skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most frustrating things about moving out of poverty to the upper-middle/upper class is being an example of "what a little hard work can do".

They always forget to mention how so many people like myself have had to totally cut off contact with their family, watch friends and family die(gang and drug related murders, overdosing, suicide), how often we struggle with depression because we can't figure out what made us anymore deserving than the people we left behind, and have issues dealing with money in general- luckily I'm on the "save every dime" side of that spectrum.

If hard work is all you need then I know a couple hundred people who should be living in mansions.
You could put the camera close to the lens, instead of your face there.
Extractmails – Email Address Mining
There is a russian alternative (not sure which one came up first) called Zona (http://zona.ru/)
It's a metaphor that's probably understood by everyone who reads it, which is the point. Besides, the English lexicon is full of vestigial words and phrases relating to Greek polytheism, they're just as detached as this metaphor is.
Intel’s 800Gbps cables headed to cloud data centers and supercomputers
You can quite easily purchase Netflix in Australia if you feel bad about piracy, and also dislike the options available to Australians. I'm unsure on the legality (probably a grey area), but the point is you can pay money and support the service. (Edit: using a DNS service like Getflix.)
Is Spotify cost prohibitive with Australian mobile data plans though? I know with the amount of music I listen to, my plan would be quickly reached if I swapped to Spotify instead of my local music.

Also, the network availability (especially on train networks) where I'm generally listening to music probably means that my song is going to cut out.

Around the house, Spotify is great (or an alternative like the just launched iTunes Radio) but out and about I still think there's a big market for local music files.
Here's the Google cache for anyone who wants to read it:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oL0JfmR...
You are just making it more difficult for LE to go after you. There are plenty of low hanging fruits, you are just positioning yourself in the middle of the herd when the wolf comes. Is it safe? Ok, no, you are right and your point stands, but it is safe-er.
Any president would act thusly. He doesn't think he will abuse the power, and closing down the programs could risk him being blamed for any and all bad guy stuff for the rest of his term.

There is no upside for someone with power to ever give it up, for any reason at all. I'm still trying to figure out Gorbachev.
Hey Golddisk, thanks for sharing our content!

Arelius - I looked into the numbers and it appears you might actually be correct. This was a shared information pool between a couple of news sites and it looks like we all may have reported incorrectly. I would have to look deeper but I'm not not sure which way the facts point right now.

If anything, it might be that overall, this generation's sales is at least matching last gen.
Indeed! I always met the assertion that people are willing to pay for easy to use services with the question: what if pirate software becomes user friendly as well?

After a lot of thinking about it, I believe copyright protection is valuable to society and patent protection is much less so, or even detrimental. That's because copyright protection is very narrow and in economic terms creates an artificial contract between the authors and consumers, as if the consumers hired the author for some small fee.

On the other hand, once the work is created, should the consumers freely share it? Well, I don't see how to prevent it, so the laws and sanctions seem to be the only way.
As long as you sync the songs first you don't need an internet connection to use spotify on the move.
I stopped pirating music the day I got spotify premium, if that's worth anything to this discussion.
Interesting how YC is excluded from his comments.
20 Strangers were asked to kiss for the first time
I thought they also block Australian CC's?
Our source for the charts is here: https://github.com/scoutapp/scout_realtime/blob/master/lib/s...

It's not yet in a state for plug-and-play usage in other projects. If you're looking to rollout smooth-scrolling charts quickly, checkout http://smoothiecharts.org/.
I finally won! 2048 with a score of 20556. This game is evil!
I'm happy to see NASA continuing its tradition of reaching beyond traditional communities to work on hard problems (e.g., its prior Glove challenge). Used correctly, these competitions hold the promise to help engage the public, source novel innovations, and save the government money (plus be fun!).

BUT, as somebody who recently participated in a DoD-sponsored contest that was rife with improprieties, bias, and incompetence (the government effectively threw away the rule book in making the reward), please be careful in reviewing the rules and verifying that the administrators of this are accountable. Regardless of if the amount at stake is $50K or $1M, bureaucrats have an astonishing capacity for rationalizing whatever outcome they choose or stumble into.
I bought an American Netflix account with a Canadian credit card via VPN back in the day. Not sure if that applies to aussies. They might have started checking for this since then as well.

Even though we now have Netflix in Canada, the selection is awful compared to the American one.
That's one of the better "we made a thing" videos I've seen in a long time. Major props to the video team and Manu Prakash, that was excellent.

And the thing is cool, bordering on "coolest thing in a long time". This would also be phenomenal for use in schools, especially with younger kids. I really really want to see lots of these built and sold and in everyone's hands.
I live in Australia too and signed up for Netflix a few months ago. It's a bit of a hassle to signup and requires the use of a paid service to handle the DNS/location checks, but it does work very well.

