skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" to not be aware of (or not want to care about) any other machinations that happen peripherally to what they're focused on."

I don't disagree and it sounds like the proverbial urban legend about the kid who said "just let the air out of the tires" when the truck was stuck under the bridge.

I guess the question really is then how do you make an atmosphere where you can make people with blinders aware of other possible solutions in other disciplines or entertain wild thoughts from normals. (Not normals but I believe the success of Bell Labs stemmed from having all sorts of disciplines in close proxmity to each other to solve problems. But of course the "respect" factor was very important in that working.)
Well, from my quick glance at the site, the league isn't aimed at "Joe User", but internet savvy "Lance Site-Owner" so they can show solidarity with the fight against evils to be yet illuminated by "Fight for the Future".

Basically they are trying to institutionalize a network of "like-minded" internet activists; which will at least be interesting as a sociology experiment to see how it evolves and what kinds of reaction it gets.
Not really. If Facebook already established a cookie in your browser they will still receive it in all browsers but FF.
> Has Kickstarter invented a new form of online commerce, where merchants who are close to you on the social graph, rather than in terms of physical geography, can thereby charge a premium for products which would never fly in the open market?

I think this is by far the most interesting sentence in the entire article. Traditionally we think of the web as a globalizing force, which will tend to strengthen big business: I might choose a mom-n-pop bookstore over Barnes and Noble if it's nearby and I'm buying in person. But online it will be at a severe disadvantage, and I'm not likely to find it at all unless I set out for it specifically. It's interesting to think that there may be an online equivalent of this physical proximity effect in the social graph. This possibility seems to open up lots of interesting avenues for discussion.
Swiss banks should start offering cloud storage. 'Cause then we'd be somewhat sure that they are not peeking inside...
would be great if social friends were choosen through interest only, migh take away from the lack of indless page clutter of dule conversations
Maybe the title was sensationalist... :)
And the GP was giving his honest opinion

I was giving my honest opinion of his honest opinion.

An opinion that is held by many people

These people have a weak grasp of the concept of 'evil'. In my opinion.

Maybe instead of browbeating

I wasn't doing that. My opinion.

You could consider encouraging Oracle

I'm nobody Oracle is going to listen to. I say this as a guy who has been dealing with Oracle for about a decade, supported database and application servers.

Oracle pays attention to guys that write checks. And not just any checks but big checks.

If the CIO of (say) AT&T brings this up with his sales rep, things will happen. Me .. not so much.

BTW, it isn't illegal

I believe you are reading things that I did not write.
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If there is enough backlash, they will cave. Do you think there will be sufficient backlash? I do not.
Attempting to inject a little humor does not invalidate an argument. I'm not really attempting to defend Apple; I'm simply saying, "this is the state of affairs and Apple is not the only offender."

We can dislike that excuse all we want; but, why are we faulting for-profit companies for working within the legalities of the system to do what they're supposed to: grow their business and maximize their profits? It's a flawed system, to be sure; but, it's the system we have at the moment.
Have there been any notable scams on Kickstarter yet? I'm curious what sort of impact a massive scandal through these crowd funding sites would have on future donations
Haha yeah! Fuck 'thinking,' I want a cat on the internet to tell me to yell at senators! Absolutely nothing about this feels like mob rule!
Schmerg has already stated #11. Here's my #12.

#12... Reading blogs/articles about startups. I'm guilty of this as well. Its ok to ready every once and a while, but the constant research on startup life does take you out of your element.

Put your head down and get to work! Its all up to you and you alone. Make the effort, and get to coding/building. The rest will fall into place.
Apple must publish notice Samsung didn’t copy iPad in U.K.
You have a weak grasp of the definition of evil.

Have a good day.
That was hilarious. I was under the initial impression that a user was trolling Nestle, but this is a bit of advertising genius. Nestle engages the audience with a controversial folk meme, then offers an apology and people report the well orchestrated "gaffe". Very clever.
That makes sense. Speaking as someone who bought MachTen just to host Emacs on a Macintosh in the bad old days, I am sympathetic. I just am much more of a consumer of browsers than someone who relies on them to hack with.
Firefox 17 switching Mac compiler from gcc to clang
> It should target the type of teens on facebook

The type of teen who legally can't vote? Sounds effective.
I really don't understand the obsession with insurance, especially medical insurance. Does NOBODY understand that the casino/insurance company DOES NOT LOSE. i.e. YOU pay them more money than they will EVER pay for your treatment...

The mind boggles at how brainwashed people are about insurance. In the UK motor insurance and buildings insurance is mandated by law or mortgage agreements. So those are unavoidable. By life insurance, medical insurance, etc are scams.

Self-insure.
This is so awesome.

