skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that this has much to do with DRM.

More likely a lot of this stuff is just less popular so there are going to be less people seeding it etc.
I'm going to guess that piracy has a very long tail and the majority of piracy traffic happens with a small minority of files.

There's also the issue that books are generally cheaper.

Books also have some advantage in that it is more difficult to exploit the analog gap there, you need a way to print it out and rescan it. Or take a photo of each page and then use OCR.

Music on the other hand can be pirated by plugging the output from your speaker jack into something else that records it.
Cisco Wants to Drive Your Car … Onto the Internet
Cannot agree more on that layerVault's audiences being designers and developers sure does make things simpler. It's simply true that "designing specifically for tech savvy people OR a group of 60 years old folks" has each a set of very different things to take into consideration.
Although if we are saying that those 60 years old non tech savvy people would eventually disappear, then sure, why not?

I adore flat design in a aesthetic way, but saying flat design is the answer to or even plays a part in UX decisions making just sounds silly.
Is there really a point in advocating an aesthetic? It is subjective in every way. Though if the purpose is to make a style trendy, the article perhaps does make a great deal of sense.
Flat design and skeuomorphism are both styles, whereas applying affordance IS a means to an end.
I'm happy to hook you up with my cube-mate's mortgage broker. He isn't bearing any of the costs, no points, not even an appraisal fee. This is a 30 year fixed mortgage. His position is basically, "I'll refinance if you bear 100% of the service charges and I don't give you any money for anything." [Edit - Oh. Australia. :-)]
I'd love to see this. So far I've heard a lot of people make this claim yet nobody has produced any evidence of it.
Ostrich Pillow - take a nap anywhere
Seems like a worthless fluff of an article since the reason behind abandoning a seemingly extremely successful business model was not laid out. The closest the article got to addressing it was basically "the board wanted it".
I keep imagining the technology used with recreational vehicles. Spend a day as a tourist in Chicago. Hop in the RV and go to sleep. Wake up in Memphis. Visit Elvis, enjoy waffles & fried chicken, then hit the hay and wake up the next day in Orlando. No down time.
A playground for more complete CSS 3d transformations: http://css3.bradshawenterprises.com/transforms/#cube3d
Yeah, most java apps do not use OS level security features. Which is a shame, since layers of security do actually help.
Just grabbed help.tent.is :)
Anyone who manages hardware via remote console, such as Dell's iDRAC. HP and and Fujitsu have similar systems, and I imagine many more.

It's a major pain in the ass, and it sucks, but it's true.
Ah. I was not aware of how much higher it was in 2000. Price per album was significantly higher as well.[1]

Still, I take issue with your characterization of the big record labels as having "been mostly killed." $4.158 billion dollars in sales is not "mostly killed."[2]

If I owned a significant proportion of a company that had that kind of revenue per year, well, I would not just throw it in the trash and advise they close up shop ;)

[1]http://theunderstatement.com/post/3377858909/album-prices
[2]330 million * $14 per album (from [1]) * 90%
Low Earth orbit panoramas.
Tesla Cuts Revenue Outlook, Unveils Plan to Sell More Shares
Amazing mind reader reveals his 'gift'
You do know he sold search and indexing startup to LinkedIn, including a custom storage backend?
An interesting point is made here: http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2012/09/facebook-private-message-le... "... many users who are still adamant the messages they saw were private and claim that Facebook is just trying to cover up its mistake by calling them all crazed liars."

I guess I am in that group, I strongly believe some of the messages I saw were originally private. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to prove this.
Most beautiful thing I have ever seen. We went diving there for our honeymoon. Spectacular.
Shouldn't this be a bug in locate?
I'd personally vote for a tour of the trails in national parks.
Thanks for the advice, hangin' out at the Red Rock Cafe now and feeling very much at home as I see lots of screens with code on them :)
Thanks, this is exactly the kind of thing I need to hear. As the person who made the site, I already know how to use it. I'll look into ways to make this all more obvious.
I don't get the obsession with building skyscrapers in rapidly developing countries and regions like Dubai or China. Especially China, where they have plenty of space in the hinterlands, yet all the wealth concentrates in the coastal regions. I thought a socialist-planned era of capitalism would know better than that.

