skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that it would be possible to get these networks exposed, it is still non-trivial effort. That's really the point I am making. Personally, I'd rather see them allocate more resources towards making developer QA even better, than chasing protective features.

My 1781 reputation was not that hard to come by - it happened organically with me trying to help out in the Google App Engine section. I'm not a developer by trade, just a hobbyist.

Based on that experience, I'd imagine there to be areas that are much more obscure, with little moderation oversight, being decent sources of easy reputation points...
The UK and most of the colonies have legal systems that are based on common law. Which means precedent is everything.

If you really want to do something about this problem, break the law, get arrested, and defeat the law in court. Or make friends with somebody who did that and assist that in their legal fight, assuming they decide to fight.

Of course, your probability of success is slim, but that's a quick way of getting rid of something profoundly stupid by a sole individual.
Define "standard eBook format". Because, AFAIK, MobiPocket was never standardized. It may have been the popular eBook format, but that's not the same thing as standard.
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I like to use a variation of this in vim to quickly see if an html doc I'm working on contains weird characters that I might want to replace with &html; entities:

/[^ -~]
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The question is whether or not you should have to pay another company for using design elements that are similar when there's no brand confusion on the part of consumers.
Well, dmpk2k did say "with zero type annotations". How does SBCL fare without them?
I also like:

BetterTouchTool http://www.boastr.de/

Keyboard Maestro http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

Alfred http://www.alfredapp.com/
My hinge is starting give me some trouble too. So far though the Cr-48 has held up pretty decently for being a 2 year old free laptop.
Yes there's only one Harvard, but it's utter nonsense that it's the most prestigious university on Earth! Sure Harvard's a great school, but kid, you really need to get out more.
It's a shame he had to go crackpot. The original reason behind his move to Belize -- or at least the publically stated reason -- was to research a new class of antibiotics, known as quorum-sensing inhibitors (QSIs).

Long story short, these drugs would inhibit bacterial growth without creating resistances. If they pan out, they're a revolution in antimicrobial medicine.
Any applicants (past, present, future) interested in having an informal meetup this weekend? Whether we get good news or bad news on the 15th, getting together would be a great morale boost and it'll be fun to meet everyone! I happen to be in Silicon Valley, but I'll be there in spirit for fellow applicants everywhere else :)

Contact info's in the profile. Good luck to everyone!
I've seen a (large) number which just send you to the root page for the app (or company. or blog. or worse). Often without any clear way to send an email or report a problem, just a splash page that prompts you to download the app... which you've evidently downloaded.

Personally, a "report a problem" link would be a lot more inviting, especially if it let you send them a message from the app store, and include the last crash report (if it was the last one).
Dick Costolo interviews Ben Horowitz (audio)
The github method Does not do anything for me, "laptop-mode-tools" is awesome!!!
They spearfished a pc apparently.

And systems used by your TLA's to handle law enforcement access are not available to "any device on the internet"

As I said they should be set up to only talk over a private circuit to one other end point and also have proper hardware crypto gear that is external to the systems.

separating the extraction of data and applying the decoding probably should have been done on separate systems.
apparently this is about a $3 price increase and about a 1% increase in total cost of materials for an iphone.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/26/iphone-sine-qua-non/
Which requires knowing those settings exist, and finding them for the one app in 100+ that some people have in one giant list with no search. That's part of the complaint - turning them off is unintuitive and just plain bad.
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You're awesome, thank you for the encouragement!
I had to prove that in a formal languages class once and I still have no idea how it works.
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Being more of a designer than a developer, I've got to admit that the thought of second wind for Flash kind of scares me. I've never liked Flash, mainly because historically it wasn't as "open" as HTML, Macromedia Flash (I know, right) crashed a lot, as well as the general abuse of Flash found all around the web in the late 90's/early 2k.

Anyone willing/able to take my (probably irrational) fear away and tell me why this SWF interpreter is a good thing?
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I got something similar with flash block enabled on the page. I soon as I disabled flash block for the page it started working.
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In recent history, Apple has been promising a lot but frequently has problems delivering. Siri is a perfect example of promising much but delivering little, although it does serve that "little" with a touch of style. Siri's "personality" is very well done.

Google arguably delivers more utility with it's voice recognition features. If you want context, Google Now serves that up in spades (almost to a scary degree)! However, Google seems averse to presenting that utility with a personal touch, as Siri does. Google also seems to prefer understating what their offerings can do to the point that few people seem to even know they're there. Every time I play around with Android's voice features I find out it can do things I had no idea it could do before.

