skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Steam's DRM is reasonable

And what about the case when Steam itself is used by companies as platform for their DRM. I can't play Ubisoft titles without Ubiplay, can't play some titles without Games For Windows Live.

I have spent 10 minutes waiting to sign in to these services because I have a flaky connection!
In that case, Wireshark and protocol analysis comes to the rescue. The trick is to find the images in the mess that is the downstream packets, but I've had success in the past with recording VoIP calls this way (the client didn't support recording).
Um ... well obviously they're starting to get it but it's not like they had a choice. And maybe it's too late, I don't know.

Beside, you talked about how this forum is about embracing the making of things, Well I guess we all agree about that, BUT let's not forget that actually Paul Graham, the guy behind HN actually wrote the original "Microsoft is Dead" essay back in 2007 , so maybe you should tell him that he should grow up or whatever too !
Yeah I just used a JavaScript method `scrollIntoViewIfNeeded` to scroll the page to the target element but it works in modern browsers AFAIK.
> The other well-known side effect is cardiovascular disease, and NSAIDs seem to increase the risks of heart attacks and strokes.

And two sentences later...

> Importantly, other NSAIDs interfere with the beneficial effects of ASA (aspirin) on platelets that can give protective effects against cardiovascular disease.

Aspirin is a NSAID, and according to this, protects against, and causes heart disease.
Computers aren't magic. Apache httpd isn't magic. The only reason it can run out of memory is misconfiguration.
Easel – a Y Combinator startup
Andy Rubin leaves Android
Why Wolframalpha Result is Different?
Thanks for the article.
And thanks God, nowadays we can open business in nearly any country, just be sure to have some coins for air ticket..
Not a zero-sum game. Thank you for this insight!
Errors and Corrections in Mathematics Literature (AMS Notices)
Also you probably broke the law

http://www.google.com/patents/US7730419

http://www.google.com/patents/US7426699

(ok they're for cookies but you get the idea)
THIS is a "brilliant piece of entrepreneur boilerplate".

+1
That's certainly a legitimate concern, but keep in mind that it's hosted on and sponsored by Github, who already have access to your private repos.
That was a great read. As I understand OP's main concern here is accuracy. What about performance? NLTK is good start point and it deemed as slow.I really like to hear about runtime performance for same functionality with Python and R.
Start-Up Wants Men to 'Give a Shave' About Razors
Sure there is no good-guy and bad-guy here. But there is a better guy, and a worse guy, and that largely depends on what you value most.

For me, the tactics of Apple using legal methods to try to squash competition are a huge red flag, because I happen to think that the consumer is going to pay for that.

You can think that Apple defending its rights is going to benefit the consumer long-term by allowing Apple to provide innovation. But my viewpoint is that Apple can not compete anymore, and is resorting to legal tactics to fight competition. And that (if they had won) they would have a lock-in in a growing and very important market segment (high end smartphones).

Luckily the "good guys" have largely won.

It is just a matter of point of view.
thank you for the literary backup. They help us reptiles more than we think!
While I can see the argument here (and yes, it's valid), how is it any different from them promoting either Android or Apple, where with just a few taps you can download Skype?

Same scenario really - just slightly less convenient.
The article shows a data table to show specifically which medicines in the broad class of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been compared for cardiovascular disease events in recent, well designed studies. The article also draws the distinction between medicines that are predominantly COX-1 or COX-2 inhibitors and their differing side effect profiles.
One bad idea leads to another. Selling information by the bit is a bad idea.
Pretty much every behaviour we exhibit has contexts in which it's detrimental. I don't see how pointing that out in this case contributes to the discussion.

