skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should another country had invaded the US for the actions of your government? From invading other countries, to using blacks as slaves, to segregation, to developing and having the Bomb, to the practice of the death penalty?

Who told you you get to pick what government you like and what not, and act in another sovereign country? And who said the population of other countries want you to interfere with their affairs? You can find anti-government people in any country, including yours. Even anti-government groups and parties.

That doesn't mean the general public of said countries want someone to invade and take care of their government for them.
We just need to elect the right (See: my) people, silly.
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Direct competitor? John T Reed self publishes. He lacks $16,000+ "seminars" that tour the country. Kiyosaki puts on, a horrendous Yahoo! run of financial advice, etc. Reed educates by noting the falseness of other guru's:
http://www.johntreed.com/Reedgururating.html

He is not unbiased as you say, but "direct competitor" is rather strong.
Hipster CEO also apologizes for address-book-gate :).

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/08/hipster-ceo-also-apologizes...
Yep. http://jungleblaze.com
I tend to conquer both at the same time. When I work on my own projects, I almost always choose a new platform to do it on, I at least switch out some core technology like going from a relational DB to NoSQL or switching out some major libraries for other libraries. This was tougher to do when I was more of a junior and had only one or two languages under my belt, but as I masters more technologies the ability to do it became easier and easier.

Many people view this as adding unnecessary risk to a project, I view it as the opposite, because if the project fails I don't look at it as a total loss, rather I can reflect on the project as a self directed tutorial, where I gained valuable knowledge, knowledge that a lot of people pay to learn. As well the cold hard reality is a lot of projects fail to become companies, so I use the learning as motivation against that reality. Further with each new switch the time of being able to make switches becomes more rapid, which has value in itself. What took me a month to learn from my first languadge to my second now takes me a few days when adapting to a new languadge. So depending on your perspective choosing a new stack can actually make it a less risky proposition for sinking your time into.

I am currently working on a new project in Clojure because I have wanted to learn a LISP dialect for a long time. To me it has already paid off, because LISP is a elegant as everyone says it is. Even if the project goes nowhere I am profoundly more valuable from the knowledge I have gained. I just wish I would have gotten around to picking up a LISP dialect sooner.

In the end it comes down to your ambitions, but projects should be about what drives you. If you truly have a desire to learn new technologies then by all means add that as a goal to your project. If your only overarching goal is to get to market ASAP then stick with what you know. But by all means, don't do it just because of other peoples opinions. Some technical people can be the most bloated wind bags out there. The kind of people that believe that only their way of doing things is right. People that act like that are universally wrong because development is an art as such it is subjective, the tools we use are like paint, some people express themselves in watercolor other in oil. Languages and technology stacks are very much like this and they reflect human thought, some languadge reflect how some people think better than others, but that does not mean that they reflect how you think best. Anyone that claims differently is just practicing dogma and should be ignored.
There are valid legal reasons to integrate with the address book. The argument that it's apple's fault is like saying WalMart is to blame for shoplifting because they don't put everything behind the counter. It would be very inconvenient to do so and overall things work better when we prosecute crime rather than create a police state environment where crime is not possible, while also making many reasonable actions difficult to do. I don't want to live in the Soviet Union and wait in line for bread.
Big congrats Sahil!
It doesn't cost millions to prosecute such a case. Ever if it did, so what. These criminal syndicates engaging in these illegal conspiracies and crimes are well funded, so all costs of prosecution can easily be paid for with fines and seizures.
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> Country A has weapons of mass destruction, and is
> the only country known to have used two of those in
> a war, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians,
> just as the war was ending and the enemy was
> surrendering.

Is there credible evidence that the US knew that the Japanese were on the verge of surrendering, but decided to drop the bombs anyways?
Unless I'm mistaken, at the very least "The End of Eternity" features pocket computers, too.

And to say robot brains don't count because their AI is so advanced that they are more like characters is kind of disingenuous :)
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Why should copyright be tied to the life of the author (serious question)? When I discuss copyright with friends I typically argue for a fixed copyright term regardless of when the author dies. What are the arguments to the contrary?
They paid a 1600% effective tax rate, which is just happening this quarter, and supposedly explains most of the loss.
The thing I wish they would do is have data analysis/visualization API. I send data in predefined supported formats ("User Retention Data", "Google Advertising Campaign", etc) and they send back deep/amazing/interactive/visualization reports.

