skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who don't know what sweet.js is: It's a macro system for Javascript, designed by the folks at Mozilla. With any luck it'll pave the way for macros in post-ES6.
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You are right, your scenario is much more visible nowadays. It's just that I have in mind my old single core CPU and how Chrome managed to grind my system to a halt with only a dozen tabs.
I would be interesting in never seeing another Ad again, in my entire life.

i.e. No ads on TV, no ads on the radio, no billboards, nothing in magazines or newspapers. I think our world would be very different with no ads.
Good point. The article mentions pressure from Interpol as a reason for their outage. Is copyright infringement actually illegal anywhere in EU? I thought it was a civil issue in most countries.

Also, I don't remember any of the previous articles about Demonoid mentioning Interpol. As I recall their hosting company pulled them pulled due to the DDOS attack..
I'm pretty sure the manpower to deal with this would be like... a (reasonably small) fraction of one man.
i personally would find this more interesting if it let you curate your own ads to the networked connected devices. this way, i can make money on behalf of our offices. now wouldn't that be interesting, hmm.
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When it's the person who asked for a divorce--yes, you're right there. There are certainly enough shitty therapists out there. But probably even more ex-spouses who are oblivious to problems.
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Would love to see the median value of said companies now. 2002 might have been the only sane year.
Web production != shipping on devices production. You can very easily ship updates to the former whereas the latter is tricky. It means we need to be careful with everything we choose.
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At this point in time, I'd say lay persons aren't using bitcoin to begin with.
As for (c), AOL did legal research before publishing the Vorbis decoder for WinAmp, and Microsoft used Vorbis for various game titles (I'd guess they also did some legal research).

Of course, anyone can sue over anything, and keep you engaged in court for a long time, even without a good reason.
MP3licensing (or MPEG-LA for the newer stuff) doesn't indemnify licensees, as can be seen every year when Sisvel lets German customs confiscate media players on Cebit over MP3 patents not part of the pool.
Our increased production of oil is due to the new technology of fracking (fracturing the ground to get oil out of it). The situation is certainly not "We could have been fracking 15 years ago, but we didn't feel like it because Saudi gas was cheap". The energy sector is subject to the same process of technological advance that any other industry is. We came up with a new way to get oil out of the ground and figured out how to deploy it at scale. Saudi Arabia didn't have much to do with it. Gas could be selling for $2/gallon and people would still be tripping over themselves to get more of it out of the ground.

Secondly, the idea that we're keeping troops in the middle-east in order to get oil for ourselves is rather naive. There was nothing in the article about all the free oil that the US gets just because we have troops in Iraq. The different political factions there are fighting so hard over every drop of oil that there isn't any left for the iraqi people, much less the united states.

There are no conspiracies here. No international intrigues. Technology improved, so now we have more oil. The energy sector is about to go into a boom that's going to lift the whole country's economy.
Its a little shaky, and takes a bit to load, but this is truly incredible.
Thanks for the info! Today I learned.
Never mind the fact that this is in the com.sun package, and as such should never really have to be dealt with. However, I do agree that anyone who makes a class name longer than three or four words is somewhat demented.
I think your whole arguments seems driven by your desire to show quora is potentially great company.

Do you work there or own shares there.

Quora is just an expertexchange clone, deal with it.
Yeah, that is a hilarious attempt to misrepresent the situation. Notice how he pretends they did it "to strike back", when they actually did exactly what he wants (try to get a number from IANA) and they refused to give them one because "that's just VRRP but different, it doesn't deserve its own number". The right choice was taken away from them, all they could do is use a number that is either used already, or will be handed out later. They chose the least bad option of using the number of VRRP, which IANA claimed they were too similar to.
I strongly doubt that. In 2011, Youtube had a trillion views and revenues of about 1 billion$. That's 0.001$/view. You'd have to watch 5000 videos/month to be worth 5$.
It's not just the software development side that needs this. Project managers, functional managers, product managers, sales people and business analysts also need it. I've worked at more than one company that was doomed by building their products this way as well as on IT projects that experienced the same thing.

Why build something small that works when you can try to build something big that doesn't? This is just a nice packaging of John Gall's wisdom:

1. A complex system cannot be "made" to work. It either works or it doesn't.

2. A simple system, designed from scratch, sometimes works.
Some complex systems actually work.

3. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

4. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
It would be very bad advice to site operators with expose to US law to ignore that law because it is capriciously applied.

For one thing, its application is much less capricious than the echo-chamber would like you to believe; there's a cascading availability bias at play, because it's hard for Techdirt and Torrentfreak to drive page views with stories about sites that play by the rules and don't have a problem with takedowns. You only hear about the dramatic cases, but the fact is that the boring cases are much more common.

