skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video: Army’s Robot-Man Walks Like the Real Thing
What's the copyright position here?

In the UK transitive copies for the purposes of display, caching &c., have been cleared as non-infringing actions. Googles caches link back to the original author by way of attribution for example. But archiving and reproduction without attribution in any way?

Also whilst Google may have been given a pass in robots.txt (were sub-sites allowed individual robots files? I never had one) to crawl the site declaring oneself as Googlebot in order to spider and archive the whole site could well show bad faith?

Just wondered if you'd discussed the copyright position, perhaps with Geocities. Maybe there was a disclaimer that effectively released content as PD, I doubt it though.

A brief discussion on webmasterworld, http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3898789-2-30.htm , but more interestingly an idea to "rape" geocities for content for ad serving sites, see http://ducedo.com/free-content-geocities/ .

Someone on webmasterworld considered whether Google might back-rate based on content so that highly rated content pages that disappear from Geocities (&c.) could be given a boost in the SERPs.

OT: did you use the current username based addressing too or are you only linking the old "campus" names, can't remember mine, was in RT somewhere IIRC.
If those files are still there then jacques is going to be serving those from his own pages very shortly ...
The traffic monitoring idea could work on its own. UPS & Fedex already tracks their trucks (I think). If you could buy access to that data you could publish detailed drive time info for a big part of the developed world. The data from FedEx|UPS wouldn't have any privacy issues around it; easy for them to implement a feed, no really advanced new tech involved anywhere in the process. I think the majority of the work would be licensing/business relationship stuff.

I'm not sure who you could sell the data to? Set yourself up to be acquired by Google/Navtech/XM Sirus? Something to think about.
Clearly the difference is in the subtly. The arbitrary code being run is in the loader, not the body of the executable, allowing it to be run without an explicit, "go to the shell and run my binary," step. This will be a new attack vector to many people.
I think graphic design should be thought of as graphical engineering .. in the sense that a good graphic designer is always trying to find the very best way to approach a problem.

Poor design isn't down to having bad aesthetic taste or lack of artistic skill - it's down to a lack of clarity in purpose.

Good design is clear thinking made visual... to be able to achieve this, clear-thinking needs to be built into the processes and workflows of applications from the get-go.

Too often, I think a lot of people see graphic design as a skin that can be slotted onto a second rate product to make it sing - and imo, this isn't the case.
I have a completed application just sitting here addressing the RIAA ready to submit, but my partner took a Big 4 consulting job a few days ago. Dohl.
Live music is the first thing that I thought of.

It would be cool for bands to be able to stream their shows live on their own sites, facebook pages, etc.
Not sure about HN, but they definitely have people dedicated to (smile)Twitter(/smile)
Me is the best noise-filtering system for me that I have seen.

Also you have to define noise, and why are you getting it anyway?
Definitely. I see Rip as a superset, of sorts, of Gems. That is, Rip is great for managing both Gems and in-development code, and doing so in swappable environments. Gems, on the other hand, tend to represent mostly mature code.
Pretty sure that having a fully formulated business plan isn't what YC is generally pushing for anyway based on history.
Spot on! My exact thoughts. It would be hard to think of Twitter as a protocol since nothing about Twitter is open except for their API. Google wave would be a more appropriate example for a web service/protocol.
Agreed -- this is the point that seems underdeveloped in the YC methodology.

Would love help fleshing this out but in my mind, the framework consists of Messages, Channels, and Users. Your job is to test different combinations of those in order to most effectively communicate product/market fit.

When crafting a message, it's important to remember that there's only one question the customer cares about: "How does this help me reach my goals in the quickest and safest possible way?" The more of the thinking you do around this for them, the better your sales will be.

You will find better combinations of message/channel/target over time by developing relationships with your customer; listen to them and watch what they do, you will get important data that you can use to refine your product and to refine your pitch.
This time of the year is extremely busy for me but I'd try to join.
With proper filtering, a news alert system could be pretty cool coming from the firehose. I'm thinking identifying key words like the Moldavian #pman tag with regard to the student shutdown of the gov't following alleged voter fraud. You'd need to establish a solid baseline for a large number of words to discover variations from the baseline. carpdiem and I have discussed this one for a bit, but we couldn't figure out how to finagle access to the data stream to start developing. Could be interesting...
Hm. They were looking for conservation laws, threw out all trivial equations and kept the next set they found. Weren't they in fact building an engine to find what they knew was there? Isn't this just a program to fit coefficients? When did they stop running data thru their engine - when it found the "right" equations?
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Yes, +1 for that. "git push heroku master"
Tools generally only have partial substitutes. (From memory only...) Suicides decreased in the UK when catalytic converters became required on cars: other means of suicide remain available, but most are harder for the potential suicide than sitting in a car with a pipe from the exhaust through the window.