While Apple talks big and Google quietly delivers, it's telling who the media darling is. You just can't sell much copy about a collection of integrated voice features, no matter how well they work, when there's a named pseudo-AI sitting in a lot of people's pockets! Thanks to Siri, Apple has people sold on the notion that the future is coming even while it's quietly arriving ahead of schedule from Google.
Pedantry: it's actually not a trace-tree JIT. It doesn't treat traces as trees. See: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57679
So does BeautifulSoup
I believe Mexico figures in those calculations also. According to this field they have large reserves, though extraction is expensive (like oil shale and tar sands).
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Interesting to see tobeytailor (of Gordon[1]) working on this. Is this built on the same code Gordon uses?

[1]: https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon/
Basically, no matter what the developer and Apple do, people will always use reviews as a place to submit vague bugs.

There have been a few times where I was lucky enough to be able to track someone down based on their username and personally contact them to help them out, but if they'd gone though official channels for support instead of via a review, it would have been much better for both of us.

I actually would like to see the ability for developers to publicly respond to reviews. Sure, some may abuse it by submitting nasty responses to bad reviews, but good developers would provide useful/polite responses, and that would be another signal users could use to determine if they want to buy the app in the first place.
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Nice article but I think it over-emphasizes hating windows a little too much and fails to explicitly make the more important point, which Greene did in this Mixergy interview:

"Robert: Well, the other person that I’ve interviewed . . . I’ve interviewed five so far. I’ve got about three or four more to go. It was a gentlemen named Paul Graham. I don’t know if you’re familiar with him.

Andrew: Y Combinator.

Robert: Yes, and Hacker News, yes. He’s really brilliant. So, one of the things I’m talking about in the book is the power of being a non-conformist, and it comes to what we were talking about earlier about your life’s task that you’re unique. There’s something different about you. When you find it, there’s power in that uniqueness. It’s almost like Harry Potter or something. When you find what makes that what it is about you, you’ve got this little diamond that’s going to give you power.

So, Paul Graham, what I liked about him was he’s always been a complete non-conformist and has gotten away with it, not because his parents had money or he was privileged, but because he didn’t care and he took risks and he just followed what he wanted to do. And that’s sort of the end of this book. That’s like the ultimate thing.

So, when he first started out, he didn’t really want to get into business, but he needed to make money because he was living in a really crappy apartment in New York. He came up with this other friend who was a great hacker. His name eludes me right now. You might know his name, and they came up with Viaweb, basically, because he was so good at this one code which name also eludes me that he writes in.

So, he kind of backs into being a successful businessman, and he doesn’t really care. Then, when Yahoo buys out Viaweb, he doesn’t suddenly try and morph into a conventional businessman working for Yahoo. He quits after a year. He becomes a writer. He writes articles that create a great following, and then he kind of backs into Y Combinator, which is a brilliant business model, I think, for the future for entrepreneurs, for tech startups.

But he doesn’t give a damn about what other people think. He doesn’t follow what other people do. He does what he thinks is right for himself, and I just think it’s a brilliant formula. I’ll be more explicit in the book and make it more, something you can understand. But that’s sort of the gist of it."

(Both audio/video and full text transcript can be found here: http://mixergy.com/robert-greene-power-interview/)
Why hasn't Britain adopted some sort of free speech law in the spirit of the US's first amendment? They've had over two hundred years to do so. Can anyone provide insight into why?
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Why not just a SWF -> HTML5 converter, one wonders?
This could be renamed "Common Machine Learning Mistakes". Great advice all around, of course. Insufficient data, lack of or incorrect data prep, and poorly defined success criteria are problems that plague all forms of machine learning.

As other commentors pointed out, the biggest problem with stock market modeling is with trade execution and automated trading. A skilled ML practitioner will know how to deal with the size of the data sets and the normalization of the data. Placing the trades properly and taking into account the myriad sources of information available will give even experts a hard time.
It's annoying -- the best thing I've found is to use something like Google Voice (or run your own, build it with plivo or twilio), run calls through that, and set your default ringtone to silent/no vibrate, while setting a real ringtone and vibration for calls from the gateway. Unfortunately this means not getting caller-ID for callers.
Likewise, we (Flightfox - YC S12) gained a huge amount from our time in Startmate. We went from our first line of code to $40k in sales in about 12 weeks. Highly recommended for early-stage Aust-based startups.
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I have good hopes for this (Mozilla's HTML5-based PDF reader is my favourite PDF browser plugin), but I'm a little worried - there have been a lot of Open Source Flash reimplementations, and so far as I can tell they all have early success and pretty demos of older Flash content, but are completely useless on most real-world Flash usage, like nearly any site that shows a video.

