skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the AIC pointer, it's hard to find much useful info when you're essentially ordering equipment from the finest brands DealExtreme has to offer.
Nerds under attack
How much is the price after 30 day trial is over? You may want to put up that price somewhere on the site.
Intel's someone else's cases = Supermicro, usually.

There's Penguin (Linux/HPC), iXsystems (FreeBSD/storage),and Tyan for "server barebones."

Usually I'd just pay these guys to build something: http://www.computerlink.net/
The US has more fundamental protections for your data than the EU does. The US has it written into the highest law of the land, wheras the EU just has some promises.

The reality is this: In neither jurisdiction are you safe, because in both jurisdictions the government will sieze or snoop on data at will. Sometimes it will do it publically with warrants (Which are generally fraudulent in the US and used to sieze things that are not covered by the warrent also.) Or they will simply pass some law "to fight terrorism" or "tax evasion" or "money laundering" or "child pornography" that exempts them from having to comply with the other laws.

It doesn't matter. You cannot trust government because government is evil. It's like expecting a fox to guard the henhouse. It's silly if you think about it.
It reminds me of the suggestion of learning foreign languages by reading Harry Potter in that translation.
It feel so good to read "I built a thing"
Reforming the electoral college isn't going to make the legislature disappear.
Check out http://validationboard.com/ before you start getting people write code for you, and do what it says.

It will save you huge amounts of time, money and grief.
This it will be good to some, now it's mainly good for Google and Amazon who are trying to win money in this new market, either directly and indirectly, and consumers who can choose increasingly better products at lower prices.

People were saying that tablets would be the future and would be the new PCs for every user, well with this new future comes also the late stagnation that has come to the home computer industry, the new thing ceases to be sexy after all when it's no longer new. Or do people really thought that Apple like growth would be sustainable forever? If the PC became cheap enough to be a low margin product by now then what is so different in tablets for this not happen?

As I said right here some people are expecting that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3627195
Study: Employees Want Employers to Talk Politics
Do the benefits of employers discussing policy implications of a law outweigh the risks?
What legal remedy do you feel should be available to Samsung in this case?

Again, monetary damages. Sufficient for Samsung to publicize their point of view.

Why isn't it fair that they be required to publish a retraction?

The loser in a case like this may not necessarily agree with the judge's conclusion. The judge forcing them to say something, is tantamount to forcing them to tell a lie.

Bear in mind that the UK does not have anything resembling the First Amendment in the US Constitution, and even in the US, libel in particular and false advertising in general are not considered eligible for "free speech" defenses.

I'm not saying that Apple has a free speech right to make false claims. I'm saying that they have a free speech right to not be forced to make claims by others that they may not agree with. That's a novel way of looking at free speech.

People should not be forced to say things. That's wrong. Regardless of jurisdiction.
Planning to attend this one
Phonestub - when you need a local phone number you dont need.
The main point of green drives is to make people feel better about the fact that they just bought a sloooow 5k RPM drive.
It explains how a password can be cut up in pieces and distributed so that each piece individualy can be used to reveal the secret.

Skip to >>Shamir’s Algorithm<< section to get to the most interesting part.
Congrats for being 18 and making it to the top of hacker news. You have proven that simple and concise advice can be greater in value than the most complex systems (or technically advanced articles that frequent HN).
When learning a new language, my first project is usually an IRC bot. It gives me a good feel of the language and I need to learn most core structures.
People don't "wait and see" because they want to know now what the likelihood of the future is. That's hardly unique or surprising. This is an important subject.

But I don't follow your evidence at all. The primary data output from 538 is a single number -- a chance of winning the election. How is that refuted by the inability to call every single state race? No one, certainly not Silver, claims to be able to do that. But numerate folks still understand that those probabilities can be combined to give a meaningful answer.

So let's flip it around: why don't you believe the (currently) 83% figure? If your answer is because some of those states will come out differently than their median expectation, you're completely missing the point.
Using technology to solve a personal pain point. Not a huge problem, but a problem nonetheless, and now your life is a little bit better. I like it. It's stuff like this that really makes me appreciate the power of coding.
In this case, literally everyone who works for Apple or holds Apple stock.

Would it help to imagine a company in Apple's position that was a sole proprietorship with no employees? So the company was just one guy?

What about a company with 5 shareholders who work on the business, and no employees?
Check out http://electionanalytics.cs.illinois.edu/ for an alternative to Nate Silver. It uses bayesian analysis and dynamic program to come up with a deterministic snapshot of the election.

It is based on the polling data, so if the data is off the snapshot will be off, but otherwise it seems to provide a great snapshot of the Election.
Oh please, are you really going to use the Nuremberg defense?
The hilarious part of this article is how it's so clearly a "hedgehog" article.

