skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a lot of planning on my diary so I write quite a bit.

Also many programmers like working out problems on paper first before firing up the editor.

We do a lot of writing but of a different kind. We don't write essays, stories and records of historical events. But we definitely scribble a lot of symbol manipulation stuff.
This would even let users change the date back with a user script.

A browser/extensions could add a tooltip or context menu item to time elements, showing relative and absolute dates regardless of the way it's authored.
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I think the discussion is not about readability but rather artistic value attached to handwriting.
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I was responding to the suggestion that such "manipulation" was tragically sad. The fact of the illusion being necessary is tragically sad but it happens all of our lives, why stop with senility?
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> Funding will almost surely get you coverage on the major tech sites. For many startups, their main audience is the readers of those tech sites

That is a mistake too many of us make, I think, and one of the key things you can learn from someone like patio11. Between "I could build that in a weekend", open source, and a fairly critical audience, I think techies are not that great a market for a lot of things. Find a group out there that's not tech savvy, and make something that solves their problem, and they'll think it's wonderful magic.
You're right, but Apple would not have paid so handsomely, had Xerox already marketed their innovation.

Apple paid for insider knowledge. Samsung built on public knowledge.
I am also looking for this functionality:

http://superuser.com/questions/465780/anyone-know-how-i-can-...

http://www.quora.com/tmux/How-can-I-use-the-same-keys-to-mov...
A proposal for categories in C++
I don't think speedy internet is what motivates startup companies to move. Most people have their servers in data centers that are already wired with fiber. Speedy internet at home only increases the chance that you'll blow a few hours on netflix streaming video.
IMO there is no excuse to continue doing business with this company. period.
I don't know man, it sounds like your code might not be very good. I'll have to make that assumption if you don't provide any examples, because I've never seen something like that happen. Especially not for 20 straight pull requests.

You don't have to look very far to find douchebag programmers, but I've always had friendly encounters on GitHub.
Just a note, I do think you mean preys. It gives quite a different meaning to the sentence. :)
Well, one the one hand you get a lot of words in the URL nobody will ever search for, especially not concatenated as they are -- on the other hand that page looks to be 9 levels deep from the domain root. I doubt there is an actually good reason, it's just a crappy CMS.
Congratulations on getting a job, I really wish you all the best.

It's finally good to see someone who writes something positive about HN. Yes, there might be a lot of negativity around and the community might have lost the quality that many of you complain about. However, it's good to know there are still elements of this community that provide positive outcomes to those associated to it.
Well, it's a cop website -- same difference :P
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This is a fascinating read. I love the level of detail, talking about solutions to performance problems like caching the heights of rendered strings.
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It looks really nice, I think I'll try and sneak this into my new portfolio website for an experiment. Thanks for posting and good luck!
This is offtopic, but the main admin of a forum I've been on for the past 7 years is called Tambur.

Either this is an uncanny concidence, or Hello Tambur!
I find it a shame that people do that and fuck around with contributors to their project. The time comes when they need contributors to submit patches, and fewer people will bother.
So as long you don't prove him guilty he continues to remain innocent.

In a legal sense this is true under most jurisdictions, but it isn't true in any absolute sense. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and all that
Alexia's articles are so consistently pure garbage. Who cares what she thinks about Siri? How about some sources? Maybe some actual usage data? A satisfaction poll of users?

TechCrunch is a joke. Are there any journalistic tech news sites out there?
More incorrect than rude, typing is about hitting the letters you wanted to hit accurately, quickly, consistently and without strain or injury, spelling and grammar are something entirely different!
"Choosing platforms to optimize developer experience enables you to get more features out the door faster"

That is correct in theory, but falls on the face with facebook and others. Unless you literally just mean "more features", and not improving what they're making. E.g. paying for promoted updates so friends see them in their cluttered stream surely is Yet Another Feature, but is it good? I guess it depends on who the market is, here..

If the thing were written in spaghetti code, it would at least mean people would have some time to think in between, or even manage to get out of their 20s before their redefine how grandma keeps in touch.

Still, I'm happy that they improved how their crappy soulless product runs on another crappy soulless product, it keeps them off the street.
Absolutely. Insanity would be considered in the medical sense in a court room, not in a societies preconceived notion of what insanity means.

Webster defines it as, "a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as paranoid schizophrenia)".

This means that they concluded that he committed the crime in a non disordered state, and his mental health did not point to any particular disorder. Just because someone holds extremely radical views (you mentioned religion, politics can also be included) doesn't mean someone is insane.

