skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is an exception

Why? This isn't even "how I got X to run on RasPi" - it's "I ran the image that someone else created". Period. That's it. Um, wow.
These are the nonsensical laws that result from "illegal data".
GitHub seems to go down way too often nowadays.
What I find interesting is that if you dig deeper into the outliers like Xero, you'll often find that the founder(s) behind it were far from being an overnight success story (although it's often interpreted that way when we read about it on hyped-up tech posts).

In Xero's case, the CEO Rod Drury started his first successful company, Glazer System, in 1995 and sold it in 2000; he finished undergrad in 1987 so he must've been around 30 when he started it and 35 when he finally had his first taste of success. And he was around 41yrs old when he started Xero (I'm basing this all off of his LinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/profile/view?id=122232).

We read that Ross is currently 29yrs old. And he seems like a smart guy and a capable entrepreneur. I bet you CraftJack definitely won't be his last venture, and who knows, we may very well see him working on a "Xero" a decade or two from now. This game only gets better with age and experience.
But there are several businesses that tried to do exactly that and lost me as a customer since they didn't accept my perfectly valid address with a + in it.
I would pay that in a heartbeat. Living in an apartment is a nightmare for receiving packages. I hate getting the missed package slip and then having to call and arrange for me to pick up the package at their facility 20 minutes away. I've had to wait 2 hours at the sorting facility for them to find my package before.

So to me, $3 seems like a steal when faced with all that.
I disagree with A, B, and randomdata's C. (I mostly disagree with randomdata because that's way too broad a stroke.)

The purpose of universities is to provide an umbrella for intellectual specializations to conduct research. There are two reasons they admit students: to pay the bills, and to acquire apprentices.
It seems like it would be a lot simpler to fix the current pipelining infrastructure (already in the spec but not used?) and tag pipelined request/responses with request IDs.
Typical Google, investing in ways to provide customer service that has no human contact ever.
The Same-Origin Saga - Brendan Eich
> And here I thought DRM was trying to make difficult the non-permitted sharing of the results of someone's hard work, for example music an artist created, or books an author wrote, or the years of work a team of actors, cinematographers, move score writers, directors, producers, makeup artists, animators, janitors and all other people that go into making a movie.

I am willing to believe that's what it originally meant to do, but it has proven wholly ineffective at that goal. If you want a pirated work, you don't interact with a DRM-encumbered disk at all — you just grab it off the Net. The effect of DRM on movie piracy seems to be insanely close to zero.

However, it is much more effective at doing things like forcing honest people to buy multiple copies of a movie to watch in their living room (where they have a Blu-Ray player), in their bedroom (where they have an Apple TV) and in their car (where they have a DVD player).
I suspect the catalyst for this acquisition was due to one thing: their blog has an easily identified link to their product site. Startups should take note of this oft overlooked detail.
You might have more experience in this area than I, but is this not the point of the JVM?
I do tend to stay away from attacking somebody to avoid discussing a certain point brought up. However, tptacek sure cuts the cake on this...

From his profile: "THOMAS H. PTACEK hopes, by strict attention to business, combined with moderate charges, to merit a fair share of patronage and support."

Does he hope to gain some sort of social credit by attacking and being so damned obtuse? I sure as hell hope somebody monied notices this.

And can we also conclude how tptacek treats his employees, if we are treated as such on a semi-anonymous blog?
Thanks! I'll add this.
Heck, by the logic the police are using, the state should be charged with drug trafficking since surely their roads are using to transport illicit drugs by individuals. So long as we're charging people who have nothing to do with the actual crime.

The terrifying part is I wonder if the judge will have any idea what Tor is, or even be capable of understanding once it's explained to him. I don't see how anyone with even the slightest technical knowledge could do anything but throw this case out.
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yes, let's move the goal post.
>My bank however obviously must promise me encrypted access, or else nobody would use it.

