skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm finding it hard to find fault with your argument. I think where our differences lie is that I don't believe its a moral imperative for someone to risk their livelihood to whistle-blow against something that is fundamentally someone else's responsibility. If the janitor at an investment bank overhears fraud being discussed, I don't believe the janitor has a moral responsibility to expose that fraud if it risks his own livelihood.

Similarly for a teacher who puts in a commendable effort to weed out cheaters only to be essentially punished for it by the administration. It's his job to make note of cheaters, but the responsibility for doling out consequences is a cooperative effort between the professor and the administration. If the administration isn't doing their job, and exposing this risks his own career and livelihood (for a professor publicly going against his administrations this might actually be the case), I don't think he has this responsibility.
Haven't all of your questions basically been answered in practice by the fact that keys are simple and effective when used to log in over ssh? Do you have a different private key per each server you log into, does a compromised server automatically render your keypair worthless, do you have software to handle keys now?

Haven't your arguments been refuted by the simple fact that people use keypairs every day to log into servers easily and securely? The last time I had to type an account's password was when I had to run "sudo" on a test server.
How does this compare to http://www.thredup.com/ ? Anybody know of any others in this space?
Well, we don't hand out rights to animals who aren't smart enough to understand them. The monkey was smart enough to use the camera, I dunno...
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Just in time for lab grown meat!
Apple is playing hardball, why isn't Google playing hardball back? Why not yank Google Maps and Youtube from the iPhone?
Unfortunately most Americans don't realize these quotas exist (or how they impact from different countries differently), and assume that all illegal immigrants simply refused to abide by America's laws. I would bet that illegal immigrants here for legal jobs would gladly follow a legal process if there was one.
For production apps, afaik that's always been a rule of thumb for any kind of db, be it rdbms, nosql, etc.
[I don't have kids] Nice idea, but I had to crunch the numbers. I'm not sure this service is cost effective. Take the 7 outfits plan at $49/month. Since you can only return these outfits at the end of 3 months that translates into $21/outfit over the 3 months. And if you make 3 returns within the 3 months, that effectively translates to $24.4/outfit. A brand new designer outfit from http://www.egg-baby.com/ will set you back by $40/outfit (probably lower, if you hunt for a good deal). So for gasp, 84 outfits a year, renting outfits through this service will set you back by $2049/year. Buying 84 new outfits will cost you $3360/year. So renting is cheaper by 39%. But, if OTOH, at the end of the year, you were to launder (Cost to you: $200; worst case) these outfits that you've bought and sell them on Ebay at 30% (worst case) of the cost, you'd net ~$800, bring down your total cost to $2560 for buying new clothes yourself.

Plum: 84 outfits. $2049/year
DIY: 84 outfits $40/outfit. $3360/year. Launder them at the end of the year. -$200. Sell them for $1000 on craigslist or Ebay. $2560/year.
Not so sure about rule #9. Maybe never play the game in a long time like 9 years may be better. It's like visiting a new country, if the experience is good, I would definitely like to go back and experience the old and the new variations of it.
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I guess how you'd accomplish it is pretty obvious, but the idea of linking phone numbers in text is not. There was no pressing need to do so at the time. Once a lot of text messages are happening and people start sending phone numbers and email addresses to each other, it becomes obvious.

Of course, I'm not sure the idea is patentable, only the implementation.
At which point does a critter stop being sentient? I could easily accept a proof (that I couldn't understand or verify without years of study) claiming that a chimpanzee is sentient; I doubt I could be convinced that a mouse is sentient; and the yeast on top of my fridge is certainly not sentient, unless it mutates into some sort of collective.
I don't know that it's quite as sinister as incentivising products to be actively anti-user friendly.

If you think about it, the only products that are typically supported via contract seem to be extremely sophisticated, large, or cornerstone products. Making such products OneTouch-EZ is likely a waste of everyone's time and resources, because you have to hamstring the product and spend a ton of development effort making it idiot-proof, when you could have just been making it better instead.
Script to Download all RubyConf 2010 videos
Script to download all RubyConf 2010 videos. Pretty useful.
Perhaps being creative in the teaching field would be the best way to combine all your skills and knowledge, and be the most rewarding to you. Sounds like you have a lot to offer!
At TechDirt <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110713/11244515079/can-we...; they argue that by default the photos are in the public domain. We don't want to fall into the trap of assuming everything must have some copyright owner.
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Playing with the settings, different species of trees come to mind... It would be really interesting to classify and group trees by these parameters.
Good question. But if you let that question stop you, then the terrorists have won.
And you're why I'll sometimes upvote factually wrong comments - because often, the reply to it corrects the mistakes and educates someone else. If the wrong comment were pushed to the bottom, nobody might see your reply.
My webhost has SSH access, it just doesn't give me root. It offers RoR through CPanel, which I just assumed would work, but I haven't tried using it so I don't really know.

