skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google also has a history of raising prices and/or getting rid of freebies for paid services, once the product is considered stable (read popular), with the Maps API, Google App Engine and Google Apps serving as examples.

Sorry, but I'm not falling for that again.
I don't disagree, but look at it from the perspective of the small business owner that gets 80% of their revenue from Google traffic. Even if they were one of the few unlucky ones, their livelihood is lost.
Which is inevitable if you have a non-Monsanto farm near a Monsanto farm.

It's scary.
I'm suspecting that the comment you replied to was trolling. Something so outrageous and contrarian-for-the-sake of it doesn't really need a response.
Nope. I think girls should be allowed to be tomboys if they want to. Or be girly girls if they want to.

I read the article as saying that it is immoral to portray girly girls. Instead we must always show tomboys, to give girls the right role models.

I am against that.
I'm not confident that you can really correlate simple reaction times with intelligence in general. But if our reaction times are indeed getting longer, that's interesting for other reasons.

Consider the relatively recent development of video games, many of which depend heavily on reaction time as a basic skill. We spend our childhoods immersed in these twitch-critical tasks: training the Victorians would have envied, if they had been all that concerned about simple reaction times. Yet our reaction times continue to go up, seemingly unabated. Why would that be the case? Shouldn't the extra practice at least slow the decline?
> Without content protection, owners of premium video content - driven by both their economic goals and their responsibilities to others - will simply deprive the Open Web of key content.

False. That's what they say, but that's not what they do. When digital broadcast TV was getting standardized, content owners insisted that there be a "broadcast flag" that would prevent receivers from copying broadcast data. There was a bunch of push-back against that proposal, and it died.

And what happened? They go ahead and broadcast everything anyway. It turns out that the broadcast flag wasn't actually necessary. Without the flag, content owner business models work just as well as they did before.

Flash is going away. Silverlight is going away. The presence or absence of DRM in HTML isn't going to change that. Some people remember the frustrations of flash and silverlight and think that the W3C EME proposal will solve those problems. But those problems were solving themselves just fine! Now we get to look forward to a bunch more pain with proprietary, non-interoperable CDMs.
The government and corporations (and thus defense contractors) are experts at manipulating crowdsourcing for their own ends. I sure as hell wouldn't trust crowdsourcing.
It's not dependent on SQL. @pixel.hits is returning an Array, and there is no method group for Array in Ruby. You could try group_by if you really want to group an Array, or use the Mongoid syntax for grouping.
Well the ironic thing is that Zach Braff has taken a bit of heat for going to Kickstarter for "creative control". This story is a classic example of what happens when you give up creative control.

Being loudly unhappy when you're not a powerhouse like Steven Spielberg is not a good career move, because her next contract will likely have the same terms, and a big studio might think twice about hiring someone who will say negative things publicly after a movie is released.
Privacy? Screw that. Learn how to collect, process and sell personal data
Privacy concerns outside our echo chamber are not such a big deal as you imply. To wit, the hundreds of millions of Gmail and Facebook users - I should think the amount of people who are aware of this issue AND care enough to vote with their wallet is negligible. (Not to mention that Dropbox or cloud anything is hardly better, it came out recently that Dropbox employees can look at your files just like Facebook employees can glance at your profile)
Until hunter-seeker satellites intercept other people's micro satellites and destroy them, or worse 'wiretap' into their internal computers without their knowledge.
My solution is to run away ... at least for a moment
Leap Transit 
Is this the future of transit?
Notification messages?
This might be the wrong lesson to take. You CANNOT deliver quality work if you are over booked. To me, it looks like you need to raise your rates, not accept more work at the current rates, it wont be sustainable.
None of those changes are particularly bothersome.

"Cinch in the waistline; cut that top a bit lower" are a bit more worrying. The new character looks deformed. All cartoon characters do, but this one more so.
"on-disk bitmap indexes ... thinking about volunteering to add them myself"

That would be reasonable to do even if you don't know the internals very well. The index types (called "index access methods") are well-isolated (API-wise) from most of the rest of the code. Technically, you could even add a new index access method as an extension without even touching the core.

The exception to both of those things is the WAL recovery code, which can't be written as an extension and also requires more knowledge of the rest of the system.

But the WAL recovery code is not too bad for those that know it. So if you did the rest, then I wouldn't be surprised if someone jumped in to write it or help you write it.

"A minor feature I'd like to see is to allow ORDER BY on UPDATE statements to avoid deadlocks."

One solution here is to do a "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE" first. Unfortunately, that is redundant (and does redundant work).
gmvault.org or if you hate the command line, most desktop mail clients (Apple Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird).
We are currently using MS SQL Server, but have looked at the possibility of using Postgres in the future.

