skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a shame. I was opting to use fallback mode so I could continue using gnome without gnome-shell.

When 3.8 hits debian unstable I guess I'll move to a different window manager.
I really don't understand the principle. Is it possible a bank would sell a 10K$ dept for 500$ ?

The root of the problem is that banks or credit companies sold loans to people who were unable to pay back the loan. The banks and credit companies new it but didn't care. This is criminal. The people who took the loan weren't educated enough or in proper control of their impulsions. In don't see much difference with selling drugs in the open.

I've been told that in Belgium each loan of the citizen are registered in a national file. If that person become insolvent, any loans to that person not registered or given when he was above 33% may be erased by a judge.

This is to provide a natural incentive to loaners to avoid screwing people.

Buying loans is like trying to emptying a sinking ship with a spoon. Fix the hole first !
In my experience submitting an app to Google Play takes 30 minutes, at most, including creation of promotional images and text. And it typically appears within an hour or two (although it used to be immediate).
Company X might value the debt at $500 on the assumption there's a 25% chance they'll recover $2000 and a 75% chance they'll recover $0.

Filter out the 25% who can pay and the value of the debt would presumably drop significantly!
The author makes a valid point - people should be able to use free software for any purpose and inclusion of this restriction in the license makes it non-free.

In this specific case, I'd argue Mono is intrinsically evil and therefore should be prevented from using Crockford's software at all. If Microsoft embeds a Crockford-based JSON parser in their own releases, they are in clear violation of its terms. ;-)
It's a license that's misleadingly almost-free. It's like the old 4-term BSD license with the "obnoxious advertising clause".
And the federal government for encouraging such behavior as well.
Cisco VP to memo leaker: Finding you is now 'my hobby'
There's no such thing as "too literally" in a legally binding contract, which is intended to be used anywhere on the world. All it takes is one open-minded judge. Sure it's 99.9% subjective, but why take a chance? What happens if it's used by a company that openly labels itself as evil? Not so subjective anymore...

Crockford's act of granting special licenses to companies who may have evil-doing clients is a strong indicator that the clause is not a joke, that in practice it is taken seriously. A court would take this into account.

The real problem with this stupid joke is that it requires a trip to court to invalidate it. Thanks Douglas!
Isn't the whole point of a patent so that you do say how you did it and what you used? Otherwise it would be a trade secret?
+1 on the custom molded in ear monitors - usually have my iPod volume on the 2nd or 3rd bar (15%?) and that drowns out pretty much everything - crying babies on flights, annoying co-workers etc.

If no music is need / just silence - industrial foam plugs (30-33db attenuation) + gun-range ear muffs on top; and that should only cost about $25 in total too.

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With foam plugs - many folks just stick them on top of the ear and think that's it - you have to squash them into a thin roll, quickly insert them into the ear so only about 1/3 of them sticks out. They expand in your ear in about 10-15secs, and are usually more than enough to dull out most annoying sounds.
David Cameron tests real-time economic data app on iPad
Hope the app looks better than that data.gov.uk screenshot!
Similar to Project Euler except for bioinformatics
There's a follow up to the linked post that explain the cases where Gnome 3 it's not an option and the fallback mode is OK:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2012-November/m...

Basically: some GPU drivers are not good enough to run Gnome (it was way worse about 2 years ago), some old machines can't deal with the software rendering (that is not available for all the platforms, it's only for x86 and ARM -I think-), and there is some performance impact when running 3D apps on Gnome 3 (I've noticed that myself, my laptop fans go berserk!).

Besides the fallback mode was used by some users that were looking for a Gnome 2 alike experience, but apparently that was not the reason of fallback mode to exist.
Y Combinator Application
I applied, and can't find where I am supposed to look if they have sent me a message. Thanks.
I don't like this kind of "smart" technology, technology should help people not make their lives hard.

Richard Stallman is right, we should all oppose DRM, is unacceptable where all this DRM is headed for.

People camouflaging in their living rooms so that the whole family can watch a movie?
I've no doubt that HN is under pretty much constant deliberate, malicious attacks.

Pretty much any site with decent traffic is under constant attack, and the high profile of HN means it'll be under far more scrutiny than others.
Eight Years of Firefox
Look at your email associated with your HN account. It's on Nov13 that they send out the emails yes/no
> The real problem with this stupid joke is that it requires a trip to court to invalidate it.

I find myself strangely okay with the idea of requiring people to walk into a courtroom and admit that they intend to enact or permit evil.
It's sad that Crockford thinks that causing this kind of hassle to diligent users of his software is funny.

Ha ha, stupid user, you took the legally binding joke which I inserted into a legally binding license seriously, hahah you sooo funny.

