skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The entire internet community came together to deride this

why the persecution complex ? Yes there was criticism, but there is always criticism of everything on the internet.

Another proud Indian.
You'd have to acknowledge that it is subjective, though. After using OS X for a few years, I switched back to Kubuntu. The driver was that form was eclipsing function. It was becoming increasingly difficult to make OS X function `my way'. I had to resort to third-party applications for almost everything. That reduced the value of the OS itself to near zero.
That is just shit and there is no excuse for it. I'm sure Apple marketing will spin it like they did with the "you're holding it wrong" scandal.
Okay, i just want to say...

I live like 10 km's from Veurne (what are the odds that is ontopic... I can rarely even mention Belgium :P)
Why should everyone learn to code?
Scraping and selling their content without consent. I would assume that you can definitely sue for that.
You should also write to the cheaper company. Or was the lesson supposed to be that writing meaningless platitudes like 'race to the bottom' is good marketing? Perhaps it is, but personally, I would feel insulted.

There's no worse assumption that cheaper product is worse, especially when it comes to SaaS. What if FooCorp has automated much more than Acme, and even with lower prices actually has both better profits per sale and better functionality?

Sure, FooCorp should work on their marketing, but that's in their interest, not yours. A perfect company from the customer's PoV is one that is almost unknown, provides the best value per money unit, and has just enough customers to be alive. Then you have a competitive advantage over competition using popular and expensive solutions.
I think you touch a key issue here. Changing the situation is really difficult. From consumer point of view pirating and campaigning for changing laws are pretty much the only ways that have potential to make a difference. Boycotting is not practical, because it so very rarely has any effect when the product is very desirable for many people.
Butterfly Labs Shut Down by Federal Trade Commission [pdf]
Ruby faster than Java?
Or as Kodak did, use your patent to prevent anyone from using the technology. Which is a problem for society.
>I disagree, most non-US residents in the world don't even have bank accounts. Not to mention, the US and Canada are a huge market with a terrible banking system that refuses to modernize.

Didn't Nigeria, specifically, just issue national ID cards which are implicitly tied to being Mastercard direct debit cards as well?
BlackBerry's rather oddly shaped new smartphone
Thanks, I'm looking into building some of these for family members who can't read as well any more. These are some great resources to read!
Really? A car has fixed, very high costs per item. Downloading from a streaming site has zero costs for the studio.

Simply not true. The marginal cost of a streaming download are near zero. the fixed costs of making a film available for streaming are non-trivial. Also, the costs fall on producers many of whom work outside studios.

Here's the Netflix deliverables manual: http://newworlddistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/FullTec...

Do you think all this stuff just takes care of itself? It doesn't. Going from a completed cut that's good enough to screen at a festival to a streaming deliverable in a great deal of work, and QCing it all is extremely time-consuming. It involves weeks of work for multiple specialists. Measuring compliance can be automated to a certain extent. Repairing defects cannot. The standards are the same for the latest blockbuster and for your little low-budget feature or that cool out-of-print classic cult film you managed to acquire the rights to. If you're lucky and planned it all out in advance, you might spend only $10,000.

Excuse me if I've got a bee in my bonnet about this, but this stuff is what I do for a living a lot of people seem to think that getting a film onto a streaming service is just a matter of a quick transcode and an FTP PUT. It's actually a ton of highly skilled work.
Real-Time Automation, In-App Tracking Comes to Affiliate Marketing
" This is just about creating Canadian content for Canadians."

How about American (not USian) making content for Americans?
Or Terran, making content for Terrans? Why this divide?

As someone who lives in Canada, why should I let someone else decides what I'm going to watch?

Why should Québec and New Hampshire be so different? They are geographically close. It would make sense for them to tend to become more and more alike. If anything, those laws are artificially creating different cultures.

It's not 'assimilation', it's living with other people.
Do you think of yourself as 'assimilated' if you start playing the same games as one of your friends?
A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters [video]
What is Bitcoin but a collectivist agreement that something has value? Those bits aren't reimbursable. You can't get that electricity back for them once it's spent - unlike gold, which holds some real world value by virtue of being the element it is.

Bitcoin advocates rage about fiat, while trading the ultimate fiat currency since it doesn't take too many people deciding they don't want Bitcoin (say: landlords, farmers/wholesalers) before the currency is useless.
> I purchased 1450 Hitachi drives.

Isn't using very similar drives a problem because their failure rates are not statistically independent, so there is an high probability that they will all fail at the same time?
YC Startup Course in Stanford – Lecture 1 [video]
HelloSign is the author's company. He left off the names of the two competing companies who wanted HelloSign's business.
Hi, kudos on the tool. Does it work with sites where some content is revealed only if the user scrolls down and/or has to click a "load more" button at the bottom? That's a major pain point.
How does ParseHub compare to Kimono [1]?

