skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligent design think tank’s “institute” is a Shutterstock image
I guess I'm old; I find it catchy nor funny. Ironic I don't even see that in context of this. I hear bad music and see a bad clip. And people pay for that. Is that the thing? That world has gone insane, again? I wish someone could explain, but it's probably just taste :)
I think "show unavailable" should not be checked by default. Very good site though...
I have to agree with the last sentiment.

In my experience, one never ends up having all of one's update/migration (to a new version) changes constrained only to schema alterations. This is because the static database structure can only capture so much metadata. One inevitably ends up facing putting migration logic into the application itself, or logic that says "if old data, treat differently." So now one ends up with a mixed data migration situation: both database-level and application-level.

Thus, it's a quite valid, pragmatic tradeoff to make: handle all data migration/schema changes in the application, let the store be completely dynamic and have it all in one level.
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Until 2 weeks ago, I'd never heard of Gangam Style. At least I can now say I am among the 1 billion hippest people on the planet. I can die happy.
Your fooling yourself, people say it all the time. I don't know Ubuntu, but it's I have plenty of Red Hat experience so this should be easy.

And even if your clueless there are ways around that: 'What's your thoughts on Darfur?'

I am a Physicist, so the political situation in Darfur is really outside my area of expertise. However, from what I herd on NPR last night it sounds bad. Why?

PS: I work as a consultant and pretending to know more than you do is one of the fastest ways to ruin your reputation.
Go see it, you could the billionth !
I've linked to an example page ("Servus comes with a clean built-in preview page theme (example)"). It's the real thing, i.e. better than just a screenshot! ;)
Still got > hour to go, so ill have to time it right! haha
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Sometimes, I just hate living in Germany.
I agree, this would be pretty good, and I think I'd pay for it. They are in a unique position to build a browser API for dealing with encrypted data.
UK relaxes copyright to encourage innovation
Not missing much. But why is it available in the Netherlands then? Weird?
bear in mind that the complaints appear to have worked. instagram reverted their policy, it seems (via the front page at present on hn).
When feedback gets personal
I don't enjoy email. Do you?
That is why I flagged it. It's high point value is also suspect. I mean, why would many people vote this up?
1. Gangnam Style hitting 1 billion YouTube views.

2. This story hitting #1 on Hacker News.

3. edw519 commenting about it.

The world might as well have ended today.
> Back country skiing is akin to skydiving

I got the impression that "Back-Country Skiing" == "Out of Bounds Skiing".
> Have you considered a free for ever version?

No. I won't rule it out for the future, but right now I need to prioritize as my time is limited.

> Why not share the folder directly with your client so that they get updated versions automatically?

It's not something I need myself. Also, when I need to work with my clients in the same folder we usually just use a "native" Dropbox shared folder via Finder. At that point I don't need custom preview pages anymore. :)
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This is not marketing. It is advertising, straight up. There is a specific offer.
in my opinion you should have a free version without theme selection and heavier branding, and remove the footer from the paid one.
Our primary means of obtaining free electrons is burning dead plants and cooking water from the remanants of supernovas.

The most revolutionary medical breakthrough (vaccination) is effectively just infecting someone with a small amount of a disease you don't want them to get and taking advantage of the immune system.

We move around by blowing up dead plants (combustion engines) or spinning air with dead plants (turbines).

We are basically turning our planet into Venus with all this dead plant exploding and we don't even give a crap.

And probably worst of all, almost every extremely influential breakthrough in our development as a species has been in response to war, so the best way to get people thinking is to murder their neighbours.

Where is the intergalactic travel by bending space time? Where is my technological singularity? Where is effective immortality by being able to transcode the brain to machine, or other organic matter? Where is my molecular fabricating 3d printer?

While we are at it, where is my damn flying car, Back to the Future 2? And my hoverboard? And Jaws 18? And accurate weather predictions? And no lawyers? And Mr. Fusion? You only got 3 years left, and if the world ended today some alien anthropologists might think you got the future wrong. Which would be unacceptable.
Like the instance like count on Facebook that they started with Zuckerberg's post.
NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn...
It says right at the bottom, copied for your convenience:

Graphics and design by Hannah Fairfield, Xaquín G.V., Jon Huang, Wayne Kamidoi, Sam Manchester, Alan McLean, Jacky Myint, Graham Roberts, Joe Ward, Jeremy White and Josh Williams. Photography by Ruth Fremson. Video by Catherine Spangler.

Additional video by Eric Miller and Shane Wilder.

