skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Google is just anouther company that thinks its shit dont stink. No different from any other in my opinion. So why dont you have a look through this and consider what you are really saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google
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Taken from our Youtube video description:-

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Thanks for the link, but inserting commits by hacking the infrastructure isn't quite the same as having a pull request officially merged.

Even the Linux infrastructure was hacked not too long ago. More such example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464303
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The heart of what bothers me is you have to deference addresses...

I don't understand why you keep saying that. They're not addresses.

From the language side of things, they're first class scalar entities just like strings and numbers. From Perl 5 they have nothing to do with memory addresses. (You might as well suggest that a nested data structure in any language without pointers is "dereferencing addresses", or that accessing object attributes is "dereferencing addresses".)

You can't write in Perl something like:

my $reference = 'ARRAY(0x1234abcd)';

... and expect to access the array at that point in memory even if you stringified an array reference and saw that its stringification included that hex address. References are not pointers. They don't dereference addresses.

From the internals side, they're SVs, just like all other scalars in Perl 5. An SV is a C structure. Yes, the internals use pointers, but so does any other virtual machine implementation.

(Okay, you can write code like I said above, but to make that work correctly, you have to write C to do it, because C allows direct access to memory by address.)
Google Finance says the P/E is 100. I don't know enough about this stuff to say whether 62 or 100 is right. Does anyone know which value is right? Where did you find the value 62?
Patent system is meant as an incentive for innovators. There is a need to clearly define and enforce:

1. What is patentable
2. What is the level of protection that a patent holder gets
3. What are the terms and obligations regarding patent licencing.

In the absense of a suitable patent system, innovator's incentive will come down. Will it hurt the consumers by limiting disruptive innovation? If it does then it makes sense to see how the existing system needs to be made better. If not, let us not differentiate between software, pharma, hardware or whatever - because innovation in any form requires tremendous leaps of faith and pioneering efforts from inventors and should be protected by similar terms and instruments.
Oh I know, I was just riffing off a Mitch Hedberg line:

One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said,"Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture is of you when you were younger. "Here's a picture of me when I'm older." "You son-of-a-bitch! How'd you pull that off? Lemme see that camera... what's it look like? "

I like it because it reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode.
As mentioned in the article, he was living in an apartment above an expat bar, on the very touristy riverside strip in Phnom Penh. It sounds like he wasn't really trying to hide. Perhaps because he was chronically ill, and needed to make frequent hospital visits anyway?

I think it's pretty unlikely, even if he did take various measures to hide, that he'd be able to if influential foreign governments were putting pressure on the Cambodian government to find him. Cambodia is a pretty tiny country.
> "Human populations, as with any other animal, grow exponentially"

The "populations grow exponentially" argument was state of the art in 1798 [-1], but modern science has taught us that populations grow roughly logistically [0], not exponentially. It's easy to mistake for an exponential in the lower part of the curve (which is all the data we had in 1798), but once you know what to look for, you can see the difference clearly [1].

Of particular note, "exponential growth" means you'll see the same percentage growth rate every year, and larger and larger absolute growth. But what we actually see in humanity is that the percentage growth rate maxed out in the mid 1960s (about 2.2%; it's presently below 1.1%) and the absolute growth rate was at its peak in the late 1980s (88 million in 1989, down to about 75 million now) [2].

Every credible estimate of peak human population puts the number in the 9-12 billion range [3]. That's a lot of people, and will perhaps require some cutbacks, but it's nowhere near the dire levels you predict.

[-1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Po... is the origin of the idea

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_ecology:_m...

[1] http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/Kurzweil_files/image...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#Human_populat...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growt...
It's already pretty common on any issue or pull request that gets a lot of attention and has an aspect of community drama. The Crockford / semicolon one isn't as bad straight out of the gate (https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057), but still...
I'll add in another datapoint, I got in touch with Fitocracy due to a who's hiring thread in May and I have spent the last few months of my life working in NYC with an amazing crew and loving it.
Also; engineers should be aware of genetic algorithms which work so well they are used by NASA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna ). Anyone who doesn't understand evolution is a fact is basically being willfully ignorant at this point.
Is your concept so different you need a new system? Or could you piggy back off Facebook/Twitter and use their social graph API's?
Shameless plug: Bash function to jump back in path

https://gist.github.com/1119556
Heck, I'm missing my Pré. WebOS really buries Android UI-wise (and it buries iOS when it comes to multitasking).
LiteratePrograms: wiki where every article is a document and a piece of code
Sure, that point is brought up every time too. It's not new, insightful, or interesting at this point, it's been discussed to death and repeated hundreds of times. It also doesn't prevent the media outlets from writing these hollow armchair-lawyering Apple vs. whatever stories to gain click-throughs, and it doesn't make it any less boring to see them submitted on HN every hour.
Data Points:

Since 1970, global population increased by 91%
Since 1970, global aggregate GDP increased by 540% (in constant $)

I think that means that 540/1.91 = ~2.8x increase in per-person productivity on a global basis over the last 40 years. I would contend that capitalism drives productivity increases to a greater degree than communism or socialism, simply based on the fact that 8 of the top 10 economies in the world are arguably capitalist. (counting France as socialist and China as something else, not sure what at this point).

