skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the context really, 250k may have been a low-ball offer, without knowing what they offered pre-trademark I guess it's hard to say.

But yeah it depends exactly what was exchanged between the two parties, but even saying "our trademarks are going to make it difficult for you" could be considered as crossing the line, the UK has fairly stringent rules to prevent frivolous IP threats.
In the US, that is probably only true if Apple can demonstrate that the jailbreak caused the malfunction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson–Moss_Warranty_Act
No, I do not get your point. I was not even born in the 1970s.
corporate firewalls blocking nonstandard ports, you running other apps on those ports, your firewall throwing a wobbly, general nonstandardness.

if 80 is impractical, many people suggest running off 443 as that (the https port) is unlikely to be filtered.
The link to the Paleolithic diet made me think that one strategy against increasing addition is to normalize for evolutionary time. Still requires a lot of learned, subjective insight. But basically, anything that has proved itself via evolution is more sturdy and is worth congregating around (these include immediate things that affect the body, but also the evolution of societies, etc.).

Bravo on another great essay though. This made me smile:

You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.
Accept PGP-encrypted mail seamlessly and you won't need a privacy policy except for those who like throwing their lifelog at random strangers. Be sure to use PGP/MIME to include the old message in your mailing.

Of course, setting up PGP, let alone remembering the passphrase (gasp) is a lot to ask of the typical user who needs to use his mail client as a text editor.

Otherwise, it's a cute idea, really. Please excuse cynicism.
Robots are used for manufacturing. The US hasn't been doing a whole lot of manufacturing recently, so it has less use for robots.
The numbers are interesting, but I think mtype projects too much of their opinion on the data.

For instance, they describe the "elites" as "selfish elites". They also go on to say that
"the selfish are more likely than non-selfish elites to jump on the opportunity to take work and the web deeper into their lives. The unselfish are less likely to be single-mindedly ambitious and more likely to be attuned to the needs of their families and other private, offline pursuits. Also keep in mind that all of these personality correlations are independent. Perhaps simply the willingness to shell out hundreds of dollars for an unproven personal device correlates with selfishness"

Interestingly, their data shows that iPad owners listed "Greed" and "Pride" as their biggest sin to a much lesser extent than iPad critics. However, compared to critics, to a much greater extent, iPad owners listed "lust" and "overeating" as their biggest sin.

The mytype guys seem to think that the "lust" and "overeating" data confirm the "selfish" nature of elites, while conveniently ignoring the data on "greed".

Regardless, it is possible that X's greatest "sin" may be overeating and Y's greatest sin may be "Pride". Yet, if you compare X and Y on "overeating" alone, you may well find that Y overeats a lot more than X. The mytype guys don't seem to consider this scenario at all
The enormous irony here is that this is one of the rare cases that you could actually speed up using a non-comparison sort, like a counting-sort... except that this defies the point, because the first half of counting-sort is solving the problem we originally set out to solve.
Couldn't one just ask them to incorporate a company? I know this is generally better done later rather than sooner, but it is enough of a hassle that I think it would be a reasonable indicator of commitment.
It's interesting that Europe, with its (in-)famously stricter labor laws, has a higher robot ratio than the US. I would have thought that companies in the US would be able to fire workers much more easily to replace them with robots, and yet this doesn't appear to be the case.
I worry we may be heading for a future in which only a few people plot their own itinerary through no-land, while everyone else books a package tour.

That's been the case for the majority of human history. It's mostly the case now. Most non-religious, progressive thinking people, don't actually think through most issues for themselves. They believe in institutions - academia, NPR, etc. Most people believe what they do about nutrition for instance, not from reading studies themselves, but through accredited officials (PHD's) as interpreted by the NYTimes.
I need something that basically blogs for me.

Tumblr is pretty close to doing this, but the problem is its just context-free noise. It's echoes from a very, very noisy set of interactions that you perform. I had a Tumblr blog that harvested photos, blog posts, Twitter, last.fm etc etc. and it all meant absolutely nothing.

This isn't really blogging, it's journaling. Writing a diary is supposed to be therapeutic because you're writing down the things you dare not talk about with others (maybe not even your SO). It's not about what you do, it's about how you feel.

That's why I would like to see encryption mentioned somewhere, and pushed hard. I wrote one entry to see how it works, but I'm going to disable the notifications until I know that my personal outpourings are not actually being read by others.
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Even if they do encrypt it, they will have to be able to decrypt them server side to send you your month old posts. That means the owners are technically capable of also reading all of your posts.
Putting a single "use strict"; line at the top of a source file or function will turn on ECMAScript 5 strict mode for that scope, which will error on assigning a previously undeclared variable. I'm not sure if any browsers currently implement this though.
We'll be adding the ability to change when the email is sent, and it should be out by next week. Clever workaround though!

