skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome-only? Doesn't appear to work in Firefox nightly.

Edit: Somehow my fault. Works with new profile in FF14. Curiously doesn't work in my standard profile in Aurora or Nightly even with plugins disabled.
As I understand it, food trucks are mainly running into trouble where they do business while parked on streets. It does seem reasonable to me that the public regulates whether you can park a big honking truck on the street and operate a retail business there. For example, Atlanta bans food trucks on public streets, but they operate out of private parking lots when the landowner has given them permission to do so (they often make the rounds of corporate offices). There's even a privately-operated "food truck park" where a number of them gather: http://atlantafoodtruckpark.com/
Youtube obeys the DMCA rules, but also has a vastly streamlined process that's being somewhat openly abused that lacks anyway to effectively fight back.
Youtube is simply following the DMCA here and this is precisely how the process works. If it worked any other way, the hosting provider (youtube in this case), would not enjoy safe harbors under the law. This aspect of the DMCA is specifically created to protect hosting companies from lawsuits involving automated upload of copyrighted material.

Essentially, Prima makes an accusation - "I swear your user is hosting my copyrighted material via your site." Host informs Secunda. Secunda has two options, either 1) Have the material removed by host or 2) submit sworn statement to host that they did not violate copyright and that Prima can come sue them at this address.

At that point the host re-instates the material in question and will remove it only upon receipt of initiation of a lawsuit.

This provision of the DMCA was created by the ISPs and specifically the cable companies because they didn't want to be liable for things their users did on their networks. This is the result.
> People were saying precisely the same thing about marijuana having to be legalized by now because so many people in the 1970s were using it. What happened?

It's being legalised, slowly. That's what's happening.
I emailed this address: privacy@quora.com

With:

"Hi,
Can you please delete my account and all data associated with it. I was originally impressed with Quora, but the main issue is that it is hard to navigate and its utility is limited. I do not want my information being passively shared on any service, especially one where I may be looking for answers to confidential questions.

After all, why else would I go to the Internet rather than just asking a friend?"

They deleted my account after about a day. The user experience is as much of a problem for me as the privacy. Navigating that site is probably the most fustrating experience on the web.
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Good point. I don't understand the anti space exploration crowd's argument of putting poverty before space. It's not like they are bundling 80 million dollars into a hollow spaceship and dumping it off on mars.
Also, to add: Yes, you are completely right. Any rights holder can designate an agent to work on this on their behalf.
20 years ago, Clinton "didn't inhale" at college. Obama did coke, and it wasn't a big deal. Also he's black. Acceptability changes based on what voters consider to be normal.
I would hope that, in the UK at least, that by 2033 violating the atheist commandment about not believing in strange superstitions would be a cause for burying a political career.
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I'm apathetic, but please let's not start the trend of self-aware "downvote me" or "why the downvotes?" comments on this website. I'm of the opinion that it's needless, manipulative clutter.
Not completely sure. Reddit for example has a few really good ones. Alien Blue for iOS and Reddit Is Fun for Android are the ones that come to mind. Might be that the HN community is too small with a comparatively low opportunity for real growth. It's big, but not compared to something like Reddit. To put in the work building and maintaining a product good enough to actually use, you'd want the developer to be making enough money such that he/she would be able/willing to support it. And that may be difficult with a community like HN.
The same is true for many other space missions, and quite frankly doesn't matter.

For example, check the projections on the James Webb space telescope and see for yourself how the costs doubled and tripled. IMO we shouldn't look at it in terms of those costs; even if double and tripled they are not that high. Look at their effect on the larger picture.
I'd say they're on the side that doesn't expose them to a massive lawsuit by media companies.
If you define "No meetings" as !meetings, and "No communication" as !communcation, which to me sounds reasonable, then they are in fact equivalent.

This becomes apparent when you create a truth table for it:

!meetings != !communication

meetings | communication | expr
F | F | F
T | T | F
T | F | T
F | T | T

This is the same truth table one would get with "meetings != communication" so they should be logically equivalent.
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Can you imagine the pendulum swinging the other way 20 years from now?

<picture a presidential debate> "Mr Candidate, we found no inappropriate behavior in your Facebook history, nor porn in your browser history, how do you defend yourself from accusations of not being a man-of-the-people?"
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Of course the entire country of a billions makes all their women folk do such acts, don't we? You are right. How do we even dare!
The BBC could solve its android problems in a microsecond if it wanted to - just have it play the same unencrypted stream that they give to iDevices.
No one is stopping you from making your own distro that meets your own needs. And servers generally do not have state changes, and it would generally be acceptable to just reboot on any of them.

