skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ExtremeTech's parent company Ziff Davis (also geek.com and pcmag.com) accounts:

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 (their social media marketing manager, according to LinkedIn)

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a

Then there's the mystery of:

- Maxko87's (now hellbanned) autosubmitter for ExtremeTech: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016

- evo_9 who heavily submits stories, about 50% of which are extremetech.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9

- ukdm who heavily submits stories, about 50% of which are geek.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm

TechCrunch I think is as simple as YC startups going there and then propping each other's articles up.

The Atlantic I'm not sure about, but they did just get busted spamming Reddit so I wouldn't be surprised.

GitHub probably has high double-digits overlapping users on a site like this, I doubt they need to do anything nefarious.
>> The point is that you can start with nothing, and define the set that has nothing in it. That's {}. Now we have one thing. We can define a set containing that, so we have { {} }. Now we have two things, and we can definea set containing both of them, and so on.

This helps a lot. I get it finally. :-) Thanks!
FWIW, I found my first development job by attending one of this guy's JUG meetings in the suburbs of Philly, and speaking to a CIO who was attending. My understanding then was that Fecak was a recruiter
and the JUG meetings were a way for him to get face time with developers and build credibility in the community. Can't really fault him for being opportunistic. At least he is TRYING to make the experience less painful for devs.
The recruiter industry is in MAJOR need of a rehaul. I haven't posted a resume anywhere in over 3 years and I still get 5-10 daily junk calls. There have been times when I avoided departure from unfulfilling situations JUST because I dreaded the recruitment process.
Fecak's idea is innovative but I think there are a lot of questions around how it would work. What's a reasonable fee? Will there be conflict of interest issues if he is submitting multiple candidates? etc?
I think that an open protocol for social networking could really take off. Different hosting companies could offer different services for the same underlying protocol. Some hosts may offer free hosting with advertisements, while others may offer the service without adds for a monthly rate, etc. Ideally, if people were unhappy with a hosting company, they could migrate their data to a different host. I like the comparison of a protocol like this to a protocol like email. I really believe that social networking should be a protocol and not an exclusive service owned by other companies.

Diaspora has some similarities with Tent, but there are a lot of differences between Tent and Diaspora.
We're opening expaflyr for beta-access. Feedback appreciated
Yeah, avengers and dark night better than fight club? C'mon.
Startupville
I recall that this is what happened with the Blender Foundation. Perhaps something incredible will come of this?
The Apple Lisa was released in 1983, way before WorldWideWeb. This was probably just a retro-mock comparing their devices of yesteryear to today (notice the iPhone).

To answer your question, this is a fabricated ad.
There's also the difference between an "upvoting ring" and "I'll tell my friends I submitted something, because I know they'll be interested". Which is to say no difference at all in effect, but a slight difference in motivation.
Yes, that was my intent. I was asking for the other side to make a clear response and specifically to mention the Apache license in their response. They made a vague, long winded, PR-speak response which did not address any of the issues. I continue to judge them for bad business practices and ethics. If they provide more evidence that paints a better picture I'll listen.
Clipper, the Caltrain nemesis
> What can you do now that you couldn't do in 1990?

Full Motion Video for full movies in TV equivalent resolution (FMV was a CD-i and CDTV - with add-on - function not out till 1991, and even then was incomparable to modern Blu-Ray)

Hold a computer in your hand and get live flight information sent to it.

Send messages to other people via a handheld computer anywhere in the world and respond accordingly. Note that it may have been possible using a portable computer and acoustic coupler, but you'd need the person at the other end to have a computer and acoustic coupler/modem to receive, and that hadn't achieved critical mass.

Access an enormous user-edited encyclopedia containing music, video, text, images and updated constantly with the latest information.

Proper 3D in games at 50FPS with fully texture mapped and filtered filled and rendered polygons with bump mapping and anisotropic filtering.

As above but in your hand.

Crack DES at home.

Use a touchscreen interface on a device not much bigger than a large sheet of paper or thicker than a small book to look up recipes from an almost infinite source of food or drink recipes.

Use a method of browsing through unstructured media in a way that is completely accessible to a large portion of the population of the planet, and then have that unstructured media indexed in a way that makes it easy to find the information you want regardless of where in the world it's stored.

Watch TV and Movies when you want, regardless of when (or if) they're shown in your area.

Build up a music collection where the only limit is your imagination without taking up massive amounts of physical space.

Reliably collaborate on projects in real-time and see what they're doing, join in and have the ability to video conference, whiteboard and screen share with lots of people all over the world.

Watch talks at a conference from the other side of the planet, while the talks are going on, from the comfort of your own home. Then interact with people at the conference again from the comfort of your own home on the other side of the planet.