That said, the USA stopped having the largest skycrapers because they stopped making sense in a world where technology can close even the biggest physical gaps.
How long until I can get recommendations? I rated a few beers but it would be nice to have at least some kinda estimation on how many I would have to rate.
Sorry if I didn't make this clear earlier: I just posted this link to HN, I didn't write this blog post. (Incidentally I'm also a data scientist.)
Yeah, I'll be adding an additional and more obvious link back to the dashboard soon. As far as submitting beers, that's also coming soon. I need to also make it more easily to accept said beers into the database, as I'm the only person working on the site. Managing this database (which has some 60,000 beers currently) is really tough to do alone. Thank you for looking!
Apple's 2011 net income significantly exceeded NASA's budget (About $25 billion to $18 billion). Orbital panoramas shouldn't be out of their reach.
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The good news is that only about 1% of users have an old Firefox (<5).

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20120827...
Recommendations start getting generated immediately after you rate a beer. The site is in its infancy, of course, so recommendations may start out rocky but they'll get better as more people (and you) rate more beers. The sad state of the cold start!

How long it takes for the recommendations to refresh is tougher to say, but it shouldn't be more than a few minutes. I can see that the workers that process them are active, so I'm fairly sure it's working.
That last idea is definitely something on my TODO. I give a brief rundown on the /about page, but the tooltips would be useful. The first idea is a good one as well, I'll be looking into how to cleanly implement that. Thank you!
CSS Flexbox Please
I'm not saying they can't do it. And not saying they never did it. Does it mean that they should constantly switch the architectures? Why?! It's just some stupid "ARM is cool, let's do ARM, it's different" sentiment more then for technical reasons.

Again: If ARM would build a speed equivalent (in major important benchmarks) processor, why do you think that the battery life would increase significantly? Your battery life would _not_ double or triple or whatever. You would maybe get.. i don't know.. 30% more? And why would the machine be lighter?!

So again, where is the real benefit here. Keep in mind that you would likely lose Windows support (that'd even make sense in closing up the Apple ecosystem even more!) and most legacy app (except Apple does another crappy emulator support multibinary thing).

Anyway. As i said in the original post: I hope Apple does this. I hope Apple abandons Windows/Bootcamp and goes further along the road of the Apple ecosystem. If they do, Apple will fall. History repeated :)
That's actually not a bad idea - Google sponsored hikes.
Yeah if I knew Objective-C I'd code up an iOS app for the site. Once I know for sure the desktop version is stable, I'll at the least be looking into making a more mobile-friendly site.
Google added street view to the Great Barrier Reef. This is easily the coolest thing they've done since earth.
Also bug #1,000,000 https://bugs.launchpad.net/edubuntu/+bug/1000000
Serious question: why do we expect machines to do the right thing with a single isolated query, rather than taking part in a conversation?

"Ok, you want Sushi. What places have you been to? Is there anything in particular you're looking for tonight?"
The advantage of 'psuedo 3d' in interfaces is that things like buttons stick out and make it obvious that they are intended to be clicked.

We experimented on a website a while back with making stylish "flat" buttons vs bog standard grey embossed buttons. Turns out the grey buttons made site navigation way easier, people who were given these buttons spent more time on the site on average.

Also for a company that talks about good design, I actually couldn't look at their home page for long because the rotating image at the top started to genuinely make me feel slightly sick.
You're absolutely right,

After all, why shall we even try to save human lives?

According to the current population growth rate[1], we have a relatively high supply of humans on earth, so anyone dying or disappearing will most definitely be replaced within a short period of time. Merge that data with the kidnapping statistics[2] and you'll see there's nothing to worry about.

