skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as a sub comes into international waters the law applies. I see no reason why the interpretation of "conspiring" would be hindered by kit-form subs or sovereignty of the manufacturing location. If there was a thriving market for cargo submarines for non-covert haulage, maybe.

I suppose if the shipyard owners don't do too many subs, don't travel internationally, and the country doesn't extradite to the United States, then the shipyard owner would be relatively secure. You'd have to make a fair number or be otherwise interesting for a forcible extraction.
Until internet access is a basic right of citizenship, and all citizens know how to use it, it will never become the basis for major government interaction.

Luckily at least one country understands this...
It's not that hard to download ridiculous amount of ebooks from torrents. The hard stuff is to throw out all the ...for Dummies, ... in 24 hours, ...all the irrelevant thesis and articles, all the duplicates (and always throwing out the least convenient format, lowest quality) and to properly categorize or tag them.

But I have to say that this seems to be structured quite nicely. The thing is that for a collection like that you would really need domain experts in each field to look for the important books (even if they are in low quality). Here for example a quick glance at Bioinformatics tells me that Durbin's Biological sequence analysis and Xiang's Essential Bioinformatics is missing even though it can be found on torrents. They are relevant much more than the rest of the books
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I used to optimize algorithms in the boring classes and write programs that I wanted to better understand. Or learn other languages when I was bored. Dropping out because you are bored is a bad idea. I met other bored kids doing the same thing, we all got together and wrote code and learned new things and worked on other people's research that was interesting. Never thought about quitting.
There's an old book from 1980 called "The Book of Predictions" that I used to keep around for the same reasons.

The book is pretty much whack now, but it looks like others are in a similar boat:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/06/the-book-of-p...
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You're missing a third possibility: take the case to court and, lose.
In part, they gain headlights into deal flow at an extremely early stage.

I can vouch for the Hacker Angels' willingness to help just for the sake of it, though. I pinged them when their announcement first hit HN, and while I am sure they were deluged, and my business is "pre-traction", they still took the time to respond in detail to my questions. This type of advice is difficult to get, especially from angels themselves. It's a great service to the community, and personally I don't mind them extracting a little value of out it!
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I am embarrassed not to be able to decode what's going on here. The backstory and such, yes, I understand, but what's this about an e-mail receipt for headphones? Did Woot buy headphones and bill them to the AP? Is Woot saying that the AP has to go out and buy the headphones themselves, then prove that they've done so?

I know that it's a joke, and I (think I) get the major thrust of it, but I just can't seem to understand what's the actual suggested mechanism of the alternative payment scheme.
They paid with American Express, and eventually tried to dispute the charge with AmEx when Priceline wouldn't offer them a full refund.

If there's a credit card company that I would trust to get this right, it's AmEx.
The totality of the colour blue is the sum of all of the integrals from one meta-point to another meta-point, formed in to spherical husk that can be opened by neither being within or without.
Even though those words are all well-established with their meaning, they are nonsense when strung together.

That's true. And if you can find me a sentence from Derrida that is similarly nonsense, I'll tip my cap to you.

Honestly: it's not "designed to be unintelligible in order to conceal an absence of honest thought."
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Did you read the article?

They did offer to let us cancel the tickets for a $420 charge, meaning we'd still be out almost $1100. We thought this was unreasonable, so we disputed the charges through Amex, thinking they'd have more leverage than we would -- another mistake, as Priceline kept responding to Amex's inquiries with the same "they accepted our tickets" line. We found out that in the event of an Amex inquiry, Amex just forwards your documents to the vendor, and accepts their answer uncritically, even if the answer has nothing to do with the dispute. We tried to contact Priceline one more time to discuss our REAL complaints, but their answer now is "We'll only talk to you through Amex since you involved them."
> Of course it is.

No, it's not. I've lost my password before. I've been able to recover/change it, and reinstall my games.

> That not only those are not rights, they're definitely not steam-exclusive either.

Then you failed to make your second point.
> Will Python 2 ever end?

It will probably be around for a very long time. Some people are trapped by dependencies third-party libraries and others are trapped by mountains of existing scripts with scant tests.

The real question is when Python 3 will take-off and become dominant. We have at least a little evidence that the transition is happening, slowly but surely. At conferences, most attendees raise their hands saying that they have downloaded and tried Python 3. More and more third-party libraries are being converted. The newer Python books target Python 3. And, the python developer forums are showing a greater focus on working out some of the transition kinks.

