skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In France it is ok and even polite to tell a girl (say, a coworker) "you are beautiful today", but I think this would not be considered very tasteful in other places.

It's worse in some places, in that it can vary by the individual, and people sometimes feel fully justified in getting offended on behalf of someone who took no offense at all. Most Americans, for example, would think taking offense on behalf of someone else is pretty stupid, but it happens and you occasionally have to deal with it.

There is no magic way to avoid causing offense. Get on with it and defend yourself if you have to. You could get fired for no reason. You could get cancer for no reason. It's random cultural nonsense that you can't fix.
I would be remiss in not thanking the Varnish cache developers, too: it's using CloudFront now but Varnish came in quite handy when we suddenly jumped from mostly images to some large videos like http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/21... shortly after launch.

The scariest bit of code was probably the scraper + html5lib normalizer I used to migrate something like 15 years of legacy static HTML content from two separate into the CMS using a large pile of selectors and cleanup heuristics.

http://chris.improbable.org/2009/10/16/deploying-django-site... describes how the site was packaged using RPM so we could fit within the more traditional IT model used by the production sysadmins.

One open-source tool which came out of this was https://github.com/shentonfreude/webcompare which we used to bulk-compare the old and new sites to confirm that all of our legacy URLs either redirected or were intentionally 404/410ed.
Cultural issues include whether or not it is appropriate to bring up a particular point in the first place, visual design (eg. cultural norms for button or multi-point statement/list ordering, spacing, typeface size, etc.), special overtones implied by the use of certain words or combinations thereof, in some cases whether the use of text or icons is appropriate for a given translation, whether certain phrases or features should be 'off limits' (eg. due to cultural taboos, eg. impossible to configure a system in such a way that is disrespectful to one or more religious deities or real world monarchs), etc.
I would be interested to collaborate, but I couldn't figure out how to get in touch with you via your profile. I tried your HN username @mailgun.net but that address bounced. What's the best way to reach you?
It is a bad thing. If that developer was responsible, he can be held liable. Likely, he wasn't and someone signed the app with his key. This single point of failure (assuming that all developer keys will be guarded, never lost, stolen) for the whole system turns into hundreds of thousands of single points of failure (or however many developers currently have the ability to sign for apps, including internal Apple employees and contractors) and can come from any developer, even the well intentioned ones.

The whole gatekeeper system is a way to get more money out of customers while seeming to provide more security. It obviously doesn't. I would be my life's fortune there are apps with malware in the app store right now. This walled garden concept may be working for mobile phones now, while they are still in their infancy, but is a surefire way to turn away knowledgeable users and make a ton of money off the ignorant ones (which make up 99.9999999% of Apple's user base ... either that or they're all millionaires).

The reason people who can truly use the full power of a Mac buy them is because of OS X and slightly better (for now) hardware (on laptops only). If OS X licensing allowed it to be run legally on non-mac hardware (ie-> not osx86), no one would pay the inflated prices for a Mac.

And now they want to pretend to add security while adding a feature used to tie one in to one's proprietary and quite terrible app ecosystem.

How about fixing FileValut2 so it doesn't corrupt my drive every time I run it, leaving it in an unrecoverable state? Yup going on well over a year and still not fixed: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3197792?start=60&ts...
That would be a very interesting blog post
I remember on reddit somebody talked about making a serious fortune by specializing in replacing those capacitors on numerous types of devices.
I went through my collection of Cards Against Humanity and removed all the "not subtle" cards that are basically trying to be puerile. The game is a lot better, and I can now fit the good parts of the game + expansions into the original box.
When I read "Dell Optiplex GX270," my memory tickled and I looked it up. Just as I thought. I used to be a field tech for a service company around 2007 and 2008. I remember having to swap the motherboard for a bunch of those computers in grocery stores. Same problem every time; popped capacitors.

