skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait... That's historically true, isn't it? The Qin Dynasty unified China's writing system in an effort to unite the disparite cultures (not to censor them).

Lets not confuse history and propaganda.
UPDATE: Taking down Google Doc since nobody added to or commented. Thanks.
That mouse panning convention has existed for at least 15 years in most web browsers. Click the middle mouse button to activate it in any web browser.
Yes, I am ho-hum on the games available in this bundle but as a game developer dilettante, the movie makes it worth getting.
I'm with you — and probably agree with your political views 100% if I had to guess. I think that most of those people do want to prevent these tragedies — I think that everyone does. I do not agree with their methods (as misguided as they may be), but that doesn't discount their motivation.
It was a pretty big deal a while ago that quicktime support H.264; off hand, I'm pretty sure they supported it for years before MS did. If firefox supports quicktime, they support H.264.

EDIT: Well, I'll eat my hat. I'm not sure why Firefox needs a different licensing agreement on OSX when they COULD just hook into quicktime without any licensing fees at all. I'm probably grossly misunderstanding the situation.

EDIT2: Ok, so I guess AVFoundation is just the objective-c frontend for OSX's media libs. I can't for the life of me understand why it took them so long to implement.
Our President's kids are 11 & 14. Sure that is just one case but I also imagine current generation of politicians is on the edge of a more recent trend to have kids later in life (not counting the other trend of having kids at age 14).
How Microsoft gains a foothold on mobile
I've really wanted to dive into this for a side project. On the limited time I've had, I notice the Creator IDE UI and tutorials take an extra step I'm not used which is probably from translating the experience from Finnish to my own language (American English). Just a random guess but the commercial version could increase uptake by doing a round or two of "visual/workflow qa" for a wider-range of global users (especially the folks looking to speed through to working QML/JS demos). Will keep digging ... the "deploy local windowing" to Lin/Win/Mac looks truthy. (I think I should just start simple with a text editor and the compiler next go round)
A simpler mechanism is a keyword to declare a derived function as recursive, either head or tail. They would be similiar in behavior to ctor and dtor methods e.g. in C++.
The idea is, to extend the existing execute-base-first behavior of C++ constructors, and execute-derived-first behavior of destructors, in a way that can't be overridden.

Less utility, but simpler to explain and already implemented, at least in some languages.
actually it will be a paid service, but it will be free for the duration of the beta. We will make that more clear ASAP.
My own opinion is that people should begin with total control over their sharing, instead of default auto share, and eventually chose to share automatically if they want.
Man the live updating is pretty sweet.
As pointed out by Richard Stallman at the topmost comment about EFF's proposal to shorten the patent term for software patents to 5 years, it might actually be easier to entirely abolish software patents because of a requirement by WTO to have all patents granted for a 20-year period: https://defendinnovation.org/proposal/shorten-patent-term#co...

If you're a designated inventor of a patent or a patent application who opposes patents, you could publicly state your support for patent abolition at the Inventors Against Patents site: http://inventors-against-patents.org
I disagree with your comment completely. It's not that philosophy teaches us how to think, and sciences teach us what to think. Philosophy teaches us how to pose questions. As soon as we are able to address those questions the problem becomes science (e.g. natural philosophy--> physics, philosophy of mind--> psychology, etc.)
great display visually reed, well done
4) is about image rather than reality. Microsoft likes to portray themselves as the people who demand your money instead of your privacy (even though they really take both). And people continue to think of Microsoft as a software company rather than an ad broker notwithstanding their nontrivial advertising interests as you point out.

This leaves them in a position that allows them to paint advertisers as unscrupulous and have the taint stick more to their competitors than to themselves, which they've clearly been taking advantage of.

Moreover, if Microsoft could somehow eliminate all of internet advertising for everyone, I expect they would do it. Because as much as it would hurt Microsoft, it would destroy their most viable competitors. And it's more profitable (at least in the short to medium term) to have a monopoly on a market a fraction of the size than to have your margins and market share continually eroded by vigorous competition.
You'll get better results if you spend more time introducing yourself at tech meetups, and less time browsing monster.com A lot of those job sites are black holes as far as resumes are concerned. I don't know all get-togethers in NY, but meetup.com is a good place to start.
Dial-up Sounds: For the nostalgic
WOW! Definitely stared right at camp 3 for a while unable to find them. They're TINY!
Because in this scenario (facebook, not WW2) the individual facebook users are the ones who stand to lose something in most arguments against Facebook's model.

