skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the out of control patent insanity is absolutely not about "Apple vs. Android".

The patent wars around the mobile market are just a symptom of how rotten the whole patent system is.
The pirate bay is a directory that helps people get together that are often doing illegal things. The site does not actually know the contents of the files. It does not participate in the behavior. It's better than people that actually deal in credit card numbers.

The idea of trumped up charges is still pretty nonsensical.
"I am happy to describe to you something I own so that you can make a copy of it"

Fantastic - your comment history indicates you're a programmer of some kind, running a company. I'm sure you've got some interesting insights into this field. If you could just write them up into a decent book, edit it properly so I can understand it, make it pithy, smart and worth reading so I can get the most of your "description", pay someone to draw some decent diagrams, etc, and then ship it over, that'd be great.

But because it's just "information", and can be replicated freely, I'm not going to pay you to do any of that. I just want the "information" - the production costs are all up to you. So noone's out anything, any this is a perfectly reasoning thing to expect, right?
You left off the part where he also had the technical chops beyond just being a pilot he had a background in aeronautical engineering. He was lucky, smart and humble enough to know the difference between the two.
At least one incident here, my memory is clouded by all the issues over the years:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/22/1241241/wordpressorg-h...
I'm betting US is already using something like this.
I'm familiar with C and understand why pointers are there. I understand what you are saying and you make a fair point. I'll take back my statement Perl has pointers. Claiming Perl has pointers is very murky (although it has some truth to it). The heart of what bothers me is you have to deference addresses (similar to what happens with pointers in C) in Perl. This shouldn't exist in a scripting language syntax. It lots of unnecessary syntax, compile errors, and mental hoops you have to go through when coding. Ruby and Python don't have this serious (I think so at least) wart.

> Are you familiar with the distinction between "pass by reference" and "pass by value"? If you call everything which behaves in the former way a pointer, I think you confuse an implementation strategy with a language construct and you lose an important feature of C pointers.
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> On one hand some are suggesting that expecting ethics from a corporation is foolish, but on the other hand you are attributing their actions to an emotional response.

Different people saying different things is not new :) But this wouldn't be a contradiction if we were the same person either. Someone without ethics can very well react emotionally. I'm only speculating about the emotions at play - which I think do exist - I have no interest in judging ethics this time.
I've been to Cambodia too and totally agree with you – people are friendly, helpful and the country is a wonderful place to live.
Oh man, in my imagination this would be a freaking awesome job.
>No-one pretends that was about western superiority - just about killing them without losing our own soldiers.

Why? Are civillians targets to be killed in a war?

"Killing them without losing our own soldiers" is the worst thing I've ever heard --really can justify just about anything. In every other name, this is a war crime (as was Dresden).

End of story.

>And using an inflated number (IIRC the accepted historical count is about 230,000, including military) only harms your argument.

Yes, I can see how 300,000 vs 230,000 changes the core of the issue. /s
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I don't understand why this is getting down voted.
I hereby castigate Microsoft. Are you happy? MS is evil, but they are broadly happy to be a parasite. They aren't trying to keep their competitor's products out of the market entirely. Other companies, like Nokia, are behaving similarly. And it's hurtful and wrong.

But sorry, it's objectively not as hurtful, nor wrong, as what Apple is doing right now with their shotgun suits, refusal to license at reasonable cost, and demands for import bans.

The fact that Apple is at the top of a very long list of evil doers doesn't excuse them.
Amazon S3 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Support
Being that this is the most imporatant issue in USA tech....there should be 20 articles each and every day.....
It works just fine with zsh. If you're on a mac you can easily install z (and keep it up to date) with `brew install z`
Yes, of course non- or soft-scientific phenomena exist. But until a soft science finds some way to quantify its data, it makes little or no progress.

Take psychology as an example. The history of psychology until c. 1950 consists of different gurus with different opinions, and since few theories offered testable predictions, no one could be proven* wrong. Psychology has since learned to do controlled experiments and has been more successful. Computational neuroscience and cognitive science are more successful still. Literary criticism, OTOH, is still caught in this trap.

