skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with most forms of media, the distribution costs are a small fraction of the production costs.

Film crews, especially good ones, cost money. Post-production crews, especially good ones, cost money. Actors, even bad ones, cost money. The equipment, sets, prop, makeup, computers, and all other physical items that go into making/producing a show cost money.
No; with the vinyl record, you don't need a license at all, since the first-sale doctrine gives you the right by law.

Also, copyright is not an agreement between me and Apple Records. I've never agreed to anything, yet I'm still bound by it. The agreement is between society and/or the state and Apple Records.
> For people with self-esteem problems and a tendency towards depression, however, this is about the worst advice you can give, because they tend to look at the top 1% already and therefore experience their life as a complete failure.

And yet that piece of advice is situated quite firmly in the midst of other practices that are intended to help balance drawing such erroneous conclusions--reverse your projects, take the outside view, etc.

These bits of advice really work in tandem with one another. They're not a "if you could do just one thing, pick something from this option list" set of prescriptions. Reversing your projections includes reversing your projections about yourself, as well. Especially when they are non-objective projections. How do you find these non-objective projections? By taking the outside view of yourself. How can you possibly get toward a better objective view of yourself from the outside? By criticizing yourself for your non-objective conclusions, finding honest friends, etc.

> In theory this is fine, but if you start seriously criticizing yourself in front of others, you anchor this critique in the minds of your listeners.

This strikes me as a relatively dubious assertion. Is there some citation that shows this happens with significant frequency to be wary of it? I've never experienced such anchoring (consciously) toward others who are self-criticizing (in an objective, non-deprecating way).
China is the fastest growing market for iOS and Android
...or where the field will be reborn, once they come up with the appropriate definitions that make this problem tractable.
I would definitely be in favor of reducing copyright duration. But, that would not solve every problem of inheritance. I could "buy" a copy of The Dark Knight on iTunes tomorrow, then die on Friday. Even if the copyright expired in 10 years that would not help me pass it on to someone in my will.

Because the problem is so specific though, I would think it could be addressed by a few precedent-setting court cases, or perhaps legislation.
Daily is obviously a bit of an overstatement, but Europeans are far more likely to leave their country on business and/or holiday than those of us in the US are. As a result, there is a general understanding that you can make your mobile use much less expensive by swapping sim cards. A knowledge that doesn't exist in the US (which I imagine mobile providers are happy about).
Nice intention. But they prentend to teach kids to do HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, and databases in 8 weeks. Is this goal realistic?
Fascinating post - thanks for sharing.
> 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.

Even then, the end user will have to do an extra step, and (I guess) face a Dread Warning against Infectious Diseases.

I say the hassle is big enough to repel nearly any user.
> The test is comprised from several other researches and attempts to segment the participant into hacker as a programmer subculture, hacker as security researcher and hacker as a the one who breaks into system.

First, you don't want to say "comprised from." "Assembled from" might be an acceptable substitute.

Second, this hardly covers the many definitions for "hacker". What about "computer fanatic"? But in the final analysis, to prevent confusion, IMHO you should avoid the term "hacker" altogether. Choose a term that has fewer contradictory meanings. If you fail to clarify your intended audience, your work will end up having no meaning.
Find a Brainstorm Buddy
Finally, I suggested that he find someone he respects on his advisory board, who he was comfortable brainstorming with and would tell him when he has a bad idea.

That's good stuff. I think I've been guilty of falling in love with my own ideas at times. :-( I need to start doing more of this and leaning on our advisors more.
I had a hard time using these tools on the iPad several months ago, if it works now, I'd love to know!
“A Doable Sacrifice:” Y Combinator as a Married Man
Arctic sea ice coverage plunges to record low
Co-Founder Issue
Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

Background:
A friend & I started a company 2 years ago, we agreed that he would be passive and would invest $100k and own 40% of the business and that I would be the active partner working on the business and owning the remaining 60%.

We currently have the opportunity to sell the business for $500k. I was wondering how should the proceeds be distributed?

1. $500k split 60:40 i.e. $300 to me & $200 to him. OR
2. Repay his $100k and then 60:40 i.e. $240k to me & $260 to him ($100k + 40% of ($400k))

I feel that in exchange for his $100k I have put in time for 2 years, and so scenario 1 is the right way to go. He feels that his money should be treated like a company loan and repaid first.

What do you all think? Appreciate any thoughts.
Revenue Effect of Putting your App on Sale
Actually the opposite is true, copyright protection is the legal power behind licenses like the GPL.
That's fair. I was conflating two things in my initial post: legibility and suitability. Legibility was atrocious; I did not get the same insight from the vis that you did because I couldn't read it. Suitability is, of course, debatable. I find star plots have a fair bit of noise (e.g., line slope) that detracts from the message of the vis. Parallel coordinates are slightly better in this regard, but still require a "discerning eye." However, looking at it again, I agree that a table would be insufficient.
Actually it's the author using some poetic license in trying to make a connection between the different examples he gives. Rube Goldberg lived and died long after the texts he references were written.
>> Following the Samsung verdict, Bill Cox, marketing director for Microsoft's Windows Phone Division tweeted: "Windows Phone is looking gooooood right now."