One major stopping point for us is the fact that on SQL Server we use a Case Insensitive, Accent Insensitive collation. Postgres doesn't support this, and apparently has no plans to.

We have many stored procedures in TSQL which are built around the assumption of CI,AI. Converting these will be a lot of work, but the lack of CI,AI collation would be by far the biggest pain point.
> money buys technology

I don't think it matters. He quickly noticed that the problem is cultural, that

>> I’d much rather think about the question of exploit sales in terms of who we welcome to our conferences, who we choose to associate with, and who we choose to exclude, than in terms of legal regulations. I think the contextual shift we’ve seen over the past few years requires that we think critically about what’s still cool and what’s not.

But the problem with/in Saudi Arabia is also cultural, or social, not technological. It doesn't really matter that they can buy exploits or intercept communications. What matters is that those in power can stay in power while doing all that.

Mao and Stalin built some of the most repressive regimes the world has seen with 1930s technology, and even then they were behind the times. Do you think those would have been rocked by secure Twitter? On the other hand, Greeks ran fairly decent democracies when the closest thing to mass communications was shouting in a place with good acoustics.

I'm not saying the west should just provide scum of the world with access to modern technology. Let's not kid ourselves though. Whether we do or not, it won't change much.
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No, thanks. Bring back the Reader so we can talk.
Monsanto is sitting on a 'terminator' capability that allows them to make second-generations seeds sterile. They don't use it, obviously, but wouldn't it be better for consumers if they did?

It would be disastrous if the "terminator" gene ended up cross pollinating neighboring crops resulting in all subsequent cultivars being contaminated with "terminator" genes...
>> Point taken, however, would you say the same if your client, who has some programming experience, takes your code, mucks it up and deviates from the original vision?

> If my contract with them allows them to do that, then I don't really care. I do make sure that client contracts prevent them from touching code until it has been officially handed off, however.

Code is rarely intended to convey an artistic vision or social message. These kinds of analogies are not very effective. A better comparison would be something like if The Jungle had been madeover to suggest that immigrants had it easy and there were no problems in the meatpacking industry. It's a whitewashed, unnuanced version of a fantasy, and largely antithetical to the original creators intent.
This made my morning. Thanks!
It is enjoyable. Most "history of programming..." stuff is a snoozathon. More teachers should learn from the popularity of the "for Idiots" books. (The most-talked-about teacher in my HS acted out parts of the Civil War with costumes et. al.)
http://mireus.com/xrayeditor/ <- does this
If you want to have a look, here's Chromium's implementation of the spec: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#search/&q=...

Update: here is an interface that decrypts a frame and returns the clear version: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/w...
For the same reason I didn’t use the words «implications», «fnord» or «story» — because I didn’t need them to express my opinion.

Just like other words, they can unneccessary to convey the message. Just like any other word.

There’s a famous quote by Faina Ranevskaya that it’s better to say the word жопа (asshole, but it sounds ruder in Russian) ten times than the word духовность (immateriality) once. I think this is absolutely true.
Is anyone surprised? Disney isn't exactly known for representations of women that don't fall into standard sexist tropes: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/DisneyPrincess
The worst part about the makeover is that Merida's hair was a huge technical achievement for Pixar (watch a clip carefully to see why), and Disney airbrushed it out.
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Fine. I just don't think that
additional background on PoF has
much to do with my use of PoF
as an example.

Now that you mention the claim of
a 10 hour work week, I believe I
did read that, but I didn't
remember it or pay much attention
to it because it sounded to me
like just media fluff to 'tell a
good story'.

Media fluff aside, there's no
doubt that PoF is a good
example of what was for a long
time just one guy, two old
Dell servers, and some nice
revenue. So, such a thing,
not the 10 hour claim, is
possible. That's all I
wanted from the PoF example.
And the farmer in this case didn't buy the offending seed from Monsanto, yet here we are...
Exactly. If you really want to know what black-hatters do and how they get around Google's filters, here it is:

1. Buy a ton of domains
2. Put up picture-based landing pages on those domains. The user only really sees pictures.
3. Put up or spin content with relevant keywords, put it underneath the images. Google only sees a couple pictures (it doesn't know what they are) and a bunch of really relevant content.
4. Build a shiz-ton of links. This is where black hatters really make their money. I usually build about 125,000 links/day from completely legit sites, and to Google it pretty much looks like it's going viral. If you know where to get the links, know how to generate the content, and can make them seem human, Google has a really hard time finding you.
5. Link the landing pages to your money site using affiliate links.
6. Wait until your site gets manually reviewed and pulled down.

