skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually going to post that this is exactly the feeling I get from going to music festivals - part of it is definitely the fact that you're cut off from the internet (at least in parisian music festivals, the network never works), but a big part of it is that for a few days you completely change routine. Note that I think that to get this experience you need to replace your daily life with something that installs a different routine, not just a void.

So, for music festivals, the routine becomes - choose which band you want to listen to, find a good spot in the crowd, relax in the sun, maybe drink a beer. A bit later on repeat for the next band. A bit later on try to find something to eat. You'll go through this routine many many times at a festival, enough that it becomes the new normal.

I regularly do trips to the US to visit Civil War battlefields. You get the same sort of experience. Get in the car, drive to your motel near the battlefield. Check in. Go to the national park, do the exhibitions at the Visitor Centre. Later, visit some of the key battle sites. Come back, find a restaurant. The next day come back, but this time go far a trail hike rather than worrying about the battlefield stuff. Back to hotel, find a restaurant. Next day, get in the car, drive to the next battle site.

The imprtant thing is the routine, specifically I seem to need to go through a cycle 5 - 10 times to get that sense of disconnect from the real world.
Does anyone know if I can get the raw data in any form without scraping the website?q
I think the point here is being missed a bit. Yes they get a lot of benefit from traffic coming from Google. The point is they want that traffic coming directly to them.

If people go to Google News they see traffic from other alternative news sources as well. These people are Google News users and sometimes see e.g. Die Welt content, but Die Welt wants them to be Die Welt users. The publishers are used to having a direct relationship with their readers, they don't want to be competing with news clips and links from budget internet news sites and blog aggregators.

What's most interesting is that they have their own Facebook pages. So these guys are choosing to use Facebook for free to promote their brand, with pictures and excerpts from their articles. The thing there is that a relationship through Facebook can be more direct. The Facebook page is really an extension of the Die Welt web site, bringing it closer to Facebook users and trying to built that relationship. There's no way to do that through Google News.

Now, I do agree they're going about their relationship with Google in a bone headed and self-harming way. However they are doing it for what appear to them to be valid reasons. That's why papers and magazines always preferred direct subscriptions to sales on news stands. If they could have locked news stands into exclusive relationships, they would have.

So I think we can expect to see more initiatives like this from these publishers. Right now they're flailing around blindly and making fools of themselves, but they are not going to give up on their actual goals and eventually are likely to get smart about it. It'll be interesting to see what that looks like, but I doubt any effective initiatives they may come up with will be to the benefit of news consumers.
What license did you choose for your photographs on Flickr? If you chose a Creative Commons Attribution license without further restrictions, you don't really have any grounds to complain, though of course you can still ask nicely to have it removed.

If they are actually violating the license terms, the best idea is still to first ask nicely. If they don't comply, you can sue.

"compensation for damage" you can pretty much forget about unless you can prove actual damages.
I suspect if it was legal, a lot of people would move towards tobacco-substitutes to mix in their joint rather than actual tobacco. Amsterdam coffeeshops already sell pre-rolleds with "mix" in them (since smoking tobacco is illegal in there), I'm a cigarette smoker myself and I have no issues replacing tobacco with "mix" when I'm over there.

(But right now for typical weed smokers: "mix" isn't easily found to buy, while tobacco is always easily on hand. If it was sold in legal shops they could offer mix at the same time, something there's no incentive for illegal dealers to do.)
Emailed you guys. I got this question: You have an array of integers, and for each index you want to find the product of every integer except the integer at that index.

