skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A question to those who are more experienced than me:

I know that crackers are a big problem in the case of 'consumer software' e.g. games, simple utilities. My assumption is that this is not a problem in case of software specifically created for small and medium-sized companies. So currently I think I will not build any copyright protection into the software I am creating right now. I assume that companies (at least in the 'developed countires') mostly play fair (-> behave according to the license of the software). Is my assumption right?
Agreed. Closing this issue with "Works for me."
The Shirtless Dancing Guy Theory of Leadership
Yeah, but without the limitations.

- Latest version of node installed (and ability to choose node version)

- You get an IP Address

- You can use websockets and persistent connections

- No 64 concurrent connection limit

- You can actually use NPM and dont have to vendor everything
"It targets people. It focuses on users. And Apple lets them decide how and where they’ll use its products."

I just about choked to death on my coffee.
along with avoiding caffeine(except some green tea)...i would include exercise, particularly cardiovascular activities such as running
I'd also suspect that another reason is that immigration from Britain was never really an issue anywhere at any point in the history, so there was no reason to limit travel rights of British persons. After all, it was always a modern, industrialized country with English-speaking population, and mostly white (which unfortunately mattered in less enlightened times, not even too long ago).
I agree. Maybe I should have been clearer on my views. ORMs are a great tool; the way they are used with the leaky abstraction is what I have a problem with.

Restricted to the model layer, they're entirely worth it and provide lots of help.
Living Self-Employed Online: The Manual They Forgot to Give You
I think that the main issue was that he didn't use a condom in those additional encounters, which resulted in the withdrawal of consent. One assumes that consent may be offered conditionally, such that consent is withdrawn automatically if the conditions are violated - therefore, one might say "I consent if you use a condom," and once he did not wear a condom the consent was withdrawn.

More pessimistically, in the US, at least, there is no requirement to communicate the withdrawal of consent - during an act, a partner may decide to withdraw consent, and it is withdrawn regardless of whether it is communicated or indicated in any way; combined with the issue of proving whether consent was given or not, this means that retroactively withdrawing consent is trivial. I am not familiar with Swedish law, but I doubt that it fixes these issues - preventing false negatives seems to generally be considered more important than preventing false positives, to most people.
We are trying to do this right now at Smartupz. Please check this out - http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/08/summary-of-key-elements-of-...
I think it depends on how expensive your software is, and who makes the 'decision'.

I've seen thousands of WinZip installs go unlicensed for years.

I doubt anybody pirates Oracle for business use though.
Hey, I've devised a simple rule for determining whether articles are completely vacuous! Just divide the number of times the author uses weasel words like "most" by the number of references cited:

(38 most) / (0 references) = ∞ vacuousness!
wow! great find.

I wrote my own svg image editor, but this is really slick - and the code is a lot cleaner than mine :)

One of the contributors also wrote canvg: http://code.google.com/p/canvg/

which implements the svg spec in canvas allowing SVG->Canvas->JPG/PNG
Sounds like a good hack (as long as you like to wake up early)

A bit off-topic, but... you dine at 5:30 or 6 p.m.? Over here (Uruguay) the earliest people dine is 7:30 p.m., and sometime between 8 and 10 p.m. is the usual.

You probably won't find many restaurants open for dinner at that time!

I've seen that in other countries, Austria for example, people have dinner much earlier, but it also gets dark earlier in winter. Sounds healthier as well. Do you keep coding after dinner?
Ask HN: kickstarter alternatives
Kickstarter is unavailable to me, being in Ireland rather than the US. Thus I've been weighing up some of their competition, and want to see if HN has any feedback on any of the folowing services. I've included some that are unavailable, just so people don't have to suggest them.

Any suggestions for sites I've missed very welcome.

profounder.com - first I came across.