Ultimately, my issue with the author is that he strongly channels Thomas Kuhn. Yes, the political and social contexts of science are important. But they are nowhere near as important as the actual data and arguments made within the scientific framework.

* With all due qualifications about the impossibility of true falsification
Apple rejects Drones+ thrice. App maker looks to Android
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The first part of the software license looks to be BSD/MIT-like with the to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,... sentence, but then there's this paragraph:

This permission does not include: (a) any use of the Software other than for its intended purpose; or (b) any use of the Software in any manner that violates applicable law. Any use of the Software other than as specifically authorized herein is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein.
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I'd really like to see a "you can fly anything commercially that weighs less than 5 pounds and has a terminal velocity below 30mph in freefall" rule. Bigger loads and speeds would be subject to some regulation and licensing.

This would cause a Cambrian explosion in development. It would be wild.
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What is good software design?
Samsung is such a copycat
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Let me clarify, should I start from scratch or is there some sort of framework that I could use?
Too late to apologize?
FYI, the link gives a 404. I think you forgot to add the '.html' at the end.
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Could someone explain this joke to me, a total programming noob?
I would like to get a Dell XPS as my next laptop, so that I can try out their Sputnik project, which I think has some interesting ideas ( config management built into a desktop for switching between different development profiles ).
I'd generalize this all the way out to say: most modern hardware runs Linux just fine with a little effort; most modern keyboards, however, are far from ideal for extended use.

I have no idea why things have gone so steadily downhill for so many brands, but especially the ASUS/Acer types are just painful. Track down in person any model you are considering and give it a whirl before you place your order. As others have said, start with Lenovo, since they do an above-average job.
Checkout the Dell Sputnik project. (http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/d/campaigns/sputnik) It looks like they are going to start selling a small SSD laptop with Ubuntu. Right now you can get the laptop with Windows and then download their Ubuntu image.
That would be this pull request he sent:

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/pull/19
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PHP does make big, backwards-incompatible changes at major versions. They are slowly happening, but only slowly, unfortunately. But I hope to see some big changes before trunk becomes PHP 6.
You're looking at the trailing P/E, which looks at the past four quarters of earnings, but for fast growing companies investors tend to use the forward P/E, which is based on estimates of the next four quarters. FB's forward P/E is 29, google's is 14.

Neither estimate is perfect, but the forward P/E tends to take expected growth into account much more effectively.
Depends where in the US you live, obviously. Somehow I survived 6 years of grad school on a lot less, and I'm hardly alone there!
Publishing a book has been on my bucket list for a while. And I have no plans to bitch about it being "stolen".

Name recognition and being able to say "I wrote the book on X" is far more valuable than the royalties most authors make these days.

So please, steal my book, and ask your friends to steal it too. Your free marketing on my behalf will be most welcome.
> Do we see similar search lawsuits started by Google
> against Bing?

What it has to do with search?
As for mobile—there were numerous spider-web type graphs showing who is suing whom. You can actually see the lawsuit started (again) by Motorola agains Apple. Motorola is now owned by Google, if you missed that bit of information.
Ultimately there are no good guys and no bad guys—it all boils down to the stupidity of patent systems and who you like more.
In theory, accidents provoked by these cars would be standouts in a history of safety.
I originally wrote more but HN gave the 'unknown or expired link' error when I hit post.

Gist of it: I <3 my ~4 year old netbook.
There are lots of problems with modern copyright (http://zacharyalberico.com/day/2012/01/24 - specific to US law, but explains some of it)

In this case though the pirate bay was a tracker/index site and didn't actually host any infringing materials. At the time it operated in Sweden this wasn't a crime. It's largely speculated that the US involved themselves to pressure Sweden to prosecute, but I don't know how substantiated that opinion is.
This was one of my calculus teachers in college, around 2006: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/akers.html For the skimmers, he was on the Hubble repair mission and held the record for the longest space walk until very recently I believe.

