skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. Immediately I can think of flexible customer service, user research and message testing applications. It's something a product team can do without spinning up a server side engineering task, which is great.

What I don't quite understand is some of the messaging on the page suggesting you might use this to power your auction application. If you're building that app, you're going to need a whole backend good at this kind of thing. Engage is more like duct-tape... a way to try a new message timing, new wording, or maybe even cover for a broken system somewhere.

I bring this up in case someone at mixpanel is listening. I suggest you make the price for low message rates high, so you can properly monetize the above cases in proportion to the value created.
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Well, when both Vista and 7 came out, Microsoft would tout the great adoption rates they were seeing with their sales numbers. They would conveniently leave out that purchasing a PC with XP on it at that point involved buying Vista/7, and then "downgrading" it, which went on the books as a Vista/7 sale, but went to the customer as an XP sale (ish).

So yeah, when Microsoft declares victory, I NEVER believe it.
While I agree that this effect probably shouldn't be used for a general webpage, it could be quite effective and appropriate for a game.

In any case, a neat concept. Works great on Safari.
He should have said the product is magical
I should have clarified -- I was younger at the time, so I'm not talking about "startups", hiring a mass amount of people, getting funding. I'm talking about building a website to fill a niche that is now massively popular, or pursuing advertising or other ways to make money besides trying to buy an office building and a lot of employees.

I ALREADY had the pieces in place, I had connections to get things done (not like "oh I have connections", im just saying for being a young lad I knew a lot of people that would help me that knew what they were doing). Thinking back I actually impress my current day self with what I did. I already had the knowledge, I already had 90% of what I needed, I even had a successful starting place with a successful site... instead I dicked around with 3d models instead of putting my mind into media buying or ANYTHING having to do with making money. It just didnt OCCUR to me that yes, you could be making money right now.

I suppose as a concrete example -- I didnt start doing online advertising until about 3 years ago, where my best days were $4k profit per day for about over a month straight. Ive had other similar campaigns. This is going from zero experience to a year or two of trying different things. Its MUCH harder now then it was back then, and I know beyond all reasonable doubt I would be sitting on a lot larger bankroll had I played things differently 10 years ago.
So many of my teacher friends have showed me the high-priced software that often causes them problems, and I've been frustrated by how many entrenched vendors there are who are slow to innovate in this industry. All the best to Clever in their endeavors!
T420 with the extended battery.
Ah, great! I do remember checking this out at some point. The focus seems to be on having FOSS versions of free/freemium applications that may exist as closed-source entities now (which doesn't surprise me). It'd be nice to see another list of real needs or improvements for other reasons besides lock-in or licensing philosophies. Although, if I wanted a list like that I guess I could just look for problems that startups are actively working on.
In 1973, when the US intervened, Chile's GDP per capita was slightly above average for Latin America. It crashed after the US intervention, and only caught up with the rest of Latin America in about 1990 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_per_capita_LA-Chile.pn...

OK, it did better under Hernán Büchi (one of the "Chicago Boys", who floated the Peso). But it's a big stretch to say that the 17 years of moribund GDP were worth it, just to catch up with where they were before the intervention.

All we've really learnt is "don't peg your currency to the US dollar if your economy is a shambles". I don't think Friedman should win another Nobel Prize for that, it's not exactly a radical idea.
Thank you for writing it like this. Parts of it I was quite familiar with, but parts of it I have zero exposure to, and I really like being able to review the parts I already know as a way to check your credibility on the parts I know nothing about. Only thing I found lacking was I disagree with the characterization of the OS/2 split - 'forcing Microsoft...' seems to imply a backwards cause and effect from my understanding of things. But if that's the only nit I can pick in such a long detailed article, then it's darned well done.
It would be interesting to hear Amazon's side of the story. It just doesn't seem like something any digital retailer would do.

Assuming Lynn did no wrong and this is entirely a fraud algorithm problem on Amazon's side, you would think there is a higher authority within Amazon to dispute the problem. It's a shame they they didn't offer her anything in terms of dispute resolution or fraud prevention.

I'm going to email Amazon's feedback link as chanux did, I hope the larger HN community does the same.
The "distance" of a regular expression could be the specifity (think CSS) or the size of the language described by the regular expression (with some adjustments to account for repetition as a* being infinite is probably not what is intended.)

The real problem is that the space of possible solutions is very large, so you will have to do that lazily, which would make an implementation in a lot of languages rather annoying.

I'd also expect this algorithm to be biased towards regular expressions that are more specific than the user intended them to be, especially for example sets that are small or not very diverse.
I think DRM revocation was a side effect of the fact that they closed her entire Amazon account for possibly violating an Amazon policy. That's why there is no refund.