But I take your point, a VPS is really the best thing. I just can't convince my husband to let me spend money on it and I'm unemployed :P.
Sorry to say my friend, but the Ruby and Rails community out teaches the competition. Hands down! It's that simple. But, more importantly the founder of Rails has deliciously swirly hair. Can Django top deliciously swirly hair? I didn't think so: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509808
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The fact it's not "just another game" is part of the point, really.
This is similar to Allify.com (full disclosure, I'm involved in Allify), AppCircle from Flurry.com and Applifier.com's new mobile offering. ChartBoost.com is closely related - it's for mostly closed cross-promotion.
design done dirt cheap – how to outsource graphic design jobs
If you want great design, at great prices, you can now outsource most design jobs, meaning that the graphic design process is now faster, more affordable, and more reliable than ever… great article on how and where to outsource graphic design.
Amazon tries taking California tax fight to the ballot box
Hey reasonattlm, I just read through your comment history and it looks like every single comment is about life extension. While I sorely hope that your optimism turns out to be warranted, I also hope that you're living and enjoying your life today, on the off-chance that it's not.
From Apple's patent filing:

Some portable devices use one or more accelerometers to automatically adjust the orientation of the information on the screen. In these devices, information is displayed on the display in a portrait view or a landscape view based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers. For these devices, the user may occasionally want to override the orientation displayed based on the accelerometer data. At present, such devices contain little, no, or confusing heuristics for ending the user override of the orientation displayed based on the accelerometer data.

Accordingly, there is a need for portable multifunction devices with more transparent and intuitive portrait-landscape rotation heuristics. Such interfaces increase the effectiveness, efficiency and user satisfaction with portable multifunction devices.

Sounds like Apple is fully admitting they were not the first to do this but their way of doing it is unique and better. It's more like they are patenting the user interface changing depending on orientation than the act of switching orientation itself?
Any more examples/ideas/etc?
That's nice. You'll be out the $1000, and with some likelihood you'll still be forced to help file a patent; the boilerplate IP clause in many (most?) California employment contracts requires patent support, as I found out the hard way 11 years ago.
Thanks for relating your situation. I hope I haven't come across as unreasonable. I don't think (nor have I advocated) that employees bear the full brunt of any transitional disruption. I just think that we often tell people to follow their dreams and quit their jobs without asking them to leave in an honorable way. And I define honorable as making reasonable efforts to minimize the disruption of losing a valuable employee, for example by giving more than two weeks notce. As @pasbesoin said, professionalism is to be expected on both sides of the relationship. In your situation it seems to be a worst case where your employer is using undue pressure and making the whole affair pretty one-sided (which sucks badly). In my opinion, you owe him the minimum your contract requires and no more. I'm not a lawyer, so the whole non-compete agreement is beyond where I feel like I can comment upon.

I think you and several posters have pointed out to me that not all employers are honorable nor care enough about their employees and thus it's not always possible to give them the consideration they might want. Fair enough. And it turns out to be harder to generalize than I thought it would be. Sorry, I can be naive.

For what it is worth, in my case, I didn't complain to the employee about the two weeks notice nor did I ask for anything beyond documenting procedures and critical code. We wished him well and sent him off to join a startup with a company-wide party. No strings attached.
I totally agree about teaching being everyone's responsibility. This idea has been lost in this country for some reason. Teachers have been saddled with more and more responsibility. Its no longer enough to teach the material, it has to be made exciting. The teacher is expected to coddle each student (and their parents!) to cajole them into putting in any real effort. Somehow the responsibility for a students success has been transferred completely to the teacher.

I think students in this country respond to this, and thus internalize this dynamic. If they get a bad grade, it must have been because the teacher was boring, or the subject wasn't interesting. This idea is pretty unique to this country from my understanding. The sense of entitlement is just astounding.

>isn't one of the teacher's primary jobs to assist in this success?

Ideally, this would be true. I just think its an unfair burden on a teacher to be expected to accomplish this, no matter how ill prepared or unfocused a student is. I believe the student has to come to class prepared to learn. The teacher cannot be expected to mold an unwilling child into a willing one.