Is he saying that Windows Phone isn't looking good compared to Android if you ignore the legal troubles Android is in?
iTunes music is now DRM free, but in regards to other data (movies, shows, books, apps, etc) it gets a bit more complex. The 5 "device" limit is actually only relevant to computers. 5 computers can have their iTunes applications linked to an account. Once you get to iOS, any device that is synced with those computers can play that data. You also can log into any number of accounts on an iOS device to redownload/purchase applications etc, however those items will be deleted if you want to sync again with your computer and it is not registered with that Apple ID. And obviously you can deauthorize a computer at any point as well (and are allowed a batch reset once a year iirc).
Fine, its not an agreement, but it is a legal relationship between you and the rights-holder. When things go south, you get sued by Apple Records, not indicted by the state.
Amazon gives you a way to do this, lend an ebook to someone for x days. Problem is that the publisher set the terms for lending, meaning they can disable it altogether and they can set other limitations such as time limits and that you can only lend them out once etc. Which is kind of sickening.

http://www.cio.com/article/696062/How_to_Share_Amazon_Kindle...

But I can understand what they are afraid of, in a digital world it would be trivial to set up a lending service letting users automatically borrow books from each other. But really, I should be able to lend out to my family, friends and colleagues for as long and often I want (that I can't read it myself while it is borrowed and that I can only lend it out to one person at a time are very reasonable limitations that mimics physical books).
Great article, but i'm not really surprised by the outcome. I mean if kim dot com is being sued why would you ever expect to be able to save your digital content for someone else after death?
>What exactly is Intel trying to achieve with these integrated GPUs?

A better performance/energy consumption ratio for lightweight laptops?

>It seems that performance-wise they're quite far below discrete graphics cards, so I'd guess that they're not really meant for gaming.

No they are not. But then again, very few GPUs are actually used for gaming. Most people over 25 use their computers for others tasks (including all enterprise and work computers).

>Are they intended for everyday computing purposes that might require graphics acceleration, such as high end display managers?

Most computer use today requires graphics acceleration. From browsing the web (canvas), to watching an HD movie, to talking on Skype/Facetime.
Avoiding Java Classpath Hell
> The only thing you lose with a high end Linux PC is the Retina display and portability

This is far, far from the truth, based on my current experiences trying Linux from an OS X/Windows world. Other things you lose: sane GUIs and desktop environment, quality font rendering (both Mac and Windows do it better), reasonable design sensibilities out of the box, stability, just general freedom from constant frustration.

I'm working on a post about my experiences that will provide more details about my experiences (and for what it's worth, I have not given up on Linux yet), but if you're used to OS X or even Windows, switching to Linux is not an easy trade off. I'm trying to remove the angry from the post so that it can be more constructive, which is proving to be difficult :).
But that is why Rails promotes defaults. Only once you begin to see shortcomings with the defaults do you need to start looking for something else that may be a better fit.
Uglify2
Beyond the obvious rationale behind acquihires... they're good for the startup ecosystem because the reality is that not everyone can be an Instagram.

They're usually a great deal for the founders and the company so it's win-win situation unless of course your definition of success is a billion dollar exit. Not to mention the learning curve and challenges that entrepreneur experience and overcome which in my opinion is priceless.
Yext (http://www.yext.com/) offers a paid solution for exactly this issue - they sync local business info across 35+ different sites (Bing, Yahoo, Yelp, etc.)

Disclaimer: My significant other works there. But I wouldn't recommend it if it weren't useful/relevant/awesome.
The Concepts Get Harder (Python in 30 Days - Day 12)
Even if some people have HR acquisitions aligned with their definition of failure, I don't really see why that's so important. Because of the stamp or stigma they can put on someone maybe? I thought only Europe had that problem (being from there).

Startups fail all the time. It means people are trying. That is way more important to me.

The only thing I don't like to see is that good entrepreneurs get comfy at big companies with mediocre output. But in my experience that doesn't happen often.
I almost lost a my job over distrowatch once, was distro called lesbos (debian based) - was harmless mistake that turned into a sitiuation comedy involving a offline printer and a lady being first in the office to turn on the printer the next day. We all laughed in the end.

But it is a good source of seeing what is out there and bringing new distributions to attention in a central place and if you want a niche distribution of any flavour then it is a great place to start out. But unlike women or men you can play with more than one at once and still go back to your favourite with no love lost, so by all means play around with other flavours, VM's great for that as well at many levels.
Lenovo is holding me with no money and no laptop for one month
Hello,

I usually don't write this kind of emails/rants, but the circumstances are pushing me to do it.

