skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Teletext (Ceefax on Channel 4) had some games you could play 'through your TV!' :)

Some broadcasters even had "apps" that you could "run" through an assigned Teletext page and your phone (using DTMF), including home banking and silly games.

If you picked up a random page in a certain interval you would actually see anonymized account data being broadcast around...

(also check ETS 300 706 and 708 for more fun stuff about teletext)
These restrictions fed into the website, too — hence every BBC News article having a very short lede paragraph.

The headlines' noun-heavy wording also helped spawn the concept of "crash blossoms" — syntactically ambiguous headlines that had amusing alternate readings: http://www.crashblossoms.com/
Yup. Everything is "obvious" after Apple does it.
Does removing the DRM also remove the highlight tracking/syncing provided by Amazon? If so, that'd be a deal breaker for me to use this other than as last resort backups
After seeing the trailer, all I can say is: wow, just wow. The mood is a post-modernish film noir mixed with vintage 8-bit style. And the visual effects are striking. Very much looking forward to buying and playing.

Lately, I've been spending a crap-load of time coding in JavaScript, and in spite of its obvious quirks (and haters) very much enjoy it. I'll be interested to see how you managed complexity on such a large code base.

Kudos, man: you shipped.
I must confess I did not (especially as I don't read Dutch). But I still fail to see how a change of 0.03 degree should be a deliberate attempt at misleading people. I assume that the Daily Mail staff, while not necessarily embarassed by ethics, have at least a modicum of common sense.
In the professional tech world, not ALL exposure is good exposure. With this post they look like immature kids, and then when their post and entire site goes down, they look incompetent in front of the very people they want to convince.

An informative post explaining the hardships of uptime and reliability in simple words, and how they do their best to keep adding 9's, would have been so much better.
Thanks for the Gyro module!

Indeed one item down and thousands to go ;) Next up is DRC!
Wasn't there a massive dump of FB names paired with emails, released by lulzsec or some other 'Anonymous' organization last year? Could make this 'deal' quite useless.
I had no idea before reading this article that it was hard to escape from the attraction of the sun! It makes me wonder if we now have the capabilities to build a rocket that can do it without the help of the attraction of the outer planets.

Does somebody here who's knowledgeable on the subject have some reference?
He publicly admitted that he cracks his ebooks. IANAL, but his missteps would be much easier to proof in court, compared to the case of the Norwegian kindle user.

But for some reason, I strongly doubt Amazon will ban him...
Now now don't be looking down at me from your high moral horse

The difference between you and the pirates is that pirates also prefer to buy books and strip DRM but they share it with everyone :D

By the way authors at best get ~10% commission for each book sale, rest goes to a publisher.
Ford schools Apple with Password-less login app
I'd be willing to bet that they make good money on premium gasoline.
Does somebody know a good resource about sandboxing and running foreign code safely?
I'm not sure what I'm looking at...
> I agree. However at this point it just seems a lot more work

It's a lot more work for the end user to have to assemble URLs themselves instead of you providing them in the response.

Let's say someone does a GET request on /tickets. The response should include URLs for each ticket that gets returned, e.g. something like:

{
"tickets": [
{
"ticket_id": 1337,
"url": "/tickets/1337"
},
{
"ticket_id": 1336,
"url": "/tickets/1336"
}
]
}

Again, the analogy of the WWW itself is instructive. When you browse to the home page of a website, that page has links to the other pages on the site.

Similarly, the home page of a REST web service should have links to the other resources on the web service, e.g.

{
"resources": [
{
"resource_name": "Foos",
"url": "/foos"
},
{
"resource_name": "Bars",
"url": "/bars"
},
{
"resource_name": "Tickets",
"url": "/tickets"
}
]
}

That is simple, predictable, discoverable and self documenting for the end user.
I am not sure about legal fees, but at the very least, I think it's only fair for US patent office to refund patent fees for invalidated patents. Won't happen though.
We will never really know what the button reflects. I use it to save tweets, and I shudder at what people might think of me, were I to run for political office, since there are tweets from all over the political spectrum.

