skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that in many of these cases it may be a contract violation and can be discussed as such when that's the case. My objection is to terming this plagiarism which it is not. As we see in the referenced article, it moves from the modified "self-plagiarism" to "plagiarism" quickly, by the fourth paragraph when it says "Four excruciating months later, Jonah Lehrer is known as a fabricator, a plagiarist, a reckless recycler." Now the word plagiarism is screwed because of irresponsible articles conflating contract violations with plagiarism. I see this term in an article, what does it mean? Who knows. Probably is BS. It's like the word rape. If I hear someone is a rapist, it means nothing to me since he probably had consensual sex with his 17 year old girlfriend when he was 18. Or perhaps it is a reference I have seen tossed around to refer to when a male gets into a heated argument with a female, it can now be termed "verbal sexual assault", also now known as "rape".
I use to feel this way as well, until, nearing the end of university (read: I was rather broke), I had the perfect storm of computer hardware disaster. I was forced to use for about a year just a single netbook with less than impressive resolution. Tmux and tiling window managers became my friends out of necessity.

Cut to a few years later and now I have 3 high resolution screens in front of me, pretty much all the time. I still tend to use just my laptop screen with tmux though, with the rare exception (during deployments, mostly).

I won't say that a single small screen is better, but I do think from personal experience that, after some time and initial effort, it really is not the handicap people think it would be. It certainly won't slow you down like a thumb keyboard will.
I bought a Nexus 7 and then sold it a month later after pretty much never using it. The only device that it could feasibly replace is my Kindle, and I preferred my Kindle for reading.
The BBC article makes it seem like he's unrelated to any criminals, and was a victim of a shooting. It seems that he was the victim of a shooting, but that he was associated with a criminal, and a newspaper reported that when they reported the shooting, and a website covered that report.

So it's not malicious people creating false stories that have no basis; and the "link" between him and crime isn't something accidentally falling out of Google algorithms. Someone put it in print; a website covered it; Google indexed it; I think the guy then got the newspaper to take their page down, and got the site to take their page down, and then made a mistake when he asked Google to remove their pages?
Depends on how much you have invested in it.
Of course you're allowed to do that; you simply have to be honest about what you're doing. Similarly, when some other author writes a few good bits but fails to make a point you feel is worthy, you're allowed to incorporate their work and expand on it; you just have to be clear and direct about what you're doing.

What's not OK is to pass off work from some other source as original or novel.
> ... and government-issued ID (driver's license or passport).

This may be the hard part. Not everyone can get a driving license easily and for a UK passport you need to live/work in the country for at least 5 years.
I'm not saying it is a bad business. Actually I just launched a subscription based business on my own around fine food for the Belgium market ( http://foodsterbox.com ).

It is just that I though 500 Startups were looking for more innovative startups.
Tethering. I like having decent speeds when I travel. Have you tried the abomination known as hotel wifi recently? I actually get better performance from a 3G phone with tethering than most hotel wifi.

It's 2012, dammit. Why can we not reasonably expect 100 megabits bandwidth in the continental US? I'd be happy with only 10 megabits, but with hotel wifi you can usually only get around 100kbps or less.
Welcome to the problem of limited liability corporations in general. You think it's irksome to win a judgment against a shell that has no assets in the patent troll context, imagine it in the environmental damage, shareholder fraud, etc, context.
And this is where I decide the language is too far developed on the wrong foundation.

I cannot put up with type systems that don't have complete or near-complete type inference. I don't know why one would start a new project in a language that didn't support Hindley-Milner.
No, he actually was caught plagiarizing from other authors. I don't love this NYMag piece, but it isn't pulling a fast one on you.
"so does every single marketplace ever that charges a brokerage fee."

That's true to some extent, but Google does both. Google charges 30%, just like the other app marketplaces. On top of that, it even makes developers pay for chargebacks.

http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/a...
Thanks, I didn't have the context - that's a quote from the article.

