skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a strategy that I've been told is effective in getting acquired. If your business is a huge pain in the ass to the incumbent's status quo, then said incumbent will acquire you; they won't shut the product down explicitly, but it'll lead a marginalized existence thereafter.
Autohotkey is great, but I think it's overkill for remapping a CapsLock.

SharpKeys (if you're lazy) or registry hack (if you "smart"): https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs are enough.
I wasn't thinking about padding in the DNS packets as much as I was thinking about padding in string routines, for example if you malloc a block to hold "www.example.com", and then pass that string onto whatever resolver library you use.
Allow me to pose a similar question: What makes you think that you should ever be able to grant third-party ownership of those synapses in my brain that encode a particular creative work? In an extreme sense, copyright is the ownership of portions of peoples' minds. Consider that this must be balanced against the desire to encourage creation.
I think any beginner would love to have a [cross platform] offline browse-able reference/tutorial/guide whatever, be it MDN or W3Schools. Going to google for every damn thing is just a waste of time. And, for people with little stacks, it usually deviates them making them forget what they were trying to do in the first place. I am talking about something like php.net's offline 'chm' file. But, for html, javascript and css. Does anything exist already?
Maybe it's for the girls own safety?

"a mob of some 2,000 Shiv Sena workers attacked and ransacked her uncle’s orthopaedic clinic"
Computer science is to software engineering as science is to engineering -- science discovers things, engineering applies the discoveries.

Science | engineering.

Pure mathematics | applied mathematics.

Computer science | software engineering.

Very simple. Nothing to see here, move along.
Why didn't they just keep the subject at Ruby?

People who are interested in Ruby would have come. Why does it matter what race or gender these people are?
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Would trademark law cover that case?

And even if long copyright terms were retained for commercial purposes, shorter terms for non-commercial use, like what most of the OP discusses, is still something I want.
Why do you say that the debates were worthless ? What's wrong with discussing a situation and it's outcomes ?
This is a recipe for disaster. I have been full-time freelance for the last 4 years, and scaling into a full-service consultancy with all the accoutrements (like an office for my employees), and I can tell you that $100/hr is really a bare minimum for meaningful profit margins on developers. I have a few contracts under that (for various reasons), and with the new hires I'm contemplating, I am going to have to raise their rates or drop off and replace them with better paying clients.

As a freelancer, you might be able to get away with $70-$80/hr minimum, but $100 minimum still is easily within a reasonable price range.

I would expect a fair market rate for great developers to be something more like $150-$200/hr. Unfortunately, I have a hard enough time getting clients around here at $100, but in order to really have the business firing on all cylinders, I would need to be charging $150+ for each developer hour.

The margins at $100 and below are barely enough to make payroll; there is almost nothing left to pay for things like significant marketing or PR, investment in equipment or facilities, loose time to spend on internal projects or internal maintenance, etc.
That sounds like quite the journey! Thanks so much for your generous offer Vlad, I'll be in touch with specific questions soon.
So someone should be rewarded just for being born into a family that happens to own the rights to a certain popular piece of content? Even if they themselves never did anything either creatively or in terms of hard work in their lives?

Aren't you just suggesting a tax free way of passing money between generations of a family (as current inheritance is subject to taxation)?

Also doesn't this kind of thing just discourage the creation of new artistic works? If there are tons of big popular individuals and companies, then how is the little guy meant to make a splash?
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He did go out with a bang. His funeral was attended by 2 million people!
It's like the private Federal Reserve and Federal Express.
Chruby - Changes the current Ruby
Bal Thackeray or communal politics is not the issue here. It is the freedom of expression of individuals. The Chairman of Press Club of India had an article on The Hindu (a national daily) which painted Thackeray in a bad light (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/why-i-cant-pay-tribute...) - but the state won't act as recklessly against him as they have against these two.

Recent events in the country that sets the alarm bells ringing:

- Kapil Sibal (minister of communication) doesn't understand the internet. He wants active censorship of online media - http://www.labnol.org/india/censorship-in-india/20527/.

- An individual was arrested from his home at 5am due to a tweet he made alleging the son of an Indian minister was corrupt. He had 16 followers. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/iac-volunteer-tweets-h...

And now this - both the individual who made the post on FB and her friend who 'like'd it has been arrested. This abuse of power in a country with a lot more urgent problems to solve.

This very much seems to be a generation gap between people in positions of power (politicians, bureaucrats, police) who are not used to the internet and the way it gives voice to everyone.

I can only hope that as internet becomes ubiquitous across the country, people will realize the value of free speech and the need for an uncensored internet.
My position is that I don't know how the percentage of men who are interested in coding and the percentage of women who are interested in coding compare. I have no way of knowing.

