skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps "considerably less free" was meant to refer to the enormous increase in this country's prison population over the past few decades. That increase was driven by a ballooning legal code, vast expanses in law enforcement power, and a general disregard for the most important civil rights in this country. While most non-prisoners walk about freely, as though they are entirely innocent, it is nearly impossible for any US citizen to claim that they have not committed any felony offenses.
I would argue that the brand risk -- e.g. the risk of what ended up happening -- outweighs the legal risk.

That's not to say I wouldn't send it to a lawyer. But I'd do it with some hustle. Something like: "This is going out in 24 hours. Please comment ASAP!"
Allow me to apologize. I'm constantly getting bamboozled by wanna by founders looking for an easy paycheck that it makes me more negative than usual. Why don't you shoot me an email and we can talk about whatever. Cool?
Just hoping to see more press for Stylus. Sass is an excellent processor too, but Stylus just felt right from the get-go
The reason I like this is because it is browser-based (vs itunes must be used as an app). At the very least, if you are a Rdio subsciber, you get $25 free credit for Vdio.
I've thought about it. ;)

Primarily, this was an experiment in 'selling your byproducts'.[1] I'm already self-publishing a book on Hypermedia APIs[2], and the older system it was in couldn't handle my new requirements. I also wanted to learn Rust, and so I decided to just write it all down as I went. It also enabled me to get familiar enough with my new tooling that when it came time to port over DHAs, it wasn't bad at all.

So yes, doing the same thing 'for other languages' would be fun, and if Rust continues to take off, I might give it a shot. I'm already planning on writing more content for the book as I go; I've been working on a Rust buildpack for Heroku...

1: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1620-sell-your-by-products
2: http://www.designinghypermediaapis.com/
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer zeroes in on dark matter
You need to watch Idiocracy
Only the US and UK - that's disappointing seeing as how Rdio served Canada early, and that's part of the reason I gave them a shot, and really love them now.

But it doesn't look like it'll be the unlimited streaming variety, so i'm not sure how this can compete with Netflix.
Forty mobile phone facts: cellphones for dogs, 'butt-dialling'
As someone who legally sold a business as a minor (still a minor today), you are mistaken. Take a look at this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_of_minors
The greatest trick libc ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist.
And has in fact, according to wikipedia anyway, sent them a C&D.
I think this is great!

I'm getting this http://d.pr/i/UqZn every time I try to play a preview though.

Hopefully this will also be available on mobile!
NASA Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Webcast 1:30 EDT (10:30 PDT)
I think it is "none of the above". Servo, right now, is cloudcuckooland stuff; this suggests it is a long bet research, not tied to any particular product division. Samsung probably has Tizen, Smart TV, Exynos in mind, so you could equall say "all of the above", but I think "none of the above" is more accurate description.
Introducing Tabula, a human-friendly PDF-to-CSV data extractor
Thanks, done!

FYI to other account-closers, you can download all your connections (the names, at least) by loading e.g. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/profile-v2-connections?id=YO...

I like the idea of a social network for professional contacts, but LinkedIn is just too slimy. I'll just link people to my own website & portfolio in the future.
curl -skL http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

Please stop doing this. At the very least, do it over HTTPS.
Management by Magazine
I've used a few BI tools and it blows everything else out of the water - this is the first tool I've come across where I feel like end users could actually create the reports they want with it.
I think it has more to do with their priorities. They want to be reelected, which has become less a matter of policy stance and more of financing campaigns.
Tis concept is new to me. Are there many universities in the US and Europe that accept students (and grant degrees) into MSc and PhD programs without requiring the prior degrees or is this particular case an anomaly?
That's about right for a new operator. Though they do make more with time, due to how difficult is to find good ones.
they seem to be competing with itunes and not netflix.
Why is it so massive? Why does it need to specify in grave detail the difference between <span>, <label>, <code>, etc.? How about a spec like this:

- There are two types of elements: block and inline. You can declare a name of an element with a particular type using perhaps XML namespaces, or just a JSON object.

- Inline elements can be floated left/right along other inline elements.

- Block elements may be positioned absolutely inside their parent elements or relatively to their current position. You cannot float them.

- Width/height may be specified as a pixel width, percentage width of parent, percentage of available space, or percentage of screen size. Additionally, you may specify the box model: whether to include borders, margins, padding, etc.

- CSS rules about typography, margins, borders, padding, etc. shall apply. This way, you can include your own basic rules and build on top of them.

