skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on what your goals are. I want to surround myself with those who are willing to fervently argue their ideas, and those who do not or cannot: I have nothing to learn from them.

And it would be terribly presumptuous of you to assume that my persona given here is found in all of my social activities. If you assume this, you're not being fair (really, to yourself).

You need to understand that a handicapped person just hit a Web page, out of the hundreds, if not thousands, that are hit a day, that, in my understanding, just overrides that dyslexic person's crutch, that handicapped person's wheelchair. When that page loaded, I personally _felt like_ someone (accidentally) kicked my crutch out from under me, or criticized me because I am not able to perform as well because of a handicap. This is how accessibility issues play out[1]; people feel hurt and victimized by facts of their obscurity which they cannot control.

I am very confident that you are not fully appreciating the gravity of the issue here.

[1] http://webaim.org/blog/target-lawsuit-settled/
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Nice site! The content shines through, so I immediately got excited. Two suggestions... On the movie detail page, please put the trailer above the fold. That's what I came for. As well, possible to include links to Netflix so I can stream/order it?
Are you thinking of Dunbar's Number? I thought it was 150.
Unfortunately for a lot of mundane (non hacker) users, this is very likely.
That's not the only difference. There's a big difference between "Hey facebook, show my ad to singles who like dogs" and "Hey facebook, show my the profiles of people who are singles and like dogs".
I recently spent 2 month in Medellin working on my startup. I think it's a great city for bootstrapping a business. $800 for a room is a little too much but the apartment looks great. Good luck!
I mean no offense, but you're effectively writing a post about how people are neglecting 5-10% of the population who are dyslexics in a font that is utterly unreadable to the other 90-95%. I'm not exactly sure whether that will have the wanted effect.
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I think that making an example out of someone really can work to effect the actions of a larger group. Fight fire with fire.
This! I am currently using Amazon prime and Netflix for my television/movie consumption. I lack any sort of cable service. It is incredibly difficult to laze on the couch and watch TV because unless I'm watching a television series, I have to make a conscious decision about what to watch next.
Ha, this is already on the todo list!
We plan to add best sci-fi books as well and it will be interesting to see which books visitors will most want to see made as movies.
yep you're right. i must have mistaken the number
you're too easily offended. He only needs to learn enough to implement one idea: his own.

Are you saying you are only capable of implementing one idea? Then maybe you should work on that, instead of taking offense at other people learning something new.
>I'm torn on the issue. In my view a politician is actually a service provider doing the mundane tasks I can't be bothered to do. It would be a huge waste of time if a majority of people had to keep up to date on all political issues.

A lot of the things that we pay for are paid for because we can't or won't provide it ourselves. I buy vegetables because I don't grow them myself. I pay for someone to fix my car, because I can't do it, and don't have the time to learn how, or maybe don't have time to do it even if I could do it.

The difference between the above, and government, is that I can choose my provider. No matter which liar wins an election, I lose.
I'd like HN's resident piracy advocates to weigh in on this.
Please feel free to give me feedback. I made it as a tool for keeping track of my own manifesto and thought there might be some use outside of my own needs.
No Go => no read :)
As far as the prosecution goes, here's some interesting explorations:

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/01/19/the-fishing-expedition-...
That doesn't make sense.

Imagine a world where Swartz managed to destroy JSTOR. A professor asks his grad students to read an article. They can either dig it out of the archival stacks and read it there or wait for interlibrary loan or...use a torrented copy or illegal DVD they bought on the street at their last academic conference. There is no way to track which one they did. No one will ever know. And no one will care: all the prof cares about is whether his students read the damn article; he doesn't care how they got it. He's completely focused on getting his research done, writing grant proposals, etc.
> I support the demonization of Ortiz purely on the level of revenge.

Yes and unfortunately we (everyone else) are trying to do the same "driving a tack with a sledge hammer". Hopefully, this will draw light to a bad judicial system, but also I hope it brings to light that public funded research papers should be public to everyone, for free. Since we do pay for the electricity, facilities, and salaries.
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I agree she should be fired. We just need to recognize we are doing the exact same thing they are.
Nobody ever got ﬁred for buying a cluster
Now extend that into the 90s.
It's not clear to me what you are trying to say. Accessibility issues have to logically start somewhere.

Do you understand what the wanted effect is? Because I'm pretty sure the gist of this entire discussion is: Don't use inline styles, which any front-end developer worth their salt would already agree to[1], outside of the accessibility debate. But what is more, accessibility might be one of many reasons why a front-end developer would raise the point about inline style at all.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-BX4N8egEc
If they downloaded a copy of my car and didn't physically touch my car, then no. What were you thinking?
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The pirate bay is run as a business. They make a lot of money from advertising. They are also branching out into politics now.
It's the same old same old... Missing spec - to replace a working spec. Preserving their Skype IP - if WebRTC is widely adopted Skype is done.
I don't think anyone wants to make Ortiz an "example".