You may enjoy micro-managing your networking etc - good for you. Some of us don't like doing that. To give one example of stuff that certainly doesn't just work, I was trying to run Squid on my (Ubuntu) laptop and it certainly can't handle state changes well, and neither can Ubuntu's ifup/down and init system. I often ended up having to manually do stuff that the system should have been able to handle well.

I'm personally delighted with systemd's functionality - the way it captures output from services would have saved me hours in the past from services that wouldn't startup cleanly and avoided providing useful information as to why.

(Separately: my kingdom for a simple caching web proxy server)
Flash is in retreat. Adobe should look into that.
It's YOUR job to know what's relevant to the task at hand. It's not your peers' job to make sure you do.
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i think we're already seeing a notable shift with our recent Presidents re: drug use - from 'not inhaling', to smoking 'pot' and snorting a 'little' cocaine... those politicians grew up in the 60's/70's when that was common with teens & young adults, and their voter peers did much of the same...

i think (maybe hope) we can expect in 30 years, when politicians rising into their 40s/50s are "outted" on sexting or lewd party photos - we the people (their peers) will look and say, "sure I did that stuff and have dozens of similar pictures, this must be a decent, normal human being"
Since the showcase is low on information, here's a summary of the current status:

- the porting strategy is explained here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/python3/

- the porting work happens in the master branch; commits related to the Python 3 port are usually prefixed by [py3]: https://github.com/django/django/commits/master

- the test suite doesn't pass yet, but the hardest part is done: http://ci.djangoproject.com/job/Django%20Python3/

- most of the work happened over the last three weeks, and 5 or 6 core developers are contributing significantly
Don't know why you're getting downvoted: the author explicitly encourages the file not to be used as is but modified to suit your purpose.
And how is instant preview hindering your ability to put content first?
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Works for me in Firefox 14.
Love this app! I find myself writing a lot of LaTeX documents lately, and can see a lot of potential. I would love to see things like templates, user accounts, and/or even integration with Google Docs! Being able to upload and download stuff to my Google Drive would be killer...
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Doesn't "keyboard and monitor at the right height" kind of indicate "desk at the right height"?
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I'm using LyX for all my LaTeX editing now. The editing and instant preview for math are wonderful.
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Whereas the base comment is fine - some things are delightful and there's nothing wrong with saying so.

As long as there aren't a bunch of "me too" comments, of course.
I've been spoiled by the iOS app store. Buying once, playing on several devices. Also the ability to delete and redownload whenever. I won't consider buying a big title like NSMB2 digital-only until they fix that stuff.
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That strikes me as very Pythonic attitude. If you're going to fail, fail early. But, I know Python way better than Ruby, so it might very well be a Ruby thing too.
What exactly do you want Youtube to do? Under the DMCA, they don't get to decide what content is infringing or not.

The requirement to provide your name/address is so the DMCA complaints can be handled in a court, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Interesting idea. I wonder if anyone has stepped up to prevent the chilling effect of DMCA takedown notices?

It seems like a non-profit could handle this role where they act as a proxy where the victim of the notice asserts they have copyright, sends the information to the proxy and then the proxy acts on their behalf?
Xml-motor v0.1.5 released ~ grep node querying attrib-key or just attrib-value
Very nice! I particularly liked the low-overhead sharing via unique URLs. No accounts, no signup.

I also thought the delay in the preview (whether intended or not) was a nice touch, preventing syntax errors being issued while typing is in progress.

I can see myself using this regularly.
> If they express those views, I wouldn't call them senior.

I wouldn't be so hasty as to assume that anyone making the above claim should be taken literally. Indeed, frowning on detailed commenting (or commenting at all) seems more like hyperbole then anything. After all, what is "detailed commenting"? It's not indication of quality.

// Increments x by 1
x++;

That is a detailed comment, but hardly worth while.

And the commenting at all remark does not indicate that all commenting is to be avoided. Rather that comments should be scrutinized. After all, comments are indicative of a confusion. If your code requires a comment to explain itself, maybe it's best to review what you are doing, and work to avoid confusion.

> it's rarely possible to express -- purely in code -- what the code is supposed to do, what the input is supposed to be, and what the output is supposed to be.

It's actually fairly easy to do that in all languages I'm aware of. It's part of the reason you have Unit Tests. To document what the code can do, but also the expected input and output. More often than not, we forget that.

