skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol, touché! and how about google? does google have permission to show gifs jpegs/whatever video/.. online when people do a search on any term in particular?
Guess there are loopholes for big companies only ;)

You either have no money to pay for a lawyer and go bust or you buy all the lawyers so that no-one will be left to sue you... sort of kind of... doesn't make sense but you catch my drift right? :D
For the record there were 'soul beats' long before Kanye. Ghostface has been using that style since the 90s. In fact Kanye has been biting off Ghost since the beginning and has been called out for such.

Lots of artists didn't 'go all gangsta' to make it. He isn't the first or the last.

The Blueprint being one of the greatest hip hop albums ever made is also highly debatable.
The Civil Rights Movement did indeed occasional do things that would be breaking the law. But that was typically aimed at laws that were unjust towards them personally. For those they participated in civil disobedience by breaking that law but not fighting it when they were arrested. Doesn't mean there wasn't violence aimed at them for doing it.

But in the end, this MLK and Snowden comparisons are just rather odd because they truly have very little in common.
Ask HN: Do ideas really need to solve a "problem"?
Granted the answer should be "Yes" and below are B2C examples.

Being a devils advocate for a minute.

Example 1: Square allows you to purchase a coffee without taking your phone or wallet out. If near a Square register, your Square app connects to it. Tell the cashier "My name is Jack Dorsey, you can find me on your screen." Grab coffee and go.

Opposing view: Before you tell someone this concept, were there A LOT of people complaining about taking out their wallet to buy a coffee?

Example 2: Cliche, but speak the simplistic concept of Twitter.

Opposing view: Were people complaining about not having a portal to announce their thoughts?

Example 3: Henry Ford — 'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.'

Just want to illustrate a thought I have. Big companies want to innovate, if they don't see a 'need', they probably cannot extrapolate why. Whereas a 'disillusion' startup founder tries it, strikes gold.
Want to hear what people think.
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Explain to me the source then. And maybe try to keep the contempt/insults to a minimum.
I do something similar with a reverse ssh tunnel to my home router so that I can rdp into my work computer. I find rdp to be the superior remote solution on Windows, especially when dealing with multiple monitors.
Two ways:

1) They oversell their capacity.
2) Their terms of service agreement prohibit anything that would actually let you us unlimited.

http://webmasterfaqs.org/is-unlimited-web-hosting-a-scam/
Why Aren't Doctors More Tech-Savvy?
If you are curious, you should always look at the FAQ first :). http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/faq.php . Look at the section: "What can I use the Fake Name Generator identities for?"
My experience in the UK startup scene is the opposite - people are ridiculously optimistic about everything without giving much apparent thought to how stupid the idea is. Someone down the road from me is making a social network for pets. Not pet owners, but for people pretending to post as their pets. For &!%$s sake.
One of the "hobbit" names it gave me was "Haiduc". I don't think there were ever many hobbits engaged in highway banditry in the Balkans.
Whether or not they are "hard to deal with" is not basis for denying one a writ of habeas corpus. Should we not let a court decide, rather than the executive branch arbitrarily denying these rights?

Taking the fact that there are still people in Guantanamo being denied their rights after a court determined that they should be granted a trial into consideration clearly demonstrates that just because such court decisions have been made does not mean the executive will respect them.
Certainly this means that my cynicism is justified, albeit cliche.
Also... Media Hype Machine. He's made himself into a symbol. For all most people (who follow his antics) care his next album could be 'Pip farting on a snare drum' to take a line from Air Heads.
So the same could be done here! =)
Frameworks are overkill for most of my projects. Maybe it's because I don't write web apps, but I never need all of the features included in something like bootstrap. Just a few of the modules. What's more, I'm overwriting much of that code anyway when I style the site. In that regard, frameworks take more work, and make sites harder to maintain.

I find frameworks more useful for rapid prototyping. I can make a cheap wireframe with some bootstrap styles, and quickly move things around until I get the layout I like. then I'll build the final draft from scratch.
Why are social security numbers generated? That seems necessary for supporting only dubious kinds of behavior.

Aren't SSNs only useful for banking/credit-type services? (Perhaps someone can enlighten me.)
I don't know why you were downvoted since it is a frustration I share. It is always interesting trying to decipher our monthly charges to see where the changes occurred.
Cool app - good luck mokkol - that's my approach - micro business apps.
Generally speaking, the problem with Economic models is that they are mathematical models of a particular economic theorem or 'identity', as economists sometimes prefer to call them. When you dig into the scientific basis for those theorems however, it's often lacking. So saying that this isn't an economic model is quite correct - but that's actually a good thing, not a bad one. Economic models by and large have no scientific validity.