Yeah, a real barrel of laughs. Never mind that licensing law is a lot less flexible than contract law, in which unreasonable terms are readily removed.
When installing GNOME3 I had a little chicken-and-egg-problem. Without installing additional drivers GNOME3 wouldn't work, so the fallback mode was handy to search the internet for the correct drivers for my chipset and install them.

But as long as they have some solution for this problem (and I think it is pretty common, because debian always installs with generic drivers for your hardware), I think it is no problem to remove the fallback mode.
I guess the button is pointless now that you are taken to search results as soon as you type.

Unless you a feeling lucky about an empty search term...
(I'm a Firefox developer that happens to work on HTML5 audio and video).

I can reproduce your problem on Firefox 16.0.2 , and this is fixed, at least on our Nightly builds, perhaps before that. But it is certainly embarrassing and should not happen (and was not caught during our extensive testing and beta phases), I'll look into back porting the relevant patches.

Again, sorry about that.
You don't need the reverse translation, you can see it's Pakistan (پاکستان says "pakistan") directly in the Urdu. If you want to see how to translate India into Urdu correctly, choose Arabic and take the first word (الهند says "al-hind" or "the india"). The core google translation matrix is derived from the six official languages of the UN (English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Russian), since around 20 million parallel translations are available to the public for these six.

For languages like Urdu, they try to derive translations from other sources, but key among them is the corrections that users of the translation service make themselves. So, if say a student translates an English language article into Urdu, but chooses arbitrarily to edit the translation to replace India with Pakistan, then the engine will eventually adopt this translation, if it's seen enough times.

Note also that the Urdu translation says "ALPHA" in red letters above it? That's because they know it doesn't work, there likely isn't enough sample data to make a strong translation matrix.

Lastly, you might want to replace your huge URLs in your post with tiny ones (e.g. using tinyurl.com) so the page formatting isn't screwed up.
The key issue here seems to be whether the "good not evil" clause is in any way legally enforcible.

If it's not, it's a bit of harmless fun.

If it is, then potentially anyone using software licensed under the license discussed in the article is in some serious trouble, and the article itself has merit.

So, any lawyers around who can give us a definitive answer to that one? Sadly, all the lawyers I know specialise in UK rather than US law.
1. Abstracting a problem

2. Encapsulation

3. Code efficiency

4. Speed \ Quantity

5. Simplicity

6. Readability
Yes, but SparkFun's Pro boards lack the on-board USB hardware, and require you to have a "fancy" USB-to-TTL cable. There's also the ExtraCore (https://tindie.com/dustinandrews/extracore/) which has the same requirement.

And the Arduino Nano seems to no longer be carried by Arduino themselves, I was unable to find it in the shop.

I think this looks nice since it's based on a more recent AVR chip, that has on-board USB so that even the small form factor doesn't mean the board can't have a "native" USB connector.
If you're the sort of person that used fallback mode and hated Gnome Shell, you'd have served yourself well by jumping ship a long time ago.
This is an opportunity for IBM: they can create a club called "IBM minions", and sell memberships. That way anyone can use JSLint for evil.
I sure hope they are going to apply some sort of means test. Having known quite a few people who have discharged their debts in court or are currently mocking the system I certainly don't think all of them deserve the help.

If this group would focus on debt incurred from medical cases then I would be all for it. I want something where I feel good contributing, there are far too many dead beats out there who have hands out but never have a helping hand out for others.
Agreed, I wonder what exactly they did to anonymise the data. Reminds me of this quote from Homer in The Simpsons:

Well, let's just call them, uh, Mr. X and Mrs. Y. So anyway, Mr.X would say, 'Marge, if this doesn't get your motor running, my name isn't "Homer J. Simpson."
The Metaphysics of Mass Expressions
> Buying loans is like trying to emptying a sinking ship with a spoon. Fix the hole first !

Mass sit-ins didn't seem to fix the hole. Why not relieve what they can, and possibly build some story-ammo for their next attempt?

Or are you actively working on fixing the hole and have useful suggestions on going about it?
Seems like this could be avoided by simply approaching the author and offering to pay for a version of the software with the license you want.

That's not an option for Free Software distributions like Debian, so everybody loses except evildoers.
Another site for budget airlines is travelfusion.com
They also have an API
This could be a nice way to help people save money on data usage, but there are obvious problems beyond the fact that it's only available in the Philippines:

1. The offering is carrier specific and the language suggests that even if this were expanded to other countries, you can only use it from home.
2. Two-factor authentication isn't supported, which most of us are probably using.
3. You may be getting charged for data by services running in the background.

And, of course, the expanding concept of free access to certain sites only serves to help make people think that sort of thing should be ok.
Well, I think part of the idea is that the fairly recent LLVMPipe software driver [1] should be installed by default in distros and is well supported/performant enough so you can install the drivers in the full composited desktop...

