skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, even if you exclude MP3s of commercially-recorded music as not really personal, it would be very hard to defend the proposition 'iMovie gave birth to the idea of "personal digital media"' or even 'iMovie first made "personal digital media" a reality'. Apple (and MS) had been trying to make consumer video editing a reality since at least 1991 and the launch of QuickTime (an awkward date if you want to centre everything around Jobs and/or NeXT). iMovie and the FireWire iMacs probably were an important step forward in making digital video editing into a mainstream and well-oiled consumer activity though.
New opinions are online and are now free to download (U.S. District Courts). The appellate courts lag.

Lexis and West pay lots of money to track cases (though cheaper than a citizen pays) and then charges the government for the ability to track a docket.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lexisnexis-us-awarde...

Lexis and West have no incentive to want these documents to be free.

And of course the government should spend money to organize the court documents. Unlike the web, these are government documents and the record of government in action.
The title is misleading. You offer 100 real customers, but then go and say that you will help acquire 100 beta testers (potential customers, as you say). Plus your profile is empty, and there is no sign of your work anywhere.

People, beware. This might be a scam. There are many "internet marketers" who do this. They get you wound up and charge you a couple hundred bucks and then run away.

I'm not accusing the OP of being a scammer, but he needs to provide some background.

Founders Beware.
Worldwide unemployment soars, young workers most vulnerable – UN report
I looked at it, but never used it. I certainly like the core idea and it would probably have been better for me than just using plain Racket. However, moving over to it--and getting other people to use it--would not have been that much easier than moving to Haskell.

I was missing some specific type features: algebraic data types with pattern matching and custom numeric types (I needed 18-bit unsigned ints, of all things). I don't think Racket supports either of these. The numeric types, I suppose, are just a special case of wanting typeclasses. I really like typeclasses :P.

Additionally, I had several non-type-related reasons to move to Haskell: laziness, purity (my teammates decided that global variables and having IO everywhere are fun) and more functional data structures (vectors in particular).
I did that to pay for my tuition. I only had the salary from my employer in my home country, immigration services didn't let me get a part time work.

This is how I did it:

Place to sleep: Queens village. Take the F train all the way to the last station than a bus (Q43) for another 5-10 minutes (hillside av). That area (queens village/jamaica) has the cheapest rents I could find at the time (2006). The commute to Manhattan would take around 1:20. The bus transfer is free. A lot of reading.

Plan before you leave home so you don't waste money on transportation

Eat: pizza, standing. Some 99c stores do have some fake microwave meals (taste like rubber) . Do never pay for drinks. Drink water. Try not to spend more than 6 dollars on a meal.

Internet: Asked for a neighbor to share with me (paying a bit)

Take care of you teeth and health in general!!! Dentists are evil greedy bastards. Just kidding... (no I'm not)

PS: Those living conditions made me quit my studies.
... and the person who is responsible for locking the door, and the person who is responsible for following up on reports of suspicious behavior near that door, and the person who is called out when someone finally discovers the lock must have been picked at some point in the past, and the legal system surrounding all of them, and the civil society that gives that legal system authority and legitimacy, and the broader cultural scope that gives the civil society a foundation and a sphere in which to act confidently, which depends on people believing that, if they do wrong in that society, someone will punish them.

So picking a lock in Compton might be perfectly safe assuming you don't get shot outright, unless Compton's been gentrified while I wasn't looking.

On the flip side, you won't even get close to Fort Knox with bad intent, largely because you know you won't get close to Fort Knox with bad intent.
As well as Pebble, Kik, and Vidyard.
It doesn't yet have a terminal or dev tools on the phone, but this is something I would absolutely love to see in the long run. It's open source, so if you feel like helping out to add these, please do :-)
Sad to see that rather than making the decision: won't upgrade server distribution, leaving users with an older but still working version, the decision that was made is to "upgrade" while knowingly reintroducing old issues.
Got a good URL on that? I'm seeing cult accusations with no history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lenz also doesn't support the tech-company CEO thing. I think this is not the guy I read about previously. No worries, interesting nonetheless... California is quite a factory of characters!
Twitter App Permissions Vulnerability
Shameless plug: If you're a snip.it user looking for an alternative, my app https://annotary.com is a similar replacement, which also includes highlight and annotation features. We're also bootstrapped and have a revenue model, so we're not on a countdown to taking an acquisition offer.
That's definitely true for archiving. The auto-advance lab feature also introduces the behavior when muting or deleting. It's also nice if you've already built up a lot of muscle memory on 'y' or 'e' for archiving or are a home-row typist with weak pinkie fingers.
kinda hard to check if the mail is there if you don't have a key to check if they mail is there.
Not true. Lexis makes lots of money from providing services like docket tracking.