For another, regardless of whether you can be taken down by accident or malice when you follow the rules, you will, if you're popular, be taken down, sued, and potentially prosecuted if you run a site the way Kim Schmitz ran his.

I'm less interesting in refuting you or any other commenter on this thread than I am in being clear about what the situation is. There is a widespread belief on HN that the takedown of Megaupload was unlawful because Kim Schmitz and his team responded to takedowns. Whatever technical or even Constitutional issues may or may not have tainted the case against Megaupload, we now know that Megaupload was in fact a conspiracy to evade copyright law.

We can dispute the legitimacy of the prosecution, but it's no longer possible to credibly dispute the underlying facts. And, back to this thread: those facts are instructive. There is more to US copyright law for service providers than accepting takedown requests.
If I had my way, all unsolicited advertising would be banned.

Advertising is an attempt to manipulate people in to buying crap they mostly don't need. It uses either outright lies or lies by omission.

Worst of all, advertising is a corrupting influence on our political process, since the news media constantly caters its content to please advertisers and not to upset them with investigative stories in to the very corporations that fund its broadcasts.
Banks are happy to tell people that "chip and pin" credit cards are secure, and thus any transactions on them cannot be fraudulent.

In England there's a voluntary code to protect consumers; that code says that the burden is on the bank to prove that transactions are not fraud. Banks were using chip and pin as "proof" that the transactions were fraud.

(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland10chipbroken.p...)

This is all a tangent to the security of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is horrifically insecure, and there are no trustworthy banks for Bitcoin.
Is there really anything to underestimate in an expertexchange clone. I doubt there is but you can prove me wrong.
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That's exactly the application they're after.

When these discussions happen I like to calculate some hard systems numbers since they're rarely in either the literature or the popular science articles. All the power available naturally comes from the sun so we need to know the solar spectrum to start. Conveniently there's an ASTM standard [1], so let's use that.

Here we're only interested in capturing energy outside the human visible spectrum so only radiation above 750nm is interesting.

Integrating from the spectrum data we find that the absolute maximum power that we can ever get from this system is 464W/m^2 (Compared to 1000W/m^2 without wavelength restriction)

The paper [2] talks about 4.5% PCE (power conversion efficiency), let's be generous and say they can get to 10% before commercialization which implies 46W/m^2 MAX from these window tints.

Since these films are on the sides of buildings we also can't track the sun. Solar angle varies throughout the day but let's integrate for a south-facing building in North American latitudes and we get a power factor of about 0.5 over the course of a day so we're back at 23W/m^2. of electrical energy from these films.

They're going to have to be exceedingly inexpensive to make this effort worthwhile.

[1] http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/spectra/am1.5/
[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201203827/ab...
>I'm willing to bet that I have more protection securing the contents of my Bitcoin Wallet than Wells Fargo has protecting my account at any level.

Would you say this is true for most users?
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the problem isn't just the inconvenience for customers. the bigger threat for authors is that amazon isn't just a quasi-monopoly, but also a monopsony (meaning publishers have to publish through amazon; it's a monopoly for suppliers instead of customers).

as an author or publisher you can't get away from amazon anymore because you would invaliate your whole library. if you want to switch, your customers can't read your books anymore, because they're bound by the kindles DRM.

so for us the question is if we can or cannot read a book - for the author it's an entirely different question; it's about being dependent on amazon without alternatives. so of course he's got to be a lot more to lose.

ah, and why not use strong language - he's an author, he knows what he does :)

i don't completely get it though, because the kindle is able to handle unprotected mobi files, plain text and html. i had several of those (creative commons or public domain) on mine and it worked flawlessly. do the mobi devs charge a licensing fee or why are those formats not accepted as a free format? ok - plain text really isn't an alternative for most, but html or mobi?
Use case eg.: a Startup office is inundated by Sandy, I ask my team, friends (people I can ask for help in my contacts) to bring brooms + a pump +... now! and I want to have instant feedback if somebody takes care of it, who, or how many, and who can not do it. Them, just click yes or no.
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Great list. In particular, fuzzywuzzy and pattern caught my eye in a "how-have-I-not-heard-of-these" kind of way.
The reason that American troops are in Iraq is completely different from, say, the reason that the Fifth Fleet is in Bahrain.
The bank would try to work with you to investigate and possibly reverse the transaction and refer your case to law enforcement. (Wire transfers cannot be reversed, but EFT payments often can.) A bank would most certainly not say, "secure your stuff" and leave it at that.
I always come back to this point as well. Buy till there is no more, use nothing till everyone has ran out.
"The BlackBerry® 10 platform has recently achieved FIPS 140-2 certification"--not sure how meaningful this is if you can become certified months before the final hardware/software is available...
My problem is, I enjoy working. Sometimes it is stressful and sometimes it's fun. But at the end, if I am not working 3 days in a row, I literally collapse and start freaking out. I don't mind not getting paid but what I do mind is not working and/or learning.
It seems fair to me, but then does apple need to start paying others for licensing rights?
Hey, can you talk more on that? I found it to work quite well on my machine and servers, it's also an integral part of another open source library that I'm building. [0]