Last night I tried to buy a fine Lenovo laptop, after going through the checkout process, I got an error stating there was an issue with my card.

"I must have entered the card number wrong" was my first idea, but I went ahead and checked my bank account and found the money was actually taken from my account.

"Maybe it did go trough and my connection somehow failed, I'll wait for the confirmation email". No it didn't. I tried to contact phone customer service, but the only rep. that I was able to contact, insisted that I HAD to pay for a $3 dollars "gift voucher" if I wanted to talk to support, then he tried to convince me of paying at least $1.

I felt insulted.

Next step was live chat, wich was actually fast, but incredibly not-helpful. They stated that the money was not really charged to my card (because Lenovo only accepts AMEX international cards, and US issued cards), "just" authorized. Wich means I have to wait 30 days for my money to be back in my account, and being able to buy a laptop.

I've had experiences with other stores when buying with my international card, when the store does not accept them, they just don't auth or charge anything and display a sad but innocent warning.

If lenovo just had on their website, just before people entering their credit card details, a warning stating that you only accept US cards, or AMEX international cards, I am confident I would not have proceeded.

Lenovo, please, fix my issue. I now have no laptop, and no money to buy one. And I need the first to work, and have some of the latter.
Cgi.tcl (http://expect.sourceforge.net/cgi.tcl/) has been around since the mid-nineties. Also, htmlgen (http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/xmlgen/htmlgen.html).
Love the conferences idea.

And the fact that you came up with it totally validates the "pretty smart grants" concept. :-)
These organizations are both so far removed from my life that you could have switched their names in the title and it would have had the same impact
You're right, it was a drive by comment, I'm big enough to admit it. My irritation has been building over software patents for years and it is leaking into a lot of my posts, not always a good thing to have anger cloud your thinking.

I did learn one incredibly useful thing from this thread however, was that Boeing has a patent on specific orbital mechanics, you know, the kinds of stuff people use to write papers about in the scientific realm for centuries for free transmission of knowledge. I suppose the next step is actually patenting scientific discoveries, like publishing a theory of Quantum Gravity via the USPTO instead of via Nature or the physics preprint service.
Why The Apple vs Samsung Verdict Is A Big Mistake
Automatic payouts landed last week (which was week 12 of Gittip). Reminds me to check whether the deposit cleared ...
People will change the pieces they understand. That means marketers will change the marketing, engineers will change the features, etc. If I don't understand channels, it makes pivoting to a different channel strategy really difficult.

I like the idea of there being an "order of operations" in what to consider changing, and I like it being based on "what brings money in" and "what keeps us from spending unnecessarily". Definitely something I'll put in my notebook!
This is hilarious xD.
You got some points there.
How Google has avoided Apple's patents, trade dress, & other claims
anyone know how it turned out? Did they sell?
Well color me schooled. Still, I've always had the impression from interviews (just an impression mind you), that it was a dream of his to have a working tablet, but the tech wasn't there. He was thinking about it is the sense I got, but I could be off.
It's very odd seeing these Apple apologist comments from someone who generally posts spot-on libertarian comments. I'll agree that the present-day behavior of Apple has had few explicit negatives compared to the positives from the curation and the general slickness/ease of use of their products. But pragmatism does not extrapolate into long-term behavior or philosophical justification.

(ps I would think the Google distortion field would complement the Apple one. Both companies are based on centralized control of computing, they just use different technologies to achieve this)
At the time it was worth $1B total, regardless of how it has depreciated since. Anyway it's still more than 2x what About.com went for.
As a major in international development and economics (and a part-time hacker)gone to the startup world, initiatives like this are great and will certainly provide long term value...

The problem is in the short term as these policies tend to deviate focus from the real issues at hand in developing countries and consume resources that could be better spent improving other aspects of everyday life. And then there's the whole gender issue. Some countries will allow their young daughters to participate, but unfortunately they won't gain as much out of it. You can't "westernize" a culture by saying that everyone needs to learn how to code, it's just not realistic.

But kudos for taking the next step and trying to create something of value.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Direct_detection_ex...
What did you do wrong?
There are many RFCs by the Internet Engineering Task Force which go beyond this definition.
Chrome 22 beta
A bit of observation, of self or others, will quickly show we all exhibit the Semmelweis Reflex at some time or another:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex
Best Buy to Open Books for Founder
I would expect the number of people that routinely drive 450 mile trips to be greatly outnumbered by those that don't. There is also the option of renting a car for the weekend for those few occasions when you want to take a roadtrip.
it introduces a lock in your code, because that is what you want -- you want the string to be built by one thread only. Why the strange comments about 'yet another lock' and the synchronized methods being 'useless' or 'redondant' (sic)?
Apple’s patent victory spells changes in smartphones for consumers
Build your own Rails custom validators
$8 Startup Lifestyle
It did! Woo-hoo! Thank you people! :D

