skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple spaced repetition software in the browser. Made using Meteor.

http://cardflashapp.com
That reminds me of this blog post – http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions
The Problem is Piwik doesn't scale. Even if you set it up to the way they said.

The problem is there isn't a single viable GA alternative out there that doesn't cost a fortune.

Clicky and Chartbeat are the only two relatively inexpensive option
> how many times have you bashed your head against the wall about the proper way to setup a python library

Hmm, almost never actually. The only example I can think of is PIL. I usually have to manually edit the installer to get libjpeg and zlib and fooimagelib to install properly. Other than that, pip seems to have all the magic I crave.
Zukunft
Ich finde die Grundidee Klasse ! Neue Ideen- Unabhängigkeit !
https://github.com/gryftir/gutsy

Scrapes HN Who's hiring postings for internships. Eventually will allow arbitrary parsing by passing a function.
We do torture people.

Where is the confusion?
Local Newscast Uses DMCA to Erase Air Crash Reporting Blunder
Well now, I live in the UK.

We don't have a written constitution, so the Powers That Be don't have to hack the legal system in quite the same way as as they do in the US (secret courts, secret injunctions, requirements for industry leaders to deny activity &c).

However, we have absolutely no oversight and no way to gain oversight of the agencies that purport to be acting for our protection. It is difficult even to find out how much we are paying for these agencies. As our Prime Minister has recently demonstrated, our elective representatives have very little understanding of how the Internet actually works. There is a cross party consensus that the 'legal framework' is adequate. Maybe it is, but we don't know, and have no way of knowing.

So I'd suggest taking what action you can within your system, because at least you have some avenues for change.
When you have approximately 1/3 of the population being somewhat dependent on that stream of income, is it still feasible to "go back"?

Economically it's also far less risky to be the bully as long as you can. It would be great to see the US believe more in their productive nerds than in their bullies but at the moment they are playing it safe by somewhat (aside from populist immigration policies - probably not the best for innovation) betting on both of them.
I agree. Let's use Bitcoin. It's possible right here today and you don't give anyone a cut.
That's an addition, not an exception. An exception would say "you must the GPL, unless you are/are doing xyz, in which case you can use abc license". You are saying "you can use the GPL, unless you are/are doing xyz, in which case you can't". That clause cannot legally be inserted in the GPL.
Interesting article, sounds like a horrendous place to work by all accounts.

The technique of using temp agencies for the bulk of a workforce is very common in the States from what I understand, ensuring employees have few rights. Hopefully it doesn't become prevalent here in the UK.
Google Sets New Internet Record
(.).(.) and the term "function composition composition" are a really bad idea (except as fun maths puzzles).

Just use \f g x y -> f (g x y) and be done with it.
See also Timo Arnall et al’s work on light painting wifi: http://www.nearfield.org/2011/02/wifi-light-painting
It does not seem that there is a community consensus position.
Is it possible that it was an accidental mistake, rather a deliberate attempt to spread 'Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt'?

Be Civil. See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"The scary part is that this line of thinking is not entirely untrue seeing as civilian casualties have a way of radicalizing young men in search of revenge."

I do not expect to convince you to change your opinion, but I would like to let you know that this is not an opinion well verified by fact. It's a supposition made by chaps like Noam Chomsky without serious data behind it. It is also counter to what we know is true, which is that serious terrorism comes from religiously-motivated intellectuals, not the down-trodden poor incited to revenge.
How does that cause a change in velocity?

Or are you implying there is no time dilation?
Old idea that has never taken off, and is probably less likely now that chips are really cheap. This graphic shows MCC’s Modular PC idea http://jkontherun.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/solutions_hq.j...

IBM's MetaPad was a similar idea.

Today, the Asus PadFone probably comes closest.
My partner was killed by a barbecue
Yes, it's even more important when the lawyers get itchy... as it happened to the NYTOnIt:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/20/nytonit_n...

