skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look for a local firm that has an office overseas. Then, the local lawyer will be ultimately responsible for the work done there and you have recourse in case something goes wrong. Big law is pretty much fungible these days, there is really very little difference between one firm and another. If you have a contentious matter, it's a little bit different, but if you can you should try international arbitration rather than use the legal system of either country.
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Why does Google necessarily care of Apple drives the price of the iPhone down? As long as Android phones can remain popular with low price points it will be the same as the current desktop/laptop market. Apple prices their products into a 'premium' space targeted at customers with more money while everyone else competes on price. The high price of the iPhone doesn't necessarily prevent a commoditized smart phone market.

I guess the question becomes: Why does Apple think that it needs to 'own' the (smart) phone business to be successful? They've been able to remain popular and profitable while keeping their products as a premium brand. Why does the cellphone market need to be so much different?
For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature
It wasn't clear what was being compared until I tried to add an item and see that it is length. I would of assumed area based on the current design.
Not really? Apple seems perfectly happy to let Chinese slave children build their phones.
Interesting, Perl's come a long way since I picked it up in 2001 (and dropped it for Ruby in 2007), but it just doesn't feel organic to the language.

Sadly, things like Perl 5i http://github.com/schwern/perl5i, while awesome in the service they provide the Perl community, just make me wonder why one would even use a language that makes you go there.

Stumbling across a Perl script these days feels like finding an Awk script; it's nostalgic and interesting, but I generally just want to stay away.
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Something of a similar nature happened to me at a university a decade or so ago. My e-mail address somehow got stored on a server as the default reply-to address for the e-mail client in all the public labs. I ended up getting on every mailing list in the known universe.

They eventually fixed it, but then there was a crash, and they restored from a backup ....
Avoid running END blocks in perl
The free software community benefits from free software, not from people nitpicking on the mailing list. As the T-shirt says, "Shut the fuck up and write some code."
A great deal of wankers, rather.
It could be any number of things. I saw a documentary about a different type of jellyfish that is becoming a problem in East Asia due to a combination of over-fishing of predators and warmer waters which increases their reproduction yields.
I also think that the Apple TV could become much more than what it is right now. I actually don't have one because I can't yet justify the price to myself, but traditional cable is not the way I would like to enjoy TV and movies. Hulu and Netflix streaming (and a bit of movies from iTunes) is what I use and I wish the Apple TV was delivering that in a smart way (and without hacking).

I am really looking forward to the day Apple will stop calling the Apple TV a "hobby" and do something cool with it. The App Store (or an App Store) might be the way to go…

As for iTunes, as jkincaid said, the catalog is now DRM-free so it's not as much of a lock-in problem. But right now, there isn't much to move your music to. You can replace it with services like Pandora and Last.fm, but your music library would stay where it is. However the acquisition of Lala.com and the rumors around itunes.com (if they become true) have the potential to maintain Apple's control of the music part when it moves towards a completely streamed system. And in that domain, Apple's mindshare is already so huge that it would assure their success if they execute on time.
Grellas, have you seen many deals involving convertible notes with fixed or capped valuations? Care to comment on these? They don't, by definition, "kick the valuation question down the road".
It still is immortality. In a world with a large population we might think more about what makes us individuals as what we wish to preserve, but from a survival-of-the-species point of view, it is immortality.
The "conviction rate" at the federal level is basically a BS statistic because it includes plea bargains and federal prosecutors have a much greater degree of choice when it comes to pursuing prosecution compared to state and local prosecutors. Most of the convictions are drug an immigration cases (29% and 21% respectively in a recent example year) and if you were to look at the actual conviction rate of cases where the conviction comes from an actual court verdict the rate is much lower. An odd little factoid here is that for cases that go before a jury the conviction rate is in the low 80% range while bench trials before a judge have a conviction rate in the mid to high 50s.
What were the distinctive things about *Lisp? I've heard of it but don't know much.
You're right, that is confusing. I'll try to make it more clear that only one dimension is currently supported. Thanks for the feedback. :)

Out of curiosity, what item did you try to add?
There are a number of things that lead to cell mortality in multi-cellular organisms.
I would check out the Bang & Olufsen A8 earphones. They run about $160, but the sound quality is amazing and they will last you a lifetime.
I didn't add anything... just clicked on it to see what what you were collecting.
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Yeah, perl5i is a little much all at once. It feels like, "lets apply as many hacks to the language as possible all at once, for maximum blogability". Adding methods to every class? Random autoboxing? It's like I'm looking at Ruby ;)

But the real point of the article is about how flexible Perl is, and how it has all the stuff from your favorite of Python / Ruby, and also the CPAN. No other language seems to want to steal from Perl, because "it's Perl", but fortunately, we don't have that problem -- we already got over using Perl, and can enjoy the features for what they are, regardless of which religion invented them.