Partly as a developer who enjoys open source software, but also in part because decisions like this makes life much easier, when you suggest using open source in some a large corporations, where they have a very conservative approach to open source.
How to Get Motivated to Accomplish Anything
Prior art still applies, with two exceptions if the inventor discloses the information and then seeks a patent within one year.

http://ocpatentlawyer.com/patent-act-first-to-file-and-its-e...
How long would it take to read the 2 TB from EBS?
Chinese engineer to be sentenced for stealing Motorola secrets
35? Really? I'm over 35 as are most of my friends, and I seriously doubt any of them are going to be scratching their head at the cat reference. Suggesting we would is a little insulting to be honest. Not to mention the Justice League play is more my generation than yours. I think you need to up your age boundary a bit. Maybe 45, and even then...

Anyways, all of you youngsters who get the cat signal are certainly capable of calling or writing your local representative. I'll cheer for anything that raises awareness and reduces apathy among my generation and yours.
Can somebody more experienced in the matter attest there are no seed money in the UK? I was under impression that Launch48, Seedcamp and others do a great job here.
I agree that oil companies benefit from externalities that aren't accounted for, but I'd really like to see a numerical demonstration that it would make them unprofitable - I'm totally unconvinced that oil demand is that elastic, and I think they'd be able to pass the increased costs on to customers.
Hah! I knew someone would post this. And that's very true, I should spend less time on HN. That's why I have it blocked in my hosts file on my PC. So I can only access it from my phone :)
Where is your internet defense league?
I love Inconsolata on the printed page and it's my go-to font for code listings in LaTeX, but it wasn't really designed for display. On the screen, I prefer something with nice bitmaps at smaller sizes, like Anonymous Pro.
Precedential weight has value only if there is absolutely no in-state jurisprudence on the issue. However, texts are easily analogized to other forms of communication (and indeed, that is what this judge did). Consequently, the state's jurisprudence on such other forms of communication will trump what little precedential weight this case could have.
Next time he should just add a torrent with all the papers included, that way we won't need to hunt down all the free versions of each paper.
DenizBank, began to accept loan applications through Twitter
He didnt say it costs 15k but that sometime lawyers will defer the first 15k of billing in hopes of you getting bigger and helping you with other things.
Someone has already started to commercialize this. I saw it on "Shark Tank" on TV. I don't remember which episode it was.
I use truecrypt in Dropbox. If you make a small change to anything in a (potentially large) truecrypt volume, it has to re-sync the whole volume.
Internet Brands 2.0
I honestly don't find it that unintuitive. I may have a leg up since my primary pointing device is a trackpoint, which makes hitting the screen corners a really easy move. When you hit the corner, there are visual hints that pop up to guide you to the start screen, sidebar thing, or open applications list. there are definitely some things I would have suggested that they do to help people into the new interface, like a guided help or pop-up tips, but a quick google and 30 seconds of reading were really all that was required to get into it.
Nice answer! Crystallising WHO you are selling/targeting is a difficult art.
This is why you should just lock your iPhone with a passcode. Not that I'm rooting for the dealer, but in no way whatsoever am I (Me not some court) going to let a Gov PD have access to my technological data without a fight. Lock it down and remote wipe later, play where's the data.
I can easily imagine them scanning for certain filetypes, then displaying large pages of thumbnails for somebody to review. Porn would be readily discernable, and some would surely enjoy having this job.

At least in the early days Microsoft was known for having a large stash of porn on their network, and it probably wasn't just for academic purposes.
Debunking The First-To-Market Myth
I agree. It was extremely frustrating to see the argument "Firefox is awesome because of the add-ons. Oh, you have problems? Why are you using add-ons?".

You can't have it both ways! (Also: users don't care what subsystem is causing the problem, it's your brand which suffers)

That said, I'm happy for them and I'll start giving FireFox a shot again.
people usuely follow family, friends, and duel famouse people promoting there shows.
And that's better?
Wasn't trying to say anything about you, just trying to say where I got the info. Also he had one sister who had died.
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Current North American society

If this is an actual opinion held by North American society - whatever that is - then NAs needs to re-think it's definition.

It's also worth noting that good/evil are not objective binary things - so your definition of evil is likely different then the GP's.

Ah.

I hold to the - possibly old-fashioned - notion - that there is good, there is evil, and they are objective binary states.
Relax? I don't understand... :)
Personally I wouldn't have used that sentence at all. If I needed something along those lines, I would have written "Steve Jobs' longtime wish may finally come true ... to see Android devices taken off the market."

Just the wording "get" and "see" imply that he could still receive these benefits.
Measuring CDN performance benefits with real users
You don't pay for insurance to "make money" - you pay for insurance to minimize risk.

i.e. I'm happy to pay for health insurance to make sure that a sudden illness doesn't bankrupt me.
I'm supportive of the effort here, but frankly expect this to go nowhere for a few reasons.

