skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Fair'? That seems an invalid concept here. What is 'fairness', assuming a strict copyright system? -- it is a race with the qualifying runner, but where no others are allowed to run! That is a strange notion of fairness.

But 'fairness' is just a diversion: these copyright trade monopolies are supposed to prevent competition (of distribution), that is their point. That is how they increase one kind of revenue and so supposedly increase production.

When non rights-holders are copying/distributing it is competition de facto -- according only to the basic rules of physics. And it can therefore be an important signal: because what is basically physically possible is what the economy should really be aiming for. If people can distribute informational goods themselves better than the authorised channels, those channels are clearly underachieving according to the real baseline measure.
I guess I'm just not living in such a companies-are-people and everyone-sues-over-shit country.
"people simply like things for free"
Maybe those things, objectively, no longer worth as much as they used to twenty years ago?

You can make things free, too, with e.g. ad-supported streaming.
Well, as a US tourist, I think being short tempered is also a matter of mismatched expectations.

Americans are used to receiving customer service of a quality much higher than the rest of the world. (This is true of both service staff who receive tips and others.) For that reason, they don't recognize that the surly attitude of a waitress or supermarket cashier is just a cultural difference rather than a personal affront.
I'm in the same boat. A large code base relying on GCC and Boost heavily.

The code builds with Clang, but the runtime crashes deep inside Boost.

It's been very frustrating because we're well past the point where refactoring-out Boost would be cost effective.
> Give advance notice...2 months

As an employer, I'd love this type of notice.
As an employee, I'd be short-circuiting my control of the situation.

The key to the conversation is that he is an employee, not a founder. This sounds like a situation where the employee is expected to act as a founder in some situations, but back down in others. Frankly, that's a bad situation in which the employee never succeeds.

While the advance-notice advice is worthy of good people, I have serious doubts about the founders for the OP's entity. I'd personally be prepared to assume that any notion of I-am-outta-here will lead to a burned bridge.
It's better to do nothing than to do bad work
Yeah I do see the daily cap, but still no lifetime. Curious how people manage lifetime caps.
Interesting that they've had 4 episodes and I've seen zero mention of this anywhere until now.
Yes, although there's a trap here (or used to be, don't know if it's fixed): the spend starts at midnight and goes through to whenever it runs out, so you end up only advertising in the mornings.
Hello HNR's,

Greetings from the Offerspay team. We at Offerspay tried to solve the problem of monetization of publisher's traffic by aggregating daily deals from deal sites worldwide.

Initially we had some amount success with publishers they liked out product when we launched last year but the daily deal market since then has dramatically changed which has led us to the decision of exiting Offerspay and passing on the baton to others who are trying solving the same problem.

Therefore, we thought rather then closing everything and letting the domain go it should be a wise idea to put our domain on sale for someone who is interested in solving the same problem as we get a lot of organic traffic to get prospective publishers who are interested in monetizing via daily deals being on top of google certain keywords in our niche.

I look forward to hear back from you guys what you think about our decision and what would u do if u guys were in the same postion.

Thanks!
The article mentions two videos on ML; I believe these are the two:

1. Hinton on RBMs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M&feature=plcp

2. Gilbert Strang on SVD: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algebr...
Starting with gcc 4.7 and 4.8 the error message for C++ are also improved [1] and start to get close to clang. The competitions seems to be good for gcc and I like to have the choice between two compilers.

[1] : http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ClangDiagnosticsComparison
Music is superbly convenient to legally purchase online, with instant gratification.

That is a very recent invention with spotify and the ilk - and even they still have ways to go.

iTunes may seem superficially convenient, but in reality it is only convenient when you already know what you want. Discovery is non-existent, and that's what many people want. And: It is way too expensive. (There, I said it!)

You may be kicking and screaming after reading this paragraph, but: Reality is that people value movies higher than music. $10 for a film is reasonable to most people. $10 for (most) albums is not. $10/month flat for all music is then again in their comfort zone, as demonstrated by spotify et al.

You can now either take the stance of the music industry; i.e. cry, complain and spend all your money on trying to turn back time to the golden 80s - where consumers had little choice other than pay whatever you asked.

Or you can accept that the era of the middlemen (the "distributors") has ended because consumers don't want to pay for their Yacht's anymore. That the market has decided on two prices (for movies and music respectively), and that you either make do with that, or continue on your path to irrelevancy.
Yeah that was the shocking part for me as well, mainstream media has totally ignored it so far.
> Complaining that customers are demanding is just sour grapes. Customers are always demanding; welcome to capitalism. You either provide what the market wants, or somebody else does.

That's the entire damn problem with piracy. Nobody else is providing them with "what the market wants", someone else is TAKING another businesses product and then distributing it themselves.

