skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the vast majority of users (myself included, and I'm very much a techie), my personal email and whatever stuff I've got squirreled away in Dropbox (which isn't a full backup of my computer) just isn't compromising. Yes, it would be inconvenient and embarrassing for me if it was made public, but for the US intelligence and law enforcement to have a slightly easier way of getting to it, it's just not worth the inconvenience.
The only time I spend online (other than a small bit on HN) is on a VC's blog where I have become the go to person (by the VC that is) for anything related to what I am expert in. He's asked me to write a guest post (which I've declined to do) I started (with no expectation) about 2 years ago. Over the last year he's sent me consulting referrals (which I never asked for it was more "can you help this startup with..."). The pay doesn't make sense I can make more by concentrating on what I actually do rather than giving advice and being paid by project or hourly. Writing the guest blog post I could easily transition into doing more consulting and approach other VC's but I don't want to do that and get sucked into being a consultant.

I can easily see how in the case of someone being as active as you are, and at the top of the heap, how this pays off for you (and before I posted my comment I almost said that). But I suspect there are many others that spend a fair amount of time that, while enjoyable and with benefit, might not fall into that category.

I'm wondering if you've ever thought about leaving HN and forming your own, um "family" if you get my drift. I'd put some seed funding into that family. You already have the gold medal, why not try to do something new? My guess is that others would follow.
Well said points Michael!

Reasoning about your semantics and having the learning of the code be reified are certainly important. So then the question becomes how to incentivize helping that learnng
Atlassian have been doing some really great work recently - the recent updates to Confluence and GreenHopper have been brilliant.
Thank you very much for the feedback. However the problem is, that the ingredients as imported from the websites I crawl aren't in any structured format. I didn't found a reliable way to extract the amount and the actual name of each ingredient. And without that, auto-completion and converting amounts is impossible to do. However if somebody is smarter than me, suggestions (and pull requests) are welcome. :)
My old project was a website called sharemywin.com. I filed a patent in the website in 2010. The idea is to provide small business contests/sweepstakes announce to a local list of emails. There would be coupons on the entry page. I was enventually going to add games people could play to win local prizes like free appetizers etc. It could also be used to for photo contests etc. The unique part was people could add friends and if they won a prize one of their friends would get to win the prize too.
I love the simplicity of your site. Looks great.
The guy who led the development is Zuck's sidekick.
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This is a fairly fun tool I wrote to visualize the "friend score" that Facebook computes (to build search autocomplete). It works best in any modern browser except for Internet Explorer.
125 is a power of 5 whose digits rearrange to a power of 2, namely 512, and I imagine its the only power that works like this. And if you complain about arbitrarily using base 10, that's just 2 times 5
I think that's a rather silly fear.

If the targets on your screen were real people, would you not take the situation seriously?

Or, let's put it another way. Bombers don't interface with targets personally; they're on the screen. Fighter pilots, too, for the most part. Artillery? Definitely. How about SAM operators? All they see is radar blips. Cruise missiles? ICBMs? People have to operate and launch those. How about an AWACS doing command and control? Their screens look like Starcraft with crappy graphics.

Do any of these people see themselves as gamers rather than soldiers? I don't know any who do.

The gravity of the situation comes from knowing that you're really involved in combat. Not from how good the graphics are.
To invest indirectly in GoPro, there's Ambarella which IPO'd some months ago. They make imaging processors used in most GoPro cameras such as the Hero2 and Hero3 models.
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He died at the young age of 32! What a tragedy! Simply amazing what he had accomplished by then. Always wondered the impact he would have had had he not died at such an young age.
2 cases of vandalism, 1 case of removing vandalism, 1 case of changing the partisan slant of (part of) a political article.
I was just looking for something like this for a project, when their blog post shows up in my reader :)

Related submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956386
drones don't offer any more of a threat to the president than cruise missiles do, and those have been around for a long time
and you get Quake-console too ;-) (press '~' key)
If you flesh out this analysis it could make for a good series of blog posts.
If anybody is interested in the tech. I am using Node.js + Express.js + Postgres on a Ubuntu linode server. On the client it's mostly jQuery.
> I'm not sure this is correct.

Unless you read, and then promptly burn, the copy, yes, it's correct. The point is that the printed copy might be passed on, at which point it's a clear violation of copyright.

> I believe courts have ruled that you can make copies for personal/backup reasons ...

These rulings apply to computer media, not printed works.
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Do you not understand that the S2 is a very old device?