Hahaha, you're joking, right?
Awesome. One could make a useful bookmarklet out of this.

I'm worried about accessibility.

Most of the time tabs are used to navigate between fields, so it'd be cool if this was "opt-in", eg entering the textarea would render an icon to click that enabled this feature. Or at least some way to tell the user that pressing the ESCAPE key is how you should tab-out of the field.
Because you're dead inside? No more belief in anything?
In Charleston there is an impossibly narrow Charleston single house, built to be not much wider than a single doorway. It is a pastiche of classic Charleston building techniques, with three types of traditional roofing and five types of siding.

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/controversial-...
This article really resonated with me - I have been trying an idea-a-day experiment for the past couple of months and the key to this is, as you put:

"Most of your ideas will suck, but that's fine. Just write them all down. Every. Single. Stinking. Idea."

This has led to some areas I never even considered exploring before, based on ideas that at first glance seemed to be absolute garbage.

I even created an internal tool to help me write these ideas since writing on a notepad wasn't cutting it - shameless plug: it's at www.255ideas.com and is free to use.
The Start Menu code is still in Window 8, well just some of it anyway
The whole USERNAME_FIELD / REQUIRED_FIELDS thing feels clunkier that it should be.

Isn't defining REQUIRED_FIELDS redundant, since this information could be introspected from the fields?
> Piracy costs HBO less than "fixing HBO Go" would … people should stop bitching about how hard it is to get Game of Thrones

If piracy costs less than "fixing HBO Go" would, then people should stop bitching about piracy, shouldn't they? Because this seems to imply that the impact of piracy is literally negligible.
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- parlor trick animations everywhere

- Sandboxing non-App store apps

- obfuscating "active" icon for running apps

- daffy notification center

- hidden user Library

- focus on weaker iOS UI w/ fullscreen apps and Launchpad

- half-ass support for multiple monitors (fullscreen, auto-brightness)

- iTunes 11 dumbed down to iPad version

- Time Machine won't restore previous Apple apps

- massive Finder UI bugs (lists don't update, don't always order correctly, show as blank, coverflow view doesn't match list view)

- threading freezes when copying files

hardware degradation:

- device noise in audio port

- crash when connecting to Cinema Display

- MBP keyboard & trackpad don't respond after using external mouse & keyboard

old classics:

- migration away from desktop view, can't see hard drive / files

- QuickTime X dumbed down from QT7
> The cost of building a complete computer with an ARM SOC (think raspberry pi etc) is coming down to a level where you don't have to buy your computers from mega corporations.

The Raspberry Pi is a SoC made by Broadcom, a US$7 billion/year company with 11000 employees. While admittedly this is a bit smaller than Foxconn, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Asus, IBM, HP, or Dell, it still seems like it qualifies as a "mega corporation" to me. (The Raspberry Pi also has a circuit board and stuff, but the SoC is entirely capable of enforcing DRM on its own.)
Pretty much every good Wordpress install involves setting up something like WP Super Cache which generates static pages for your webserver to hit instead of the PHP pages.

Most blogs lack any dynamic content (except the admin section) and can just regenerate the pages when a new post is made or new comment added.
> We don't live in a society where people have a large amount of freedom and exist as free independent agents.

We do! We're only constrained by the laws of nature.

For the people that work with/for me, I want them to contradict me when I'm wrong. How else can I learn what they know?
Is this promoting a particular tour, or release or something? Or it is just Skrillex brand awareness in general?
Windows/Emacs user here. What does these shortcuts do ?
Personally I love Bitbucket. Unfortunately you'll get scoffed at by the "true nerds" for using such a second rate product (aka less trendy). Their new UI is really awesome and you really can't beat the price (free).
The marginal cost to the cable provider of providing you with HBO versus ESPN+HBO is nil. Bundling makes perfect sense.

You might complain about cross-subsidization, but you are both payee and payer in that bargain.

If you could get only HBO, it would cost a lot more than what it costs on top of a cable subscription.