* Same founder as kiva.org
* Not yet public, so not much to ask about. Anyone in their alpha/beta?

wepay.com -

* 50c/3.5% fees
* Unavailable internationally

gofundme.com -

* 5% transaction fee, matching kickstarter. Add on paypal fees - which seems to be the only way to pay out.
* Available internationally.
* Unsure how they handle investor management?

invested.in -

* Intl.
* Fees are not mentioned on the site, it seems
* Does not appear to be very widely used(activity).

indiegogo.com -

* 9% fees
* Intl
* Investor analytics
* 5% bonus for hitting your target
* Somewhat relevant to my planned startups area(music events)
* Appears most active

Personally I feel indiegogo.com is the best fit in terms of activity and management. I'm interested in hearing peoples experiences with any of these services.
The only explanation I can come up with for Denmark is that we used to do a lot of humanitarian stuff back before we went evil, so there are a lot of countries that likes us.
I recently started using Bluetile (http://www.bluetile.org/). It has all of the keyboard bindings, but there is also a dock that allows mouse control of major features. It's been a pretty easy transition for me because of this.
This bit I think is particularly interesting:

But there are limits to the benefits of music, and they probably kick in just when you could use the help the most. Unfortunately, science suggests that music’s impacts decline dramatically when you exercise at an intense level. A much-cited 2004 study of runners found that during hard runs at about 90 percent of their maximal oxygen uptake, a punishing pace, music was of no benefit, physiologically

Listening to music can get me pumped up for lifting weights, but it's a distraction when I'm actually doing it.
Sounds like an interesting study. I searched for it but didn't find anything. You don't happen to have a link?
These press articles (and maybe even the underlying Economic studies) are just nonsense. E.g., Ireland used to be the magic model for all of Europe with huge GDP growth, now they are completely broke. Same for the Baltic states to a lesser degree.

One year, it's all fairy dust and unicorns, the next year doom and gloom. Seen from some distance, this sounds a lot like people who have no clue at all making long term predictions based only on what they see right now.

Which again confirms my suspicion that Economy as a science at least on that level doesn't hold much water. The predictions might as well be random.
> Americans can work any kind of work week they want

My guess is that there are actually some herd effects at work there: it would be pretty difficult in many places to take a 1 month vacation if no one else does, even if the person in question negotiated away some of their pay for extra time off.
The more I read of Martin Odersky's writing the more I appreciate his wisdom and understated intelligence.

I had the same initial reaction to Scala that a lot of people do but once you start actually using it you soon realize that it really is a fairly simple language built on a handful of orthogonal concepts. For example, if you look at the method list of any of the collection classes it may seem extremely daunting but you soon realize that all the collection classes expose the same common interface and that beyond that there's a very logical hierarchy of subtypes with either different or increased functionality. Scala makes it easy to layer abstractions like this and to incur only the complexity you need to solve the problem at hand.

As you gain experience you will find yourself using the type system in more sophisticated ways to make more guarantees of the behavior and correctness of your code but Martin's stated goal in designing Scala was to build a language that could scale with the user and the application domain and I think he's succeeded.
I somewhat take issue with the re-wording, if only because I equate loyalty to so much more than 'sticking around'.

The statement, "bad employees don't quit" holds more water than "bad employees are more loyal." If they were more loyal, their loyalty would offset their badness, generally speaking. It's possible to have an imcompetent employee who tries really hard, but generally, the 'bad' employees are the ones who could do better, but who aren't loyal to the work, loyal to the customers, or loyal to a work ethic.

I don't know if that's what the other responder meant, but the rewording you put makes it slightly less accurate, though I definitely agree with the sentiment.
They had some problems of that nature, as an example in India starting in the 17th century and ending 1947. Other examples can be found readily :)
Like the author, I use the Awesome window manager. I think you have a perfectly valid perspective, but just want to speak for the other side.

