skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the United States there is an analogous situation which is that of the 'high speed pursuit.' In the pursuit situation the officers have strong reason to believe the driver of a vehicle was involved in a crime and seek to arrest them. The driver of the vehicle doesn't want to be arrested and so they drive away quickly. If the officers give chase, they greatly increase the chance that harm will come to innocent bystanders. If they don't give chase they risk losing their suspect."

I think any similarity in these situations is only superficial. In a high speed pursuit, the suspect is alerted to the police's interest in their actions and chooses to run, which is an indicator the suspect has something to hide as well as a crime in itself. The act of running from the police is breaking the law.

The exit node scenario is nothing like that--the person being raided is not aware of the police interest and there is no evidence the operator committed a crime. Even if the the suspect was notified in advance and refused to willingly submit their equipment for investigation, it still wouldn't be the same situation unless they were legally compelled to provide the equipment.
Surprisingly, touchscreen laptops don't suck
Judge orders Paul Ceglia to pay Facebook $100,000 in fees
Self-updating github gists
Shut up about the tools you use and write some damn code.
http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercur...
Ouya: Latest prototype
I do not think your response is appropriate. He just pointed out what seems to be a fact that the idea is not new.

Maybe you expected him/her to be excited about the exit but that not being the case does not mean you should have repled with 'rude sarcasm'.

You could have used the opportunity you used to respond to learn about competitors in the space however you chose this route.

I have noticed several senior (by karma) HN members that take an unecessary offensive approach towards comments that do not "tow the line".
I understand your perspective, but: the OP stated that he only sold the app for .99 cents before making it free during the summer. So 2 of 7 months before becoming free. But apps usually get at least 10x more downloads when free. So to calculate what percentage of his user base might be affected by the additions of ads when they have already paid: 2 / (2 + (10 * 5)) = 3.8% of his user base. That's his historical user base, not his retained user that is still using the app. OP's estimate for user retention is 3%. The number of his total users that will be affected is: 3% of 3.8%. 0.11%. If this app was downloaded 10,000 times since launch we are talking about 11 people - half of which have already posted their negative reviews to iTunes and the other half... doesn't really care either way.

As an app developer myself, I do care about my users. If a significant number of people will be negatively affected by a change I'm considering, I simply won't do it. It's just about where you draw the line. Is your stance that if even one person is affected in this way then it is unacceptable to make the business decision to shift to ads?
Well I'm not using that program...
I think it would take IE not working for something a lot of people want to do. The problem with IE is that it works for end users. devs build websites that work on IE so most everyday people never even notice or care that IE is such a pain. I remember when facebook dropped IE6 support. That was a nice day, pretty soon IE6 support was more or less dead (at least in user-land, corporant behemoths are another story...). Basically, big players would just have to quit IE support entirely and force ms to do what opera does and build a decent browser.
My experience has been that Community Colleges already do a lot of what he's suggesting (at least mine did) and I doubt his university style campus could compete on cost with a CC.

I bet it is the other way around.

Smart potential mentors know the value of finding good people early, I don't think that will cost nearly as much as you would fear.
We definitely want to be part of the process for as many people as we can. Pack. Move. Unpack. FaithStreet. Well... something like that.
The warning isn't about the site; it's about the connection.

Yes. Which is a bad idea. It conflates an absence of network shenanigans with "the user knows who he's talking to".
A while back I was at a friend's house when we decided to watch a movie. My friend mentioned that he could stream The Avengers from his Netflix account, so taking his word on it I was like "Ok awesome"!

It turns out he was wrong. A Netflix search showed that the movie was only available via mail-in DVD, not Instant Watch. I joked that I was impatient and didn't want to wait a couple of days for a DVD to be mailed.

"Not a problem" he said; my friend just hopped onto Usenet and downloaded a Blu-ray copy of the film in about 45-50 minutes, in about the time it took to cook some BBQ for the both of us.

My argument is not about the legality of this scenario; it's that rather decentralized, open networks are doing a better job at distributing high quality content than the very corporations producing and selling this content. Considering that you have to pay anywhere from $10 - $20 a month for Usenet access, people buy into this service not because they want "free" movies/music, they're paying for the ability to download virtually any movie/album they want... at any time they please. It's like Netflix Instant Watch on steroids, at a more affordable price.
We're here for you buddy! we started Keen IO specifically to address gaps in analytics for mobile. it's easy to record those user interactions with our iOS SDK. And it's free for small apps like yours. if you want to chat analytics, let me know.

Thanks for sharing your story. I don't think failure stories get shared enough!
You could rig up something similar for Windows 8 using this hardware, Samba, and Windows 8's File History [1] feature, which is similar to Time Machine.

1. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows8Step0TurnOnContinuousB...
If it's the one that you have on some of your social media sites, nice. I can suspect why they reject it but is it primarily because of the short length?
It is 357GB total that it is backing up that will take 18 hours. :)
I'm sure there are a few cookie libraries, but so far I think I prefer https://github.com/js-coder/cookie.js
You know we all love you, but this is out of line. Any one else than you would be hell-banned for this.

We know you have FU money now but please remember that that expression is supposed to be figurative and not literal.
3 reportedly killed during crossbow attack at Wyoming community college
Why just December? (And why Christmas?) How about a year-round effort like "Pull Request Thursdays" or "First Thursday Pull Requests" (each month)?
“Traditional universities proudly list the Nobel laureates they have on campus (most of whom have little to no interaction with students),”

They only have little to no interaction with students because students are stupid. When I started college, I was a physics major. After one year, I found the field of solid-state physics particularly interesting. I found out that Prof. Albert Overhauser was at Purdue (if you don't know who he is, just know that there is a very important spin-transfer effect named after him), and it turns out there were many opportunities to interact with him that almost nobody took advantage of.

Consider office hours alone: You've signed up for a lecture from a smart and talented person in a field you are interested in, and they are paid to set aside time to talk to you. If you are most students, you don't bother to go.
Ask HN: What do the new profile options mean?
A number of new profile options seem to have been added. They include "notifo", "showdead:
"noprocrast", "maxvisit", and "minaway". What do they mean?
I remember what it is, and you're completely right - it's certainly legitimate and legible (though unusual ;) ).
IBM is interesting
Too expensive for an ultrabook.
Ask HN: Thoughts on the new landing page for our email reduction service?
https://lightermail.com

We're in private beta and just redesigned our landing page. Was hoping to get HN's opinion as to whether we're communicating effectively.
Hmm, I know many non-traditional students who went to college because it was something on their bucket-list, not because they wanted a better job (they were happy with their career).

On the other-hand, for nearly every person I know who went to college straight out of highschool it was with the intention of improving job prospects.
In other words, this person seems to be expressing a tail-recursive solution? Interesting. I would agree that tail-recursion is probably more intuitive than stateful iteration to a mathematician as well.
DNA Directly Photographed for the First Time
In its place I'd get the Galaxy Note 2, I really like the big screen.
Black Friday boosts Windows 8 net use in US above 2%
Ok, now we're talking. So lets deconstruct this argument a bit (I realize its not "your" argument, it is the offered argument)

"The issue is that it would be financially irrational of them to do so, because their subscribers would defect to the online offering; they would, in effect, be offering a fire-sale on their most valuable offering."

There are three claims embedded in this argument let's break them apart individually.

1] "Users of HBO only subscribe to HBO for the original content."

Let's stipulate that this is a rational market. You've got people who pay for "all" of HBO (which spends most of its air-time showing 'movies' not original content), people who pay for it only for the original content. What is that ratio?

I'll claim that most (aka more than 51% :-) of their subscribers are movie watchers. On Comcast they have 8 channels, HBO, HBO2, HBO Family, HBO Comedy, HBO Signature, HBO Latino, HBO West, and HBO Zone. The bulk of the content is movies. Based on the value proposition "you have to pay for 8 channels at an additional $10/month ($120/year) to get your one original content show." And the fact that boxed sets of the previous year's episodes are offered for $40 - $60. I claim that the majority of HBO's paid subscription is there for the movies, and that they get HBO created content is a 'nice to have' feature.

2] "The number of people who don't subscribe to HBO because they are only interested in one show or perhaps a small number of original shows is quite small."

I don't know that number of course. But one could reason about it if you knew the resale rate of the boxed sets of original content. That is an imperfect indicator since you don't have survey data that says "are you a subscriber to HBO or not?" and you don't know which of their original content shows would continue to hold value past their air date (dramas sure, newsy stuff not so much). If someone knows what the sales rank of those boxed sets are though could get an indication. They are quite popular on bittorrent so clearly there is a demand (I know that isn't really in question)

3] "The original content is the 'most valuable offering' and the revenue generated for that net original content in a two tier model would be significantly less (fire-sale) than their current revenue."

My claim is that the number of people who subscribe to HBO just for the original content is quite low (its not a good value) thus offering the original content through another channel would not change the value proposition to a material number of current subscribers.

But capturing the revenue from people who would subscribe to a service that offered the original content would increase their bottom line.

I am really surprised they haven't A/B tested this much. Put an original series out there and offer it through a third party service as well using a modified release-window model (say a week).
Anthony Wood on How Roku Got Into Streaming Business
Google, Apple, eBay shouldn't pay taxes - people should pay taxes
Some people have crazy ideas, and the world needs that. However, trading in Ruby or Python or [insert favorite scripting language] for Objective-C to write server code is a foolish idea that's divorced from reality (with some exceptions).

