skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the majority here does favor copyright abolishment. I would hope I'm wrong but whenever the the subject of copyright comes up the vast majority of the comments talk about how we need to get rid of it, how all works should be free and in the public domain, etc. Especially when you bring money into the discussion I've seen everyone say that copyright is no longer necessary or helpful and we all need to find a way to make a living without it implying that creators should have no right to restrict how their works are used or distributed. I'm so glad this article was posted because it shows us the benefits of copyright.

I'm often downvoted to hell for comments like the one above and I'm really surprised its getting a positive response. Maybe a different subset of HN is discussing it. I don't hold an extreme position on this at all but I'm often a little afraid to speak my mind on this as I usually get a very negative response.

Also, many of us really do make a living thanks in part to copyright protections and to reiterate, I usually see and am responded to with comments saying that we shouldn't use copyright like that and should find another way. But not all works like that lend themselves well to models like paid support for free software or live performances instead of paid recordings.

Anyway, I'm relieved to see that people around here do see the validity of my argument.
For most public universities, I'm pretty sure it would be against the law to willingly take down services. Of course, this doesn't mean students and professors couldn't participate by taking down their sites or protesting.
From http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_osm_vandalism.ph...

Update: Google sent the following statement to ReadWriteWeb on Tuesday morning. "The two people who made these changes were contractors acting on their own behalf while on the Google network. They are no longer working on Google projects."
Yes, indeed it is. But the commenter to which I was responding didn't seem to know that what he/she was proposing has already been in place for several years, at least insofar as NIH grants are concerned.
I agree, there was no data presented to suggest that the students in the smaller colleges were not very similar. Moreover it is more likely that the students in the small colleges are very similar, typically people won't travel to another state to attend a small community college.
Not really; most OSes now enable ipv6 privacy extensions by default, which means a client will connect with a different IP every hour or so.
Only the anti-indecency and anti-obscenity provisions were struck down. Section 230 remained, and is to this date one of the best pieces of legislation regarding the internet; it largely immunizes an online service provider against the activities of its users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...
Kirk Sorensen on energy from Thorium
Why Brands Like Puma and GE Are Flocking to Instagram
Well, this post has sunk so far that it won't get attention, but maybe it's time to godaddy Twitter -- or at least, and another HN comment pointed out, "Dickbar Dick".
The real long term consequence that they're afraid of is pissing off enough people that they go form another party. It's happened before.
I see self-documenting code as another type of comment, not a replacement. The comments describe what the code is supposed to be doing, what business problem it addresses, etc, while the code documents how the code does what it does. Your comments shouldn't get out of date unless the purpose of the code changes. If it's just the implementation that changes, the comments should still apply.
PhoneGap's a good product, and definitely has its place. However, we've heard from lots of people (some of whom we now value as customers) that for apps which don't need bespoke native functionality it can be too heavy-weight: this affects everything from tooling to build process to bloat in the platform itself.

Some of the main tangible benefits we offer over our competition, and PhoneGap in particular:

* much faster build process (apps re-generated across 6 platforms in < 1s in the main-line case)

* unlimited support, and help prototyping your app at higher tiers: Nitobi is/was basically a consultancy based on PhoneGap whereas we see ourselves as building and licensing a software platform

* guarantee we'll never be bought by Adobe and get rolled up into Dreamweaver (not a guarantee)

* make no requirements on the IDE or other tools you use - you're good to go with a terminal and a text editor

In general, we try to be light-weight, get out of the way as much as possible, and offer a great, streamlined experience for users writing apps in the bottom 50% of the complexity spectrum.

Disclaimer: you might have guessed I work for Trigger :)
It's hard to say much when Woz is so vague.

I think it's fair to say that his opinion of Android Voice Commands vs Siri is far from universal. Nuance's voice recognition is widely regarded as state-of-the-art, but of course this can vary depending on one's accent. There's a pretty fair shootout on the "commands" features here, and Siri generally comes ahead - http://searchengineland.com/head-to-head-siri-vs-google-voic...
Your problem is poor comments, not too many comments.
Here's John Baez doing just that. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/
Heh. Obviously some of us read the books and at least four have not.
This is very annoying.

The process of doing a Linux install / upgrade of Java from the packages provided on the Oracle website is a real pain since they don't have their own apt repo or even provide a .deb.

OpenJDK may be a fine replacement for many use cases but it's really not a 100% drop in replacement.
Minecraft requires Oracle Java for one , and I'd hate to think what would happen if you were using ubuntu to host anything important that required it.

This is the sort of stuff that ruins the ubuntu's UX.
tl;dr: Agile is snake oil.
Dribbble should be mentioned too. Dribbble is basically "teaser shots of what I'm working on", while Forrst is "can I get some feedback on things I'm working on?"

