skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Who cares about the ontology when we can recreate? It's like saying airplanes don't properly explain flight because they don't replicate how birds do it. Who cares?"

Well, I do. Being able to understand something from first principle is very different than being able to model it and gain an approximation of it.

One might point out that this debate crops up in a different form in developer circles, but reframed as "Learn assembly & cs theory vs. use IDE & ignore assembly and theory".
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There aren't any bots that auto-delete articles. There are a handful of bots with administrator privileges, but they can only do things that humans have specified, with significant delay. For example, there was one (no longer active) that deleted empty categories that had been flagged by a human for deletion as empty, and not challenged for N days. There was also one (haven't followed up on whether it's still active) that deleted images that were tagged as copyright violations for more than N days.
Ask HN: How should I deal with a clone of my site?
I happened across a site that did a terrible job of cloning my site, http://sproutvideo.com . I tried sending an email to the contact listed in their whois. Does anyone have any ideas about how I should deal with this?

http://sproutvideo.com -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/

http://sproutvideo.com/features -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/Security.aspx

http://sproutvideo.com/contact -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/contactus.aspx

http://blog.sproutvideo.com -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/Blog.aspx
Here's the section from UK law, you could look up a similar section in your jurisdiction:

when awarding damages ... take into account the following –
(a) whether at the date of infringement the defendant or defender knew, or had reasonable grounds to know, that he was infringing the patent ...

(That's paragraph 62 (3)(a) from http://www.ipo.gov.uk/patentsact1977.pdf )

Seems quite clear cut.

Could you explain what you understand by "intent"? Do you think you can have intent to infringe a particular patent without knowing that the particular patent exists?
Nokia's argument was that a "reasonable" term for FRAND was a patent cross-license. Apple disagreed, and a lawsuit ensued.

Unfortunately, the judge agreed with Apple on that item. Everybody thinks that Nokia won their lawsuit since the judge awarded them a huge amount of damages. In my opinion, the whole industry lost. Cross-licenses were the standard way of dealing with the patent thicket before Apple decided to upset the cart.

The cross-license racket effectively locked out smaller competitors, so it was far from fair, but it does seem saner than the current blood bath.
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To be honest, I'd just unfriend anybody who used something like this.
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I may be telling you things you are already well aware of, but ASP.NET MVC is a separate framework that removes 99% of the utter crap that came along with ASP.NET WebForms, so there definitely is a team at MS that sympathises. To go even further, Nancy.fx is a third party framework that gets even closer to the metal.

I still have enough of an undying love for the C# language that I dream of running Nancy.fx on Mono, on Linux, giving me the best of at least three worlds.
Cease and Desist letter.
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Clickable links:

http://sproutvideo.com -> http://www.ogle-tm.com

http://sproutvideo.com/features -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/Security.aspx

http://sproutvideo.com/contact -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/contactus.aspx

http://blog.sproutvideo.com -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/Blog.aspx
That was about Apple paying taxes on what profits they bought into the US. I'm talking about the offshore tax havens where most of their money is kept.

I'm talking about this:

Google Joins Apple In Push For Tax Holiday

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/google-joins-apple-...

White House Unmoved By Apple’s Offshore Cash Problem

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/white-house-unm...
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Another factoid that causes the mind to reel is that a flat universe, which is of infinite size, also has zero total energy. This means that it is conceivable that someday we might figure out how to manufacture entire new universes.

Who says that there's no such thing as a free lunch!
First living organism modeled by computers
Just pick up any advanced finance, or economics textbook; the business literature is rich with people investigating this.
> as you wouldn't have to worry about getting the user to return it

I'm sorry, but bicycles abandoned after a few days of use seems like an incredibly wasteful idea.
The fact that Markov chains are by definition memoryless isn't an argument in favor Chomsky or magical thinking. Sure, if you want to improve your output you can use (n+1)grams instead of n-grams, but the curse of dimensionality is going to quickly catch up with you. Language smoothing will help for a little while. Over a long enough horizon all Markov chain output is jibberish. None of these obvious limitations are an argument against statistical models.

Where is the data that statistical methods don't 'advance our understanding'? What does an EEG tell us about the brain works?
Headphones are a must where I work. And at some points no music is preferred, but that's only when the pressure is on and people need to be responsive.

The teams that are constantly on the phone however, they don't really listen to any music at all.
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I don't think "Never use absolute positioning" is sound advice.