Good on TNY to have a better stance on it.
A Bunch of Cool Prints To Experiment With 3DPrinters
Isn't it very naive of them to think they can do this unlicensed? They are basically using SquareEnix's IP to raise money for their project - that is not going to work.
Does the $830 perk include as well the docking station additionally to the phone? Or is it the phone alone?
Doesn't seem very legit to me.

Firstly, if wi-fi would be visible, you still wouldn't be able to see it all like we can't see visible laser ray unless there is dust/water/something in the air. It should be reflected from something to be seen.

But let's suppose it's just visible per se.. Ok, colors represent waves, but they don't look like 3-5 inches, more like meters on some photos.

Secondly, signal strength should dramatically decrease over distance. In two meters it should be four times as dark as in one meter, in 10 meters it should be 100 times darker.

Thirdly, on many pictures waves don't seem to disperse properly. Looks like everybody's using a very advance ridiculously narrow-range antennas.
This is a slightly different take on this 'forgotten employee' story.

I was made redundant by a large, rather famous web-giant once, only they managed to screw it up (forgetting that firing employees in Europe, especially in a large group, is apparently somewhat harder than firing employees in the US). As a result, their intention of firing 120+ techies in our office in one day turned into a 4 month long arbitration period (exacerbated by the fact that we only found out we were all fired via a company-wide webcast, intended to only be broadcast to the surviving employees. They had actually forgotten to come tell us we were fired.)

Since we were all still technically employed during this arbitration period, we were vaguely expected to come to work. Since our managers were all fired as well, though, no one really bothered checking. Since they'd fired an entire department - an entire floor of one in a large, beautiful building - the floor was filled with 100+ geeks, all on a paycheck but with no expected output. Some simply didn't bother coming in, deciding instead 'to work from home.' Most, however, did come in - to play the Wii & foosball, work on their own projects, and idly look for new jobs. A few small startups came out of it. A few fun open-source projects.

My favourite aspect of it, though, was that my old manager made it his personal job in the remaining time to ensure that each and every one of the people he was responsible for had a new job waiting at the end of the 4 month period. He organised recruiting drives with local startups, got everyone's CVs, even rented a pub one evening so we could all catch up with a few local startups.

That large web-giant is hiring again apparently. Not many of my old colleagues are interested, it seems.
And no users.

Everywhere I've worked since the mid 90s, internal and external license compliancy enforcer-types have always left me and my stuff alone when I print out the DFSG and a couple of the DFSG compliant licenses, show them we run Debian, and at work only use Main not Non-Free. I've never had a "license compliancy audit" run longer than 30 minutes or so and maybe two dozen pieces of paper. Usually much less.

Its a measurable financial advantage of free software. You should see the labor and expense nightmare my proprietary coworkers have gone thru to "prove" they have the right to a copy of windows and office and other stuff. Its very expensive to use proprietary software legally at a business, and I'm not just talking about purchase price!

If I could no longer use free software because there no longer is any, I'd have to switch to something involving less legal risk. Unfortunately probably MS products, apple being a bit too rich for their blood. It would be a nightmare conversion, and a much higher TCO leading to longer term financial issues.
I do wish to note as a matter of my own expertise that we don't have super-Turing machines.
Change the culture, change the world
There is precisely one thing in this article that was scientifically interesting: pointing out that Nature has inflated space at apparently-superluminal speeds before.
It's tempting to set up something like halfbakery to generate a lot of ideas to create prior-art now, to help the future people later.

(http://www.halfbakery.com/)
Unfortunately, this is already the case. For instance, your mac address is a pretty good identifier probing AP's periodically wherever you go, 99% of smartphone owners aren't even aware, let alone know to turn off WiFi if they don't want to be tracked.. If my phone fell into the wrong hands today, my whole life IS at their disposal.

