skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the difference with "counterfeiting" is that it suggests that you're intentionally misrepresenting the good as something it isn't. The underlying crime is when you trade such a good in bad faith (you sell a handbag to someone whom you allow to think it's from a famous designer, or you buy something in exchange for green pieces of paper which you pretend were issued by the US Mint).

By this definition, "brand-name" shrinkwrap software that you bought cheaply in SE Asia that has suspiciously poorly-reproduced covers and instructions might be counterfeit (because the purchaser might be misled into thinking they're getting an official edition), but most p2p piracy is not (because there's no discrepancy between what the recipient gets and what they think they're getting).
Not a fan of <span>s that I'm supposed to click. If it's a link, make it an <a>, please.
Is there a website or article that has templates for buttons like these? http://sale.threewords.me/images/offer.png
So perhaps it should be "In Spain, it's not your fault"?
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so many dudes just commented because they think they can get laid by commenting.lol disgusting. as a woman im disgusted.
Revealing the flood image from left to right probably would've worked better, too.
You know that's not what he's saying/implying right?
edit: Okay did a double take: What determines if it was the idea or execution?
All my reading history across various channels. I think I read news in Hacker News, Instapaper, twitter and Google Reader. I have on many occasions said "I just read this cool article, let me find it for you..." only to spend 20-30 minutes trying to find it with Google site: incantations.
I am hearing, but my wife is deaf (since birth), and she does fairly well with cochlear implants. Here are some comments I have as a connected outsider.

* Know your strengths and weaknesses. I see a lot of great ideas on this thread to help with communication in groups, with new people, etc. But the main point is to learn where your weaknesses are, and address them specifically. There is such great technology around today. Figure out what your specific problems are, and look for solutions. Sorenson video relay for calling, or the myriad of IM based ones. Google voice for voicemail transcription (not perfect, but usually very helpful, and better than it being unlistened to). Campfire or other IM's for project planning. Quick demos/demo video available on your smartphone or tablet (Picture/video worth 1k words right?) Technology should be your bread and butter, leverage it to help ease social pain points.

* Have a good co-founder. As PG states (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html) you should almost always have another co-founder. If this person is hearing, great, they can more easily integrate in different social situations. If not, GOTO 1 (but also have the other benefits that PG lists).

* Have a great product, and believe in it. A good MvP should tell a lot more about your skills and vision than anything else.

* Put yourself out there. The easiest way to fail is to not try at all. Investors are looking for good products and teams. Being deaf doesn't interfere with that at all.
Interesting there is no "outrage" yet in the media regarding this disaster. I was raised in New Orleans, LA, so I see these types of things differently. And on the surface, Brisbane looks eerily similar to NOLA.

Is this an event that could have been prevented or is this a 1000 year flood?
Awesome! It could use another pattern relating to the web video codec war.

(obresult: Watch How Intelligent Agents Capture Wild Giraffes)
All very true. A great follow-up would be an article discussing binding functions using Function.prototype.call or Function.prototype.apply.
I would say "test it" because more users usually means better chances of getting feedback on how to make the game better.

Other than that, I think the mental cost of having a paragraph explaining what the game is and having to click a "PLAY NOW" button is pretty low. Just make sure you explain it well.
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Endless pagination/Infinite scrolling is pretty much the definition of memory leak, no?
That's an interesting suggestion, but I'd like to see it the other way: Are there categories of CL posts that are a leading indicator of economic prosperity or downturn.

Something I only recently discovered is that there are actual business sales (ala "Salon with 6 Full Recline chairs and all equipment For Sale" business sales). You would think a category like that would definitely move in some direction with respect to the greater economy.
News Feed is the reason I open facebook so many times a day.
Games, apps and pages (some of them) kill the value of content in the news feed with stuff that I have no interst in.
for some reason there is no option to hide all posts from all games, apps, etc. I hide horoscope apps in my news feed but there are so many of them thats it is impossible to mute all of them.
so basically I do think games and apps killed Facebook's social graph, though if I was Facebook, I would not care at this point either as the valuation is going through the roof and userbase grows so fast.
Who would be the target of this outrage? I know nothing about Aussie politics, honest question.
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Australia was suffering severe drought for many years until 2010. There was always fear of brush fire getting out of control (similar to California's wild fires) and there were water restrictions in many cities. After persistent conditions like that, flooding was unthinkable.
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The finger-gun trick was the last trick I taught to my yellow lab (he was five or six at the time). It's awesome, because he looks at me like he can't believe I'm making him do it, then slowly (almost melodramatically) "dies".
excepting that the logic at the end of the article is justs as incendiary -- and just as flawed.
What are you going to do about your friend's loneliness?
This just looks like some sort of marketing propaganda to me.
I just think having a simple private auction without attracting the right parties to the table might not get you the maximum the site could get. Just my thought.

