skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My prediction: $50K to $100K

I hope I am right. It's a good cause.

Here's an idea: PG, how about offering a lunch meeting to the HN member who makes the closest prediction to the winning bid? They would have to post it on HN and FB or something like that. This serves the purpose of helping advertise this worthy cause.
Furthermore, the search engines could nip this kind of abuse in the bud, by ignoring the "nofollow" attribute of the links on a site if it determines that site is abusing it (e.g. if all or some high percentage of the links on the site have "nofollow").
Pics of Samsung Galaxy S4 found (releasing Mar. 2013)
Hitler also took an injection of Methamphetamine every day until his suicide. But we've strayed off topic.
I am confused: I believe they still have a research lab in Austin that does machine learning (among other things). I also know folks who have interned doing computational linguistics at Apple.
Yes. Thats a very importend point, its one of the majar diffrences between LuaJit and most other advanced trace jits.

Also everybody should read that thread, at least once a year.
1984 was not a guidebook.
How to provide value
Where do you find your products? Where do you find your internet services?

Do you Google them? You probably do. But what about those things you haven't heard of, yet? How many of us really knew we wanted Facebook/Myspace/Friends before we had heard of it?

And where did we hear about it from? Our friends.

And how often do friends tell you about a website, or service, and you forget about it 5 seconds later? Maybe they Facebook it to you. Maybe they forget to Facebook it to you. Maybe you don't check. Maybe you're not in the mood to look at it and it ends up lost in a Facebook message desert (never to be looked at again). Or maybe they send it in an e-mail. And the same thing happens. Only, this time it's an E-mail message desert.

What if there were a place where they could simply look up your name and see the things you have posted in one easy, cleanly sorted place?

Nobody trusts anybody more than they trust their friends when it comes to website/service recommendations.

I'm sure you can all think of ways this could benefit start-ups. I'm sure you can all think of some way this could transform your business.

Feel free to contact me about being among the first beta testers.

Good luck to all YC entrants!
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I'm on a 30mbit connection to the outside world and I'm finding it just as slow.
Do you recall if one of the videos was the "Getting Started" video on the documentation page? I had been using a fast-moving "teaser" on the front, hoping that it would get people interested enough to watch the "getting started". My conversion rate isn't very good right now, so I'm gonna try just putting the "Getting started" video on the front.
Petraeus signed all kinds of paperwork that said it was okay for the government to go digging around in his personal life, including email. This is really a non-story.
That's a great point, editing is often just as important as ideas.
if you interpret "need to burn one barrel of oil" as "need the energy of one barrel of oil", there will probably be some leeway, even below 1:1; oil is a very good energy carrier, and pumping up oil carrying a kWh of energy at the cost of more than one kWh of solar electricity or solar heat will probably be more efficient than using that energy to produce (in the literal sense, by chemistry, starting with CO2 and H2O) oil for some time.
Nice, accessible paper, but I find it galling that the images are so low quality. This paper is by no means alone in suffering from low image quality - I was reading a Nature paper earlier today where the graphics had compression artifacts.
Stairway Navigation (A jQuery Plugin?)
Or just turn on Cloudflare.
It looks like this has since been fixed:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/8317...
Are you sure PyPy can overtake LuaJit after warmup. I think it can maybe do it in a micro benchmark but I doute that in a complex benchmark PyPy has any chance.

LuaJit uses more advanced elimnation of loads and other optimications, also Lua is easier to optimize in generall.

I dont know the numbers but I would really be astunished if that was true.

Any way to of the cooles projects around.
Seems awesome - like a GUI for git-flow.

What is the pricing for this? Seems there's a free download at the top, but the bottom says "Buy for $29.99". Might want to make the pricing structure clearer. :)
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Cloudflare is a CDN.
Are there any privacy concerns with bitcoin? For instance, suppose I know the day someone got reddit gold. Could I then check the bitcoin transaction database (eg: bitcoin block explorer) to extract the ip of the users that created the account that day, and link this account to other transactions and try to pin down the individual?

