skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your situation is theft - by taking the newspaper, you're precluding your neighbor from enjoying a product or service that he paid for. That's not the same as infringement - a closer newspaper-related metaphor might be you reading over your neighbor's shoulder on the bus.
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Using exports, NPM package, and an executable that depends on /usr/bin/node? What's your point?
Interesting, didn't know about that one. It looks more modern and usable.

I'm trying to think if I would actually download it and try to use it. Or I could just keep on making use of that all the hard-earned sed/awk magic line noise. :)
That's theft not piracy. The marginal cost of production of that newspaper is non-zero. The marginal cost of production for information goods is zero.
A new Linux distro: Hadron is ready
Cheezburger network joins SOPA blackout
He does NOT literally mean that "Joe the plumber" should take up Java web development. Rushkoff is attempting to re-frame what it means to be a user. He wants the public to become more critical of the usage of technology and to be able to assert their intent with digital tools. His problem is with the fact that people are USED BY power structures whose influence is augmented by their mastery of technology.

By telling the non-digerati to "learn to program", Rushkoff is trying to push them towards a mastery of computing that TO THEM is effectively "programming".

I think that his intent is to arm folks for the kinds of future challenges that Cory Doctoro describes. See the "war on computation" talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
Good Creative People are Never Bored
Nice article. I actually worked for a Japanese company that uses relational shell scripting for developing web systems. They use space separated tables and have developed a set of commands to process text files. Those commands are pretty useful and easy to use. Few examples would be:

- self 1 2 fileName - selects first and second column from the file. There is corresponding tagself command which assumes the first row of the file is the column name.
- Join commands which are essentially implementations of sql joins.
- Sum commands. One that I remember is sm2.

$ cat data
a 15 asdf
a 30 aaa
b 13 bbb

$ sm 1 2 data
a 45
b 13

So you would chain these with unix native commands such as awk, sed, grep and do some interesting stuff. Here is a very simple example shows how it would look like:

cat data | self 1 2 | sm 1 2 | grep some_expression > new-data

There is a lot other of these commands that do various sort of thing with text and html files. Anyone who understands japanese might wanna check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYKp7dswQg.
Indian computer tablet could herald an Internet revolution
Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed
And on that basis, it makes sense to create a monopoly and concentrate very real control over vast tracts of the namespace with unregulated private corporations?

Sounds like a great plan.

I'm always amazed at the large numbers of people that criticize ICANN's work and the very small number that contribute to it.
Introducing the Android Design site
It's hardly racketeering. In it's purest form, the patent system actually protects people from hving their ideas stolen from them, and ensuring they are properly paid for their ideas. However, your vitriol at Microsoft is rather amusing. You do realize that Apple, Kodak, and Oracle, among many others, have launched patent infringement claims against companies that could be considered competitors?
Tucows joins SOPA Blackout: Corrupt Legislation driving us to the Darknet
Can a crowdfunded hackathon propel a major consumer electronics launch?
These are very thoughtful and concise arguments about why this legislation is flawed. I'm hoping to hear similar arguments made by Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky while addressing Congress on January 18th.
Glad to see more high-profile open letters, but I'd really rather see all of these come with ultimatums. Nowhere in the letter does Fowler say that he feels strongly enough about this not to publish with Pearson in the future.

Companies are supporting the legislation in hopes of helping their bottom line. Letter's like this ought to threaten that bottom line.
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I put in art, and it came up with things with art in the word, example: Partial Fraction Expansion. So I decided to search, "art" with quotes, and it came back with nothing.

It'd be neat if when I searched for Art it brought up the Art History category I found down the list immediately, and then other things like the Photography category.

edit: I'm no expert on search or designing a search so this is not at all stated eloquently, I hope you understand my meaning.
I wonder if that is the reason most big restaurant chains, like TGI Fridays, have their own version of a song for their crew to sing when someone has a birthday there.
Regardless of whether or not this would be "preaching to the choir", it will still make news, and a bunch of high profile websites all going dark at the same time is much more impressive than just reddit.
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Yes but what you're saying is that Twitter is upset because Google wasn't willing to pay them enough to show their tweets in Google results.

So not only does Twitter want Google to index their tweets, but Google was offering them money for the service and Twitter turned them down.
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Yeah, I said it wasn't racketeering because it was legal
Android Finally Gets Serious About Its Looks, Launches Official Design Portal
Yes, it is.

Source: http://interact.stltoday.com/forums/viewtopic.php?printertop...

EDIT: At first I thought Snopes said that, but I was wrong. Here's a different source saying the same thing.
But the data still needs to go the Google Analytics server to actually do the tracking...in an HTTP request.
If you've tried this on Snow Leopard and are confused as to why it looks nothing like the screenshots, you might want to try a different terminal application.

