skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it insulting because the word NiNi is just a generalization on young people (as me) that politicians and media is throwing around to make us feel bad, and to portray a group of people that does not represent the majority.

The average age on Spain is 40.5. It's so easy to just say, fuck it, young people is lazy, so let's let the government pass this or these other bigoted rules, or even let a bigoted party rule, because it's the only way they will learn.

I was not saying you are not right (heck, we are in 28.4% of unemployment), I was pointing out that generalizations are incorrect and biased.

PS: I may be angry, because the government decided to increase taxes on self-employed people (with unreasonable numbers), making it harder for me to enjoy working and living here.
Now you're being disingenuous. It is quite simple:

People have many interests. Interest is not a binary term - One can be interested in varying degrees.

Perhaps he is interested in all presidents' admission records, but more interested in the current president because it is more relevant to his life than others. Just because there is relevance, does NOT imply partisanship.

By analogy I find operating system internals interesting. I am interested in how many of them do things. However I find discussions about Windows more interesting than those about multics. Not because I am a fan of windows (I am not) nor because I hate windows (I don't, it is a decent OS these days, I just prefer others), but because it is relevant to my life as a person living in the era where it is actually being used.

Note, this won't stop me from reading an interesting new article about the multics way, just that when offered a source with new (to me) insights on windows or multics, I would choose windows.
Eclipse has a "Generate Getters/Setters" option. You choose the variables, and voilà!
One observation. I posit that in certain situations, when from the outset a startup sets out to attract a microsegment which is the subset of an existing market that is owned by a major competitor, and furthermore has the explicit goal of being acquired for somewhere between $5 to $50 million by one of those major competitors, that this is valid. Being that in select situations this is a valid undertaking, it must follow from this that the actualization of this explicit goal represents success, and not failure, neither on the part of the founding team nor in terms of product development. Perhaps the dollar amount I cited here is what the OP would consider to be a "buy-out offer [that] is spectacular", but to the extent that it isn't, it's ostensibly wise to consider the opposing viewpoint.
Steps 1 to 4 have absolutely no dependence on GrexIt. What is manipulative in that?
Sorry, when I am short, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
Edit: And this original article saying 'We wanted to send a message' is plain BS. I find nothing wrong in Samsung's designer talking about the iPhone in his e-mails or comparing Samsung's phones with it. If Apple would have done it, it would have been 'taking inspiration', now since Samsung has done it, it is a 'copycat'. What an unfair system..If the guy wanted to send a message it clearly should have been 'Fuck patents and litigation, focus on innovation'.

Instead, the message I see from this guy is 'Apple will pretend to innovate, whoever innovates beyond them will be sued and will never WIN'

BONUS: Apple's 'innovation': http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10...
Portugal has a long history of oppression that was removed less than forty years ago. Some things change, but the mentality of people doesn't change that fast. There may be no open oppression but a silent one for sure. It's easy to be brave in an organized country ruled on laws. In a highly corrupted Portuguese society it's not that easy. (https://www.google.com/search?q=corruption+in+portugal&s...)
"What happens is that instead of going bust on a failed idea all parties agree that it is better to put a positive spin on things so they present this fantastic acquisition story instead of folding the company and going bust."

This does not hold water. What's in it for the party that puts the cash on the table? Why are they paying the cash for the supposed failure?
I think there's a spectrum of failure, and an acqui-hire is not at the lowest end of the spectrum, not even close. Here are a few ways to fail that are worse than an acqui-hire:

- Your startup fails and you maxed out your credit cards trying to keep the business/servers afloat and end up ruining your credit

- Your startup fails and you spent all the money you borrowed from your family/friends to start your company, never make any revenue, then ruin those relationships when you never pay it back

- Your startup fails and you spend a few months looking for a full-time job

Now contrast those scenarios with this acqui-hire scenario:

- Your startup has not failed or succeeded yet (it may be on the path to failure or success, too early to tell) and you are offered a nice salary (say $150k) plus a one-time stock grant (say $200-500k of RSUs) or a one-time cash bonus (say $100-200k) to work for a company you respect.

In nearly all these scenarios your startup ceases to exist, or lives on in another form separate from how you envisioned it, but only in the acqui-hire scenario are you quasi-successful. To me, an acqui-hire means that 1) a company noticed your product or service, 2) saw that you were doing excellent things with it, 3) thought that you could make an outsized contribution to their company, 4) gave you a cherry on top of a regular employment offer.

Yes, an entrepreneur's startup dream has failed, but on an individual level there are lots of positives.

(Note: I have not been acqui-hired but I have ran 2 startups that fizzled and were sold at low amounts, far below what we wanted. I don't consider them failures because, at the end, there was a monetary payment, but they were nowhere near as successful as we wanted them to be. And I ended up getting a real job after the exit.)
I do :) They are all owned by the mother company in NL; they pay a bit of tax everywhere but most in NL.