[0] http://github.com/doda/imagy
... I'd love to hear ideas about how this could be possible if you think we're mistaken

(The following probably isn't what you had in mind by "fully validate", but I think it puts it considerably closer to the challenge of defeating binary validation. Assuming everything has to happen in the app, infallible validation is impossible anyway.)

You would get pretty far by introducing internal data validation routines and making them compare the output of these routines based on challenges they issue to one another. That would require any attackers to introduce new code paths to defeat it. I've no idea if this can be negotiated practically over GC, but I can only assume so.

Also, I take issue with this:

There's no leaderboard, nor even a long-term score in Letterpress. This cheat doesn't matter.

I don't really care about leaderboards. I do care about the experience I have when I'm actually playing the game. I know this was probably meant in the sense that the incentive is lacking, but I disagree. Some people enjoy ruining other people's fun. The worst experience I've had was hack-enabled griefers in a cooperative game.
I really like the app -- just tried it out on a project and was able to very easily create a custom icon and use it at multiple sizes via the app.
It's just the start. In any case cheers for your input. "Awesome task distribution for teams" is right on.
My favorite quote from Systemantics is, "When a Fail-Safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe." :) So true
I agree that the current Kindle is not the best format for college - I have one, and I'm doing a business degree (technology MBA).

In my experience, both paper and traditional tablets (such as the iPad) are much better suited for case studies and reference material - the refresh rate and lack of touchscreen of the older Kindles are both dealbreakers, and it would need a tablet-like UX to be more usable.

I actually use my Android cell phone for classes, download the PDFs of the case studies and all that. I still prefer paper (I'm used to spreading multiple pages around, something you can't do with a tablet. Maybe with a Microsoft "Surface".. err Microsoft PixelSense).
sent you a mail with my attempt
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It would look like North Korea. But probably a bit nicer and wealthier.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/inside-north-kore...
Reddit is not profitable? It feels like the difference between profitability and non-profitability is an extra ad on each page.
I'm not even sure "good enough" is good enough. As everyone is mentioning, the ecosystem is a large force driving consumer choice. WP8 suffers from the same problem that RT devices are going to suffer from. Lack of ecosystem. In my opinion, WP8 functionality is still long behind Android and the experience, while impressive given WP8's age, is really not compelling over Android 4.0-4.2.

"Why should I buy a WP?" is a question I've yet to have answered well except for the single person I know that uses Outlook.com and Skydrive.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how many slightly different versions of this email exist.
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> I'm considering that, but I still haven't managed to understand just why it isn't supported on Windows.

From a quick look at the code, it's not supported on windows because of its reliance on terminal utilities(pty, termios). Doesn't the banner state to use the previous version(pbs) for windows support?

https://github.com/amoffat/sh/blob/master/sh.py#L33

And if for some reason it still doesn't work out, you can always use subprocess(which this library is using anyway) or https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy
People from other projects don't know that they are going to need to participate, you can't be on every mailing list in the world.
HTC seems to always be the one to fall under pressure. They were the first to fall for Microsoft's threats, and now they are the first to fall under Apple's threats. It seems to me they are a bit trigger-happy when it comes to paying for bogus patents. They should've at least waited to see if Samsung will receive an appeal, if that's what put the scare into them.
It shows up in Firefox too.
Yes, but somebody can have illusion that he can sue Wells Fargo in case of broken security.
I think people have been working on this idea for two decades. For one reason or another it has never really come together.
> featureless (which it still is)

It can render web pages.
I started using PyQuery yesterday, after using BeautifulSoup for a long time. It seems much easier to use.

pq_page = pquery(url=PAGE_URL)

Note that PyQuery has some encoding issues too (or rather the sites I were scraping were too bad, showing two different encodings in meta tag!), here are two different things I have done to workaround:

page = requests.get(PAGE_URL)
pq_page = pquery(page.text)

If that doesn't cut it (because requests detects it wrong too), try forcing the encoding in requests:

page = requests.get(PAGE_URL)
page.encoding = 'utf-8'
pq_page = pquery(page.text)
"Having this gatekeeper position - having had this gatekeeper position - teaches somebody what power is, in the worst sense of the word."