So any somewhat decent black-hatter will have hundreds of sites in the works at any given time. The worry of taking a site down isn't a big one, even though if you take down one site a black-hatter's traffic could drop 3,000 visits/day. The sites I work on usually remain up for an average of 6 months at a time, and the only way for them to be caught is a manual review. Some only stay up for a couple weeks, but some stay up for years. There have been times when landing pages are getting a couple thousand visits a day but I haven't had time to go back through and redirect the traffic to the money site or update them from the generic landing page.

Since all of the actions taken mimic closely enough what humans would do, it's really difficult to be caught by webspam teams.
I thought that the more interesting part of the interview was this answer about why Chrome OS and Android both exist:

q: But can’t it be confusing having two operating systems?

a: Users care about applications and services they use, not operating systems. Very few people will ask you, “Hey, how come MacBooks are on Mac OS-X and iPhone and iPad are on iOS? Why is this?” They think of Apple as iTunes, iCloud, iPhoto...The picture may look different a year or two from from now, but in the short term, we have Android and we have Chrome, and we are not changing course.
Medical (and other) interventions that are effective on children are judged as more valuable than those that are effective on the extremely elderly due to the concept of "quality adjusted life years" (QALYs)[1]. Of course, people's emotional reaction to children being killed is merely based on evolutionary adaptedness, and has nothing to do with whether its morally justified for them to feel a particular level of outrage.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
> Stored wealth still implies participants, just on a different time scale with different utility curves.

Which is a way of saying that liquidity decreases at one point in time and then increases at a later point in time. If that were an entirely stochastic process it wouldn't be a concern, but it's not. Wealth tends to enter and leave the markets in a correlated fashion based on macroeconomic factors, coming and going en masse to detrimental effect (c.f. the credit crunch).
Or if you had a network outage and wanted to access your files.

I use Mail.app to sync my gmail locally, but it'd be nice if Drive actually synced my Google Docs locally. Currently Drive just places a small json shim file on the disk, rather than syncing a usable document.

Data Liberation does export your docs in a usable format, but it's a rather awkward, manual process.
What about all the victims of our gun/weaponized culture? Maybe the move away from violence is a blessing.

To be honest, I don't think she's that much thinner if at all in the after image excusing the fact that the before image is enlarged slightly to make a point (her head goes higher and her feet go lower).

If someone is claiming that a girl that likes the dress on the left couldn't possibly like the dress on the right, I think they're the ones with a serious holdup of appearance over substance.

They did clearly make the new her paler though. Maybe that will help prevent girls from falling victim to skin cancer.
The US government is a special case again. Since most of the companies mentioned here are headquartered in the US, the US government can resort to the no-tech solution of just asking for the data and presenting a subpoena (or so was my experience working for a large US telecom carrier).
I'm having a hard time to even see the difference. That is, they both seem impractical.

If you want your character to be a "strong role-model", maybe try communicating that through actions, not clothes and hair styles? I thought that kind of obsession is what we were trying to fix?
Nothing hidden about Chapman's agenda. Nothing nefarious about it, either. It's an agenda I agree with. But the pushback definitely is coming from people whose agendas aren't being served.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1148702-realized-that-what...

I seem to remember their authentication was a combination of your phone number and the IMEI of your handset, which is woeful security through obscurity at best.
It is possible to believe both things at the same time: that dictatorships will inevitably acquire exploits, backdoors, and monitoring tools, and that it's unconscionable for companies to sell these things to dictatorships.

The story is perhaps clearer on exploit markets. The alternative to markets is publication, which burns the vulnerability by hastening its patch deployment. Dictatorships will inevitably acquire more exploits, but they are in a race against everyone in else discovering vulnerabilities.
This is a worthwhile topic of research and there are some papers at HotOS about it, but I don't blame people for taking shortcuts if they can't solve the general case.
It was an interesting move and damaged my heretofore unabashed love. But all startups get a free pass on one thing like this if they quickly recognize, acknowledge and move on. Still using!
The problem is, if a plant can do it, why is it patentable as an invention?

I'm fine with patents involving biology in general. And I'm fine with the court blocking you from creating patented devices via some Rube Goldberg machine to try to absolve yourself of responsibility.

But we're talking about a plant sitting by itself with no external input.

Nothing a plant is capable of doing should be novel or non-obvious. A patent on creating the GM seeds with human tools? Sounds great. A patent on cell division copying whatever lies in front of it? Ridiculous.
I didn't say that Disney didn't do anything wrong.

But it's naive to assume that the corporation you're dealing with won't use the contract to their advantage. You have to assume that it's going to happen.

