skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not quite where I was going with this discussion.

We have a rather disgusting prison system, in which people are in a various forms of lockup for a multitude of crimes. Many of these prisons are for-profit corporations, which seek to lengthen prisoners' stay for added profit.

How do we go from what we have now to an ideal prison system? Because of our countries' governance model, even free peoples have problems getting any sort of assistance. Many of these people have been in jail/prison for years and have no clue how to survive.

We're not even covering the fact that in this country, a person imprisoned for a drug crime has all state and federal aid taken away from them. Thus ensuring that crime is almost the only route to live.
No it's not, you can't get consumer support for Google, you can for MS. You can't pick just one of their many services and go, "look at this one!".

I just went their with my free apps account and it's not exactly forthcoming about how either.
Anyone know if they are putting the full event up on YouTube/Vimeo? Missed it but would love to see a replay.
Ask HN: What are your other interests?
I love reading HN because of the great quality of comments and discussion. I wish there were other similar communities of people maybe focused around different things like history, politics, science, security, music, sports, etc.

For instance, I love history. I would really enjoy a community where something like this[1] could be posted and people could share insights about it.

So my question is, besides software, hardware, and startups, what cool stuff interests you? Is there enough of an interest in this community to perhaps set up a separate site with another focus?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
There's no lying or fraud. Company B (the production company) agrees to pay Company A (the studio) $X for services. Done, price agreed. Of course, both companies are owned by the studio, so it is just transfer pricing as far as the studio is concerned. But it is a real cost for the production company so that that there is no profit for residuals. Intentionally.
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Its funny, everyone says not to do a music startup but there is so much potential there. Maybe I'm crazy to pursue it, but it seems that from history, innovation happens when everyone is looking the other way.
Matte is hands down superior in almost all situations except games and movies.

People who own computers that don't give them the option often formulate excuses or justifications, but I dont think anyone with extensive experience with both would ever choose glossy. Matte wins hands down with everyone i know.
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cool site. this helps a lot.
The art looks quite nice. Hadn't heard of that one before.
This is just plain awesome. Using the project to generate the page's HTML is brilliant, if not an exercise in depravity. However, it seriously needs a better name. Since you've built it as a jQuery plguin and not as its own library, I recommend that it be renamed to something like jQuery.create.
That looks like an interesting site - I've gone through most of LPTHW, so some extra tips to keep up with like that would probably be good. Just signed up on Twitter.
That analogy is stupid, When you "pirate" something all you are doing is sharing files, nobody looses anything tangible when this happens and nobody is harmed.

When you kill someone you take away their life. Can you see the difference?
In what way is everyone looking the other way?
A lot of the stuff Spolsky's covering right now is coming from his Strategy Letter I (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html). That's probably my favorite thing he's ever written.
With phone subsidies you may be correct, though unlocked you're still paying more for the Apple product. Things like Macs and iPads do have premiums still though. Probably doesn't help my case that I highlighted the iPhone 5 which is heavily subsidized by the service provider for most people.
And that's the other side of the equation again. Risk is not the only factor. Potential gain is the other.

In fact, many of the most innovative people are those without resources. Many are too afraid to risk the small amount they have, but many more of the poor are willing to do a lot to get out of poverty.
Interesting, here is my stab at a very similar concept (using selectors to generate dom fragments) https://github.com/shaunxcode/bling
I used it to hack together a small app for background data collection a while ago. The only problem was instability. I gave the script to family and friends to run on their phones and collect more data but it was a pain teaching them how to restart it when it died which it frequently did. Not sure if this has been resolved in the last 18 months.
in your about section, why do you talk about yourself in third person?
The secret key could easily be huge without much of a penalty, though.
Achievement Unlocked: You've read all of the Internet.
Lots of VCs/investors say not to do anything that touches music, specifically major label content. Dalton's big talk at Startup School is an example of the (reasonable) position against doing music startups. I've heard it from lots of people who I have talked to anecdotally.
True -

Depending on if they can pull it off, Windows 8 could be a real step forward in computing. Unifying the desktop and PC worlds is the goal in my limited understanding. Will they do it? Who knows, but I think it would be an exciting company to work for at this moment.

That being said, I hope the system doesn't end up being closed off to outside development.
Cool nice work, you'd also like Evan Roth's Typographic Illustration - he's got a video and source code here: http://fffff.at/jay-z-kanye-west-source-code/
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nice job and congrats on delivering.

might want to scale the images so they fit within your display div. at the moemnt they get cuto ff at the bottom/right by (i assume) the overflow:hidden so that the full image doesn't display
Agree, looking at a matte screen is much easier on my eyes than any glossy screen has been. Everything looks smoother, the colors softer, and zero glare.
> False. 22/7 is not valid. 355/113 is not valid.

