skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only seems to set a proxy which is ok, but limited to your browser. Stand-alone mediaplayers (apple tv, roku, ...) won't be able to use this easily.

I always liked the DNS based services[0] seeing as you can enter them in your DSL router and all wifi appliances will be able to take advantage of them.
The other option I used was using socks and proxychains[1] to force e.g. XBMC through an SSH connection to a cheap US VPS.

Both of them have the advantage that you don't push ALL of your traffic over a VPN line.

[0] http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2011/04/07/hulu-and-iplayer-outsi...

[1] http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2012/02/26/socks-and-proxychains-...
What is this nonsense? You can easily set the display resolution to 1440x900 (or higher) in your 13" Retina Macbook's display settings.
Can you clean up your post (if you still have edit capabilities)? It's rather difficult to parse what you're trying to say.
Your snarky, unqualified dismissal reeks of sour grapes drawn from a sad place [1][2].

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4515939

2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4515897
This isn't really an answer to the question of influence, but it gives you a start on the question. There's the list of the top 100 people ranked by karma - that doesn't mean they're influential, of course.

So, maybe you should define "influence".
Only 4 but I would still consider it a mini success that in 2-3 hours it got 8K+ visits, 45% trying demo and 8% clicking buy button. What I don't understand is when they are clicking buy button why aren't they actually completing the transaction? Is gumroad turning them off or the HN crowd is just testing if buy button actually works. :)
You get charged for inbound?

I've had mobiles in some 15+ countries and that's the first I've heard of being charged for inbound texts. Definitely a rip!
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Well, Nate Silver is kind of to politics what Nate Silver is to baseball. There had been forecasting systems prior to PECOTA, but it upped the bar.
I'm speaking about the branding of Retina. It is the same "megapixels" advertising used with commodity cameras with an upscale wrapper. More pixels isn't technological innovation. It isn't great design. It's a bigger box of soap for the same low price.

That's not to say that Retina isn't innovative. Delivering such a display at the price point and quantities that Apple is, is a feat of logistics. Apple has a real competitive advantage.

Retina displays may provide a productivity boost to some people. But that's not the basis of it's branding. The branding is a mass market appeal to hedonistic pursuits and aspirational consumption. There's nothing wrong with that.
I have to boot into Windows from time to time on my rMBP, and it's just flat out unusable for my 40-yr-old eyes. I switched to native in OS X just to see and it too is unusable for me. I envy you your eyesight.
I think there's a minor error in the analogy of "state results" to "coin flip".

In the coin flip scenario each throw of the biased coins are independent. How one lands does not effect the other. The same is likely not true for how states end-up voting.

This doesn't entirely invalidate your point (yes, if you "re-ran" the election repeatedly and he "nailed it" everytime we might conclude his probabilities were incorrect), but it does explain why if 10 "60% Obaba" states vote we might not necessarily expect 6 of them to come up for Obama...
Most patent awards include a punitive component, so fine is not a completely inaccurate term.
How, exactly, would one manage to organize millions upon millions of fraudulent voter registrations in a single place?

It would be better if your hypothetical example were at least remotely plausible. The entire population of Delaware is less than one million.

Keep in mind that my example of only 5,000 fraudulent registrations in a single place is already over an order of magnitude larger than notable examples from recent history.
This article puts the increase in liquor costs at 10-30% due to fees. 25% is not terribly far from that, and if you've accepted sin taxes there's no reason marijuana should be exempt. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/washington-state-li...)
Your numbers show that you are no longer posting rarely, and that you've changed your posting frequency during the last month. I've stopped following "The Atlantic" links because of their spam-like actions, described in http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/06/13/reddit-... . I believe the guidelines listed therein are reasonable. That you responded to my comment is actually a good thing. There was, e.g., a frequent poster to Outside Online pages who never responded to comments on their thread.
It would be great if yo could move the search bar from the bottom of the page to the op of the page ;)
This has happened to me often enough lately that I really wish someone would implement peer-to-peer hosting in a form that will replace the way the current internet works.
You can do glissando in garage band. There's even a button for that.
commented upvotes? give people the chance to say why they upvoted something?
Because McDonalds would be allowed to make a meth burger, the same way they can sell you vokda shots with your happy meal.
I didn't see rhyme or reason to John King's gestures and assumed the screen was actually manipulated by someone off screen, but co_pl_te has me doubting my theory.
I think part of the "retina" branding was that pixel count doesn't matter beyond that point. It's indistinguishable to the eye, so beyond that point more are not better. It's debatable if that's actually the case, but it's an implicit part of the marketing. The idea is that you'll never need to look for a better screen.
Aight: How about "The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of [the collective mind of the people who read HN] ...something like that.
How does the retina screen scaled 1920x1080 compare to a laptop with native 1920x1080?