Now is a great time to be a Perl programmer, and it's sad that people dismiss it as "cool like an Awk script" instead of embrace it as "a tool that can save me time when I'm building complex applications". Sigh.
Eh... this sort of double-speak annoys me, please forgive me for nit-picking but nature's laws are never broken. By definition. It is some human model of nature's laws that is broken.
I interviewed for a company in Coeur d'Alene once. We went to lunch and everyone complained about how no one accepted apostrophes in the city name.
Yeah, my first thought as well. Was hoping they had ran some crazy experiments or something like that.
if you think of it as difficult and challenging it will be.

take the same emotion and interpret it as positive.

do you find your life exciting? do you feel you're growing and doing things no one else could?

try and read 'destructive emotions' by the dalai lama and daniel goleman.
They're making a mountain out of a molehill. Someone can just build a package or a distribution variant (a la Kubuntu or Xubuntu) that overrides what people perceive to be a problem and, bam, problem solved.

People didn't like the brown theme either, but just changed their theme once Ubuntu was installed. They can do the same with this.
Objective-J Explained: Toll-Free Bridges
It depends.
There are a group of people who dislike Java so whatever the arguments are, they will not see SC or Cappuccino better than GWT.

GWT has typical Java attributes/properties: lots of tools and libraries, growing communities, a bit verbose, some setups, a bit heavy (not performance, but from a developer perspective).
What do you want to compare?
"Nature's Laws" are constructs created by humans to describe nature. 'Nature' doesn't have laws, it is what it is.
That will not continue to be true for long. The future of media consumption (well, at least music consumption) is from streaming services, which don't make you deal with syncing.

Fair, but remember that iTunes strength isn't their sync ability to their associated devices, it is the already negotiated agreements with content providers who have agreed to distribute their content electronically.
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Reminded me "Reader" the movie. Even it's not reading as a living, it's still reading for something _interesting_.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051
Between this and Schroedinger's cat, is it that the universe is lazy-by-default evaluation, and eventually consistent (AP on the CAP axis)?
>Richard walked in, saluted, and said, "Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what's my assignment?" The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded.

> After a hurried private discussion ("I don't know, you hired him..."), we informed Richard that his assignment would be to advise on the application of parallel processing to scientific problems.

> "That sounds like a bunch of baloney," he said. "Give me something real to do."

> So we sent him out to buy some office supplies.

I love this bit. There's the aspect that everyone mentions, how Feynman is happy to do something as seemingly menial as get office supplies, despite his qualifications.

But the students' reaction is also fun to think about. Like if a regular working guy was given a million dollars, and his first reaction was "man, what am I going to do with this?" It takes him a while to realise what new opportunities he has.

And then I imagine that Feynman recognises this reaction in them, and enjoys watching it. It's a form of good-natured teasing.

I don't know if the actual thought processes were anything like this. But I like to think they were.
This is a silly semantics game.

Nature behaves a certain way. That "is what it is" is what we call "nature's laws."

I think you're confusing "nature's laws" with the "laws of physics." The field of physics is a human construct, whereas nature is not. But really, it all depends on what you consider the definition to be, so I will not debate this further, as we both should understand what we each mean by this point. (Hopefully.)
Are you serious? You have a problem with any sysadmin who runs Ubuntu for non-savvy users?
"All staff members are on one-year contracts."

Simple to say, profound implications for education.
Exactly!! There is no such thing as a cure all. Anybody angry over a technique that does not solve all problems is clearly suffering from the Silver Bullet Syndrome.
I'm really confused as to when the top/bottom item is replaced.
Experiments I imagined, before being sorely let down by the article:

* Paying kids to do school work

* Paying kids to create school work

* Paying kids to break up school work into easily solvable modules

* Paying kids to combine school work into more difficult modules

* Paying kids to run the school

* Paying kids to find holes in the school system
A good article on what happens when you let criminals control the soft drug market -- murders for no reason. If weed was legal, you can bet that nobody would be killing each other over territory; it would just be yet another thing you could buy at Starbucks or the corner convenience store.
> It's almost impossible to repeal things. The US still has a mohair subsidy from WWI.

This is what I don't get; why? I get that laws aren't repealed as often as they should be. My personal suspicion is that it's a lack of political will. I'm not from the US, I don't know that much about the political system. I imagined that repealing a law would be a matter of passing a bill, same as making one. Is this assumption wrong?
Look, nobody really cares that the window decorations are on the left. I have used X programs on a mac, and I have never closed the window instead of picking the "file" menu. This may happen once a year, about as often as a Windows user hits Alt-F4 instead of Alt-F2.
Building our application, we have moved through the various JS libraries, including JQuery, and now stick with YUI.

