skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe a person owns the data traces of their life, not twitter, not facebook, not any financial institution or ad network.

Do you think by going to a physician and having a checkup that the hospital or doctor's network should now have the right to sell the fact that you have some skin condition to Johnson & Johnson so they can target you with advertising?

I do not. I feel a physician and twitter have a legal responsibility to insure my data is secured by them and also that I have the right to take my data and and provide it to a competitor.

Twitter and my physician are a little different in that Twitter should be able to tell me the consumer that I can not use both their service and another, whereas a physician is obligation bound to treat me. Twitter is refusing to engage and be honest with its users however and instead is smashing competition in a similar fashion that Craigslist is not being honest with its users.

I have been told my view is un-American and that is I guess proving in practice to be true. Americans seem more than happy to bargain away their information for a few pieces of candy.
Genius, thanks for sharing
Are you saying the US patent system is not broken and completely f*cked up?
In Krispy Kreme case it was in fact a "craze" - the Atkins "eat no sugar" diet wave, followed by South Beach diet wave, followed by the derivatives. All of these have subsided now, but they were nothing less than a sudden craze. I was one of many how jumped on the bandwagon only to jump off it few months later.
They do the same thing, they are defined as:

{ "keys": ["super+t"], "command": "show_overlay", "args": {"overlay": "goto", "show_files": true} },
{ "keys": ["super+p"], "command": "show_overlay", "args": {"overlay": "goto", "show_files": true} },
I get that it's a skeuomorph, and that skeuomorphs are the cool thing to hate now, but what's ugly about it? I think it is very beautiful and elegantly done.

Are books ugly?
UNATION wants to solve Mark Cuban's social media problems
I think it comes from living in countries where haggling is just what you do.

You get used to the techniques.
Not sure I see what you're getting at here. Care to elaborate?
I found about this today. This allows us to write html in using CSS like shorthand, pretty cool & saves lot of time. Check the Demo Screencast on homepage. I found it quite nice, so sharing here
You neglect the effect of the housing bubble-- the largest bubble in history-- on the budget deficit in 2007.

When the housing bubble burst, the deficit ballooned to $1.4T.
> Can't believe no one has complained about the font-weight/font-color being eye-straining

Thank you for posting this.

I've pretty much given up mentioning it.

Designers tend to have good eyes, and excellent calibrated monitors. Most people don't have such good monitors. Some people even have really cheap lousy tn panels with smudges and smears and such all over.

I'd be interested to know what everyone thinks is a good size and what good colours are.

I like massive fonts - make it big enough so you think it's too big, and then make it a bit bigger. And I like a pale off white background with black or very dark text. (Something #ffffdd and #003300)

I'm using plugins at the moment to fix stuff.
make the twitter api a paid api, and everything will be clearer.

Businesses that rely on twitter will have a contractual relationship with twitter , meaning less uncertainty ,less competition ( since you'll have to pay upfront to access twitter's data , less clients ).

That's the solution that makes sense , instead of this half baked situation twitter api developers are in.
Is the design of this animation novel and not obvious for all items, as the requirement for design patent puts it?

To me, this patent fails both. Its not novel, as substantially similar (legal term) has existed before in animated film. Its neither non-obvious for all items, ie, its a obvious way to illustrate a turning of a page for any application that want to illustrate a turning of a page.
>> I used ballet because people start young

More than 75% of the British population has access to the Internet[1] today.

Less than 0.5% of the sampled population had participated in ballet at least once in the course of a year, in the most recent survey year I could find[2].

There are less similarities than there are differences in the computing / Internet to ballet comparison. I don't feel it's a useful argument.

1. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rdit2/internet-access-quarterl...

2. http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/research/TP_Y5FiguresArts.x...
A person's reputation is simply a signal in determining whether of not whether it is worth your time to read or listen to something they have said/written. Being upvoted to the front page of HN is also a signal. The latter signal is far more valuable and relevant than the signal you have brought up since it is directly related to the content in question and not merely the author.
> Netflix CEO: Amazon Losing Up to $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Video

I'm skeptical.

This posits that Amazon is spending about 1/4-1/2 of what Netflix spends (Netflix on track for $2.1 billion this year), to stream about 1/20th as much (Netflix 33% of internet traffic, Amazon 1.8%), from a greatly inferior content catalog.

I think Bezos & Co. can cut better deals than that.
Jawbone Up re-released
Finding clusters in graphs is a big research interest in the research group I'm part of.

