skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying that selling plastic by the sword is better for society than a strong public domain? Or do you just think that a system where content can be produced without artificial scarcity is idealistic?

I guess what I am asking is this: Do you think that 'public ownership' of IP is impossible, impractical or immoral?

As a content creator do you have an objection to public content on principle? Or do you dislike it because you don't see it being possible?

I am asking this out of pure curiosity. I am just kind of surprised to see someone on hacker news of all places saying that information should not be free. I can understand saying that now is not the time or that models are not yet ready but it seems ridiculous to think that we should ignore the power of the internet for content distribution forever because it doesn't pay the bills now.
I fail to see a point! JavaScript alternatives that each of it ultimately boils down to JavaScript. Why not just write JavaScript which looks like JavaScript and behaves like JavaScript?

May be we shouldn't call them 'alternatives' but just 'wrappers' - JavaScript Wrappers. But again, that's not the point. Why?
There won't be brain chips

Sure about that?

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/142797-brain-pacemaker-he...
You might want to make sure that you're first on queue if you sign up your site and do a bunch of reviews.

I just did three reviews and it should've been possible to make sure I got one in return by now, but that didn't seem to happen yet (or is it because my site is HTTPS only?)

I can second the comment about star ratings as well; the default of 1 star especially was not in line with my intent for at least one of my reviews.
I'm not him, but personally I like it because html is actually a pretty good language for markup. I find any custom syntax to be worse than just html, and you lose the ability to use standard html tools, syntax highlighting, etc.

And as much as it may be possible to separate logic from presentation in a typical PHP/ASP/JSP style template, I've never actually seen it done. When something is made awkward, people tend to choose the more convenient approach, so you see an unfortunate amount of nested loops and conditionals in most templates. Being able to have designers write templates by simply telling them "anywhere you want dynamic content, just make up an appropriately named tag for it and pretend it is part of html" is really nice.
Do you mind sharing which instructions or guides you follow in setting up the mail server ? I would love to play with this stuff on my free time.
Launch.it (NYC Startup) partners with the Consumer Electronics Show
Just to add some data: Did not crash for me. I am using sync and I have two gmail tabs open. However gmail has continued to work for me, only the chat has had some issues.

Using dev build from canada.
Probably - no problems with Chrome here, no sync enabled, no GMail tabs open (using GMail in my standalone client only)
2D Goggles is a fantastic read. It's funny and entertaining, packing a huge number of references to real facts (thanks in great part to Babbage's own self-glorifying writings). Half the fun is reading the notes and discovering Lovelace really did meet Brunel, Babbage really did hate street musicians, and so on.

It brings to life a certain exhilaration in English society during the industrial revolution, when people thought every problem could be solved with the right (steam-based) technology... not unlike what you might find in the Bay Area these days.
Filtering, filtering, and filtering (BigML)
Good question. A few reason:

1. Heist allows you to define your own HTML/XML tags in the host language (Haskell in this case). This means you're only dealing with (an extended) XML document when doing layout and design so all the normal XML tools still work.

2. Some popular template engines try to separate logic and design but end up letting you cheat a little. Any time you want/have to cheat and put logic in the template, it really was a shortcoming of the template engine. In Heist, you can't cheat but you never want to.

3. The reason #1 and #2 work is because Heist's "recursively applied splices" is just the right abstraction. My HTML templates end up looking just as pretty as well factored Haskell code. Heist makes the perfectionist in me happy.

