skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent the last couple of hours making a ruby clone if anyone is interested in taking a look or wants to help. For some reason, The decryption has stopped working in the past half hour. They couldn't have changed they key or anything, so I'm not sure what went wrong.

https://github.com/bholzer/RubySnap/blob/master/rubysnap.rb
While his comments may come off as insensitive to some people, merely expressing an opinion, even one that may be unpopular or disagreed with, is not inappropriate in any way.

I encourage him to not stop expressing his true thoughts on this subject, as well as on any other subject that may come up. The uninhibited exchange of ideas is what makes for truly interesting and insightful discussion. Once political correctness or avoiding hurt feelings overtakes free expression, further discussion becomes pointless.
Interestingly, the bricks-and-mortar Microsoft Stores seem to sell laptops with a version of Win 8 that has no crapware/bloatware and is optimized to run well; a lot like doing a fresh install.
> The only downside is if your app is the first qt app installed on an ios / android device, it forces a download of the shared libraries which are quite large.

How does this get around sandboxing on iOS? My fuzzy understanding is that components would need to be downloaded for each app independently. And is there a reason those shared libraries can't be bundled?
Maybe the i3 has a ridiculously slow cpu clock? I had an i7 laptop for work that was painfully slower than an old c2d laptop i bought.

t520 i7 1.6ghz v t400 c2d 2.4ghz
Its house prices make it one of world's most expensive cities, with slightly worse weather than Seattle (where it's overcast at least 6 months a year), where houses are much cheaper.
With Nokia's Friends Like Microsoft and ATT Who Needs Enemies?
> At least a year should be a long-term goal if you're doing something which is at all exposed to random acts of God.

You mean like being a human being who is currently alive on the planet Earth?
Oh, just via NoScript/RequestPolicy and allowing it through. :) It doesn't need to be WL'ed if already let through.
You're assuming that patents promote innovation once they're defended in court.

Another argument would be that they promote innovation by (1) preventing blatant rip offs in the first place, (2) incentivizing individual inventors who invest their time and money with the assurance that their efforts won't be blatantly ripped off in the end by someone with more resources.

There are countless examples of truly innovative patents filed by individuals who devoted their lives to creating new things. Some of the inventors profited directly from their patents, others spent their life savings in court trying to defend their patents.

There are also countless patents for idiotic ideas, and countless idiotic patents that shouldn't have been filed in the first place. But saying all patents are bad might be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
You're not understanding me, or the issue.

If the long tail is only a sliver, then people won't buy the actual printer, they'll purchase what they require from a 3d printing supplier that can deliver decent quality. there's no long tail for dot-matrix (impact) printers, for example; people who needed one got one, but most people rightly sat it out until better products were available.
And with that: Cellular devices are designed to transmit some kind of pilot signal even when turned off but with operational battery

http://www.endoacustica.com/gsm_interceptor_en.htm
Nope. It's the ISPs who are implementing this, they are not subject to FoI.
Yep, "Microsoft Signature".
If we could somehow "get off" earth, "stand still" and let it "float away", would time would appear to move faster?

A qualified yes, but it depends which time you mean by "time would appear to move faster". If you were "still", then those observed in motion would appear to have time pass more slowly.

Astronauts who spend time on the international space station age slightly less than people on earth (by 0.007 seconds behind for every 6 months) - time on earth goes faster than for them relative to those of us "stationary" on earth.

When two observers are in relative uniform motion and uninfluenced by any gravitational mass, the point of view of each will be that the other's (moving) clock is ticking at a slower rate than the local clock. The faster the relative velocity, the greater the magnitude of time dilation. This case is sometimes called special relativistic time dilation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

(The whole Wikipedia "Time Dilation" article is worth reading)
Microsoft and Steve Ballmer have a major shareholder problem
Definitely agree that ABC will host election coverage, and that Nate will appear on the network!

