skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you go into more details?

Making your web server respond back with server rendered templates if it detects a bot user-agent instead of serving back json normally isn't really what I would consider a solution.

It's a solution in the sense that you can satisfy both search engines and users but it requires the developer to code basically 1.5 web sites instead of 1 (it's not really double the work but it's certainly more work than just wiring up some routes that spit back json).
I'm sorry, but paying customers of what, exactly? Amazon's Kindle device? Amazon's Kindle store?

Which of these products comes with a service which helps you find your stolen goods? Amazon offers this as a convenience feature, not as part of your purchase price of the Kindle. A purchaser of a Kindle is not entitled to this service.
GMail is down
GMail is down. NOOOOOOO
would be nice to have window.focus() added to your notifyWindow() javascript function, that way it gets my attention. :-)
You have a problem, so you code a solution in Perl. Now you have at least three problems.
So just like taxis, then?
Agreed, this is a complete non-story.

I also think if Amazon did give the information, the HN crowd would be up in arms about a violation of privacy (correctly). This is exactly the kind of channel that easily gets hacked in social-engineering efforts.

The only thing that was wrong here was that the initial customer service rep. said that a police report would be enough, but... that's it. One mistake by one customer service rep.

(P.s. if the op is reading this - sorry about the stolen Kindle, I'd be upset too in your situation. I just don't think you should be upset with Amazon - I'd rather large corporations not go into spying and crimefighting)
In future similar situations, the xkcd individual thread forum may help:

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewforum.php?f=7
I signed it, not because I expect Heymann to get fired or even care whether he gets fired, but because there needs to be some public pressure to counterbalance the existing pressures on prosecutors to send as many people as possible to prison for as long as possible.
Those are common words used in an uncommon way.

Using "space" as a prefix is a cliche in science fiction. "Spaceship", "space station". "The spacelanes have been packed with spacetraders this whole space year. The space police should send some space fighters on space patrol."
The problem with all fiat currencies is they have no inherent value; it is all in the eye of the beholder. So what is an "appropriate" price is quite difficult to determine. Most currencies are driven by being effective monopolies wherever they are issued, so the market price remains somewhat stable. Even so, many professional economists have opined that the exchange rates even between major currencies are way too volatile.

This is, among other things, because there is a whole lot of loose money floating around that can easily jump between currencies. We are probably going to see a lot more of this in the Bitcoin world, which I expect has a lot more volatility ahead of it -- somewhat ironically in this case, as the increased liquidity promotes volatility, since it becomes an instrument of pure speculation that was previously too difficult for professional traders to deal in.

In any case, I also had the intuition around the $11-12 mark that bitcoin was a good investment, since the major hurdles around the security issues were probably ironed out, but didn't invest anything -- probably because deep down I'm a value investor and don't see a lot of value in driving speculation in something that doesn't have inherent value (despite the many interesting technical aspects to Bitcoin).
That analogy is ridiculous. It's more like having a tub of ice cream and a spoon available at all times. It doesn't make you fat, but if you're depressed or vulnerable, it makes it a hell of a lot easier to take a bite.
thank god someone found my mitten! it's the one on slide #3. thanks @slbedard!!
it's up for me in Boston
It's alright brah, you posted your OKC e-mail instead on HN; so instead of major douche, it's a niche douche - which is what I'd rather be any day.
The problems with the Google Groups Deja News archive have been well-documented; Google has acknowledged them but essentially said "not worth our time to fix." I don't have the direct link to it handy, unfortunately, but I'm pretty sure my memory is correct.

Personally I suspect that the only reason they haven't just taken down the old Deja archive entirely is that they know the press and tech community would give them hell for doing it. So they let it linger on in this sort of compromised state.
Actually, I'll think about it and discuss as much as I'd like. Then I'll make a decision to sign or not sign the petition.
BSDs Struggle With Open-Source Graphics Drivers
Having used them I came to the conclusion that the monad itself is just not a useful concept; it's only when you're trying to do something that it makes sense. I tried to write up my experiences as http://m50d.github.com/2013/01/16/generic-contexts.html (very scala-oriented), would be interested to hear whether that's useful to anyone.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, will it bark if you call it a dog?
Octo: the most radically disruptive project in the history of telecommunications
While it's ok for Meteor to keep doing what they're doing, it's hardly a "knee jerk security reaction" to criticize their installation instructions.

Story time. I'm at a hotel, connecting to the Web over Tor and using my distro's package manager (Pacman) to install software. I'm also routing Pacman over Tor because I trusted the hotel wifi even less than I trusted Tor. Anyway, Pacman has this wonderful feature of verifying md5sums - fingerprints of the original source code, as posted by the source code author - from source packages before installing any of the code onto your system. If the md5sums on the software you download don't match the author's posted true md5sums, something is probably wrong. You can tell where this story is going. As I'm installing a few packages, which I've done numerous times in the past, Pacman throws a warning: the md5sums don't match. Slightly annoyed, I then download the software directly from PyPi over the hotel's wifi connection, md5sum it and lo and behold, it's the correct md5. It's the exact same software version and everything.