Undoubtedly, Lehrer's journalistic crimes are pretty serious, and shouldn't be compared to Gladwell. And you're right that having a brand is no crime :) .
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talking about what the devs are planning and also giving rave reviews in the same thread, huh?
I quite enjoyed this, it's a nice piece of "inside baseball" for high energy theoretical physics. For those who don't have time to read 20 pages of jargon from another specialty, here's an excerpt from the end of the paper that I think communicates the key point:

"I think that string theory is a wonderful theory. I have a tremendous admiration for the people
that have been able to build it. Still, a theory can be awesome, and physically wrong. The
history of science is full of beautiful ideas that turned out to be wrong. The awe for the math
should not blind us. In spite of the tremendous mental power of the people working in it, in
spite of the string revolutions and the excitement and the hype, years go by and the theory
isn’t delivering physics. All the key problems remain wide open. The connection with reality
becomes more and more remote. All physical predictions derived from the theory have been
contradicted by the experiments. I don’t think that the old claim that string theory is such
a successful quantum theory of gravity holds anymore. Today, if too many theoreticians do
strings, there is the very concrete risk that all this tremendous mental power, the intelligence
of a generation, is wasted following a beautiful but empty fantasy."

I spent a few years during my undergrad working in a high energy experiment lab, and this was a frequently debated subject. If the LHC does find supersymmetry, it will be interesting to see the impact on the current theoretical landscape.
Can you elaborate on the bullshit part from the interview? I'm curious. I read the book (Imagine) and I enjoyed it. It wasn't particularly deep, but I didn't catch anything that wasn't consistent with what I already knew about the topic.
The Nexus 7 has the higher res screen though...
I tried to clearly differentiate on what I think about the offering (beneficial to the community) and how they worded their announcement (misleading).

Yes, I realize the majority of my message was spent in negativity. That is something, I, myself am working on.

>I am confused why you spent so much time

I enjoy the discourse on HN. It's good practice on how to express oneself (especially seeing as how English isn't my native tongue) and I enjoy the upvotes from people who I consider peers in the tech community (who there's very little of where I currently live)
Engineering Can Help You Form Habits
Because LCDs have much better persistence of vision than old CRTs? On CRTs, I would sacrifice resolution to get to a minimum 85 Hz refresh, because 60 was unusable and gave me headaches. But 60 updates per second on an evenly-lit LCD screen is pretty tolerable. That said, more precise motion would be awfully nice!
Agreed it was a massive SNAFU. Metro AG is a huge corp, based in Germany, that wasn't interested in licensing the 'Metro' trademark to MS in a settlement. I don't think any dollar amount was mentioned for continued use of Metro.
When the discussion is individual productivity, I don't think that questioning a critics ability to produce by drawing comparisons to another is, in the strict sense, an ad hominem. Probably not the most civil thing to do, but I don't think it is an ad hominem.
You can accomplish tiling installing x-tile in Xfce.
It's interesting how relatively minor fabrications like these earned Lehrer complete ostracism, yet much huger distortions are told in the political arena daily and no one bats an eye. To pick a random example, "there is no evidence for climate change". I wonder why the double standard?
Isn't that just to reflect the source data?
Essentially you could make hierarchical tags, so your folder could be emulated by a tag.

As for the re-tag, the only way for that to happen is either some advanced AI or simply using crowd-source to get what others tagged that site as.
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Amazon might not be a good example in this context. They had a huge challenge from the outset - selling millions of books online (as compared to the ~100,000 in a typical large B&N).

Obviously I do agree that they're much bigger than even that now.
I can't fit everything in my head and need the screen real estate.

For those of us who use virtual desktops, the physical resolution of the screen is just a small fraction of the total. I code in a 12" laptop with just 1280x800 pixels, but my effective resolution is 20 times that.
OK, thanks, you are right.