When we started looking at Bitcoin we thought that we would have to use such sophisticated algorithms to uncover interesting structure, but it turned out to be much easier than we expected to find structure and meaning, so we never got too sophisticated.

There's a very active field of research on these cluster finding algorithms - the term to search with is 'community finding algorithms' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_structure has a reasonable introduction.

>And wouldn't finding such a cluster be NP-complete?

That isn't a problem, in practice.

Finding the maximum clique in a graph is an NP complete problem, which you might be thinking of - but 'clique' is a stricter definition than most people would use for 'community', (in that a clique requires all nodes to be connected to each other), and even then very good heuristic clique finding algorithms exist in practice (E.g. the Bron Kerbosch algorithm).

Some community finding algorithms have objective functions which are NP complete to maximise, but again, often fast heuristics are available.

Consequently, there are many good community finding algorithms out there that will quickly find clusters on networks the size of the Bitcoin graph - we ran some, but we didn't do much with their output.

Its difficult to dig into such problems without a ground truth, and again, we could uncover a lot of meaning using simpler techniques.
Right, so we agree then.
That justshowHN blog on Tumblr is no longer active.

If anyone knows a good replacement show HN feed I could add to http://skimfeed.com let me know!
I mean a platform where the vast majority of users don't pay to use it. Why would Twitter be happy to engineer and support an API for Twitter client apps if it means they can't reach those users the way they need to to generate revenue?
If you have a "simple" package, i.e., Python-only, and no namespace fanciness, find a setup.py from a package you use, copy it, scan and rewrite it, and you are probably good to go.

Just avoid:

- Namespace packages. This is where you have one package that provides, say, mypackageset.thing1, and another package that provides mypackageset.thing2. If you really want to have a "brand" with many packages in it, just name it mypackageset_thing1 and save yourself a headache.

- If you have important non-.py files (e.g., templates) in your package, you'll have to learn package_data (http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html#installi...) and maybe MANIFEST.in. These are annoying, and you won't notice when you install from a checkout or with "pip install -e". You might need to study up more on this thing in particular (or just poke around until it works).

- Some people use requirements.txt instead of install_requires inside setup.py now. I often use both – but with install_requires just for the absolute minimum of what might be required.
You can't make the inference you suggest in the bug. It's not always valid. What if you set the variable in the function?

This line of type inference is very problematic in languages like JavaScript. Your statement that you expected "modern type inference" makes it sound like you only have practical knowledge (maybe you've used ML or Haskell?), not theoretical background. You should review the literature.
Why do we need a metaphor for a physical page on a digital device?
Realize that in many areas, rental increases have legislated maximums, or increased notice periods for any raise above a certain percentage. This is a cunning way around that.
The thing I don't get is: why build a Twitter client? Doing anything remotely useful with Twitter involves building something really substantial on top of the stream of tweets and users.
Your explanation doesn't make sense. We know that there are people who

a) don't exhibit emotional pain or very little compared to "normal" (sociopaths/psychopaths)

b) are autistic and have "...difficulty with “subtle emotions like shame, pride, things that are much more socially oriented” [1]

c) people with Congenital insensitivity to (physical) pain, some of whom experience the condition due to excess production of endorphins in the brain

You seem to suggest that the question "but why does it hurt" is somehow mystical or metaphysical. I don't think it is. It hurts because your brain is wired so that it does. If it is wired otherwise (as in some people it is) then it doesn't hurt.

[1] http://bigthink.com/ideas/do-people-with-autism-experience-e...
It is explicitly not a party line: conversations are between 2 people (unless it is a group chat, and even then the participants of the group chat are the only ones who see the messages) or between a single person and an operator. We provide a friend list construct that limits who a person can send messages to (so preventing spam) and user-to-user chats are not saved or visible anywhere (live support chats are saved to a per-chat transcript). All data is transmitted over TLS: let me know if there is another privacy angle you think we haven't covered.
It's a misnomer to call them the "Bush tax cuts".

The marginal tax rate cuts were signed by Obama in 2010 and the "cliff" includes things like the Payroll Tax Holiday-- the largest of tax cuts [1]-- which only came about in 2010.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-deutsche-ban...
I honestly can't tell whether this comment is straight or not.
New York Times Front Page Juxtaposition
When I worked in a mall, I'd get accosted by these guys on a daily basis (on my way to lunch). I developed the perfect response to their inevitable "Hello, sir! How are you?"

