skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Software is about acknowledging and enabling your rights and value, both individually and within the community. Freedom of availability / modification / etc are the tools to achieve that. However, just because you give me something for free, doesn't mean you value me and want to empower me. And you can't value someone if you don't respect them first.

Perhaps this is all just arguing semantics, but the idea that motives matter is important to me.
Note the phrase "much closer to this ideal." And actually, I switched away from XP in 2003, because XP did't just work when trying out new video codecs. OS X did.
The Atlantic is converting itself into an SEO-driven blog spam site in the tradition of HuffPo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4669922
I think that Google is immensely influential in the current startup community, for being the best example (in the current market) of a successful, profitable startup. Furthermore, I think their corporate environment is often held as, if not a model of, then at least better than 99% of corporate environments. I'm sure some people (Michael Church is popular on HN, I think) would disagree. But the point is, everyone wants to be the next Google.

So, color me not surprised.
Google is literally out of control. We tried to stop it. I'm so sorry.
I agree completely, which is why I'd say the solution is to use a grid framework based on Sass or LESS instead of vanilla CSS (I'm partial to Orbital[1], but I'm biased because I wrote it :P). If your column sizing can be applied via preprocessor mixins instead of CSS classes, it's easy to keep your HTML free from nasty non-semantic classes. If you hunt around on GitHub, many popular CSS grids have unofficial LESS/Sass ports as well.

[1]: https://github.com/lorelabs/orbital
chrome's request dump: http://scrib.in/e23e9s
I believe Firefox now stays up to date on vanilla Ubuntu.
In a blog post they said, "Our user cap for Tweetbot for Mac is also large and we don’t expect any problems given the smaller market", which sounds like it's the double-user cap, not 100k.
Heirs of Superman artist can’t reclaim their copyright, judge rules
Wouldn't you have a DB set up in each location with some sort of replication? So there would be DB -> DB log shipping inter-region but everything else would be intra-region.
Yo dawg, I heard you like the Web, so I put Redis in your Postgres.
My bad with the copyright, although it looks like Twitter leaves themselves nice leeway to kill at least your personal account for it, as it is forbidden to "access or search..the Services by any means other than through our currently available, published interfaces that are provided by Twitter (and only pursuant to those terms and conditions)"[1], which I would read to exclude the (slightly-modified, I believe) access Twitter's own apps get.

[1]: https://twitter.com/tos, Section 8
It is only counterintuitive because you arbitrarily assigned a different type (boolean, with members you made up) instead respecting that any utf8 character fits the utf8 type.

X is used variously as true and false in Different languages, so why would you assume it means false in a language you have never used?
I feel your pain, I have to jump through all kinds of høøps to get some characters on my keyboård.
I don't think its really been shown at all - this answer on Quora seems pretty balanced: http://www.quora.com/Wine/Do-wines-with-screw-caps-age-as-we...

The effects of micro-oxidization are definitely not the only change in taste that happen to an aging wine.
>"Because it's worth that much. I didn't even give it any thought – I just hit the purchase button the moment I read I could."

I wish there were a way of identifying people like you online and charging more to capture some of that consumer surplus :)
I'm always curious if perception of bias is due to bias in and of itself. Does simply hearing a story that is negative to your side automatically make one think "bia" whereas hearing one that accords with your views makes you think "good reporting." I'm not sure anyone's opinion of bias can be trusted, because in our own minds we're not biased.
That would be more misleading.

SampleUtf8Char= would be more clear.
There was a post on Reddit about this a year or so ago.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/j97nn/til_an_...
Your own post undermines your point.

"...easily on MegaUpload because that's basically what everyone was using it for"

You can never blame the creators of a tool for what their users do. Not to rehash an old argument, but you don't blame suitcase manufacturers for making suitcases that criminals use for convenient cash lockboxes. You can't blame a knife maker because a housewife stabbed her husband.

Unless you can empirically prove that MegaUpload courted people to break copyright I don't see what case you have. All of your "claims" seem to be anecdotal bluster, couched in a defensive posture to automatically discredit anyone who disagrees.

I find it so hard to comprehend that people refuse to believe that MegaUpload was never used for legitimate reasons. It's widely known that MegaUpload was well used in the corporate world[1], however it's unfortunate that no specific companies (to my knowledge) have come forward publicly. As a personal aside, I used it many times to send files that were too large for email to classmates and friends.

Beyond all of that, you are overlooking the problem. Attacking filesharing websites is simply slapping a band-aid over a symptom. The websites will continue to pop up, there is a demand and someone is going to supply it. Plus, it's incredibly easy to set up your own file-sharing website... I expect it won't be too soon before we start seeing people rolling their own just like blogs today (though admittedly not nearly as widespread).