It's like two people buying a newspaper with two section. Person A only wants section A and person B only wants section B. They each complain about subsidizing the other section. They see the 50 cent cost and say "I would only pay 25 cents if I was only paying for the half I wanted!" But the costs to the provider for only providing you with one section is exactly the same. If they only gave each person just what they wanted, each person would pay, to a first approximation, 50 cents for getting one section.
You'd think they would try to focus on a functional checkout process before worrying about delivery/pickup.
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At a guess the problem is probably a code snippet that checks for minimum length. You could have an even shorter one for a single letter domain in a two letter tld, for instance x@y.nu
I think you're trying to make a statement about objective artistic value, which arguably doesn't exist.

From this comment all you've really said is that you and Bill Hick (probably) wouldn't think this is art. Nobody here could argue with that. But it says nothing about what art is or who is an artist.
Behind the Scenes at Burst
I test your script and compare it on my LEB with my common setup.

- OpenVZ 128MB RAM

- Ubuntu

- Nginx

- MySQL

- PHP-FPM

- APC

- Varnish -->> Redis

At 250user/second here's the result : http://imgur.com/a/hPkyZ

This is vanilla WordPress installation. There is almost no difference in load time or overall resource usage as far as I'm concerned. I've never use Redis before so thank you for this.
Yeah. I was only pointing out that there's a massively wide variety of electronic music these days, and saying that it sucks now is ignoring the history of electronic music where a lot of it started out as extremely boring stuff that appealed to specific tastes and not much else, with a few notable exceptions. Hell even some of the high profile Warp releases relied on a ton of repetition.

But as you say, it's not a bad thing... just like how a lot of electronic music today is also not a bad thing.
Why would you post this on HN? Flagged. And for those of you who don't know, it's extremely NSFW.
I have already downgraded to a Blackberry Curve 9360, because of getting an iPad. I mostly use it for texting and calling. I really think you're right, at least to me smartphones stopped making sense after I got an iPad. Thanks for the shared-over-wifi 3G internet tip – can't believe I never thought of it.
It was incredibly embarrassing at the time, but I'm very grateful to have learned touch typing.
Ouch, this bit "Features are sort of irrelevant compared to recurring downtime." is key. If you're going to build a network based business, you have to invest in being operationally nimble. Just because DevOps isn't 'sexy' doesn't mean it isn't important :-) (and no I'm not saying that just because I am an operations guy, but I feel the pain when looking for DevOps engineers)

I also feel GitHub's pain. We're constantly dealing with things that come in over the transom at Blekko and getting a constant stream of sales guys and gals trying to tell us how their product will solve all our issues, and as I tell folks, if you don't know how to solve the problem how is it that you trust this solution being offered is sufficient? I've known people who will respond, "Well if it isn't we'll just beat on them until it is!" but that doesn't help the 'gurgeous's of the world who are trying to use your service while your vendor it getting beaten about the head and shoulders with a tuna.

I've advised a couple of startup founders who had under 'scaling' in their proposals "EC2/S3 totally scales" that while it was true, lacquer oil paints create masterpiece paintings, except if you don't know why a masterpiece is a masterpiece, just having the paint won't get you there.
The media analogy is to kill DVD/streaming and revert to movie theater only.
We've been using Stripe to accept payments at http://telerivet.com for about 9 months now, and generally we have been very happy with their service.

One thing Stripe doesn't really mention up front is that it's actually your responsibility to make sure that your customers aren't using stolen credit cards. (I assume this is the same for other payment processors, not just Stripe.)

We received a few payments that seemed suspicious (probably stolen credit cards), which resulted in a couple of chargebacks ($15 fee each) that showed up 3 months later. Since refunding suspicious payments to avoid chargebacks still incurs Stripe's transaction fees, we ended up developing our own heuristics to require manual approval of suspicious payments before sending them to Stripe.
Your grandfather, while not educated, likely had his wits about him.