> Hedgehogs are “type A personalities who believe in Big Ideas – in governing principles about the world ... Hedgehogs are more easily seduced by clear narratives. Foxes are more data-driven, less willing to stake out strong positions.

Wouldn't you say this article is definitely a "clear narrative" and a "strong position" that is not backed up by data, nor does this categorization of people seem to show "nuance, uncertainty, complexity, and dissenting opinion"?

It's an article for hedgehogs.
Irrespective of its complexity? Your website doesn't say much. What if it contains complex controls, elements which are not native to Bootstrap ?
He's not an employee of the NY Times, per se, though, and I don't think he's bound to their reporter's rules. He licenses the 538 brand to the Times (similar to the deal Freakonomics got).
Ask HN: My Blue Host hosting has expired, what provider should I move to?
Rails support would be sick, but not 100% necessary. I'm also used to postgres.
It's not libel because it's true.

This just shows how much of a joke the UK legal system is.

And you guys getting excited about where the notice appears on the page shows just what petty and petulant jokes you are.
Interactive 360-degree formula 1 racing experience
I think that misses the point, people with perfectly legal uses for mega upload services had their data hosed when mega uploads was shut down. How is Dropbox immune to this (it may be that it is, I have no idea). If someone else stores all your data, you are entirely in their hands.
"this is obviously what they need to do: create long-term consequences for reckless risk-taking."

Yeah, but not like this, you have to spread the culpability outward and not just lay the blame on one person at a time to "make an example". This isn't going to instill fear in any executive that encourages such behavior.
If we're being honest, it's overwhelmingly political pundits of a particular political persuasion who can't stand him. Hence the rise of thinly-veiled pundit arms like the Unskewed Polls nonsense.
I need this, thank you! How do you get the local phone number? won't I have to pay for it anyway?
New Zealand will be an interesting possibility. The ongoing systematic destruction of the case against Kim.com is creating some interesting precedent.
He's not the Oracle at Delphi; he gives probability estimates, not inescapable prophecy. It's inevitable that some elections will go to the candidate who he predicts has a lower chance of winning. The real question is, how often? If it happens more or less often than he predicts, then his predictions are biased and should update on that fact.
I believe there a few services that allow you a free phone number, for example, Google Voice.
Samsung is a soul less copy cat. Of course I push any word of them below the fold.
It's not just mobile; the only implementation of hot swapping for C I know of is MSVC's debugger, so I'm out of luck as an OS X and Linux user. Would be cool to implement.
I think that's the same method Nate Silver uses.

edit: I just looked at your comment history. Repeating the same comment over and over is going to cause problems.
Considering Amazon's recent $274 million quarterly loss, don't you think it's a little bit too early to say that their model is the best? Apple earned $8 billion in the same amount of time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/technology/amazon-reports-...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/10/25Apple-Reports-Four...
Do you have a script to fetch them all?
I remember that hello world site, I think it fell off the internet but there are still many of those types of sites. One of my favs was the 99 bottles song in many languages. There are also larger projects like PLEAC and Rosetta code that are similar.

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page
It scares me a bit how close these pictures are to reality.
Oh, such a disaster. The UK legal system is shown to be the joke it is, sowing contempt among thinking people everywhere.

The mindless apple haters whoop and cheer and continue their petulant childishness.

Samsung, and android, still fail in the marketplace, which, at least for now, values technical innovation over counterfiet crap.
Very cool thing. I would include a summary on the use case on the questionsthree website or a short paragraph describing what exactly it is. The only reason I had some idea of what it was, is due to the blog post that directed me there.

Just some information (also, pricing) to provide before asking for people to give away their emails.

Cool thing, though!
... where the second property is of utmost importance to be confident that there aren't low level backdoors giving bias to your crypto keys and nonces.

If there are backdoors in modern processors, it is likely located in the on-chip firmware for the boot sequence and/or in the secure key store. Those are the two main areas I'd worry about, and I'd also keep a close eye on any binary blobs needed for the secondary processors cores on a modern SoC. And also the firmware for the WLAN chip.
I welcome the demise of the non-mathematical political pundit.
When you say paid internships, do you mean for next summer? Your company sounds wonderfully exciting, but over here the Winter Semester just started and I have yet to pin down whether I'll be expected to stay around for summer here at grad school or what.
Weren't Megaupload's servers outside the USA?

Edit: Many of their servers were located in the US.
You haven't detailed what you mean by "obligation".

Specifically:

- What is the obligation? What we deem most beneficial, what society deems most beneficial, what society deems most monetarily valuable, what prolongs the most lives?

- To whom is the obligation due? Those living under the same legal framework as us (at the local, state, or federal level), those living in nations with compatible frameworks, or all of humanity? Do people from the future count, and if so, is improving a life 50 years from now equal to improving a life today?

