skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't intended in ANY way to be marketing. I didn't realize folks were using it to build other stuff. Gimme some links and I'll update the post.
If I ever choose to "elaborate" it will likely be on my blog, not some off the cuff remarks on a comment on HN that I can't later edit or delete if I decide I would like to reduce some of the shit show that is likely to ensue. I am enough of a target without actively provoking people. I sure as hell don't need the kind of trouble you are inviting me to step into.
In english, a "noun_y" suffix signifies an approximate imperfection (ie a quasi~noun). Or in other words, a "corruption of concept". This is why you don't praise someone as "like a quasi-X". You rather say, "like an X".

TLDR: simple grammar, once understood, explains it.
When you want to file an infringement notice pursuant to the DMCA, you determine where to send that notice by looking up the service provider's agent at the list on the copyright office website. That's what these filings are for, adding your company's agent to the list, so copyright holders know how to reach you. The notices are sent to the designated agent, not to the copyright office.

http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/a_agents.html
Yes, I mention Octopus. There are some plugins I think.
Or on Chromecast. I know - competitive blah blah blah - but it sucks as for us as customers. Amazon has no problem selling Chromecasts themselves, but they won't add support for them in their own apps?
Just take a look at China with multiples of these. Many companies are using their influence to attack smaller companies and there is virtually no antitrust laws.
Or just buy fedex.
Nothing makes me roll my eyes harder than reverse-discrimination rebuttals. Inevitably the community focuses all its energy on character assassination to avoid sniffing its own stench.
Also, can't magnets interfere with pacemakers? "Oh, you have a pacemaker? Ya, don't come over or you will die... I don't want to have to plug in my lamps."
Ask HN: Why were we removed from the frontpage?
Hey, our project just got on the front page but was removed when we were at #3. What happened?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405891
Well it can't really be this black and white. Any information they create could be case data they are working on for murders etc and other information that needs to be kept secret, so there has to be some type of restrictions in place.
Or tampered with.
Those items would have been deleted from the site without the addon program and not available anymore at all because it is probably no longer viable to ship them standalone, so the addon program is a is a net win.
Show me an environmentally friendly energy source with anywhere near the EROEI of the environmentally unfriendly ones.

The real solution is gradual powerdown and, eventually, population reduction.
Reeducation and hype is the middle course. Punishment, banning and denial is the far end of the spectrum. Recent situations I can think of include forum bannings, post deletions, account closings and statements denying there is a problem.
True, but its remarkable how constant the amount of electricity the 'typical' home draws, even as the things in it draw less. Things like the TV went from several hundred watts to only a couple of hundred, and then we added a home computer. I agree with the grandparent that you're not going to send a few kW of power into a house like this.

The other aspect that wireless power folks face is that any conductor now has a much more serious voltage potential on it. This can cause weird things to happen when dissimilar metals are suddenly energized. Electro transport can cause otherwise strong welds/connections to vanish.
Looks like it's just adding convenience to built-in RubyGems signing.

Relevant lines:

https://github.com/steakknife/waxseal/blob/master/bin/waxsea... (generates the signature using "gem cert --build ...")

https://github.com/steakknife/waxseal/blob/master/bin/waxsea... (modifies your gemspec file to include the signing key and cert)
No, people who are productive don't get harassed. Meritocracy, bro!
>But with regard to this specific case, since you say that you see no evidence at the original link, I would urge you to think about the fact that you evidently do not consider Julie's own words that she has been harassed to be evidence enough.

That's a bit rich, coming from rapist like you.
Can software be protected from piracy?
does this break recursion?
I have an old Galaxy S2 banger running the Samsung official Android 4.1.2 and I hardly ever notice UI latency issues.
Also, being pushy and domineering is seen as a positive in men, but is almost always seen as a negative in women.
Hm, so that's how the forests in Nausicaa happened...
Use e instead of pi: http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
They would probably try to feed them to starving children in Africa.
You should try not being a Prime subscriber. You get the interstitials appearing on every bloody purchase.
Actually I created it to build Microsoft Dynamics NAV applications, which were not .NET at that time.
Besides secure protocols, if these things are widely deployed in this manner, I'm imagining stack overflow attacks that seem impossible to avoid in some uses of C and C++.
I have a Nexus 4 and the experience isn't as nice as it should be. Though he's full of the hyperbole he has a point.

On my Nexus 4 (without carrier apps) I can't remove Chrome, Drive, Currents, Email, Gmail, Keep, Hangouts, Maps, Photos, Play Games, Play Movies and TV, Play Music, Play Newstand, News and Weather ... the list goes on and on. That adds up to a ton of space and clutters my menu. I want some of them, but I don't want some of the others, either way I'm stuck with them, which means I by default always need to get the more expensive phone with more storage because more and more things come with the phone, that's even _before_ a carrier touches it.

