skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it has the right radios, there are about a million sites online that will sell you an unlock code for $20-40 depending on model. They seem a bit sketchy, but I've never been ripped off on 4 different sites.
Both are forms of civil disobediance. Neither need cause significant damage other than to sensibilities. The number of those layers is irrelevant.
For Emacseers, this sounds essentially equivalent to ace-jump-mode[1]

There's a nice intro video by EmacsRocks at [2].

[1] https://github.com/winterTTr/ace-jump-mode

[2] http://emacsrocks.com/e10.html
I hope these guys realize they are not helping. Or maybe they just don't care. The result of this would only be that John Q. Public - who knows next to nothing about how the technology works and what's the difference between Swartz, Anonymous and various random trolls - would be sure there are dangerous hackers all around who can break into anything and destroy his life at a touch of a button, and he would run to Ortiz and company and hand them any powers that are possible to give them without literally bending over and spreading - and will beg them to protect the public from evil hackers. If you want to combat irrational fear and overreaction of people to, say, cars, driving a car through their local 7-11 is probably not the best idea you can come up with.
Reminiscent of the nethack bugfixes; I guess any game that involves life-like elements is going to have bugs that correspond to amusing life situations.
Can someone give me some more context on what this is about and the backstory here? A link to something that explains whats going would be great!
Thanks fearless. The short answer is: absolutely. These are the questions that drove us to this product, and we feel very passionate about our answers, but it's helpful to see idea validation articulated in such a clear, concise way.
Colin, how do you produce these lists? Do you tag and index every HN story or something?
https://www.stockray.com
Hi rbchv, thanks for taking a minute to check out Frontpage.

The site has some issues for sure. Try zooming out - unfortunately it is currently styled with a native width of 1300 which is too wide and causes some resizing problems.

As for the name, there are standards in place regarding trademarks and logos which require a level of similarity between products. There is no conflict here. Thanks for looking out though!

What did you think of the app itself? Try it out!
I don't think any of that is particularly good advice. The best way to adjust is to stay up an hour later every day until you reach your goal. (So if you go to bed at 6am, take two weeks to adjust that to 8pm.)

This avoids any sleepiness during the process, except maybe for that last hour. I did this successfully late last year, but ruined it by volunteering to help out at an overnight hackathon somewhere in the middle. Oh well.
Interview with Aaron Swartz's partner [video]
Awesome response. I bought the song. I'm guessing that Fox/Glee either doesn't know how stupid this makes them look or they believe that any publicity is good publicity. Now all we need is the bear-luv inman cartoon for Adam Anders [1], the executive music producer for Glee.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2946490/
The real hard bit is to break is the idea that every bacterial disease needs antibiotics NOW. If used sparingly, those that were given a medication may actually benefit from it. But it's likely easier to create a new breed of medications than it is to reset expectations.
JoCo created a cover of Sir Mix A Lot's song "Baby got back" in 2005 and paid the proper license to distribute his version.

Glee (A TV show in the US on Fox) copied his version but did not pay him any royalties.

So he has re-released his 2005 version with the title "Baby got back in the style of glee" so that people searching for the stolen copy from fox will find his as well.
Precisely what do you mean it "ends up being really condescending?"

Let me tell you what I think you mean. I think you're attributing something happening inside your own head to the person you're reacting to. You're angry. The reason you're angry is that you have a bunch of arbitrary prejudices that have been set off by something you read. But you don't want to attribute your reaction to your own prejudices. So the only place left to attribute it to is the stimulus that made you angry.
Doesn't list your email in your profile. Ping me at alex (at) luma.io
Microsoft’s Time Machine clone, File History, leaves out tons of important stuff
http://musicmachinery.com/2013/01/25/joco-vs-glee/
who is your typical customer?
Simple recap: Sir Mix-a-lot does a song, 'Baby's Got Back' which Jonathan Coulter does a cover of. Mixalot's more techno/rap and Coulter is more of a musical arrangement. Then Glee (TV Show) does a cover using Coulter's arrangement (music and additional lyrics) and doesn't so much as acknowledge his existence, much less pay the required licensing fees.
And how did you get "ignoring mental health problems?"

