skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely get you on that. Does that original intent say anything of whether words should be the heart and soul of web design however?

Should black and white photography be the heart and soul of photography just because limitations (or costs) of technology started us there? I'm guessing you wouldn't argue that original intent should define future value, but these are all interesting points to discuss.
Extremely interested in this idea - I've gotten to the point of pricing out FedEx-Kinko's to cut the bindings off ($1/ book actually) and then scanning them dual-sided into Evernote with searchable text (if you're a Pro member it scans inside PDFs).

Still can get past the cognitive dissonance of letting my bookshelf go.
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Your post reminds me of http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html.
but it's not new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm

It's called marketing.
Cost =/= Benefit
Be better, not new
this link just tells me to login
Exactly what was on my mined as I saw this earlier.

(Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5913381)
The Marvellous & Incomplete Compendium of Reddit Automatons
Why a 3-D Printer Giant Just Bought MakerBot
While little research has been done on boy-on-boy sexual hazing, almost 10 percent of high school males reported being victims of rape, forced oral sex or other forms of sexual assault by their peers, according to a 2009 study in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
I'm not sure if this applies to artistic theory, but in film theory there's an entire discipline based around formalist, or stylistic critique.

Briefly, they would say that an effective ideological argument stems from style--two films with the exact same script that are shot, set, lit, and edited differently could have totally different meanings. So, what's most interesting is that your argument perhaps isn't actually about words or content -- it's about the way those words and content are presented.
Along with the rest of HN. The signal to noise ratio for this page just dropped.
I didn't say text is bleak and characterless. I said that having no design variation is bleak and characterless.
iOS 7, A Review
Aaron Taylor-Johnson got ripped for Kick-Ass 2
Casu marzu[1] comes to mind, though wikipedia indicates that it's legal(ish) again. Not that I think it would be that great a loss to society if it were unavailable, but there you go.

Kind of an extreme example, though. I don't think that it justifies the notion that society suffers under a tragedy of many useful foods being unavailable. I also would need to be persuaded of that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
A Brief History of Facebook Products
A Technical Dictionary That Fits the Definition of User-Friendly
azakai is one of the best developers the web community is lucky enough to have. He also happens to be very articulate.
Finding your kid's drug stash and punishing him by flushing it down the toilet is probably possession. I certainly would rather it remain private than find out via government prosecution.
What about linkrot when adla.st is no longer maintained? Imho yhat's the problem of this solution, relying on a third-party (your) domain.
This is also a very good point, I did not think about this. Maybe we should come up with a FizzBuzz-like basic test that is similarly easy, but does not need the modulo operator.
> You would have to be astoundingly incompetent to make a socialized system more expensive for the USA.

Well we do spend more per capita on education than any other nation (and not have results to show for it) and education is dominated by the government. Our government is astoundingly incompetent. And I see no reason why the government would magically make healthcare cheaper just because it would get EVEN MORE involved.

> Pretty sure your federal government can recognize human rights, and ensure they are respected.

If this is what you're referring to (in Article 25 (1)):

> Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

Constitutionally, no. Most of this should be (but of course isn't, given that we have Social Security, Medicaid/Medicare, TANF, etc.) left to the states. All powers not explicitly described by the Constitution are left to the states per the 10th amendment in the Bill of Rights. And personally, I would be fine with this. I would rather not have the monolithic and inscrutable federal government we have today. I would prefer to leave it to the states whether or not they want to recognize the U.N. Universal Declaration.
Links for the lazy:

Introducing Marquee - http://team.marquee.by/introducing-marquee/

On Content - http://team.marquee.by/on-content/
I started the platform Searchfreelancejobs.com to search projects over the top freelancing sites in one platform. It's helped me as a freelancer.
Perhaps it was different in the US. But that's the price I paid for my Xbox 360 in Canada.
How does it work? It says no batteries, yet it only works for 1 year?
> I'm also skeptical about this idea of 24/7 shiftwork. Will each person will have their own little piece of the codebase that nobody else touches? If so, then why have a nightshift? Why not just have everyone work in the day, since it's all in parallel anyway?

Because that way you can fit more people in the same facility? Otherwise, it will be unused for 8 hours each day (being optimistic).
There is something infuriating about your post.

It misses the point entirely and concentrates on the banality of the medium rather than the message.

The new web is the old web, rehashed with less content and more money making prospects through complicated meshes of dross leeched from the veins of media startups.