The overwhelming reason is we need guaranteed support for all the advanced features we want to build on. JQuery is a set of element actions/seclectors, but lacks plug-ins/widgets with the core library. JQuery has active developers all over the web building plug-ins that are amazing. But if we incorporate with the plug-ins and find a bug, we have to hope the plug-in project is still active and will receive support.

With YUI, we can use their supported widgets, file bugs and know we will receive attention from the YUI developers.

Also, note the author's choice of code is not always the simplest and could be better written.
Consulting (mostly management and strategy).
This is from 2005, and should be marked as such.
This is a decidedly time lord-like form of immortality.
I like this sentence because it suggests a guilt-by-association argument. However, you would have to be living under a rock to not notice that individual rights in the USA are gone, and they aren't coming back.
Nice. I just use bash on Windows instead.
Write stuff down! BAM, problem solved. (Seriously speaking, consider the sci-fi short story possibilities of an individual who had to reboot every 80 years or so, but who had had access to a computer and competent legal/investment advice for roughly the same timescale as the present-day Catholic Church has been in operation. Age 0 through 24 is essentially one long data dump, but he's gotten pretty good at constructing his curricula, given a few millenia to practice it. They call him Jerome the Eldest, he is richer than most nations, and he lives life depressed and alone, until one day...)
In humans, DNA Polymerase (the thing that replicates DNA) makes about 1 in 10,000 base pairing errors. After other enzymes "proof read"- the mistake count is 1 in 1 billion. Keep in mind, that there is a lot of "junk DNA." junk DNA is DNA that does nothing, but a lot of mistakes are made in the junk DNA and the introns (parts of the junk DNA that do nothing) are cut out and we only keep in exons.

Now I have another very important point to make. Errors in base pairing, also known as mutations- are usually very very good. Why? Because 1/3 of errors are bad, 1/3 do absolutely nothing, and 1/3 are good and provide benefits. That means 2/3 of the time- mutations do nothing or help the organism.

So, I guess I am saying I think you should expect a different result =p. Mutations are good!
Unpaid internships are illegal if all of the following conditions are not met:

1. If the training, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to training which would be given in a vocational school;

2. If the training is for the benefit of the trainee;

3. If the trainees do not displace regular employees, but work under close observation;

4. If the employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees and, on occasion, the employer’s operations are actually impeded;

5. If the trainees are not necessarily entitled to employment at the completion of the training period;

6. If the employer and the trainees understand that the trainees are not entitled to wages for the time spent in training.

From http://www.cohenandwolf.com/CM/EmploymentLaborPublications/E... . The specific provisions listed are derived from the 1947 SCOTUS case Walling v. Portland Terminal Co., http://supreme.justia.com/us/330/148/case.html .

Since the "interns" are to be "working on awesome solutions to help make Ubuntu an ever more compelling community to be a part of" it's pretty clear that the fourth provision above is not met: Ubuntu is deriving immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees.
The MIT seems like such a place to be for ambitious projects. Unfortunately I, like many others, attended a mediocre Canadian university because I didn't know any better. Questions for MIT alumni:

1. Is it still the mecca depicted in that kind of story?

2. Can you audit classes without being a MIT student, or do you need keycard access to even be on campus? Is it "culturally accepted"?

Incidentally, if anyone in Montreal is working on ambitious technical stuff, drop me a line.
ok first of all 100 is a LOT. that will take you 4 years if you really work hard at reading all of those.

second, why isn't 4 steps to the epiphany on there?
> you're truly writing web applications, which run entirely in the browser and only go to the server for data

I see this as a huge step backwards towards client/server. The web is a win because it's made of addressable, reusable semantic resources in open formats. Instead web apps ship data around in undocumented and unstable formats which are only understood by one ephemeral piece of code that you have to trust. If this really catches on it will wreck the web, leaving us only with the same pile of siloed apps we had in 1990 (but without the native code).
"nobody really cares that the window decorations are on the left"

... you're trolling, right? All of the ubuntu users I know disagree with these supposedly "superior" design decisions mac users cite. Guess what, a lot of people disagree. Sure, the people doing the work can do whatever they want and the linux crowd can go back to using other distros. Doesn't make it any less sad that they don't seem to care if or who uses their product (in the end they will).
I trust a qualified doctor to prescribe my medicine based on what he knows.