And thanks for the design compliment! We did it all in-house, so we really appreciate the kind words.
I wonder if update-in or merge-with would be more efficient.

Another thing to consider is if you want to get fancy
(persistent! (reduce #(update-in %1 [%2] (fnil inc 0)) (transient {}) "abcdaabccc"))

Still no REPL but this should work and take advantage of transients if you're doing it against a bigger dataset (which I assume you care about since you also worried about laziness)
I don't think you are supposed to question DHH or what his name is.
Only in US. Not representative for the iPhone users in other countries.
The weighting from this facebook poll is not based a bunch of well-developed knowledge but just guesses at what to do.

As mytype clarified:

we do weight the sample not based on guesses but on official data about the gender, age, and personality distribution in the US. We did not use geographic weights because our respondents were more or less properly distributed.

You criticized MyType for guessing while you guessed that they guessed. That's a big high on the hypocritical scale.
That's funny. It's actually more like a one-sided flame war. "PHP sucks and Python is awesome!" ;)
I use Python a lot for back-end processing but seldom for anything upfront. I tend to prefer PHP there. I was asked to write a book on Python last year and actually included a section on how to use PHP together with Python when doing web development. The two can live together quite nicely if you play their strengths and weaknesses off each other.
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Didn't quite get the Paleo diet reference: are you viewing it as a new (and thus suspicious) fad or as an old, safe and proven way of eating?
You could use a passphrase in the head of your email.

"Open sesame" or something equally corny.

However, you'd need an inversion of what is proposed here. Instead of emailing you an entry from the past then asking for your entry for today, it would need to ask for today's entry (plus passphrase), then reply back with an entry from the past instead.

I don't think the latter version is as compelling as the former, but encryption is sort of a must have.
I don't see this as "Apple loses big" at all. Nothing really has changed. Those who jailbreak their phone will continue to do so and Apple will continue not to support those phones.
No, otherwise everyone in the world can come in US with just a $800 in commitment (the price to open a company in US via web)
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no, that really does work, at least it seems so for me; I have it set to the default settings but if I'm working late and feeling tired I switch it off and enjoy the "brightness kick".

One of the greatest features of f.lux for me is that I actually start feeling more tired after it kicks in, so it really does encourage me to get to bed earlier.
I find that very logical - in countries where employees are expensive to hire and to let go, buying robots is a easy strategy to cut costs. Given that you have to train a new employee with uncertain success, getting a robot with a limited but constant output will seem a safer bet.
This confused me as well, seeing how it's both at the same time. :)

With regards to the diet itself though: works for me, so I'm happy with it.
Whenever I see comparisons like this they're usually written by someone who prefers one over the other rather than 'a logical comparison of features'. This is evident in language like 'schizophrenic tableau of function names'. I prefer Ruby/Python over PHP, the syntax and language features are a lot more predictable and sane in those languages than PHP. But I really think a drawn out comparison like this is beating a dead horse.
You can't really compare languages based on feature lists like this. On top of that, I glanced down the list, and noticed a couple of innacuracies, such as the unset() thing. So I can't recommend someone to take anything from this (and this from someone who hates PHP and likes Python).
I noticed the internet becoming especially addicting to me with the addition of HULU to the internet.

Before HULU it was very easy to keep myself from wasting the US average of 4.5hrs of TV watching a day. I just gave away my TV. During that period I had a lot more time to work, enjoy books, friends, the outdoors or other more enjoyable but less addicting activities.

Now however TV is a part of the internet and I have difficulty blocking it. I've tried editing hosts files, rescuetime, and even made my own app (8aweek YC W08). But I'm on a losing battle with this addiction so far.
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Yet another reason why Paul Graham is more leet than you
Thanks for this excellent essay. In my case, it describes a painfully current issue.

I am looking for strategies on how to deal with this addiction. How to start? Where to get help? Where to find the force to escape? How to convince myself that I want to change and WHY?
I don't even think it was one-sided. Most of Python's strengths had a "retort" afterwards explaining how that feature was in PHP 5. A good number of those even had 'counter-retorts'!
It's not hard to serve both regular http requests and web socket requests on the port 80 on the same host. Just use a special context path for web socket requests, for example /websocket/*

Some of the node.js websocket impls let you do this easily while others don't. Don't use the ones that require a separate port. Nobody behind a corporate firewall will be able to use your app if you do.
I think the answer is that you should post any work that you have done and want to share with potential customers.