Also, your beloved homeland IF it is your beloved homeland (it usually is). I'm not a big patriot; I like ES/PT more than my own country.
that doesn't relate to the way Facebook took off AT ALL. The only "similarity" is .edu email addresses - in Facebook's case, it worked as an incentive because it was an exclusive club. Plus, it was an entirely different beast back then (and the "social network world" changed dramatically too)...
If you want to get the most out of this, use a hardware token generator instead of a phone or computer. Example: http://hackaday.com/2012/07/11/time-based-one-time-passwords... http://lab.infoserver.com.br/wiki/index.php/Projects:arduino...
It would be interesting to hear your standpoint on the IP infringements (DOS, GPL License...)
Hmm
I have a Visa connected directly to my bank account, (debit?) So far so good, but i also have an app on my phone (Android) from my bank (Handelsbanken) that lets me check/transfer money from my accounts. But i can also LOCK my Visa from being used outside of Sweden and on the internet. So every time i want to buy something on the internet or going to another country i open the app open my card for internet/international use and tada.

This service is free and i can Unlock/lock my card as much as i want too.
I'm not entirely sure this is true. Especially for service-based businesses. If we're talking about the web/mobile app world, then sure, agreed. There's a product or tangible service being provided that's getting shut down.

However, for service-based businesses, like architectural/engineering firms or consultancies, there's really no other form of purchase, other than to just funnel the profits to a different place. When you buy one of those businesses, you can only buy the people, as there is little to no IP. If the name has enough cache, you can continue on with that name, but if it's a competitor, you're better off just folding them into the main brand.

As an example, my dad's an engineer. He sold his fairly successful business that he had run for 15+ years (it was a lifestyle business) because he was just sick of the bookkeeping--all he wanted to do was be an engineer after 15+ years. So he sold, and went to work running the engineering department specific to his practice of the place that bought him. Now, he gets a predictable income, no bookkeeping, and more reasonable hours. I don't consider him a failure in the least.
How a Philips light bulb uses blue LEDs to produce white light
Tap to zoom, pinch to zoom, bounce back, rounded rectangles with glass etc. are obvious features people expect in a touchscreen device that is manipulated using fingers. If you are not going to have an ability to pinch and zoom or tap and zoom you can still sell a device without those abilities but you cannot get very far in the highly competitive marketplace.

Remember between Microsoft and Apple they can patent the few ways to zoom and when courts validate those you will have smart phone competition without the ability to zoom. That's just one example.
Thankfully in the UK, Direct Debits[1] are used for most recurring payments and have a lot of protections in place, namely:

1. The payer has the right to cancel the direct debit at any time.

2. The payee cannot alter the date or the amount of the payment without prior notification/authorisation.

3. The bank has no ability to alter the payment instruction after it has been authorised.

4. There is a guarantee in place to return funds in case of a dispute. The bank will process an immediate refund, and it is up to the payee to chase payment. The banks play no part in the dispute resolution process.
Conway's Game Of Life in Clojure
We named our product GrexIt long before someone started using the term for Greece's eurozone exit. Look for our coverage in TNW, RWW and GigaOm in March to june last year, which was before the term was coined.

If anything, the term has only hurt us by badly polluting our analytics.
"Develop a mathematical theory to end, once and for all, humanity's fatal attraction to War; to the glorification of State power, and to the ideology that ends always justifies the means; and in particular, to the perceived need to dominate and control other human beings at scale and through nearly limitless violence and coercion, generally."
I'm on gittip. Saw it here on HN, started tipping a few of my heroes immediately.

I didn't think of it as OSS financing, but rather as a way of making Armin's Friday beers-with-friends free for him. We'll see how it works out in the long run, but if that is all that it ever accomplishes – I'll still be backing it, because it's a nice thing to do.
> A love of complexity and half-formed (and mostly mistaken) ideas about what programming really is.

Couldn't you basically say the same about most system languages (for example C and actually even stuff like Java)?
You mean SVGs being larger than PNGs? No, that wasn't the case, we were using integers and in the prerendered PNGs there was a 1:1 mapping between the integers and the pixels in the PNG.
True. But not forget that you have tens of years experience of walking and running before you decided to improve your running. If you would have that many years of Ruby experience you would have better chance to get to TDD nirvana too.
DOH: I Missed a Pitch Chance
I am 6'7" tall and weigh 205 lbs. When I was 14 years old I was 6'5" and weighed 155 lbs. I consume way too much refined sugar in the form of soda throughout the day and have for my entire life. Just now at the age of 40 I could gain weight if I wanted to by working at it but the bottom line is that I am skinny, have always been skinny and have difficulty accumulating fat despite drinking a very good amount of sugar throughout the day.
If they ran OpenArena and QuakeLive fast (~60fps), they't cover >50% of my gaming needs.
> Stagnation. That's what you get when people duplicate ideas instead of leading with their own.