In short, I would say you're right here: '"Separates view and business logic" and "enables DRY design" are valuable goals, but most template languages have them.' But just because most template languages have these goals doesn't mean they've achieved their goals. Heist, in my experience and opinion, does achieve these goals.
PagerDuty (YC S10) needs a Senior Operations Engineer
Ditto, although both of my accounts are on "Apps". Not had Chrome crash either, although I never use Syncing because I just don't trust Google to get it right..
Great idea, but the UI is a little confusing. After writing a comment do I need to click 'Add comment' AND 'Submit review'? Or does either do the job? Also I forgot to set a star rating, perhaps default to zero and prompt user if they don't set it? Why can't I see the reviews/comments I've submitted on my account page?
I'm surprised that posting korea-dpr.com link here has not had the HN effect and crashed it.
Haven't had a single problem, using both my Apps account and my Gmail account. Stockholm/Sweden, Firefox.
Obviously you would send both pictures to the police with the name and info of the matched suspect so there would be human confirmation.
Let me guess: the control group was playing Scrabble, not Cowboys and Indians.
Yep Chrome crashed too during the outage for my colleagues and me.
Apparently that's what 21 is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_(drinking_game)
Heroku app to browse every animated GIF on Wikipedia
Dan, out of curiosity, why was it never released?
The mortgage interest deduction benefits wealthy households much more than "average middle class" households. The tax advantage of home ownership is also reflected in higher prices for those houses, so it's not much of a win in any case.
Today's outage: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

So far it only says "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly."
thanks HN-ers!
So you have redundant internet connections, back-up power generators, a high availability cluster, etc? That seems like a lot of money just to host your own mail server.
Perhaps not on a large scale, but things like Agenda 2010 and Riester-Rente in Germany are just that written small.
I'm sure you're right, but many of my SF reading friends bought into the concept of psychohistory hook line and sinker, which got me into lots of arguments. It's those disagreements with other fans of the book which coloured my perception of it, I'm sure unfairly.
Why were you in North Korea? As a tourist?

North Korea is probably the most evil regime in the world. Going there as a tourist supports this regime and as such is profoundly immoral.
Anonymous is claiming credit. http://www.chronicle.su/news/gmail-taken-down-by-anonymous/
chrome for linux 64 bit was crashing here too.. It was blowing up my RAM.. Du'no how
"A lot of our current mental models are actively hostile to the body."

Because plenty of the conditions are due to the body's hostility to itself, or because what may kill invaders will also injure the body.

There are rarely, if ever cure-alls that do not affect the body's normal function, and assuming that the body's function is at all times beneficial is a mistake, a flaw in your "alternate" models.

The body can generally take care of itself, but does not always, in every person and situation. We are not perfect beings and clinging to those assumptions hurts humanity more than any flaw in the dominant model.

Reform is a wonderful, necessary goal. Tossing aside evidence-based medicine to do so is utterly foolish.
See my other comment. But yes, I'll add the ability to click Go with enter.
Focusing on mainly on electronics, I will agree that hardware is having a glamour moment, but not because more funding is available. I am an embedded designer and I work closely with several hardware startups (in silicon valley and other places) ranging from novel LED lighting to data acquisition systems. Every one of those startups had to bootstrap themselves until they were financially viable from sales before they were able to get any outside investments. My sample size is small, however, the data agree five out of five times.

The article is dead on with respect to the falling costs of prototyping, I would also add the falling cost of integrated circuits in general. For example, I can get high quality PCB prototypes for about $30 shipped in one week (5cm x 5cm, two layer, 6/6/6 design rules). This was unheard of five years ago. Furthermore, you can now get a 32-bit ARM processor (which doesn't need many external components) in the same package as 8-bit microcontrollers for about the same cost. You can run a open-source IP/USB/BT stack on those without having to cobble together your own. Having the extra performance available, at the low cost/high integration factor, allows the designer similar agile capability as compared to lean software startups, where you can use available code to prototype first and then optimize after you have your feature set. This makes it easier to develop smarter devices that integrate with a broader software stack, e.g. cloud connected embedded devices.
Yours might, but I couldn't find any such script on North Korean sites I sampled. The spans were hardcoded. Don't believe me, run the following from any Linux command line:

curl http://www.kcna.kp/goHome.do?lang=eng | grep --colour 'Kim Jong Il'

So unless they have some server side parsing, this is not done in any programming language and most certainly not in Javascript on the client side.

