skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a lawyer and the following is my oversimplified understanding of the law as an economist who has taken some law&econ classes. But...

Just because you have a cause of action for breach of contract (the law recognizes the other guy should've kept his promise) does not mean you can get the remedy of specific performance (where the other guy is actually ordered to make good after all). The standard common law remedy is _in specie_ damages (the other guy has to pay up). The exact rules about when the court can compel specific performance are messy (written by lawyers), but it seems to me that basically what they all come down to is that no judge is going to say "I compel performance" if there's no feasible, relatively hassle-free way to actually, physically, compel performance. And that, in practice, tends to mean cases where the promise was title (legal ownership) to property: the judge can make the promise be kept by simply awarding the title to you. Actually getting the other guy to give you the cow or get off the land that's newly yours is a matter of property law, which has procedures such as replevy (where the Sheriff waves a gun around while you take the cow) and ejection (where the Sheriff waves a gun around telling them to get off your land.) These things can get messy enough as it is, and no judge wants to be responsible for having a sheriff waving a gun around to, say, compel somebody to give you a haircut. (And a GOOD haircut too, or else I'll shoot!) In such cases, the tricky specific performance business is transformed by the law into a straightforward money debt of the sort that can be enforced using, you guessed it, Sheriffs with guns, as well as garnishment of wages and the like. (I'm pretty sure that in the US, though, debts arising from judgments in breach of contracts cases are dischargeable in bankruptcy. Don't trust me on this, but I think it's pretty much only tax debts, student loans, and judgments for "intentional" torts that aren't dischargeable.)

All right, so after that long paragraph full of chattels and replevies and Sheriffs, if you are still reading, let's just assume that what could be had in court was monetary damages.

How much?

Oh, I would say about $500. Maybe a small multiple of that, but how are you going to convince a judge that you paid $500 for something that is worth much more than a small multiple of $500 to you?
> He was never "given permission to leave".

In the London extradition court case, the lawyer for the Swedish authorities (Clare Montgomery) admitted giving Assange permission to leave:

'She said Mr. Assange's Swedish lawyer, Bjorn Hurtig, was told on Sept. 15 that his client was "not subject to any restraint and could leave Sweden."'

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870442220457612...

The authorities were in full possession of the facts of the case at this time.

Then -- weeks later -- they changed their minds.

> There are transcripts of his lawyer setting up the 2nd interview with the authorities.

Montgomery -- Sweden's counsel, remember -- also said that during this conversation, his lawyer said he was unable to contact Assange. Is that in the transcript?

> And furthermore: What is your point?

My point is that the accusation that he fled Sweden is not an established fact.

> Politically motivated or not, the police are engaged in an investigation.

You really don't think it makes any difference if it's politically motivated? No equal access to justice regardless of political opinions?

This is what you are missing.

If everything that was 'legal' was in black and white as you suggest, there would be no need of lawyers or appeal courts.
Back when I was freelancing, I found a few clients through elance.com paying $50/hr. When I quit freelancing to join a startup, I raised my posted rate to $120/hr - but I still get about one invitation per week to submit a proposal.

The other thing I did was ask clients for a footer back to my personal website, sometimes ofering a small discount in exchange. It's been a couple of years and I'm still on the first page of google for a number of the things I worked on.
"The changes Twitter made are dumbfoundingly stupid."
Why are now British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden, but British Court released V. Antonov on bail when Lithuania asked UK to extradite him to Lithuania?
Or the Dutch? Or Brazil?!
because the parent is wrong, McDs doesn't negotiate with the banks either. they negotiate with a payment gateway provider. which is what Square is.
Perhaps Canada actually has better rates than the US, but my general experience has been that people who say they are paying less than 2% aren't actually looking closely at their bill. My guess is that your clients are wrong, and are quoting the best-case advertised rate they signed up for, rather then the actual all-included cost they pay. But maybe they could get that low if their average transaction is high enough and they are in an extremely safe industry?
Wow, huge gif hotlinked from imgur with 5TB of used bandwidth.
Right, but the theoretical price of a pi is 35USD, not 35GBP.
Engineering degrees require access to expensive equipment and software. Autodidacticism won't magically make a gamma-ray spectrometer appear in your basement.
Thank you for using sane js code style.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. What has changed in the last 20 years is Internet. My son surprize me with the thing he learned from the internet.

Though it is also true that the things he learned are limited to what catched his curiosity. With classical education you get a more wider and uniform education, but also more shallow than if you dig the knowledge by yourself.