Some think it's a +1/agree button, others a thank-you button, and so on.
Using the new Firefox profiler [0], which isn't quite ready for public consumption yet but already very helpful:

1. Download Firefox Nightly [1]

2. Install the profiler addon [2]

3. Play the game

4. Press Cmd+Shift+O to open a profile of the most recent few seconds

5. Wade through the tree until you find nsIDOMHTMLImageElement_SetSrc, which is called by <Anonymous>() @ CompletedEnemies.js:2460. This function contains only one line which assigns to the src property of an image, and that's the line I pasted.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Performance/Profili...
[1] http://nightly.mozilla.org/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/gecko-profile...
I don't think there is any basis for your assertion that patents don't protect the little guy. I worked for two small companies that had, used, and licensed patents on their key technologies. These technologies took us millions of dollars and years to develop, and were our way of competing with companies that could out-manufacture us, but not beat us at the R&D game.
what's so surprising about this?
you can get list of valid emails and just run them through facebook search and you ll get names and profile URLs, both public information no matter what your security settings are.
nothing special about this
This is Linus Torvalds we're talking about - he's not exactly known for his diplomacy. I'm pretty sure if he felt the same way, he'd just stop doing them and never look back.
Really? If you don't mind my asking, what did you throw out and what did you switch to?
... with significantly reduced treatment options for patients and an ever-dwindling number of doctors who will work with Medicare-insured patients.

It's fine for what it is, but I don't want it to be the only game in town. Given that the whole "If you like the insurance you have now, you can keep it." turned out to be a lie, healthcare reform in the US needs some rollback and rework.
So....all the things the other portable devices are used for? what else did you expected?
I can't speak for Linus but I'm guessing the answer would be "no". I remember him saying at some other talk that he loved that he didn't have to worry about "business crap".

Besides a big reason for Linux success was that it was available for no cost. If he had just developed some other commercial Unix we would probably all be using BSD or Hurd right now.
Someone asked him what he did with the millenium prize money. He explained that it was actually quite a lot of money and apart from paying taxes on it he's pretty much sitting on it. His explanation was that he doesn't care much about money, and part of that is that he doesn't like worrying about it, and that prize was enough that he no longer has to worry about money.
and still down 3 hours later... ouch!
Those are reddit memes. Not 9gag memes. 9gag is a content stealing site. See oatmeal, etc.
Defining your social media strategy: a quick pep talk
I think you didn't get his point. You're actually agreeing with him. You're saying that it's quite possible to ignore the notion of a normal job market in the USA. So, it's not sustainable, competitive equilibrium don't exists.
The question about whether he had any failures he wanted to talk about was pretty cool. He said he might like to be a bit of a nicer guy and be less of an angry jerk sometimes, but it's just not within him and he just is the way he is. That was a typical crappy soft question but the answer I thought was worthwhile to hear.
I think it's great that this kind of project exists.
But why copying so much on Github ?

There is always room for something new.
Just because its a logical decision on IBMs part dosent make it ethical . You 've completely neglected to mention your view on whether this is right or wrong.
The rubber band effect makes touch scrolling work. The user knows when they've reached the end. And Apple seems to do this thing where you can zoom out and make whatever really small showing you the boundaries that Android doesn't seem to do. Android can definitely benefit from emulating apple in the scrolling/zooming regard.
BBC News Tightens Up Mobile Redirects
This is even worse than the Mac version of Skype (though many users complained about the inability to fully customize the contactlist column-size, e.g. for seeing the full name of the contacts instead of the meaningless status-column, nothing happened).
This. The word "favourite" was usually used interchangeably as "bookmark" in browsers. A concept of something you want to save and read later.
Our goal is that all your data will be encrypted and completely secure from the point that they leave your camera until you view them in the app/website/etc. The images would only be your to decrypt and we would have no access to your key, only you will be able to view your images, unless you share them ofc.

