skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This incident went way beyond humor and ribbing...

Actually, yes...death threats and stalking can be hilarious. It's completely subjective.

There is a big difference for having some criticism about someone's points of view and engaging in a harassment campaign. That you equate the two is troubling.

Once again...what one person calls harassment, another calls humor. Do you think the Internet should be patrolled by humor police?

Women in sports is a huge issue and still is. There are also quite a lot of people who are troubled by the misogyny that permeates professional sports.

Maybe it's an issue for you. Not for me or anyone else that I know. Honestly, I can't remember the last time I heard someone complained about that.

Furthermore, look in any direction...you can find people who are troubled by all sorts of things. Should everybody care about every single thing that a given group of people are troubled by? Should those troubled people be sheltered from humor if it offends them? Do you really, really want someone to police the internet or would you prefer freedom?

The best way to guarantee sexism is never addressed is to not talk about it. The Kickstarter project was about an examination of an issue, not a world-wide solution. That you make it about that is an attempt to move the goal posts.

I don't care about some Kickstarter project. I'm here to say that I like freedom of expression and I don't like it when people start saying there's some sort of big problem because someone else said some words that they got offended by. Boohoo! Death threats make me chuckle.
On recent OS X versions (Lion at the very least), the problem isn't that /Library and ~/Library aren't indexed by default; they are.
Trouble is that if I search for a file named, say "com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist", Finder appears to run a query akin to

kMDItemDisplayName == "com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist"
&& kMDItemSupportFileType != MDSystemFile

which returns nothing on my system, rather than simply

kMDItemDisplayName == "com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist"

which returns three results, one each in subdirectories of /System/Library, /Library, and ~/Library.

There's an option in the "full" Spotlight search window that lets you control this for any given search, under "Other..." in the drop-down you get when you click "+" to add criteria. It's called, logically enough, "System files".

Incidentally, the mdfind command line tool doesn't have this behavior by default.
Yeah, it's pretty sweet.
Out of curiosity, do Japanese companies not use multi-shift schedules? A former employer of mine ran three shifts, particularly for hardware testing, and I don't see how such a schedule could work with that sentiment.
Steve Jobs’s Ideas vs Execution
An excellent reply, given that you only read about a third of Church's post.
I like the low-effort way this can be used to hear only about jobs that you're likely to be interested in. Very cool!
Yes, I really do think so. It's a nice theory re:accountability, but I don't think it holds up in the real world, where enterprise-contracting costs, for whatever reason, are extremely high. One possibility is that there isn't as much accountability for managers of large companies as you think (there's been a lot written on that problem); another possibility is that there are somehow inherent scale problems with doing bespoke software development for very large organizations.
Their money is going to come from the 30% they're taking from all games sold in their game store (at least that's the plan).
Send encrypted e-mails through Gmail.
Why was there a blackout in Alberta?
That is very clever. Not the solution, but the fact that someone at Google, clearly thought about this beforehand and built it right into the product. It's not a violation of Apple's terms (google prob had their legal men check it) and it offers us a nice exit from the Safari lock-in.

Kudos to Google. This is how it's done.
User Interface of the Week: Adobe Acrobat
> Are these companies more interested in money than what they're actually doing?

Their [HP] interest in what they're actually doing is demonstrated in their investment in research that has enabled memristors. Commercialization, what the quote was about, is obviously more about money. Money that eventually ends up funding more research like this.
Online Gaming Market Trends
Video Technical Analysis of S&P 500 7/11/12 Close
The collapse was the result of a real estate bubble. Changes to the law in 1999 had no effect on something that was already underway at the time. The focus on Glass-Steagal is political and a distraction from actual causes.

There are a few things that could have been done to puncture the bubble before it got truly out of hand, but bubbles are a function of peoples' expectations more than any government policy, so we were in for a bad recession no matter what. And there's no way politicians are going to get blamed for a bad recession if someone else can be blamed for a worse one.

At this point the best thing that could happen is regulations simplified and streamlined to the point that Congressional aides (the people who actually write the laws when they're not just passing along something from a lobbyist) can understand them. Also, the GSEs should be recognized as a bad experiment and dealt with accordingly.
Facebook Releases Biggest iOS SDK Update Ever
Yeah, but...any of those aforementioned companies produce products which each generate more usage in a day than the FactFinder likely generates in a month or even a year.
Hmm... I suppose policies may vary, but in my experience exactly the opposite tends to be true. Sick days and personal days vanish at the end of the year while vacation days generally accumulate (sometimes with a cap, though). It's fairly common for people with separate pools to use "sick" days to just take a day off to recharge or run errands. (Although, technically, employers often have the right to demand a doctor's note, but seldom actually do so.)
It would be cool if the games built upon each either. That would be pretty neat and add a little more complexity while still being fun.
Ask HN: I want to charge in my web application, what to do legally?
I am a non-US citizen and started creating a web application. I want to charge credit cards in the website, but I don't think it will bring big amounts of revenue - let's say $100 per month. I want to do this not for the money (although if possible, why not), but more for the sake of it. I have no idea what I should do legally. I want to charge internationally - having customers in Europe and the US. Should I incorporate? Does it matter where?