But did want to mention that ESPN is 80% owned by The Walt Disney Company (which also owns ABC)... and 20% owned by Hearst.

Here's the history of ESPN's ownership, from Wikipedia: "In 1984, ABC made a deal with Getty Oil to acquire ESPN. ABC retained an 80% share, and sold 20% to Nabisco. The Nabisco shares were later sold to Hearst Corporation, which still holds a 20% stake today. In 1986, ABC was purchased for $3.5 billion by Capital Cities Communications. In 1996, The Walt Disney Company purchased Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion and picked up the 80% stake in ESPN at that time."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ESPN

I've met with Hearst a few times, and their executives love to mention their 20% stake in ESPN!
I like the photo of Linus looking like a minister of religion in that suit and those glasses.

But I tend to worship at the church of statistics so right now I believe that it is all about regression to the mean until someone comes up with some hard data to show otherwise. In fact, there may be no causal relationship at all!
Leaked report shows high civilian death toll from CIA drone strikes
Oh wow, HN has a leader board. I didn't even know about this.
The population in Estonia is less than 1.3 million, and without a policy change (or some major regional changes, eg war), it is hard to see how the decline will be reversed. Most of the young people here I know can see no future for themselves in Estonia; being part of the EU makes it too easy to up-and-go to another EU state that pays better.

I used the 'dying' comparison as it's an emotional issue for me, as a 'new Estonian'. I hope very much that my pessimistic extrapolation will prove to be incorrect.
Serious question: how are the Pakistanis and Zimbabweans and other folk who are elderly and whose skills aren't current (I'm assuming) becoming Canadian citizens? Vancouver, for example, is a melting pot. Is a skilled worker legally allowed to bring any number of their unskilled extended family over?
HN is a cult and this proves it.
Tell me why people like Sven7 get away with pretty much any lazy rhetoric, including literally repeating the same senseless 4 word question several times in lieu of writing a real post? How is it that when he complained about my desire to "censor" him for spamming the thread nobody reminded him of the irony of being a staunch supporter of government censorship? Honestly, tell me how this works.

Look at his behavior in this thread and tell me it's perfectly fine. I mean this seriously, you're a user with gigantic amounts of karma, certainly more than I'll ever have. If you think it's OK, I'll cede that I clearly had the wrong idea about how this place should work, and I'll apologize for overstepping.
I agree with a lot of what you write even though I still see value in the idea behind MVPs.

My biggest issue is with the discourse and the stories that are written about. I find most so-called case studies of successful product dev by methodically following the lean process to either be lacking OR highly suspect(due to key missing details).

I was reading the book Nail it before you Scale It and while I wholeheartedly agree with the title of the book and even the theoretical ideas, it was disconcerting to me that a lot of the successful examples cited in the book are companies that no longer exist.

Overall most authors on this topic do a great job of pointing out how a company wasted ton of money on building a product no one wants but the same narrative seems to oversimplify how the company finally achieved success.
I'm relieved actually. I've been trying for years to NOT EVER read the NYTimes but Silver's blog was so good that I had to.
Just proves points are bs.
It's not just parents. My local school (~500 metres away) doesn't let students walk to and from school unaccompanied by an adult until they are eleven.
Yes, I'm sorry to say, you'll generally have to read things in order to discount them entirely.
It wasn't that long ago that ASP.NET MVC, EF, and WCF, for example, were new technologies.