In fact, the reasons people pursue a particular career are undoubtedly more complex than you or I realise. For example in vetinary science, a field once dominated by men, women are now the majority. No quotas were required to achieve this reversal.

So I am naturally cautious about the idea of enforcing quotas when we have no way of knowing what the natural balance should be.
Sreenivasan Jain is a very respected veteran journalist. I would like to go with what he says.
possibly a follow up for http://www.openwebdevice.com/ ?
Guys free speech has limits. Bal thackrey died three days ago. His funeral yesterday was attended by 2 million people. The whole community mourned his death. I don't think talking ill of a person on the day he died is a wise idea. More so because such a comment may enrage a lot of grieving people.

Moreover she was not arrested. There was complain registered against her but she was not arrested.

I say move on!
Mmmm, not in my opinion. Look at my comment upthread for my feelings on the iPad UI. Basically I think the iPad has done very well not because Apple made an incredible interface, but because they kept it simple and didn't do anything stupid. The bar set by their competiton in terms of stupidity was very low after all. Yes, it's a great product, and well done Apple for focussing and making it. But it's not the be-all and end-all.

Having spent a lot of time with the iPad, I'm not convinced it's the future. Sure, some apps are great, but the sandboxed app model is too limited. Okay, web browsing is pretty good. Okay, maybe you can do some interesting stuff with one of those music suite apps. Beyond that, it's really just a toy. In my opinion.

The time is right for a better take on tablets - all it needs is a competitor to actually become competent (apparently this is challenging...) and the market to get over it's silly Apple infatuation. Look at safari on the iPad for instance. Really, it just looks like normal desktop safari? I have to tap on little tabs, and thin text-label bookmarks in a little row? And I have to manage my bookmarks in a janky drop-down menu of nested folders (hilariously not even bloody wide enough to read the bookmarks!) Seriously, I understand Apple doesn't want to challenge anyone with anything unexpected, but come on... Surely they can do better than that. It's just a shame none of the third party browsers can compete with safari's internals - or that Apple doesn't allow 3rd party apps to integrate with or replace core functionality. Yeesh.

My takeaway: Apple isn't really all that great. They've just been the least retarded of the major tech companies - so far. We can do better.
If you are a bit smart with what you do, you can create your own passive recurring income stream that gives you some security and then focus on your startup. I do what my wife and me call "projects" together with her successfully for a few years and we have one of the relaxed, most balanced lifestyles of any person I know... A project usually means creating a new brand for product xy in her case, or a new website / service in my case. But everyone has their own way of doing things. This is how we run our company and it is pretty relaxed and successful so far.
This shambles could only happen in Britain. Senior politicians get accused of being paedophiles by journalists with no evidence. Politicians routinely steal from public coffers, and don't even lose their place in Parliament (even though some were sent to prison). The country is awash with video surveillance, yet trying to get the police to respond to a crime report is like swimming upstream. A christian preacher who said "Homosexuals are deserving of the wrath of God – and so are all other sinners – and they are going to a place called hell" received a £1000 fine and a criminal conviction. Indian sikhs who criticise Indian muslims are accused of being racists.

Political correctness had taken hold in local government by the early 1980s. Practically every interaction with them requires you to tell them your race, gender and sexual preference.

The place is a mad-house.
Value Creation vs. Value Capture [Tim O'Reilly]
I tried out Joyent back when they did a year's free VM promotion with Facebook. I found Solaris to be very nice, but it required a little work to get software built for linux to build on it. Different C compiler for one thing. Usually for common pieces of software, like ruby there is a guide on the Joyent website for compiling.
>> This very much seems to be a generation gap between people in positions of power (politicians, bureaucrats, police) who are not used to the internet and the way it gives voice to everyone.

Unfortunately, it is true and I fear we might have draconian laws to "regulate" Internet in India!
x. I think it makes him sound childish rather than intense.

The definition of what sounds childish and what sounds intense is largely cultural and situational. When you realize that all words are just words, and it's people that ascribe meaning to them, you and your social group can mutually decide exactly what meaning you want to assign to each word.

What makes some words special? Why is it not okay to say some words, but okay to say fun? Truck? Luck? Ship? Brit? Shiitake? Shih Tzu? Witch? Bishop? Custard? Bass? Crass? Aspect? Would you be offended if you heard someone say merde but didn't know what it meant?
>Quick: when was the last time you plugged in an Ethernet cable?

If I haven't plugged in my ethernet cable in a while, can't it just mean that my wired network is running smoothly?
I'd really like to know exactly which sponsors pulled out because of this. Between the first tweet and the announcement of cancellation there seemed to be only 9 tweets of criticism: https://gist.github.com/4108671 .
Seems a bit rash.
I called it Bayesian because it describes what Bayesians will do. It does indeed also describe what anyone else sane will do. The point is that in order to make confidence intervals the right answer you need a situation weird enough to make even Bayesians use confidence intervals.

