skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're downloading the movies with an internet connection, there isn't really a good reason to delete them any more, unless you're more worried about copyright police raids than archival preservation; http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2010-October... shows that the cost to buy a new disk was only 20% of the cost of paying for the bandwidth. Now it's probably more like 8%, and that's here in Argentina.
Been on Chrome for about 50 minutes, was on Gmail at the beginning of that. The only thing that was crashed was the chat on Gmail. Have not had a single problem with Chrome.
Doing the same thing for missing children could help a lot of parents find their kids.
Chrome Canary is stable, and Gmail loads from here in Italy.
Equals is a word often used inappropriately by people who don't understand logic.
I think what he's trying to say is his downtime is planned - kernel upgrades, configuration changes, that sort of thing.

This is both somewhat true and somewhat not true. He's still vulnerable to failure of the hosting equipment and attacks from crackers. But, when he's the only admin, there's nobody else to fat-finger the server out of action, and if he only logs into the shell for service he will never fat-finger outside of planned service.
Thank you for your comment, and for the advice. I'm going to update the description :)
Most flies used in fly fishing incorporate some sort of feathers, but that's usually to imitate an insect or fish. The largest "terrestrial" that I've ever imitated is a mouse (the fly consisted of some other type of non-mouse fur--rabbit and deer). This is typically done at night, and it's a lot of fun.

I know people who have seen fish eat ducklings, and I've seen fish try to grab damselflies out of the branches of trees. But watching a fish grab an entire pigeon off of the shore is pretty cool.
The power.Water codebase allows organizations to recruit, collect, manage, and then post content on users' accounts on both Facebook and Twitter. Users "donate their voice" by authorizing the power.Water site with their Facebook Connect or Twitter OAuth credentials.

Live site - http://power.water.org
I am 22. Back when I was a kid I torrented everything. Now I don’t pirate much at all. A previous poster hit the nail on the head, it’s all about time and money. When I was a kid I had no money and tons of time. Any money I was able to scrape together from part time jobs went to buying hardware and other things (bikes, musical instruments, etc.). Anything that wasn’t physical I just considered free for the taking. Not because I made up some moral crutch, I just couldn’t afford it and I wanted it. I don’t have a ton of money now, but I have a lot less time than I used. Two things spring up from this. Firstly, I desire a lot less content. I simply don’t have the time to play all of the games I used to play and watch all of the TV shows/movies that I watched as a kid. Secondly I don’t mind paying because now I have some spare money and there is a lot less content that I will be paying for. I think people underestimate the amount of children/jobless people who are using torrents.

People who have the money will pay for content if it’s presented to them in an attractive way at a reasonable price. I never pirate movies, because why bother? I can rent them from Amazon/Google for a few dollars or get them from a redbox that is a couple hundred feet from my apartment. I wait for TV shows to be on Netflix/Hulu, even though I might be behind a season or so but who cares? Same with movies, I don’t care anymore if I have to wait a year for a movie to go on amazon/Netflix/google. If I have to wait awhile or I forget about a movie and never see it then oh well the world still turns.

I do have to admit that I never pay for music though. I prefer to pay for live shows. To me music has always been free simply because of the radio. I know technically, it’s not because of advertisements, but that’s how it feels to me. That being said if I would be much more apt to buy music if I could buy it directly from the artist at a reasonable price (ie 5-10 dollars for an album), especially if the quality was high (320kbps mp3 or flac). That’s part of the reason why I don’t like mp3 services like amazon and itunes, the bitrate just isn’t high enough for me. I didn’t spend hundreds of dollars for nice headphones to listen to poorly encoded music, and I don’t live in the 90’s anymore so I’m not going to buy a cd.

In regards to ebooks, I think the belief that books are free has already been ingrained in culture due to librarys. Until I was an adult I never bought a book. Even now the only books I really buy are technical books. I rent everything else from the library. I don’t like ebooks, but if I did I would likely rent them as well.
It's also a general UI problem with online maps. If you get directions to a city you'll get directions to a specific point within that city, instead of to the area that the city encompasses. It looks like the Shire of Mildura is an area that is 10,000 square kilometers. Having your map directions show that your destination is a broad swath of the country would be an easy way to tip you off that something is wrong with your directions.

It's not limited to Apple maps either - I've seen this on other consumer-grade online mapping services too. Sometimes searching for a specific location/address may default to the city that is in your search term, but if you're not paying attention you can be led astray.
google-chrome on lubuntu crashed 3 times in a minute after going to gmail.
I wish skillsmatter would clean their web design up a bit :-(
Have you seen the price on a cinema/thunderbolt display? No way a tv would go that cheap if they make one.