And both the UI performance and battery performance woes on Android phones has been well documented. I've had every flagship Nexus/Google phone since the G1 and battery life and performance are not getting better overall.

Every time they make an improvement in Android that improves battery life they just ship a thinner phone with a faster CPU. My G1, Nexus One, Nexus S, Nexus 4, always have lasted about a day. I don't own a Nexus 5 yet but have friends that do and they do the same thing I do - a house/car full of chargers and a battery pack for travel.

Don't get me wrong I still like my Android phone, I just don't love it.
The alleged harassers need to be educated, not women. And education isn't always friendly.

And "how much should you need to take..." is irrelevant. Life isn't fair, and sometimes you have to win arguments you think you shouldn't have to fight with otherwise reasonable people.
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Are you sure the target audience is women? :-)
Yes, that would be possible. Thought on the other hand, women are supposed to be like men (equal?), so where would the diversity be?
Presumes facts not in evidence.
You can hardly expect zero backlash if you piss on other people's parade.
Actually the DBS implants for Parkinson's disease are relatively safe, and are being used more and more often, frequently to correct adverse effects from medications...it's about a 1-2% chance of a minor hemorrhage with infection rates differing among centers. The VA had something terrible, like 9% but the series out of UCSF did better. These are all treatable, or at worst, you just remove the device.

In terms of removal, it's actually easier with age, for some odd reason. Surgeons report that after a few years, they slide out. A lot of handwaving as to why, but some thought is that there's some sort of encapsulation layer that builds between the surface and the neural tissue, or some layer of fluid space or whatnot.

It's a matter of perfecting the tech. The experimental BCI stuff - i.e. Utah arrays, are still externalized and are risky, and yes they do have a ways to go before ready for population-wide deployment..
Yes that is youtube used by many non technical people this is Github. It is a bit different. Chances are those that don't do any coding have no idea what Github is or what it is for.
I made a video of how the algorithm works:
http://youtu.be/NjcSyD7p660

To make it I needed a C++ version with iterators, which I though would be faster. But it is still about 20% slower than stable_sort for the default random input test. It probably also stays the same for other inputs.
This competition is flawed in the context of artificial intelligence. Most of the information in the Wikipedia text is in the language, not in the 'actual' knowledge. It would be much more interesting competition if it would allow the uncompressed text to say the same things in different words. Although there's the problem of how to verify if it's the same thing.
with the pace of getting new tech into humans...the "upgrade" problem currently only happens oh maybe once a decade. Maybe that will change if the FDA somehow speeds things up, but...festina lente
Oh, yeah. Ubuntu and Firefox are completely and satisfyingly opensource but the answer isn't because I didn't use the very phone I was praising. Technically, I used an opensource app but not in a way that would support my point.
Sure - but you haven't addressed the point that everything about amazon prime works this way but calling all the benefits 'free' is surely misleading.

Equally if I set up a Mac Pro club where I charge $3500 annual membership, and you get a free Mac Pro, nobody would be fooled into calling that Mac Pro 'free'.
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How do you guys fund this?
Unfortunately, that was the LED lightbulb wattage. http://www.homedepot.ca/product/9-watt-60w-daylight-led-ligh...
> It seems like a uniquely north american woman phenomenon.

False. [1][2][3][4][5][6][...]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/02/01/germanys-...

[2] http://www.dw.de/opinion-how-sexist-is-germany/a-16555500

[3] http://interculturalmusings.blogspot.com/2013/07/germanys-bi...

[4] http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21571188-where-does-ger...

[5] http://freespeechdebate.com/fr/2013/06/twitter-free-speech-a...

[6] http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/sexism-on-europes...

[...] Google: "sexism germany". It would have taken you two seconds to do this before spouting off, but that would've required humility...
This is the key to the entire article:

"There’s nowhere to go. Amazon has either destroyed or bought every competitor that has ever come close to its retail business."

Without this, nothing else matters. If there are alternatives, then you keep using Amazon and Prime only if they're worth it. If Amazon ruins them, go somewhere else.

Personally, I think it's completely wrong. I buy on Amazon because it's extremely convenient and because I can be pretty sure that they're going to offer a good price, likely the cheapest price available.

However, any time I make a purchase that's more than $30 or so, I shop around. There is no shortage of other places to buy anything I've looked for. They usually have higher prices or worse service than Amazon and so I skip them. Occasionally they're better, and then I buy from them.

There's no lock-in, there's no monopoly, there's nothing that makes people stick with Amazon besides better prices, better service, and inertia.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else. It pains me to say this because that phrase is so overused, but it applies to Amazon well.
> Apache's biggest problem is that it isn't cool and hip anymore. It's config file is too easy to understand.

Yeah, mod_rewrite sure is the epitome of a readable config file syntax.