Moreover, a child had likely not accomplished much in his life, so his disappearance could only affect a limited number of people.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping#Statistics
Street View goes on a road trip through California's national parks

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/street-view-goes-on-r...
You are kidding right?

Actually, as a linux and open source user i am probably the next likely person to switch to ARM on the laptop.
But i can cleary see that this would be next to impossible for 90% of "normal" users.

Homework for you: Pick the next best non-geek person (secretary job is good, or some family member) and go through all the desktop software they have. How much of it is not available on ARM? How much of it is available on Windows, MacOSX AND Linux. Because... multiplatorm is easy, right? Everyone has it. No, no, no. Unfortunately that's faaaaaaar away. :(
The OP is an engineer at Twitter...doesn't Twitter use NoSQL to store tweets? I know your critique of NoSQL is that it is an overreaction to the pain of schemas, so I'd like to see some discussion on how to implement lambda with data architecture that, at some point, uses document databases.

Thanks for the post...slideshare is annoying to read (on an iPad) but the content was digestible. Mostly, it helped remind me to download the update of the OP's book
The War of Northern Aggression
sure there is.
it's called email.

every time you get a facebook message, you get an email.
as late as 2009, those emails included the full content of the message.
So the same as paying back a $450 phone subsidy in 24 monthly payments of around $60.
Anything related to a gas station. No need to go with the car to fill up.
Datameer Raises $6 Million From Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins
Okay, sure -- if your need is realtime Query = Function(All data) -- then your approach may be necessary. But this requirement (realtime Function(All data)) is a rarity, I would think. And in this rare case, perhaps, the complexity you're introducing is warranted.
What very serious disease have they cured recently?
Not sure if you're managing your own DB or not but it might be worth looking into http://www.brewerydb.com/
Berlin Embraces Net Newbies and Leviathans
There's no reason other than the data store that would make their site that slow. Yes I have experience in this area. Until they come out and tell me otherwise I'm gonna bet that the data store is at fault. I could be wrong but I'm willing to give you 5 to 1 odds against.
And, upon re-reading my other answer and noticing it came out far snarkier on screen than it did in my head… Sorry 'bout that…

http://www.startssl.com/ will give you a free SSL cert.

They've got a "How to install" section that specifically deals with Apache (and another one which deals with WHM/cPanel if you're using that for your LAMP management).

It's less than an afternoon's work to get up to speed.

Note that you'll need a dedicated ip address (or you might settle for a server running new enough versions of Apache to use SNI - http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI - but that'll still not work for IE6 and very old versions of other browsers - pre 2.0 for Firefox)
How about "Meet the Man Who Supervised A Crew That Built Assembled an Uninhabitable 30-Story Building of Preassembled Component Parts in 15 Days." No inspections were done, there are no functional water supply nor waste water systems, fire supression system, elevators, electrical distribution system, solid waste disposal system, HVAC or environmental control system of any sort... and the parking sucks.
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If I have to choose between giant skyscrapers and massive suburban sprawl I will opt for the 100 floor elevator trip over the 15 minute car ride any day.
Meanwhile, it's highly unlikely that a Googler would be named "Most Attractive Employee."
The title was even more of a let down after the recent story about the man who single handedly carved road through a mountain [1].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4557726
I was at an arduino talk at last year's BaaCamp in Auckland, NZ and there was a guy who had made his own street view style cam for capturing hiking trails using arduino and some cameras. Very cool, imagine he's not the only one either.
Australian police want phone, web data kept indefinitely
wow you are out of line to expect anything for minimum wage and,not give him a very large share in the company unless he has no experience and its more of an internship
"I doubt a proof-of-concept by Google ..."

You know they actually have a physical car? That car was able to drive itself from Mountain View to Tahoe.

As of August 2012, it has logged 300,000 miles.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/google...
starbucks.com is a great example of how responsive design can be brilliant. Try resizing your window.
Then let them be obese. It is not my responsibility to make sure other people don't get fat. We shouldn't stifle innovation (if that's what you're getting at) because we're scared that people will get.. even more fat.