Astronaut aside, he was a very friendly and approachable "good ol' boy", he was an excellent teacher, he was a math major in college himself, he was a principal at a rural school district before joining the military, and in the military did math/physics for missile guidance systems. I don't think you'd find anyone more convincing about the practicality and need of calculating vectors in three dimensions than someone who was plotting missile trajectories for a living. He had great practical examples for the calculus principles being taught.

Understandably every student, myself included, always wanted to know more about his previous career before teaching us calculus since it's not every day you meet an astronaut, and you're a little star-struck (no pun intended) when you've got such direct access to the guy. So to prevent distracting, time consuming and calculus-irrelevant questions during classes he'd set up an Q&A session one night each semester outside class and settle the curiosities. You could kind of tell he didn't really enjoy it, but felt obligated to do it because astronauts are public figures and kind of have to oblige the public a bit, and because it was better than his classes being distracted by it all semester.

The one thing that he said that stuck with me was that since it had been >10 years since he had been with NASA was that his memory of his tasks in space have been blurred from having retold the stories so many times. The actions and the stories have become separate in his mind.
Are you saying that there is no difference between a judge/panel-of-experts and a jury?
He gives the game away in the second sentence:

> But greed, in fact, prompts capitalists to seek government guarantees and subsidies that denature and stultify the works of entrepreneurs.

Yes, that is how real, as opposed to theoretical, capitalism works. And communism is all about selfless cooperation in theory, but in practice works out to something quite different.

Speaking of communism and information, I can't recommend too highly the book Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, which is about the efforts by very early cyberneticians in the USSR to create an economy which was managed by information without greed.
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Rails is a great, progressive framework and I've learnt a lot about programming in general by taking the time to familiarise myself and work with it. Rails makes it very easy to write thoughtful, elegant code. But that's not to say that it's impossible or even difficult to do with CodeIgniter.

You can extend CodeIgniter's core classes very easily to provide a lot of the same magic you'll find in Rails. There are a lot of ORMs similar to ActiveRecord available, and a great MongoDB library written by Alex Bilbie (https://github.com/alexbilbie/codeigniter-mongodb-library). I've created a popular open source library that enables you to autoload views into layouts like in Rails (https://github.com/jamierumbelow/codeigniter-base-controller).

You can implement RESTful URLs simply and efficiently by customising the routes.php file yourself, or by using a route generation engine such as Pigeon (https://github.com/jamierumbelow/pigeon). If you'd prefer a more "full-stack" REST solution, you could use Phil Sturgeon's heinously popular REST_Controller (https://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restserver/).

All the above links are drag-and-drop solutions and take moments to download, configure and understand.

You will learn a lot about a whole different kind of writing applications when you learn Rails. But the same is true for Python/Django, the same is true for functional programming languages such as Clojure and the same is true for Objective-C and the iPhone SDK.

CodeIgniter is incredibly flexible and that's probably exactly why you use it. Taking a bit of time to interact with the community and see what gems are out there will let you write much better CI code, and a lot of the time you'll find you don't need or want Rails.

DISCLAIMER: I have written a book about writing better and more Rails-y code with CodeIgniter called The CodeIgniter Handbook (https://efendibooks.com/codeigniter-handbook/vol-1).
"An hilarious", really? Dude, spend a minute on your title. It's not Reddit here.
Not much content in this blog piece. Couple of isolated quotes from a Forbes article from a with no tl;dr on offer.

Instead of "Capitalism is...beautiful" ideology it would be worth focussing on when it works and when it doesn't. Seems that there is strong evidence that capitalism harness human nature, property rights, and incentives to enable production. That's great. There is a lot less discussion about what it takes for markets to allocate resources efficiently. Two of the bigger prerequisites are "no externalities" and "symmetric information". Capitalism has no built-in mechanism to establish these conditions. A lot of our problems today go right to those factors. We could do something about it if our politicians would stop playing to the cheap seats. Sorry capitalism, you're ok but not that beautiful.