skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
make no mistake:

"imaginary property" != "real property"

importanceof("real property") > importanceof("imaginary property")

mistakenly equating the two, as most politicians do -- because "well, why should the internet be any different?" -- erodes real property rights (and civil rights, ...). yes, really: distributor (excuse me... creator) imaginary property rights absolutely come second to my real physical property and privacy rights. i don't care how many revenue forecasts aren't met. ROI is not a right, it's a market risk. you don't like the returns? buy a farm and be glad the imaginary property advocates haven't lobbied the right to lock your door away from you yet. you could be infringing my copyright (not to mention commiting thoughtcrimes, or storing encrypted-looking data) behind that closed door.

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I would be interested in such a plugin as well. Given that I have a very unique name (Moncef Belyamani) and that I've had an online presence for quite some time, I've owned the first page of search results for both my name and my "monfresh" nickname for years. I don't have a need for a BrandYourself profile, but the "associate an IP address to a company" feature is intriguing, and the analytics service I use for my sites (getclicky) doesn't seem to offer that. Are there any analytics companies that do?
Kickstarter becomes fourth biggest publisher of graphic novels
Is it 90-100% coverage in all of those 150 countries?
You can't catch me, I bend pixels!
In terms of finger travel, if I've already moved my right hand to the arrow keys, and my left hand to ctrl and shift, then it's simply hold-ctrl, left, start holding shift, right. While not quite as simple as ciw, my main complaint is moving my right hand all the way over to the arrows and back; complaining about the comparative complexity of the sequence seems ridiculous.
The way that most Vim users use modes is like using "StickyKeys" on your Shift/Control/Option keys. You smack "i" or "a" to go into insert mode just for the duration that you need it, and then you smack Escape the moment that you stop typing, even if it's just pausing to think.

Also, if you use a GUI version of Vim, then it knows about "paste" and doesn't make the mistake of interpreting your paste buffer as keystrokes.
You can list any number of languages you have touched. But if you categorize them into few categories as 1.expert/highly skilled, 2. Medium/moderately skilled and 3. Novice/just learning since few months, it will make life of the interviewer easy.
Thanks for this: very interested to hear how live an issue it was that many more platforms supported C than LLVM.
Generally I've noticed people are fine with FB login as long as you add "Don't worry we won't spam your friends without your permission" or "We won't spam your feed, we just want to know it's you." or something like that
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Technically you are right. Essentially the difference is bullshit. They simply don't send a notice to people they want to selectively ignore.
That article says the fake reviews are for Mechanical Turk -- it's unclear if they were reviews that were actually approved by a scammer, or if the researcher's just said "write me a fake review". There's a huge chance that their synthetic fake reviews don't resemble real deceptive reviews.

Also, the "real" reviews were just pulled from a site, without any research to verify their authenticity.
> Though as was noted, we subconsciously KNOW we are being recorded by security cameras. Where is the difference?

Expectation.

I expect that security cameras record me.

I do not expect that the recordings will be posted on the internet.

I do expect that whoever is recording them will take some reasonable measures to secure their contents.

Those are just my expectations. There's no law against violating these expectations, but can't we all agree that the world is a more pleasant place when we respect others' expectations and avoid trampling on them where possible?
Red light camera infractions are civil fines against the owner of the vehicle, not moving violations against the driver.
May be it is your colorscheme.

I took snapshot from my current editing session:

Selecting the last item:

http://i.imgur.com/dEkws.png

Selecting the second last item:

http://i.imgur.com/D6Icl.png

My vimrc is here: https://github.com/SolutionYogi/VimSetup
Open source your ideas.
> The problem is that the true tech counter is 'leave the Internet the hell alone and let progress take its course'

Right. Can we put that into some sort of legislative form that would have to be overturned in order for the MPAA and friends to have it's way? Some sort of net-freedom legislation?
I'll wait to see what the feedback is, but my first thought, at least for nyc, is that why would anyone want to use this? Unless the truck is a couple of blocks away, it'll take a while for the truck to get to the user requested location. In NYC, there is a drug store every other block. So it'll take 5 minutes for anyone who wants an ice cream to go to one and buy one, instead of waiting for a truck. And how much is uber going to make on selling ice cream (I imagine that if something like this is successful, they'll expand to other products too..)
Feature request denied. Reason: duplicate of ticket #1. :P
"Exit building before tweeting about it"
I could not continue reading after the author started apologizing for the computer-science-heavy interview. Simply put, if computer science heavy questions bother you, you are not an A player.
> Sublime will force you to move to the beginning of the word before you can select it.

Only if you don't know how to use it. Ctrl + D does it in fewer keystrokes than you can in vim.
I once walked into a semi-fast food restaurant and kindly asked if I could take a photo of their menu board. The employee said 'no' with no additional explanation given. Ever since then, I've taken similar photos -without asking- and no one has ever questioned me. It seems like the phrase, it's better to ask for forgiveness, applies to the situation.