Ortiz literally did not do her job. She over-prosecuted a case, apparently for personal advancement and DoJ-vendetta seeking, that was worth no more than a misdemeanor at best.

Sure, it's a problem that "the system" allowed her to do so. But it's also a problem that she abused the system, destroyed a life, shows no remorse, and will likely continue to abuse the system if not removed from office.
Someone needs to make a "Mega" adapter for OpenPhoto. Mega's prices are pretty good; better than S3 and Dropbox and in-line with Box.net.
Take an MBA class at night and you'll meet lots of actual people working in business areas. Or work at a big company. Both will give you the opportunity to work with people and judge their abilities. Apparent success is probably not going to be a good filter. There are whole industries built on appearing successful and hardworking.
I get that vengeance can be satisfying, but it means sending a message. And the message that US attorneys are going to hear is "don't fuck with young affluent white hackers with powerful friends".

I never met Swartz, but I'd be surprised if he'd have wanted his legacy to be people that look like him getting a pass while everyone else suffers the same as before.
==Thought blog home was the homepage, some of this still stands, fix blog template! Actually I've seen the product before, but didn't realise it from the blog!!==

IMO "Wheels for your iPad" sounds like a crappy toy (along the lines of the iArm).

Whilst the product may be a crappy toy (couldn't find a good image/video¹ on the website homepage) it seems like it's a robot, so perhaps "Make your iPad in to a robot?" with a subordinate line of "Double, your personal presence bot"???

Not slick yet but I think you need to work on some sort of change there.

I'm trying not to go off on one but the site looks super-bland too ...

[Perhaps if you know an IP lawyer that likes the lime-light you should challenge for the iRobot trademark on lack of distinctiveness to generate some press.]

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¹ I take it back, that's not a terrible image, it's not good by any stretch. Why not have a 800px cut-out right up the side of the homepage.
What are you going on about? Could you elaborate? You make no sense.
I'm glad to see both dropping. The world is a better place.
As someone who wrote a captcha decoding article http://wausita.com/captcha/ which ranks pretty highly I can honestly say requests like this are real. Heck I even get abusive emails from spammers when they ask for help and I point out the relevant portion they should read rather then just supplying "tha codez"

If it is sarcasm this guy nailed it. Looks like half my inbox.
I'm not thinking less about consolidation and more about disruption. BYOD is the personal computer to Microsoft's mainframe.
It's difficult to do, but these guys did it -- http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/
Strange, seems to work fine on iOS.
Greatest prodigy of his generation is one such example of hyperbole.
I think generally speaking, reading the spec is useful when trying to figure out the details of more complex topics, I think this holds true for most languages. I used to pull out the C spec regularly, and even the c++ draft spec on occasion, it gets better for smaller languages, for Scheme for instance, I would pull out the spec rather quite often.

Since I imagine the CSS spec is relatively small (compared to say C++) I imagine it would be useful for solving more adavnced use cases.
Also who gives a fuck about money above 50k GBP?

Someone with 2 children in private school.
Presumably, if Carmack didn't want him to have the data, he would have deleted it before giving/selling him the gear 10+ years ago.

What he's asking here is: "I have these old NeXT boxes I want to get rid of. I promised I wouldn't give the data to anyone else, so I want to copy it somewhere safe before wiping the disks"

Don MacAskill is anything but oblivious.
I wasn't the one who downvoted you. Your trip to North Korea might give you the chance to expose violations of basic human rights. granted, those chances are slim and you probably will put your own safety at risk in doing this. we still know comparably little about North Koreans and personally I just find it important to keep some memories of this bizarre, inhumane regime alive - even if it's just as a warning to others.
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Urge your congressperson to support Lofgren's law as it stands. That would do one thing, which is defang the law they were using to bully Swartz.
It's pretty embarrassing that tech blogs are even covering this. Copyright law is about intent, not about technical specifics. The idea that new megaupload is ok because it encrypts illegitimate content before storing it is absurd.
Is corrupt the right word here? Doesn't corruption have to be linked to bribery in some form?
Can you allow sorting of movies by rating? That's what I'd need to use it as a discovery engine.
...no. What Carmack said is "I don't want this data going any further than you". So he's archiving the data himself before passing the machines on. No trust violated.

Junk is junk, throw it away or recycle.

