skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the "boss" of the research group that put the regex generator tool on line (http://machinelearning.inginf.units.it/ "Data and tools"): we are all VERY SORRY for any inconvenience we may have created.

We simply did not expect so much interest in our work. Yesterday we received more than 11000 visits. We are not prepared to handle such traffic.

We are working toward adding a few more CPUs and will notify the status on our Twitter account: http://twitter.com/@MaleLabTs.

We are afraid we will not be able to fully solve the overload problem anytime soon, though. We are a small research group, with scarce resources.

We are also preparing a small faq for addressing several of the interesting points raised in this discussion (e.g., why not executing everything in Javascript ?). We will notify completion via Twitter. Further comments and criticisms are most welcome.

Thanks a lot for your interest and patience.
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Most people tend a very negative view towards suing. Personally, when you're in the right and have a strong case, as the above seems to have, it works beautifully.

I've had the written threat to sue work, as well as the actual suing. It's not as expensive, or time consuming, as you think and is the primary method of contract enforcement. It's also kinda fun and an interesting intellectual experience.
Denmark is known for its flexicurity model. We're not hard to ditch, and we're even easier to employ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity
If I were a serious cloud provider, I would check my grammar.
because of all the "success" with twitter back in the days
Dealing with Complexity
Presumably video packets have the advantage of being fixed in size, and repeating in regular intervals.

Dealing with irregular sized packets at irregular intervals is a more interesting problem :)
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I only see four requirements:

Someone who writes beautiful code--it makes me cry tears of joy. (Required)
Someone who maintains their own server (Required, Linux preferred)
Someone who will let me help them maintain their own server (Required)
Someone with public repos on Github (Required)

The others are all "preferences", yes?
#1 - don't watch TV. At all. Believe me, after the first week or so, you won't miss it. I haven't had cable since my 15 month old was born, and I don't miss it at all. Yes, that means if you're a sports fan, you won't get to watch 8 hours of sports every week like normal. Congrats, now you have 8 more hours for side projects.

#2 - get up early. I get up an hour and a half early to work on side projects in the morning. Since my wife and baby sleep in a little, this gives me valuable time to get stuff done without interruption.

If you can work from home, do it. It saves valuable commute time that can be better spent on side projects.
> Red herring.

Here is a company with a history of making tall claims and then doing an 180. How is pointing that out a red herring?

> Besides, as far as I understand, Textdrive is in the process of being relaunched, honoring all the lifetime plans.

From what I know of the story, if they do honor lifetime plans, it isn't out of the goodness of their hearts. They had every intention of flipping the lifetime planholders, and they did, and what they are doing now is damage control.
If we are asserting that time is short and we lead fast lives, where will the time come from to review these images ?
Google Play? You think Google makes enough on Google Play to break even? I see that as a "me too" business to keep pace with Apple and Amazon.
I think it will. I've recently joined App.net, no spammers whatsoever. Perhaps Twitter will adopt a similar model to that of App.net?
MS got 500 SFX shots for the Halo web series for as much as the '06 movie script
That's a useful response - thanks for taking the time to register and respond.

Apologies for the extreme load caused - when geeks find something cool they tend to share it, and not everyone is ready for that level of interest.

I, for one, look forward to your updates. What would be really great would be for you to prepare some kind of informal overview and put that up as a blog post, making it clear that it's intended to be informal, and is not in any way your formal research results or anything like that. Then post here a link to it. If you engage with this community you'll get a lot of smart people offering thoughts and suggestions from which you can pick and choose.

Great work - thank you.
You don't need to be a citizen, just a resident.
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Well, can you explain it then?

It seems like they had an explicit "Black people cannot get this thing, and white people can". Which sounds racist.
> "lifetime" "unlimited" "forever" etc products should always been looked at sceptically for that reason. Anything that is either finite or requires up-keep cannot be offered on these terms, it is just impossible.

When a company is offering "lifetime", "unlimited", "forever" et al, the most likely reason is it is cash strapped and is hoping to raise some cash with these lucrative schemes. I, as a customer, am well aware about "no free lunches" but we are entering an agreement when I buy your supposedly "lifetime" plan. When you do an 180 later because the initial money you got from me isn't enough to keep me running forever, it isn't something unplanned that happened to you. You always knew that. It's just that you are hell bent on screwing me.
You should be able to open the Javascript console in the demo and run the following: JSON.stringify(states)

Copy what's displayed.