I'm asking it in the simplest form as I honestly don't know where to start here. I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars on legal/accounting counseling or hundreds of dollars for incorporation just for a small project that IF successful will only be worth a few hundred dollars for me. What do I need to do to legally charge and issue receipts worldwide online?

edit: To clarify, I have a paypal account (Premier, not business as I don't have a registered business), but the question is not about how technically to charge and process credit cards, but what do I need to do to make it fully compliant with the law (particularly American and EU law).
> And why is around in the first place?

PDFs predate both CSS and the legion of webdevs we have available now. It's effectively vestigial.

However, PDFs do allow for digital signing, which is not a feature webpages can have AFAIK.
I think it's important to place their numbers in the context of mainstream consoles. In today's living room, you have Wii (95M), Xbox 360 (67M), and PS3 (64M).

That's ~226 million consoles. The OUYA is selling well for two days, for sure, but it's a tiny fraction of the big players.

They've had 26k backers in two days. They could do 13k backers per day for an entire year and end up with ~5M consoles sold (8% of the smallest console, or 2.2% of all three). It isn't enough to get the attention of any big games. They best they'll do are Android ports.

It isn't enough to put out cheap hardware for Android. They need a seriously good storefront, a seriously good integration/account system, or a seriously good controller. They aren't taking any of these three seriously, as far as I know, so I do think pessimism is warranted.

If anything, their success at grabbing attention should put more fuel on the fire for Valve's rumored console...
Alternatively, it's a scandal piece in a tabloid, going off a study that looks at a dataset a tiny fraction of the size and statistical quality that studies which have found the opposite have looked at.

In other words, low-grade journalism based off low-grade science. Maybe that's why it got pushed down.
Magical oh-my-zsh shell prompt
Searching for "usher.mp3" where the artist.name = Usher is pretty much exactly how Prof. Usher's lecture notes got DMCA'd. I'll give you credit that you could probably ban most of the typos of Rihanna, though. But the wider you cast that net, the more "dolphins" like Prof. Usher you're going to catch.

And you have to cast it widely to even put a dent into things, because you only need one copy available for everyone to copy it. Just one false negative out of millions of songs and everyone copies that one that slipped through. They need exactly one search result, not 100. Google does all that you say and more on YouTube. Let me know how hard it is for you to find infringing content there (hint: not very)? Sure, they play whack-a-mole with it. But that damned mole keeps popping back up and it's not hard to find a mole that hasn't yet been whacked.

Worse, the more you tighten up that code, the more Prof. Ushers you ban. We have Google blocking access to bird songs already. And I know you know how skilled their coders are.

You should have at least banned the cryptographic hashes of anything that got DMCA'd. At least that has few false positives (assuming few DMCA notices are false). It's vulnerable to deliberate infringers making tiny changes to the files, sure, but I'm unaware of any solution that isn't. And you're required to ban anyone who is a repeat infringer anyhow. But we're playing whack-a-mole. More moles always pop up.
The question is: Why do YOU think it's some kind of plot?

If someone who is embarking on a project to expose and discuss misogyny suddenly finds themselves on the receiving end of vicious misogynous attacks, would it not make sense to bring that to the fore? After all, the sheer viciousness of the attacks only serves to prove that misogyny is alive and well, and most importantly, damaging.

Bringing inconvenient truths to light goes to the very heart of journalism.
> Is that just the BoM or does that factor in manufacturing, QA, having to hold inventory, etc.?

Found the teardown: http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iSuppli-Teardown...
Hojoki aggregates all your productivity apps into one dashboard
>I donated to the Python programmer with ALS but I think I'll let Jesus help this guy.

As an atheist, I find your comment severely distasteful. I wish I could downvote this many times more than just once.
Point is, sometimes you just wanna vent because no one understands you. SRS is exactly that place. It’s not for activism, it’s not for changing stuff, it’s for venting frustration and having fun with that.

The point of SRS is not to change the world, it’s to have a place where you can laugh at idiots and have no one spoil that fun. And that’s perfectly alright.
I believe it's written with TWUI, the same as Twitter's official Mac client. I know that highlight behavior, custom drawn scroller, and scroll inertia in the scroll view from anywhere. Probably the first big user out side of Twitter to use it publicly. I bet it made porting the iOS code over easy with all the Core Animation the iOS version uses.