Three cases of slightly rewording other people's blog posts. Full text here, and is very clearly plagiarism.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
I think my initial post is being misunderstood. That's probably my own fault. I like what Braintree is doing here. I don't like how they've worded it. It's as if they think their customers are dupes, stupid enough not to see that they're not actually spending millions of dollars on the startup community.

Would you ever see such marketing BS come from Stripe? Not in a million years. And that's why I originally wrote the reply.
>Ideally everything should remain the same size no matter what the resolution, and the DPI should just grow upwards. This is how it works on platforms like the iPad.

And on the "Retina" Macbook Pros - i'm not sure why Linus goes batshit over a Apple marketing name, it's a term Apple uses for marketing their HiDPI screens (iPhone, iPad and now Macs) and not in use by anybody else to describe their high resolution screens.

The true HiDPI effect is only apparent in the "same size as before but 4 times the pixel density" default configuration.

Changing it run on one to one with 2880x1800 display achieves nothing besides really tiny unreadable font sizes.
I am REALLY pissed off. Idiotic patent trolls. GAH
An LCD is already glass; I'm skeptical that adding another layer improves contrast.
‘Punch Quest’ is the iPhone’s hottest game, but it’s a financial flop
Boo -- someone changed it to the much less informative "The Next 1,000 Start-Ups" :(

Mods, please prioritize informative versions of titles!
Of course it's not a coincidence. Eric Schmidt met the president of France. They don't meet every other day, so it's normal for them to talk about various issues at once.
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The post might be old, but AFAIK there have been no significant changes in the built-in record system since.

Sure, there are great lens libraries but until the Haskell community blesses one of them the result is a mess of many incompatible record systems. Not exactly the best way to foster a thriving open source community.
Wait... you mention Chrome... and two hundred tabs open. Given that Chrome (very intentionally) becomes unusable before you get to 15 tabs even on gigantic widescreen monitors, how does Chrome manage to remain in your stable of browsers? I'm in the many-tabs crowd, but not so much to replace bookmarks. Bookmarks to me are 'this is a resource I will probably need later... likely much later'. Open tabs are 'I want to read this soon', and soon might be weeks later (though I usually get time to read on the weekends).

I gave up on Chrome when they took their perfectly usable vertical tabs implementation (which was an experimental feature you had to enable manually through the about:config page at the time) and just tore it out one day for no reason better than 'eh, we dont think that was a good design'. There weren't any problems with it. It wasn't holding back the development of anything else. Just some random dude at Google got a bug up his ass and decided to destroy Chromes usability for a few thousand users. And, of course, thanks to the whole invisible upgrade 'feature', the application just became unusable overnight with no mention.

Personally, I want the solution I've wanted for a very long time - tabs that remain open. Forever. At least, that is how it should LOOK, with the intelligent swapping and like going on in the background. When Firefox came out with the fullscreen tab manager with tab groups and everything I was so psyched.... and then I found out that Firefox actually keeps ALL of those tabs in memory. And you can't close a group and come back to it later. Useless.
Just because we don't want newspapers subsidized by the government doesn't mean we don't value news content. This is a fallacy that statists have been making for centuries-- you're confusing the values of society with the values of government.
Do people register US/USPTO trademark only OR USPTO and worldwide?
GoDaddy suspends GOP ad firm's websites for anti-Obama texts
didn't know about that, looks like a much simpler solution. do you use it? will try out, thanks.
Looks great! I hope it gets more broadly adopted. Thanks for sharing.
I love .io domains because as they're slightly more expensive you only buy them when you need to use them.
I know some of these words!

I'm surprised by how long I managed to keep reading/enjoying this despite having almost no knowledge on the subject.
>Would Braintree do the above if they were the only company offering such a service?

But they aren't the only company now, so why the hypothetical? Who cares if they did it due to competition, due to the goodness of their hearts, our due to an acid trip? If the end result is the same, and that end result is helpful, then that's a net positive in my book.