Unless you're actually suggesting that the sexual pleasure response is itself an incidental consequence of something else that just hasn't been optimised out yet?
Beautiful Time-Lapse Videos Show Comet Flying Near Crescent Moon
A story about Vienna. (an interactive narrative infographic)
So Dropbox is not part of the "cloud"?
Google Glass Ushers in the Next Wave of Cybernetic Hate Crimes
Microsoft Security Essentials + Windows Firewall (enabled by default if you install MSE) = probably good enough unless you visit a lot of shady websites. In fact, this is the exact same combination that comes with every copy of Windows 8.
I haven't tried it, but have you looked at FounderDating? You do have to sign up and it is more of a matchmaking service than a search engine, I believe. London, UK is not yet unlocked (http://members.founderdating.com/unlock), but it is near the top of the list.
Entropy messes up certain kinds of anti-spam solutions. And captcha beating is mostly automated these days.
And the best-performing asset for the last 2-3 years or so? Also pretty natural for high-tech IT company to allow this kind of thing.
This is why I never 'buy' things online that I want to keep.

Music is a paid subscription through Spotify. If they went down I'd subscribe somewhere-else.

Videos are either through a paid Netflix subscription or rented for £3-ish through XBOX live. I never really watch the same movie twice.

Books I do buy from Kobo, but I wouldn't read the same book twice (unless it's a reference book which I prefer to use paper for), so I don't really care if it's not available after I've read it once.

I've never really got why people spend £15 to 'own' a movie on something like iTunes when the way we consume that stuff is changing so quickly at the moment.
Ok, this does pretty backtraces.

I was hoping for an actual 'reverse cpp': a tool that took preprocessed C source code and undoes macro expansions. I mean, it should read some C source and some header files, and use the macro definitions found in the header files to try and shorten the source code.
Design With FontForge
To me it seem hyperbolic to call it the "Achilles heel of OAuth [2.0]." Other oauth providers than Facebook are smart enough to make the redirect_uri constant. Then the attack surface is reduced from the whole of mydomain.com to mydomain.com/whatever-redirect_uri-is. For those, the attack needs to be sophisticated enough to interfere with that specific url. But if the client site is owned that hard, it's lost anyway.
Web service to sync Facebook events, without getting "spammy" unanswered events
I'd be more interested to look at successful startups (however you define that[0]) and see how those founders met.

[0] Personally, I'm more interested in recurring revenue, so successful for me is either profitable and stable to support the founders and employees or a large acquisition. A 4- or 5-figure acquisition is less appealing because truthfully, between my mortgage, student loans, and other bills, I could spend any 5-figure sum in a single day.
It's absolutely non-sensical to want to be part of a common market but to not do what's necessary to actually create a common market. You can't cherry pick what you want.

Freedom of labor (which necessitates freedom of movement) is just as much part of a common market as freedom of capital is.

If the UK wants to leave the EU but, for example, keep freedom of capital they will be told off. If they don't want to accept some harmonization process of laws (which is necessary or else it's real simple for individual governments to erect barriers in the market) they will be told off.

If they are out of the common market they are out. You can't be half in and half out. And good riddance to them.
Are you saying this is decoy spam sent purely to try and confuse my anti-spam system? It's an interesting idea.
Inexpensive reputationThis
Popularity can be a key element associated with item or brand advertising. Companies set a lot of effort in guaranteeing their goods as well as their own brands are popular enough within the market.
Interactive: Snake Oil?
Same reason you might get engaged prior to getting married?
Lagging a lot on a i7 Macbook Pro Retina with 16 Gbs of RAM in Chrome. It is a bit better in Safari, but still not smooth.
Here's a more realistic thing some game publisher (or movie publisher, or music publisher) might have actually said at some point, though:

> Our market is composed 90% of selfish, penniless teenagers who will pirate everything they possibly can if there is any option of it, but who are also extremely impatient, and must be the first to own everything so they can talk about consuming it with their friends who are also consuming it.

> If we add DRM, we will create a ~2 week window where the only way to get our product is legitimately. With the social pressure from their friends to consume our product mounting, the selfish, penniless teenagers will be forced to either get part-time jobs, or coerce their parents into buying the [product] for them, because the primary option is temporarily unavailable.