I use Kimono daily (scraping government expense docs), and I love how it works on static sites. If you've managed to replicate that on dynamic ones, I'll be a very happy customer.

[1]: https://www.kimonolabs.com/
Was something supposed to happen after typing in some text in Markdown? I don't see the text changing at all.
The Untold Story of the HTC Nexus 9
I see a lot of sites selling Google Search results (like services tracking your SERP positions). Could Google sue them?
That's the prospective client, not the company which created the product.
Great stuff! Would it be fair to characterize this in software architecture terms as taking your components (under test) and using different connectors that model the real world?
Thanks for that. We could definitely use your help. I'll send you an email later this week. HN is great :)
Could be

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file:: URIs can have it, too (http://superuser.com/questions/352133/what-is-the-reason-tha...)
There's a mediawiki project called Afripédia [0] whose goal is kind of similar: put the whole wikipedia on a drive and install it on a pogoplug in multiple places in french-speaking African countries where accessibility is close to nil.

On the technical side they "only" have a wikipedia dump for the moment, but on the project side they have had some success in deploying it, so maybe you can have a look at what they do (warning: Afripédia is made by and for french-speaking people, you may have to learn it :)

[0] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/28/afripedia-collaboratio...
If you are in the business of selling you are in the business of removing obstacles blocking me from exchanging my money for your goods. It is absolutely not entitlement to expect that to be an ongoing cycle of improvement.

It has been years since this business model has been proven beyond doubt yet there is still no sign of any real attempts to embrace it. In other markets that would be considered feckless but in this case we're expected to believe the reason is 'business is hard'?
You should use WebRTC for your 1-on-1 video meetings
If youtube can host an arbitrary amount of high-quality movies forever and for free, then clearly the cost of putting movies online can be very low. The only reason it costs so much to distribute a digital movie is because the movie industry has decided it must cost that much. It's up to them to fix that problem if they want to remain relevant.
Ever used a Mac? I've used GNOME 3 for 1.5 years and it was terrible.
Proud to be indian.. Well Done India... I hope we get the best out of this trip
I hope events like this will help rekindle the interest in science and that ISRO gets a budget boost.
Easycron.com is a job scheduler service
Easycron.com is a job scheduler service. It works exactly like crontab in Unix / Linux except that it can call a URL instead of executing a command.
https://www.easycron.com/
Show HN: Rakepage – Collect, organize and share your recommendations
Well really at the end of the day all that matters is whether this statement (from the video) is true:

> Even if you joined Facebook as employee #1000, so you joined it in like 2009, you still made 20 million dollars.

I find it hard to believe that it is true, but obviously both you and the speaker know much more about it than I do. However I've also seem people commonly overstate things like this.

Some basic math:

$200 billion current value / ($15 billion value in 2009 * 50% discount factor from preferred to common) = 26.6x

So already assuming the most optimistic things [1], to get to $20 million dollars today, you'd have needed to get the equivalent of $750k worth of RSUs in 2009. Even vesting over 4 years that seems like an extremely high amount, high by a factor of about 5-10x of what I'd guess.

And don't get me wrong, I have no doubt people who joined Facebook in 2009 earned quite a bit of money assuming they held onto the stock. But 20 million dollars is a big number.

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[1]: The employee joined in 2009, you still work there, you haven't sold most of your stock (which is impossible because you had to sell some in the IPO to pay your taxes, but whatever)
Calm down. IANAL but AFAIK, you aren't liable until you activate your card (if your application goes through, that is).
iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing. Truly New Devices Create New Use Cases
Sam mentioned that the idea was actually quite important. I recall PG saying that YC would often invest in the team because ideas change and aren't as important as good founders.

Anyone have thoughts on this?
For anyone else confused: Press play before you try clicking the time markers.

Looks pretty useful apart from that!
For me it says "The server refused the connection." where the video should be.
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Sounds like a great match for Paypal
You can't, so far that's how SSDs die. Kroll Ontrack and similar services may get some of the data back, but that's all.
iOS Security Guide September 2014 [pdf]
"possibly rendering object graphs to strings"

But that's a problem with how you choose to use logging in your application - not with logging in general or specific logging features in Java.

Logging used without any care can cause lots of problems - but then so can any part of an application. Used with some care it can be a very useful tool for helping to diagnose all kinds of problems.
I'm certainly not the target market for this phone, but assuming I was a 'suit', which pocket of my suit does that monstrosity fit into?

It certainly isn't going to fit in my jeans front pocket as nicely as my pocket proportioned Nexus 4.
Of course, on magnetic tapes!
Those stakeholders took profits for a long time, playing (approximately) by the rules of the game, and now they're pissed that those same rules have invalidated their business.