Some companies have tried to create reporting/dashboard services, but I bet Wolfram could do far better job than anyone else has. I could easily see tens of thousands of businesses powering their back office dashboards off Wolfram and paying $100-$200/mo for the privilege.
I can very easily imagine a US led action that destroyed Iran's naval and air forces in very short order, without a single boot on the ground, ever.

I don't know if I support such action, or if it would have the desired outcome, but I do know portraying the only options as "no military action" or "full scale armored ground invasion" is just not correct.
So, going back to hex and turning it into a flag just like the Free Speech flag in the wiki link, would that make this image:

http://i.imgur.com/OHg3l.png

the most copyright-infringing flag of all time?
I agree with the suggestions already given.

Just to throw another idea out there, a further alternative would be to work/look at open-source games. Technology wise you are definitely in the correct direction, most common languages in game dev are C++ and various scripting languages (from my experience).

I have no idea how much time you have or what sort of stuff you want to do in games (e.g. graphic/sound engine, networking, ai...) but since you mentioned FPS games, you could look into Xonotic. It is a fast FPS game, open-source and based on a heavily improved Quake3 engine.

That might give you a better idea of what components make a game and you will not have to worry about artworks etc. if you want to contribute/fork.

But I figure, while contributing to open-source will help you understand games better, it will not get you hired without networking I think. You can also check out the SIGGRAPH convention presentations, lots of interesting, although maybe too specialised, stuff there.
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Is anyone in palo alto going to pandomonthly fireside chat with arrington (in sf) tomorrow and want to meet up?
> There are valid legal reasons to integrate with the address book.

Nobody is suggesting it should be impossible to integrate with contacts. The suggestion is it should be impossible to do so without asking my permission, as is the case with other private data. Requiring that apps ask approval before accessing my private data is not at all like waiting in line for bread in the USSR.

> The argument that it's apple's fault

Is one that nobody is making, so you don't need to debunk it. Or at the very least, I'm not making it, in fact, I very explicitly stated I wasn't making that argument in the post you replied to.
You start out with a fair critique of the US, but the later stretched points undermine your argument:

> Country A has weapons of mass destruction, and is the only country known to have used two of those in a war, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, just as the war was ending and the enemy was surrendering.

I was not aware that the mainstream view was that Japan was surrendering before the atomic bombings.

> Everywhere country A invaded in the last 10 years, they brought mass instability, civil tension or war and chaos, in the name of "bringing democracy". Coincidentally it's mostly in strategic places with lots of natural resources.

Easier said for Iraq than Afghanistan. It already had chaos, civil war, etc. at the onset of the invasion. Expected returns from mineral wealth hardly justify the cost.

> They have also assassinated their two most prominent anti-segregation activists

I'm guessing you mean King for one. Not sure who'd other would be? (Malcom X? He advocated racial seperation). Either way, it's a tall argument that the country (government?) assassinated them.

> Finally, country A practices the death penalty as much as country B,

Iran executes people at not only a far higher rate but even in absolute numbers. It also applies death penalty to a far wider range of crimes.

> and has a lot of religious fanatics among its population, too

Sure, but they aren't running the government

> It's a known fact that an openly atheist would never, as it is, get elected to the top office in country A.

As opposed to being charged with blasphemy in country B.
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Is it me or is the site running at an unbelievably slow pace right now?

Also: Large datasets can apparently screw off, their filesize limit is 1mb.
So "Pro" is code for "Paid"
1995 was 17 years ago. Why did it take 17 years to start the suits? It's not like any of this was hidden in those 17 years. Google's been around since 1998. Amazon was from 1995. Yahoo was from 1995. What part of these companies took 14-17 years to finally bring a suit to? Until I see that, he's a damn dirty patent troll taking advantage of the status quo.
Are you claiming there is no dog fighting in Europe?
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>What unit would you use to measure the value it provides, if not money?

I'm against quantifying it at all because, while useful, price is a very limited metric. There are numerous cases where you can increase the transaction sum and achieve 0 value increase, eg. monopolistic pricing in a market with inelastic demand or bad investing (destroying capital) or externalities, etc.

>I don't understand the point you're making. Obviously somebody thinks Microsoft's Android patents are valuable, or they wouldn't pay to use them. What do you mean by "would it create extra value?"