"I'm doing great! So well, in fact, that even Dead Sea products couldn't improve my day!"
The Economics of Handheld Gaming
>> I'm a little surprised to see the NY Times perpetuating the hysteria that typically follows patent issues with exaggeration of their scope and claims.

it's a blog, so there is usually more leeway to call out issues like this, and not have to be a heavily researched, or balanced piece of writing.
Design patents are only granted if the design is novel and not obvious for all items. Utility patent must be novel, non-obvious, and be useful (legal defined term).

Both has requirements that must be fulfilled. non-novel and obvious design can not, should not, would not if the patent system worked, be granted as a design patent.
Show HN: Got 79 views after posting startup link in YC reject list
After a bit more thought, I see a potential "product-market" disconnect.

Rightly or wrongly, YC's template is to invest in people more than companies. While on the one hand, a track record of successfully raising capital makes the team more attractive, having raised a substantial amount prior to applying places the team in a position where they are pitching the company rather than themselves.

A team which has to devote time to placating investors has less energy for product development. In addition, a team with substantial outside investment is less able to pivot, and may therefore present itself as less likely to succeed.

I would add that the tax liability for YC under the proposed stock transaction might be several times their normal investment.

Finally, relocating your current venture to Silicon Valley might provide improved networking opportunities and better access to technical capital.
I think so, yes, but I think the application was applied for a year or so ago (or maybe two years, too lazy to look it back up.)
In my observation, people who believe they are not susceptible to advertising or sales pitches are actually more susceptible than they otherwise would be. If you don't acknowledge you can be influenced, you're less likely to notice when you ARE being influenced. And you don't have to be hit on the head by a sales tactic to be influenced either. It often comes in subtle ways.
I like the presentation. Very cool js slideshow.
Depending on the control system, yes. If you run an induction motor off a fixed-frequency supply, it produces very little torque until it is spinning near it's synchronous speed (typically 3600 RPM, but depends on the supply frequency and pole multiplicity). That's why, for example, bench grinders can take forever to come up to speed.

But modern control systems (which, I might add, are still much simpler than those for switched reluctance motors) can achieve full torque from a standstill (basically by bringing the synchronous speed to near zero).
Would you support slavery if I showed you that it's much more efficient than paying people?

It's not about being illogical. It's about attributing different values to different things. You may call it dogma if you want, but it's not different than any moral principle.

Maybe your morality is purely based on logic, and if so I'd be genuinely interested in knowing more about it. Or maybe you're amoral, I don't know. But most people have some core guidelines in which we base our decisions (and build logical moral codes upon) which can't be explained logically.
Site is crippling under traffic.
Something to do with social proof? All these people who suddenly want to be your "friend" affecting your subconscious willingness to do a deal with them?

Evangelical churches often do the love-bombing thing too.
Twitter is Pivoting
Sublime has both cmd-t and cmd-p in the OS X version, the general thinking for this seems to be related to other editors (such as Textmate) having used cmd-t. By having this in Sublime by default switching becomes easier.
Pro-wood vs. pro-brick
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No.

It is well known that the C preprocessor is not turing complete. Looking in https://github.com/orangeduck/CPP_COMPLETE/blob/master/RECR.... shows us this technique is not turing complete, as these functions define a maximum recursion depth.
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I tried using it with Clojure (FWIW) and I really disliked the REPL's style (maybe I am too used to Emacs here).

I have since decided to use Sublime Text for Python, LaTeX, C, C++ (it really shines there) and Emacs for Racket and Clojure (I don't use it so much).
Show HN: TweetBeam, my Twitter Wall project
It's worth keeping in mind that Marco is/was doubly fucked, because in addition to cracking down on client tokens, quoth section 3b of the new display guidelines:

No other social or 3rd party actions may be attached
to a Tweet.

This was the wording of the section at the famous time of the Twitter blog post describing the Bermuda quadrant of impending developer ostracism. This is what it reads currently:

No other social or 3rd party actions similar to Follow,
Reply, Retweet and Favorite may be attached to a Tweet.

For some, there is not only one, but several Damoclean swords dangling over developers.
Or : to jump to a line number. Beautiful.
It would be hard to write a short introduction to C++ that didn't leave you pretty unprepared though.
I'm just using a spreadsheet via Google Docs. On one tab, I have broad areas that I want to learn. After that I break that down into weekly milestones based on the book / learning material. This includes projects or specific assignments I'm supposed to accomplish. Once I have the roadmap created, I then follow the pomodoro technique.
The pomodoro technique is quite handy to monitor my productivity on a regular basis.
While I strongly agree that most of your energy should go towards building things, it's important make sure you check all the necessary boxes, so to speak, to make sure your work doesn't go to waste/get compromised for lame reasons.
Please keep the snake_case. Think of all the things that CoffeeScript borrowed from ruby while omitting the snake_case. We aren't that far from being able to write most frontend code with snake_case. All it would take is a Backbone fork and a jQuery wrapper to get us most of the way there!
Node.js with nothing fancy. It's only about 80 lines of code serverside.
> FileDiffs - This can be a really useful tool for diffing files. [...]

