skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking leave for doctor visits, weddings, relocations, funerals, etc. does not count towards that.

So what do those days come out of? Here in the US, that comes out of my vacation time.
Also, each tower has many directional antennas, so one tower acts as multiple cells.
"... which is too much hassle just for the minor benefit of having the data be directly presentable in a web browser."

The point is that this is not a minor benefit. You literally have documentation for your API built in. You don't need to write a whole set of docs listing what parameters are acceptable for which requests. You get the semantics of form handling and link-following for free. Having worked on an API that basically brings HTML form handling to raw JSON and XML (Twilio's), where we had to work hard to create documentation for what we were doing, I can tell you this is a big deal.

Incidentally, using a media type like HTML is the only way to build a true REST API. If more people understood that, we might be able to have a saner discussion around REST and its trade offs.
LOL. That may be true, but with a good lawyer (and I'm sure Universal spared no expense here), it may come to be the opinion of the jurors (if there are any in this type of case) and judge as well. My point is that at least to me, it seems obvious that Universal is getting screwed over by Grooveshark, along with all the other copyright holders whose content they're distributing without a license.
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I don't disagree with what you said. But the topic was in regard to someone refusing to submit to justice unless their conditions were met. The point is, he must submit to the court before the court can grant his petition.
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Here's a suggestion to help artists - for every track downloaded which is not directly assigned to a copyright holder, put an amount equal to the industry average for US DPDs, say 70 cents, into escrow, along with 9.1 cents for the US mechanical license, and hold it there for three years or until the copyright holders come calling for it. In addition, supply the copyright holders with the specific details of the uploader. That would help artists.
It's got an API, you can store data in it and retreive it later by key, since when was S3 not a database? It's a key/value store that lets you store very large values.
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"American business has been the greatest engine for technological progress the world has ever seen"

That doesn't mean it couldn't be far better. Which is the point Kay was getting at.

Lose your vision and striving for the ideal, and you inevitably find yourself sliding backwards.
Awesome work Dan. Excited to give this a try.
Just so you know, my comment is not upvoted, and yours is downvoted because of the tone.

"It's just the way array_merge works" is true, so true even that it applies to the whole language. Why would merging an array yield a different result than adding them together, anyway?
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How Google can save itself - sell privacy.
I kicked one of these around in 2007-ish as well - the idea by itself isn't incredibly unique. What's new is the level of focus and quality of execution. They may not be copying Task Rabbit exclusively, but it's no longer a space populated entirely with hobby projects.
Look at the file named "eign" in the GNU troff distribution. I use it as a "stop word" list and it seems to work pretty well.
Testflight doesn't really work like that - for any app not approved by Apple, you can only open it with your device if the UDID is registered in the build as a tester device.

What testflight does is take your device's UDID (when you register your device with tham ) and allow the developer to rebuild or insert your UDID into the build, and then you can install to your device.

There's still no way (with an unrooted device) to install an unapproved app without the UDID in the build - testflight just greases the path for that process.
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So you don't really get it do you? It's not just about recycling its about reuse. I can buy a used laptop and a new battery and I have a good usable laptop. I don't need to purchase a new one. That's where the dismantling helps.
That was my thought too, the multiple mentions of "stuff" in different zones had me wondering why the recent EC2 outage was able to get them.
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While I appreciate the fact that no analogy is perfect, I have to make a relatively pedantic objection here.

We're talking about the difference between 2-3 & 5-6 weeks of vacation, not a radically different approach to governance and civil liberties.
Any developer/entrepreneur who realizes the wisdom and accuracy of Don Rumsfeld's famous tongue-twister is on the right path:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

* [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know, we don't know.
Oh, had never heard of this. This looks good for extremely common short words. The version I have has only 133 words though. I'm looking for something in the range of a few thousand words at least.
Ok, setiously guys, what are you doing wrong?

I have updated 3 personal Macs to Lion. Some upgraded, some a clean install. Didnt have a problem with any of them.

What broke for you? Drivers for exotic hardware? (on that front, I use Wacom tablets, Midi controllers and external FW audio cards and had no probems with either in Lion).

On the other hand I refuse to install ANY haxie.