I had the misfortune to do a bit of hacking with GTK+ and at first thought "what an archaic way to lay out elements?!" Then it came to me that HTML + CSS is not advanced, it is cluttered. There are many ways to position an element on the page, and they will conflict. Additionally, things like opacity affecting z-index, having a parent element have a size to give the child element a percentage size, etc. lead to a ton of hacks. It's time we have a better, cleaner tool than the browser if we are going to build serious apps on this platform.
I thought he was involved as well (considering the name) which made the manifesto claim about reducing "memes, funny pictures, viral videos" funny considering that moot builds products that are just the opposite of that.
The best - Me

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/thebest.html
I agree. People mistake the fact "Some C people really like Go, for some of the same reasons they like C" for the falsehood "Go is a good candidate to replace C in the domains C it typically best for".
It is a high-level overview of what OAuth is since I never found a decent 'What is OAuth' type post when I was first learning OAuth.

Its not meant to be a coding tutorial (although I might make one, I also included a link to one within my post).
Let's put this into context. I am from Singapore, and I know the founders who do it. And there is a trend here that we do alot of things, to be what I call a masquerade.

They have launched for approx slighty more than half a year. Their Google Play shows around 1-5k __downloads__. Let's peg the iPhone to be 2x of Google Play. So lets make that a cap of 15k in the best-case scenario. But these are downloads, assuming 50% retention rate (which is really superb, they have 7.5k active users.

50 * 7.5k puts that to be about 375000 users. How many of that are actives? We don't know. So yes, an acqusition for a total of 375000 on a best case scenario?

To put it bluntly, this is a classic case of a masquerade. This is no news, this is just a marketing attempt. The thing is, the Singaporean startup scene DOES THIS ALL THE TIME. In less than 6 months, this is the 2nd time I see an acquisition as marketing piece. And then there are vanity metric bragging, etc.

Oh well. Can we stop celebrating marketing campaigns already?
https://medium.com/about/9e53ca408c48
Performance impact should be minimal. It's only 200 lines of code, and it uses string concatenation internally. Still, I see no benefit to using this rather than doing a document.createElement('div') and assigning the attributes / contents. Perhaps it's a bit faster than using document.createElement. There may be bugs in this one, as it doesn't escape attributes.
Either it is a bubble or will become one. The only thing to argue about is what the peak and reset price will be.
Thanks for replying. As a paying Heroku customer (who's not affected by the routing issue), while seeing a blog post earlier would have been nice, it's great to hear that you spent so much time with affected customers.
To counter your anecdotal evidence with my own, I know a fair few people who have bitcoins and not one of them has any interest in the fact they can be used to buy drugs.

Of the people I know It's roughly an equal split between speculation on its value and longer term interest in its potential as a low friction, decentralised currency.

Not to say it's not some peoples motivation but I think that they're probably in the minority. There was a piece which was on the front page of HN a while back (can't find the link right now) which estimated the total revenue going through silk road and it was a fairly small fraction of the total bitcoin transaction volume if I remember rightly.
$15? I'd rather buy the DVD.
They mean 'negative liberty,' you mean 'positive liberty.'
I'm guessing you're not black, are you? Were your Japanese parents placed in an internment camp during WWII? Were you a communist in the McCarthy era?

It's not that we have less freedom now, it's that freedom is different. Now, we torture people and hold them indefinitely in Guantanamo. We spy on our citizens. We still haven't overcome racism or sexism. But there are definitely areas where we've improved greatly.
I wonder how this works out for take-home pay. Many of the companies listed have offices in Austin as well as the bay area (Cisco, Paypal, Oracle, VMWare, Intel). Even ignoring housing costs, the california vs texas state income tax means a 10% difference in take-home.

Are facebook and bloomberg engineers really coming out ahead, or are all their developers just living in palo alto and manhattan?
First you have missed the all things equal caveat, second people hoarding cash will not lead to a deflationary spiral, who give that idea?

It will lead to a new equilibrium. The greater the cash balances and lower the prices the greater the temptation to spend, and to break the spiral.
I don't work with Perl anymore, but the same problem has played out in the Ruby space, with the same conclusions.
Run Android in your Browser
http://rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-lyrics

There are screenshots of the website where it said that in multiple places.
Yes, because that is the solution. Empirically.

We've run many experiments over the past month to try other approaches to routing, including recreating the exact layout of the Bamboo routing layer (which would never scale to where we are today, but just as a point of reference). None have produced results that are anywhere near as good as using a concurrent backend. (I'd love to publish some of these results so that you don't have to take my word for it.)

