skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you say that with any authority or is that a guess?

> Who even needs social networking

I've used twitter in the past to find people and make sales. So I guess that would be me.
Let's hope the Martians fare better than the Native Americans.
MS Office file type import is one area where LibreOffice has been making major strides recently. The latest version, and 4.0 which is coming soon has greatly improved support.

It's nice to actually see it quickly improving now they've forked, given how stagnant Open Office development was when Sun (and then Oracle) was in charge.
With Microsoft Surface kind of design, where you have keyboards "only when you want"; netbook's are dead.
I agree. I have seen many people complain about content sites that artificially inflate their page views by spreading one story across 10 pages. That can be arguably immoral but doesn't render the page views metric bull shit. If they can do so while continuing to engage and retain their visitors, and serve more varied ads int eh process to improve their CTR, all power to them. It's a win win for all. If the strategy wasn't working and wasn't resulting in higher revenues, any sane business would abandon such a practice.
But "distribution" has already happened. In milliseconds.
I think that concept would work better as sighning executables rather than stopping the world and validating against a data base. Create a private key from the user's password (which of course cannot be derived from information stored on the computer). When an unsighned binary tries runing, require the user to provide their password to sighn it.
You can't see a date on it, but that page is now 10 years old (I wrote my entry when I was 20 years old, 30 now). Still loving Common Lisp (and clojure and Elixir and all the many other cool things that came out since then), so no harm done; just... beware (-:
"This is not to say that we should disobey all constitutional commands. Freedom of speech and religion, equal protection of the laws and protections against governmental deprivation of life, liberty or property are important, whether or not they are in the Constitution. We should continue to follow those requirements out of respect, not obligation.

Nor should we have a debate about, for instance, how long the president's term should last or whether Congress should consist of two houses. Some matters are better left settled, even if not in exactly the way we favor."

So the author is advocating for an arbitrary system in which we decide in ad-hoc ways which parts of the Constitution we want to follow. Unfortunately, this already seems to be happening, as our government sees fit to disregard various provisions of the Bill of Rights, e.g., warrantless wiretapping, or the President's assertion that he can dispatch drones to kill even US citizens without due process.[1] It seems that the government proves to us every day that it needs the Constitution to keep it on a short leash.

Since the Constitution contains a process by which it can be amended, why don't we just follow that? Over the years, amendments have given us some very fundamental changes: the abolition of slavery, the right of women to vote, presidential term limits, etc. Granted, it's a slow process that the author may be impatient with, but it's probably preferable to having a government that can arbitrarily dispose of people's rights.

[1] https://ssl1.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-kill-list-is...
I think as Jobs himself said, the iPhone would have been a successful product if it were simply one of the three products that it was marketed as: the phone, the widescreen iPod, or the "Internet in your pocket." Instead it was all three. In addition to that, they did Maps, Calculator, Calendar, a Camera, Notes, Mail, Stocks, and Weather. And before the damned thing even shipped they managed to get Youtube on there.

I think you'd have to do some pretty cruel and unusual things to the definition of "minimum" to get it to describe iPhone 1.0. That product went way above and beyond what it needed to do to get Apple a foothold in the phone market.
Makes me kinda hate the book since he was such an awesome blogger. :(
Thanks! Please let me know if you have any questions about it or run into problems. If you write a filter set and you can share the script that generated it for the examples, that would be pretty super, too (-:
I believe that the current best practice is that the combination of cognitive behavioural therapy and drugs together is better than either alone.

Good luck.
What will fixing the unbroken screenshots actually do? The novel has multiple paths which were depicted in the screenshots. If the reviewer only goes through one path, then they will not see all of what's depicted in the screenshots.

What is the fix? How do you know the developer is "so close"?
How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever?
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WinMacSofts vous souhaite une bonne année 2013
It's official: U.S. hits debt ceiling
The demographics are certainly part of it but I doubt they favor Apple at anything like an 80:1 ratio.
While I understand that Windows' past does make it a convenient target for such remarks, most "viruses" now are not really viruses, but malware that either exploit holes in (mostly) third-party software, or goes after a human factor. Stricter security practices from Vista onwards (UAC, low-privileged user accounts by default, etc.) make Windows no easier target than Mac or *x, if social engineering involved. No anti-malware product will help if user is tricked into voluntary entering their credentials or credit card details.
the vm is eaiser to modify than the entire codebase, you have to update only one small bit of code, rather than everything. The vm is written with this in mind, and is trival to automaticly obfuscate/transform.
I've written some hundred thousand lines of production code in Go and D and feel they are very different languages. To sum it up: Go is a better C while D is a better C++.
Netbook is still here. Samsung and Acer still make them. They're called Chromebooks. They only run the internet. They are small. They are cheap. They have the word book in the title.

