skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
although it's one of those things that's hard to pin down as "real", this story is extremely similar to one that's told about murry wilson, patriarch of the beach boys. apparently as he was intent on mucking about during their sessions, brian eventually obtained a dummy console and let his father fiddle with the knobs to his heart's content.
One must wonder why they chose to expend significant R&D to make a complicated, power-sucking adapter for use on a mobile device that provides sub-par output and costs quite a bit more than a "dumb" cable.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I feel like Lightning is just the next Firewire without all the usefulness that FW had (low latency, dedicated bus that wasn't USB, lots of pro audio gear that worked with it, ability to daisy-chain, faster real-world speeds than USB, near-ubiquity before FW800 came out, super small form factor (the 4pin is tiny; not much bigger than a lightning)).
Did rackspace copyright "Cloud Server"?
Ive been browsing their website and anywhere i see the words Cloud Server, they have a tm symbol next to it. Are they trying to implicitly copyright it by placing the tm symbol next to it or something? SInce those are generic terms, can i use them without fear of prosecution from rackspace?
It is still pretty shocking to realize how lucky I am to be alive. My grandfather was captured by Germans, sent to prison in Germany, escaped from Germany, was re-captured in Warsaw, sent to a prison which then forwarded him to Auschwitz. Then for the next 3 years he was kept there, sent on to Mauthausen, and then to Gusen until he was liberated by Americans in 1945.

The facts that make it even stranger -- he was not Jewish and was born in Massachusetts in 1916. He apparently told them left and right he was a US citizen and they just ignored him.

Talk about beating the odds.
I like your perspective.
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The orthodox belief you state that Jesus is the same as God is basically equivalent to the Hindu belief that their various gods are just different facets or aspects of God (with a capital G). If Christianity is monotheistic then, by this definition, so is Hinduism.

As for veneration of saints and relics, then anything that worshipped is a god and asking for blessings, intervention in worldly affairs, etc are all acts of worship. So when someone prays to a particular saint seeking something they are engaging a polytheistic act just as one who prays to an idol is engaging in polytheism.

I am not sure about Muslims worshipping Muhammad. Maybe in some polytheistic branches of Islam such as sufism and so forth which were themselves influenced by hindu/christian/etc ideas.
> If I was still in CA, I'd send the email he suggested.

Are you still in the US? Money transmitters need to be licensed in 48 of the 50 states.
Lecture on how to convert and rip Blu-ray 3D to TS files
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SoloWizard? http://www.solowizard.com/
I'm not sure I follow some of their claims. Are they saying that the whole genre of trap music (which I consider a hybrid of hip-hop and electronic music) is just a way of "stealing Black culture and morphing it into a form that serves an outlet for your sexual fantasies"? Does that mean that a style of music belongs to a culture, and that its enjoyment among others means it is a ridicule of the culture it belongs to?

If it's the case that that's their argument, then I just don't buy it.
Clement Mok discusses the joy of working for Steve Jobs
> There is a non-zero chance your stove and microwave are 'running linux'.

Unless Linux comes with a BSD license, there is, in fact, zero chance. Apple is known to run a NetBSD variant on the airport routers - I'd say that is what is likely or whatever the hell a "stub version of iOS" means.
If Hitler had of been content to allow his generals to control the plans for the war, the outcome would likely have been drastically different. I believe one of the reasons he did not was because he saw that as one of the failures of WWI on the side of the Germans. Kaiser Wilhelm in WWI allowed his military to lead and Hitler did not want to sit on the sidelines as the Kaiser had once the war started.

Germany had some of the most talented military leadership of the time[1][2][3] and were thinking on the bleeding edge of military theory/doctrine. It was basically von Manstein's plan (that Hitler took credit for) that pushed through the Ardennes and into France. However, following the campaign in France, Hitler assumed he knew what he was doing and generally ignored the advice and plans of his generals.

Speaking of Germany's invasion of Russia, Germany would have been in a much better position to defend against the USSR if Hitler had not been pulling the strings. Paulus[4] could have broken out at Stalingrad and avoided encirclement if a competent leader (instead of Hitler) had been pulling the strings.

Hitler also stonewalled many of the bleeding edge technology programs of Germany at the time because he thought he knew better than his military. One example was the Me-262 jet fighter[5]. It was scheduled for service in 1943, but was delayed until 1944, because Hitler felt it would be better suited as a fighter-bomber. Thankfully, Hitler was incredibly vain as well as insane and thought too much of his military leadership skills.