Although this isn't that useful by itself, it's a very nice way to get some basic intuition about how money behaves as a unit of exchange, in a system with a constant money supply. The reason why some commentators think that this isn't a realistic simulation of our actual monetary system is that in the current system, the quantity of money is more or less continuously expanding. But that doesn't imply that more 'wealth' is being created, it just means that more tokens are being created.

The problem is though that as a result the unit of measurement (money) is also expanding, and so you have a monetary system that appears superficially to obey rules of 'growth' as measured in other fields, but in fact is based on something that is quite different, as these experiments show. And you have economists merrily chasing their tails for the last 3 centuries over trying to determine what causes 'growth', when actually it's an illusion of measurement created by the day to day operations of the fractional reserve banking system.
Emacs web-server, a new option for serving Org-mode files
How do you distinguish between a "manufactured desire" and a real (/non-manufactured, whichever terminology you want to use) one?

If I saw a commercial for a pet rock, and decided that I wanted to buy one, what's to say that this desire is not real?
Yeah, we are working on that update right now. Hopefully will be releasing that within the next week.

Really appreciate the feedback!
Hispanic here: tried the same thing and had the same reaction. Dampne is not a hispanic name...
Exactly what I was looking for. Awesome work.
If by "apologizes" you mean "does not apologize", I guess so. ;-)

Universities tend to move very slowly, and I get that these situations can be hard for them, but the whole letter is disingenuous, at best. AFAIK, the students aren't guilty of "modifying data without permission", nor did they "encourage[d] students to select courses on the basis of incomplete information." That's like saying no one should use a course catalog because it doesn't have complete information. Of course scalar averages don't capture the entirety of the feedback on courses. But I bet there's a meaningful difference between 4 stars and 2 stars, or whatever the rating system is, and I'd like to think that Yale students are clever enough o understand this, and to be able to go through more detailed evaluations when it makes sense to them.

If the Dean had just said "holy crap, we didn't realize how easy it is to do this and we're freaked out about it, we need you to close this down for now, but please help us build the next generation system", people would have a very different reaction.
From what I've seen a great deal of the materials released so far show how the US spies on everyone but the examples you cite, including these allies you speak of.

Have there been examples in the Snowden materials of how the US spies on "adversaries" such as Russia and China? I didn't even realize that those were adversaries in the traditional sense that justifies such intrusions in everyone's lives.
Hmmm. I'm in London but not closely involved with the "startup scene" (though I have a fledgling company that's doing ok). I suspect there's a certain amount of cultural mismatch going on here. I moved here from nz over a decade ago and it took years before I understood the culture well enough to be credible in conversation. Arguably the culture I came from is closer to the uk than the states is.

No doubt, some things are a bit rubbish - for example my old agency moved to "silicon roundabout" then had to pay an absolute fortune to get bespoke fibre put in - because it's not even available there.

Maybe your experiences are genuinely indicative of the differences in possibilities but I don't hold it against people for not jumping on your idea with absolute enthusiasm. The onus is on you to prove that your idea has legs. Given some of the things that have been funds over the last few years, I think a little bit more scepticism might be healthy.
Indeed. There seems to be a big disconnect here from Yale. They collected this data and made it available. However the Dean and Yale's main problem seems to be [1] that YBB+ wasn't showing all of the data. That the numerical ratings are some how strongly linked by spooky action to the detailed reviews and that you cannot show one without the other.

This is, of course, crazy.

From simply a UI/design position, you can't easily display/sort on X different professors/courses each of which has 1..N detailed reviews that are blobs of text.

From a broader perspective sometimes you need to decouple data to be able to better process it. In fact, given so many students used YBB+ it is reasonable to conclude that YBB+'s presentation of the data is doing a job informing students than Yale's own systems.

Everything is a remix

[1] From the article: "The tool created by YBB+ set aside the richer body of information available on the Yale website, including student comments, and focused on simple numerical ratings. In doing so, the developers violated Yale’s appropriate use policy by taking and modifying data without permission, but, more importantly, they encouraged students to select courses on the basis of incomplete information."
"Retard" means somebody with a significant mental handicap, while "dumb" is a more usual sort of stupidity.

It's extremely strange. It is socially acceptable to criticize and make fun of the intelligence of someone with an IQ of 71, but not an IQ of 69. I can't explain it. But that's how it is.
My guess is that it's just randomly selecting from a list of names with equal probability, rather than weighting them based on how common they are. So all of these long-tail names are coming up way more often than you'd find in a phone book.
I mostly use sshuttle for this sort of thing now. It works well and is fairly customizable but you're out of luck if you are on an OS that doesn't use iptables.
So how does that compare to start ups that usually require vast actual risks from their founders?