Your answer is actually O(2n) time :). Here's O(n) time: https://gist.github.com/jcdickinson/8026c04dfc0d46bcce76
Actually, wouldn't the story have to be licensed under the same license to satisfy the terms? Is it?
wouldn't that be the role of asm.js?
But wait, O(2n) and O(n) are the same aren't they? Eg both linear, constant factor doesn't make a difference to the time complexity. Or did you mean to write O(2^n) or something?
Making a brain for my model plane
The wasted hours trying out Winamp skins....
8 Things to Look for During Orion’s Flight
It's also worth mentioning Pedestal[1] - in place of Ring and Compojure. Pedestal is set of libraries for building web services that is fast and secure by default. It fully embraces async capabilities (unlike Ring which is inherently synchronous), and maintains most Ring compatibility. It sits upon battled-tested technologies (Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, Undertow, etc).

[1] https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal
Not yet, I think, but people are seriously trying. http://research.google.com/pubs/HeigaZen.html
Is cloud bad for work-life balance, and does it really forfeit your privacy?
I for one hope the countries in question will patch the tax holes, but not as much as to make the companies evade to other countries. The national economies would be vastly improved, at the expense of shareholder dividend.
I love that this uses what looks like fairly standard PC fans and such, makes the units a lot more serviceable in developing countries.

Very very cool.
In many countries outside the US, jail time (and the justice system in general) are not exclusively about punishment.

Think about that for a bit.
replace all: tk -> current_token
May I ask you, how do you plan to monetize?
Well, you know what, I actually realized that there's no timing info in the recorded data. So, no problem. I jumped the gun quite a bit.

Still, a bit worrysome, because it could easily be modified to track it. And for all we know, some sites could be doing that. Facebook was (at least at some point) listening to what you were typing in timeline posts even if you didn't actually decide to send them, so it wouldn't be surprising if some sites did that sort of stuff.

Interesting project idea...
Isn't OCR pretty good these days?
What if... we combine them with normal looking letters to make a captcha? humans see one thing, bots see some more?
I can read perfectly well. But if the web site I'm looking at is so badly designed that it's unreadable, why should I expect that an audio version will be better thought out?

There are perfectly good reasons for providing audio content on a web site, but having a badly designed site isn't one of them.
https://www.printmosaic.com/contest/events/1-November

I added a contest to my startup PrintMosaic (https://www.printmosaic.com).

It is cool because some people will be able to win free posters and free high resolution images for Christmas.

To enter, you need to create a mosaic and apply with it. Creating a mosaic is easy and is done in 2 steps (1. Choose your main image and 2. Choose the small images)

The winner is the mosaic with the most votes. So you need to invite your friends to vote for yours if you want to win.
From the help text on a black page (if you're visiting a busy page where the text has been overwritten):

Welcome to your wall of text. Click anywhere and start typing.

- Click and drag white-space to pan the board.

- Click and drag text to move the blob.

- Shift + Click text to select the entire blob.

- Click text to select a blob.

- Click buttons on the left to style selected blob.
What a lovely comment. Brought tears to my eyes. My father also died three years ago, and all we really have to remember him is photos. I'd say you're very lucky to have such a rich legacy. I just wonder if my kids will ever look at all the stuff I've written over the years.
Well, this problem is fundamental to trying to tax entities that don't have any specific location. Taxing people is quite simple because you can't split a person up - just count the days they reside in a particular tax jurisdiction and once it goes over a certain number of days per year, you say "you are resident here, benefiting from our services, so pay us tax" and as long as that number of days per year is reasonable, it all sort of works. And it feels fair(ish) because people can vote, so they get to control what their tax money is spent on, modulo lots of handwaving about how we all use insufficiently good voting systems.

A company though, can be split up and spread around, and many modern companies operate almost everywhere and yet nowhere in particular. That's very true of internet companies that don't need any local presence to operate in a country. Additionally they are seen as ideal tax targets by politicians because they can't vote, and are often perceived as "foreign" even if the reality is rather more complex, and people perceive tax on corporations to be free as the price increases that it (theoretically) results in can't be distinguished from general price rises due to inflation.