The main benefit I get from Awesome is having 9 workspaces ("desktops"). I use my mod key (in my case CAPS but it can be Alt or anything) plus # to get to any workspace. I have web browser on one desktop, email on another, IM on another, terminals on another, programming on another, and it's really, really easy to switch around. This was a HUGE improvement for me over Windows (and even Gnome), just in terms of managing multiple windows/applications running at once.

Also nice to be able to get two windows to share the screen with a keystroke, if I need to look at two things at once. And in the same vein, tiling is really nice for IMs, because on the workspace for IMs, I can see all my chats at once. Normally for other tasks, like web browsing, I just switch into the tiling "mode" that doesn't tile (i.e. application is "maximixed").
I work for the federal government, and have worked for large corporations; While the bashing may not have been required, it's definitely appropriate in this scenario.
I remember when I first crossed German-French border without even a passport check. There was just a flag post. That was a great moment.

Anyway, I wonder how Switzerland would rate on this list!
Hello Darling Movie Reviews, Wallpapers, Trailers, Release Date
Hello Darling is an upcoming Bollywood movie produced by Ashok Ghai, starring Gul Panag, Isha Koppikar, Celina Jaitley, Divya Dutta abd Javed Jaffrey. Hello Darling movie set to release on 27th August 2010. ‘Hello Darling’ is a story of three smart beautiful talented girls (Gul Panaag, Eesha Koppikhar and Celina Jaitley) working in the fashion world of Mumbai where they have no way to the top but to outsmart the power of men on a personal as well as professional level. Javed Jaffery and Divya Dutta is playing a married couple in film.
The article tends to use more polarized language, but it's worth observing that it took tens/hundreds of thousands of years to build up that stark 80/40 percent success rates. At any time, the gender differences are a lot less stark, and of course, mean very little applied to specific people. Just because more men than women are CEOs of large corporations doesn't mean that a particular woman would be a poorer one than a particular man.
Microsoft integrates Activity streams in Windows Live and other services
I think if I ever tried to get Italian citizenship in addition to US, it might be to get a passport that would let me go some places more unobtrusively. Not that I'm much of a traveler though... so it's not high on my list.
I would look into startups. Many startups are willing to have a more engaging conversation with someone, and take into consideration 'non-traditional' work experience. By demonstrating what skills you do have in this area (and being willing to work for a little less than the going rate) -- you should be able to get involved in a high-tech venture.

This would give you resume experience, expose you to the new technologies you desire, and if you learn and grow with the startup, it would be a great environment to grow in responsibility quickly as they grow.
That sounds more like a test of trialware vs donationware, which I don't think is exactly the same as someone seeking out and using a cracked version.

I'm sure there are people who would buy a program if they couldn't find a cracked version, but...

1) It has to be enough lost sales to make it worth the effort of protecting the app rather than, say, adding features that would bring in new customers. And you also don't want to implement onerous DRM that would cost you sales.

2) If your app is at all popular, it will get cracked anyway. I'm pretty sure most of the people cracking software are doing so for fun, not profit. And they appreciate a challenge.
By the time Pepsi came along, "Cola" was already a generic term. The guy who invented "Cola" drinks failed to trademark the name (in connection to drinks, as opposed to plants).

He died in obscurity. Maybe if he'd sued Coke at its inception, he could have been as famous as Pemberton.
Ignorance is bliss.

I would rather have the chance of making it big (or fail) than have the government take most of it away with huge taxes and strict rules that make it really difficult to have a successful business.

"It includes things like life expectancy and education."

Life expectancy is low because of the vast amount of people that eat crappy food (and don't exercise) in the US. I don't think this is going to change any time soon (unless it's mandated by the government).

"Income inequality (Gini coefficient)"

This to me just means that in those other countries, the government is re-distributing wealth. People aren't earning more wealth. The government is taking wealth away from people by force and giving it to the rest.

The only thing I do agree with is our bad education system system. However, our higher education institutions are some of the best in the world.

I also wonder sometimes if the reason our "satisfaction of life" index is low is because of liberal democrats that want us to be more like Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.