I completely agree with you on Spotify, though it is annoying to see that the complete catalog isn't available to an Australian account. I've considered starting over with a US-based account using gift cards, but haven't tried it yet.
EDIT: I have 1 invite left
Here's my Processing.js clone in 42 lines: http://www.ktbyte.com/textbook/gamewalkthroughs
The solution is downloaded playlists. It's annoying because you can't download an album, but have to make a playlist instead. It does work great though.
Thanks a lot jerk...now ive lost 2 hours of sleep because of this game! Keep up the good work!
> We have not yet seen a single “incubated” startup go public yet.

Yelp was technically incubated by Max Levchin's incubator (although I'm blanking on what they called it).
From what I know they do not seem to do this. Perhaps they block Australian debit cards? Or only certain CCs.
I have some pro-NSA conservatives in the family. I characterize them as being proNSA solely because they are seen as a government "defense" agency. They dislike Snowden solely because he broke the law. They have no concept of civil disobedience, I've made the MLK argument. They also don't fully grasp the severity of what the NSA is doing or it's implications. They also mostly believe what Fox News tells then too. I enjoy debating with them and find that they acknowledge logic, but fail to reason with it on most points.
2048 in 42 lines
2048 was so addictive, so I made a clone.
Nay. They accept mine (CBA Mastercard) just fine :)
I used to have hard drives full of downloaded music... the Grooveshark pretty much killed that... Spotify offered mobile streaming and offline playback.

I haven't pirated a song in about 5 or 6 years with the exception of a leaked album (Random Access Memories). NetFlix meets a lot of my movie needs, and ironically reignited my movie pirating when they removed "2001: A Space Odyssey".

If you give the consume an easy and convenient means to access your content, most users will consume it via that method. Most people don't "get" torrents, or care to learn how to use them. My Mom still pays $.99/mp3 on iTunes... I can't get her to switch to spotify.
Its an advertisement for YC !-)
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1vpaey/pattern_syno...

I spoke too eagerly—the new feature is just named and namespaced patterns. It's a bit of a bump in power, but it's not fully general yet.

For true(-ish) first-class patterns take a look at Prisms in the lens package or some of the other first-class pattern libraries.
Sorry for the downtime, just upgraded my server for the load
Yeah it's not a huge deal. I've actually found Australian mobile (along with golf courses) to be one of the few things that compare favorably to the US in terms of price. And like the other poster said, you can just mark your playlists to be offline and they will download/update whenever you hook up to wifi.
Comcast's autopay is garbage. About a year ago their interface gave every indication that I had it set up. It wasn't, and I didn't pay close enough attention to my credit card statement to notice it wasn't on there. I can't speak to them slowing down access though -- I didn't notice and didn't check.
The Pirate Bay trial was a very odd one.

The law that was used to incriminate the founder was a never before cited working material for relative new law, which described an intention to make it illegal to run a service if it is primary used for illegal purposes.

Usage determined the legal status of the site, which is why the prosecutor kept asking if the defenders had known how the site was used. He also used a screenshot of the top 100 list as evidence of primary usage.

My first thought was that email servers would now suddenly be all illegal because they are primary used to receive spam. However, the law is unlikely to be ever used again given the very political nature of the case.
what's the blue thing around the screen?

am DEFINITELY sure it's not hardware because it's working on my SUPER FAST laptop (1.1 Dual Core, intel HD, Firefox 27.0.1)

so am sure YOU did something
> I bet some people would even spend five, perhaps as much as ten, dollars per month for infinite access to all movies ever created ever.

Bring back sane copyright laws (Life + 70 years?) and we'll talk about what is and isn't reasonable. Copyright and laws are in a race against storage, bandwidth, and technology. I'm pretty confident technology is always going to win.
I wonder if GitHub will be able to continue hosting their website and repo considering the legal grey-area.
Activate the mind body and soul
lost precious time for thesis writing! evil game!
I totally agree with the article and am looking forward to see another one titled "Incubators are Bullshit, but YC is not. Here's why."
Thanks for the invite, ben!
IOS 7.1 update allows apps to listen for beacons even if app/device hard closed
Although it's slightly different as I am Australian so it is a different legal system I have strongly believed for a long time that lying for personal gain should be a crime. If it could be proven that a politician, organisation or individual deliberately misrepresented facts for personal gain then this should definitely be considered a crime.

The ability to deliberately lie in order to influence the outcome of important events free of any consequence will always favour those with the loudest voices and the most media influence. In other words if you are the loudest why not lie about everything if there is no possible consequence?

While it could be difficult to prove that someone is lying or that something is untrue in "moral" issues there are many cases where there is empirical data or documentation proving truth, falsehood or knowledge and these are times where deliberate deception could be proven.