Also, does anyone actually use Siri? Like daily. I used it ones or twice when it was new and cool but screaming at devices is not something I prefer.
Good point and absolutely true my comment is pretty specific to the US terrestrial Cable Markets.
Following from that, it would be interesting to see if competitive contact sports (football, basketball, etc) would produce a similar effect of aggressive behavior.
Thanks. I agree that it does seem too good to be true. I was also quite surprised when I saw how much of a difference it was the first time I ran the benchmarks. The great thing is that the bigger your page is, the bigger the improvement will likely be.
could you expand on why is it that you favor it?

I ask because I like the idea of a stateless xmlish template language, but I wonder what this offers over the zillion existing solutions.

"Separates view and business logic" and "enables DRY design" are valuable goals, but most template languages have them.
I have a new yellow notice on top of Gmail.

"Novità! Le app Gmail per dispositivi mobili sono appena state aggiornate su Google Play e nell'App Store di Apple. Ignora"

Translated: News! The mobile Gmail apps have just been updated on Google Play and App Store.

I wonder if this is related...
Yes. It reflects a certain "intensity" at the keyboard which may involve the shift key finger spasming.
Tthey are effectively saying distributing a 160 bit number is effectively illegal. Magnets are just SHA1 hashes of a torrent file.

Then again, you could argue any media or program stored is just a really long many-bit number, so I guess we have been making numbers illegal for decades.
> It's about people choosing to spend their money on something else, relying on others to pay for the actual production of entertainment.

This is the free rider problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem. It is exacerbated by the fact that piracy is easier than obtaining content through legitimate channels.

> Currently we as a society choose to enforce IP law. If that changes, then sure, I'll find another job. Good luck waiting for that Game of Thrones season 3 though.

There are other solutions to the free rider problem. Take your pick from the examples on Wikipedia (i.e. assurance contracts, which are remarkably similar to the way Kickstarter works). The information revolution has changed the economics of your job, but I believe as a society we will ultimately find a better way to incentivize your work.
I'm on the fence when it comes to operator overloading. I appreciate the readability gains, but the behavior absolutely has to be predictable.

For example, my biggest gripe with ruby's bcrypt library is how == is non commutative. They do provide a named method alternative, but I was very confused as an infrequent ruby user.
I too never had a problem.
There are many ports of AAA PS2-era games, like GTAIII, GTA:VC or Max Payne, so there's nothing inherently impossible in making complex iOS games.

Of course, those are (relatively) low-cost ports, so question whether it's economically viable to create an entire GTA-scale game from scratch for iOS still stands.
Been working for me fine on Safari and IMAP
You broke Gmail! Happy Birthday!
It only does good if Google does something with it.

That's why there's a call to tax long-held reserves, rather than profits.
Since you've mentioned you're biased against the findings, what do you think it would take to convince you of their findings? What would they have to demonstrate for you that their conclusions were valid?
I was just going to say this. Been using Gmail daily since 2004 or so and I can count on one hand how many problems I've had. Stellar record, though as I said I am too dependent on it personally.
Yes Chromium without sync works fine for me too.

edit: Gmail works fine for me in Denmark, maybe it is only a regional outage?
I like it, for my next hosting company: We don't have downtime, just unscheduled maintenance.
"Famous poet", referred to Byron, is... quite an understatement. A more appropriate definition would be something like ROCK'N'ROLL SEX GOD who occasionally wrote poetry.
“People who have a steady diet of playing these violent games may come to see the world as a hostile and violent place”

What type of fairyland is Bushman living in? The world IS in fact a violent and hostile place. Our origins are rooted in competition and blood.
Seems to be back up now. At least it's working for me.
That makes sense. I flounder when it comes to money moving across borders, not something that I have a solid grasp on.
Yeah, I'm a fly fisherman myself, so my response was partly tongue in cheek.

I had a vole-type fly as well, but never used it in anger. Biggest for me would be a fry/minnow imitation.

People always talk about pike taking ducklings, or duck's feet, but I agree saying a pigeon being taken would be cool.
Deterence is increased both by the severity of the punishment, but also by the certainty of receiving the punishment. I think most major crimes are committed by people who have comitted minor crimes. If getting caught for minor things becomes more likely, it may be less tempting to go down that path.
There's a large body of work trying to evaluate the effects of both causes. Arguably, the US has gone way down in the realm of diminishing returns in terms of severity, especially when it come to drug laws.
Of course this doesn't take away any of the potential downsides in terms of civil liberties of any approach that raises the certainty of getting punishment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(legal)
My Android phone sends and receives just fine. It seems like a web related issue, and Chrome is likely just relying on communications with the server
And the conclusion about how to treat it will be strongly shaped by the mental models framing the inquiry. A lot of our current mental models are actively hostile to the body. There have been articles posted to HN about the fact that most medical research is highly biased from the get go to confirm the researcher's pre-existing bias.

