skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the reason for doing this, the main reason to buy the apple hardware is the ability to run OSX, which is just a much more polished unix distro than Xubuntu. If, all you need is to run Linux then you can use one of the plethora of other great machines and save money. I know this is what LT does, so maybe doing this is some form of hero worship/copy. He at least has a good reason for it.

Personally I have an Air with OSX and I shell into Linux for work. I can use vmware for a local copy if I wanted but I prefer to use my servers that Linode manages. That way when I loose my Air or it gets stolen or whatever, my work stays in good standing. Maybe I just never got past the old days, for me the laptop is something for running ssh, chrome and photoshop.
15-Year-Old Inventor Wows MIT With Homemade Gadgets Made From Trash
Please go through and compare the two pages section by section and by the end of the page I think you'll see that the design is not just inspired by Nathan's page, but an unattributed derivative work.
I doubt it's a clean break. Exhibit A: Just as in iTunes 10, entering manual music selection for an iPod Shuffle craps out the same 3 giant scrolling subviews in an L shape: http://i.imgur.com/CsXud.png

I do like the new dynamic background and highlight colours when selecting albums and tracks in the Album view.
There is a wide spectrum for how strictly "presumption of innocence" is followed in various societies in practice though.

The creator of the Winny filesharing program in Japan was dismissed from his Tokyo University Research Assistant position as he went to trial:

"On May 10, 2004, Kaneko was arrested for suspected conspiracy to commit copyright violation by the High-tech Crime Taskforce of the Kyoto Prefectural Police. Kaneko was released on bail on June 1, 2004. The court hearings started in September 2004 at Kyoto district court. On December 13, 2006, Kaneko was convicted of assisting copyright violations and sentenced to pay a fine of ¥1.5 million (about US$13,200).[3] He appealed the ruling. On October 8, 2009, the guilty verdict was overturned by the Osaka High Court.[4] On December 20, 2011, Kaneko was cleared of all charges after a panel of judges agreed that the prosecution could not prove that he had any intention to promote the software for illegal use.[5] [6]" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny#Criminal_procedure)

He was definitely treated by society as if he were guilty of the crime as soon as he was arrested.
They may lose money on Kindles, Kindle books, and Prime, but don't forget the cloud.
I still use Sparrow and I love it. If you can create something simple, intuitive, and minimalist then I'd be interested to hear more.
Not exactly an "independent" publisher, only available for Steam, only for Windows, no contributions to the EFF? But when you add in that there is no DRM-free version, it's just not "Humble Bundle" anymore.
I think this link is broken or overloaded.
Hm ... I haven't done too too much reading in my bed. I do notice that setting up ClearType the way you like it seems to make reading text better. That said, when I was reading Lovecraft in one of the epub readers, I forget which one, the text was nice to read in 2-column horizontally and 1-column format vertically. I honestly haven't had much time in front of > 300ppi displays at close range and with text ( I tend to like things a bit farther away from me than close, so the screen would still probably be 15 or so inches away), so perhaps my experience hasn't been adequately adjusted yet.

Oh, and of course, as a touch-typist and a fast typist, I recommend the type cover for using on your lap. Both keyboards are stiff, but I imagine the feedback of pressing a key will make it easier to work with on your lap.
Looks pretty promising.

Would be helpful if you could expand on the code templates and code workshops, since it effectively costs double the price of just the book.

Best of luck.
This seems to be completely against the spirit of the Humble Bundles. They are normally creative games from independent publishers, available cross platform and DRM free. These are some generic mass-market games from a failing major publisher, available only on Windows, and delivered via Steam rather than DRM-free.

The excessive numbers of "Humble X Bundles" that have been coming out recently have been kind of killing my interest in them. When it was an occasional thing with some really good games in the bundle, and I was able to support cross-platform DRM-free game development, I would buy pretty much every one, even if I didn't play many of the games. Now that they've diluted the brand so much, I'm a lot less likely to look when they announce a new bundle.
It does. You have to create a zone, then edit it and it lets you add all the records. Startled me at first too, as IPv6 is my current #1 requirement for a DNS provider.
>Are you seriously defending child pornography right now?