So if a minority objects to facebook, I would suggest they just not use facebook. In most cases that means facebook won't have a negative impact on them.
Medium (Obvious Corp.) looking for a hacker
I found the last line to be the most important one, "it's good to know that even with scientific funding losing priority in the west, the importance of fundamental science is still recognized somewhere in the world."
The Internet only just works
Oh, no, don't worry, you can turn social sharing off permanently. Hit the 'preferences' item in the menu at the top right. In there, you've got all kinds of social features to turn off. And they'll stay off.
Does anyone has an idea of how much it costs to license Qt?
Yeah, I think it was really to show brand value for Saints Row, Company of Heroes, Metro 2033, etc. I think all of the games in the bundle currently have sequels being developed.
Facebook Stops Its Long-Awaited Ad Network Before It Starts (For Now)
What is so hard to believe about this?

Capitalism is not a force of nature. Countries have an enormous amount of legislation in place to ensure companies can do business, and invest huge amounts of money in services supporting the private sector (infrastructure, education, etc).

These companies wield a tremendous amount of social power, especially services like Facebook. There's nothing odd about holding these companies to certain standards and laws that ensure they can not negatively influence the civil society from which they profit so much. Being allowed to refuse service to the very people that enable your business to exist is a privilege, not a right, and it comes with restrictions.

This is quite normal in most countries outside the US.
The app is still in alpha and pretty rudimentary but we wanted to get some early feedback from the HN community. If you are a musician, does this concept appeal to you? What would you do differently?
I think just based on the title of the HN submission is that this site is built from the ground up to encourage social sharing, so Facebook sharing seems like a sensible default based on that.
Mark Cuban, Minecraft creator donate big to help EFF “fix” software patents
It might better be viewed as a behavioral "mutation" of sorts that improved the viability of those who adopted the practice. There are many interesting things that happen by chance.
Congrats Michael and JP!
I've always dreamed of buying back Be's assets from ACCESS. One day I'll be able to.
We do this too http://picplum.com
Obama is only older than 15 or so of the 100 senators. As far as American politics go, he is quite young.
Hmm, think this through a bit more. When you have been influenced on a subconscious level, you aren't aware that you have been influenced. If you aren't even aware to know it's happened, how can you possibly analyze and weight it? How much of your day do you genuinely believe you spend consciously evaluating every piece of information that stimulates your neurons? There's all sorts of information your brain is vacuuming up during the day which flies right under the conscious "radar". In fact I would argue the majority of information intake is completely stealth to our conscious awareness.

The fact is, this sort of influential unawareness happens on a major scale throughout the majority of childhood and adolescence, which is when much of our deepest neurological programming happens -- especially in the "critical period" of childhood development. In this period, all of our neurological processes and decision-making are deeply and richly influenced by others, on a level that we don't even have the capacity to understand.

This isn't some new concept, time and time again experiments have proven that the individual capacity for self-delusion is high and our individual capacity to reason objectively about ourselves is limited. After all, that's why we often look to others we trust when we want objective feedback.

So how much do we really "think for ourselves"? Is it 50%? Doubtful. 1%? .01%? Whatever it is, our decision-making processes have already been thoroughly influenced by many things BUT ourselves over the course of our life. You might think you are picking a particular course of action because of a produced set of rationalizations, but maybe it's really just how your parents used to behave around you as a child. Either way, we can't know for sure, which results in all sorts of objective & analytical blind spots.

Sure, I'll honor the fact that we do ultimately empower a decision, but how much of that choice to act is truly "us" is something that's questionable... as such, I think the best thing we can do is maximize the time we are shaped by positive influences that stimulate our brains and minimize the time we are shaped by garbage.
Genetic entropy and the human intellect (or why we're not getting dumber)
My undergrad used to offer an inter-departmental major between Computer Science and Philosophy. At first I thought it was crazy, but there were many overlaps: formal proving, digital logic and hardware, AI, and many more.
> I'm a little bummed. I thought [...] they would be around for a while.

Supposing that they don't butcher the migration, what Snapjoy service do you love, which wouldn't benefit from a close integration with Dropbox?

My only beef with Dropbox is that the gap between free users and paid customers is too wide, price wise. I understand that customers have to subsidize the hordes of freeloaders, but $120 a year for 100GB doesn't feel right. Maybe they shouldn't try to be profitable yet.

Other than that, they've successfully sneaked a usable file system in iOS, they support all my devices including Linux, they "just work" unless you try to share writing rights, and they're going to get us rid of the dreadful iTunes, iPhoto and no doubt one day iBook/Kindle. That's super impressive.
Firefox OS already has hardware H.264 decoding support. We use the Android libstagefright library and the phone vendor provides the hardware decoders.
No, it's not. It's a source of real revenue which most startups(including mine and yours) can only dream of.
Dude, you're just embarrassing yourself. Stop.

Until you brought it up, nobody had said that this article means fat is a-okay. In fact, the article treats obesity as a disease, so it's the reverse.

If you ever find yourself getting mad at people for what they might say, you are definitely dealing with your own issues.

