skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the real world, it's not easy to sign a contract giving up all your future rights - imagine if a car company tried to slip clauses into a car purchase agreement giving them the right to take back the car without explanation at any time. People would rebel. But online, people regularly click through things just as bad as this.

In Australia, consumer law prevents unfair terms in contracts by the simple expedient of nullifying them.
An interesting idea, but probably could have been done better with an order magnitude less of maps with nice effects between (i.e. a horizontal side scroll with fade effects, rather than having to click on each little map tile).

Generally speaking, for a good infographic the picture should tell the story rather than you having to read explanatory text.
Can Plasma Active Beat Ubuntu on Linux Mobile Computing?
I like Auria, Amplitube,BeatMaker2,iMS20,iSequence,DM1,Animoog,Soundprism and the likes very much.
with audiobus on its way, it is going to get even more interesting.

Been using them for lives & recording demos (iPad+MiC+Jam).
the iPad never crashes(not like Android that freezes a lot).

Obviously you do no get a full pc stack and the quality is still not there so I resort to the Mac for more functionality/sound treatment but you can enjoy quite very much if you can't afford the thousands that cost Native Instruments softs or real hardware synths/drum machines.
PHP to mobile app in 10 minutes
Looking forward to hear some constructive feedback on my weekend project. Cheers
Is mobile video inherently "dirty" too or, is it just Chatroulette's aftermath?
Please, I need some candid assessment here. I am deeply in love with audiovisual interaction, and I think ubiquitous video is an inevitable part of the future. But it is really difficult, implementation-wise and because of its implications (you know...creeps online, etc)-- to mention a few.<p>Our iOS app "Questions" got approved on Oct 21/22 -- depends on you -- and is picking up steam really fast (don't get me wrong, it's rank is nothing to write home about, still). You can download it (haha)...or seriously you can actually just click on any person's face on this for-fun-page we made so you can feel the awesome interactions: http://questionsapp.com/i.php. My worry is that despite the positive review it got in less than 24 hours, critics cannot help but mention how we are "able to keep things clean". Yes, I am grateful, but I find it pathetic because it suggests video is now a space that is presumed to be scarcely or impossibly "clean". Don't get me wrong, the article praises us for the most part (http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/10/quickadvice-questions.) and yes, although everyone on it is pretty chill and decent, we shall take down indecent content if they ever surface. But still, if it is commendable to "keep things clean", does it suggest that this space is that bad? Such is seldom worth mentioning in other spaces. If it is that bad, who out there is trying to redefine the entire game and how?<p>So, I worry. Do I really need to prepare for crazy stuff happening on our video app, and how do I do that? Just by flagging? Is that sustainable? This is my first foray into mobile, let alone mobile vid. Any other hackers out there have experience with "mobile" video and behaviours there?
That sounds like a awesome setup and the way more Biotechs should be done.
i like ubuntu and centos
dilara: You are currently hellbanned, nobody can see your comments (including the useful one you just posted with the real link to the blog).
Never Check Your Tire Air Pressure? There’s An App For That
Adobe embraces "freemium" and Cloud with Edge Tools
So what did he buy that he couldn't get free using Google search? Nothing?

There are phone books out there that list more information that that. Do you feel secure?
There's http://libgen.org/ and http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/ , both of which are vast.
Can we enforce a tag or for auto-playing videos with sound, maybe?

I'll look into solutions on my side after the second most unfavorable situation because of links with this bull... on HN.

But please.. Mods, can't we change the to something helpful in these cases?

Something like NSFW (which it very well might be as well)?
See my reply to @nodata.

Accept that this functionality exists - but because of the way it is implemented it is not clear when you do this that you are not doing the same thing.

Reading the docs after you have found out that your security is wide open is not acceptable.

One of the reasons why I am pretty annoyed at this is that I was recommending DropBox to a business partner who asked if I knew of a service that could store and manage access to sensitive docs.

I then fell for this massive gotcha two days later. Hence I had to revise my advice - not to use Dropbox because it was too easy to make a mistake.
Well, someone just needs to make a file storage-oriented Git client.
It tells you about paid plans whenever you go to create a new repository, and on the front page when you're logged out, but otherwise, yeah, it's pretty obtuse if you're an existing user.
That's interesting. Upvoted.

My sense is that this takedown is supposed to send a message to the larger internet media companies. The small ones could be easy pickings, but the big ones like Netflix, Apple and Google are what the entertainment industry really cares about - and as they see their markets being transformed, they will fight with whatever they've got. And one thing they've got is the law and political experience.