- Who, specifically, has this obligation? Is it only those who have benefited the most from society, or those who have benefited more than they have given up, or every member of society? Is the obligation limited to able-bodied adults, or does it include children and the handicapped?

- How far does this obligation go? Is there a way to fulfill it and be released from future obligation (say, through adequate military service or charitable giving)? Does the obligation to one society remain even if one moves to a different society?

If the existence of collective sacrifice via legal frameworks is what creates obligation to society, the answers to the above questions should follow from there. I'm having a hard time seeing how you think they do.
Consumers win. If competitors can't differentiate on anything other than price, why do they deserve to exist?
So this isn't a problem where I live, they actually let you use any number, (my cell, landline, etc) and it does the dial and press 9 thing.

However, I am renting out my apartment to people and they would sometimes forget the gate key or whatever, and I'd get a call literally once or twice a day all to just press 9. I could see this being useful.
Complexity does not matter it just has to be one page. I'm doing this as an experiment I'm going to post soon with details about my thought process towards this.

Edit here my article explaining why I'm doing this http://99dollarprojects.posterous.com/99-project-a-week
> if success is defined as getting a fair approximation to a mass of chaotic unanalyzed data, then it's way better to do it this way than to do it the way the physicists do, you know, no thought experiments about frictionless planes and so on and so forth

This is factually incorrect! For physicists, those thought experiments are absolutely essential, and we would need many, many more orders of magnitude of statistical processing of video signals in order to get close to the real-world-useful physical predictions that we arrive at through thought experiments, equations, and so on. The contrast that Chomsky is missing is that for language, the statistical processing is amazingly successful, and the thought experiment style of investigation, while productive, has not been shown useful in real world tasks like translation.

For those arguing against Chomsky, none of the above means that we should abandon a theory-driven or symbolic approach to language.

If Chomsky and his opponents would just recognise that they have different goals (not just different ways of approaching the same goal), we wouldn't have to have this same argument every few months.
How socialmedia is destroying productivity
> If this is something that you're developing on your own and you're trying to build traction, you could also host it on your own computer on your internet connection.

This is what I do.
The ssss unix utility does this, it's fun to use.

Docs at http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/, demo at http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/demo.html and it can be installed on ubuntu through the 'ssss' package, listed as ssss - Shamir's secret sharing scheme implementation.
I disagree. I think writing code to solve whatever small problem you're having right now is better. No point in recreating the wheel ,which is boring, and will result in something you'll never actually use because, well, cat already exists on your system.

But if you use it to start something new, or to add to your repretoire of utilities, then that is something you're more motivated to complete and more useful expenditure of time to boot.
I think this advice only really makes sense if you understand and have an appreciation for UNIX tools. Otherwise, I think it would be rather burdensome to come to understand how seemingly abstruse UNIX tools function.
No mention of Stanford?
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/october/innovation-econom...
You're assuming each user has only one device.

No, I'm not. I said "platform". A single platform can encompass multiple devices.

An Android user that likes Android is less likely to decide to buy an iPad than he is to buy an Android-based tablet, on which is existing Android applications will (generally) run. iOS is much the same, and Microsoft is seeking this across desktops and tablets with Metro (or whatever they're calling it now).
Show HN: TweetYourVote (exit poll app)
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/balls-and-urns....
They are statistically biased. PPP has the race tied or O+1 nationally yet they have Romney behind a lot in every swing state including North Carolina. That just is not possible.
If political polling data gives you information about the outcome of an election -- if it can make your probability estimate more accurate than that of someone who hasn't seen any such data -- then I don't see what's so all-important about independent testability. Evidence is evidence; the possibility that a poll is skewed merely weakens its evidentiary value, by increasing the probability that the poll would have those results if they're not true.
Deploy Github and Bitbucket repos via FTP
This is great! I have the exact same problem with my apartment building needing not just a local number but one with the same area code as the building (so an area code in a neighboring city 10 mins away wouldn't work).

I ended up getting a google voice number to solve the issue which then simultaneously rings both me and my wife. However, I love your PIN idea and the "automatically let anyone in during a set time period" approach.
I'll look into that. I am using the Letterpress dictionary.
Google and Amazon don't make money from hardware/software. And if Android OEM's refuse to lower prices then Google can still continue with Motorola. Android OEM's who are just in the game for hardware are in danger.
Easy. Make it legal.
Bristol Palin lawsuit win helps YouTube Partners (no kidding).
You shouldn't be marketing this towards consumers. If you and your friend had this problem with the apartment gate then I'm sure more people at your apartment have to deal with it also. Why don't you talk to your apartment complex and see if they'd be interested to use it as a service for their tenants?