> So, let's add DRM to our product. It will stop the pirates [for just long enough for us to turn a profit, which we can then use to do things that] our customers will love [us for].

Of course, this block of selfish-but-penniless-fad-following-teenagers just define the power-law "fat head" of most media companies' profitability, not the entirety of the curve. After that block has settled out (the fad has passed; everyone who was going to either purchase or pirate to join in on the fad has already made their choice), every additional day where DRM is kept on the product is just money-grubbing corporate self-interest. :)
And newcomers may be able to immitate/cargo-cult your styling blindly without straying too far off the gods-sworn path if they are really lucky!

I guess they should count themselves lucky if they know what an API is at all. C'mon this is a 101-level topic. You can't expect everyone to suddenly forget how to use an API (with or without native syntax) just because it's for concurrency... or do you?

As for Coro, it doesn't matter how many people use it, you can write the exact same things you would write in Go and it will work in the exact same way. It's not cargo-culting, it's writing CSP, which you still have to actually write CSP in Go if that's what you want, and it's perfectly possible not to.

The runtime distinction isn't very important either, in fact when I hear "runtime" I ask "why not library?" Some things are impossible in libraries but CSP is not among them, so I'm still asking "why not a library?" The scheduler, probably the most interesting part, can always be implemented as a library. Can you say anything particular to Go's runtime that makes it so special? I can't think of a single thing. The scheduler itself is about as boring as it gets. Not that there's anything wrong with that—it's not a difficult subject after all.

As for the popularity contest goes, we might as well be talking about an iteration protocol. There are many different ones but you'd rarely notice it. The most commonly used ones are relatively less-than-great. You can always use a for-loop like you can always write a coroutine or time slicer in the worst case scenario. It works, and very well.

The other thing is CSP. Up to now, I wasn't worried about the concurrency model in particular, but now you're saying we can't use actors, agents, etc.—it must be CSP. That's BS. CSP is nice when you have to build it yourself, but it's not all there is and it's no easier to reason about than other good options. In fact I would mostly only chose it when I had to build it myself or support for something else wasn't available, which is understandably common. Really though, this sounds like a deceitful way to rule out Erlang and friends.
I'm not sure how the taxes work but wouldn't it be kind of like buying shares as a company that made good profits. It's not free money in the eyes of the tax office.
How I Use Quora
Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor
I take it you've not been following EA's business decisions?
There is nothing positive to be said about DRM. This is just one of many negatives.
I used it for a real problem and I loved the idea and how simply is built. But I used alone, while I still considering try it with my team, I just didn't feel very compelled to send invitations.
I use Asana, if this was a tool of their product, with all my teammates there, our taks and projects listed, and people already in the "let's talk about business" mood, I would certainly use it.

I don't see it as a tool to teach you "creative skills", not at all! I see as a good brainstorming tool. A good, simple one. The main advantage to real meetings brainstorming sessions is that this is asynchronous, your team doesn't have to be all together at the same time. You may just say "let's brainstorm this through the next 3 days, and friday we decide what to do".
And I liked the 2 nudges I got very much! And I like that is not that easy to skip.

But, as a web app alone, with very poor social resources, it lost all its appeal.
Something that I think would make it great is to allow all communication to be made through email (just as Basecamp and Asana do). But if everything is via email, then it may be very powerfull. But you have to create a great UX with added value, because one can simply create a email, copy 3 teammates and start a brainstorming thread.
How to introduce the nudges, a good organization of topics and ideas, an easy to upvote good ideas maybe, etc; that would be hard to do through this email communication.

Well, I think the concept is great, I hope you can make a good product out of it.
According to AV Comparatives' tests [1] Avira Free Antivirus performs the best out of all free (gratis) antiviruses for Windows. I use it myself on Windows XP VMs as well as hardware Windows 7/8 installations and aside from the annoying daily pop-up I found the experience quite satisfactory. The downside is that with real-time protection enabled it slowed down older Pentium 4M and AMD Sempron machines I've tried it on a bit too much compared to Avast.

