skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Benighted fool!" shouted the man from The Fordian Science Monitor, "why don't you take soma?"
"Get away!" The Savage shook his fist.

The other retreated a few steps then turned round again. "Evil's an unreality if you take a couple of grammes."

"Kohakwa iyathtokyai!" The tone was menacingly derisive.

"Pain's a delusion."

"Oh, is it?" said the Savage
Forget Puerto Rico -- Washington, DC pays taxes and yet has no meaningful Congressional representation and limited autonomy to pass its own laws.
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While I appreciate their honest and upfront response to the question, I'd argue this makes the idea better suited to an application that the user runs locally.
The Linux ecosystem needs one distro (say Ubuntu) to become so influential, that app devs start to primarily target it instead of the upstream. Only then will the library space stop being a moving target for end users, and only then it will be possible to upgrade app1 without triggering an automatic update of app2, which both happen to depend on the same lib. Only then will these useless practices of "packaging" and "backporting" finally stop, and devs will be simply make packages themselves, like they do on windows or osx. Only then will users be able to install a distro once, and then be able to install new apps for 5-10 years without having to upgrade the whole distro every 6 months.

What happens in Windows is not what you're describing; developers are simply forced to distribute their own copies of the libraries (as DLLs or statically compiled) since there is no package manager. What then happens is that there are dozens of copies of the same libraries, most of them lacking bugfixes and even security patches.

The dependency system used by Linux distros may have its problems, but it surely beats ad-hoc dependency management, even if it requires backporting.

Normal users and especially businesses simply dont want to constantly update their systems. Force them to do that, and they simply walk away.

Right. If you use Windows, have you tried counting the number of update managers running in the background, the number of applications that ask you on launch to "verify updates", the number of times Windows Update alerts you, etc?

Windows machines are constantly updating. Unlike Ubuntu, they just do it incrementally instead of once every six months (except for security patches).
But that's better fixed by moving to a rolling release scheme.
I am technically oriented, but I was very aware of how easy it was: download, start (simple install, no config), wait five minutes, search, click download. Done.

What issues are not solved and what new issues are created?
I'm sure most of hackers here will relate to the product CEO.
You missed one though: Brogrammer CEO :)
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Nobody goes to jail due to GPL violations. If the police were conducting raids, seizing servers, and throwing people in jail for years for GPL violations and people still weren't outraged, then it might be time to talk about a double standard.
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So nobody minds if I pirate their software right?
I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons
[Update] It seems Skrivr has crashed under the HN load. I've thrown up a flat-file version of the article here:

http://samuelfine.com/iphone_lessons_learned.html
True, but opponents and critics were quick to point out that it does not protect against "illegal acts". Pretty funny, when you think about how religions have formed our society's rights and wrongs for thousands of years (for better or worse, depending on who you are).
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So I have to make a "secret" link on my website (or use a "private" link on SoundCloud etc.) right? And Sellify just sells the URL?
Looks nice! My suggestions;

Keyboard shortcuts (N for new to-do, Shift-S for saving item).
An API, or a Mac/Win app or terminal tool.
Has anyone had success selling e-goods with this service or similar services? And how do they stop people from selling things they have not created?
Yeah. I thought I had resized the server instance last night but it looks like it failed. So it's now running on a 256MB instance... on w/ support. Check back soon!
It's great that Linus is committed to supporting old binaries, too bad all that effort is in vain because of the glibc disaster.

Linux can run statically compiled binaries from 1993, but not the Firefox binaries from 2006.
Good idea for people like me who think LinkedIn is great in theory but has turned out to be pretty useless.
Ouch. Server swamped. Rookie mistake. Resizing it to a bigger instance. Check back soon!
Prosecution seems to be politicised, and pursue cases according to who controls the executive branch rather than according to the interests of the general public. I'd like to know which countries have taken steps to make prosecution more independent, and how they did it.
Is Kony dead?
I have tried this approach and have been using it successfully for over 9 years now. No complaints so far.
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We had to turn off impress.is for Firefox because their css3 transitions were so slow.
i'm not sure think your personal take on lisp indentation has any compelling benefits to justify departing from consensus.

i recognize a lot of old school lispers follow a philosophy of "lisp empowers me so much that i don't need a team", so they do whatever they want and their productivity so godly that nobody says anything, but this isn't particularly helpful to increased lisp adoption, which benefits us all. maybe it isn't harmful either, but we who are already using it aren't in a position to judge this.
Do you mean Rotterdam? As far as I can tell it has the highest density of ships in the world.
You probably wouldn't have bought it anyway...
So I didn't want to read his 20K+ characters and jumped to the conclusion

I didn't try to convince you copying is not theft, I didn't try to convince you I'm too poor to buy products and I didn't try to convince you file-sharing is akin to advertising. I just tried to tell it like it is.