We need to be addressing the real issue. Admittedly, I don't have a solution to "piracy" on a grand scale, however I can certainly say actions like targeting MegaUpload and then vilifying a business that has yet to even land a single customer over it's first press release definitely do not help the issue.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/before-shutdown-mega...

Edit: phrasing
Wait...75 dollars on 33k page views from ad sense? Is that normal?
On the other hand, IMO this looks exactly like an XKCD style graph while all the others (including the mathematica) seemed a little off to me.
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And vice versa, it's nice to see that they are not getting ridiculously high $1-2MM/head for the privilege of being acquihired to do basically the same job they would be doing if hired through the regular channels.
Anything that allows the free flow of information is good for copyright infringement, but when you are contorting Laws in absurd perverse ways its better to have a fat ugly obnoxious guy on the receiving end.
So you would need to write your own Foreign Data Wrapper and implement some mechanic to tell it if the SQL code is meant for first or the second interpreter?

Like: SELECT * FROM redis_db0 USING_REDIS limit 5;
And Postgres would just pass that"USING_REDIS limit 5" through to Redis? Then Postgres would pass that table or array? back to caller.

Wait, wouldn't this also need modification for DB engine itself?
Despite having a few other my portable devices my original single-core atom netbook (that came with XP!) is still one of the most remarkably useful devices I own.

I sort of lament how useless my Android tablet is in comparison. It's by far a better device for consumption but nothing beats a full desktop experience (even at a laughably low resolution).
I've been using a i5 Windows 7 box for some office work and it has been, by far, the worst desktop experience I had in years. For other activities, I'm using a first gen Acer netbook running Ubuntu on an Atom processor and it's much smoother.

The Atom is not the problem here.
One of the key comments made by Jon Stewart:

What we need to do in this country is make it a softer cushion for failure. Because what they say is the job creators need more tax cuts and they need a bigger payoff on the risk that they take. … But what about the risk of, you’re afraid to leave your job and be an entrepreneur because that’s where your health insurance is? … Why aren’t we able to sell this idea that you don’t have to amplify the payoff of risk to gain success in this country, you need to soften the damage of risk?
Color's Epic Collapse: Why Everybody Is Loving It
I find this troll genuinely amusing as "just works" device support is a major reason I've been running Ubuntu heavily since 2005.

In fact, the last time I ran into any issue wasn't on a desktop. It was Ubuntu server on a newly launched Cisco UCS blade nearly 2+ years ago. At the time, I'm not sure what if anything could recognize a VIC out of the box (Ubuntu does as of 11.04).
JavaScript Machine Learning and Neural Networks with Encog
He was half joking. I think.
Sorry fellas, but I honestly don't follow your logic here.

1. OP says government regulation does not harm small business. Full stop. Blanket statement.

2. I point out that very recently enacted legislation has, in fact, killed off nearly every small business in an industry.

3. Are you arguing that the OP's point is still valid? Or that banking is some strange exception to the general rule? I genuinely don't understand the point you're trying to make. (Note I will agree with you that writing laws to fit every possible exception is not possible or advisable. Is that your only qualm with my point?)
These crossovers of time are fascinating and interesting to research i.e. people who used the internet before the airplane was invented.
Only rule violated in this version is that it refers too much to ME and too little to YOU the reader.

I knew that would be your only criticism against it. But test it as I wrote it, please. Let's challenge your reader hypothesis.
Your statement about why google "made android" is incorrect. Android had been in development from 2003 and was purchased by google in 2005. Long before the iPhone had been introduced.

Motorola was (I suspect) bought for the patents, as you stated.
I really wish I could use Evernote on Linux.
It's pretty straightforward, and as long as you don't modify the hardware it's completely reversible:

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...
SolarCity scores first utility deal, and why that’s important
Windows 8 Closed Distribution Model
Humans are complacent and humans are risk-averse. Increasing reward and decreasing risk play to different aspects of human nature.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I myself rely on RL friends, which is quite similar to what your proposed solution is actually doing :).

(My friend used to work in the food/restaurant business and had hundreds of restaurants in the area as customers, plus I've known him for 15+ years now so he is an ideal guy to ask for recommendations for me)

I'll also point you to Gladwell's TED talk on the same subject. He's a wonderful storyteller with a very distinct style: http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...
For comparison a version in Python/Matplotlib is at http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-i...
The term "retina" is just marketing.

I can see the pixels on my ~300ppi phone at "normal" distance... and the very smallest fonts it uses (in mass dictionary lookups) are so small that there's still discernible shape distortion in complicated kanji. This only really affects usability in a few cases—distinguishing between very similar, extremely complicated, kanji, in an unusually small font used for a specialized application—but these cases do occur.

There's also some room for improvement in font-rendering of Japanese at the somewhat larger sizes used for displaying email or such, where they're still using hand-tuned fonts even on ~300ppi displays.

So at least in Japan, a 440ppi display could be put to good use.