I mean sure, if people wanted to watch the latest episode of Game of Thrones but couldn't because it wasn't available to them (or they were unhappy with the terms) and someone else then said "I have a series like Game of Thrones and it's free!" THAT would be "somebody else" providing what the market want, but it isn't.

comparing physical and digital products is never 100% accurate, so forgive me for this, but if a Ferrari dealership charges $100,000 for a car and someone steals one and offers it for free, that isn't "someone else providing what the market wants", it isn't capitalism... it's someone stealing.
It IS racist. The statistical approach is fine but things like: "Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway." are racist: Doing good for people I don't know very rarely pays off, no matter if towards white or black.
Then, on the few links I clicked was anecdotal evidence, no statistics.
Talking about a statistical approach and then backing it up is manipulative which makes it racist in this case.

Based on the assumption that the author does not tell his kids to not help whites: yup, racist. There would be several indicators that influence that decision that are ignored here, like: is it a man or a woman? Is it a family? What car do they drive? How are they dressed? ...

I repeat: using a statistical approach is very fine with me -- prejudices are heuristics.
It's important to know what your prejudices are and where they come from; and it's very important to have diverse friends; the more cultures you have in your circle of friends the more you can learn from them, the more they can learn from you.

Earlier today, there was an article talking about how often German police uses guns against people (84 bullets a year, I believe) and that American uses more bullets on some chases alone.

Should I think that Americans have it 'in their blood' and not help them out in cases of emergencies?

Nope, I will not.
All I get in IE10 is a spinning loading screen.

For the gameplay, I doesn't seem like I can select the right state while the map is rotating. Not to mention that hitting the small states is incredibly hard when they're moving targets. If clicking is supposed to stop while rotating, you might want to make it happen much faster.
It kind of blows my mind that any developer would willingly integrate something like Sellaring. It sounds like the kind of ad network no sane person would ever want anything to do with, and if an app I used integrated it, I would uninstall that app on the spot. I'm not shocked it had such a negative impact; I wonder if he spent any time considering how his users would feel about it?
Thanks for the enter-tip, that's helpful! (although I still don't like having to do it every time).

Yes, showing them separately seems like the easiest permanent fix. Ideally with the docset toggle-bar, so the noise can be cut down quickly when zero'ing in on one language for a few minutes (that's what typically happens in my workflow; digging into coffeescript for a while, then some ruby, then again coffee, etc.).
The phrase "fighting against the type system" usually indicates some misconceptions about the language -- the approach is to program with the type system as a tool to help you get the right code written, sooner. Approach it more as a thorough personal assistant, than a mean boss.
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Fair is when the people that own content control that content. It's not a difficult concept.
I'm well aware of that example of extraordinary entitlement (I pay for HBO and streamed both seasons to today legally and with immediate gratification. Justifiers always need to add layers to their excuses though). Further it's a convenient argument that many pirates use when the situation merits it -- how many of those people demanding easy purchases of DRM free music on Slashdot back in the day actually gave up on pirating once it was readily available? Instead they found the next argument to justify theft.
I see tipping as the opposite (and wage laws make it easier). Unlike most professions, there's no asking for a raise each year to keep up with inflation or reward your progress at getting better at your job. It's immediate feedback and compensation for doing a better job. Not leaving a tip signals that you would have been better off not being served by them. If a person whose main income is from tips (and gets the 2.xx/hour wage because of it), they declare and are taxed on their tips. If they don't make enough in tips in a pay period to receive the prevailing minimum wage (i think 7.xx/hour, but I don't remember for sure), the business is required to pay them minimum wage. If someone yells at you for not tipping them, just ask to talk to the manager, explain why they didn't deserve a tip (based on their service) and the fact that they berated you for it. Nearly every time they will be fired on the spot (or at the end of their shift) because it's the same as saying the business expects you to pay for crappy service.
Spanish: It's the second most spoken language in the world.
French: It's spoken officially in 33 countries, most of them in Africa which is developing fast.
Hmmm... no I have to disagree with the picture you paint here. A licence is not a 'threat to sue', it's a set of conditions for use. Theoretically you could be sued for removing the copyright notice and author attribution from BSD licenced code just as you could be sued for not making the source code available when you distribute GPL licenced code.

Furthermore when you talk about 'promising not to sue', as we see today the highest risk of being sued for software is through software patents. GPL says that if you distribute your patented code under GPL you are not allowed to turn around and sue people using that code or any derivates of it. The BSD licence makes no such provisions and as such you could release patented code under BSD and the proceed to sue people using it.
One thing I'm always curious about when I see revenue from mobile applications is: does advertising on a mobile device really work? I'm hesitant to sell anything unless I'd be confident selling it with my name attached to the label and I'm not sure mobile ads are something I'd consider valuable.