His risk is sort of a philosophical/existential risk. Not what many would consider an 'actual' risk to himself. This really does seem to be a function of the fact that he is rich and a celebrity.
I totally agree and have been saying this for years. CSS frameworks run a high risk of overkill for 99% of apps. They also offer no potential for learning and it's more difficult to strip back a framework than it is to build your own. It's also super boring. No idea why anyone uses them for any creative work. Also what is the deal with grid systems!?
I mean think about it: people at Microsoft aren't idiots. There's no way in hell that they didn't realize people hated Metro. So why would they still force it upon people even though it means they know people would hate Windows that way?

The only reason is if there is an overriding goal worth the short-term loss of money, and this is the most plausible explanation I could come up with: even if you make people hate your product, if you can force them to move onto a subscription model, they probably won't be able to go back.
No, we are not getting bulk pricing. At least not really by much. We sometimes still "farm" where employees all visit Costco to buy drives RETAIL, we also buy from Amazon and NewEgg. Honestly, we just cannot seem to get good deals on drives! If anybody on earth can get these magically better prices, we are begging them to come forward, we promise to give you 99 percent of the cost savings. Beat our current suppliers by 1 penny per drive and you take all our business. We're buying about 800 drives per month, shut up and take our money! (Each drive is 4 TBytes)
Oh god, why are we listening to this douche.
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If it's hocus pocus then it's not math
And now I stop using your product. I already paid - I won't be paying again.
I don't know about you "leet hacker pros" but I do know that using bootstrap 3 helped me make my site[1] completely responsive - with ease the like of which the world has never seen the like of which[2]. If you are using bootstrap for it's color choices you're doing it wrong.

What I do is have bootstrap.css vanilla loaded, then I load a bootstrap_overrides.css.scss where I override styles/colors/looknfeel. Make bootstrap my own, you know?

[1] - http://smitecamp.com/

[2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVivkXUfdU&t=25
I'd say we're targeting a fairly different demographic, as our meals our $7, and we serve to as few as 2 people. We really love to feed startups who might not be able to afford a $12-15 meal, or who don't have enough people to hit the minimum for these other services.
I think the more important distinction to make is between compelled testimony and voluntary testimony.

I think we should encourage people to come forward of their own free will, both by making it safer to do so and by educating them on the benefits to society. In a sense I think this because I have faith in my local police, and see them as a part of the community, not as an "other."

Same as you, though, I don't believe believe in expanding their powers to compel people to come forward, because that obviously has scary negative consequences.
I've read similar stories of teenagers with cancer turning to online games, because everyone treats them differently in real life once they're diagnosed. In games though, they'll get yelled at and raged at like everyone else which is ironically welcomed.
> Snowden is in no way equivalent to King.

Agreed. King was murdered before he could accomplish most of his goals, and in retrospect was more of an inspiration than a force. Somehow the only thing that seems to be left of him in the public sphere completely ignores his work against the war and for the poor and working people of the world - is some sort of sainthood that defends the imprisoning of the disloyal and vaguely frowns at affirmative action.

Snowden started with a goal of making the public aware of the surveillance it was under, and accomplished it immediately. Whether he's imprisoned at this point is besides the point, because this isn't about him.

>King stood up to his foes

King lay on the ground bleeding to death before his foes. That's only good for people who think that being dead is a crucial quality for a leader; not as small a group as you might think. Dead people don't disagree.
I don't see "great" anywhere (as verified by a search) and I don't see anything that would amount to it ("daughter of grand-daughter" or similar, but that is harder to verify by search).
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If I'm not reading it wrong then your data says that the Hitachi drives have half the Annual Failure Rate, or less, than the others (in your setup). Not sure what this means in MTBF but the Hitachi's sure seem to be worth a whole lot more, certainly 10, 20 or 30 percent more - no?
A lot of the vehicles make/models are not typical cars you'd see on British roads i.e. the marketing name is for another country, even if the vehicle itself is largely the same.
He wasn't at risk of being disowned. He also wasn't at risk of going hungry. He may have been at risk of having to work a boring 9-5 for the rest of his life. But that's a risk shared by so much of the public that it seems pretty minimal.
I can't find the apology in that letter. I see stifling:

* "we need to review our policies and practices" -- We're going to make it policy that these ratings are gone.

* "We will also state more clearly the requirement/expectation for student software developers" -- The requirements will become more burdensome and bureaucratic, and we will be able to better cover our asses.