[1] Specifically, http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/dynamic-t... and http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/detection.... Avira scored second (out of 15 free and paid AVs) on the file detection rate test, which for my purposes is the most important metric. I'm disappointed that those tests do not feature free and open-source antiviruses like ClamAV, though.
A Barometer is present on a few other Androids, so I assume it comes free as part of another chip. It's rarely listed as a feature though, which makes me think it's only enabled because it's there.

Has anyone checked the calibration/reliability to see if it's actually worth using?
Well, Lisp has excellent arithmetic capabilities. Bignums, Floats, Ratios, Complex numbers built in.

Infix notation is provided by macros or read macros.

Infix notation is provided by math packages on top of Lisp: Macsyma, Reduce, Derive, Axiom, ...

Those provide REAL extensive math syntax capabilities, not just what typical programming languages provide.
Yes, but you can easily install Skype on the other platforms as well.

Which any savvy customer will do anyway.

Plus Skype is not the only game in town, there are other apps offering VoIP services.
It wouldn't be a problem for jpeg (though I believe it is for mp3?). In jpeg the quantisation step controls the degradation in quality - you can run it through a 2nd time with the same quantisation without losing further quality.
Very slow and laggy..couldn't even read the text content properly.
You can rip to non-lossy formats.
Obligatory xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/488/
Courts have some leeway in what remedies to use, precisely for some of those pragmatic reasons. One remedy for a contract breach is for a court to issue an injunction ordering performance of the contract. As you note there are some practical problems with a court ordering VCs to invest on the basis of this kind of agreement. But another remedy is for the court to just award monetary damages (how to calculate damages for nonperformance of a contract is a whole other can of worms, but it's something courts do).
Understanding the origins of mass in the universe is directly tied to how gravity works. All of which feeds into any hope we might have of one-day figuring out how to step-around it's particular limitations, or find some suitable negative-space time curvature to build Alcubierre drives with.
I used to be a bit like that around 15 years ago, then I learned to appreciate technology for what it is, regardless who does it.
that's probably due to a few big graphics on the website. does anyone have suggestions how to handle that (except using less graphic intensive graphics) ??
Public Transport was just a city map for me?
Wow. How did you know all about me?
Facebook sharing function seems broken...
Very interesting findings. There is still so much we don't know about the oceans...

But I guess this kind of news can be a show stopper for the recent rise in interest for exploring extraction of minerals from the sea floor.

I'm kind of torn between being glad that sea floor wildlife may not be destroyed after all; and sad for the boom in underwater tech that may never happen. :-/
Steam's DRM may have been reasonable at some poin but it certainly isn't now. I had all kinds of issues playing my legally-purchased copy of Portal 2 thanks to the DRM, as did a number of other people.
Any idea how this can be useful for the Raspberry Pi or GPU community?
Vienna is a very nice city to live in. Yet, it is not exactly a technology hub, so probably not a destination of preference for the HN crowd.
Sorry, you've read the article and you're genuinely not sure whether he's talking about behavioural evolution?
FYI: You'll have to do the same new account + migration thing with O365 if you wish to change plans (from P1 to E1, for instance).
what do you mean with couldn't even read the text content properly? did you try to read it while scrolling?
I'm Manchester based myself so if you go the building route, I'd be interested in seeing it!
great write up, and great analysis. i looked at this about a year ago, wanted to do some playing in NLTK and figured twitter data was a place to learn to do sentiment analysis. my bright idea - movie reviews and tasting - has been done to death :)

really great writeup, thanks for this.
> The chords sound more jazzy when you go counter-clockwise (it is the circle-of-fourths)

As a side note, movement by fourths sounds more jazzy or "warm" because the interval of a 4th is itself a "warm" sounding interval. So if you want a warm sounding chord, slap a 4th in there.