I dislike the idea of promoting comments for the sake of comments. I much prefer the push for clarity in code. Limiting clarity to comments is bad form, and generally those pushing for lots of comments excuse confusing code because they use comments freely. They also believe that these comments will remain relevant, and make the call that should they not, it's not their problem, but the programmer that fails to update the comment.

This is akin to blocking user out of an account after the first wrong password entered. It's their mistake, after all. And our jobs as programmers are not write robust code. Comments cannot (and should not) affect that code, and relying on comments to provide the quality missing from the code is lazy.
I enjoy reading Gruber quite a bit, but it's not for his snark or his analysis. It's for his perspective. He has lots of readers because he can connect the dots. He finds stories or details that may not seem relevant at first glance, but are signs of where things are headed.

He also loves to call bullshit on trashy link bait.
Thanks for the reply.

I want to optimize landing pages by continuously performing A/B tests through Visual Website Optimizer, which already allows easy editing of the web design.

I'll look into the themes from Themeforest but I just thought there'd be an easier way (DIY perhaps) to create an appropriately themed landing page.
You are confusing the two issues. India is capable of feeding its poor. The bureaucracy are too damn apathetic and corrupt to bring that into effect.

But why should the ones who want to make a difference be subject to criticism that they don't deserve?
The US required it too, out of tradition, until Clinton's term. Why did we stop?
Hmm. I'm pretty sure that the regex used will throw out many perfectly valid e-mail addresses - for example, "tom@Yahoo.com." is a well-formed e-mail address (albeit in unusual notation), yet the author parades it as an example of an invalid one. Also, some of the characters in the local part are explicitly allowed - "(" and ")", amongst others.

This seriously undermines the credibility of the author.
because if there's one thing keeping the average American citizens "freedom" safe, it's their right to keep a couple of handguns in their closet.
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+1 the requirement for tooling is less. I switch between IntelliJ and Emacs for Clojure development, and tools don't hold me back.

I did a fair amount of Java GWT/SmartGWT development last year and having both client side Java code and server side code running in twin debuggers was handy, but really only crucial because of the complexity of the whole setup. That said, I only write simple web apps and web services in Clojure and Noir and perhaps that is why I don't feel that I need complex tools.
For personal/small setups,

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Domainmonster.com

123-reg.co.uk

All have solid reputations with 123-reg being the elephant in the industry but UKReg and Domainmonster having superb responsiveness and customer support.
Flash is always going to have a place on the desktop, but as a developer having to make a choice between Flash & HTML5 or just HTML5 is going to be pretty simple for a big chunk of purposes.

Lets hope Adobe focus on HTML5 tools.
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I continue to be amazed at the effort Adobe is going to to make their own platform irrelevant. They claim to want to focus on "premium copy-protected video" but do they really think that only targeting that to desktop systems when mobile adoption is skyrocketing is a good move?
I don't really understand the problems these "init" replacements wish to solve. I mean, actual, real-world problems. To me, it's just another instance of the same worrisome trend that brought us NetworkManager and makes everything evolve to integrate with D-Bus: do everything to make desktop-Linux better, even if it negatively impacts the use-cases where Linux is actually successful (everything else).

I don't care much for the desktop, but I do care for servers.

Boot times on servers are irrelevant. Reducing them brings little benefit. Servers shouldn't have to be rebooted that often for it to matter, and also, servers spend most of their boot time POSTing and initializing firmware for the various cards. In many cases, twice as much as it takes to boot a normal SysV init Linux install.

Not only that, but it is much more important to be able to effectively troubleshoot boot problems than to get some dubious features that nobody really felt missing for all these decades.

I don't care if Fedora or Arch do this, but I do care if more server-oriented distributions do. I still haven't gotten over the fact that RHEL6 now gives you the option of using NetworkManager (bleh) or configuring interfaces through (badly designed) configuration files. What's wrong with the old system-config-network?
I'm a fisherman by hobby, and I can spend up to 10 hours a day cranking the reel (not to mention rowing the boat). I understand the weight difference between the two, but I don't think 3 minutes of cranking a 20lb reel is going to do any long term damage unless your wrists are already sounding like a cement mixer.
revenues != profit. 50% of their revenue goes directly to the company's running the campaign. They then need to cover all business expenses ect with the other 50%. Assuming constant rather than declining sales and 5% of revenue being actual profit they would be worth ~300m + cash on hand or ~1.5 billion. Also, while they might be 'profitable' if there sales are declining without unsustainable advertising they may be worth little more than their cash on hand.