IMO, Python 2.7 is wonderful on two fronts. It serves users who are stuck in 2.x land and it brings the two language variants closer together so that a transition becomes a smaller step.
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"Good question. Well, I just wanted to learn Erlang, and so this felt like a good way to get through all the details. Seems to be working — I am learning erlang!"

That's how the Mono project started :-)
No kidding. I once knew a programmer that had an off-by-one error in a loop. I thought he should be fired immediately. I mean, it's not so much that the error existed in the first place, it's that if he screws up details like that, how much confidence could we have in the rest of his code?
http://superuser.com/questions/52483/terminal-tips-and-trick... doesn't work for me; it seems I can hold ESC for arbitrarily long without evoking Terminal's interest. I'm using the Vi keymappings (set -o vi), so I guess that's no surprise; but is there a Vi equivalent?
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I suspect it matters very much what is on that screen. Music videos and action movies are practically designed for people with ADHD. Many video games are the same way.

On the other hand, there are some high quality documentaries and prerecorded college lecturers will not hav ethe issues you describe and as an avid (though very bad) GO player I personally feel that there is very little difference between playing on a screen and playing in front of a board.
Domain registration is really only the half of it. Having just gone through a product naming, I was stunned how many available or squatted domain names are trademarked. I would really encourage you to search for any existing trademarks before you contact the owner of the domain you like. It's not going to help you to get X.com only to find out later that X is trade-marked to a company in your space (or even a company in a different space but serving the same target customer as you) via a previously registered XGroup.com or GoX.com or whatever. As a rule, ideas float to the top at the same time so the likelihood of a competitor using some variation of ProjectName.com for a similar service is higher than you think...

In addition, I would vote emphatically against creative spelling. At a previous start-up, we got a short pronounceable dot com that was a fusion of two words but it caused us nothing but grief and (probably) lost word of mouth.
"however i am not using werkzeug anymore as i don't like the way people act in #pocoo on freenode. this is the only reason i am not using werkzeug. they are ignorant and i don't like it."

Would be nice to know if this is a general thing or if we did something in particular wrong. Because if that is what you remember of this channel we should really improve our behaviour then. So it would be nice if you could elaborate on that.
Ask HN: Is the online advertising really this small of a market?
I've been trying to build my understanding of the internet economy so I've been researching various economic angles. Online retailing, SaaS apps, content sites, etc. Then I came to online advertising. I just cannot believe how small of a market this is: $22B for the US market last year. This seems astronomically small. Warren Buffet is worth twice that much.

I'm starting to think that I'm too online. That I incorrectly assume there are way more people like me online and doing more than just YouTube watching, Facebook browsing and email.

It's also possible that I'm not truly visualizing just how much money 22 billion is, but I remember that the around ten years ago the Pentagon announced they had trouble tracking 2 trillion dollars, so I can't be too diluted.

Am I missing something?
The problem is that every person I know would say that high school is boring. This is why most of the drug dealers I know dropped out of high school... boring and can't make money sitting in class.

At the same time I found being able to read and knowing basic math useful, but that's just me.

I don't necessarily have a problem dropping out of high school for good reason. But the article didn't show these reasons. First he met these girls one time for lunch? Unless he was really grilling them I'm not sure how smart you can really tell someone is. As a professor I've met students that are conversationally brilliant (witty, charming, etc...), and not surprisingly, it resembled little how strong they seemed in the material.

I'd even consider home schooling first. Teenagers who simply drop out are a lot more likely to get into destructive behavior. If they need challenge, I'm sure there are plenty of people who can give them this challenge in a loosely-structured manner.
"Now name me some successful recent high-school dropouts."

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=successful+high+school+dropouts

Of people whose writing gets posted to this site on a regular basis, Philip Greenspun comes to mind.
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It has nothing to do with Terminal.app, but I consider the ease of making those symbols one of the nice things about text entry on a Mac—I miss it sorely on Ubuntu (where I'm sure the equivalent exists, but (1) I don't know it and (2) it likely requires memorising code points). You can see which keystrokes will produce which funny symbols by turning on Keyboard Viewer (under Input Menu, which itself can be turned on from the International tab under System Preferences.app; or there's probably some way to invoke it directly).
> His new album is his 27th release and may be distributed via Warner Brothers in the US – but there will be no downloads available in the world.