The situation changes even more at university. The professor's main job isn't teacher. He can no longer be completely focused on helping each student succeed. He's there to impart his knowledge and experience. Its up to the student to get as much out of it as they're willing. Somehow the growing responsibility of teachers in a K-12 setting has crept up into university as well. Probably because the students and parents carry that expectation along with them. We're no longer seeing the students as adults who are there because they want to (I guess this is actually true these days with social pressures making college an extension of high school). Simply put, the burden is just too much for a teacher of possibly hundreds of students. The coddling and babying has to come from elsewhere.
Does it really make a difference to the quality of the patent?
of course not -- but the subject was Joe the Plumber. He certainly framed his question as one of self-interest rather than one of principle, so the question of misunderstanding ones self interest is applicable.

""I'm getting ready to buy a company that makes 250 to 280 thousand dollars a year. Your new tax plan's going to tax me more, isn't it?""

The answer to his question is A.) No, you're not buying that company. And B.) Yes, each dollar you made above 250K would be taxed at a 3% higher rate than normal, if you did. So $3,000 per $100,000.

Misunderstandings abound about economics. It does not mean all opinions flow from misunderstandings, but many are colored by them. Most people (regardless of their opinion on taxes and spending) do not realize that federal revenues as a percent of GDP are at 20 year lows. Which is not surprising, as taxes have been cut systematically over the years.

Yet people generally "feel" like the federal gov't is taking in more than ever as a percentage.
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>8-track tape has few (if any) aficionados, due to its self-destructive media and scarcity of quality playback devices.

Vinyl has a lot of aficionados though.
pylons is a glue framework. It allows you to replace whatever you want, easily and without losing other framework features.
Thanks for the great article Kirill...very well written & you articulated some complex thoughts, which are kind of relationship commonsense, but hard to articulate & internalize/implement :)

I had a q. about your comment above though.."In all honesty, that's probably because I once shared a HN link in email"

I am a HN n00b...is sharing HN links in emails forbidden ?
If so, what's the reason ?
You can achieve this insanely easily, too. Just register every immigrant that comes across and give them a temporary 2 year visa (conditional on the normal things like criminal record, documented connections to terrorist groups, war criminal status, and so forth). Over those two years, compare their tax returns to their use of services. After 2 years, either grant a permanent visa or let their visa expire and deport them. If they're either using services or paying taxes we'll have a way to find them, and if they're not doing either, they're obviously not causing any obvious problems.
IMHO downvotes are a weapon of last resort. I rarely downvote anything unless it's something I genuinely think adds nothing to the conversation on the thread(as an aside, I don't downvote dissenting opinions as long as they're presented intelligently), or is inflammatory.
What if the game was driven by a countdown clock? For example, you only have 60 minutes?
Ask HN: What email delivery service do you use? And how much do you pay for it?
I looked at mailchimp, sendgrid and amazon SES. Totally new to this email game.

Which one do you use? How much does it cost you (and the volume)? Any tips/suggestions?
Seconded - sounds right at the moment, given Bionic is MIA without any updates from Motorola.
While living longer certainly benefits the individual I don't think it's a sure thing that would benefit society as a whole. Certainly it's a debate that would have to go hand in hand with any major breakthroughs in the area.
I was thinking of building something like this recently to test my Django + background worker skills.

http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/ is one of better screen capture engines I found for OSX. Most are based on Webkit/QT and Xvfb for Unix support.
Romanticism is just that: a love for something because of what you believe it to be about: every nuance that makes an experience or thing what it is. Thus, romanticism is quite opinionated. To call it 'stupid' is a little harsh, but I won't rip you up about it like I wanted to (as someone who likes books).

To say books are an environmental detriment is incorrect; wood (paper) is one of the most renewable of resources, and when harvested responsibly (as is done in the US on the whole), it actually creates a net of more trees planted than would otherwise exist in our modern society.

Arguably, the plastics and battery chemicals of ebook readers is more damaging to our planet. Not that I think it's a particular concern.

To your last three paragraphs, I agree.
lol. I know, right, that's the "right" answer from the patron's point of view. From the waiter's view, it's as much as you're willing to give'em =)
le sigh
I don't think there's any evidence that 99% will starve. Certainly not in this country. Our problem is obesity. This chart on Wikipedia is showing that though in income inequality is increasing, all quintiles are also increasing (inflation adjusted.) Not only that, but the TV's that you can buy now are a lot better than those you can buy in 1940, ditto for the cars, houses, apartments, etc. And food is dirt-cheap if you actually try to be cost-conscious about it.
I think quotas are the wrong way to frame the question, at least until we start running out of land. I'd be glad to let 100 million Einsteins and Teslas immigrate if they were available.
Quoting from the BB article which itself quotes the US copyright law:

"Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable. Thus, a linoleum floor covering featuring a multicolored pebble design which was produced by a mechanical process in unrepeatable, random patterns, is not registrable. Similarly, a work owing its form to the forces of nature and lacking human authorship is not registrable; thus, for example, a piece of driftwood even if polished and mounted is not registrable"

So if you purposely setup the Roomba to knock over the paint and produce art, then yes my understanding is that is copyrightable. But if the Roomba accidentally knocked it over, then it's not - based that there was no purposable (is that a word?) human contribution to create the art.