Though lets be honest, if reporters get sent to special "revolutionisation" camps for so much as a typo (assuming that part of the article can be trusted), then you're damn well going to remember putting a span around ever instance of North Korea's leadership line. Plus (again assuming the CMS's doesn't handle this) reporters can just find/replace before uploading. I bet it becomes as much a habit as spell checking is for me.
Right on here. Exactly how I feel.

Generating HTML is really the whole point of a web framework so it better be awesome at doing so. Heist does this well.
I personally recommend looking at OCaml, which has a JavaScript compiler called js_of_ocaml[1]. Using OCaml is a great way to give your projects structure without sacrificing expressiveness--I think it's a much better bet for large projects than something like Dart which reeks too much of Java. The JavaScript compiler is also very good. It compiles down from OCaml bytecode. I've also found the mechanisms for interacting with existing JavaScript libraries relatively easy to use and understand, although admittedly most of what I did with it did not do much DOM manipulation.

[1]: http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/

There are also some cool frameworks for using OCaml on the server (although I haven't used them myself). So with OCaml you can use the same language for the frontend and the backend, which is always nice.
"I meant to do that!"
Yeah, sorry, I'll trump your tale. IOS maps got me chased out of the Baikonaur cosmodrome by the Russian Army and "special police" at 4 in the morning. The roads in Kaz are dirt tracks for thousands of miles, frequently, so getting lost is easy - particularly when the road vectors have a one-point-per-10km res.

Fortunately, they thought it was hilarious that an Englishman in an 80's Merc should rock up at their launch facility looking rather tired and confused, otherwise I wouldn't be telling you this.
Oh, I hadn't seen the pong example before!

Reminds me of the old paper on Space Invaders.
Steve Jobs Warns Apple: Don't Get Greedy
Physisists create Quantum Tornados capable of Ultra-precise Measurements
First updates from Google's App Status Dashboard:
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...
Switch Your Databases To Flash Storage
That's called Enterprise Hosting and it comes at E10k/server/month excluding bandwidth. I wish I was joking.
Similarly, someone had to pay for their movie or album or w/e before they ripped it and posted it to the Pirate Bay.
Teach U.S. kids to write computer code
Great great screencast. The product it also looking awesome.
Congrats!
Google offers its "Scroogled" defense but Bing beats it down
I believe this is what 'Premium Bonds' in the UK are, in a form.
You could apply that to C and assembler.
I remember back in the late 80s to early 90s is was not uncommon for developers to write code in raw asm presumably because C didn't give them the "power" they needed.

I think that perhaps JS has not yet reached the point that asm has.
Yeah, I have sync enabled and using the official Gmail extension. I crashed several times not long ago.
I'm 22 (close enough to under 21), and my opinion on buying things depends on the type of media.

I buy plenty of games on Steam (usually during sales) & the Humble Bundles. They are a cheap, legitimate way for me to play a large array of games, and I'm more than happy to support the developers.

For books, I have a Kindle and tend to pirate ebook copies of books I own already in physical form. I'll also pirate audiobooks & ebooks on occasion if I can. Not a a big fan of audible & amazon DRM.

For music, I have a Spotify Premium account and listen to the vast majority of my music from there. I have a big back-catalog of pirated music from before I got my Spotify account. I have a handful of CDs that I bought as a child, but mostly just pirated since the dawn of broadband internet.

For TV Shows, I have a Netflix Account & Amazon Prime account. I also pay for Verizon FiOS cable, and get HBO/Showtime. I use HBO Go and whatever the Showtime app is called to watch those shows. I sometimes pirate episodes of shows I watch if I happen to miss watching them, can't see them on Hulu, or didn't record for whatever reason.

For movies, I buy Blu-Rays only on occasions where I want the HD experience. Think concert Blu-Rays and things like Planet Earth or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Like I said, Netflix/Amazon Prime/HBO/Showtime get me through a lot of movies. If I can't find them there, I'll pirate them.

The reason I subscribe to these things and still pirate is basically a lack of $$. The services I pay for are a relatively cheap way to see a lot of content, and I would probably not go out and buy more DVDs/CDs/games if I couldn't subscribe to these or get great deals on Steam.