They picked on Kim because he's an unlikeable character. He's rich and arrogant, and his alignment with hip hop and youth culture won't win him supporters in DC or in governments.
He's got $200M and no one can take his massive equity away. I just think you have to be very cynical to think his primary motivation is money, at this point.
Yes, it might approach zero, but it never gets there. There aren't infinite trees to turn into infinite numbers of books.
The sad truth behind WorldCup and Olympic Games in Brazil
The whole "it's not a cache" thing is a canard. Doing it right means doing it much like swap: you may have dupes in certain cases. Going beyond that actually hurts performance.

It's fundamentally not a cache. If it were a cache, Fusion Drive would not increase the total storage space. Anandtech[1] seems to confirm this, noting that Fusion Drive creates a 4GB write buffer on the SSD and all read operations will influence a pinning algorithm which will move, not cache, frequently accessed files from the HDD onto the SSD.

ReadyBoost is exactly a cache, as is ZFS's ARC and L2ARC.

Now then, regarding the statement you question… yes, it is incorrect. ReadyBoost and L2ARC are pre-existing examples of "hybrid models of blending SSD and mechanical disks" that "integrate with the OS" and do so quite intelligently. You are correct to call out that statement. But it really does appear that Fusion Drive is not a cache, but a true unioning of SSDs and HDDs managed by the OS to ensure hot files are on the SSD whenever possible.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/6406/understanding-apples-fusi...
Yep - but I challenge you to determine that from the sharing dialogue.
Facebook Has To Answer One Question Today, Or Else (FB)
That is quite an awesome system ! I wonder how efficient this is. But it tackles the toxicity issue that exists with usual hydroponics systems.

Here is another implementation :

http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/backyard-aquaponics-diy...
Where I work, http://gg.com, we offer text message based alerts for running horses.
They're just not that needed there. Or maybe that needs getting used to and it must never get in the way of normal typing.

Although, now that I think of it, Word has auto-corrected common typos for ages now and in more recent versions it never caught something it shouldn't have (unlike Word 97).
Frankly, I can't understand how can you criticize Pike for that. That's exactly what he wants:

When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now
everything isn't connected, just connected to the cloud, which
isn't the same thing.

By the way, try Joey Hess' git-annex, now with the assistant. It's just that: a sync and merge system for all your files, which can automatically sync up just about anything (computers, USB drives, cloud services, etc) and doesn't rely on central services (the Assistant will use XMPP to broadcast messages between clients, and then they connect directly to each other).

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistan...
I think even without that context it ought to have been clear that the entire message is written to be humourous - not having a dig at you, maybe English isn't your first language or maybe you just have a different sense of humour to me, just saying that this was designed to be funny to all, not to those who spot the in-joke.
Facebook could become an enterprise ID system
Les Archives James Bond : 007 dans toute sa splendeur
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What a load of utter nonsense. Many of HNs favourite startups operate in saturated spaces.
How Google Could Lose Its Grip on Mobile Search
> game console controllers are also not as good as a mouse

I guess you mean for FPS, only ? For platform games, for fighting games, these controllers are perfectly adequate. The reason why console FPS have become more popular on consoles than on PCs is simply associated to market share of console hardware, big budget exclusive titles (Halo, Killzone, Gears of War) and is not even remotely linked to how good the controls are.
Connect. Think. Lead.
This is great. My interest in hardware is related to knobular music devices, but there is still a bunch of great relevant content and leads here that will make the learning curve less painful.
Encrypt locally, push to the cloud. See: Tarsnap.
Availability bias. There are many SaaS companies making many different offerings.

Choosing $5 as your price point because everyone else does it, or because you think it would be an easy sale, or because you feel bad about asking more, is stupid.

Don't do that[1].

Give pricing a tenth of the care and attention you give to your code. Because it is the single most important lever of profitability you will ever control, and it is much easier to pull it before you launch than afterwards.

[1] http://chester.id.au/2012/09/12/review-the-strategy-and-tact...
Ask HN: Is there a service for hosting API Documentation?
Recently I have been writing a lot of HTML/CSS to make my API Documentation readable and I was wondering - Are there any existing services for API Documentation?

Maybe something like desk.com for API Docs. If so I would love to give it a try.
Microsoft Tightens Personal Data Rules
Benefit or burden? Attraction in cross-sex friendship [pdf]
BAQL: Oh, Zynga did that to distract me.
"External JavaScript files in <head> – All of those JavaScript files nested inside the <head> tag, further delaying the start of page rendering."

Sometimes the head is the best place to put the javascript. I didn't look into what javascript they are loading there, but there are times the user experience is improved by it.
To build smart agriculture systems I think more needs to be known about the food chain. If you had a large inventory of the inputs and outputs for each organism then it would be possible to design miniature ecosystems which work cooperatively and minimize waste - like the fish and plants idea - while also producing whatever type of produce you want.
Amazon's Virginia data centers crash
So, what exactly is untrue about what I said?

