skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ask a fair question, which I wrote about in a post just in the last day or so. (I was remembering a post from more than a year ago, as I recall, from another HN participant.) Different societies resolve these trade-offs differently, but the United States strongly favors making all arrest records public precisely to avoid having secret arrests, a feature of life in countries with a secret police service. (I have lived in such a country.) Yeah, sure, if I had a mugshot, I'd rather not have it all over the Internet, but if I did have a mugshot on the Internet, it wouldn't displace everything else about me on the Internet. As I recall, there is a mug shot of Bill Gates on the Internet, but that doesn't do the most to form his reputation.

So simply put, the trade-off here in the United States is that speech is counteracted by more speech. Rather little is done in secret here. Again, I have lived where the trade-offs are different, and I think that this is a generally desirable trade-off, and that United States defamation law strikes a good balance, with the defence of truth being very dispositive in defamation cases.

AFTER EDIT: Contrary to what is suggested by HN participant lutusp in another subthread here, there is no "false light" problem in the case the complaining doctor is complaining about. I am a lawyer, and I wouldn't dream of relying on Wikipedia for legal advice or even lay summaries of the law on most subjects.
What's really annoying to me is when links start downloading instead of opening the file in the browser. Is there any way to force Chrome to open a certain link, the way you can force it to download via "save as"?
I think they have deadlines internally, but prefer not to publicize them.

There seems to be no incentive in doing so. What's better for PR in case of missed deadline, imply that you will only release game when it's good enough, or make apologies? Do you get any reward for non-missed deadline?
Let's make this a real example. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/celebrity/business/bil... shows a mugshot of someone who later became famous. It was taken after a minor traffic infraction, the details of which are long forgotten.

Over the years this picture has provided many, including me, with repeated minor amusement. If I featured in a similar mugshot and it afforded someone else with amusement, well turnabout is fair play.

There is no such mugshot of me, but I would not think it a big deal if there was. And I doubt that Bill Gates worries himself about the fact that that is out there.

By contrast if my right to free speech could be shut down just because Bill Gates does not like that particular picture, then what other speech could he shut down because he, or some other influential person, disliked it? I heartily agree that free speech is often abused. But when you open the door to shutting down speech, there is a short road from there to a loss of democracy. That would scare me.

Consider this well. The USA is messy, but has been a democracy for hundreds of years and few are concerned that it is about to become a dictatorship. By contrast Brazilian democracy is younger than me, and it is by no means certain that I won't survive long enough to see another military dictatorship there.
I decided to fact check you. 57,285 U.S. gallons in a fully loaded 747. Jet-A is 6.84 lb/US gal. That's about 196 tons. Looks like stage 1 of the Falcon 9 is estimated to use 239 tons of RP-1 and stage 2 49 tons.

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/747family/pf/pf_400_...

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon9.html
Fake Tweet Erases $136B in Stock Market
Just fixed that issue.
I want to use this, but I cannot get it to install. Even after creating this directory.
A week's on-scene coverage cost more to mount than the usual news from the studio. Beyond that, live coverage 'bumped' many commercial avails. This was an expensive week, not a profit center.
> That seems unnecessarily nasty.

He seems quite concerned with the Streisand Effect. Maybe there's a bit of link bait going on here? If he can convince the good doctor to threaten suit against him, maybe he can be the benefactor instead of Retraction Watch. </tinfoil-hat>

[Edit: If nothing else, heated/opinionated discussion makes for interesting reading.]
Amendment: 'Extremely uninteresting' -TO YOU-.

As someone who has had difficulty picking up real programming languages, and has only found some marginal success due to Obj-C's ARC feature, I can tell you this puts everything I've read in to much better perspective.

Try not to be so negative, man, I think it's clear you weren't even the intended target anyways.
Snark aside, adopting the culture or behavior of those you aren't intimately exposed to is a legitimate concern. However, if we look at just about any period of history we see that just about every group has been able to do it [not including periods were systematized violence or oppression of minority groups was sanctioned by those in charge].

Traditionally, it was done via military service. In exchange for risking your life, those in power will educate you, give you a set of skills and some discipline, and surround you with people also looking to get ahead. If you wanted your child to have a better life, military enrollment was a good, if risky, way to go. More recently, schools have been the answer. If you wanted your child to succeed, you put an emphasis on education so he could get into the best schools, learn a valuable skill, and be surrounded by those with similar aspirations. I’m sure that going forward, even more and cheaper opportunities will arise based on technology.