- O/S alternatives such as WebOS and Android already exist, so the premise isn't really new.

- Without hardware distribution, the experience is going to suck. Unless there are carriers and device makers signed up, this is a non-starter.

- Mindshare from market share: ios/android/win currently represent the aggregate market in terms of apps. And that's where the app developers are.

- As a consumer, what makes me want a phone with this OS on it?

As for the sales pitch, the combo of better-technical-solution + open-source-appeal doesn't really resonate with me as a difference maker.
I'm sorry.

I hope you get paid well for your shame.
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I love tmux, but it's crazy that they went to all the trouble of rebuilding screen without fixing one of the most glaring flaws to a newcomer: the guaranteed-to-conflict default key binding.
Yes, sorry, you're right. This Tumblr theme is frustrating on mobile... I'll work on it.
And what did you think of Wigwamm?
Rich Kids of Instagram Epitomize Everything Wrong with Instagram
Screen requires setuid root to be used by multiple users. In tmux, permissions are just based around who has read/write access to the socket.
From the article... "Yes, he even got in trouble in his science class for reading articles on carbon nanotubes instead of doing his classwork."

This just irks me about our (U.S.) education system. I understand doing classwork is important. Yet here you have a young student taking interest in science and engineering and gets in trouble for it? That doesn't make sense to me at all. The work he's doing should be more than enough credit for his classwork. Take him aside from the class and foster this work and passion. He'll learn more science from this one project than doing 10x the amount of classwork in any syllabus. I see no reason why his science grade could be reflected on this work.
Memo to DOJ—Drop the Apple E-Books Suit
IKEA bypasses QR codes, catalog to use augmented reality
A playable version of the Advanced Persistent Threat game FlipIt
Usually it's called blood doping (although blood doping also covers EPO injections).
Cool, your Consolas vs Inconsolata overlay comparison made me understand why I just love Consolas so much and have grown to hate any other fixed width font (of course, getting the right antialiasing settings for it on Linux can be a bitch sometimes)... I just like its oversized "[]", "@" and lower than standard "_" and beautiful straight quotes.
Why make the tracking code so complicated ? Couldn't it be simply written like this ? :

<script async src="//members.internetdefenseleague.org/include/?variant=banner">

Also the url is the referrer no ?
I think the root of what this guy is ranting about is that many web people seem to confuse rapid release iteration with rapid engineering iteration. The folks who do this don't understand that the frameworks that they are using are taking care of their lack of forethought -- but will only do so for a limited time.

Design, implementation and testing are different disciplines that are essential to reliable systems. You may not need to formally embrace all of them at a given point in time (or product cycle), but claiming that "testing" is a fraud or that "roll back" is mythical is just a demonstration that the speaker doesn't have a mature engineering background.
Appropriate cynicism but I'd wager that an improved test for pancreatic cancer would garner them more money & market share than whatever treatments they've got for late-stage patients.

Besides, finding it earlier == longer treatment periods == more money spent on medicine right? What's the smiley face for disappointment?
I have included exercise at times. While I agree that weight training is very effective at burning more fat, it also makes me ravenous.

Losing in bursts is probably less healthy than losing steadily, but more healthy than not losing at all. :)
There are some cases in which you can write off intangible assets as "abandoned", but it's complex. A brief bit discussed in these two articles: http://www.cbiz.com/page.asp?pid=8872, http://www.cbiz.com/page.asp?pid=8984
3D gaming in the browser is here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bhoaojooagiaaiidln...
No, they run into the entrapment issue either way. But it's easier to show entrapment with email because the fake emails are recorded.

With a phone call, it is not necessarily a given that the call was recorded (as the police may not have had proper gear set up), so it usually becomes a he-said-cop-said problem. Cops usually choose not to record calls unless they need to, because for evidentiary reasons (for the prosecution) it is better to make the dispute one of credibility.
Scott Guthrie please.
In the US, you should add.
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One of the things I teach in a unit on information retrieval is the notion of precision and recall, and tradeoffs between them, and the idea that a single "accuracy" rate is almost never useful for these kinds of identification tasks.

I've often thought that such a unit would be a good idea for journalists and people in general; the language of reporting on and talking about a lot of scientific advances (medical in particular) is so damn imprecise about this stuff. Even if they report only one number, they could at least say which one it is. 90% could plausibly be either the precision or the recall here, or even F-measure or some other average of them, but as you point out, it's unlikely to be "accuracy" in the sense of (true positives + true negatives) / N, or it wouldn't be very impressive.
Do you know how often the Skydrive policy is being actively enforced?

