skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube follows the DMCA (and does ContentID or whatever). Google search probably doesn't get very many requests to remove links to YouTube.

This policy shouldn't have much impact at all on any large site that discourages copyright violations and responds promptly to DMCA takedowns, because it isn't worth bothering Google Search about that content.
And no one mentioned a simple matrix?
Sweet. I keep thinking I need to make something with Arduino. Even if it is just duplicating someone else's project just to get a feel of how it all works. Earn the 'engineer' in 'software engineer'.
the last time i tried jedit (admittedly, years ago) i found the font rendering on mac os x to be ugly. since it's on your checklist, i assume it's improved since then?
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yeah no one there gives a crap about entrepreneurs. if you still think they care bout anything else than money then i got a bridge i want to sell ya
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Reminds me of how the performance team at Yahoo! was asked to stop working on mobile performance research because the mobile team decided that they should own it.
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This will mean ore traffic for http://www.filecrop.com and http://www.filestube.com.
The way the work is done is mind blowing[0].

The divers have to go so deep they need to live in helium tanks for more than a month, to make sure that their blood is sufficiently saturated with the gas. The helium is the only way they can dive deep enough, and yes, it does make their voices high pitched the entire time they are in there.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/nyregion/23tunnel.html?pag...
I was invited to be a mentor for Lean Startup Machine Austin this past April and I have to say that it was fantastic.

The A/B test crap is just that.. crap.

Where Lean does make sense is applying the scientific method to the startup process. If you can identify your assumptions, figure out a way to test them, and then adjust accordingly, that is a fantastic thing. Every assumption is a risk, this is just a process for addressing/mitigating them to determine which are "good enough."

That said, every time I hear the word "pivot," I want to hit someone. It's been so misused and abused that it's lost most of the meaning. :(
Have you seen the US Tax code?
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The corporate tax rate is progressive, barely. Making it more progressive is also and option. 75.000 - 10.000.000 is taxed at 34%, adding some granularity would help.

source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/11
The alternative is to make it much easier to arrange a wireless data connection (at reasonable prices) went traveling. I hate trying to find my way around somewhere unfamiliar knowing I've got a smartphone in my pocket, but it hit a data connection to be able to use Googlemaps. That goes double for places where signs aren't even written in a script I can recognize (like Bangkok, for a recent example - Google goggles and gps mapping is _really_ helpful there.)
So there’s basically a real Goldeneye key. And you could really use a Goldeneye key duplicator before leaving Severneya!
Part of this I suspect is that people might already have the symptoms of the side effect but not know it. Almost all of us have random coughs and sniffles and aches and pains, but don't notice them.

Think, for instance, of those times when you've heard a friend or co-worker cough several times over a few minutes and you ask if they are alright, and they have no idea what you are talking about because they were not aware that they had coughed.

When you tell someone the pill they just took might have a side effect of making them cough, they are going to notice those random coughs that they normally ignore, and attribute them to the pill.
The Fisher-Price thing was widely levelled at Windows XP. In that case, probably due to the default blue and green look.
2-day NodeJS hack session creates Tempest, Realtime MMO in Space
Set the limit as a function of incoming links - Wikipedia will get a high limit, spam site with low incoming links from the current crawl will get a lower limit.

It's probably best to add an IP based limit factor too to handle link farms.

Something like "max-pages crawled is directly proportional to the (incoming links / linking unique domains)"; or just have it naively proportional to the linking unique domains to reduce processing cost.
Yes, sadly alot of companies do tend to drift towards the upside down pyramid boss structure. Insecure CEO's may be one factor in that.

As a rule of sanity If you need the approval of more than 5 different layers of boss's then your better of rolling a dice and then asking as nomatter the outcome you still get your fun that way to offset the sapien-clustering.
You're not responding to the article. It is not asking for the standard protections to be dismantled. Indeed, as you point out yourself, piracy of computer games is already a criminal offence that stops you from selling Skyrim rips.

The point in the article is that any additional laws or powers represent a failing strategy when the problems of many industries are due to a failure to meet changing consumer demand; and furthermore that the opportunity cost of strengthening IP law is the collateral damage to innovation.

You are also wrong to suggest that server code cannot benefit from IP protection. If code is misappropriated (e.g. disgruntled employee with git access), only copyright prevents it being released/sold and subsequently operated by others. Furthermore, it is those protections that allow the legitimate developer to confidently sell their business to a third party.
2. Why do American students tolerate it? Look what happened in Quebec when they tried to raise tuition even a little.