Pretty good, and then the reason you pirate?

Didn't Warner Bros. just set a company record for quarterly profits? I'm confused. My guess is that these industries really aren't losing money, but they are losing control. And maybe to them, control is more valuable than profits? I don't know, that's why I'm asking.

So he didn't answer the question (or may be I missed the answer?)
I've never had to upgrade Windows (including all installed apps) to be able to install some other random app.

On Linux, having to upgrade the distro (including getting a new desktop environment force-installed) to get a new version of any random app is established practice. Example: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3822
Haxe + HaxeNME is a very capable alternative to this.
"In order to avoid paying high connection fees to traffic-pumping carriers, Google Voice has blocked calls to some of these carriers." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping

Looks like you are traffic pumping after all.
Given that it's P2P, I'd expect there to be extra bandwidth and storage cost that is reserved for other users. If it is wholly P2P, then I would assume that possibly only 400GB (1/2 + redundancy for network failure) of that 1TB can be used for your data, if they have centralised backup servers then more. For the former this system would only be reliable if the data is used as a backup for files that don't change that often, and that other peers have a fast enough upload rate.

This service does not seem any different from the other handful of P2P backup solutions [1] except for the included hardware. Maybe the difference is as a standalone network drive it would more difficult to restrict upload rate or switch off the program when you don't want to upload data.

Also it is uncertain whether multiple drives are needed for the thing to work in separate locations, e.g. transferring files from office to home.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_ser...
How does this apply to non-US citizens?
One thing Shovel has going for it is that it appears to "just work" for Windows users. Compare to the setup process for Fabric:

http://www.jonnyreeves.co.uk/2011/08/getting-python-and-fabr...

Windows doesn't support hashbangs, so Shovel does currently need a batch file in Python's Scripts directory, but that's not a huge deal.
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To an extent, they already do.

The bigger development teams don't focus on a single distro, as their development base is probably diverse enough to demand a certain degree of platform compatibility.

However, many of the smaller development teams will focus almost exclusively on Ubuntu, as it is the distro they will most likely have.

I know, from my own limited experience, that I have only ever attempted to make my systems work on Ubuntu and just allowed others to push their changes into the main development if they have specific platform that they prefer to use.
Personal and bigoted? Really?

These words apparently mean different things to us.
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I thought the iPad 1 in iOS5 removed functionality for multi-touch gestures?
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Well said -- although I think that there is a "market" for this kind of diatribe. Obviously HN sent it up its list, so you know that Reddit loves it.

There's a fringe element like myself that doesn't really care about free downloading but that also doesn't care for Big Content and the way that they have such a disproportionate influence on law enforcement, culture, and politics.

At the least, it's good that some folks get a reminder that all the Chicken Little tactics of Big Content don't match up with their market performance. It's good because it's a reminder that when they see a Chris Dodd getting cosy with some politicians or bills... that's a bad thing and they should vote against it/them.
The (actual) original: http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer....
What exactly is it that you're looking for?
Here you go: http://www.euphonious-intuition.com/runway2.xml

It's dirt simple - I actually converted a "world population" widget into what I wanted, hence some of the funny names. "Startpop" is your starting bank account. "Poprate" is your burn rate per second. "Startdatepop" is the day you start the counter.