Then open the main game and do this in the Javascript console: states = JSON.parse(paste your copied data here)

I actually did have that feature in the game, but I deactivated it once it seemed my apparent save corruption issue was gone (didn't want to bring attention to any possible bugginess). I should reactivate it in an update.
I missed a few:

No smokers. (Required)
No one whose personality changes when they drink. (Required)
Someone who does not, under any circumstances, become violent. (Required)
Someone who does not, under any circumstances, become uncontrollably angry. (Required)

Still a pretty low bar, IMO.
Thanks for taking it further :)
ah I'm very sorry for the misunderstanding, no.

I meant abusive as in "abusive financial practices", a synonim for illegal (per merriam webster), not abusive as in "physical abuse".

Please excuse this non native speaker for making something look worse than it was :)
It is a setting, but it is in the "Settings" app - not inside the app.
You can actually consult ceefax online :

http://www.ceefax.tv/txtmaster.php?page=199&channel=bbc1...
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FGLogin is very quick and powerful, sure it helps you to increase your web project registrations. It's definitely a must have login system for every PHP based web projects.
In the real world, it may even be irrational for people to keep up to date on every entity's reputation. The time it takes to do that isn't exactly without a cost itself.
> The iOS version of Skype has no "quit" option at all.

You're lucky that you regularly receive calls. It seems that Skype grabs a few MB of memory when in the background, which made a big difference on my iPad 1. Suddenly people who have OCD about their iOS multitasking dock don't seem paranoid anymore...
If the company is in position to treat you as a slave (e.g. it can decrease your compensation or degrade your status without suffering and the only thing preventing it from this is their goodwill), there is a good chance they would.

If the jobs market is so badly screwed that they can treat server admins as slaves, maybe USA is no longer sustainable after all?

Because you know, in a normal job market, those server admins quit. And IBM has to hire new server admins. For considerably higher salaries (because of bubble inflation and because of haste to fill positions).
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/joylent.com

It's not just you! http://joylent.com looks down from here.

edit: 11:12 UTC it's back up again.
I don't know what you are complaining about. He solved a problem that helped launch voyager probes and made them a success. The problem was hard, not solved before and he did it. Its absolutely brilliant for that effort, and the kind of impact it has had on human history. Even if it was easy, by a common mathematicians measure, its still great. Because he took it head on and solved it.

Your point of argument is a metaphor which a non technical author would have used or even used in exaggeration by mistake.

Sorry but pedantic arguments make a persons case look bad. Its like complaining about Khan academy's Python course. Smart intelligent people feel guilty when solving a problem well within their reach, was taken by somebody else and solved by them. It makes them feel more bad, when the solution becomes famous and brings a lot of fame to the inventor. It seems that is what you are going through here.
How often do you find out about such insider level information? Even stories like EA Spouse, how much detail do we really know that would be considered deeper than surface-level stuff?
From my long comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687151

> The minutes of the 31 March meeting

Before that meeting, some of the scientists have been "used" by various politicians and high-level civil servant in their public speeches and interviews with the media. There are records of the director of the nation-wide emergency task-force being being interviewed and saying things like "After these afternoon quakes there is nothing to be feared, I can assure you. My fellow colleague and quake researcher can tell you the same", and one of the convicted scientists cues in "Sure, there is nothing to be feared. Indeed, these small earthquakes have released a lot of energy, making a big earthquake impossible". _Impossible_. That is not correct scientific communication, that is being the wingman of a politician being interviewed by national TV.
Here's a lovely audio slideshow that captures the essence of Ceefax, complete with that cheesy music that accompanied everything:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19996372
Maybe I don't want to run a full X session on my remote machine, just to run a simple X client and have it displayed on my local desktop?

VNC is no alternative for running individual applications remotely. Remote desktop != remote X.
We use kanban which helps keep blocked stories in check because they can easily be flagged 'red' or 'blocked'. Then the rest of the team sees this and can pitch in to help out because the idea is that a blocked story has highest priority.
Completely agree, building your own is cheaper, gives more control, etc. But what is more: you do NOT lose the ability to use the cloud for added reliability: it is pretty cheap to have an EC2 instance standing by that you fail over to.

If you are very database heavy, and you want to be able to replicate that to the cloud in real time it does get expensive, but if you can tolerate a little downtime while the database gets synced up and the instances spin up that's cheap too.
Websites won't fix the problem, but may group some people around it and enable them to solve the issue.

I'm not saying that was your point, but in general I'm bewildered by this growing attitude that web-dev "hackers" can solve problems of humanity by just building a bunch of RoR websites. It managed to reach even at least one TED talk. Sounds to me mostly like front-end developers wanting to feel good that they're making difference when building cat-photo-sharing apps. But somehow it ended up as a global perception that "hackers" build websites and problems get solved.
No, it's quite possible to hire new server admins at the same salaries or less, and just endure lower quality work. I see it all the time. It all depends on where the company's priorities are, normal job market be damned.
For E-book lovers it is very useful and easy to use also.
This just helps illustrate the absurdity of the US patent system. Samsung and Apple have already been at this for over a year and a half (longer if you count their pre-lawsuit discussions).

