skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sometimes surprised at how much most FOSS projects -- including prominent ones with large user bases -- struggle for money, test hardware, hosting and even manpower. Look at The GIMP for instance. Just a small band of developers doing their best to release a free image editor that people have incredibly high expectations from. How much money, hardware and manpower does the team working on Photoshop have?

Open source projects deserve our money more than some random platformer game on Kickstarter. Truth is, though, that most FOSS projects do not actively solicit donations, or seem to not know how to do so. People are more inclined to donate when you tell them that their donations will be used to pay 3 developers who will implement features A, B, C and D and make a new release in X months. Nobody will click that small donate button tucked away in the corner of your project website. Nobody will donate when you tell them "financial help is needed for many different reasons", quoting from the GIMP website.

This move from Google is a perfect example of how donations should ideally work. The developers mentioned a concrete problem the project was facing, Google stepped up and donated enough money to solve that particular problem. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, the average student in China encounters far more English speaking/writing than the average student America encounters Mandarin.

Do you speak Hindi? Russian? Why not these too? Are you too busy just learning Japanese?
Mr. car washer.
By your argument, McDonalds should charge twice as much for a big mac to fat people because they are more likely to get health problems and sue McDonalds.

I think this model is just wrong and charging any customers more due to profiling should not be practiced by any company.
Assuming that your formula is correct. Don't raise the price because of the probability and risk. You should train your employees and improve your quality of service, so that the probability is low enough, now you charge back the same $5 for a fararri carwash.
Hopefully those replies are relegated to the comments section, but still it's infuriating.

What irks me is when a google search lands me at SO only to have it marked as a duplicate with no links to the actual duplicate, or when the linked dup is dissimilar or unanswered.
Elon Musk's current projects are still business ventures. And they aren't even lost causes like Shuttleworth's, which are de facto charities.
> The majority of Americans didn't support the American Revolution (either loyalists, or neutral).

Could you back this up with some sources (links/references) ?
When the DoJ Inspector General investigated the FBI's use of National Security Letters in the year 2006, nearly 50,000 Americans were targeted by them. Following his report, the next year the FBI used them on Americans less than 17,000 times. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/mystery-nsl/

Since then the FBI's Counter-terror division, alone among all government agencies, instituted a comprehensive tracking tool for administrative subpoenas. The numbers have stayed low ever since.

Read more on the reports here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/fbi-tried-to-co/
http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1001r.pdf
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/fbi-att-verizon-vio...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/fbi_misuses_und/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/fbi-tried-to-co/

Someday we'll see the numbers from the DoJ criminal division and from the DEA, and I'll bet they are huge and have almost no oversight.

The story made very clear that admin subpoenas began as ways for the regulatory state to police things like minimum wage, and then soon came to eat citizens' Fourth Amendment rights, thanks to irrational campaigns of fear like the "Wars" on drugs and terror.

Which is another way of saying, I'm willing to bet that the majority of administrative subpoenas these days are targeted at individuals in connection with investigations into potential violations of criminal statutes, rather than at businesses.
Lumia 920 shows Nokia didn't need to lie about PureView performance
I don't think this will come as a surprise to anyone. Most people have thought it's ridiculous for ages.

From the very first episode of the West Wing, in 1999: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTUTuSqqG4 (just an anecdotal argument against the ban).
Japanese phones were (are?) kind of a mess, diverse, lots of esoteric features (tv tuners), and when I was there, very WAP based. No one provider had much clout to set industry standards, so each phone was its own island beyond the (admittedly excellent) online services that every phone could access. Now...why iPhone was so popular in Japan while the bleeding edge Japanese headsets were relegated to the home market? Surely it wasn't just marketing on apples part.
Screenshots are more confident than copy&paste of text.
No, we've already lost to the people using "the cloud".

When you've got players like Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Cisco, Amazon, Sales Force, etc - all referring to important parts of what they do as being "the cloud" (and all having different explanations of what "cloud computing" is), it's clear the the terminology is here to stay, no matter what it's origins or the intents/uses people once had for it.
the idea that discriminating against a riskier class of people is morally wrong is responsible for much of our financial woes.
Move the Fiddle to the top of the page, and get much more user interest.
"just find a career that makes you happy!"

Looking at my friends, relatives and neighbours I would say this is a lot harder than it sounds.
This will prove to have been special only if it eventually proves to be normal, i.e. PayPal loses their reputation for opaque holds.

CEOs, like anyone, can lose interest in anything, due to lack of commitment or competing priorities. And no CEO lasts forever; the next CEO might not care as much as PayPal in the large currently doesn't care.

And an incoming CEO is not superman, it takes cooperation from below.

