skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid question, what's the legality or the "rules" on extracting pic + chunk of text from random websites?

Are there any rules I presume there must be?
My point is that "quirks" like these are in the eye (or fingertips) of the beholder. Surely, someone using a system for years will find a new system awkward to use.

To play devil's advocate, I would choose a platform 3x the cost because (a) I'm used to features that Windows users call quirks, and (b) I receive > 3x the value from that system.

In my own case, I find that I like Windows 7 a little more than Mac OS X these days.
The key thing to remember is that Apple is the most evil company out there. And as we see, unfortunately, many of their evil plans have succeeded.
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Some things about WebOS are absolutely fantastic. My first smartphone was a Pre Plus when it came out on Verizon for like $40.

The software was pretty great. The multitasking was perfect, Synergy was awesome. It wasn't quite as polished in some areas as iOS, but some things were also drastically superior. Also the inductive charging was awesome as well.

I got an iPhone on Verizon when it came out, and I really miss the multitasking. But what I don't miss is the hardware.

My Pre was literally starting to fall apart. It was all cheap, flimsy plastic, not durable at all. The difference in build quality of the iPhone was astonishing. And dramatic noticeable speed improvement.

WebOS was crippled by its horrible hardware. The software was competitive, even the best at times, but the Pre was just terrible hardware. It didn't have very fast specs, and the phone itself wasn't durable or high quality.
You can't make good shit without having made bad shit first. Were you always the programmer you are now?
I don't know what your application does, but have you considered a plugin api?
Anyone who takes an objective look at iOS vs. Android vs. webOS will see that webOS is the technologically superior platform. The UI is fantastic and smooth and many of other current mobile platforms are starting to "borrow" from it. The playbook, android and even iOS to a certain extent. If HP markets the hardware and software correctly and they do a good job of attracting quality developers it will be a force.
This story is a waste of time. The entire premise of the "undermine Facebook's technology" strategy is false: the whole point of GPL (and MIT and...) licensed code is that vendors cannot screw customers in the way the author is suggesting. Worst case, Facebook would have to fork MySQL or PHP or whatever technology Google successfully "undermined."

If doing this were even possible, it would be a huge PR disaster for Google and a huge positive PR opportunity for Facebook. (Imagine them becoming the corporate sponsors for the actually-free forks of MySQL or PHP or whatever.)

This article is not worth the amount of time this comment has taken to write.
>Here is the important, and game-changing, point: in order to participate in the great wealth creation taking place in this and future technology cycles, you will have to be a founder, an early employee or a private investor. The so-called easy money will be earned before a company goes public. This is a radical shift from earlier technology cycles.

Things change when a company goes public; especially so for technology companies.

Prices fluctuate.

I bet many people and institutions will make money (and lose money) from these new companies going public, post IPO.
These are just ideas to sabotage a company and it would be too naive to think that these things won't backfire on Google if they every try anything like this.
Well, obviously you've been using horrible developers (you can find them in your home country too).

IIT's are not your average university. Digest this: 34% employees at Microsoft, 28% at IBM, 17% at Intel and 13% at Xerox are of Indian origin.

Gates warned US congress on H1B visas, "U.S. companies simply will not have the talent they need to innovate and compete," and all those Indian students receiving their education at U.S. universities will have to leave, to the detriment of US high tech companies
On what grounds was it banned?
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Not really, iOS Developers can compile & install the app on their & other (limited) devices.
+1. The article's argument is plain wrong.
Looks pretty nice:
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The original builds of Android for the G1 had a root terminal running in the background that used keyboard input even though it was invisible and not focused. This allowed you, eg, run telnetd and then connect from your PC to run commands as root, which included the ability to re-flash the bootloader and jailbreak the OS.
That's correct. We're using leveldb as the back-end for IndexedDB in Chrome.
As written the policy can be read as very far reaching, banning for example NASA from sending anyone to a scientific conference at which a Chinese national or employee of a Chinese company is also attending. it would also ban them from buying anything from a Chinese company other than ordering off-the-shelf parts.
That is the point of small languages, to be able to easily cut off the people speaking those languages from the rest of the world by deyning them information. Instead of investing money for access to these newspapers, the slovaks should invest time and better learn a bigger, globally used language, to reroute the paywall and to get more independent of local news suppliers.
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The more out-of-the-box your setup is, the more likely it'll work (modulo a few broken OS/browser combos listed in the ARIN wiki).