If you look just at the United States, nearly every immigrant group has done this. The Irish, Italians, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean immigrants, all of which were at the bottom of the social totem pole at one time, have all adopted the prevalent socioeconomic background of the dominant groups of the time. And they’ve all succeeded to the point where nobody in the United States considers “the Irish” or “the Chinese” to inhabit a separate or distinct socioeconomic subgroup of Americans.
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Starbucks is a retreat especially for us who love coffee. It's more than a coffee shop, it's a home away from home. :)
We cannot continue to condone this kind of antagonism.

This cannot be good.
It wouldn't drop off. In fact there's many apps in the App Store that haven't been touched in years that continue to bring in money.

My thoughts are that I have so much to improve upon, and there's a lot of low hanging fruit left for me, so it's likely worth the additional investment.

I compared investing more time/money in this niche, vs in other unvalidated ideas I have and it made sense to stick with this for now.
I’d say that Motorola, HTC, Nokia, and Blackberry are under quite a lot of pressure to remain relevant. That means that new products need to be popular — otherwise, the companies will have to pivot, or face being bought for its (IP) parts.
Gross rank for apps reveals a lot. Any top 25 app by gross rank is doing well by "niche" standards.
Typo in the link. Nice site, though...
Posts on elementary topics (should be) noteworthy only if mastery is exhibited. Hence, griping.
There are several instances of:

1. People being arrested in error.

2. Mugshots being published.

3. People requesting mugshots be taken down.

4a. Mugshots disappearing from site A but reappearing on site B. Rinse, wash, repeat.

4b. An "administration fee" being charged for the service of taking down mugshot. See 4a.

There are crimes which are considered so heinous that even being publicly accused can carry a very substantial social stigma. Consider the recent exceptionally public allegations against a prominent Silicon Valley insider of rape by another SV insider.

In other cases, the increasing use of background checks, not limited to criminal convictions but including searches of social media, news, and the general Internet, means that such false allegations might appear.

Again: take the case of individuals who were falsely accused of being the Boston Marathon bombers, including a missing college student and a high school student fingered by the New York Post (which "stands by its reporting" for whatever the hell that means). Or today's story that a man arrested in connection with ricin-laced letters being sent to congressmen and the President being released.

If that still doesn't work, picture this: you wake up tomorrow to find the police at your door. Why? An ex-girlfriend, or ex-boyfriend, or co-worker, or child at the charity you volunteer with, or some total stranger, has just made up completely random shit about you. Or your image is similar to that of someone photographed doing something Really Really Bad. Or your Twitter / Facebook / HN account has been hacked and is spewing bile or terrorist threats.

It all sounds very abstract until it isn't.

There's a reason why the authors of the US Constitution insisted on due process.
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Some developers have told me this is a good rule of thumb, but for others it's way off. Mine # of reviews is not really indicative of how many downloads.
Mac sales declined.
Best part of the article: Step 5. Get press. With your funding, buy off a few reporters to talk about your app. (Actually, just kidding. This is unethical to most journalists and will only probably work with TechCrunch.)
>> Both Boxster and 1 Series are still relatively expensive.

Right, spot on, $50k for a 6-cylinder two-seater while American counterparts are half the price with 8-cylinder engines. And who says Porsche/BMW are in trouble because of that? And who says GM has a great business model because of that? Nobody! But in the tech it is somehow backwards.

Who cares about Porsche market share in their right mind? Porsche makes about $20k on average on every vehicle they sell in Europe. And they have maybe 0.5% of the market share. GM losses nearly $2k on every vehicle they sell in Europe. And has about 20% of the market. I don't think that "commodity model" makes sense for Apple. They should stay away from it.
the 4s was so good, and the 5 has been very very "meh"
This case is really pretty interesting, whether the movies were actually plagiarized or not, but man, this article is so bad. I can't get over how bad it really is. Why would you want to post this here?

Over-the-top tone, broken links and misspellings aside, it just doesn't have any real sources. It claims Snopes as one source, but as msg linked here, Snopes actually completely contradicts this article. The main source for it appears to really just be Sophia Stewart herself, if you believe the article's author at all.

I looked for another site that would have a more objective analysis of the whole thing, and this[1] is the best I found in short order. Even that one's not great.

The most interesting point, I think, is that the Wachowskis were only 21 and 23 in 1986 [2], and they were apparently just working as carpenters while making comic books on the side. I can't imagine they had a lot of money to solicit scripts through magazines at that point.