How did you get that? Honestly? How? I'm telling you to read up on how ancient mysticisms categorize these problems and relate them to advanced, therapeutic drug use.

Somehow you got "ignore the problems" when I explicitly tell you to go read alternative research on the topic.

Honestly, wtf? My post says "Go read book X" on the matter, and you want to start jumping to claims of "ignorance."

Dude.
Go away if you don't like it.

Strong words from someone who's had an account for about four months. Tell me more about what is and is not relevant on HN.

I'm personally all in favor of less VC-related news, but I would really prefer something more programming-related instead of retweets of reshares of Tumblr blogs. But I suppose that's my fault for not writing something better.
I didn't realize that the Property Accessors Syntax RFC was voted down, 34 (yea) to 20 (nay). I'm curious to know why people objected to it. Magic methods are a horrible way to do get/set and writing separate getProperty/setProperty methods is pretty annoying also.
He apparently isn't owed royalties, he just wants acknowledgment.

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2013/01/18/baby-got-back-and-...
I agree that it's a habit and absolutely not pedantry. I am arguing that when applied unnecessarily (Paris, France when it's an international news story, an action movie set in glamorous European locations, or a set of charming early 20th century Paris cityscapes) it's an unthinking habit that shows a lack of respect for the intelligence of the audience and reflects a media "dumbing down" trend. I also suspect you are right about the origin of this habit being disambiguation using state names, and extension of that to the international level.
The Problems with iCloud
It would be nice to know which systems just hand over your creditcard information to the hotel owner (plus even the 3-number validation number), such as booking.com, and which do not, such as hostelbookers.com.
Ah! Many thanks for bringing me upto speed. Not cool of Glee to avoid giving credit where credit is due!
The political class frequently uses college buildings to help fund re-election campaigns. The construction is done by a union or company that then donates to the political actor.
I would say it is against the general principals of "open source" as you might find embodied in the modified BSD license (or simply in the notion of the public domain); but "free software" is more about the enforcement of a social contract, one where everyone has agreed that the "payment" we receive by providing software to the community as open source is that others will also contribute to the shared pot (as opposed to "freeloading"). In a perfect world, it wouldn't be needed, but we don't live in a perfect world.

That said, I agree that this example sucked: the argument wasn't even that strong, party because I get the impression that Stallman doesn't really "get" Java (based not just on this example, but from other situations where Java comes up; it just seems like he never looked at it very closely to see what it really wasn't actually capable of: he seems to give it much more credit than it is due). The comments on the mailing list seemed to defeat his argument, which is why I continue to be confused that the discussion didn't continue.

As for why more people don't know about it, I don't know: it was a somewhat big deal on a bunch of mailing lists (again: it hit freebsd-advocacy and turned into a major event, somewhat bolstered by the GCC Introspector guy I mentioned elsewhere in this thread getting involved an sharing his stories as well). I can only imagine that not enough people care about mailing list history. :(
Thanks for the response. Is there a reason why he doesn't take Glee/Fox to court?
Glee is an American musical TV show that covers a high school glee club (singing club) complete with all the teen drama of high school. They sing covers of existing songs during their musical acts. They sang Jonathan's cover of Sir Mix a Lot's "Baby Got Back" recently. Except the cover was sampled either 100% for the medley or recreated to a point of being imperceptibly similar. Jonathan was not given any attribution for this. Now Fox is selling recordings of this cover of Jonathan's cover. Does Jonathan have a claim to his cover of an already copyrighted work?
I agree with the article and I'd like to challenge pg's view that hackers should let others (arguably non-hackers) start enterprise startups.

