skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are nonrival goods -- as many people can use and enjoy them as want to with no hindrance or loss to any. When there is plenty for everyone, why should any have a right to impose restrictions on others? The only plausible reason is a collective one: that we can in practice (by stimulating production) get a better functioning economy.

Living for others' sake is what being human is largely about, it is what cooperative systems like economies are about -- which are critical for us to live well. By maximising our costless use of nonrival goods we all gain.
Congrats on the funding! I'm sure you have excellent advisers and business plans at this point but I'm still going to be presumptuous and offer my advice: you need to be really frugal. $300k is not huge runway and before you know it will be gone. You need to keep any and all overhead low and plow as much as possible into development. Your project is ambitious and expectations are high, you need leeway for false starts, do-overs, pivots, impatient users, fickle press, etc.

I'm really hoping along with 7,316 other people that you can pull it off. Good luck!
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/mariogravity.shtml
NeoOffice has been inferior to OpenOffice and LibreOffice for quite some time unless something drastic has happened recently.
You probably didn't need to copy and paste the entire error message. You can easily access the webpage through Google's cache if you're having problems – http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&outpu...
Functorial Semantics of Algebraic Theories
"...Within 90 days of the date of this memorandum, create a page on its website, located at www.[agency].gov/digitalstrategy, to publicly report progress in meeting the requirements of the Strategy in a machine-readable format....
...implement the requirements of the Strategy within 12 months of the date of this memorandum and comply with the timeframes for specific actions specified therein"

3 months to get a "machine-readable" status report on implementing an API?

Then, complete the implementation in 12 months?

If it takes 3 months for an agency to get a status report up, how long will it take them to implement said API? Government work, sheesh....
Inversion of the classroom is an idea whose time is come. In the university setting it's easier to do than in a junior high school setting. People can all learn at their own pace. And then schools will primarily do testing and accreditation.

The question is, should the lesson plans (for the overall year) be open source, or a marketplace of proprietary competition, or both?
The pinnacle of military excellence is not to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles. It is to subjugate your enemy without fighting. -- Sun Tzu
How many apps are in the Top 200?
I would like to see someone create an plugin that would give a warning if you went to a site that had used obnoxious legal bullying to harras small sites. I realize policing who gets shown on such a list would be a big job.

I would love to have someone reliable do this and then I could chose to just not deal with such sites (or decided well yeah I don't like using lawyers to bullying but I am willing to sell out my principle because this site is so cool I can't live without it).

The way to counter the strategy of paying lawyers lots of money to bully your small competitors is to setup a method that forces those companies to suffer the consequences for their decision. I would be happy to help that process, but I can't keep track of who is doing the bullying.

This type of providing better information so I (and others) can make informed decisions not to use sites with practices I find obnoxious is something I would really love to see. Both for this type of obnoxious behavior but really a platform could support all sorts of notices on whatever people object to (probably using lists from whatever they care about World Wildlife Fund, NRA, EFF or whoever).

I don't think the legal system is going to be reasonable. We need a solution that allows the market to enforce an acceptable code of conduct with consequences for being obnoxious (even if the legal system thinks it is fine).
Congrats Andrew & Team!
Is it "clearly" a personal attack even though there is a question mark there?
Verizon Bets on Connected Car
"Everyone I know pirates movies, TV shows, and music. Everyone I know also jaywalks. I also know people who use drugs illegally, as well as participate in or facilitate underage drinking, and I don't have a problem with any of it. Are these unethical? Someone clearly thought so. Do I care?"

I love discussions like this, because something like this is not clearly unethical, but when GNU code is used without following the license (like in the thesis Wordpress theme debacle awhile back, people cry "theft".

"I don't hurt people, and I don't steal (physical things)"

This is a nice way of trying to legitimize piracy. As a business owner, should I really feel bad if I outsource to China and put 100 people in the US out of work? or how about if I automate people out of jobs?
Exposes a single REST endpoint. POST /UploadAllUserData.

Meh, they're evil, it's probably SOAP and you have to discover it.

edit: Sorry guys! Didn't realize a tongue-in-cheek comment about the NSA have an API was so super-serious! It's like Oprah in here giving out downvotes anymore. "It's a free downvotes for you and you and you."
Every government office could take a lesson in well designed interfaces. Imagine how much smoother the DMV would be if someone had actually made the process designed to be as simple of an "interface" as possible. I know I'm probably hoping for too much, but maybe designing these web APIs will teach them a thing or two about how they might improve the efficiency of their offices as a whole.
That said, you'd have to be crazy to use "niggardly" now after the reaction it got whoever that was. If you use words that most of your audience doesn't know, what does it say about you? :)
Lol it made me laugh as soon as I heard how broad the statement was. I wonder if the CIA api will have a geolocation features so I can make a foursquare mashup were people flash mob secret agents.
It's instructive to compare the two. 'Ancient dogma' is, after all, the result of hundreds, or in the Chinese case, thousands of years of social evolution.
For what it's worth I've started a boycott of WhosHere:
http://www.boycottspot.com/view_boycott/23-WhosHere.com-and-...

