skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our eyes can't focus on something that's on the lens.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that CTRL + L worked perfectly.
Having directed in the festival scene for a while, I respect the amount of energy and passion it takes to realize this kind of project. I think the concept looks great, and I'd like to offer two friendly suggestions concerning your pitch.

First, as others here have pointed out, you should define and limit the scope of "hacking," as it relates to your story. Maybe consider how your movie will complement (or intentionally contradict) the growing role of cyber-security in current news and events. You seem to have a firm grasp of the abstract concepts that you want to explore, which is great. That said, prospective investors will be more likely to donate if they sense that your project has a concrete lead linked to real, specific issues. (I'm not saying you need to have it all figured out now; your plot can still evolve as you do more research and writing.)

Second, the adage "Show, Don't Tell" came to mind as I was watching the pitch video. Rather than telling how you're going to make the movie — i.e. who's operating the camera, writing and acting — you might consider diving into the topics that your film will explore. (To be fair, you did that a little with the Plato reference, but I'm thinking of something more immediate and less abstract.) By leisurely introducing the characters in this way, you may lose donors with short attention spans.

Anyhow, that's just my take. I took some time offer feedback because I think the project as a whole looks amazing. I look forward to hearing about production and seeing the finished product.
I took it a year ago and really enjoyed it. I had been using SQL quite a bit before, but I had never taken a database course at university. It was nice to get exposed to the theory , and I learnt things about SQL that became immediately useful at work. Also, Professor Widom has a nice sense of humor.

I've written more about my experience of it here: http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...
Really concise notation for statistical analysis:

m <- lm(y ~ wage + degreeAttainment + jobTenure, data = mydataset)
summary(m)
plot(m)
predict(m, myotherdataset)

Things like heteroskedasticity-robust hypothesis testing, GLM, time-series models are supported without purchasing extra packages or coding it yourself. The graphics are much better and lattice/trellis plots are supported natively (I don't think there's any good way to them in matlab).

Basically, the stats and graphics are easy enough to type that you can do all of the exploratory data analysis that you (should) feel guilty for skipping when you use matlab. :)
Happens to the best of them. The stock had great growth for a pretty extended period of time, if Apple stock falls like RIM ( a pretty significant fall from grace ) then journalists will have a real story to write about.
Isn't there a rule about writing biat switching headlines?
Honestly, it's difficult. I have family ties here or I would have moved to LA 5 years ago; it's hard to make a living up here because there are relatively few productions and not much networking infrastructure.

You can check in with Film Arts Foundation in SF (9th street I think) who have some decent resources, but the best ways to get gigs are a) craigslist and b) lurk around the Academy of Art in SF, which is always churning out film students, and which is dominated by wannabe directors/cinematographers, which means few of the students are interested in or good at sound.

There's a couple of talent agents in SF; get some decent headshots and put them on file, plus FAF has a headshot file cabinet so you can put your face in there for free. Although I actually have a fair bit of acting training, it's never been my personal ambition and I don't consider myself all that photogenic so I've never tried to do that as my main job; it's just another thing I can do on an as-needed basis on a film set, like lighting or packing a truck. You need to be versatile to work in the indie scene.

Drop me a line near the end of the month, I like teaching.
It sounds awesome for some large website with tons of videos, but for personal use you need a really fast uplink to make use of that service.
I think it would be useful for you (see my other comment for details).
It's not just that you have fewer protections. It's that someone can file a complaint with the local HRC for free and you'll end up spending thousands defending yourself. It's the perfect vehicle for legal harassment.
Coding The Matrix
Performance with JavaScript String Objects
How would one become one of these lucrative auditors? (hypothetically speaking, of course..)
Not really, best buy and any other company of its size are more concerned with tax filings (which should be an "Ah Ha" moment for those of you at home), which generally gives companies an incentive to jack up costs and consequently decrease revenue. If you want a better idea of what their margins actually are you best bet would be to talk to a good (read: independent) investment analyst.

Also, best buy pays ~27 million (adjusting for the time value of money over two years at 2.5% gives us 25 million, btw) for a golden goose they can reuse year over year and had they build it themselves they wouldn't have had it immediately. I don't have all the details, but the project (including legal costs) will likely pay for itself before 5 years is up. They also mitigated any risk with building it themselves and doing it wrong which would cost additional time and money.