Terminal in Snow Leopard doesn't support 256 colours, so iTerm2 should show vim-powerline closer to the screenshots. It's open source and works pretty well in my experience.

The Terminal in Lion supports 'xterm-256color'.
Oh, I've finally managed to do it, but it took way more effort than it should have, and I know that someone like my mom wouldn't be able to do it at all.

Not interacting with Facebook sounds easy, but it's not.

You have to clear the caches on every browser on any computer that you've ever logged into Facebook with. You have to delete all native Facebook clients. You can't log into any site that uses Facebook Connect. You can't accidentally click on a Facebook 'like' button. You can't respond to any mails Facebook sends you or click on a Facebook related link. Etc etc.

If you so much as look in the direction of Facebook during the two weeks following your deletion request, it is canceled.
As far as I know, Apple doesn't have a general research and development department like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and many others. The company focuses pretty much on devices and services.
Yes. Lead by example.
The Startup Challenging the Centralized Internet
We do and of course you're absolutely right. The search algorithm is far from perfect. It'll definitely work better on the next version :) Thanks for your feedback!
Technological change: The last Kodak moment?
it's more powerful from an emotional standpoint if people do it manually
Pretty much. It was a problem that was foreseen in the beginning and was dealt with. And then everyone just started ignoring it.
Perhaps, but if their statements are demonstrably false then the Newspaper has, as a basic principle of journalistic integrity, an obligation to point that what was quoted is factual untrue.

Being a mouthpiece for self-serving falsehoods is exactly why so many people have little to no respect for Newspapers anymore.
I see what you're saying, but in this case slacktivism may be the best thing to do. The issue, from what I've understood, is that not enough people know about SOPA. And where do you best spread information? Yes, on the Internet.

People have tried -not- slacktivism, which is calling representatives. There's not enough of them. Try some slacktivism first to get peoples attention, then go for the big things.
There's an unnecessary swipe at GW Bush there, unfortunately, but I think the article's point is nonetheless excellent.
You really shouldn't be puzzled at this. It is actually pretty easy to explain if you have ever worked on a large scale website before. The problem is you begin to accrue large amounts of data and metadata (data about your data). And just "getting rid" of that data is actually hard at scale for a few reasons:

1) Lets say I post on your wall and then I delete my account. Does that mean the message should be removed from your wall? What if you really liked the conversation in the comments that took place after I posted the comment, you are just out of luck? This gets trickier and tricker to handle these types of problems as things like groups, forums, and tagging get added to the social network feature set. All of a sudden is very confusing and unclear what exactly should happen with this type of data. Let's say you do keep that message, when how much of the deleted account is required to keep alive to maintain your database relations (this assumes you are using a normalized relational database to manage your site).

2) The site I work on gets a lot of data from users. It isn't uncommon to have ~5MB from a single user in our database. The actual delete operation on that tables is really rough. If 4 users all tried to delete their account at the same time doing a straight DELETE on the tables would be horrible. Not to mention it leaves holes in your tables in some cases.

3) Is it actually legal to delete the data? Can Apple just delete an account where charges can be placed? I would think they need to keep a history of who used what credit card and so on. I am guessing that medical records and emails for large companies have some kind of restrictions about data retention.

4) The backup issue. If a user deletes their account, does the user expect that the company also goes through all their backups and delete their information from there as well.

All of these things add up to a pretty big burden pretty quick and I think it is logical to see why companies might choose to not allow people to delete their own data. I can also understand why people disagree with that decision, but it really shouldn't be puzzling.
> It tells us that they looked at customer data

Have you ever supported a product that has external users? Eventually have to see their data in some way, shape, or form. Whether it be a username, email address, ip address, user-agent strings, filenames, etc; there are times when troubleshooting, verifying functionality, validating report data, etc where you will have to look at at least some subset of actual customer data somewhere. It is simply unrealistic to think otherwise.

How would you go about providing customer support or auditing without looking at the customer data required to complete such tasks?

(edited to add quote)
If US has equivalent of Data Protection Act, author could demand the addressees and other history of the account from apple.
New Bill Would Put Taxpayer-Funded Science Behind Pay Walls
Which I'd rather see is irrelevant; neither has a chance to actually appear in mainstream media, especially the second non-news hypothetical story.
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I had the same problem, until I took the recommendation of using the nightly version a couple weeks ago. Now it works great.
http://www.sublimetext.com/dev
Do you make ultimatums when you talk to your friends? If so, do you have any friends?