The two primary issues are that 1) mobile devices slow down / severely discourage any online form entry and 2) the age old question of "how many clicks are misclicks".

1) is the killer for me. It's rare for me to actively click on an ad and even if I'm drawn to an ad whether I'm on laptop/desktop or a mobile device makes quite a large difference on the ultimate decision.

I guess you could argue that it's up to the advertiser to ensure their ad money is well spent but unless you're just spreading awareness (or possibly other applications?) I'd personally not feel happy selling mobile ads.

Thanks for sharing your numbers though! This sort of openness is something I quite enjoy seeing. Best of luck hitting your $2k goal next month and I hope the $4k goal is reached soon after :)
At first I was surprised, that he aired the show on Russia Today (heavily pro-Putin and anti-US TV station, that is the first to report on any occupy protest, but is very quiet about anti-Putin protests) and that the first person he interviewed was Narsallah, leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

However, the next few episodes are quite nuanced, so that's fine. I am still quite unsure what to think about him being on Russia Today, though
BeanScript. Gotta count your beans...
By customer unfriendly you mean "arbitrarily freeze people's money for indefinite amounts of time without giving them any recourse in the matter". I think that might strike some people as unethical.
Funny fact. A lot of people in finance seems to believe that they are making things more efficient and removing people. And yet the finance industry as a whole continues to grow rapidly relative to the rest of the economy. Also their share of profits relative to companies in the "real" economy is at historic highs.

I submit that you're doing the exact opposite of what you think you are. When you make financial manipulation require fewer highly paid people, you increase profit margins. The primary effect of this is to increase the volume of such activity.
It is way too expensive

It's hard to compete with $0, which is the price that thieves are willing to pay.

You may be kicking and screaming after reading this paragraph

I'm not in the music industry. I'm not in the movie industry. I would benefit, financially, from piracy by simply engaging in it myself. But, you know, I don't because I can't justify it. I find the arguments that do completely transparent and selfish.

I honestly find these piracy excusing arguments sad for society as a whole: It is the tragedy of the commons, everyone taking a dump in the well simply because they can, making laughable arguments why what they're doing is justified ("If only there was a toilet every 10 feet and someone wiped my arse for me..."). It's hearing a teenager justify why they litter (it's the city's fault and McDonald's fault and their parent's fault and...).

Or you can accept that the era of the middlemen (the "distributors") has ended because consumers don't want to pay for their Yacht's anymore. That the market has decided on two prices (for movies and music respectively), and that you either make do with that, or continue on your path to irrelevancy.

Yachts....another adorable excuse for theft.
Thanks, I'll check out IE10. So far I only tested compatibility on Firefox and chrome on my linux workstation.
We have been using clang on ...Linus...

clang, now with a compile-to-DNA backend.
It's REALLY hard to click on RI when the map is rotating. Otherwise, cool idea!
Tipping only does this when it's actually used as a reward. Having it be standard, like in the US, defeats that purpose. In Greece, tipping is not expected, as everyone pays fairly. Tipping is done to reward a good job.
As a new engineer without a significant work history, how does the poster interview and not have the hiring company contact his current company for a reference?
This is not an object-oriented replacement for shell scripts. This is a shell script DSL embedded in Python.

If you want to use Python to manipulate the input or output of shell commands, then write a Python script that reads from stdin and writes to stdout, and use the shell to insert that script into the appropriate point in your command chain. It's the UNIX way.
Saw this when it was on HN a while back - great work. Also The way you get the source is brilliant. Never seen that before. Is that your own technique?
Have you applied this to your own startup? How and when did you use the canvas?
Or even to the way cPython handles their byte-code compilation with the pyc-files. (And it would be conceivable for the compiler to do more than what cpython does to get pyc-files, and not change the workflow.)
Measuring transmission speeds in bits is a well-established tradition, e.g., modem speeds have always been reported in "baud" (bits per second). On the contrary, it could be claimed that bytes are an arbitrary unit (despite being a ubiquitous convention), whereas a bit is the fundamental unit of information. That said, it would be more convenient if all speeds were reported in megabytes, and aside from throughput, latency and packet loss should arguably be advertised as well.
1) Someone uses X (like game mechanics, industrial & visual design or artificial intelligence) in a new or more generalistic way with great success.

2) A lot of people start using X to get the same results.

3) A "consulting" industry starts to rise around X.

4) Someone gets tired of the overused X and calls it bullshit.

5) Everyone that didn't succeeded with X, probably after some kind of investment inspired by the new "consulting" industry, gets in wagon and calls it bullshit.