* "and we will create an easy means for them to do so" -- (I don't buy this one.)
Eyes on the Prize. The brilliant America Civil Rights Documentary its on youtube
Too bad that column doesn't have a unique constraint on it.
The other day I was wondering why we, as a population, keep arguing about what economic model would work the best? Don't we have computers that can run simulations and provide answers? Inputs could be population size, current wealth distribution, socialist/capitalist/hybrid, tax rate, cultural influence etc. We don't have to be accurate, just directionally correct. Why do we keep playing this game in the real world? Is it because we don't yet have information to model the engine?
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Are people still trying to push the phrase "Silicon Roundabout" for Old Street roundabout and the Shoreditch triangle? It is probably just me, but nothing makes me cringe harder.
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Any chance of Sleep as Android integration?
French Canada names are not typical. Here are examples:
François Tremblay
Marc Gagnon
Diane Côté
Line Dion
Also see hardware.fr failure rates. It shows different data than Backblaze.

French hardware site, component failure rates. Google translate it to english
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-6/disques-durs.html

So its also important to take hard drive models into account.

Then there is the Google study Failure trends in large hard drive population
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
Looking at PCPartPicker (no drive shucking) Hitachi drives are at least $.02 more per GB than similar (7200RPM >= 1TB) WD and Seagate drives. Which means a difference of ~$20 per TB of storage, which at 1 pod (180TB) every few weeks means they're saving something on the order of 3.5k every few weeks using the cheaper drives. How much the additional failure rate costs them would be wild speculation, between RMAs/warranties and labor there are lots of assumptions to make, so I'll stop there.

eg:

Hitachi 0F10311	Deskstar 7K2000 (7200RPM) : $0.059/GB

Western Digital WD30EFRX RED (5400RPM) : $.044/GB

Seagate ST3000DM001	(7200RPM) : $.034/GB

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#m=19,34,3...
On the Twitter point, the idea of Twitter was to enable groups to text message each other. It was a very obvious idea because texting groups was awful on dumbphones and people wanted to do it. What Twitter became was something that wasn't really foreseen, but is a textbook exercise in pivoting as you see what your users are doing.

And as such, that's essentially how ideas solve problems. Very rarely does someone see a problem and come up with a perfect solution first time - an entrepreneur sees how their solution changes the problem space, and pivots with their users needs until the solution fits. And then you have this amazing product that apparently solves something that isn't a "problem" - because the product has changed to eliminate the original problem and enable the user to do something useful.
Dart can now write better JavaScript than you
Why are older people happier?
I wonder how the "choose your own api key" policy is going to work in practice... given that people don't usually make very secure passwords and that the example is "Real estate website" you're going to get some pretty easy to guess api keys.
If your data is so sensitive that you do not want to store it on a central server then why not consider the PGP approach?

User 2 sends a request to user 1 (who has the data) sending his or her public key and asking for the data encrypted using the public key. User 2 then decrypts the message using his private key and makes his own local copy.

How do you communicate data changes between data holders - a version control problem perhaps?
It's actually a runtime switch. A compiled x86 binary that uses extra-wide number-crunching instructions (SSE etc) must also work on older processors that don't have those instructions, so it will have two or more code paths. The code paths all perform equivalent computations, but using different instructions.

For example, if you are adding 4 pairs of 64-bit numbers, and there's a special add-4-pairs-of-64-bit-numbers instruction, but it's specified as part of SSE4 (I made that up, but it's the kind of thing that you would find), then you can ask the CPU if it supports SSE4. If it does, then you say great, use this code path that requires SSE4, and we'll do the whole operation in three instructions: load, add, store. Or something.

However, if the CPU says that it doesn't support SSE4, then you'd better have a backup plan. It doesn't have to run as fast, but it should compute the same answer. If it's compiled C code (as opposed to hand-written assembler), the compiler will have you covered. Instead of a single SSE4 instruction, maybe it will take 4 regular 64-bit x86 add instructions instead.

(And if you've written it in assembler, then you probably provided the compiler with a backup C implementation to use if SSE4 isn't supported.)

Intel's compiler is being unfair to AMD CPUs because -- even if they support the instructions that you want -- it won't use them. It will unnecessarily fall back to the plain old non-SSE x86 instructions.
This also makes Amazon EBS ($0.05 per provisioned GB/month) more competitive with Google Compute Engine's Persistent Disk ($0.04 per provisioned GB/month).

https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing#persistentdisk

Although for my applications, GCE persistent disk > 500 GB has more than twice the sustained IOPS of EBS standard volumes.

With GCE, IOPS now scales with the size of the volume, no need to pay extra for provisioned IOPS.

https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/disks#pdperforman...
Woz would be a huge example. Also do you know any of these people personally?
> If the majority of consumers are using headphones that are a 1 to 3 on a 10 point scale and beats are, for example, a 4 or 5, then they're better for most consumers.

You're not factoring in price. Beats are very expensive for mediocre quality sound. Those headphones that are a 1 to 3 (where Beats is 4 or 5) are only 1/10th the price of Beats. And for 1/3rd the price of Beats, you can get headphones that are a 7 or 8.
Yeah, what are you, chicken?

I'm not a chicken. You're a turkey!