Importantly, the source code must've somehow been modified between the time it was sent from the AUR/PyPi and when it ended up on my machine. Luckily, the md5sum check failed and the software didn't install, but it did scare me quite a bit.

If I had instead been installing Meteor, as per Meteor's current insecure directions, without checking md5sums or signatures, who knows what could've happened. The Meteor team should really consider releasing an md5sum, sha256sum, or better yet sign their packages, because otherwise there's no way to verify the contents of a download.

The Meteor team clearly has the resources to provide this to the inquisitive. It is SOP for all major FOSS. I get that there's something to be said about the ease of releasing packages from GitHub, but imagine if the Linux kernel did this? What Meteor has right now is ok for alpha software. They certainly have room to grow.
This is pretty neat. But I'm having a hard time understanding why should this be a web app ? When are we getting seamless installation of things like that ?
The Real - And Simple - Equation That Killed Wall Street
if on a public computer it would probably be a pain to find an alarm to go off after a certain amount of time. i think it could be pretty handy. easier than getting phone out and setting one there
The literal term 'Space Marine' is not as common as I thought, which isn't really that surpsising because if virtually all your marines operate in space, do you really need to add it to their name?

However, I do believe that space marine is the most common generic term to refer to soldiers-in-space ooc (ie when discussing the archetype and not specific implementations like Heinlein's 'Mobile Infantry' - keep in mind there are actual space marines in some of his other stories, Alien's 'Colonial Marines' or Starcraft's 'Confederate Marines').
> "so often"? Really?

The relationship with Perl was a point made in the linked article. I personally don't use Perl any more, but I certainly use regular expressions.

> And I don't think any of them deserves to be compared with astrology ...

No, that wasn't meant as an analogy, just an example of contrasting entities that are sometimes confused.

> About as worthless as vim/emacs/IDE discussions.

Complete agreement.
What's the actionable investment advice here? I couldn't seem to figure it out.
I'm in Argentina, it's throwing 502 server error.
No, you became more certain that an asteroid hit a certain place to within a 11,000 year range. Title is false. From the actual paper's abstract:

> The Chicxulub impact likely triggered a state shift of ecosystems already under near-critical stress.

So this confirms that one thing (likely) happened while other things were happening. I can think of other things that were happening that would put the ecosystem into near-critical stress:

- For one thing, the Deccan traps were spewing crazy huge volumes of noxious material into the atmosphere for about 30,000 years.

- For another, the supercontinent cycle was in a period of orogeny and likely caused an icehouse climate. There would be lower diversity in "bottom rung" niches, which combined with the hazardous effect of global volcanic eruptions for 30,000 years could very likely destabilize the food chain. This bodes poorly for large megafauna which reproduce relatively infrequently and require large amounts of specific foods to meet their nutrition requirements.[1]

There was a large confluence of factors and it makes intuitive sense that, just as the abstract says, a large impact could be the proverbial straw on the proverbial camel's back. I have no doubt the asteroid was important.

But this Roland Emmerich disaster movie interpretation of geology isn't nearly the whole picture. My best guess as to why we latch onto this hypothesis, aside from how admittedly awesome it sounds, is because it's hard for us to accept that this kind of change is gradual and can sneak up on us. It takes the matter out of our hands and alleviates us from certain responsibilities. Clearly something sudden must happen because otherwise we totally have this under control, right? But that sort of waxing is not terribly useful.

[1] (Update). Note how avian dinosaurs survived, but plesiosaurs did not. The air was apparently survivable enough, but the near-shore ecosystem - which would be adversely affected by the reduction in coastlines from a supercontinent aggregation - lost its large lumbering members sitting atop the precarious food chain. None of this constitutes evidence, but I think my wild-ass guess is at least as valid as any other wild-ass guess, consensus or not.
Social Media’s New Role as a Tool for War
I used a user stylesheet that added max-width: 50ex; to <p> and <li> tags for a long while, but found too many sites ended up funny (especially those that mixed <p> and <br>). These days I just make my browser narrow.
> Also why didn't dinosaurs living in the sea survive this?

The entire ecosystem of the planet collapsed, lots of things went extinct (including some mammals), the classic "dinosaurs" are just the most famous ones.
By what most open source code projects are licenced as.
You mean Rails and not Ruby.
NYC Fashion Week Goes Tech with a Hackathon and Crowley Keynote
What was wrong with setting a max-width to (for instance) 70ex for p elements?
Super Bowl blackout caused by electrical device to prevent power outage
But plenty of reptiles survived just fine. It's as if there were something special about dinosaurs. Could there have been some major virus that wiped them out and left other species untouched?
At what point in a project is it considered beyond the "bootstrap" phase? The way I see it, Bootstrap is the perfect CSS template to use when starting a project. But at some point the project will reach a level of maturity and complexity where "upgrading" to a new version of Bootstrap is perhaps far more effort (and error-prone) than it's worth. This is especially true when they do things like renaming classes or reorganizing the layout structure.