6) Some time after the "bullshit" narrative sets in, someone finds out that X can be useful. If he tries to defend it he either does it by carefully arguing "I'm on your side but...", or just change it's name.

This kind periodic behaviour seems to deamplificate until it reach some stable state, generally it's absorbed by academia and gets to be taught in schools. From there it can get some amplifications, and if it does the pattern repeats.
Abstraction gone wrong almost always come down to wanting to abstract for the wrong reasons. RPC was all about pretending from the client side that accessing a remote resource was the same as calling a local method. This was and still is non-sense and a prime example of leaky abstraction.

My understanding of the OP's post is that he is talking about server-side issues rather than client-side though. Others have pointed out that he's talking about the design of a specific python library or framework that I'm not familiar with - I'll need to read up on this first.
much better to do it the other way - allow your users to fill out their email address _once_, generate a confirmation link and mail it to them.

If they really want to service, they'll click the link.
The height of the goalposts seem to change with the market.
In the last dot-com bubble my UK PhD supervisor was offered head of physics dept at an IVY league school.

He couldn't get an O-1, he was told that "a Nobel prize would help"
Glad you enjoyed it. Using PNGs to compress code is an old technique, but making it one file containing everything is my own; I described everything at http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos if you're curious. I'm going to write a followup once I get Fl0wer down to 512b ;)
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The best dynamic code compiler out there is Java Hotspot VM. Your demonstrations are just based on Python runtime. Please do a comparison with Java Hotspot for credibility.
How does your typical cold call script look like?
Such a vague reason might not be so easy in a team of 3 who have become close over the course of a year. Different story in a larger company.
DH7: When it's your job to fix you'r critics' cases for them
Almost all ads to some degree are something that "no sane person would ever want". The difference is that Sellaring makes ads that are not easily ignored. In contrast, the on-screen ads on Android's AngryBirds are easily ignored even if animated and although I don't run AdBlock I rarely consciously see ads on webpages. The human brain is an amazing filter.

I'd say the advantage to Sellaring is that 1) the person actively listens to the message (it's more difficult to filter out audio ads as they're listening for the call to start) and 2) it's using up "dead time" if the ring was going to go for longer than 10 seconds anyway.

I can see both points of view but if you're not paying for the app... It also provides a strong incentive to upsell to the paid version of the application that loses the advertising as well.
this blog post seems to cover this topic well http://davidjconnelly.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/the-best-php-...
This is what I decided to do: no more nesting of results for results that belong to different platforms. Sounds good?
It's a fascinating complement to the "apple supply chain" articles that were making the front page a while back. None of the articles I read mentioned China's rare-earth mineral export policies as one of the factors that led to its virtual lock on electronics manufacturing - most of them rather characterized it as a snowball effect. If this was as important to the erosion of US manufacturing as it seems, this could be an important missing piece for hardware manufacturing (and its jobs) to come back to the States.

(Not that semiconductor manufacturing jobs are the kinds of "good" jobs we're so desperate to grow here, c.f. Karen Hossfeld's ethnographic study of the immigrant women who made up the bulk of silicon valley's manufacturing workforce)
I'm a successful app developer and I can't help but feel that this kind of approach is not the right way to go about.

App-stores are "hit based", at that level of revenue you should be thinking, "how do I make this go up an order of magnitude", not "how do I optimize my ads to squeeze a little more revenue out". Just taking a look at some of the reviews your apps have... you should be improving quality before optimizing revenue.
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Well put.

Gamification does indeed work. It is a marketing tactic that translates well to a certain type of product. Once the dust settles we will see gamification in a lot of unusual places, such as our work. I can imagine a world where everything is either upvoted or downvoted (although I'm not saying it migh be pleasant).
If you choose to learn a new language, I'd suggest to do it for the joy of learning and discovering something new. The fact that you ask which one is the most valuable shows that you don't feel you need another language for any practical purpose. Don't look for the easiest or "most valuable" (whatever that might mean). Look for one you'd enjoy.

You can check out some online language learning communities such as UniLang or HowToLearnAnyLanguage for a lot of discussion on this.
SFO, SJC, SEA, PDX, ORD, ATL, DEN. Never touched the New York area.

TSA everywhere, but nobody carrying anything remotely rifle-like.
If I were trying to break a torrent, I'd put thousands of peers in the swarm and share bad data.

I'm all for the culture spammers getting better at busting p2p, so p2p gets better and subverting the culture spammers.
Please stop putting your periods outside your quotation marks. Please start using double quotes. Please stop telling people what to do. Thank you.
I'm not quite sure I understand
the value added over "!ls" etc on iPython. Is this module primarily for use on the vanilla interpreter?
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