PS: While they might seem like a tech company with high R&D costs that scales really well, they actually need a huge sales force to deal with local company's so they are stuck with crap profit margins relative to most tech stocks.
Chandrayaan-1 was a pretty successful mission by all accounts though despite not lasting. It found evidence of water pretty much straight away, which was worth the budget all on its own.
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"marijuana having to be legalized by now"

At least in my country, bad example :)

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/09/world/americas/uruguay-mar...

it's also approved for medical use in California, not prosecuted in Portugal, and legalized in the Netherlands (with some caveats).

These laws are still a hard sell, but not unthinkable as they might have been in the 70's. Lawmakers are slower than we'd like, but eventually I believe they will be redefined.

More likely, it will just not be prosecuted (much like I believe marijuana use is nowadays).
Legos might have been the better example :)
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> And the chances of the author initiating lawsuits (as some Linux foundations are known to do), over something placed in the "public domain" are close to nil.

Could you give some examples of those lawsuits?
The preview is nice, but I have more faith in http://sharelatex.com/ reaching a complete and usable product.
Android users get screwed over with the iPlayer app. Not everyone wants to install Flash (and now no one can even if they want to), yet for some reason they feel need to serve the video in a different way to the perfectly fine iOS stream.
You haven't forgotten HTML5 <video> element, have you?
Hey Guys. Shameless plug for my startup http://www.thetaboard.com

My goals with ThetaBoard.com were to be completely "methology agnostic" so it's nothing like Asana.

It is very similar to (yet admittedly less mature than) Trello but may appeal to some of you. I think it is simpler UI and has less in the way of clunky drop down menus and modal popups, etc. It was designed to be "view/edit in place" for everything.

I am going to charge for greater usage/premium features--the reality of being a solo founder/bootstrapped startup vs. Fog Creek that can afford to hire several fulltime developers for a "side project".

Anyway, have a look. Keyboard shortcuts/API/Dropbox+Google App integration/Mobile version on the near-term product roadmap. Would love feedback.
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I don't see a flag button. Is this a feature that's only available after reaching a certain amount of points?
is there an API to hackernews ?
Is it that hard to avoid stealing someone else's stylesheet unmodified? That's exactly the same stylesheet I had on my blog until a few days ago: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/lucumr/blob/8ca68485ca230f772b0...

Makes me grumpy :-/
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I started using the beta of IQTell a couple of months ago and really like the software they have put together. It is intuitive enough for me to get started quickly and also deep enough that with time I will be able to expand my use of it. I’m finding that I spend more time actually doing things than fiddling with collecting and processing actions.
The difference is Dropbox specializes in files. They have years of practice designing their technology and organization to not spy on their users.

Zapler does not have as much practice so screw-ups are more likely.
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Good point. I think the only usability improvement is:

button, html input[type="button"], input[type="reset"], input[type="submit"] {
cursor: pointer;
}
button[disabled], input[disabled] {
cursor: default;
}
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Oracle gives Java 6 support another extension
Translating projects on Django, much easier than Rails.
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Hi, I'm the author of writeLaTeX.

Sorry if you get slow previews -- I am bringing some extra capacity online now...
But in dealing with language here, there are subtle differences in connotation between the two options. Just like how saying "not bad" isn't that same as saying "good".
This technology is increasingly common in motorcycle jackets, where the airbag is deployed around the neck to augment the helmet. They're not very popular, because of the inconvenience of charging - a suitable deployment circuit is inherently very power-hungry. The technology is also extremely expensive, adding between $1000 and $1500 to the cost of an already costly protective garment.

A cheaper mechanical system uses a pull-cord like the safety cut-off on a treadmill or jetski, but that's still a $500 add-on and may not be feasible on a bicycle due to the lower mass of the vehicle. This doesn't need charging, but the rider has to remember to connect and disconnect the tether.

Ultimately, bicycle helmets are unimportant. They prevent a very small number of head injuries at relatively high inconvenience. The best and most cost-effective improvements to cyclist safety are driver and rider training, which prevents accidents in the first place.
This is a huge issue for me that I recently faced when I bought a google nexus. Flash cannot be found in the jellybean market, and the only way to get flash working is to install it through apk and use a developemental firefox build. Even at that, the quality is blurry.

I know flash is dying but unfortunately a number of sites (mostly video sites) which I frequent regularly have not made a full (if any) conversion meaning there is a whole sector of the internet that is not accessible from my tablet.

As I bought it as a media consuming device, I expected less of a harsh cut from Adobe and Google.