Good luck, hope it works out for them.
Now, if they can figure out how a boy band that started out with a following of veritable teenyboppers wound up receiving near-universal adoration, I'll be really impressed.

Edit: This is a sincere request: can someone tell me why I should care about this? If the homeless guy on the corner–sorry, make that two homeless guys, with one on the piano to get that extra bit of dissonance–had been first to play this as people walked by, I can't imagine it would have amounted in much interest, appreciation, acclaim. (Or, donations, for that matter.) Had they done the same with, say, the Moonlight Sonata, something tells me passersby just might take note.

If this is just academics in the field acting like academics sometimes do in their respective fields, then, I get that. But as someone who has always found the ratio of fawning-to-substance fairly high when it comes to the Beatles, this kind of thing doesn't help.

Maybe I'm totally missing the point, and this has as much to do with the Beatles as recreating the THX sound does with Star Wars.
I was an active user once, but got tired and bored by the recent flood of 'questions' that are best answered by "Learn how to use a debugger" or "RTFM". I'm especially annoyed by people pasting a rather large chunk of code with a vague description of the problem and expect others to debug it for them.

I even have moderator privileges, but I don't have the time or desire to bother anymore...

I also started a discussion on meta-SO about "fix my code" questions with a concrete proposal [1], but didn't get anywhere. The most operational (and upvoted) answer/comment there was that the "close question" system was intended for this and that no other mechanism was needed. Well and nice, but maybe we'd then also need a filter that would filter-out questions with 2 or more votes to close. (You could still opt-in to see these questions, by they shouldn't be on the frontpage by default.)

[1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/122951/sanction-user...
Thanks, this is a pretty helpful summary.

Can you clairify the second reasons to "bother" with it? I mean, if it's difficult for me to perform the operation, it's presumably equally difficult for my "friend" to do it (and subsequently "teleport" the result to me), so why not just do it myself?
Yes. What the hk'ers are against is the "patriotic" education where the kids learn about Mao and how great the CCP (Chinese communist party) is. And I think they have a good point.
I still read Slashdot our of habit, but the technical content of the conversation is gone. It's mostly predestriant gripes about technopolitics and copyright/patent/microsoft/apple/google rantng.
Shuttleworth is trying to make money but revenues are still below costs. Redhat got a lot of the obvious market first though. I don't see it is any worse than any other startup trying to pivot to make revenue.
The Sales Funnel Flow
After this process is completed, can the entangled qubit pair be reused to transfer more information or is this a one off? That is, do you have to repeat the "give another to your friend" part in order to transmit more information?
Here is what I take to be an acceptable definition of teleporatation, which comes from Wikipedia:

Teleportation is the transfer of matter from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them

So under this definition, would you agree that quantum teleportation is not "regular" teleportation, since although information is traversing space without moving "through" it, matter is not?

I'm not really arguing semantics anymore, I'm just unclear whether the latter part of that question ("since...") is factually true, since I don't understand quantum stuff.
LtU is extremely academic -- they expect Ph.D-level discussion in the submissions and comments. Which is wonderful, but mostly inaccessible to non--progrmaming-language-PhDs
From Crunchbase here are my likely sources of bad investor groups (I've excluded individuals and Google):

> Compass Technology Partners 4 investments - from the start (probably not).

Valor Equity Partners 3 investments - from the start (probably not).

> JP Morgan 2 - maybe (unlikely)

Technology Venture Partners US 1 - (unlikely)

> Capricorn Management 2 - maybe (probably not)

VantagePoint Capital Partners 2 - maybe

Draper Fisher Jurvetson 2 - maybe

Now it seems that Musk didn't expect the investor to act like a douche. So I doubt it's JPMorgan (who are have been historically known to be douches).

It was probably one of the VC funds trying to squeeze Musk on TSLA during the GFC - a firm with whom he has dealt with before. I doubt that it was US tech ventures - since they don't have much weight.

It was probably one of the VC firms. I doubt it was the Europeans (once again not much weight).

So it's either DFJ or Vantage. I remember Sameer Bhatia (of hotmail fame) stating that DFJ loves a good squeeze (they tried to screw him by telling other VCs to back off) - so I wouldn't put it past them.

Vantage point has been known to manipulate deals and are probably the most likely along with DFJ.

This is all speculation - someone else help me narrow it down?

Tesla Investors: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tesla-motors

DFJ: http://www.thefunded.com/funds/show/Draper+Fisher+Jurvetson

Vantage Point: http://www.thefunded.com/funds/show/VantagePoint+Venture+Par...
just guessing here: to attract the hordes of "jquery programmers" who don't know how to use a "javascript library"?
>> Mr. car washer. By your argument, McDonalds should charge twice as much for a big mac to fat people because they are more likely to get health problems and sue McDonalds.