I'd expect the native 1920x1080 to actually yield a sharper image than retina scaled down.

I realize Apple doesn't provide a native 1920x1080, but it's not hard to find in non-Apple 15" laptops, at an easy $1,000 cost savings for higher-performance components (but less thin-and-light).
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Or, more specifically in this case, captivity is the mother of invention. This reminds me of a video I saw recently about the inventions of prison inmates.
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> They used these techniques back in the days of JFK, too.

No, the contemporary approach is based on a series of tools, such as focus groups, which are a very new phenomenon in politics. The first national campaign where these figured prominently was 1992, I believe. (With e.g. "soccer moms" among the archetypal mini-groups.) Their sophistication increased by leaps and bounds up to the level described in this article. And they are quite game-changing for the nature of politics.
In my work, clients mostly need a site built to perform a specific function, and if Habari fits that task, I use it. There isn't an explicit demand for Habari developers, but there is a high demand for sites that Habari is suited to produce, which overlaps a bit with WordPress' capabilities.

As others mentioned, the main habari/habari repo commit count is low because the main development doesn't happen there, but in a submodule'd repo, habari/system. The purpose of this is to allow you to easily fork the main repo to add your own plugins and themes to it, while the submodule continues to pull from the system repo. It's very beneficial from a maintenance standpoint.

I'm not sure how to explain the community. My involvement has been nothing but beneficial for me, and it has been a similar experience for the people I know the community has touched. Development has been reasonably continuous, as you can see here: http://www.ohloh.net/p/habari
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It seems to me that the whole point of having elected leaders instead of making every choice a referendum is to modulate the will of the people, instead of following it blindly.
Here is the thing with investments into Green Tech. The economically proper thing to do would be to have Pigovian taxes on pollution, and let the market sort out how to achieve the lowest pollution levels. I think > $1 trillion in new taxes, even if they were offset by reductions in income tax, etc, wouldn't really go over well. But that's the Right Solution (TM).

So we're stuck with things like subsidizing Green Tech.
Apparently this is currently possible, or will soon be possible, on Chrome and Firefox -- able to cache websites, and able to serve websites, through client-to-client communications.
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My personal takeaways:

Mike Arsenault's suggestion of the Van Westendorp's Price Sensitivity Meter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Westendorp%27s_Price_Sensit...

http://orconsulting.com/blog/?p=133

Just what I needed right now (I'm struggling to find the correct price for an app, was going to go with the market).

Something that also resonates with me is:

"I wish that I knew how difficult it is to acquire a customer, get them to pay for your product and believe it’s as magical as you think it is."

Edit: changed broken Wikipedia link.
>>This was a pretty narrow victory

What exactly is "pretty narrow" about a 303-206 electoral split?
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[0] https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator
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Not the only purpose to be sure, however it was explicitly mentioned as a rationale for staying out of the European theater completely.

The idea was to allow Germany and Russia to slug it out, completely exhausting both countries.

See for example the views of Charles Lindbergh (search for Russia) : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/sfeature/fallen.html

America's strength is why the USD became the reserve currency of the world. Note that the Bretton Woods conference was held in 1944, before the war ended: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
The .ga registrar is managed by a subsidiary of Vivendi, so this isn't too surprising.
I read somewhere that the FaceTime developers learned that fact from Steve's keynote as well.
I realize that Gabon isn't the US, but having something taken away before any crime is even committed. That seems a bit extreme. What's next, pre-crime units?
Hi all, I designed a simple logo for a client this weekend. But he ended up not taking it, and used another instead. Just wanted to open source this and not let my work go to waste. :)
Professionally - Ruby and JavaScript.

I have some experience with other languages such as C, C++, Java(Java seems to be my school's favorite language), Python and a few other more obscure languages(Common Lisp, Haskell), but I have not been paid to write anything in those yet.

I realize potential future employers will probably only give me credit for Ruby and JavaScript unless I create some amazing open source projects in one of the other languages and that employer considers open source projects in their hiring decision.
Why would you need to melt the urea to electrolyze it? I'm actually a little behind with my chemistry, but you can electrolyze NaCl (salt) when dissolved in water, without melting it. The basic requirement is that the solution contains ions. Now I must admit that I don't know the basic reactions of urea with water, but given that you can use urea as hydrogen source in fuel cells [1] I'd assume that it should work as hydrogen source in an electrolytic process since the basic reaction is somewhat similar.