This is just a far-fetched scenario, but I'm wondering what would change when money stopped being so anonimous as it is now..
I took advantage of their $10 for less than ten users plan and created a jira just for dogfooding. You do get one month free.

Personally, their documentation is the stuff of nightmares. If you look at their REST API, you can do some good stuff with just HTTP basic authentication. Its all pretty well contained here:

http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/

Personally I chose to host my app myself, to avoid the pain of their marketplace and get experience with Heroku and Ruby. But as far as I can tell they will also host your app if it meets certain criteria.

Send me an email if you have any specific questions, I'd be glad to help you get set up.

edit: keyboard exploded mid-word
this project is a waste of time. The problem is not the player , but how flash can output content that use standard browser apis.

This kind of emulation is a good demo , but doesnt work in the real world. Why whould i use that ? old browser will never support that tech ( < IE9 ) but they support flash , recent browsers dont need flash , what's the point ?

It makes more sense to build tools similar to flash IDE that can export to HTML5 than wasting time trying to make legacy code run slow and blow up to the user's face ...

been there , done that ...
How To Start A Hackerspace: Part 1
Looks to be a useful series.
Those should have been un-nofollow-ed (went and looked the algorithm up), so that's probably a bug.

I'll dig into it, should have a fix in the next deploy (assuming it is a bug, but I don't see what else it'd be).
I know Ubuntu has strongly preferred apt-get for a while. However, I thought Debian still recommended both tools and had aptitude installed by default.
Thought crime is making thought illegal. This is about free speech versus 'hate speech'.

Civilised society must protect thoughtful speech but cannot protect all speech.

We are not (and should not be free) to:

* Make up (and spread) lies with intent to mislead or harm

* Defame people

* Insult people for no other reason than to cause them pain

* Wilfully cause panic

* Incite others to harmful action for no good reason

However you can think anything as long as you keep it to yourself.

Free speech is the freedom to express ideas; not the freedom to insult other people for no reason. Linking it to the latter belittles the former.

Setting fire to a poppy and calling squaddies cunts was a deliberate insulting act. The very fact that we have seen it and are debating it shows that it indeed caused offence. What was the great intellectual idea that we should be protecting? The freedom to call soldiers cunts for no reason? There was no humour here either. This was not a misunderstood joke. It was exactly the sort of behaviour that would cause a fight in a bar and as such would be illegal there too.

Freedom to be nasty is not the same as freedom of expression. Your ideas need to be backed by facts and have a purpose other than deliberately causing anguish or inciting violence. Civilisation is built on civilised discourse and should seek wherever possible to move away from violent exchange.

I, too, believe in protecting free speech and I am also very alarmed and embarrassed by many of the UK Facebook & Twitter court cases of late. The Robin Hood Airport case was a travesty and some of the plights of jokers during the riots of 2011 were certainly Orwelian, e.g.: 4 years for making a bad joke.

We must protect free speech but protecting any nasty idiot like this does nothing for freedom nor freedom of ideas. It merely allows the nasty to spread their nastiness.

(It is also my opinion that ideas freely expressed should not be free to seek to remove these rights of free expression from others.)
The Google News results I linked to contain plenty of examples of Occupy getting its message out and doing things. This thread is based on a story about Occupy doing a thing and getting its message out.

What more do you need?
I hope this project really takes off, then I can stream whatever on Flash video players to DLNA renderers.
I am game.

Cheers!
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What pipeline of ideas? An iPod? An iPod that became a phone? A phone that grew a few inches into a tablet? Apple has always been an extremely focused company with very few ideas. That was their secret.
Totally, reminds of the late 90s when companies were reported to move money around in circles to increase revenue. Company A pays B, B pays C, C pays A. Lots of money exchanging hands, zero profit, infinite revenue!
haha nice, this is like, one version only joke, once they hit 2.1, that wont fly
That would work. I didn't realize you can raise error on the row. Good work!
I don't think PyPy is faster. Their design is significantly more complicated and thus takes longer to tune. Additionally I think python is a small bit more dynamic then Lua, complicating things.