Actually, ultimatums are a great way to get people to flip the bozo bit and stop listening to you. By attempting to use force, you imply that the listener won't listen to reason, without having even tried.
Exactly why I started apphammers.com : )
Judy Chu (D-CA) is the only member of Congress to tweet positively about SOPA
And announcing the content of the one millionth file upload is serving the customer how?
I won't defend Apple/Facebook, because I think it's nonsense, but here are a couple (technical) reasons why companies like that might justify keeping the account around:

- Integration with other systems. It's easier to just mark the account record as "inactive" than it is to add functionality to remove it and any references to it from all the other systems. There can be a lot of cascading that would need to happen.

- Auditing/Reporting. Perhaps legal or accounting feels the need to keep it around "just in case". Maybe they think they'll need to look up the history of the account one day or audit the activities of previous user at some point down the road.
they feel themselves so cool that they don't bother explaining why one would need to use it.

is it targeted for server use? desktop? embedded system? mobile system? How is it better than anything else?

and, how long is it going to be supported and how big is the core team? (let me guess: just one developer and one user who is also the developer)
Don't make the mistake of assuming that pirating users would pay for something they currently value as zero. Also there is a trial effect where people pirate software like Photoshop at home, learn how to use it and later on get employers to by it for them when they are employed.
12 atoms is the quantity used to store a single bit (~100 atoms / byte) near absolute zero. As usual that important nugget was buried in the middle of the article; just reading the first 3 paragraphs, one would think they had fit an entire floppy into 12 atoms.
As an aside the guy who founded and still leads the CyanogenMod project now works for Samsung on their Android distribution(/flavor).

I'm not sure whether they hired him to try to let the steam out of Cyanogen but if so it certainly hasn't achieved that.
A lot of this is poor API design, and the product of Java's baggage as something that needs to have well-defined safety semantics for internet applications. It is not a necessary constraint of high-level languages that they don't offer the ability to get down to the metal. SBCL, for example, offers a lot of mechanisms for unboxed primitive arrays, unsafe declarations, and these days even SSE intrinsics.
See also "How to be more interesting"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3423017
I know it is silly and offtopic but that gorgeous website's navigation does not work without Javascript for no good reason.
Exactly. All of it. If you don't like it, fix it. If you can't fix it, replace it (or ignore it). Just because some companies only want to hire people that write code 24/7 doesn't mean all companies have to. And there are some of us that work in closed-source or secure code that simply don't have a public codebase. And an occasional few that are contractually prohibited from writing public code in their "off" time.

(Does having a large codebase freely available make evaluating a potential hire easier? No doubt. I'm not questioning that.)

I'm a programmer by trade but a hardware guy by birth and education. I don't do endless amounts of coding in my off-time, but instead build things. When it comes time for me to move on, if /everybody/ I talk to requires a large open-source codebase for me to even sit in the same room as them - I won't care. I'll find some like-minded folk and create my own job.
Gmail's Spam Filter not catching words with underscores
Hmm. I had no idea they were down last week, but now I've learned there blog is down right now.

Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I'm usually excited when I have nothing to do because I can finally spend ANY time on my own projects.

However, I'm often bored of doing particular tasks.
Perhaps I'm boring at doing those tasks.
It would be nice to have a table of contents in addition to the search.
Turntable.fm Co-founder Is Flattered by Facebook's "Listen With" Feature
We were actually just starting to use SimpleGeo for storage and lookup. We need to geocode the points and their added benefit of weather/location info was a plus. Does anybody know of a good alternative?

Edit: Here is a great list of alternatives https://support.urbanairship.com/customer/portal/articles/31...
This is running on an EC2 micro instance through use of extensive caching. In addition to storing all static files in memory, I'm grabbing the data from npmjs.org and saving it in memory every 5 minutes. The server is just 35 LOC, you can check it out here https://github.com/ecto/npmtop.com
you should try it and let us know =]
I've been using this all morning - it's really incredible.
The homepage itself is the "About" section and explains some aspects: http://hadronproject.org/
In the past two weeks I've gone from never getting spam in my inbox to 3 a day. Is this happening to other people?

Seems like a simple fix for Gmail. They just need to run their spam detection algorithm on the email text while treating underscores and periods as spaces.
GitHub + HN + Stack Overflow eh? I reckon I rank way higher than the likes of Linus Torvalds and other legendary open source hackers. Hallelujah!
The slider is certainly not a typical one or the one you can find in free/open source. That's not what makes it expensive, though. I bill hourly. There is a lot of overhead

- Writing the right HTML structure.