I agree with the article because while it is true that startups addressing "localized" enterprise-problems can go to market in a super effective new way (e.g., salesforce, box, etc), there are still a huge set of problems that require enterprise-wide/complex adoptions (e.g., infrastructure, analytics) and therefore cannot be purchased by individuals-workers with their credit cards over the internet.

In those cases, a lot of people need to agree on how to proceed, budgets assigned/etc etc - that can take forever and you need to hand-hold the process - thus - you need "sales people"

So the traditional view is those type of startups are 'sales' startups - ie the main deciding factor of success is being good at sales (that is roughly pg's view)

I disagree with that point of view - because many things have change in the past few years - nowadays with a small team you can adress niche enterprise-wide problems, by leveraging AWS, tons of open source libraries and so on. At the same time, large companies are more into trying niche solutions to their needs even if they come from tiny companies.

That is our story at Kormox - we are a super small team of hackers who are targeting a huge market, but started focusing first on a specific vertical (in our case, targeting our offering first to Management Consulting Firms).

It is still true that you need to be very patient and iterations last WAY longer (ie - you don't know if what you are building is not something people want up until WAY longer than in a non-enterprise startup, because the cycles for customers to use something are super long).

On the flip side, you can find adventurous customers that can virtually fund you.

The good news is you don't have to raise $967876876M to start as it used to be the case to "build the product" - I think nowadays a bunch of energized hackers can build the product in a relatively short period of time.

No questions though you'll need someone that is willing to wear suits (or at least kakis) and go talk to hundreds of middle-managers across a bunch or large companies. But I don't see why is that a problem (especially when compared to all the sort of "boring" things people do for growth hacking in a non-enterprise startup).
I was honestly expecting a different sort of rant from Mark Cuban. It's nice to see someone taking on the business of college, without dismissing the need for a college education. Bravo to someone who gets it.

That said, while I agree with his premise, I'll admit to being a little sad about the consequences: people in power rarely talk about it, but the kids who go to the "name schools" have a huge career advantage over the kids who go to Podunk University. I should know -- I went to a tiny school, and somehow managed to end up in silicon valley, where the leaders and power brokers are (wait for it)...almost exclusively graduates of the Ivy League. And this isn't the only industry where that's true.

It's disheartening. A hard-working, smart graduate from Oklahoma State with a degree in computer science degree will be at a substantial disadvantage when it comes to getting the best jobs -- the big boys (Google, Facebook, etc.) might send a recruiter to the campus career fair once a year, but they aren't hosting hackathons, sponsoring scholarships, or setting up permanent shop in the career center, like they'll do for Stanford or Berkeley or MIT. And when it comes time to reach for the management fast-track, those Ivy contacts go a long way.

So, who wins when the ability to pay for college out-of-pocket determines the economic winners and losers? Not the poor. We're rapidly heading to a country with a rigid and unyielding class structure, thanks to the brutal realities of unfettered market capitalism.
Took me a moment to figure it out too. You can compare his version with the Glee ones to see how their cover is identical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yww4BLjReEk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCWaN_Tc5wo
I hate to phrase it this way, but your integrity is your brand.

This is absolutely true. Most employers will look past all sorts of lapse of judgement in your past (especially if done in your early 20s), but lying is inexcusable.
Are you disagreeing with all the studies that have observed that decreases in child mortality lead to a decrease in the birth rate.

So stopping polio not only saves those potential victims but actually encourages less children to be born.

This is something I thought was commonly accepted but maybe I'm wrong.
What is your definition of single page app?
Your comment reminds me of a situation years ago. It was photoshop or pagemaker about 10 years ago I think, my father showed me - every so often a popup was appearing saying: Warning, your printer is on fire. We never did work out what the text was supposed to read. It got patched in a later update and stopped occurring.
To make it even better, they brought the kids to it too. Because, you know, whichever side brings the kids is the right one, because, think of the kids, right?!
I do, but unfortunately, coming from Northwest Ohio and two parents who didn't attend college in its entirety themselves (my mom had an associates), the need to groom me early (assuming, here) wasn't immediately apparent.