This is a very key point. A lot of the big companies in the content industries (the author's "Copyright Industry") are accustomed to owning and operating the channels through which they distribute their content. In fact, they started out as channels first, and content developers second. Their entire worldview is still centered on the idea that the content serves the channel, and the channel is where the power and money is made. (And many of these companies are accustomed a government-protected oligopoly over their channels).

The internet has, since its inception, been a big threat to these companies -- but not for the reasons everyone assumes. People think it's a war over "copyright," or over monetization of content. But in fact, that's sort of the side issue. It's actually a war over ownership of distribution channels. There's a bigger picture here, and copyright is only a piece of it.
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In net, I think I agree with you, but advertising can also serve an informative role. There are times I've seen a well-targeted and unsolicited ad for something I didn't know existed but solved a problem or want that I had. Ads are also important for letting people know about prices, features, etc. The importance of the informative role of advertising is probably decreasing as the internet provides more and more product and price info, but I think it is still there.
Bethesda killed their licensing, it's in-house only now.
The endgame security isn't provided by Wells Fargo, it's provided by the federal government.
I'm pretty sure you are not the target audience for this product :) I would guess it's mainly for iPad owners.
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So I can deposit it in my checking account?
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Open source too. I wonder how far that brain interface can be stretched....
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I agree. I've become a huge user of Intercom. Great app.
If for some reason, coal to oil (synfuel or syncrude) were to be ramped up, it could be quite astounding. There are only trial runs at this point, however.

Germany during the WWII era was able to produce 75% of their oil needs due to synfuels. Once the plants were bombed or disrupted, Germany ran out of fuel and lost the war.
I think you'd need to tell much more about how this is special, and especially how this is easy for me to use. Basically, this is a static social profile? Ok, all data I would want to make available in such a page is already somewhere in other services. So do you grab that from LI, FB, TW for example? I sure don't want to sign up to a new service _and_ have to type in my profile info yet again.

From the little I've seen, this is in competition with LinkedIn profiles, possibly the strongest entrenched piece of personal entity online. If not, make the case why not, on your front page.

And maybe lose the whole login thing upfront. Really puts user off as there's no idea how much work signing up for the service will be.
also because it's not just about production - the value of the dollar fluctuates as well, what $2.50 bought you a few years isn't the same today, and won't be the same tomorrow.
I do something similar. If I am to open too many tabs and don't really need the dev tools, i.e. doing some casual browsing, I go for Opera, or Firefox instead of Chrome. I also go for them when travelling and the battery is scarce.
And who's going to buy those ads? Reddit is far from prime real estate, and the demographics seem to be shifting towards younger and younger teens.
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> Make or take a desktop environment that those clamoring for GNOME 2 or KDE 3 love, integrate it very well with your base system, and make a very predictable ABI, ABI, and development schedule

I think you nailed it.

Genuinely considering that.
Give even a cursory review of code for those id Software titles to see that they were not rewrites from scratch (http://fabiensanglard.net/ gives a wonderful overview of each.) Even without any revision history from one to the next, the structure of each code base shows a continuity and evolution of thought and design that disproves the theory. As I understand it, towards the end of the development cycle for each game, once the core tech was in solid and in place, John Carmack would branch off to aggressively pursue research and development on next gen graphics and tech, leading to a lot of new and rewritten and expanded code, yes, but still not starting from scratch each time.

Historically speaking, his act of open sourcing those codebases and the chronicle of cutting edge graphics/gaming development that they represent is a significant record of and insight into one of our generations leading minds. His work ethic and dedication is pretty phenomenal, he is a big personal inspiration.
Would it be possible to use RubyMotion and PhoneGap together? It seems like you could start your app in PhoneGap, then migrate towards RubyMotion as needed.
Even if you ignore all the externalities, hydro-fracking is still much more expensive than traditional shallow well land drilling operations, and it requires higher oil prices to sustain them. The 8 massive oil fields in Saudi Arabia (as well as many of those in Venezuela) fall into the "easy oil" category.

It's true that technology has improved, but it's likely that with more price pressure to improve the technology, these innovations would have come sooner. In addition, fracking is more work, period. It requires more energy than traditional drilling, and while this can be incrementally improved, it's fundamentally a much more energy intensive process that can't just be "optimized away."
That was due to a writedown due to bad acquisitions. The rest of their business made them heaps of money.
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