skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you seriously think that sealed batteries are designed to shorten the life of devices?
For the ones wondering how the device looks like: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/16/article-1243723-07...
Yeah, I kinda glossed over that.
Selling guns to both parties is out of the question then?
> the US side just kept adding more and more restrictions to what the opposite team was allowed to do, until they finally lost.

I just finished watching a documentary about a German "aggressor" squadron that inherited a bunch of Mig-29s through the reunification of Germany. When they take part in exercises, they generally have lots of restrictions placed on them. (To make sure the students can "complete" a full course of scenarios.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQByetpFgKM#t=104
AOL money down the drain
The Hobbit + WebGL
http://www.reddit.com/r/panichistory
Is Your Job Really In Jeopardy?
It's interesting to see a lot of the domain endings are longer than the standard domains today. It'll be interesting to see what they do with them. Some of the choices seem a little odd considering the price to pay, such as .bike, .guru, or .tips.

I don't like that people (with money) will start buying up these generic top level domains and have complete control over who uses them. I would rather see a non-profit registrar of sorts but I know that would probably never happen.
This is for a phone interview when you have passed the stage of evaluating the company, interest, etc.
One of my favorite slogans ever.
I actually really like the Zune music player that you could (still can?) download from Microsoft. I never even owned a Zune, but the player software is a lightweight WMP with better design. Sure the Zune Marketplace/pass links were all there, but they are easy enough to ignore.
Why would they sit on a stockpile of 16GB tablets? Are Apple too stupid to only make as many tablets of each type as required?
You can "actually" all you want, but it doesn't change reality. The vast majority of people are neither feminists nor MRAs. Even if the absurdity of you trying to equate two different positions were overlooked, the total of both of those groups is still a minority, not anywhere even remotely close to universal.

On a side note, you aren't helping the image of feminism by bringing up MRAs out of nowhere just to deliberately present the worlds laziest strawman on their behalf, so you can dismiss it.
Massively multi-parent list of great games (public Google doc experiment)
TheSOB88, you are dead, my friend. Another casualty of a poor policy.
Impressive. But this product also makes me depressed. It dehumanizes the interview process. My question is why don't you just have a challenge server, like facebook?
I also prefer to take my instagram photos with an app that has a few extra features (stabilizer, countdown timer) and then import them from there - however think about the technical difficulty of building an instagram-like app (social networking and attaching a camera snap) versus serious productivity software or a high-performance game.

To me this is troubling because their actual app should be really simple to implement. If they can't/didn't get something as simple as using the camera from an app but they managed to get in all of the photo transformation and retouching that makes me wonder if developing apps for this platform is trickier than for iOS or Android.
The title of the article is really sensationalized. The resolution is still going to pass, just without the "covered business method" (CBM) provision. People in Congress support CBM and are actively trying to find a way to make it work. Plus we could always try and reform software patents at its source and make it harder to grant the lower quality patents.
Maybe the author meant "The roots of the current [White Middle Class] American predicament..."

But regardless, when you look at graphs of wealth inequality, business regulation, the militarization of police, and incarceration rates, they all start going rapidly in the wrong direction starting at about 1970.
VLC can do many neat things but you can you easily rate an MP3 file nowadays?
This is an incredibly perceptive and well written piece. I'll re-post this far and wide.
I am sure someone proposed the .meow or .cat domains. I just wonder how far they got
ICANN made a decision late in the game to not allow "dotless" domains, i.e. making "diamonds" resolve to something the TLD owner decides.

This crushed the business model of most of the new TLD operators, so don't expect them to be around in a few years.
TheSOB88, you're hellbanned so barely anyone can see your comments.
I could see .tips and .gugu could making some sense. eg iphone.tips, php.guru, etc. But .bike is definitely weird.
AOL used to do some cool open-source stuff back in the 2000s. At the time, a lot of their tech was based on AOLServer which was an web server they acquired in the 90s and open-sourced. AOLServer is also tightly coupled with Tcl and AOL used to contribute to Tcl development as well.

Alas, I doubt anyone involved in open-sourcing anything is still there.
I posted this on the blog but I thought I'd repeat it here:

The simian army isn't AWS only. :) Some of it runs on other stacks.

And the best part is, it is open source! So if you wanted to leverage the simian army, it wouldn't be that hard to modify it to run on whatever stack you want and then submit the changes back. :)
You can see what a huge scam and insider money play this was by just looking at the names of the companies that got these TLDs.
Because it really whips the llama's ass.
Software is for little people
You already did a Show HN for your startup 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751434
I worked in retail when I was younger. This would be excellent advice for a sales person working with uneducated customers.

I was the go-to guy, resulting in a lot of freedom when dealing with clients. It allowed me to do lot of social experimentation, especially when selling custom services (like fixing "My PC is slow").