I remember seeing a comparison between LuaJit and V8, both of which are highly tuned. LuaJit won on some of the benchmarks while V8 won others, and there were actually bit of a difference in the performance. That's the problem with Jitting, it's all tradeoffs. So what's good for a Jit in a browser is different from what's good in server environment. So you have to make a lot of benchmarks, testing widely different things, while at the same time not spending more time on optimizing one benchmark implementation in one language more than another.
Your response doesn't address what citricsquid said, googling for a regex will almost never return helpful results.
Yes but you have fewer opportunities to leave for another app store than apple employees have to leave for another company.
This particular misconception has been wandering around for a while:

"Simple ecosystems are the goal of proceedings like CARP, the
panel that set out the ruinously high royalties for webcasters.
The recording industry set the rates as high as they did so that
the teeming millions of webcasters would be rendered economically
extinct, leaving behind a tiny handful of giant companies that
could be negotiated with around a board room table, rather than
dealt with by blanket legislation."

The recording industry specifically backed a percentage-of-revenue legislation, and lawmakers took it upon themselves to enact something much more crippling than even what the RIAA had proposed. Why they did that remains a mystery; but it was the actions of either corrupt or ignorant lawmakers, not the "recording industry" that destroyed internet radio.
The thing is, their pricing goes from $5 to $1 a seat on a sliding scale. I meant ridiculous more in terms of commoditizing itself. My goal is that the current iteration does one thing well. I'm sure as I get requests I'll be able to add more features to offer higher tiers.
Apple should build on their strength, and in this case, it's apps. Presume that in iOS7, they launch a new API that "forces" apps to expose searchable data in a lexical format that Siri understands. Basically, giving apps "intent" and "content", and let Siri play with it. Google has a difficult task, because it searches EVERYTHING - but if Siri (mainly) searches just what you have installed, it is already at a much better hit rate, and the apps can not only serve information but also take actions.

If they don't let Siri interwork with apps, I cannot see how it will ever go beyond setting alarms...
Stripe can do this automatically with WebHooks; it's seriously worth taking the time to set up.
Melbourne man wins defamamation against Google
In a similar vein, I recently discovered Wand (http://dahlia.kr/wand/) which is a gorgeous API built on top of ImageMagick. It's a lot more limited in functionality than what PIL offers, but for common operations like scaling, cropping, or extracting EXIF data it's much nicer to work with.
The images and the download itself are both crawling for me.
It's not about playing a sound on release. It's about feeling where the button is in the first place. When you place your finger on the screen, you can't tell where on the screen your finder landed without looking. It's much easier to feel for and grab a knob and turn it or a physical button and push it, than it is to accurately place your finger on a screen and keep it in the same position for repeat actions (especially on a more bumpy road).

On my car stereo, for example, I have 6 buttons for pre-programmed stations: [1][2][3][4][5][6]

Without looking, I can put my finger just to the left of [1] and select a station by feeling my way across. There is no way to do that with an in-dash touch screen without looking. Maybe you could play a sound to designate which button your finger is currently on, but what if you don't want to press that particular button (i.e. you land on [2] and you want to select [3] instead, but -oops- a bump in the road caused momentary disconnect between your finger and the screen [make no mistake, this sort of thing happens often])? Then you need a way to "confirm" a selection, and we're back to the original problem.
And since you're the only one to make a prediction so far, obviously it's in your best interest as well ;)
The original link says he moved to Belize because he had a legal judgement against him in the US, and wanted to protect his assets.

Not sure if that's true, but it might not be as altruistic as "antibiotic research".
It's not a waste of time for two reasons:

1) If it works, then it shows how far browser technology has come. Real examples are meaningful.