Gain access to news regarding events from the ground without journalistic involvement. For example, imagine the Tianamen square protests with footage and commentary from people at the ground as it happens being made available to the majority of people in the west.

Study courses remotely as though you were actually there, interact with the lecturers and teachers and do this with ivy league schools or great universities for free, from your home on the other side of the planet.

Share video footage of your baby's first steps/words/whatever with their grandparents on the other side of the planet in real time or share it by uploading it to a place where they can access it minutes from then.

I really could keep going for a long time. There's a ton of stuff. It's not even the power, it's that we now know what to do with it.
Good luck with that and fanatical ops guys.
Good point, a 10+ year cooling off period would definitely help.
If someone's being needlessly snarky, tell them.
Additive inverses are unique in any ring. The subtle things I skipped over because of the technicalities involved is how do I know the distributive property holds for negative integers. Indeed, what is a negative integer? How does one get them from the natural numbers? Suffice it to say that this can all be defined in a consistent, precise way and everything works out.
>why use OSM instead of nokia maps?
would they use it if it's better than nokia in terms of local data?

> who are waiting?

This is what I was asking. Their webgl seems to be a big leap over google maps and I haven't seen it beyond the webgl demo. I wasn't sure if they were using this technology beyond this demonstration.
Wondering why 5000? It looks like the scores are based on "IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes." Which means some opinionated data by the "crowds".

Regardless IMHO gladiator ranked at #57 is my favorite.
No open source? Invite-only? Totally uninteresting.
Second part of the Irish Data Protection Commisioner's report on Facebook [pdf]
You'll be much happier if you consider every top X list to be a list of stuff worth checking out rather than an absolute valuation of what is 'better'.
Throttle the network's bandwidth in OS X to simulate mobile connections
These guys might just want to wrap something like pubsubhubbub[0]. take a look at superfeedr[1].

[0] http://pubsubhubbub.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pubsubhubbub-co...

[1]http://superfeedr.com/documentation
Well ping may have been unsuccessful, but it didn't harm the customer's experience. People who weren't interested simply didn't use it. In the case of Apple's new maps app, they've actually removed functionality customers came to rely on and replaced it with an inferior product.
You should check out Marginalia, my web-based markdown editor with live word counts. We even use the same bootswatch theme :)

https://www.marginalia.io
They consider it fun, something to do, a chance to hang around for a little bit with some people that are interested in some of the same things they're interested in.
I recall, in 1993, spending the better part of three days, trying to incorporate my Lotus-1-2-3 graph into my Word 5.5 document.

Even in 1995, when it started to get a bit easier (Word/Excel on the Macintosh) - it still was a time consuming task.

I recall teaching classes, entire classes on the concept of "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", and "Clipboard" - intro to Macintosh concepts in 1995.

Even as recently as 2001/2002, spreadsheets had to be careful managed and broken up on laptops that were constantly running out of memory.

Photo Management, Instant Messaging within the enterprise, File Sharing - I could likely list 20 things that I can do today that I couldn't easily do in 2000.

There are things that I can do today, that I didn't even know _existed_ in 1990.
Good timing and looking forward to seeing more developers use OSM
The Avengers has the highest average rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and I can understand it. This movie has a very good script in my opinion, but de gustibus...
How Google Collected Data From Wi-Fi Networks
OK, so you're not talking about the usual diagonalisation. I'll try to follow what you've said and respond as I go.

> In this first set, I do not have a decimal point anywhere.

OK, fine. But then you talked about flipping them around to come after the decimal point. When you do that you have only those strings that only have a finite number of 1s in them.

> As far as representing it as a string, I may still start
> from the right and work towards the left.

Yes you can, but that's not what people do when talking about Cantor and diagonalisation, so it's now completely unclear what you're talking about.

However, you start with finite strings of 0s and 1s, basically the non-negative whole numbers, represented as binary strings. Note that these are all finite, and the non-zero parts are still finite, even if you prepend an infinite number of 0s.

> Stating the above for the decimal case, let n=1 be the
> place right after the decimal, n=2 to the right of it, and
> so on.

See, now you're talking about stuff after the decimal point. I'll continue ...

> Now for place n=1, the both zero and one are covered
> (first two cases below).

But for diagonalisation that's irrelevant. We only ask what is the first digit of the first number.

> For n=2 place, again both zero and one are covered for
> all possible combinations above for n=1 place

Again, irrelevant. We only ask what is the 2nd digit of the 2nd number.

> 0.000000000000...
> 0.100000000000...
> 0.010000000000...
> 0.110000000000...
> 0.001000000000...
> 0.101000000000...