As well, I don't see any reason why Amazon would not state what policy the 'linked' offending account was in violation of. It's easy to just blame this lady by saying more is going on that we don't know about.
I'll second the STM32 series of microcontrollers. We're using an STM32F100 chip for instrument control, and it was easy to include it on a custom PCB. It has many timers, and the performance per watt-dollar is amazing (as it is with any ARM chip). The STM32 series can be programmed with the gcc toolchain, or a number of commercial compilers (Keil, etc.). I've taken to using MikroE's compiler: http://www.mikroe.com/mikroc/arm/

Another alternative would be TI's Stellaris line. They have an inexpensive "launchpad" dev board:
http://www.ti.com/ww/en/launchpad/stellaris_head.html?DCMP=s...

The downside to both of these is that they lack the ecosystem that makes Arduino magical.

Before the Due, the Maple board came out to provide an ARM board for the Arduino software: http://leaflabs.com/devices/maple/

As a side note, if anyone has experience working with the wireless version of the STM32 (the STM32W), I'd love to hear from you. I'm considering it for another product, but don't want to bother if there are serious problems or if the RF side doesn't work well.
Whale makes human like sounds - Listen to the audio clip.
Paypal Masspay has been discontinued. If you don't have that facility already enabled, you cannot make mass payments

See this email from paypal when we tried to enable it:
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Thank you for contacting PayPal regarding mass payments.

Mr X the mass payment facility is no longer available, the
information is kept on the web site, purely for the benefit of customers
who have already had this facility activated.

I apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
Bono just started his keynote.
But would you recommend it, as a general path or as a pitch for DreamIt? Do you think you are better off for having done it and how might things have turned out if you had not been part of DreamIt?
Automatically solving the "Unblock Me" puzzle (C++)
Of course NT is completely different, I apologize if my comment made it seem that I was arguing that point. NT is the name for the latest kernel, but New Technology was a marketing term used to describe the reasoning for the name. In actuality, NT stands for nothing officially. New Technology was just what the marketers decided on, for a limited period of time.
Sure, I do the same. But having smart phone features like e-mail and a web browser would no doubt be handy at times. For example looking up bus/train schedules for getting home in case you end up delayed or have to change your route.
Will these be uploaded anywhere in near future?
People don't give a shit how you lay your pixels out as long as they work as advertised.
How To Improve A Website’s Loading Speed
Since you are here, I have been following Clever and think it is a great idea. The only thing missing from the docs, is how do I get access to a school's data? In my use case, I would need to get class roster data for 1-10 teachers that use my product in their school. I communicate directly with the teachers, and from the docs, I have no idea how these teacher communicate with Clever to make this happen.
The fact that Dell doesn't offer Linux as an option means there's no market for it. Come WRT and iOS you won't even have the option to easily install a different OS.
First, you don't buy e-books, you rent them. The book doesn't really belong to you at all, as this article points out.

Second, you not only pay more to support your behaviour, you break the law for it as well. (Note: I'm not a supporter of this law, but it is nonetheless true.)

I'm sorry but I cannot see how the average person sees this as a net positive. You are by definition acting in an idiotic manner.

Idiot: - a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. I'm using the second meaning, of course.
Big Data in Healthcare
Its real simple folks. Refuse to do business with Amazon or any affiliates (sites hosted with AWS, amazon affiliates). It was once said if you are not a part of the solution, you are part of the problem. The solution is to make Amazon feel your displeasure in their bottom line.

It is pathetic what we have allowed corporations to do to us when we are the one's providing them the power to do it. Maybe we, as a society, have just become too lazy and complacent to worry about being trampled on?
Wow... this is EXACTLY(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4177548) the thing I have been planning to work on in the last 4/5 months... Time to think of something else... I hope they will make a good job, I like Mixpanel.
"General Augusto Pinochet remained the de facto dictator in Chile until 1988, when he acquiesced to pressure from the citizenry, the UN, and the Catholic church to reform the constitution and hold a new presidential election. The Chilean people declined to re-elect him. He stepped down in 1990 and left the country"

This is inaccurate. Pinochet had a new constitution written and it was passed on the 1980 national referendum (see http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebiscito_nacional_de_Chile_de...).

The Chilean constitution of 1980 included a "transitional" amendment stating that, if passed, Pinochet would be president for the next 8 years after which another referendum would be called with the following options:
- Yes: Pinochet would rule for yet another 8 years with the "junta" remaining as the legislature.
- No: Pinochet would stay for 1 year after which a democratically elected president and congress will take over the executive and legislative branches of government.

"NO" won that referendum (I was just old enough to vote NO). So Pinochet, respecting the terms of the Constitution he wrote, called for democratic elections for President and Congress.

Also, Pinochet could not run for the 1989 presidential election because his own constitution prohibited consecutive presidential terms.