[1] http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/sophia-stewart-the-m...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis
In my experience time-based estimates pretty much always wildly inaccurate, but people can get pretty good (good enough for project management) using complexity-based estimates. Benchmark a small task whose complexity the group agrees on and go up in orders of magnitude from there. Then look at velocity over time. You get a pretty accurate picture of your throughput in a high-, medium-, and low-confidence scenario (high confidence we can do this much, medium confidence we can do this much more, etc.).
Get in line, buster :( Woe betide Australia's near-nonexistent aerospace engineering field. It's why I play with trains instead.
Yeah, this is useful. You can generate the URI in a click handler as well, so if you need to do some last minute assembly it still seems to work like a regular download link.
Well with the internet pretty much anything you do or that happens to you is going to circulate around the internet forever. Maybe the police shouldn't release that kind of information, but as far as being illegal for people to spread it is censorship and ridiculous.
Exit claimed: "okay, but if you campaign for the well being of women by appealing to notions of gender equality, you must ultimately equally believe in the well being of men."

The fact that women fight for women's issues on the basis of gender equality is no different than the fact that gays fight for gay issues on the basis of equality w.r.t. sexual orientation. In neither case does the implication follow that just because people fight for their own group on the basis of equality with other groups that they should necessarily be concerned about the issues of concern to those other groups.

I believe strongly in environmental justice, and think poor people deserve a clean environmental equally with rich people. That doesn't mean I care or spend much time thinking about pollution in the Hamptons.
I have taken advantage of Dropbox's cloud sync features quite often. For example, my school's printers are attached to library computers but not my laptop. So I can just log in to Dropbox from a library computer to download and print a file from their web interface. The only real alternative would be to first send myself an email with the file as an attachment, which would require me to have the forethought to send that email from my laptop first, instead of knowing I can print any file I want whenever I want.

Also, I often share individual files by using the "Get a public link" feature in Dropbox, and it's comforting to know they can just access those files whenever they want no matter what devices are attached and syncing.
Nice landing page for sure. Maybe this is obvious, but they key is finding out a solid upgrade that makes IAP's worth it to customers.
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Unless you make... posters :)

Joke aside, I like "need" better. People don't know what they want, just give them what they need.
As far as I know, all downloads are based on search.
Correct. Race and ethnicity represent real human attributes that are immediately discernable, understood instinctively by everybody, and have a degree of predictive value, and always have. It's completely asinine to pretend that race doesn't exist, or to make pedantic arguments along the line of "genetic similarity" of human beings. Human behaviour is not some geneticist researcher's data set.
"Syntactic sugar" generally means a syntax that's just a nicer-looking version of something that can be equivalently expressed in a more fundamental syntax. But C is more than that: it provides a way of abstracting away the details of the machine so that you don't have to explicitly deal with the fact that your machine has 64-bit pointers and 2's complement integer arithmetic and IEEE floating point and an instruction set that handles shift operations in a particular way.

So a better formulation might be: "C provides an abstraction layer on top of a computer's memory model and instruction set that will allow your code to be portable between different machine architectures, but only if you play strictly by the rules."

By the way, the classic K&R book explains the fundamentals of C pretty well. If you really want to understand C, I'd recommend reading it cover to cover (it's pretty short).
Great point. I've actually run into that problem. On some updates they would reject me and I'd have to add a few features to be approved.

That's part of the reason I'm redoing the entire app from scratch with tons of extra functionality, etc.
Spilled my iced tea at the local car dealer.
Why disable HEAD. HEAD has many great uses including figuring out what the web server is picking as a Content-Type.
:) You bet
People can be nasty.

Even famous and/or otherwise kind and gracious people.

News at 11.
GOOG has pretty much topped. and I know several early stage startup that gives out .1%.. Developers are so stupid sometimes....
Ask HN: My first Startup Weekend
Hello all,

I work for a small newspaper on the Central Coast of California. Santa Maria, Ca to be exact.

Someone has organized the first ever Start-up Weekend in my city (that I'm aware of). Since joining the hacker news community I have always wanted to attend one, but my geographic location and the feeling that my skills are sub-par has always stopped me. Now that this event is in my backyard, I don't have an excuse to not attend.

Being in an Agricultural/ Farming community I don't know how big of a tech community there is here.

I don't have an idea to pitch, but I am very interested in getting involved in a start-up.

Any advice on what to expect, or how to approach the whole event?

Thanks in advance.

http://santamaria.startupweekend.org/
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Good luck! In the spirit of your post, here are four reasons that I think the opportunity you are currently pursuing will fail.

First, you are not making something that people want. The primary customer you have to satisfy here are fashion bloggers (as once you get them, you will get access to end consumers). However, I would speculate that the ability to easily create "outfits" is not the #1 pain for fashion bloggers. In general, customers want to solve their #1 pain. If you solve a problem that is NOT your customers' #1 pain, you will find it very hard to get the attention of those customers.