I'll note that Gnash does actually work on YouTube.com, but only because YouTube seems to deliberately serve an ancient version of their Flash player, rather than the latest version with the closed-captions and text overlays and all that stuff.
or make a function regexMatchingAllPrintableASCIIChars() and have it return the regex.
yeh right that's going to scale NOT - UGC spam can cause your site to tank I have seen this happen to major authority sites (I work for FSTE 100 publisher)

Our suspicion is that when we clamped down on the spammers by banning accounts they reported our site for spam that they had created we lost 20% of our traffic - major brands like us can tough it out this could kill smaller sites without the runway to survive this or have "friends" inside the wire at Google.

I have had to help a small company completely rename and start again on a new domain after some one hacked the site and inserted 1000's of pages with links to porn sites.
Grossly offensive apparently.

I despair of this country, I really do. The whole system around speech laws is a mockery of justice. People with no connection to the country sue each other here because the material may have been available in the UK. People are arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for little more than being insensitive buttholes.

We desperately need a first amendment in our own law. Freedom of expression is supposedly guaranteed under EU law but these cases never seem to make it that far.
I suspect you had a hand in this too :)
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Obviously. And "feature" might not be the best term as I meant something like "can't configure it or do anything else than render a web page really".
The other item: Galapagos Adventure for Two
(Item # 425, Donated by: The Altamirano Family, Hyre Family, Lau/Palihapitiya Family, Sandi Gedeon Ganjavi, Jennifer Winters, Est. Item Value: $3800) looks pretty fun, too, but probably less useful to a startup.
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This article misses two important points:

1) Britain has never had free speech.

2) This was not a thought crime. It was a deliberate insult: an act of insensitivity and rudeness intended to give offence.

You cannot walk onto a cinema and shout fire and you cannot legally call someone a cunt to their face in public (with the deliberate intention of causing offence) without attracting the attention of the law.

While I'm sure there are many more pressing things that the UK's police force could (and should) be dealing with, calling this a thought crime is both naïve and stupid.
Yes, on synthetic benchmarks for LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta10 and PyPy 1.9. Those numbers need updating for the latest versions, but the basics are as follows. LuaJIT is incredibly fast to warm-up. On short benchmarks (around a second or less), it is way ahead of PyPy. As code runs for longer and longer, PyPy tends to catch up, and sometimes overtake, LuaJIT.

My experience of RPython and PyPy suggests that there is a fair bit of scope for reducing some of the warm-up cost. I don't think PyPy will ever match LuaJIT's warm-up time, but it may well move quite a bit closer over time. It'll be interesting to see.
I don't know, but I would guess it is, if only because "Gordon Shumway" is the alias of ALF from the 80s tv show.
Will be abused sadly ;-(
That is simply not a true statement.

He met Allison Adonizio (who introduced him to QSI) long after he moved to Belize. They managed to synthesize a compound that was already patented by a big pharm company, but produced no original research.

It is not hard to figure out John moved to Belize because of the lax drug enforcement and age of consent laws.
> If you want to maximize voter's voting power, the absolute best way to do it is to randomly select a single vote to be the deciding one.

Hold on. How is this true? I thought that the theorem was maximizing all voters' voting power, not just one. Am I misunderstanding?
I actually don't think we're sharing any code with Gordon. But yes, the name is this obscure transitive-closure reference: (Adobe) Flash -> (Flash) Gordon -> (Gordon) Shumway.
I could give you the old guy's rant, "Back in my day we were happy to have only one 'core' and if it ran at 8Mhz it was in turbo mode!" :-) Its an amazing piece of work.
HFS+ and utf8 accented characters
Every time I've had to deal with Unicode and internationalization, it's been a problem.

For example, a few years ago I grabbed a source tarball from somewhere, I forget what or where. It had the author's name in a comment, which included an O with dots over it. That was the only non-ASCII character in the source code. No matter what I did, both Eclipse and command-line javac refused to compile the source.

Finally I wrote a script to delete his name from every source file manually. It compiled flawlessly.

Then there's the time I found some text files with two characters of binary junk at the beginning, followed by completely normal text. Again, I forget what I was doing, but some program was refusing to process them correctly. It was something internationalization-related called the BOM. Eventually I ended up writing a script to walk a directory and remove the first two bytes of every file. (This can probably be done with dd and xargs on UNIX, but I was using Windows at the time, which means that something like this will require spending an hour or so in your favorite programming language.)