Note I think this applies primarily to the CSS part of Bootstrap which I consider to be more of a template than a library or framework; the JavaScript plugins are always pretty painless to upgrade.
> Just because you made a million dollars by accident does not mean one can't make a million dollars intentionally.

The point I was making is that setting out to make a million dollars shouldn't be the goal. There needs to be a more substantive goal, something people might find useful.
I think you may have just reinforced the conclusions of the article.

Either that or you're a troll.
Let me get this correct. In a single HN comment, you:

1. Cynically accuse Amazon of being promiscuous with your data when it suits their profit motive.

2. Vouch that Amazon should be trusted to give police your data without introspection.

That's quite an expansive viewpoint.

As for there being "no money in helping law enforcement"...that's debatable. But there is definitely penalties for not fulfilling lawful requests.
ISmartAlarm: The Future of Home Security
I'll nominate Julian Seward, who among other things created both bzip2 and Valgrind, wrote parts of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), and now works at Mozilla building and applying various analysis tools to Firefox/Gecko code.
Review: The Java Virtual Machine Specification: Second Edition (Java 2 Platform)
TI 57 here. Then went on with the HP-28 and HP-48. Wrote the first game using hardware scroll on the HP-48 (a Pacman).

Interesting that beyond the TI calculator, there are a few other parallels with Bellard: I studied in one of the top French engineering school (Mines de Paris), wrote a 3D program as a student (Alpha Waves, Guiness book for first 3D platformer), an open-source compiler (XL, http://xlr.sf.net), a machine emulator with dynamic translation (HP Integrity Virtual Machine, a VM for Itanium), worked on a C++ compiler (HP aC++), dabbled in Emacs (e.g. first graphical Emacs for MacOSX back in the Rhapsody days), designed or wrote some code used all over the world (e.g. modern C++ exception handling), I sometimes took really new and "minimal" approaches to old and complex problems (e.g. the scanner and parser for XLR total 1500 lines of rather simple C++ code). I keep studying physics like Bellard kept studying math, and came up with my ow wild ideas (e.g. I'm delusional enough to believe I know how to unify GTR and QM).

But there's a couple of pretty major differences as well. Bellard's work was always freely available. Except for XL, mine was mostly proprietary (and XL, an exception to the rule, was a resounding flop as far as community involvment was concerned). Alpha Waves was a commercial product. HPVM was a commercial product. aC++ was a commercial product. And today, they are all dead or dying. As for fame, I'll let you judge of Bellard's fame relative to mine ;-)

I think that there is a lesson here about the strength of openness. If you start your career, making your stuff open and sharing freely may be a pretty good move...
What's the point of writing good scientific software?
Aircraft crashes after crocodile on board escapes and sparks panic
Stay with XML 1.0
But they are in Misfit, The Long Watch and Space Cadet.
Why not use Facebook Messenger?
You hit the nail on the head: The font-weight:300 is killing the readability in Chrome on Windows. When I toggle it off the text becomes readable.

I don't know what this 4:5:1 requirement is, but it also looks better to my eyes with the color:#444 toggled off so I get black text. But it's not as huge a difference as turning off the width.
In theory you could have a million projects used by very few people under one licence, and a few projects used by very many people under another licence.

It might be interesting to know how many people use software under each licence.
I like this proverb, but I think maybe it should be updated to 1% of people who know you, 2%, 3% or some such.

I mean, if thousands of people know you, 3 thinking you are a jackass isn't bad.
Wow, outside of a very small handful of sites is the web still usable on dial up?
But where are the bitcoins going? Are people actually spending over $1M of bitcoins on something else than buying back dollars?
There's no "just" about this.

Gerald Weinberg once suggested that whenever you hear the j-word ("just") you should mentally swap it out for "have trouble". For example, "we'll just add that feature" means "we'll have trouble adding that feature". I think that may apply to "just" turning off that spigot.

He also recommended that the s-word, "should", be replaced be "isn't". Funny rules, but they work: you learn to notice those words as signs that we don't have a clear view of what we're talking about.
Building an Enterprise Mobile Stack
We better trademark the terms "Space Rangers", "Space Seals" or should that be "Speals"?, "DeltaSpace", "Space force", etc..
This article covers an analysis of various mobile services that go into building an Enterprise-oriented Mobile stack. Your valuable feedback is most welcome!!!!
Of course, Google Maps isn't subject to the same limitations as paper maps – the projection could vary with both position and zoom level.