That said, we're not done. There are changes to the router behavior that could have an additive effect with apps running Unicorn/Puma/etc, and we'll continue to look into those. But concurrent backends are a solution that is ready and fully-baked today.
I would, but the reports bug out, when I try to send them. :P
Unless I'm entirely misunderstanding the situation, this was definitely the premise of the "intelligent routing mesh" that Heroku used for so long on the Bamboo stack.
Nice!! I can clearly see from your tone that we're now competitors :)

As you can see, we specifically don't allow images, rich text editing or videos. We want to focus on content and the discussion. Our minimal design emphasizes this.

We also think that infinite scrolling is bad UI design. We had it on our early versions but took it away. Much clearer without - you should try too! But of course, the more we differ the less we compete with each other.
The GitHub Data Challenge II
Cloud storage companies reduce their costs and storage needs by analyzing stored content to find duplicate content (and I would think partially duplicate content) so that they can store only single copies.

I think BitCasa offers unlimited storage. They had stated some time ago that they can offer unlimited storage because their algorithms for content matching were very effective at limiting what they actually had to store. Size becomes a competitive advantage.
I don't think this has anything to do with moot (also an HN user).

He has some data from his websites (4chan, Canvas) and he has links to other people involved in web forum technology, so a discussion forum from him could involve some interesting ideas.

It's interesting just how differently anonymity works on sites like 4chan (many people have said that anonymity + Internet = assholes) compared to the original Japanese version of 2chan, where the founder has said

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel#Anonymous_posting)

> [...] delivering news without taking any risk is very important to us. There is a lot of information disclosure or secret news gathered on Channel 2. Few people would post that kind of information by taking a risk. Moreover, people can only truly discuss something when they don't know each other.

> If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.
Direct link is http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html , but it's already taken in HN records by an ISS news conference from a few days ago.
Then that makes your choice of name very interesting, because the conventional meaning of 'moot' is 'irrelevant' (unless you're British).

Something seems fishy here.
Congratulations. It's great to see kids so young able to do this.
You're presenting a strawman. The choice for Lybians and Syrians isn't between their local currency and Bitcoins, it's between the local currency, Bitcoin and one of the first-world currencies. And people in the third world have been choosing to hold USD for decades.

In fact your comparison exposes the biggest problem with Bitcoin: it's a solution in search of a problem. The USD has a long track record as the best managed currency in the world. The 70's stagflation debacle was a minor hiccup by world standards, and the current quantitative easing policy is nothing. Why would anyone in their right mind convert their dollars into Internet funny money? I mean, sure, back in 2009 when Bitcoin started, people were panicking having witnessed the Lehman collapse and TARP. But now we know the world isn't coming to an end, so why bother?
The sad thing about this is in many places (at least in the US) there are few if any alternatives. In my city, I can either get Time Warner Cable or AT&T DSL. I'm 20 miles from Verizon's office but FIOS is illegal in my city. So if the ISP starts screwing with the content then you have virtually no alternative.
If research was better paid, more people would be researchers. So more money is needed.

As much as I'd like to do my share in X, if I can't make a living of it, I won't dedicate my whole life to it. Some will, but many won't.
The plan is that it eventually will be able to.

To expand upon that point, Rust is designed to allow the programmer to avoid garbage collection altogether, if the programmer chooses. I believe that makes feasible the idea of using a runtime-less subset of Rust in any application where C would have been traditionally used.
Please publish these results. I think a chart showing that Unicorn + Random routing is better than Thin + Intelligent routing would go a long way to ending this whole thing. That's assuming that you can make deploying a Unicorn app as easy as it was with Thin ('git push heroku')
Can you elaborate on some places where "low-level" javascript is needed?
Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
Definitely an impressive selection. And I love Rdio's interface, so porting it to video is pretty cool by me.

All the interviews I've seen say they want to get to the subscription model in the long run, but for now content selection was more important.

They seem to be having some load problems though :-/.
First, please don't use hashkernel in production. It's a toy designed to showcase how hash kernels can help us (easily) learn on structured data.