Of the millions of users, this is the first time I have heard of someone getting permanently banned. Have you seen other cases?
Splitting jQuery in Two, A Proposal
Live Q&A with Ouya founder Julie Uhrman
Save Nokia - A simple plan
Major League Baseball and the NFL are government sanctioned and enforced monopolies because breaking up the talent into competing leagues would be be ad for the sport.
It is not exactly that developers are "paying for exclusivity", it's that if they want to be on the platform, exclusivity is required, and fee payments are required. Basically, you have to pay to play. The reason a developer does it is because he hopes to sell enough copies on that platform to make up for the fees.
I think you're looking at it from the wrong side. I believe the point of the goofy "league" and cat are to bring in sites, which are mostly made up of reddit'ors and weird-ass-looking-cat lovers. Once the sites are onboard and the "league" sends out the "signal", this site has to attract the users, who are the redditors and cheezburger-ites. Some small, minuscule fraction of those will do things like call their senators, resulting in tied-up phone lines, angry recriminations, and general panic.[1] That is what your old-style Senator is going to take seriously.

The organizational style is very similar to that of other organizations that attempt to motivate constituents like the NRA and AARP and if you really want to spend some time boggling, check out their communications to their constituency.

In other words, the "general public" is not the target here. Neither are representatives, directly. The target is the "Z generation"[2], which are underrepresented in political debates, I think. And if you want them to do something, you probably want to use some memes.

[1] That's hyperbole, but I do suspect that if .01% of the American readers of icanhascheezburger were to call their representatives,

[2] "Z generation"? I prefer to think of it as "Force Z".
Could A Yahoo-Google Deal Emerge?
Let Bogons Be Bygones: T-Mobile Filters Address Range Used by Hetzner
I believe Trapdoor (http://www.trapdoorinc.com) funded the rest.
I love Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Looks great at large sizes too!
Moxie published a tool called SSLstrip http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/ here's a simple video demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmtkJKHFX5Q
Kids today. People over 35 invented internet culture.
They had me until this part . . .

Authentication requires that you play a round of the game —
but this time, your 30-letter sequence is interspersed with
other random 30-letter sequences.

Which makes it sound to me like your password could be deduced from a single (failed) login attempt, and then reproduced after a session in the trainer.
Is it me or does t not match the style of the other letters?
You can use * around words to add emphasis in a more readable way.
Dear Internet, from Flickr
I guess we know how Mircosoft feel about the 2nd and 5th amendments. I'm glad I haven't used SkyDrive yet, and now I never will.

EDIT: That being said:

promotes or otherwise facilitates the purchase and sale of ammunition or firearms.

Maybe everybody should upload content that facilitates the TRADE of ammunition and firearms. That's not against the ToS.
I suggest you do some math on the actual facts, and try to figure out how much money the developer is actually making on a deal, before you brand someone a drama queen. I guarantee Phil Fish knows a lot more about the facts of the situation than you do.

(And this is not to deny that Phil Fish tends to have a lot of drama. I am just saying that to anyone in the game industry this kind of armchair quarterbacking is obviously uninformed, and then seeing someone attacked / blamed / whatever due to the conclusions of said armchair quarterbacking is just pretty sad. Speaking as someone who has been through this himself on multiple occasions.)
I believe you are correct, but it only applies to patents that are filed after 3/16/13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...
The difference between training harder and taking drugs to be able to train harder is that your body is naturally only capable of so much. Eventually you will give out, and that is your limit. The point where you start feeling pain is the point where you know to stop. Taking drugs to increase this limit is where the risks lie; your body isn't capable of sustaining that level of performance. For example, caffeine might wake you up, but it puts you in a crash not long after. Your body isn't capable of sustaining that high of an adrenaline level.

Training regimes allow your body to tell you its limits, drugs bypass that to get you a new, unsustainable level where doing long term damage isn't just possible.. it's likely.
Despite my usual complaints about Microsoft, I really appreciate the direction they've been heading with their adoption of open source for a growing number of their products.

ScottGu, Hanselman et al. really deserve a lot of credit for the big cultural changes they've caused to allow a lot of this.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-performance-expec...

Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research estimate Microsoft MSFT +0.91% will
earn 62 cents a share on $18.2 billion in revenue, compared with a profit of
69 cents a share, on sales of $17.37 billion, in the same period a year ago.

[...]

At Citigroup, analyst Walter Pritchard said that even with the huge
writedown, he expects Microsoft to report results in line with expectations.
Still, Pritchard said, in a research note, that there are “many moving pieces
in the numbers” from Microsoft, and that the prospects for Windows 8 will be
a big driver of how investors treat Microsoft over the next year.

Microsoft shares rose 64 cents, or more than 2%, to $30.32 Wednesday, and the
stock is up by almost 17% since the start of the year.

I can't comment myself, due to lack of information. We'll all see in four hours.
Could anyone show me what kind of problems Backbone.js solves?

Not a description like “it will replace a lot of your jQuery spaghetti boilerplate”, but some actual code:

//this is what I had to write in jQuery
…
…
//this is how I'd do it in Backbone.js