should developers move to iOS6 only support in a few months or keep supporting the iPad 1?
I like Mike Masnick, but this seems like a real miss. He should have gotten a second source before running it.
I'm glad not to be the only one saying the Federal Circuit defied Supreme Court precedent in State Street. I do think we're a long way from a Diehr/Flook/Benson standard for software patents, though. The Supreme Court is being very careful these days to say nothing beyond answers to the questions brought to them. You won't see any long rants against lower courts like in Diehr.
I think theres plenty of health benefit in cycling under the aerobic threshold already. Surpassing it would mean they're going to have a pretty bad time for the next few minutes, and indeed be a strong incentive for many people to just go back to the car or public transport.
I was lucky to get Graham as a professor for an undergrad discrete math course at UCSD. He's incredibly funny and besides his ability to juggle can also speak a fair amount of Mandarin. Definitely one of my more memorable classes.
My grandfather told me men don't bend over and take it.
A proposal for a Lean Media Framework – input and iteration required
Accepted, going to be flying in from melbourne, Fl.
Have you tried http://www.tubescope.com ?
The android browser is, in general, terrible. Google has partially redeemed themselves by shipping chrome as the default on JB, but right now android is the thing holding back the mobile web.
In California, I would never ride a bike or ski without a helmet. The roads and slopes are now too crowded with people not paying attention to their surroundings.

Somehow, the skiing (and boarding) industry has made helmets a fashion statement. Almost everyone wears one.

The cycling industry just needs to make wearing a helmet cool.
Just for anyone who won't be able to go, the event was livestreamed and recorded last year (and I would presume this years would be too)
Ask HN: id3.org is down and i need documentation for id3v2
id3.org is down and i am working on a new project for which i need documentation for ID3v2 Specification, the google results did not yield good enough information.
Can someone point me in the right direction???
We're Red Hot: averaging 3 (three) new signups per day.
It's possible in theory, but very hard. None do it to my knowledge.
Regardless of the effectiveness of spam filters (unless they are literally perfect - 100% precision and 100% recall), doing something like the "Building with Javascript" method seems strictly better than doing nothing based on the linked study - it reduces spam by 99.3% and adds no work for humans who want to email you. Except for humans who have JS disabled by default, I guess...
Automattic.com (runs WordPress) has this wording in their Terms of Use. The put those terms under a Creative Commons license so that anyone can copy it and re-purpose it for their own needs.
Oh, then it's completely confused then.
I say, make them even more incoherent. How? Take Reddit user syntaxgs: This strange Internet persona (dedicated troll? bot? multiple people?) has been writing bizarre, unreadable comments for years now [1]. I recommend you look at his Reddit comments, modify your text generator to replace phrases with syntaxgs's "syntax", and post the results.

References:

[1] Reddit account: http://www.reddit.com/user/syntaxgs

[2] syntaxgs comment obfuscator (not mine): http://syntaxgs.sharpoblunto.com/
The purpose of the compulsory licensing scheme is the public good, to keep copyright holders from preventing certain socially-beneficial uses. The "disruption" provision a concession to copyright holders, basically promising them that the compulsory licensing scheme won't be used to gut their copyright protections.

I think Masnick's argument is that the Royalty Board should use its rate-setting powers to make online radio companies like Pandora more competitive. But Pandora is a for-profit business. Why should the Board give them rates lower than what they can get by freely negotiating with the copyright holders?

There are a lot of problems with copyright, but they're on the enforcement side. The streaming radio debate is just about money. Pandora can't make money selling Indie music. They want to sell Britney Spears, because that's what consumers want. But they don't like how much money Sony, etc, are charging for Britney Spears. So they want to force the government to force Sony, etc, to sell Britney Spears for less money.
Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels
It's often "how can we serve our users without getting sued?" A user can sue because they find the colors on your site depressing.
Apparently Chrome on Android 4.1 is 1211 days old...
Accepted, flying in from NYC!
i am coming from birmingham, al
So many people have turned this into a 'are helmets safe or not'.

That's really arguing the wrong point - of course helmets improve survivability of a bicycle accident.

The point here is, for bike-sharing programs, should helmet use become mandatory?

The answer should be : no.

Ultimately few people are going to climb on a bike and think it is safe riding without a helmet. They will know that they are doing a dangerous thing.

The idea with bike-share programs is to get people using shared bikes to move around a city instead of either public transport or private cars. If carrying your own helmet (or using a publicly shared-helmet) is a requirement, fewer people are going to use the bike-sharing.