We had many great military leaders on the side of the Allies (Patton, Bradley, Zhukov, etc) as well as overall manpower (and generally competent leadership[6] that delegated control), but the incompetence of Hitler's leadership allowed us to turn the war back to our favor after initial German Victories. In many ways, Stalin was also very much like Hitler, except much more paranoid[7] (and proved it by killing his shrink that told him he was paranoid)--a megalomaniac despot that mass murdered his people (though not as logically and coldly calculated as Germany) and thought more of his abilities than he should have. However, Stalin was smart/sane enough to know when he should let his generals do their jobs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Guderian

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Paulus

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me262

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_barbarossa#Reasons_fo...

[7] http://books.google.com/books?id=nA7YzQMzO9YC&pg=PA349&#...
Orion 2.0 Released
Sorry, I should have double-checked before answering. Disregard my comment then :)
Okay, so these papers are phrased a little confusingly, but what they're really doing is solving a specific but very useful type of linear equation Ax = b where A is a diagonally-dominant matrix (entries on the diagonal are larger than the sum of the off-diagonal entries). It happens that graphs are equivalent to matrices, so it's a neat area that straddles applied math and computer science. For a survey paper on recent developments in the field: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jkoutis/papers/CACM-KMP.pdf
fiction or non-fiction, this story sent chills down my spine ...
The internment was bad, but magnitude of the holocaust is so much worse that they are not comparable. From your wiki link:

"A number of persons died or suffered for lack of medical care, and several were killed by sentries; James Wakasa, for instance, was killed at Topaz War Relocation Center, near the perimeter wire."

To compare to:

"Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds were killed.[5] Over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, as were approximately two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men."

You say:

"the new sites discovered were in many ways JUST like the Japanese internment camps"

and the article says:

"The documented camps include not only “killing centers” but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named “care” centers, where pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth; and brothels, where women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel."

Your sense of morality is totally broken if you can't differentiate these things.
"History in Images"[0] is a gold mine of photographs and research into some atrocities committed during WW2. I highly encourage you to view the pictures. The accompanying articles are extravagant, but many of the facts, anecdotes, and statistics are from somewhat credible sources ([1], [2]).

One quote, describing the Red Army occupation of East Berlin: "In one notorious instance, Red Army soldiers entered the maternity hospital at Haus Dehlem and raped pregnant women, women who had just given birth, and women in the process of giving birth."[3]

[0]: http://historyimages.blogspot.com/ (WARNING: Graphic images, and poor formatting)

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465003389

[2]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/01/news.features11

[3]: http://historyimages.blogspot.com/2011/10/mass-rape-of-germa...
I haven't played with Restlet. From my experience Jersey's magic sauce is its annotations. Jersey's featured set of annotations can allow for expressive source code. Basically I can create and define my API with less boilerplate source code.
> The kids knew sign language?

No, but neither did the author so he couldn't tell they were making signs up.

> The kids went and bought stuff (incl laptops) at multiple stores?

No, it just says they browsed other stores.

> And wasn't there a long line at Apple? How'd they make it to so many other stores?

Apple lines are product-specific. If there is a line to buy the new iPhone, you can still go in and buy other products. That is why they manage those lines the way they do.

> The kids physically go to the store to buy school computers?

Sure, why not? Private schools can do things however they want.

> The kids are such good actors that they fooled the author & all other salespeople?

How hard is it to act deaf?

> A teacher would actually allow kids to pretend that they're disabled?

Sure, if the point is to give them a taste of what social interactions feel like to disabled people.

> No bulk discount or pre-arranged deal?

Speaking of unbelievable...this is Apple, right? Not known for their eagerness to cut a deal.

> All other employees in the mall were mean to deaf kids?

Not mean, but maybe not too psyched to have to deal with them.

> Author doesn't remember which Apple product was debuting?

Or maybe they don't want to reveal the exact timing of the story, which naming the product release would do to the day.

> I hate to be "that guy" -- but this story is most likely fiction.

We just had a story on here the other day about a gay couple who found their son in the subway. Life is strange sometimes.

I don't understand why someone would lie about this. For HN karma?
Hi garrettdimon, sine there are so many bug & issue tracking websites, why do you choose it to startup your business? Thanks!
The Rise Of The Artist
You're confused. OP did not work in the 5th avenue store. He said his store was in a mall with a food court.
How is this a mistake? If the side of fish sauce was clearly marked that's what I'd expect, it's not because one employee has a food allergy that everyone should go without.
Don Norman discusses why you would want to do something like that here http://businessofsoftware.org/video_09_dnorman.aspx (50:30).
It will probably have its last one next year when the comet hits Mars.
Oh my god. This is the best thing ever. Thank you.
Great video! Scalability is the obvious issue though.
Tokyo Metro platform maps sorted by file size
The current incarnation isn't going to go anywhere much, but as a precursor of what's coming they're significant.

I could be wrong on this, but I'd say that the current startup-stage competitor to Google Glass (or to where Glass will go) is actually the Pebble watch, and if they can manage the technical hurdles and acceptance Glass will probably be the winner.