The netbook is dead, long live the netbook!
I think it's an issue of there being a bell curve on all the JavaScript users. If we assume that 80% of JS users are in the "use a library and know very little of the language" category and the top 10% is "publishes libraries/tools" and the bottom 10% is "copies-and-pastes code with reckless abandon" - then going from 1 million JS users in 2008 to 4 million now (theoretical) then there will be 4x more awesome libraries and 4x more ignorant users.

Thank you for the kind works regarding my blog - I really hope to begin writing again. Perhaps that'll make for a good new years resolution :)
Short answer to both questions is https://github.com/richo

More specifically, I have an HTTP kernel in scheme that I want to get compliant to the spec and release, and a gossip driven task/issue tracker that I'd like to get out.
Oh, no worries - hope you'll enjoy it!
I've been wanting to read Art of the Start. Any recommendations or advice?
If you're designing something for print, you shouldn't be using Office...
Should have some sort of indication of where the equipment is located as this may impact whether the user will rent. Personally I wouldn't rent something from the other side of the world.
The article reports: "The huge increase in traffic means Reddit has had to add more servers and other equipment and bring in more staff to maintain its site. This growth has forced it to spend money to keep up with the flow, while also promoting paid subscriptions and advertising."

So I wonder now with all the eyeballs visiting Reddit, how many are bringing along revenue for Reddit, and is there any prospect of Reddit gaining enough earnings (profit after expenses) to reward Condé Nast's investment in buying Reddit with a reasonable rate of return? What are the latest hard numbers on that issue? The Reddit comment kindly linked in an earlier comment on this HN thread

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/12v8y3/now_is_the_time...

says explicitly,

"Actually, reddit is NOT one of the most profitable sites on the web at all.

"In fact, we are not profitable.

"This is because increased traffic results in more server usage, which primarily increases costs, not revenue. In theory advertising revenue should/could scale with traffic, but since we never tried very hard to sell our advertising inventory, we only run ads on a relatively small percentage of our pages and they do not cover our costs. When Obama comes to 'chill on the weekends,' that increases costs, not revenue."

P.S. The comments from other redditors on that thread from Reddit's CEO yishan show how difficult it will be for Reddit to build more monetization into its user culture.
I agree with you, but in the example you gave, del.icio.us didn't own delicious.com until much later.
Monitoring and Logging as a Service Reviews
/r/science is a stickler for the rules, and many of the "default" subreddits (the ones that are turned on for everybody off the bat) have serious moderation issues by nature of their traffic.

The more esoteric subreddits are quite useful, in my experience, though much slower.
I find it unlikely that other manufacturers would take losses if they charged Apple prices; Apple prices tend to be substantially higher.
Machines don't need either :)

I'm guessing that's not his schedule 7 days a week. I think that's just the ideal productivity schedule.
You're the first person I've ever met, including a former Digg employee, to have a positive impression of the redesign. I'm intrigued.
"In Britain Punch coined the term “cartoon” in 1843 to describe its satirical sketches, which soon spread to other newspapers."

It's slightly misleading to say "coined," because the term was already in use for the similar drawings that artists made for e.g. tapestry-makers to copy. (Judging from the name I'd guess these were on large pieces of paper.)
Decoupling shared control
You'd be surprised how often your first assertion doesn't hold, actually.
>You may be correct

Nah. Every claim he made is demonstrably incorrect, with the exception of his initial point that '"Sense of the Senate" language is often important in judicial and / or executive interpretation.' This claim is also incorrect, strictly speaking, but if we're charitable and substitute 'occasionally' for 'often', it at least adds something to the discussion. What it doesn't do is show Thomas to be wrong. "Sense of" resolutions aren't legally binding and rarely, if ever, impact public-facing policy. They do, on occasion, impact government-facing policy, for example SCOTUS recess appointments. The rest of his comments are blather and, while worthy of a good chuckle, are unworthy of response.
Sounds incompetent to me in their part. If Facebook can be profitable why can't reddit?
You can't build financial software the same way that you build some CRUD site or the latest social fad.

No one is arguing that you should be able to do that. And it is kind of insulting to imply that that is how the folks at Simple look at development without some source.

Systems break for many reasons, and you can't simply assume the cause to be a social fad attitude of the dev team.
Maybe strenuous exercise and eating right. It's done a lot for my anxiety. YMMV.
Remember Lycos? It’s planning a new search engine for launch in 2013
The garbage netbook market hit a sweetspot for me. I haven't had a real laptop since I got rid of my iBook G4.

I also like the fact that I don't have to care if my laptop gets lost or stolen. I look forward to less power-hungry complete-shit laptops in the future. (I take the stickers off of mine).
The article basically adds a few interviews and photos to an Imperva press release: http://investors.imperva.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=247116&p=ir...