As a side note, I am curious if the court decision has any impact on the possible of Best Buy whoring out their duplicate system.
Unfortunately I suspect suing one of these companies would not be worth the trouble. I can't imagine they keep any amount of assets anywhere that they could be seized.
New R. Harper book: Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
very cool. now i feel compelled to go burn 6 hours in http://telehack.com/
Is it even possible for a ping to localhost to time out?
I'm sure that makes them much cheaper. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data
Lego Portal 2 Part 1/2
Apple still makes the Mac Pro if you're bent on physically upgrading your computer yourself.
They're flat at a time in which many others are losing their jobs, to be re-hired at lower wages, or unable to find jobs at all. Comparatively speaking we're still off very well.
This has actually been a dream of mine for as long as I have been addicted to the command line. Feel free to contact me if you have thought it through further than I have - would be interested in discussing possible implementations.
I think it's because they're sponsored posts of sorts. The one's I've seen so far all seem to be promoting some start-up, probably that are connected to y-combinator
Fair enough. Curiosity is a very reasonable excuse for opening a working black box, and is definitely what makes one a hacker.

On the other hand, most systems these days are so complex that you have to have some black boxes. I know more about how my linux kernel works than the vast majority of people I work with, and yet I would classify the majority of it as a black box.

I have a general idea of various trade-offs in efficiency and fragmentation resistance in malloc implementations, and if I have to I can dig into one. On the other hand, jemalloc works great and I just don't have the time to take it apart, so I just use it.

Ultimately to get things done you need to trust that functions do what they say they do until you get evidence to the contrary. Taking functions apart can make you better at doing your job, but rarely fixes the problem you have Right Now.
Eh, I'm not terribly persuaded by that line of reasoning: the article CW links to^1 mentions that the IT field operates at full employment. At 3.7% unemployment you have a huge amount of bargaining power.

As you alluded above, I too think the statistic presented mostly captures IT workers 'proper': server administrators and support people. But as a support function, they've basically stopped having major gains in productivity in like 1998.

We're not like them. We're princes of the universe who own the means of our production. Instead, I think it's more along the lines of

1) a lot of wealth increase has been captured by the higher skilled workers (some with cause, some without) and, of course, equity owners

2) but mostly, average wealth economy wide has been stagnant for everyone in all jobs except non-executives/equity owners.

You can make six figures before you're thirty. No problem. It's very common within my social milieu.

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1. Obviously a white paper designed to help lobby against increased immigration quotas. As an incumbent, this benefits me but the initial claim that 3.7% unemployment doesn't constitute full-employment is so spurious that it's hard to take any of the rest of it seriously.
I like this article
Or, get an i7 Mac mini and put an SSD in it.
I wish there was another movie like Hackers. Accurate depictions are boring.
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i like this site.
Found Widom very difficult to pay attention to. The material was good though. Lots of theoretical stuff with questionable value for any application.
A: Yes, I think so. I'm self thought guy myself, at least, when it comes to programming, and I really enjoyed watching the relational algebra videos and then the SQL ones (never got to the modelling part though, got all my learning time sucked by a big work project)... go through them at 1.5x or 2x speed and you won't regret it, at least if you had no encounter with relational algebra before, as it feels good to know there's some nice and simple math behind SQL :) (though now I want even more to shoot the guy that invented SQL's ugly syntax and all the database implementors that piled tons of "semi-compatible" shit on top...)
> I wonder if people start abusing this if Github were to put any restrictions on it somehow.

They'll have to restrict it to some extent, but neither is it 1995 anymore. GeoCities was able to make a go of 15MB per free website (with bandwidth caps) for 14 years (1995-2009), and it's still available in Japan, but I don't know the current terms.

Serving static content you don't pay for from storage you already own down pipes you already pay for is just about the cheapest way there is to be online by any metric. I wouldn't be surprised if they could support a fairly large number of websites without blinking.
Very Good Artical.
This article seems to frame the future-of-the-internet issue in a weird way.

The ITU is the body responsible for most sub-sea fiber communications standards and for international radio spectrum allocations. It seems to represent the interests of international telecommunications companies, while the interests of domain registrars are united under the US-based ICANN.

The reason to oppose UN control over the internet is not because it is the UN, but because historically telecommunications companies (with their profit motives) have been more hostile to the free flow of information than domain name registrars.
Practically every major Western democracy has, or soon will have, roughly equally draconian anti-piracy enforcement, typically in the form of "N Strikes" laws with forced disconnection. Practically every major Western democracy does, or soon will, have ISP-level filtering of sites alleged to infringe copyright.

So copyright enforcement is not an area where it's really possible to take a useful stand.

Other aspects, though, are: consider, say, an internet subject to English libel jurisdiction. Or one subject to some European countries' feelings on religious -- particularly Muslim religious -- content. Or one subject to China's ideas about appropriate political speech.

While there are many things to complain about with respect to the US federal government, and its approach to freedom of speech, it is -- much like democracy is occasionally quipped to be -- the worst, except for all the alternatives.
try $ giggity from command line
https://github.com/niftylettuce/giggity
HTC agreed not to 'clone' Apple's products
As far as the non-upgradability of the rMBP, I don't think it's as much of a dealbreaker as some people, but Apple really could've done better. Develop a new type of low profile memory module and SSD, I'm sure some people would complain but it would be replaceable/upgradable.
UX guy, I'd consider adding your email address either to your HN bio or somewhere on your site. I can find no way to contact you if I wanted to.
in fact, you are hiring them precisely because you don’t know how to do the job. http://www.magicdress.co.uk/
I don't disagree with the OP* but its important to recognize that what might seem to keep you sane, in many situations it will drive whoever inherits your code absolutely nuts. The guidelines the article lays out aren't bad, but they are all about "you". Make sure you don't forget the next person.