If you are going to post work for hire, make it clear it was work for hire and done to a clients specifications. If you are going to post projects from class work, just make clear the purpoes of the project.

I also think it is a good idea to post projects you did for yourself to display your level of talent and creativity, espcially when you haven't done a lot of work for hire. Just always be honest about how and why you did the projects.

Check out this site for portfolio ideas: http://alexmeraz.com/
This made me remember that post from endlessvoid94. He has a site also related with marijuana consumers, who might be your target audience. Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1519535

BTW: I liked the clean design too. It kind of calls you to explore it.
If the current owner registered the domain before you launched the business then you cant possibly prove "bad faith" and he has no need to compete with your trademark to earn parking fees from people that mistakenly link to that URL instead of your own.

Have you approached the owner? If it's the domain I think it is then the current owner has a fairly large number of other which suggests he'll be quite happy to let it go if you make it financially worthwhile and quite happy to sit on it and earn parking income until then.
"heroin, and crack have in common is that they're all more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors."

Heroin and crack aren't more concentrated, they just get absorbed faster into the brain. For whatever reason the faster a substance gets absorbed the more likely you are to get addicted to it. For any given drug smoking it is the most likely to lead to addiction, followed by injection, snorting, sublingual, and eating in that order. Obviously this doesn't change your point at all, but I only mention it because it stands to reason that the addictiveness of other things works the same way. (For example, you might be able to keep HN equally useful but make it less addictive if there were a way to slow down the rate of gratification.)
Because we're not going to change the interface to make the internals faster. And we might as well spend the time that the RC is out there looking for bugs to make things faster as well.
The pons sends signals to the thalamus and to the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for most thought processes. It also sends signals to turn off motor neurons in the spinal cord, causing temporary paralysis and so preventing us from acting upon our dreams

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-90598/What-happens...

Something is affecting this part of your sleep cycle. I have dealt with this for years and finally found that if I go to sleep hungry my stomach signals short circuits the process and the brain never send the signals to my spinal cord to shut my muscles down.

The weird part is because the spin is sending signals back to the brain, the brain does not recognize anything you do as unusual so you can be screaming and not wake yourself up.

Generally the only thing that will wake you is someone asking you a logical question (like your dad did) which activates other parts of your brain and induces at least semi-consciousness.

I have woke up, sitting at stop lights in my car 5 miles from my home. It is a scary and dangerous disorder. Sleep walkers have a propensity to turn extremely violent when physically touched. A good portion of sleep walkers experience symptoms when under stress or agitation so generally your mental state while asleep is aggressive in nature.

There have been cases of sleep walkers attacking and killing people. This is a very serious condition. You need to tell everyone in the house to never touch you after they have seen you go to bed and to always address you before approaching you after seeing you go to bed. Even in the morning at a time when you would be waking up.

Tell them to speak softly and calmly to you and to always maintain at least 15 feet between you and them, while they ask you logical questions. They should ask you items like, what are you doing? where are we at? what is 5 + 5? why is that elephant standing on that zebra? They should go in that order, the more illogical ones will cause you mind to work harder to parse, but can cause aggravation if asked first? You are a real threat to yourself and others you need to find a sleep pathologist ASAP.
Incorporation can be done on-line for under $200. (I suspect that it can be done for under $50.) That's not much of a committment.
I installed the osx version of flux ages ago and never looked back, stunningly unintrusive.

Although waking up in the morning to find your beautiful late design is bright cyan is a bit of a shocker sometimes.
Just like PG's last article, there is an inherent irony in finding this on Hacker News.

PG is right though, the internet is addictive. The question of what to do about it is still left open, though. For now, I'm going to disconnect for a few hours. Hopefully when I get back on I'll have something productive to show for it.
It'd be nice to have some export feature. After few months, if I will use this, you are going to have quite a lot of entries from me, and all of them are important to me, I don't want to lose them, so I'd like to be able to easily make backups to my own computer.
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I agree with the main thrust of this essay, but there are nuances & counter-examples that make me more optimistic:
For example, a nuance: More people are giving up television, magazines & newspapers than ever before - perhaps we (as humans) have a finite need of/tolerance for distractions, and are satisfying this need/reaching this tolerance more efficiently via the internet now?
A counter-example (on the increase in 'hardness' of society's addictions): The Finns (and others) originally did not have practical access to alcohol, so they took locally available hallucinogens (and saw santa!). Then vodka, and later beer became affordable, so they now largely drink these instead - ie. the move is not inevitably one-way (see also various temperance movements). Also Hogarth chronicled Britain's descent into gin excess, but although this seemed overwhelming and permanent at the time, it was relatively brief.