Just look at this thread: Americans are so incredibly enamored to market fundamentalism that they often can't see public policy when it's punching them in the nose.
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Notepad++ is still alive.
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1) Arment's style solicits this kind of response. Trust that the suggestive title "alternative lifestyles" and simple dismissal of emacs while admitting no actual experience was absolutely intentional.

2) It's widely understood that Arment is a hipster, though his cred is slightly lessened now that he moved out of Brooklyn to Westchester.
I want a vertical search engine that lets me know everything about books (reviews, authors, articles), now.
Arduino's are a ton of fun, but I think the biggest barrier to entry, when coming from a programming background, is the electrical engineering stuff. The language they use is very similar to C. But to do things like wiring up an input button and an led, you end up needing to learn about Ohm's law and pull-down resistors. It amazed me how different analog and digital environments are, and how much we take for granted in our programming environments
Absolutely, this seems like one of the most amazing in a long string of incredible things. There’s only enough energy to power two 60w light bulbs, and yet it can transmit all the way to earth while also powering the computer running the thing.
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Url to the iOS client's repo. https://github.com/sneakyness/AppApp
You'll definitely want to avoid looking at the site of the developer, then: http://coovtech.com/about

Gotta admit, the guy may lack all design sense, but at least he's shipping software!
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How much would "Monthly Unlimited Everything" cost?
This is a neat little thought-experiment for all you media focused people out there. I just bought a monthly unlimited membership to a nice gym - it's about $120/month. Which got me thinking - if you could have "all you can eat" music, movies, TV, games, and books how much would you pay? Related questions: how do you think such a system would affect media consumption by absolute amount or category?

Just to get the ball rolling: I'd pay $500 for that.
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I was hoping same as well
> A corollary is there's a limit to what you can effectively care about.

In absolute terms, maybe, I'm not sure.

But in relative terms, by definition, there is a limit to what you can care about.

Care more about your job than your kids, that's a problem.
Care more about your friends than your spouse at a time when they need your support, that's a problem.
The last sentence: "Words are the most powerful tool a doctor possesses, but words, like a two-edged sword, can maim as well as heal."

I would really like to get one of those swords that heal on one side and maim on the other. Think of the possibilities!
Hmm, I don't feel that saying his post is FUD really contributes to the goal of having this thread not turn into a flamewar.

Edit: also, my question was not a yes-or-no question, but you answered with a yes-or-no answer.
Umm...

Instagram

Foursquare (though it appears they've seen the light a few weeks back finally)

Color

AirTime

Path

There's five. I can continue.
Funny its working now. Thanks for pointing out. Do you know what the default Plus policy is - are posts public by default or the other way around?
Is there an English-speaking melting pot that doesn't have these problems?
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Isn't this usually the purview of bizdev competitive analysis? I'm sure there are agencies that would be happy to do this for a fee (and probably specialists in different business categories, to boot) but I don't see how this could ever be a piece of software.

Anyway, this is an odd problem to have. It seems to me that most startups move through the idea phase rapidly, and then execute fairly rapidly. That is, the implementation should follow the idea rapidly, tested in the real world, rather than in the imperfect simulations of your co-workers minds.
But most of the people in the discussion are those people writing sexy new programming languages, so of course they don't want to be labeled as conservative. The real programming conservatives are probably not even listening for the most part.
Hey if Avatars is part of an onboarding process to a bigger overall revenue producing ecosystem, more power to ya, that's a creative marketing strategy. My reply wasn't to your product specifically, just to the parent's comment in general.
Did you mean to say “can't” in your second sentence?
In my experience, graphic designers are the most egoistic, pedantic, territorial of all. Particularly web designers.
Keyboard Shortcuts:
- A: Medkit (+10 health)
- S: SpeedBoost
- D: Defend with shockwave
- M: Mute background soundtrack

Also worth noting that the soundtrack and all of the game sounds were create to be in the same key.
Well if I look at the cost of Netflix, let's say Spotify or Rdio, Gamefly and the Library, I wouldn't pay more than 150$ a month.
It's easier to add to the noise than it is to write about one of your own ideas. It's even easier when you're replying to a well know voice so you can ride on their coat-tails and be on the front page of HN, proggit, etc.
Watch Prismatic's iPhone app teaser video.
C++ Primer 5th Edition, Part 4: What Makes a Good Example?
awesome, make a clip and send it to us!
While I found the article annoying in its oversimplification, I think the real tension Yegge is feeling is about contracts. At a high level, contracts apply to coding standards, and at a low level they apply to interfaces, etc.

One may find many aspects of a contract annoying yet still prefer a world where contracts are widespread to a world without contracts.