With education and advancement of proper security measures I believe these concerns can be mitigated and benefits would outweigh the risks. Transferring information is still too cumbersome, in order for us to progress, this is going to have to become a reality at some point.
Jimmy Wales: This is super cool.  "I started to learn python..."
Encapsulation also helps enforce interfaces. Anything outside of an object should only interact with it via an external interface. This allows you to reason about the interaction of objects independently of the implementation of those objects. In theory, this allows you to change the implementation of an object without the interacting objects knowing, thus reducing the overall complexity of the program as well as potential bugs.
A Whole Bunch Of Big New Changes Are Coming To Wikipedia
Well, actually speed was a design goal for Common Lisp.

It might have been one of the design goals, but it wasn't the ultimate design goal (which, I believe, was making a convergent compromise dialect to rule them all), otherwise certain parts of the language would have been most likely simpler. The things you mention are the good stuff. The problem is that there's also some bad stuff that hindered performance of CL on stock hardware until quality compilers were written. Yes, SBCL is quite fast. But you'd have a hard time trying to convince me that even modern implementations of Common Lisp represent some sort of performance optimum in the same way that, say, Stalin Scheme represents an optimum.

Also, wouldn't TAGBODY/GO be replaceable in presence of proper tail recursion by structuring the "TAGBODY basic blocks" into mutually recursive function calls? The same argument could be applied to inlining: Yes, the Common Lisp standard mentions inlining. But did you notice how nowadays, that's more or less considered an implementation issue rather than a language issue? How JVMs are capable of inlining just fine without having to be hinted what to inline and what not to inline?

Now I'd understand some of the hints, perhaps DYNAMIC-EXTENT makes somewhat more sense if the purpose is to say "It's my intent to create this value for a limited period of time, yell at me if I pass it out", but in general, from where I stand, a lot of the design decisions seem to make writing Common Lisp compilers actually more complicated to modern compiler writers.
I was using OSS only briefly before github, so at that point at least tools existed: sourceforge, google code, etc. But it was hell. Seriously.

The use:contribution ratio was totally skewed. Few people left commentary or filed bug reports when an issue arose, mostly because every project had its own way of handling feedback, and oftentimes you had to separately register or join a mailing list to use it. Pull requests didn't exist, so instead if you were feeling really ambitious you might attach a patch file to the ticket you opened.

And then there was the act of creating a project. Google code improved this significantly, but I remember having to file an application to get approved for an OSS project on sourceforge back in 2004. And it was a seriously long application too!
The NSA is the heart of the intelligence gathering apparatus of the US Military Industrial Complex. Like it or not, this bill will pass either tomorrow or another day, tacked on to another bill. It is strategic to the military and the country.

There is no way in hell, this bill will not pass. You can scream, occupy the streets, protest, do whatever but it will not change a thing. It will go through.

The US military Industrial Complex is vast. It lobby’s hard. To vote against it is to be called “un-American”- you know its BS but the talking heads will say it. Its powerful but that isn’t the point of this post.

Truthfully, our governments have been spying on us for a long time. My country, the UK was reading the mail and telegrams long before the US. Then it was listening and recording phone calls. This is just a step up. As technology increased capabilities, the net has grown wider. From ECHELON to this.

Civil liberties does not mean anything to them as the mindset has stayed the same no matter how much you may scream or complain, realistically it will not change a thing because at the end of the day, the country will have enemies and it needs an intelligence gathering capability. It won’t give a damn about our rights as it tries to secure itself.
I agree with all your reservations.

The article indeed gave no indication of hope on the central problem, obtaining a violation of the weak energy condition. However, there is a relatively easy way to violate the weak energy condition using binding energy.