Right, because the entertainment industry consists solely of monolithic studios that have been around since the beginning...not.

Do you not realize how absurd this argument is? Imagine that you had this idea for a film and you desperately wanted to make it. Well, nobody wanted to take the risk and so you learn to produce a film. It's a feature, so if you managed to get it completed and sold within 5 years of deciding you want to make movies you are doing extremely well. So you push your Little Film That Could out into the world, but since your first feature probably doesn't have any big stars or or amazing production value it gets a minimal theatrical release and you hope to recoup your costs on DVD, foreign, and streaming sales. Not really to make any money - simply breaking even on your first film and returning the investors' input is the benchmark for industry success.

Then someone comes along and tells you that the market value of your film is zero, and if you make any attempt to protect your IP you're a troglodyte who has failed to adapt, and you should feel bad about all those decades you spent fleecing the public.

That's like saying startups should give their product away for free because IBM, Microsoft, and other industry incombents have often exploited consumers in the past.
Or maybe Acme is afraid that FooCorp will refute their argument about a so-called "race to the bottom"... Maybe, just maybe, Acme is lying about "customers [...] switching to Acme in droves "...

I am not really impressed when a potential supplier is bad mouthing competition to get ahead of the pack. I would have a hard time trusting them, and being confident that at some stage they wouldn't bad mouth my company if I was no longer a client for XYZ reason later on....
Or, to your surprise it might be approved anyway.

This is the likely outcome from your description. In which case you can cancel or not activate the card and you're at no legal risk.

Applications for things with false information are only a legal matter when it's government-related or you're using it.

You haven't done either.
Oh the irony of this comment given that the very first amendment to the US constitution is a law protecting "freedom of speech". You know, the one that everyone talks about being so important and necessary for the American way of life.
Πως να ανεβείτε στη Google κάνοντας φίλους στο Facebook – SEO – WEB DESIGN
Does anyone maintain an up-to-date version of the Mars Scorecard? What's Earth's average for this decade?
That's a lot of angst for someone that is clearly going to crash and burn in short order and has zero impact on the design and architecture of the systems you and I work with...
Congrats ISRO!!!!!
> macros allow you to do a degree of metaprogramming

I think this comment would be more believable if you provided some examples. Since you didn't, let me provide one and then hopefully you (or someone else) can provide more.

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2012/01/24/higher-order-ma...

I would provide a summary, but I think you can get a hint just from the URL. (Actually, the URL is misleading. The title of the blog post is "Higher Order Macros in C++".)
I still use a Quantum VS160 DLT to back up my SSD...

The thing plugs straight into my laptop via no brand cheapo SCSI/USB bridge much to the laughing from my colleagues (apart from the ops team who understand why I do it).

Being an ex EE, I understand exactly how "transient" the state of an SSD is.

Electrons; gotta catch 'em all.
It was lowest priced spacecraft ever sent to Mars; Congrats India (big move on creating low priced space shuttles)
C++ has more powerful tools than preprocessor and is used in different scenarios.
On the other hand, C is predominant language in embedded systems (while C++ is available it is usually highly stripped version), where performance and memory (both binary and runtime) footprint is critical. Therefore code elimination/swap for different hardware and/or slightly different featureset is best done at compile time using preprocessor. And we need best tools available to debug that.
A big part of what Chipworks does (as a company) is reverse engineering silicon from die shots and x-rays and such. They're not just going to hand this kind of information out on a platter - they were commissioned to do a cursory glance for this puff piece.

But it also doesn't take a genius to guess at what the various hardware modules do just given what the iPhone can do.
This does not invalidate your point of course, but note that the article describes one of the tests some of these drives have passed: write a large file and power the drive off for a week and then check the file.
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Please have a look at some of my other posts in this thread, especially the ones with links to deliverables for distribution. There's a limit to the amount you automate this sort of thing because every film is different. The legal and technical problems that need to be solved for one film may be completely different for the next one.

For people who program for a living, how do you feel about managers who come and ask why it's taking so long to get the bugs out or implement a new feature, and then dismiss your explanation with 'but it's all software, can't you just debug it the same way you did that other project last year? I mean it's just code, right?'

Because that's exactly what I'm hearing from people here.
mail chimp also....MOVABLE INK. really cool company that can do real time animations and videos in emails. https://movableink.com/
Try powering off for 5 years and keeping at 75oC and see if the data is still there.
Yes, you can get great service from such companies. But you also take the risk of the company shutting down because they lost 2 customers and it cannot afford to be alive anymore - and then you have the added costs of switching to another (more popular and expensive) solution.
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Design could use some more work, but I like the idea. Consider using social plugins for users. Also I love how you chose to show it off with YC's lecture. I guess you had to wait a while for the video to be online but it was probably worth it. That's thinking out of the box.
I have the feeling when watching, but by just listening I'm actually fine with it.