So here if we construct the diagonal of this sequence as you've listed it we have 0.00000... Let me highlight the diagonal for you from this quoted section:

> 0.0xxxxxxxxxxx...
> 0.x0xxxxxxxxxx...
> 0.xx0xxxxxxxxx...
> 0.xxx0xxxxxxxx...
> 0.xxxx0xxxxxxx...
> 0.xxxxx0xxxxxx...

If we now flip this we get 0.11111....

Now observe that all of the strings you have contain only a finite number of 1s. That means that 0.11111... is not in your sequence.

> Using the mathematical induction argument,

You haven't made an induction argument.

> ... all combinations are covered.

For each place, both possibilities are eventually covered. but for each sequence that you give, it is eventually all zeros.

> This must include 0.1111111111...

No, it doesn't.

> It sits exactly where (simple) infinity sits in
> the enumerable set {0, 1, 2, 3, ... }

Infinity does not fit in that set, and 0.1111... is not in your defined set of numbers.
> They did invent Ajax (AFAIK). So it's not all bad.

May be true—but the mechanism for XMLHTTPRequest (and async requests in general, through iframes or other ways) was around far before anyone had the bright idea to do anything with it, so it was more of a stroke of luck.
So you're saying they need to pitch Tent?
I gave them my email address for an invite months ago, and since then I've seen lots and lots of talk about AeroFS, but still it's not available, so I lost interest. If you have a web page and a blog and repeatedly get mentioned on HN, but you don't release some kind of public beta for more than 6 months, you're crazy.
sure, but this doesn't mean the agent model isn't viable for clients with longer-lasting contracts.
Except, as GP points out, the vast expansion of the email system was followed by a huge number of users running to GMail and a huge number of domains running to Google Apps and other hosted platforms. My parents don't run mail servers. My employer no longer runs a mail server (outsourced to a common third-party provider), and I used to run a mail server but I gave up on it and fell back on Google Apps when I needed one. Running a mail server is a huge pain and once centralized systems became available (Hotmail, then Gmail and Google Apps) most users fell back on them.
How does that possibly prevent their sales people from contacting your customers and demanding $5000 or their app gets pulled?
Ryan's a smart guy, but he has got this one wrong.

Product launches ARE news, no matter how you slice it. News is simply a product of what people want to know about, plus what people SHOULD know about.

So people want to know about new Apple products. So the news media delivers.

But they also SHOULD know about things like the failure of iOS 6 maps, which has been roundly slammed by the media. If the media were truly in bed with Apple, would it be writing this kind of negative portrayal?

Is there symbiotic relationship between the marketing departments of companies and journalists? Absolutely. Do journalists give them free passes? Hell no.
If you're on OS X: copy the text to the clipboard and run pbpaste | wc
So which taste the best? I started in the Netflix Prize, and for me a movie taste is a point in a 32-dimensional space or 64-dimensional space. Which point is better than the others?
>You should not follow some advice because you trust the guy who suggested it to you. //

Ish.

If the person is a domain expert (or probably just 'more likely than you to know about it') and you are not and you have other reasons, past experience perhaps, then trusting their advice with little analysis (beyond eg 'was it a joke') is pragmatic. One can't analyse everything there is simply not enough time.

At some point you must trust others or suffer. It's about balance n'est ce pas?
3-D Printing Hits the Masses, Changes Manufacturing Forever - The Airspace
Here are two things you say in the same paragraph:

By providing the low-level API, application developers
can make an informed decision on what that "box" looks
like to them, or relying on cryptographically skilled
developers to produce libraries (ala KeyCzar, ala NaCl)
to do that for them.

and

... neither do I think this API should include the
kitchen sink, bathtub, robe, and matching slippers
in order to be useful and applicable for many web
developers.

In other words, you're claiming that some few skilled cryptographers will produce a safe, high-level API (eventually) and the low-level API is already useful to many web developers. The implication is that many web developers can do something that is both useful and safe with only the low-level API.

My experience has shown that to be the exception much more than the rule. Put another way -- I've never reviewed a system implemented by developers experienced with cryptography that hasn't had at least small flaws. The carnage created by validating the practice of novelty crypto protocol design to many developers may be astounding.

I think you're too sanguine about the potential damage to users by this API. That's the problem with externalities. It's not the developers who hurt themselves with this "chainsaw", it's the end-users who are hurt by those developers.
Ditto on the bad uptime and data retention. I've also had issues with support taking a week to respond.

In addition, exceptional does not support looking at the data in interesting ways (i.e. exceptions from this machine, exceptions for this customers, how many customers are affected by a problem, etc). I have to configure applications to send exceptions to difference projects which is a huge pain when you need to change something.