Where did I defend child pornography? I advocated finding harmless sexual outlets for pedophiles. Not the same thing.

Here's a really good rule of thumb you can use when examining your own reasoning: if you find yourself attacking a point because you think it could serve as a premise in an argument for a conclusion you don't like, then your objectivity has been compromised. Arguments must be judged on the merits of their premises, never the other way around.

In any case, research (e.g. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-010-9696-y) suggests that legal possession of child pornography is linked to a decline in child sexual abuse rates. That does not imply that we should legalize the possession of child pornography, but it does strongly suggest that benign outlets for pedophiles are helpful in reducing child abuse.

In contrast, the only evidence available that such outlets would encourage child abuse is a number of longitudinal studies on convicted child molesters. Such studies are incapable of establishing a direction of causation, and it is extremely likely in this case that the relationship is spurious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship). Both child molestation (A) and consumption of child pornography (B) are caused by the lurking variable of pedophilia (C).

But this is crucial: real child pornography is not a benign outlet, and I never suggested that it was. What I said was that the problem is children getting hurt, not pedophiles getting off.
> Dude when I install Fedora it comes with less power management options because of the _WINDOW MANAGER_!!!

What do you mean by "power management" here? I am having a hard time figuring out what has window manager got to do with power management?
The 64GB iPad is $699 vs. $899 for the Surface Pro. That's not double. I'd say that's entirely in the same market. In my opinion the Surface Pro is better value since it is a full PC.
This may be platform dependent. I was just stuck in a FF alert that was a modal top-level window manager managed window the other day on Linux.
Next up: A chart showing how the word "stunning" has undergone hyperinflation.
> Why you don't think they're competing?

Oh, they very well may be (probably are, in fact). I'm just saying that it's better to think of it as a laptop for Linux users who want something Air-like, as opposed to Air users who want Linux.

That's simply because it's much harder to replace something that's "good enough", even with something that's hands-down better on all fronts (take a look at Plan 9 vs. UNIX[1])

For users like me, a Mac isn't even close to "good enough", so I like some of the additional things this provides versus other solutions (installing Linux manually on another Ultrabook or on a laptop and providing my own support). For users who are already happy with a Macbook Air, this is probably good enough if you couldn't use your Air, but the added convenience may not compensate the friction of changing, even if you've used Linux in the past.

In other words, that friction doesn't exist for existing Linux users.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#Impact
I hated every attempt at static analysis until I started programming with Xcode. In my usage, Build and Analyze is always right -- that's the difference. Other tools (lint, FXCop) are too noisy. Even warnings in some compilers are an annoyance that you have to code around to eliminate.
I really like the new mini player. Its finally useful, as it finally includes all main music listening tasks including search.
I'm not even sure why that's necessary. If you need a block of performant code, use unsafe C# (no array bounds checking, unmanaged pointers, etc). Otherwise, C# runs pretty fast the way it is.
Looking at the benchmarks, something looks wrong in the graphs. For example, for one it looks like they were doing from 0-2M ops for the test. Some of the engines were claimed to do 1M ops per second. That would result in a 2 second benchmark?

Is a 2 second benchmark actually useful?
What would you do better than Sparrow?
Redmine appears to be quite slow at the moment.
I'm personally not so sure. Because Denmark is a small country, it's a much closer-knit community than, say, the US. I grew up with a lot of Danish-created media, and paid as much attention to that as I did English-based media.

Any Danish kid born in the 80's (myself included) more likely than not has fond memories of watching "Bamses Billedbog" at 6pm on the weekends.