These experiences lead me to believe that, for bootstrapped USA startups at least, you shouldn't worry about a market outside the English-speaking world.

If you need to worry about junk like accented characters or moon runes (Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters), it means you're big enough to afford to hire someone specifically to address the problem.
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I agree (about climate) and I don't think we can wait for peak oil to hit before we start making much deeper cuts in emissions.

Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone shows that proven fossil fuel reserves are around 5 times higher than we can burn to avoid a very dangerous climate change (beyond the 2C guardrail):

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-te...

More info here:
http://math.350.org/
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Ouch yeah, another example of Canada lacking proper competition in an industry.
And this is how new parties form. As a party expands to include more and more of the center eventually fissures in the party grow and eventually they split off to form a new party (See http://xkcd.com/1127/ Show the leaning of congress since the start; parties follow a similar constant churning).

Do you really think it's been democrats vs republicans since the USA was founded?
I have to give the news media credit for not subsequently reporting:

"Experts Report Loose Cables Probable Method of Faster-Than-Light-Travel! How You Will Soon Make the Kessel Run in Less Than Twelve Parsecs."
Screenshot of message:
http://cl.ly/Kqde

Status dashboard isn't showing anything yet:
http://status.aws.amazon.com/

URL that was working about 30mins ago:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/rh.com/uploads/work/cropped_image_2...
Preface: this is pretty cool.

That said, is the payoff of implementing this enormously involved solution really worth it? I don't know why I feel like this, but something deep down pains me when I think of the man hours and frustration that had to have gone into something like this. Does anyone else know what I mean?
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There have been a number of troubling free speech cases in the UK over the last few months.

In July, a 17-year-old was arrested during the Olympics for tweeting abusive messages at diver Tom Daley.

In August, a 22-year-old man was arrested for posting racist tweets aimed at footballer Carlton Cole.

Also in August, a 44-year-old man was arrested for posting a message on Facebook praising Anders Breivik.

In September, a 22-year-old man was arrested for setting up a fan page on Facebook for Dale Cregan, shortly after Cregan was arrested by police, suspected of murdering two female police officers.

In October a 19-year-old man was sentenced to three months in prison for posting jokes about the missing five-year-old April Jones.

Also in October, a 20-year-old was given a community order for making an online post stating "all soldiers should die and go to hell"
Ask HN: DotCloud vs. Heroku as a server platform for a mobile app?
We're developing a mobile app with an extensive use of server platform (made in Ruby) and exchanging data between users in real time (using our custom protocol). We also anticipate lots of peeks especially on evenings and practically none of use before noon.

What would you recommend for such case?
It will go at the speed of the slowest common denominator.

Lots of shops are run by older people who will resist adopting any kind of technology unless absolutely necessary (and it won't be necessary until people stop carrying cash, kind of catch 22).

Not to mention weed dealers and "cash in hand" types. Plus making sure everyone has NFC phones (including people coming from overseas).
That only matters if you need to process Unicode.

See my comments [1] [2] [3] for why Unicode / internationalization should be avoided.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369323

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4541039

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775440
I think tree pruning is actually a good metaphor for approaching life, not just software. Winding down commitments, ending relationships, completing projects, and getting rid of physical clutter are all examples of 'pruning' that anyone can benefit from.

Imagine your life is a fruit tree, now pick any random article on pruning, such as this one (I googled "pruning stimulates new growth"):

http://www.garden.org/ediblelandscaping/?page=pruning-fruit

and you'll get gems like this:

"Pruning stimulates new growth, controls the tree size, and improves the size and quality of the fruit. The first goal of pruning is to remove dead or diseased branches and to create a strong branch structure. Trees with strong branch angles and few overlapping or competing limbs have a better chance of a long, productive life."

and:

"The tendency of some fruit trees to bear in alternate years can be caused by insufficient pruning."
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Thank you for linking.
$500 million valuation?

YC could probably sell their stake in Dropbox alone for more than that.
Even though I think this is a cool project, I agree 100% with your fears.

I used to do Flash/Flex/Air extensively, and often preached it to my fellow developers, despite considerable resistance. I argued that SWF was fulfilling the cross-platform promise of applets.

And when Adobe managed to mishandle Macromedia's legacy, I was left with much egg on the face. I don't want to go through that again.

That said, good for Mozilla. They really are running with a ton of impressive open source projects.
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I think this could be solved with a simple like/dislike button for notifications.

If that type of notification is unwanted you could, dislike it and it would suppress notifications of that type for ... x days. If you do it enough, it would disable it. If enough of the apps notifications are disliked then the apps notification privileges get suspended all together.