How were the early adopters of those unproven technologies not "treating their client/employer as their personal playing field to try out the latest buzz"?
If it helps, the app currently isn't compatible with the Nexus 7 either. Also, it doesn't seem to support landscape on my Padfone 2 when docked (should act like a tablet). Looks good though.
Nope. By his numbers ("growing six-figure monthly revenues"), they would max at $12m in revenue annually. Profits will be substantially lower.
Used as a pointing device it will have the same problem as other mouse alternatives (and mice). The only way to get feedback is through rigid starting at the screen to keep track of the cursor. This breaks the relationship between physical action and computer action in the body. My theory theory is that this adds stress into the nervous system and adds to the muscular fatigue. If an interface is poorly tuned you can just feel the anxiety rising if you are trying to get work done.
That's a good suggestion! Our idea here is to add useful context to what would otherwise be an unnavigable pile of audio.
Every computer I own runs better with Windows 8 then Windows 7. Maybe I got lucky with GPU compatibility but my main CPU is the original dual core from 2006. I doubt the i3 is the problem unless its a GPU conflict or some sort or 3rd party "crapware".
You could make that comparison if African Americans had been invaders of the US, but not otherwise.

Narva is a huge problem for the Estonian government - unemployment there is high, and the educational institutions struggle to field teachers who can teach in Estonian. As a result, young people with a Russian background are at a disadvantage with respect to basic language skills.

It's also fair to say there are a number of those in Narva who wish for their 'countrymen' to come rolling over the border again.
I think the idea is that then they couldn't charge exorbitant prices to recoup their investment costs. Drugs cost an enormous amount of money to develop.
It seems to me that ZeroMQ is very good if you are creating a messaging network with load balancing, fanout, and fanin, however I don't think what most people are using HTTP services for matches to ZeroMQ full capabilities. That being said, it is very easy to get started with ZeroMQ. The whole idea of making everything messaging oriented seems to make sense especially if you think message passing is a good way to simplify complex systems that need high levels of concurrency. The issues with threading, forking, and contexts make some things tough with ZeroMQ, see: http://250bpm.com/blog:23. I stopped hacking on ZeroMQ when i was unable to trouble shoot some hard to reproduce crashes.
Based on my experience with Leap and it's limitations, sounds like someone wants to create Surgeon Simulator 2014...
That's the Toronto streetcar.. one of the few symbols of this wonderful city.
> Last fall SemiAccurate was one of the few voices criticizing Windows 8

o_0
Do any of these integrate with cgroups? I've found myself wanting to specify some rules about resource usage on occasion, and cgroups seems conceptually nice, but I'm not sure how to work it in nicely to my other tools, short of writing custom shell scripts to manipulate /proc/cgroups.
I use NS+RP too but I did not see anything listed for AWS.
I would dearly love to see FTL, but to paraphrase Fermi, where are the aliens? The first civilization that gets FTL would colonize the galaxy before any other developed. It's harder for me to accept that we are the first technological civilization than it is to believe that FTL is possible.
A UI is the M in the MVP. The back end would be a fair bit of work for nothing very exotic. I can test certain assumptions about the front end using public data without all that effort. Technically, it's probably a demo, not a true MVP, but it should tell me a lot about what works and what doesn't, and it shouldn't be too hard to expand into a true MVP afterward.
systemd can, right now, launch "template" services based on a common template with a parameter. For instance, the usual set of text login prompts are services named getty@tty1.service, getty@tty2.service, ..., getty@tty6.service, all spawned from a template getty@.service.

systemd is currently adding support for dynamic service "instances", which would allow you to launch and close such services on the fly.

So, depending on how dynamic you need the list of virtual services to be, the answer is either "yes, that works right now" or "yes, that's available in the latest systemd release, but probably not in your distro yet".
I thought it was only beggars who used little kids as a means to optimize their goals. Politicians seem to be doing much better.
Romance novels are full of depictions of rape. The "unwilling woman in an arranged marriage/kidnapped by the male love interest is convinced that said marriage/kidnapping is totally okay via amazing sex" is an extremely common trope in historical/fantasy romance novels (the trashy kind with Fabio on the cover).
Yes, but once you reach a certain tier per month (which indiegogo would have reached by now) this goes down to around 1.1%.
same happened with me and my father

fml
MailChimp threatens legal action against an open source side project
> Interestingly, the people writing the drug patents use the same types of techniques mentioned by Joel...especially making claims as broad as possible.