Kristen Millares Young contributed research.
The reporting for this article on the Feb. 19 avalanche at Tunnel Creek was done over six months. It involved interviews with every survivor, the families of the deceased, first responders at Tunnel Creek, officials at Stevens Pass and snow-science experts. It also included the examination of reports by the police, the medical examiner and the Stevens Pass Ski Patrol, as well as 40 calls to 911 made in the aftermath of the avalanche. The Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research provided a computer-generated simulation of the avalanche, based on data accumulated from the Stevens Pass accident report and witness accounts. Additional sources are: LIDAR data from King County GIS Center; Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Iowa State University; Mark Moore, U.S. Forest Service; National Avalanche Center.
Yea how many people do you think will click that small link, completely lost in text?
You could always try listing on the Opera store and other similar stores. After all, it takes proper promotion to get your app downloaded now since Google removed the 'what's new' list, so divert your efforts toward another store.

It will add some friction to the download process as users will have to download the Opera store app but at least you can still get your app on their devices relatively easily.
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This comes across as comparing poor journalism to good journalism and complaining that you it's all 'just words,' so what's the 'big deal?'
Agree with you on the whole here. A criminal would need to steal, not ask the data. Again, this is a good point. Its not that easy to get by google for a basic criminal, etc. The issue with the Gmail/cloud data & the fed's is that the pre-text can be off-topic. Once they are "in" your email/data (like, your multi-year archive or cloud storage) for some minor infraction, you have no privacy for your whole life in all areas. Even if you are not requiring a warrant, how do you protect from something like the bradley manning case? One person with access to stuff well beyond his need to know...just one bad apple all it takes in that case...all of that follows is ripe for abuse. So that is the issue in part as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_G...
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Fireworks a hybrid between vector and raster. It's for web/interface design, which has plenty of overlap with Photoshop.
When you ship your own browser and OS you can prob get away with that.
Are you sure this is the case even for the old desktop versions? I'm still using 2.8 (OS X) and last time I checked it seemed to connect P2P.
While I wish users would screen services providers before using them, in reality only a very few people actually do this.

And for the few people who actually try to screen services providers, most tend to go against better judgment in favor of convenience.

In the end, it tend to be up to the activists and hackers to fix the problem.
True, but still not an assembly line. That example was piecework, which has its own pattern.
strange, i was not able to replicate it, trying the same query. thanks, will look into it.
Improved User Profiles
Remember when cable TV was ad-ree because, you know, people paid for it?

No, I don't. Do you recall how far back this was?
Favorably. ;)

For one, no monthly fees. Unlimited uploads per day, and your upper file size limit is only dictated by your spare Dropbox space. Also, you can use your own custom themes (HTML/CSS/JS) for your preview pages.

I've built Servus to scratch my own itches I had with those services. Don't get me wrong, they're really good, hands down. They just didn't work the way I wanted, so there.
Google executives acquitted in Milan autism video case
I hadn't thought of that, but I doubt he cared terribly much, as he pretty much hates credit as a practice. I learned from that though, but I'm not exactly money-savvy, as I tend to care very little about it.
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Your fooling yourself...

-- This is a bit presumptuous. To say the least.

Your counter examples are cynical. It's like ou're happy to admit your greatest weakness is you're too smart and you work too hard. Great. I'm not impressed. Avoiding admitting your wrong in your (professed) area of expertise through (trivial) abstraction might seem clever (to you) but assumes your talking down to you're audience.
Looks pretty scammy to me...no links to actual apps produced as far as I can see.

Update: via the "press" link you get to articles that show apps. Mostly free, low single digit total reviews...low ratings.
LLVM and Clang 3.2 released
SUre, but it illustrates the other side of the coin - the fact you got no rights to stuff in Chad's garage, and that should have been obvious, and you're a sucker to expect better treatment from Chad.
Here's hoping Google has a bug in the YouTube counter code which resets to 0 after reaching 999,999,999.
The tool suggested i.pe domain to me as available. My company is called IPe and I got extremely excited... But, no deal. The domain is already taken.
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PropertyCross - Helping you select a cross-platform mobile framework
Here's some analysis that at least rings true (I have no idea of Gangnam and such). It very much paints the song/video as ironic:

http://www.metafilter.com/118220/Reactions-to-Gangnam-Style#...
Another startup? Same risks, could get laid off at any moment (e.g. 5 days before Independence Day, 5 days before Yom Kippur, its always 5 days before something). Glutton for punishment?
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It's not about being able to install your other favorite editor. It's about knowing how to use the one common editor between linux distros.
> Browsers don't understand hypermedia APIs (or even HAL)--they only grok HTML.

HTML is a hypermedia media type. A server spits it out, the client (a browser) consumes it.