Now, after we've been through lawsuit filings, discovery, back-and-forth over injunctions and a trial and gotten a verdict... The patent office turns around and says: "On second thought, we shouldn't have issued that patent in the first place.", which itself will be reexamined and appealed and ... adding onto the existing pile of appeals.

I happen to think that the patent office's invalidation is correct, but even if you don't... this is no way to run a railroad. Successful reexaminations should be a rare, exceptional case in a properly functioning patent system. Instead, we have case after case turning on them (Oracle v Google, the Lodys reexamination requests, ...).

Here's a radical idea: Maybe the patent office should work harder to not grant patents it is likely to invalidate later.
As far as I understand one would have to sue in small claims court in California to get anything out of it. Since I'm in Europe, it unfortunately is not a cost-effective option. (I think I paid ~500$ for the original plan, so it's cheaper to write it off)
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One of the nice things about Ceefax was that it managed to combine instant and delayed gratification. You knew you could get certain information by punching in the page number but at the same time you had to wait a short while for it to appear as the pages (and sub-pages) were transmitted in a certain order. I think it was this combination of access to information and a small price to pay in getting it that made it so addictive.

And the limited screen real-estate meant that the writing had to be short, simple and clear. The screen format was 24 x 40 and once headers and footers are taking into account a typical story might have 17 x 40 = 680 characters. Assuming an average English word length of 5 characters that's roughly 110 words. Add in blank lines for paragraph breaks and the format is very constrained.
I found this link to be more helpful, in regards to what plugins to use. (Note for Windows + Kindle)

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/06/15/how-add-kindle-...
Free software stack if you use in YC W13
Checkout http://coinread.com where one can download thousands of ebooks (DRM removed, scanned etc)
I should have been a lawyer.
We're a pretty quiet bunch. There are lots of us - if not thousands. We're not hiring at the minute unfortunately. I've got your email address - will drop you an email if an opportunity comes up.
Gmail and PostgreSQL
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The website is marijuanamajority.com.

Do we really need techcrunch to interpret for us? Who's idea was that?
The rubber-band patent was also the patent asserted to make Motorola Mobility recall their phones in Germany. I don't know how these things work, is the patent invalid in Europe now, or must it be investigated separately? Either way I'm guessing this will help their appeal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/14/motorola-mo...
> wayland _should_eventually_ be able to completely fill the role that X11 currently fills.

Which X11 features are still missing? Does Wayland support X11's seemless remote multiuser sessions already?

I've googled around and found this fresh message from April 2012:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/06/0538250/update-on-wa...

"... X11 support on Wayland. It's basically ready to go, but window management is implemented only as a hack right now."

That doesn't sound good. It seems that Wayland will have a hard time to replace X11 in the next decade. Currently I see no reason why I should switch.
The problem is that I have no more trust into them honoring an agreement.

I'd very much like to keep my lifetime account (I rarely use it for anything, but when I need it, it's there, it's paid for and I can just use it). Problem is, the new Textdrive was essentially launched out of trying to avert this PR debacle, and neither Joyent nor Textdrive have published any information on how this endeavor is funded or supposed to sustain itself (does Joyent pay for the existing customers, as long as Joyent exists? Will it go bankrupt if it can't support the existing customers off of new customers?).

The guy running the new Textdrive seems to have all the right intentions from what one reads on the forums, and I wish him to succeed, but at this point I have no simply no trust left that this will go well (which is why wanted to take the refund).
Nokia seeks $1 billion from bonds to help power fightback
I like the theme of the game as well, very occult.
A benefit of all product in the market is that you don't have to modify existing product yourself. Most people just want to buy and use a product.
So, what do you think about CrashPlan. A very much known, sort of trustworthy business? They offer unlimited accounts too.
>if you're looking to make money from this, you need to have the demo playable directly on your website.

I'll work on this. My website seems to be handling the strain better than I'd expected, so I really have no excuse.

>$3 is also too low; you're likely to make far more revenue at $5 or $7.

I actually tested it at $3.99 when I first submitted it. Nobody was buying it at all, so I dropped it to $2.99 and quickly made my first few sales. It could probably also be attributed to my lack of a demo during this period, though, but I'm pretty certain the price drop had a non-negligible effect. Maybe $3.99 is just an ugly number?

>You also should make the intro more like 10 seconds long at most. Split the intro cutscene up and show it slowly over the levels.