This is a simple argument about the increased use of bike sharing programs against the increased number of people with head injuries from that bike sharing program. I don't know what those numbers are, but it would mean higher head injuries but also higher bicycle use. The number of head injuries can only be measured by the set of people who chose to ride the bike without a helmet, who had an accident and hit their head. Some people (regular users, for example) would choose to still use helmets when riding bike sharing, so it's not like removing the law will mean nobody wears a helmet anymore. At the margin there will be more injuries, but also more bike-miles ridden. It's up to people to make a decision which is more desirable.

It might sound like a tough decision, but really, this type of decision is everywhere. Speed limits are set with the balance of people who will be injured or killed in more serious accidents, balanced with the ability for more people to get to their destination more quickly.
The full line is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

derekp7, I wish that the case was that simple, and that 17 USC 801(b)(1)(d) would be struck down. I'm afraid it's not that simple, though. IANAL, much less a constitutional lawyer, but I'll play devil's advocate and look at a possible rebuttal by the communications industry:

"The existing industries provide a time-tested way of asserting artists' rights (which itself promotes the progress of 'useful Arts'), by way of providing a stable system for the collection of royalties, and preventing distribution of materials, when such distribution is not desired by rights holders. An entity which seeks to interrupt the continued operation of this stable system could plausibly reduce the security upon which rights holders have come to rely. Therefore, Congress is within its rights to ensure the survival of this system as a means of implementing Article I section 8."

So it's not an open-shut case. The argument would have to be made that "disrupting the progress" of communications innovators, does more harm than ensuring the security of existing rights holders does good. I think everyone reading this site believes that, but I'm afraid it might not hold up legally.
Fostering Tech Talent in Schools
FYI, the animations look great to me in Chrome 22 on a year-old Dell laptop. The font size is smaller than I would have used, but I wouldn't describe it as "unreadable".

There are some other big problems, though. They've obviously never heard of Unobtrusive Javascript[1]. Try opening the site without Javascript. And the HTML/CSS is garbage. What a joke.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript
Here are 3 guides to things to see in the area

http://paulgraham.com/seesv.html

http://scobleizer.com/2010/10/04/silicon-valley-places-that-...

http://steveblank.com/2011/02/22/a-visitors-guide-to-silicon...
For a slightly different perspective on Bridgewater: http://nymag.com/news/business/wallstreet/ray-dalio-2011-4/
Goog does a good job illustrating just how "different" mobile is.

In our experience at ConversionVoodoo.com over the past couple of years a properly mobile optimized site for a direct-response style business is a difference of 2x, for traditional ecommerce it's 1.5x, for content it's as much as 3x!

In other words make absolutely, positively sure that mobile optimization becomes an organizational priority if you're seeing more than 15% mobile traffic.
FYI

What are the differences among latent semantic analysis (LSA), latent semantic indexing (LSI), and singular value decomposition (SVD)?

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/4735/what-are-the-d...
In their defense, the Times did print a piece last week about an increase in traffic fatalities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/nyregion/in-reversal-new-y...

Agreed, though, that cyling in NYC can be incredibly dangerous. Every serious cyclist treats an accident as a "when", as you mention. And in my own experience (6 mile Manhattan commute, mostly on the Hudson), I could be in 3-5 accidents per week if not for extreme paranoia. I would not give up my helmet, irrespective of the legal situation.
Can I plug our API? I'll plug our API: https://www.repustate.com/docs

As another commenter mentioned, freeling is great.
Chinese Hackers Break Into Unclassified White House Network
I'd like to second this sentiment. Instead of tearing down someone's significant effort to build something cool, the community should constructively communicate their issues with the project and offer suggestions for improvement.

I was personally impressed that drag actions were supported, because that's a frequently overlooked aspect when people roll their own slider toggles. Without looking at the source, I would guess that implementing mobile touch events would go a long way towards making this library cross-browser.
Try the Internet Archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110604131605/http://www.id3.org...
accepted! Driving from LA. Would love to car pool if someone needs a ride...
Tell that to the Bear Stearns equity holders, who were 99% wiped out, or the Lehman Bros. equity holders who were completely wiped out.

Goldman Sachs? Citibank? AIG (to pay back Goldman Sachs)?
I could be wrong but isn't this whole mass scale "founding" by late teen to twenty somethings a new phenomenon? Yes, Gates, Jobs etc. had founded companies in that age group but it didn't happen at this scale.