*I'm well known among my colleagues for writing way too much from scratch
This is another case of convenience vs. security.

The Stripe button poses a similar problem, even if credit card number and cvc are arguably not as bad as actual login data.

But it is much easier to create a frictionless user experience if you do not have to redirect people to somewhere outside your side.

I recently implemented paymill payments and also there the only assurance for the customers is the 3D-Secure iFrame, if their credit card is 3D secure enabled ...
That someone isn't Google though. Google is bad enough at customer service that they should aquire t-mobile just for the support department.
Add an HTML5 Webcam to Your Site With Photobooth.js
No. This is good for people looking at your eyes, but you won't be able to read anything off it for the same reason you can't focus on your floaters.

Google glass is going to have a similar problem; it's hard to focus less than an inch away from your own eyeballs, and by the time you get into your 30s your cornea starts to harden. I'm 42 and can't focus closer than 3 inches or so these days.
I don't know whether Tesla can maintain their technical advantage once the market becomes more interesting to the larger manufacturers. Whatever advantage they have today is irrelevant.

The capabilities of the current crop of vehicles is still outside the typical driving expectations of the broader market (limited range, slow charging). Once the technology improves to affordably and effectively eliminate these issues, all of the manufacturers are going become very motivated. If Tesla can own the solutions to these problems as a barrier to entry, then they will be in better shape. I don't know if one small company can hold a dominating technical advantage over motivated, well-funded companies in this kind of space for very long.
Nice and light. If you learned SQL and DBs "in the field" and had no exposure to relational algebra watch it at 1.5x - 2x speed, with pen & paper in your hands, to fill in your theory gaps... but I never got to the modelling part so can't give you a complete answer...
Nice article .
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I would love to see an ardent 'fanboy' like MG Seigler write an article on this. Because he wrote a huge advertorial when the shares rose up 6%.
An interesting attention getter for rescued animals. Not sure if I'd want a dog that thinks it can drive, though.
You can also create a static file blog with Jekyll https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll.

Pretty awesome and simple.
At least Alfonso Portillo is a Guatemaltecan national. McAfee is an illegal alien. We'll see what happens...
Very nice! Good work.

I also agree on the Cocoa app on github. Haven't seen many of those!
Wait a minute. ITU is composed of the national regulators and interested companies. ITU cannot regulate, they can simply recommend that each regulator goes home (in US case, FCC), and proposes some regulatory change, which has to pass normal due process.
So this it not a matter of UN or ITU applying regulations.

With this said, I think it's best for ITU (and regulators) to keep it handsoff with the internet. ITU has a history of complicated and old-fashioned standardization that would do more harm than good.
The title should say iRecognition. IRecognition looks like a C# interface.
Suggest HN: filter submissions
I'd like a community discussion about submission filtering that can either be implemented on HN or as an extension.

I see quite a lot of content that sits on the front page that I will never open because of the site it links to. I'm sure there are others like me, but I will not open a link to TC or PandoDaily amongst others. So some kind of mechanism that will instahide that item from the front page for my account would be so great. The comments would obviously be hidden but I consider that collateral.

What are your thoughts?
I fixed this bug and uploaded a bugfix release (0.9.1) to the download section: https://github.com/fwenzel/upshot/downloads

Feel free to download and replace your installation with that!

(PS: automatic updating is an upcoming feature also, but I first have to figure out how to do it :) )
Why didn't Sparrow have Push again? Seems like a no brainer, but I vaguely remember them being caught in a pickle that prevented it.
Marijuana decriminalised in Washington state
An experiment about static and dynamic type systems
More Apple drama on the front page?
I think he is the best for Anthony Lawrence
oh, terrific article. It's very nice and helpful.
In Russia, iTunes Store Is Now (Accidentally) Serving Up Porn
I think he's right, but this is really a problem a developer would have. Most users just want the very best exprience, which in most cases means the most upgraded software. If you can build the tool for yourself though do it.
A serious Mac-head going Ubuntu. I am also surprised, and I've been running Linux since before Ubuntu even existed, back in the before-time when Red Hat was the default distro.

