skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be able to print on/sizes and what would be the turn around time?
Wait, since when could hostnames have underscores?

EDIT: Hey, IDNs seem to work! http://café.jpg.to/

EDIT 2: Or maybe not. http://schlüssel.jpg.to/

(Schlüssel means "key" in German. Google Image Search it and you get pictures of keys. Search for "Schlussel", though, and you get that girl. So presumably it searched for the punycode, something like --schlussel-blah.)

EDIT 3: Wait. the IDN for "Schlüssel" is xn--schlssel-95a. If I Google that, I don't get pictures of Ms. Schlussel. It must be decoding it and stripping the accents? That said, searching for schlssel does yield pictures of her.

EDIT 4: café is --xn-caf-dma. Google Image Search "caf" won't find cafés. Nor will "--xn-caf-dma". So it must understand IDNs but strip or be accent-insensitive
Spotify, Pandora, Sirius, and all the rest can easily be compared to traditional radio.

In the streaming market you have very few good choices, the market is serviced by a few massive companies providing a very wide selection of music.

In the radio market that same concept is accomplished by over 6,000 commercial FM radio stations, with a diverse playlist. To get a different playlist, you change stations. Indeed every type of music is covered by those 6,000 stations. And of course it used to be even more diverse, in the days of the purely live DJ, before the radio business began to fade and broadcasters cut expenses by moving to networked systems like the former Westwood One.

You also used to be able to call up just about any station and make a song request. I'm sure you won't like that comparison to picking a song digitally, but it's the same, and it was very archaic, but no different than some of the other technological leaps we've made in which old technology seems very embarrassingly primitive. You often had to use a phone to make those requests, and a phone was a marvel in its day.

The technological difference can be compared, in regards to distribution, ease of access, etc. In that case, Spotify / Pandora win, that's obvious. It's not that you couldn't access every type of music via radio stations, it's that it was a lot less practical. Technology leaped forward and vastly improved the situation.

Spotify is very easy to compare against the radio business. What they've done is consolidate the radio market down into one platform. The Internet ate the broadcaster, very simply, just like it ate old Ma Bell. I can also compare IP telephony against the old telephony system.
If you consider e-cigs a harm reduction device, the carcinogenic potential of standalone nicotine dwarves that of traditional cigarettes.

More research is needed but all the evidence so far points to e-cigs being safer than cigarettes for those who can not kick the habit. But the passive smoking impact is a very valid point and needs to be studied.
All reputable manufacturers provide GC/MS data for their e-liquids. The best own their own analytical laboratories and provide test data for every manufactured batch. I double-dog-dare you to find any industry with higher standards of transparency and integrity.
Apple Updates App Store With New 'Learn More About In-App Purchases' Page
I'm somewhat surprised by your assertion that you're "poor". 25k in London might be a very low salary for a software developer, but it's still way above minimum wage, and that's higher than what most people on benefits live off.
Unemployment is reported as lower than it actually is in the U.S. due to disability allowances. Excellent reporting here:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/t...
I think we're trying to move away from plugins, not go back to them.
You can look at the wikipedia article for nicotine. Apparently it promotes cancer.
Ruby with Rails. It's a ton of fun.
until you see the many lives destroyed by drugs. from mothers abandoning their children, to ending up homeless and alone, to deaths and murders.

Sure he's just one cog in a giant machine, but he's also responsible for death and hardship as a result of the drugs he moved.

Society in general also carries some of the responsibility, as do those involved in his upbringing. But I know that if my child came to any harm as a result of the drugs he supplied for his own profit I'd want him to be behind bars for that long - or until he was rehabilitated.

"In 2004, 17% of U.S. State prisoners and 18% of Federal inmates said they committed their current offense to obtain money for drugs."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-related_crime
Good points.

In the UK, all cafes are non-smoking by law and many have wifi. I appreciate the US based nomad's desire for comfort (I once had to airmail Marmite and Typhoo tea to a friend working in Odessa) but would suggest trying some of the independents in the larger UK cities. Leaf in Liverpool and Yorks Bakery Cafe in Birmingham spring to mind.
I have no experience with psychoactive drugs but I don't think it's anywhere as near as drastic. It's pretty easy to deal with psychologically as smoking is a lifestyle so quitting successfully mostly involves changing your lifestyle. Nicotine leaves your system completely fairly quickly with no side affects except for what I believe is a lingering sensitivity to the memory of it.
WTF is stopping from releasing it as GPLv3 license
> Any ownership model other than collective ownership takes these decisions out of the hands of those most qualified to make them and shifts them to hierarchy and regulations.

Why are you assuming a hierarchy? It could just as well be a flat sibling-space, where people "own" code in the property-rights sense, not the management-fiat sense. (In other words, they own it because management won't apply the force necessary to take away the ownership they hold by default.)