It has it's place and is a perfectly valid way to position things. And once you know how Absolute works in relation to containing divs, it's quite simple to use absolute in a flexible way.
It's interesting, I suppose, to know that his production cost is $9-12, but that's really pointless, isn't it? The important figure to know is what it's going to cost me to get my hands on one. That's the $60-90 figure. Which makes bizarre the later paragraph about it being pointless to lock up a cheap bike like this, because the lock is going to cost more than the bicycle it purports to secure.

Excuse me? I'm sure bike locks exist that cost a Century or more, but I've never bought one. The locks I buy cost $10-20, which is still well below the purchase price of one of these cycles. And even if I could somehow buy one for the $12 production cost, I'd still lock it up. Because in addition to the annoyance of having lost my $12 possession, now I also have the inconvenience of having to call someone for a ride, or pay for cab fare.
Blazetrak (if I'm not greatly mistaken) pays their professionals and celebrities for their participation on the site. We think doing this is debateable...
Our site is exclusively used by record label A&R contacts who are only using the site in order to find new talent for their respective labels. They have nothing to gain financially by using our site which gives our users peace of mind as they know that those reviewing their music are 100% committed to finding new acts.
My favourite is the promise that people in the surrounding areas will benefit from all of the funding, new developments, etc. BS. The "area" will benefit (gentrification leading to more expensive rent/housing), effectively pricing out the existing residents.
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It doesn't give any sort of time frame; it's not surprising that YC is top, they've been operating longer.

Personally I'd like a count of [number of companies still in business]+[number of exits].
We're past the point where the operating system is just about productivity. Computers are used by everyone to do a vast number of things, people live their lives with their computers and how they look (the apps) is a part of that.

You don't need a window in your office to improve your productivity, but it certainly makes life more livable when surrounded by well designed and beautiful things.
I hope they rock the industry and cover not only the big brands or big events, but also let local brands sponsor local events.
I take it then that it was invented by Marco?
I believe CoffeeScript is also an alternative.
I agree they're all bot-ish, but in the context of Wikipedia, I think it's useful to distinguish. Possibly not for the audience of the original article, but they do pretty different things.

Heuristic reactive bots are an interesting component of the human/machine hybrid "Wikipedia immune system" that keeps most encyclopedia articles non-vandalized most of the time, despite that seeming implausible at first (the most surprising thing about Wikipedia, if you've ever run any other wiki, is that it doesn't get totally full of spam and garbage within hours).

Others are more like content-import scripts, running once; Rambot falls into that category. And still others are closer to external implementations of functionality that MediaWiki is missing internally. For example, MediaWiki lacks a "rename category" function, so there are helper bots that will "rename" categories by mass-removing every article in the category and mass-adding it to the new category.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/36/cdu.html*

That has to be one of the most useless articles I've ever read. So, yeah, if you take a metaphor for a generalization about anticipation, you can "debunk" it by ignoring that it's a metaphor and quibbling over minor issues of pedantry. But that article does nothing to share any actual useful information, so far as I can tell.

"You'd have to be a real idiot to skate to where the puck used to be"*

ROFL... yeah, that quote is hilarious, though.
Just some complementary information, extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots (very interesting for those that didn't know much about the role of bots in the wikipedia).

Over 60 million edit operations have been performed by bots on the English Wikipedia.

Some bot examples are: Yobot, that categorizes individuals in categories by birth date, profession and other criteria, SineBot, that signs comments left on talk pages, MiszaBot, that archives talk pages, Xqbot, that solves double redirects, ...

Some bots, like RussBot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RussBot) have big red Emergency bot shutoff button.
Plant an idea inside your best client's head Inception style.
I find it sad that the state of content is such that we consider PDFs to be the premium content.
Just because you chose Markov chains as your modeling mechanism doesn't mean that there is no statistical modeling method that is capable of developing something passing for what we'd call "meaning".

This is the same argument that was used against artificial neural networks. Neural network of type A can't do X, therefore neural networks will never do Y.

Language is immensely complex, and real human language involves things which are not encoded in text (and i'd remind you that you were trying to infer meaning from text specifically, not the full multi-channel robustness of humans communicating), we don't even have a full handle on what all of the cognitive processes and factors are that go into the production and understanding of language (although we've developed a lot of interesting work to those ends).

So hearing folks give up claim that Chomsky is correct because our current tools aren't up to the job is a bit puzzling, because we don't even have a complete understanding of what sort of thing language is or what sorts of things we are as systems which can use language.