I do, however, intend to purchase far more content when my bills aren't so overwhelming. I also cannot forsee myself encouraging my kids someday to pirate material. I feel like I'd be instilling a value into them that I'm not particularly proud of, and without a doubt if they can say "but dad does it!" it'll be hard to explain to them why they should not.
Its rather different, but we are doing a load of outpatient healthcare work for an overworked public health board. Often calling patients multiple times over several days (on cell phone and landline) produces no contact with the person we are after. Posting a letter asking them to call us nearly always works. It's a slow process, but even when you know where someone lives, getting hold if them is hard.
Clickable: http://whythe.name/
But I don't want you to give money to the NRA (I assume that's the gun club), I would much rather you paid taxes.

I see the danger in the system you mention that lots of money will go to niche organisations out of proportion with societies requirements. Better to pay taxes in the hope that they are distributed where they are most needed.
Yeah. We use glusterfs to handle the IMAP sync between multiple VMs for HA IMAP. SMTP MX clustering is pretty straightforward in comparison:)
I would like to know what the lag time between end of play and test for aggression was, and how much of a factor it is.
New board in the Arduino Family: Esplora
Cool idea. Great job on launching - I'm sure there were many things you'd like to clear up and fix for a "proper" launch, but you finished something and you got people using it.

As many people said already, it would be great to know the difference between "Add comment" and "Submit review". Seems like they could do the same thing.

Keep polishing it, and then post a changelog somewhere - it's always nice to see the list of bugs people have worked through at the early stages of a site. It's also really motivating for the developer as well.
Your mental model is that it is due to the body's hostility to itself. You do not need to defend that because that is a generally accepted model. It is still a mental model, which is distinct from reality. Yet mental models also shape reality. How we perceive or frame something influences how we address it.

I am not saying nothing ever goes wrong or that we are perfect beings. Nor am I clinging to any assumptions.
I doubt that these people know anything about technology. The governments generally hire some companies to do the obscure technology "magic" thing. As for people, most of them have probably never learned a thing about the technologies they use.
Yes, my first thought was with rising healthcare costs whether even I'd be able to afford these fancy manufactured organs should I need them.
My Chrome did not crash, yet I am logged in with Sync. Instead of keeping Gmail in a Chrome tab, I use Fluid app to make Gmail into a "desktop" app. Seems to still be up. Others can use the same workaround by opening Google apps in Firefox and Safari.
Your username is not helping your case here.
It seems to work fine now.
Or it could be, you know, a BUG
Great idea!

Unfortunately, it looks like you're already getting spammed. I just reviewed Google.com and what I think would have been nsfw site had I let it load.

Also, it takes too long to generate the screenshot. I waited a few minutes before giving up on my third review. Why not just open the site in an iframe?

Getting to try it out without having to log into anything is fantastic.
"Switch Your Databases To Flash Storage. Now. Or You're Doing It Wrong."

Unless you know, you're storing a lot of stuff and are quite happy with your current level of performance and don't want to shell out a load on new hardware that will fail quicker.
The games used in the study are listed in the press release.
I think the answer is that Seldon probably knew that Psychohistory only works within fairly specific parameters. If something like the Lens were discovered then the assumptions underlying his predictions would be come invalid, therefore he simply had to hope that something like the lens would not be discovered.

As for miniaturised atomics, it's quite possible that the only reasons they hadn't been discovered already were sociological in nature - regulatory rules put in place at the behest of incumbent monopolies to protect vested interests. Seldon may have been able to plot the curve of atomic tech development up to the point the regulations killed further development, and then assumed that with the destruction of those vested interests along with the empire, tech development would continue on it's previous trajectory.
I find it interesting that Heist looks to be inspired by or based on XSLT, yet XSLT is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Is it just a happy coincidence?
Mine are working too and I'm from Eastern Europe. It was probably a slight glitch of Google's servers or databases.
Nike Announces Nike+ Accelerator, Powered By TechStars
Debugging ARM without a Debugger: Printing Stack Trace
That guy's money will go somewhere eventually too, into local coffee shops, craft market, plasma TV.