I was an iphone user up until the latest generation of Android devices. Now I've got a Note 2 and could never go back to iOS.
Very nice. I particularly like the crawler implementations. I have used scrapy before in a project. I could not guess from the code, but is the all the data going into the database? Could you give some overview details about how things in the backend work.
Thanks
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Just letting you know in case it's not something you're aware of: your name reads like "Prostitute Shaun" in Mandarin.
Consider what happens to the copy unless the copier promptly burns it. Yes, that's right, it will be passed on to a new reader. No citation needed -- that's a violation.
I'll tell you what: when guns become necessary to get to your job in America and become as safe as cars, then we can think about regulating guns like cars.
The primary reason why I am using the history API, is that you can bookmark and send links to a specific search. However I agree that when you are actually using the history, it becomes annoying to have any search that was executed while you were typing in your history.

However when updating the history only every 10s, you might have to wait until you can copy the link to your search from the address bar. And if you aren't typing fast enough there still can be incomplete searches in your history.

Using onblur would be better. But what would you think about, updating the history as soon, as the cursor is moved? I think I like that idea pretty much.
Fair use only applies to relatively short quotations as part of a review, literary criticism or parody. It doesn't apply to a complete copy.
The battery life on the Note2 is phenomenal. Helps that it has a 3100mah battery.
We humans? More 'we computer programmers'. The model 'humans' have more closely follows CIE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_model#CIE_XYZ_color_space).

If, instead of measuring it, you asked naive subjects (probing for what they are conscious of), you might even get answers where red and violet are highly separated (as in a rainbow), but I think you can make them question that model easily by creating a palette going from red to violet that does not include orange, yellow, green, or blue.

In either case, the problem remains that humans perceive colors that do not physically exist, such as brown (aka 'dark orange-ish') and gray (aka 'shades of white')

Historically, some people would have known about mixing paints. That might have change their ideas about color, but that isn't RGB, either.

Finally, I am not sure one's color space will change with the addition of types of cone cells (it is cones, not rods that are color-sensitive. It alliterates: kones are for kolor).
Surely, you meant J2EE?
GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance
> Land can be devastatingly effective with cards made to take advantage of it.

One of my favorite decks is loosely based on a 5-color preconstructed deck from the Apocalypse era - it's basically almost all mana fixing, with a few cards that take advantage of multiple colors, and then four "Life/Death"s[1]

All that time you spent doing nothing but playing land-generating spells suddenly pays off when you can attack with twenty 1/1 creatures in a single turn, then declare them unblockable[2] and rinse and repeat the next turn[3].

It's even better because land-destruction spells are much rarer (and more costly), so you're impervious to Wrath-of-God[4]-eque spells.

[1]http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiver...

[2]http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiver...

[3] If, by some miracle, they had enough life to survive, that is.

[4] http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...
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> a camera which is not a jack of all trades, which is optimized to be compact, light, super easy to use, good for action shots or establishment shots and also inexpensive but not necessarily good for still photography, portraits, close-ups, low-light shots, etc.

This sounds exactly like Flip (RIP). What do you think the difference was? The GoPro anti-shake technology & the ability to attach to helmets?
This is what I do. I consider myself a web developer. Front-end, back-end, UX, UI, Meh. I know the gears that make up the multitude of parts that in combination, make a web app.

Don't waste time with Photoshop mock-ups, you're doubling your hours converting pretty pixels to a working prototype. I always work in HTML and CSS on the actual development platforms, which means a dozen cellphones on my desk.

Also, I'm not cheap. $100/hr, but I can get more done in half a day than most teams can do in a week.
I think if it was obvious it would already be on the market. To me reaching out of your car because you drove to far away from the ATM is a problem. It makes it inconvient for people to use drive up solutions. If the peices are extended out problem solved. Is it obvious? Again Drive up ATMs have been around for a decade not one does it this way. After I point it out sure it seems obvious, but almost all patents are that way.
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Is this for your company, or a pass through entity (shell)? I disagree with Mchannon. A sole proprietorship is never better than a protected entity.

Yes a veil can be pierced, but at cost of discovery (and you must have real assets worth spending the time & effort to pierce).

If you're soliciting outside investors - an LLC can later be "upgraded" to a C-Corp. If it's for asset protection (eg: all I.P. is held by one entity, and licensed to another) - if you have sizeable assets - get a lawyer. Otherwise, get on to building an actual business, earn enough to make it worthwhile - and hire a lawyer. IMHO.
Couple of questions.
How is it compared to Qt ?
Can you port your apps to other DE/OS if you use E17 libs?
As someone who shares beliefs with FSF's ideals, reading this rant makes me think that maybe there's a chance to bring up another movement with the relative same ideals as Free Software but have a different type of leadership.
The "soldiers questioning orders" usually refers to the grunts questioning the orders of the higher-ups. You seem to be referring to generals making high-level decisions far-removed from the battlefield.
The U.S. was founded by hypocrites who didn't want to be enslaved to a regime, so they killed off the natives, and enslaved people of color then called it freedom.

