skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the time being used to establish the right standard was being spent in Plato's day. Now we know that this is a bad way to act, AND a bad way to run a country. You can never let the watcher watch themselves. Any attempts must be punished as heavily the crimes they could start to cover up.

I go further in saying that these are powers people COULD NOT grant to government. Our legal philosophy (not just current laws) hold that there are things we cannot "agree" to - to be killed for instance, and we can't agree to something on someone else's behalf except in very limited circumstances, and until they are available to confirm those decisions themselves.

Using a NSL letter to gag an otherwise legitimate court proceeding for a period of time wouldn't remove the checks and balances of society - but making seeking redress in court illegal altogether, does. And it effectively makes us slaves - having no power to control or petition our government. As above, we couldn't agree to that.

As for support for the patriot act, 1) Bush knowingly lied about the perpetrators and circumstances of the 9/11 attacks, and the potential remedies. If this was a civilian action he'd be known as a criminal. Many people were convinced by his lies, but ultimately it was pushed through regardless of popular support. 2) It doesn't matter because you can't agree to take someone else's rights away and any government that pretends you can isn't a legitimate representative of any people.

After all, we (The citizens of UN signatories) wouldn't let India end its current "rape crisis" by simply removing women's rights to complain about being raped.
I have also wondered this a lot, but a big thing that's ignored is that a lot of these console/portable games don't translate that well to a touch device. For example, there is a reason why there aren't a lot of great racing games on iOS, and in my opinion it's because tilting the device left and right to steer just isn't as good of a mechanic as a d-pad. I am convinced that a game like MarioKart just would not be as fun without the physical buttons. The same applies to a lot of the classic side scrollers like Mario: without buttons they get a little frustrating. So far the best solution I've seen for porting is to put up virtual buttons, which in my opinion don't work well at all. You need to be looking at the action, not concerned with where your fingers are.

This, along with the focus on casual play, is part of the reason why you have a different class of games succeeding on iOS, such as endless runners. Since the controls are harder to get right on a touch device, we see simpler controls succeeding (such as helicopter style "just touch or don't touch" in Jetpack Joyride or simple swipe/tilt in Temple Run).

Now, that's not to say that:

1. Nintendo couldn't write all new games using their IP/brands/characters custom tailored for iOS/Android/touch. In fact, this would probably be the best approach.

2. Nintendo couldn't think up a way to fix this for existing games.

However, my only point is that the idea that Nintendo could just dump their entire libraries into iOS and resell every game they've ever made is a bit naive. But who knows, maybe they would suck but everyone would buy them anyways because they're "Nintendo". I don't think that's Nintendo's style though. I think Nintendo more so than Apple believes in the idea that if you care about software then you'll make your own hardware, or at least, if you care about software you will tailor the software to the device it is running on.
From TFA:

"I open-sourced Cascalog, ElephantDB, and Storm, started writing a book, gave a lot of talks, and in July of 2011 experienced the thrill of being acquired. My projects spread beyond BackType and Twitter to be relied on by dozens and dozens of companies."

He's pretty well known on HN. "Hacker-News-famous", you could say.
Of Google, Trust, and Expectations of a Lifetime
don't forget the nokia n-gage
I have refrained from making my mind up on that particular development so far (Why webkit?, why not gecko?, this is baaad!, no this is goooood!, blah blah.....etc...). I am simply going to wait and watch that particular development as it unfolds, TBH.
Original research is a little different than ordinary productivity. The OP's article is fantastic, but when it comes to original research, although everything he talks about is essential (having specific goals; staying absolutely focused during work-periods), there is the problem of solving problems that haven't been solved before. Such problems require inspiration.

Inspiration, by definition, comes from nowhere. Although, if we're being honest, the research process is really just the process of transforming a big, vague, great idea into a very specific, actionable, pretty good idea. This is, of course, the hard part. It's hard for a few reasons: first, it's always more personally satisfying to hand-wave and get emotional agreement than to motivate calculations and get analytical agreement. But professional satisfaction (cash flow) requires you to attain the later (in our field, this is, essentially, the working code requirement). So you've got to make a choice to prove your idea. Second, demonstrating that an idea is good has an element of risk: the idea may turn out to be bad. You need to be open to this possibility, and take the attitude of the explorer rather than the proud parent.

This is probably why researchers start off with an advisor, and even later submit their work to peer review: a third party who is not so attached to your idea can be an invaluable aid in navigating that difficult path between inspiration and demonstration. (And it so happens that this path often leads to learning new things, which is probably why original research is so intertwined with learning and teaching.)
The Internet is a surveillance state
What's special about this is the use of GitHub. That has so much potential to improve the learning process. I hope the author will look beyond mere hosting of his sample code to actually showing how to use GitHub to tap a vast community of real working projects to learn from and use.