Just because it goes somewhere, doesn't mean it goes to the right place.
Ah figured that myself. Now I can bring up old discussions again :)
Can anyone compare this to Ace [1], if you've used both?

1: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace
B-52 will do that: "A notable feature of the landing gear was the ability to pivot the main landing gear up to 20° from the aircraft centerline to increase safety during crosswind landings" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B52
Generating the screenshot was slow but didn't take anywhere near a few minutes for me. Maybe ~5 seconds. Site probably getting a lot of traffic, I got some errors at first but it works fine now.

Cool site.
About the same for me too.
Yeah, I get crashes all the time on Win 7 x64, but that might have something to do with having 100+ tabs open.
I can, and my team can come to me and ask me for stuff like that, but it depends on what kind of time mode we are in.

If we have a deliverable due and it is coming down the wire, wants get thrown out for needs. So I guess my work is a little bit of column A (set by manager) and a little bit of column B (free choice).
Gmail returns with G+ as your inbox.
Also B&O's newest TV, the Beovision 11 (a real beauty - http://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/picture/beovision-11) has a compartment for an ATV (or other similarly designed thingy) in the TV. B&O also has the capability of controlling the ATV with the their remote even though it is hidden in the TV. Pretty cool actually
An API to Convert Excel Documents to PDF
agreed, it has to the the worst looking site I've seen in awhile.
List of Languages That Compile To Javascript
Good idea :)

Perhaps submitter should be able to score feedback as helpful or not, so people can't spam asdf on every site to gain "credits"?
Is Selling Your Last Name to the Highest Bidder a Bad New Trend
Smart idea. I hope the feedback is ultimately constructive in practice.
Seems to be working fine from Chicago...
Someone didn't finish his homework. The legal, supported method of virtualizing OSX is:

Guest: Leopard Server

Host: ESX 5.1

Hardware: Mac Pro

Mac Pro is supported on the VMware HCL.
Leopard Server is legally virtualizable on Mac hardware.
VMware supports OSX Leopard as a guest on ESX 5.1

Mac Pro towers are going to be less dense, but given his cooling situation, lower density is probably a win. What datacenter wants 8 kW of laptop CPUs stuffed into a rack? Virtualization would also overcome the lack of redundant PSUs.
Nope, they actually denied it => "Anonymous immediately denied responsibility for the attack on Gmail before finding out that no one knew who perpetrated the attack, thus making it a legitimately"
I also love the idea. Seams to be some problems when I first click the button "Add comment" and then rated and submitted by clicking "Submit review".
Google offers its defense but continues to Scroogle search users
Nice writeup! I'll go with the distinguishing characteristic of an IDE being that it understands the content as a specific language (or strives to) rather than "some kind of scoped/indented code with keywords". Whether this is particularly compelling depends on how deft the implementation of a pairing is. Visual Studio fits C# like a glove, but with C++ there are sharp and wonky bits sticking out everywhere. I suppose another major characteristic is GUI abstraction of the build process.
No chrome crashs here (beta channel, sync enabled, germany, gmail tabs open), but Gmail was down too.
Building A Better Water Filter
Speaking of which, blip.tv, on which most Clojure videos[1] are hosted, is one of the most frustrating websites that I have come across.

It's a pity those videos are not found elsewhere.

Try to start from the oldest videos on the channel.

[1]http://blip.tv/clojure
An office with "library rules"
+1,000,000!

Apple's myriad of logins and passwords is so frustrating to me. I had an iTunes ID for years and can't use it for anything anymore because it is not an email address. It is such a pain in the ass to do anything. I have two apple ids, an icloud account and a game center account.

The edge cases (10% of users who would use multiple icloud/gamecenter accounts) are making things a huge pain in the ass for 90% of users who are the only person that uses their iphone for app downloads, icloud, music and game center.