Potentially nothing, but it is all anecdotal. Where's the widespread or researched evidence of HFS (especially in its HFS+ or HFSX variants) being a slow and easily corruptible file system?

It's not like HFS is a rare and infrequently used file system – it's the primary filesystem for all Macs since System 3, for many iPods, and for all iOS devices.

The scaling limits present in HFS+ will rarely be hit by most users and, while not as resilient as more modern FSs, there are no inherent fatal design flaws with HFS that I'm aware of. Perhaps you've pushed HFS+ beyond its limits, or have usage patterns that trigger a rare fatal bug, but just claiming that something is true is not very productive either.
> Apple computers with HDDs do get unusably slow once they start swapping. So much so that it is usually impossible to terminate the memory-hungry application.

I agree with the former but not the latter - avoiding swapping made a much bigger performance difference in OS X to Windows, but a swapping app never completely locked up. I have found, though, that an app using 100% CPU can lock up the system to the point where it's impossible to terminate.
I don't think his phone system analogy is correct. Yes, you can pick up any phone and make a call, but you can't receive a call to 'your' number from any phone. i.e. there is still state associated with the phone network, and landlines are not portable in the same sense that mobiles and laptops are.
Regardless of what you might think of Kim, his personality, his wealth fact is the US administration broke it's own (and international) law to take him out. The administrations' style is one of intimidation and aggression. Laws are for regular people it seems. Kim was left without access to his own funds / video-footage / hardware so he would not be able to set up an effective defense.

This entire ordeal tells us more about the current administration than Kim.
Amazon cloud outage brings Reddit, Pinterest, Netflix down
Thank you for the nice words, I've just sent you an email :)
Because it's hard to do, and even harder to do right. You at least need immutable data and versioning, and you still have to do something about conflicts.
Obama Wins Twitter War With ‘Horses and Bayonets’
What if you are displaying different elements based on the users location/country (eg. currency, contact details), and you use javascript to detect and do this.

You wouldn't want the page to load first and then this appear.
swagger.wordnik.com, apiary.io, turnapi.com
Enjoy!
I think you are exaggerating Google's impact on commodity hardware — or even the impact of the whole data-center-on-commodity-hardware trend.
Estimates put Google's server count around the million mark [1].

Worldwide PC sales are estimated about 320 millions, per year, and more than 1.5 billions PC are estimated to be in use currently [2].

[1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-...
[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044465780457804... and http://www.etforecasts.com/products/ES_pcww1203.htm
Java still has a crucial role to play—despite security risks
Heh. Oh look it's a fully capable PC. Sure, it doesn't run win32 stuff, but that doesn't matter!

Isn't this the exact same line MS used to use against linux? It can't run win32 apps and is therefore useless?

How things change...
The mousing is what lost me. I love vim because you don't have to deal with the mouse at all.
It's not really "Hacking the system" - it is more than acceptable for a company to self certify so long as you are happy with the documentation you collect from the component manufactures - it's just that you assume all the risk if you are fund to be in breach of the unifying directives (the legals that sit behind the legislation).

One of the reasons the test houses exist is that not everyone wants to assume the responsibility of self certification and so they outsource it to experts in the test industry.

The most important thing to make sure, regardless of the route you choose, is to always have your certifications and technical documents to hand should one of the monitoring bodies ask for it
You might want to read up on the tax avoidance and political lobbying which the Gates foundation is involved in.

See: http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critiq...
Someone please tell Microsoft this. They're trying to compete in everyone else's market, while kind of forgetting about the one they dominate.

Developers wanted a linker for .Net; they never got one. Viable market penetration of any given version of the .NET framework always lagged several years between the latest available. They've churned through multiple desktop development technologies in the past decade, and winforms, the only one that will meet the needs of most the market (XP -> 8), is no longer being updated. And, Visual Studio 2012 doesn't even have a built-in project deployment tool for desktop apps, instead relying on WiX or outside vendors. I realize that Microsoft can't tread water forever, but if the PC desktop does die, part of the blame will lay at Microsoft's own feet.
I'm a bit surprised that he is happy with a Mac Book. His editor acme requires three mouse buttons and Apple is designed for one mouse button use. Does he use an external mouse all the time?

And I'm a bit disappointed that he's not using Plan9. With the current ease of VMs there are no driver and installation issues and he could move the snapshot around.
In Chrome it's 3300 [1]

[1] http://src.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src/net/cookies/cookie_... search for kMaxCookies
So you would delay the whole page just because of some location specific elements? How about render what you got first so the user has something to look at and then fill in your specific bits later?
Considering the page is 'powered' by Instra.com, a domain sales site, I bet you he paid $0 for it and has an arrangement to use it in exchange for the publicity that it will give them.
does FB have a developer membership cost like Apple?