Surely he IS recycling it?
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No, that is not at all my argument.
I just got off a short contract where this exact thing happened. The company had a MVP they were using that was made by the founders. They were obviously young and inexperienced. The code was awful to say the least. I told them straight up it would be best to just throw all this code away and start again from scratch. Its best to do it now while the company is young, rather than much later. They were neck deep in technical debt.

They claimed it would take "a really long time" to rewrite everything. I can understand a junior developer thinking that (it apparently took them 2 years to create the code they were using at that point). But using good engineering practices, building a site that did what they needed could have been done within a few weeks using Django and MySQL. Its really hard to make this point stick when you're dealing with developers in that "sophomore zone" of programming ability.

Needless to say, they told me "no way jose". I ended it with them right then and there. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that happen.
At least we can hope the successor will tread more carefully when it comes to prosecuting somebody that is obviously not a hardened criminal but an activist going too far in their zeal to correct the perceived injustice. Small win, but better than nothing.
"Nothing to Envy" is a phenomenal read. Highly recommend it.
> Although each of these counts bordered on the preposterous, Ortiz and Heymann clearly reckoned that at least one or two would stick during the jury-room bargaining process. ... Prosecutors were also revealed to have offered a reduced sentence, but only if Swartz pleaded guilty to every charge

This is what really hit home for me. They weren't just filing court documents in a legal strategy to get a conviction. They were telling a man to his face that they expected him to plead guilty to patently insane trumped-up charges.
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Furthermore while he's asking about sharing it with the world, he's making it clear that whether or not he does so is up to Carmack.
Why is that, why are Amazon running it on that server, is it their choice?

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://evilsoapb...
This is absolute bullshit.

There is no way in hell any university in a developed nation would drop their subscription to JSTOR. JSTOR keeps them on the right side of copyright law, keeps itself up to date, and provides infrastructure that the vast majority of university users find essential.

Individuals not affiliated with universities may find such a pirated collection useful, but such individuals currently make up a fraction of one percent of JSTOR's revenue.
Then the Rift in general might not work for you. Any time you turn it's going to be like being on a merry-go-round without the sensation of moving, whether the command to turn was based on the direction you were looking or on moving your mouse.
Quite the contrary, when times are bad, social services are needed more, not less.
> I'd like to hear the counter, but MS's rationale here seems solid.

That's partly because Peter Bright (the story author) overstates Microsoft's case. SDP is a problematic part of the current spec, but most of those problems are just things that it can't do yet, and if you look at the mailing list thread responses to the messages he links to, you can see most of the discussion is about moving SDP expansion discussions back to the IETF working group. This will slow things down, but that's how standards work sometimes.

But, SDP is only a part of the spec. Meanwhile, Microsoft's proposal retains essentially none of the current WebRTC spec. That was the real issue with their proposal, coming relatively late in the game, and why it's misleading to put the disagreement in terms of only SDP. Microsoft's reps have issues with how the connections are bootstrapped, but took the opportunity to rewrite everything else while they were at it. That's certainly their prerogative, and is again how standards are sometimes produced, but the issue is more complicated than "SDP is bad, but the W3C is clinging to it" as Peter tells the tale.

I agree that Microsoft is moving in good faith, however. As a good parallel, see Firefox's incompatible Audio Data API, produced just as the Webkit-born Web Audio API was picking up steam. When specs are early and still being worked on, sometimes the best thing is to produce a working implementation, to show others that your proposal really is as good as you say it is. That isn't necessarily undermining the standards process, nor is it a sign of the process not working. It can be, but at this stage, Microsoft is still engaged, even if they are just repeating why they think their proposal is better.

It will slow things down, but standards work is sometimes really slow, especially when people disagree, and growing pains are inevitable. You can only hope this gets sorted out fast enough that the spec is still relevant by the time it comes out.
Oritz is not just someone. Oritz is who had control over the matters and held the decision power in the matter. She's not a random bystander.
What is going after one person going to achieve ? The problem is with the system.
No, but I don't see how that's relevant to my point.. which was merely that it's possible for a person to commit a crime without harming anyone or doing damage.
Wasn't MegaUpload popularity due to streaming video content?

Doesn't the encryption make video streaming impossible in the way it was being done before (i.e. to a large psudononymous userbase)?
Review my startup idea: Re-thinking the inbox
I was talking with my dad about his work when he started complaining about the volume of email he gets. After looking through his email, I started thinking about how people use email and where it fits in the workplace. I'm a fan of GTD, so my concept is a tool that handles your email, tweets, Facebook posts, and Google+ shares as next actions in the GTD system.

