skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting is that while some porn does have artistic elements, a lot of newer porn does not: it is literally just people fucking. In the case of the latter, I think the producers would be hard pressed to argue that anything creative or expressive is taking place.
The key here is "an unfamiliar domain". The "make it possible"-part is empirical research. So, you could make it beautiful and fast the first time around, but some would argue that it'd be better to first make it beautiful and then optimize where necessary.
Why Did I Leave?
People misunderstand godwin's law. Godwin was right that the nazis would eventually come up- as they did.

But the people who say that "anyone who brings up the nazis is wrong" are people pushing a revisionist view of history that denies the holocaust-- because they assert that nazi germany was an aberration, that somehow, magically, has nothing to do with the rest of the world or history, and thus any reference to it is tantamount to simply calling someone a nazi.

As you showed in your post, it is quite possible to make a comparison to Nazi Germany without engaging in name calling, or being irrational.

Thus, Godwins actual law does apply -- you made the reference, and thus Godwin is satisfied (since the likelihood approaches one.)

But the fake "Godwin's law" that people cite is also disproven-- your reference is accurate and astute.
The article doesn't talk about a personal judgement of artistic merit, but rather a previous court ruling (“Early Circuit law in California held that obscene works did not promote the progress of science and the useful arts, and thus cannot be protected by copyright.”). Now perhaps that court ruling isn't that much different, but your comment implies a personal judgement of value enabling copyright infringement.
You should re-consider making Facebook your only option for logging in and signing up.

http://bijansabet.com/post/16980728547/why-facebook-connect-...

And the ensuing discussion, here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3548081
As I note above, Honeywell does have a color touchscreen, no-button, net-connected programmable thermostat that costs about what the Nest thermostat costs. For homes.

But, stupidly, they don't sell it in stores, they sell it through HVAC contractors, so do-it-yourselfers won't run into them at the hardware store.
1) I'm going to try and get a demo video added soon.

2) I primarily built it for myself, and I mostly do weight training at a gym. So there are a few features that may be helpful for interval training (superset support automatically advances forwards and backwards when you add a new set, rest timer buzzes when its time to get going again), but I'm not sure how helpful v1 would be for you. I want build on this to make it useful to as many people as possible. I'm not very familiar with Simple Fit, so if you have any ideas on how a voice controlled logger would ideally meet your needs, please let me know.

3) Sure. The idea came about pretty simply -- I tried out every possible workout app because I don't like carrying a pen and paper around with me. I found every one to have the same weakness -- they require you to take out your phone/ipod after every set to input data. I was already using a headset with a microphone to listen to my music while I exercised, so I figured why not put it to use? I didn't validate the idea at all. I figured that worst case scenario, I would build an app that allowed me to track my own workouts and manage my progress how I wanted it to be done. I did the development myself over the course of several long months. One of the features that I find most useful is that saying "skip track" will automatically skip to the next track in itunes. Because the iphone/ipod dont have hardware skip buttons, this is really helpful because I used to have to take out my ipod, unlock it, go to the music app, and tap skip. There are a few features like this and I don't think I would have been able to come up with them unless I was building it for myself and constantly testing it and finding its weaknesses.
The mere existence of piracy does not invalidate the convenience and ease-of-use arguments.

For example, Valve seems to have found compelling evidence supporting the "service" side of the argument: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/25/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-...

They haven't stopped piracy (which can't be stopped completely), but they have carved out a huge, lucrative market where others with the "free will always trump non-free" mindset were too fearful to tread.
Sure, except anything that passes the Miller Test is, by definition, not obscene.
Quite right about the perverse side of cost-plus pricing.
Android dev tip: boolean manifest properties
Another reason why Apple may be limiting Siri to iPhone 4S
It sounds to me like a weak defense. Promoting science and useful arts may be one reason why copyright exists but I don't think it should be taken as the full enumeration of every possible reason for copyright protections. The actual protections affirmed mention only that authors and inventors should be given the exclusive rights to their works, without exclusion based on whether such work is "useful".
Doesn't any definition of "obscene" inherently contain a personal judgement?
You have to go to where the money and the markets are, and that is the US. Sure we have better social safety nets, but those aren't my primary concerns when I'm trying to build a business.
5 Reasons The Windy City is a Great Place for Startups
Hmm, my body's strongest urges are definitely pro creation.
You don't have to count rep by rep. Here's an example of how it would work

You say "Bench Press." The app confirms with a beep.

You want to add the some weight to the bar and tell the app how much weight you are going to use. So you say "135 pounds". The app confirms with a beep.

You do your set, and you were able to squeeze out 9 reps. You say "9 reps." The app confirms with a beep.

Repeat.