In a sufficiently complex ecosystem contracts make some things easier and some things more difficult. But contrary to Yegge's assertion, it may be that some organizations have a contract that if something breaks, then one of the parties involved does a rewrite/redeploy. This is not a replacement for a contract, as Yegge implies, simply a different contract.

One contract might be: "All code must be unit tested". Another might be "If you don't write unit tests and your code works, that's great, but if it fails then prepare to pull an all-nighter if necessary."

My guess is that most developers, if asked which kind of methodology was appropriate, would generally pick a methodology that was appropriate for the level of risk involved. If the code is going to manipulate a robot arm holding a knife as it jabs quickly toward the programmer's body, few programmers are going to think that the bugfix/redeploy approach makes sense. But when it's a social site then everyone starts to feel more like a cowboy.

I think it is an insult to the professionalism of programmers everywhere to assume that risk decisions are a function of internal constitution rather than a rational risk assessment.
Sounds like this might make it harder for companies to actually find websites posting 'stolen' content. Just saying.
To add to Dave's comment above - this isn't so much a course as it is simply the complete video of the Lean Startup track from SXSW 2012. We asked every speaker to provide a case study with concrete examples of what worked and what didn't work.

To see a complete list of speakers (with bios), the old website is here:
http://leanstartupsxsw.co/speakers/
Such plugins are addressed well in this article from earlier today: http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems
I haven't used it on a mac, but on Linux and Windows it looks pretty sweet.

Here's what it looks like on mine right now (looks same on windows and linux):

That's some python code with Consolas, Anti-aliasing set to 'Standard', and fractional font metrics turned on: http://i.imgur.com/j3Gsw.png

And fractional font metrics turned off: http://i.imgur.com/e2jhE.png

(I don't know if imgur does/performed any compression on it or not.)

There are also multiple settings for font smoothing, so you can tweak it to your liking. (Subpixel settings)

Combine this with great themes (even the light themes look unreal), I can't see why this isn't more popular!
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False. Factories are having increasing difficulty in retaining workers and are therefore having to either raise wages, improve conditions, or bully them into submission. Supply and demand, no?

Demand is currently high.

Things are not great for workers, but there is hardly a surplus anymore.
Learning an editor is not like learning typing. You should learn an editor but not be addicted to it. This is just like learning a language.

The reason is software tools evolve really fast. And you will always get somethings better than what was available in the past. And you will always have to move on. Why get so addicted and get into the editor religion?

If you look at the way people program in verbose languages these days, they heavily depend on a lot of goodies like auto complete and intellisense. The tooling area is always evolving with time. And not moving with the trend will keep you locked in ancient practices.

The way I see, Editor religion works very similar to version control religion. People really take tools too seriously. When I look at vi/emacs vs something else debate. To me it looks like git/mercurial vs svn etc debates. There is not reason to take that personally, they are just tools after all. I look at a version control system as something that keeps track of my change history. An editor as something that helps me be productive. Those things keep changing with time.

Don't take them so personally that you have to tear your hair out in frustration when they are not available. They are a means to achieve your goal. Using them is not your goal.
because he is doing something very ambitious. if you don't understand why, that's fine, but don't dismiss it on that account.
Hi lrs! Do we know each other?

It sucks that Chicago was such a negative and destructive experience for you. I knew plenty of people who hated, hated, hated their time there.

It has strong ideas about what an education should be that I happen to agree with, so I was happy as a fish in water there.
There is, as you seem to realise to some extent, exactly one logical conclusion to the everyone-does-it, distributed-everything world you describe: prohibit the very act of conveying digital information in encrypted form, and require the infrastructure providers to help with identifying and prosecuting those who break the law.

Personally, I don't think that would be a very nice world to live in. That means effort has to be put into promoting legitimate alternatives and educating people about why these issues matter.

This has been done before, many times, with driving offences for example. Not so long ago, you could go past a pub at lunchtime and find plenty of obviously impaired people cheerfully getting into their cars to drive back to the office. Today, drunk-driving is socially unacceptable, licensed establishments run promotions for designated drivers, and police action is relatively rare because it is mostly unnecessary. This was achieved almost entirely through education, and in particular demonstrating the real consequences of the illegal act that do affect real people rather than allowing the perceptions of a "victimless crime" or "fighting the system" to continue unchallenged.

I see no reason a serious, credible campaign could not successfully explain that copyright is there to support the artists who create the works we want to enjoy and isn't just about lining the pockets of big businesses who have been price gouging since forever. If the laws were also changed to bring copyright terms back to sanity and those big businesses suffered a few high profile legal defeats over their track record of anti-competitive behaviour at the same time, a lot of good might result.

[Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying that this would completely eliminate all illegal copying. However, as I've just posted separately, I think it leads to a reasonable compromise that gives sensible options to people who just want to enjoy creative works and allows rightsholders to chase down large-scale infringement effectively without having to prohibit personal encrypted communications.]
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No, I am not sure as I don't follow closely anymore. I heard about the downfall of Bo but hadn't really considered the consequences. Mostly I was speaking of the climate when I left in 2008
I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear: the answer is no, because spreading around the idea that Emacs isn't modern is counter-productive.

I guess your question wasn't "yes or no". Then the answer is: we shouldn't. If we ignore the fact that he claims Emacs/Vim are "very hard to learn, ugly, lack many modern features", people will start just assuming that it's all true. And, as I mentioned earlier, this will scare people away from truly great editors needlessly.
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1 pound of metallurgical grade silicon takes about 1 pound of coal and 1 pound of wood chips.

1 pound of polysilicon takes about 2 pounds of metallurgical grade and even more energy.

1 pound of wafer takes about 2 pounds of polysilicon and even more energy.

Aluminum probably doesn't take as much energy but the difference is Silicon's energy is cheap (coal and wood chips for the first step).
In addition to this being a dubious signal for measuring result quality, this could have a chilling effect for sites concerned about SEO. We've seen the bizarre rain-dance that businesses are already willing to do to try to improve their position in Google results, and now we can add "avoid fair use" to that dance.
It's not always a political problem.

What happens when the change you've just demoed to the boss breaks an important feature that you didn't know about?

In the case of the absurdly slow client/server architecture, what if this was a defense against a chunk of code prone to locking up or crashing? What do you do when your new, faster program suddenly crashes every five minutes after its deployed to production?
It varies. As others have said, it's currently just under 14 minutes.

But it can be as low as 3 minutes or as high as 21 minutes, depending on the distance from Earth to Mars. Which of course varies as they orbit the sun.
something decentralized

How so? Has anything changed in that regard?
I see one huge issue: if you lose the flash drive, you lose ALL of the data you collected. At least you a assured to get part of the data when it is broadcast.
In some strange way, the placebo effect has its own placebo effect. People will tend to not voice their issues because they wish to stay on track for their treatment, get out of the doctor's office and on with their life.

After all, a guy isn't going to just blurt out erectile problems if he is led to believe by the expert through the error of omission that erectile problems aren't a side effect. Its just too embarrassing.
Through meditation, people have learned to exhibit some amazing control over things that were thought to be entirely outside of conscious control. Perhaps the best example of this is Wim Hof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof

That man can spend nearly two hours sitting nearly naked immersed (except for his head) in an ice bath, without his core temperature dropping to dangerous levels and without suffering frostbite. He has also done such insane things as run a marathon in a desert without water.

Here's the pubmed link to a paper by some researchers who studied Hof to see what the hell was going on: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22685240

It certainly seems plausible to me that there are probably many more things that we currently think are not consciously controllable this way that will turn out to be. It would not at all be surprising if one or more of those turn out to be things that you could use to kill yourself.
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You can deposit thin films of silicon on to, say, ordinary glass. Usually, this is done with CVD, although I think epitaxial growth is also a popular technique.

The problem is that this tends to produce amorphous silicon, which is not especially efficient. There is a good deal of work to get to the point where monocrystalline silicon thin film cells are viable outside of the lab, though.
"A correlation between people who use a language and the previous languages they have used does not imply a correlation (or intellectual/philosophical inheritance) between the language under discussion and the previous languages used."

And yet, that is exactly the basis for Yegge's point: attributing a philosophical label based on a perceived (and incorrect) background for a group. Goose, gander. Kettle, pot.
Typically bytes are coded 8N1 (or 1 start bit, one stop bit, and 8 data bits) so 10 baud gets you 1 byte. Hence the nominal divide by 10 (this is 8b/10b encoding)

But in a pedantic sort of way, the computation should add extra bits for ECC since the drive has ECC bits already embedded in it, so a 1TB drive probably has more than 10 Tbits it is probably closer to 15 - 20 terabits.
Although your post seems to be tongue-in-cheek its effectiveness cannot be understated; we are in a speedy decline that sees no means of slowing down.
>I think it's something everyone should do.

Nah, i don't think so, because most people (me included) wouldn't actually care and then it would devolve into meaningless politeness. I prefer that only the people (like you) who actually care signal that they care.
Silicon wafers (cheap ones) cost about $150/kg.
Polysilicon (good luck making a wafer out of it) costs about $30/kg (market has crashed).
Copper costs about $7.50/kg.