In fact I bet if you reworked it as "Learning iOS Using GitHub" and pitched it to a publisher they might bite.
I value my privacy too much to use a web app that makes my data available to someone else.

I don't trust Google or anyone else to know my reading history. It's none of their damn business. I don't want them spying on me, even if it would make it more convenient for me to sync my feeds across machines.

If more people valued their privacy enough to do something about it, maybe we wouldn't be moving ever closer to a total surveillance state.

I'm happy Google Reader is gone, and I hope more web apps follow their example.
No supporting evidence makes me skeptical - what were they buying before and how has it changed?

Beyond that, a retail computer shop closing isn't surprising - computer shops have been a high risk proposition for...well, forever. But one which limits itself to Linux, what were they competing on? Mostly price, it looks like. Otherwise paying for machines with Windows wouldn't be likely to break sales.

And that's the problem with Linux in the mainstream. People expect Linux computers to be cheaper and that means that for the same margin, revenue is lower - it's a race to the bottom and it has to compete with HP. Throw in the much smaller size of the market segment for Linux and it just doesn't make sense as a business model.

Don't get me wrong. Running a Linux only computer shop is not wrong. It needs to come about out of love - like a coffee shop, a B and B, or a used book store.
I've lost count of the number of opinion pieces I've read about Nintendo's impending demise or how Nintendo blew their chance etc. etc. I'm talking since the original PS came on the scene. For a company that's been an independent, profitable business for over a century, bloggers, armchair economists and Silicon Valley types don't seem to give them much credit when analyzing their business decisions.
I actually think that this could be a privacy _saving_ measure instead of a privacy leaking one, because if it was packaged as an app hosting service it could be sandboxed much more straightforwardly. For example, today, if you want to monitor FB comments on a user's open graph action, you have to request notifications for every time a user's entire wall changes and then scrape their entire wall to find out what changed.

Do I care about all the other crap that happens on a user's wall? Nope. Can I ask for updates only on my apps activity? Nope. Thus you're stuck asking for much more access than you actually want/need simply since the privacy is poorly designed.
Americans Sure Do Yak a Lot While Driving
Its unlikely that google will exit email market in near future.
Getting Into Ember.js
Thieves Steal An Entire Bridge For Scrap Metal
The difference between bootstrapping from home and working in an office
Yeah, that's the point of TFA. It's a professional tool for journalists and bloggers, or, even more bluntly, it's a professional tool for people with a platform to share their opinions.
That's the part of the article that stuck out to me. I mean, I used to have a lovely ginger cat who liked nothing more than to be vacuumed. I think that the author should ensure that his cat vacuuming experiments are more rigorous in future.
U.S. Is Bolstering Missile Defense to Deter North Korea
When we get subpoenaed by the court.
مشاهدة مباراة ريال مدريد وريال مايوركا
When you list on Swish, you don't get the money until you deliver the product. Much like dealing with Target or Wal-Mart. If it never shows up, shoppers automatically get refunds after 1 year. This also really changes the incentives for creators... only list if you're sure it'll succeed.

Some creators need the money up front, but most don't. (Creating the prototype was comparably expensive, and they found a way.) Once you have the Purchase Order, it's a lot easier to get VC funding, a bank loan, or use friends/family/savings. If your project is very successful, you can deliver in batches and we will release your money accordingly.

One of the weird things about Kickstarter is that every product needs to explain why they need the money, even the ones that don't.
Among other things, he leads Storm (where I know his name from). It's a tool for processing unbounded streams of data (think Mappers and Reducers for Twitter Firehose-style datasets).
I wouldn't call them sociopaths. Keep in mind that Ayn Rand and her Objectivism have had a strong influence on many Americans, many of them in Silicon Valley. One of her SV fans happens to be Travis Kalanick[1], founder and CEO of Uber, so all this is unsurprising.

I will not try to argue against objectivism or against what some Americans think that libertarianism means. But I will say that what bothers me most about Rand's followers and many who call themselves libertarians, is how they favor some kinds of power over another. In particular, they believe that the use of money or private property -- no matter how harmful -- is OK, or, at least, reasonable and should be allowed free reign, while unionizing, violence and other kinds of power that are usually the only kinds within the reach of the poor, are wrong and should be constrained.

Some even would try to decide what the workers "deserve", while they'll perfectly agree that Mark Zuckerberg deserves whatever he is able to get.

[1] http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/
Yes, it's funny to read the "set for life" comment in reference to a wage that's just about good enough to pay for an apartment around here. Not to mention considerably less than what most of the non-"talent" in the so-called "war for talent" expects in a year.
Zero. It's all refactoring ugly, old, unmaintainable and unexpandable code to remove all those characteristics. It's an exercise in "engineering" that involves zero algorithmic work apart from the occasional replacing of a linear scan through an array with some more efficient data structure.
Banks are defaulting on 10% of their obligations to accountholders. Money went in, didn't come out.
I should note though that when I hear about authors of tech books (O'Reilly and the like), I do tend to imagine a Jaguar in their garage....