Imagine a conglomerate--say, Microsoft. Does the Windows division "own" Windows, or can the Office division make commits to it if they need to? In this case, management would probably have to intercede to get someone from Office commit-access to Windows. Not because management is denying that access in a command-and-control manner; that access (keys et al) is just held inside the Windows division itself, and it takes special measures to get it if you don't work there.

Same idea here, but on a smaller scale. Maybe each developer keeps their own git repo for their module and only pushes releases (e.g., .deb files of compiled code) to the central repository. Maybe each developer runs their own SOA service and everyone else is expected to only interact with it over RPC, not to muck with its internals. Etc.
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It's the innovators dilemma. Very difficult to support a new technology that threatens your billions in revenue and profit.

They're surely only getting involved in the e-cig market for defensive reasons. I could certainly see them lobbying behind the scenes to slow the market down, if not kill it entirely.
"pound ifihadglass"?

Just say no to douchetags:
http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/02/douchetag.html
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I would say that playing to populist fears explains just about everything related to "tough on crime" politicians. It's also curious that the same "tough on crime" politicians seem for the most part surprisingly uninterested in the root causes of crime, such as poverty or lack of access to education.
You would probably take in more nicotine from eating a meal of eggplant than you would get from secondhand vapor. You wouldn't get enough from secondhand vapor to have psychoactive effects, let alone come anywhere near toxicity. Here is some reference to an indoor air quality showing vaping to not harm other people: www.ivaqs.com

Here is reference to a study showing that nicotine did not promote lung cancer growth: http://www.aacr.org/home/public--media/aacr-in-the-news.aspx...

All sorts of things we take in can "promote cancer growth". Nicotine by itself is so far from a carcinogen that IARC doesn't even investigate it as one. There are roughly 50 components of tobacco and tobacco smoke called the "Hoffman analytes" which are the carcinogens. There are studies showing the relative cardiovascular and cancer risk, and the worst carcinogens are produced by burning plant material. These are not present in ecigs.

Some studies which are dubious because of the choice of equipment and researchers not simulating the way ecigs are actually used have shown a handful of components way down the list of dangerous ingredients. Other studies have been done where these didn't even show up, but we are talking about things like formaldehyde and acetaldehyde near the level put out by smoking. If you compare the cancer risk of these to smoking, you are still looking at less than 5% of the cancer risk of smoking (probably under 1% really).
Warm water has less disolved gas, and provides less bouyancy so particulates that would lower the freezing point settle to the bottom. These two factors make the water freeze faster.

This isn't "unexplained" unless you never took a college level physics course, which is pretty typical of the people who edit WikiPedia pages.
Yes, my grandfather. Back then, the dangers of smoking were not well known by the public. In fact, the tobacco industry pushed bogus research to attempt to throw the conclusion that smoking causes cancer into doubt. Once it was apparent that smoking was harmful, my grandfather quit smoking cold turkey.

It was too late. He spent more than a decade coughing up his lungs only to finally succumb to cancer, weakened by the steroids keeping him alive to the point where he broke his back picking up a gallon of milk.
from the wiki article on nicotine:

"no epidemiological evidence supports that nicotine alone acts as a carcinogen in the formation of human cancer "
The first problem with myaudithooks.com is the vulnerability of the audit site, especially if this is a hosted service accepting login reports streaming from lots of different sites.

I know, the actual usernames/passwords aren't part of the audit trail.

Or... the passwords aren't. The usernames probably are, because otherwise how would this login report be linked to the right user?

So then think about what you could do with that data, if you cracked myaudithooks.com. For the users/services using it, you'd have a comprehensive list (likely with usenames) of all of the sites these users access regularly, probably mostly with the same weak/reused passwords.

Alternative: don't crack it, just ruin it. How is myaudithooks.com going to really lock down the API calls so that only mydogfriends.com can report login events to mydogfriends.com... Otherwise you could have script kiddies just throwing in lots of junk data for fun, or a malicious attempt to discredit a bank, competitor, etc. by convincing many of their users (via fake audit reports) that their accounts are cracked.

I do think the general idea is good, though -- just not centralized.

Login auditing is good. I always appreciate the extra bit of info when I SSH into a server and see "Last login: (timestamp) from (IP.host.blah)".

It's also hardly ever used.

I suspect some of the problem is that the timestamp bit would make sense to most users, but the source is more likely to be confusing for the general public. A raw IP address certainly won't be useful, and location is very scary if they don't know it's not exact and sometimes wrong ("it said last login from the next town over... where my ex lives!!!"), and that means support costs for false positives.
yep, there are more decent coffee shops in the UK, even so decent independents can be hard to find.