Knives are substitutes for guns, but it's harder to kill 10 people with a knife than with an automatic. Which may explain why generally (always with exceptions) high gun ownership correlates with high homicides.
No.

Array names are immutable. Pointer values may be mutable.

However, let's ignore that and consider "int a[10]; int * const p(a);"

sizeof(a) is the size of the array named a or 4 * sizeof(int). sizeof(p) is the size of the pointer named p.
Does anyone know what the current rate of tweets per second is? This would influence what it's possible to do with the streams.
site sorely needs a more prominent description of what the goals and/or philosophy of the project are, so you can tell why you might want to choose it over any other php framework.
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> I think "messages without a recipient" have been around for quite a while, and we call them broadcast messages.

Yeah or any number of pubsub, queue based messaging systems. What twitter has is millions of users all in one place with low barrier to get started and easy access via mobile, web, and API. It has its warts, but so do many popular things (TCP/IP for example), the thing that matters about it is that it is deployed and used heavily and in people's consciousness.
Well, SSH was controlled by a single company at first...

But maybe calling Twitter a "internet protocol" is a bit of a stretch, even in purely technological terms? Human communication protocol, maybe...

just to paraphrase Stephen Colbert: "The protocol we didn't know we needed until we had it"?
Is it really that hard to delete a newsgroup posting?

Do you still have control of the from address of the posting?

I've deleted stuff from newsgroup archives before, had some hoops to just through, but it was possible.
Great. Keep in contact and drop me an email at my hn id on gmail. I will update you if something starts.
First we must define "friend". Its not "someone who's name I remember".
whats the domain name? I may be able to help
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Uh-huh. But you'd ldd it as you?
Best home computing device I own!

It's connected to my LCD TV and acts as my source of TV/movie, etc enjoyment, along with net surfing and conversing!
Yes, everything else is unchanged.
In other words, if you want to make more money as a teacher, make sure you're not posted somewhere where they really need good teachers; your best bet, for maximum student payoff for each extra hour of teacher effort, is a rich suburb.
On the other hand, if you are running air conditioning, you'll have to pay once to generate the heat (the computer), and pay again to extract the heat from the house (air conditioning).
The converse seems just as annoyingly true.
No business plan needed. All you need to know is roughly what you want to do.
[offtopic-ish] This is the first decent short summary of twitter that I fully get. I haven't "bought in to it" yet, due to my free time being fairly limited, and to me it doesn't seem to add much value compared to the time I think i need to spend to get the hang of it... maybe I'm just getting old...
If he's got a degree and a decent resume, look into TN-1 status as a "Computer Systems Analyst".

When doing this, however, you have to be very careful with the job description - the CBP manual specifically excludes programmers from the CSA definition. CSAs can do some programming as a part of their job, but that cannot be their principal function. If your cofounder has an engineering degree (and is a EIT), they may be able to get a TN-1 under the much-broader classification of "engineer".
I'm pretty sure this is technically possible. Eric and I both worked hard to get around Flash's often insane security stuff and make sure the bitmap of the video stream is available if you want it. So you should be able to just grab the bitmap periodically, do some computation on it, and then overlay whatever you want in a Flash layer that sits on top of our video layer.

I think jtv augmented reality apps would be great!
Back in the days when WORM (Write Once, Read Many) drives were a big deal, we sketched out a similar concept and called it a WORN (Write Once, Read Never).

We should have built the thing. It would have been a useful device for storing all those extra bits.
In principle it should be practical to compare the productivity of different software methodologies by counting Function Points (or something similar) as well as defects.
http://www.ifpug.org/
But in practice that doesn't work very well. It's awkward to count Function Points for maintenance and refactoring work in a meaningful way. And for most organizations, the cost of just gathering the data and doing the counting is so high as to outweigh any possible benefit.
What about all the evidence saying that when you pay teachers for students performance, students learn less?
We would be very interested in a startup that let bands make extra money by streaming their shows.
Yes. Some are more webapp than others. http://280slides.com/, http://basecamphq.com/ (not to my taste, but might be to yours), http://vimeo.com/, http://www.campaignmonitor.com/, http://www.checkoutapp.com/

The list is endless!
Yes I see your point better now.
I'd probably would have ldd'ed it till I found out how it worked from the article, now I won't anymore.

However given that I would know exactly who the user was - any damage that was intentional by them would have consequences for them.
An artist becomes another victim of copyright bullying.
My figures include taxes and average amortization of any fixed costs. That said, UK energy prices do seem to be lower than in central Europe; I'm not sure why.
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Ask HN: How do you market your web app?
I often see people building a web app with the assumption that if they build something cool, people will come. This is rarely the case.

How do you market your web app? Engage bloggers? Use a PR firm? Advertise online? Buy traffic through SEM?
What kind of calculation is that? Pulling numbers out of the air?
It is not unreasonable to expect CPU be maxed out while computer is switched on. If you don't use it why do you keep it on anyway?