It should be noted that Forrst has developers posting code too (just not nearly as much as design)
I do, how else can I be safe(ish) from having my server attacked by some random 0day just because I didn't happen to check the advisories for every single daemon I use every week?
Sorry for the delayed reply.

I lived in SJ from 1992-2001. I knew my current boss from that time. Sometime around 2006, while I was living here in Oregon, he emailed me and asked if I might be interested in doing X for him.

I've gotten my last seven jobs through friends. The last two have been since I moved to Oregon. The last time I applied for a job where I didn't know anybody was 1985.
Red wine research may have been falsified
Google going dark would be extremely interesting and a valuable lesson for society (that it will fail to understand of course).
ShowHN: SymbolHound Code Search (beta), a Google Code Search replacement
Exactly! This feels like a "scam" to skirt the rules of the SEC.

> “The IPO market is dying,” he said. “You see companies achieving robust valuations on the private market but being treated poorly when they go public.” (We’re looking at you, Groupon and Zynga.)

Zynga and Groupon were "treated poorly" because their numbers showed that they were NO WHERE NEAR as profitable as they wanted us to believe when they were private (and secrete). I suspect Facebook, also has highly inflated valuation in these "second markets" where information is scarce.
I'm changing the title to reflect that it is a pre-release demo
This doesn't teach anyone how to stop SOPA/PIPA. This teaches them why SOPA/PIPA is bad. If you want to learn how to stop SOPA/PIPA, try this:

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/better-activism-day...
So far as I have observed, women working in IT are no littler than women in the population at large.

There are surprisingly few of them, though.
Yes I do know that. I didn't root my GF's phone because I wanted a stock phone around for doing testing when I do app development.
That's a really bad analogy. People can, and do, play cut-down versions of baseball all the time (in Britain we call this kind of game "rounders". It has very flexible rules, and yet I've never seen it "not work").
Why Thomas Hawk likes Search Plus Your World
Oh, good point. I don't know how I missed that. Thanks!
Hmm. Strange. For some reason DNS is misbehaving from some locations. I'll need to look into this...
It's such hypocrisy I had trouble reading that line without spitting my coffee on my screen. I mean, what was the DMCA? Maintaining the status quo? Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

Over the past century Copyright has been strengthened and protected to ever higher levels. There is no status quo here, it's all one sided and they dare say this when we tug back a little?
RIM Pushing for Sale to Samsung
That's why I said emulate. V8 (Node) with appropriate modules can emulate the browser - both parse the DOM, and then run scripts on that DOM. PHP/Perl/etc. can't do that. Java could do that with Rhino I assume, but I'd say V8 is much closer. I'm also not saying anything about emulating exactly Chrome. I wish I had time to dig up that module for Node now, but I don't (I don't remember the name).
I think this happens a lot. Whenever a new study comes out, I always try to find out who actually funded it.
On the Guilt Associated with Leaving Your Job
I taught myself how to become a front-end developer while I was in the Army. I left the army in 2010, and started freelancing, where I got tired of dealing with low-budget clients and working from home. Serendipitously (or so I thought at the time), I found a position at the director level with a local agency, where I was able to make some immediate improvements to both operations and the bottom line, but eventually ran into a lot of resistance going any further. I also reached the point where I could no longer do all of the work on my own and we needed to reach out and hire people. It sounds great, but the assets at my disposal are simply not enough to make a compelling offer to applicants, thus I find myself in an ongoing battle with deadlines and the people that set them.

To make a long story short, I told my boss that I felt undervalued and that because of certain archaic processes, we were not as efficient and profitable as I thought we could become. Let's just say that the conversation didn't go my way.

So I find myself in a pickle. There are solvable problems that don't want to be solved, and I'm not getting paid enough to solve them. However, I'm not the kind to just take a paycheck and call it a day (like many of you I imagine).

The only way I can improve my situation is by leaving my job, which I plan on doing. The problem is that I feel guilty about it, almost like I'm giving up or not doing all I could to resolve these conflicts. The boss has a 5 year plan, but I'm not keen on waiting 5 years...I don't have the time.

My question to you is whether any of you have been in similar situations, and if so, what action did you take? Did you regret moving on, or did you regret staying too long?

Of course, I'm building on the side, but the projects aren't making quite enough money yet for me to outright quit. Very close though.

Thoughts are welcome.
Say, $200/hr times 6 hrs a day times a month.

Not impossible but not easy, exactly. If you take a year to plan it out I think you could set that aside, working in tech, but it's obviously not for everyone.
Even if we don't consider the difference in data structures here, they use wildly different algorithms. Numpy does all the matrix calculations by outsourcing it to BLAS[1] routines that are a mix of C/Assembly, just like the answers detail.

BLAS is not only written in more efficient code, it's different algorithms altogether. BLAS can do a lot of optimizations that brings the total FLOP count to below what's usually considered required for matrix multiplication. (2m*n^2)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprogram...
Why Wikipedia is going down at midnight - Jimmy Wales
I think you're over-analyzing it.