So we end up in a messy situation that suits nobody. Big companies exploit their trans-national nature to try and get taxed in places that don't really need the money like Luxembourg. Big countries try and exploit their size to extract as much money as possible from the evil foreign capitalists, regardless of where they may actually be based. Companies get taxed without representation and we just sort of ignore this because we feel they can already buy too much influence with politicians anyway, even without them actually getting to vote on anything.

And in the end, governments still don't have enough money.

Economists who study this problem sometimes conclude that the best rate to set corporation tax at is zero; they argue that "dead weight costs" of corporation taxes are very high compared to most taxes and besides, ultimately the costs get passed on to consumers. Of course this ignores the fact that business is global but taxation and voting is still very local. What might make theoretical sense in a textbook rarely seems sensible to the man on the street.
> But wait, O(2n) and O(n) are the same aren't they?

I guess it depends on where you work, I guess I've grown used to the more accurate complexities we use around here and forgot about the concrete theory. For us, twice the time is twice the time no matter how you sugar coat it.

So, uh, my bad. You are correct.
Well, it looks someone has covered the CC by-sa license already so it sure looks fine to use, they're missing citation of the license though.
Thanks. I'm in Cape Town and I was thinking of rent numbers - having heard that a room in a shared house might rent for 2000$/mo in SF vs. say R2000 on the cheap end here.

That rent number isn't based on fancy accoms but since I've been in the southern suburbs all my life some would say that I'm living an entitled lifestyle (CT Southern Suburbs =~ JHB Northern Suburbs). You could obviously halve your rent in some areas but then you'd be living (at least in CT) in places with serious infrastructure issues, cable theft etc.

But I'm interested... from your background and expectations of standard of living, do you think you could make do with R5000 - R6000 /mo in SA? The same restrictions probably apply, share a room, no dependents, cheapest Net access and forget about buying new equipment on that budget.
Hah. In my own projects I've been cameling it like var mcFly = new McFly()
> Doepfner said the resulting dramatic drop in traffic to his company's publications was proof of Google's overwhelming power in the search market. He said he hoped lawmakers, courts and competition regulators would take action to curb its powers.

No the dramatic drop was caused by you relying on a search engine's news section too much to build your online business and then simply ditching it with no alternative. If Google has overwhelming power in the search market, then Bild has overwhelming power in the newspaper market. Not being able to utilize that is your fault and it's pathetic (sorry for the strong word) to call lawmakers into action in this case.
You're correct. The point of O(f(n)) notation is asymptotic complexity. Intuitively, this measures how the runtime grows as the input grows--whether the solution does one pass or two over the input, doubling the input will double the runtime, so it's linear.

Regarding the GP's approach in general, chasing constant-factor improvements on problems like this isn't always worth it. Doing one pass isn't necessarily faster than two if (for example) you do twice as much work at each step.

Not to mention that measuring performance in "number of operations" is pretty vague to begin with unless you're digging all the way down to the generated assembly code and know how many clock cycles an ADD takes vs a MUL, etc. At that point you should probably just pull out a profiler =)
For Crossfading, I also suggest
http://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/

;)
I spent a lot of time doing that too, as well as plugins once they arrived.. it was amazing how many plugins there were to 'improve' the sound of your music, when in retrospect it just made it all worse, lol.
That sounds perfect. It is probably best to make the default view a list. http://blog.getprismatic.com/list-beats-grid-linear-feeds-pe...
Ask HN: My startup PrintMosaic runs a contest for the first time. Any advice?
Hello,

I've been running PrintMosaic for a while (https://www.printmosaic.com) and I am now experimenting with contests.

PrintMosaic allows people to create photo mosaics easily. Choose your main image then choose the small images and it assembles them for you. It is then possible to order a print or a high resolution image if you want to print yourself.

The current contest allows people to win a free poster as well as credits for high resolution images.

In order to enter the contest, all you need to do is to create your mosaic and apply with it. The mosaic with the most votes wins. So you might need to invite your friends to vote for your mosaic. This contest ends on November 30, so the votes will be counted at midnight that day.