2) SWF files are content. In a Flash-less world we'd have no ability to experience Dice Wars or most Kongregate games or http://raditts.com/phyles/xiao3.swf Consider this project an emulator for old things. :)
Highly Scalable LDAP, Alternatives
Folks, Any experience related to implementing a highly scalable (let's say directory has billion records), high performance( in terms of read latency) LDAP server? What other alternatives should I be thinking of?
I agree that it does seem reasonable to be more granular with nofollow. But refraining from doing so and just applying nofollow to all user content hardly seems like abuse, even so.
The main advantage to Flash is that you get a much more mature language (Actionscript 3) to work with over JS and you also get a whole host of great APIs that are easy to use. (From ByteArrays, to the Camera class, to different blend modes and filters, easy Bitmap manipulations, etc.). Now, JS is starting to implement some of these things which is good, but they still vary across browser, only work on the most modern browsers, etc.

So the advantages of Flash over JS (in my opinion) in short are: better language, better APIs, no tweaking for different platforms.

Anyway, if Shumway was fully featured, it would definitely be a big benefit. But if it doesn't work cross-browser and doesn't support all the features of Flash/Actionscript 3, then you're losing some of the main advantages Actionscript 3 gives you, and you're almost just as well off righting things in JS.
There is no excuse for openly storing passwords like this. Why does Samsung think this is acceptable?
If I were opera, I would quietly suck it up. This is more of their own fault. Even if someone sends you 20M of NUL, you should not crash.
Author of "The Art of Seduction", "The 50th Law (with rapper 50 Cent).
Apple Rumored To Begin Trial Production Of iPhone 5S Soon
Same issue here, I'm getting an estimated download time of four hours for the app itself.
> Performance is bad enough without putting the JavaScript intermediary in there

Flash performance is a combination of code and graphics. Taking LightSpark or Gnash would not give you something that integrates in an optimal way with the browser's hardware accelerated graphics systems, you would need to do a lot of plumbing for that. So yes, the C++ might be faster than JavaScript, but the graphics might end up making it less performant overall.

Plus, the native code is nonportable and nonsandboxed. Portability might be the simpler of the two, but it is still not trivial these days to maintain a single C++ codebase across multiple compilers and OSes. Sandboxing is the big problem though: A fast ActionScript implementation must have a JIT, and JITs are extremely hard to secure. The browser already has a dynamic language JIT (for JS), so using that instead of adding an entire new one is far preferable. In addition, the C++ code must be secured too which takes effort and introduces risk.

So there are very good reasons for going this route. But I agree there are tradeoffs and benefits the other way too.
Antivirus pioneer McAfee sought in Belize slaying
Why do you capitalize "spam"?
China's tmall.com got $3.1B sales on 11 Nov marketing blitz
Yeah, the British public is a bit sensitive when it comes to the army (and the queen). Islam4UK is a good example. They were an openly islamist group that wanted to overthrow the state to implement one based on Sharia law. No one really cared about that until they insulted 'our troops' (which eventually led to them being banned).
Thanks for this added transparency! Good luck to all my fellow applicants...I am also down for the meetup!
Have a look at a ten year history for gas prices. See if you think your $3.50/gallon is going to hold. Car leases are usually between 10k and 15k miles per year for a reason. Run the numbers with 12k miles per year, $5.50 gas over 5 years. Comparison to a Tesla is, of course, ridiculous (but you knew that). Consider separating the fixed costs from the variable costs.
> I don't think you can really blame the state/police for this.

This could come down to your view on the role of government, but I personally don't see that the majority opinion should be how a society is defined. There are dangers both ways, though I feel the government should always be pushing a more progressive social agenda. Gay marriage is a great current example. Obama is doing it right by pushing for it. Gillard in Australia is doing it wrong by saying "the people don't want it" and axing any proposals. Obama is fighting upstream for what is right and Gillard is basically saying "look, my hands are tied b/c the people don't want it". It's a cop-out for making an unpopular but right decision.

In the case of free speech, there is little wiggle room, IMO. People need to be free to say what they want. It may not be popular, but that isn't the point.