Our biggest concerns at the moment is partly how we can implement effective encryption/decryption that won't drain the battery life of your phone or decrease the user experience.
Another concern is what will happen if the user loses their password? If we have no possibility to access a users encrypted data then their data would be lost in this case. We would also need to decrypt and reencrypt all data if the user changes password, something that would be very time/battery consuming if done on the device, instead of our servers.

These concerns are something that we are evaluating solutions to as we speak, our goal is to make it impossible for anyone but you to access your private, aka. not shared, data.
If you have any suggestions we are of course happy to hear them.

/Dan Berglund, Software Developer @ Memoto
Big New Ways Facebook Laid The Groundwork For Making Money During Q3 2012
Probably because people are used to Github's interface and prefer it to many other things?
Years refining this overscroll effect?
Since there's already Medicaid for the poor and no hospitals deny care now... your statement would appear to be incorrect.

I don't mind funding a worst-case-scenario safety net for the most vulnerable in the society. I don't mind some serious legislation aimed at fixing the real problems with healthcare in this country. The law passed by the Democrats in 2009 was a useless counterproductive disaster.
Thanks for the insight about algorithmic trading.
Any tips on finding out more? eg: good aggregators or blogs?
Do you like Windows 8 so far? Why did you switch? I tried the Release Candidate for like 10 minutes, but hated it so much I deleted the VM it was running in immediately afterwards.
I can't say he haven't done much for the community, I still don't agree with his philosophies though...
Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account
How do you see which books are DRM-free before purchase?
There was a portion of the Ceefax bandwidth given over to downloading BBC computer programs:
http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acorn-Teletext-A...
Not only bubble inflation, on a normal job market, people would quit, and the turnover costs would be bad for IBM.
But, actually, i do believe IBM was not smart on this one, that 15% cut will result on a productivity shortage way below 15%. That level of demotivation don't pay off.
$5k is a lot of money for smaller companies. :)

Also: don't get me wrong, i love Github and what it's doing for our opensource culture, but like everything else, sometimes there're other requirements.
Unit testing with R
How do you buy DRM-free tech books from O'Reilly?
Blue Origin Successfully Tests Crew Capsule Escape Rocket
I wonder if the grammar mistakes are beneficial for adoption or if it drives people away (no, really). The "who is already use" line on the homepage reminds me of "All your base are belong to us." I could see it appealing to a certain audience of programmers, IT support, and the like -- particularly those with a background in gaming.

Has anyone done any A/B testing on something like this?

[Edited: I'm _really_, _really_ not trying to be the grammar police here. I'm in no position to do so, and my grammar is faaar from perfect. I'm just wondering about the actual impacts (or lack thereof).]
Amazon clarifies situation and restores the account
Two years of unemployment benefits are considered “short-term”? Wow.

In the US, benefits usually run out at 26 weeks. Congress took note of the Great Recession and extended that to 39 weeks, or 48 weeks in states with over-6-percent unemployment, but that extension expires at the end of this year.

And Americans only get unemployment benefits if they are laid off; if you quit or are fired for cause, you’re screwed.
On Mountain Lion, we use the Notification Centre by default although you can opt to use Growl if you would prefer. In Lion, only Growl is available (obviously) :)
Just call it an API or Service, prefix 'Web' if necessary, then you can implement it however you see fit and no one will complain :)
It seems like maybe they should have looked at this before when the issued the patent, or maybe just maybe before they Apple Vs. Samsung lawsuit about this patent….
Does Paul McCartney really need a label? :-)
It seems like maybe they should have looked at this before when the issued the patent, or maybe just maybe before the Apple Vs. Samsung lawsuit about this patent….
So, one of the patents that was claimed to invalidate this patent is another patent from Apple; does that patent not have any of the same ramifications? (I guess the key claim was #19, and that was also invalidated by the other prior patent?)