Right. So the guy who invented the cell phone shouldn't have "copied" the guy who invented the cordless phone. Oh, and the guy who invented the touch screen phone shouldn't be able to make it because the guy who invented the cell phone (which can't exist because of the guy who made the cordless phone says "No") doesn't want someone to make a touchscreen phone.

That's stagnation and that's what you're promoting here. You're just splitting hairs by narrowing the focus to rounded corners, # of buttons, etc.

Truth be told, there are no original inventions here. Apple's products are evolutions of previous hardware created by others – let's not forget that.
Investors shouldn't like acqui-hires unless it is an agreed upon goal in the first place. In fact, I guess that investors wouldn't appreciate any misunderstanding of goals on any level, and it seems to be an oft-cited reason for entrepreneurs losing their jobs at the behest of venture capitalists. But if I had $1 million to invest into a business, and from my experience I had a reasonable expectation that a company I'm investing in could be acqui-hired for $50 million, and we agreed upon that from the outset, then I could see myself making that deal and being happy when the result came to fruition.
Open Hardware Thoughts
I learned something about learning today
I have dreams of teaching my son how to program when he turns 5. My vague plan is to teach him basic reading skills by 3, how to write by 4, basic math & algebra by 5, at which point we will start programming.

My son just turned 2, so the countdown has begun.

Something amazing happened this weekend, at 25 months I taught my son his first word "cat"! And it took an entire week of passive repetition and short bursts of practice to teach him one word.

The very next day, my mind was blown. Because he picked up 4 new words not in weeks but seconds. Dog, Ball, Car, Fish.

This is when daddy learned something new, and I'd like to share it with you.

Before I could teach my son how to read, I had to teach him that I wanted him to know how to read. This was the biggest barrier. It took him a week to learn cat, because he had no clue that I was trying to teach him that letter combinations spell words.

This truly is common sense, but it has changed my perception of learning and teaching. Before I can teach something I have to teach what I what him to learn. He has to understand the challenge before he can meet it.

I think knowing & recognizing this early on will allow me to be more flexible in selecting and modifying my teaching strategies on the fly. As a result, I will hopefully have a bit more intuition in recognizing future learning barriers.
It's pretty easy to switch the delimiters. I plan to add it to a roleplay site first because they use parens much more than angle brackets. You can see the old version here, but it's a line by line parser http://rp.eliteskills.com/editing.php . They're using it every day.
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is a great portrait but I wouldn't use it to illustrate Neil Armstrong's obituary because it's not Neil Armstrong.
Gotta watch the sweats, especially at night which can be a sign of lymphoma.
http://astroprofspage.com/archives/162

tl;dr the flag had embedded wires to keep it unfurled, also the pole was flexible and springy, it kept wobbling after it was planted in the ground
But then how will fesja be able to tell everyone "Hey, I created a web standard! /flex"

You're right. No research was done. Author just threw information that he thought was important into a text file and called it a day. RFC 5785 says to put the file into the .well-known folder, the author only thought about United States addresses when making this, and as you stated the problem has already been addressed.
As in most societies, there's bound to be a pecking order of some sorts, and I'm not saying that developers are at the rock-bottom of that order. And of course developers can be self-entitled, arrogant, obnoxious people — I might even be one of those :-)

Whether one appreciates or resents developers, the fact of the matter is that most moderately talented developers have some notion that they possess a valuable and hard-to-acquire skill which paradoxically doesn't empower them, due to the relentless effort by companies to commoditize developers and treat them as fungible resources.

Lacking power to effect any kind of meaningful change, developers with in-demand skills often end up voting with their feet, and organizations fail to accumulate and develop human capital.
I personally hung out with the Hadza for a few days a little over ten years ago.

This article rings completely true -- most of them really only spent a couple hours a day "working", which is typical of hunter-gatherer tribes -- it's remarkably leisurely. People didn't break their backs working until the agricultural revolution, which demanded it.

The Hadza spend a ton of time "gambling" amongst each other, which doesn't involve a lot of energy. And even while the article says:

> Each day the women comb miles of hilly terrain, foraging for tubers, berries and other wild plant foods

It's really not a big deal. It's like walking around Central Park a bit. And the East African savannah is a really flat place, the hills are not big. It's just leisurely strolling around, nobody's in a hurry. The annoying part is digging for roots with sticks.