Would you rather be happier or have less freedoms?

I also find it really funny because Sweden, Denmark, and Finland are not only very homogeneous, but very racist. It's very difficult to go against what is considered "normal" (IE: groupthink).
Yes... Motion pictures, for example, are 24hz-30hz, which is just enough to get rid of noticeable flicker, but still risks strobing during fast camera movements.
FUBAR is very casual (and probably inappropriate) acronym from the military that means what you are looking for.
Sprout Social Debuts Social Media Management Platform For Businesses
The proposed solution for cooling the Earth in the article is questionable at best. Furthermore, even if you lower global temperatures through stratosphere manipulation, there are many other scary unknowns in the field of climate change. Take ocean acidification for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

The ocean is a substantial sink for atmospheric CO2. Our best guess is that 1/3 of the CO2 we produced is absorbed by the ocean. As the ocean absorbs CO2, however, the pH of ocean water drops. Unfortunately, we don't know how this will affect all of the different species of marine life that live in the ocean, but early experiments show that shellfish in particular do not tolerate more acidic waters very well. Furthermore, there is reason to believe that the ocean's CO2 absorbing capabilities will decrease as the pH decreases, leaving us with even more CO2 in the atmosphere.

Basically, there are a whole lot of unknowns in the whole debate, many of which could have unpleasant (to say the least) consequences. Brushing the entire field of climate science aside and declaring that all of our problems can be solved by pumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere is wildly irresponsible.
There's a couple of things that surprise me.

First, all the countries in the Schengen treaty I think end up with the same score. Indeed France, Germany and Italy do. I would imagine many more do too (e.g. Spain). It seemed like it would have been a better label.

On the other hand I am surprised that Denmark got more.. .and it is kind of a counterexample to my first point. Isn't Denmark in the Schengen treaty too? Where else can they go than Germany/French/Italians can't?
It's almost impossible for someone with a decent job in Afghanistan (or a similar country) to get a tourist visa to the US or to Europe. The first problem is to afford the flight ticket. The second an more important problem is to get a tourist visa. They always assume you want to stay and work.
Thanks. My software is somewhere in-between: Both its price and its 'importance for the business' is somewhere between WinZip and Oracle.
Ask HN: Review my App: The Weather 2
Do you use a terminal multiplexer or something similar?

I only ask because my set up was exactly like what you just described. Once I buckled down and started using one, it negated the need for a lot of the tags I had with dwm.
"The newer MBPs have gotten the brightness just right, however."

That's because the sleep LED adjusts to the ambient brightness. Try this: watch that LED in a dark room, then turn on the lights, keeping your eye on it. You'll notice it gets quite a bit brighter in reaction to the light.
Singapore is not shown, but is near the top, (150 countries vs Denmark's 157) and deserves special mention as the only passport that's visa-free for both US and China.

http://www.henleyglobal.com/citizenship/visa-restrictions/
Since "facebook" is already a generic term for "a reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals' photographs and names," I don't see how they can make much of a strong branding claim (though I will certainly agree that "Facebook" is a more popular usage than "facebook").

I'd be hard-pressed to think of this as anything except poor planning when choosing the name. This is not really a case of brand dilution like Xerox, Scotch Tape, or Band-Aids. Guess you should have thought of that earlier, Zuck?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/facebook
I prefer David Thorne's take on the Macbook Pro.
Just a brief description (hit up the website for more/tons of screenshots):
This is an iPhone weather app that allows for a bunch of neat things like custom layout for pages (ie, see data where you want to), iOS 4 features (like background updating when your location changes), retina support, pinch to zoom radar, Weather Underground data, and a bunch of other things.
Navy Drone Wanders Into Restricted Airspace Around Washington
In my experience, medium to large organizations are usually mostly pretty good about licensing software.

Small companies with no dedicated IT staff? Not so much.
I wish we could go further than this. During the UK elections, I hated hearing the anti-immigration rhetoric from all sides. Where is the party offering more free movement of people?