[1] see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea#Laboratory_uses

Edit: There are papers about direct electrolysis of urea

http://www.suttonfruit.com/pics/urea_electrolysis.pdf (I think its a copy of http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2009/CC/b90597...)

http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Singh%20Deepika.pdf?ohi...

Now I don't know how legit they are, but seems ok to me.
Oh please, everything new from any company is named by the marketing department. And you make a point of condemning that?! Please not on HN... :-(
Apple was able to do this for music with iTunes, and now the video content owners are terrified of giving any one platform too much access and losing control of the market. By keeping the market fragmented they have more leverage over the platforms (Apple, Amazon, Netflix), and it they hope to gain more control (and money) over the long term.

In the short term I think this actually hurts both the platform owners and the content providers because it's so much easier to download the content illegitimately right now.
Why isn't Paul Graham on that list? Isn't he influential?
bit off topic but whatever servers are dishing up assets-*.new-bamboo.co.uk/assets seem to be suffering: 1.2min for a ~2kb jpeg is not right, right?
Better yet, become a trained first responder yourself. And urge your family members and colleagues (and anyone you spend significant amounts of time with) to do so as well.
This is all well and good, but at this point there's no guarantee that the federal government won't slap it down. My limited understanding of the law suggests there are two avenues for the federal government to do so:

I. - Under the Supremacy Clause "the U.S. Constitution, Federal Statutes, and U.S. Treaties [are] "the supreme law of the land."...and mandates that all state judges must follow federal law when a conflict arises between federal law and either the state constitution or state law of any state." [1]

Whitehouse.gov lists Department of Justice Guidelines for (medical) marijuana laws, stating that "persons who are in the business of cultivating, selling, or distributing marijuana, and those who knowingly facilitate such activities, are in violation of Federal law, and are subject to Federal enforcement action, including potential prosecution."[2]

II. - Under the Interstate Commerce Clause, Congress has the power "to regulate Commerce...among the several States"[3]

A quick example of how the ICC could be applied:
If a farmer in Colorado buys fertilizer from a company in a marijuana-illegal state for the purpose of growing and selling marijuana they have engaged in interstate commerce and may be subject to the ICC.

I just hope that the federal government stays hands-off long enough to see what kind of net change in state government cash this can make.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause

[2]http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/federal-laws-pertaining-to-m...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
I'm actually interested in the data driven argument the poster I responded to, particularly using those studies he mentioned, not a logical debate on the topic. If you're not using real data, people on the other side often just hand wave away your objections and no one convinces anyone.

Induction is much more likely to convert the person you're talking to than deduction, as it gets around values to a degree.
Nice, congrats! And yeah, I clicked it just to see what payment processor you're using.. :)
Depends on what you mean by "Posters."

Some people such as ColinWright post many influential articles.

Others such as Grellas [average comment score 38.8] are known for authoritative comments in their areas of expertise.

The most influential poster is PG.
Hmm.

* How would you measure that?

* How would you get everyone to agree?
I'm surprised www.kim.com hasn't been seized yet by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
As a preamble there most definitely existed anti-semitism in Soviet Union. I am a Russian living in the US with Jewish family in Russia. This is a throw away account.

With that said, stories of anti-semitism told by Russian Jews in US should not be taken at face value. These folks are subject to a very strong selection bias. Most of them came to the US as refugees who were recognized by the US State Department as being discriminated against for being Jewish in USSR/Russia. Secondly they have interest in maintaining the story anti-seminitism because it validates their narrative and could potentially help their relatives immigrate to the US.

Additionally many stories of anti-semitism that I heard were something a non-jew would experience as well but attributed to anti-semitism. As a personal example, I was at first denied admission to a specialized school in very late Soviet period. They eventually let me in because my mother found out that I had the highest score on the entrance exam of any one. Their excuse was that they had to let the kids who were in the paid summer program at the school first and now the class was full. A Jewish kid's parents would have been told they already have too many Jews in the advanced program. Both cases are just the admissions persons asking for a bribe.
Apple lawyer Danny Williams told the jury that the iPhone maker does not owe money to VirnetX, adding that the company is "not entitled to money for things they did not invent. The VirnetX technology, if used, is a small part of very large, complex products."