Here's the page to connect a bank account if you have money to withdraw from Gittip:

https://www.gittip.com/bank-account.html

If you're not in the US then you should add a +1 here:

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23
I'm constantly amazed at how often I stumble upon About.com's material, even for topics well covered by more reputable sites. When I think of About.com, I think of junk content just barely better than Yahoo Answers...but some sections do have a wide breadth of content that you'd think would be too technical of minutiae for About.com

Here's their Ruby site:
http://ruby.about.com/

Note: I can't say the quality of the technical writing is good. I'm just surprised they try to do so much at all, given the number of great technical blogs and free references out there (nevermind, ahem, Stack Overflow). It just goes to show that About.com's content strategy seems to be very lackadaisical
Maybe I'm that ahead of the curve, but I understood inmediately what an algorithm that "takes a Bernoulli sequence with p != 1/2 and outputs another B. seq. with p = 1/2" is. Or perhaps the author chose a wrong example.

If anything, it shows that this field is mature, and has progressed to a more general vocabulary. It's still light years behind other kinds of engineering, IMO.
Yep.

Nike hit gold with "Just do it" 'cause it really does sum things up.

If nothing else, throwing yourself into something will give you a context and sense of the immediately relevant parts of the subject that will make your eventual research and preparation much more effective.
Push for Open Access Goes Global
I assume light collides with atmosphere as well. Only in a perfect vacuum, light would travel forever?
GET /resend-activation?email=:email
GET /email-changes/cancel
GET /email-changes/resend-confirmation

Shouldn't these all be POST? GETs are supposed to not have side effects.
>That codebase also runs on: variety of UNIX/Linux distros and their terminal emulators; MS-DOS; Windows; etc.

So what? Those can still run Emacs. Progress in programming editors should not stop because they new one might not run on MS-DOS or some obscure platform. If people want it there it might get ported eventually anyway.

>Emacs supports mice: both scrolling; clickable hyperlinks; drag regions; buttons and other widgets.

I know it does, I use it from time to time. Heck, even Vim does. What I wrote is that it wasn't _designed_ for those things -- they are an afterthought.

>Touchpads? Do you mean tablets or laptop touchpads? That's a HID device and works the same as a mouse does...

No it doesn't. 2012 trackpads also feature multitouch gestures.

>Graphics? Yes, Emacs supports graphics and can indeed render PDFs/LaTeX documents using external programs; native image support is usually compiled into Emacs.

Yes, badly. Again, it wasn't designed from the start to do so, most of the additions are badly implemented. The rendering, for one, is a joke.

>Emacs-Lisp isn't great, but Emacs and elisp is the closest most people will ever get to the spirit of a Lisp Machine

Not if someone comes up with something better that Emacs.

(Or even better, not if someone comes up with something even better than the early eighties Lisp Machine design).

>Design could be a lot better, but that's what happens when you support the same product for a long long period of time. I know Emacs/Vim will be around in 10 years; will Light Table?

Only one way to find out: let's build it, use it, wait and see.

I'm sure that Eclipse, for example, will be around in 10 years too. And it started 20 years after Emacs.

>That's just blasphemy. You should observe an experience Emacs guy using Emacs and I think you'll find they're more than capable of accomplishing what they want in few keystrokes.

Any scientific control group and alternative A/B/A tests that show that Emacs's are the optimal keyboard shortcuts? If not, then I propose we continue investigating the matter, blapshemy or not.
Do you know of any coders who survive off of signing things at trade shows and doing interviews? I, for one, want there to continue being art, so I want some copyright protection. I think the US got it right at the start: 14 years was about right.

Remember, there will be no data if people can't make some money off of it.
Creative Visualization in Web Design
Tip: Using visualization to help you improve your productivity
The Leaf is a pure electric.

Maybe you crossed it up with the Chevy Volt?
Thanks, I looked up the source and saw that append was synchronized too. I was mostly asking about this claim from the OP: "the JIT and JVM will attempt to hold onto the lock between calls in the interests of efficiency". I don't think that's true.
Take a look at how much compilers for various Unices cost a decade ago, and how much embedded development tools cost today. GCC was popular before Linux/*BSD/etc, and for a reason. Yes, free Free tools are widely available today, but $100 for a development environment is historically quite cheap.
They don't know, from my personal observations. Sometimes I think that they to be required to label the "buy" button as something else other then buy.
This has been my experience. I think people tend to read too much into acqui-hires. The reality is that acqui-hires seem to typically be a means of salvaging something from a failing company.
At which point the satellites can no longer be open source. Perhaps more importantly, Android already runs on the Nexus S; VxWorks doesn't. It defeats the purpose of using commodity hardware if you start over from scratch on the software running it.