It is 100% voice-controlled. I try to log my workout without taking my iPod out of my pocket the entire time I'm at the gym. At the end of the workout, I'll review all the sets because occasionally the voice recognition will get a few numbers wrong (ie, it might mistake 5 for 50).
Woody Harrelson falls victim to Reddit in disastrous 'Ask me anything' interview
Relational Interpreters In Scheme (from author of The Little Schemer)
That's a self-defeating statement. By copying it, you've acknowledged its value.
This is a great point. Most people I know largely overestimate their risk tolerance, and go from aggressive to conservative at the first hint of a market crash.
The converse, however, would be to declare porn to be useful art, and thus deserving of the constitutional protections granted thereto. I have my popcorn at the ready.
True. True. And probably not true.

The advantage of moving to one standard, plus the backwards compatibility for most of the internet will outweigh any small size advantage that UTF-16 will have on real file sizes for some countries / cultures.

A saving of ⅓ on a text file will barely be noticed in a world seemingly governed by Moore's law in nearly every future metric.

(also my bad for using UTF-16 where I meant 16-bit unicode character arrays :))
Generally when determining obscenity the determining factor of the Miller Test is the community standards. When I worked at a porn company, I remember hearing about a case where the defense proved community standards by getting statistics about pay-per-view porn on local cable providers.
Not too big a fan of git hooks, but mostly because I haven't played around with them too much.
My script is here: https://gist.github.com/1755101 A bunch of simple functions, some wrappers for directories and the environment, and an order of operations
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So what? Even dissent for the sake of dissent alone has some merit. Well, sometimes (particularly when the majority is so vast; we need even irrational dissenters to make us pause and reconsider our choices).
Flash Player sandboxing is coming to Firefox
In software engineering the "thinking beforehand" approach is probably riskier than the "think as you go" approach. For example, often the requirements aren't well-defined when the project starts.

Contrast this with physical-stuff engineering (which I think is what you're referring to by saying "engineering background"), where the requirements tend to be better-defined and the cost of experimentation/refactoring is a lot higher.
Are these mostly tech people? I've noticed that folks that are too close to technology can't step away to see the product.

EG in the early 90s a lot of folks couldn't see how using a Web browser was different from ftp since both transferred files over the network.

EDIT: I should be honest and admit I was one of them. I was technically accurate just like Winer is technically accurate that a mailing list is not that different from a Facebook group.
"Software you solely maintain" and "software you pay someone else for" are not the only two options. You may have heard of something called "open-source software", which is a way that the load of maintaining a program can be spread around the community of its users — like paying a vendor to maintain it, but you pay in code instead of money, and you still get to use it even if you don't pay. Ruby, for example, the language he wrote this in, is open-source software. Much of the internet is built with it.

There are probably other companies in England that also need to report expenses to accounting.
Ask HN: Web-based IRC?
I know grove.io is great for self-hosted IRC, but I'd like to basically just strip down my dock (Mac OS) to Chrome, iTerm 2, and MacVim and am looking for a great web-based IRC client. I've tried freenode's webchat, and mibbit, but both seemed sub-par when compared to limechat or linkinus.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
How to Encrypt Your Email with PGP
Part 2: How We Perceive Performance Degradation Over Time
Yeah, I wasn't being facetious, I do actually find it concerning.

I worry that as the internet continues to expand out into society, and more and more muggles make up the userbase; technology people will become more and more confused by what the internet is becoming. And I see that blind spot becoming dangerous as it relates to people's ideas for startups or technology improvements. We'll be designing the technology to power a world we don't understand, and that isn't good for us.

And make no mistake, we absolutely won't be able to keep the internet in the shape we've become accustomed, no matter how much we might wish to.
That's only telling part of the story, as far as I understand. Lightspeed wants the FCC to change their license for (lower powered) satellite communication to allow them to use the spectrum for (higher powered) terrestrial use.

Users of adjacent spectrum designed their products properly for being adjacent to lower powered satellite signals. They weren't designed to filter out the much higher power terrestrial signals that Lightspeed is vying for.

The FCC is not denying Lightspeed the use of their licensed spectrum; they are not letting Lightspeed redefine their license to be something different than it is.
But can you detect when DOM elements are created? (Which is different than adding a click event to new DOM element.)

I was looking into this issue myself recently and ultimately (through advice on Stackoverflow) decided to just ignore jQuery and to use DOM mutation events. I'm still curious if there is a way to do this using jQuery, though.

While working on this I briefly considered livequery due to this StackOverflow post (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4818020/livequery-perform...), but soon realized that this only intercepts DOM changes made via jQuery, and won't work with code in the wild (which is what I need since it is for a Chrome extension.)
Having lived through the dot.com explosion I swore off ever exercising options with 83(b) ever again.

Think of this way, 83(b) is a 'bet' that your stock will be worth more than you paid for it. You put down real money on hypothetical gains later.