Thanks for replying.
Apple really needs two passwords, not one for everything
I think that when speaking about small teams or individuals you are generally correct - it is generally faster to skip step 4, and always branch from step 3 to step 5. But like everything, there are edge cases: sometimes assigning blame actually does "help solve the problem". I would totally agree with your comment without question if you had written the first sentence like this:

FTFY>>>Step 3(assign blame) is unnecessary if and only if assigning blame doesn't help solve the problem. A pragmatic will realize this, and skip step 3 when it is unnecessary to assign blame at that point in the process- you get to the solution on step 5 faster.

Upon careful reading of your comment, I imagine that this is what you meant, but some people will read your version and imagine that you are saying that "assigning blame generally doesn't help solve the problem". It's the problem of [logical AND &&] vs the English construction [ , and ] which can mean the start of a new semi-related clause. Note that I did try to hint at this in my description of (step 2) - Do we need to assign blame "at this moment"?

Completely agree with your second sentence.

One specific edge case for small teams or for individuals - the process of assigning blame can reveal toxic team members (one of which could be you). Getting rid of a bad team member has the potential to speed things up radically.

In large organizations, assigning blame can often be done in parallel with fixing the problem. I would imagine that the benefit of the fix would generally outweigh the benefit of the blame. However there can be good reasons for management to demand that you offer up the scapegoat(as opposed to a sacrificial lamb) before your team gets permission to fix a problem. One of them is the small team edge case that I mentioned.
Shameless plug: if you want to start using one of those languages right away on Node.js, I've written a Node.js module that lets you require() files written in most of those languages: https://github.com/olalonde/better-require
Congrats to Marijn, CodeMirror is just fantastic.
The problem is how much the law is being corrupted, how much it is far way from the interests of the society. Each time the law extends copyright period, it is MY RIGHT of accessing public information being pruned.

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." --Thomas Jefferson

"An unjust law is no law at all." --Augustine
That's reasonable however I've always been of the opinion that it's better to solve a problem when you have the problem and are feeling the pain, rather than implementing someone's idea in the abstract. It always seems that the people who are really solving their own painful problems capture a market.

Maybe other people are better at implementing someone else's idea than me and I'm just viewing the world through Matt-colored glasses.
> Fiber networks? Their employees security by funding Police and the Military? Health care for their employees and customers?

Since the post complains largely about behavior in the United States, it seems a fair reminder that from this list Police and Military are paid through taxes, while the others are (for the majority) constitute private transactions for services which individuals have no inherent right to consume.

> No one wants to pay taxes but avoiding them is unethical

I am sure many here would be interested in how you would support this assertion.
Oh that's what happened. This is a pretty unexpected oversight from a company that tests their software so extensively to have browsers crash because an email service/sync service is down.
The progressive income tax exists because there's a diminishing marginal utility of income.

In regards to government expenditures, I'd say generally, it makes sense morally to reduce your tax as low as possible, and than donate that amount to charity, research, or whatnot, not just because government wastes money, but because they use money to engage in horrific activities such as the Iraq War.
It's NetFront WebKit though, so don't get your hopes too high.
Show HN: newtab.com, an attempt to make the newtab page more interesting.
The internet is awesome! This kind of collaborative trouble-shooting is epic!
> So after they played a violent yet fake video game that they likely found to be fun, you give them a fake story and they pick violent outcomes? They were likely still in the mindset of playing the game that they found fun.

Yeah, that just sounded like basic priming; the act of participating in something causes it and related things to be at the forefront of your mind for a little while. I'm sure they could have been primed to favor cute kitty-related outcomes if desired. That didn't sound specific to violence.
1917: Engineer Olaf Hoff
My understanding is that pre-rendered web pages are not involved. What is "cached" is a function whose output is a particular webpage rendered on the fly so that "flag/unflag," current score and number of comments can be kept up to date.

In other words, the function fetches a particular group of articles along with the current information about them and generates the page. Some of those articles were known at the time the function was generated. Some of the articles are new or have undergone a significant change in status since the function was generated - I suspect these incur greater overhead.

At a certain point, the number of changes are are large enough that it is more efficient to generate a new function.
FWIW I assumed gmail was down because of gchat going grey and saying it couldn't communicate. It turns out the mail is actually still working, so it's just gchat that's down.
It's unfortunate that the site is so badly arranged; the comic is sweet, especially Brunel.
Loved the concept. And kudos for a frictionless onboarding process. Just submitted 3 reviews. Some suggestions:

- I forgot to submit the "star" ratings. Just entered the comment. May be you can have 1. give rating, 2. provide specific feedback (I would not use the word "comment")

- It would be nice to see the reviews I submitted and edit if needed

- Also, I'm not clear if the reviews will be made public. make it clear upfront.