Also, plenty of cartoons are dubbed into Danish, so I'm not totally convinced about the economic argument. Denmark is a rich country with plenty of money to spend.
Maybe they should have dropped "Humble" from the name and replaced it with "Save"
The nature of Tor is such that you'll never, right? I suppose you could keep logs and analyze them, but that kind of defeats the purpose.
Battle of the Internet Giants
The Hidden Values of Advertising
lamesauce.

1. HN should let you pay them $10 and let them hammer your server(s) before your story goes live. good for you. good for them.

2. there's a deal at lowendbox right now for a 2GB VPS for $30 a YEAR. you could have a healthy server farm for pretty cheap.
Repost of the message, since bugs.ruby-lang.org appears to be down:

Issue #4085 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto).

Since there still remain undefined corner case behavior in refinements,
and the time is running out, I decided not to introduce full refinement
for Ruby 2.0. The limited Ruby 2.0 refinement spec will be:

* refinements are file scope
* only top-level "using" is available
* no module scope refinement
* no refinement inheritance
* module_eval do not introduce refinement (even for string args)

In addition, Module#include should add refinements to included modules,
e.g.

module R1
refine String do
def bar
p :bar
end
end
end

module R2
include R1
refine String do
def foo
p :foo
end
end
end

using R2
"".foo
"".bar

module R1
refine String do
def bar; p :bar end
end
end

module R2
include R1
refine String do
def foo; p :foo end
end
end

using R2
"".foo
"".bar # does not work now

You can treat top-level "using" as soft-keyword, as long as it does not
change the behavior (but performance).

Matz.
Working for free does not mean the work is worthless. This is just an insane idea. Let's say I volunteer building houses for people in the 3rd world, or I give free talks at my daughter's school, or I help some friends get their startup off the ground, none of these means they are worthless. This must be a cultural difference thing, but giving freely of your time for endeavors you believe in should not make you think my work is worthless to you. Compensation comes in many forms. Money is just one of them.
Ask PG: Fix the broken flagging system? Surface article just got flagged off FP
Just like it happens like clockwork on any Microsoft article that is not negative on them, the Surface Pro pricing announcement just got flagged off the front page.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4848998

If there's anything flag worthy there, can anyone please tell me what it is? From the HN guidelines "If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link."

As usual, I suspect it's the overzealous MS haters armed with the flag button. Simlar things happen to some anti-Google and anti-Apple stories.

I think the logic behind the flagging system was that someone good enough to get enough karma(now 500) would be objective enough not to flag anything legit that show their favorite company in bad light. Clearly that has failed. Paul Thurrott's Winsupersite is completely banned from HN because of this and any articles that reach front page that paint MS in good light are flagged to death. I have multiple screenshots of this happening if anyone cares to want them.

The flagging system is clearly outdated and broken and doesn't account for people with good karma trying to censor legitimate news articles they don't want others to see.
ITunes — It Goes To 11.
I hate to sound unimpressed, but does biological evolution strike anyone else as rather irrelevant, now? I doubt we will be held hostage by these mortal coils for much longer.
Top Chrome Extensions for Community Managers
At the rate biological research is progressing, anything beyond this century is impossible. In a couple of centuries, we'll have replaced carbon with silicon in our bodies and be living a couple millennia.
I wish they would release us from iTunes or at least let me use the damned thing with my work and home computer.
I think it's safe to guess that Bezos didn't give up much more than 10% to get started for that. From what I recall his family also holds shares and invested, whether they were part of that group I don't know.

Bezos now owns roughly 20% (Forbes and Bloomberg peg his wealth around $20b to $25b usually depending on Amazon's market cap at the time), and he hasn't been an active buyer or seller for the most part over the years (he has sold a very small portion). So if Bezos retained 80% to 90% at the time of this deal, and assuming his shares weren't specially protected (and I'm not aware they were)....