Doubly so if you take the time to rebut these imaginary enemies in a public forum.
Evolution of the Batman symbol
Upvoted just for "// Service charge, sucker!"
We recently added clearer ways to turn seamless sharing off with Facebook. You can either disable it for four hours by clicking on the switch in the top right or by going into your preferences and disabling it permanently.

Right now Facebook makes life easy in certain ways and is obviously an effective way to acquire users but we're getting to the point where we've got most of the basic user experience figured out so a secondary way of signing in is moving up in our priority list. Really glad you like the emails and hope we can get you on-boarded into the full experience soon.
I hope you like it :)
All of this seems reasonable, so by extension, I assume that the current system is really unreasonable. I mean, not even making the trolls pay for the legal costs if they lose? That's outrageous
Indian Girl Gang Raped - ON A BUS
The Power of Selling Out - The Onion
CBD is most definitely psychoactive. It also accounts for about 25-50% of marijuana's active components, so we are living in a world full of long-term data.

Cannabidiol is most definitely illegal in the US, too. That DixieX site you link to is just hemp oil products -- no psychoactives.
As long as you're giving them an equity stake based on their initial absence, who cares what you call them? Although, it might be helpful to have "co-founders" purely for investment purposes since it's a new "requirement" to getting funded...
GStreamer isn't used on Firefox OS. We use libstagefright and vendor supplied binaries for decoding.
I highly doubt the employee headcount of the federal government is a good indicator of efficiency. I would say not at all. There could be 10 total government employees but that wouldn't signify more well-oiled machine. My initial assertion stands true. The government is bloated, inefficient, and wasteful (now more than ever). TSA is merely a good microcosm for the system as a whole.

Side note: it's appreciated (expected?) to provide sources when throwing out stats.
People keep talking about charitable tax write-offs as if there's some sort of profitable benefit to them. Either I'm daft, or there are a lot of people out there who are very confused about the us tax code.

How does this in any way benefit Mark? He can only write off a portion of his income (yes, even if he carries it forward). So, he's getting back what, like ~40% of this back as a deduction(depending on what bracket he's in)? It's still 250M dollars out of his bank account. There's no math that makes this work our in his favor. (Is there some kind of trick here that I'm missing like reducing your income, claiming the deduction as unrealized losses, and then hedging against the stock price decreasing over time? Sort of like a short?) I just don't see it.

What am I missing here about the tax code that results in any charitable tax write off resulting in a net benefit for the individual? Seriously, I'd love to know how to take advantage of this loophole myself.
The fiber helps your bowels work correctly. We were not created to evacuate bricks. You don't need a PhD in organic chemistry and biology to understand that, just experience with babies.
Poop transplants. Sounds gross, but can apparently work.
It looks like you're competing with ccmixter.org, loophunter, etc. but you're still very early stage. There's no licensing information or organization/categorization (which seems kind of critical for service like this).
I can see how that would be quite the annoying situation to be in. On one hand, an inventor that opposes patents could simply not file a patent. But then that leaves them open for someone else to come along and file the patent and then sue them for patent infringement. So the inventor is then compelled to file a patent simply as a way to keep some one else from getting it... even if they never plan to go after others for infringement.
Firefox on Linux has GStreamer but it's turned off at build time. Developers can build with it to test it. At some point it'll be enabled by default, or distros can enable it for their builds, to get H.264 support.
You can share to just yourself on facebook or turn it off completely (within spotify's preferences, or within facebook's preferences)
Verisign to raise fees for .net names in July 2013
Just received from Verisign - distributed to all ICANN Registrars:

"VeriSign, Inc. ("VNDS") is hereby notifying all registrars of a fee change for.net domain name effective July 1, 2013. In accordance with our contract, ICANN has already been notified. Details as follows:

VNDS’ fee for each annual increment of a new and renewal .net domain name registration and for each transfer of a .net domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another will be US $5.62 (exclusive of any ICANN Variable Registry-Level Fee (as defined in the .net Registry Agreement) or any other ICANN fee.

Except for the above-described fee changes, all other terms of the relevant agreements (.net Registry and Registry-Registrar Agreements) remain unchanged."
Should but from what I understand IE6/7 still account for fairly large portion of our revenue.
Interesting that both Guild Wars and Redis have reached similar conclusions about hardware failure.
Darpa’s Headless Robotic Mule Responds to Voice Commands
I went straight to the food list. They lost me at coffee should be VERY weak. They can't take that away from me! :)
God this calories in / calories out shit has got to die.

Stop leaving out the fucking calorie absorption efficiency factor if you don't want to sound like just as much of an idiot as the people you are complaining about.

Gasoline has a shitload of calories in it. You will definitely not get fat drinking it.

There is literally no one in the field who thinks this is true or ever did. There is certainly an argument about how widely the absorption efficiency varies from person to person, but that's not the same thing as the assertion that it is simply 100% all the time for everyone.
>What is so hard to believe about this?