The vast majority of server code that is written is bit plumbing. Moreover, it's written by not-so-great devs who aren't gdb experts. The performance benefits of C-like languages are completely useless for all but a handful of companies like Google and Facebook. Unless you're doing heavy number crunching server side (which most web apps don't), there's no discernable benefit to using Objectiv-C or C/C++.

There are plenty of benefits to using Java or a scripting language though. The reasons are obvious to anyone techie enough to get this far.
I think this brings a new level of meritocracy to the process and it will be amazing to see the results.
as a user who paid for this app, I'm quite frustrated with the update. this greedy decision takes up screen real estate which I used for one additional timer and the grid layout was one of the main reasons why i paid for the app.

i just hope he reverses all this changes as i'm not paying for additional sounds, themes or whatever other vanity ad-hoc app.
"Also, the race in producing research artifacts is extremely distracting for the faculty members. Universities need to distinguish between teaching faculty and research faculty."

I disagree. When you make research faculty teach undergraduates, you are basically forcing them to interact with the undergraduates, which is a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Getting Plan 9 Running on the Raspberry Pi
Alternatively, use Filepicker.io.

filepicker.store(myFile, {location: "S3"}, function(FPFile){console.log("File stored in S3 at "+FPFile.key+" and available at "+FPFile.url);});
Not exactly. Dell started changing prices and specs as articles about the price hit the web. The bottom line is, it's expensive for an Ubuntu laptop, and there's no option to choose a lesser configuration.
Illegal route also has to optimize for pirates' budgets which are orders of magnitudes smaller than those of legitimate services.
McDonald's does automate their production processes to a large extent - the fries machine requires very little human oversight apart from taking it out when done.

The trouble with robotics is that it's expensive and time consuming to scale, and deals poorly with variance, at least for now.

If your McDonald's is a smash hit and you're experiencing much higher than expected traffic, you can scale horizontally by quickly hiring more workers. All of the tricky bits of producing the product (e.g., correct portioning, correct frying, correct cooking) are already automated, so this labor force is easy to bring up to speed.

Compare with a robotic McDonald's, where you'd freak out, order a new burger-maker-matic from your vendor, and wait 6 months for it to arrive.

Or perhaps worse, you have a maximum capacity of 1000 burger/hour, scaled for your lunch-time rush, and those machines are idling the rest of the time. In a normal human environment you just bring in fewer people during the off hours - but with a robotic work force you are always scaled for peak demand. In businesses that are periodically peak-y this is incredibly inefficient.
Funny, the one thing that is making we more and more wary of using Mac OSX in the future is the convergence of iOS.

Different strokes, I guess. It just seems odd to celebrate it.
This sounds like a daily interaction with my current employer.

Sigh.
Of course. I have a Nexus S with Firefox OS on it, for example.
Coursera vs. the classroom
I think it will be quite tragic if HTTP 2.0 ends up being a binary protocol. The discoverability and readability of the basic text based Internet was, in my opinion, one of its most fantastic qualities. It meant that as a young hacker I could just look at things and see how they work and then progress to learning and experimenting by writing very naive partial implementations of said protocols. I am not sure the bits saved justify the obfuscation of everything.
Congratulations guys :-)
I am definitely part of a plot to homogenize HN.
Rails moved to Git in 2008, so I don't think that's it.
Self-driving cars + robot arm + bufferbox = extremely cheap, fully automated delivery service. Add a robotic distribution center http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdd6sQ8Cbe0 and you have an automated Amazon competitor. If, on top of that, Google turns your Google account into a bank account, you'll be able to buy literally with one click. Google's dominance in mobile with Android will ensure that everyone has a Google bank account through which you can make most of your purchases. If you're a manufacturer, Google will take care of all your advertising for free, just so long as you give them a tiny cut of each sale. Google will be a trillion dollars company.
I recently did this:

def is_email_address(email):
return '@' in email

LGTM.
Accepting "()<>[]:,;@\\\"!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{}| ~ ? ^_`{}|~.a"@example.org versus accepting j@ww.com

Hardly a valid comparison. Yes my theoretical non existant service would validate addresses like yours. That is vastly different to the one I mentioned.
What if you're only going to potentially piss of a percentage of a percent of your users? In the OP's case this seems to be the case.
Believe there's an extra or missing logical operator there.
Show HN: Github GameOff entry, Xonix for two players
Help for the game:
http://www.mascee.com/games/xonix/help.html
Awww. That's nice of you to say. I was kidding, though. I don't want Bufferbox to burn in hell, or anyone else for that matter.
Configurable User Models in Django 1.5
DHL "Packstation" started 10 years ago here in Germany, now those boxes are everywhere in populated areas. I was somewhat surprised that it isn't popular in the US.
Lots of thoughts. It looks nice and simple. Too simple. I think it actually looks much sharper and more modern than iOS does these days. Hopefully the design influence runs both ways.