We employ people from all corners of the globe here in the UK and hate the visa hurdles. We opened our US subsidiary in February and had to jump through all kinds of hurdles and pay lots of legal fees to set up a company that already employs 6 Americans.

I think if there was a way of limiting social benefits until you had proved you planned to contribute then unlimited economic migration would greatly help entrepreneurship.
They better keep Tim Cook and make sure his successor is ready to go.
It’s 24 days if and only if you work six days a week, 20 days if you work five days a week.

Depending on the state you are living in you also get between 9 and 13 holidays. Some of those will fall on weekends from time to time but six weeks (30 days) of paid vacation seem not all that unrealistic in a good year (i.e. many holidays not on weekends) if you live in Bavaria (that’s the state with the 13 holidays, eight of them not on weekends in 2010, ten in 2011, twelve in 2012 – some great years coming up ;-).
I'm reminded of a tidbit from an old AskTog[1] article:

"We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

* Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.

* The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding."

There are probably all sorts of caveats to this (and the research may have changed since then) but I'm reminded of it whenever I see people extolling the virtues of their ascetic, keyboard-centric dev environment. I'm not saying they're wrong, just that in lieu of benchmarks and studies, I'm skeptical.

[1] http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
And still failing to bring any argument.

I thought the article was really well written and had a number of good/interesting points. The fact that this guy saw the charade for what it was earlier than his partners but failed to find a sucker to buy his shares doesn't invalidate his point -- if anything, it strengthens it.
I don't think there's anything stopping Schengen countries negotiating better travel conditions for their citizens. It's the Visa situation for travelling to visit the entire Schengen area that's homogenised. Working visas etc. are yet another matter.
I'm on the other side of the A/B testing. Where's the evidence, if you don't mind hitting your back button and quoting some?
LOL - have heard that one before... not a bad match. I was hoping for one that might qualify in buzzword bingo like "irrecoverable declination." It would be nice to be able to capture the idea to encourage ongoing vigilance in quality (rather than simply "fixing it later").
Amen.

When are people going to get it through their heads that using the mouse is faster than the keyboard? This has been determined by Apple's UI research and known for some decades now.
I hope this is a carefully considered move because it implicates the opposite - if I sell videos on the internet, I have to pay them for every download of my movie if I use their codec.
I use both OS X and ion3 (depending on whether I'm using a Mac or a Linux box). Ion3 is a tiling WM and about as far removed from the OS X GUI as you can imagine. Nonetheless, my workflow in both is exactly the same: one large Vim window, one large terminal window. I never move the windows around once they're open, and I can switch between them using the keyboard. Once you've got an editor you're comfortable with, there doesn't seem to be much advantage to using a tiling window manager in terms of productivity.

Things like browsers are a separate issue, but if I'm switching to a browser I'm already distracted. :)
NYC developers: Funded startup looking for Tech Co-founder
My friends at Gtrot http://gtrot.com (in the social travel space) are looking to bring a technical co-founder/CTO on board. They are are willing to offer both equity and a reasonable salary.

I'd love to chat with you briefly if you're interested (this would not be an interview).

Please reach out to me at rcbednar@gmail and I'd be happy to put you in touch.
If they want to keep the template Jobs has established, they need a person who can drive products (both tech/design sides) and say no in a manner that leaves little doubt.
Another poster mentioned "tmux" in reply to this comment but they deleted their post before I could reply. I had not heard of tmux before. Apparently it's an alternative to "screen". I would have upvoted you for making me aware of it.

http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
Ask HN: "You are Submitting too fast"
Does anyone else get this message? It seems to last much more than a few minutes. It lasts for hours I think, but I am not entirely sure.

Also, the website is very slow, is that on purpose?
Yes, but there are plenty of organisms where the male is homogametic and the female is heterogametic and the behavioral trend is the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system