No legal downloads.
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Also I think it's relevant to show how much was spent on advertising. If all of that traffic came from paying $$$ to Reddit, then that needs to be taken into account, but if the majority of traffic is from real traction then very cool indeed.
Yes. "Does the act of prayer have beneficial psychological effects?" and "does God exist?" are two different questions, and I do not presume any dependence of the latter on the former.

Besides, I don't see how being dependent upon the results of an experiment has any bearing on the meaning of the question. The data collected in the experiment may be empirically valid, but the connection between the data and the question is inherently rational, not empirical, and you must already have a set of presumptive axioms in order to connect the concrete data to the abstract question.
We are looking for a PHP/Symfony developer in Munich:

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There's got to be a way to organize a distributed mirroring effort. Each person has a file list in a flat text file in a shared Dropbox folder, maybe?
The Feynmann Lectures on Computation. It's a scan of a library book but has come out really well.

A History of Algorithms too.. looks amazing, lots of diagrams, and shows how algorithms were derived in the past.
Of the python microframeworks I've seen this one looks the most appealing and polished.
For me, CSS3 transitions like background fades (.2-.3sec) killed sprites. They just don't work together.

Some zooming browsers also mess up sprites on the edges at certain zoom levels.
I agree that the piece is educational in some important ways. There are several criticisms he makes that are still valid, and we really should be taking this as a sign that we need to address these problems. But the part where I think "what an idiot" does reasonably come in is that he seems convinced that since the internet's problems were not already solved (and no solution was immediately obvious) that they never would be.

The easy example would be his dismissal of ebusiness. But more interestingly, he observes "Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data". It is just as true today that underneath it all, the internet is a mess of disjointed and almost entirely useless data. But that's no reason to think it's hopeless. It's just a problem, and one that we have made huge advancements in dealing with. E.g. PageRank. It's now trivial to find the date of the Battle of Trafalgar.

My point being: he addresses a lot of serious problems with the internet. Many of them remain serious problems today. But it's clear that in a big-picture kind of way, he really did miss the point. And that point is that problems get solved, often in clever and unforseen ways. We shouldn't write the piece off as silly, but we should take it as a lesson in shortsightedness and drawing the wrong conclusions.
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The huffman coding in gzip reduces this down to almost nothing, as the base64-encoded data only has 6 bits of entropy per byte, which negates the 1/3 increase in bytes.

In practice the difference is less than the HTTP protocol overhead for an extra request.

There are other reasons why you might not want to use data URLs, but this isn't a valid one.
and this is why customer service is king... especially when dealing with tech-savvy people.

I feel like that should be a question that the customer service reps should ask: "Do you know how to distribute poor customer service via the internet?"
most of internet content is a pile of bullshit

So are the most of published books, despite the editorial work put into them. And as the internet democratized publishing, it's just natural that there is more crap out there. I see that as a very positive sign of true freedom of expression.

social networking is not a human contact

This is rather silly point of view. Why isn't anybody discussing how talking in the phone "is not a human contact"
? People discuss, joke, argue, meet their future spouses, cuddle with their current spouses, all this and more in the internet. Of course that's not a substitute for kisses on a romantic dinner or for a good fist-fight at the bar, but that doesn't make communication over the internet any way less valuable.
John Searle, hardly an outsider, on Derrida

Ha! Searle is worse than an outsider--he's an outsider by choice.

Searle's misreadings of Derrida are laughable-- and then he has the balls to blame his sloppy reading on JD being obscure.

But don't take my word for it: read the essays in questions.

Derrida's "Signature Event Context" is a brief text, and not terribly difficult to read (if you have read Austin, as Searle has.)

Searle's reply, "Reiterating the Differences", is a disaster. Searle somehow got it in his head that Derrida was attacking Austin (which he was not), and wrote a "defense" of Austin that misreads Derrida atrociously. (Searle has since refused to allow his piece to be anthologized, so you have to hunt it down in the original publication. I have.)

Derrida rebutted with a piece called "Limited Inc a b c", which responds, patiently and at great length, to each of Searle's points. In fact, Derrida manages to quote every single sentence of Searle's piece within his own (which is not an accident, since the dispute is in large part about quotation and citationality in Austin.)

The two Derrida works, along with a precis of Searle's piece, and an interview on the subject, has been published as "Limited Inc", and is a great introduction to Derrida for those coming from the Anglo-American philosophical tradition.