Hypocritical idealism from the U.S. should probably be expected. Though at times the U.S. was probably the least evil option.
>Would it apply to enemies using Chemical, Biological or Nuclear weapons?

Not unless nuclear were reclassified as "reasonable". They also violate 'minimizing'.

>There is no country that spends asuch as US and that has been the case for a long long time I believe.

Yes but that's true irrespective of technology. I think UAVs allow for better targeting and hence smaller impact on civilians.

>I don't think that you intend to, but it seems like you are counting only friendly casualties as people casualties.

Unless we're discussing things theoretically, an entity waging war is beholden to its constituency, that translates into valuing ourselves over the other. None the less I meant in an overall sense so long as there isn't undue duress on the friendlies.
Allow me to be a bit provocative:

Level 5: your work doesn't exist until it has been formally proven to be correct.

It's obvious that the amount of effort involved in this is so huge that it should only be considered in a select few problem domains. The same is true for the other levels. They're just a scale of increasing formalization/rigor, but you've said nothing to justify why they should be applied universally.

I think it's important to keep in mind that these levels (or something analogous) exist, but different domains have different sweet spots and a deliberate choice needs to be made for each project.
You'll need _millions_ of dollars to form the bank corporation. You'll need to hire overpaid white-hairs to be on your board to make it look legit, and then you can start printing money.
In fact, the collateral fatalities from drone attacks are one of the highest at 98%, according to some estimates [1].

I think you're confused. The relevant paragraph in your link says the collateral damage -- both civilians and unknowns -- is 2% at the moment.

The civilian casualty rate has been dropping sharply
since 2008. The number of civilians, plus "unknowns,"
those individuals whose precise status could not be
determined from media reports, reported killed by drones
in Pakistan during Obama's tenure in office were 11% of
fatalities. So far in 2012 it is close to 2%. Under
President Bush it was 33%.

Conversely, the percentage of militants killed has been
rising over the life of the drone program. The number of
militants reported killed by drone strikes is 89% of the
fatalities under Obama compared to 67% under Bush.

I think that's fantastic news. A collateral damage rate of 2%, including unknowns "whose status could not be determined from media reports" is downright unprecedented in warfare.

The statistics, taken together, say they're using drones more in regular combat than they used to, and getting better at confirming that the kills are accurate. That's great news, isn't it?

There is a later paragraph that claims only 2% of drone strikes kill leaders. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?

Since it began in 2004, the drone campaign has killed 49
militant leaders whose deaths have been confirmed by at
least two credible news sources. While this represents a
significant blow to the militant chain of command, these
49 deaths account for only 2% of all drone-related
fatalities.

I don't see how that's relevant, though. Is it somehow illegitimate to use drones on regular soldiers if it's tactically advantageous?
Actually the entire backend is on github. But let me explain it for you.

There is as you have already discovered, a crawler implemented with scrapy. However I don't use the scrapy server and pipelines. Instead I have a script that lets scrapy generate JSON files with the crawled recipes and builds the sphinx index from the crawled data. There is no RDBMS. Basically sphinx is my database. :)

Well and than there is the website. Its server-side is implemented with werkzeug and its UI with jQuery.
No, if I read it right, they got their videos removed too.

"UMG, which had long held a heavy hand in YouTube operations, now only boasts five videos on its YouTube channel"

"Sony's page, by comparison, is currently empty."
Yes, your tone is offensive. I work with radiation emitting equipment daily. I am forced by regulation to ensure the equipment is safe and operated safely. Checks and stops are in place. This is the way it should be, and I am pleased my industry behaves this way. Backscatter imaging safety is unproven and falls outside the ALARA principle. You you quoting dose figures misses the point, background radiation is a whole body dose, CT abdo, is an abdo dose (mostly), back scatter imaging is to the skin only. What's the difference? Who knows, no decent testing done.
Hell yes. It will be really great to experience some consistency around aws api calls with a single cli experience. I love the boto project, but both the class structure and sporadic cli tools in the project take inputs in a non-uniform way that can be quite frustrating at times.

I'm really glad they went with Python on this one with the Apache license. This will definitely encourage a lot of active community contributions.
Yup, HAM was a weird encoding that was mostly good for still images, though I remember there was a game that made a big deal about using the HAM mode.

However, I said "more than 4096 colors"...
'Dropbox' Is Taking Over The World
A non-designer's visceral response should be evaluated in the context in which it is given. I am thankful that someone was willing to take the time to share how the design(s) impacted them. To ask someone to stop sharing their opinion until they 'educate first' ... I just can't think of anything to say that's constructive in response to that!
I made a few vague observations based on comments scattered around the web and this rant just made me want to write them down.

* GNU leadership seemed very stubborn from the beginning.

* GNU software is really great.

* Gnome is the new GNU.