If that group held 10%: each $50k is worth $125 million
If that group held 20%: each $50k is worth $250 million

That's assuming no sales occurred over time of course. That's a decent ballpark either way, and even if you skew the numbers either direction it's a massive return.
Stallman enjoys Rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants:

" Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants)."

http://stallman.org/articles/texas.html

http://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html
> "all evidence that I'm aware of says that sexual orientations exist, have poorly understood causes, and are permanent"

Evidence suggests that sexual attractions undergo changes throughout life. Different specific urges can strengthen or weaken or shift in focus, based on various inputs. People only rarely go from "attracted to men" to "not attracted to men", but it's pretty common to go from "primarily attracted to 12 year olds" (when you're 12) to "primarily attracted to adults" (when you're an adult).

There is some truth to the claim that "outlets" correlate to reduction in violent crime; there is also truth to the claim that "outlets" can increase desire for specific types of stimulus. As far as I know, there aren't any studies that explore the net effects of "outlets" on pedo/hebe/ephebo-philia or sexual abuse. So we don't really have evidence one way or another as to whether legalizing CP or other "outlets" would increase or decrease abuse. (Virtual CP could be considered a harmless outlet, but it's illegal in both the US and EU, and appears to be unstudied as a treatment option.)

One of the most unfortunate things is that possession of CP, even if it's virtual or fake, can result in larger penalties than actual abuse. While I understand nailing Capone for tax evasion, it would be inappropriate for tax evasion to be a more severe crime than multiple execution-style murders.
I am able to believe these two things at the same time: that the Occupy movement is bona fide and increasingly poised to make a difference in US politics (the 1% meme was both beneficial and hugely resonant, the Sandy cleanup work was inspiring, and what I hear about Occupy plans seems increasingly productive) and that the group is beset by scene-stealing thugs, none of whom are going to buy a dollar of debt to dispose of or help a single person weather homelessness after a disaster, many of whom represent genuine risks to the safety of ordinary people.

So I wonder why an article purporting to describe an organized plot against Occupy would instead spend most of its 6000 words in an apologia for a bunch of crustpunks caught on tape trying to blow up a bridge over the Cuyahoga.

Do I feel sorry for people raised in broken families, failed by the school systems, staring every day at the slow demise of rust belt cities? Absolutely. But that's the backstory of a lot --- maybe even most --- criminals. These people are batshit crazy. The real plot against Occupy is the one the media is running, by giving all the attention to the morons bragging about their "eight fucking pounds of C4".

Incarcerating people who given the opportunity to buy plastic explosives participate in a plot to use those explosives to blow up a bridge is not government overreach.

Most Occupy workers --- the overwhelming majority of Occupy workers --- don't have anything to worry about from this story, because they will never buy C4 in the first place, regardless of the attractive price a sting operation offers them, let alone use it to destroy buildings.

Selling ad space based on narratives like this is the real plot against Occupy.
Eh, it's nothing new with the fanboys here who form a defacto "Bury Brigade", if you remember that term on Digg where articles just used to die a sudden death.

They're just waiting for the inevitable Gruber's, Marco's or Siegler's deprecating takes and hit pieces on the Surface Pro pricing. Those will stay on the front page for days. This typically happens with any important MS related announcements or launches.

A good start would be to make it a bit transparent by actually showing the number of flags. I sometimes also wonder if it's the shareholders of competitor companies or some of their employees doing the flagging.
I guess I should state that I plan on buying a Surface when it comes out (not RT). I'm pointing out more from the business standpoint that people are going to be comparing these devices to other devices that look the same, not other devices that are equally as powerful or as well-made.

