skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're attacking a straw man, too. The whole argument here is not whether the law and courts justifies the $600k judgment, that's a tautology, but whether that outcome is "just".

It's not a credible argument to argue that because the law is the law, it's right. For example:

"If a man strikes a pregnant woman, thereby causing her to miscarry and die, the assailant's daughter shall be put to death."

That's from the code of Hammurabi. According to your arguments, because the legal system of the time affirmed it, it must be right. I'd wager most people would assume you are clinically insane if you tried that argument.

Laws are attempts to codify what society thinks is right. But the attitudes of society shifts, and so do laws. This discussion is about whether society thinks the outcome of applying copyright law is just, not about whether those who interpret the law are doing so correctly.
http://www.whenisgood.net/
The page flow is too confusing I think it would be better as a fullscreen list narrowing search

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I would pay about 500 USD for having the XP interface on Windows 7.

And for what it's worth, XP has configurable systray settings. They are "Always show", "Always hide" and "Hide when inactive".

The biggest features I miss, in order, are:

(1) The XP start menu - I had it organized just perfectly for muscle memory. If I want to start apps by typing I can use the console, thanks. Start Menu Search is just fine, but I don't use it.

(2) Windows Explorer. I have my toolbar / menu / location bar in Explorer in XP tuned for maximum vertical space. The folder treeview in XP works correctly, unlike the buggy one in Win7. Here's a demo for you: open up Explorer with the treeview visible. Select a folder that has subfolders. Then expand the subfolders by clicking on the little nub next to it. Observe that the treeview scroll position jumps so that the expanded node's children are aligned to the bottom of the visible area. This drives me up the walls. Other things include the giant file drag icons, the all or nothing approach to thumbnails, the file locks held on Thumbs.db on folders across the network (prevents deletion from Explorer itself!), the weird listview selection semantics, the lack of a Favorites menu, the way the treeview disappears when the Control Panel is selected, the lack of a selectable Network Connections submenu / subfolder in the Control Panel shell namespace, etc. I could go on.

(3) User colour preferences are not respected. I like my sky blue window background, and in XP it is correctly used for the treeview and listview in Windows Explorer. Not in Win7 - no, it's glaring white everywhere. It's interesting to see how inconsistently the user preference for window background colour is applied. Lots of text areas sometimes show white, sometimes the user colour, depending on their focus state, the application, etc. There's no rhyme or reason to it. It scans like a shoddy joke.

I guess I should clarify one thing: the XP interface I use is not the Fisher Price one that it comes with out of the box, but rather the Win2000-alike one but that still has the XP start menu and other XP-level accoutrements .
"The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse."

Which may just be $StockPhotoOfDevEnvironment
This all boils down to one things: in a knowledge economy, women can earn more than they can in a brute-force-and-muscle economy.

There are two bell curves: income of men, and income of women. At one point, the men's income bellcurve was way to the right of the women's: it was a rare woman who earned more than ANY man. Thus, marriages of lower earning men to higher earning women were very rare.

Now, the women's bellcurve has moved to the right, so that it 85% overlaps men's.

There are a lot more possible pairings of men and women where the woman earns more.

This NYT article isn't really news - it's the inevitable outcome of the industrial and information revolutions.
I think you've got it backwards.

This feature supports ONLY MathML, and thus the only app that it's able to work with is Word. So it's Word (and only Word of popular apps, according to the OP) that has the MathML support.

So if they removed MathML, it would be nothing.
I agree with the gist of this, although grellas makes a great point about shooting yourself in the foot by looking for "big" CEO qualities too soon.

But I can't help but note the irony here, which is thick. You manage to beat out 100 of your peers and actually start a company. Then you manage to beat out the 20 other guys who started a company and make something that will grow. You fight tooth and nail 24/7 against all odds to make this happen.

So what do you get? Sacked by the very people that invested in you! The guys who are basically just getting lucky by hitting their 1-in-20 shot are now the experts on what it takes to scale and bub, you're not in the mix.

I'm not saying it's not the right choice sometimes, I'm saying that life really sucks bigtime if you go through all of that and then get the axe right as it's all going to happen.

The more I learn about startups the more I've come to realize that it's a fool's game. If you win you lose, if you get funding it's probably for the wrong reasons, and if you manage to listen to your inner voice and deliver a vision you're more likely to be called a fool than a genius.

Damn I love startups.
You can also "follow" an entire forum or sub forum and even specific people. You will get an as it happens email.

