skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, the authority on the word "hacker" is the jargon file, http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

It is a pity that the author not only fails to reference any of the experts, but is also limiting the meaning of the word to computer programming and cracking.

It is important to recapture the term hacker and bring it back to what it truly means.

Here, I can completely agree, even though I would not see the "true meaning" of the term in that article.
Of course, they wrote their own virtual machine, that is totally different from the JVM, so it's unclear to me that they got any advantage from Java's VM implementation.

What they really got for free was much of the Java tooling and ecosystem. Which isn't nothing.
My mom has one of these for scrapbooking. I've always wanted to sneak it out of the house and hack it.
Did the Brits publicly apologize for what was done to him yet?
I was hoping to read an article about how WebSockets are more stable and ready today than the last time I checked.
Math seems to work out real well for me...
Rosetta has improved quite a bit over the last few versions.

I tried a copy a few years back and wasn't too impressed, then saw it again last year and they actually had working voice recognition that judged your pronunciation! They also have an iPad version out now which seems like a great fit.

The one big thing I've noticed is that they're a bit random on what they teach you. I remember the Arabic 1 program taking quite a few lessons before teaching 'bathroom', for example.
We've been using this for several months at &yet and it's been a surprisingly valuable tool. At first, my thought was honestly, "So what? It's a threaded message board." until we actually started using it.

It's actually the feature restraint that makes it so remarkably useful and powerful.

Here's what we do. Every day, we start a new thread and each person on our team posts a daily checkin "rating" their day and then writes any comments on what they worked on, what they learned, what frustrated them, etc. Super simple stuff, for sure, but it's been one of the most valuable things we've done for creating a strong sense of team and togetherness.

What's been most surprising about this is that most of our team of 15+ work within feet from each other in our office, but our team's connectedness feels better than ever as a result of Ginger.
Trust. The mom&pop look properly executed is the perfect carrier to convey honesty and earnestness.
Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads
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Region coding is a really interesting thing to me. As I understand it, a lot of the intent is to be able to set content prices differently in "rich" countries than in "poor" countries, the same way that prescription drugs cost more in the US than in Sub-Saharan Africa.

If you were deliberately getting extra-cheap off-region content, I could see that as maybe a little ethically ambiguous.

As far as buying out-of-region content to get it sooner? I have a hard time seeing any problem with it. Maybe there's an angle I hadn't thought of.
Evernote Raising $50 Million To $100 Million At A $1 Billion+ Valuation
I don't think you're obligated to sue all infringers, and spend money chasing those those who don't harm your business and don't have the money to pay you should you win.
I agree, but it depends on how complex the operation within the comprehension is.
In fairness, what you witnessed was someone saying this is ultimately a good thing, not assigning any blame, and expressing their enthusiasm for its potential. There is a discussion of the business merits above this thread if you want to participate. Your earlier joke represents the very discrimination you say you do not see, so if those jokes are done now, you'd be a welcome voice.
http://rails.core.is.full.of.fa.gs
"there are basically no howto's, no prices, no shiny, bold Open Source products that fit my bill"

as the developer of the first one that got mentioned here (saiku)
http://demo.analytical-labs.com/

i can say that the problem is that everybody asks for a shiny, nice, intuitive open source project.. but there is very little will to contribute to such a project.

we really try to create something thats easy to use, fun to play with the data, and provides the necessary functionality. but unfortunately developing something that looks simple needs time, a lot of time. so if anyone is interested, i always appreciate any kind of contribution (not necessarily just coding)

if more people would work together, there would already be such a tool that we are all dreaming of
My online portfolio is hello.my.name.is.[myname].me and I redirect all traffic that does not include this prefix to include it. It's a fun and neat little trick. This way if I give my url to someone I can give the short version and when they type it they are redirected to the longer url.
Frankly, the first time it happened we didn't believe it either. But you can't make this stuff up :-)
I could set up i.am.just.curio.us
This article is utter nonsense.

The suggestion that one needs to break the law to be a hacker is repulsive. It's also very very very clearly not the standard understood meaning within the culture on this website.
Where is the interface?
We're throwing a hackathon, come build games with us (and win stuff)
A good reminder for everyone:

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-am-nothing.html
Conceivably, there could be a complementary movement focused on designing curricula based on such freely available courses. These curricula could even be based on offerings from several services.

Companies can set curricula based on what their requirements are. And I can see possible demand for influential people to create and share curricula related to their areas of expertise.
I love that Make The Cut responded to the lawsuit by partnering with a cutter that doesn't require silly proprietary cartridges (http://knkzing.make-the-cut.com/), however KNK Zing is advertised as "open source" when it doesn't appear to actually be open source in any way: http://knkusa.com/?shopp_product=knk-zing

I've noticed this trend among non-programmers of using "open source" incorrectly to describe anything that's not completely locked down.
What about Stallman? Not to discredit Torvalds, but a kernel != an operating system
Or doesn't realise what level C1 is.
Just tried to register. Pop up appeared:

"Password must be at least 6 characters long and can only contain numbers and letters."