Subsidize one kind of access? Public access is the only one that matters. And in actuality, there's no need to raise filing fees.

The courts get paid lots of money by Lexis and West. It builds them an IT slush fund. It builds Lexis and West a business moat.

That's not conspiracy bullshit. That's basic economics.
Corporations consist of individuals that voluntarily associate with one another. A man has the right to free speech when he is alone, and he retains that same right as he forms and maintains his compacts with others.

Free speech means that you communicate what you want, when you want, if you want.

(Quick aside, with two points: First, the right to free speech doesn't guarantee you the means of broadcasting your views. Such a "right" would mean enslaving those tasked with providing those means, violating their actual rights. Second, not all utterances constitute speech: the words a mafia boss uses to order the beating of a recalcitrant shopkeeper or the murder of a rival are not examples of speech.)
I hate to flip the script on social networking, but I think google is doing a pretty good job with focusing on exploration and compartmentalization of friends and social groups in +. Maybe something like graph search is their eventual intention, but I really hope their vision is less...disastrous.
Gerald R. Ford Library Hires ‘Wikipedian in Residence’
but you'd have to pay that whether you did college or not - unless you are saying you can live on the streets if you decide to not to go to college?
The OP himself is trying to sway the argument with 'Appeal to Adventure' (not really a defined fallacy but appeal to emotion). For instance the call to take the blue pill is a reference to what the Hero of a very popular movie didn't do. The OP equates post college life with an un-heroic life.

There is a visible disconnect with the views in the arguments. They are more open and accepting at the start and get more emotional at the end. To state an example, the author mentions that 'school is in no way a negative experience...' and later mentions that 'Sure, school might maximize one’s chances of living a stable, moderately successful life with two and a half kids, a modest house, and a job. But is that really what we want? Does our generation want to forego pursuing our passions in order to be part of a shrinking, mundane “middle” class?', which seems to point that schools leave you passionless.

The OP also uses arguments that cannot be proved or argued against. For instance "Not that dropping out of school ensures success, but had Bob or say, Mark Zuckerberg, stayed in school, we could all still be hanging out on Myspace." What this statement assumes, is that (1) School didn't help Mark Zuckerberg, (2) He wouldn't have been able to build FB if he had waited to finish school (3) No one else could have come up with an alternative to MySpace, university student or otherwise. I am not dissecting the argument just for the sake of it, but I am arguing that the OP is selective about his dataset. Yes there are Mark Zuckerbergs, but there are Larry Pages as well.
You're right!

In this case though. the site is run by drivethrurpg / rpgnow, who have been at pdf selling for some time. This should have a decent chance of success.
How is this at all relevant? Publishing in one app store does not prevent you from publishing in the opposing one.

Services like 500px no doubt have both Android and iOS apps, and they will continue to do so as long as their customers (and potential customers) carry these devices in their pockets.

So long as hundreds of millions of people carry iOS devices, people will publish apps in the App Store in droves, regardless of how draconian Apple's rules are. This is entirely independent of how many other people use Android.

Previous poster is entirely correct, the power to enact change here is entirely at the hands of customers who buy Apple products. Developers have no leverage here, because everyone knows that so long as Apple keeps shipping tens of millions of tablets and phones every quarter, to wealthy people with high disposable income, devs will stay.
EU discovers hidden viral gene in GMO crops, which US scientists missed
No. AT&T is willing to do anything the gov wants. Now, say it was a hole in Gmail? I bet there's government agencies, foreign and domestic, that would buy that for sure.
That would be awesome.

I'm hesitant buy some of the supplements at
http://examine.com/ because I don't know how many negative trials go unreported. Some things like creatine have overwhelming evidence in favor of their efficacy, but the evidence of efficacy of other things like beta alanine is less convincing and would be heavily impacted by negative studies withholding their results.
GW 2: new features in Flame &amp; Frost event
they aren't exclusive to university, but you'd be hardpressed to find a similarly aged group of people all doing exactly this, if you don't go to university. Whether the cost is worth it is up to the individual, because that is indeed subjective.
This are the best I've found:
http://www.synology.com/us/index.php

Here is a basic unit, with a hardware encryption co-processor:
http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS...
> Now I'm just waiting for someone to post this discussion on Hacker News...

Now I'm waiting ...
Did anyone follow that blog post, back to Gizmodo, back to the source it originally came from? (Soup) What a weird site, showing all manner of strange things. The internet is a weird place sometimes.
Maybe you can share some more details to inspire/discourage the new generation of programming youth.
Amazing chutzpah the slave-owner showed and amazing response from the brilliant guy!
This is awesome! So many questions!
- How do you decide tile size?
- How do you choose the images to show?

Idea - you could include the favicons in tiles
So it's OK to cut down tall poppies just because they're trying to do something someone else has already done?