Right, those are approximations. Those are not what we are talking about.

> This is valid: https://www.dropbox.com/s/423ieio63bsuaat/pi_w.png

I agree that it is valid. It is one of many ways of calculating the value of pi. Here is another one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Pi-... Also there are iterative algorithms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Computer_era_and_iterative_a...

> No, they are much more difficult to calculate, but they convey more meaning.

Again, I didn't mean approximations like 22/7. I was comparing them to e.g. the geometric method which took hundreds of years to extend to a few hundred digits. The geometric method conveys the same "meaning" because it is an exact description of pi, just like the infinite series and the iterative algorithms.

> Pi isn't just a number, any more than e is.

They are both just numbers. e is not infinite, in fact it is less than 3.
Typing is your bottleneck? Sure, I like short and sweet code too, but that's hardly at the top of the list of productivity boosters.
The analogy highlights the rhetorical technique of abstracting something to such a degree that opposition seems unreasonable. It's like saying "I was arrested just for being myself!" when in fact you were arrested for flashing people on the bus. As an approach, this kind of extreme reframing is both abusive and dishonest.

When @ntumlin says "it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes" he completely disregards the intangible but very valuable order existing within them. Smash a glass to smithereens, but keep every one, and you still have "a bunch of atoms". Their arrangement, however, is very different - and far less valuable. Focusing only on the atoms to evade responsibility for the value lost in smashing the glass suggests you don't recognize the value of the unbroken glass, which is nonsense. Of course you recognize the value, which is why framing the situation to suggest otherwise is dishonest. And expecting others to go along with an obvious charade is abusive.

Beyond your dishonesty, @ntumlin, there's also real harm in your actions (assuming they reflect your thinking). The thing you have failed to acknowledge is that that, when you make a copy, you create an obligation to pay the holder of the copyright a specific amount of money. In other words, when you make a copy a portion of your money stopped being yours and became the author's. He now has a claim (albeit a small one) on your wealth. In the event of a failure to pay, the thing stolen is not the file itself, it's the money. THAT'S what you're stealing. Not the music, the money.

"Ok" you say "but I deleted the file". That's irrelevant. You're legal obligation isn't connected to having the file, it's connected to making it. Obviously, there are fair use laws that specify a range of situations in which making a copy doesn't trigger a corresponding obligation to pay. But if you're operating outside those parameters, then you're on the hook.

There's no scarcity of files. But there's a real scarcity of people with the time, talent, and resources to make really worthwhile content. And it's the arrangements - not the bits - is what constitutes our culture. At present, there's no reasonable way to enforce people's obligations to share the cost of what they otherwise "share" freely. That's where you find the deprivation - in the money that is no longer changing hands. And, if you think that a person who goes bankrupt because they can no longer charge for their work isn't harmed, you need a new definition of "harm".

One more thing: saying - as you do - that "it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes" to a person who may have sweated blood and tears for years to produce the arrangement that actually attracted your attention is just awful. It's an attitude that reflects something deeply rotten about you as a human being. Just understand this: culture thrives in spite of people like you, not because of them. In addition to the money you owe directly to artists, you own a debt of gratitude to those who did get them paid when you refused to do the same.
I've noticed that at least some of the MacBook Air screens -- and the Retina MBP screen? -- are glossy, but with an anti-reflection coating. I've been wondering for some time why Apple hasn't been using using AR coatings on their glossy screens. These coatings used to be standard on high-end CRT monitors.

Anyway, I'm glad to see Apple coming around on this. Interesting, too, that they don't seem to be talking about it at all. Maybe they're worried that advertising some of their screens as AR-coated will draw attention to the fact that others, such as their 27" Thunderbolt monitor, are not. (I tried to use one of those for a few days, and gave up; the reflections were driving me nuts.)
The USA is really like China when it comes to tech, they copy superior intelligence. The really important inventions have been invented a small nation called Scotland.

John Logie Baird - TV
Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone
James Watt - Steam Engine.
wikipedia: "NGF is abundant in seminal plasma."
Hmmm.
Is the first sentence in the title a Ferris Bueller reference? If it's not, it'd be cooler if it was.
Soundcloud > Myspace.
Bandcamp > Myspace.

Myspace could have salvaged themselves as a music community, but they somehow screwed it up. I'm guessing nepotism is involved in some way, with some of the worst user interface decisions I've ever seen come from a company on its way out. Pop-up music players? Going directly to "Myspace radio" after streaming a song you selected? Horrible, backwards-thinking decisions.

Music profiles benefit from being simple and looking simple. People just want the names of the songs and a play button and they're happy. This is why the indie community has generally shifted over to Soundcloud and Bandcamp.