I wish they wouldn't lose more momentum or the wide variety of software they write and maintain will suffer, too.
> Since Dropbox is for work, I moved all my personal files to Google Drive. On feature lists it should be the same or better, but I find it just never works reliably

Three months ago I decided to put all my pictures on a cloud provider. I really liked Dropbox but I chose G. Drive, because of the price. I put my 15k photos on my G. Drive and then the client went crazy. My old (2007) MacBook couldn't cope with it, it rapidly used 100% of my computer's 2GB of RAM and my CPU was also at full capacity. Thus, I decided to try the same exercice on Dropbox. I moved the whole pictures folder and Dropbox handled it perfectly using a few MB of RAM.

Since then, I'm a happy paying Dropbox user.
why bringing something up? [1]

just fork, code and... maybe make profit. [2]

[1] http://xkcd.com/927/

[2] http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/A_Brief_History_of_Red_H...
Nonsense - that's like saying you aren't allowed to buy a kitchen knife because you might stab someone with it.
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I was using Grunt and while and had a pretty awesome config file set up, but I've recently discovered AssetGraph and feel the urge to convert to it!

AssetGraph - https://github.com/One-com/assetgraph
AssetGraph Builder - https://github.com/One-com/assetgraph-builder

Edit: There's actually a grunt plugin for it too: https://github.com/Munter/grunt-reduce
I'd be glad to see the old CLI tools die, because the damn things had to boot up a JVM for every invocation. Among other things, that made CloudWatch very hard to use from a t1.micro or m1.small instance: each call to PutMetricData used enough CPU to start the instance being throttled. (On a t1.micro I couldn't even post to CloudWatch once per minute: the throttled calls would take longer than a minute and start to overlap, exhausting the available RAM.)
The thing about slot machines though, aside from the fact that the pay outs are not uniformly random, is that they're designed to have tons of almost-wins, i.e. "bar bar cherry". You think you're "so close" to having won that you think if you just try a couple times more, you'll really get it. This goes so far as to program the motors for the wheels to have a specific wobble, so they flip over from a winning combo to a losing one at the last second.
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>They don't reduce "enemy collateral damage", though. In fact...

Percentage may or may not be the best way to assess effectiveness (reduction in casualties). Another measure could be collateral, or even total casualties, per highly valued target. After all a strategy in war is to take out the leadership making engagement with grunts and or civilians less necessary.
Doesn't the open source movement overlap quite heavily with the ideals of free software? I know there are also significant differences, specially the tolerance of proprietary code.

I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, just honestly curious why you think a 3rd alternative would bring change in any meaningful way. We have enough fragmentation as things stand.
Why is Stallman still BDFL if he hasn't contributed a meaningful amount of code in years? Let him be the spokesperson so he gets the attention he desperately needs and leave the coding standards to people who code.
I wonder how Snapchat's founder reacted to this news..
Reminds me of this very interesting article saying that we're wasting our resources buying stuff that simply ends up in landfill http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/10/on-12th-...
Bare storage is $95/TB/month on S3, too (plus i/o charges), no running instance required.

The rest of your comment is well-taken; there are otherdesktop clients for S3 but nothing that I've seen is anywhere near as convenient as Dropbox (which is itself using S3 for the actual storage, of course). User experience matters.
The Milgram experiment [1] showed that people who perceived themselves to under the influence of an authority will hurt other people when told to do so. The idea that soldiers are immune to this effect is irrational; in reality, this influence is probably a factor in their training regimes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
A young George Polya, the Hungarian mathematician (and Stanford faculty) was in England once, and asked Hardy to see one of Ramanujan's notebooks. The next day, he returned the notebook in a panic, saying "there is so much in there, that I'll spend my entire life working on these proofs and never be able to do any original work". (paraphrased).

Ramanujan's accounts of how he arrived at the proofs ("the Goddess revealed it to me"), reminds me of Paul Erdos's "theory", that "God" has a big book of all possible proofs, called "The Book"; and if you're a nice mathematician, once in a while He will open the book and reveal one to you. Taking up this thread, a couple of mathematicians compiled some of the most beautiful proofs and published them as "Proofs from The Book". http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-THE-BOOK-Martin-Aigner/dp/36420...
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All weapons make it easier to kill. We have been on a steady march forward as far as the efficiency of killing goes. We have guns, bombs, etc. . . And the same arguments were made about planes, I'm sure. The pilots are too detached from what's happening on the ground, etc. . . However, the order to kill is going to happen regardless and drones are better than carpet bombing, let alone the Shock and Awe crap that we were doing in Iraq.

War is horrid. It's the worst thing we do as humans, but I can't see how drones really make it worse. Are they used to kill the wrong people sometimes? Yes. Are there civilian casualties? Yes. But that happens with all warfare. And as we've gotten more efficient at killing we've been doing less of it. Wars have become less brutal over time, not more and I don't see that trend changing.