Chomsky has opinions (and some facts) about what language is, and we are, but he does not have solid proof to confirm his specific conjectures. Is human language context free? context sensitive? Something else? (Chomsky's minimalist program uses movement along a tree to preserve referentiality and a bunch of junk, alternative syntactic frameworks such as HPSG uses directed graphs as the basis of their language modeling. Still others do weirder things like higher order combinatoric logics. And unfortunately none of the theoretical frameworks appear to be without their drawbacks)
This case has nothing to do with patents and everything to do with Jobs/Apple throwing a tantrum. There are so many overly broad and trivial patents that companies have no choice but to ignore them. Standard procedure is to acquire your own stash of broad and trivial patents so that other companies won't bother getting involved in a legal battle with you.

This time though, Jobs thought Samsung and Google crossed the line in the scope and extent to which android devices copied the iPhone and iPad. So he started this patent war to spite them. I think everyone involved knows that nothing will come of this except legal fees.
Will you be renting your flat for the duration of the games? In Vancouver they tried to regulate that too.
Ask HN: How do I get more help from my coworkers?
As a new hire at my company, my productivity is mostly determined by how quickly I can learn the new system. Of course this means reading lots of source code, but sometimes the fastest way to figure things out about the company's system is to hear it from my coworkers.

However, developers tend to be extremely busy and are usually very hesitant to spend time pair programming or teaching best practices, even when asked. What are some things I can do to convince them to help me out?
Tell HN: Rackspace has a new cloud control panel
There is a link to it on the left side of the old control panel. The old one was a real dog. This seems much, much more responsive (but perhaps they are just rolling it out now?) so I am hopeful.

I don't see an announcement on their site... Does everyone have this?
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I don't think it's lion to blame, I too have the 2010 air with lion and it runs just fine. Maybe spend some time with ps and find what process is eating your CPU. I'm not using file vault, maybe that's adding some overhead. I would recommend upgrading the hardware though, the resale on the 2010 air is pretty good, so moving to a 2012 isn't going to cost you much. I tried Linux on mine and it was a real pain.
He has RSI.
My answer to your last question is that it depends heavily on the expected mileage/lifetime one gets out of one. Surely they're not single-use, but they're also probably won't last multiple decades.
Look, if you haven't read the book, I'm not interested in your opinions of his arguments; you don't know them. When someone recommends a book, you don't kill the messenger when your disagreement is with the author; don't be an ass.
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So, as I write Node.js and Socket.io based applications, lots of my code(on the server at least) focuses almost completely on protecting myself from bad data/malicious users. I know it works this way for almost any application, but how does Meteor handle this? I saw in the screencast someone opening their chrome console and touching the database directly. This seems like an absolute nightmare to protect! Currently, I only need to protect the individual web address that gets, puts, posts, etc. It's a single query with clear attack vectors that can be guarded against. How in the world do you protect a server and data using this framework?
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Strange conclusion considering Apple has already won several legal battles banning the sales of competitor products on German/European markets.

Seems their 'fit throwing' is indeed working as intended.
Are you running time machine? Time machine brings my SSD MBP to a crawl.
Toeing the line.

</pedantry>
Nope, I can see it from my browser. You might have to pause adblock to see it.
meta-meta hey.
A three-slider HSL color-picker. It was really hard for my co-workers and I to pick the right hue without worrying about dealing with the saturation too. I'm used to color-pickers so it wasn't as bad for me, but they kept thinking they could use more inner/desaturated colors and then just tweak the darkness to accomodate for the lightness they didn't realize was happening.
> that coke is your only option

For instance, The Coca-Cola Company owns several bottled water brands. No one said that "Coke the drink" was the only thing available.
Ad-supported, but not pay-per-pageview advertising, and not as a full-time job.
In startups, if the developers suck there really is nothing the marketing guy can do about it.

That's assuming the consumer is tech-savvy and actually cares. I'm guessing AOL didn't have the best developers, features, etc., but they definitely had the best marketers.