EDIT: Since everyone is offering disclaimers about who they like/use, I have used both Braintree and Stripe, for my own startup, and for a few freelance jobs. I've had nothing but help from any support tickets/calls I've had to make, from both companies. So in my mind, this really is a scenario with something good happening and all else is held equal.
That's not how addition works. You're either adding the vectors or you're adding the magnitudes. You don't get to sleight of hand by writing one and adding the other.
The 'truth of the statements' is not in doubt here. Google admits that there's no evidence that he's a criminal. The question is whether indexing a 3rd party site and showing images/snippets makes you a publisher. And whether once notified, you have to evaluate the truth or falsity and take it down if false. That's obviously not a scalable option for Google...
For those interested in the actual patent here is a link: http://www.surfcast.com/images/pdfs/US6724403.pdf

I particularly find the following quote interesting from the last line on the first page: "The present invention is intended to operate in a platform independent manner."
Wait. Blogs posting a few times a day at most? I think their definition of "blog" is now closer to a news website. Overall there I'd agree that quality has gone down - it happens anywhere there's substantial money to be made. But I have more personal blogs than I can keep up with, and most of them are what I'd call extremely high quality.

I don't think there was any "mind" that kept quality high and volume low. Volume was just lower, and there were fewer interested parties, and they were less motivated by money (because there was less money to be had). There are ridiculous quantities of excellent lower-volume "blogs" though, you can hardly call them dead because you're using the populist channels to try to find them. Is that how you found them in the 00s?
Alternative to LogMyCalls
Do someone know if there is any app/system/website/etc that can be an alternative to http://www.logmycalls.com/ ?
I have been using it but i wish i could have alternatives to see what fits best for my agency.

Thanks
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This is neat and C++11 is pretty exciting, but one thing that C++ doesn't need is the further propagation of tuples into non-generic code. Requiring make_tuple instead of allowing shorthand was the right decision.

Tuples in python are a reasonable tradeoff between not wanting to declare anything and the hassle of anonymous structure. This doesn't apply C++ where the equivalent is the POD struct:

//In the olden days we could not initialize a map inline like this
//Key -> metadata mapping. Unfortunately strutcts cannot be declared
//inside a template declaration.
struct TagData { int start; int length; StrToStr mapfun; };
const map<const string, const TagData> TagDataMap {
{"title" , { 3, 30, stripnulls}},
{"artist" , { 33, 30, stripnulls}},
{"album" , { 63, 30, stripnulls}},
{"year" , { 93, 4, stripnulls}},
{"comment" , { 97, 29, stripnulls}},
{"genre" , {127, 1, ord}}};

Creating a named struct pays off when it's time to use the Map, no extra locals or tie() needed to write clear code:

//for loops over collections are finally convenient to use.
for(auto td : TagDataMap){
//C++ created a horrible precedent by making the data type of
//a map pair<K,V> instead of struct ValueType { K key; V value; };
auto tdd = td.second;
ret[td.first] = tdd.mapfun(sbuf.substr(tdd.start, tdd.length));
}

http://liveworkspace.org/code/bcd52515fb7161858e974b7ff3c0aa...
Because it's not what the cool kids are using.

I was at a conference where pud spoke. As for using a "startup" worthy language versus what you feel most comfortable in, he said (more or less a quote), "98% of all web sites fail, and yours probably will too, so might as use the language you want and are most productive in"
"it's incredibly easy to use an Android phone without sending a blip of data to Google."

Assuming that's true, that doesn't change the fact that most users will send loads of personal data to Google without knowing it, let alone knowing how to turn it off.

"like Google is breaking into your house and installing a GPS chip in you."

They don't need to. They know that most users don't understand computers and don't read end-user agreements.

But even if you don't use Android, they'll indeed drive by your home, take pictures and collect information about your wifi network, which enables them to link your digital life to a physical one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9432518/Google-...
Given a 200 gallon tank with 150 psi pressure you would no longer be able to pump the diesel to the roof after 460 gallons of the diesel is pumped, assuming temperature is constant and line friction losses are negligible.