[And really, even once pixels are truly not individually discernible, higher resolutions can still be useful. For instance, although text printed on a 600dpi laser printer is usually very readable, it doesn't look so good when compared to something typeset at 1200/2400/etc dpi...]
Negative awesomeness?? Uh-oh!
An X is also a commonly accepted way to select a checkbox though. The only sure way to indicate a checkbox as not selected is to leave it empty. That's the true opposite, and actually does work.
Twitter does not want to provide the opportunity to empower 3rd parties to become so large that they have to acquire them.

After tweet deck, this has become the driving principal. If twitter restricts platform usage, then they don't have to worry about that happening again.

That is the answer.
Interesting. I didn't know the browser keeps that part to itself.
FTC puts a bounty on the heads of robo-telemarketers
I guess you never consumed user-generated content then. Plenty of CC music is shared through file lockers. Plenty of freeware games are done through file lockers.

Here's a discussion on rpgmaker developers site about megaupload going down:
http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?s=e2dfd62fff9638c7224860...

And there's hundreds of sites like that, people creating content on different platforms that need a way to share it. How do you think they share their creations?
Iron Dumping Experiment in Pacific Alarms Marine Experts
Good point. The body isn't a finite state machine.

That said -- when you a spluttering on your own ammonia fumes, it's more noticeable :D
Singly's big offer isn't just the federation of identity and identity services/authentication (that's just a value add and a sourcepoint). It's treating content as collections of their social objects (status, photo, video, location), and being able to retrieve and manipulate them irrespective of which network they came from.
The developers have nothing to do with it. The types of apps and pricing structure that will appear in the store depends entirely on how the store owner curates and presents the apps. Developers will obviously just price to maximize/revenue or exposure depending on their goals.

Steam for example has none of the same problems as the app store because they very actively curate, and they don't let the riff raff in, which erodes consumer confidence in shopping in the store.

Apple on the other hand, actively structures their store to drive down prices. The busiest, most profitable placement in the store is the top volume charts. Which naturally means that developers will lower their prices to climb the charts and get better placement. Additionally they don't curate much, or allow demos, so consumer confidence that they will like the app they buy is low.
You're right, my eyes were hurting from reading it. I had some time today and banged out a better and a more readable translation.(I hope).

http://mindend.com/index.php/interview-with-the-creator-of-n...
The woman hanging on Iron Man is holding up 4 people with 1 arm.

They could capture much of the scene by having them ride a girder or whatever.
I am always presented with anecdote of this format.

"I used to eat <X>, now I eat <Y> and <delta Z>. Where is your precious net calories now!"

Well this leaves us with two alternatives:

1. Something in biological systems is capable of defying the conservation of matter and energy. Somewhere in the spaghetti bowl, matter or energy are being wicked away or added in a fashion so subtle that it has never, ever been observed.

2. You measured incorrectly.

Nothing personal, but I know which hypothesis I will back.

(Also note the careful use of the qualifying phrase long term average weight to account for the general noisiness of weight).
Nicely presented! And bl.ocks.org is also very clean (never heard of it before).

I would say this is the nicest result I've seen compared to Python, Mathematica, MATLAB.
Is it just me or is this kind of ugly in the first place?

We're trying to mix logic that executes on each element in a sequence, with logic that controls how to iterate over that sequence. That is, a "return 42" statement will tell .each to stop iterating, but its contained within a block that is supposed to do things to individual elements.

The mathematical concept just doesn't sit right with me.. I guess if all you have as an iterator is 'each' then that would necessitate finding an additional way to modify iteration in some way, but still.. I don't like the fact that a return statement can break out of something outside of its own scope

edit: even the low-level alternative seems nicer

for(blah;blah;blah) {
stuff;
}
I was doing some travelling back in 2002 or so, and spent several weeks in Naples. I was shocked at how inexpensive wine was, at around 2 euro per bottle (at the time, the euro and the dollar were very close). Then I learned that the cork cost about 1 euro to produce (supported by this article), which I found even more shocking.

Why don't more old world wineries go to the twist top?
In case you are not joking, I'll bite: I don't see how CG is going to make us believe that a woman can carry 660 pounds in one hand while accelerating to 130 mph.
No, it's not silly at all. For example, what if Apple pissed off Sequoia and was always second in line to acquire Sequoia companies? This is a very nuanced topic, especially if you don't know the ins and outs of M/A and VCs. 5M (or that magnitude) is a token amount.

Feel free to speculate, I won't try to convince you. On Hacker News everyone is an armchair expert anyway.
They have several products. Sure, TweetBot has them more flush with cash than they would have been otherwise, but they are crafty and intelligent. So Twitter is strong arming one aspect of their business. I suspect TapBots will be OK.
I run JavaScript Weekly (for context, it's an e-mail newsletter with about 33k subscribers) and I get asked this quite a lot.