There are design and technical concerns, but they are not insurmountable. After all, if you ignore tilting then Google Earth is essentially a dynamically redrawn (position and scale variant!) planar map projection. With the proliferation of vector maps on mobile and WebGL in the browser, it seems like a solution could be found.
>Some will say if you supply object files so that the end user can relink, that's fine.

It's not "some will say"; supplying object files for your code and source for the LGPL library is specifically listed as an option in the LGPL itself.
IFTTT does not offer webhooks, so I believe it is out of the running for this usecase
Having a convention is useful. It doesn't necessarily have to be that particular one.
None: it isn't an investment advice article.
Now that we're on the first page of HN, we'd really appreciate any feedback by the HN community.

Disclaimer: I develop the iOS app for moped. :)
I do not find this surprising at all. I realize it is not dial-up, but my in-laws who pay >$70/month for high-speed broadband are still convinced that AOL is the only route to the "Internet". I cannot convince them otherwise.
No, dinosaurs are a distinct kind of animal;

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosaur

Animals species that used to be alive are classified "extinct", as opposed to being around today which is "extant".

Wolves wouldn't have died off at this time, large mammals hadn't evolved yet.
The integrated web results in single points of failure.
Be careful with coinbase
When they were trying to raise money as part of the founders club, they broke a few regulations: they originally were supposed to raise their set limit within 8 weeks and when they missed it they extended the time by 2 weeks and when they missed THAT they extended the timeline by 4 more weeks. At the end they only made their target by a last minute injection from may have been an insider. On top of that, they have NO policy on refunds for acts of god, hacking, or the government .
Better task management and more cloud please
>and GPL is a kiss of death for many uses.

GPL is a 'kiss of death' for proprietary uses. So yes, needless to say, if your code is aimed at being used by both open source AND proprietary then GPL is NOT the choice.

However if you are not interested in supporting proprietary programs with code and want access to any enhancements made to the code you've released then GPL is a perfectly valid choice.
You might want to check out localbitcoins.com - our online buying process is pretty fluid, and we have lots of sellers selling for UK bank transfer.

https://localbitcoins.com/location/GB/London/
That's precisely my point. To put it another way, jQuery converts what would be a javascript error into a technically "valid" empty array. Sometimes this is useful, but it can also help mask poor logic.
Do I have to be a constituent to sign?
Whether the "mob" is right or wrong is of relatively little real consequence; lives are not at stake, a career is (and even that is wishful thinking). You attempt to artificially raise the stakes in order to shut down action and dialog through unsanctioned channels by comparing this to lynching, but your intent is too transparent.

Your 'pet theory' about those who complain about oppression is a very convenient one for someone interested primarily in the status quo. Quite clever.

> but it has the potential to develop that way.

Hyperbolic bullshit. There is no potential for this online petition to develop into a lynching.

You are afraid of effective collective action.
Or, you know, we could just not make decisions based on other people's emotional states, as perfectly justified as they may be.
I can only speak for myself, but I have professional contacts on Twitter I would never dream of adding on Facebook. Twitter DMs are infuriating (lack of cross-platform sync is my own personal pain point) but to be honest, I usually just resort to e-mail. Moped looks cool, but I'm not 100% sure I will use it.
Really wish more people I know would use Moped, it's so quick to message more than just text
it's obvious that at some point in dinosaur times it was mere meters away from the Earth surface

Is there some particular reason under the Hacker News guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

as interpreted by the Hacker News welcome message

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

that this is the top comment under this thread?

This prompted me to look up other comments by the same user.

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=abcd_f

AFTER EDIT: Just as an example of what I think is a helpful link to share in a Hacker News thread, here are new journalistic reports, "Mammal ancestry expanded after dinosaurs died off,"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/02/08/mammal-ancesto...

and "Rat-Size Ancestor Said to Link Man and Beast"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/science/common-ancestor-of...

about scientific investigation into the most recent common ancestor of placental mammals.
Why doesn't Youtube have better font support for subtitles? Or is this the fault of the people uploading them? I almost always find subtitles on Youtube too small and hard to read from more than 1m distance.
Got it. Zooming is essential on a tablet, because of the "my fat finger is in front of my eyes" problem, which I've solved, by the way. As it is, you have to zoom in to be able to see and drag.

(I took down the solution. If someone knows their way around VNC, it will get posted faster.)
I have little knowledge about the US state of affairs but I was always under the impression that most of the extended permissions mostly apply to the FBI (warrantless wiretaps, ...) and not to the regular police - hence my cautious wording. I might be flat out wrong with this.

Anyhow, the assertion is still true for germany. Unless there's an emergency they're not allowed to enter your house, ask for anything more than your name (well, they can ask, but you don't have to answer) and so forth. These regulations get ignored on a regular basis, but that's a different matter completely.