This is honestly something I struggled with. I didn't want an overly long intro, but at the same time I wanted an intro that'd let the player know what's going on immediately. I couldn't find any other way to pace it, so I loaded it up front and towards the end with the meatiest part of the gameplay in the middle fairly uninterrupted. I probably did lose some of the customers who play games exclusively for the action, but my main goal was to make something that wasn't necessarily complex gameplay-wise, but had a decent plot to help string it along.

>* Shadowing is impressive!

Most of my initial criticism came from how I did shadows, but I insisted upon keeping them. I'm surprised I've actually received positive multiple comments on it.

>I wouldn't try to release quickly and barely test a project I've been working on for two weeks, let alone two years - something to keep in mind so you don't have to learn it the hard way like I (and many others here) did.

The main game's been extensively tested; the demo was rushed out because I didn't really plan on releasing one. Comments and criticisms will be immediately applied to the demo, but I'll slowly add them into the full game so that I have time to test them more fully. It's also a reason why cutscene skipping isn't in the full game yet--it can sometimes yield weird audio issues.

>In any case, great first project! Do you have a mailing list to sign up to? I'd be interested in hearing about whatever you come up with next.

Nope. I just infrequently update my blog. I only feel comfortable showing my work after I consider it complete, and it's definitely a problem because it's practically impossible to generate hype.

Something you didn't mention, but something I definitely need to work on, is my writing and organization. If I hadn't spent all my time throwing random elements of the game together at arbitrary points in time, I could easily make something of this caliber every few months.

And thanks for the advice.
> I don't know what you are complaining about.

Indeed, and the rest of your reply goes on to confirm this, with the additional quite needless, but amusing, psychological analysis. I'm sorry if I worded it poorly in my first reply, although I can't see that it's particularly ambiguous.

The issue is quite orthogonal to him personally and his achievements, for which I have the utmost respect. I am fascinated by the early days of space exploration and am as impressed by this work as I was when I first read about it a few years ago.

The issue is with the journalism, written by the journalists, which attempts to sensationalise the achievements (which can stand on their own two feet without it) by making comparisons with famous mathematicians that are not valid comparisons, as Paul Lutus explains in his first post. It's just apples and oranges, and will at best be lost on the lay reader and at worst confuse the lay reader who looks into the three body problem further. Hence my point that it is unhelpful to the public understanding of science.
Adds what to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650929?
Bit out of date that though (i.e. Sport on 302 has RVP still playing for Arsenal.)

I'll miss it, I used to watch football scores updating on Teletext for many many years...

And this reminds me of Mikefax on the BBC Micro that could be used to make your own teletext style pages. Control code 141 for double height Mode 7 chars?
I will wonder what happens with subtitles. Watching shows on the beeb with subtitles on was a lifesaver for me when learning English.
How about a nice marketing campaign then? DeBeers actually managed to convince people worldwide to buy diamonds, so why can't someone start convincing people that nuclear is good?
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It's joyent, not joylent.
Oh, gotcha... I hope they agree on a side of the car also. ATM / Drive Throughs work well, Gas Stations do not.
Subtitles continue to be available as part of the new digital TV service and the BBC continues to aim to subtitle all its output: http://faq.external.bbc.co.uk/questions/help_receiving/TV_su...
Favourite is one of those weird features on twitter I rarely use. I suppose the idea is to use it like a "like" or "+1" button but I find that "favourite" is too strong a word. There's been plenty of tweets I've seen where I think "this is a good tweet but I don't like it enough to RT it". I mean I liked the tweet but I'd never say it's amongst my favourite tweets.
True, very good point, but tax policy is generally not surgical, it is "nuke it from orbit". I will bet it says something like all charging must be through an approved plug and metered.
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> Kindle users probably did give explicit permission (for some definition of explicit permission)

Isn't that implicit permission?
When I was young, I would sneak downstairs in the early morning on weekends to watch cartoons. If I was too early, nothing would be on apart from ceefax. I must have listened to that music for hundreds of hours.
Popcorn.js is a javascript library, so someone who knows Javascript can do all the things shown in the demo using the library. Takethislollipop is running on popcorn.js. The neat thing here is that Mozilla is creating software for people that are NOT devs, so that they too can be creative in bringing dynamic data into a video, while at the same time learning about some of the open technologies that power the digital world.

If you want to, and you have that few weeks, you can contribute: https://wiki.mozilla.org/PopcornMaker/QA
The Ceefax-like service in the Netherlands is actually a much-installed iPhone/Android app. The limitation in information you can provide provides for a short, to the point, "curated" overview of things happening.
Your number one concern is not having Flash?
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Or they could just do their own thing.
What a confusing website. After they get your email via google login you can DL a 'trial' .chm file. Full books cost "coins" Looks like a pirate site that sells other people's content for "coins".
HN traffic just needs to grow more slowly than computing power, which seems reasonably likely