Probably widening the debate somewhat and a separate issue but I also feel that selective ignorance should also be punished. For example if you commission 10 reports into something and 9 of them tell you what you don't want to hear and one of them does tell you what you want to hear then you are deliberately ignoring 90% of the expert advice to prop up your point of view. IMHO this is almost as bad.
There is a bill to remove geo-blocking on sites like netflix in Australia. Currently though you could theoretically get 2 years in jail for the usual unauthorized access or modifying communication device identifier. It would be unlikely that you would get charged as it would require netflix to request it and, even more unlikely with the current political climate, it also requires the police and prosecuters to pursue it.
> How much either charges for the service has no bearing on that.

This is just dodging the subject; I'm talking about net value. How valuable would Steam be to you if it cost $100 a month to be a member?

Anyways, my point was meant to be in the context of movies, which is what's offered by the linked service. Steam works because they sell games, not movies. Games aren't hard to pirate (a game's bits aren't any harder to get than a movie's), but pirated copies are hard to use compared to legal copies because it's easy to build games that require Internet connectivity to verify authenticity. No one minds this because they probably need the Internet to play the game in the first place (Google "World of Goo piracy" for an example of what can happen when just this one point doesn't hold true, and tell me again that piracy is just a service problem). People like to say Steam is "DRM done right" but it's not, it's just that it happens to be the case that the DRM doesn't require anything you don't already need to enjoy the content.

Movies are obviously different. How would one offer a service that can beat piracy on convenience, when piracy offers un-DRMed files that you can use anywhere? It's conceivable, but how much would they be willing to charge for this service? Therein lies the rub.

The root of the problem is that the movie industry does not agree with people's valuation of their content. They don't want to sell you a just-released movie, unDRMed, for a buck, or anything approaching the $0 that piracy charges. They'd rather keep their existing business model and try to raise the perceived risk of piracy.

It's disingenuous to say that it's a service problem and not a pricing problem merely because the service doesn't exist, when the primary reason that the service doesn't exist is pricing. The movie industry isn't going to invest in building a service if they can't sell their content at the price point they want.

The most important thing to note about Steam isn't the DRM, it's the prices. The content producers have conceded to the fact that they have to adjust their prices to match the public's perception of the value of their content. The movie industry hasn't made that concession. Yet.
Hire like Google? For most companies, that's a bad idea.
> you could literally be waiting forever

Technically that's true, but it's not an issue in real life. Any sensible operating system will flush dirty buffers to disk eventually. Imagine if a sudden power outage lost writes you had made a month ago; it would be considered a pretty severe OS error.

So in reality, you might be waiting many seconds for the write to hit disk, but you won't be waiting hours.

> That's exactly what fsync() is supposed to do.

No, fsync is "Make sure the last write made it to disk. IN fact, force it out immediately. Also, all of the other pending writes as well, even if I'm not concerned about them. Oh, and block my thread until you're finished." It's an expensive operation.
kills the cpu on my mac with Chrome Version 34.0.1847.11 beta
"With 32 engineers over four years, WhatsApp built something that's as speedy and reliable as telecom text networks without any of the regulatory, pricing or spectrum advantages enjoyed by those companies"

While this is technically true, I think it's worth pointing out that WhatsApp doesn't work without those telcoms and all their regulatory, pricing and spectrum advantage. Frankly, WhatsApp did the easiest part of sending a message. That's not to say what they did was easy or trivial, but it's not as hard or expensive or labor intensive as installing and maintaining a wireless network.

WhatsApp did do something pretty useful though: they've shown everyone how overpriced SMSes are.
This is ridiculous. It's like something out of Smokey and The Bandit, or The Dukes of Hazard, or maybe Super Troopers. (meow)
It's not true that fsync() calls flush all outstanding writes for the entire file system; that was true for ext3 in data=ordered mode, but it's definitely not true for ext4 or xfs. If you use fdatasync(), and there were no write commands that issued against the file descriptor that required metadata updates (i.e., you didn't do any block allocations, etc), then both ext4 and xfs won't need to trigger a journal commit, so the only thing that has to get sent to disk is all of the dirty metadata blocks, followed by a SYNC CACHE command which forces the disk drive to guarantee that all writes sent to the disk will survive a power cut.

If you use fsync() and/or you have allocated blocks or otherwise performanced a write which required updating file system metadata, and thus will require a journal commit, then you will need to force out all pending metadata updates to the journal as part of the file system commit, but that's still not the same as "flush all outstanding writes for the entire file system".
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This is a shame. My anecdotic experience is that 9 out of 10 female engineers are solid, productive members of society and 1 out of 10 is marginal. The male side is much worse. Yes there is 1 out of 10 who is really good, but 2 out of 10 are not worth their paycheck at all, 1 is marginal and 6 out of 10 are solid productive members of society.
I have 2 invites!