Moreover, sitting in a tiny box, having sex, getting loaded (proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJ60dAHyc4 -- a party house my roommates and I ran) and joining campus orgs (I ran the campus radio station as the General Manager my Sophomore year and was an active member throughout my stint at the school -- I was even awarded a years worth of paid tuition) was still not worth the skull crushing debt I now have to dig through.

If I skipped college, I still would have gotten laid, smoked pot, and learned how to program.

Edit: I taught myself how to program in my spare time. My degree is in broadcast management.
There is a project like that, in fact (full disclosure: I am the developer): https://github.com/danstaples/MediaGrid. I bet SplinterNet could integrate well with such a backbone network.
I'd say the main benefit to Quirky is the publicity. OXO has been a household name for a long time, Quirky not so much.
>Somehow you got "ignore the problems" when I explicitly tell you to go read alternative research on the topic.

The point he was making was that reading and relying on such material (ie. "ancient mysticisms") is liable to cause more harm. Explicitly telling someone to read alternative research doesn't mean a thing if that "research" is flawed.

One's time would likely be better spent reading modern research.

I think the most frustrating thing about your post is all the non-advice you give such as throwing around phrases like "become more harmonious with nature" and "understand".
Title is a bit overblown and unnecessarily negative. Why can't we just be happy about the future. 'Cos it doesn't attract readers? 'Cos even seasoned contributers to Forbes have to express their petty, pissy attitudes?

The title should be, Don't forget Volvo, Nissan, BMW and others are working on driverless cars too. The future will be awesome.

Why is anyone getting worked up over this.
> Nobody would ship a safety critical embedded project using either GCC or Clang.

They would and they do.

I'm not sure what the second paragraph is trying to say. GCC (and Clang) optimizations can be turned off selectively or entirely altogether.

DO-178B doesn't prohibit optimizations in general.
Mirror of the article as phil has been having some trouble on his aws rds box dealing with the traffic. https://gist.github.com/raw/4645323/2e581d48609effb553dd9ce0...
Was "Yawn" snark really necessary to make your point?
I don't snooze. I set multiple alarms, and turn them off one at a time. Your app can't beat me :D
Wifi mesh networking has definitely been done. Android hasn't officially supported ad-hoc until recently, so it's been difficult (but possible).
MySQL - Do Not Pass This Way Again
I find it pretty interesting that universities can charge large sums of money to attend, but then go ahead and give away the content for free on the internet.

Parents and students, who may be going into significant debt to pay for their education, are also funding the widespread distribution of the same. Do they have a say in the matter? Perhaps it should be put up to vote.

The only reason I can think that universities would really get behind this is the vanity of professors who want their ideas out there, or they're trying to create demand over the internet so they can charge for it later.

"Knowledge wants to be free but room, board and our test proctoring system is certainly not." Strikes me as bizarre, something has to give in this system - either the fees to US schools, or giving away courses for free.
Forbes.com = sensationalist headlines designed to grab clicks. Even their financial coverage is far more sensationalist than WSJ or techcrunch (and that's saying something ...)
Yeah it's kind of a bummer but Max4Live really helps mitigate things. Especially as a coder, its pretty cool to just pop up a Max js object and work with the Max4Live API directly in code. I'm a long time Reaktor and Max user, but these days I find the mouse-based box-and-wire interface painful when you want to make something somewhat complicated. I believe Resoise has Lua scripting now no? That seems pretty cool, gotta take a look even though I always find trackers to be somewhat tough to get used to.
This looks like an awesome project! Another similar one to check out is called Refuge: http://refuge.io/
I am sorry but i am against website with facebook-only login.
They've definitely overstepped the line on it. Next time they're thinking about taking down material on copyright grounds they might want to reflect on this case.
There is little motivation in commenting unless in the process I can enhance or validate my understanding. Often this naturally means arguing details until out of breath, or my diatribe is so sufficiently beaten back that I'm too exasperated to continue – at which point the topic will sink in, until reiterated at some later date in some later argument – with a level of belief that cannot be attained unless all alternatives have first been eliminated. I'd much rather die fierce yet wrong than live a life shrouded in vagueness.
Yeah- I mean it would be easier for the community to give feedback if we knew your answers as to who the target audience was. i.e if your business model was to be a gambling site like Intrade, I would be very interested in participating and trading. If it's more just for fun/timewaster, I wouldn't be in your target market and couldn't give good feedback.
I wasn't sure what a "lifted type" was so I looked it up,