MS is going to have to work really hard to convince people that the surface is worth $900, at least in my opinion.
Facebook Is Quietly Making a Killing With Ads That Stalk You
If you have a company blog, please put two things at the top: a short description of what you are doing and a link to your home page. Coming from HN with no previous knowledge of your company, I have no context at all.
I am a TOR exit operator and I strictly follow the guidelines established by the EFF. I never connect to my exit nodes for any purpose other than routine maintenance and when I do, it's well documented: times, purpose, etc. By minimizing my access, I remove myself from suspicion for any activity done through my node.
Well - look from the point of THQ - they are fighting for their life. Maybe they really don't have the resources for stripping DRM, let alone porting. So they are throwing steam keys around for promo purposes. But I would really like for the both companies to better communicate the reasons for the breaking of the bundle rules. And the bundle is amazing value anyway.
Ask HN: How do you split equity between founders
If you have 2 founders, do each one typically get 50%? What if a third joins afterward, how do you redistribute? What if an investor invests money later, do each founder give up equal amount of shares? I know it all depends on the particular case, I want to know what it is like typically in the startup scene. We have a couple friends but we have no experience on these things. Do we need to get a lawyer and sign agreement (that sounds odd between friends)? What if one of the founder "fade out" for whatever reason?
I don't view CP as a free speech issue, I just think its prohibition is an arbitrary, puritan social construct.

Same applies to indecent exposure laws, I guess. At what point did we decide the human form is indecent in its unclothed state, and people should be deprived of their freedom for exposing their natural form in public?

At what point did we decide people should be deprived of their freedom simply for looking at images of children in their natural, unclothed state?
Basis Science reveals its health-tracking wristwatch and fitness web service
I still don't fully understand the argument which says "it's purely a setup, the FBI agent Azir pressured them into action". Assuming there is no proof that these guys are mentally retarded/impaired, doesn't personal responsibility come into play at some point? There are other cases were I agree that the FBI has set people up, but just not this one. Not yet at least. Please tell me why I'm wrong.
Founder Mistakes, Part 1: "Launch Day" Is Not A Strategy
Here's the old icon for anyone that want's it.

http://grnd.cc/LEbh
Does it do anything more sensible with pdf's and epub's?
How about a Kickstarter for legal defense funds? Is there one out there?
I think this is an useful exercise. I wasn't actually aware of [1] and [3] until I decided to find examples to post.
> You specifically mentioned the terminal, I thought that was your issue.

In a different context - I meant that I don't care about vertical resolution, font accuracy, color accuracy[1], etc., because my work doesn't require that.

My problem isn't (just) the size of the font in the terminal (and the rendering on open-source fonts on a Linux terminal is perfectly fine, in any case).

> Higher resolution is always better, in my book.

On Linux, sure, higher resolution is no worse, but that doesn't mean I care about the marginal difference that much. On OS X, that's not the case, but it's not as simple as the resolution, but the resolution combined with the font size, and the size of icons/toolbars/etc., as well as the inability to change global font size, etc.

Because the fine-grained tools don't exist, for me, the lower resolution ends up being slightly better, even if some (theoretical) combination of higher resolution and larger font/icon size., etc. could be even better than that.

[1] So I can use tools like Redshift, flux, etc.
I don't mean to be mean or thoughtless, but why should a community originally formed to support DRM free cross platform indie games support a failing corporation (that needs a lot more help than a humble bundle sale could ever do for it) which isn't any of those things?

Do they intend to be any of those things if they do get back on their feet?

Aren't they publishers themselves? Why can't they just run a sale? It seems like using the humble bundle is purely a marketing thing.

I didn't support the previous humble bundles as a marketing tactic, I supported them because of their goals.
So can an ISP be raided because child porn went over its network at some point? I didn't think so...so I don't see the difference here.
There's actually a book on writing that came out somewhat recently that talks about this topic in great detail. Was an interesting read from a writer perspective as well as general thoughts on how storytelling impacts people.

If you're interested you can search for Wired for Story.
>Windows-only

>Steam-only

>not DRM-free

Seriously, what is this... The fun was cross-platformness (GNU/Linux and Mac OS X support). This is just not typical "Humble Bundle".

I wouldn't mind less humble bundles (a couple a year), but good and cross-platform and a load of them, instead of Windows & Steam-only like this.
A Paradigm Shift in Cloud Storage
Thanks, I updated it. Now I just need a way for people to find it..