In short: humans have always adapted better than predicted to change - so far.
well, regardless of other critiques, I think we can all agree that the snow level could have been something WAY COOLER than what it was. Levels 1 and 2 were so awesome that level 3 felt like a huge let down.
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Try Sonic.net - they seem to have the best value and reputation for pro connectivity to small business. http://sonic.net/solutions/business/connectivity/
I happen to follow a rather different, mostly vegan, diet: Fuhrman. It also works very well for me.

But I would like to educate myself about paleo, especially since it provides some compelling arguments while sounding yummy.
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Agreed. I've been trying to go towards a more whole food approach to eating and avoiding processed foods.

But what is PG's opinion here?
"(these include immediate things that affect the body, but also the evolution of societies, etc.)"

This is really much of the appeal of Christianity, and other forms of culture that have survived some test of time. I say this in response to pg's foot note:

"Unless we mass produce social customs. I suspect the recent resurgence of evangelical Christianity in the US is partly a reaction to drugs."

Not just drugs, but all the different things pg cites as addictive. Plugging in to older value systems is one way of putting a brake on those impulses. This, of course, is true of many other religious and cultural systems that have stood the test of time, not just Christianity.

I am also struck by how successful families and subcultures often have strong mechanisms in place to stigmatize these addictive impulses. Modelling self control and discipline has a lot to do with how success and prosperity is transferred across generations. By itself, accumulated cash will dissipate very quickly if the necessary character traits are not transferred along with it.
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The easiest thing I've found to get over the internet addiction is to have a critical amount of shit that is more mentally engaging around. I have a bunch of MIT lectures on my iPhone, and I have several highly interesting books around. I know those are usually more valuable to me than the blog du jour, so if I feel that I've spent too much time on reddit or whatever I just pick up the book, or go back to watching an algorithms course for awhile. Eventually the mind gets quieter and its easier to focus more on the task at hand. Also, use the internet for actions, rather than consumption. If you haven't produced at least one blog post or comment for every ten you've read, go comment somewhere or write a blog post. Produce based on what you consume, otherwise you're just piling up mental debt.
If one has to abstain from society's norms to live appropriately, then I imagine it'll be increasingly difficult to make a living for one that abstains, at least in any area based on technological change. E.g., Paul would have a harder time conducting an effective business (or even perhaps being as well informed as an investor) involved with iPhone Apps. Not to say one must make a living on the technological fringes (that become the societal norms), however, such a course is limiting for the abstainer, for better or worse.
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You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.

i've been surprised by just how true this statement is. i resolved to make some lifestyle changes this year to be healthier (without being overly zealous) and it's been amazing how reactions have made me feel like i'm behaving strangely. especially regarding alcohol at social events.
I'm the author of the post. Admittedly I got into some speculation in the post, and I tried to frame it as such, not as unequivocal facts "proven" by the data. The only thing that's solid is the data. There are a number of interpretations that can be made from it, mine is just one of them.

We labeled owners "selfish" because they scored low on measures of kindness (our official term is benevolence) and altruism. These are solid psychological measures. The "biggest sin" question is more just for fun and wasn't taken into account in summarizing the Owners and Critics.

There's a lot of data there, trying to paint a picture that is consistent with all of the data is pretty much impossible. I did my best to pull out the main theme from the data.
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The reason I posted this to HN is that it suggests two big things.

First, that Google is using the threat of search indexing to steal content for their own sites beyond what would seem fair use.

Second, that Google is preinstalling its own apps with Android which seems eerily similar to what MS did with Windows and IE.
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IMHO, the killing feature is not requiring Windows...

Seriously, I don't get why one must compare OpenGL, that is cross-platform and runs everything between small phones and visualization workstations to a 3D acceleration library that runs on only one OS and is heavily targeted at games.
I'm not sure whether you're particularly referring to media bias and dumbed-down science journalism, which is certainly an issue, but the general practice of 'trusting an expert' seems sound to me - the effort required to become an expert yourself in every field that affects you would be incredible, whilst trusting someone else who has that expert knowledge to translate into layman's terms for you is more efficient.

This is essentially just society optimizing itself through specification - just have 1 person become the nutrition expert and do all the tests and experimentation, and then they can share that knowledge with the rest. Whilst the nutritionist is busy, that leaves others free to invent fusion power and quantum computing.
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