A browser is a generic hypermedia API client, for services that expose HTML.
The TodoMVC of Mobile Frameworks? Awesome! Have an upvote!
I installed this on my netbook running Arch last night, really excited because I had steam keys for all of the linux-capable games in the current Humble Bundle.

Sadly, the ones I tried all said they're not supported on my platform. bubble.Burst();
> The proponents of Hypermedia APIs have been saying a lot of vague things about how it will enable automated clients, and I assumed that the clients they had in mind would be able to do something useful with arbitrary APIs.

Consider a web browser, or an RSS reader. These are generic hypermedia clients that consumer standardized media types.

> But it's clear from GitHub's API that it will do nothing of the sort: those link relations (and even concepts) are very much GitHub specific, and no machine will ever be able to figure out what to do with the them, what methods or media types the endpoints support, and so on.

Right. We're not talking about AI, we're talking about generic re-usable components.

> (I'm not sure that it adds very much over a text document that that gives the relations and how to generate endpoints, but at least it's cheap to produce, and not actively harmful.)

The point is that by forcing you to define the communications protocol up front, you de-couple clients and servers. This means that they can evolve separately. Think about the RSS example: new versions of RSS clients can be made, and the servers don't need to be updated, and servers can update themselves and their responses and you don't need a new version of the client to handle it.

The other advantage is that if there are multiple services in the same product domain, and they use the same type, you get generic re-use of clients across services. Everyone spits out RSS, everyone consumes RSS.
Had the same feeling. Made me think of a 1997-ish flash-laden special about a Mount Everest ascent some sports channel did. Technically pretty-much the same (integration of text + video + audio + animation), just using HTML instead of Flash. The difference is in the storytelling. This stuff only works if the story is front & central and the gimmicks augment the story.
I'd suggest embedding a screenshot on your landing page so people immediately "get it". It did take a little reading to grok this concept. Also, I'd suggest a (simple) real-world example rather than "this serves as an example" which almost reads like a snarky response to people complaining it's not there :).
While we are on the topic of fairly meaningless milestones, congrats on passing the 65536 karma mark earlier this week ;-)
The Tom version of China has been here for as long as I remember and I've always assumed that my communications in China, save for SSH connections and few others, were monitored by the government.

Sadly, it is the drop in quality experienced around the time they moved away from a true P2P architecture (http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...) that decided us to drop it. That and what I consider being one of the most unusable UI I've ever had to use.

We've used Facetime successfully for the past few months, after months of trying really hard with GTalk.
Regardless of health effects, cooking with unsalted varieties (stock, butter, etc) allows you to control the amount of salt in your dish. You may end up with an over-salted meal if you use salted butter, etc.
Hyper-real pencil drawings that look like photos
Why does Saturn appear green in this image but brown in the banner image above it?
They could at least set the view count to max(view_count, likes+dislikes) on client side to prevent that annoying "301 views but 5k likes" issue.
Yes, they surely invented a new datatype which is cut off at exactly 999,999,999, because "nobody won't ever need as many numbers" :)
See the contradiction? You first call the u-turn "inevitable" and then go on to say that "without kicking up a fuss there would not have been a u-turn".

You can't have it both ways. My case is simply: the u-turn was inevitable and the fuss was also inevitable.

What could have been different though is people not responding to this with awe, shock and vows of "abandoning Instagram" and such, as if the situation would not have changed in a week.

Especially internet-savvy people who have seen this tons of times. Some regular Instagram user shocked with the license change and thinking his photos will be sold without his consent? Well, that's OK. But a-list tech bloggers writing the same thing? WTF. That's what a call faux-rage.
Being able to charge an electric car in 60s is world changing
Pretty snow pictures not impressing me. Annoyed at the interruption of the storey flow. Never watch irrelevant videos anyway - hate podcasts with a passion - information density around zero.

So not for everybody. From the comments here, you'd think its gods gift to journalism.

Also it hijacked my Back button on my browser, had to kill the page, lost my browse context so I resent it for that too.
How to explain Hash DoS to your parents by using cats
They have an internal intranet with bulletin boards and even dating sites that a few select have access to. I think it's mostly there to make rich kids feel like they're not missing out. A very, very small number of people even have access to the "real" Internet.

Kim Jong Il once (around a decade ago) famously asked Madeleine Albright for her email address.
The new resignation letter
Moment of Silence
This is titled "a National Moment of silence".