Why have one or two simple to understand "if" statements when you could have a pile of incomprehensible regexps with random one letter control flow flags?

Simple. Ha.
Unpacking this a bit, I think that the reason full-stack startups are becoming popular is because many of the new technologies are disruptive innovations that honestly aren't that useful to existing customers of industries. That's the definition of a disruptive innovation, right?

Take Uber for example. Their core strength is logistics; they connect instantaneous demand for transportation with surplus supply. They could try to sell this as a service to the existing taxicab/limo industry, but their incentives are seriously misaligned. Taxis and limos have an industry structure that remains profitable because they own a supply-restricted monopoly on transportation (through medallions & branding) that lets each driver charge premium prices. Adopting Uber's technology doesn't let them serve more customers (they're limited by driving time), nor does it let them charge more (it would probably drop the price through higher availability), and so there's no incentive for them to buy it. However, if Uber targets a different population of drivers - say, those who are unemployed or underemployed and have free time on their hands - then those folks all have an incentive to adopt the technology so they could get customers where none were before. And because the supply of Uber drivers is greater than the supply of taxicabs, this lowers prices for customers, creating wealth and a fair amount of Teamster opposition.

Or consider Tesla. Their core strength is branding - they appeal to the eco-friendly, style-conscious customer who wants everyone to know they care about the environment. If Tesla just sold batteries and a powertrain to Detroit, it wouldn't fix the public perception of American cars as gas-guzzling clunkers at all. This is why the public is nowhere near as excited about the Chevy Volt as about the Tesla Roadster or S.

I think that companies that pursue these strategies are effectively attacking longstanding structural efficiencies in the way the U.S. economy works, things that have been institutionalized because that's the way it's always been. And we're going to see more of them in the near future, because this reliance on branding, oligopolies, and regulatory barriers to entry has been in place since the 50s, and technology has changed significantly in that time period. There will also likely be a lot of social upheaval as well, as people get used to the emergence of new institutions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

I really, truly despise middle positions. They're just concessions made to incorrect people.
I responded below, and also consider this:

http://www.ewg.org/cell-phone-radiation-damages-sperm-studie...
My guess is, for a micro-organism death of a single cell is deadly. So the first photon that comes along kills. ( A bit more formal, irradiation effects are probably proportional to the surface area, while available cells, and thus ratio of destruction, is probably proportional to the volume. So relative damage is proportional to 1/size.)
Oh, I see, it's the victim's fault because she didn't engage with systems created by the harassers to your satisfaction. Such elegant logic: no matter what, somehow it's the woman's fault.
=== Just FYI... after opening this link, === and in short succession this nearby one: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404218 ("Bootflat"), something sent my Firefox browser and then my entire Galaxy Tab 8.9 (which has been functioning pretty flawlessly for 3+ years) into an unstable state.

I may have to root/wipe it now... :(
I can't prove that it was caused by either this or the other link, but the coincidence is troubling... who checks these HN submissions for malware anyway?
I really like how this kind of technology is finally very cheap and even usable for non-experts.

However, why is it that this kind of electronics is only ever used to irrigate plants, open/close doors or windows and maybe control lights in a room.

The arduino platform seems very popular, yet where are the really amazing projects? It really seems like it's just some kind of Lego for grownups. I bought some of this stuff too and it is cool to play with electronics, but it seems to me this stuff is merely good for learning electronics and just a fun hobby.
> What does that mean? Just someone who has her repo on github?

More distant relation than that -- it appears that the connection that is being drawn is that the person at issue had a job that involved working with Ruby on Rails, and Github is built on Rails, so, clearly this is some kind of deep connection between these incidents.
Prime has hiked in price here in the UK too, with the bundled video.

But.

It's still worth it here IMO. In fact, Prime here in the UK is about a million lightyears ahead of the US because of the size of the country :)

Free next day shipping is really brilliant for a heavy Amazon buyer like me.

I was actually a Lovefilm user from before the Amazon buyout. I fondly remember the day they were primarily a physical rental service - the warehouse was not far from me and the postal service fantastic. Their catalogue was huge.

Their online service has always been mediocre; about the same as Netflix, Sky and BT.

But the combination of on-demand video and free next day is still worth it to me.

After some research, IMO the combination of Sky (satellite TV with on-demand offering) and Amazon Prime (free next day delivery + on-demand video) is the best combination of price & coverage. I can get 99.9% of the things I want for reasonable price.