For example, in my script I budgeted $1000/month, which works out to $0.00038/s

Like I said, it's pretty crude. You have to routinely update both your balance and the start-date to keep it accurate...but I've found just the idea of a ticking balance is more powerful than what the number actually is.
In case you're trying to go to the getting started page in the overview it seems like it is broken, here is the getting started page in google code http://code.google.com/p/playn/wiki/GettingStarted
You can have WoW, gambling, and food everyday but the way LSD works is, that you can't. It builds tolerance quickly.
Network effects also favor Dropbox. Many Dropbox users I know don’t just use sharing features, they use Dropbox because of those sharing features. Those features are only useful if many other people are also using the same service.
Let's talk about the potential adverse effects of alcohol.
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At the risk of appealing to authority, I have to assume that if DARPA is using it to train snipers, they know it works whether it's due to the tDCS or mental priming as mentioned below. Obviously, from a theoretical standpoint it's important to know why it's working but from a lifehacking/making better snipers/learning Perl/selling $99 tDCS kits standpoint, it doesn't matter how it works, only that it does.
After you have downloaded and tried it, think about this:

If you like the software, you pay for it or donate to the developers to support further development. If it turns out it wasn't what you were looking for, you delete it off your hard drive.
well, they look nice, but desperately need to be made as sprites. this way it's a waste of requests.
On KONY 2012: Invisible Children Inc. is a shady nonprofit org.
Java EE is a big hammer, it's got everything you could possibly ask for. You used to pay for this by requiring huge config files. Ejbs for example allow access from remote servers to objects as if they were local Objects. This can be used to separate out general application logic from the web, native application, web service interfaces which can be run on there own dedicated servers all communicating with the backend transparently via ejb. Any operations in a ejb are automatically transaction with the database. Ejbs used to be a configuration nightmare though, but not anymore.

Java play is the get it done platform.

They both have their uses.
People get outraged at the abuse of copyright by corporations against the common good.

Whether that abuse comes in the form of violating copyright or protecting copyright is irrelevant. Copyright isn't the ethical issue here. The abuse is.
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If you'd have read the article, you'd have found out that "Why do you pirate?" is a nonquestion.

Pirating is a fact. So the real question is "Do you want to make a profit off me or not?".
Totally agree- I didnt mean not to understand the incentives, I just meant don't paint all VCs as a group as having a certain set of values or goals. Everyone, whether VC or entrepreneur, acts in response to a combination of the incentives in front of them and the rewards they value. If you understand a person's goals and the incentives in front of them, you can often predict what they are going to do reasonably accurately. Whether entrepreneur or VC, some people want a lifestyle business; some people want fame; some people want fortune; some people want to solve hard problems; some people want to create meaningful change in the world; etc. Different industries offer different ways to achieve any of those goals with varying levels of risk.

By all means, do everything you can with any business partner, whether a colleague, a VC, or a potential acquirer to understand what their goals are, and what behavior they are incentivized towards in their effort to reach that goal.
Or he's discovered a new kind of sucker, cf. homeopathy.
Certainly not if I can just pirate it.
Yup. Who would down-vote this :)
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I don't think they're lying. I think that when they say "best fit" it could very well include saving some money. But it probably had other strategic benefits too.
This is true, but other parts of the map data may well be of higher quality too.

I find OSM data in and around London to be more complete than Google Maps, or rather the speed of updates is faster making it more accurate and I also find data that is more granular (such as where in a fence a gate may be).

Also, OSM maps for specific purposes work really well. Nearly all of the cyclists I know who have Garmin units have replaced the maps with OSM ones just to get contours and other cartographic features that assist riding in the countryside (where fields or woods dominate most maps and more detail is needed).
Who the fuck is Kony? 
his exact time yesterday I had never heard of Joseph Kony.

Now I'l admit, when I watched that video, it moved me at first. more than I expected. I damn near teared up but given Africa's track record with tyrants, dictators and child soldiers there came a point where I asked myself - why him? why now?

What makes this asshole so damn special the US is actually committing troops to Africa?
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" ... This means you never have to log in to LinkedIn."

Thank you!
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Heroku is great However...
Another gumroad clone? Although this appears to have more fancy features, also instant payment, the embed buttons look great too.
I remember jsf having a bad rep however jsf2 is supposed to be not as bad.
I think Loopt made an error in partnering exclusively with carriers. I remember when I was in the UK and heard of loopt the first tifme. I visited the site and was told to put in a US number. It was there they lost it.

I am really looking forward to what Sam has up his sleeves now that he is free.
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+1 for giving him very good advice. If it were 10 years to economic independence, the advice would be different, but two years is worth it. My wife and I stuck out corporate jobs just long enough to have very long term financial security (with a modest lifestyle) and the flexibility of being able to do (mostly) just what you want is well worth it.

Working a few extra years to get a 1/2 million dollar sports car: NOT worth it!