Obviously this is true, but it's arguably the quickest.

If Mark wants to flip it quickly to focus on other projects, getting drawn into a negotiation with commission-earning middlemen and lawyers who probably need to respect some formalized DD process, is probably counter-productive.
Source code and programming related searches are often problematic. For example, "-" is a search operator, and so is the word "and". Special characters are dropped by default. Also, specifying the language results must be in would be handy. There has been some work on this (koders.com) and you can work around it on google with quotes, but I'd say there's no killer appp yet.
Some query examples:

foo -bar (where bar is a command line option)

foo and bar

@username

session[:user]

"rails nested routes"

One particular problem is that google has an anti-youth bias, so very often, I get old doc or results for an error or tutorial unless I'm careful. For example, "rails nested routes" returns old rails 2 route info unless I add in "rails 3"
My first reaction was "is this because they drive on the left?"
This strategy may work in the short term but I can't imagine how it will be sustainable. As engineers continue to flock to the hot new thing, they will be leaving a pile of bugs in their wake. The article mentions that developers are responsible for fixing their own bugs but that just won't scale. Once a developer has been there for two or three years, their body of work will have grown so large that they will no longer have the capacity to perform maintenance whilst working on new features. Your example of bugs in fan pages is a problem that will only get worse.

Perhaps they just need to sustain this model long enough to get to an IPO.
Differences between this and Katrina:

1. The Australian media doesn't run on a 24-hour "outrage" cycle. We don't have any way to blame this on some targeted political figure (though certainly political figures have come in for some criticism). People will get blamed (particularly those who were in charge of the dam that was supposed to prevent this from happening again) but it'll happen slowly and in a controlled manner, not in a rapid flurry of 24-hour-news-station activity. We have a procedure for finger-pointing, and it's called a Royal Commission... we'll spend a year investigating and holding hearings and then eventually find the correct people at whom to tut-tut.

2. The death toll is relatively low. Very low in Brisbane itself (where the rise of the floodwaters was gentle) and a mere dozen or so in other parts of the state (where flash floods did occur). Sad and all that, but still on a relatively small scale.

3. No breakdown of order. Partly because a river flood is nothing like a hurricane (the city itself wasn't cut off, and if you're in an affected area you can walk five blocks to an unaffected area) and partly because of the different quality of people in the two cities.

4. New Orleans already had serious problems (poverty, race relations) which were only exacerbated. Brisbane was a pretty nice place, and it's still a pretty nice place (except for the parts which are now ruined).

In answer to your question, though, this isn't a once-in-1000-year flood... more a twice-a-century sort of flood... we had floods in the 1890s and again in 1974. The Wivenhoe Dam was constructed to prevent the 1974 flood from ever happening again. It didn't work, partly because the folks in charge of operating the dam didn't start releasing water until it was too late... which was itself partly because they've been worrying for most of the last decade about running out of water and forgot that too much water is also a problem.

There's a reason why the architectural style known as a "Queenslander" is a house on stilts though -- Queensland is not a stranger to floods.
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Nope, but realize: they have exactly whatever you (and people who talk about you) have given it. I'm constantly amazed that people are surprised to discover that "Facebook knows all these things about me!"
depends

shock jocks will blame the greens "for not letting us build more dams" or some other rubbish.

greens (like me) will blame poor planning for building cities and major infrastructure on known flood plains.
Not really - El Nino cycles followed by La Nina mean that drought followed by flood is a common theme along the East coast of Australia. One of the more patriotic pieces of poetry in Australia (My Country, Dorothea Mackellar) even refers the "droughts and flooding rains".

Australians also always have bushfire risk - it is just part and parcel of the native vegetation, and fire mitigation techniques only go so far (see the bad Canberra fires of 2003 or the disastrous Victorian fires in 2009).
> dogs don't understand the actual words, their brains are merely receiving a signal and performing an associated action

And that differs from understanding exactly how?
No, LCD screens work upside-down here, just like our drains are the "wrong" direction.

(Tip for the sarcasm impaired: that's a bad joke.)
I imagine the research about non-verbal communication in humans would be instructive here. A relatively small minority of our in-person communication actually comes from the spoken words. The rest comes from body language, tone, inflection, and so on.

I wonder how much of that a dog or similar animal picks up on regularly? Could it be that they actually pick up on the majority of our communicated meaning?

What's more, I wonder if we are we actually poorer communicators than animals, because they understand our messages better than we understand theirs?
I live in Brisbane (I'm fine). I helped with the clean up - cooking about 200 hot dogs last Saturday for the volunteers. The sight was absolutely unbelievable. Houses were gutted. Garbage furniture all over the streets, piles taller than me.