Grocery stores run by Nash Finch, on the other hand (Sunmart, if you're in Nebraska) had old NCR POS terminals from the early 1980s. These were some of the very first computerized point of sale terminals in non-upscale retail stores. Those things were still going strong more than thirty years later. The printers on those things were mechanical failures waiting to happen, but the POS terminal, itself was crazy reliable.

The Midwest gets some impressive electrical storms. Occasionally, one of these storms would fry a peripheral card in one of the terminals. When that would happen, I would have to go to the store after closing hours, call up the tech who specialized in these terminals, and he would walk me through ripping out the proper card and rebooting that terminal from the master POS terminal. Yup, the thing would still boot up; even after a peripheral card had been burned.

NCR had long since gotten sick of that model and I don't blame them. Those printers were dodgy. Nash Finch were such cheapskates.
Check out VsVim for Visual Studio. It's quite good. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...
This is a trademark issue-- not copyright. "Likelihood of confusion" on the part of the consumers is the main standard. Seems unlikely a a judge or jury will find that the reasonable consumer will conflate the app and the play.
Let's bring friction back into computing
This is the kind of idiocy that just brings everyone down. It would be a better world if we could all agree that this kind of nonsense was no longer acceptable.
> I think people are very attached to the idea of your eyes seeing the "real" world instead of a re-displayed one. I understand that, but I think that ideology is going to hold AR back for a while.

I don't think it's fair calling "ideology" the fact screens still suck, and they suck hard. Dynamic range, refresh rate, color reproduction and depth perception are all big shortcomings not solved yet.

Just look at digital cameras. If EVFs are not even ready to replace conventional optical viewfinders yet, it's utopia to ask people to slap one in their faces 24/7.
Collection sorting with Paramount Clojure library
I think the guidance about how deep you have to bury a moon base to be safe just got revised.

Cosmic rays? Nope - it's the meteors you really have to watch out for.
isp/~username was where the cool kids hung out.
Just How Useless Is the Asset-Management Industry?
As a VIm user, I wish we had a website that was that gorgeous. Congratulations on a successful redesign. Just don't expect to convert any vim users. ;P
> if one assume that sexual assaults are male->female.

Which is not valid.
It would be nice if the article included a comparison of the expected and actual lifespan of the capacitors...oh wait it does:

"Many of the capacitors had a life span specification (load life) of 2000 hours at 105°C. With a lower average internal temperature of 45°C on a printed circuit board and a ripple current within the data sheet specifications, these capacitors should have a life expectancy of about 18 years of continuous operation. With respect to this life span expectation, a failure after 1.5 to 2 years is very premature."
Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31
Yeah I'm conflicted on this one. I'm usually very much against such things but in this case it's just more likely than not that they made the name in light of the popularity of the "X With Friends" apps. On the other hand though it's such a general trademark using a common phrase. Very tough to decide.
A quick Google search for "felony assault for punching" suggests your comment might be inaccurate.
Sure, but trademark is vulnerable even more than copyright on issues of generic construction.
aah, and you know!

so, please, enlighten all shortsighted.
OT: is this a recently added Wikipedia feature?:

> On 18 May 2013, Capacitor plague was linked from Hacker News, a high-traffic website.[0]

Does anyone know the rationale behind adding this? It doesn't seem like they're auto-locking/semilocking the article to prevent inappropriate edits when an article is linked to from a high-traffic site.

0: http://i.imgur.com/LWwRQXF.png
NixOS - Declarative configuration OS
Show HN: Spellbinder, real-time view/model binding for backbone.js
World lens does update in [practically] real time.

And bringing it up was to address your claim that it was computationally infeasible to retransmit video with some of the content changed.
I really wish hungarian notation would die already. Might be one of the worst trends to ever catch on.
You have a pull request :D
We had a 'build your own Shazam' as a lab for Berkeley's Intro. Signals & Systems class this semester. Super cool to see it working and quite an interesting application of Signals & Systems
Hey, "he" is here :-)

To be on the same page in this conversation we are programmatic email service for developers, not for end users. Customers can create their own virtual email server on our page and start sending in a couple of seconds. This concept is pretty similar to cloud servers.