I feel that when you ask an employee for permission, they automatically assume that you are up to something negative. They are usually not in a position of authority to grant you access to anything anyway. Now that you asked for their permission, they feel like they are personally responsible for whatever you do with the photos. The easiest way for them to CYA is for them to say "no."
You can order an on demand ice cream truck tomorrow with Uber
In the US you can, and I'd be surprised if many other jurisdictions saw it differently. In the US you have a right against self incrimination, not a right to lie and misdirect. See Martha Stewart as an example, part of her conviction was making false statements to an investigator.
The term you may be looking for is: Rational Ignorance

Rational ignorance occurs when the cost of educating
oneself on an issue exceeds the potential benefit that
the knowledge would provide.

Ignorance about an issue is said to be "rational" when
the cost of educating oneself about the issue
sufficiently to make an informed decision can outweigh
any potential benefit one could reasonably expect to gain
from that decision, and so it would be irrational to
waste time doing so. This has consequences for the
quality of decisions made by large numbers of people,
such as general elections, where the probability of any
one vote changing the outcome is very small.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance]
hope you like it
I will grant that "vi shortcuts" is strange, but "vi key bindings"? The operators/motions (or verb/noun) perspective is vital, but those operators and motions are not intrinsic properties of the keys they happen to be mapped to - indeed, you can remap them. The initial mapping is a totally valid question, particularly for lesser-used commands, and one that can quite reasonably be referred to by the phrase "vi key bindings".
Thanks! We are working on the landing page right now. I appreciate the feedback.
My favorite form of this is when using regular expressions.

You have 'v' for visual mode, where you move the cursor around and can select stuff.

You have 'd' to delete things.

If I press 'v' then move around, then press 'd', I'll delete the selection.

If I press 'vf,' it means 'select until you are on a comma'.
If I press 'df,' it means 'delete until you are on a comma'.

The problem with these two modes is that they're restricted to one line.

Now if I do 'v/,$', it means 'select until the first match of the regular expression ',$' (comma on end of line). If that comma is 5 lines below, it'll find it.

What's fun is that with this sublanguage, I can say 'dv/,$' and it will delete where the selection of the next comma at the end of a line, or more generally, <Command>v/<Regex> will do the command until a given regex. If I replace 'd' with 'c', it deletes and puts me in insert mode ('c' is change), and so on.

Even nicer? what if I'm writing Erlang (I usually am), and I want to delete, say 3 functions. I could delete one by getting to the beginning of the function and delete until '\.\n' as a regex (functions are terminated by a full stop). So the command becomes 'dv/\.\n' for a single function.

Rather than calling the same command 3 times, I can do it once, then press '.' twice to repeat the previous ones.

Or I can use the fact that vim has this sublanguage and instead call '3dv/\.\n', which will delete until the next end of a function (full stop + line break) 3 times.

Its command set is fully composable and at some point you find your sweet spot in there.
I'm curious, how does Twitter actually verify those accounts? Do they make a personal phone call? Do they require you to email them a copy of your driver's license?
It is right there in the section linked from the article:

(3) For the purposes of this section a person shall be taken to have shown that he was not in possession of a key to protected information at a particular time if—
(a)sufficient evidence of that fact is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it; and
(b)the contrary is not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

... which makes me sad that misinformation is being used to fight a good cause.
OK, I didn't know that. So in crime shows, where do the pictures of people in their cars come from (supposedly)? Speed traps or something?
This is not just a bug in some feature that used to not exist, this is a regression that Apple took upon themselves completely consciously.

"Full screening" existed before Lion. It worked fine. You could for example run Quicktime or iTunes full-screend in one monitor and do work on another. Then, in Lion, solely to be able to market it as a new feature, they tweaked it to conflate full-screening with spaces and broke the feature for many people that had been happily using it for over 5 years. They could have just added the existing full-screen behavior to the iLife and iWork apps and things would have been fine. They didn't. It is clear that Apple knew they were going to break this feature for people, and did it anyways. (For example Quicktime used to have an option in preferences whether to black out the other screen or leave it usable, this preference was removed in Lion -- someone literally went in and deleted functioning and better code -- this was not some "whoops" mistake).

On top of this, what is particularly infuriating about this is that it hurts the people that have invested heavily into Apple by purchasing more than one monitor, many times expensive Apple monitors. It is completely acceptable and expected for people to get angry about regressing their monitors' abilities. Maybe its not a show-stopper for you, but for people who have spent a lot of money purchasing monitors, and had an existing workflow that functioned for YEARS, to all of a sudden lose it to a paid upgrade is 100% what I would call a show-stopper. Especially because it has been a year now and it is clear Apple just doesn't care about this.