Similarly, if the photographer had handed the monkey the camera with the intention of getting the monkey to take a photo, then it's copyrightable. If the monkey picked up the camera because the photographer wasn't keeping a close eye on his equipment, then the subsequent photo isn't copyrightable.

My understanding of copyright is that 'intent' plays a part in the decision.
Twitter experiencing 'stability issues'
It's not the stores as much as it's the publishers and editors. The good editors are long retired, and what's left are the MBA's that are creaming their jeans to find the next hot vampire / zombie / weresomething romance trend.

The current crop of publishers and editors are operating without the vaguest hint of a clue. We're in a slump, but I'm not sure when (or even if) we're going to see any kind of recovery.

I'm pretty sure I know how to solve the problem, but nobody would like the answer.
Of course I mean within reason, why wouldn't I.

I don't see how your statement that if you wanted me to be your slave applies. But, say you did want me to be your slave, if I could profit from it and held the reward for doing so as greater than doing my own thing, then yes you can pay me to be your slave (not that that would ever happen). In that case am I still you slave or have we entered into an voluntary agreement? If you plan to use force to make me your slave, well then we don't even have a market do we!

Yes I do agree that there may be a negative externality, but why is of any concern to ICANN unless they violate others rights. Have they violated someones right to only have a dozen or so TLDs? If so, prove that there is such a right.

There is a market, there is demand. So again, why is it wrong for someone to profit by providing a solution that does not violate someone else's right?
Nobody thinks a permanent underclass is a good idea. You should provide evidence for why you think that's the likely result rather than just asking the rhetorical equivalent of "when did you stop beating your wife?"
I like that! I never thought of it as electron flow. So to maximize employee retention I need to minimize the potential difference between the current job and the alluring startup. It all comes down to physics, as always.
What framework does not require one to understand those things?
Judging from the nationalities of engineers in this country, we would probably need immigrants to design the Cucumbertron 9001 to begin with.
Yup. The downtown library in my town is the same way; my wife refuses to go inside. I usually just have books transferred down to the library close to my house rather than deal with that branch.
I created a web application and set of scripts late last year to snapshot sites like that on a daily/hourly/minutely interval. Also set up the web app to manage the captured images and turn them into videos.

Some of the interesting things I found:

- interesting to compare news sites coverage of the same news stories - see who publishes stories first and where on the page...

- quickly analyse site ad and content refresh rates

- instant time lapse videos from web cam sites

- some interesting artistic effects as content changes and moves on sites

- "photographic record" of web sites was interesting to see some sites not update or be broken at times

- very easy to generate gigabytes of content in small amounts of time!

I have't have time to extend the project further right now, but I still have jobs running capturing some of the top sites daily to get some year-long web-time-lapse videos and do something with the content. If anyone has ideas to commercialize the content or technology, let me know.

Note: Technologies used - Ubuntu, bash, CutyCapt, JSP, ImageMagick
Isn't it obvious? The game is supposed to be a simulation of life. You only live once, and when you die you leave the world forever, with all of your contributions to it remaining for others to build upon.

Without that absolute rule, the game wouldn't have nearly the same symbolic/religious significance, notwithstanding all the meta-game that unfolded hence. Rohrer's son was upset by his father's death specifically because of the significance imparted by this rule.

It makes your time playing the game paramount. You will never play the game again. You will never have another shot at life, so you'd better enjoy it while it lasts.

EDIT: He's an atheist, I'm an atheist. There's an argument to be made for reincarnation, I suppose, but that's hewing close to respawning and it makes me uncomfortable.
I stopped reading when I realized you think we need more vocational training. I agree.

Here's another idea that goes with your thought: Why don't employers stop asking for every cert and piece of experience under the sun? Whatever happened to on-the-job training?

This exists in IT but I'm sure it is the same elsewhere.
Just added that bias setting. Now you can make windswept trees: http://www.filosophy.org/projects/trees/#jwi3ouq0U

I like the idea of classifying trees by looking at the parameters of the branch structure -- I think that kind of approach would very well complement traditional computer vision methods.

Another thing that I've been wanting to play with is creating a 'forest' of these kinds of parametrizable trees and running a genetic algorithm to see what parameters win out in collecting "sunlight", etc. Could be fun, but would take a bit longer to make...