Here is the contest page, with rules and prizes: https://www.printmosaic.com/contest/events/1-November

Is there anyone here who has run a similar type of contest on their startup? I would be curious to hear stories. I'll be happy to share my experience once this is done as well.
Ever been micromanaged? 6 symptoms micromanagers share
Turns out 79% of employees have been micromanaged at one point or another, 91% of managers are unaware of employees changing their job due to their micromanagement behaviors. Here are 6 most common symptoms you might be dealing with micromanagement. Any additional symptoms to add to the list?
Every Meeting Ever
No, including an image that is licensed in this way is not going to force that relicensing. I don't believe that this type of use is a 'derivative work' and so the ShareAlike clause would not mean the overall story had to be licensed in the same way.
> Why cross that line? Why risk jail, your career, a whole pile of hardship?

I think part of it is age, maybe. Or rather life-experience, if you will.

I remember back in my early 20s what always stopped me was basic paranoia about getting caught. But that's just how I'm wired personally (and I was probably slightly irrational about the odds). I love breaking, bending and toying with the rules, but too chicken to pull through if it involved anything more serious than a silly prank on friends.

Nowadays (mid-30s), the first thing that stops me is a much more solid sense of what's right and wrong. I prefer it that way, because unlike fear of getting caught, it's a much more solid foundation to depend on.
Show HN: Answer-First – hypothesis-driven work planning
Apologies - I did go and take a look at the paper but examined the graphs and scanned the last paragraph but saw iOS everywhere; a more concentrated reading would have stopped me making a fool of myself.

Thanks for pointing the paragraphs out.
I didn't got your question.

Java packages are not that different from Go packages, in terms of CS concepts.

Except for the set of issues that are debated to death about Go, the language is quite modular in Mesa tradition.

Given Oberon's influence in Go's design[1], maybe you will find these books interesting,

From http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ check "Algorithms and Data Structures", "Project Oberon", "Compiler Construction".

From http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Books/ check Object-Oriented Programming in Oberon-2.
I recently acquired a complete Tandy 1000 TX system (from circa 1987), identical to the first system I used regularly as a kid (we had a Sanyo computer before it, but I hardly remember that one). My dad passed away in 2007, and this system definitely reminds me of him (along with my childhood in general). I remember playing various games on it with him, especially Monkey Island. I also remember him playing Leisure Suit Larry, but—for reasons that didn't become clear to me until much later—he never let me play that game with him.<g>

I found a copy of Reader Rabbit at a thrift store, and my 3-year-old son has enjoyed playing it on the Tandy. While I'm certainly not going to deny him access to the progress we've made in technology and education over the past three decades, I think that there is something about the simplicity of that machine that is valuable.
Ok fair enough. My assumption was that real estate everywhere in SF was in crazy demand and that if there wasn't demand that meant there was something wrong with the place. There was also OP's comment about being "alone" in the neighbourhood, but maybe I misunderstood.

I do think separating culture from race is dodging half the conversation, but I can't argue with your observation that this is the reality of how most people in the area think. Thanks for the feedback.
Should we dismiss ideas because they don't work as intended right now? All I see here is room for improvement. Rarely, if ever, do new approaches work perfectly the first time around, and the problem is especially complex.

Regardless of how Microsoft profits from this, it is still a good idea that could improve the lives of millions of people. If a company can make money while improving the lives of people, that is a good thing for both parties, wouldn't you say?
Community Rights: Should Bountysource allow committers to delist their project?
Naruto Shippuden Episode 385  English sub ナルト 疾風伝 385
So it means the client of your library can simply pattern-match on the result returned by cause() to find out if it was caused by, say, FileNotFoundException? Nice.
Huh, you're right! See http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/29/cc-howto-share-alike/

That is not how I expected it to work.
Show HN: Blixtser – Super fast serialization for Java
How to Prepare IBM SoftLayer Data for Analysis
It is already mentioned in his beloved developer forum[0], but he didn't respond yet. Let's see...