No, The consequences of faulty equipment or service are fairly acute–i.e. someone dies or something is damaged right away. I think long-term consumer risks like obesity and lung cancer are different than what the author is referring to.

Also, most class actions suits against McDonalds have been thrown out [1]. Malpractice lawsuits and the like are very numerous, on the other hand.

* >> I think this model is just wrong and charging any customers more due to profiling should not be practiced by any company*

That's absurd. The entire insurance industry is based on this. As is any financial product that takes your credit score into account.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-27/mcdonald-s-obesity-...
If you want to do business in china, Chinese is sort of required. Considering the rising clout of china, it could become mandatory for work trade very quickly. Japan is much smaller (population) in comparison, and much more an island where you don't see many Japanese outside of Japan these days.

Chinese people are learning English, they are already better at it than the Japanese. But again, huge population, many of the powerful guys don't feel like learning or speaking English for face reasons.

Totally agree with you on language choice, learned Japanese in the 90s, never went anywhere with it. Mandarin has been much more rewarding. Take it from me, an American living in china.
One straightforward answer: If I'm good at making systems which make systems which make money and you're good at teaching philosophy at a Catholic university, we should trade to maximize wealth creation.
China will take over US in GDP - that's likely. Whether it will become or would like to become a "superpower" is not clear.

But yes I don't think Mandarin is a good candidate for a global language. It is probably the most difficult language on this planet. Seriously, even the Chinese themseleves have trouble with it. I am Chinese and the last time I wrote long paragraphs of Chinese characters was at the College Extrance Exam (and whenever I mention this to friends everyone agrees). So if you ask me to write some less commonly used words I can only tell you I forgot - I have seen this happen many times to everyone. And the idioms - very hard for westerners without learning all the Classics and History, which are in Classical Chinese - think about Latin.

Chinese is beautiful though. Personally I think we probably have the most exquisite poems - the ancient Chinese spent more times on them than any other art forms or scientific researches. It was the highest among the high arts.
What a load of shit. There have been studies made that show electronic devices disturbing airplane systems. There are many recorded incidents of interference. The WSJ call these "anecdotal evidence" but they happened, and they were documented by the FAA.

Just think for a second about the term "anecdotal evidence." What really is the problem with "anecdotal evidence?" Well the term is an example of a logical fallacy only when one seeks to deduce broad all encompassing conclusions from such evidence. Thus, for example, if you see one drunken irish person it does not follow that irish are drunks. It is anecdotal evidence. But does the same logic follow for plane crashes? I suppose if you have one recorded event of a device interfering with flight instrumentation, you could call that "anecdotal evidence." But what if the plane crashes and it kills 300 people? Well that would still be a rare occurrance, and you could still call this an anecdote. But it would also be a terrible tragedy.

You see, rare occurrences are not sufficient to create an overall rule about the majority of cases, but they are sufficient to create tragedies. I am willing to bet that even most drunk drivers end up getting home safely. Then why ban drunk driving? Because the danger of death even if relatively rare is still unacceptable. Because we value life in this country. So my point is that the usual rule against anecdotal evidence does not apply when dealing with airline safety. In airline safety even things that happen very rarely can be a problem. Because, again, we value our lives.

Their other point is also rather dumb. They say that they did a survey that showed that many people do not turn off their devices completely and few people (2%) even use them blatantly. The thinking here goes a little bit like this: "since some people broke the rules and no disaster happened then it must be ok for more people to break the rule". This is train of logic is similar to the one used in the Peter Principle. This kind of thinking is basically guaranteed to result in a disaster. Because, every time they would say "well nothing bad has happened thus far, so we might as well increase the sources interference", and this will go on until something bad happens.
That's an interesting article, but is it grounds for an appeal? Or could it be seen as an instance of jury nullification?
I'll give it a shot, thanks for the suggestion! :)
That data set isn't entirely helpful for addressing questions about U.S. retail gasoline consumption. "Petroleum products", as defined by the EIA, include "heating oils; gasoline, diesel and jet fuels; lubricants; asphalt; ethane, propane, and butane; and many other products used for their energy or chemical content" [1].

[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/?id=petroleum
tl;dr: "Node.JS is a terrible platform [because] the async-style of programming is almost entirely inaccessible to my brain."
I agree. Reusing well-working and trusted components is a horrible engineering practice and customers should be notified of this.

In other news, I told my boss that I'm going to be pushing native code in a hex editor until my assembler is done.
I've been using NodeJS in production for a few years, and I'd agree that is probably not the best way to write an application with many layers of business logic.

That said, it's wonderful for networking, child process management and handling subscription connections (via Socket.IO, etc).