That's the line I like the best. Considering the kind of crazy lawsuits going on between Apple, Samsung et al, I wonder if this can be used by lawyers of defending parties in their next patent lawsuit! :)
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I'd like to give Rx a try (javascript mainly but .Net too) but it seems like a very large API to learn, and there seemed to be a lack of good resources last time I looked.

Can anyone who's used it comment on their experiences or point me to some useful resources?
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You've got to read the answers above concerning the UK 2008 election... Just for the record about 'horse race' 'discredited' and 'big media'...

This is beginning to look to me like 'big stats'.
Check PG's profile - he has 124701 (at the time of writing) and would be significantly off the top. He has deliberately removed himself from the listing.
That's actually true, for the most part. I don't know about "surrogate kids", but in my experience, most faculty realize that the strongest effect they're going to have is through the students they graduate. They're strongly motivated to graduate their students and make sure those students do well after they've graduated.

[Edit: I forgot to mention that] One of the best examples of that is the Racket conspiracy: http://racket-lang.org/common-plt-app.html

I have my own favorite version of the joke ("Graduate school: Not just a job, it's an indenture!"), but the idea is pretty offensive and isn't especially relevant to anything I've seen.

[And yes, I'm sure I'm a great disappointment to Mohamed.]

I don't have any experience with fields that require a large laboratory of techs to get anything done, though. If you are in biology, physics, chemistry, or what-not, your mileage may vary.
I disagree, politics has always been about haggling, you cannot do politics if you don't know how to build a coalition. A politician cannot represent 100% of the people that is why there are political parties and politicians of different ideologies. I think if you look a little deeper all the JFKs, Reagans and Clintons were hagglers and negotiators first. A good politician is an expert negotiator and the very best are exceptional leaders. Its been the same since the first democracy was born. The only change now is that it is very easy to identify who will part of your coalition.
You're probably in good shape then. Some languages can pigeon hole you into bad roles, but with Ruby specifically you can have a lot of mobility.
I think I could use this to gain tremendous karma on reddit...
I still don't understand why insane people use ccTLDs for the characters, rather than due to the national law. It's like picking a flag of convenience for your ship due to the pretty colors of the flag.
zio99, it's a double entendre and quite intentional
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Ask HN: Can I visit your office in London this Friday? 
Hi,

I am moving to London in December and I will be looking for a job as a Product or Marketing Manager.

I will be in town this weekend to visit flats but since I arrive Friday early morning I though it would be great if I could visit some startup offices, grab a coffee with some people in the industry so I can get a feel of how the startup industry function in London.

You can reply here or send me an email, my details are in my profile.

Cheers,
Your entire premise is flawed since they all apply to companies in the stock market not a company sale. It's unrelated to my original statement but....

Investment vehicles, such as a 401k, do pay capital gains taxes just not on the sale they pay when the individual pulls the money out of the account.

You're arguing for less liquidity in the market? Liquidity is a good thing because it allows the market to more efficiently deploy capital.

PS... correlation does not equal causation otherwise the amount Chocolate eaten per capita has direct effect on the number of Nobel Prize winners.
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Socially, yes they are "left" of Obama. Where they differ on all positions is the roll of the government to remedy social and financial problems.
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I agree. Which is why government making the risky investments that more conservative businesses won't in order to create the empowering innovations that will save our environment and improve our economy is a major positive for me.
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These people seem to have been chosen because of(and their advice ordered by) their physical attractiveness rather than their actual entrepreneurial success.

Edit: OK, I kind of take it back. I started paying attention at #4 and stopped at #10.
I can appreciate you want to abstract these thoughts out, but that is a very difficult exercise.

The fact is, the post I argued against was implicitly assuming that certain subsets of humanity are morally entitled to harm certain individuals, based on acts done by other individuals to other members of the same subset.

Until you can explain to me why your grouping of humanity carries moral validity, I can't see any reason to take such arguments seriously, particularly when the exact same arguments lead to ridiculous results when they are applied to slightly different groupings of humanity.

I'm beginning to think that many proponents of AA haven't really thought things through.
For those that don't know, Vivendi is a French conglomerate that has strong holdings in music, movies, TV, and video games. Their assets include Universal Music Group and a 61% stake in Activision Blizzard.
Somewhat related is the crow machine. It trains crows to collect and deposit money in exchange for a treat: http://www.josh.is/crow-machine/
I'd like to see Nate run the numbers which would point to districts where there were statistical anomalies on the lookout for election funny business.
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