And I shall tweet them letting em know.
Thankyou for this. It's amazing how many free resources are out their for those that look hard enough. It's even better when someone takes their time to lay out a path for people to follow.
Well, I've always considered emotional decisions to be poorer than decisions made with logic.

Say if you're considering buying a new thing, is it just an impulsion to get the endorphin rush, or logically do you need that item?

Or maybe it's a moral question. You're 20. A friend's cute sister wants to have a beer with you. Logically you can see where it could lead and the negative impact it will have on your friend and yours relationship. On the other hand, you're getting all sorts of cues from your emotions to go for it. That's evolution for you, we're wired that way. So these two things are at two very opposite ends of the spectrum.

I've considered logical decision making to be a superior route for some time, and I thought that was somewhat well accepted. To hear the opposite just kind of threw me.
Yeh if you work for microsoft get with the times everyone calls them apis now. Things get new meaning words change welcome to the english language.
>since copyright infringement is not legal in any country //

Last time I looked there were still a few countries that weren't signatories to international copyright laws, PNG I think was one? Maybe Nauru, Tuvalu, Vatican City?

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/summary.jsp gives details of those places that aren't party to _international_ IP treaties. Note Vatican City is in that list as "Holy See" and is a signatory to a few IP treaties.
They need to be sure they 1) are exposing everything they need to be exposing, 2) are hiding everything they need to be hiding, 3) are ready to handle potentially significant load, and 4) are robust against attack. Each of these is a little harder and/or a little more important in government than in a start-up (your start-up is probably less likely to get an informant killed because they posted the wrong thing than, say, DOJ), and 1 and 2 especially involve more than technical work - processes need to be set up to actually get the data where it needs to go in the first place. I'd love it if it could be faster, but I don't think 15 months is at all absurd.
As micks56 said below, this has everything to do with how the combination of Apple selling product for enough profit to be able to do things like pay advance cash to their suppliers. This pushes almost all the inventory (material & finished goods) off their books entirely, and by enabling things like direct ship by Foxconn they basically then only have to semi-accurately forecast demand at their retail stores and minimally ship to stock for the shelves and small warehouses that support them.

This doesn't belittle Apple's achievements at all, but considering they only have ~20 component suppliers and 1 integration partner, it's a pretty damned simple supply chain.
Good thinking by Verizon. In the long term this will play out to be a huge advantage with self-driving cars.
Meanwhile, just yesterday the House Committee on Appropriations voted to [indefinitely delay][1] making legislative data available in machine-readable (XML) format. It's a repeat of a move taken in 2008 to "make a plan to make a plan" that never really goes anywhere. In other words, it's not gonna happen for a long time yet.

[1]: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/06/01/bulk-access-de...
Unless the extra information is somehow misleading.

I'm thinking here of the example of lie detection. Humans generally do pretty well at detecting lies when they're just reading text. They do slightly less well if they can hear the person talking. And if the person is visible, we don't do any better than chance.
What does it cost to add another developer to the budget? At least $100k?
Nice site! One thing that I've been wanting for a while is to see all the Netflix streaming movies that are on the IMDB Top 250 list. That would be awesome.
1. To be immoral, something both has to violate rules of society in addition to being "directly" harmful? So if it's directly harmful but violates no rules of society (e.g. beating and raping women in societies where that's socially acceptable), or it violates rules of society but is only indirectly harmful, it's perfectly moral?

2. What's your working definition of "directly harmful"? Littering directly harms wildlife, does it directly harm people? Buying some drugs directly supports people who actively harm other people. Last I heard, there was mounting evidence that second-hand smoke was worse than what used to be believed; is smoking indoors "directly harmful" to other occupants?

3. I'm not sure what you mean by "counter-argument" (what are you arguing against? Your definition?), but you seem to be saying you feel like there should be intentionality in there somewhere but you're not sure where. I hope you don't need me to tell you that muddies the issue further, e.g. religious fanatics that really believe they're saving souls or the world when they hurt people.
3 months to get a "machine-readable" status report on implementing an API?

2 weeks for the director of each agency to delegate someone to be responsible for this. 2 weeks for said responsible person to figure out what an API is. 6 weeks for them to go around to everybody in the agency asking "are you doing any APIs yet?". 3 weeks to take the feedback and turn it into a semi-coherent report.

If anything, I think 3 months is optimistic.
How does it compare to an isolation tank?
Just a new HTTP code for the other services to implement:

312 Pay No Attention To The Proxy
Yes, I was (somewhat accidentally) paraphrasing Stepanov. It’s been a while since I read that.