Imagine that a tech book breaks even (for the publisher) at 5000 copies sold. Further imagine that a successful book sells about 8000 copies. At a $30 cover price, the author gets $1.50 per copy sold, so 8000 copies is $12,000.

Also remember that the publisher probably gets paid 30 days after the close of the month in which a sale occurred, and the author gets paid at least a month after that--and more, if the publisher holds back royalties in case of returns. If you're fortunate, you get paid monthly. You probably get paid quarterly.
Nintendo is like Apple and Pixar, their track record is so phenomenal that they get held to a ridiculous standard.
The diagram makes one mistake. Just as how learning to play the piano might stretch someone's mind in a positive way, helping to improve their thought processes, so to does specializing in a particular area of human knowledge. The knowledge itself may be limited to a specific field, but it will help that person approach new problems in the future.

I myself have found this to be the case. Learning computer programming taught me about "debugging" experiments when they fail in the lab. We should not be afraid to immediately embrace and learn new areas of knowledge, even when we know that it may take much effort to master that new knowledge.

WOW: I just read the end of the document. Just plain "WOW".
I Hate My MacBook Pro And I Need Another One Soon.
Awesome, thanks for the quick reply!
He's also saying startup CEOs have it too cushy. He's saying they can just cruise from startup to startup, and while they may not get OMG rich, they can live a pretty well-off lifestyle.

Which he's arguing, not entirely unreasonably, reduces the chances they'll swing for the fences. They can take less risk and still get a fairly guaranteed reward of a good level of comfort.
Call for a bright post-Google-Reader world: Let's make an API
The Rule of Three - Startup Time Management
The problem is that the young engineers earning that much become well-fed farm animals at the very moment in their lives when they should be running like wild horses.

It's a great metaphor, and I've heard it before - Dave Thomas gave a presentation on Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Developing-Expertise-Dave...
Thanks. That's funny because all my friends said it was extremely jarring and they didn't like it. The reason it's there is to make it easier to disorient yourself and get lost.
A bolder move than the Wii U would have been to completely flip the tables and infiltrate the cellphone gaming market.

So, mindlessly following the fad du jour is what passes for bold nowadays? Bullshit. Let's think it through. Imagine we suddenly decided to give up control over Nintendo's whole product. Instead, we put our ass on a plate for Apple and Samsung, primadonnas par excellance. All that for the privilege of becoming suppliers for a market of undiscriminating, volatile buyers, very reticent to part ways with their money. Of course, we would give Apple & Samsung at the very least a 15% cut, and completely alienate a devote user base that has very deep pockets. Not to mention our first-rate talent [1], who would either be pissed off and go to Sony/Microsoft, or just be easily acquired by any other insipid mobile development gaming startup with deep pockets. Add to that your product being trivial to copy, now.

Sounds familiar? This is just the Wii, recasting Apple/Samsung in the role of Nintendo, and Nintendo in the role of those shitty third-party developers no-one gives a fuck for today, desperately begging for a Rovio-style massive luck out. Congratulations, we just made millions for our competitors, while simultaneously blowing the fucking Mariana's Trench on our feet. Even Emperor Hiro Hito would think it too much kamikaze.

[1] This would be the finisher. Like Sony shitting over Square-Enix. Lose Miyamoto, Kondo, Aonuma... and you're done.
Disagree. If you've ever seen the manufacturing process it would just be a simple bypass. The installation of the images is done far closer to boxing than you likely realize. In all reality the bypass of that process could shave critical time off filling an order, especially when you're talking about made-to-order combinations.

Now straight line runs are another story, but that's not the context of the conver
The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?
At my last job, the coolest project i did was to create an image duplicate detection system (so that it would tell, given an image, that the image is new, or it's a version of what was uploaded before, or the image contains fragments of some known image, etc). It used opencv for feature points detection, so i had to maintain an index to search for those points (there were around 7M images, and load was up to 50 rps).
I came up with a rather clever algorithm, which as i later discovered (thanks, wikipedia) is a kind of implicid k-d tree.

That task was the most algorithm-intense task I ever had, and that algorithmical part took 20% of the time. 80% was straight coding, glueing things together, testing and putting all that in production system.
Honestly, it makes perfect sense to me - most of the spam I get through non-google instant messenger accounts is in the form of invite spam, and if they're seeing a massive spike of that then temporarily blocking them isn't entirely unreasonable.