"Well Apple is just more focused on the single screen experience now and you're just not important anymore". Bullshit. They repeatedly advertise, and continue to advertise the expanded capabilities of, multiple monitors: http://www.apple.com/displays/. The Air + Secondary Display is widely used, and most the laptops now support more than one external monitor. Thunderbolt even added daisy-chaining of monitors. This adds to the absurdity and schizophrenic nature of the issue: many pros use multiple monitor setups, and yet Apple went into the pro apps and degraded them to now only work with one monitor in full screen mode.

Of course, this shouldn't be surprising, its really a microcosm of the entire Lion release: very little to no new functionality and instead unneeded "tweaking" of existing behavior. We paid to have our scrollbars made to look like iOS and have everyone learn to "reverse" their scrolling, for Safari to perform the worst its ever performed (I don't think I know anyone who uses it anymore), and to have full screen broken.
That author sounds like he has an axe to grind.

What did Ballmer/MS do to "throw Nokia under the bus"?
Does Facebook’s Edgerank Apply to Your Domain as a Whole?
You won't have to stay at your comfy job just because you are afraid of not having proper healthcare coverage.
Anyone else have a good story about Mongo as a speccing tool (as opposed to a long term solution)?
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I really like the last point about leaving out cool stuff because its not resume material. When learning about resumes in school, it seemed like the teachers would always try to have me recreate the "standard" resume basically from a template because it was the "right way to do it". In reality, a resume is just a way for the company to get to know you and your abilities/accomplishments and as long as the resume is clean and understandable, you should feel free to anything that could help your case.
WxPython: How to Create a Generic Wizard
Ask HN: Learning about cookies
I am going to be working on a project at my new job that requires me to know a lot about cookies. I want to learn as much as I possibly can, but I'm not finding a lot of quality information.

What resources would you recommend I take a look at? Also, what kind of background info would you consider to be crucial to understanding cookies?
> I think what's not congruent with social norms is that people still assume that cameras are turned off and aren't recording them & being saved somewhere.

No, people assume that security cameras will be used for their intended purpose. Our expectations are guided by context. The camera is the tip of the iceberg. Behind it is a whole set of intentions. What it will record, who will view it, and what will be done with that recording. The fact that it's a security camera provides implied answers to all of the "what, who, why" questions.

The rules of these contexts aren't written down in any rule book, because if we did that, we'd spend our whole lives writing out rule books rather than living.

I'm not suggesting that what Kyle did should be illegal. No one was harmed. Some people might have felt uncomfortable, but no one was harmed.

I am saying that we should be free to dislike him for it. He won't be harmed, but it might make him feel a little uncomfortable. Then again, maybe it won't.
How does/would this affect Freenet users? As far as I know, a Freenet user's 'deniability' claim comes from the idea that the user does not know the key to the encrypted content hosted on their machine.
Filepicker.io (YC S12) launches SDK for iOS and Android
endianness only matters when you bother interpreting the data. The storage concept shouldn't care -- after all, 8 bytes is 8 bytes is 8 bytes.

Struct needs it because it is interpreting data. unpack needs to know the endianness to correctly interpret numeric types, and pack needs to know the endianness to know how to serialize.

FYI: the C way of doing this is byteswapping.
Just don't go overboard with looking for the absolute best.

Your post reminded me of "The Paradox of Choice" [1], a book by Barry Schwartz that I read not long ago. One of the claims that the author makes is that satisficing is the best maximizing strategy. After factoring in stress, wasted time and dissatisfaction that result from looking for "the best" product or price it turns out that paying a bit more for a product that is good enough is cheaper.

[1]The Paradox of Choice: http://www.amazon.ca/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less/dp/0060005...
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Any idea can be modelled mathematically, but that doesn't meet my criteria. Modeling is an estimation of how something works, but it isn't the mechanism by which something works.

The current state of software patents results in people filing three sets of claims: the invention itself, a method that implements the invention, and a computer system that implements the invention. The rationale is that if invention claims (complicated math) are not enforceable, method claims might be, and if neither of those are, perhaps claims that mention hardware claim might be. You'll note that none of these motivations are strong, and that's because it has been left up to the courts to decide, and there is very little case law around software patents since everyone settles out of court. We think they are patentable because someone decades ago successfully enforced a patent regarding computer controlled curation of plastic.

Complex software that solves some real world problem shouldn't be disqualified on these grounds, since it is almost of exactly the same nature as hardware that achieves the same goals.