I'm fine with a length limitation, but limiting the character-set - WTF? Stop this right now.
Depends to some extent on what the cable companies do. If they lose their exclusive relationship with HBO, they might move towards giving HBO a worse deal, in terms of bundling and revenue share, which could be a significant hit, at least near-term.
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With more and more of user's content on the web, we decided it should be far easier for users to work with that content on websites. Hope you like it! It's rough, but we wanted to get feedback as we work on it.
Ridonkulous. So cool.
Hillman, by Hillman Curtis. RIP
https://twitter.com/#!/joshuadavis/status/193037793847545857
to your point, the problem isn't so much pointing out small design errors, but it's being a dick when pointing out small design errors. the design may not be pixel perfect but it basically prints money with no effort. it doesn't suck when it comes to what actually matters, and that is making sales.
Competing alternative - do what this guy is doing

Rosetta Stone isn't supported by most linguists who study foreign language acquisition. It is also ridiculously overpriced and never explicitly teaches even basic grammar, something which FSI points out helps almost 100% of learners.
I really like the concept of it, but I can't give feedback here on the app because I don't have an iPhone.

I think initially people will be excited to play contests against one another, but the issue I've dealt with in the past is: (a) someone starts winning massively and the contest becomes stale or (b) there's too many contests, and the community is spread out too thinly.
Possibly http://context.io/ though I can't tell if they only support Gmail or not from their site.
Does the Mac app store allow MacRuby applications in there or is it more open than the iPhone app store?
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IWould Buy This iPhone
Yay! An answer to a broad over-generalization consisting of a false dilemma having undertones of slippery slope (and imagery similar to communist totalitarianism none-the-less!). Seriously, saying that the Instagram money represents a serious priority problem in the world is not begging for totalitarian overlords to make the world a dark and prescribed place with no joy. (arguably lack of joy and entertainment for many is a part of the world's problems anyway).
After reading all 3 parts of the series the thing that bugs me most right now is:

Heck, those are great ideas! I'd like to write a tracking system that does everything possible to collect the data and uniquely identify the users! It doesn't sound that hard.

I wonder how many of those tracking companies find the "Privacy Awareness" articles actually to be very nice "How to better track your users" articles.
I got stuck on 'Installing...'
In your numbers, you don't include people that currently have cable TV but would switch to streaming if the possibility was offered ...
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I like it. It's sleek, easy to use and very well implemented. Congratulations on creating this, I will keep this in mind in case I ever need it in the future.
Why have the main picture a shot of cleavage? He doesn't touch up the cleavage anywhere in the picture. If he did, it'd probably make for a pretty weird demo. The point of the picture was to illustrate the single window mode. It seems like there would be a common sense test where you think: "Is this really how I want to represent myself and this software?"
Wait a minute. Did you or any of the responses to you actually read the article? No where does it mention one word about where they are making their content available.

The point of the article is that they are employing new DRM that is locking out paying cable subscribers. Furthermore this does not affect pirates because all it takes is one guy to crack the DRM and seed the torrent and it's game over. The effect of this is to promote piracy not to suppress it, and I challenge anyone to provide any credible evidence otherwise.
It is ... (see my post up in this thread), but with the same restrictions (well, maybe even worse, because it's available only at one provider).
Professionalism. The blog lacks all pretense of any.

- The blog's tagline talks about "bullshit and ... how much I suck".

- It leads off with a close crop of cleavage. This negatively attracts males' attention while being untactful to others.

- He then demonstrates Gimp's new features by making people uglier. Have you watched any of Adobe's demo videos for comparison?

I don't know who this Nicu guy is and what his relationship with the Gimp project, but a look at his LinkedIn profile reveals that he was a developer 8 years before changing careers to photography for the last 3.

However his blog post is #11 under the Google search for "gimp 2.8", so the level of professionalism can leave a bad impression for new users.
In my experience it is very rare for a merchant to be able to stop a chargeback in a case like this.

I ordered an expensive (at the time) PC that wasn't shipped within weeks of when the vendor said. After I got tired of the runaround from them, I cancelled the order and bought from someone else. A day later the original PC shows up.

Talking to the vendor sales people got me nowhere (the owner even called me to bitch about me wanting to return it and how he absolutely refused to return my money!), I called the bank/Visa to do a chargeback, explaining that I had waited two weeks after the promised date and bought another PC but the vendor didn't want to take my cancelled order back.