1. http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html
When I was 14 I was crying for a computer, but I had to wait until I was 17... I never had a commodore, although I wanted so much... I don't have stories about those days, like some talk about commodore disks and etc... were poor days... still luckily I am Software Engineer ...

Good job man! Keep going with your passion!
This non-Free license is intended to mock people who take licensing seriously.

It seems to be working. (Though I might add a "too" in front of seriously). Sometimes ridiculous things need mocking.

(And just for the record, I do fully expect future generations to find our preoccupation with "owning" and "licensing" every stray line of text or bar of musical notes to be thoroughly ridiculous.)
Cover the fucking thing with tape? Or will we get "sorry, cannot play movie, minimum one person required to un-pause."
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I read that you can't distribute code that has no license.

Why can't you do that?

Will someone punish you for that if author won't sue anybody?

Will his descendants inherit the right to sue distributor?
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How to use the Chrome profiler
It's not harmless fun if you have to get lawyers involved. The legal system is not the place for harmless fun, because it often backfires and causes harm. In this case, Crockford has issued special licenses to companies which may do evil, which is a pretty strong indicator that the clause is in fact not a joke.

How would one enforce this license against a fictitious "Evil Inc." who self-proclaim "We do Evil", well now that's not subjective anymore? Hmm...

... oh hang on, aren't jokes supposed to be funny?
Crockford triggered an argument at least as old as the Lutheran reform.

The irony is that Crockford's licence is an unintended success in line with Eich's JavaScript itself.

JavaScript, as a Lisp in disguise which survived early standardisation, browser wars, Microsoft's JScript, European bureaucracy (the E in ECMA?), Adobe and Crockford's own jslint, is a success at being something very, very useful.

Crockford's "Good, not evil" licence, it could be argued, is a free licence only if the definition of good/evil is a personal one. One of the main issues of Luther's reform is that good and evil are a personal choice [1]. Crockford is succeeding at indirectly making people think of who has the right to tag something as good or evil.

[1] At least that's what I remember from school.
There is no place for humor or overly subjective terms like "evil" in a software license or other legal document, and the problem with Douglas Crockford's license is that he fails to understand that.

That is, unless his intent is to keep every entity with sane lawyers from using his software. I don't think that's his intent. He said he wants to keep people without a sense of humor from using his software, but sane lawyers with a good sense of humor will object to the license just as strongly as sane lawyers with no sense of humor.

Venue matters. A lawsuit based on the evil clause of the license, in San Francisco or Los Angeles, would probably go nowhere. However, consider a jury in Birmingham, AL, and whether they would find that using some of Crockford's software in an abortion clinic was a violation of the license.
Just to add some context, the HN submission above is for an article entitled, "The Fifth problem: math and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union"

The URL of the submission is http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Fifth-problem--...
Navy SEALs leak classified info to EA for combat game
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Agreed. And even then, the system you're dealing with is so 'chaotic' (i.e. massive effects can be caused by very small changes in data) that you get diminishing returns the more data you have.

Take the weather forecast as a (very) slimmed-down version of this problem. Yes, weather forecasts are better now than they were 20 years ago, but how much better? In the UK now, the 24h forecast is pretty accurate most of the time, but the three-day is very iffy, and a week out is still a crap shoot. That's despite a metric fuckton of satellite data and some serious hardware (the UK met office numbercruncher consumes more than a megawatt!).

We're always going to be making guesses here. It seems, to my non-climatologist brain anyway, that the most up-to-date models produce predictions that are fairly consistent with the real world data we have.

I would say the political and economic problems are much more important, and harder to solve.
> Who said anything about the most expensive?

You did when you said "I'll almost always get the best I can afford." You directly died quality to cost.
My guess is the latter, but I'd love for a properly informed individual to answer this.
nicely done. I noticed on the about, contact, add lost, I've found and I've lost pages, your background image is not coming through..... unless that's deliberate?
What was the previous talk? You've piqued my interest now!
Nothing to be sorry about, you guys are doing a great job. Bugs happen, bugs get fixed.
Linda Sandvik's talk about "Making Things Better" was a really touching talk. It started slowly and I thought it wasn't going to be good but it just got better and better over time: http://vimeo.com/53074443
It's not the size of the dataset that is relevant but more that this dataset changes in realtime : price + availability. These requests go through GDSs that are relatively slow, that's why so called real-time search engines like kayak are fairly slow. What do you exactly mean by 7M flights? Keep in mind that most search requests involve a combination of flights (leg), outbound, inbound and sometime multiple stops...
SEC staff took unencrypted laptops to black-hat conference
Glad to see Crockford making jokes there. Unfortunately after leaving a comment on a recent picture update on his Google+ profile (in good humor), he banned me from his circles, unshared everything with me, and removed the comment. I still look up to him though.
This is the IPaddress(37.59.164.208) calling a hacked script file on my server
37.59.164.208 - - [09/Nov/2012:00:31:55 -0600] "POST /scripts/wp-trackbacks9.php HTTP/1.1" 200 183 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101
When i traced it i found the location as France and its going to Google homepage when i run it in the address bar. I'm unable to understand this and need your help HN.
Code is, generally speaking, copyrighted. Copying something copyrighted without permission is copyright infringement. A license is one way to get permission in writing.
Dress up like a couch, cover your mouth and nose, cover the camera with something
Our dangerous illusion of tech progress
Ooops, I always forget you guys have that option.
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A collection of all our previous speakers including jgc (obviously) Eben Upton, Rand Fishkin, Joel Spolsky and many more.
Well, those diligent users can reimplement the software if they don't like it. It's only the implementation that's got that clause, not the spec.