Also, I know everyone has their own opinion, but yikes, this looks just bad to me (from the article): http://theindustry.cc/assets/2012/11/mini.png (edit, maybe it's my high res monitor but that font is painful to look at)
[...] however iTunes’ new display of Apps is horrid; every app icon has an ugly faux-perspective bevel that just doesn’t seem to work.

I don't understand what the author is referring to here. The screenshot looks just like I remember iOS app icons looking -- they've always had that canned bevel+gloss look applied to them.

Overall, the new iTunes makes me think that Apple keeps inching towards the Metro look. Gradients, colors and embossing are gradually fading out, and one day there will be nothing left except various weights of Helvetica and monochrome icons on a pure white canvas.
Github - Major service outage
What do you mean by Intel is making the wrong bet by going all-in on mobile? By mobile are you talking about smartphone/tablet or laptop? What would you do instead?
I'm really having trouble following your argument here. The only reason the user wouldn't know who he's talking to is shenanigans. You're complaining about the shenanigans alert.
Congratulations, BufferBox! Can't wait to see what you guys are able to do with Google's resources behind you.
FormBakery - Quick, Semantic Web Forms - The Industry
filepicker.io is a little bit more heavy-weight on the browser. But I really like it. It's THE start-up of 2012 for me.

This post was intended for the people who want to have a specific and stand-alone building block just for S3.
well you can always google :-)
Kickstarter “Frankencar” combines solar panels with bike pedals
It's not an upgrade. You can install it clean, or over the top of Windows 7/Vista as an upgrade. Microsoft got rid of upgrades this time around.

The first time I installed it clean on it's own partition. Then I started thinking about all the tedious work it was going to entail.

So I deleted the partition and installed it over the top of Windows 7. With a two exceptions - failing to install .NET 3.5 required by Zune to sync with my phone and blowing away XP mode and my processors not supporting SLAT for Hyper-V - I've got no complaints.
But while cable has and needs billions of dollars of revenue they will offer billions for exclusive access to whatever content is deemed compelling (sports, Game of Thrones, HBO generally).

A la carte providers just can't compete in the exclusive bidding war yet and the value of exclusivity is worth more than the incremental revenue of a la carte sales. There will be a point at which cable penetration could be small enough that these effects change but it has a long way to fall before it gets there. In the UK Sky has massive amounts of top class exclusive content on under 50% household penetration and they are still growing and strengthening their position.
"just because it is valid according to the RFC, doesn't mean that it's actually a valid user's email address."

I'm sorry but abiding by the RFC is the definition of a valid email address.

Postel said it best "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
Yes, I knew a linguist who won a $100 million lottery. Fortunately, he gave the winnings away to an accountant, because he wasn't a "numbers guy."
I don't have any experience of knowledge of Sourcesafe, but it wasn't in the original list ;-)
oh wow had no idea that existed, thank you!
Begin the title of your post with "Ask HN:" - that's all there is to it.
Really interested to see how the self-service model will do and the effect of being able to buy different projects in one space as opposed to on the artist's site.
How HP's Meg Whitman is passing the buck
A Samsung Galaxy S III with Cyanogenmod 10, which is usable as a daily driver

- or -

If I could deal with the size and pending a usable CM10 build for it, a Galaxy Note II, which is essentially a giant-screened SGS III with monstrous battery life and a pen (which won't be usable under CM10).

Both support 64GB microSD cards, unlike the N4.
I thought jailbreaking was legal now? [1] It seems to me that both jailbreaking and pirating iOS apps is a pretty common activity even among non-technical people.

Obviously OS level DRM like iOS makes it harder for people but people still seem very keen on doing it and the incentive to do so isn't going away. Piracy, just like Shrinkage [2] is a fact of doing business.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/feds-ok-iphone-jail...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkage_(accounting)
Ask HN: GitHub vs Bitbucket
At the moment my company is dead in the water due to yet another GitHub outage. They seem to hit weekly now. I'm considering switching to another provider today.

How does Bitbucket stack up in terms of reliability? Features are sort of irrelevant compared to recurring downtime.
Thanks. This should have been mentioned in the Viewport.js github page, but there is absolutely no reference to it.
There's no automated service, but you can have the post office hold any package for you for a week or so. These guys look like they're going after the online retailer distribution market though, similar to Amazon's upcoming "lockers" platform.
Agreed about the figures as they can only be inferred. asymco has done some analyses along these lines in the past but I couldn't find one in a hurry (and it might not have been recent). Other indirect measures do not show android is doing better as a "smart" phone (I.e. generator of demand for expensive cellular plans).
Wow +1000 on this if I could.....
Thought it was a great idea along with Amazon Lockers. Just did not know they would be acquired that quick!
Any hints as to the financial terms of the acquisition?