This is something I've been looking for. I had to use an external diff tool or vimdiff, but this might change things quite a bit.

The other thing that would be a great addition to ST2 (if not existing already) would be a search by symbol in all project files. Currently Cmd+R is great for navigating to a symbol in the current file. Extending this to a whole project would be awesome.
Actually, I think the suggestion in the report is correct.

I think that what they are getting at here, is the following scenario:

Imagine that you have several addresses, with different balances, in the same wallet. If you do a payment using the normal client, which requires the total balance from all those addresses, this will create a transaction with all those addresses as inputs. In the Bitcoin protocol this provides unambiguous proof that the input addresses are all controlled by the same user. (With some provisos: obviously wallet services overlaid on the network complicate this; as do some other more sophisticated uses of the protocol; but in general, at a protocol level, this is true).

So, that then shows any passively listening third party that all those addresses were under control of a single user. This knowledge can then be applied transitively, to consolidate ownership of large quantities of accounts. (We tried explain this in our paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.4524v2.pdf Fig 1.6)

What the report is probably getting at, is that an alternative thing to do, would be to instead send all the payments to a new account, in separate transactions. This would introduce a lot more ambiguity for a passive attacker - passive ownership assumptions become a lot less clearcut. You can still try make deductions, but its going to be much larger to do at large scale, and require more statistical assumptions.

Its not completely obvious that this is what the paper is suggesting, but thats my reading of it, and I think that makes sense.
But the rug was pulled out well before anyone was thinking about writing Windows 8 app.

And you build with proprietary APIs because that's where the users are. You can make a StatusNet client with no worries, but nobody will care.
Would this be prior art for an animated buggy whip interface when accelerating an automobile?
Moving from Blogger to bbPress
Please elaborate on when to talk and when to remain silent. East med has been a commerce route for centuries, if not millenniums, is not strange that it is embedded on the culture.
You can get that via Ctrl-R (or Cmd, if on a Mac).

Ctrl-; brings up fuzzy matching for words in the file.
Presumably to measure the exact dimensions of the afore-questioned manhood. I haven't heard that expression before either. :)
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Pulselocker is iTunes for DJs - Except Much Better
Pedantry über alles.
Interesting perspective! I agree, but think the majority of people prefer semantics by language.
You have two options:

1. Use a hosted service, and IF they end up shutting down either migrate to another similar service or roll your own.

2. Roll your own from the start.

I'm having a hard time seeing why option 2 is better. Just make sure the services you use give you a clean migration path.

A lot of game developers don't have experience building web services, so it makes sense to outsource the things that aren't their core competency. Do we really want every game developer rolling their own potentially unreliable, unscalable, insecure web services?
"The best minds are thinking about how to make people click ads." Not.
I think the world is getting somewhat bamboozled here. Many of the commenters here correctly noted that induction motors (IMs) are brushless and have no permanent magnets too. Each tooth on the stator can pull the rotor towards it as well as push it away. This is not so for switched reluctance motors (SRM) of this company. The stator teeth in the SRM can only pull the rotor towards it. This is the reason for its worse performance than an induction motor for any given size. Also, SRMs tend to be much louder than IMs or permanent magnet machines. As for any claims of efficiency, the way to think about it is any motor type can be made as efficient as you like so long as you don't care how big it gets. You need to compare motors of the same size to each other before you see differences between the various types. And SRMs that this company is persuing are the worst of the bunch.
Here are two other sources that I found pretty useful when switching to Sublime.

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/essential-s...

I'm not a huge fan of video sources when I could just look at images/read text and get it done faster, but these do offer some pretty good stuff. I was fond of him giving me the idea to use the Gist plugin, creating a new account, and have a great way to manage snippets.

http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/perfect-workflow-in-su...
Agreement. I was coming here to say much the same thing.
The lack of a well-supported GUI equivalent.
MarkMonitor can only see if you're connecting to them (e.g. via BitTorrent). They don't see any of your other traffic.
Your first mistake is going to the car dealer without an offer in writing. The trick is to email several dealerships and pit them against each other, so you're only walking in the door when you have the best price available in writing.