A better statistician than I can weigh in with wealth distribution, and I am betting that the average world citizen is better off today than 40 years ago, primarily due to capitalism.
The form and the substance of this piece are characterized by bits and pieces of ideas and 'analyis' that are neither here nor there. So I agree with you. Also recommend adding Coase as a complement to your suggestion of Hayek.
"lots of companies are unable to use ie. MailChimp due to ie. security policy"

Lots of us don't use mailchimp or constantcontact due not to security but to their privacy policies. Selling every read and click to a group of big-data "associates" (i.e., monetized spyware companies) is questionable customer relations.
> It may make Samsung differentiate further but at the same time they have to create unintuitive gestures to avoid Apple patents

No they do not. They can still use the same gestures and implement it differently.

> The patent process has effectively made it impossible to create a mobile phone without breaking patents.

You have put the blame of the patent process on Apple which is very unfair was all my point.
Ironically, you provide another demonstration of the difficulty of guessing other people's inner state from a smattering of evidence based on their actions, since you've completely missed the mark on my own. And I actually am human, which is what your brain is optimized for; how do you expect to do with something alien?

In particular, I would not claim that human emotions are that special and it is plainly obvious that evolution has left its mark all over them.

Further, you may wish to consider re-reading my post carefully and considering why I used the phrase "based on the info given in this article"; compare to the same post but with that clause struck. You may discover something useful about my inner mental state as I was writing my post.
I thought the feds weren't giving out any more H1B's for people starting in 2012 or 2013.
I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with The Pirate Bay at all.
But, but, but, just think of the progress! How much progress we've made! I mean, in Germany in the 1930s, when one newspaper wanted another newspaper shutdown, the solution was Brown Shirts with clubs! Since the police leadership was all Nazi, the police looked away.

Crude! SO crude! Now we have progress! A MUCH better way!!!

Just call your local campaign bundler, pay the price, and then get fast, effective action via the DoJ, DHS, FBI, etc.! Progress!!!
That's actually correct - 'an' before a sounded 'h' is a style issue in American English, and still commonly used. In nearly every other English dialect it is a strict rule.
The way I see it this verdict was effectively a make-up call. There was no clear way for Apple to take legal action against Samsung for copying their device, so they found a legal loophole to enable them to do so. While most of us would agree the patents Apple were granted are common sense patents, most of us would also agree that Samsung blatantly copied Apple's design and UX. I think this was an important win because it brings to light two major issues with our patent system: 1. What kinds of things should be granted software/UX patents? 2. How can we create rules that protect companies like Apple who invest in innovation?
And how is not coming to your trial not running away?
The world is not a zero-sum game.
Here http://goo.gl/68MgE

Their license strategy is pretty different from Apple though. They go to OEMs and shake them down for a small licensing deal clouded in other deals and agreements, and also promises to make or keep making Windows Phones etc. Their goal is never court cases except in cases like BN (which they quickly settled later). The strategy is to build up precedents and take small amounts instead of full blown lawsuits requesting $30/device. Looks like the deals are okay with the OEMs, that's why there haven't been high profile lawsuits except with B&N.
Ask HN: Hetzner's Terms and Conditions: "full name and address must be present"
Greetings. I hope that given the popularity of Hetzner here in HN somebody will be able to shed some light on its Terms and Conditions. Under the item 6. Published Content I see the following:

6.1 It is the customer's responsibility to identify the Internet
content as their own or as third-party content. The customer's full
name and address must be present. Further obligations may result from
the provisions of the Telecommunications Act and Teleservices Act. The
customer is obliged to examine these provisions and to comply with them.

Does this mean that even a personal blog hosted there (maybe anywhere in Germany) must provide the author's full address? Does anybody know whether this rule is enforced at all?

Thanks!
Trying to cover their ass if it's used to commit voter fraud?
Forward P/E is particularly bad in this case though since it's hard to have much confidence in forward earnings estimates for FB since analysts know nearly nothing about it yet.
Weebly is hiring a Web Designer
Facebook stock simply had no business being valued that high to begin with. This was a classic pump and dump operation by the investment firms who took this company public. I thought Facebook was at best fully valued back when Microsoft bought in at 15B valuation, so they absolutely have room to fall further.
The ThinkPad X40 and X60 series were TrackPoint-only.
Typically newspapers omit the comma; my guess is to save ink/space, but if anyone knows for sure, I'm all ears.
AMD graphics supported by the open source driver should work pretty well (unless you need 3d performance). The proprietary driver is complete shit though.
From one of Patrick Dobson's recent tweets:

"Gotta love @ericries on Twitter these days. Shameless self promoter? Check. Shill for Obama? Check. Startup insight? Negative. Unfollowed."