I am very sad for the families and for humanity that such a thing happened, but I am not born member of the US "Nation", and feel excluded by this wording.
This is a classic signal-to-noise problem in today's content generated websphere. I still don't believe we are anywhere near "solving it". More of my thoughts on it: http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/09/18/we-are-far-from-sol...
Nice app. Users could combine this with a proxy, so they can use files.yourdomain.com/file.html instead of dl.dropbox.com/s/longrandomstring/file.html. I've used this one for a while, which runs for free on App Engine: http://code.google.com/p/dropbprox/.
One detail though is that some buildings at the beginning of the game (I couldn't play any more than that) take 10 minutes to build. If you want to shorten that time to a playable amount of time you have to purchase gems.
You could take any small feature app (like for instance servus.io on HN frontpage ) and try to emulate it
Bit bucket is making real progress, but I still don't think I can drop GitHub all together for them. I actually like them better, but almost every open source project I use is on GitHub and only one is one BitBucket. Its almost at the point where GitHub own so much of the ecosystem that its hard to collaborate without them. Keep on chugging BitBucket, everything you have done so far has been for the better.
Interesting post. I think these guys at Webshell are doing a lot of useful things. Wish them all the best for what's next.
sorry, there seems to be some issue with some tlds.
If anyone stumbles upon a higher resolution image of this I would be much obliged. It's really striking.

edit: Just found it! http://i.imgur.com/ZCEKA.jpg
HTTP verbs do not map exactly to CRUD.
"The new processed mosaic [is] composed of 60 images taken in the violet, visible and near infrared part of the spectrum". So the colors in the image were chosen for artistic effect, and are not "true" colors because you couldn't see some of them anyway.

This image was specifically processed to look closer to real colors: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/gallery...
Feeble. More like "I got this note from Chad. He sold his garage to a guy who collects interesting things, and is going to let him use my stuff".

But the crux of this is the complaint is not "That's no way to run a storage business". The complaint is "that's a dick move to pull when he invited me to keep all my stuff in his garage, and got rich as a result".
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Maybe they are using an analog tally counter with 9 digits.
It's not really calling them stupid sheep, but rather a reminder that they are interacting with businesses and they should pause to think about the business model when they do that. It's really about educating, not name-calling.
>I have my doubts about the security of SSL certificates (I believe some CAs are corrupt

Care to elaborate?
I've read on a blog belonging to a Russian foreign exchange student that's currently living in the country, that they're actually having traffic problems in Pyongyang this year.
please can we not stretch the definition of hypermedia "API" to include HTML. HTML is a hypermedia type, but it's primarily for representing information for human consumption, so it's not an API in the sense most people understand.. why confuse things?
its much better than the Macarena
As long as we're talking about things that make me crazy about Linux, here's another fine example.

You asked a question. I took some time to give you an answer. Did you thank me? Did you acknowledge the information as relevant? Did you ask follow-up questions to better understand the situation? No, no, and no.

Instead, you seize upon the parts you can most easily argue with. You use scare quotes to imply that I must be an idiot. And you tell me what work you think I should be doing.

It's not my job to educate you. It's not my job to convince you of things you don't want to believe. It's not my job to file the particular bug reports you think best.

Your behavior here exemplifies the arrogant, self-centered, argumentative idiocy that has repeatedly driven me away from participating in open-source projects. I've got better things to do than to fight with people on the internet. Especially anonymous ones.
Thanks for you appreciation :)

As to naming, Zed Shaw is OK with this: http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1288945508.html
Yay humanity?

I certainly think it's an impressive milestone for hosted content, but there are many other thing in life, ubiquitous things, that don't have a Google counter on them, so the analytics are lacking.
Face mirror. Hold book so you can read it. Now turn it to
'show it to the mirror'. The book is reversed right-left. Because you turned the book right-left.

Try it again - read the book. Now turn it to the mirror, but this time flip it top-bottom. Now the mirror is showing it reversed top-to-bottom, but the letters are still on the correct side (right on right; left on left).

So mirrors Don't reverse left-right. The do whatever you tell them to do.
Why would you want to write a dashboard from scratch every time? Foxycart used HAL for their API, and when they'd finished they pointed the browser at it and instantly had a browsable API.. for free.
I know where to embed that!
sorry, I don't have japanese installed. What's the romaji for the word you used after "favorite"?
The Moment of Silence Link Just Shown on HN
Facebook tests charging $1 to send messages to strangers
Two important things to add to that comment.

* PSY grew up in Gangnam in an affluent family.
* Several of the persons in the video are TV celebrities in Korea.
I really dislike how people take a moment of silence and/or a time for prayer, and turn it into something else with the linked article on gun control[1]. Talking about actions is fine, but why can't people understand that those are two different things and shouldn't happen at the exact same time.

[1]: http://www.causes.com/causes/807161-stand-with-sandy-hook/ac...
And if it had been titled "International Moment of Silence" some other person would have commented that it wasn't an international event.