Seriously want to know what broke for you -- and I dont mean stuff like "I prefered old Expose better"....
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I think it must be aimed at beginners in some of these points.
Meaning they wouldn't update even if it were OTA?
Ask HN: Would you pay for an ad/tracking-free Twitter?
You all know about Twitters recent efforts in advertising and tracking, which is beginning to be a threat to its own popularity among users and developers. I understand that it's all about profit, but I believe that tracking and personalized advertising isn't the only way for Twitter to make money:

Would you pay for your Twitter-account to be 100% free of tracking and personalized ads? (And if so, how much?)
Could you elaborate on how you've implemented "billing"?

I have some ideas how to implement time tracking for billing purposes but haven't got around to it yet.
That could be. In my case, I was always responding to an invitation but never creating one.
STEPS is cool, but IMO he should badmouth the entire industry after he ships it.
An old acquaintance of mine runs a startup called BancBox (http://www.bancbox.com/), which I believe can do this.

I haven't used it personally so I can't vouch for its quality.
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You could definitely pirate in-app purchases assuming they are software , not physical things.

The games won't all be free, there just must be at least a demo.
It's been a habit of mine for a number of years to smile as soon as I wake up. It's a wicked hack and it works.

In AA they tell you to "fake it until you make it", and encourage newcomers to do assorted mundane "be useful" stuff like set up chairs or make coffee, even if (or especially if) you don't feel like doing it. The physical activity of being productive leads to a certain mental state.

BTW, much the same idea is discussed in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-John...

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, by Keith Johnstone.
That makes the whole keyboard cover for Surface really interesting. Microsoft has made keyboards for many years though so I am hoping that they are aware of possible problems and hopefully will be able to avoid it.
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The original content is about the new APP one can now pull through iTunes. Here's Google's original post. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/google-app-for-ipad-a...
Don't feel bad about not creating a "profitable side-businesses after one marathon 48-hour coding session in a single weekend". I bet a lot of side projects posted to HN took much longer than 48 hours to complete even if the author claims it was all done in a weekend. You should be proud for having released anything at all. And kudos for being candid about the level of time, effort and perseverance that went into your project.
We offer unlimited time off and I, as the CTO, do keep track. But only to make sure folks are taking time off! I push people to GTFO - unplug, etc. I also have a sense during my weekly 1:1s, who is getting a little frazzled. I then encourage them to unplug for a bit. I think it works well.

There's a bit of a meta-meme right now of "No managers!" which is pushback against "Command and Control" - which I whole-heartedly agree with. However, for hard-working "Type A" sorts of programmers, it's easy to get so focused that you don't take care of yourself, even as a responsible adult.

I view my job as a gardener - tending to the care and feeding of folks that work with me. Every now and again a person needs a mental "weeding", and so a vacation is needed. :D
Hey, I hate to be a drag, but your article needs a [NSFW] tag or you need to take the naked people photo out.
OTOH i'm happy someone is advancing the state of peripherals and laptop construction (retina, thunderbolt, shedding dvd drive, etc). If we left it to OEM hw we would still have unmovable beasts of machines with RS232 ports...
Agreed -- the $7500 would be a nice raise, but... it likely would end up in savings or something of the sort, as opposed to really taking the opportunity to take a fantastic vacation that I would likely feel guilty spending my own money. The psychological aspect of spending a budget set by my employer for vacation would make it all the more relaxing.
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>Incidentally, using a media type like HTML is the only way to build a true REST API.

That would definitely be a worthwhile point to consider, if REST didn't have several completely impractical requirements that people inevitably abandon the moment they try to make their site do anything more complex than (unauthenticated) CRUD.
What scotus thinks (1987 case):

http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/483/522/

(Edit: Posted link for background cases are not similar..)
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Thanks; I had fun working on this.

The code is on github ( https://github.com/scottschiller/SURVIVOR ) for those interested. The level editor does horrible things with data in the URL, but it was a fun add-on.
> Just like murderers don't deserve human rights?

Well in the United States it is relatively common for murderers to be put to death.
Time in and out of the office tiers as well.

When I lived in Japan, I stayed with the head of Korean Air for Japan and with a mid-level engineer at Mazda.

The Mazda engineer left the house at 6 AM and got back at 7 PM or so.

The executive left the house at 10 AM and got back at 5 PM.

When I asked the executive about it, he told me that he had to come late and leave early so his entire staff could leave at a reasonable hour. It cascades - it never looks good if your superior is at work when you're not, so you make sure you get in before him and leave after him. The lower you are, the longer you're at work.
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The problem is the hypocrisy. Every other organization in the U.S. can trademark their name, but only in their industry. The USOC does not sell gyros, meat, wine or movies.

I really would like to know how this organization has gotten so much power.