Would you like to try it out as Django's forums? We can of course bring in the mailing lists in as well.
Feel free to contact me at dhan@zohocorp.com - will be glad to assist you in anyway.
My son is fully bilingual in Afrikaans(sort of a Dutch Dialect) and English. When he was a toddler he would speak fluently to his grandmother in Afrikaans and would turn in the same conversation and seamlessly talk to me or his mother in English. He kept this ability right into about the middle years in Elementary School. After that this ability somehow diminished and he would throw English words into an Afrikaans conversation or vice versa. He is thirteen now and speaks both languages very fluently (but the switching between the two languages now is more conscious). At the toddler stage it was as if his brain was combining the two languages into one.

From my own personal experience I noted that, there is a point when you start to think - in the new language and that is the real turning point. It also appears sort of in computer languages as well.

When people from different linguistic cultures mix they tend to develop their own language for example fanagalo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanagalo].

This paper from the Center for Applied Linguistics has some good pointers http://www.cal.org/resources/Digest/digestglobal.html as regards to languages and education.
You overpaid for a $100k (!) drive box and want to keep it in your apartment on a $20 table? Methinks some requirements analysis got skipped.
Soon my friend. Very soon.

I was going to do an HN update around the 15th, but I decided to implement a Bayesian learning system in my app and had to tear the entire thing apart and rebuild it so I lost a week or so.
GroundWork and Nagios App for the iPhone
Well, I'm saying that it should be faster than sending out three or four simple emails, as in you are probably only scheduling with two or three other people. I'd like to literally go to the site and the first page says

"Your calendar is already created. Just share this URL with friends. doodle.com/98u89joij"

IE, on each new session, a unique id is associated with the session. If I initially input my own availability data, then it saves with the ID to the db. Otherwise, just don't worry about saving anything until someone visits that url and inputs some data to save.

Point being, I hoped the workflow would be "visit site. copy url", and you're done unless you want to do more.

Edit: for all the other links, being forced to register is sufficient for being too much work.
Summary of MIT's Linear Algebra, Lecture 5: Vector Spaces and Subspaces
Not bad, if you buy a few of their "Kablen" cable management clips. Should be in a big bin next to the furniture.
After 740k in funding, they end up doing yet another Twitter app? Lame.
hey, re: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064673 (which is dead and thus I cannot directly reply)

I asked and received a nice answer:

"Someone accidentally banned a site that you then submitted something from.
We have some new people with admin privileges, and they don't realize how easy it is to ban stuff accidentally."
I find this UI very confusing. I think some usability testing is in order. I used to go to the Recently Posted page and see a list of new songs. Then I'd take a look at song names and artist names and listen to a few. How do I do that now?
Sloppy evidence is far more damaging than no evidence. The fact that this author even brings up Gladwell caused me to stop reading. In light of Greenspun's argument that domestic pilots have orders of magnitude more experience, Gladwell's argument is worthless at best. But clearly, Gladwell's argument is worse than worthless, because now people are using it as anecdotal evidence in other realms. Even worse, the OP picked this anecdote because it is the same as his own hypothesis.
There is one other advantage, being able to read in another language opens up a literary world that is hidden and even a technical world which is difficult to extract with translations.
No problem. There is currently a link to your blog from the source page. Would you like me to change this link to your cheat sheet list? Or are you talking about a separate link?

In general, I try to avoid direct links to PDFs except when it is unavoidable or confusing for the user. If there were separate landing pages for each cheat sheet, I could remove the direct PDF link and link to those instead.
Let me explain this concept using an entirely unscientific graph

Then he includes a bell curve with confusion on both outlying sides.

After reading so many black and white posts, "This is the right way," "Do it this way or I will kill you," or "That's lame," it's refreshing hear, "Use your judgment and find the sweet spot." A bell curve is the perfect illustration.

Thank you, OP. This is advice that applies to alot more than just UI Design.
And that will probably mean that you cannot run software you wrote on a piece of hardware you own without paying somebody $200 a year for the privilege of a developer certificate. Oh how I hate Java ME. (Well, technically you can run anything on Java ME if you don't mind answering a security dialog every five seconds. Like every time your app tries to save a backup or changes to a new directory in a file selection dialog.)
Alternative Missions for Luke AFB & The  F-35 JSF
Luke Air Force Base mission alternatives, NONE. Air and Space Superiority, Global Attack, Rapid Global Mobility, Precision Engagement, Information Superiority and Agile Combat Support all have a home. This is from Lt General Regni clearing the air.
"So I'm afraid we'd have to choose one or the other"

We could terraform Mars and turn Deimos and Phobos into a nice ring. By the time we finish, I guess we will have fast and cheap interplanetary travel, so, you could live on Mars with rings and spend your weekend on Earth, with a nice moon.

And while we are at it, we could also terraform Venus, increase its rate of rotation, give it a magnetic field (we would have the same problem on Mars - read http://thelazysci-fiauthor.blogspot.com/2007/04/ding.html). We could use repeated impacts to increase the rotation and build a ring out of the ejecta at the same time.