And isn't obesity more about diet than it is exercise anyway?
Maybe using something like NFC? so you come near to a poster and it pushes a URL or something to you?

Or a 'smart billboard' perhaps:
http://mashable.com/2011/04/16/smart-billboard/
I'm sorry, but this thing looks downright ridiculous.
Are you obliquely pointing out the potential discrepancy in the results from differing ABV, or are you just making a snide remark about presumably watered down, tasteless "American" beer?
equal to whatever anyone else has, adjusting for who's been there longer, so initial founder still has the most, etc
Safari uses a JIT. Other browsers and UIWebView based applications are not allowed to access the JIT, apparently because it is a security risk. Even lua based apps are not allowed to run luajit because code generation on iOS isn't allowed within apps.
the world is becoming so small, its great I guess but takes away from the mystery
I thought this was a nicely put together spoof of kick starter, I'm flabbergasted how that has raised so much money. The people using it look like the heaven's gate cult photos from years ago.
I actually thought long and hard about Brewery DB. Their API is just fantastic, IMO. Really clean. Unfortunately, I wrote Recommendable (the Ruby gem that I wrote to power the recommendations) in a way that it really relies on ActiveRecord currently. My database also has considerably more beers than BreweryDB does right now, but yeah. Managing it by myself slowly gets more difficult as more and more suggestions on beers I need to add come my way. I'm working on an admin section for me to manage that more easily.
It's possible (but not guaranteed) that the knowledge that any early bad publicity could really sink the extremely large amount of money that the companies have been investing into producing this will motivate them to create safe cars more than any specific regulations as to their safety standards.
When I tap-zoom the text in your "about" page on my (retina, iOS 6) iPad, the text box moves off the screen to the left, and when I scroll down on the same page, the top of the text box moves down with the viewport. Sadly, I have come to "expect" these sorts of strange behaviors on responsive sites...
I wish I thought of that. I've just been using an upside-down pair of short shorts, but they lack the cushioning support on my forehead.
Browser support: http://caniuse.com/flexbox

Only Chrome for now it appears.
This sites page loads are really fast. Well done in that respect.
Does the driver have to be awake? Sleeping and driving can become the new texting and driving.
There's something that I am genuinely wondering. Will car ownership really decrease?

Where I used to live in 2003, in China, taxis were really cheap, and public transportation was functioning OK. Yet, after some economic boom, people started to buy more and more cars. It was very provable that cars were a negative in every possible way. More expensive, PITA to maintain, inconvenient to park, incompatible with drinking alcohol or being tired, but still, people preferred to own and drive their own cars!

I know a self driving car is not exactly like a Taxi driver (or even like a private driver), but the parallel is close enough for me to wonder about the consequences.
App Engine is a disaster - go with Heroku and Rails or with AWS/Azure/Linode with Rails on IAAS. :)
Which is why the Woz is a crackpot.
Logitech h330 USB headset.
Using one of these in a public place will be an invitation to get mugged.
I thought there would be at least some sort of acknowledgment in the video of how absurd the thing looked - a little self awareness might go a long way towards connecting with people otherwise put off my looking like an insane person in public spaces.
PJAX, man. Loving it.
"There is abundant evidence to show that high buildings make people crazy." - Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language.
I dont trust code to suggest me beer.... my tastebuds own any script ;)
Essentially, hiring/tenure committees ... have a hierarchy of journals in their mind

-- Penn State has a "middle of the road" law school
If you're willing to sleep in public then you already don't care about looking ridiculous.

I find this product highly appealing.
Do you have a source for any on that? The article specifically mentioned elevators.
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Startup gives birth to telepresence robot
Public service announcement

http://www.febelfin.be/nl/safe-internetbanking
In the 50s women were prohibited from entering engineering programs by policy, so commercials didn't have anything to do with it. It didn't become illegal for engineering programs to discriminate based on gender until the 70s.