> ...U.S. Patent No. 7,786,975 on a "continuous scrolling list with acceleration," with named inventors Bas Ording, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Stephen O. Lemay and Imran Chaudhri.

Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Filed: December 23, 2005
What if when prior art was found for a patent, the real inventor got the patent, free, starting from the date of the invention, not the filing. This would both reward and protect the innovator and punish the copy cat.

NOTE: Let us assume a patent is not obvious and too general, which many seem to be.
Judging from the grammatical errors and the core dev's last names, they sound eastern european (ukraine).
And are you poling the noti server? I'm wondering how realtime it is :-)
> > Here is a company with a history of making tall claims and then doing an 180. How is pointing that out a red herring?

> That isn't particularly relevant to service quality and stability, is it?

Not from a technical aspect, no. But it is a very important consideration when looking into any service level agreement that they offer to back up the technical claims. If something goes wrong, will they walk away from the promises made in such an SLA as easily as they thought they could walk away from the lifetime accounts? Unlikely I'm sure, but certainly not impossible and the lifetime thing sets a precedent that is difficult to completely ignore especially if you are talking about the sort of money Reddit must spend on hosting related matters.
I really like this project, I'll be going into uni next year and I know this will become useful later down the line.
Amazing until a connection times out and apps close without being resumable
Personally I like Joyent - they've been very helpful to me, they support the community, they're a pretty cool company if I may say so.

And I don't see anything wrong with what Joyent did regarding their Reddit-commentary. It just shows that they are playful engineers with a sense of humor, that's all.

PS I think SmartOS is great.
This looks really useful. Do you have plans to monetize it?
I think it's worthwhile pointing out that the article specifically deals with web APIs.

Regarding the content, I'm puzzled as to why versioning a web API should be a hard problem when you can just include the version number in the URL. Sure, you need to maintain this code path forever afterwards, but that's true of any platform with ambitions of backward compatibility.
Show HN: kenHub - anatomy learning platform
I get an error for every single site I try.
Big Data to be an engine of job creation
Is there anything besides that in the consumer market?
We use a socket-based connection on the clients. Messages should be delivered in very near to real-time. There's no polling here ;)
Notice to those of us running the EFF HTTPS EVERYWHERE... they'll force SSL and fail.

Not running SSL should be considered a bit of a Faux pas.
An introduction to SEO techniques
HN DDoS.
I really like the "grouping people" idea. Some other groups you could easily filter by (to find "your" kind of people), Rep/Dem, Technologists, Actors, Financial sector, etc.
Hi all, sorry to come late to this thread. I'm one of the founders of Memoto and a long term HNer. FWIW, Memoto would never have reached this stage without HN.

Of course we are very happy about the results of the Kickstarter campaign. Personally I am also very happy about the healthy concerns raised here on HN, to continue to inspire us to never settle for mediocrity. We have a great team of engineers working on both hardware and software. It is a challenge to handle such a long tech chain but we feel it is manageable with the team we have.
I'll definitely look into dealing with those problems. Thanks.
No, that won't work - the USPTO is already a profit center, so why aren't they doing a better job right now?

Being paid more to approve more patents is a perverse incentive so egregious it's incredible the system was setup like it was.

No matter what the fees are, decreasing the percentage of patents granted will effectively cut the budget of the agency. Even upper management that is sympathetic to the cause of increasing patent quality is going to find raising standards very painful.