Edit: 1 invite left
Thanks Neckbeard,

I refuse to do these calculations in my head...

The author should do this, and create a counter of moves within the app.
To this day, Marco's analogy is one of the simplest, most creative, and best I've ever read on this topic.

It's even more apt when you look at the numbers and see that piracy isn't hurting the top or bottom line for the movie business to any appreciable degree. To some extent, that's because the movie business has been very good at stomping out piracy (at least among mainstream, non-tech-savvy consumers). But even at its peak, piracy wasn't hurting movies the way it was hurting music.

The problem for Hollywood is that "moving the trash can" is extremely hard. Primarily, because nobody has any idea where it needs to be moved to. Secondarily, because "Hollywood" isn't a single entity. It's an industry full of competing companies with conflicting agendas. When we say "Hollywood should just do X," we're talking about herding cats. (Extremely fat, lavishly well fed cats, who have no individual incentives to be herded.) The MPAA seems large and monolithic, but it's basically a lobbying organization. It doesn't set any grand, strategic agendas within the industry itself. The head of a movie studio doesn't answer to the MPAA; he rarely even interfaces with the MPAA (if at all). He answers to the C-level execs of the media conglomerate who owns the studio, and those guys answer to Wall Street.
Yes, no equity for MS Accelerator.
Sprint wants to buy T-Mobile.
While a "notify me when this write completes" (but don't feel the need to rush) might be useful, I think it'd be more useful to be able to push both write A and write B to the kernel, along with the condition of "A before B". You not only get the write ordering, but the kernel gets full knowledge of what's going on. Perhaps it could use this to write A and B together (but journaled at the FS level) to guarantee the order, whereas a simple write-complete notification implies at least two writes, and the latency of doing such.
Python was invented by an extremely talented programmer who didn't happen to know one particular thing. It's not the minutiae of theory that make Python so popular, but it's overall design philosophy geared towards ease of use and readability.

Tail call elimination is more about allowing a particular style than anything else. Python encourages a different style, so why should Guido care about tail call elimination?
It's interesting that so much blame is aimed at tech workers who are willing to pay more but none at landlords who are happy to increase rent based on demand. Certainly landlords are profiting quite nicely from the boom, being paid more rent for equivalent properties.

If they wished, they are free to continue renting at the same rates as always, and in fact are the ones "making the rent go up", so I'm not sure how they're managing to escape similar criticism here.
Far as I can tell.
Are you saying that there are no female engineers at either extreme ("really good" or "not worth their paycheck") at all?
What is the component providing the actual magnification?
Have you considered the possibility that beta waves are not the best indicator of brain activity? A couple of pretty graphics with colors demonstrates only an interpretation of a certain signal -- whether or not a low signal means the brain is "shut off" is entirely up to interpretation.
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When I signed up it only required the credit card details and the billing post code. Luckily, the French post code is the same format as the US.
I find such attemps are so shallow. "Hey, this brewery thing is popular, everybody is opening one. And I like beer. I should open one myself".

How many people have a genuine passion AND business sense for the stuff, instead of merely going with what other people do and what's considered a hip and trendy thing to do (with some of them even thinking they won't have to do much work to run such a business).

It's like when I see tons people attemting a career in designing skateboarding gear or some such non-industry...
Ghostery my friend; and AdBlock Plus while we are at it. As someone who have worked in e-commerce, I'm keenly aware of the pixels that is "always watching you". So I don't want to be tracked and prefer that someone to be someone else.
No doubt! But sometimes a revolution in interpreting the results of experiments is necessary for advancement. While current brain activity measurements may show low values for the measured activity under certain states, that does not, by any means, suggest that the brain is not operating.
That bill has always confused me. How would an Australian law be enforced on foreign entities such a Netflix?
> So a little bit of data loss is okay, but a lot isn't?

I don't think that's the issue being put forth here, all the way to the most-ancestor comment. It's not between a bit of data loss and a lot of data loss: if the power fails, I fully expect that some data that was in buffer might not have made it to the disk. But that's okay: I left my file in a state that's still valid (using a journal or something), and I can recover from it.

But if write B happens before write A, my file is corrupt, and it's game over. I don't need to override the kernel's I/O scheduler to say "write this write right now!", I just need to ensure that A goes before B. That's it; it can happen whenever, but it must happen in that order.

Currently, the only solution seems to be fsync and forcing everything to disk right now, and screwing over any buffering what-so-ever¹. I just want to specify to the kernel, "here's my data, here's how it must be written, but you can buffer and write it when convenient, as you have a better picture of the whole system I/O."

¹It's funny that the article mentions Postgres/MySQL, as I've heard of fsync woes through browsers using SQLite.