If one binds M_1 and M_2 with binding energy M_B such that M_B > M_1 + M_2, then one can violate the weak energy condition. I know for a fact that the above inequality is satisfied for some multi-brane configurations in M-Theory. So, there is hope.
Too many anecdotes, not enough data.
Really, this is not the way to go

And besides, how would you audit it?!
Here's a nice blog post by a scientist giving a bit more quantitative discussion of why this proposal doesn't seem plausible: http://excursionset.com/blog/2013/7/23/dump-the-warp-core
Yesterday, Shuttleworth said the processor hadn't been chosen yet.
There are countries that are not considered in that report, and some of them are big, with a major quota of Russian population (like Ukraine). That's probably because Russians don't have a diaspora there (and as far as I know people usually are considering a diaspora when they feel themselves outsiders in some way).
LG Says Curved TVs Coming to the U.S.
I've been thinking about making a project out of this for a while. Lots of people have already hacked themselves to gain a "sixth sense" -- the ability to detect electric fields via magnetic vibrations. In today's world, wouldn't the ability to detect a strong WiFi signal be a bit more useful?

Realistically the result wouldn't resemble these illustrations at all; a simple signal strength -> vibration intensity converter would be more practical.
btrfs is considered safe for production use.
Time gating doesn't mean paying for time, it means paying to make a clock go away.

Time gating in these games is often in the form of "Pay X to get another life now or wait for 30 minutes". Candy Crush being a good example.

It's like having an arcade machine that gets a free credit on it every half an hour.
I agree with your overall point, but I nothing wrong with "AAA games with 10-hour single-player campaigns".

There was a time when I wanted tens if not hundreds of hours of play time out of every game. These days, 8-10 hours is just about perfect for me - something I could play through over the course of a month or two and complete with some sense of finality.
So, let me get this straight: we abolish taxes, eliminate governments, and then ... paradise?
Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire Sourcefire Inc.
Literally writing a book right now where I try and slay some of these. Thanks for reminding me of a few.
We elected Bush in 2004 when he had Tom Ridge upping the terror alert every week before the election. It never seemed to go down. But it always managed to go up to red every week.

I think we have hit the point that you can't really roll anything back. If you do and 9/11 v.2.0 happens you are politically screwed. And, unfortunately, it is all about the next election and soccer moms.
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Top Analyst Predicts Apple Will Deliver Startlingly Bad Guidance Today
I still feel powerless, but of course, that's because I'm not a US citizen (though my children are, but they cannot yet speak), while my communications are also spied on by the NSA.

I hope you'll be able to make a difference. Good luck on this.
He's shopping for customers
I don't use Ubuntu because I'm cheap, I use it because it's the best tool for the job. I think in general Ubuntu users are going to be developers(read have expendable income to spend on gadgets). I think making a play for the high end is the smart move, create a device everyone wants and aspires to own and they will sell themselves. Also if your main market is developers(as I'm assuming it is for the Edge) then you need to blow them away with a beautifully designed high end device to get them to buy it and then start developing the app ecosystem.
Internationalizing Your Startup Name
If a missionary religion is the correct true religion, and FTL exists anywhere in the galaxy, then by definition we should have already been contacted by missionaries and "civilized".

Who says we weren't?

Yet we're clearly not civilized

Says... you?

Or it could just be that God adjusts His teachings to each sapient species's psychology, so having us contacted by Starfish Aliens would be kinda useless.

Or the true religion could be a non-missionary religion, like, as someone so astutely pointed out, Judaism.
I disagree, it is not something real or tangible. I'm all for defunding NSA, but it's not like a regular business which you can boycott by not giving them money. You have to go and ask permission from the government to not give the money (which they previously extracted from you by force for the "good of society") to some of the government agencies. It's pretty much like going to NSA itself and ask them to defund themselves. Voting is just a suggestion, it's not binding. Presidential candidates promise stuff, get votes and then are not obliged to deliver what was promised. It works the same way in every country today.

Real and tangible way to defund NSA is this:

1. Withhold your taxes.

2. Protect yourself against the police and the military who will try to extract them by force (possibly by having crowdfunded guards).