Long winded way of saying, the mass opinion shouldn't be the way we define civil societies. We need to do what is right. "Right" might be gray at times, but it is usually pretty clear when you get the smart people together and have them hash it out.
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Seen a few posts of this nature from John Birmingham. So how does he explain all his books being available on Amazon then, for download to Kindle?

He even has his own Author's page:
http://www.amazon.com/John-Birmingham/e/B001IOBFQA/ref=sr_tc...

His latest book, "Angels of Vengeance", published in April 2012, is available for Kindle, paperback, hardcover and audiobook.
This had to be one of the easiest selections in Motor Trend history. Besides the obvious technology advancement, Tesla's Model S is probably also the most appealing American manufacturing story since its namesake Ford Model T. It's a hallmark shift in our (re)focus on technology driven advancement in manufacturing. And, unlike the other great company/story Apple, Teslas are built in the US (or at least assembled here).

It's just the right product at the right time, which pretty much is the definition of a winner.
Well deserved, it really is an amazing car.
"they already use fairly exclusive materials for their hardware"

What, exactly? As someone who has used an iPhone 3, 4S, iPad 3, and many other mobile devices, I'm really struggling to think of a material that is "fairly exclusive" to Apple.
Was the book written with your involvement or without?
> It is not hard to figure out John moved to Belize because of the lax drug enforcement and age of consent laws.

Lax drug enforcement, sure, but age of consent? It's 16. There are dozens of countries where it's significantly lower -- many 12 or 13. Don't see why that'd be much of a motivator, even if that's your thing; most US states are 16 too, IIRC.
> What, exactly? As someone who has used an iPhone 3, 4S, iPad 3, and many other mobile devices, I'm really struggling to think of a material that is "fairly exclusive" to Apple.

I think he means "fairly exclusive material usage". There's not many high-end smartphones from Samsung/HTC/LG/etc. that have aluminium frames and/or bodies. The new Nexus phone by LG does appear to use glass on the back though, which seems nice.
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Why is storing them encrypted locally any better? Someone with root has access to the decryption keys anyway.
Best of luck to the ones "affected" as everyone that I know who works at Apple are already overworked, stressed and being asked to work while on vacation.
Show HN: My HTML5 Puzzle Game, Renshaw
Funny you should ask! That little blue/green eye that's used in the demo was the logo for "PictureDiff". I took out all the heavyweight stuff, and made it just a filmstrip, and you could click images in the filmstrip to open diffs. It also had the ability to compress images using diff: you compare a JPEG quality 50 image to a quality 80 image to decide if the extra filesize is worth the extra quality.

I spent $100 on AdWords to get people to look at it, but not a single visitor liked the site enough to download it. I might have given up too soon, but I decided to scrap it. I was way more motivated to tackle the general diff problem, and I didn't want to put a lot of effort marketing something I wasn't excited about.
And most of the images are @2x retina sizes.
Really? So device encryption is pointless then? Same for a jailbroken iPhone? That seems hard to believe.
This seems like a cool idea but i'm bewildered by one thing. Why is this a menu item? And does it have hotkeys?

Because, for better or worse, my menu bar is essentially full, and I save and manipulate my code and repositories via my keyboard, not my mouse (well that's mostly true. I still browse my git repos using GitX).

The workflow ideas seem worth trying, but the interface isn't something I can get with (although i will cop to not having any good ideas on how to improve this. I wonder what a quicksilver-like workflow would be like).
Text messaging in decline
This concept of Bootlegging[1], isn't "Google's" and dates back to the late 1960s. I always think of Post-it notes as the pre-digital poster child for this sort of internal, yet personal, innovation.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootlegging_(business)
Appcelerator announces new fund for startups using Titanium for mobile apps
why do I have to sign up to see what this is? I was really interested but now I don't care because I would have to give you my email address
Sounds like you missed the point of the article:

Under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, federal authorities need only a subpoena approved by a federal prosecutor - not a judge - to obtain electronic messages that are six months old or older.

Has nothing to do with what Patraeus signed.