Not using is putting the message first for a change and I applaud that.
While we're (sort of but not really) on the subject of 9/11:

There's a very interesting video about 9/11 that every American really, really, really should watch put out by a group called Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

"9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg
Why would they stop maintaining it? Bit.ly hasn't stopped getting users and it poses the same risks, right?
There analogy is not good, but I would also assume that lockheed won a competitive bidding process to get the contract as well. They promised to build it at a certain price and in a certain time.
I couldn't agree more. Realistically, I don't think we will ever reach a political consensus in the US that would allow for a basic income bill to pass through congress. More likely is that technology will eventually make most menial labor and jobs obsolete, resulting in a spike of unemployment which essentially forces the issue. Time will tell.
I know this is too much, however we plan on adding the ability to inject sharing data directly to websites, that's why we asked for it in advance.

We would never do anything to miss use it and we felt that an optional permissions scenario was rather too complex.

How would you fill with an optional permissions scenario?
Then style the web as you fit on your own browser, but don't try to impose your design sensibilities on mine. That's why I keep saying 'client side'. I prefer not to download and process most of the graphic cruft that I see, and vastly prefer reading articles in an RSS reader to visitng pages that remind me of being a shopping mall.
Argyria: drink colloidal silver every day + turn yourself blue
> Systems are designed to fail softly and reboot quickly (~1 minute) and sometimes do so automatically without physically crashing the jet. Sometimes the pilot won't even notice.

If that's the case, why not use something like Erlang?
There are ~hundreds (thousands?) of VPN providers worldwide. I've seen as low as $1-3/mo -- and some which are ad sponsored and free. I haven't used them all, so I'm not sure of the specific advantages and disadvantages of each.

We have some differentiating security features vs. all existing VPN systems coming; this is just a show hn to get feedback.

We've mainly worked on the corp VPN as a service (which does internal monitoring/filtering/IDS/etc.), but at $100/mo, it's not really an option for consumers. Due to all the NSA stuff, people were asking for a consumer option.
It's crazy how sub par a lot of the default iOS apps are. Too bad Apple's ecosystem is too closed to innovation.
Honestly, I can't believe my eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahihGKZC5Kk
Pedantic nonsense. Most of the time when you're using kill you're going be using the bash shell built-in, where it is syntactically correct.

kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | jobspec] ...

Even so, with /bin/kill -sigspec is still valid and common usage, even if it is not documented in the manpage.
Just another recycled, cloned feature from an existing application. Consumers simply don't care about "hardcore technology" - Ethernet switching? That's like telling a consumer that Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet - they'll look at you and say "Facebook is the Internet."

I couldn't agree more with the "less app please" statement - but we live in a very skewed reality these days. Apps like Vine take off in weeks from people posting the dumbest, worst, lowest quality videos of their cats and themselves eating food. Instagram destroyed photography by making an 8MP smartphone camera <1MP with a square polaroid-like frame and the worst destructive filters of all-time. It's just a vicious cycle of bullshit. When will it end?

The state of technology, rather consumer technology, is indicative of the consumer - and unfortunately, the average consumer isn't very bright.
Is there another source that confirms that this document is legitimate?
This.

People romanticize the notion of Fusion. It's a great thing, no doubt, But to say:

> We could probably have helicopter islands like in a Sci-Fi film.

Feels a little bit to me like people saying the same thing when they first discovered refined petroleum.

Having said that we've made massive progress towards energy positive fusion with both magnetic confinement, and inertial confinement, And it's not crazy to think they may provide good usable power into our grid within our lifetimes.
This guy is living in the 90's. Today the web is a platform for providing digital services. Words are a very small part of the story.
Same reasons it's awesome to have a black president:

1. There are people it would inspire, and

2. There are people whose expectations would be shaken up

The latter group needs as much help as the former.
He still used CSS styling. If anything, its a take on bringing back Times New Roman... everything is designed.
This is not a "killer feature" - Apple already includes a Class in iOS for video stabilization (AVCaptureConnection Class). This is just regurgitated marketing crap, as usual.
One of the items I'm going to be most interested in from your service (when the time comes for you guys to start working on it) will be the TOS and/or practices you put in place.

I've been a ViprVPN customer before. I had a question or perhaps it was an issue I called them about and the person I was communicating with told me what VPN server I last connected to and when I connected. Sure, to do any kind of troubleshooting, this would have been necessary and important information. But I was concerned enough about the unsolicited disclosure that I cancelled the service immediately.

DuckDuckGo can claim a reasonably high interest in protecting my privacy because they simply do not collect data that the big search engine does. Collecting and storing this data would make them a target for undisclosed, unchallengeable, and unwarranted surveillance. This has enormous appeal to me.

Having said that, have you guys discussed (loosely) what data you will be collecting?
Standup is not Scrum
Good news, I actually put latency/loss monitoring into our internal support system last night, so I'll probably be exposing some data from it next week.

We currently monitor 60+ sites from the Alexa Top 500 for load time and loss so we can use the data for capacity planning and fault isolation.
>The web is not just a place for text/words, that is not its heart and soul... It really never has been.