You can say that I'm characterizing it as "blame the victim", but the creator is not a victim here. The movie that she created is intact. The likeness of a character that she in essence sold to Disney has changed. And I'm sure she still makes money from sales of this modification.

She's well within her rights to speak out against this change, but like I said, she signed away those rights. I'll concede that she probably had no choice in the matter, but let's not pretend that this was some unpredictable act by Disney.
I feel Picasa is in a semiabandoned state.
Do you know any other web app for HN? I'm looking for something that offers login functionality. All the webapps I found so far, incl. premii, are just read-only. I've tried so many others, but nit even a single one offers login capability...
How can I display a live screenshot of a piece of another application?
Excellent, maybe all the commenters who complained that Google should leave the service up because it's so easy to do and costs nothing will run out and setup a replacement, since it's so easy to do and costs nothing.
There's another submission about this now:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700155

Not sure if it gives more details, or if the different perspective will help, but I thought it worth the cross-link.
Yes, that wasn't a good submission by me. I aim to do better in the future.
Absorption is directly correlated with frequency, yes. Their 2km mile is probably a lab condition free-space number which will never even come close to being reached in the real world, especially in urban areas.

This could be useful to a telecom if they implement an expensive design that uses obstructions to their advantage. Essentially blast the radio waves down streets as if they are isolated tunnels. That would reduce interference to almost nothing, but require many more access points than they currently have. They would also still have the problem of penetration indoors.
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Raspberry Pi + Lego Mindstorms = robots without the soldering
Here's an earlier submission of effectively the same story, but the details might well be different enough to make it worth reading both, to try to get a more complete picture:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5697619

Not sure if it gives more details, or if the different perspective will help, but I thought it worth the cross-link.
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Ask HN: Where are the Zeppelins? 
It seems like a highly efficient way to transport people and goods. At this point in my life, I had hoped to the see the sky filled with them. I'm just disappointed in society for not coming through on this one.
As per some of the suggestions here, just published a tutorial on building your own Google SMS search with Twilio: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700331
The difference is that a subpoena doesn't decrypt an EDH TLS session.
"In the long run this is a commodity and Dropbox won't be able to compete"

Cloud storage is ALREADY a commodity, so much so that Dropbox doesn't actually host any files, they use Amazon's S3 (1)!

(1) https://www.dropbox.com/help/7/en
He didn't purchase the offending seeds from Monsanto, so he should not have to pay Monsanto, the people who sold him the contaminated seeds are at fault.
From the site:

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San Francisco commuters
You could also just email your certificate and text or call with the fingerprint. You'd have to be very directly and very actively targeted by a very competent government for that to fail.
Their movies are great as a computer person and moviegoer, since each usually contains at least one "wow, that must be really hard with computers" moment. Like the fur simulation in Monsters, Inc. or the crowd physics(ish) simulation in WALL-E, or Merida's hair as you mention. Not to mention the incredible render quality progression from Toy Story to Toy Story 3.
You can do the same in just ruby:

pie_chart @pixel.hits.group_by{|u| u.referrer }.each_with_object({}) {|(k,v), h| h[k] = v.size }
Thanks for explaining. I can see where you are coming from.
Immigration is not criminalized; illegal immigration is. Is current immigration law perfect? Certainly not, but when someone violates a bad law, he is still in violation of the law. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_Unit..., illegal immigration may be punishable by "criminal fines and penalties" including jail time. That sounds an awful lot like "it is a crime to illegally enter the country". "Criminal", the noun, is defined as "A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law."

Sodomy laws may be stupid, but that does not change the fact that until 2003, numerous people were guilty of committing the crime of sodomy in the state of Texas.
Take a look at the image linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698476

The original version is less heavily edited, but shows the same lighting patterns. He just got a great angle with good ambient light, and sunshine reflecting from the wall on the left.

Because of the wide range he must have done a good deal of shadow/highlight recovering; the desaturation and dodge/burn done for the final submission were over the top and made the image look artificial.
The answer to the question in the headline is "no". The line of argument used is extraordinarily tenuous: first it argues that reaction time is a good proxy for intelligence, then it collects different reaction-time studies, weights them by sample size, and computes a correlation. Unfortunately, if you look at the main graph of the paper, it looks like a trend-line drawn through noise. But! Because of the sample-size weighting, the data is dominated by a single study in 1889, which had 3410 participants (the largest out of 16) and an unusually fast reaction time (the fastest). They then use frequentist statistics to sneak in the assumption that reaction time varies only with different subjects and populations, and not with different test-apparatus and methodology, arriving at a "significant at p=.003" result which I have no confidence in.