EDIT: I'm curious how this paint company has kept the name:
http://www.olympic.com/ Were they granted the trademark earlier? Plus the paint brush is a play on the torch. They have the domain name, so someone at the usoc must have seen them.
It's ironic that the government used "olympic games" as a code name for the development of Stuxnet.
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A little touchy, aren't we?

The involvement of Barclays has been widely reported, so you could (maybe) demand adequate assurance without being dishonourable.
If your government shuts down the internet, shut down your government!
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It also creates a mess if your other customers find out about it. In general, offering different prices to different customers is playing with fire unless you have a way to justify it when your non-discounted customers call.

Not to mention, shouldn't every Fancy Hands customer that reads this go in and pretend to cancel to get the discount?
For the most part I completely agree with your analysis here - really well done.

But at some point, does a product like this become such a toxic POS that it is obvious it shouldn't be in the market? We don't let people create and market, for instance, a phone that happens to explode on contact with air. We don't allow cars that, say, don't have brakes. Should there be some regulatory structure in place that looks at new offerings like this and a least provides an opinion to the validity of the product? Now, naturally, this would be very difficult - both because the SEC and CFTC both suffer from lack of funding, not being staffed by appropriate experts and being (depending on how you view it) captured. But it just strikes me that these things should never have been allowed on the market in the first place - especially given, as you rightly point out, that most buyers are not going to have the ability to actually perform the appropriate level of due-diligence.

And while you're right that grandma can't go out and buy Abacus, her pension fund could, and therefore it does effect her.

I do love the idea of comparing GS to a local car dealer - but I can't remember another business I've ever seen that is so willing to throw their own customers/clients under the bus to make a buck. So I'd actually put them below the local car dealer. :)
What next employer? How does one even go about finding a new job while working hours like that? Unless she gets fired, I don't expect she'd even have the time to conduct a job search if she wanted to.
This is frustratingly vague. Obviously marketing and not real content. It doesn't even hint at how they resolve semantic differences between C# and Java.

How do they erase the generic types while preserving functionality? How do they correctly translate value types into reference types? These are IMPORTANT! Otherwise who knows what happens when you feed it this:

IEnumerable<T> GenerateUntilCatchDefault<T, E>(Func<T> generator) {
try {
while (true) {
yield return generator();
}
} catch (E) {
yield return default(T);
}
}
This style seems amazing, but I haven't seen any tutorials for people interested in learning how to do this themselves.. do you know of any such resources?
The sad thing is it took me a few minutes to realize that this was a parody.
Yes, then let's also dispense with the fiction that great product & packaging is as novel and actually innovative as creating new technology (whether that be a protocol, or languages or manufacturing processes, or complete past the horizon breakthroughs, et al...sorry, but I dislike the use of "innovation" to be anything even mildly market "novel" instead of actually groundbreaking tech. Timing the market entry right is not the same as actually innovating something into it).
This is a little spun. Certainly "Olympic" in the context of the games (e.g. "Ravelympics", which was clearly related to and synchronized with the summer games) is a plausibly trademarkable term. And the circle logo (which the sub shop was actually displaying!) absolutely is. The difference here is mechanism: instead of a private entity inventing and registering a trademark, congress granted a trademark to a pre-existing mark to the USOC after the fact.

I tend to agree that they'd be better served by not enforcing it so strictly. The games, after all, are a shared party for all of humanity. I think there's a strong case to be made for simple, celebratory use (for things like knitting more than for gyros, I'd say though).

But legally, there's just not much here. Clearly the marks are protectable, and someone needs to manage them. Congress picked the USOC.
But in its email, the organization emphasized the need to "protect the rights of companies who financially support the U.S. Olympic Team," such as McDonald's and Coca-Cola.

"We believe using the name ‘Ravelympics' for a competition that involves an afghan marathon, scarf hockey and sweater triathlon, among others, tends to denigrate the true nature of the Olympic Games," the letter from USOC said. "In a sense, it is disrespectful to our country's finest athletes and fails to recognize or appreciate their hard work."