One interesting note: Pinochet was so confident he would win the referendum they didn't think they would need a building for Congress. They had to rush design and construction of the Congress building to the point only the main chamber was completed on time for the new president's oath ceremony.
That signal seems a poor proxy for something we can measure more directly. If what we care about is "do illegal immigrant break laws more often than legal immigrants and/or more often than the general population" then we have decades of immigration and crime statistics we can use to answer that question. If they don't, then citing "willingness to break our laws" is disingenuous at best, dishonest at worst.
Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?
I believe the organisers said they'll put recording online, but I'm not 100% how many talks / when.
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Elon Musk is being amazing again. He's not busy enough with Tesla and Space X, he's working on bullet-train in a vacuum tunnel tech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
It's the rest of the functionality of a smartphone that drains it sadly, not just the screen. If I turn off 3G and wifi on my SGS2, the battery life goes from around half a day to almost a week!
It's still an API, but it's incomplete.
You're right, I was just pointing out that with some basic optimizations you could get a much cleaner result.

Applying some fairly simple optimizations to my example result I get the following equivalent regular expression:

\d{2}[\d\.]{3,}

which isn't too bad.

EDIT: Here are the optimizations:

The original:

(?:\d\d[\d\d\.\d\.][\d\.](?:(?=([\d\.]+))\1))

1. Remove non-capturing groups and lookahead:

\d\d[\d\d\.\d\.][\d\.]([\d\.]+)\1

2. Simplify set:

\d\d[\d\.][\d\.]([\d\.]+)\1

3. Remove redundant backreference:

\d\d[\d\.][\d\.][\d\.]+

4. Combine duplicates:

\d{2}[\d\.]{3,}
The ARM market is different due to many drivers and specs not being open-sourced. In some cases, the drivers for the SoC are hidden behind an NDA and you have to be a hardware partner to get access to these drivers. Trying to install Windows RT on an iPad would likely result in finding driver incompatibilities.
Hi Josh,

Thanks for the kind words!

Our current plans are to keep this tool free, and monetize the service through our api (http://api.wheresitup.com/) for sites requiring around the clock monitoring.

paul
Intercepting Traffic of widerange frequencies with HackRF Radio
If Windows 8 Is A Disaster, This Is The Guy To Blame
mv is relying on operation "similar" to rename() defined by POSIX which specifies that it should be atomic.

So, the assumption "On Unix, mv is atomic operation" is not true. If your underlying FS is fully POSIX-compliant, mv will be an atomic operation.

I think it's important to stress it because there are some distributed FS that might even try to be POSIX-compliant but which are not guaranteeing atomic rename's and therefore this trick would not work well.
but neither of you are taking the existing industry into account. you just want them to lay over and die and do it your way. they make FIVE HUNDRED BILLION dollars a year, and you guys think they should just change because you want them to.

market testing in TV and movies is exactly what produces mediocre crap.

if you'd like to spend some more time getting up to speed on how the industry works before deciding it sucks, i'm happy to oblige.
""Company becomes as evil as Google" does not cause much uproar, because people don't really consider Google evil (yet)"

But there was an uproar when Google did that, and that's the point of the article. But I think it's as others have mentioned. People just don't use or care about Microsoft's services, so there's no one to be outraged by it.
Using push notifications for marketing purposes or to send unsolicited promotional information is a violation of the App Store guidelines.
Interesting. How were you holding up the bandwidth costs on the gaming site without ads? Donations? Are you allowed to say the domain?

Although it looks like any idiot could have made money back then, and relative to today I would agree, their is some survivor bias in play when talking to those who made it back then. It wasn't that easy.

Lastly, any examples of those half assed ideas that hit big? Even the niches if you can't name particulars. I'd argue the chances of success in a single field were much higher back then, but the breadth of opportunities and ease of getting started is higher in the modern day. Domain and cloud server for $20 and you're in the game.
I love simple and elegant apps like this! Kudos and I wish you to keep it growing! Shared...
Jakob Nielsen: With Windows 8, Microsoft throws users "under the bus"
Ceefax, world’s first Teletext service, to shut down October 24
Are you guys using their API or RSS/scraping?
Why weren't any psychics sued?
On the other hand ...

"If Windows 8 is a smashing success, Sinofsky will seal his position as one of the most talented, and important executives in tech. He'll also have a clearer path to become CEO of Microsoft."
My biggest problem with SVG has always been FF's inability to select text: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292498
Out of curiosity, how do you see Azure fitting in to this plan?
It's probably not important to them, as I'm not their target audience but I looked at their home page and their about page and that techcrunch article and still have no idea what they do.
iOS has the "reader" function which, in my opinion (when it works) is nearly ideal.
I had a similar weekend project - http://kidactivityideas.com - where I had a similar issue with "randomness". I decided to save the pseudo-random generator seed in a cookie and thus keep the sequence for each visitor.
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The worst part is, that when combating people who really are trying to behave fraudulently, giving them information about what specifically triggered the ban can help them evade future ones -- much like how forum bans don't give a reason why. It must be hard for Amazon (or anyone else) to separate the wheat from the chaff of customers.