Their budget needs to be completely decoupled from their revenue.
No immediate plans for this, no. We developed the app for use in our own apps (namely, http://sirportly.com) but thought we'd share the awesomeness :)
Kickstarter for Star Citizen by Chris Roberts (Wing Commander)
I would totally buy word processing software from Jorge's Taco Truck.
Or more likely every scientist is going to be extremely cautious and cover their ass when making public statements. That's a lot different than sounding the alarm every time. I get the feeling that if these scientists had not been so absolute in their vision of safety they would not have been convicted.
Explanation/ update here: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/10/rights-y...
Like e.g. with Google actions without explantations, but the refusal to give them are the worst for me as a customer.
Where do you get a list of 1 million valid emails?
"We would like to clarify our policy on this topic. Account status should not affect any customer's ability to access their library. If any customer has trouble accessing their content, he or she should contact customer service for help. Thank you for your interest in Kindle."
The affect is simply mimicking the physical world. Think slot machines and wheel of fortune type games of chance, which have similar user interfaces and exhibit this same behavior.
I don't see this as a particularly big deal. Databases of email addresses have been available for cheap for a long time, as is evident from the amount of spam we all get. This is after all why spam blockers are so important.
I'm not into anatomy but I have to say that I really enjoyed the demo! The way it went a bit harder each time, with the same elements really help! Great product! I liked it!
Judging by the downvotes and this reply I think I made a mistake in making whether or not it's meant to be humorous the focus of my question. It seems like it should be intuitive that grammar mistakes == bad conversion, but I'd love to see numbers on it since I really doubt it's hurting them much, if at all, in this case. C'est la vie.
Nice! My wife and I have been looking in North London lately.

A huge problem is that properties that have sold are still listed a long time afterwards.

We've had to stop using online search helpers because of all of the false positives.

Will your site help with this?
The initial path part of BBC urls (http://bbc.co.uk/this-bit/etc/etc) weren't allowed to contain an underscore, because they can't be displayed on Ceefax.

Lovely bit of legacy.
Where are good places to find programmers looking for full-time jobs?
I work at a successful growing company which currently employs about 50 programmers. My colleagues and I need to hire another 20 developers to be able to handle the upcoming projects we want to do.

The problem is that we can't find good candidates. What I would like to ask is where are some good places to find good programmers that are looking for full-time jobs?

When you are looking for a job, where do you look?
> We're also planning on integrating a lot more data - there's a whole load of open government stuff (think crime stats, schools data) in particular that we're looking at.

This would be great. I moved to London last year and I had no idea where I should live. I ended up travelling all over the city looking at dodgy flats before I found a place that had all the things I wanted.

I could have avoided a lot of wasted time on thoughts such as "Elephant and Castle sounds like a lovely place"
Flyway - Database Java Migration Open Source Framework
NightHacking with James Gosling
We did a 45 day trial. To call it disappointing would be a vast understatement. Performance problems, no root access, no direct repository access, poor tooling (had to wait for support to write us a script). We were actually locked out of our repo with no recovery options for about 4 days before we gave up on Github support. I do love Github, just hate their "have your own" VM product, it is bad.

After that we tried Gitorious (back then it was still an unholy nightmare to install) before finally landing on Gitlab. Gitlab isn't perfect, sometimes the ruby process likes to eat gigs of memory and has to be restarted (we have very large repos)...

But Gitlab has a great trajectory, every release is a great step up and I find the multiple branches working mode more natural than the multiple repos method that github has...
Pay-what-you-want ebooks 'bundle' makes $1.1 m in two weeks
Anyone remember Joyent's Strongspace service? http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/21/joyen...
IMO, there's plenty of blame to go around, however the onus really should be on the individuals that are making the decision to go on Amazon and trust that there services will always be up. Unfortunately, some people don't know, so they will just blindly choose Amazon for their name recognition.

For the places that truly care about reliability and have the technical staff to make informed decisions, they should understand the limits of reliability with various architectures. As I mentioned before, one of the tenant of reliability is isolation. When the scope of isolation is increased (e.g. single host vs multi host), one must also handle failures at that scope. Amazon isolates at the datacenter level. So should those utilizing Amazon's offerings.
Does anyone know if Kindle supports reading normal (by which I mean without DRM or so) PDF files, even PDF files where each page is an image rather than text? Is it possible to put PDF files on it through USB as "mass storage device", or at least in some way that supports doing it from Linux through USB? Is it possible to do this without Kindle account?

Because, the hardware of the device looks nice to me, especially if you'd add a water proof cover around it.

Thanks!