Also, I think you have made an error in your arithmetic.
He (the kid) was listed as First Author with his affiliation, Lord Byng Secondary School. How cool is that?
You can check out the screenshots in the Chrome Web app's listing: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/circular/kagidkiei...
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I would be interested. Contact me.
The court should tell him that he sued the wrong party...
I'm curious to see how Joel, Leo, and Tom perceive this open-source version effecting their business.

I'm a long time buffer user, and paying customer, and think that this would actually help the sales pipeline for them. The MVP of Circular is so narrow (given only 1 dev), that it would make me wish for more, and with the attribution Julien gave to Buffer hopefully users will click-through.

Since the Buffer guys have a referral system already in place, maybe you can use Circular to generate some lead gen/affiliate income for you Julien. I would suggest reaching out to them, they are all really cool guys!

Just an idea - best of luck!
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1. No. There are about 35 states where TCS could work relatively uninhibited. Our flash deals model is something bars want very badly and I believe strongly someone will get it right.

2. We built too many features. The app was too feature rich and we couldn't iterate fast enough. That said, with a solid seed round we would move into other states and start killing it with the news apps we've finished (but haven't released).

However, investors don't care about that, it's too unknown and our model would take a long time to scale. I fully support and understand their perspective, and I wish we could have done what we needed to do in Virginia to prove them wrong. We couldn't, and now we're going to move on with something else we're really excited about.
First off: this is Hacker News, not Grandma News.

How often has your grandmother's mail agent changed over the time she's been using it?

One of the reason us old farts have a fondness for commandline and console tools is that they have a strong tendency to remain remarkably consistent over time. I started using mutt in the late 1990s. for the past 13 years, my preferred (though far from only) email environment has changed very, very little.

Other than mutt, I've used at various points in time: BSD mail, BSD mailx, cc:mail, various versions of Microsoft Mail / Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, Lotus Notes (ugh!), the VMS mail client, elm, pine, Mail.app, Evolution, Sylpheed, KMail, the Palm Centro mail app, the Android mail app, K9Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail, Microsoft OWS, Zimbra, and others.

It's not that I haven't tried the alternatives. It's that when it comes down to it, mutt fits my needs, workflow, and practices better than the others.
Thanks man, we will!
The list of commits is interesting: https://github.com/cedricss/server-monitor/commits/master

And also shows its really a one-day app!
“C++11 idioms” include a preference for immutability, which leads to natural factorings. You don’t have to worry about things like iterator invalidation that way.

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

template<class T>
void print(const T& v) {
copy(begin(v), end(v), ostream_iterator<string>(cout, "\n"));
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
vector<string> v{"Hello", "there"};
print(v);
}

Also, Haskell is only so safe—at work we’ve taken to rejecting non-total functions in review, because they cause more hassle than they’re worth. By non-total, I refer more to “error” than non-termination, of course.
Ask HN: What is required for the business/legal side of web apps?
In other words, if I was to launch a web app (US based) that actually cost users money and generated an income for myself, what all would I need to do to be legally recognized as a business?
How exactly are you determining the next track? I like House and I disliked the first 5 tracks. How do you determine that I've never heard of it? Is there anything Pandora-like to keep track of what I like and dislike?
It sounds like SurfCast owns some pretty valuable intellectual property. Good for them!

Of course, I wonder if they've been paying taxes on that property. If not, then Maine Revenue Services might be interested in the fact that a local corporation has been evading their taxes.

On the other hand, if SurfCast is willing to attest to the Maine Revenue Service that their property has no value and should not be taxed, then I'd like to see Microsoft introduce that into court as evidence that SurfCast can't have suffered financial harm.

So which is it: is SurfCast filing a baseless lawsuit over valueless property or are they tax evaders?