Something very similar could be said for you, padobson.
This is a very good talk. Thanks for posting.
Remember the Nokia Aeon concept phone?

http://www.nokiaaeon.com

PS: Also picked this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2nG9qy6vs) up from http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1921701
I could of swore in the original Pacman the blue ghost will flee when confronted and there's a path for him to escape into.. Which would explain "Bashful"s name (and Japanese name which translates to Fickle).
A farmer from my region had a red notice issued by INTERPOL, it sounds impressive. What did he supposedly do? He is a potato farmer and was accused of selling low quality potatoes to Algeria.

He spent more than a year in a jail in Lebanon waiting for the Canadian government to sort it out, they took their sweet time.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/06/27...
I think his argument is that Google has a big pile of patents in search and distributed systems, but isn't using any of them offensively. So, the whole argument that it's okay to act unethically (but legally) because someone else is bound to rings especially hollow here. As for the rest of your comment, it's a disingenuous argument that's been thoroughly debunked, so I won't bother wasting the time or keystrokes on it.
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Or just ignore the fingers that comes in all the way from the edge of the screen.
That's right, but they wouldn't necessarily have to (strictly speaking) sell copies. They could instead license the right to make copies for a fee.

My suspicion is that that fee would be set to extract as much money as possible from the rental stores (cf. Netflix) and that they are/were better off with the status quo.
Looks like powerful numeric software but the site is so astoundingly bad. It looks like a throwback to Geocities.
Great stuff there, make sure to vote!

A couple of early favorites:

Dream
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=926479...

Fly'n
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=929250...

Recruits
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=929386...
The rules are different for people who run web sites we like.
It's cool and all, but I get the feeling that the pull requester probably didn't write the code.
Attachments.me: Send All your Gmail Attachments to Cloud Storage.
I agree about patents, but Samsung have some terrible business practices too.

We need to get rid of these kinds of patents and find new ways to protect US (or European, whatever) companies so that we don't keep getting screwed over by Asian countries blocking our products/services/companies and cloning them.
That's already the norm on popular projects. Github really needs to add features for moderation.
>Apple wins a one time only $1 billion payment

Do you seriously think Apple will go away with the one billion payment? Aren't they trying for injunctions on imports etc. along with ongoing licesing fees?

Just today they added Galaxy S3 and Note etc. to a lawsuit. And that's just with Samsung. There are pending lawsuits against Motorola and HTC.
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They made a pull request - which basically means a request to change the source code - to insert a huge hacker console into wp.
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The best kind of data! :P
I think a little search answers my own question. From [Google's cache of][1] I see that it refers to commercial activities.

§ 6 Identification of providers

Concerning commercial offers, providers shall indicate:

1. their name and address as well as,
2. in case of associations and groups of persons, the
name and address of their authorized representative.

It makes much more sense now, though of course it raises the typical question as to what is a commercial offer. For instance, would a blog with Google ads qualify? But I digress... Never mind!

[1] http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/TDG.htm
Why would a 14 year old be taught C++ and low level networking? Familiarizing them with a high level scripting language (like python say) will not do? Will you teach surgery to a 14 year old? Will you teach them to design and construct a building?
Some more information (or gossip..)

http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2...
This is the programming equivalent of a politician embezzling money by writing a law that says "I get ten percent of all the money!" and asking everyone to pass it.
Trailing (previous results) vs forward (projected results).
I agree that it would be great if they actually were fixing stuff instead of only adding stuff, but as someone who works in PHP on a daily basis, I certainly appreciate the addition of modern features as well.

It seems like one way for them to fix a lot of the old stuff while maintaining backwards compatibility would be to add new string and array (and dictionary?) classes with sensibly-defined interfaces. I imagine there are a fair number of less-obvious issues around that that make not as easy as that sounds, though.
"Capitalism is based on information and knowledge, not greed"

Really? Then someone please inform the capitalists.

So when, for example, a large multinational executes workers demanding better pay and conditions in third world country factories, it's all about information and knowledge.

Mainly, the knowledge that killing those guys will send a message to the rest of the workers, and keep the factory costs down.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Coke-Machine-Behind-Favorite/dp/15...

Just an example. There are million others, from lobbying and having special laws made for them in western countries, to setting up governments of people they approve and taking down governments they don't like in so called "Banana republics".

http://www.amazon.com/The-Coke-Machine-Behind-Favorite/dp/15...
I actually tried to go that route and turned back. There's just too much headache with WordPress to do it every day.
In bash, you can just cd - to pop back to the previous working directory, like popd without the pushd.

I also set .bash_profile aliases to quickly cd up the directory tree with just dots. It's silly, but surprising helpful.

alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias ....='cd ../../..'
Why shouldn't they learn C++ and low-level networking?