The best thing Myspace has done in the past five years is allow people to delete their old profiles without gaining access to the profile itself (via the declaration of ownership).
I was watching a bunch of YouTube reviews of some of the current generation of ereaders. And what struck me the most is how good the refresh rate was on some of these devices.
In the some of videos they show how even pinch zooming and panning around is possible, which I think is really impressive.
Surely it's not the rate of an LCD but I bet it would be near usable for coding.
I guess what I would miss the most is color syntax highlighting.

I'm curious, since you mention USB, if you've done any calculations on USB vs Eink bandwidth?
Would USB2.0 have enough to keep up with 24" worth of "pixels" even at Eink's relative low refresh rate? Or would USB3.0?
Not really
well ... not necessarily ( trust your parents blindly) because your parents might be up to something which is not right like they might hold a grudge against some other family and might tell you that it is ok to hit/bully the family they have a grudge against
i think that children should obey authorities like teachers only to some limit and question them if you think it is wrong and if you think it is wrong then go seek for other help or you should not obey the authorities because of the greatest example is of Hitler and how him being as an authority changed the lives of young children as how to look at Jews by this what I mean is that authority (Hitler) told children to hate Jews and children should not obey this and listen to what they think and then question the authority or go and tell someone
conclude
that what i am trying to say is that obey authorities unless it is something wrong and if you (child) think it is wrong seek others opinions
I'm not in any way an expert, but ergonomics of a workplace is not just opinions. [It is actually important. Poor workplace ergonomics can cause adverse health effects. And I'd guess, that a glare-type screens is a joke in the eyes of an ergonomics export.]
Surely he isn't trying to dictate what conclusions other people draw? He is simply trying to state facts as he sees them and help those who have drawn inaccurate conclusions based on speculation or lack of evidence.
If glossy gives you headaches and matte doesn't, does it matter how many people prefer glossy?

-- Some experiments are non-reversible

Damage to your eyes, for example. This is one area that asking for peer comps should not be crtiticised as just being lazy. Pay it forward, and all that. IMHO.
I have been looking at ANTLR for trying make a DSL. Ever since I did a Joos1 compiler in school, I'd love to make something awesome.
How to delete the horrid sparsebundle from your Time Capsule
achiang,

Unfortunately (and, conversely, fortunately for Ubuntu) Android audio on tablets sucks. Especially when we talk low latency audio. It is bad, in the 100s of milliseconds of latency, which is laughable really for anyone who tries to do audio synthesis or any realtime audio features. So frankly, just bringing ALSA or PulseAudio to the table will hugely improve the situation.

Google is aware of the issue (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434) it was starred about 2000 times with 400+ comments. Again, this is a niche area for some and most don't care, but those who do would love have an alternative to iPad for example, when it comes to audio latency performance.
When you make an unauthorized copy a portion of your money stopped being yours and became the author's. He now has a claim (albeit a small one) on your wealth.

How much do I owe you?

That's where you find the deprivation - in the money that is no longer changing hands. And if you think that a person who goes bankrupt because they can no longer charge for their work isn't harmed, you need a new definition of "harm".

How does that not apply to second hand sales? Have I robbed RHCP when I sold my album on Ebay? After all, and unlike in P2P, the buyer was demonstrably willing to fork money for it, and so it's more likely that (s)he would have bought a new CD if I hadn't sold him/her mine.
I guess having followed US politics for the last two decades has taught me nothing.

I'm sure it's all attributable to "The Government" being sinister and evil.
was this a railsrumble entry?
It's is one of life's small pleasures when programs (useful programs) compile fast and with relative simpicity.

If you want to experience this, try www.sigala.it/sandro/ and cutils. There's a links to it on the OP's page. Programs as UNIX filters, written with flex and bison. Beautiful.

I like this OP because he includes a grammar file. If every programmer that tries making his own language did this, the world would be a better place. Did he also include the .l file in the src? I'm too lazy to look. I think they should include those too. It makes the whole thing easier to understand (and modify).

I too get annoyed with having to install the author's own libs. Sometimes these libs are better than the standard ones (e.g. everyone knows C's stdio sucks). If the special libs are fixing something that needs fixing, I'm OK with using them. But nine times out of ten, that's not the case.

For this sort of thing, i.e. C code generation, I still like the LISP's that generate C.
You can always achieve a token timeout by embedding a timestamp and signing the blob.

However, because you're typically doing a password reset in a centralized database anyway, there's not really much point.
Friendster was more popular than FB, and worked great, until they deployed a catastrophic JSP rewrite that was 10x slower than before and everyone left.
as silly as someone sharing the restricted pattern of ink and paper we call money.
I do enjoy a good run, but I feel like walking gets a bad rap. Running will help you feel great, walking will help you think straight. That's what I say, anyway.