Note also that education plays only a significant role in hiring the next few years after it. After that it's what you have achieved and your expertize domain that become the most relevant.
Don't worry, even if every YC company ever chartered launched today, it would not outnumber the Twitter me-too posts.
Well, there's BSD, Plan 9, Inferno. If you don't want the "same old GNU tools", there are plenty of places to go.
Did anyone manage to extract API key from the official Twitter client?
> Twitter is ultimately infrastructure and infrastructure seems doomed to commoditization.

This couldn't be further from the truth, and the thousands of copycat networks, not least from Google, are proof that networks can't be commoditized.

The only reason I am still on GitHub, Facebook, hn, reddit and Twitter - despite there being better 'products' and 'infrastructure'- is because everybody else is, and the same applies to them.
I wonder how/if they can handle packages that need a signature?
Still can't estimate properly? Maybe God didn't want you to become a developer
I did make an exception for certain subjects. And no, I went to a good college and I enjoyed the experience. Some of which, such as working with 600 MHz NMR spectrometers and the whole plethora of chemistry laboratory equipment, is very much not the sort of thing one can learn at home. However, such degrees are not the norm. I also studied mathematics, and though many of my professors were quite excellent I have little doubt that motivated self-study with the appropriate books would have produced an equally valuable education in the subject. And that's probably the case for the average course of study. Computer Science? English? Foreign languages? Linguistics? Astronomy? Art? History? Economics? Environmental science? Psychology? These are things that are well within the grasp of self-study, especially today.
I have been working on [1] a Lua library that can implement all the functionality to do what is needed to bring up a Linux userspace. I should have a very minimal bootable environment very soon, as I have enough of the network tools, mount and so on implemented to put it together. There is not really intended to be a shell and command line tools though, it is just a library but you could have a REPL console. I am more interested in easily creating small system images to run single applications in, see [2] for rationale, building small testable whole system images that are quick to rebuild. Planning to use Musl libc [3] which is small and easy to debug so you can easily follow what is going on, plus the whole userspace will be BSD licensed.

[1] https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall
[2] http://www.myriabit.com/ljsyscall/
[3] http://www.etalabs.net/musl/
I tried both off and on demos, and all I got was a huge page loading slowly with scrolling causing flickering and stuttering. This is on Linux/Chrome. Maybe people shouldn't try to create large, image heavy pages in the first place, not to mention make them infinitely long.
From the twitter announcement (https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api):

"To ensure that Twitter users have a consistent experience wherever they see and interact with Tweets, in v1.1 of the Twitter API we will shift from providing Display Guidelines to Display Requirements, which we will also introduce for mobile applications. We will require all applications that display Tweets to adhere to these."

If Marco's reading is wrong, it's still the most obvious reading of the original text.

Also:

"Nearly eighteen months ago, we gave developers guidance that they should not build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. And to reiterate what I wrote in my last post, that guidance continues to apply today."

Apropos to the Anil Dash version of the piece, the original one is already heavily tarted up with euphemisms like "guidance" where "warning" would more clearly convey their intentions.

I understand the type of petty social engineering that Anil has attempted here, by spreading "Awesome" and "Excitement" around and accentuating the good instead of the bad, but I think it does developers a great disservice to assume that the biggest problem with bad news was the tone of its delivery and not the news itself.
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How many undergraduate college students ever interact with a gamma-ray spectrometer? Indeed, how many ever come into contact with any equipment that is outside the realm of access to an individual studying on their own? Many perhaps, but as a percentage of all college graduates, not that much. Not even all STEM majors require such specialty equipment, and STEM students are a relative minority in college enrollments.
Twitter's own clients are fine. You can read tweets and send tweets. That's the basis of the service. It's supposed to be simple. Why don't you like it?
Yup. Now as for damages, though, even though indeed they are supposed to cover your lost value and not the original price, the original price is going to set a point of reference that will influence how much you could reasonably convince any judge your lost value is. But say we compute it another way. Suppose you can buy equivalent service from Amazon for $100 a year forever. The net present value of that perpetuity at a 10% interest rate is $1000. You can easily see why if you imagine investing the $1000 at the 10% interest rate and using the interest each year to buy hosting: your principal would stay at $1000 forever. Now plug in numbers you actually think are feasible. And subtract attorney's fees. Good luck.
A Rosetta Code-like site featuring Unix utilities for language comparison / code golfing would be a pretty neat idea. Use the V7 man pages as specs, so you don't go overboard.
If anything they put GNU first solely because it's 'GNU over Linux', like TCP/IP or Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD.
> Uh, is "being easy to statically compile" some benchmark for simplicity that I've never heard of?