Planetary sculpture will be a hot hobby in the coming million years...
Here's my hypothesis on outsourcing: the best people (no matter where they live) are hired locally, so if you aren't hiring locally, you're not hiring the best people. If you have prolonged experience with outsourcing, you'll notice that the better performers disappear after a while - they are being hired by someone local to them. On top of hiring the people who cannot otherwise find a good job, they might not speak your language well or at all, they are awake different hours of the day, and you are limited to communicating via telephone and webcam.

I find this idea of PDI particularly distasteful because (a) there is no hard evidence so far, and (b) it makes "us" look better. History shows that people believe a lot of dumb things when those things make them look morally superior.
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ah, thanks. for those (like me) that don't know what cdc is, it's "the more capable configuration" of JavaME - see http://java.sun.com/javame/technology/ and http://java.sun.com/javame/technology/cdc/
If those people were claiming that there were no mistakes anywhere in the high-profile AGW literature, then they should certainly be apologizing. (But then, anyone claiming that should have been apologizing anyway; everything has mistakes, near enough.)

If they were merely saying: there's a huge body of scientific work supporting AGW, and claims to the contrary are consistently found to be the result of error or dishonesty ... well, then, I don't see how this makes the slightest difference to that.
That does sound like a great idea, but it is a little beyond the scope of this site.
I like this. I built my own racks for my desk (mainly music, but computing too) and it was a good bit of work. Its nice to see something else so cheap work so well. Most companies that make furniture for 'rack gear' jack up the price just because it is for 'professional' use.
Simple Interface..

Some of the links to stanford seems to be broken..
It's called iPhone Wax! A Lua/Objective-C Bridge http://github.com/probablycorey/wax
Nice, clean & beautiful design, so the overview great :)

Already bookmarked!
Hi there Tim Church. Nice clean site.

It looks like this is a well-named niche bookmark browsing site. I looked for more detailed About, but could only find the rather terse text mentioned at the bottom of each page. Do you personally do the maintenance and curation?

I don't mind at all if you (Tim Church) do it, its just important to know whos opinion forms the content and how well any broken links or tech advances will be catered for.

Good work BTW, no matter who has the keys to Djangos Admin Interface!
"Peace will come to the world when the people have enough to eat."
Ugh, tables made entirely of particleboard and plastic. (See the materials list on the IKEA website.)

One of the many reasons to loathe IKEA.

(Their designs are pleasant enough, but their implemenations are horrible.)
Take this pill or it will call your doctor
Note that this claim was not in the "Summary for Policy Makers" nor the "Overall Synthesis Report", which is what the vast majority of people read (myself included, I haven't even tried to read the entire report).

Therefore very few people will ever have seen the claim until now.

I'm not trying to excuse the mistake, but its consequences may have been overstated.
"Each cheatsheet is manually reviewed to make sure that it is useful and relevant. "

And accurate? Do you have people experienced in all those languages?
If I remember correctly from a visit out there a couple of months ago, they top out at around 12 people on a team (as the other reply mentioned, they're internally referred to as "2-pizza" teams).
Yes, besides that one. It seems to completely barf on most PDFs especially multi column ones.

I don't recall the bookmarking working. And annoations and clippings are definately not there.
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So they expire soon? Could we use the patents as specs to build an open source one when they come of age?

Wait a minute, isn't this what cupcake CNC uses? Why haven't reprap been sued?
The IPCC reports are thousands of pages, so it's not surprising that there are errors. You can find errors in a large fraction of scientific papers if you look hard enough.

The relevant question is whether there are more errors in the papers that support the idea of global warming than those that don't. Just judging from what I've seen, the complete crackpot papers (like this one: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1161v4) are in the second category.
Au contraire - there may only be 5 movies to rent now, but the jkey difference is that you can check out the inventory without the trouble of having to go to the store. If you hear that one of those movies is awesome, wouldn't you consider watching it? Or what if next week there are 10, next month 20? Sooner or later you're going to see something you like.

I'm all in favor, since I'm in indie film production myself - I'd much rather sign up via Youtube and promote via the internet than spend ages chasing distributors for a very low budget project. Indeed, the film I'm working on right now might benefit from this. I've been waiting years for such an option.
Very clean UI. Like the collection of cheatsheets.
ImageShack (company behind yfrog) trying to trademark Twitpic name
Have you considered Evernote? You can input text or take photos. Then tag them all to keep it organized.
This is speculation, but: Google is paying some people actual money to work on Unladen Swallow. People who have made bold claims about the performance improvements, which, apparently, were not entirely justified.

I imagine that it would be politically desirable to show success by getting officially blessed, and it would also mean that the project wouldn't just stagnate if the people now working on it were told to do something else.