In the case of your 100 robots, why am I supposed to want 70 of them to come to the correct decision? This seems just like my mad-scientist example: contrived to force confidence intervals (or something very like them) to be the right answer. Can you explain in what sort of situation this would be a sensible thing to care about?
Gnome-anything is far from customizable. If you don't count hacking it by editing XMLs and javascripts (for gnome-shell).
I find it crazy hard to tell people that they are noisy. Mainly because i feel like im very egocentric for wanting quiet times. We sit in a large room with a lot of people and i guess we have to make space for each and everyone if we want to get along. But since im the only one writing code and the rest are mostly making graphics, im the only one that requires some sort of quiet time around me. It can be really hard to tell people what you need when your the only one that really needs it. I mostly ends up sitting with my headphones on and listen to noise like rainymood.com to block other peoples noise out. Seems weird but it works for me.
Interesting concept (one that i actually stumbled upon a couple of years ago).

If i would venture to guess why people don't use it more often i would say that it's because the marginal win (ease of debugging for a certain class of hard bugs) is smaller then the hassle of changing the complete toolset (current debugger and tools).

My guess this kind of tool is really good at a small class of hard bugs (which in general are pretty rare). For all the other the current tools are good enough so a switch would be costly for no immediate gain.
This just in : The girl has indeed been arrested . Saw this on NDTV journalist Sreenivasan Jains twitter feed.
They keyboard utilization is much better in Windows 8 than it was in Windows 7. The metro is just great with keyboard. Can't say the same about mouse.
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They cancelled it because they felt pressure from their sponsors.

I'm skeptical about this. The company I work for were the only sponsor formally announced on their site. We were behind them 100% and didn't have a clue about the controversy or the cancellation until we found out after they made their decision. It doesn't add up. If financial strain was a reason, why not contact us to see if we could help?
W3Schools is the absolute worst reference site, with lots of wrong, misleading information.

I just hope everyone uses it exclusively, so I get paid more.
Clinker and Jelastic: a perfect couple
I'd add another reason to why w3schools sucks:

http://www.impressivewebs.com/web-development-search-results...
Copyrights EXPIRE for a reason. There isn't anyone (not in Hollywood, not in Congress, nowhere) that says copyrights should never, ever expire.

Maybe not now, but there certainly was:

When I appeared before that committee of the House of Lords
the chairman asked me what limit I would propose. I said, "Perpetuity."

-- Mark Twain, http://www.bpmlegal.com/cotwain.html

Actually, Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last
forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate
the Constitution. ... As you know, there is also [then-MPAA president]
Jack Valenti's proposal for term to last forever less one day. Perhaps
the Committee may look at that next Congress.

-- Mary Bono, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#Su...
Turning Website Visitors into Buyers
It works great with Google Now. I use it often like a launcher and just type a few letters and then click on the app I want to run.
He now says that the girl was indeed arrested: https://twitter.com/SreenivasanJain
That makes two of us.

Two known sponsors: Globaldev (the company I work for) & OnTheBeach.co.uk

Globaldev's take on the situation: https://twitter.com/globaldev/status/270452743733379072

OnTheBeach's take: https://twitter.com/SwitchJam/status/270261834991407104
And the app doesn't look native to Android either. Some things are inherently non-Android, such as bottom tab-bars. All images are also low-res on my Galaxy Nexus and scrolling is laggy.

There are some great bugs as well:
* It loads the wrong images and the flickers in the correct image later
* Everything says "0 listings"
* Clicking the map button crashes the app
* It's very hard to sidescroll their custom ViewPager
I wasnt expecting such a witty comment on HN.
The story is not false. As confirmed by the same guy: https://twitter.com/SreenivasanJain

And Hindustan Times who say that the girls are to appear in court. http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Mumbai-woman...
I don't think see any important similarity between patent and copyright.

I think that if I write something down, I should be able to say, "If you want to consume this content, you have to agree to certain conditions." I see copyright as the legal mechanism to enforce this. That's all there is to it.

I wouldn't mind if there is an exception for orphaned works.

People want to argue that what I'm suggesting would result in horrible consequences, but it just wouldn't. Take your story example. So what if I forevermore have control over a story I wrote? It just doesn't matter. So what if my decendants get rich selling it? Again, it just doesn't matter. But, hell, it's my story, I and the people I share it with should be able to institute any rules around its distribution that we mutually agree on.

You talk about the government staying out of the interaction between content creators and consumers, but that is exactly my position, whereas you are arguing that the government can force content creators to cede their works to consumers after a certain time has elapsed.