That someone who owns a company does not have authority in who they will and will not do business with?
Overriding virtual functions is a huge hole in information hiding.

In C++, the "Non-Virtual Interface" (NVI) design pattern recommends that interface classes declare nonvirtual public functions that delegate to private pure virtual functions to be implemented by derived classes. A base class destructor should be either public and virtual, or protected and nonvirtual. NVI allows the base class to add pre- and post-condition assertions to test the derived implementation classes. NVI should also alleviate the "fragile base class" problem with C++ binary compatibility.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C%2B%2B_Idioms/Non-Virtua...
Nothing formal yet. Just verbal and email.
It would be interesting to amputate a leg from the spider in infancy and see if it creates a seven-legged simulacrum as an adult.
American obesity is a recent thing that does not eg seem to be related to stopping fasts.
It's amazing how much I miss out on because I don't have a Facebook account. I accept that this is a choice I made, but it's amazing how much of a second-class citizen it makes you feel like these days.
Not true at all -- then the view follows the cursor as I move it. On this site, the view moves towards the cursor when I click. Very different.
Isn't that what "find your own way back to the email program, hoping that it still displays the message as you left it" means?
I like the human-readability that dashes lend to URLs, but there are two things that bother me about using them in this case:

1. A dash is an operator, which could get confusing when you are doing math. For example: (@grid-gutter-width * (@grid-columns - 1)).

2. As far as variables go... thisIsDoubleClickable, and_so_is_this, but-this-is-not. I suppose it's not the biggest deal in the world, but I really hate having to drag my mouse to select.

My two cents...
It doesn't hurt him as much as the widow, but taxes or not $500 million will do a whole lot more than $5000.
I'm not saying that higher frame rates aren't an interesting subject for discussion and further refinement. I'm saying that the move to higher frame rates in general is a pointless thing to fight, and I've provided a trivial proof.

The objective fact is that the existing 24 fps standard blows goats. What can/should be done to improve upon it?
Lessons My $1.8 Billion Competitor, Omniture, Taught Me Over The Last 7 Years
I remember being turned off by the use of a preprocessor. Is that still required?
What I don't understand is, why weren't more people able to make the inference I did: "If a college education doesn't actually make you better at performing a job, then there's nothing to sustain the trend of employers from hiring you simply because you have one -- they could just quit doing it one day, and I'd be out in the cold. So I should take a major that is actually needed for certain jobs."

Or, to put it another way, "College doesn't actually make you a better worker for most majors, so hiring based on it is stupid -- that trend can't continue."

If I could see it long before applying for college, why couldn't others? Yet I was continually seeing many, many people around me taking majors with no clue as to how that would make them substantively employable.
Why US carrier data plans suck
Epidemic?
Yes. They can ban anyone they want. My question is how they know that Facebook user X and browser extension Y have any connection. If the extension's maker was marketing on Facebook, he should have expected this.

Meanwhile, yes, the TOS is between the user and the site. If Facebook wants to fight its users and say "if you don't send HTTP requests for our ad images, we'll stop answering your HTTP requests for our HTML pages," that's up to them.

I do think we need to push back whenever companies assert a right to control how a user views their site. That is fundamentally not how the web works. Every resource my browser requests, it requests by my implicit command to do so. Nobody has the right to tell me what to request; they only have a right to decide how they'll respond to my requests.
Obama Says He Wants Fiscal Deal by Christmas
Inversion: until he open-sources it, I am not interested in his plight in the slightest.
On significantly large projects, the compass compiler can take a lot more time than lessc. Eg. Sencha Touch's sass based styling.
if you want to play with it and learn your way around the api, it's easier to get up and running with python+pyqt than with c++. the python bindings are very well supported and there're lots of blog posts and tutorials out there.
Ups and downs of using your product to launch your product
Yes, we should be more clear about this point. Everything on soundkeep is released through creative commons. We want our differentiating factor to be the idea of people remixing each other and creating derivative work. We'll be adding categorization soon. Don't have enough content to really warrant it right now.
A spider has to instinctively know what a spider looks like, otherwise how would it know what to mate with?
CBD is considered non-psychoactive by fiat. This is because it has a low affinity for receptor sites in the brain and it doesn't cause significant impairment. You may or may not be able to feel it though. And it's definitely not 25-50% of most commercial strains (unless specifically bred for it), that may be true of certain landrace varietals though.

Also the amount of cannabinoids DixieX is citing is actually the minimum CBD content. They show their lab results on their Facebook page. The reason the don't cite the CBD content is because CBD is illegal, but hemp products are legal if the THC content is below a certain level. They're trying to play it off as a legal grey area and are taking a calculated risk.
Same here. Those sliders always make buying a Humble Bundle a fun and very personalized experience.