One thing I will never forget though. The smell.
Thanks duinote. Is it www.companyline.com or the blog.companyline you like? just curious...
Something is wrong. SEC review will happen no matter if the investors are US or not, hence it snot the real reason obviously.

Question what is the difference banking laws wise if its non US institutional investors compared to US institution investors? Remember GS is now bank holding company thus it might nor be SEC but bank holding laws influencing the change..

Or it may be that non-US investors balked at US media coverage and GS hopes to duck that coverage in the future..
Jobs' health issues aside, I think if he is able to he will definitely be back to Apple. Simple reason, he enjoys it too much. Perhaps it is true he has accomplished what he wanted to, but there is nothing in Jobs that makes me think he would be content to stop there.
In summary - The author has a feeling that Steve Jobs isn't going to return to Apple because he's been successful.

History tells me that Steve Jobs' past successes inspire him even more. I believe, if he can physically return to Apple, he will.
are there crocodiles in the water?
Spyro: Year of the Dragon used a similar technique to great avail. Don't be so quick to dismiss this method of deterring crackers. It just needs to be done right. There are arguments going both ways on this issue so it's simply not black and white. Perhaps it works better for games than applications, but again, you'll find arguments going both ways for games and apps alike.
the client business does not get 100% of the sale of each coupon.

Groupon takes a commission which varies but is reportedly around 50%.

So the client business gets 250-yen per coupon.
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I can't retype the whole thing here so I'm just going to give you a link to a post I made which makes the argument that Steve Jobs does enjoy it too much and that's exactly why he won't be back. See here: http://tomstechblog.com/post/Ie28099m-Not-Sure-Steve-Jobs-Is...
Math related search is generally not good. You can find theorems and definitions but proofs (non-famous ones) exercises are difficult to find.
Yeah, 200 hot dogs would leave a stench that time can't erase.

(But congrats for getting out there - you have the support of those of us in the other states.)
> It's a little unfair to compare it [MATLAB] to something that came much later.

You're certainly right that's it's not really a fair fight between the languages. WRT Octave, though, anyone for whom a MATLAB license is too expensive probably doesn't have the mountain of legacy code that would be required for me to justify staying with a technically and aesthetically less pleasant language.
I though the outrage for New Orleans was most about about the authorities response to the floods. In Brisbane the response is seen as being pretty good.

The last flood in 1974 was slightly worse and there have been worse ones in 1893 and 1841. So I guess you could say we are a bit prone to flooding. A damn was built in 1984 to mitigate the effects but it was close to full due to exceptional rain leading up to the main deluge. The damn still helped considerably and allowed them to block some water flow at high tide, but there is some suggestion that more proactive emptying earlier would have helped.
ASK HN: How do you notice Company Smell?
I think Company Smell is the direct cause of Code Smell.

Company smell is where no-one really cares about developing software, where the company allows ridiculous concerns to get in the way of good practices, where you won't learn anything from anyone. Companies with Company Smell can have good software, good interviews, even pass most of the Joel test, but you get inside and everything's slightly off.

One of the most obvious smells is when people think they're agile because they are cargo-culting some aspect... Features are on index cards, or they hold a standup once a week. It's an almost physical pain when you're in this situation and you know Agile can work, you have experience that it's better and people all around you are either dismissing it offhand or only pretending.

Obviously it's helpful to be able to detect company smell before starting at a company, but how do you develop that sense? What are some indicators during an interview that the company you're applying for smells, and how do you go about calming any fears?

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With the blackberry playbook announcement my thought was from Monkey Island - serious tablet? First you'll have to stop waving it around like a feather duster.
Fair Point.
Gestures, facial expressions, and vocal tone are all things she pays attention to.

Yes, but to be fair, that's common knowledge. Who hasn't run this experiment: tell a dog "you're so stupid and worthless!" in the happiest, most playful talking-to-a-dog tone of voice you can think of while scritching it behind the ears and see how it reacts?

The idea that a dog has a very good command of spoken vocabulary in addition to picking up nonverbal cues is what's new and interesting.
"Google Chrome already features this"

This works great for searching your Chrome history on the current computer. Throughout my day I use multiple browsers on at least 3 machines.

"HTML aware" is exactly what I'm looking for. I want to be able to limit my search only to links or headers or maybe even text within elements with class="content"
I mentioned this game in another comment on this page, but Spyro: Year of the Dragon used this technique and it worked very well for them. It could be that this is because it was on a console and not on the PC, but who knows. The goal for them was to simply keep the crackers at bay for as long as possible to keep the sales high during the initial release of the game. The developers stated that once the game is cracked the sales drop dramatically, so the longer they can keep the game uncracked the more money they made.