[0]http://devgurus.amd.com/message/1306586#1306586
ArangoDB, an open source NoSQL database that supports documents, key/values and graphs in one tool.

https://www.arangodb.com/key-features

Why is it cool?

You start with a few requirements, than learn something new about your business and your customers every day.

With the multi-model approach of ArangoDB you can adapt and change your data model, join between edges and documents and even extend the database by Javascript.
Amazon Route 53 for VPC
What is best solution for online or offline money transfer from US to Indonesia?
I'm still using 2.95 on Windows 8
Speaking of skins, I remember the debate between incumbent Winamp and newcomer Sonique: https://www.google.com/search?q=sonique+media+player

Other than skins, the other most frequented activity was finding new, trippy visualizations (https://www.google.com/search?q=geis+plugin) - ahh college.

And this! "Uses the acutal skin assets, so it's compatible with all skins" - gotta try this
"if it were a mix of genders, races, and socioeconomic standing at birth"
Clearly the latter two were the case. The gender mix was about 30% female.
Anyone got any ideas on how governments could effectively clamp down on this?

In Australia, IKEA paid 1%* tax over the last 12 years, even as sales surged 500%:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/luxembourg-tax-...

(The Guardian article has since removed the 1% reference, though it was in there when I first read the article.)
It's not necessarily that simple.

The European Convention on Human Rights, Article 8 grants a right to privacy.

It is not clear whether or not the right under copyright law to copy an image is always sufficient to give you a right to publish the image. That depends on jurisdiction.

In the UK, for example, it does not, as a result of the way ECHR has been implemented in local law through the Human Rights Act 1998, though courts have to weigh Article 8 against Article 10 (freedom of expression) so it's not clear cut.

EDIT: The EU Data Protection Directive, and it's member state implementations (so in the UK the Data Protection Act, for example) also comes into play.

Consider e.g. that Google Street View was met with threats of lawsuits in many European countries until the blurred out faces - while Google had the right to take the pictures, and have the copyright to the images, privacy laws and human right laws in many European countries did not give them automatic right to publish those images.
iTunes, Pandora, Spotify - times have changed and a lot of us retired their massive collection of pirated tunes for a streaming service or much more curated library.
> I remember there was such thing as a Constitution where some guys wrote that people have the rights and government should be restricted in curtailing these rights, and they seemed to think that people's rights are preferable and government restrictions can be made only in specific limited areas.

I think you're jumbling up various documents there.

> After all, Jim Crow laws were approved by many courts and were considered very constitutional for a long time. So for you there was no problem with them?

From a legal standpoint, no, there was no problem (well, except for state-sponsored school segregation, which was ruled unconstitutional). From my (and likely yours) moral and cultural standpoint, they were terrible and this eventually resulted in the act that abolished them all. Both the act that instituted them and the act that abolished them were perfectly legitimate in their own way.

Morality and law are different things. The former can provide impetus for forging the latter, but confusing them is a Bad Thing and it's what leads you to Iran.
> For us, twice the time is twice the time no matter how you sugar coat it.

Which is funny, because your method still uses 2n multiplications, it just computes them in the same loop.
Clickable links:

Home page: https://www.printmosaic.com

Contest page: https://www.printmosaic.com/contest/events/1-November
Jets, bubbles, and bursts of light in Taurus
That's a great point, but I think multiple approaches could be possible. For example, manipulating historical data to make the current price point attractive. That would be difficult for the user to verify.
It might be worth mentioning that this sort of thing is something Microsoft has cared a lot about for a very long time. I attended the huge, 7,000 attendees unveiling of NT for developers in SF in 1992, and one of the things they did, pretty much orthogonal to the rest of the program, was give us a handout and maybe a CD on accessibility, and strongly urge us to incorporate it in what we developed.