But I refuse to be a partisan anymore. I remember when Apple was ... well, remember Mac OS 8? Remember the time before the iMac? Those computers made me wonder how newspapers ever got published. So I'm happy the Mac people have (mostly) usable (by their standards) hardware and software now, as long as I'm not forced to use it.
http://www.basictechnews.com/entertainment-/others/110-life-...
I never understood how contact-lens displays were supposed to deliver a focussable image on the retina. Is this doable? Maybe it will require some kind of magic metamaterials or something.
Spot on comment;

'Just finished reading the comments, thank you all, most insightful in understanding the demographics of /. today: rage comic addicts with a depressingly shallow perspective on free software and that would gladly trade their siblings for the next iShiny and that think that saying inanity like "Well, freedom isn't important if the product is usable" is anything more than a mediocre platitude. Reading Computer Shopper adverts was more challenging that this drivel, "Oh, I don't mind that I don't own the software or even know what they do with my data because it is soooo convenient lol this RMS guy is so out of it!".'
It would be in Google's best interests to acquire multiple Amazon like entities innovating in this space rather than spending $30 billion on one company just so it can be better at retail wouldn't it? Retail is messy business, I don't think it would be a good idea for Google to go down that route. Give it time, they're a big company with the funds to work this problem out themselves.
Apple butchered the standard SATA connector so you can't use third party SSDs from OCZ, Mushkin, Transcend, AData, Kingston etc.

Only one vendor, OWC (MacSales), ships a compatible SSD, but of course you can't use it in non-Apple laptops which have a standard SATA connector.

Picture in article here: http://www.mactrast.com/2012/11/apple-ssds-and-the-fusion-dr...
I think his main concern was for the users or did I read it wrong?
"bath salt type of drugs which are about as paranoia-inducing as possible."

Yeah, keep talking out of your ass, dude.
YC backed for-hire postings.
I know this isn't reddit and I don't mean to be childish, but in case the creator of that slideshow will see this thread: slide 4 looks like somebody thinking about APIs while giving another person fellatio. You may want to rethink that slide.
Slashdot, asking questions when they know the answers:
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/04/22/1525212/apple-and-g...
Not sure how his side of story goes, all news seems to be incoherent: He didn't pay 2M$ to that party, so they made the police kill his neighbor in order to take him for questioning and then kill him?
Does it have a standard SATA connector, or does it have the Apple-only-modified SATA connector as found in the rMBP?
iCloud is a joke. Like eWorld. Like .Mac. Like MobileMe. You can’t do this stuff.

This, I predict, is going to turn out to be Apple's achilles heel. They make great hardware and their software is good enough but they just don't get services.

Google does services better than anybody and they're quickly closing the other gaps.
A better question is, why don't some of the reasons that it's so great to work for Heroku symbiotically trickle up to the behemoth parent company?
As long as OS X still includes Terminal.app and lets me install other apps without using the App Store, I'm still hooked.
What's weird is that this has been a running argument for almost the entire existence of Apple. Here's the thing though -- Apple hasn't changed. They are simply closer to their goals then ever.

I'm not saying it's right. But computer as an appliance? That's the dream! In the 80s we would argue on Usenet that the WIMP interface was too simplistic, and that real computer users stuck to the command line only. Now, in 2012, we argue on Blogs that the iPad is too simple, and real computer users need a mouse, keyboard, and windowed interface.

I'll leave this anecdote from 1981. over 30 years ago. To show how Apple is still Apple:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

"Apple's other co-founder, Steve Jobs, didn't agree with Jef about many things, but they both felt the same way about hardware expandability: it was a bug instead of a feature. Steve was reportedly against having slots in the Apple II back in the days of yore, and felt even stronger about slots for the Mac. He decreed that the Macintosh would remain perpetually bereft of slots, enclosed in a tightly sealed case, with only the limited expandability of the two serial ports. "
This sounds more like bandwagon-backlash than the real thing. There's no reasons here. Just a bunch of recycled generic complaints that are pretty trendy to toss around about Apple these days. The next cool thing is hating Apple so all the Apple users will probably write more articles like this and we'll have to read it every day on the front page. Brace yourselves.
To all of those complaining about the new Apple devices, this is what you should do. You should vote with your wallet.

I don't think that you are going to change Apple's mind, but this is the only way they'll listen.

Personally, I think they are to far gone by now. The money pouring in has simply been to much to ignore. It's not the computer for the rest of us any more...It's the computer for the rest of them...

(I am one of them, I just understand your argument and your frustration)
Mechanical Turk changing the defaults: The game has changed
Best online job of microworkers.You can do this very simple.So i can request for my friends to join for website:http://news.ycombinator.com/x
thumbs up.great article
There's a celebratory tone to this article that I find misplaced given the company failed and was sold as an asset to a 3rd party. I'm sure the VC feels vindicated to have covered their money and taught Best Buy a lesson. To the founders though they clearly built something great (BB generated $140 mil in revenue from their approach) and lost their company well before there was a legal resolution that could have saved them. I expect this outcome makes them feel better but I'm suspect it feels like too little too late.
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