OK, if the author refers to Mr. Shuttleworth or the Ubuntu team, I should remind him that the actual doctors behind the new changes are Mr. Steve Jobs and his team. Copying from Apple and doing it right is difficult. We should give credits to Ubuntu team for doing this right.

The idea of free software in my opinion is not just going with GPL and other licenses. Free software communities used to have a free culture. That's what Ubuntu lacks.

But since what Ubuntu actually does is building a business, what's going on is totally ok. Maybe free culture is the barrier of building a good business with free software. So if Ubuntu is taking that path...

"OK Ubuntu, Good Luck with that".
Which is unfortunate on both accounts :-(
> I have used X programs on a mac, and I have never closed the window instead of picking the "file" menu.

Probably because Mac menu bar is on desktop and not within the window.
I believe that they do,and at very high rates but they get run over by cars much more frequently.

I think that neither really makes them less 'immortal' in the sense that this article means.

Though I can see the argument that errors in cell replication leading to cancerous growths could be counted as a form of natural life span limitation, I would be surprised if it didn't also happen to this jellyfish.
I'm not convinced. The melody sounds simple and repetitious, and the verses, mostly sung by tPain, are similar. The rest is just a fleshing out of these ideas, though, there is rythm and lyrics. I think you'll disagree with me, but I believe that's more because you disagree with me and the authors definitions of music than because I'm wrong.

Having said that, would you like to try to send me to some hip-hop I'll like. I've been looking, but when listening to music that has lyrics I have to listen to them, and I don't like these, or most rap for that matter. I've yet to find any particular artist I really like yet.

Jack White puts it well. On whether he does or does not particularly like hip-hop: "Not particularly. I find OutKast and Wu-Tang Clan interesting. But I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. I don't find much emotion in that."
That sounds similar to the C. taxifolia Algae threat. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/algae/chronology.html
The top item is always the larger of the items. Clicking on the 'Something bigger' button will replace it. Clicking on the smaller item (on the bottom) will cause it to become the top item.

The bottom item is always the smaller item, and clicking on the links on the right hand side (various smaller items) or on the 'Something smaller' button will cause that item to replace the bottom item.
But /how do they taste/?
The simplest way to get more organ donors is to make the system opt out instead of opt in.

People use the default choice most of the time since they believe it is default for a reason and don't think about it.
KumoFS: highly available, distributed key-value store
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Until one day, there is a fire and all his computers with memories are burned beyond repair. And that too on the day of a reboot...
Google Analytics problem - odd map of Florida
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Ignorance only benefits the powerful. The judicial system can and will keep jurors ignorant about this, while a defendants cannot claim "ignorance of the law" as a defense in their case.
Does it really matter? I changed it, but this is pretty obviously not a "current events" story.
* I am the Webring master of IEEE student branch of my college. (first freshman to do so).

* I am the webdev for the alumni committee of my college (the first freshman to do so).

* A turn to man for circuitry for the robotics club.

* Beat MTech Students in debates and Treasure Hunt in a recent techfest at our college.

OK nothing glamorous in there but Just wanted to add something.
I like the font and layout. It's very slick. I'm not really sure of the purpose but it kept my attention for a few minutes trying to figure it out. I'm not sure how China is equal to only 1.03 Great Walls of China
Ask HN: AdMob experience?
I recently submitted some apps to the Android market and am wondering about other folks' experience with AdMob.

Most of the ads I'm seeing are for ringtones, are there certain keywords that tend to do well?
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I agree with Jack White. Thanks for the quote. Still, as a very-non-hip-hop-fan, I have to admit: there may be nothing in it that I can appreciate besides rhythm, but that rhythm is often amazing. It's like Monet said about Manet: "Only an eye, but what an eye!"

(Actually, that's not true. The other aspect of hip-hop that I can appreciate is its linguistic sophistication. It's not exactly lyrical, though; it's more like verbal variation on the rhythm. So maybe it is the same thing after all.)
thanks for the writeup. It will help when I'm moving yui-flot to yui3
Thanks!
The site is more of an experiment in its early stages. I'm hoping we can add some features and make it even more interesting.
You are very correct about China vs. Great Walls of China. Right now we are just comparing length, which sometimes gives us seemingly strange results.
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Yeah, perl's bad reputation is undeserved in some ways. My definition of a bad language is one that _forces_ you to code in "bad" ways. There's very little that perl forces you to do. Insofar as it's bad, it's bad in a very different way to, say, VBScript.
Yes, you're told to kill unescorted police dogs, not by strangling them, as that would take too much strength, but by lifting them off the ground and shaking them until their neck breaks. I look over at the 85lb American Bulldog next to me and can't conceive of many people being able to pull that one off. (The preferable way, of course, being to drive a knife through the dog's braincase. (wtf?))