> Since when is a botnet a collection of free email accounts?

In our terms botnet can be a mix of a free and paid Mailgun accounts. Botnets can include anything from 2-3 to dozens and hundreds of accounts created at different time and using different billing plans.

> Since when has a spammers return on investment been low?

We are talking about Mailgun service - the time they need to invest in building some solution on top of Mailgun that pays back is just not worth it. Actually I'm surprised why they even bother sending this type of spam through Mailgun. Let's say they were able to send 100K of emails via us (what is pretty hard nowadays btw), in the best case their click rates would be floating around some fractions of a percent.

http://www.sitepoint.com/spam-roi-profit-on-1-in-125m-respon...

So they wont' get even a couple of clicks from that.

On the other hand, phishing attacks are very dangerous and this is our biggest threat - we've noticed that they get very high quality lists with 0 bounces, so it might be real bank users and build pages for every atack.

> Since when have spammers only used hijacked "legitimate" business domains instead of just using some wildcard email domain setup?

Wildcard MX records are about receiving, I'm talking about subdomains on a free webhosting services (bulk subdomain creation), what is a serious threat.

> Its not enough that he posts his strategies online to make it easier for his adversaries to learn from, but this guy doesn't even sound like he grasps the fundamentals of > what is supposed to be his profession?

Botnets and targeted phishing attacks are not somewhat new - that's a common practice, it's not that I'm uncovering some unknown secret here.
In the introductory paragraph, at the very top of the Wikipedia article, citation included:

"As of 2013 the problem seems to have receded, with the last major surge of complaints being reported in 2010.[7]"'

[7] http://www.ronhoutman.com/the-capacitor-plague-strikes-again...
Are there other uses for this algorithm/technique, when applied to signals other than audio? I mean apart from identifying a source from a small clip.
> The "Star Trek computer" interface that everyone wants can't function if it doesn't have a sense of the world and the person it's talking to.

This does not make sense to me. And actually, it sounds a lot like employee cool-aid. Not everyone wants such an interface and it's not given that you need to know anything about the person it's talking to. In fact, I want the AI that I interact with to be perfectly anonymous and give the same answers to everybody.

In fact, I think I would trust search more if it were totally anonymous. What I searched for last week may or may not impact my search this week, so don't go assuming it will. I want the "pure" results, not filtered by what some algorithm "thinks."

Example: a friend runs a car repair shop and sends me email to my gmail account. When I search for car repair shop, should the AI prioritize my friend's shop in the results? What if a car repair shop sent out spam that didn't get filtered out of my inbox yet? What if I gave my email to the shop a year ago when I entered a sweepstakes?

The more I think about it, the only reason I can see to gather personal info is to benefit Google by selling more expensive advertizing. If google provided "pure" search results without using any personalized info, that would be the best in all situations.
You're probably not in their target market. For a social photo sharing app, launching with just Facebook auth isn't unreasonable.
Mounting a Magic Trackpad on a Kinesis Advantage Keyboard
Without having to google, I can tell you that at what point something gets defined as a "felony" varies from one state to another.

(I used to pay accident claims. Some policies specifically did not cover injuries that were incurred in the commission of a felony. I had to write a denial based on that clause. We first had to research if the event in qhestion was a felony in the state in question.)
I think it'd be one thing if we were a gaming company and used a thought bubble with the same look and design that Zynga uses for their With Friends family of marks, but there's no possibility of confusion there and on top of that, we don't operate in the same space. We're a dating startup. CupidForFriends.com is taken otherwise we would have just switched and 301 redirected.
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Dalton Caldwell - App.net - Part 1 (Podcast)
This will be the first big test of Marissa Mayer, to buy a significant property and leverage it without destroying its user base in the process. If Tumblr is rebranded in purple, it will all be over. I wish Yahoo the best in the endeavor, but their track record in acquisitions is not good.
I apologize if you feel we stepped on your opinions in any fashion.