Explaining the in-and-outs of different options (goal, short/long term consequences, risks, up/downsides...), then saying it would cost 50$ would usually result in the guy becoming all suspicious, saying he wanted me to guarantee him stuff that I couldn't, and that it was expensive.

Say "Oh you'll need our performance rejuvenation(tm) package, that'll be 400$" and the guy happily pulls out his credit card!
TurnKey 13 is out
AHK (http://www.autohotkey.com/) -- Global keybindings for any app you want.
I was hoping (by the title) that this was something about generating real-looking test data for your app, something very useful for UI devs before the API or backend is in place.
And the llama may finally rest in peace.
> I'd recommend you download the source (easy: apt-get source nginx), add the patch to quilt and then build it (preferably using pbuilder if you're building a binary package locally).

If you can fix the bug in packaging, why not submit the fix and make it available to all Ubuntu users? As you say, nginx is in universe. This means that it is community supported, and anybody can contribute the fix (in the form of a debdiff with the quilted patch, as you describe) and have it sponsored and the package updated.
PQ is a transactional queue for PostgreSQL in Python
The 'no image capture' story is not true. Apparently there was some bad information given out by an Instagram public rep. See https://twitter.com/zpower for more info.
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Forums and comments reimagined
How Google built the interactive web app for The Hobbit Experience
IMO that's only if you know about the book. If I hadn't read the book I would consider it as a statement showing the seriousness of their training (i.e., "this isn't a game, we're training you for a war, so don't fool around and please take this seriously.)
The difference between the threat to cut off your campaign support directly and the threat to support a challenger in your next primary is a rather fine hair to split.

Political pressure in the US always boils down to two things: money and media support. And those two are almost freely convertible, provided that you are completely milquetoast and unthreatening to the status quo.
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i'm wondering whether the fact that it is in UK is important, ie. wrt. who paid for the [experimental] surgery. As we all know, while coming up with idea is great, an actual implementation faces the issues of resources/money.
TheSOB88, you've been hell banned for almost half a year by now.
A plane is much greener
MobileWorks is looking for a UI/Visual designer
Really hoping nobody registers ".js" -- would wreak havoc on searches for a lot of common Javascript libraries like "underscore.js"

Similarly I could see someone registering the ".html" or ".php" tld and causing some huge issues.

Although I must admit, owning the domain "index.html" would endow huge nerd cred.
I've done interviews like this before, with the interviewer asking me questions through Skype or phone with an Etherpad or similar document open in a browser where we can share code, and I haven't been bothered. The key point is that (from what I can tell) this is supposed to be used live, as part of an interview, not as a pre-screening process.
It was really long ago when Winamp was still lightweight :)
The shape of the curves are such that men have a very small advantage on the Math SAT at the median, which gets larger up the scale. So using the disparity between the sexes at the median makes the author's argument even worse.
.cat already exists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat
I really liked the windamp android player, specially because it had lastfm integration. sad news.
following up, ICANN's announcement and reasoning: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-30au...
They didn't 'cave' on the YouTube app. Google wouldn't allow it and was using it as a means to wage ecosystem warfare.

It was a pretty stupid/ugly fight that went back and forth: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4624706/google-blocks-wind...
If you're using AdBlock Plus in Chrome / Chromium, there was a bug[1] that caused this behavior whenever it blocked an iframe-based ad. It's been fixed in Chromium but the fix has yet to work its way into Chrome stable.

1. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178380
> Engineers tend to overestimate the impact of "intentions" on "systems"

Everyone does. The comfort of the loonier conspiracy theories is that someone, somewhere, however evil, has a plan and is in control. And you can blame 'them' and their competence for your misfortune.

Denying that conspiracies exist by people who do have some influence and leverage over systems is the other wrong extreme.

There are plenty of good and evil intentions and plenty of conspiracies. Some of them kind of work out, rarely exactly as intended, and there's also lots of chaos.
Videos from CascadiaJS
Or by topic here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLiioAbFTbKP9CxF9Fu4_NQteU_v9wkA3
My favorite reason is that games from 10 years ago still run, and as a last resort I can fire up a VM, on a modern computer. My N64 cartridges, meanwhile, stopped working in new machines as soon as the Gamecube came out. And if the console ever dies, they get harder and harder to find.
99,000 employees. That's a lot of sociopaths in one place!
Searching and filtering works like a charm as well.
I think your understanding of advertising is rather shallow. Of course children's toys are targeted towards parents. The underlying message in most advertisements is, "buy this toy to make your kid happy and get them out of your hair for a few hours."
My mistake. This was just another one of your misreported facts. The bio line on my blog says that I am an über _geek_; not an über _hacker_. And with _that_ characterization I must agree.