Systems (legal, computer, etc.) need to be developed with the full expectation that people will do everything in their power to exploit them.
A lot of people are more worried about their right to marry and their reproductive rights than anything the NSA is doing.
If pictures of bad crime and abuse are undesirable, then shouldn't we start with the worst crimes, like murder? And thus ban every depiction of murder?
Rather than an alternative to PhantomJS, I would look for an alternative hosting provider.
Thank you, a man had contacted me, but he is in America, it is too far to send 200 paper books to.
Then why do I want them so bad?
I can't imagine that being very practical as you're likely to die of starvation before the veggies grow big enough to feed you.

This would take months to set up.
Why It Is Impossible For Entrepreneurs To Have Girlfriends
Turkish security researcher Ibrahim Balic hacked my facebook the other night and posted some drunk ramblings. That guy is a real pistol when he drinks.
Makes sense! Thanks for clarifying that.
Grats raganwald! Clearly articulated supporting documentation is highly correlated with successful efforts. I am certain your efforts will be richly rewarded.
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This thing is horrible for porn.

My web browser keeps scrolling up and down very rapidly.
I personally can't blame them. It's an exact copy of their site, which makes further replications very easy and encouraged. Their letter to Luke was very nice, hardly pushy at all.
VMWare Fusion/Workstation/etc is easily the fastest type-II virtualization software out there.
I take it a step further I use vmware to run a different instance of windows and go through a proxy. Paranoid? yes! but let Google track that particular me and not the real me.
Just for the record, I'm not actually a physicist.
Haha, you are humour, just make 1 billion chinese Laugh.
No, I haven't found a definitive tutorial or reference (even for webkit). In general, look around for "import gi.repository.webkit" and you will find relevant things. I am not very sure how the other phantomjs developers are learning webkit things.. probably just reading code.
Systemd provides many knobs for tuning cpu, memory, and io settings [1] using cgroups. This deep integration is one of the reasons why systemd only runs on linux.

[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/resources.html
It would be great if the world actually worked like that even when someone's promotion or political career was on the line. Selective enforcement leads to cronyism and arbitrariness.
The numbers are quite different. Detroit is 82.7% black, while Atlanta is 54% black:

http://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/atlanta_ga/detroit_...

Numbers matter. Political control and on-the-ground police haven't flipped over entirely yet to Camden, NJ or Gary, IN levels.
I would except this isn't my machine… I'm just going to edit some files in webkit and wait the 30 min I guess :S

Thanks.
My suggestions to Microsoft, in the form of a to-do list
I think they're referring to the case where the funding succeeds. As a non-proud Esquiso owner (who doesn't regret the gamble), I can testify that hardware is hard.

That said, my money's on these guys to pull it off. My only concern is quality control and support/maintenance.
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That's true if a security company is involved. But you could perfectly well have a device like this without involving a third party if all it's going to do is alert me.
That's the beauty of specialisation and economies of scale. They can justify, and afford, the extra sticker price and coordination cost to set it all up. And we customers win from that improvement.
NYC EMS 911 System Crashes Repeatedly - Operators Instead Used Pen And Paper
> I think if there isn't a successful legal challenge before 2016, or a successful political challenge in 2014 or 2016, the course is irrevocable.

Can you cite any time in history where, in any location, a military power grab as far-reaching as this NSA surveillance thing has been successfully rolled back?

> and the right choice would be long-term disinvestment and disengagement from the US, to the extent possible

Preliminary testing suggests that that's a huge screaming bitch. :(
Anyone used a ESB(biztalk, websphere) rather than a pure messaging solution. What's the difference?
Kinda sad that "nothing" isn't on the list. I just use software that isn't broken, so it doesn't need to be constantly restarted.
He's currently ranked #108 on the GitHub Popularity Contest Index:

http://githubpopularitycontest.com/find?user=raganwald
Why I was fired at Twitter.
My manager hated me, end of story, period! I can go into all the juicy details if you like, but I thought that alone was worth sharing.