Edit: Nope. I was wrong. I see the nib files. It's AppKit. They just use a hell of a lot of Core Animation.
I will build your MVP
I have shipped two products (both of which I am bootstrapping).

www.compversions.com
www.leadsriver.com

For some reason, the clients from HN are of a much higher caliber than those elsewhere (testament to the community PG has created here). The last time I did this, it worked out well, so I figure I would try it again.

Either email me - marc {at} compversions {dot} com or leave a message here if you are interested.

You tell me what you want to do, I will give you a quote (and payment terms) and we get started.

As easy as that.
You can sue for damages from libel, but you need to be able to prove to the court that the offender actually knew what they were saying was wrong.

It's not quite that simple. US libel law recognizes two classes of people: public figures and private citizens. Both classes of people have to demonstrate that the claim is false. Hence my high school journalism teacher's repeated phrase, "The best defense in a libel case is the truth."

For private citizens, a false claim is enough for libel. For public figures, it is not. Public figures have to prove malice. That is, the defendants knew that the statement was untrue, and said it for the purpose of causing harm. That's a very high bar.
start with paypal
"Now, when a user wants to cancel, we give them two buttons front and center.... If it’s because of price, we’ll give them an instant, lifetime discount..."

Ah, the credit card company gambit. Then you can charge more for default accounts, to allow the subset that fail to see the game being played to pay for the those that do know the trick.
Just an aside, it wasn't child porn, but the collation of public photos of under-dressed minors. The witch-hunt associated was basically a witch-hunt against thoughtcrimes (the horror of someone wanking it to a minor), not against actual child abuse.

I feel this is important because I've used Reddit for years and I don't think it's fair to associate them with child porn, because they have never tolerated child porn.
I'm not making that assumption, but perhaps I am assuming/implying that this issue isn't enough on the radar of most republicans to have much of an impact in a primary race. And as noted by waterlesscloud, a democrat can't win this district.
I personally never read my twitter stream - it’s too noisy and to much of a pain to cull.

I read it by proxy prismatic, and news.me. And I mainly use it to post - for those who do read twitter, to the widget on my blog, and to Facebook.

I suspect that a replacement twitter could handle the last 2 use cases fine - which are the main point for me.
Many companies have a policy for bereavement leave. The amount may depend on your relationship to the deceased. For example, it might be a week for a parent, spouse, or child; 3 days for a grandparent; etc.
Less generous is most definitely the norm.
Perhaps he doesn't forget, but wants to speak about what you should do today. Or, perhaps he doesn't know about Java 8 lambdas. Ultimately, your comment would come off a lot less offensively if you had said something like "Interesting article. I wonder if Java 8 lambdas will change this. <link>".
Viacom replaces online full episodes with anti-DirecTV ad
Daily Show: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-june-28-2012-tenacious-d<p>Colbert Report: http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-june-28-2012-aaron-sorkin
Or less. You could buy an entire raspberry pi for what they're asking!
I was thinking along those lines as well. It would be great if a user could add a widget that would parse the text of the opened email and present the user with the action items of the email.

I liked the ability to be able to use the service from any client. And see the widget as an extension that would increase the usability.

The biggest barrier I believe is people learning the language in the first place to be able to perform these action items.
I've seen that page before , but didn't notice the code repos listed there. Thanks.
As I stated above, and assuming he is a private citizen, he probably could win that libel case.
beware though. might not work after latest XCode installation
Whether it's IE, FF3.6 or whomever else, I'll blame them for stifling my creativity and ability to make things work and look good in a timeframe that doesn't make me pull my hair out. Telling us that we're not meant to work in web if we can't handle these things is a weak argument; I expect a bit of pull and tug in any line of work, and I'll gladly do it, but when the time spent troubleshooting for older/inconsistent browsers is so detrimental to a team's ability to meet deadlines time and time again that you have to hire people specifically for it instead of using that money to innovate elsewhere, something's amiss.

I can only assume how many developers there are at Yahoo!, no less redundant roles and people that have been debugging these issues for a decade+ and know the problems they'll run into like the back of their hand. Smaller agencies and development teams don't have those people to rely on and they shouldn't have to.
Did it: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2012-07-11
Education is also a much weaker predictor of sales abilities than of biz dev potential. Sales seems like a more directly learnable skill. Sales also tends to leave highly-educated people with a negative taste (that's absent from biz dev), even though good salespeople can have as big an impact on the bottom line.
I second your opinion on itunes ! I sometimes wonder if apple sees something in iTunes that most ppl miss !
Please give any pointer to "a Nobel-winning physics breakthrough which allowed the existence of high-density hard drives." Thanks!
Hahaha. I love it. I think it was Joel Spolsky who said that you shouldn't worry too much about discussing your ideas because if they're actually novel the risk that people will steal them is low since in reality you'd have to shove them down most people's throats to try to get them to understand.