There was an interesting blog post about Yelp a while back. He talked about how Starbucks and Yelp were trying to solve the same problem in different ways. Yelp's solution was to help you find something like your favourite coffee shops when away from home. Starbucks to build the same thing everywhere. :)

I'm not sure I buy it, but it's an interesting way of thinking about it.
One problem with Unity is lack of a linux plugin (whereas Flash has one). Is it "web-based" if it doesn't work everywhere the web does?

But whatever your answer to that theoretical question, in practice, I cannot play Unity games because I'm only using linux machines. IMHO not being able use a platform is reasonable cause for complaint.
The main part of the idea is to allow a PDF file ( a template) to be customized based on some data received. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5601127

Our MVP won't go up to manage the physical printing but would be coming in the second phases (unless it become a hard requirements for phase 1).

To explicitly answer, you would be able to print on whatever you want as you would, at the beginning, not handle the relation with the printer.
I am guessing well managed stimulus would work. This is the no real scotsman problem.
I agree with you.

But the reason cigarettes are banned is because they affect other people.

American rules/regulations aren't built around the concept of proving something is safe. Tobacco is different from the norm because of how much evidence exists to prove its harm
shared the link on some few powerful websites like this .... truth is, very few people has an immediate need for that.
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Neither of those, but plenty of others (galaxian, contra, etc)

Missing a single shot on a target isn't fatal; getting hit could be, but even then there were usually intermediate points/levels or some other way of making replaying it interesting (non deterministic enemy movement or whatever in some games)
I'd purposely avoid drawing any lessons from Iceland. We have the world's smallest independent currency and devaluation cut our purchasing power in half.
The fact that Linux is licensed as GPLv2?

From the tarball COPYING file:
"the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. -Linus Torvalds"

Which is identical to kernel.org: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/COPYING

That section was discussed at https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273 where 2006-Linus doesn't see GPLv3 ever happening.
Trying to maximize your share of individual deals causes you to lose the best deals. This is because a) the best deals are often expensive, and b) maximizing your share empirically causes people to consider you a dick, and people with reputations for being dicks don't get chosen by the best startups.
Tobacco came under the watch of the FDA since the 2009 tobacco bill. Right now, ecigs are basically not regulated at all. They are considered "unregulated tobacco products". There is a movement within the industry to regulate ourselves, but the FDA will probably step in no matter what.

At the end of every year, the government sort of lists its plans for the year. The past two year, the FDA has said that they would "deem" ecigs in April and get the ball rolling toward regulation but it hasn't happened yet.

Ecigs are a threat to ineffective methods of quitting smoking like patches and gums, so big pharma initially got behind total prohibition. The FDA lost in court on ecigs being medical devices, but the ruling only technically applies to the one company involved, so customs still seizes shipments of equipment coming in from China. Adoption is still growing rapidly, witht he total market in the US this year projected to double to over $1 billion.

Big tobacco has now started to enter the market. Swisher Sweets has a brand of ecig. Lorillard bought a major player called Blu and Reynolds is poised to enter at some point. Altria/Phillip Morris hasn't done much yet, but all of these companies are also marketing products they hope to get the classification "reduced exposure" and "modified risk" such as wood sticks coated with tobacco goop and candy-like lozenges.

A lot of ecig companies are tiny and scared of burdensome regulation which will put them out of business.
At the very least, nobody should get a journalism degree without passing a statistics class. Without an understanding of statistics, journalists will be duped by the same lies they'll propagate to the equally ignorant public.

Journalists should be INTERPRETING the statistics and communicating their true importance (or lack thereof) to the readers.
The Swedish system tries to rehabilitate prisoners using various evidence-based methods. For some types of prisoners it works very well.

Prisoners are paid but only a few cents per hour. They generally spend it all on buying cigarettes.

The punishments are much lower in Sweden than in the US. Drug smuggling offences and murders carry the longest penalties. I would say on average penalties are a factor 5x or 10x lower. This seems to be good for both criminal and society. Prisoners know they will have a life again after prison so they want to rehabilitate and prepare.

However, the last 10 years of very high immigration from the muslim countres of middle east and north africa is rapidly filling Swedish prisons. The chief of Kumla maximum security facility was recently in the news saying that 80% of his prison are muslim. Politicians don't want to touch the subject out of fears of being branded racist, but it's vividly discussed on the net in forums such as flashback.net
Desktop, see no plugins.
Ask HN: What's the best Adsense alternative?
Given the fact that Adsense does not allow you to sign up for an account using a subdomain of tumblr, I would imagine that even if you sign up with a different domain and then create and put Adsense on your Tumblr page, you will be penalised. So my question is, what's the best alternative of Adsense which allows adding ads on free-hosting websites?
You have done well, some practice is always fine. Nice job. Only thing is, I am not convinced by the font and colour.
That no longer meets my expectations of a "web-based game." I would consider my expectations fairly realistic. I also believe most have always referred to games that use Flash as "Flash games."