Obviously that's not easy for them to do, but nobody says they have to use his implementation if they don't like the terms it's licensed under.
There's still the Teensy 2.0/3.0 which is smaller & cheaper than this board. The Teensy 2.0 ($16) uses the same chip (32u4) as the arduino micro, and the 3.0 ($19) uses an arm-m4 chip which also provides a DSP. The best thing about the Teensy is that it's available right now.
And plus you have a webapp, where all the bought bundles are consolidated (all setups + soundtracks)

https://www.humblebundle.com/login
A mesmerizing bottom-up approach to Instagram analytics
Is there a similar setting in Opera?
That's not an official API: http://www.hnsearch.com/about

Quote: "HNSearch was built by the team at ThriftDB to give back to the community and to test the capabilities of the ThriftDB flexible datastore with search built-in."

Interesting API all the same though.
" I'd argue Mono is intrinsically evil"

Could you explain why this is? I use Mono and I'm genuinely interested.
I think it's reasonable to just interpret it as a joke.
Port it to JVM? Then it has to compete with the similar language Scala.

Port it to LLVM? Then it can be compiled to native, in which case it has to compete with Haskell (et al).

The "#" in F# basically binds it to the CLR, and that's what it's strength is. Too bad it want to be something is isn't.
Shouldn't this be, Why you should know what you're doing legally before you contribute code to free software? Or perhaps, The system works, notice how we avoided the mistake of including software with an eccentric and non-free license from being included in free software?

It takes me back to the frenzy over VLC on iOS. People write code, we need to respect their choices with respect to how they license it, even if their choice is whimsey with a dangerous side of legal morass.

This argument sounds dangerously like a tirade because Mr. Crockford did something that did not benefit the free software movement. His software is un-free, just as the GPL is un-free. I'm ok with that, even if my lawyer isn't ok with me using his code.
Then you have to vote null to signal that no candidate that you like is available. Much better to signal that by staying at home.

Brazil has required voting... and it sucks IMO. Uninterested people have to vote and use the opportunity to elect a clown (google Tiririca deputado) or sell their votes for some food.
Indeed it is mesmerising !
> It's a license that's misleadingly almost-free.

Like the GPL is misleadingly almost free? As in it's free but if you release software which uses GPL software, it is under GPL? I am not arguing about the meaning of free, I am arguing against your "it's a license that's misleadingly almost free". Just like GPL's terms doesn't make it non-free, "don't use it for evil" doesn't make it non-free.

EDIT: I see people arguing about "don't use it for evil" violates "can use it for any purpose" clause. Fine. GPL's clause violates "use it to distribute software without making my whole software GPL."
Australia’s controversial mandatory ISP filtering is off the table
I wonder what are the potential career choices in bioinformatics for a computer science major who hasn't taken many biology/chemistry/genetics courses. Any insight?
This is about being a Free Software license, which is a much more basic set of conditions than the GPL, e.g., BSD/MIT falls under it too, as well as a host of other licenses (look it up). It is harmful in the sense that the success of free software depends on the licenses allowing unfettered distribution, while this license prevents that.
True advances in technology i.e. the ones which free us from slavery and stop us from risking our physical selves are pretty much suppressed by the promise of financial gain by using technology to leverage cash generation only. It's all about growth and profit, not improving quality of life or reducing risk.

It is, incidentally, the opposite reason to why I ended up writing software for a living. My objective was to ease the physical toil of people by automating the work that can be done by machine, freeing them to do more important and rewarding things.

Unfortunately, the increase in leisure time that this creates opens a big hole for consumption which is where these vultures swoop in and enslave us again via pay-per-breath DRM.

Stallman is a prophet of human nature more than technolgy.
Priceline.com to Buy Kayak for $1.8 Billion