It was a big disappointment for me to find out that my new Unibody MacBook Pro whines like a rack server even with a slight load of way below 100% on one core. Meanwhile my old MBP was barely noticeable with 100% on one core until the fans got a bit worn out.
FUD-ing indeed. I agree. That comment is almost something I'd expect more readily from Apple than Microsoft these days, given how Apple manages the iPhone/iTunes platform (disclosure, I have an iPhone and can't remember life as worth living before it).

What I find fascinating about the carriers clamouring to move to Android is that, yes, they're avoiding licensing fees and the cost of building their own solutions . . . but at the cost of basically eliminating all other mobile revenues other than bandwidth.

This revenue destruction will be at the hands of Google themselves and via the open nature of the Android marketplace. Google Voice kills SMS revenues today. It's free. I expect Voice to eventually include Skype-like functionality, but if it doesn't, Skype will do. It's as close to free as it needs to be. No cost for Skype to Skype calls, and 2 cents a minute to most of planet earth's landlines.

Throw in all of Google's other services that are enabled out of the box on Android (read: almost all of them) and the carrier is out of the services business altogether and is nothing but a pipe. Which is what they should be.

It's almost as if the carriers are collectively waving the white flag here (can't compete on applications and services), and since actually makes sense it leaves me wondering what the hell I'm missing?
It looks like those details are buried here: http://rad-dev.org/lithium/wiki/about
I always wonder if MSFT FUD more than everyone else or if media just like to portray them like this.
"It will simply raise the bar for how you perceive quality."

Unless you have to return it three times before you receive one that has no extreme production flaws (happened to a friend with his iMac - mind you, he is still an Apple fan boy despite of that experience...).
Eh. I decided to read the post because of how outrageous the title seemed, but I can't say I really agree with the gist of what you're saying.

I don't really understand why you'd prefer to deploy over SCP, either. You know what's really trivial? "cap deploy"

As far as speed goes, I think of Ruby as some sort of investment, in that I believe Ruby's 2.0 era will surpass PHP, and perhaps come close to Python.
A regular expressions bug that turned out to be a beneficial mutation
as cliched and toadlike it may sound.. for me it was actually PG. And what scares me was that it was completely random. I was just googling for entrepreneurship (more specifically on how to be an ISV) and stumbled upon PG's essays. Man that was an eye-opener. Ive always wanted to be entrepreneur (atleast since I was 12) but I never did anything beyond coding and PG's essays kind of opened me to the bigger picture. I wish I found them when I was in my teens, but could have been worse!
Using PHP does not mean that it is turtles all the way down. Best tool for the job, i suppose.
You can read every tweet from a single machine. It's just a matter of getting acces to the steaming API.
and not to mention all the douche-bag pointy haired bosses who some how loved squashing innovation!
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The point is still a good one though. The market was fractured when they entered. It is still fractured & it doesn't seem to need Google to stay that way.
Your app machine pulls the new version from the source machine via scp, then changes a symlink. like a poor man's rsync --backup
So I'm still not sold on Mac Mini's as environmentally friendly desktops, as there are better solutions out there, namely my old laptop still beats the Mini in efficiency terms.

That and the lack of built-in UPS is why I never found Mac Mini a reasonable buy.
Oh come on...

Computers get more efficient all the time. My last power hungry desktop was replaced with a mobile ultra low voltage CPU notebook. Guess it paid for itself, too. But it wasn't from Apple, so I didn't make a fuss about it.

You know what, since you are so good at maths, I could sell you my old car for 10000 bucks. That way you would save 20000 bucks because you would not have to buy a more expensive car instead.
No it isn't. I tried to use my PowerPC Mini as a homeserver, but my gf complained about the constant noise, so I had to switch it off. The fan is spinning continuously.
When I was first learning Ruby on Rails as a proficient PHP programmer, the company I worked for landed a largish (for us at the time, given there were only two programmers in the place back then) contract for a web application. Since I was just learning Rails, and I needed to be highly productive on the project, I recommended that we use CakePHP so I could use my PHP skills. I figured my co-programmer, who loved Rails, would acquiesce due to the presence (at least) of an MVC framework, and I was right.

I've regretted that decision many times. Not all MVC frameworks are created equal, and I can say from painful experience that Rails is far superior to CakePHP. We got the job done, and I may have been right that I was more productive in PHP back then than I was in Ruby. But three years later, it is far more difficult to get things done on this web app than if it were built on Rails.