Also, I think that this is primarily restricted to Internet where it has become increasingly easy to start new companies, and people create a mobile app and call it a "startup". Telecom and Semiconductor companies are still founded by more experienced people, though I don't have age data.

I'm not sure if you meant it that way, but personally I found your comment a little condescending towards people in their forties, and I'm one of them having just crossed over the threshold.
As people in their youth have done amazing things, so have people in their mid to late years, and its more about attitude than age in my very humble opinion.
Which of the 3 cups has a cloud under it?
could be behind a login-wall to protect the content that the members are sharing from all public eyes, pretty common when it comes to business discussion sites
What about TARP's big brother, TALF (at least $1 trillion)? We don't even know where most of the money has been spent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALF

"The way TALF loans were set up, 100 percent of any profit is retained by the borrower, but the Fed and the Treasury absorb any losses."
This Is Your Brain on E-Books / Smartphone Apps
It is a TEDx talk.
'Obvious Ideas' are never obvious in the beginning
The current shit I'm dealing with is people using my email address to send spam to others (fake headers etc) and then I get the "you can't send here" or "this email address is dead" responses... that sucks, I have thousands of them and I read every email so it gets old fast.
In it you say >The "Articles by" pane floats on the right side of the page, but below the title, not inline."<. Do you think having the Articles by section on the right as a fixed div is better since a user will always have them visible on the right? Instead of it getting lost the moment you're finished reading the mere beginning of the article?
Because switching later is worse, apple will still launch the same product but a year from now google maps will be that much better.
I really hope this could work.

However I have a growing suspicion that generally nobody really cares (not as much as you do, anyway) about you and your stuff, unless perhaps you have great writing skills and are willing to pre-chew your random learnings into lessons that might interest and apply to the reader too (patio11) or make it engaging in other ways (notch).

This is just the lonely path we chose as solo founders. Really true interest in the raw daily challenges of your project can only be had if those people are working on it and have a stake in it.
You can read Bush's original paper, As We May Think (where he presents the Memex) here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...

Here is a database of his papers:
http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=...
Their mobile site tester[1] is doesn't do much. All is does is show one page of the website you entered in a mobile browser then it asks you if it showed up correctly. The report is pretty much some canned messages about how to improve a mobile website. Maybe I'm expecting too much but after the effort that they put into the presentation I hoped for a little bit more out the mobile site "tester."

1 - http://www.howtogomo.com/en/d/test-your-site/
It may take YOU 20 seconds. It takes my mother upwards of five minutes to replace the batteries in a standard D-cell flashlight, and then another five minutes to do it all again because she didn't put all the batteries in in the same direction.

People really appreciate things they don't have to fuss with.
There's no pricing modell right now as this is an alpha release to get to know if the users like this concept and to have more users testing it.

There will be a premium modell in the future but in the first step, we want to reach beta status having all features on board.
Accepted! Flying in from Boston.
I worked in finance and left when I realized that the people who were successful in finance were typically salespeople. Not necessarily by title, but more by action. It's bizarre how little the industry actually manages itself through data. We all know that a good index fund is going to beat the average hedge fund, but there is something so sexy about investing in a hedge fund. We all know that making 25% annually isn't realistic, but oh to make 25% annually and be able to tell your friends. It's all sales.

When I was 25 I swore it off. I was too young to sell versus build. But the cash was good.
Now I do :-). See my post above.
Obviously problems happen. Personally I don't care to be approached, generally, and I think it's better than being afraid of everybody. I've been approached by gay men and didn't suffer any trauma. I don't mean there cannot be psychos out there, but if you assume anyone who checks you out or looks you up in the net to be a stalker, I think that's completely over the top and that kind of paranoid attitude will cause more harm than good.
I think the slider has it's place but that place isn't everywhere. When you want to bring exclusives, features, or trending news to the attention of the reader above the most recent stories, it's hard to beat a slider. The problem is, it's really only effective if the image is certain to grab attention to it's headline. A celebrity, a disaster, a 'hero shot'...these things always grab my attention on a slider. A Google logo, a physical product (unless it's like a 'WTF is that?') a picture of some random startup founder I'd only recognize by name, these things fail in the slider.
Is there anyone that wasn't accepted? Pretty much everyone I know and talked to got in. Maybe because of the increase to 1715 seats http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4477283