Cleaning lawns often requires average intelligence. If I have to tell the person common sense things and basically supervise the work (people with this intelligence often don't adapt well to change, the kind of change required for each customer) and will tend to be slower and require tasks to be broken down for them. You don't want to have someone completely break down when you send them to the store and the brand you specify isn't available.

From people I've seen, they're already barely functioning in jobs. As the job market gets tighter, many of these people have been pushed out. Some have had advocates able to argue them on to disability, but others haven't.

You could do this. I could do this. But you're overestimating the capacity of 10% of Americans, perhaps as much as 15-20% of Americans.
> But all those passengers aren't sad.

Have you looked at passengers on airplanes lately? I admit it's been a few years for me, but last I saw, airline passengers were, by and large, miserable. They can't wait to get off the airplane. They may prefer current air travel to not seeing their family or getting paid an order of magnitude less, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't be happier with it if it were better. And it could be a lot better.
> Developers dream of that kind of tap through rate because it generally means more revenue, but I wasn’t charging for the ads, so the tap through rate didn’t impact my bottom line at all.

Why include advertising if you're not charging for it?
Germans are pretty conservative. There was a successful German startup that I looked at, that bragged about how cash flow positive they were. I said FFS, why? In the US in a high growth startup land grab type business, you would put all the cash back into the business to grow it as fast as possible, including internationally, instead of hoarding it and bragging about how solid and conservative you are.
Could you elaborate on:

> Sandboxing non-App store apps

I thought sandboxing was only required for App store apps?
Yeah I know, but 'failure' as a mechanic is something that's a weak hold-out from a time when games weren't as good. Thus, the requirement for three hearts is largely negated.

Plus it's not like most AAA games nowadays punish you for anything at all to begin with, so having you actually hit a situation where you have to experience the inconvenience of loading a save that takes you back 30 seconds is ultimately just a waste of everyone's time.
There's an option in the search settings to turn off instant results: https://www.google.com/preferences

Other than that, there isn't any way to use I'm feeling lucky anymore. Not much point, as with instant results it's one click to get the first result anyway.
Agreed. This is the first major outage I've noticed as a user of github in several years. I have my grievances with GitHub, but the pull requests, issues and organization systems are really useful for me to have in a team setting, so I couldn't really see myself moving to another code management solution -- what would my alternatives be? JIRA? Lighthouse? And that doesn't even touch on the social aspect -- nothing is quite like github in terms of community vibrancy and activity. I've found so much useful information and documentation scattered through issues and forks that are all through github that I couldn't imagine finding otherwise -- or at least, it would be more difficult to find elsewhere. I really like being able to associate commits to issues via commit message. Still, this kind of outage definitely makes me thinking about having a some kind of a mirror long term -- haven't been able to use my issues all day, and that's kind of frustrating.
The key line in this article: "The disadvantage with this is that you wouldn’t get your location in real-time – it’s processed later."

The viability of this seems tied to how long 'later' is. Most consumer uses of GPS require quick response times or you'll see a huge dropoff in usage.
This is basically a link to a page which you can use to join our "Burst Bubble". A Bubble is basically a collaborative album. Check it out.
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Despite being wrong, I always interpreted Eulogy to being mostly positive, with an undercurrent of anger that was aimed mostly at his untimely death than anything else.
it's not clear what real benefit Tor provides us in exchange for letting this kind of activity go on

How about letting people in countries like Iran and China have a fighting chance of getting the word out about what's really going on there? Does that count?

How about letting people who are being stalked by creepy ex-spouses or ex-significant others have a chance of doing things online without being tracked? Does that count?

How about letting people who are afraid of reprisals speak inconvenient truths without being silenced? Does that count?