I don't ;)

I'm just not so happy about making the queries this way: http://i.imgur.com/u9Nx5.png

Of course I will try to help solving this issue, but it is hard to contribute without testing, since I have no idle server or suitable spare computer around where I could run this tests properly. But my PC seems to have a somewhat similar configuration to your "dedicated i7 hardware". I hope I manage to set up the test environment in a dual-boot soon.
It's not a feature just a template someone added. It's meant for talk pages anyway so I've removed it.
If this does happen it will be very interesting to see Tumblr's progress over the next year. Will give insight into whether Yahoo has turned the corner or whether it is the same Yahoo we have seen in the past 5 years.
> vehicle licensing fee from 2% of a car's worth to 0.65%

In Denmark the fee is 180% of the car's worth... (sorry for OT)
No, I'm actually just a fake troll.
Love Linode, but Fremont is like the Billy Baldwin of Linode datacenters.
Can't say I've seen it before and I just read a Wikipedia article linked from HN last night[1]. I'm guessing there's a threshold of visits before their software flips that switch.

My interpretation is that it's a nice way of staying "Don't argue about the content of this page here, do it on your own message board".

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5722458

Edit: just saw johnduhart's reply.
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I think this article is all over the map, and I hope akharris is a better entrepreneur than writer. Though he makes one or two good points.

The title is total bullshit. "Linkbait" is giving it too much credit. "Robots" is a complete head fake, and the article literally says nothing at all about whether or not education can be totally digitally mediated.

The completion-rate issue. First of all, I think we can all agree that completion rate is at least somewhat interesting, and the link to Katy Jordan's piece is useful if you haven't seen it yet. And while I agree it's not a HUGE deal, for the reasons many others have gone over, akharris makes a good point, as follows: The MOOCs opened themselves up to this criticism, because over and over again they post their vanity metrics of enrollments, and compare them to classroom enrollment, and that's crazy. It's like comparing Facebook signups to private plane purchases. If they had been bragging about completion numbers (not ratios, obviously) all along, they'd be fine. Anyway, my point here is that the focus on the completion rates isn't the worst part of this article, it's pretty near the best part.

The next chunk talks about K-12. Obviously most of the MOOCs were never aimed at K-12, so it's an evasion. If you look at the forum conversations or the StackExchange sites or whatever, there are obviously lots of students who are adults from eastern Europe, or Asia (and lots who appear to be middle-class Americans, of course). That's access to education, baby.

The rhetorical deceit here actually enrages me. I might make a perfectly-parallel criticism of Tutorspree: "[Harris's] company states that its mission is connect students with great private tutors. So who is getting those tutors? Certainly not Tamil-speaking children in Sri Lanka." What a stupid argument I just made. Just like akharris's argument, that because 7-year-olds aren't benefiting from Sebastian Thrun's robotics courses, he's therefore not living up to Udacity's lofty mission statement.

And of course, Khan Academy IS improving access to education. Not in some ideal future, but in the present and in the past. Without one-to-one tutoring, which by the way is obviously beyond the budget of, you know, most families (average price for tutors in my Zip: $88/h). So where's your access now? Admittedly Khan requires an internet connection, but $50/month for internet that the whole family can share, plus a $250 computer, sounds better than $88/h to me.

Though it is nice that akharris isn't duplicitous enough to grossly misrepresent Sal Khan's vision for an ideal classroom. Nice work there.

The weird part is that the thesis that he's trying to weave, about the value of human contact and personalized teaching, is kind of a no-brainer. And although I think he overstates the awesomeness of his business, I'm willing to assume it's more part-of-the-solution that part-of-the-problem. So why did he have to stoop to all these dodgy half-truths and misdirections? Maybe he needs to hire a composition tutor.
Well, looking forward to the next Accidental Tech Podcast - should be very interesting to get Marco Arment's perspective on this. First Instapaper, now Tumblr.