Great article from the developers about this:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3030/keeping_the_pirat...
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There is so much to do. No doubt next week-end I'm at it again. there is an unbelievable solidarity though.

You can also help, interstate, by donating money. They will need it.
The Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, is widely considered to have actually done quite well out of the election - has been seen to have reacted quickly, done her part, said the right things, etc.

There are a few scammers rightfully copping it, but it's been a pretty galvanising event in Australia.
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Are you using a really low end user agent to try to access the site? I don't know what's turned off for lower end browsers, but I just tested in desktop Webkit. There's a character count in the upper right of the tweet box. There are user icons, unless you clicked the "images off" link.

As for total DM count, that isn't really possible right now. The app is just another API client, and the DM API endpoint only provides the last 20 DMs.
I'm skeptical about this guy's argument. It leaves out one critical fact: Jobs' personality. He lives for his work. When he was kicked out of Apple (in the '80s) it was the most miserable time of his life. He doesn't want to be a VC or a playboy. He wants to feel like he's part of something really big.
And so begins the rash of articles and stories chasing eyeballs and pageviews and speculating about whether or not Steve will return to Apple...

If history is any sort of bellweather for this, he definitely will if he's at all able to. He loves Apple and he loves what he does.

There have been many moments these past few years where one could've said that Steve's "accomplished everything he ever wanted to accomplish."
The answer to the universe - God's a script-kiddie?
In some places there could be, further North. Probably not in Brisbane. Snakes might be more of an issue.
I think some breeds are, at least in terms of practical working intelligence. Though most of that might come down to temperament and obedience--is a beagle really stupider than a German Shepherd Dog because you can't teach him to sniff for drugs, or is he just too ADHD to care?
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The point is that it's already included unless you specifically exclude it. If we take "pull" as a volitional action rather than a passive allowance, then we don't need to "pull" any libraries.

I'm really just playing devil's advocate here (which is why I prefaced it with "To be fair…"). From the considerable amount of hate (rather than calm dismissal) the comment seemed to be getting, I felt that people weren't bothering to think it through. joshwa's response seemed to indicate that "#include <stdio.h>" was pulling in a library, which is at least as wrong.
All of my phone/voice conversations that I have ever conducted through my iPhone.
He is a genius 18 year old entrepreneur. He could come up with a way to make gold from dog shit and get press. The kid is wiz.
He'll be back if he can. I find it hard to believe that entrepreneurs have fixed goals.
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Node refers to an HTML element.

HTML element: <p id="fun">test</p>

JS to get a pointer to that element: var node = document.getElementById("fun");

node.id = "really_fun";

How that affects the HTML element: <p id="really_fun">test</p>
Sorry I'm late.
Translation: I'm not sorry I'm late. Did you park in my space?

I kid, I kid. I love VC's.
Apparently Typekit and Firefox were disagreeing about stack order. Should be fixed now, and yes, there’s some irony in it (but also, keep in mind that the page itself is part of the beta release, and thus, a beta version itself).
I agree. There are no good search options for power users that want to get very specific.
"But just like the hipster tribe themselves, what Hipster does is besides the point."

Really? It's probably going to matter one of these days ...
On the other hand, if you store it in the cookie you can't have multiple sessions running at once in different tabs. Session hijacking is only a concern if there's something worth stealing in the session, which isn't always the case. Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages.
Oh, please. What milarcky. People who are motivated by product do it for the kicks. This is love for Jobs, not money. If his health stays, he will be back. He doesn't know anything else.
Whatever you do, do the SICP exercises. You'll learn a lot (and discover that you don't really know things you thought you did).
I don't use Xubuntu; on Xubuntu a lot of other crap runs along with Xfce so it is not fair to compare it to just a system running Xfce and no extra dependencies that are there for added functionality they thought was needed.

Yes, compared to gnome XFCE on my 700 Mhz, 192 MB ram laptop starts extremely fast and is ready for use, along with Epiphany (browser) it is a stable little machine that boots faster than my Mac OS X laptop which I have for daily use, but it off course has more limitations, no having 5 pages of documentation open (PDF's, and HTML) and a chat client, couple of gvim's and compiling massive projects. But it works well enough for development with Python when I am on the road and don't want to have to worry about the US border patrol going through my laptop and files.

I'd love to replace that old laptop with another ultra-portable (old Toshiba Portege, thinest laptop of its time), but I don't have the money, so until that time Xfce does everything I need it, and more with a lot less bloat than KDE or Gnome.
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If a programmer were to take courses that require a lot of memorization, what is the best way to go about it?