You might experience problems in environments where someone has been playing with IPv6 and left it half-broken (or, in my case, tried to be too smart and used DNS server on Cisco router ;)
The commercial software community that grew up around the Borland (now Embarcadero) Delphi development tool is a good language. This was a component-environment. Typically pay one price for the component and a higher price for the sources. Lots of commercial products that distributed source code.
Delphi itself distributes source to the entire framework.
Might be a good place to look at licenses.

http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
You need to know the current block chain in order to know that nobody is fooling your client.

In other words, you need to know the current block chain in order to be sure you really did just receive 100BTC from Website X, and that it wasn't just a trick.
> "This chart only shows correlation" is a useless comment to make unless accompanied by an analysis of the possible probabilistic models

Correlation implies causality until proven otherwise? Do you work for the government?

> Statisticians know that when they are observing correlations they don't have statistical evidence for causation.

Scientifically inspired voodoo is still voodoo. Say those with higher education have lower employment, you still don't know why. These people could be wealthier than the rest and have better opportunities in life REGARDLESS of their "education" (as one example). The macro-economist would then cite this data point is proof for needing more spending in higher-education, when in reality, this may not be the case.
Hi, I'm the original author. Thanks for your insights. I've been speaking to many engineers from the 60s/70s/80s and I really do believe the mentality has been in the making for a while now. Y2K was just a decade ago and engineering in India is surely older than that. And yes, herd mentality did play a huge part, as I said, since my seniors were doing it, I did it.
The "Apple said so" grounds.
> Who in their right mind would take user input and put it in an HTML attribute?

Hacker news for example :) HN allows you to enter a color code in your preferences, which is inserted as a bgcolor attribute on a html table.
If, as proponents of Western civilisation argue (and which I personally believe, FWIW), Western ideals of freedom are universal and every society will eventually want them, then by definition some Chinese studying in the West ill pick up some Western ideals.

If the West is wrong about our ideals being universal, then our society is no better than others anyway and it doesn't matter (in the long run for the overall good of humanity) if the Chinese conquer us.
The idea behind this approach is to simplify the maintenance of the copyright line and to encourage collective ownership of the code. I'm told that some open-source projects have conflicts about who's name appears in which files, but I've not experienced that first-hand.
I've developed a fairly well known (to the webos community) application. I had a top 10 app in Palm's million dollar contest. I've been on their print and web promotional tools and featured several times in their app catalog... yet I feel and felt that HP and Palm both have dropped the ball when it has come to developing for WebOS. They have terrible, poorly documented API's.

I think its all fine and dandy that they have semi-rewarded me with some free advertising, but as a developer, I really only care about writing a killer app and if there is no way to do certain things, or making me write a C++ browser extension just to properly cURL data, well its just not worth my time.

Being able to phonegap applications will help their count, but most developers know, those apps never feel purely native and the apps typically are extremely low powered, unintelligent apps.

I think that accounting for all that might be more of a recipe for disaster. Poor usability and a lack of strong apps, except for the occasional game (written in C++ as a browser plugin so they can opengl).
"Use of intermediate currency."
Mars doesn't tell nearly the whole story, but this sticks out in my mind as an interesting infographic, notably devoid of any "India" lines. http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2009/10/GoCGR.jpg
Comparison of the new versions of Readable and Readability, here:

http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/04/11/web-page-reformatting-se...

Hightlights:

The new Readability takes 6-12 seconds to reformat a page, vs. less than 2 seconds for both the new readable and the old Readability.

New Readability has more features, including Instapaper-like sharing for those who pay.

It is possible to use the old Readability, for those who prefer it.
FreeSWITCH has bounties too:

http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Bounty
I really like seeing people's thought process as they decide to switch something major, but if I were doing this same task, I think I would have tried more on speeding up the sql solution before scrapping the db.

There are several ways you can calculate a rank, and some (e.g. self join) are inherently slow. Maybe the problem is as simple as not having the right clustered index? Or maybe sql dbs can do more optimization if you tell them to use their rank function instead of selecting out a rownum? Postgres 8.4+, sql server 2005+, and Oracle all have rank functions (one of the 'window functions' in the SQL:2003 standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function_(SQL)#Window_fu... )
When did Zed Shaw write that? I can't see a date tag on the entry; He uses Fossil "these days", is that 2011 or 2006?
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I am from India . The reason why so many indian's are engineers is because its the easiest way to earn a decent living. In 4000 / 5000 euros you can tell a college graduate to work throught the year.