Nobody is "using them", in fact nobody knows what patents are in question, all that's known is that Microsoft forced different Android manufacturers to pay up for Linux kernel or they take them to court. That's textbook rent seeking. It's likely that Linux devs arrived at the solution independently (since IIRC it's unknown what patents are in question), or would have done so - so you can't make the point that without granting Microsoft a monopoly you wouldn't have Linux kernel.

>That makes no sense. Demand existing isn't enough for something to spring into existence. You make it sound like other people slaving away to create music, movies, and software is your birth right or something.

People choose to share their creations, once it's copied the copy is no longer their property. They can do whatever they want with their property but knowledge is a non-rivalrous non-excludable good (without infringing on excludable property of others) and creating artificial scarcities to sustain someones business model is ridiculous. Software can translate nicely to a no IP environment by SaaS, NDAs and open-source development financed by consulting. There are various routes for other industries, and many more can be created. I'm not sure about things like pharmaceuticals and maybe other industries have different conditions that would lead to catastrophic results, but that doesn't apply to software and entertainment, bankrupting Disney and Microsoft != bankrupting a company with 10 years of R&D in cancer treatment research.
Biased against American patents, no less. He's probably a dirty Socialist to boot.

I wonder whether the writer was dramatizing things a bit. I would have expected TBL to have been better prepared by the defendants' lawyers.
If you're like me and you haven't played with S3 and are wondering what an object is, here's a relevant excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on S3 to add some context:

"S3 stores arbitrary objects (computer files) up to 5 terabytes in size, each accompanied by up to 2 kilobytes of metadata. Objects are organized into buckets (each owned by an Amazon Web Services or AWS account), and identified within each bucket by a unique, user-assigned key. Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) which are modified in the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be exported to S3 as bundles."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3
It was 1945, the Italians had surrendered, the Germans had surrendered, Japan had been under heavy under attack with conventional bombs (leaving tens of thousands dead and most of their cities destroyed). USSR was also there (had freed Manchuria). Besides the official US line, held for political reasons, most countries in the world believe this was the case, i.e. the US was just itching to test their new weapons in a war setting.

"In his 1965 study, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (pp. 107, 108), historian Gar Alperovitz writes:

(...) In mid-April [1945] the [US] Joint Intelligence Committee reported that Japanese leaders were looking for a way to modify the surrender terms to end the war. The State Department was convinced the Emperor was actively seeking a way to stop the fighting."

I've read similar arguments and evidence in my language books, but here's some more from a quick search on the web (the source seems dubious in general, but the specific parts legit):

"Months before the end of the war, Japan's leaders recognized that defeat was inevitable. In April 1945 a new government headed by Kantaro Suzuki took office with the mission of ending the war. When Germany capitulated in early May, the Japanese understood that the British and Americans would now direct the full fury of their awesome military power exclusively against them."

and:

"It was only after the war that the American public learned about Japan's efforts to bring the conflict to an end. Chicago Tribune reporter Walter Trohan, for example, was obliged by wartime censorship to withhold for seven months one of the most important stories of the war.

In an article that finally appeared August 19, 1945, on the front pages of the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times-Herald, Trohan revealed that on January 20, 1945, two days prior to his departure for the Yalta meeting with Stalin and Churchill, President Roosevelt received a 40-page memorandum from General Douglas MacArthur outlining five separate surrender overtures from high-level Japanese officials. (The complete text of Trohan's article is in the Winter 1985-86 Journal, pp. 508-512.)

This memo showed that the Japanese were offering surrender terms virtually identical to the ones ultimately accepted by the Americans at the formal surrender ceremony on September 2 -- that is, complete surrender of everything but the person of the Emperor."
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Sorry, English isn't my first language. I'm against focusing on quantifiable wealth exclusively. Eg. reading HN is worth something to me but I didn't pay any money to do it so it's worthless ? Price is only a reflection of market exchange values, it doesn't account for actual value to the consumers. Eg. food is extremely valuable but is also cheap.

Price/money is useful but the goal is to create value for consumers, not to suck them dry :) Profit is a market signal/reward for producers but that doesn't mean that it's == to value created for consumer (see my reply above about monopolies, externalities, etc.)
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Actually your more likely choice is to copy (http://blog.foundrs.com/2012/01/02/apple-vs-samsung-the-trol...). We won't be necessarily better off in a world with no IP protection.
This is not a good idea. HTTP polling is enough traffic to put the mobile radio into its DCH state, which uses a lot of power. (Second only to the screen on most phones.) Once you're in DCH, there's a timer (typically ~8 seconds) before it turns off again. When polling, you just wasted orders of magnitude more power to wake the radio than was used to actively communicate for that 500ms or so.