The other notable thing that's wandered across my screen recently is Thalmic's Myo armband. THAT'S a company that's ripe to be acquired. Consider a mobile computing device (call it a "phone" if you prefer) with a remote display ("Glass") and an invisible input method that can be controlled just by unobtrusively moving your fingers while holding a loose fist (Myo). It's the kind of thing the MIT augmented reality folks have been working on for years, but where the only visible piece of it is a bit of facial bling that will soon just be integrated into hipster glasses (or BCGs).
Firefox OS is repeating others' mistakes, hoping for a different outcome
Analyzing the mechanics of the squat
I was never much of a blogger but i liked tumblogs the old days.

My webspace could not run ruby so i took the approach 3 times to write a static site generator. For me, i would take that route again. I have my favourite editor to write stuff and who the hell needs a database for a blog or something small?

I use the last system i wrote still, but I take notes with it and save images to a local repository.
Does everything have to turn into a dick-waving contest around here? Just send a correction if you care.
> The bomb wasn't dropped on the torturers, the rapists, which in many cases were not held responsible for the crimes they committed.

This is the tricky part. I don't remember exact figures, but wasn't Truman's dilemma a choice between invading Japan or dropping the bombs? I don't really see a viable third option, and I don't remember reading about one either. The tragedy is that the Japanese were not given enough time to surrender after the first bomb was dropped.

Also, the United States has also done some terrible things "in the name of democracy," but I still think there is a difference in magnitude between installing a dictator in a foreign country and encouraging the systematic murder and rape of civilians.

The problem is that these things are on a spectrum - is it not possible to condemn both while admitting that one alternative was better? I obviously don't want anyone to use nuclear weapons, but how should we react when it is the option that results in the least amount of suffering?

And as far as saying "them" -- this was out of convenience. It is a pronoun, after all, and I was merely trying to say that elegant solutions are quite hard to find when you're dealing with ugly problems. Sometimes "less ugly" is all you can find.
vijay: very interesting link. thought it was interesting, despite the obvious slant.
Oh so that explains why it's the top comment on an otherwise benign post. He's a pretty major hacker, whatever that means, so people just upvote him because of that?
> I assume my smartphone would choke if I threw all the stuff

5 years ago your smartphone would have choked on a GUI transition with transparency. In 5 years, We will probably have ARM v9 with 10 hour battery life easily running these workloads.

When the first desktop in your pocket hits the market in force, think of it like the first iphone, tablet, or netbook. Primitive and slow, but a precursor of things to come when efficiency ramps up.
> Who is sponsoring 0-day exploit attacks

Anyone who could profit is our starting set. And the budget for the federal government funds massive amounts of private entities that have a vested interest in finding out ahead of time what their and their competitors funding will be.

Notably, hedging their bets on an exchange.

And, maybe obviously, some of these private entities are the very entities that are consulted for the federal government's email and computer security policy.
Why Efficient Light Bulbs Fail to Thrive (2009)
I don't disagree that there is an invisible line somewhere where having process and formality is important to have. But I have the world-view that, in 2013, most legal and governmental processes have too much bureaucracy. Sure, we can't just give babies away to anyone who wants one without checking them out. But it shouldn't take years and $1000s to successfully apply to adopt one under normal circumstances. (Although heterosexual parents can breed them without such checks so it seems overly unfair.)

By its very nature bureaucracy only ever grows. It's far easier to add a new form to fill, add a new step, do a knee-jerk reaction to one bad thing that happened, add more months to the waiting list, than to analyse the monstrous process to figure out what to change or remove.
Ask HN: Anyone know "Global Name Broker?"
I found a domain name I am interested in, which is parked by http://globalnamebroker.com/

I inquired them about purchasing it, and they've sent me a price quote and an escrow.com transaction request.

Has anyone heard of them, legit or not? My Google and whois search doesn't return much about the broker. Whois says "This domain is protected by Whois Privacy Services." Any lead is appreciated!
Ev Williams: Formula for Entrepreneurial Success
pacman -S apache!

That presents an interesting prospect - once Ubuntu hits phones, and there is a proven infrastructure for "mobile" distros, will we see the mass proliferation of such OSes? There is nothing inherent to the phone that makes it harder to have distro like behavior on, just that since it is mainly a media consumption device it would probably be less fun to tinker with.

Hell, Plasma Active even presents a viable interface that isn't the mobile Unity that Canonical probably won't be all sunshine handholding open contribution with already.
someone enterprising broke the page layout with a long string of U+2006 (six-per-em space) characters.
Troll. You already asked me that, and I already answered it.
Here's a bookmarklet I keep handy. I call it "Sane Margins":

javascript:var style=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style;style.marginLeft=style.marginRight='1in';style.maxWidth='7in';void(0)

Ninja update: oops, reply fail :-(
Fuck off.. I've got a right to my own opinion
I agree with the sentiment. Although coding, can be(and often is) a form of artistic expression. The same way Math is; unfortunately, people believe that math and coding is a very strictly left-brain activity. This notion is entirely untrue.