To address this issue, I would call fashion bloggers and ask them what their problems are. I would speculate that "easily making outfits" is not their #1 problem.

Second, fashion bloggers aren't a very profitable customer to pursue, so a business that targets that market will find it hard to make money. By contrast, if you targeted an industry that makes money, your customers would have more revenue to share with you. On a related note, many fashion bloggers are not making enough to make a full-time living, so they don't think of their fashion blogs as a business. Thus, even if you create a product that makes them money, they may still not adopt your product.

To address this issue, I would find a more profitable customer to pursue that makes at least $50,000 a year. Also, I would make sure that those customers consider what they do to be their main source of income. This would exclude hobbyists.

Third, I would be concerned that it's hard to reach fashion bloggers to market your product to them. Yes, you can pitch them by email or Twitter. However, fashion bloggers are innudated with pitches, and often ignore them.

To address this issue, I would target a market that wants to be reached, so you can easily reach them to pitch your product.

Fourth, fashion bloggers aren't used to paying for software. Thus, you would have a harder time convincing them to pay you for your software. Compare this to, say, a salesperson, who is used to paying for a CRM and all sorts of software.

To address this issue, you would have to find a way to make money without directly charging your user (the fashion blogger). One way to do this is to require your product be linked with your third-party affiliate codes, and then do a revenue-share on those affiliate earnings. However, this would be hard for fashion bloggers to accept, and would require policing on your part.

In conclusion, I would urge you to switch your focus to (1) solving the #1 pain for (2) a lucrative market that (3) you can reach easily and (4) that is used to buying software.

Good luck!
There goes my evening :(
Sounds like something I'll use once or twice - and if it's particularly good, maybe once or twice every one or two years.

Corresponds to my frequency for clothes shopping.
The original guy I hired doesn't do development any more, but his Elance profile is here: https://www.elance.com/s/iprogs/

Since then for upgrades and other apps I've hired others that have cost more than $500 :)
I sometimes reflect on pride in being a member of the White race.

I know such thoughts aren't considered PC the way saying "Black Pride" or "Latino Pride" is, but I think it's kind of cool that I share a similar heritage with the inventors of calculus or linear algebra or the transistor.
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Instead of supporting feminist policies that help privileged women at the expense of underprivileged men, why not push for underprivileged people to join the tech field?
It sounds simple, but you'd be surprised how many programmers don't grok the fact that types/data have sizes (especially numeric types). For many tasks, this doesn't matter, but when it does matter, you need people who understand.

As an example, an IPv4 address is 32 bits. Don't convert it to a string and put it in a varchar(64) in your database when you are optimizing for space (I actually saw this once). And yes, the DB had an inet type, but no one knew how to use it, what it was or why it mattered.
Browser developers care about being “WhatWG compliant”, because the WhatWG HTML group is composed by browser editors, they work with the W3C HTML5 group, and the HTML5 specification is based on the WhatWG’s HTML document.

Read this if you need more clarifications:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/20...

http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5
Which is what Apple chose to do today: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/04/23Apple-More-than-Do...
Would you use a cache-oblivious datastructure that's 10x slower than its regular counterpart? Cache sizes don't change every day, I don't see the point.

In general there are lots of datastructures that are wonderful on paper but whose constant time factors make them infeasible in practice.
That looks like an awesome tool, good job.

You said you use VBOs for text rendering. Do you use some library for text rendering or is it just coded from scratch?
I think this is a condition of most humans, not just developers.

When you pitch a product idea to someone many will come back with "but who would buy that?" when it turns out, there's TONS of stuff me, you, and my mom would never buy... that literally thousands of other people would.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5595249
Which is a shame, because it means that any feedback loop you setup is given garbage data.
I was at a big edtech conference last week (Education Innovation Summit in AZ).

Something like a dozen of the 100 presenting companies came through Imagine K12, which is incredible. I know a lot of the people involved, and if you're thinking of starting something in edtech you should DEFINITELY apply. It's a great program.
I work in an IT office that I would guess is over 65% women, with 80% women in senior and managerial roles.

Depends on where you are I guess. I've definitely had my view changed on this working at my current job.
Great rundown of all the steps.

If you're looking for some node code as a starting point, this is Node + MySQL.

https://github.com/ozten/hostedpersona
My favorite bit of pointer code is one I had to write in the bootstrap code of an embedded processor:

int r = ((int (*)())startAddress)(); // Wheeee!