In practice this often means adding an 11th (an octave above). So let's say you have a standard C7 chord (C E G Bb), if you want to make it sound jazzy/warm then add the F above.

If you want to demonstrate how warm a 4th is (or to get the feel for any interval) stack them up and play them together - C F Bb Eb
Could someone underline the advantages of Google Reader and the features that will be missed ? What had it that other free products don't ?

(I use a desktop reader for news (FeedDemon) and an Android app for podcasts, I don't really know what I'm missing by not using something like reader.)
In most use cases I can think of the generated data is used only in a closed (testing) environment and won't be visible to web crawlers and spambots. Many developers like me use these libraries for prototyping different UI views for their apps.

Unfortunately, spammers do have way more advanced technologies to try and guess working addresses. Libraries like this generate mostly very improbable addresses: you would get way better results just by taking lists of most popular first names and family names and concatenating them with some well-known web mail providers.
Just don't start a company in France, at least not if you can avoid it which is the case for most startups (just go to Luxembourg or whatever). Not for the one week hassle, but because if you're looking for investors or if you want to sell it later, you and they'll have to pay close to 70% taxes so it will be a tough sell. Also, if you need to hire employees you will have to go through the expensive hell that is managing/hiring/firing employees and the crazy expensive taxes. Just not worth it.

The only case where you could start a company is if you're a one man shop freelancing startup (or a non-startup that needs to start a company for physical reasons such as a grocery store etc). Just my two-cents.
Absolutely horrible design.
i've visited vienna twice now. once in november, once in june. vienna is a vibrant, gorgeous and exciting city. the arts, culture, everything is fantastic, and the people are friendly and charming. one of my favorite museums - the belvedere - is there, and the gardens near that are also gorgeous.

i can't wait to go back to visit. i would say go in the summer, the winter (at least the week i was there) was dreary. i also love the cold war history of vienna, so that was exciting.

thanks for sharing.
Was there any evidence at all that before they bought Skype MS had a snowball's chance in hell in the handset game?
I do think it has to do with class more than anything.

Education coupled with social norms (hence the lack of female founders from every ethnicity)is really the issue.

If you would poule together all the succesfull white tech guys and combined them into an average.
Using education, upbringing, basically soc-eco background.
You would get a very different guy if you compared it with the average white male in america.

Its about exposure troughout your youth especially into the STEM areas.

Also are you the Kathryn Finney ? I actually bought your book: TBF in high school I really liked it and still have it. Someone in this thread said they noticed a lot of black women (but I think women in general) are into Fashion oriented start-ups.

And that really is true ! Girls are more exposed to beauty related things and guys are more exposed to technical stuff because I guess that is what society still values.
Nice city, but with 114% of the population being smokers...

I love Europe, but for being so developed, it's amazing how many places there people still think smoking is 'cool,' and 'a symbol of freedom.'

I do like Vienna, but I think I'd choose Hamburg if I had to choose a city in the German-speaking world. Or Berlin - only slightly less cosmopolitan, but the tech start-up scene is kind of happening, and the cost of living is cheaper.
Very good, love the idea.
"Munin" is already very well known as a distributed server monitoring system: http://munin-monitoring.org/
Nice and simple. Would be great if this worked over multiple pages.
I really like this. I think it would be neat to see a discrete help button or toggle switch, that allows novice users to go into a help mode overlayed on top of a live web app.
sorry that's a known issue (sometimes when the page takes too long to load, the pins get positioned wrongly. that's because the data is from an Open Government Data plattform and they use another projection to save the data).
but this is how it should look like: http://www.data.gv.at/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/storyvienna...
Thanks :]
It is amazing the level of trust we give anti-virus on windows. By its very nature it needs access that you would not want a user level program to have.
Nicely done. Bonus points for not making it a jQuery plugin!