Uhhh... and McD's & Coca-Cola's sponsorship is not an insult to athletes?
Just because we live with it doesn't mean we're OK with it.
I really like the idea of "forced benefits" - free meals, paid vacations, devices as "bonuses", etc, since they force you to raise your standard of living. I wouldn't eat out for lunch every day because there are other things that I'd rather spend my money on, but since work pays for it, I'm much happier - it makes my life easier, I get to eat better/more interesting food and saves me time. Same goes for vacations - I would love to go and see China, but it'll be a while before I can justify the expense. If someone were to hand me a check for $7,500 though and say "this is for your vacation", I would do it in a heartbeat - and I think be better off for it. I mean, presumably this comes on top of a generous salary already, but I think it's a good thing to help people get over their own biases toward spending.
But that's about the "Gay Olympic Games", where the confusion could be very real.

Nobody is going to think a diner has any relation to the official games.
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There was an interesting article on that recently:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/06/taxi...

"New York fares have gone up six times over the last 30 years, yet drivers’ real income has fallen"
thanks! i'm starting to venture into android development now and getting some quick terse advice from an expert is helpful
>the best proof that we're powerless.

More accurate. People need to communicate, and SMS is a good way to do that. Would we like it to be cheaper? Of course. There have been numerous lawsuit attempts, petitions, and boycotts. Doesn't matter. There's nothing we can do to change it. If everyone just stopped using it, they'd bundle it in with a package you had no choice but to buy. If you just abstained from a cell phone, you'd be in more trouble than you'd have been 20 years ago since payphones and emergency phones no longer exist.

It's not that people pay it and shut up about it, it's that people pay it because there's no other real option.
My experience with software updates - on phones or desktops - is that I'm presented with the option to perform the update at the very instant that I need to use the device. And since it was working fine (for my purposes) before the update, I'm not likely to stop what I'm doing right now.

My MacMini media machine at home is several releases behind current Lion releases because its screen is only visible when I want to watch a movie, and the rest of the time its playing music, controlled via the iTunes remote.
With Flash blocker enabled, there is zero indication of what this really is.
Hardware manufacturers are the WORST software makers.

Except for Apple.
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I think it probably has something do with this:

But in its email, the organization emphasized the need to "protect the rights of companies who financially support the U.S. Olympic Team," such as McDonald's and Coca-Cola."
> "The games, after all, are a shared party for all of humanity."

Are? Or ought to be?
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I don't think the two situations are analogous in any way. In the case you posted, the SFAA were looking to run a sporting event using the word 'Olympics'. This is clearly going to cause an element of confusion to the public in terms of who is organising the event.

On the other hand, in the case posted by the OP, the likelihood of confusion is to my mind, non-existent. No reasonable person would be confused into thinking the body responsible for holding the Olympics was branching out into gyros.
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There was an interesting collaborative working hack in there with using Dropbox for real time development with Xcode and two devs on different laptops (at least thats what I think they were doing).
It wouldn't be illegal, but there would be no tax advantage. Certainly in the UK it would be classed as a benefit-in-kind to the employee and the company would be liable to pay tax on the value of the benefit.

Where it may save money is with standing relationships with travel agents for favourable rates.
"In a follow-up letter June 18, the USOC said it "sympathizes with your position," so Voulgaridis was given until the end of 2013 to "come to a resolution.""

This is a key move on the part of the olympic committee no doubt in order to not give any legs to a story that might not play way in a year that the games are going on. In a sense they are taking the wind out of his sails by appearing to be fair and reasonable.
I read this all the time but I don't buy it.

Hiring some maintenance programmers to take care of 10.6 or 10.7 security for X more years (and announcing that EOL date!) sounds pretty harmless. How would that hold Apple back at all? They have mountains of cash in the bank and those programmers wouldn't get into the way of 10.8 or 10.9 at all.
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Interesting stuff and the ARPU generated from gambling revs will ofcourse be a massive draw to devs looking to use the Betable API. We're working on a social sports prediction game with a football(soccer) focus at launch but have consciously avoided building in gambling mechanics. We will run with an affiliate model where we can achieve around 15-30% of a users lifetime value from the provider.

Our aim is to focus on the gameplay and have the cash betting as an extra. With such tricky global regulations this frees us up to pick and choose partners that meet local laws and expand into regulated markets with new models.Of course Betable would prove a great expansion of our product in future.

Interested to hear HN's thoughts (affiliate vs betable) and would love you all to play and inform our beta later in the year: www.betstars.co.uk
> Clearly the marks are protectable, and someone needs to manage them. Congress picked the USOC.

The marks don't need to be protected. Congress could treat them as part of the public domain, just like (say) photographs taken by government employees as part of their job. But unfortunately the Olympics are a money making venture, and the sentiment

> The games... are a shared party for all of humanity

ceased to govern the Olympic committee a long time ago.