Effective evented programming does have a radically different style, and many times it boils down to tastefully drawing the line between when to bind and trigger events vs when to pass functions as arguments.
Wow, so it's not just the duty of the Samsung lawyers to weed out trouble some jurors (from their perspective) but also the duty of the judge to educate the jurors on this issue. Of course, we don't yet know whether the judge in the apple trial has issued these instructions.

edit:
Also, this puts aside the debate about whether a more technical jury would have given a different verdict.
It is special that the CEO responded AND put his reputation on the line by saying he was going to fix this.

If he doesn't fix the problem, in a few months he's going to be inundated with blog posts saying "David Marcus promised this would be fixed and it isn't".

So he's set himself a very public (and difficult) challenge, and I respect that.
Not only that, but also because there are better alternatives.

If there was no way to do scalable web services or provide things like websockets other than node.js, then my objection would be completely invalid.
More likely, the problem is that people are dragged into unimportant meetings they don't need to attend.
Chinese language teachers in china aren't very political (actually most Chinese are not very political), I suspect the Confucius institute teachers are rather typically similar. American English teachers (not paid for by the USA government,as or more numerous) are much more politic in contrast, trust me, we are indoctrinating more then they are. Disclaimer: not all English teachers here in china are American.
I started taking Mandarin in college ten years ago. I have lived in Taiwan for six years, and I now speak and read near-native Chinese, an accomplishment I'm somewhat proud of.

Now I am teaching myself programming to prepare for a career when I return to the US.

Take from my anecdote what you will.
Anybody else having problems getting it to work? It's just flashing for me. I've installed a patched version of Inconsolata but still no luck.
The call helps you perform the deception, though, by getting you "into character" for a phone call.
WebSocket protocol is pretty easily implemented in pure Python; my co-founder and I did this just recently to support some of our game client functionality.
I think you mean "poor man's."

If you have a passion to learn a language, lack of opportunity is just an excuse. If you're choosing a policy for forcing kids to learn a language against their will, lack of opportunity is a significant factor that should be considered. English is compulsory in Japan too, which makes the average Japanese citizen the best example of compulsion without opportunity equating to a lot of wasted effort for very little return.
The first Bluetooth development kits from Ericsson came with a lot of documentation including papers on how passenger's electronic equipment on planes affected the navigation equipment. The summary was that there was enough redundancy across the different systems that pilots could cope with any problems during level flight but stuff really needed to be turned off during takeoff and landing.

Maybe laptops (and planes) are much better than they were then, but I am amazed by the number of people who have persuaded themselves that there couldn't possibly be a problem so it is ok to ignore instructions to turn off their toys.
"You lose expressiveness, you lose maintainability, you lose peace of mind"

Really, you found all that out after your experience...wait, what experience? You said yourself you failed to build a single simple app. So it seems to me you can only comment on expressiveness.

I'd love to read your review of, say, Haskell next. I have a feeling if you applied the same (lack of) rigor you demonstrated here, it would be double extra terrible. The point being, there's no substance here, but it confirms people's negative feelings about JavaScript, so they'll upvote it.
I'm not sure that "Node.JS is a terrible platform [because] there are better alternatives." is any more valid.
When Steve Jobs said “We should go to India”
The McDonalds was just an example. Your points about lawsuits to being thrown away against McDonald, is irrelevant.
Whether people successfully sue McDs or not, is not the point, McDs should not charge more to certain people. Do you agree?
Yes, the insurance industry do charge more depending on the person. But my point still remain, The model is Bad.
Besides if you have a SET price, you should not change it because of probability or risk per person.
unfortunate.

fyi, there are so many ads on that page, it took my awhile to see what you were talking about.
Looks like the author got upset that he needed to learn a platform in order to use it.

Another issue is that JavaScript doesn't really lend itself to continuation passing style, leading to ugly nested callbacks. There are many libraries that make this more manageable, like async: https://github.com/caolan/async
Spoken Chinese is quite easy to learn if you already speak English, it's grammar is quite flexible.

Reading and writing is another matter, I'm almost fluent in conversation, but I can only write conversationally (e.g., SMS), Im basically illiterate otherwise.

Idioms are also a pain, but you don't need all of that to be functional, argue with taxi drivers, and impress at business meetings.
Not only is the protocol easy to implement, some Python servers come with WebSocket support. Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/websocket.html) and Autobahn (http://autobahn.ws/) are examples.
Whenever I read something like this I always just tack on 'for me' to the end of the title. The article makes a lot more sense if you read it with this perspective. I always did the same thing when a developer would tell me something was too hard to do.
Some people are working seven days a week – I do – but for a lot of people, working seven days a week is not sustainable.