Without any argument, the customer service told me to package it up and ship it back with proof of shipment and immediately credited me the full amount. I never heard a thing about it after that.

I have never had a chargeback request refused. Granted, I only do it as a last resort, but still.
Okay I suppose that makes sense. I've been with groups where some of the more brash have gone off and covorted in the bathrooms, and when the establishment has a problem it has never been a big deal. I still can't envision managers actually calling the parents on them.
> I used the GIMP as my primary art asset creation tool for several years. It was miserable.

I used the Gimp for < spam > http://rommelhok.com/en < / spam > (48 pages worth of old fashioned adventure comics). Not for the drawing itself, but for the cleaning up, the coloring and the lettering. It was fine.

Everything worked without a hitch, once I got used to some new shortcuts (which can easily be set to the Photoshop equivalents if you want) and some minor differences from Photoshop, some of which were, in fact, improvements (the color selection tool is much nicer in Gimp than the color range selection box in Photoshop, for example).

The only area where Gimp definitely falls short is type setting. In Photoshop, you can tweak kerning, spacing and font size within a text layer for every character individually. In Gimp, you can only do that for the layer as a whole. This wasn't much of a problem for me, however, since computer lettering is already inferior to hand lettering (IMHO) and using Photoshop's superior tools wouldn't have decreased the suckiness of the lettering all that significantly.

The other main shortcoming of Gimp, of course, is that it can't do CMYK colors but that will only become a problem when someone decides to publish my comic, in which case having to redo the colors will be a nice problem to have. I made one printed copy of it for myself at the local copy shop using the RGB Gimp files and that turned out beautifully.
Yeah, I lived in Germany for just under a year. My great-grandparents spoke nothing but German, and my grandparents were about 50-50. Even being steeped in German my whole life and living there for a year, I only passed the B2 level test after I got back from Germany. Today, I could probably pass the A2, just because I don't know anyone anymore who I can speak German with at any deep level.

C1 in 5 months without living in the country and speaking nothing but that language would put this person into "dangerously intelligent" territory. Super-human levels of language skills. With this "method", I have to wonder if he didn't just memorize phrases and words really, really well. Does he know the grammar and rules well enough to construct a compound thought on the fly and not sound overly foreign? Because you need to be able to do that for C1.
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It sounds like Imgur with an Aviary plug in attatched to it.

The only additional places you're pulling from are dropbox and facebook. Do you have plans to pull from more locations?

Also, do you have plans to allow website owners to integrate this with their own site (much like Aviary allows you to integrate the editor you're using)?
Well, if he was immersed in the language, I could believe it. I got to that level in French at age 17 within about 4 months. Of course, I knew the basics before I went, and I was studying in a French school and living with a French family, which made a huge difference (although I attribute my greatest language learning to watching 21 Jump St. in French every day after school -- fortunately, since I had avoided the show like the plague back in the States).

I went on to learn two other languages to that level -- and became a professional translator and interpreter in the process -- but it took me longer because I was never again immersed in a language to the same extent (up to now, at least).
The Archive/RSS hidden menu at the right covers Chrome's scroll bar gets on my nerve.

/rant
"if they achieve this goal, they can argue that anyone who provides an unencrypted copy of content must have violated the DMCA (which has provision against tampering with encryption)"

How does that help them, though? Anyone who provides an unencrypted copy has infringed on their copyright, so HBO can go after them on those ground whether or not they also violated the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA. It seems to me this would only be useful if they think they can actually prevent people from circumventing their DRM.
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This is a good concept but needs a lot of work.

1. I don't want things opening in a new window on my site

2. I don't want someone else's branded module opening on my site

3. This is designed using bootstrap

If you hired a real designer, made it a script that could open a modal on my site, and gave the option to pay some small fee to get rid of your branding and give it a few color theming options, I would be totally on board.
Microsoft confirm Windows Phone 7 handsets will be upgraded to Windows Phone 8
Circa is a programming language for live coding, in development
"Doesn't currently support Internet Explorer"

Is this considered okay again? Best Viewed in [Netscape 3.0] or [Internet Explorer]
Home Depot To Correct Misleading Link Request
Tumblr theme deployer script.
Anki is definitely not free on mobile devices.
There are already a good number of MacRuby applications available for purchase from the Mac app store. Here's some information on the process: https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby/wiki/Mac-App-Store-Submis...
I've used Wings3D to do static meshes for over five years. It's very, very, very good at the type of modeling that it does--and miserable for anything else.

But for UV pelt mapping, for box modeling, for those sorts of tasks? It shines like a diamond.