However, I'm sure it was a very close call.
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Not everyone who commits inhumane acts are insane. Some people's actions are based on their mental health, other actions are based on people's ideologies. In this case, the man was an extremist.

No normal sane person would do such a thing, only someone who is either an extremist or an insane person would.
Apple, Samsung: You have been banned from r/pyongyang.
I agree, Go Daddy is a terrible company. They are both morally bankrupt, and their website has a terrible UI.

But.

Changing DNS registrars for a whole bunch of domains could take many hours of screwing around. If you make a mistake you might accidentally bring your site down for some amount of time. Your customers do not care at all either way anyway.

It's all disadvantages with no advantages.

Meanwhile, when you want to register a new domain, if you already have a domain with GoDaddy you may as well just go ahead and register another one on the same account. It's one less account to sign up to and deal with the credentials of, one less entry in your accounting software each year.

So yes, my company still uses GoDaddy.
Tor would be useless if it was only for dissidents!

You should think of Tor as a tool for everyone, where we all cooperate to increase our privacy, and have anonymity when we need it.
> It just feels like irrelevant corporate politicking between super-rich corporations, and doesn't have any grounding in the real world.

"the largest punishment for those who are not interested in politics, is that they'll be governed by those who are."
- Arnold Toynbee

These irrelevant politicking with no grounding in the real world, directly affects the revenue of app developers in the opposite side of the globe.
A Tambur is a musical instrument. Learn to google, please.
IDIOTS. This only hurts the potential buyers.
I like this idea. Categories have been one of my favorite Objective-C patterns, too. It's also a nice way to separate huge classes into smaller logically arranged pieces which makes it easier to not get lost.
I did miss that part, but they should have been quoted as examples, quotes save lives.
That wasn't the point.

And I actually played a version of the tambur as a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburica
It doesn't seem like he's ever committed to open source before because none of this is new. So maybe Github is the problem in that it lowered the bar for this guy to put in just enough effort to get his feelings hurt.
Hackers are in government's anti-hacker team
If you're having trouble describing what it is (and so far, failing to make it sound compelling) then it will be difficult for prospective customers to decide if they want your service.

I keep seeing this sort of stuff. "Curated discovery service" is a weasel phrase for "middle man", a species now practically extinct in many spheres of activity thanks to Google and the web.

So, you're a middle man. What can you get that I can't get for myself? What do you know that I don't? What value are you adding? What are your curatorial skills? Prove it. There is your web copy.
Does this have any special features compared to pusher, pubnub, etc.?
Quantum Leap
thanks for the pointer... since it is that simple we definitely have to provide a small demo.
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I remember when I was in school, the illustrations our instructor would use for the internet (networking class), would be a cloud. I always associated with "Internet". To me, having something interconnected and easily accessible is "Cloud". While I'm sure other people could defend their definitions, I'm pretty sure this was before the term was popular, so I'm going to continue my conceptualization of it in this way.

However, when it comes to cloud hosting, is VPS included? I only use one node right now, but if I balance my load across to servers, would it then be cloud?
I wonder if it will work in a decade or two, when people prior to Alzheimer's learn about the trick and would perhaps be subconsciously more suspicious.

Or more directly, do they keep doing this with the same patient?
The SmartScreen connection uses SSLv3 just fine on my machine. Here's an example payload: https://gist.github.com/3448961 (I initially posted this on HN directly, which broke the site layout, so I deleted that post -- sorry about that!)

The base-64 encoded strings in the request are the HTTP referrer and the download location, respectively. The "client key" and "MAC" seems to be API key-like authenticators. Not sure what the GUIDs are about.

Anyway, the use of this data has been explained in quite a bit of detail a long time ago already: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/smartscreen....

As said elsewhere already, the feature is easy enough to turn off. And there is definitely an opt-in question somewhere, as I had to enable the feature on my machine in order to test it...
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I don't recall any calls to ban Twitter over the birther issue, though.
The Role of Law versus Ethics
The law consists of rules that are recognized by a society and enforceable
by some authority. It can impose affirmative obligations to act
in certain ways or require people to refrain from certain actions. Although
laws are informed by ethics, they are not equivalent and therefore laws
aren’t entirely congruent with societal ethical norms. For example, we
might agree that lying to a friend is unethical
Oh for God's sake! These are OLD people, they remember public transport (which also still exists in Europe). A fake cafe, a fake second hand bookshop, anything that will make them pause and get less agitated.
I also did not get what Binpress did straight away. It took a good ten seconds or so to figure it out. I think the problem is that one's eye is drawn to the 'Featured' section rather than the 'Build better software' product-explanation section.