Searle comes out of the debate looking foolish beyond belief, in my opinion.
Falcon (http://www.falconpl.org/) seems interesting too.
Unfortunately, the purpose of science "journalism" is to impress, not educate.
I downvoted it because, whether he's right or not, the comment and resulting discussion of uncooked food isn't worth 8 points.
how can I downvote that?
In that case, your argument isn't with Derrida or deconstruction, but with philosophy. That's a whole other discussion.
A lot of the Empire was created directly by commercial concerns (e.g. East India Company) and only taken over and managed directly by the state when things got out of hand (India's First War of Independence/Great Rebellion).
It sounds like there are some serious psychological problems at work here. From his description of his high school experience, it appears he was suffering from fairly serious depression. At least one of these girls is suffering from similar problems.

He appears to have grown out of his depression, though he's not clear on exactly how he turned things around. It's possible that a change of scenery would do the girls good, but we shouldn't assume that their psychological issues are entirely the result of their environment. When someone is suffering from depression, they are sick. If they move to some sort of alternate schooling arrangement, it should be under the supervision of a trained professional.
Woot's telling the AP that, if they buy the two-pack of headphones and send Woot the receipt, Woot will let the $17.50 citation charge slide.
To automatically assemble a huge sprite and emit the offsets is also easy.

Game engines has done this for almost 20 years.
Losing would "create precedent that fair use of online material in a news report is not a copyright violation," which is the whole crux of this joke. "Losing" the court case would force AP to change their (questionably legal) terms of use.
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If this is true, it says a lot about the chances Diaspora has. I think there is more traction there already, even before launch, than many failed social networks ever had.
He also has a Klein Bottle company, with an entertaining website:

http://www.kleinbottle.com/

And he gave a TED talk in 2006:

http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything.html
The other overhead you have to pay for every time: The data has to be base64 decoded before it can be used.

Compared to decompressing the PNG or JPEG data, decoding base64 is essentially free. It will therefore also not matter much at what stage it's cached.
The evil twin is the John Locke quote above. Anything that consists of spending more time on your internal jargon, codes and scaffolding than on the insights that they produce.

About 70% of the humanities papers I've ever attempted to read had a much lower insight:word ratio than the newspaper. The humanities aren't fundamentally technical in the way physics is - they're always making subjective judgments, and everything's up for interpretation. So just say it, then, don't give me a bunch of stupid .25 cent word padding. I have a good vocabulary, I know those words, and I'm not impressed. If your idea can't be distilled to a simpler formulation than most of the crazy crap I saw in my friends' reading when I was an undergrad, you're probably not saying much of import.

PS your excellent summary above was a case of good writing. You could have made the same point using 4X as much words and a bunch of crazy but still-technically-grammatical-therefore-smart sentence structures, and that would have been the evil twin. Usually, when someone resorts to the silly-season writing, it's a good indicator that they don't actually have a point.
Commonly when directories like this are shared on Reddit, people are encouraged to use the Coral cache to get a distributed caching effect. You just add .nyud.net:8080 after the hostname.

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It is also an interesting springboard to working directly with Werkzeug, around which Flask is a relatively thin wrapper. Werkzeug is a very featureful library with which one can rapidly create exactly the framework one needs for a given project. No magic, no ponies ;-)
I'm definitely in this camp: I quit a management-track job at a Fortune 50 a year and a half ago to teach business full-time. Finished a book (to be published December 30), have a full roster of consulting clients, an online course, and a few big licensing deals in the works.

I'm keeping the business small by design: I have absolutely no desire to manage/supervise the work of a large team - been there, done that, hated it. The maximum I'm willing to manage is a calling service and a part-time assistant, mostly to offload administrative work I'd rather not do.

I'd rather make a very good living and keep it simple (particularly with a child on the way) than spend my life compensating for the complexity that any huge operation inevitably has.
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Visiting woot.com might clarify things.

Woot's business (from their FAQ page: http://woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx) is about selling one item a day, at a really good price. The Sennheiser headphones are today's item... and in that space where they're calling out AP, they usually talk up the day's product. They work in the sales pitch later in the text, though it isn't included in the TechCrunch article.

So their alternative payment is buying their product instead of paying them directly. (But really, it's just a lead-in to the marketing pitch they usually have. I think. It's my first time there, too.)