Fun fact: in Africa, the hunter-gatherer tribes are the only tribes with no history of famine.
Does anyone have the contact of people in "Data harmonization" team of Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Yelp, etc? Could you share this idea with them to see if we can discuss it further?

my email is javier at touristeye.com
what about meta entry(s) in the robots.txt, specifying if additional things like business.txt exist (and where)
i couldn't agree more!
we (programmers, devs, hackers, etc.) tend to be very esoteric when it comes to minor details like this.
Unmasking North Korea's Future
I like this idea very much and its simplicity, but it seems inevitable to me that going down this path will just recreate RDF[0] and RDF Schema. A sort of a semantic web version of Greenspun's tenth rule[1].

For those of you who want to quickly get up to speed on RDF/Schema, "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers"[2] was to me a very good introduction.

[0] From the W3C primer on RDF: "The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule

[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/SE/ODSD/
I'm wondering why hCard isn't in play: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard

They even provide an example for an organization here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Parsing_Details

It looks like by default, it only intends to have one url but adding more should be as simple as adding a rel type to give some context around it.
I don't know how much Armin drinks, but he's already pulling down $50 a week which seems to be a pretty healthy Friday beer fund.
Who inherits your iTunes library when you die?
There is a simple way to solve this. Ship the phones without an OS. Then consumers would have the choice of installing Android, Windows, Symbian, or what have you. Ideally the OS would boot from a micro SD card, or at least installed from one.
Cable channels seem to be so short-sighted here that I think they're going to be blindsided by this model.

Using the TV model, the maximum amount of shows I can provide are limited by the amount of prime-time hours in a week. I think this creates a very long tail of shows that many people would be interested in watching, but not enough that these shows compete for prime time space. These shows are usually cancelled, and nobody makes money.

But with streaming video, Netflix is not limited at all by a viewing schedule, and they can sell as many shows as they want. Even if a show is only popular among a small audience it can still be profitable.

Pay-per-on-demand-show is coming, and that will be the upset. The only demographic beholden to the TV station model are the baby-boomers who think this streaming stuff is weird.
Thanks for sharing, I never heard about Walter Zorn, but I recall searching for an alternative to Raphael and I came across his 2D library. At the time I thought it was a clever hack, little did I know that the library was more than 10 years old and miraculously worked all the way back to Netscape 4.

I searched around for some of his work and came across this beautiful recumbent bike: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/06/29/sometimes-you-just-w..., even if I know nothing about bikes it's evident this is a masterpiece of craftmanship and design. I'm greatly saddened by his passing.
Not really. Take the patent system away, and all Apple has is a nice market share, a fat war chest and it's own ability to produce interesting products.

Apple has taken the posture of the 800lb gorilla with a questionable legal maneuver, leveraging a patent systems its competitors were happy to support to keep smaller players down until it was used against them. And Apple can still lose the next move in this legal chess game if Google takes them on.

This is very different from for instance the Microsoft of the '90s that had so much market power of its own it could dictate terms and kill competition simply with money and threats.

That was a real 800lb gorilla. Apple is playing a very dangerous game by faking it through dubious legal tactics. But one court decision that doesn't go their way can completely kill that.
To even be able to sign your application to run on OS X, you need to pay 99 dollars. And agree to Apple's terms.

This is pure FUD. You only need to sign apps if you are planning on distributing them as pre-compiled binaries, and even then the end user can deactivate gatekeeper in case you haven't signed your app.

If you are writing apps for yourself, you can just compile normally, and deactivate Gatekeeper on your system. This holds equally if you wish to distribute your app to friends and family (telling them to deactivate Gatekeeper...). If you want to distribute to strangers, you may have a tougher time convincing them to deactivate their security to run your app though.

Of course, even if the above wasn't true, this would still be a strawman. The vast majority of people capable of programming well enough to want to distribute their software are more than capable of putting together the 99 bucks needed to get a developer certificate.

where do you get these numbers?
You must be too young to remember actually having to buy Turbo C / Visual Studio / Metrowerks, but the parent post is absolutely correct - historically professional-grade developer tools have been quite expensive. It is only relatively recently that we have had the luxury of these tools being available for free.

YOU are the one doing distortion field
Seriously? And this advances the debate how?
The robot will very likely hit my frontpage anyways, so I'd rather have them look (and not find) for a meta tag there than to produce an additional 404 error which will, depending on the content of said page, waste a considerable amount of bandwidth.

Besides, my frontpage is either heavily fragment- or just page-cached anyways - especially for anonymous user - so it can be served directly from RAM for all intents and purposes, so a hit to the frontpage is really, really cheap.
Yeah, specs are that hard.
We consider ourselves polyglot. However, we found that demand for our Rails consulting pulled far ahead of the rest. By fulfilling that demand we gained a lot more experience doing Rails which not only improved our work but increased the number of applications in which we could do a superior job using Rails. This has probably happened to many companies that appear dedicated to one technology.