You should be marketing this towards apartment complex properties, not consumers living in apartment complexes.
You're right, a critique of the UK libel laws is not subject to simplicity since it cuts both ways. Not everything boils down to black & white thinking.
Resisto.rs: No frills resistor color codes
New SpaceX Grasshopper testing footage.
I build something like this a year ago but never did anything with it. . .
The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm
Unfortunately in trying to be clever, they destroyed the page when trying to zoom in and out.

http://i.imgur.com/ssKsU.png

So they sacrificed accessibility for what, trying to be childish and clever in the execution of a court order?
Very cool. Still I wonder, why don't these gates accept non-local area codes, seems like a design flaw.
Soyuz had a gun, too, but it wasn't quite as impressive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82

EDIT:

And apparently they had another one in the works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol
The Clickwrap based TOS you mean? ;-)

It's frustrating, at least for me, that the legality here is still so gray (at least IMO it is).

Much of their content is likely in the public domain (facts / basic non-creative information) although there is definitely plenty that is not; the lack of 'black-and-white' is what frustrates me...

Clickwrap - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap
It's even better than that: by looking at his state-by-state predictions and comparing them to election results, we'll be able to quantify his degree of wrongness.
Just like you attack any argument, by attacking its premises. In this case you pointed out the obvious one to attack, the assumption that rationalization is bad. I think this is a flawed understanding of how ethical systems evolve, that rationalization is how we use our rational mind to test and build our ethical systems. Otherwise we are merely left with appealing to authority as the only way to validate our ethical systems.
But with sports, at least there's a purpose. It's not very interesting if you don't care about the outcome, so you pick teams to support. Preferably local ones so you can go to games. And it's fun.

With companies, you gain absolutely nothing by "supporting" them in the same way. You're just ceding objectivity that's useful when making purchasing decisions.
Whoops. I'll definitely add the pricing to the home page. It's 10$/month or 100$/year.

For the longest time, the homepage was Rails' index.html. It was so hard for me to bang out those few paragraphs.
> "In 'real world usage', I have to disagree. I'm sure anyone with an LTE phone will tell you that disabling the LTE radio absolutely gives a boost in day-to-day battery life."

This has been my experience as well. I find that in every day use, especially in areas not saturated with strong LTE, it can become a battery suck.

I'm certain downloading a 200 mb PDF over LTE in Manhattan takes less power than downloading that PDF over HSDPA+, GSM, or GPRS. But in my experience with several devices, having LTE on all day in Fairfield County, finding it sometimes but often not, takes more power in so-called "standby".
Hacker News has become the source of the noise for me and I'm increasingly not coming here. I often block it in my hosts file, in fact, along with reddit and Facebook.

There is still, occasionally, a relevant technical article (that's not primarily opinion) or link to a new open source project that is relevant to my interests.

But that seems to be around %2-4 of the content.

HN is crowded out with submissions that are designed primarily to be excuses to be outraged at anyone who believes in intellectual property, or that isn't a leftist, with the occasional outrage at violations of privacy thrown in.

And you certainly can't have a good discussion on those articles-- haters going to hate, and leftists hate private property and fandroids hate apple.

This is the fourth time I've seen this happen.

The first was slashdot, which by 2002 or so, was so overrun with GPL fascists that you couldn't say anything short of the party line, less it be downvoted to oblivion. Then Digg which gave so much power to early users that it was pointless to even try. Then Reddit which has its general /r/politics subreddit-- which everyone is subscribe to by default- with a moderation policy that bans anyone who doesn't toe the leftist line well enough to goose step. And now Hacker News.

Once I did an experiment. There was an article where I didn't like the outcome, along with most of HN, but the principle involved, a greater principle, one that most on HN claim to espouse, was being violated. I posted a comment noting that I didn't like the outcome, naming the principle, noting that most of us agree with that principle, and then showing how upholding that principle (eg: not being a hypocrite) required us to temper our outrage. I got downvoted to oblivion (which on HN helpfully means your post fades into the background making it impossible to read, which I find hilarious- we're not just going to put you at the bottom of the page, we're going to make it impossible for those who are broad minded enough to scroll down to even read it.)

So, despite agreeing with the majority, clearly explaining my position, and why I hated having to reach that conclusion, what the principle was, and why we all generally agree with that principle... I was still downvoted, because I wasn't making a post agreeing with the party line.

That's the point when I accepted that moderation is broken, and Hacker News is not a place where good discussion can happen reliably.

I think human curation has failed. Ideological downvotes have killed the signal to noise ratio of all four of these sites.
Playing is not illegal, but transferring money overseas can amount to wire fraud and money laundering. When Silver was doing his best poker work, the laws were far muddier.