Live long and prosper.
This is really awesome. I just added it to my IPython Notebook Mac app: https://github.com/liyanage/ipython-notebook/wiki
He kept several years of tax returns hidden, had shady offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, and while I don't expect him to pay more taxes than legally required, it would be nice if he acknowledged or addressed as a policy issue that he made orders of magnitudes more money than a middle class person yet paid a quarter of their effective tax rate. Capital gains taxes are bad, but so are income taxes, and I don't think it's coincidence we keep the ones that is largely shouldered by the middle class high.
We have a paper that we'll be presenting at SPIE VDA 2014 in February: http://spie.org/EI/conferencedetails/visualization-data-anal...

With the 0.3 release out now, I'm focusing on building hooking up the abstract rendering backend for the plot server, so just keep an eye out.
In the war game where the US carrier was sunk, no one expected one side to switch off their electronic communications and go back to motorcycle couriers.

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3793
This is not necessarily the case, and depends on your view of rights. If you believe in natural, self evident rights, (such as owning one's self,) then property rights can be derived in a number of ways. This is only one example, as there are a number of ways to establish property rights, some of which involve state coercion, and some of which do not.
Or stop admitting students who can't pass a basic philosophy course.
Foobar is OK but because it tries to give so many power user options it can become a pain to do simple things like play list management.
That's my favourite too. Only thing missing for me is mpd support but that is maybe not an everyday requirement.
Testing Ember.js applications with Konacha.
VLC can do many neat things, but I never, ever saw it as a replacement for Winamp. It's more like a toolkit, or at least the multi-tool you fall back on to do a variety of things.
Standard methods of calculating confidence intervals are only applicable to parametric data. Most data I deal with on the Web is non-parametric, so I wouldn't take a lack of confidence intervals to necessarily insinuate non-meaningful data.
Introducing Cloudant-Python: Asynchronous CouchDB
Agreed. I suspect that many of these LLCs can be traced back to a handful of large companies.
3941 was pretty early in Datomic's lifecycle so far. It's still a young product but it's very practical already.

Fair point. :)
How QuizUp, Took Two Years To Create An Overnight Success
They've been great supporters of this effort, as well as Blaze[1] and Numba[2].

[1] http://blaze.pydata.org

[2] http://numba.pydata.org
Information Ethics
I think your brother is probably rolling his eyes when he agrees that yes it would be great if we had a cheap and effective universal mass screening tool for cancer. I mean, why would -any- doctor not want that. Why would any cancer researcher not want that. Oh, but it would mean they would lose their funding you say. But in exchange, you get ever-lasting fame. Oh, and you don't have to worry about having probes shoved up your ass, or have bits of your breast cut out for inspection when you get to "that age".

I think your supposition ignores a lot of the latent difficulties in the subject area. You could very well rephrase that as "why not try to create a drug that just kills all cancer with minimal side effects as it seems crazy to have to cut someone open and cut it out by hand".

The answer to "why haven't we done more" is "because it's hard and we're working on it". Why isn't automatic machine translation any better? Why are natural language interfaces so crappy? Why does my speech to text program make mistakes? Why are we still using steel and concrete? Why don't have we have a room-temperature superconducting power grid? Why do we still have to get our meat from animals on a farm? Why don't we just make a cure for HIV? Why don't we just make a cure for the common cold? Why don't we just have a malaria vaccine (they really are working on this one! It's HARD!)?.

The answer to all of these questions is "because it's hard and we're working on it".
I wrote some software (http://www.mute.fm/) that controls playback for you automatically when you watch a video (it will pause/mute it and resume it afterward.) It also lets you set up global hotkeys.
This, nothing beats standing in front of a whiteboard trying to code when it comes to "depressing"...
As others have said: it's just capitalism at work aka market segmentation.

However, it looks like there is some informal cartel, where nobody dares to decrease his margins in a ploy for market share. If you can prove that that is more than informal, you have a point.

For those who feel robbed when they see what $100 extra or so buys them, look at it this way: the 16GB version has only about $10 less worth of parts, but is sold for about $100 less. That's a bargain.
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Wow, i learned Reaper as part of a coursera course on Earsketch of Georgia Tech. I would never have guessed reaper was connected to winamp this way. Reaper is indeed a non-bs daw, among so many great ones....
If you're looking for a more open source approach to domain names, check out http://namecoin.info and http://dot-bit.org
Serving authenticated media with nginx
I hate AOL. They buy things and shut it down without much thought. I still remember Goowy, a flash based desktop and OS with the early concept of having Apps. Imagine if it were still there, you would have flash-based tablet.