Basically you are saying these kinds of benefits aren't worth the chance of letting someone distribute child porn using Tor. That seems ridiculous to me.
Hi Ross, I'm wondering what is your mindset when you approach a competitor for investments. Or was there enough differentiations in the two companies that they would really benefited had they invested in you instead of buying your company?
You could also let people tab-through by not enabling this functionality until you move within the text-field.
EU set to fight Internet tax and "spying" at global summit
> Plan 9 was first released to universities in 1992

And it wasn't free.
So did I. I took it as the form of humour where someone pretends to take personal offence and has a ludicrous reaction.

I didn't think he felt seriously offensed by the comment pointing out that the idea wasn't new.
> .. Google .. but hopefully not evil.

Too late, the hive mind which is $GOOG has already shown that it will do as it pleases; "hopefully" good [when convenient], otherwise whatever is profitable even if it is evil.

Can't say I blame the $GOOG; this is an inherent problem with huge organizations -- the meta consciousness which emerges vastly undermines any altruistic desires of individuals.

See also: $MS, $AAPL, $USGOV, et al.
I'm an Evernote user, but I feel like I'm just plain missing something about Evernote. Why is it worth $1 billion? Am I using it wrong? I've never even came close to needing to upgrade.

On another note the app seems to get heavier and heavier each update, it takes as long to launch as MS Word on my Mac.
Which Oberon system???

Genode would be useful, since it can run on the Pandaboard.
That is a good point, consider however the counter point that wids spread bitching can be 'low cost' from the standpoint of 'keeping piracy in check', which is to say trying to lay a guilt trip on people who are on the fence.
House votes to expand visas for high-tech workers
Was this paid for by hotel interests? I'm really trying to understand the depth of PR in the news.
I'm a big fan of Dev Bootcamp and similar startups. Traditional universities are a bad deal for students who are going to university to improve their ability to earn a livelihood - a not-insignificant portion of the 3/4 of Americans youths who now attend college. And it is becoming a worse deal as college costs increase.

Students need a more flexible, more accessible system of higher education. Over the last 50 years, we've attempted to co-opt the traditional university system to fill the higher education needs of the greater population and the experiment is failing.
I think that's an important point. People see plan9 as another "fun" "side os" for OS lovers.

Plan9 is actually a good OS. It certainly offer features that are much ahead of OSX, GNU/Linux, Windows, you name it.

The only reason why we aren't using Plan9 _right now_ is because nobody found a way to make money with it. Sad, but true.

Microsoft had similar ideas and pushed them with the Singularity project. It stopped for the same reasons. People are ok buying and developing for "more archaic" systems, that will probably (very) slowly evolve into something similar to what Plan9/Singularity have been offering for quite some time now.
once you're on the results page you can click i'm feeling lucky next to the terms in the suggestions dropdown
What are some examples of 'modern board games', or 'board gaming tech'? The terms seem vague.
Found ans here: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/tree/master/src/runti...
I always thought Skrillex sounded like a video game.
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Good for Clive for being a sport and coming up with a valid answer, of course, but this is what interested me about his response:

He tackled the problem on a "meta" level, but didn't grasp the math. He could have saved a lot of time by seeing if the number was divisible by 15.
BnetD managed to violate the DMCA merely by being unable to emulate the authorization layer.

https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
It's not possible to create a system which protects the anonymity and privacy of users with integrity, but not of criminals. The cost of a free society is that sometimes people will do bad things and get away with it.

As regards Tor, it's extremely debatable that its existence has any impact at all on the distribution of child pornography. If you don't care about hurting people, there are way more effective ways to protect your anonymity than Tor.

In addition, Tor is an incredibly useful tool for fighting corruption in countries where online privacy would otherwise be non-existent.

So on the one hand it's a tool that gives anonymity to a group that already has it. On the other hand, it's a tool that aids in reducing human rights abuses across the board, including human trafficking.
I wonder, is it possible to mine that data for something valuable?
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Very nice, it would be great if stackoverflow used this.
No, he is frickin' AMAZING with photoshop. I love his work.
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