I worked there for nearly 2 years as a Software Engineer.
I apologize for my previous comment, I was reacting out of anger.

This is the page they copied http://nerdydata.com/home2.php. It was our wait list for the last 2 months while we developed our site, which now has a new homepage we put up last week. http://nerdydata.com

But no hard feelings, maybe you had the idea independently and happened to use the same exact theme and messaging.
No, the NSA can't track phones when they are "off"
UPI seems to have some coverage of that one: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2013/07/16/Veterans-para...

(UPI is a fairly major Western news agency. Not as big as the AP, but a long way from being a Livejournal poster.)
Thanks for the great list of tools to explore. I had already tried out Heroku, Nitrous and VirtualBox but new to everything else on that list. I'm trying those out now and have also signed up on StackMachine... most of the tools solve only a part of the problem but I guess I need to figure out the combination to use.
I just fond this to be a useful noting of an iconic institution who should know better its role in our everyday lives, and the responsibility that entails.
Social psychologists have been talking about online presence for a decade or more, and sociologists have been lamenting this very issue of lack of physical presence in many uses. And because the technology doesn't cause any behaviour, it just affords it... and because our response is dependent on a lot of social factors and influences, the social influence from apple's ads is vast!
Congratulations on raising your fund!

How open to investments outside of California and New York are you? I noticed that vertical marketplaces are one of your example of Bottom Up Economy startups, and Boston has a large number of these: http://startupsinboston.com/type/marketplace/
The streetcar ride is rather smooth FWIW.
Apparently isn't available in my country?! (India)
That's somewhat qualified:

"Last fall SemiAccurate was one of the few voices criticizing Windows 8, WART, and Surface. The mainstream press seemed too welded to the MS advertising revenue stream to dare even hint that the emperor has no clothes...."
Regardless of who is in the right, their letter was more professional and polite than this OP response. The author is mistaken to think this is a pushy or aggressive letter, compared to an actual pushy or aggressive legal letter.

PS: In the U.S. (if not the rest of the English speaking world?), if you want to use an honorific for a woman but don't know which she uses, always use "Ms.", never ever "Miss." "Miss" implies a woman is unmarried; "Mrs." implies that she is married and the surname is her husband's; "Ms.", appropriately for professional communication, makes no assumptions about her marital status.
On crapware, I just posted this suggestion to antitrust authorities etc:
http://hal2020.com/2013/01/15/crapware-and-how-we-got-here/#...
Someone says that, you can basically stop reading.
Note that HTTP pipelining will let you have multiple outstanding HTTP requests on the same TCP connections, although it comes with some caveats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining
The letter from MailChimp seems completely fair.

Publishing PSDs of someone else's website—regardless of who made the PSD—is a dick move. Doubly so given that the authors resources contain the original companies branding and image resources ripped right from the original pages.
So it's one big bitching rant about Surface.

Yawn.
I'm kind of torn about this. While I would like to see more diversity in the phone world, I wish that the focus this time was more on the open hardware and specifications. If Ubuntu is pushing this phone tied to the Ubuntu OS, they're really not that much different than what Apple and MS are doing with their mobile devices.

I'm assuming and hoping that if this launches, the hardware and software will be open enough for people to start making their own OSes. It's just unfortunate, and I feel in a way backwards thinking, to make this Kickstarter with such a huge funding goal and not have the focus be on why it's important and why it stands apart - which is I believe the open standards for hardware and software.

I'm just not a big fan of Ubuntu as an OS, and I'd love to have a phone that was so open that I had as many options in distros as I do on the desktop. I'd much rather see a Kickstarter for a completely open hardware phone that encouraged people to be creative with both the hardware and the software, which I don't think this project is going to promote other than an afterthought.
My recollection is the CIA considers any military aged males in the area of a strike to be enemy combatants, which could be one cause for significantly different numbers.

Here we go:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in...

"It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."