- Doing CSS work

- Solving some math. equations (fun time)

- JavaScript coding (around 600 lines of code)

- Cross-Browser issues (IE8+) (not so fun)

- Integrating with the client back-end

- Communication (charge for that too)

I can't show you the project as it's private and I'll need his permission, but you get the picture. I'm very comfortable with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I have a lot of skills and use the best tools available there, and yet, I can't find a way faster.
When computer programming first became a thing mostly women had been taught to type. Men would dictate, women would type things up. Think Mad Men.

It was assumed that programming would be basically the same thing. Male mathematicians would write up algorithms and women would type them up. If you read math papers that relied on computer calculation from the 50's and 60's you'll often see women's names in the acknowledgments for having programmed the algorithms.

As it became clear that it was a more involved job, men began moving into the field. Someone else in these comments listed the books that describe the process.
something like this? http://www.skillpunch.com/entries
I like the density-independent pixel concept...
Polishing a design, may be. But polishing a crappy code base? I don't think so. Starting from scratch is cheaper.
Github: The New Locus of Software Development
Search plus your world? What's so bad about that?
Actually, I agree with you. 37Signals is characteristically up-front in their security policy about not being an appropriate solution for sensitive data. That's why I don't use them for my own client work. I respect their decision not to take on that responsibility.

Having said that, their security policy does suggest that customers expect some level of privacy. It's just bad form to publicly announce that you've been poking around the content of customer data as part of a fun blog post about metrics.

Nobody is building classified weapons on Basecamp. If you say that Basecamp customers shouldn't expect any measure of privacy, I'll respectfully acknowledge that you might be correct about that.
yes, I've seen it and a couple of other pages. Still there's no answer on why one would want to use it, as well as my other questions above
And to be fair to tpope, Vundle is something that clearly came along later, looking to refine the experience that Pathogen established.

Vundle is a minor but very welcome improvement on Pathogen, while Pathogen was a monsterous improvement on the painful Vim plugin management of before.

I too am a big fan of tpope Vim plugins, and Vundle is the first plugin that I've ever used to replace one of his with. So now I don't have Pathogen but I have a Vundle file that says "tpope" all over it. :)
The website felt odd to me. It's clearly aimed at developers, given the subject material, but it felt like it was written as an ad for prospective buyers.

It listed a bunch of features and user interface methods that apps should have, but I couldn't find any resource for actually implementing what they suggested, apart from the link to the android developer page at the end.
Building Engines vs Building Games (aka Engineeritis)
Can Simplicity Scale?
It does work on Windows. Kinda. I'm using Consolas, and simple mode has a little question-mark-in-a-box where some dividers should be. Unicode mode is worse. Absolutely usable, though.

It'll take more fiddling than it's worth to patch the font on Windows, so I plan on booting Ubuntu to do it later.
Isn't it for Designers, rather than Developers?
Do they have a schedule for when Google's apps will follow these guidelines?
> Everyone who has sung "Happy Birthday" is also a pirate. Yes, really.

No, not really. Probably read your citations before using them to back up your claims; they'll be less likely in contradiction.

As noted in the Snopes article, singing the birthday song is just fine for non-commercial use.
What's the logic behind these pointless distros?

"I was given access to the most amazing tools and technology humanity has ever known and was born with an incredibly ability to use them. Now I'm going to go out of my way to make it harder for others to follow in my footsteps."

It's a massive shame that such a specific and high level skill-set is squandered doing something so completely useless.
The problem is the lack of an efficient input method. I personally haven't come across any good soft full keyboard. And special keys won't work on bluetooth keyboards on old Android versions. I personally do not have a ICS device yet, but I think it's definitely possible to develope on ICS if the input problem is solved.
How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the U.S. Economy?
Not that sure if I should agree the author's statement. I think that energy management is key and that it should be "allowed" for people to be bored. Every engine needs to cool down sometimes and instead of giving some lengthy explanation about "relaxing, regrouping, thinking without a specific purpose" (at least I) describe this time as "boring".
Hacking4Muzik: touchscreen music stands, digital sheet music
Maybe I'm not like all the rest, but I've never used that definition of 'being bored'.

To me, it's not about not knowing anything to do, but about not wanting to do anything. When I feel bored, I don't want to read, to watch, to listen, or do anything else that requires my attention or effort. I don't think I've ever felt like "today, I want to do something! But sadly I don't know anything to do."
Just got "Android". I guess the release of Windows 7.5 really hit the little guy hard...
I found that. If it started collapsed and had the ability to expand and collapse categories and subcategories, it could serve as a table of contents. Right now it is the contents, not a table thereof.
Protip: if you're having load problems but think you've resolved them, try posting a story about them to HN.

Disclaimer: haven't read and can't read the article. EDIT cache is here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

(Totally OT: would it be correct to say "haven't and can't read"?)