No, it doesn't cost anything to create a Facebook app.
It's super cool but spoiler alert: just youtube aquaponics, it's not new (thank's reddit). People have been doing it even commercially for over a decade. That said I think what he says about future generations learning and getting excited about farming techniques is important and it's a really awesome concept.

I'd be lying if I said that I didn't think about building one of these after first learning about it! Also thinking how to maximize produce per/sqft/unit etc..
> That's a strange way to describe research and experimentation (though not strictly incorrect).

Many of the modern OS research papers that I have read take an existing solution and mess with it. As an example, many file system papers take ext[34] or btrfs and do something to them (if we want to debate this statement, we can). I see this with replacement algorithms, packet schedulers, etc. Much experimentation happens but it is usually in the context of Linux or FreeBSD or some other popular existing solution these days.

There are papers that buck this more conventional approach like barrelfish and singularity and exokernels and L4 etc. etc. etc.

I do not think they are the status quo and I am/was not saying that plan9 is a bad thing, let me be clear on that.

>Plan 9 predates all of today's mainstream operating systems.

This is said with enough certainty without being true that I am allergic to it. All? Plan 9 started in the late 80's [1] OS X/iOS is a mach derivative which is circa 1985. The NT OS/2 project which begat modern Windows was started in 1988. BSD? All descendants of BSD which first released in 1977. Rob Pike complains about BSD's "cat -v" in the early 80's.

Maybe you are using "predate" with a different connotation but I don't know which. At the very best* it co-existed with the others.

[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
We don't have to agree, but mutual respect smooths the democratic processes around reconciling those differences.

Nope. I do not respect a believe that my love life, and my relationships are some how inferior and "not as good" as different sex relationships. My humanity is not up for debate.
For example, setting up event delegation on enhanced elements is best done in the HEAD before the elements load. If you setup all your user-event listeners in the bottom of BODY then your users will have a short time when they'll be interacting with elements which A) will do the non-enhanced behaviour B) do nothing whatsoever. Neither A nor B is ideal.
Yehuda Katz - My Problem With Turbolinks
Which it's far more interesting, though.
The only reason Hollywood loves copyright law is because it provides a way for all of them to live the life they want.

These people absolutely disgust me -- they don't give a shit about their loyal fans, they just want to live in their enormous mansions and eat far too much food and drive expensive cars and show off their sham Hollywood tabloid marriages.
is too
No, no..

I'm not taling about this. Ryan was still active after nominating Isaac gatekeeper.

He did the __why thing after:
http://shitryandahlsays.tumblr.com/post/33834861831/but-who-...
Watch the Hajj from the Grand Mosque of Mecca live on YouTube
He'll be back in no time!
Would really prefer if you make all the changes how much improvement can be seen. This would put into perspective what the optimisation means.
> Now, suppose a file is loaded to the SSD and we never write to it. Now the SSD gets full, and the file has to be moved off of the SSD to make room. On a typical HHD, all that happens is the file gets deleted from the SSD. It's still on the HDD, so no further action is necessary. But on Apple's Fusion Drive, this file will have to be copied back to the HDD.

I guess that in this marginal case, the Fusion Drive does behave rather like a cache and allow the blocks simply to be overwritten if the data on the HDD was not overwritten - as you say, it would be inefficient not to, if simpler. But if the Fusion Drive allows the data on the HDD to be overwritten before that, then the FS has spare capacity that a proper cache cannot use, since a cache cannot free up the space on the HDD.

The result is that the space available for data is close to the sum of the space available on both drives, something not true of cache.
You can find more info about Aquaponics here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYR9s6chrI0

http://www.aquaponics.net.au/forum/

http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/

Murray Halams DVD's are a great resource for beginners, though his systems can be improved.
http://www.aquaponics.net.au/product/prod105.htm

This DVD tracks an Aquaponics system that was installed over a period of 1 year http://www.aquaponics.net.au/product/prod158.htm

Unlike hydroponics this being an almost closed system makes it more efficient. You can use solar panels to run the motors.

But this system requires one to check the ph and ammonia levels of the water daily and maintain the balance of the system.
That's coming. MHEG is going be replaced with hbbtv (a html sub-set). MHEG is too difficult to write and has a small number of people who understand the weird syntax.
Just to be clear, the 'final screen' shown in that article is a mock-up that's been doing the rounds; it wasn't shown on the actual BBC Ceefax service.
Depending entirely on how you structure and how much you want to get out of it $5 a month with 2000 core customers is $120000, minus operation costs like servers and such. Not an unhealthy amount of money if the time you need to invest in the product each month is relatively low.
Really nice, I love it. This will really improve my lunch breaks! Thanks. It just worked so I do not really have any feedback other than great job!