It's got probably the most minimal interface I've ever seen on a modeling program and, despite a few oddities, probably the most discoverable/fastest.
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This reminds me of an old Jeff Atwood blog post Commandos, Infantry and Police [1].

HBO was innovative in their "commando" phase but now they're a large cable incumbent. They're either in the infantry or police phase now. Basically they're not concerned with gaining new territory. They're most concerned with defending their current position.

This is a problem every incumbent faces when they grow sufficiently large. Microsoft's decisions of the last 15 years have been borne of a fear that something will kill the Windows/Office golden goose.

The ultimate evolution of this defensive strategy is for a company to launch a conflagration of litigation, often with a new CEO, in a last-ditch effort to squeeze out some value. You saw it with SCO. You see it with Yahoo.

Defense is a short-term strategy. At the point you stop innovating you've already begun to die. It may take awhile. Billion dollar companies don't die overnight (although Groupon may prove me wrong). Yahoo has been dying a slow death for years.

I would gladly pay a (reasonable) monthly fee just for HBO. But I'm not going to pay $100+/month for cable and it. I pay for Netflix. At $8/month it may not have all the content but it's enough for me.

HBO is now locked in the same death spiral big cable is: big cable doesn't want a la carte cable because people either won't use it if it's too expensive or they'll spend less on cable, neither being a good outcome (for them). HBO needs big cable to distribute their content. My theory is they can't circumvent that without threatening what is their main source of income (big cable won't react well to being cut out of the loop). The risk of that strategy, from their perspective, is simply too high.

HBO should be afraid of the rise of the likes of AMC. If they're not careful the next generation of innovators is going to eat them for breakfast.

[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/06/commandos-infantry-...
I wouldn't say we consider it ok by any means. But we'd rather get the feedback earlier than later, so we said screw it and sent it out
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The claim has to be reasonable. If you buy a pair of $10 shoes and try to chargeback a year later, the bank will almost certainly refuse.

OTOH, as I said in another post, if you purchased something and it was not as expected and the vendor won't take a return, the chargeback will almost certainly go through. There are exceptions, but not many.
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1. Good to know. It'd be interesting to know how the community feels about windows vs iframes. We felt like windows were more analogous to system dialogs, but iframes are easier for message passing
2. Would you pay for custom branding?
3. I defer to other articles re. bootstrap. We figured if we wanted to match the styling of other sites in the best possible way, bootstrap is a decent choice
No way any engineer would end up on the jury. Voir dire would clear out anyone tech savvy.
I also agree but not fully with the article.
About your 2 points added indeed I fully agree with them.

For me it is rather sad to see a lot of people calling themselves hackers, and I end up seeing that their mentalities and ideas are so away from the old hacker culture.

I don't call myself a hacker, I don't see myself as one, and I don't want to be, and yet some friends call me that, my reply to them is and always will be "nah, I'm just a curious guy who likes to learn new stuff".
Your first sentence reminds me how much we are divided by a common language.
Bummed I can't make this. I really like the idea of a game-focused hackathon.
My wife has a Cricket Cutter ( which she uses for making cards.

I've built a RepRap.

My wife has no interest in it. The output isn't artistic enough. It's not that great.

Now, if someone could bring a computer-guided milling machine for $400, backed by a range of expensive woods / plastic consumables...
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I don't have anything against the request, and I would actually be interested in writing a Python version. I was just curious what the motivation and goals would be.
See my response, but I think it's possible. When I first saw this post, my first instinct as a professional (and nationally-certified) translator and polyglot (fluent in 4 languages at some point of my life) was to brush it off. But I see he places appropriate emphasis on vocabulary acquisition, which many language learners fail to do.

It's possible, at the very least. I did this in about 4-5 months at age 17 while living and studying in France (plus I was dreaming and thinking in the language by that point), and I only knew the basics before leaving. I consider myself smart, but not "dangerously intelligent". I have scored very high on foreign language aptitude tests, so I'm not totally representative. But it's certainly possible.
Some new information for you, then: AMZN is currently in negative territory today.
I find it pretty hilarious that people are calling the basic operation of a free market "entitled bullshit."
HBO's equivalent of the digital camera is on-release video streaming.

This is nonsense and a horrible analogy. HBO is perfectly suited for the the future you envision. They have a digital streaming infrastructure in place to make the transition they just don't yet have the business case.

The reason the analogy fails is because HBO isn't a medium. Its the content - ask Netflix how easy it is to make a living streaming mediocre video content. Switching to a different distribution mechanism is trivial but for now they're not going to cut off their nose to spite their face just because a tiny subset of subscribers are moving away from cable.
it is not so much about tracking, more about directing somebody to a web site they did not intend to visit
Http - PHP small micro-routing framework. 130 lines, 5kb, modeled after Sinatra.