When Macromedia Flash originally became popular, it solved quite a few very real problems in existing browsers. SVG support was nonexistent. JS performance was horrific which prevented smooth animations. Browsers were VERY inconsistent about how input was handled, and CSS-assisted DOM rendering was extremely awkward, slow, and browser-specific. There was no real "video" or "audio" support. You embedded a video or audio object and hoped the user's browser had a codec available to decode it, and that was a whole world of WTFs indeed. It provided a means of DRM, which is apparently important to people who have too much money and still want more. Last, but certainly not least, there was no way to establish a real-time duplex connection with a server (full TCP access is still not possible without experimental flags, but WebSockets allow most of the needed functionality).

Flash completely filled the multimedia-on-the-web niche. It was such a fundamentally missing piece that it would be eventually shipped with many browsers, and some (Chrome) even included their own Flash players. It became so fundamental, it was ported to almost every major platform. I'd argue it became a de facto, proprietary, web standard.

In this case, Unity3D is a game engine that's meant to target many platforms. It isn't "web based," it's just something that happens to be running in a browser plugin. I thought for a moment that this meant Unity3D was building for HTML5, but alas, the plugin plague continues. And to be fair, Flash is almost completely obsoleted by current HTML5/CSS3 features, but will likely outstay its welcome in the name of backwards compatibility.
Ha-ha-ha... slowclap

I know at least two guys who retired in their 30s after selling WinRAR-ish utilities for Windows. I also met someone selling a network scanning tool and making 900k a year. Another person I know wrote remote access tool and had, at his own admission, more money than he knew what to do with. All this was several years ago, when online sales were far less streamlined than they are now, social media and viral promoting were non-existent and they were selling shareware which was very actively cracked and pirated. Compare it to now, when you can buy software with one or two clicks, when users got conditioned into paying attention to digital signatures on .exe and real-time over-the-net licensing. It is obviously pointless to make any Windows software whatsoever.
That's a fair point. For some reason, (especially in poorer countries), Microsoft hasn't developed a "culture" of buying software. It's probably because Windows software has always been more expensive in comparasion to applications for Mac.

Lack of central app store might be another reason - I remember when it was a bit of a challenge, here in Poland, to get a credit/debit card that could have been used online. So it was a hit or miss whether you could pay for your stuff or not.

Stores like Steam, with sometimes heavily discounted games, make it affordable to buy software and from my observation, develop some sort of "respect" for developers/publishers in people.
Then why did the Royal Society create a contest to explain it?
Not quite. E-smokers are drugging everyone near them. I'm not OK with that.

Smoke is definitely worse, don't get me wrong. But it should be illegal for a 3rd party to force someone to take a drug.
You make it sound like your children don't have a choice whether to take drugs or not.

You could argue similarly by replacing drugs with anything (legal) that could harm your children. For example, do you blame motorcycle vendors for being responsible for deaths and hardship among the families of motorcyclists?

Drugs and motorcycles are certainly different, but it's a bit too easy to blame drug traffickers or dealers only without taking into consideration the parents and the social circle of the children.
I think you're underestimating the culture problem here. The average Greek probably would be happy to live under German style regulations. But would he stop cheating on his taxes? I have my doubts.
Calories are not nutrition. Food loaded with sugar and preservatives is much cheaper than healthy foods, and it also happens to be more readily available. Many poor neighborhoods don't have grocery stores where one can purchase fresh fruit and vegetables, but they do have convenience stores where you can buy all the candybars and junk food you can eat... at a considerable markup.
You pointed towards a study commissioned by an e-cigarette users group in order to lobby their government. They use a completely arbitrary threshold of what is considered to not have considerable health risks. The study is only being published in an ecig industry journal.

The smell is disgusting, regardless of what the flavor is. The flavor is only there to try to mask the underlying smell, which is gross. Your assumpions about nonsmokers liking the smell are pretty baseless. Everyone i have talked to about it has disliked it intensly.

It is very nice that ecigs appear to be safer than cigarettes, but that does not mean i should be forced to breathe them. I already do not smoke.
Loading Unity player chrashed my (chrome) browser.
HN is a broad community. If you use some kind of average or "what is the top most voted post" as your "what is HN's verdict" you will get different results every time.

It would be boring and a giant circle-jerk if every member had the same opinion. What would we discuss then?
Webbased = HTML.

Lets not confuse terms here.
Have you ever tried Opera's Mouse Gestures? Trying to use another browser is a similar experience to you helping your colleagues with IDEA.