3. Switch from using US Dollar as most of the money government generates comes from inflation (gov sells "bonds" that it will never repay in exchange for new money). Since all national currencies are inflationary and controlled by similar institutions all over the world, only Bitcoin is a good alternative. Or gold, if we can protect the vaults properly and build trust in a company that keeps it (but history shows it doesn't work).

4. Pay only what you think is fair and where you think it's fair. E.g. if you like social security, pay there directly as much as you want.

Only voluntary payments will guarantee that people who you don't like get as much money as someone is willing to give them explicitly and voluntarily. You should not ask for permission to not participate in what you don't approve.
Open source is awesome, yay! It's given Google, Samsung and android device manufactures a hugely successful platform that they would have otherwise had to build from the ground up. And how do they repay the community? Binary blobs. While staying true to the letter of the license they circumvent the spirit of it.

I don't condone GPL violations. I also don't care about distributing binary blobs. Without them there wouldn't be alternative android distros.
Obviously a troll account since it was created for the specific purpose of posting that comment (created 1 hour ago, posted 1 hour ago)...
Your post accomplishes nothing except to persuade people to give up the fight for civil liberties. You propose no solution or do you give any additional insight into developing a solution.

Regardless of your actual intentions, you might as well be performing psychological propaganda. It's not helpful.
Stop. I want to believe this is real.

edit: Actually working in corporate America I can believe this is real aside from the nobody knowing you. You can have a manager and they can know you do nothing but they can't get rid of you.
Meanwhile, back on Earth...

Taxes are the means of transferring worth to folks like firefighters, police officers, construction works etc... You know, the folks who hold up infrastructure and need to eat food and stuff. And I can count on one hand the number of people I've met who would donate to these institutions in this economy.

Now if there's a way to reroute existing tax funds that used to go to rubbish into things that are really necessary, I'm all ears. And there may just be a way to work out something that enough heckling of public officials may... just may... get off the ground.

Step 1: Earmarks are verboten. I've lost count of how many times I've seen a bill pass congress with a whole heap of pork-barrel nonsense (subsidies to shady companies anyone?) because some senator has to do a kickback to the folks who paid for his/her election.

Step 2: Every law that is to be passed is read out loud from front page to end in congress by a designated reader from each party. They may take turns if they're tired, but no one is allowed to leave, have bathroom breaks, nap, chat or be otherwise distracted.

You actually get to bloody know WTF you're passing. Someone raises a hand and goes, "hey, that's stupid!" Everyone stops and discusses what it is that's stupid and the thing gets amended on the spot.

Step 3: No consecutive reelections... for anything. No exceptions! The chance that you won't be here the next term is a damn good way to ensure people remember you for the right reasons in your current term so you can come back the term after that to finish what you started. It also takes away the incentive to seek office as a career. No, you get to government to serve. Now pick up a broom, damn it!

...I'm sure someone else has some bright other ideas short of throwing out taxes, which functional societies will always have in some form until we throw out currency altogether.
How is that insulting? It's the reason that he's high on the leaderboard and the reason that he is recognised by the community. I'm just stating the truth here - he is unusually smart.

Edit: It has to be pointed out that I was responding to a comment which said "Why on earth is this interesting enough for the greater HN community to care about?" which was in fact a rude thing to say.
Do you imagine your comment constructive?
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If they are going to pull their 32 million, then I think we are in for some reposts and re-hitting the front page.
Credit should be put where credit is due
I was being hyperbolic. Sorry. Amazon has made a minuscule amount of profit. Their numbers are horrible. I can't believe their shareholders put up with them.

Their most profitable year, 2010, they only made $1.15-billion of profit off of $34-billion in revenue.

In 2011 they made only $631-million off $48-billion.

In 2012 they had a worldwide loss of $39-million.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/26/amazon_profit...

http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/16/amazon-tax-a...
i didn't necessarily mean for practical use, i just meant, what sort of finished (hah) product could come out at the end!