Their 404s idea is useful, but inflexible, as sometimes I do care about getting notified about RecordNotFound, etc.

Thanks for the ratchet.io, whoopsapp.com, and sentry suggestions.
See also: Doctor Who (1963) (#2272)
They can battle it out in court and the blogs I'm just glad Apple finally decide to ship their own clock app for the iPad.
Percentage of total users which are using mac with chrome across the entire percentage of total users.

The total percentage of Mac+iOS across the total uniques was quite high at around 25% and like your figures, a huge portion of this was from iOS users, not Mac users.

Never thought to do a run down by OSX version but I agree that the numbers would be very small.
The goal,in a trial, is that the jury is a blank slate, which exists only to judge what the counsels say.

This seems like an archaic goal that could safely be discarded if the legal system were changed from adversarial to inquisitorial to compensate for the fact that differences in wealth allow the wealthier side to hire more convincing counsel.
Honest question to the AeroFS team: is AeroFS ever going to ship, even into public beta? The earliest referenced story on HN is 792 days old.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1538731

If Ars is doing a review of your beta, you should certainly be able to convince yourself there is a MVP in your hands. Why the perpetual private beta? Wouldn't you rather find out if this is something lots of people want and would be willing to pay for?

I would worry you finally ship the thing and realize that you need to tailor it to a different audience. Or perhaps the folk are willing to pay are rather happy with Dropbox and a centralized model.
Getting Something Off my (Tool)chest
http://5000best.com/movies/Frank_Welker/ - 61 results
http://5000best.com/movies/Samuel_L._Jackson/ - 53 results
http://5000best.com/movies/Robert_De_Niro/ - 48 results
http://5000best.com/movies/Bruce_Willis/ - 44 results

These include some (in Frank Welker's case quite a few) TV shows, but even filtering for film all of them have more than Hitchcock.
> That's the mass taste.

I seriously doubt that. Just because it's what the available data show doesn't mean that that's the popular taste. If you surveyed 100 people who have seen both The Avengers and Godfather Part 2, I highly doubt a majority will regard the former as a better film than the latter. People are in different moods when they rate films, older films don't get rated as often, the scale with which an individual rates different films may be wildly non-normalized...

Website idea[0]: show two random movies, ask them if they've seen both, and if they have, ask the user which one's better without prescribing what "better" means. Repeat 1 trillion times. I'd be much more willing to trust differential data like this.

[0] - not going to call it a startup idea, because I have no idea how it would make money.
Doesn't this PR work underline the darker side of TaskRabbit, or at least clearly demonstrate that TakRabbit is leveraging income disparity to profit? That is, some people either want or need money enough that they are willing pull a 90 hour shift so someone else with spare money can get an expensive phone arbitrarily early.
Out of curiosity, how'd you do feature selection for the clustering (on a high level) for Movie Galaxy?
> When you say "every number n there is a cube with n on it",
> what does "every" mean.

To be more precise, every finite number.

> Does every number include infinity?

No, in these sorts of discussions infinity is never considered to be a number. You need explicitly to be discussing transfinite arithmetic, and we're not.

> Or should not not consider infinity to be a number?
> If the latter, this is probably where I went wrong.

Absolutely you should not be thinking of infinity as a number.
And then click images.
Infant mortality, for example, isn't well served by market mechanisms

I disagree more with this statement than any other statement ever made in good faith on Hacker News. Kids not dying is an outcome we urgently desire, right? There are a variety of products which support this outcome. One is "soap." Soap scarcity is a real phenomenon: some rooms that children are born in have no soap. Those rooms kill lots of children. Soap scarcity was a quite common phenomenon until very recently, historically speaking. The reason that I keep having to mention that soap scarcity is a thing at all is that market mechanisms are so effective at allocating resources to production and distribution of soap that educated Westerners could be forgiven for not knowing that it doesn't come from the same magical fountains supplying the infinite, free, clean drinking water often found co-located with infinite, free, effective soap.

In the real world, some kids will die this year for want of soap. Some people believe this is because the market has taken the soap from their rooms. These people are fools, because the natural state of nature is "no soap." Children die because, almost universally, someone has strangled the market that would otherwise be allocating soap towards their rooms.

There are more complicated reasons for child morality than lack of soap, but to the extent that they involve scarcity of resources, they largely reduce to the soap case.
Is that really a bug? Kane, while a technical masterpiece for it's time - shouldn't be up on some pedestal. As art it is, while powerful, also not flawless. If you had to pin me down to a black and white era drama, I much prefer, say, 12 Angry Men to Kane as _art_.