I'm not one to engage in language wars, and I still enjoy coding in PHP. But if you want a great framework, I'm still not sure you can beat Rails, and I really don't think there's anything in the PHP world that can.
This. Learning to use modern C++ techniques (RAII, shared_ptr, boost, ...) was especially eye-opening for me.
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Let's say you partner with a few pizza and taco delivery companies in San Fransisco. They record the traffic on the go, and the feed gets pushed to the website. It could be useful to have a snapshot of traffic before leaving home/office. I think it is easier to cut a deal with small shops, than big Fedex.

Forget traffic, what if we simply wanted a safer world, and decided to record what's happening in the streets while driving. This live feed can make the world such a better place.
I was wondering if the Mini 1TB with OS X Server is as usable and accessible to a new user as any standard OS X

Yes, but:

- Mini has 2.5" drives, so 1TB is not possible yet
- Why would you use OS X Server? There's nothing in it that you need
I don't have evidence - I'd need a study for that. It's just one guy's experience.

Ok, maybe PHP 5.3 has this now, but previously, the lack of anything lambda-ish made some refactorings just impossible. Even with Java you could make a functor that, while ugly to code, would be reasonably performant.

As your comment shows, PHP spent most of its life as a procedural language and it took a few versions to get objects right. And being not-strongly-typed, refactoring tools are necessarily incomplete or primitive. I just went Googling and it seems that many PHP devs think that refactoring is the same thing as applying a regular expression search and replace to their codebase. Compared to what's possible with Java plus IDEA or Eclipse, it's no wonder PHP devs hate to refactor.

Lastly: PHP encourages you NOT to separate presentation and logic. This is why big PHP sites tend to use some other templating language even on top of PHP. The barriers to refactoring when presentation and logic are commingled should be obvious.
You're right. It appears I'm mistaken. I assumed it was more of an issue of cleanup, but it's pretty obvious that running the TRIM utility in Win7 is useless for my Mac partition.

Nonetheless, the question in my post was more of the point. I wish Snow Leopard had TRIM support.
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Check out http://taweet.com -- May have some of the features you are looking for.
Pretty cool mockup... Have you been able to develop that idea? I like the idea and I would like to help developing a site like this.
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Otherwise known as CakePHP 3. Not a fork per se, but rather a parallel, next-genish project that was finally spun off into its own thing.
I've been trying to implement rubyisms in php for fun and got some pretty cool mixins functionality working. Requires php 5.3 though: http://github.com/huberry/phuby
I'm not sure what you mean by "drop" a file.

Small websites with low cohesion between pages can probably get away with scp or rsync and nothing else. For a more highly trafficked website, you'll hide server instances from the outside world as you update their files and configuration. But this still isn't rocket science.
NASA and the ability for a government program to be startup-like, as well as my impression that test pilots were selected only for bravado.

I'm reading Carrying The Fire, a book by the Gemini and Apollo astronaut Michael Collins. I was totally caught off-guard about how fast-paced, creative and generally entrepreneurial the early space program was. A common description of their working life was that people on a space mission put in insanely long hours because they were captivated by the long term vision and routinely made fun of other areas of the government where people were just punching the clock.

Even working with otherwise disagreeable folk was tolerated. Collins on learning that he'd have to work with John Young on Gemini 10:

"...besides, I would have flown by myself or with a kangaroo - I just wanted to fly. All that stuff about crew psychology compatibility is crap. Almost anyone can put up with almost anyone else for a clearly defined period of time in pursuit of a mutual object important to each."

Also, I thought test pilots were crazy people with a death wish, probably because of The Right Stuff. Turns out they practice a form of user-centered design and consider themselves as advocates for the end user (pilots in the field). It doesn't surprise me that the current field of HCI was born from the study of airplane cockpits. A joke in the book was about the true story of emergency instructions printed on the inside of a canopy - all the steps after the first one were completely unusable in the context of a real emergency because step #1 was to blast off the canopy.
Do we need this here? PG posted the announcement directly. What makes this better than a duplicate?
What if what is looked at is IMPROVEMENT?
Capstone projects and time management
I didn't know it was possible to be a long time Google Docs user.
The furor over creationism vs. evolution indicates that even if the ideas themselves are not well exposed to uneducated people, some of the basic building materials and one of the frameworks of the discussion is there.
Alfie Kohn cites a bunch of studies in Punished by Rewards.
Thanks for the link, it's a great read.
This is cool.

I've been trying to figure out Twitter for the last couple of years. Left to the defaults, using twitter.com as the "interface" it seems to be a giant attention-whoring spew of marketeers and SEO "experts".

To me (and I think I said this a long time ago in a post here) the potential as a global distributed message bus always seemed so much more powerful. It's kind of like IRC to the next level.

I'm going to have to think on this. I've been toying around with some Twitter-based thoughts relating to my home automation and video analytics hobby-projects.
The ram is laptop-sized. (Which also means, by the way, that Apple is not gouging you for the RAM nearly as much as they usually do. They're still gouging you, they're just taking out your eyes instead of half your head.)
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