Speechwriters are largely unknown, at least relative to the "performer" -- the same goes for comedy (let's say stand-up comedy since it's differentiated from theater and film in your list), and even film, quite often. On the converse, when you see a performance of "Hamlet", who's better-known? The high school kid bemoaning Horatio, or Shakespeare? I think it's just a convenient shortcut for people to attribute a quote to a performer rather than original author, in cases where the original author may be difficult to discern.

I mean, I can go to imdb.com and find out who wrote the screenplay for "Air Force One", but that still doesn't tell me for sure who originated the line "Get off my plane!" Harrison Ford may have ad-libbed it, or the director may have added it, for all we know.

Thus far I guess our society hasn't found it that necessary to create a culture of strict attribution.
"Unusual" send activity is pretty easy to spot, especially if it's going to put our customer at risk in any way. We're extremely proactive about making sure that you're aware of anything that might be considered a "surprise" to your service or your wallet.
It's funny. They believe in the first amendment when it protects their industry but disregard it when it crushes someone else's industry.
ClueDB: tiny tips for everyday life
True, but I don't think it's a lesson that google wants them to learn.
Cool experiment but somehow I feel like I intuitively knew this already. Also, this:

http://trafficwaves.org/trafexp.html

By the way, did you know that the other lane really does move faster?
Dear MPAA: You can take the whole table and shove it up your ass.
Increase DVD Ripping Speed by Removing “Riplock”
uTorrent 3.1 added support for BEP33 (DHT scrape), so apparently the answer is yes.
http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0033.html
Oh no, I didn't intend for The Language Instinct as an introduction to NLP, but as a basic introduction to the fundamentals of linguistics. I mainly had in mind terms like morpheme, phoneme, scope, etc. A basic understanding of these concepts will make reading the NLTK book much easier, although it isn't necessary.
I don't think that the 2012 cost of transferring water from Earth is relevant. If we're in the position of having colonies on the moon, then I assume that our technology and techniques will have improved to the point that transferring anything from the Earth to moon will be significantly less. Otherwise, we wouldn't have colonies on the moon.

This, of course, assumes colonies on the moon. Personally, I doubt we will ever have them. But if we do, I think it's also reasonable to assume that the cost will have been lowered significantly.
I'm currently working 6 8-hour days per week at $100 per hour. That's $20k per month. That's about the going rate for a competent back-end developer. It doesn't require any unusual skills or knowledge, just self-discipline and a professional attitude.
I agree with you insomuch as it's ideal for an extension, and argued for its inclusion as a 9.3 feature (looks like Christmas might come early, though). However, I concluded with this:

Right now the perception of Postgres...actually, databases in general,
including virtually all of the newcomers -- is that they are
monolithic systems, and for most people either "9.3" will "have"
javascript and indexing of JSON documents, or it won't. In most cases
I would say "meh, let them eat cake until extensions become so
apparently dominant that we can wave someone aside to extension-land",
but in this case I think that would be a strategic mistake.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-12/msg0078...

So this is definitely a social problem. Why not move UUID out of the core? (not uuid-ossp, which implements generation, but uuid parsing and storage) Because, for now, one cannot assume extensions for really common useful functionality.

Luckily, I think things are on the right path to at a future juncture that even a commonly desired data type can live as an extension.
That would be a very long backing up. But I really do believe that. I started to learn Ruby for a project recently, but I ended up turning that offer down - I couldn't go back to a 2009 technology. Node, CoffeeScript, Backbone, Handlebars, Express, Socket.io - that's the sh1t..
Good thing the tech industry can play the jobs game too. Surely Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a thousand other web companies have hired more people than the entertainment industry in the last ten years...?
Just today, Twitter sent me an email saying "we missed you". Can't say the same, Dick.

Actually, if this is the tweet,

https://twitter.com/dickc/statuses/159014296616058880?_escap...

I can see the point about a global business -- having contract obligations and cash flow issues, etc. But that does not have a direct bearing on Wikipedia. Further, Dick's tweet has been repeatedly cited in newstories looking for a dramatic, opposing sound bite with which apparently to counter "them commies".

Is this Dick's failure, or the failure of "his" platform in its reduction of all commentary to single brief sentences or phrases? (Yes, I'm being deliberately a bit snarky. After all, that is one of Twitter's provinces.)

Twitter's gained enormous credibility as a stubbornly open channel in the face of repressive regimes e.g. those involved in the Arab Spring. What a shame if its CEO sees fit to lie down and sleep with domestic (after all, you're still basically a U.S. company -- or U.S. based) repression.