I am thinking back when they named the protocol the HyperText Transport Protocol and the primary format the HyperText Markup Language, text was indeed the heart and soul of the medium.

At one point, images weren't even displayed inline but via a helper app. This is why Mosaic was a big deal.
Thrilled to have watched this product and this team grow to this phase. This technology still amazes me.

Keep on killing it, guys!
Canada's Former Minister of Defense Believes Aliens Are Among Us
Good idea.

I make a point to check to see if any used, Fulfilled by Amazon copies are available when I'm about to buy a book.

It's used pricing and the weight of Amazon behind the purchase without the cost of shipping thanks to my Prime membership.
Global Optimizer SPSA implementation in Go
I loved the article, and I like how the author implores us to extend the drive to reduce complexity to how we speak about products.
err... "a small convenience to small teams."
Thorough and on-topic, casual but not jokey. Awesome.
It is non-freedom respecting software so I see no reason why anyone would volunteer to use it.
things that I'd send in - desk lamps that are 99% functional, but don't quite bend in the angle that you want. Paperbacks that have been dropped into a puddle one too many times. An old thermos.

I find this strangely endearing.
My mistake, I contributed factually inaccurate information. Thanks for the help!

"1946: Ford sues the allies for damages done to his factories in Dresden during the infamous bombing, and wins compensation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ford_Motor_Company
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In at least four cases of sodomy hazing last year, the coach or supervising teacher was alleged to have known about it, ordered it, witnessed it or laughed about it, according to police reports and court filings.

Ugh. (Sounds like an argument for homeschooling.)
I cannot imagine dealing with something like this.
Do not do what Amy's Baking Company did to their bullies.

Okay, in all seriousness... this was just posted the other day (might have been yesterday?) and though humorous, can be applied to what you're going through: http://abovethelaw.com/2013/06/how-to-write-a-great-response...

Now, I am not a lawyer, but I believe you could potentially change your brand name to "Freelancer F___ M___" and plug some words that pair with .fm. Example: "Freelancer For Me" comes to mind.

Also, the spiteful side of me says to proxy the feed from freelancer.com to your platform, but that's just me.
Phalcon is well done. I've been going through it recently and it will become my preferred mini-framework of choice.
Awesome job guys! Congrats!
Because loitering and enduring battle damage make so much sense in an era of countermeasure-immune SAMs and huge directed-shrapnel warheads. Spitting DU rounds onto a city block also isn't a great idea in today's conflicts. The A-10 is obsolete, the tankbuster role is obsolete, the F-35 isn't perfect but is far more appropriate for today's conflicts.
Anyone who attacks the victim, dismissing it as no big deal, should be forced to experience the EXACT same thing themselves. I bet that would change their tiny little minds in a hurry.
I stopped reading because the font size and color choice made it difficult to read. Is that irony?
You're right. I'd take living in the US now over living in the US during the cold war, for any number of reasons.

In fact I'd guess any 20th decade was far worse than now on any number of measures, with the possible exception of the 1900s and 1910s, which I don't know much about, and the 1990s, which was great.
I got interested in bot activity and culture on Reddit recently, so I wrote a little thing about them. This is an interesting and somewhat shadowy facet of the otherwise very public community - and I thought it was interesting.

I've been trying to improve my writing lately and I would love some constructive negative feedback.
Looks really good, seems like the kind of thing a lot of people need. It's not for me though - I don't have any content I want to publish yet, unfortunately.

I'm curious about how you came to the $8 a month figure though - any research behind that?

EDIT: You should also have a link to your actual product somewhere: http://marquee.by/
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Caveat, much higher bandwidth and data storage requirement.

One ZeroCoin transaction takes the bandwidth/storage space of something like 100 (or was it 1000?) Bitcoin transactions. That could add up fast.
Making an engineer do puzzles like FizzBuzz is a lot like making an actor act out a 20 second scene without any time to prepare or a proper "scene partner" to act alongside of.

FizzBuzz is self-contained tho, so maybe a better comparison would be to asking for a dramatic poetry reading?
Cinema stabilization. What utter bullshit. Apple created this class in the iOS SDK (AVCaptureConnection Class) that enables stabilization.

Do you think for a second that IG/FB devs sat there writing an image stabilization algorithm? No chance.

Instagram going video is the RIGHT MOVE for the product, 100% - but, it's just another regurgitated copy of another app, which was a copy of another app, and so goes the cycle of bullshit.
In short: KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid)

That's one of my favorite principles of software development (and engineering in general).
Haha, noted. I'll switch to a more readable theme.
Excellent summary. The language of economics is often very good for succinctly communicating things like this.