I personally would dedicate the entire 'Featured' and 'Build better software' block to the 'Build better software' product description, and move the 'Featured' area below.
People knowing about fake stuff NOW, who will have Alzheimer in 40 Years, will NOT forget that there are fake bus-stops and stuff in the backyard.
So they will know that nursing homes have fake stuff and they will complain about it.

My opinion about "it's sad":
Alzheimer is not very sad for the pacients, but for their families. The patients, like my grandfather and grandmother, don't really know they _have_ it, and they don't really care. They still have 100% functional feelings and experiences. Just their short time memory will let them forget anything very soon. But old memories persists.
Excluding from skipping and audible glitches that doesn't sound plausible.

i.e. copying an audio CD can create gross errors but not a more subtle change in audio quality (loss of dynamics/frequencies etc).

If you disagree could you point me towards some evidence?
> Politics' natural enemy is science.

I'd rather say science's natural enemy is politics.
Not exactly. You can check out the details at www.homesForHackers.com. It's more of a good faith 'pay it forward' effort to the community, somehow.
I'm a med student. I remember this topic came up in our exam on ethics and philosophy.
I don't know whether this was the author's intent, but it's better to start simpler (not in designs but in concepts - arguably, structs are simpler than funky naming conventions) for the beginner and less experienced dev. The struct method is a powerful one, yet not one grokked simply by the neophyte. There probably needs to be a Part II.
homomorphic signatures?
Yes. His right hand isn't any better, though, in fact: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gandhi_handwriting2.j...
No Irony. He admits his education was imperfect. The complete para is :

"But though I was none the worse for having neglected exercise, I am still paying the penalty of another neglect. I do not know whence I got the notion that good handwriting was not a necessary part of education, but I retained it until I went to England. When later, especially in South Africa, I saw the beautiful handwriting of lawyers and young men born and educated in South Africa, I was ashamed of myself and repented of my neglect. I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. I tried later to improve mine, but it was too late. I could never repair the neglect of my youth. Let every young man and woman be warned by my example, and understand that good handwriting is a necessary part of education. I am now of opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write. Let the child learn his letters by observation as he does different objects, such as flowers, birds, etc., and let him learn handwriting only after he has learnt to draw objects. He will then write a beautifully formed hand."
Most people do not come through the homepage, but rather get to it after visiting one of the component pages through organic sources. So we put a premium on featuring components there, but I see your point. Perhaps we should have a different layout depending on the referer (from within the site or directly to the homepage). Thanks for the feedback
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I have no idea about any formal definition of the term cloud. I'm sure there are a few! The cloud image as "the internet" is classic. It's almost certainly the reason for "cloud" computing today.
"a year or two" - that's quite a long time to be testing something. Also I'm not sure how much of a time to market advantage they gained from using UIWebView, if any. There's simply no evidence to support it. Everything points to internal politics.
Backbone has made me a better programmer
PHPUnit has a very definite style to its code, perhaps the changes didn't follow the style closely enough.

Do you still have a fork? I'd love some parallel test execution.
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For us specifically, that is exactly our audience. Non techy people have no use for our service. Many tech ventures are for techy people. Mass consumer startups are a different beast altogether - they can usually get large traction the easy way through sharing and viral loops (if they have a good product).
Well that's the ugliest implementation of a package manager I've ever seen.

But that is the answer. A package manager. Simplified installation for users, keeps things secure (as long as vendors push updates to the repos) and probably makes Microsoft some cash from selling stuff.

But it's certainly not a new idea.
Varies entirely by state, but I don't think any US states have mandatory compensation, only whatever is negotiated in the original employment contract. Some states that allow noncompetes will, however, narrow or in some cases refuse to enforce one if it's deemed to produce too great a burden on the person's ability to earn a living.
This is interesting as I have had similar problems with hackers/copy catters, and it is true that the majority do come from an asian region, but I think its still important to note that the majority of the world's population is also in asia. For me, this article seems to concentrate the online IP problem specifically in asia/China, which in my opinion is simply not the case. For instance, are the Samwers really that much different from what the developer in the article just did? I think the real question is how do you respect IP at a global level where governmental laws can differ largely from one country to the next.
Is it just me, or is could computing and the associated costs really difficult to figure out?

I'm not sure wether this is something I need to know, or is it specialist knowledge that server admins need to be on top of?