Lets look at the risk/gain in both scenarios:

1) You elect 83(b) and exercise your stock. If its an ISO you will have an Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) hit whether or not you can sell the stock. Are given an 'early election' option (where you can elect prior to your ISO vesting) you don't get the AMT hit but you have to pay out of pocket for your whole option.

If the stock goes up and becomes tradable you WIN double! Not only can you can claim a long term gains rate rate (20% vs 35%) but you also get the money from selling your stock. If you the stock goes down or away, you LOSE, up to all of the money you spent buying the stock that never became worth anything.

2) You choose not to elect, and wait around.

If the stock goes up you WIN! But only partially, instead of paying 20% federal tax you're paying 35% and instead of capital gains its regular income.

If the stock goes down or becomes untradeable you WIN again. Because you didn't lose the money you would have paid to exercise the stock its still working for you somewhere rather than going into a rat hole.

So option two you don't win as big when your stock takes off but you also don't have a 'lose' option. Typically I advise folks who ask me about 83b to take the money you would have used to exercise your option and buy some publicly traded blue chip stock. If you get a big pay day and can exercise your startup stock for real money, you can sell the blue chip stock to help cover the taxes and get to keep more of your startup stock.
Don't take internet comments too seriously. People say stupid shit all the time, anonymous or not.
They licensed the spectrum for satellite comms, and LightSquared is trying to use a loophole to use it as (much more valuable) cellular LTE.
Dear Rim,
Yes. Yes, they are. They may be an affluent victim. An able victim.

... who, as the GP points out, played the game with the best of them. Live by the patent sword, die by the patent sword.

I like the idea someone posted on HN a few months ago; it should be possible to "opt out" of the patent system entirely. You can't be sued for patent infringement, but you also can't hold any patents yourself. Let's do that, and watch the market determine whether patents are really good for innovation or not.
Often, yes. I might be watching a video and using muscle memory to go Start -> "gv" -> Enter to start up gvim for another window, for example.

It's not nit-picking when the decision is a bad one.
fled their country? AFAIK they're all still living in Sweden.
Mint is using a Gnome 3 fork called Cinnamon.
Teach Orderably a new trick
Ask HN: Who else keeps a secret diary of startup ideas?
When was the last time you built one of your ideas?
When was the last time you dumped an idea?(because it was already built or otherwise)
How long is your list right now?

Just curious...
Haha, cchurch is definitely not me.
Their incentive is to earn fees for their company first, and then beat the market, second. And yet you advise people to pay them inordinate sums to underperform the market.

I love how I'm getting voted down for pointing out simple and obvious facts. I take down votes without counter arguments as proof that the people I'm debating are expressing a religious, rather than rational, perspective.

That's fine, believe what you like. Just don't try to persuade me with such assertions.
So a big-budget knockoff of a Hollywood movie (a la Pirates XXX) would be protected as art, but backroom casting couch wouldn't? Similarly, Star Wars Kid wouldn't be covered, but Tosh's show on it would be?

I'm simply fascinated by the possible ramifications of a court deciding this issue.
pud, I'm impressed with your product-shipping record. This looks really cool too, I'll be sure to pass it on to all my musician friends.
Actually this test is illustrating a performance problem with the wrong thing, which is what makes it so dangerous. jQuery append is fine. It's actually the $('<div id=box></div>') vs document.createElement('div') that is the real performance killer. Which can be easily resolved by doing $(document.createElement('div'))
So you think the direction the world will take should be decided by the masses? This is a valid wish, but don't you think people should try to educate and persuade the masses? Point out something that they might have overlooked in their infinite wisdom :) ?
Microsoft did something similar with the beta of Office 2010 - they put a happy face and a sad face in the system tray with a pop-up menu with 4-5 expected problems/praises and 'other' as the last option. At first I got really surprised and thought it was some virus disguising as 'free' smileys.
Pay Attention and Give a Shit [2008]
Dave McClure (2010): Design and marketing trump engineering
Winning often correlates with butts in seats.

However, it is unlikely that a strategy optimizing dollars/win is the same as dollars/season. Merchandising and TV contracts play too big a role (not to mention ticket prices). Stars sell merchandise and seats even for losing teams.
Exactly, they licensed the spectrum for satellite comms, and LightSquared wants to exploit a loophole to use it as (much more valuable) cellular LTE.

It's kind of like buying land zoned for industrial use next to the airport because you can get it rezoned for residential and make a ton of money. And the airport is saying WTF, now we're going to have to deal with local voters who will want us to change the way we do things.