But there is one victory from AOL, the spinoff off Mozilla. You would think they could do the same with Winamp
I am with the impression that they wont be made available to the public - or at least not for a flat fee.
The difference in mathematical ability is about the starkest difference between the aptitudes of men and women. You expect a 65/35 difference if mathematical aptitude is the only thing that matters, and if a top 0.5% level of mathematical aptitude is required for programming. If mathematical aptitude is say only 40% of what makes a good programmer, and the factors in the other 60% skew less than mathematical aptitude, then you'd expect a more even ratio than 65/35. Thus, consideration of other factors dilutes the analysis.
What are the other options to convert CPU/GPU processing to money?
Yeah they should have left out that graphic because it completely undermines his thesis.
It isn't necessarily that the 32gb for instance is scandalously marked up over the 16gb. It's that the entry level is sold closer to cost in order to compete in that segment.

Entry level tablets have seemed really cheap since the iPad was first unveiled, and thats partly because the higher end models are subsidising the low end ones.
An employee granted 7bp is presumably also making market cash comp.

So are most founders (who don't take any real risk, because they benefit from a private welfare network/safety net; otherwise they aren't getting introduced to VCs) and investors. Most founders pay themselves market salaries post-A, and VCs never take a break from their $500k++ per year.

Bootstrapping is a different conversation, but in VC-istan you take more risk as an engineer (who might be fired w/out severance and have his career ruined by a short-tempered 23-year-old founder) than as a founder (who might have to pay himself "only" an engineer salary for a few years).
We do. The challenge server at facebook is also powered by us. This is for phone interviews.
Wow I'd forgotten about AHK. Thanks for reminding me!
> What is top-down about the abolition of private property and workers owning the means of production?

Inherently? Nothing. But that's the goal, and socialism is more than the goal, its the means: if you do that through the State, its "socialism". If you do part or all of it within a community by non-state means, its something else (anarcho-syndicalism, for instance.)

Since capitalist states tend to impose structural disincentives or barriers to effectively altering relationships in this way, it may in practice to make changes through the State to achieve to goals even if those seeking them are not in favor of State action as an ideal (e.g., you can, within a community subject to a State with a capitalist view of property rights, perhaps restrict the impact of private property rights between members of the group, e.g., by contract, but you cannot force the State to withdraw from imposing certain models of property without exercising power through the State to make the change.)
I count it as being ridiculously heavy compared to what it could and ought to be.

Sure, it's not a 9.5 pound WWII era M1 "Get Off My Lawn" Garand, or the 12.5 pounds almost a machine rifle the Swiss adopted in the last '50s, but it could sure go on a diet, especially with all the stuff people want and need to hand off of it, like quality optics. For less than a pound more I could get a FN SCAR in 7.62 NATO, and its got a much fancier standard stock and plenty of accessory rails; not counting sling attachment points, it's pretty close to being a semi-auto Scout Rifle.
Your colleagues might give you weird looks but hey...

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ryobi-Tek4-Audio-Plus-Noise-Suppr...

http://www.howardleight.com/ear-muffs/sync
NSNotificationCenter & Blocks work just fine: an autopsy of a failed blog post
Thanks for the memories, I will never stop using Winamp in my mind. I have so many memories tied to it. It was crazy you had to download it to play those surreal .mp3 files. Then it was my patient assistant when I had to make my first (teen) love compilation! I also used to show people how many beatiful skins it had. And what about when lyrics plugins came out and no no other players could do it. And what about breath taking, stunning visualizations plugins when WMP would just show you those low resolution ugly bricks? (has this last point got any better?) Thanks Justin for all you did!
The only mail over the last months that I got from them was about the Mongo breach... I feel tricked in the way that I am not sure if they are viable in the long run and that I should migrate as soon as possible.
Automotive Linux Leaves Microsoft and Blackberry QNX in the Dust
There is so much lost when moving to the cloud.

Off the top of my head: You tie your data to one provider instead of simply physical media, you lose discoverability (will your kids browse your album choices 30 years from now?), exporting/importing quality is at the mercy of the provider (for example Amazon dropped several dozen mp3s when I migrated a few gigs to Google), and of course you place your data at the mercy of a business, (is any tech company eternal and/or always interested in providing cloud services?)

The cloud is way overdone, after giving a variety of services a go over the last few years, I'm actually pulling back.
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Re: your 3rd paragraph: yes, I wanted to mention that in my original comment and forgot. Thanks for bringing it up.

A lot of our modern infrastructure comes from the almighty UNIX era- before GUIs had really become as mainstream as there are todays. In that era, things like "undo" were close to non-existent (there is no undo for `rm`- the GUI's "hack" to solve that is the "Recycle Bin" (which is also nonexistent on mobile, interestingly enough)).

A lot of our modern web tools are mere interfaces to those various Unix utilities (phpmyadmin, as mentioned by Sacha, is just a neat little HTML interface to mysqladmin), and thus can't do much to provide functionality that's missing at the source.
How much business were you really planning on doing with Caterpillar?
Is NOW open source?
http://www.usv.com/posts/usvcom-is-now-open-source
I doubt they're profitable (yet), they have only started playing with business models recently.

But the same platform has been used to run spoj.pl, a rather popular programming contest site, for many years.
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