You'll not go far with that mentality.
They don't have Facebook in the Great Firewall of China.

And if they DID, people there wouldn't be liking Falun Gong. It's a bogus example.
EMC staff recreate Gangnam Style
The military calls it "need to know basis". From the perspective of keeping secrets, it would be pretty dumb if you let every PFC in the army access diplomatic cables that had little to do with his actual duties.
That's why patents on this sort of thing are so dangerous. The steady march of the state of the art makes the impossible possible. When it first becomes possible, it seems novel, because no one has ever done it before. But it was the hard disk and the image sensor in the camera that was the invention, not "personal digital media".
"A small change" of living after being cryopreserved after you are declared legally dead is less than your chance to win powerball jackpot with single ticket.

The alternative is that you do a little bit more with your life, because you don't spend $120/year and all the mental energy for planning your after-life.
A little harsh, but basically true. I SPoke to my doctor about Jobs and he basically said, if Jobs had gone with treatment when the cancer was discovered there was a 90% chance he would make it, as opposed to ~30% chance when he realized carrots aren't manna.
I think the connection is that he's going to work regardless, and if the default (via a treadmill desk or standing desk) is to be healthier, he'll do that. It would take work to find a chair and sit down and be less healthy, then.
How to change your name on Facebook
It's not relevant to the argument if there is only a weak implication that going to University would change the ignorant part, not to mention that he provides no backing to the idea that if you go to college you will "grow up" and become less ignorant. This smacks of a circular argument without actually evidence.
Short term this may be a problem, but long term it's probably a good thing. Hopefully once people become aware of what they're exposing they'll become more cautious.

Complaining about News Feed and Graph Search is basically saying you're ok with "security through obscurity". If I understand correctly, all of this information is already available to those who want to dig deep enough.
> “Islamic men interested in men who live in Tehran, Iran“

This is funny, in Iran people don't quite understand what "interested in" means. In sign up process when they see "interested in" options, they think that means "are you interested in finding friends who are male?" (same for females).
This is because:

1. People use VPN to access Facebook and Facebook can not localize/internationalize their experience.

2. Using translated Facebook sucks(at least translated in Farsi)

3. Concept of homosexual relationships is not known by many iranians because of lack of education.

So there is no wonder if people in Iran marking themself gay while they are not.

(with all respect to gay people)
Some things are just for fun.
> >or even make it a requirement to get onto Steam
> Let's hope not.

why not? i think if steam flex its muscle (of which it still doesn't have enough), it might jerk studios to put in the effort!
my submission in fringe category http://funnel.thegoaproject.com/fringe/7-discover-internet-o...
There are "serious games" summits, too :) But these ones refer to games used in professional contexts, such as military ones.
Student expelled for hacking Quebec college system gets job offers
Best to just set it up so "Only you" can see your own likes.

http://abrax.us/Facebook/EditLikes.php
I disagree with you here rgarding Apple Policy and GPS - one area that Apple has absolutely been failing for the last couple years is in their horrible policy regarding background GPS draining of the battery. Almost every time my battery goes to zero (in fact, I actually think it IS every time) - it is because of background GPS lighting up the radio and draining my battery. Lots of apps do this, and it is a blight on the iOS platform.

If windows mobile/blackberry come up with better policies regarding developers that would increase the quality of the applications, and reduce the amount of crap that the iOS developer engage in, then I suspect those platforms will start to pick up users.

Android = Ultimate Freedom, but you need to manage it.
Apple IOS = Some Freedom to shoot yourself in the foot.
I really like my crazy articulated Ergotron arms (I have 3 x 24" + 1 x 17" MBP on my desk using 2 double ergotron arms). I would from now on always buy adjustable arms. The ideal would be an even bigger desk with 3-4 27-30" monitors and 2-3 work areas, and the ability to assign monitor to machine fairly independently (right now I have a dual-card PC on all 3 (as well as PC to HDMI 1080p projector), and mac as secondary on one, and cables for servers/other machines on the other two monitors. I usually leave 2 monitors on the PC and one on the mac laptop.