Aside: this reminded me of PG's article "The Suit is Back": http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html That, at least, is well worth a read.

So I guess Imperva might be a company to watch - at least we now know they have a good PR firm :)
Or at least, the part of quantitative finance that doesn't run Haskell.
Couldn't second this more.
People Mostly Ignore Smart TV Features, Because They Are Bad
I didn't downvote it but the nth "blame the developer" comment seems to be offbase. I did find the poster's app[1] and the Android one is higher rated by a full star so it's not a quality issue, it's a platform issue.

[1] Tags for Likes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tagsforlikes-copy-paste-tags...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tagsforlik...
The incredible price of large (i.e. > 128GB) SSD's for Ultrabooks (my development machine of choice).
IPhone app market analysis: Ancient apps crush newbies
why should anyone avoid ads so much? I dont think a ad or two will degrade user experience.
It may very well be the issue, if a disk takes a long time to recover from errors even a software RAID will throw the disk out or risk being the problem by itself. TLER will limit the damage.

Ofcourse, if the software was smart enough to know how to handle this properly and recover automatically it need not drop the disk completely from the array.
Love it! I hope the car keeps on tickin'

Can you tell more?
> No, not everyone uses Adblock, in fact only 9-10% of users have it. The highest average is 17% for tech sites [1]. Most people have no fucking clue what that is.

This doesn't change the fact that the problem can be easily solved. Your girlfriend getting lost after 10 years of browsing is something that can be solved in 10 seconds. When I said that everyone I know uses it, my point wasn't that everyone in the world uses it, it was that it's not so difficult to use Adblock that people won't use it once they're told about it.

> I have no idea what flavor of Google you use, but piratebay is not even among the top 15 results for Project X: http://cl.ly/image/0R1K2z2V0O3z. Your search history is probably reflecting on your results.

I don't know why you're seeing those results, but not only did I search in an incognito window to avoid my search history biasing my results, personally I use private torrents almost exclusively, so my Google torrent search history is quite limited.

> Now look at this: http://cl.ly/image/1x302r3g383I. Tell me more about idiots.

I have never seen that site before, nor do I recommend it to anyone that I know. There are bad sites out on the internet - who would have guessed?

> Third, no, a lot a people have absolutely no clue about the difference between 720p/1080p. It's not about being stupid, they just don't care enough.

Well, that's good, because on Netflix, most content is not even available in 1080p, and even when it is, it's not accessible on many devices. Hell, I've seen tons of stuff that isn't even in HD.

And most people can't tell the difference in quality between 720p and 1080p anyway, so what difference does it make which one they download?

> Fourth, there are plenty torrents around with crappy audio, either low volume, distorted or mono, specially for new releases. Your own experiences don't apply to everyone.

Please point me to some examples. And I'm not talking about crappy cams. I would never suggest watching a cam over going to a theater, if the experience is important for you.

The only reason for audio issues with a DVD or Bluray rip would be improper encoding, and such a release would just be ignored.

> Finally, yes, I do use Netflix daily and subtitles are a menu click away, and available for every video.

No, they are not. That is blatantly incorrect. I just logged into Netflix and opened a random TV show. There were only subtitles available in English. They only had a 4:3 480p video option. Please explain how this is an optimal experience again?

And Netflix is not really a valid comparison in any case, since the available content is horribly limited.
ZFS is at the file level, not the disk level. So recovering from errors (i.e. rebuilds) is MUCH faster.
even php has built-in webserver too!
http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php
Aww. I really want to start blogging again, in ernest, this year. I loved all the old blog posts I did - would love to do it again!
I use the built in SMART full disk check. It's quite good at only reading when the disk is idle, and it checks the entire disk.

A quick self test every day for all disks, and a long (i.e. full read) self test once a week.

The RAID is then checked on top of that one a month (although that slows things down a bit).
Facebook is profitable at the expense of its user base. Reddit is taking a longer view, in part because of the demographic that uses their service and in part due to what happened to Digg.
I got to clean up after a developer went on vacation just before setting up a nightly Java/Spring/log4j/FTP/MySQL/SQLServer process which went crazy over the fourth of July when it couldn't download a file from a business partner and went into an infinite loop.

It managed to send out 250K emails before it was terminated. Everyone's inboxes were flooded. The ops team didn't notice since their mobile devices were out of power, presumably from trying to download the emails...
It's not like the president violating the Constitution is a new thing. Didn't Lincoln limit freedom of speech and disregard habeaus corpus for Confederate sympathizers?
The disks themselves (new ones at least) have a background scan process (called BMS or BGMS) which helps considerably. The one thing the disk can't do by itself is correct unrecoverable errors since by the definition the disk can't recover from them :-)

The combination of BMS and disk scrubbing at the RAID level should handle almost all of the issues that are pointed by the original post.