Looking at the US service, it doesn't even compare :(
one of many reasons why I will never again live in New York or locate a business there. I refuse to pay taxes to a state as oppressive as the government of New York (city).
Since you can't use that open source implementation to make Android devices, it's effectively just an SDK. Android itself is closed.
"even thinking about the price of paid streaming content is a waste of time"

that sounds so arrogant and self important. You just wasted time writing a long meaningless comment on hn and that's somehow worth your time.
DMCA and Ad compliance are core to the business model. They cannot be ignored by pointing your users to this link.
There is a small tutorial: http://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/octopusdeploy.html
What I find frustrating is that when I go to the Amazon Video on my PS3 there doesn't seem to be a way to say "Just show me the free videos". It insists on mixing the free and paid ones.

Which is rubbish when I'm just looking to see what's available to watch.
Right. A man who writes an SSH server in PHP just because he can, then immediately deploys it in production, is probably not the same man who writes a native app here.
You can't use Netflix on any GNU/Linux systems.
You have more comments than upvotes (which is considered a "controversial" post) and more than 40 comments. Unfortunately, that gives your post a huge penalty and is most likely the reason it was knocked off the front page. Personally I think that's silly but I didn't make the algorithm.

My suggestion in the future is to be cognizant of your upvote/comment ratio and reply sparingly if you're post is close to being considered "controversial".

Here's a link where you can read more about how the ranking works:

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
You are going to get charged $99 either way. Prime video has always been, and continues to be an add on to the Prime membership. Remember when we paid $79 just for shipping, then they added video much later? I'm not saying it will always be this way, I can see there being a multi-tier Prime system sometime down the road.
This is one of the fastest electric race cars on earth right now: http://www.draysonracingtechnologies.com/home.html

http://www.draysonracingfe.com/technology.html?Wireless-Char...

It gets charged via induction. Fifth Gear recently had a segment about this where you could briefly see the black flat device they park it over.

edit: pic: http://www.draysonracingfe.com/technology.html?Wireless-Char...

Of all the silly things one could do with "wireless" electricity, charging cars is probably one of the better applications.

I believe this is in use since quite some time for charging equipment like forklifts, busses on fixed lines, etc.
You can say the same thing for the new range based for loop in C++11.
Do not expect that google will read your email when you try to make your point. You will only get a template email answer, zero fucks given.
=== Just FYI... after opening this link, === and in short succession this nearby one: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404618 ("HTML is almost 100% responsive out of the box (fluidity.sexy)"), something sent my Firefox browser and then my entire Galaxy Tab 8.9 (which has been functioning pretty flawlessly for 3+ years) into an unstable state.

I may have to root/wipe it now... :(
I can't prove that it was caused by either this or the other link, but the coincidence is troubling... who checks these HN submissions for malware anyway?
Unofficial answer, but based on much experience ...

You tripped the flame-war detector.

Once you get to more than 40 comments the number of comments is compared against the number of points. If there are fewer points than comments, a penalty is applied to the ranking.

You can see the progress of your ranking here:

http://hnrankings.info/7405891/

The application of the penalty is obvious.
That explains it, but I thought NASA was originally spelled out as well. Take for example the world wide web and the early 2000's and people constantly trying to make www dub dub dub.

I think the only thing stopping the BBC getting in the same boat is lack of vowels.
Is checking each image compatible with the DMCA safe harbor?
Darn. Like half of them are from me because I wanted to answer people's questions... certainly not controversial. :(
Blacking out America would be a cinch, b/c there’s not enough distributed solar
This is what happens when you write about something without knowing much about its context. There is an awesome "new" universe out there - it's called functional programming. You are orbiting around it, but we all hope, for the better, that you discover it more.
A wireless dog leash probably isn't too far off, for those who enjoy the means to upgrade their furry friend with a remote control brain implant.
Anecdotal, but I've got a Nexus 5 and its substantially less stable than the Windows Phone I had before it, or the iPhone before that. Not full phone crashes, but a "Unfortunately, X app stopped" messages. I'm not a power user by any means, and I don't run anything more exotic than Yelp. So when I run into a bug with basic functionality, like cropping profile photos, its irritating. Also, battery life is shit, won't get through 24 hours with 4-5 hours of screen use, which my iPhone could (see Anandtech's benchmark where he measures LTE web browsing time, in which iPhone dominates despite its tiny battery). Its a good phone with a great screen, but the software stack just isn't as solid as WP which is itself less solid than iOS.
My buddy built something similar on www.razzi.me (now defunct). They let users use their own adsense id and displayed their ads 50% of the time. They got banned from adsense and tried other providers but that didn't work out well either and they eventually shut down.
It's not a fucking parade. It's people's careers and livelihoods. Since when is speaking out about abuse (of any kind) trivially equated to relieving oneself?
That's not what prominent means.
> The problems here are not specific to GitHub and certainly are not specific to her.

The problem here is that nobody has yet given a concrete example of such a problem. In this particular case, there are a bunch of vague tweets, in others, people looked at user-submitted content etc. Just saying ‘there is a problem’ neither makes it clear that there is a problem, nor what that problem is nor how to fix that problem.