The answer is made up of many variables but comes down to it not being as popular, it not having anywhere near the volume of plugins being made for it as jQuery, nowhere near as much content produced about it, and so on.

Dojo is great but there doesn't seem to be a concerted effort to promote it in a way that it hits critical mass with regards to other people generating screencasts, tutorials, plugins, etc, that do well on sites like HN, Reddit, or even getting shared on Twitter.

For something to have wide exposure, it doesn't matter how good it is. What matters is how it's promoted, pitched, and marketed. Things like jQuery, MongoDB, and Rails have done a great job of the latter even if they're not the most technically excellent solutions.
I don't think the "I'll pay anything" guys make valid points. Most people do not judge the reasonability of a price on the amount of work that is put into a product. (Nor should they.)

When one purchases something, they ought to evaluate the value of a product solely on the utility that they gain from that product and how that compares to the utility and price of similar products. Tweetbot is working against the precedent set by other apps in this regard. It yields near-negligible utility over free alternatives and competes in an ecosystem dominated by free apps. (If anything, it yields less utility over others, because once the token threshold is met, it will in all likelihood become abandon-ware.) Thus the value of Tweetbot— and of software in general— goes down.

The work put in by the developers has no weight in determining the price. The market's tolerance, perception of value, and willingness to pay is the only factor. Even if I spend 10,000 hours making a great latte, it's unreasonable that I charge $1m for it because my competitors are selling a similar product at $4 and the increase in utility of my latte versus theirs is likely not enough to warrant the increase in cost to the consumer. Their logic is flawed and is totally incongruous with the most fundamental concepts of economics. Commerce is a quid pro quo, not a charitable donation.

I don't, however, believe that such a high price is a knock against TapBots. They are permitted to charge whatever they like. You really can't fault them for price-gouging: Everyone loves money. The desire to get more of it is something that is not only reasonable, but is lauded in a capitalist economy. I find it doubtful that many people think ill of TapBots for their pricing. Rather, the issue lies in the fact that their app does relatively little yet has an incredibly inflated and anomalous price that deviates from the norm. The motives are reasonable, but the price isn't.

As for me, I won't be buying TweetBot. It's more money than I can reasonably afford. Even if it weren't, it's price simply outpaces it's value to such an extent as to be unjustifiable.
JSON Sucks (for complex format evolution)
Unedited 2005 interview with Paul Graham
We'll the USA already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Maybe if they were paying less in taxes, startups would have more money for health insurance for their employees?

All entrepreneurs know that they can get better employee retention with health care policy. If companies could afford it, then would there not be a higher incentive to provide it?

That being said, I believe national health insurance is a good idea. Assuming government spending is significantly restricted in other areas.
Why would you not simply use the Esperanto flag?

http://flagspot.net/flags/qy-eo.html
This is our goal, https://projectmeshnet.org
Why I Hate the Arduino
I'd rather have the ability to choose between and freely mix significant whitespace and significant semi-colons within a single source file.
Agreed, and nowadays for ~$250 it's an 11+" screen at 1366x786, with 250GB drive.
OneNote is a ridiculously good organizational tool if used properly, hell I think it should be a forked OS. Could solve the whole "bookmark org" problem, integrating with offline content, etc. But, its not the most user-friendly for its capabilities (re: not non-technical necessarily, but, it certainly requires investment of time).
Okay, guys. We get it. Enough.
Ask HN: What open source project should I work on?
I've been really excited about trying some open source stuff just for fun and also to improve my coding (and collaborative development) skills, I know Go, PHP, simple Javascript and bits and pieces of other technologies (C/++, Ruby, Lua, Haskell, Shell etc). I think I'd like it to either be Javascript or Go, though - those are the languages (and related ecosystems) I seem to like working with the most. The only other requirement is that it's on Github and follows the whole pull request code review workflow.

I've never really contributed to an open source project before, I'm really excited to get into this though. If you guys have any recommendations of something interesting to hack on please share!

Thanks
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So you didn't objectively weigh the reasons it is worth your money, at all? You are the worst kind of user.
I'm confused by your comment about chlorine from ACs. What sort of AC system uses tap water? Obviously not forced air, but I've only been in water cooled buildings that use nearby lake or river water, presumably because using treated water would be wasteful. Is this common somewhere?

Very curious - thanks for the insight, esp on the cleaning products!
Ubuntu still rocks but the UI is not designed for anyone but new users. The ability to add panels, right-click and edit them to add new items, the launcher has black magic under the hood that maps to what used to be desktop files stored in a logical location $HOME/Desktop to now in some hidden folder very deep, etc.

But, Ubuntu is still the best desktop and server Linux and you can always install Xfce if you're a power user although it feels weird compared to the excellent Gnome 2.

Until Unity, Ubuntu was unstoppable IMHO. It's still good though.
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