As far as what should be done, that's a lot trickier. My inclination is that it should mostly be limited to universities and government having something of a bias for open source with very liberal licenses. That's a big vague, but I'm a bit tired, so it'll have to do. I do not think the government should get involved in funding software it doesn't actually need in a big way.
This is Not just a Web page.
> Right, so the important thing to keep in mind (and this is different from Balanced), is that you are making a standard Charge object. It's business as usual.

From your example, Balanced will also let you factor in the cost of the processing and include it in your total e.g. 25 + 2.9% + 0.30 + 0.25. Then, you can specify the amount to pay out that is completely independent of the total amount processed.

How is that different?
the links 404s.
here is another one with video
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/05/paul-hellyer-aliens-...
Facebook’s Instagram Has Video But It Has An Upload Problem
Whammed in the face with:

"Subscribe to receive future articles right to your inbox"

Tab closed. To hell with them.
I must be paranoid now. My first reaction was "It's a trap!".
Bah, if they were explicit, they wouldn't be nearly as useful for parametric polymorphism.
Someone should make an effort to market Git to mathematicians (and academics and scientists in fields where Git exists).

This article is a start, but it would probably be stronger if the author had a nuts-and-bolts tutorial about how to use Git from the point of view of someone whose use case involves LaTeX markup rather than source code.
> I wonder if this is also true if you are a foreigner visiting the US.

It won't work on Customs and Immigration. When you're talking to them you're not "in the US" yet. After that, yes, the privilege against self-incrimination is granted to everyone in the United States, citizen or not.

> And I wonder if this also works for the Dutch police.

The privilege in question is considered an essential component of the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. Most other countries based on English common law have something similar. You'll have to look for parallel support within the Dutch legal system.
Vinylfy Launches Social Network For Vinyl Heads
I just tried it and it's actually a pretty great user experience. Much nicer than Vine, IMO.
I made it to the end, but with difficulty and for the same reason.

As for the ideas, that's great but I remember writing in a similar flush of enthusiasm 20 years ago. Much as I like YouTube, it's not the same as going to the opera. And part of what makes a good library valuable is what it excludes as well what it includes. Right now the WWW is too much like a shopping mall. I'm more interested in the internet of things.
Looks really cool. Surprised this much could actually be pulled off on an iPhone.
I kept reading but definitely found it annoying.

It also took a few seconds to load and the page scrolled back to the top, causing me to lose my place. Extra annoying.
Yep!
Ideally you don't want to use different IPs while visiting the same site because they'll likely block your account, but for sites on different sides of the globe, this is going to happen.
To serve as an inspiration to all the girls around the world to go into STEM fields. Things are definitely getting better but the current system of society expectations still discourages women from participation in technology, sometimes in very subtle ways. Even if we set aside equality of opportunities which is the goal by itself, think of it as extending the pool of potential inventors and innovators, speeding up the innovation.
Sorry, not sure what that happened, I am not logged in to statcounter (dont even have an account) and I can see it perfectly. Here is a screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/Dlq63WF.png
Joshmn: Thanks for chiming in. If I change the title of the site to "Freelancer For Me" for example, will it be enough to win a case like this?
Thanks, and I hope when you are ready to publish something, you'll consider us.

Pricing is, admittedly, a pretty by-the-seat-of-our-pants kind of affair right now. We've tried to have pretty extensive conversations with our early users, assessed others in the space, and came up with something we think is reasonable. Time will tell, I suppose, if it'll need to be adjusted one way or the other.
For a troll, you are very unimaginative.
Same. I instantly closed the tab.
Toyota will donate one meal for every view this video gets
Congrats guys, haven't heard of your platform before, definitely trying your real-time chat API shortly.

Looking into how your product compares with Parse...
"The web isn't inherently about words, pictures, music or videos - It's about connectivity."

Well said.
Clickable link: http://bit.ly/14MFqpB
what i meant its to tell that this is crystal clear.. and you can pick a lot of examples of what im telling about.. eg. when apple opens the mobile market with iphone.. of course.. there a lot of oportunities..and a lot of big players start to compete, cause its a blue sea...

But in 10/20 years.. it will have 2 or 3 players at most.. so maybe a new cycle will happen again.. in other scenarios.. that may or may not will break this monopoly down to pieces.. but its visible that it all tends to monopolies.. i was not questioning were innovation was impossible.. or small players could start a new game.. but a small player cant enter in a old game and spect to win because the big players will crush him, or in the best of the scenarios will buy him.. (waze being bought by google to nail the competition of google maps)..

did'nt meant to be rude, ok?! sorry ;)
Maybe someone will finally read these 11,000 of unread spam emails at my throw away yahoo account.
Reading about the "conference table technique" was a bit too specific and caused me to promptly close the tab.