You guys will find it cheap , but its a decent salary in india. Thats the reason why IBM , Microsoft , Intel etc etc are hiring indian.
At a global level they are exploiting Indians, but according to the mindset of an average indian , they are providing jobs.
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If you would asked me a year ago, I would have thought webOS had no chance given its slow pace of development. Yet the rev one tablet offerings from Google and RIM are basically betas so HP has a good chance of catching up.

Likewise in the phone segment, the third place slot is far from wrapped up. MeeGo was DOA and Windows Phone 7 isn't exactly lighting the sales charts on fire.

Solid execution from HP over the next 6 months could really ignite the webOS platform.
Hi HN. I'm the original author, and I certainly didn't expect this to show up on HN. Ill be the first to admit I would've liked a little bit more time to research, and this is my first article for somebody else. I'm an aspiring writer and I'm new to the big bad world of long-form journalism; so treat me nice :) Comments about the ugly parts of the writeup are obviously welcome !
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HP will be shipping WebOS on all its laptops and desktops. They are the #1 computer maker. You do the math.
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What, that the Russians haven't innovated in aerospace?
It's the same model that Tokyo/Kyoto Cabinet uses. The difference is that Tokyo/Kyoto Tyrant is an available network interface :)
Here is an insightful take on this topic by Sridhar Vembu (Founder of Zoho an India based startup BTW)

http://blogs.zoho.com/general/why-it-happened-in-southern-in...

Although it focuses on only one region of India it provides more clues to answering "Why there are so many engineers in India?"
Great article in the NYT the other day about how these protectionist policies are going to prevent China from investing their massive cash reserves in US ventures: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/business/global/04yuan.htm....
I get different results from those sites. The first says that everything will be fine because my setup only does IPv4[1]. The second says everything will be fine because my setup fully implements IPv6[2].

This seems somehow strange.

1 - This web browser (at this location) looks safe. You'll just keep using IPv4.

2 - Congratulations! You appear to have both IPv4 and IPv6 internet working.
What's happening at Google I/O? (Word cloud visualization)
Created a word cloud based on tags from the Google I/O sessions. There's lots of Android, HTML5 and the sort.

Actual session list at http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions.html
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Can we please not have those made-up stats passed off as real ones? Those numbers were conjured up for a stupid email forward which has no citations. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main38.asp?filename=Op290308sin...
That's not a particularly useful statistic. How much of that 42% is kids 16-18 in high-school, people in college 18-22, people in grad school 22-25, the retired?

In 2006, ~30 million people were enrolled in the final two years of HS, college, or graduate school: http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p20-559.pdf

Adjusted for demographic trends, that's probably higher now.

In 2009, about 12.9% of the population was over 65: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

Together that's roughly 70 million people who are mostly being counted in your "unemployed" figure that shouldn't be included.

That's not even including women who don't work. There is still a delta of ~13% b/w male and female labor force participation rates. They're 122 million women age 16 and over in the US. That's probably another ~10m who shouldn't be included in your unemployed figure.

The above estimates double-count: those enrolled in school who work, elderly who work, etc, but is much more realistic than your figure.
It all fits together now.

No it doesn't.

If what you claimed was true then why does India still continue to be the top outsource destination?

If cheap labour is the excuse then its the problem of capitalism, not India or Indian engineers.

The same goes to China and Chinese goods.
Several problems here. First, you picked the wrong Mac for comparison. You should have compared to the next one down in the MacBook Pro line. That better matches the Acer, except the Acer has a bigger disk. You can configure the Mac to match.

That drops the Mac to 1849. At that point, the Mac has the following hardware advantages over the Acer:

1. 2.0 GHz i7 vs. 1.73 GHz i7 processor.

2. 2.54 kg weight vs. 3.3 kg

3. 1440x900 display vs. 1366x768. (For another 100 euros, you can make the Apple 1680x1050).

4. Dual graphics with automatic switching. The Acer does have faster graphics and more graphics RAM. It should get about twice the frame rate on high settings in many games. The Mac will use a lot less power on graphics, though, especially when you are doing stuff that doesn't make heavy GPU use--like most of the time when programming.