A type is lifted iff it has bottom as an element. Closures always
have lifted types: i.e. any let-bound identifier in Core must have
a lifted type. Operationally, a lifted object is one that can be
entered. Only lifted types may be unified with a type variable.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler...
What kind of Live-Monome apps are you using? Just curious, I have a 64 and 256 myself (I actually was the guy who ported Monome Serial from OSX to Windows, so I'm pretty biased towards Monome devices :) )
Ah! Thanks for saying.
I can't figure out why, but the jquery.animate-colors.js scripts that I'm using are failing on my site, but work on the demo page at: http://www.bitstorm.org/jquery/color-animation/

Odd

EDIT: Found it! Firefox couldnt handle the jquery transition from no background-color, to a color. It needed a background-color to be set first.
That's bias. What makes popping pills and modern science less liable to harm? Even in modern drugs today we are seeing them modeled on magic mushrooms and exotic drugs cited by McKenna and related authors. -- We're not even on the same page as we speak here.

And that's because of bias. Moreover, I've cited authors who are leaders of these fields, who present at TED and speak in recent discussion forums. McKenna is modern. Stamets is modern.

You just don't read these people, and that's why I cited the madinamerica.com article.

You're just telling me about linguistic and intellectual biases that I'm already fully aware of, and that I tried to anticipate with my post.

And operative word: "if" -- "if" that research is flawed. What are you even arguing? I could argue that against modern medicine, but that is circumstantial and requires precision. What you are saying is not precise, and hardly even relevant; or rather it is too vague to be relevant. Any research can be flawed. But there is even a further question of interpretation of that research; hence why I say "understand." You're using broad strokes as if I am doing so, when I am not.

I honestly just think it's linguistic/information exchange bias going on here. I'm citing those I'm reading. You're telling me that anything could be inaccurate or falsehood; that doesn't get us anywhere.
See also the University of Southampton's pi-based supercomputer at: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/
And sometimes it's just another blowhard without enough sense to pour piss out of a boot.
Dealing with response rates as a freelancer
It's a little ironic that I don't give to my alma mater's annual giving program precisely because there would be no strings attached and I'd have no idea what the administration would be spending the money on.

I'm hoping that in the future I'll be able to give to the Engineering school in some meaningful way, or contribute to need based scholarships.
Education.

A cluster of Pis is far cheaper than a cluster of just about anything else, and you don't need raw power just to teach people with.
I wouldn't be so sure. For instance: There's this thing called A/B testing that gets mentioned, oh, every twenty nanoseconds or so on HN (more often when patio11 is awake), which (1) is very much the sort of thing people focused on front-end work need to understand and (2) is all about probability.
It is perhaps worth noting that the reason why this can happen is that the group of people running Glee and the people handling copyright takedowns are two completely different sets of people. Unless this event catalyzes communication between those two groups, you can expect to continue to see inconsistencies in policy enforcement like this.
I'm guessing fun/education. This is both a fun project if your hobby involves Pi's or cluster computing, and it could be used to illustrate clusters to students.
This example clearly violates the principle of least surprise, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the language it comes from is bad. Rather, the code it's used in is.