For instance, when I grew up, I really want to make a game. Now, the problem is that I can throw together a game pretty quick; yet, I can't ship a game without good graphics. One could argue that I could go minecraft style, but I want a pretty game. This requires a lot of art.

This is, but one reason, why I married my wife who has a studio art degree and draws amazingly well.
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I think this person underestimates that creativity required to write code and engineer systems.

Would they have the same opinion of an architect or structural engineer who builds buildings in a creative way?
Hardly worth bothering to reply to this sort of nonsense, but applets are a tiny tiny fraction of a percent of what Java is used for. Java and other JVM languages are use in most backend systems today and also by the likes of google, amazon etc.
It's also way faster
Hey, are you open to feeding a startup with 10 people next week (Tue and Thurs)? Email bryn@herelabs.com and tell her I sent you.
I suspect that Crockford gets letters from other companies, but calling out IBM makes for a better story. That's just a guess, though.
You ideas (your parent comment) are excellent I've made the same recommendations over the years to people in similar situations. Put feet (and free product) on the street. Most recently with a local cupcake bakery. "Go out and give your cupcakes to all the offices in the area". (Free sweets? What's the chance that the office workers won't stop by for more if they are good?)

One thing though that I've found is when you give good ideas to people you'd be surprised at the amount of excuses they have for not following up on suggestions. The lack of "oomph".

What I'm saying is this. It's easy for someone to write a plea (as was done here) for help on HN (or anywhere). That takes almost no effort at all (like a magic "diet pill" when you want to lose weight). Let's see if the entrepreneur actually follows through on the advice that you gave.

(If you do a follow up post or anything on what happens here please email me in case I miss it because I'd like to know the outcome positive or negative to the outbound sales effort).
> someone enterprising broke the page layout with a long string of U+2006 (six-per-em space) characters.

Is it a bad sign when page-widening spam makes you nostalgic?

(Ah, Slashdot circa late 1990s! What a time to be alive!)
New products can only created by those who have the toolsets to create them.
Or learn how to code in order to produce a wider range of art.
You mean std::vector, from the STL. And yes, the amortized cost is O(1) per element and thus O(N) in total, but the constant factor and lower-order terms (the O(1) time to do the allocation and garbage-collect it later) do matter.
I don't understand how thr author contrasts "creativity, intuition, and the marshaling of original solutions" in opposition to "systems thinking".

I can't imagine a better foundation for "systems thinking" than "creativity, intuition, and the marshaling of original solutions".
The right call for the wrong reasons
Oh, I also can say and hear "fuck" all day long without blinking, because, like you, I am not American and English is not my native language. However, there are words in Polish which could make me cringe, especially when heard unexpectedly. Profanity is like poetry: it only works in your mother tongue.
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Either:

Must have been more than that or the culmination of many errors.

-or-

These catering agencies are so mercurial that that's just not an effective channel of distribution

-or-

That particular catering agency perhaps has other issues and satayco would have lost them anyway. Hence the "can't rescue the relationships" (realizes it's an abusive relationship so to speak).
"you're a man who can find an insult in a bouquet of roses" - Nucky Thompson to Gyp Rosetti, Boardwalk Empire
All fair points, though I would suggest we are in the early stages of change at present and that the average citizen of the US is a poor benchmark for global media consumption habits. While some areas, such as China, are rushing toward the supermarket model it is not yet dominant in global terms and perhaps will never be. A common tendency of each era in history is to say "here we are! things are complete! (weren't things great a long time ago)" whilst in fact major changes have not yet begun or have not yet been recognized as significant. What we need to do is zoom out.
I wish I had nothing better to do than be ~outraged~ by YouTube memes. Must be nice.
i don't see any reason to worry, mistakes like this comes and goes. happens to all of us.
I'm a product of the Boise school district, and I didn't realize how good I had it until I went to college out of state. I'm glad to see Idaho's still a leader at integrating technology into the classroom.
There's some (small) wisdom in there. History shows there is less and less correlation between technology and jobs lost the more an industry relies on creativity.
This goes fantastically with the "How Search Works" google.com link posted today! :)

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/
While I entirely agree that creativity is the future, I do not understand why people think you need to draw or compose music to be creative. My most brilliant creative moments have always been with my code, not my music. I may consider myself more of an artist than an engineer, but my code is my most precious work of art.

That said, by pure chance I happen to be re-re-re-re-attempting to learn how to draw this year.