Down the road, I'd like to offer a developer API, because there could be uses for this tool beyond what I would imagine. I'd also like to offer four versions of this app, hosted for personal use, hosted for businesses, via AWS marketplace, and a deployable version for business who want to host in-house.

What do you guys think? I'm always open to comments and suggestions. Thank you for your time and consideration.
>I am very confident that you are not fully appreciating the gravity of the issue here.
[1] http://webaim.org/blog/target-lawsuit-settled/

Being penalized 1/100 of 1% of revenue doesn't really inspire a sense of urgency or "gravity". Seems like it might be worth it for companies to wait until they get sued before taking accessibility seriously.
Under certain conditions contact information of a friend can be extracted when it logically shouldn't be able to.
"The process was fundamentally corrupt and shameful. But observers of the American criminal-justice system also know that it was a common one."

And it seems to be pretty common,

This is another example, a marine biologist bullied and with her life destroyed for "feed the whales". The history and treatment of this girl by another "Ortiz" really sucks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083331/Marine-biolo...

"Ms Black could receive a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a half million dollars in fines. Each of the feeding charges carries a maximum penalty of a year in prison and a $100,000 fine."
This will be done later. The site is new and not many movies are rated yet. We don't plan to add critic ratings, only ratings by site members.
What, you have someone else in mind? Or maybe she's just an innocent victim here, a well-meaning prosecutor working for justice, who just had the bad luck to lay charges against a popular but suicidal trouble maker and is now being scapegoated?
No, they did not. Their NK part were arranged by KITC, the governmental travel agency of the DPRK.
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> Participation in a corrupt system and going along with the corruption is acceptable for peons, but not for people are high up in the DoJ as Ortiz and Heynmann.

I agree. They should have everything possible bad happen to them. Both to ruin their lives -- which is what they deserve -- and to make them an example for others.
I think that aside from a few very specific issues, no one supports civil liberties per se. They support civil liberties when their side doesn't have the presidency and oppose them when their side does have it. The real issue is executive powers, and you're obviously going to support more executive powers when your side controls the executive branch while opposing it when the other side would benefit from them.

This is why the exceptions tend to be cases where restraining civil liberties doesn't really help the President do as he pleases. For instance, the American left supports regulating and prohibiting gun ownership even under a Democratic president, while the right opposes it even under a Republican president. The same is true, in reverse, for abortion or gay marriage, with both sides split on marijuana. But when it comes to drones, wiretapping, Guantanamo, or federal law enforcement and prosecution, it's not a question of principle anymore but a question of empowering or disempowering the President and his Attorney General. Hence, conservatives will be angry at Janet Reno, but will stay mum about Ashcroft and Gonzales for eight years, or even be supportive, before coming out against Holder. Meanwhile, the actual civil libertarians haven't liked a single one of them!
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#2 Most likely. Ortiz isn't important enough to the status quo to risk significant damage. By "unfriending" her, the state will appease the wolves, at least until the next victim appears - and they repeat the process.
Somewhat OT but author's Twitter feed[1] is remarkably good.

[1] https://twitter.com/alaindebotton
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Journals in the library + interlibrary loan keep them on the right side of copyright law. And many more expensive subscriptions provide universities with access to parts of the JSTOR archive. What's more, there are no university copyright investigations to fear: no one is going to force grad students to prove that they legally obtained every paper they ever read (how could that even work?), but even if they did, grad students have a perfectly legal explanation: they can just say they read/acquired their documents from the library and no one can prove otherwise.

Universities aren't stupid; they know there's no threat from dropping JSTOR and they can count to $50,000 all too well.
>>Sugars accelerate as they move

That's no way to describe the diffusion gradient.

Also, this paper does not cover all of Plantae, so for all we know, other Embryophytes may be limited in height by an entirely different factor.
He authored the RSS spec at age 14. He may not be the greatest prodigy, but as far as I can tell he's one of the greater prodigies. I do not think it is a hyperbole at all to label him the 'greatest prodigy' of our generation.

He made great contributions in the effort of making information free, with his work on the commons and all. That is a profoundly big endeavor that pushes humanity forword, do not be so quick to look past that.
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In contrast, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5083564 describes a 2004 study that gives 130m as the limit, and claims a world record of 125m. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(tree) is 115m.

However, this theory is less observational; that, IMO, makes it a better one, even if the maximum height it predicts is of by 10% or so.

In fact, that is fairly typical for scaling laws. For example, bumblebees and swans are outliers in the field of flying insects, respectively flying birds. That is why, in those circles, a standard joke is that bumblebees cannot fly, and swans can fly, but cannot take off from the ground.
I've been calling them eye dee software since the first wolfenstein came out. I forget when I learned it rhymed with lid, but I just can't make myself say it that way.