Once I upgrade the Mac to something which can drive a 2-3 externals (ideally, a new Mac Pro), it will get more complex; may need to use a matrix switch.
Idly, it's a little annoying that missing the trailing / on a url breaks things.

eg.

http://www.opensourcerails.com/lobsters/ <--- works
http://www.opensourcerails.com/lobsters <--- doesn't work

Site's great tho. Good work~
Really? Nothing good? From any algorithm at all? How can you be so sure? Amazon seems to do a pretty good job thinking up new stuff I might like with its algorithms, for one.
Rather interesting because Scott James Remnant was a longtime Debian and Ubuntu developer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_James_Remnant
Sorry it is so hard to read, most of my posts here are casual thought not elaborately structured rhetoric. Rewriting it to better please you is not high on my list of things to do at the moment, so, pass.
apparently, win8 has some performance improvements over win7 (this is like a tertiary source, so take it with a grain of salt), which might be attractive to some for upgrading
You will make a better product if you ignore user feedback (sometimes)
ok yes, why did i not think of this before! damn
I made it through. The trick is to breathe and take it one word at a time.
That makes a lot of sense. Seeing it from the Dell perspective a bit more puts them into something of a sticky wicket. I don't think the Ubuntu phone would count as a mobile strategy just yet.

Looking over some of the presentations from the Open Compute Summit it looks like Dell could play there. It has some attractiveness for a vendor that is operationally efficient. I don't see a lot of Windows support there but that may be that I just don't look for it for my shop.

One wonders if they get a big cash infusion from selling off their Laptop/Deskside business to an LG or a Asustek they might carve the company into a enterprise servers, storage, services (SSS) play. Not sure who would head it up though from their current management ranks. Alternatively an OCP/PrivateCloud play for companies that want a more fungible server architecture. Maybe take some of the wilder work Cutler did on the distributed computing side and productizing around that.

Not a fun place to be for them to be sure, I will be watching closely to see what road they pick and how well they execute on it. From such things one can learn quite a bit.
Try an Amazon account which is shared with family members.

Amazon thinks I like electronics, Hello Kitty and bows.
If we agree that a conflict-of-interest free system is the goal (and non-negotiable) then an independent entity is essential in a properly-functioning regulatory system.

However you appear to have retired undefeated as devil's advocate, as if the questions you put are unanswerable.

I would admit that there are more questions and answers that need to be given before we fully implement my HN comment, but that is hardly a refutation of the core idea: that a system free of conflict-of-interest requires independent entities and umpires that are more empowered than the conflicted interests in that system.

A recent Forbes opinion piece has its own take on inserting independent entities into the system [0]:

What we need is a construct with teeth, an established network of industry-independent researchers (not contractors) equipped to evaluate trial design, statistical power, data analysis, and interpretation, not as regulators but as contributors to final research publications. It would be a sort of Congressional Budget Office for clinical trial results.

Admittedly the position outlined in that article does not go as far as a completely independent entity operating all clinical trials for the purposes of regulatory approval, but it's in the right direction.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2012/11/26/how-c...
I'm assuming you didn't bother to read the post.

Now issues are not closed until the commit is marged into the default branch.
Nobody used 28ks in 1998 unless their phone lines didn't support 56k.
Ah, thanks for the bug report. Issue has been fixed!
iPhoto sucks, but what was better?
But there's going to be publication bias regardless of pharma's incentives, right? If I'm running a medical journal, why would I publish an article that says "this new slightly larger study also found drug x effective"?
And the window in the wall (if not the door, itself).
i'm puzzled, i thought i used this 3 months ago. is it really new?
Apple Inc Employees Who Like Android: https://www.facebook.com/search/103818329656399/likers/13794...

People who like Barack Obama and Mitt Romney: https://www.facebook.com/search/6815841748/likers/2139280112...

People who like MPAA and The Pirate Bay: https://www.facebook.com/search/108476252505746/likers/11101...
Maybe this seems horrible right now, but Facebook didn't create these problems and contradictions, it just exposed them uncomfortably. I expect that the eventual abuses springing from this exposure will spur a counterreaction, hopefully with net-positive results. After all, what's the most meaningful take-away from this? Is it that Facebook is endangering individuals? Not really. Powerful, global social search tools like this were bound to happen eventually. The potential benefits of integrative technologies like this are just too great to ignore. No, the real take-away is this: sexual freedoms suck in Iran. Religious freedoms suck in China. And lots of people have embarrassing and/or contradictory and/or naive views and tastes.

So all this tells me is that we should focus on improving sexual freedoms in Iran and religious freedoms in China. Hopefully the people with embarrassing views will take care of themselves as tools such as this subject them to increasing scrutiny.
> "Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph""

These aren't algorithms. This is a search engine - what you put into it is up to you. It can be anywhere from the silliness seen in the link, to "friends who live in London" before you take a trip.

This is just handing people another tool - the uses, and misuses, of said tool are entirely on the users.

> " If you think about who the average Facebook employee is, you'd realize that you probably wouldn't want them to be in charge of designing a system meant to model the intricacies of human interaction."

A snarky and mean-spirited stereotyping of all nerds as socially inept! How clever.
If this isn't a good enough reason to GET THE HELL OFF FACEBOOK then you wont be convinced otherwise.

GET THE HELL OFF FACEBOOK!
Gather announced today that they will be shutting down