I don't think copyright can/should cover "an idea," only specific content.
Do you have links for those?
What do you mean force silence upon myself? Are we talking meditation or just working/reading in quiet places? For minutes or hours (or days)? I first noticed the music thing when I was on the high school swim team and would swim for multiple hours every day. Under water it's not quiet, but there are no discernible sounds beyond the water itself--all I would hear was the music in my head.

I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining. I love music and it's been a huge part of my life since I can remember (and I'm old).

But from my experience, I don't buy your theory. I think I'm just wired different than people that seek out quiet places.
No, he should disregard them because as written they're sexist, and don't even have good methodology to try and stand in their defense. His confirmation bias is one thing, the assertion that these women "literally feel a compulsion" that he hasn't justified is another thing entirely.
You are assuming that your single developer is capable of everything, and has time for everything - writing mobile code, writing backend code, DB, DB optimization, profiling of all the code, setting up analytics, documentation, etc etc etc.

If you can find a guy like that, and if he can write maintainable code, all "way under" $100/hr minus designer's salary, you've struck gold. People like that are extremely rare.
Yes - I see that [0,1].

[0] https://twitter.com/sreenivasanjain/status/27045889419368448...

[1] https://twitter.com/sreenivasanjain/status/27045900751119564...
The making of a hack - Media Query Mario in CSS3 Animations
It is even worse. There were some publications which already entered public domain, but High Court extended copyright period retroactively. So stuff which was already under PD got copyrighted again. (I dont have link, please add it)
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It's the same in Japan. But sadly not in Australia.
Thanks for the criticism.
> His death made a lot of people to start a worthless debate on facebook and twitter.

First, the girl is arrested and that's confirmed. Second, it is not for you & me to decide how people use their personal Facebook and Twitter accounts. You and I get no say in it - if they want to indulge in 'worthless debates' they should be allowed to. In addition, that should not be held against them in any sort of way.
Some parts really need to be worded better.

I can't go back from Windows 8, as a power user with 3 monitors too, and am also eagerly awaiting the Surface Pro.

I just don't see nor feel many of the "hacker news" sort of geek hate with how certain things have been done in 8. I just went at it openly and while some parts need some work for Desktop, I actually quite like it.

I think everyone also should be aware that this is basically their first iteration, of which they've said they're going for a shorter cycle akin to Mac OS, and that the Metro apps are going to be low density at least for now because of the pitiful resolution the regular Surface is at. Many of these apps are also first generation or quick ports of apps on other ecosystems. Of course they're going to target the Surface tablet first then think about how they'd do it, if they wanted to, for the desktop or laptop.
This story is now confirmed by a more credible source [0,1].

[0] https://twitter.com/sreenivasanjain/status/27045889419368448...

[1] https://twitter.com/sreenivasanjain/status/27045900751119564...
Thanks for the criticism.

I wanted to mean evolution will improve us eventually, only if those people with aggressive impulses have severe disadvantage going forward in the society. But that premise is debatable, I agree.
I just got a new ultrabook with W8 for my wife. First thing I had to do was download some software that W8 boots into desktop mode. Then I got another application that brings the start menu back. Now it is OK and ready to use for her. MS should have released a work version and a home version that comes either with or without Metro.
I am able to maintain a deep level of concentration in any environment. My internal state is not my neighbor's responsibility.
There is no noise, only music.
Moving from the "three people in a room" to the "a good group in an office".
Sergey Brin - What keeps me up at night. (and other things)
Why does everyone still have to use imperial/US measurements. Metric please or I have to break out the calculator.
Religion is a particulary nasty offender in the free speech department. And it's not like I don't blame internet censorships, "war on drugs" and stuff. I do. They have their times.
When Computer freezes Randomly
Maybe it is a common phenomenon that computer freezes when someone is using his computer on playing games, watching movies or working. That would be alright If after restart the computer everything is ok, but if the computer freezes randomly ,that means something wrong with it and you have to check. The article will tell you how to stop computer freezes. Just read the article when your pc or laptop freezes.
> we're not qualified to do that

Judging by history, we are. We created better computing machines, better chess players, better factory workers, better communication channels, better senors, than any of us is or is equipped with without such augmentation.
>If the runway ends in 6 months without more funding, you owe it to your employees to be honest about it. It sounds to me like he witheld the information because he was worried his employees would leave if he didn't.

I was in that situation, as the employee. Had a bonus contractually promised to me and a jump in salary, bought the house (luckily it was the house we needed, not the house we wanted). Bonus never materialized, salary bump was less than half of what we had agreed.

Why yes, I am looking.
That describes pretty much every train I've been on in Austria, oh sometimes there is noise but it's the exception rather than the norm. The other strange thing is often people will rather stand than sit next to someone else. Coming from Canada where it is normal to have loud conversation from all directions on public transportation I found it a huge surprise but am overall a fan. Nice for reading or thinking.