5. The Mac will get significantly better battery life.

6. The Mac likely has a much better trackpad and keyboard, and overall better build quality. In my experience, most programmers care about these things, for the same reason other craftsmen care about tool quality. I don't like to type all day on a poor keyboard, or do my mouse manipulation with a poor trackpad.

EDIT: also, git is not slow on Mac. Terminals do not take 30 seconds to open. I suspect you are getting flagged and the submission was deleted because it contains so many things that are contrary to fact.
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NDAs are vital, I'm sure if they could avoid the process of creating one they would.
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I thought maybe some of you guys would appreciate this, or use it as inspiration! I bought my GF a domain for her birthday, but I wanted to make something special as well.. and, since I'm on a ramen startup budget, why not make the only thing I know how? A rails based website!!!!
It is durable from an OS perspective. I started typing in a long explanation, but I think the comment for the "sync" field in the options.h file captures things well:

struct WriteOptions {
// If true, the write will be flushed from the operating system
// buffer cache (by calling WritableFile::Sync()) before the write
// is considered complete. If this flag is true, writes will be
// slower.
//
// If this flag is false, and the machine crashes, some recent
// writes may be lost. Note that if it is just the process that
// crashes (i.e., the machine does not reboot), no writes will be
// lost even if sync==false.
//
// In other words, a DB write with sync==false has similar
// crash semantics as the "write()" system call. A DB write
// with sync==true has similar crash semantics to a "write()"
// system call followed by "fsync()".
//
// Default: false
bool sync;

We don't have much experience with scaling to larger databases yet. There are known problems which will cause a (smallish) constant factor slowdown in write performance after the database becomes a few (10?) GB in size, but I don't recall the details all that well, and the implementation has changed somewhat since that experiment. I would like to characterize this better and fix things so we can support somewhere between 100GB-1TB databases well. It just hasn't become a priority yet.

The benchmark numbers on the linked page were from a small million entry database that easily fits in the OS buffer cache.
Well, we're talking about copyright. And so long as you're not re-publishing anything, you're definitely fine.

Instapaper arguably is republishing, though the copies are private to each user. I suspect they could still be in trouble if sued, though.
Agreed, webOS suffers from some small-ish fit and finish problems, and much larger marketing and (lack of) application problems.

webOS 1.0 did do a lot of wacky/strange things that were annoying, though not bad enough for the phone to be useless. As well as the hardware problems, you'd get stuff like like the alarm going off a minute before it was supposed to (going by the phone's own time display). It would also repeatedly tell you every few minutes that it was unable to send an email message when no network was available.

They're reduced the number of annoyances in webOS 2.0, though, so I am hopeful for the Pre 3. (It also now has close to acceptable performance, instead of completely unacceptable performance.)

The marketing and app problems are much more difficult to solve; I'm not sure what they can do there. Throwing money at it, maybe...
Yes. Obviously that is false, but you still hear people say it.
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Slightly related and fashionable alternative:

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That is beautiful documentation.
Note that China's mention is with Russia in that info-graphic. And here is the wikipedia page of that mission which clearly states that Chinese Mars obiter will be sent with Fobos-Grunt. While I don't discredit China of that but its a different thing to launch a satellite as opposed to sending your satellite on vehicle launched by some other country. FYI:

India's 'independent' mars mission is not far - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisat...

India's moon mission was the first one to prove the presence of water on moon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1#Water_discovered_...
Did anyone else see the author's resume on this site? It appears that despite his extensive experience in making a auccessful career at a BigCo, he quit to build a Rails app and do his own startup.

That speaks volumes to me.
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Which is about 10% of all iDevices, so not particularly useless. (And, as others gave said, that doesn't even include the developers who can sign and install it for themselves, as well.)
> current mobile platforms are starting to "borrow" from it

The question is, will the other mobile platforms borrow from it fast enough to make it totally irrelevant.
interesting...I'll think about it but that looks like a shot in the dark, sometimes you hit something, most of the time not.
When I started, I was thinking about using JS both "for the lulz" and because I'm comfortable enough with it that it wouldn't be a hindrance, like LOLCODE or Befunge.

I went with python instead because I assumed I'd need to squeeze as much efficiency as possible out of my programs.

For this round, these fears were completely unwarranted. All of the problems, except the second, were trivially O(n). (#2 wasn't worth optimizing, but it was possible)

Does anyone have experience with the next round? Is speed still not really an issue?
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I would think the "looks like" covers that.