What makes complex software more valuable than simple software? Any engineer worth their salt will claim the precise opposite. Also, a product is not in itself patentable outside of the trade dress. You first have to find the novel invention inside the product, which is generally a simple idea.
Yes, but we're talking about a project being designed by one of the more famous industrial designers in the world, who also works for other hardware manufacturers (Jawbone, for example), and more than likely has a very deep network of hardware manufacturing contacts to draw upon. Just because some projects failed doesn't mean every related project will fail - unless the assumption here is that the only companies capable of bringing a console of any sort to market are MS, Sony, and Nintendo these days.
No actually, as of 5.4 <?= is always available. <?= and <? are not the same thing.
That doesn't change the fact that it's very easy to have a "record low" when there's only a year of history for your stock.
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Makes a certain amount of sense; boots are heavy and thus expensive to ship. Since they offer free shipping both outbound and return, that would eat directly into their bottom line. Particularly if the average customer buys and returns multiple pairs before finally settling on one.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are certain types or models of footwear that are completely off-limits due to their business model.
Think of it like a stop-and-search power. It is too wide, but not choosing to stop and search everyone who they have the power to isn't really like selective enforcement - it's just a power they can choose to use if they feel they need to.
As much as I really want to like the Windows Phone and would love it to succeed, Microsoft doesn't seem to have enough control over the experience to guarantee that.

Small data point: went to the AT&T store yesterday and, while waiting for a rep, played with a Nokia Windows Phone on the wall. I was meeting someone for beers in town and wanted to map out how long it would take to walk there. I looked and looked for a Maps choice in the home UI and I couldn't find it. I stood there for 3 minutes, scrolling up and down and nothing. Instead, there was AT&T Navigation (I didn't need navigation.. I just wanted some walking directions as an overview). There was also some app store showcase thing, which looked like something I would never want to use. It also displayed confusing messages in the square now and again, e.g. I think it said "Show Your Maps", which must've been an app they were promoting in the app showcase.

So if I, an experienced geek (and an iPhone user), can't figure out how to bring up Maps on your AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone, then you have failed BIG TIME. I moved on to the Android phone next to it and got the job done.
we didn't invent the word vaporware without real lessons having been learned
I have never been moved so close to tears by an article about a text editor before.
As the other reply mentioned, it's Ctrl+D, and there are many other ways to accomplish the same things that Vim can do in general. Maybe one is slightly better or more efficient, but they're really not that different.

Not to get into a holy war, but that's is one of the things I don't really like about Vim—the community is pretty religious and Vim "can do no wrong" in a sense. The process of conversion is just an epiphany and if you haven't realized that, then you must just not have used it enough, because it's factually better. Not really true. I'll leave it at that.
I really wish Windows apps had more consistency in their fullscreen behavior. Sometimes they bring up the taskbar, sometimes they behave like normal windows, sometimes they don't even let you scroll off the side anyway. This last behavior is most annoying in strategy games when I'm scrolling the map and have to use the arrow keys for one of the directions, but equally annoying in some FPS games where the cursor scrolls off the side but still behaves normally until you click to fire and then the application loses focus.

I'm not even a Mac user but I would take a consistent but irritating behavior over an inconsistent and also irritating behavior. It's more inconvenient to have to disable my second monitor while I'm playing a game.
I suggest the Penny Arcade guys (who, umm, write a webcomic, what do they know about anything technical?) have a read of The Future Was Here, the story of the Commodore Amiga, for a glimpse at how good engineers with a belief in their mission can go from breadboard to world-beating product almost before you can blink...
Thanks for the feedback. We intend to revamp our site to show each use-case in the front page itself.
This is downvoted, but I think there's some smartness to it.

My experience with the Mac is that apps for it are more often geared to work in not-full-screen windows; my personal hypothesis (with absolutely no documentation or backing) is that more Windows apps are most comfortable to use when maximized (and thus many new-from-Windows users look for a maximization button) because of MS-DOS' full-screen ancestry. In support of this unsupported theory: many more Mac apps seem to look silly when resized to unexpectedly large dimensions than do Windows apps.

Full-screen apps in Lion are a bit of a different thing because they exist in a conceptually separate place from "maximized" windows — they are to the side of the desktop, not on top of it.
If the string only had base 36 digits (ie not a space as above), then it wouldn't be a problem, it would a perfectly fine conversion from base36 string to base10 number.
Why Google Could Be a Major Cloud Provider in 2013
>The signups from foreign publications were pretty bad. They signed up for free at high rates, but they just don't pay (.5%). Not entirely sure why, but until we figure it out, we put people from those places on a wait list

Do you have international friendly payment methods? Regionally tiered pricing? And what do you mean by, "we put people from those places on a wait list"?
In the old days, they had milk boxes. One house I lived in as a kid had one. There's usually a door on the outside and a locked door on the inside. Here's one:

http://www.wellsphere.com/allergies-article/built-in-milk-bo...
Patent trolls don't have interns, internal software, or anything to sell.
looks like he forgot to switch to command mode at the end of the post.