Anti-virus companies also thrive due to PR and marketing, ranging from contacting news outlets about the Michelangelo virus, to scaring people with an animated gif reporting that your computer is infected. With the latter, the scammers made billions off of software that did nothing at all--that's the power of marketing.
I can remember I'm on section 13 just as easily as I can remember that i'm on page 13.
This would be great if you were on vacation or just visiting a city, and wanted a cheap mode of transportation that you wouldn't feel guilty for leaving behind.
Billboards are too expensive, and web advertisements are played out.
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How is remembering "I was on page 8" easier than "I was on section 8?"
Buy them lunch, or even better, beer.
Anecdotally: fuck yeah. Best thing I ever did or ever will do.
I think it might get REALLY interesting when the 'old players' in the hardware scene (IBM etc) pull out their books and start counter suing for tech they developed when Apple were still flogging their Apple 2s

Remember, Apple as they sit today is a company with less then 10 years in the market.
I work for the Department of Energy.
As the parent commenter and a previous resident (of Leyton), you've nailed it there. Our landlord upped our rent from 1000GBP a month to 1400GPB a month the moment it was announced.
Has anyone here tried any of the macbook air clones?

http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/aspiresseries
I agree that it's a step backwards. My current bike is over 50 years old and I got it for $100. Performance is not top notch but better than a new big box store bike for 3 times its price. I would estimate that it has seen at least 5-6 previous owners.

Or, you know, I could have bought a cardboard bike.

I feel like while this is a fun project, some people need to sit back and take a big picture view before spending years to develop a product only to realize that you've been bested by the tech of 60 years ago.
Actually everyone needs to stay analyzing, that's how we make progress.

The steam engine's fine, everyone needs to stop over analyzing.
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I can't agree with that at all. ASP.NET even after you remove all the point-and-click crap is still a mediocre web framework at best and arguably horrible in a number of crucial areas. One thing it is not is "pure awesome".

1. It isn't nearly as extensible as Rack and Rails. I mean not even in the same zip code.

2. It is not a very testable framework to work with. The ASP.NET abstractions are horrible for this, while the .NET MVC ones are better but still suffer due to all of the issues with the testability of the core of ASP.NET. Most of the testability abstractions that modern ASP.NET does have were added purely as afterthoughts, and awkward does not being to describe working with them.

3. ASP.NET regularly violates the "principle of least surprise". One of my favorite examples is where the HttpContext class throws an exception from the `.Request` property getter if you attempt to access it during the application startup (ironically it is actually starting up in response to a request so this is both confusing and inconvenient in addition to being bad API design).

.NET MVC is a poor man's Rails and working with it is merely a far more verbose and complicated way to accomplish the same thing. It is far less extensible, painful to test and automate around and has a far weaker OSS ecosystem around it.

I could honestly, go on. I worked with ASP.NET for years before moving on to Rails and occasionally node.js (though I'm really not all that big of a fan of callback coding).
My first reaction when I saw him opening the chrome console was the same, its going to be a nightmare to build and maintain secure apps with this thing.
I read Flatland a long time ago as a student and found it enlightening when thinking about 4d.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
I think panther and leopard too.
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At Throne of JS last weekend, Meteor stole the show in my opinion. The other frameworks (Backbone, Ember, Angular, etc) were about how to build rich JavaScript web apps on top of current backend technology, whereas Meteor is envisioning something new.

I'm not sure I want to write JavaScript everywhere but what they are able to demonstrate was super cool.
This strikes me as the old nature vs. nurture debate - trying to determine which human behaviors are hard wired and which are learned. Like most complex questions I don't think there is a single right answer, but my current theory is that humans have more hard wired behavior than most people like to admit. It is precisely because of our language skills that we can rationalize behavior that has it's root cause in the more animal regions of the brain.

To put it another way - most people think they are rational. Most people act irrationally. To me it is animal instinct that is cause of greed, war, social hierarchy, etc. and it is so ingrained in society that we don't question it's root cause which most likely boils down to atavistic tendencies.
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C&D. I'd also reach out to those companies listed at the bottom:

IBM, eBay, Cadbury, ToysRUs, getty images, Budweiser

Give them a heads up. It's strange to see those company marks used on this site.
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Aesthetics matter. Whe you look at how much more progressive The new Windows and Android UIs are this kind of thing starts to look like something from a sidebar ad in the New Yorker: cheesy trash designed to make rich people feel good about spending too much money.
The idea behind the Olympics games is that you wouldn't win huge prizes or gain a lot of money, because you are an amateur who is naturally gifted with skill in your sport. It shouldn't be rigorous, continued training, it shouldn't be for the glory of the nation, it shouldn't define an athlete.

The Olympic games is no different from Christmas: there were good intentions when it was started, but it has devolved into commercialism and a bastardization of what the original spirit was.
While boot times make for good review copy, how often does anyone actually reboot a Mac these days? Once a year?