I wonder which will be a bigger deal for Marco...

[Edit - I also wonder whether he had an inkling that these conversations were taking place. He has been discussing his tumblr roots a bit more than usual recently, including his undocumented podcast easteregg that he built into tumblr, and the fact that the tumblr source code was open source, but not public, which allowed Marco to use it for future endeavors...

Edit 2: And this little hint from his Blog on May 11th.

"I ended up joining Davidville instead, for less money, because David would let me work on a brand new Mac with any keyboard I wanted and more than three feet of desk space. A few months later, we started Tumblr. Turned out to be the right move. "

]
Looking at the MailChimp site, I don't understand how that would make much of a difference. Right now, you can enter emails into the "Forgot Username" field and eventually hit a good one, but then you need to crack the email account to get the username so that you can then stick that in the "Forgot Password" form. Eliminating usernames, you click the "Forgot Password" link and enter emails into the field until you hit a good one, giving you both the email and "username" right away.
Depth cameras using infra-red projection aren't going to work outside due to solar saturation, so I think Google would be foolish not to embed a second camera and enable stereo vision. It's the only light-weight and low-power way to get depth information in a glasses form factor.

In principle (assuming some off-device computation), you could run SLAM and get a decent estimate of head orientation to then do AR with Google's glasses. Unlikely in the near future, but inevitable at some point.
Yahoo needs a company like this to address two major issues. First, they lack a social offering. Second, they need to draw in more users, and I imagine Yahoo is hoping to bring over a large user base to their other products via integration with their ecosystem. If Yahoo does acquire tumbler, it will be interesting to see how they choose to integrate it (if they do at all).
If the deal goes through Yahoo would now own the Tumblr audience, so Yahoo would have a product with a young audience, the audience Marissa Mayer wants for Yahoo, however, how would they move that audience over to other Yahoo products?

An acquisition of Tumblr seems very much like the acquisition of reddit by Advance Publications. They both have huge audiences that are passionate and growing fast but have great difficulty monetising their audiences effectively and are providing no real value to the parent company (other than the potential for the sites to become profitable). If Yahoo bought Tumblr how would they ever convert the audience into Yahoo users?

I guess it comes down to: what value is there to any company in "owning" an audience if that audience has no interest in becoming the audience of the parent and will actively resist it? People would get very angry if AP started pushing their ownership of reddit onto reddit users, having Wired articles automatically frontpaged, things like that would drive everyone away, how will Yahoo avoid that?
Kind of like startup investing on speed without the extra zeroes.
How??? Everything in that sentence is true. The US has a laissez faire regulation of killing devices/guns/assualt weapons. And my view is that it's an infringement on my freedom (since I have to factor in a greater risk of getting killed when being in public spaces in the US).
Please provide some evidence that those two facts are false.
Bringing the audience over would certainly be a Herculean effort of integrating existing services. As an example Google plus has been integrated into nearly every facet of googles offerings. Yahoo will need to do the same with tumblr, and all of their products, in order to compete. People expect their experience across a companies various products to be seamless now days.
What about users who would use this as an alternative to Facebook ?
Actually oddly enough they're trying to not shoot as much lead into the Earth as they used to.

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98594&page=1#....

[2]http://www.firearmsid.com/Feature%20Articles/GreenBullets/Gr...

[3]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/04/green-ammo-lead-fre...

Assuming "green" ammo actually makes it into the field, we probably won't see it for a while.
The binding syntax looks pretty jenky. Why not use something standard and readable like json?
"how would they move that audience over to other Yahoo products?"

The way the article is phrased (though we must remember it's third-hand at best) leads me to believe the strategy may be to go the other direction, to meld core Yahoo strengths (whatever that may be) into Tumblr. That is, integrate Yahoo offerings into Tumblr rather than the other way around.
Are you sure, we have Evil-mode and everything ;)