I hope this is about keeping Twitter up, but not about supporting SOPA/PIPA/et al. And I hope that if so, Costolo will step up and state so clearly. Use more than one sentence if you need to.
As I mention here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3476311

We use a combination of algorithms and humans to determine "unusual" activity (not just spam or forged emails) and act accordingly.

We're even proactive about finding customers who break into new send volume thresholds and offer them discounts. We'd much rather have high quality senders in our network for a LONG time than just keep the highest billing rate on autopilot.
Trite sentences actually devalue what the speaker is saying.

How many times have we heard that sentence and thought that the speaker was not sincere at all? Now, when a somebody uses it, all those insincere utterances will come to your mind with all the accompanying bad feelings.

It is good to see people apologising for inconveniences but, please, take fifteen seconds to think of a sentence that does not sound like a canned reply.
Good thing I don't keep docs in my pr0n folder. That would've been embarrassing.
Best along what dimension? Time? Common symptoms? You get to call up, wait for someone to become available, answer a ton of screening questions.

What if you don't have a regular doctor, because you haven't seen one in a while and just got your first real job? Well, you have to wait to establish a doctor/patient relationship before you get any advice.

Plus, have you ever actually tried to get a medical question answered without an appointment? They say to check with a doctor before taking tylenol, but realistically ... no.

In many cases, yes, an online diagnostic is going to be much faster and about as accurate as the doctor.
We're doing it half and half. My co-founder has a day job and I'm working on the start-up full time while living off savings after working like crazy at my last job.
One obvious explanation: there are accounts that do nothing but submit Atlantic stories to HN.

Another one, more saddening: the Atlantic has in the past 2 years crafted an online presence that basically competes tit-for-tat with Slate, meaning a lot of clipped little blog posts (often from guest writers) and fewer long-form narrative journalism pieces.

Also, Graham has more or less let go of the "what's on-topic for HN" site guideline.
No, I think you're creating a class distinction where it's completely unnecessary (and a weird thought to even have, I think).

Theater, music (I'll assume we're not talking about "popular" music, but something more like classical music here), and literature tend to have known authors, and tend to have a wide variety of performances. (Although literature is weird to include in this list, I think).

Film, comedy (since it's differentiated from theater and film here, let's say stand-up comedy) and speeches have known performers. Authors in film are sometimes relatively well-known, but I think attributions to actors rather than characters in films aren't that common.
I'm absolutely doing this. After reading your first article, I got super excited about the idea and started planning for it right away. I just graduated college and started working (design & ruby dev), so I don't have enough yet, but I'm putting money into a savings account every month so that I can have enough by the time I'm ready.

Anything you write about this is really fantastic and helpful, so thank you : ) I'll certainly let you know how it's going once I get out there. You have inspired at least one young programmer, so thanks for that!
Not that I support the MPAA, but it isn't some faceless entity. It's made up of people. And the people that make up the MPAA have given the MPAA the power to speak on their behalf. So, when a representative speaks with a member of the government, he's doing it on behalf of people. Most likely, people that are his constituents.

The people opposing SOPA did the same thing. We organized via various organizations (such as Reddit, for example), and called or wrote to our law maker. In some capacity, we had Google representing us.

MPAA isn't taking things off the table. Rather, they are working to propose something that doesn't include some feature that was hotly contested.

So, what is inherently wrong with people approaching their congressmen with proposals?
I can tell you that you've got at least one guy here interested.

Linux-only guy who wants to take some lightweight weekend web projects and create installable native app versions of them.

PhoneGab doesn't work on Linux and seems like overkill for what I need anyway.
The masses will look into SOPA angrily, find out that congress has already killed it, and then forget about it.

That's easily addressed by changing the wording of the blackout text: "Although Congress has shelved some or all of SOPA/PIPA, we still need to let them know that we won't accept this in the future. Call your representative and senator, thank them for listening to their constituents about SOPA/PIPA, and let them know you oppose the introduction of similar bills in the future."
Which explains your dismay at using new stuff. I'm 45, too. Fight it.

My point - which, as a 45-year-old programmer, you should have understood - was that modern languages and library repositories make a whole lot of basic work go away, so that we're working at a higher level than was possible in 1985.
I hate to use the word "Agile" because the very act of naming seems to encourage the nonproductive behaviors the OP is talking about. Calling it a "process" is even worse, because it's a metaprocess, not a process.

Like he says, "it's the doing, the reflecting, and the adapting that count the most." That doesn't really need a name; that's just how you become good at anything. Software, jazz piano, raising chickens...anything.

Any productive methodology is a local adaptation to local conditions. Any codified methodology should be treated as a suggestion, not a constraint. If you stop observing and adapting your methods, they rapidly become less relevant and eventually turn into useless dogma. I'm pretty sure that just about anyone who is good at doing anything does this without being told, or giving it a name.
This is a great marketing page for Nikon.
What’s your favorite Python editor?
Clickable link: http://www.verelo.com/

Good luck guys.