Maybe I'm dumb, but keeping up with all the software stuff coming out (frameworks, libraries, best practices etc) is hard enough. Personally, I'm struggling to figure out what's going on with hardware and could computing.

It's especially difficult when it comes to services like Heroku, where it seems I'm expected to know about hundreds of these "things" with on-trend logos and ambiguous names before I can feel like I've gotten anywhere near to making an informed decision.

Or maybe I should shut up moaning and read more... but where's the time man! WHERE'S THE GOD DAMN TIME! I"VE GOT OTHER THINGS TO DO!!!
Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans.

As pusher we are big fans of WebSockets, afaik pubnub uses some sort of long-polling for their message-handling. I am not sure if pubnub provides a way to trigger presence events. Pusher also provides these features afaik by using separate channels for e.g. presence events (not sure though). In Tambur you enable presence-events, direct- and authenticated messages on the same channel (we call them streams). So we probably have more in common with pusher than with pubnub feature-wise, we just do things a little bit differently.
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haha indeed, that's the hidden reason why we switched from a first bootstrap version to foundation.
... and if you do a search for Ruby, _why shows up at the top of the list.
A lot of people on twitter complaining about this but I've not seen a single hiccough in service. Been SSH'd in all morning and a client site on another London host is still up and available.

I think this must be limited to a subset of hosts.

Edit: People are suggesting that this is resolved now too. I feel left out. The first potential downtime in their London DC since it came online and it didn't even get to experience it.
Sorry, but this a very limited description of the disease. Alzheimer's, like all dementias, is a disease of the brain, not "just memory". It comes with a whole suite of symptoms and difficulties that are experienced directly by the patient, including depression, irritability, aphasias, and often physical limitations in advanced cases.

Long-term memory loss dominates public perception of the disease, but as anyone who works with dementia can tell you, most of the time it is as distressing for the patient as it is for the family.
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Others have already debunked your grievously misconceived slurs against the early Apple, so I'll let those stand.

>The gravest error in your comment is assuming that Apple is in it for the justice.
>Apple is scarred of the runaway train that is Android. They are having Windows
>flashbacks and faced with loosing in the marketplace they go for legal blitzkrieg.

Except for the fact that Apple are actually prosecuting Samsung for violating their design patents and duplicating Apple products look, and conspicuously not for any generic features of Android itself.
>For instance, are the Samwers really that much different from what the developer in the article just did?

yes, stealing a product and selling a stolen product is quite different from copying, iterating on and subsequent scaling a business model.
Is KA billed standard public rates for GAE usage, or is this donated by Google?
> I think the real question is how do you respect IP online and at a global level where governmental laws can differ largely from one country to the next.

It's probably a hint that Copyright is a stupid way to sell software, but perhaps that is high jacking this thread.
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The unfortunate reality is that even if Softlayer comply with the DMCA request, the site could be moved to a host in a more infringement-friendly jurisdiction.

Perhaps a letter from a Chinese law firm could help to escalate matters. A basic cease and desist letter would be relatively cheap, but then again, from the infringer's stance so far, I can't imagine it would receive a particularly positive response...
As much as I hate the DMCA, when this happens and a U.S. host starts ignoring legitimate DMCA notices, start emailing their upstreams. Softlayer is probably doing this because they have an inexperienced tech handling your request.

Email ATDN, Global Crossing, Cogent Communications, and many of the other companies they peer with and say the website has not been shut down despite emails sent to Softlayer. Those companies may threaten to nullroute the website's IP.

If they don't do anything (unlikely) get an injunction.

It's trivial for this guy to get it hosted elsewhere, however. This is just me, but I wouldn't expect to build anything in HTML5 that couldn't be copied-- the platform is inherently open. If the only creative and useful properties of your work is built in the open, there does not seem to be a compelling reason why you would be protected by copyright. This person could build a website around your "copyrights" in little time.
It is only 'different' because we have defined/framed copyright in the way we have.

Infringing copyright is not that different from copying a business model. (You are still copying something from someone else).
I remember I read somewhere about the fact that right-to-left script was preferred when carving script on stone. as right hand people supposedly prefer to hold the hammer on their right hand.

I'm not sure if that's really the cause. Furthermore in many ancient scripts the direction was quite unimportant, in some cases even reverting in each line (Boustrophedon).

Interesting take on direction of writing: http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/292987.html
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When his right hand got tired, he wrote with the left.
His left-hand writing was more legible.

http://www.mkgandhi.org/bahurupi/chap23.htm
This is really nice, would love to have the questions sorted according to the topics