So long as it's temporary (and given you can request whitelisting in the meantime), I don't really see the problem.
Of course. We shouldn't expect them to pursue things that some people might deem "cool" and their shareholders will deem a loss leader, but to argue that they are just an advertising company is to miss the bulk of what they do in my opinion. They'd be nowhere without AI and machine learning, and really are pushing boundaries of where we can take them things. Primarily to sell adverts and be profitable sure, but what they are doing is not equatable to any other company that sells adverts.
Opera are only replacing their rendering engine with the one used in Chromium, they are not using Chromium to replace their browser. Opera's RSS feature doesn't even touch the rendering engine and is built entirely with their native widgets - but even if they were to put it into the rendering engine, RSS is just XML, and can be styled in any way they want using standard web technologies.

tl;dr: The move doesn't affect Opera's ability to put RSS in their browser.
I'm guessing blackjack or roulette.

For blackjack, he could use the outside accomplice to count cards, then start playing at a table with favorable shoe.

For roulette, I think I've read elsewhere that precise timing of the spinning wheel allows you to model its physics well enough to figure out where it will land.
1) It would damage their image if public. Bad PR

2) Becoming homeless + beeing dependant on others is already embarrassing enough, don't you think?

3) Privacy.
Start breaking their code and not telling them.. Be the real life version of Netflix's Chaos Monkey

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
4) If you were in Germany I'd probably give you a stay
Only a few times, but when I needed to solve something like that, it was really important. A few examples: processing a giant, highly-interconnected graph that was too big for memory, so figuring out how to split it up into parts small enough to handle; learning Bayesian statistics to make strong inferences from millions of weakly-indicating data points; making inferences about the nature of edges in a graph with tens of millions of nodes.
> What drives you to buy a physical book?

1. The fact that I can give it away to a friend.

2. The fact that books almost never contain advertising (the last holdout).

3. The fact that I am often out of reach of the Internet -- and even electricity -- for a large percentage of each year while traveling.

4. The fact that I am in my 60s and, as they say, "You can't teach a dead dog new tricks". :)
On lowering the barrier of entry and 'Sign in via' buttons
You should know when to say stop to additional work being assigned to you. Accept as much work as you can handle, and then a little more, but no more than that. It took me a few years of being really stressed out to learn that it wasin my power to say that i lacked the time to do something.
I too am interested in law, but more with anthropological curiosity. My thinking on governance is akin to the rape model though - all that matters is if they're currently saying "No".

It looked like you were just saying that eminent people (Jefferson) had once thought the courts too powerful among the branches of government and that this had bearing on this situation via some "requires the powers to enforce their mandate" argument.

Where were you going with it?
Each padd is just as capable, people can just choose to use more than one at a time.
No, The Death Of Google Reader Doesn't Mean 'Free' Doesn't Work
It's right and proper that microsoft receive a payment for every pc laptop sold?
Desperation breeds paralysis. Try being really poor sometime - you can not focus creatively.

Engineers are being paid what they are worth.
Claws-mail with RSSyl plugin
Your job (much like your life) is what you make of it. If you seek out problems that are unsolved & require solutions that involve thinking up a clean/simple solution, you'll find yourself spending much more time solving algorithmic problems than just writing/copying rote logic.
His talk "Become Efficient or Die" (not currently on his talks page) is very insightful:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDT8OH1x28E&playnext=1...) Most startups I know lack many of the most important things he mentions.

(I realize I probably shouldn't respond to this question, which would have been satisfied by simply reading the link. But it gave me an excuse to post this talk.)
>I don't understand the need for this.

The killer app for this would likely be data leaks and piracy.

>while hosting non-image files on image file hosts technically might not be illegal, it still essentially is abusing a free service

Those are image files, just not ones meant to be directly viewed by humans. I wonder how many image hosts explicitly forbid such images from being hosted in their ToS. If the idea behind this spreads I would expect many of them to do so.

Edit: IANAL, but I wonder if it would be hard to define legally what exactly those images are. If you say they're images not meant for human viewing, well, what about a photograph of a printed QR code? It need not only show a QR code; it can be an otherwise aesthetically pleasing picture that also features a QR code somewhere. Same with this encoding technology: what happens if instead of dedicating the whole picture to the encoded binary data you embed it in a larger artistic image?
> #!/bin/bash

Gotcha :)
Amazingly cute dog
I would like to show you a picture of a cute puppy. Why don't you check what it would like to tell you?
Not much of my time but a lot of my value.
More Than Nine Million IOPS From a Single flash drive, using directFS
DID YOU READ TO THE END OF THE DOCUMENT???? THE VERY END???? ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT IT JUST PLAIN "WOW".
Using The Crunchbase API
TurboTax "Analyzes Your Tax Return"
Are you trying to make some vague point through sarcastic remarks? If so, I find it completely unhelpful and unconstructve. I am pretty sure internet snark is long-since outgrown by most of HN.

Feel free to add something of substance.
I don't understand why Hacker News allows us to submit titles with our links. If they are just going to be overridden, then the software should automatically fetch the title from the web page without user input.
The Implausibility of Secrecy