Reading these comments has only reinforced that notion. It seems silly to me that anyone could look at the way email works and say "yup, this is perfect, it's not possible to do better, let alone much better". And yet everyone who uses emails runs into the same frustrations with it many times a day. You go on telling people that email is fine, that just winnows out the future competitors, and I'm fine with that.
On mobile device right now, but earlier today Alfred prompted for a beta update which included some Spotlight features. Not sure about the details or if it's only part of the paid Powerpack
GDP expands to Gross Domestic Product which doesn't make sense if you're talking about more than one country at a time, since most of that number will really be Gross Foreign Product :)
Every where you see the "with statements are harmful"/"eval is harmful" drum being hit, you see Douglas Crockford. He's a great guy, and I really respect his opinion, but I continue to feel that these are legitimately useful aspects of the JavaScript language -- especially if we want to consider JavaScript as the "assembly language" upon which other languages are built.

For with statements in particular, templating and scoped evaluation (I provide an example from the Firebug console in the book) are probably the two areas in which I've seen it most successfully used.

For code evaluation I only have to direct you to the creation of Coffeescript (an entirely evaluated language) whose innovations have directly influenced new versions of the ECMAScript language.

They have their place and when used sparingly, but effectively, the can be formidable parts of a web developer's arsenal.
A similar project hooks up GPG and Gmail:
https://github.com/Mononofu/CryptoChrome
Go feels to me like it is trying to combine C and Python. Much more efficient than Python, but not as efficient as C. Much more expressive than C, but not as expressive as Python. I can't quite decide if that's combining the best of both worlds, or compromising on both fronts.

What's up with the official Go binaries being incompatible with RHEL 5? I might have another look in about a decade or so.
Git support is cool, but using the right-side prompt screws up multiline selections that include a prompt line.
I just had to say something before everyone was talking about the minimum number of bears that need to be around for someone to be guilty under the DMCA. Personally, I would be more worried about the bear maximum, but IANAL.
I'm currently sans Internet thanks to moving house so I haven't had chance to play, but I will!
You raise an important point. I reference it now in an edit to the post.
interesting, do you remember any of their names.

What was the problem with those apps?
NBC to Drop “MS” from MSNBC
I found that number hard to believe, so I looked it up. In 2007 (the most recent figure I could find) the US sent $2.5 billion to Israel. The total budget was $2800 billion. So it was more like 0.09%.
Something like this shouldn't cost more than $0.50 in parts to make, and it shouldn't cost more than a computer mouse, which already has not only an LED but a relatively expensive optical recognition system built in.
Sometimes I think this is how my boss handles all email.
I'm not so sure it is. The scroll inertia is completely different from Twitter for Mac, and which custom scroll bars?
Refactoring Tornado Code With gen.engine
This one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance
Hyperthymic Temperament and Founders
Has anyone ever seen a study or, hell, even a commentary, on startup founders being more prone to having Hyperthymic Temperament (the genetic cousin of bipolar disorder II)?
I was convinced to become an atheist by people calling out other people. I was convinced to become a feminist by people calling out other people.

I know it’s an anecdote. I know from communication research that changes in opinion don’t really happen all that often in the real world, especially not in response to the media. But in the end I can say that I was personally changed by people calling out things.

I think it’s a valuable thing to do. The world would be a very sad place if it were impossible to change people with argument.

And if not this generation then the next one.
Qualcomm unveils future of cellphones(& why iPhone sucks for new contextual age)
Linux Tips: Alias'ing (2007 article)
no not a particularly novel idea, but someone's gotta do it. $$$
I think this is what we're talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance
There really are death panels in obamacare. I read the bill before it was made secret, when this issue was brought out. The bill creates committees which decide who gets health care and who is left to die. That's a plain fact.

The response to airing of this fact is that Obama, et al. started spinning it as an objection to "end of life counseling". In other words, they lied about what the criticism was about, and once they did it all the liberals started acting like it was absurd to complain about "death panels".

There are people who I've met who bring up "Death panels" as an absurd complaint who don't even know that the bill creates committees who regulate who gets health care and who doen't. (not "is this treatment effective" but "should retired people get this treatment since they are no longer paying taxes?" with the stated political purpose of letting those who aren't paying taxes die. The major objection brought up time and time again from the left was that "society" was "wasting money on old people".)

So here's the tragedy: There are so many people who have heard such propaganda that they won't even consider the fact that there are death panels because they've been told it was a lie.

Even though it was right there in black and white for anyone to read in the bill (before it was made secret until passage.)
This is the guy I was thinking about, and reading WildTanget's material it looks like Oouya should take its Kickstarter proceeds and buy WildTangent to get their Ad patent portfolio and a an implementation of their business model :-)