One of the great things about the internet is that you can neglect considerations of the physical layer when you design your app.

One of the sad things about the mobile web is that you can't neglect considerations of the physical layer when you design your app.

Some things that seem like a great idea at first (eg lazy loading of lists as the user scrolls) can actually be detrimental and counter-productive when it comes to battery life.
Maybe I'm being a bit black-and-white on this, but while the meta and the philosophy is interesting to talk about, no one is mentioning the morality. Stealing is wrong. You're taking someone else's work and not compensating them for it. I think it's sad that we're all so worried about the law when, in reality, you shouldn't pirate music for the same reason you don't steal a candy bar from the grocery store or snag 5 dollars out of your coworker's wallet or hack into Dropbox to get extra storage for free. It's wrong.
For now, it is only adopted by Chrome. The code for NaCl is all open sourced and the ABI is stable, so other parties could adopt it if they were so inclined.

The difference is that it allows for extremely fast native code execution within a sandboxed environment, compiled from languages that normally target native environments (C/C++/etc.) With NaCl you can run very resource intensive games without risk of exposing your system to malicious software. A boon for the indie devs that want to cross-compile for other platforms, or those that just can't stand Javascript. :)
I like

> $number_hash{$_} = 1 for @list;
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Inventing hard things is worth patenting. Discovering emergent phenomena is not.
I can relate to that a bit, especially the part about not considering it a total loss. At this point it seems silly to take on a new language for something that's this important to me.
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There's nothing about the size of the government that limits or enhances it's power to act in the best interest of its citizenry. (You've thrown a red herring in there.) What we clearly see is that government's determination that it's simply more efficient to deal with significant (read corporate) power structures than feebly citizenly ones. This is where the limit comes from.

So perhaps I'm wrong: Perhaps a larger government is more able to engage with diverse and fine-grained interests while a small government is more likely to be trapped leveraging corporate power.
creating artificial scarcities to sustain someones business model is ridiculous

I read your words, but all I hear you saying is "I want free media".

Do you fundamentally disbelieve in the concept of paying someone for the use/enjoyment of IP they produced?
Can two women have one baby in 4.5 months? Many types of work are not parallelizable, law is one of them. I could elaborate but you'd do better to ask a lawyer out for a lunch to talk about it.
No kidding, asio is fast and battle-tested. I only see risks associated with being an early adopter this. The Node hype is a deafening roar.
The followup "Colour, social beings, and undecidability" http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/24 is also pretty good.
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Maybe I misread, but I seem to recall a chart that showed almost 7% growth from your linked-in data. Out of the 5 shown in the bar chart it was the slowest growth, but I assumed that it was significant over languages not listed on that bar chart given that it was in the list of 5. If I misspoke I apologize, my intent was not to misrepresent the data. Looking back on the data, I don't see where I got that it was second as far as growth goes.
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The problem with Wolfram Alpha is this: it's awesome when a query works, but often it either doesn't understand your query on the first try, or it just doesn't have the data or computation you're after.

Siri has the same UI problem. You either have to read through the list of commands and memorize a few, or you have to deal with the constant frustration of trying something three times before giving up and doing it manually.

That said, these UIs are fun for a coder. :-) It'd be cool if somebody were to track and curate interesting Wolfram Alpha queries in a blog/tumblr/subreddit. The closest thing I could find was this:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-terms-put-wolfram-alp...
I'm mostly with you but can't you empathize more with the companies he's suing, who have developed the seed of an idea to an extraordinary level, than with him and his small shitty company, who just patented an abstraction and never did much with it?
If you've got a Mac or a Linux machine and some neat game is only available (for you) via the Chrome Web Store, it seems like a fine option. People already spend lots of money on browser-based games.
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Dude did you look at the link?

The new features are all about bypassing that. You just give it the data, instead of a language-esque query.

And there is a lot more UI too, for manipulating plots and such.
Thanks, I actually edit translations from Japanese, so massaging word choice is very much in my lane for these jobs. I'm trying to make the authors look as competent as possible.
It is always a good day when someone simplifies something, Gumroad is a great example of this.
Congratulations and I hope Gumroad becomes wildly successful.