If you're going to do this sort of thing, you need to make sure you have your engineering down pat, and your local politicians and regulators in your pocket.

see
http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2012/02/lightsquared-some-...
http://www.fablabsd.org/
For crying out loud, no more changing stuff! We already enough to worry about with supporting Facebook Connect, rendering for iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE7,8,9, HTML5, etc.
It should be noted that that's just one part of her case (and she's the plaintiff). The other parts include the defendant harassing her for downloads that supposedly occurred before the film was released, failure on the defendant's part to mitigate damages through the DMCA, the defendant purposefully setting up honeypots to catch infringers (but putting the work out there in the first place in the process), and others. Her claim is not limited to the inadmissibility of porn as copyrightable material.
Fair point and I am certainly aware of that. I was actually hoping that would come across in my post.

My main concern is that it's becoming increasingly more acceptable to be publicly hateful in a non-anonymous fashion. This is somewhat unprecedented in the internet-age. I mean, some of the comments were outright disgusting.
Hey chris123, thanks for sharing your thoughts (I upvoted this comment) You are welcome to start your own thing or recruit others to do so and HN is a great place to do it. I appreciate the offer of the domain, but we're pretty happy with the one we've got. =)
If you've already got a terminal open, why not irssi?
Awesome. I have this exact same methodology...Now can you write an article about how to explain how this works to Business people/non-tech people, who have no experience in "iterative program development" or why the programming process MUST be iterative?

Everytime I mention code refactoring to a non-tech person the response is similar to "Why would you program the same thing again?" And your article is the exact reason why. You can't know everything you need to know in the beginning of developing some brand new technology. If that was the case, then every startup would be successful.
You can use the DOMNodeInserted event. Something like this:

document.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted", function(event) { console.log($(event.target).parent()); });

That will log the element that gets inserted into the DOM.
Exhibit A in Patent Abuses
That's interesting. You'd think that would be irrational for the company as a whole, no? If your employees are paying for their own housing, meals, transportation, massages, etc., instead of the company taking those on as business expenses, then for every US$1000 the company saves on expenses, it has to pay its employees US$1300 or so in higher salaries to make up for it, with the other US$300 going to income tax, payroll tax, etc. What's wrong with my thinking, or is this really true?
I noticed it much more when I turned my laptop screen brightness up all the way. Maybe something to consider testing if you pick a new one.
I love this strategy of rewarding myself with time for side projects by getting problems right. Great idea - thank you!
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Congrats to Jason & the Ridejoy crew. Well done guys. Well done.
Heh I was reading mine today. It's amazing how much I've built in my mind over the last few months!
Apple has the worlds most terrible mouse product designs, but if there is one thing they got right it was the touchpads. I will not be purchasing a Windows laptop until I can get one with the exact same touchpad with the exact same surface and feeling to it. I've spent countless hours with my Mac and just the touchpad, I wouldn't even dream of doing the same with my Lenovo IdeaPad or any other laptop I have played with to date.
Flickr does not require copyright assignment, and there are waaay more photographers on Flickr than FB.
In other words, UTF-16 (variable length) is different from UCS-2 (fixed length).
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Thats a disingenuous reply. "Artistic value" is not the same as "any value". I don't see any "artistic value" in a pile of coal, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have utilitarian value.
Not really: just because I want a copy of something for whatever reason does not mean it has any artistic or scientific value. And porn would be "useful" even with artistic or scientific merit ;)
My Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 which I have had for ages and I've never had a lag problem with is set to be polled at 10 ms.
I have a similar idea, because I'm unlikely to actually record all my metrics after a workout.

My current solution is to take one picture of the machine's output display per workout, then I (hopefully) add them to a Workout album.

What I'd like to do is have an app which scans these photos and pulls the numbers out to log them and draw graphs automagically.
I don't know. On occasion, "just people fucking" could be quite creative and certainly expressive.
I am a UX designer, usability, and visual designer, who makes the wireframes and mockups for developers. I also typically go in and write a lot of CSS and html as a part of the designing.

Presently, I am really in favor of developers using Bootstrap as a CSS and html baseline, and then having the custom design built on top of it.

Even with a designer, I still don't see a tremendous advantage of rolling a entire CSS (or Less) stylesheet. The developers can start building and use Bootstrap to get things rolling, and the desginer can do the hi-fi gloss designs, and then you just change the Less to match the gloss.

So you end up with a less/html template that is very solid, and a custom front end that is a clone of your glossy mockups.

It seems like you get a lot more value and stability from Bootstrap + a designer, changing Bootstrap to match your custom design.

I totally agree that in production, you shouldn't be able to recognize Bootstrap. But if you create your own "skin" on it, I think it gets you moving a whole lot faster, and with a broader coverage of css/less than you may have rolled on your own.

Engineers should be producing elegant, innovative solutions through code, and Designers should be producing elegant, intuitive design and usability through interface and design. No one really needs to reinvent how to set up a blanket CSS and html template.
> The best thing about javascript on the server is that no one had used it

AppJet and Jaxer were around way before, as well as JSDB, haXe/JS, jslibs, Narwhal... that should read "no one had succeeded before".