Working a few extra years to get flexibility and independence: worth it!
>perhaps the next day it will be nuclear reactor facilities that are sent into meltdowns.

Considering some scientists were fearful that Stuxnet would cause a mini Chernobyl-like disaster, we can safety say that's not an unlikely scenario.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-01-17/news/27087828_1_r...
I don't use Instapaper, but does it offer something like Readability's Send to Kindle? Thats the killer feature for a Kindle user like me.
Data's only half the equation, building up a service with all of the features to what you need costs $. From the Switch to OSM site "Serving your own maps is a fairly intensive task. Depending on the size of the area you’re interested in serving and the traffic you expect the system requirements will vary. In general, requirements will range from 10-20GB of storage, 4GB of memory, and a modern dual-core processor for a city-sized region to 300GB+ of fast storage, 24GB of memory, and a quad-core processor for the entire planet."

Don't get me wrong OSM is a fantastic initiative. It will be very interesting to see if a slew of competitive services spring up in the map 'service' arena, using OSM data.
And this is why I use noir.
I use it for my iPhone design files for developers: indriks.com/ios
The intensity of an LSD experience is in a completely different category than almost any other conventional experience. I was as dismissive of the risks as you were until I saw two good friends develop permanent mental illness as a result of psychedelic experiences.
Hi Simon, Thanks for responding so quickly. Well one of the questions we had being from Euro (Norway based) is around the turnaround time from say interviewing end of April till starting in June. Such a short time frame must be tough to sort out visas and a place? Any advice on visas?

We are going to start getting some feedback on our application as well (have some friends in SF with friends from YC that are going to review), and there is tons of competition for the program, it would just be a shame to get in and not be prepared/able to go to SF. From what I understand Visas take awhile to process and T1 is difficult to get.
First, let me say that I'm not convinced this new wave of peer-to-peer based systems is the way go forward. I believe poorly implemented yet popular peer-to-peer systems might make the internet worse (as in slower) for everyone and, more importantly, cause unpleasing surprises when peer-to-peer traffic that is unknown by the users starts hitting their data caps.

But, for the sake of argument, let me play devil's advocate and take the "yes, of course you should do it, dugh".

1. Yes, users care that their files are available. Given the recent megaupload events and the outbreak of copyright-related-madness that has contaminated the US government, I don't discard the possibility that some random raid might cause Dropbox files to be unavailable. The reason for the raid might be because "users are using Dropbox to illegally store copyrighted files", which I'm sure it's true. For availability, distributed is better than centralized, period. Of course, I have 4 or 5 fully synced computers, so my Dropbox setup already is kind of distributed and I would be relatively immune, but I sincerely don't know how many users use this kind of setup.

2. I don't go over the free quota because I'm constantly policing my files and removing everything that is not essential. What I would really like is to use Dropbox as a backup-everything-sync-everywhere tool, not as a sync-essential-stuff-everywhere tool, but I currently do my on backups, because I can't bring myself to paying 10 bucks a month for 50GB space if I'm only using 10GB.

3. I agree. Most people don't care about anonymity unless they are affected by the lack of it in a way that is both personal and perceived as negative, which most aren't.

Ease: there is nothing that makes the Space Monkey way fundamentally more difficult for the user. Of course, the user's internet connection might fail a little bit, and probably any contender that wants to compete in this area will have to plan for that scenario, but this is not a deal-breaking thing (for instance, they can store user A's data on user B's device when A's connection is not working properly).

Taking of my devil's advocate mask, while I believe there might be some space for companies in the "Dropbox competitor" space, I believe being just a "Dropbox competitor" won't cut it, even though I would like someone else to succeed even if just for the sake of diversity.

I also believe Dropbox is more like a feature than a product, and putting a special-purpose device inside someone's house offers you the possibility of turning said device into a kind of command-of-control thing, such that it can do many things more than being just a backup-and-sync device. For instance, I could be on the street, hear about a movie, and use my cell phone to make my device buy and download this movie so that when I'm home I'll be able to watch it. This kind of stuff would bring "just works" to a whole new level.

By the way, I buy a movie using the device, Space Monkey might take a cut. God, the hardware these days is so cheap that it might be possible to offer it for free and make money by taking a cut on every transaction.
I built a site like this a year ago for Lawyers.

http://www.lawyerclock.com

Slightly more entertaining.
Some Windows licenses don't allow you to virtualize?