Though RAID scrubs can and do take a long time to complete, depending on the performance impact that you are willing to suffer on a continuous basis it can take a week or two to perform proper scrubbing.

Proper scrubbing would include not just reading the RAID chunk on a disk but to also read the other associated chunks from the other disks and verify that the parity is still intact. In RAID5 you will not be able to recover if the parity is bad as you won't know what chunk has gone bad.

I've been coding such systems for a while now and as a shameless plug would point to http://disksurvey.com/blog/ if there are things of interest I'd be happy to take requests and write about them as well.
Reddit has done an excellent job of creating a 'celebrity platform' in which anybody can theoretically become a celebrity. This works in the same way that modern capitalism creates an environment where anybody can theoretically become rich.

The real issue for Reddit is that more users actively harms their bottom line, as the kind of dynamic content they have is incredibly difficult to cache well and has to be recalculated continuously in thousands of ways, unlike Google who can create a more static, long term view of data. The user base on Reddit is also heavily skewed towards high school and college students - and these are generally the hardest users to get direct revenue from. Reddit is also trying to take the Wikipedia approach of receiving money directly from user's, but Wikipedia's data is far easier to store and disseminate, and Wikipedia's audience is far more global and includes more members of society who are willing to donate.

Reddit is going to have serious problems with their current business model and user base, and their audience is extremely fickle - their whole site is based off a kind of popularity contest after all. I would not recommend investing.
This post didn't mention internationalization, localization, and translation. Maybe because it was targeted to English speaking people?

Here in Korea, a lot (probably majority) of people who contribute to open source started from i18n, l10n, and translation.
Exactly. No one is denying this isn't a terrible thing. I don't think we have to convince Simple that this can't be happening. And I don't think one major downtime is reason enough to call for their heads as several of the comments imply. At the least let's wait for them to do the detail write up about the outage.
The reboot loop may be a bad unit. I just had a first edition 8 bay replaced free even though it was way out of warranty. Call them and ask nicely.
That book's not even by Kiyosaki, so it's a doubly random link.
Strenuous exercise or other activity that keeps your mind busy throughout the day. A hectic work routine helps.
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Why not try some new? and I mean now.
You may not want to read code, but you need to read code. I don't really consider code reading to be teamwork skill. Code reading is an essential coding skill.
Funny - the other day I showed a friend the top-of-the-line SAMSUNG Series 9 Ultrabook, which outspecs and outclasses Macbooks, but is slightly more expensive - guess what he said? "But at this price, you could get a Macbook!"
https://bitbucket.org/pnathan/z-system/overview
"Alien anthropologist" is the bizarre thing I often do at parties. Its very enlightening.

Excitement lagging at party? Grab a friend and start "observing the humans". Its endless fun.
Ah, I'm not familiar with the TNW magazine so didn't realize it was free. In that case, it's because of advertising rates.

I run several e-mail newsletters that would work just as well as Web sites but the CPM is 10x higher for e-mail than Web so I use the format. I imagine they can sell the magazine by the page at a healthy rate in a way run of site banners wouldn't work.
The proposal is to ignore the Constitution and give congress unlimited power to congress and the executive branch to enact whatever laws/executive orders they like--with no oversight?

Or does the supreme court still have the power to overturn laws that we "respect?" Who decides what rules we "respect"--do we make up a list every ten years?

Additionally, this suggestion is completely infeasible. The Constitution may have been eroded slowly over the years, but if the Government declared tomorrow that we were no longer bound by our founding document, there would most likely be a rebellion or maybe even a military coup.

Every member of the United States military is sworn to "...support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...", and most of them take that oath very seriously.
The tradeoff netbooks promised was lower price in exchange for more limited performance, and the Atoms at the time were the right fit for that niche. Eventually, though, as more mainstream processors got cheaper, it started to make less and less sense to keep those lines going...

But lots of mobile chips now occupy this exact same price/performance space: very cheap, and not especially performant, but good enough to surf the web. We've already seen some ARM laptops, and I expect to see more in the next year, occupying the former-netbook market position. So far it's just been Chromebooks, and I have some skepticism of the viability of the ChromeOS platform in the long term, but the hardware can continue in that direction regardless of the software (my money would be on either WinRT or a slightly desktop-ified Android).
Totally random idea, but maybe they could offer support for paid, private sub-Reddits and take a cut. There are a few I'd pay (a small amount) for.
Have you considered that quite a few notice what you did but just don't want to confront you, rather put you in "that weirdo" category and make a mental note not to associate with you anymore.

I would certainly not follow you, point a finger and yell "you stole my straw, give it back" but I would certainly think you are strange and just steer away from you in the future.
I see a lot more real ads than that but I'm also subscribed to a lot of sub-Reddits. I wonder if advertisers are using the sub-Reddit targeting a lot more than the run of site.