Yes.
It's not the benchmark, but it's a benchmark.
Heh, I had a hand in the creation of the latter:-)

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/11/msg02560.html

The only problem with it is that, at least in the past, there were no qualifications to join it, so you got lots of "legal opinions" from people that weren't necessarily grounded in any sort of actual ... reality.

In any event though, Debian is awesome, and an extremely impressive volunteer effort.
Oracle to pay $2 million fine over India bribery charge
Yeah, Mac/FireFox here and the same experience. both the on and off demos gave me a spinning beach ball for a minute while what seemed like the entirety of the content loaded. I thought that's what infinite scrolling was supposed to prevent?
If I remember correctly, BigQuery only lets you import data via local csv files, uploaded one at a time. That makes importing data sets of relevant size quite a pain.
Or better yet, the current annual price of the plan divided by the current yield on British consols.
Very interesting article, and a point-of-view I'd never really considered. I had always assumed the "intelligence" that was being added by software was an addition to the existing business processes. I hadn't thought that some of it was originating from and replacing employees.

However, much as the ideas make intuitive sense, I'm having a hard time thinking of concrete examples. How does using Square take away from what Starbucks employees could've brought to the job? Ironically, the only example I can think of is IT work, both helpdesk and sys-admin. Lots of software seems to be replacing the craft of troubleshooting. Good if you have a bad IT dept.; bad if you have a good one.

And finally, I don't think the overlap is complete. A company may automate a lot of things, but there are other things, or even the automation itself where employees can still give valuable input. It may be like the manufacturing in the end: companies come back around to the other intangible values once they see the true cost of only optimizing for the bottom line. Sad that it always takes a whole cycle of outsourcing, downsizing, losing customers, and crappy products/service before the industry comes around and rethinks the strategy.
I don't see what would drive away customers. If paying for your twitter account was optional, why would free users stop using the service?

Twitter and Facebook could learn a lot from the Free-to-Play video game market. Service is free, being "special" costs money.
I am a type nerd; I've bought my share of typefaces in my time. This offers no discernable advantage over traditional chart generation. It only makes sense as a web font, and even then, it's a hack. I just don't see it worth the money.
I'd say we would have had Mercurial, but it was apparently developed for similar reasons:

> Mackall first announced Mercurial on 19 April 2005. The impetus for this was the announcement earlier that month by Bitmover that they were withdrawing the free version of BitKeeper. [Wikipedia]
what if I don't use jQuery in my project?
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> Is There Hope for the Paid App?

Yes, there is. But not on a market where $2 is a premium price. If you want to make a living from software products you should stay away from mobile.

At least it plays out well for Apple who wanted to commoditize software for a long time.
I was not familiar with this story and had to look it up. Thanks for the pointer. Seems like the CEO of BitMover shot himself in the leg by being kind of unreasonable and triggering the development of various open source DVCSs, which surely are hurting his bottomline by now.

Clickable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper
What are they going to do, sue google for an internal code name?
Interested. Would you mind sharing your formula?
Is there a post office near you?

Have the packages delivered to "<Your name> General Delivery" at the post office, then pick them up with a photo ID. (But check with the post office first, only the larger/central post offices support this.)

It's best if you can ship it USPS. UPS will sometimes deliver to a post office (if you put in the address of the post office), but not always.
Nice, I see that MapR are initiators of this project, which can be seen as a good thing.

Here's the direct link to the project.

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DrillProposal

"Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets, inspired by Google's Dremel."
I first installed Debian in 1999. I remember when Potato came out and was all the rage. :)

The installer certainly was intimidating though once I got my head around dselect it made sense. I don't think they even use dselect on the installer anymore by default anymore.

I still run it on a few servers and its a great server distro.
Find out fake users percentage of a Twitter account
With square you don't anymore need people who can work as a cashier. This is not just counting money. It means people who won't steal, etc. This is more difficult to find than people who just keep the shop clean, and thus they are more expensive. The consequence is that well eucated people (moral) and intelligent people will move away or be pushed away. (appologize for my bad english. I'm french)
I don't think there would be, because you still have to sign a legal document to say it was you, or nominate the person it was.

So even if you had a gorilla suit on, you'd still have to sign it to say who was in the gorilla suit. So I don't think the photo is used as a legal argument - they still have them on at night - but merely to make it crystal clear to the owner of the vehicle who was driving it at the time.

Interestingly, there is a loophole whereby a vehicle registered to a company instead of an individual can foregoe the identification of the driver, but they must pay a much higher fine. This is to assist with companies that may own a fleet of vehicles and it's impossible to determine who was driving what car when.