- Not sure if you already do, I would like to see "Rating" of the reviewer. That would help to judge the feedback.

Keep it up!
WordPress Security – An Infographic on common Malware and Attacks
Actually, I just meant young, college educated people. Very few people in that demographic have cable subscriptions, compared to the population as a whole.

I'd love to see some figures on that, because I'm not sure it's true. Fewer subscribers, yes, but "very few people in that demographic"? I think that a significant majority still do.
Hardware breakages and Zero-Day exploits usually tend to show up at most inconvenient times. I'd recommend everybody to not own an email server from a pure business perspective, unless you're a mail server admin anyways. There's so much time you can sink in it and still not achieve the level of security and uptime a quality email host will reach for much less money.

Now, there are arguments to run your own mailserver - you get to configure it exactly the way you want, you might see it as a hobby, ... But from a pure financial point of view it doesn't make sense.
It's a pretty old submission. I wonder what prompted it to be upvoted again. But it's fine, as long as it's related to Technology and Programming.
In the original thread I made the joke that they don't really need writers, just a bot that reads popular HN blogspam all day.

Sad thing is it's true.
This would be an excellent application of the Slant [1] concept. Basically create a topic which is the idea, with sub topics for the other columns and then debate them. Then layer on a searchable UX so that different concepts could be tagged and located and correlated. Boom, community curated web site of startup ideas with history.

[1] http:://slant.co/

(I personally have nothing to do with Slant just find it an interesting way to capture a debate like the ones in the spreadsheet into a more structured form)
I took the liberty of submitting this list to /r/startupideas mentioned by realrocker [0] hoping this could bootstrap the subreddit, but it seems to be moderated and people here will forget about it before the moderator gets around to look at new submissions.

[0] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4899874
Mr.doob releases frame.js, a JavaScript animation framework
Actually I discovered that as well. I love doing coop games still. Too bad there aren't many.
Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
Because this nuclear war won't be like a real nuclear war, and will send a point!
$2000 bounty for Melbourne-based developers
Most Apple customers don't buy new devices every 18 months. Apple only needs to make customers happy enough (and locked into their ecosystem) so that when they upgrade at some point, they still buy Apple.
was down for like 30 seconds in my case. no issues with chrome whatsoever.
Why would I give my email to a page where there is nothing written about privacy etc.?
Seems to be moderated; I submitted a link but it's not there. My guess is people will forget about it before the moderator gets around to see new submissions, and thus the subreddit will remain abandoned.
Well, they'd be saying "This photo looks like the person in the photo you provided".

At the moment police are relying on people saying "I saw some bloke that looked like that photo at this location", so there's not much difference.
The front-page here is just to explain what it is. Use-case:you are sharing a url that you know will be the first search result for a simple word, so you just share http://bloo.tk/simple+word
The money in the TV business isn't in the TVs, it's in content. That's why Comcast is a ~$100B company with a revenue of $60B/y. That's the business Apple wants and an Apple TV, either as a set top box or an integrated device is just a way of capturing that.

Which of course is the exact opposite of Apple's business model for all it's other devices, where it makes the money off the device and the content ecosystem is there to make the devices desirable and lock in customers (but those locks and chains feel sooo gooood!).

This is a long term problem though. I think the best Apple can do is keep involved in the market, have their products and services as well tuned and capable as they can for the moment when they see an opportunity to make a big move. The current Apple TV with iTunes integration, iCloud, Netflix, Airplay, etc means all the pieces are in place ready for them to fill in the content distribution blanks.

The one think they don't haveyet on Apple TV that I'd have expected by now is games. An A6 based Apple TV would make a great games platform. My guess is they want to do it, but have had so many major product updates recently and are so focused on mobile iOS, that they just haven't had the management bandwidth to address that yet. I wonder if a Dolphin port is possible, that'd show off it's potential nicely.
Indeed. No mention of global warming and this omission makes me think that it was written with a specific goal in mind. That is, to justify some program or policy that powerful people are behind.
There is now an post for this outage on the Google Apps Status Dashboard:
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1...

"We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly."
Frame.js editor, by Mr.doob
I know what he meant, but it's not like google is improvising with gmail. The site is already up by the way, it's been years since they have a more than 5 minute downtime. Also, you can never dream of having the same kind of redundancy as gmail will have nor the collective man hours spent in the project. I don't hate the idea of self hosting your mail, I just think it's ridiculous to say you'll have a better service than gmail when you have much better arguments like privacy, control and ownership.