Will Self did an Authors@Google session where he talks about what I found to be a in incredibly liberating and enlightening idea. He recommends breaking the matrix of your daily to-and-from work/school/whatever commute by literally walking all over the parts of town you'd normally drive right past on your way to work. Under the bridges, over hills, through the parks, etc. You end up developing a much broader visual reference of the places you mindlessly go through on a daily basis, but more importantly, I think, you develop a deeper sense of place.

Anybody with an hour to kill should check out the talk he gives, as he can do it justice better than I can:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVEgOiB7Bo8
Warning: This crappy site auto-played a video with LOUD sound (sounded like gunshots).

If you happen to be awake at four am while your pregnant wife isn't, avoid this site and remember the domain name..
I've recently had the pleasure of purchasing the 30" matte Dell U3011 IPS and the 27" semi-glossy Samsung S27B970 PLS.

There are pros and cons to both. The anti-glare coating on the Dell makes black text on white background look absolutely rubbish, fuzzy and hard to read. You can sort of get used to it, but every time you switch back from using the semi-glossy Macbook it looks terrible. Black themes don't suffer from these problems nearly as much.

With the Samsung, colours look much more vibrant and text is sharper. Reflections are very much an issue, especially with black themes. In very bright conditions with visible light sources the screen becomes almost unusable.

Overall, if I could control my lighting, I would go with semi-glossy. Otherwise I would suffer the Dell's anti-glare.

I find that both fuzzy text and reflections lead to eye strain and headaches. If they could tone down the anti-glare strength (but still leave some AG coating) I would probably go for that in all circumstances.

On an unrelated note, I do prefer the 30" pixel pitch (.25 mm) to the 27" (.23 mm). At the given viewing distance the .25mm pixel pitch more closely matches my Macbook's, meaning you can use the same font sizes for both.
Why go for a second rate solution when a first rate solution has the same operational costs?
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As I read this, the conspiracy theorist in me keeps thinking that Ford built Building 4 to optimize failure rates so they occur immediately after the warranty is up so they can cash in on service visits afterwards.
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Very 'interesting' they asking you this. Specially when it looks you are just starting.

I run a credit card company on AWS, our website runs on a single, small aws instance, but the POS/Financial servers are setup this way:

- 8 multi-az oracle rds instances, 4 of them are slaves. It means we have 16 servers where 8 are manually standing by and 8 are on rds multi-az system. The 4 slaves are set to be used to recover from a data tampering event, not aws outages.

- Some dozens of app servers on the same region of each database. We use a custom tcp/ip server I built in java almost a decade ago. We are thinking about migrating to apache Mina.

My personal tips:

- Why are you paying the heroku premium? Build you own aws servers, put nginx and set cheap instances behind it. Let capistrano be your heroku.

- Use some dynamic dns service, I would recommend dynect. Avoid amazon Route 53.

- Use multi-az, set up the same database in another region (continent)

- Get out of us-east

Build the very same setting into another region, create scripts to load the slave country's database if possible.

If your database is too fancy or large:

Shard or distribute.

(Edit) Almost forgot: ALWAYS have fresh as possible, offline backups of everything. Oracle is god when it comes to making this easy.
This is like zen coding in run time, brilliant.
If they're trying to sell us on this free software, why don't they provide a diagram of the SSP packet instead of telling us about UTF-8 support? I can tell whether I'm seriously interested in this just from looking at how they've structured the packet. Do I have to go digging in the source code just to get a preview? I looked at the USENIX paper and nothing in there either. When I have time I'll take a look at the src.
I've used Google Apps paid support and had disappointing experiences. Apps is only one of many Google products, many of which have no paid support options. I've had mediocre support experiences with support for other (expensive) products, like DFP. Overall, whenever I hit a wall (bad/missing/unclear documentation, apparent bugs, etc) with a Google service, I wince because I've learned to expect some pain.
So just for fun, I'm going to play the contrarian here:

"Oh come on. We put that system in place so that artists could get paid for uploading their tracks and releasing them for free to the community. If you uploaded your own music to mega, and 1,000,000 of your fans downloaded it, then we would share some of the advertising revenue with you.

That's it.

It's a cooperative business model that helps struggling artists. Need I remind you again that we worked with recording companies to remove copyrighted content?"
> even my computer being seized at the US border

If your computer is seized at the US border, the security of your SSH keys is the last thing you need to be worrying about: http://xkcd.com/538/
I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
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The mention of "wide screen" in the second most voted comment reminded me of my biggest pet peeves for monitors in 2012 - the disappearance of 16:10 monitors.