It's a loophole people with cash + their own business use so their own licences don't get affected. Not many know about it.
Twitter is SO confusing.
Interesting that so much of negotation comes down to brinkmanship and confidence.

This is pretty much true for every social interaction.
I understand the author had a point to make, but my analysis is diferent. I'm trying to look a little further away in time. We will still need brick and mortar work to be done and we'll have a very stronger pressure on energy optimization. So I'll foresee the next revolution (after digital) as a robotic revolution. That is what I would say to young people. Keep your eyes and ears open on this domain to become the experts in that field.
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I'd bet that if you built git as a single statically linked multi-call binary a la busybox, it would be far less than 230MB. Statically linking dozens of separate binaries with large amounts of shared code and then measuring the resulting disk usage doesn't tell you anything meaningful except how much disk space dynamic linking would save you.
You gain customers by making them happy, maximising profits often does the opposite, but you hope most won't leave as you make the service worse/more expensive.
"TextDrive by contrast was founded on the principle of combatting the race to the bottom by charging a fair price and offering unparalleled power and flexibility. This vision was sold to us by Dean Allen who had an enormously positive reputation as one of the very best early bloggers. Funding TextDrive with these lifetime accounts was not just us chumps buying into some bottom-feeders marketing scam. There was real intention and integrity behind this."

* principle over actual experience

* a blogger over someone with actual knowledge and technical expertise

* an undefined "fair price"

* an expectation that comfortably exceeds the current delivery levels

* intention and integrity

And what you ended up with is a typical shared hosting company experience, one that lasted a whole lot longer than a large number of other web hosts.

I can't help but feel that a large number of people would be happier if Joyent went down in a big ball of flames suddenly, rather than an orderly and planned 60-plus day notice of a shutdown of their service, in favour of focusing more on a better and more sustainable business model.

Businesses grow, industries grow and change. There's not much of a sustainable business in shared-hosting, the margins are too razor-thin got that, the middle and top end has been chomped off by affordable VPS offerings. Lifers seem appalled they are effectively paying the same price as everyone else.

The rest of your post seems to be on a personal crusade against the technical "co-founder". Why not the original blogger co-founder who promised a service he could not work with someone to deliver?
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Dave, looking forward to see you soon in Croatia -- good to see that you're practising your own preaching! ;-)
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Refusing US ships is part of NZ's anti-nuclear policy and isn't about warships per se (US or otherwise).
Technology IS a male field, though. 99.9% of all technology was created by men, and not because of some conspiracy (i.e., The Patriarchy).

Whining, on the other hand, seems to be a female-dominated field. Women will be whining incessantly two days before the technological singularity transforms Earth into a utopia.
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I am missing your point about firearms. I am from the south where is it tradition to give a person their first firearm on their 10th birthday. I don't know anyone that has shot themselves in the foot... except for my neighbor who shot his foot off while climbing down from a deer stand. He now has a prosthetic foot. He gets around fine as far as I can tell.

As for the lottery being regulated, do you really believe that it is okay given the terrible odds? If the lower class are suggested to bet on the lottery, and I invest startups, how are the poor ever going to escape poverty?
The mac client has not been updated since June 2011 ... hardly well supported!
Good books, but can't they mostly just be summed up in a page or two?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
Cool. To see it, turn on inspector (right-click page, inspect element) and on the info bar at the bottom is a "3D View" button. Try both mouse buttons and the mouse wheel.

Too bad they didn't put some inertia in it, it would be fun to flick around the webpage.
Thanks for the link. That would work if you have problems with Epel though, my dependencies are fine, andi excluding Epel means yum can't find the libraries.I'll edit my post later abd link this as an alternative solution. Cheers :)
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I believe in the UK you can leave what you think the food was worth (down to zero) along with your name and address so the restaurant can take you to small claims court if they wish to dispute the value they provided.

I have heard of precisely one first hand account of this being used for a truly terrible meal. The police were called and confirmed the dinner's rights.
Yeh, but as someone in the comments notes look at the bits he actually left out - most of the restrictions for example
this has been around for a while now...
As a NZ citizen, I'm furious about it. I don't mind the request for extradition, I hate the use of FBI agents in NZ, the heavy-handed nature of the raid, the ignorance of due process but mostly the fact that the FBI illegally removed items of evidence from the country. That's arrogant and offensive as well as illegal.
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That's only one implementation of git. There are other implementations that are less kludgey, like libgit2: http://libgit2.github.com/
"I hate to tell you but being a hip new economy company doesn't impress judges."

Neither does insisting on a full refund after 8 years of consuming their services.