VW is faster, smarter, and more featureful. However, it doesn't know how to learn on structured data.
In particular the System LSI group.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/aboutus...
This is an interesting problem. On a broadcast channel, when a local station attempts to replace the ads the network has put in their shows, with their own ads, the network has some leverage to shut down that process. But on the Internet there are a bunch of web sites and they don't have any leverage at all. They could do an IP filter, which is to say put up a page "This site unavailable on this ISP's network" when a request came in from a CMA communications IP block. That would cause a support headache for CMA with all their customers calling into complain. The other defense would be to create a web page that doesn't cache (it pulls the actual page content through AJAX calls gets around any local script injection). Lastly there seems to be "product" here where you bundle up an EC2 instance and some friendly software on the PC that spins up a VPN tunnel for all of your traffic.
The article doesn't say that he did. It's a discussion of one of the worst aspects of the CFAA, which is currently being considered for reform.
Any idea when Servo might make it into Firefox desktop builds?
Go doesn't come with a VM, it comes with a runtime. Go code compiles to native machine code.
What about the fact that they've ported Unreal Engine 3 and are running it now with full speed inside the browser? I hope we get our hands on it soon, but you can watch the videos of it for now.

It runs OK without asm.js, but it's liquid smooth with it.

What else do you need?
A /b/ C&D wouldn't be my favourite way to spend a week. :-o
It is all a matter of the available resources.

I'd say, it's all a matter of the guarantees. Guarantees are everything in embedded systems.
Adults who understand taxes know that if they receive payment in something other than dollars, whether it's foreign currency, gold, bitcoins, or barter goods, it's up to them to pay taxes on the dollar value of it.
"knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period"

Injecting or replacing ads in other people's content on the wire: 'knowingly and with intent to defraud', 'exceeds authorized access', 'furthers the intended fraud'

Ad revenue from doing so: 'obtains anything of value'

Forget copyright infringement: a case could be made that CFAA applies here.
Sebastian Thrun On the Future of Education
I'm not sure I've ever known of a tech company that had a centralized HR department making hiring decisions. Mind you, I've worked for tech companies that had HR departments that thought they had a say in hiring, but that was a self-serving delusion on their part.

I think the tech industry, like most industries, does do hiring by having domain experts evaluate candidates. That's why hoary old books like "What Color Is Your Parachute" focus so intently on getting you to identify the real hiring managers at companies.

I definitely don't think the tech industry does hiring well. I think that's one of the huge, open, lucrative "meta-problems" in the tech industry.
That is not the same thing as inadvertently recording a crime in a public place, which is what the grandparent was describing.
There is one problem with the Github account as a "certificate". It requires a significant amount of work on the part of an employer to evaluate a Github account -- they have to get a technically adept person to spend an hour or two reading it before they really learn anything from it. It takes 30 seconds for an HR person with few specialized skills to understand whether one has a certification or not.
Rasperry Pi: Bringing computing to rural Cameroon
Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos
It might shut itself down due to too much load. In my experience, I find you can surpass the maximum load by 2 or even 3 times with no problem. But any more than that, and it will just shut down.
It's not just the first, but the biggest so far. A more fair comparison would be the concepts of ebay, credit score, etc that benefit from massive network effects and then become the defacto standard.

People can get over the idea of wealth transfer to early adopters if they find some unique benefits that they can't get with other currencies. That said, you're right. It's still in the early nascent stages and could just as easily be another betamax.
I'm not sure how money plays into this. People create things for free all the time just because the are happy to know others are taking something from that work. See: Open source software, YouTube videos, comments on HN, to name a few.
Nice writeup, jhoon!

In case anyone else was searching his/her eyes trying to figure out where the "likes" field is actually sanitized out from the the training data set, it's the item.pop("likes") inside the function "is_liked": https://github.com/jeremydhoon/hashkernel/blob/master/fblear...

... Maybe I like long names too much, but my vote would be something longer like "check_if_liked_and_remove_likes" since "is_liked" sounds like a predicate that won't be modifying its input.
What is the opposite of FUD?

Everything surrounding bitcoin screams pump and dump. Exponential growth curve. Seeding and pumping of bitcoin stories and comments...

Cash your paper wins now folks. That's the fat lady singing the coda. It'll be August before they play this song again.
I heard about this from one of Audiobox's crew. Crazy difference in performance.
Seems a bit grasping at straws for arguments against the new laws.

Are news papers tos justicable ie are they enforceable - you can put any kind of crap you want in a tos/contract for example you can sign a contact giving up your righst to a public holiday but its not a valid contract and is unenforceable.

The test woudl be are teenagers restricted from buying the print edition no they are not.

For an organization supposedly all about understanding and lobbying for sane laws I would expect better than this pathetic effort.