But actually, I think “pick the right paradigm for the task” needs the qualification of “…within your other constraints”. The most expressive language for a job might not work in your situation—whether for reasons of efficiency, of maintainability (i.e., finding maintenance programmers), or of interoperability with the rest of your stack.
I'd rather see web-cam based proctoring or a similar solution that would allow for some accreditation while letting udacity still control costs and provide a cheaper overall examination process to its end users.
wow, that's going in my bookmarks. video game research -- every day i learn something new.
Here's a nice post about Panic's status board: http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
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Where's Michigan? I'd be curious how the algorithm handled a shape like that.
Oh, dear $DEITY, I remember that. Getting the wireless to work meant spending the whole weekend recompiling the kernel and crossing your fingers.
This is the kind of information that I would be most interested in. I understand that the legal system is very complex (like a programming language with funky syntax), but there IS a process and there ARE standard ways to go about doing things, even if there are particularities for different locations. I suppose this is the kind of thing you learn in law school or from experience in a courtroom, but there is no reason that it can't be taught outside of those environments.

Is there a repository for learning the basics (and maybe more advanced) legal processes? What forms to send to whom, and when, and what to be sure to do, and what to never do?

It's learn-able if there is a resource that teaches it. An online Khan Academy-like resource. Or even maybe an educational game. The only lawyer sim I've seen is Phoenix Wright.

Sure, I'd still prefer an experienced lawyer to do the driving if something comes up, but I'd feel more confident with some solid legal knowledge of my own.
More people program in Python so they have a larger market to target than Ruby or Scala. If you're trying to start a business that's probably the best way to choose. I would guess that Ruby would soon follow.
Ipse dixit.

Also, this is a state-by-state issue, and in Texas, at least, you are quite wrong.

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/76R/billtext/html/HB015...
I haven't actually taken an Coursera courses yet. But I generally dislike traditional university courses and I hate Java, so I probably will avoid it until I run out of Udacity courses to take.
Posting the entire error message was a tongue-in-cheek retort to the article's main point: handling outages.
"Please Hack us, Israel", offers USA.
Weird, I searched for the URL and also thought HN would automatically detect a dupe. Didn't mean to hijack a post!
Three Things I Wish PostgreSQL Did
Data point of one warning: I played through a couple of rounds without too much difficulty and I haven't spent any amount of time playing games in about 10 years. I was able to jump right in. That was fun!
Fetchnotes is great, if you don't already use it then I'd highly recommend it. It's essentially a note taking app designed for really short notes, like writing down what food items you liked at a restaurant. And it does this in a way that supports hash tags, searching, and replication across all your devices.
Processing 2.0 Alpha 6 Released
Download: http://processing.org/download/

Report bugs at: http://code.google.com/p/processing/issues/list
Cutting isn't hard. Deciding exactly where to cut is.
One blogger's expectations of WWDC
Talk about Caveat emptor, now you have to learn programming before you can make a purchase.
Don't expect someone to do something that goes against their self-interest. Especially if they can do a song and dance and make people forget that nothing is getting done.
The "(my first webapp)" in the title feels a lot like a link-bait.

Surely this isn't the first time you wrote HTML, CSS, and Javascript, right?

I mean this could very well be honest, but I really don't think it belongs there.

(I could be wrong.)

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It concerns me that I'm attacked personally for advocating for common sense when it comes to the law

I think that it's not as much that you're advocating for common sense, but that you're being really aggressive about it. Everyone can read and understand your point of view. Not everyone has to agree with it. You don't have a moral or ethical obligation to argue with people until they realize that you're right. Reasonable people can disagree, and on the internet, the standard of "reasonable" is often pretty low.

I personally agree with you in that I would never discuss pending legal matters with an online community. It seems too risky.

It also saddens me, as a tech-geek and business-geek and law-geek that we can't have transparent and "hackerly" discussions of these kinds of conflicts and possible ideas (not exactly full-on advice) for addressing and/or preventing them.
I would assume that eclipxe meant that the software shipped with the Nook does not allow for on-the-fly text modification. Even if it did, this is the only occurrence of text substitution that has been seen, so the fault still lies with the publisher.
I agree that it is smart to say "get a lawyer" in this situation. It does seem very hairy.

But now something off topic...

I noticed that these kind of answers ("get a lawyer") are used also to answer question even when people are just curious or they just want to learn something. It is nearly impossible to learn what needs to be read or investigated in order to evaluate the situation.

For example, I don't need a lawyer for small claims court but where to get some advise?

In other words, even the most common sense questions regarding law, health, taxes, etc are answered with "get a lawyer, see a doctor, get tax advisor, get accountant, etc".

It does seems that market of legal, health, tax, and similar professionals is due to a disruption.