I think the visual indication plays a huge part in the perception.
Did you have a look at https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/background_pages
?

Not sure if it does fit all your needs.
Pretty sad Blackberry user here, who wants a new smartphone with qwerty physical keyboard.

Blackberry went totally "hit or miss" with this one (I suspect the latter).
Looking at it, personally, I feel disappointed that they sacrificed a full quality keyboard to use a bigger screen. From the main article image it is clearly seen that some of the physical controls (the caps button, punctuation symbols) are now actually not physical anymore. I don't really quite see the point in this since you'll still have them mostly anywhere (for what blackberry is used - various messaging) so why not make them physical? Blackberry is pretty used to making widthy (width > height) smartphones so why have they gone full 1:1 is strange to me.

Hopefully, a decent qwerty smartphone comes out some time until my Blackberry totally dies on me.
Microsoft SVC
Small thing - the Pinterest story involved the Palo Alto Apple Store, not the public library, if I recall correctly.

Good notes. A few typos.
Install fitbit in ios7 on a iphone 5s. You will get the same result. I dont see this as a problem it doesnt track your gps only your steps.
just noticed; very awesome. For some reason this editor gives me the same feeling I had "back when I was little" when I was using IDE's like Turbo Pascal's. It just feels... modern retro!
The motion chip is a separate package.
How to Prepare for iOS 8 Update?
The graph has no numbers.
Sure, where it is possible, C++ constructs (templates, inlines, constexpr, ...) should be used instead.

However, one very important bit, where we (sadly) are not really moving away from: The include system. This is still handled all by the preprocessor.
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Not a persecution complex. I did not argue then, I don't wish to deride anyone now. It's just that I feel good about this. Developing countries taking to space. Humanity is progressing.
Distribution by others at that point by definition represents no loss to the rights holder

Oh yes it does. What if the rightsholder can't afford to legally distribute it, but hopes to be able to at a later stage eg due to lowering of technical costs? Copyright infringement substantially reduces the net present value of an IP asset. Because the marginal cost of torrenting etc. is virtually zero, it's easy for copyright infringers to permanently crowd out rights holders.

The bait-and-switch in a lot of pro-piracy arguments, which many proponents are not really conscious of, is that the rights holders are not monolithic. You're telling today's film production companies and professionals that they don't deserve to get paid because of what other firms did in the past.

A vast amount of film production is carried out by small startup-like businesses that have about as much in common with the big studios as a small-time app developer has with Apple Computer. Should I be able to download apps for free because iPhones are expensive?
But with Netflix the consumer doesn't pick the content. They choose a 'channel' they want, just as they would on a normal TV. They don't pay per show, they pay for a curated service and then 'tune in', albeit on demand.

The consumer doesn't choose what's on Netflix, they only choose what they watch. They don't choose what they pay for, they pay for what Netflix chooses. This is the same model as every content provider in Canada, which is why Netflix needs to abide by the same laws.
For these kind of tasks I always used an app written by myself using an embedded browser control (webkit engine or IE ActiveX control on Windows). So I load the page and just call the control methods (usually just to convert the output to plain text).

How are this tool (and similar tools) more efficient then the highly optimized browser engines? I am missing something here?
JavaScript makes all other languages irrelevant and why you must master it now
Along similar lines, here's my prediction: the first successful crowdfunded visit to another planet will happen by 2030.
Tech's tunnel vision
Is your vision more valuable than money?
The surprising thing was that Sam's advice about working on a big mission and something "important" seems directly contradicting what pg has been writing for years.

Just as trying to think up startup ideas tends to produce bad ones, working on things that could be dismissed as "toys" often produces good ones. When something is described as a toy, that means it has everything an idea needs except being important. It's cool; users love it; it just doesn't matter. But if you're living in the future and you build something cool that users love, it may matter more than outsiders think. Microcomputers seemed like toys when Apple and Microsoft started working on them. I'm old enough to remember that era; the usual term for people with their own microcomputers was "hobbyists." BackRub seemed like an inconsequential science project. The Facebook was just a way for undergrads to stalk one another.

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

I'm not too keen on Dustin Moskovitz's whole spiel about telling people not to start startups. In a course about how to start startups, it seems really misplaced.
People are getting way too hung up on the fact the he read from a text. But so what? The content was interesting and compelling. I'd rather listen to somebody using a prepared text and conveying the information quickly (like Altman does here) than painfully reading slides.

I thought he did a good job. Usually I hate watching a video presentation if there's copy of the text to read. It's way more efficient to read the content than to watch most videos and then set the speed to 4x.
So after many months the winning teams have not yet gotten their btc?