If it were natural differences the number would be consistent internationally. Instead, it varies in Western countries from 9% (Luxembourg) to 31% (Iceland) and has been trending consistently upward, albeit slowly, in the US.
Finally Willow Garage's Suitable Technology (Texai) released for $16K
Dying watching this video over here. Watched it twice and couldn't stop laughing ...

Some missing FAQs:

* How fricking hot is it in that pillow-hat?

* How do you prevent people from messing with you when sleeping on the train?

On a regrettably serious aside, I am curious if there is a natural advantage to sleeping with you hands over your head - opens your lungs up, but would make circulation more difficult ...
Finally, they added it. Well I can tick that off of my list of dream holiday destinations!
I don't think he provided example for successful public service announcement.
Peer review is done for free by the community in any case

This is a great observation.
Those using cron hacks to check on previous cron jobs might want to take a look at Matt Dillon's cron (as opposed to Paul Vixie's cron), which is the crond that Slackware uses.

It has named cron jobs, @noauto and AFTER keywords, which let you run jobs depending on whether previous jobs (identified by name) have run successfully.

That, combined with using things like && and || and mailx, give you quite powerful ways of checking on previous cron jobs.
Who knows, snuggies (I think that's the name, the backwards bathrobe/blanket looking thing) have made lots of money...
How the football field was designed
I can't wait til these are available via the API :)
High population density has a lot of advantages and it's actually one of the things I like most about China. I think most Chinese would dislike living in a low density area. In fact, when I show pictures of Montreal to Chinese/Hong Kong people their first impression is that "it looks boring".
Construction constitutes a huge part of economic activity. While the public is going to have to be skeptical of any new construction technique until the buildings have some track record(imagine what people thought about the first skyscrapers), the cost and environmental footprint of new buildings is one of those "Big Problems" that is obviously worthwhile to solve.
The attack need not be general. Quick specific examples are even stonger. The degree from Uni X N years ago is not worth less than Uni X today. Their values are ordinal not cardinal, although arguably decreasing in relative value in any event on a more absolute scale.
Kind of expensive, I'll wait for a cheap Chinese knock-off on eBay.
No no, I'm saying a three hour commute. Regardless of the distance there's still going to be 24 hours in a day. Spending 12% of your day commuting is bonkers.
How My Childhood Bedroom Brought Me To The Cosmos
hmm...good point. fixed :)

thanks
All that coral bleaching makes me pretty sad. The reef was much more colourful but it has been declining for a long time now. I wonder how much will be left in another 10 years.
False dichotomy much?

I don't think skyscrapers (usually commercial use) are particularly correlated with suburban sprawl (residential use) one way or the other. You can have one with or without the other.

I think the gated / fortress mentality of upmarket high-rise accommodation is corrosive to a sense of community. I'm more in favour of walkable streets than either of short car or elevator trips.
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Seeing pricing >$50 for software products always makes me happy as a bootstrapper.

It shows you trust the value your customers will put in your product.
The difference is that Apple is a for-profit company so they have to reinvest a portion of that back into the company, while NASA can - in fact, should - spend the entire budget :)
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Living life through Google.
> What if you kept all your car stuff in some sort of modular compartments that could be easily loaded and unloaded?

Where am I going to put these containers when I don't have a rental car?

Lugging them back and forth to the house is not a practical option.
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Talking as someone with 5 siblings (4 brothers, 1 sister), I find that one brother is generally as good as another whereas my sister is unique.

Based on this, your question of "Are you an only child?" seems only to be helpful to your argument when used against people with a relatively small amount of siblings of a particular gender. This condition is, let's be honest, a relatively new development in the first world and simply doesn't generally exist in the developing world.
That...is a really loaded question.

Like many people have mentioned, no one offered any proof that the "leaked" messages were actually private, rather than wall-to-wall posts that they assumed were private.
I am hoping they add the forest behind my house so I don't have to take walks any more
Provision up to 10,000 IOPS for Amazon RDS Database Instances