Not that this makes the events in this story any less terrible.
I agree. When I had first read the title I thought maybe they somehow CAUSED the quake. Definitely got me interested until I actually read the full article. Seems a little overboard the amount of "justice" taken upon them.
Issue report: You are illegally sharing my fucking book
I suspect that answer will be different for everyone. Some will have had them as an accident, some will have had them to "save the marriage", some will have had them to bring companionship into their lives, some will have them out of religious duty, some will have them for the tax breaks.

Conversely, some will choose not to have them for various reasons (psychological, physical, etc.). All are equally valid on both sides of the equation.

For me, it was never a matter of if, but when ... as a human, reproducing is what we do. So when things lined up, I decided to pull the trigger (so to speak).
Set up your own GitHub page
Excellent idea. Though I fear that this will be essentially ignored too (as the recent precedent with Facebook shows).

It is very unfortunate that apparently the only way to resolve such cases is to bring them to enough media spotlight, that the corporation involved has to do something to avoid damages to its image.
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When you say online advertising you mean affiliate ads right? Mostly black hat? The blacks I know make 10x multiples of the white hats.
I completely agree with you, but the consumer here isn't without fault. By purchasing a Kindle and DRM'd books for it, you're agreeing to Amazon's policies. It's true that kindle books don't work like regular books, but being ignorant of that fact isn't an excuse.

This is why I categorically refuse to pay a single penny for any digital media that has DRM attached to it and might prevent me from playing it at any time in the future and that I can't back up to my own media.
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Risk prediction is about minimizing expected risk, which does not exactly correspond to the eventual damage done. This means that there will be times when they are wrong. If we punish risk predictors this harshly for being wrong, no one will want to take this job up since it basically guarantees eventually being convicted of manslaughter. But without such people we have no hope of ever mitigating such disasters.

This ruling scares me.
It's certainly true that "I intend to" (in the GP comment) can't be the same as "I will".

I strongly disagree that it's useless talk, though.

If you haven't put any thought into the possible ways to respond to life and death decisions, when you find yourself facing them -- quite possible in pain, short on sleep, and flooded with anxiety and emotion -- it's not a good bet you'll be able to make the best choices then.
tl;dr: bats.
To access actual school data, you'll need an API key. Send us an email (info@getclever.com) and we'll set you up & show you how a school can opt to share data with your app.
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They aren't unrelated or orthoganal skills, just different points on a spectrum.

fwiw nobody is asking you to learn runtime design if you don't want to. If you want only to compile new 'language designs' down to existing VMs,bytecode etc, then sure, you have that option (and you always had this option once the first 'host runtime' was in existence).

All I am saying is that one needs to be careful not to paint with too broad a brush, and reccomend that no one explore runtime design because we have all these platforms already and it is 'too hard' (so don't go there).
Italian court finds seismologists guilty of manslaughter
US and UK court idioms vary widely -
a US defendant would be "on trial"
while a UK accused would be "in the dock"

Any witness would "on the stand"
including a defendant who is called as a witness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_stand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtroom
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The Asymco.com site seems to have had a hiccup. Text, but no charts, at the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m1lNim-...
I think this video is relevant to remind people just how much Bill Gates is the man of "Windows everywhere". If it had been only his decision, the XBox would probably also run some variant of Windows.
> If you are lucky to be rich

What if you work hard to be rich, and then you choose to use your money to pay for expensive treatments for you or your children? What if spending a bunch more money buys you a great deal more than a couple of years? What if the discoveries made at your great expense helps others who aren't so rich?

> Nobody is giving up freedom.

That's the justification of every little bit of thrown-away freedom we've made over the last hundred years in America. Ah, the smell of boiling frogs!

By being forced to put taxes into a least-common denominator system out of your control, you can't help but to give up freedom.
I think you should keep it in, instead of filtering it out. It will make the site feel more authentic, and the out-of-place quotes can become viral (in the sense of "no publicity is bad publicity").

I'd also humbly offer two enhancements:
1) Create widgets that other sites can place on their own web sites, linking back to yours.
2) New daily quotes could be published via RSS. (For example, I don't see myself visiting the site more than the initial one, but I can imagine someone putting an RSS feed into his daily reader to spice it up.)

Good luck.
I'm stunned. I hope other countries are not stupid enough to follow Italy down this ridiculous path. Can the EU intercede and do something here ?
On the same note, with today's economy it's likely the majority won't bother upgrading since their Windows installs work, so why upgrade now?