Is there a cheap lawyer service? Something like not visiting doctor but just visiting nurse.
1. That's actually very good point. I don't know anything about this "thesis Wordpress theme debacle", but if someone copied GNU code without attribution, for example, even though it doesn't obviously hurt anyone, I'd think that's wrong.

I think the difference is twofold: it's socially unacceptable, and empathically, I'd be offended if someone plagiarized my work.

2. I am not trying to legitimize piracy just because "I don't hurt people, and I don't steal (physical things)", and I didn't say so. What I mean, and what I tried to say, was that I haven't decided whether I think piracy is ethical or not, and I care little enough that I probably won't decide for the forseeable future.

As a business owner, should I really feel bad if I outsource to China and put 100 people in the US out of work? or how about if I automate people out of jobs?

I'm surprised you take it as a given that you should feel bad doing so. We live in a very capitalistic world, and I think most capitalists would say no, you absolutely shouldn't feel bad. Do you believe we should be employing people in obsolete jobs just to avoid putting people out of work? I will happily provide examples compiled by capitalists of just that, taken to the extreme, to prove how bad of an idea it is.
Merely a 'Donate' button is not enough. It should show how much has been donated so far (it gives people more motivation to donate, if they see that this 'donate' thing actually works and for example, $1900 has been raised so far).
Fighting the Flames
well definitely not blind people.
Android 4.0.4 ICS Coming To T-Mobile Galaxy S2
Dear Ari Emanuel: We're All Meeting On The Internet, Come Join Us
> -Start tweeting about it & create a hashtag #WhosHereThieves

IANAL, but I think it's a very bad idea. I don't have the faintest idea if it's considered defamation in the court, but I suspect it might be, and thus should be avoided.
Not all projects are blockbuster profit projects, some people do things as a labor of love for the joy of doing them. Sometimes great things are made that way.

Seeking out $1.25M is not the sort of thing that has any draw for a lot of people, and that's OK.
It's amazing how much folks can learn in such a short amount of time. I wonder if she was learning full-time or on the side.
Some (many?) tech companies allow $200 - $250 per engineer per year - obviously this includes all of the other costs of employment in addition to direct compensation, at which point $300 doesn't look like so very much.
Did this just get accepted to YC way after the deadline?
Wish they'd done some reasonable amount of procurement reform before this. All this means is another big payday for gov contractors
Sublime Text - Buy - Leak premiums :(
Wouldn't it be great is pg would link this page from HN itself?
this is my first time posting to hacker news, so sorry if i made any faux pas.
i've done html and css before, but i started learning javascript/node.js a few months ago. my background is in hardware engineering at apple (with some experience in C and java), and recently i've decided to get into software/web app development (with this being a project to sink my teeth into). needless to say, i'm not a fan of javascript :-)
Maybe someone got scared? I don't know.. but my guess would be a better CTR on sponsored links that are shown alongside trackers.
Have you or Mike Pall looked at the Memory Pool System from Ravenbrook: http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/ ? This used to be the GC at Harlequin and is still used today in some commercial projects (and by OpenDylan on some platforms).

I've been talking to them about re-licensing under something more liberal and there's hope that that might happen. (If others expressed a similar interest, it might help.)

It is in need of some love:

* Support x86_64

* Support ARM

* Support threads on OS X

* Compilation and/or crash issues on modern Linux

I'd personally like to see some other improvements to the build system and have started on a reworking of the documentation into something more cohesive ...
Really? You think yourself so above me, so better than me, in every way, that not only don't I deserve a response, but I herald the death of the HN as a place for insightful discussions?

Maybe there would be more insightful discussions if people had more to say than "HN is dead" in response to a confused, imperfect person expressing where they are on the path to discerning right from wrong.
Given that it's only 20k new documents a day my immediate thoughts were of PostgreSQL. In particular thinking of use of things like the XML storage capabilities (XQuery is not yet supported but that's something folks are working on, but you can do a lot of processing with XML parsing/SQL if you like) or the new JSON type in 9.2 beta, particularly with Javascript as a stored procedure language....
Middlemen that footed the bill for the actual production of the movie and its advertisement?

Wouldn't that be akin to cutting a VC out of their percent of the earnings?
If you look at the permalink for the "YC table," that's old news.
The problem with stimulants is there is no free lunch. Any energy you get carries with it a rebound where you feel less energetic had you not taken anything at all most people call this the crash.

Something that will give you energy and put you in a good mood (helpful for mundane tasks) without causing any rebound is Kratom. Because it's not a stimulant you'll feel the effects and then just slowly go back down to baseline where as with stimulants you spike and then go below baseline and then go back up to baseline. Kratom is the real deal you might be interested in it.
By no less than a Nobel Prize laureate.
thanks :) btw lookcraft is looking great!