More optimistically, they acknowledge that more coders would be welcome, and hope that it's easier to find those after being included in the main repository. It would also give them an edge over PyPy, their sort-of-competitor.
Data.gov.uk - but where's the data?
OK, I don't know what versions of Word exist, thought the only one that still works is an older one.
CheddarGetter does not require a merchant account or gateway while kicking the tires or while you are in the development or testing phase. You will need a merchant account and gateway before you accept real money but the two processes can run concurrently.
The real question here is: Does anyone still believe that the IPCC is a legitimate scientific panel? They are a political action committee with an agenda. Whether or not their agenda is legitimate is not the point.

Good on them, however, for admitting the problem.
James and Sam, I commend you for experimenting, but I think you might want to revert this and seek more constructive feedback from your (very) passionate community.

http://www.facebook.com/thesixtyone?v=wall
I'm quite excited at the moment as I am doing a similar thing! I'm putting together the background necessary to leave my job at the end of March and work on my personal projects.

It's a great feeling to be making the leap!
It seems like climate scientists are more occupied with manipulating the data to suit them rather than reporting the facts.

Sample from some climate emails:
"Ammann/Wahl - try and change the Received date! Don't give those skeptics something to amuse themselves with."
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870477970457455...
Writing a Scheme interpreter from Scratch
Don't know the legal issues but I do know it'd make your connection very slow. Between encryption and sending every packet through Sweden, it would probably not be worth the extra privacy benefit.
It will take some magic for Apple to convince book publishers the Newton ][ is a better proposition than Amazon's.

No need. Apple could just run the upcoming OS X version of Kindle (perhaps virtualized) on their tablet. Amazon could respond by detecting this and disabling their software, but I doubt they'd do it.
And like all other things, practice, practice, practice. I also wanted to echo his thoughts in the comments: that there is a fine line between courageous and desparate as well as passionate and annoying. This is something that can be learned and honed like all skills if you're willing to put the time in (talent in certain areas doesn't hurt either).
Yes, I personally run the whole site from design to development to content. I am still in the process of adding features and more cheatsheets.
I would prefer a more formal way to ensure order. For instance, dedicated field for name, phone, email.

And the ability to cross-reference this information with linkedin and other entries

(e.g. all contacts I have in law firm X)
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"ehm.. with fake reviews"
I never did get to grips with the likes of NC or XTG. They always seemed to slow me down, kind of like they were designed for dummies. If I wanted to do some serious shifting of files, I was happy with DOS, if I wanted something visual, then Gem was there... Maybe I just started too late with PCs.
Oh I didn't realize my name was linked to my blog. That works for me!
They end up adding a feature that enhances their product's value and takes advantage of a fantastic distribution channel?

Natural, not lame.
TeXmacs keeps crashing for me! At least LaTeX and Word are stable.
The real answer is: Yes
Microsofts top lawyer demands a cloud computing law
That takes me back, I used to use NC on my 486 at university, great app in its day.
Perhaps. But the IPCC is sold (and mostly accepted) as a sort of bible of climate change science. The article you linked appears to me not to claim such broad authority, but to advocate skepticism.

It seems to me like items in the first category need to be held to a higher standard. Indeed, the scientific method itself tells us that those putting forward a theory (such as AGW) bear the burden of proof.
I think they forbid "generic readers" as apps.
The player doesn't let you change video size/quality, so you might be seeing the lower res versions.
Thanks for letting me know. It might be good to add a way to report broken links through the site.
We (Chinese) have already tried that for what, 2000 years.

The problem with Chinese authorities through out history is, you don't look for troubles, but troubles look for you.
Much of the trumpeting over AGW has been about "consensus among the scientific community", as if scientists get to vote to decide what's true.

We are now discovering that if there is, indeed, such a consensus, then it's partly due to derailing the literature (see Hadley) or selling to us media sources as if they were scientists doing real research.

I think they've got a lot to apologize for, and they now have a lot of work to try and prove their views to a world that has every reason to be critical.
This is all true, except for audio software (esp. plugins). Then the rule is to make it super-realistic.
"What languages would be of enough importance for, for instance, Americans, to make it obligatory education?"

My aunt forced her young children to learn conversational Spanish because she was convinced that "they're taking over." It was extremely misguided, but her children actually benefited from it, gaining both a language and some cultural understanding. How many misguided parents actually pull that off?

On a more general note, an internationalization of Americans probably won't occur until a few things happen:

1) The ridiculous taxes+fees on international plane tickets are lifted

2) It becomes en vogue to go to <country or Continent X> for vacation

3) Some famous people move to X and bring reality TV with them

or..

1) America enters a position where it is obviously no longer economically dominant BECAUSE of a lack of worldliness.

2) (1) becomes common knowledge

Until either of those scenarios occur, there's absolutely no reason for Americans to learn another language. Most Americans work and think locally. They're at least 500 miles away from another country, and they're not about to get any closer