skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"some people" recommended "policies that were tested and proven to work"? -- What people, what policies? What position has been taken?

"mainstream camp thought otherwise" - otherwise to what?

"and followed their advice" - Really? So how is it that Ireland and the US and Iceland all responded very differently, if everyone followed the same flawed advice?

"we know who was right and wrong" - Much to my own surprise, we see that most of the solutions have worked to some degree, and the widely predicted great disaster has not occurred. Really the jury is still out.
> Second it's fine if you want to measure someone's charitableness by their personal sacrifice

Why do you think that's fine? Do you regard the notion that one person's happiness must be "paid for" by another person's suffering as a virtuous one?
To be pedantic, that's just preprocessor abuse... nothing really to do with the compiler proper.
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Stripe's old approach was quite direct: the CC companies charge us (and don't refund) for refunded payments and chargebacks, so we pass those on to you.

Quite reasonable, but the new policy is taking advantage of the fact that they have the rare ability to fix this broken interface instead of just passing it on.

Refunded fees for refunds encourage easy refunds to dissatisfied customers. Offering refunds without crazy hoops to jump through is generally just good customer service (especially for service-related businesses where you don't have to worry about lost inventory!) -- it can quickly put a problem into a realistic context (and customers can realize "well, it's not perfect... but it's actually still worth keeping"), which makes them less frustrated.

I offer a refund first to a lot of tech support questions (i.e., "this isn't working on my computer"), and hardly anyone actually wants one, but it comforts them. Knowing that my fees would be lost make it less pleasant for me to offer... this is psychological pain (the actual cost is minimal), but I always appreciated PayPal's policy for this reason.
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Function declaration, not function pointer declaration. The latter would be

Foo (*foo)();
Don't quit your day job. Style is no substitute for substance.
It's actually not ambiguous code at all. It's perfectly well-formed and unambiguous with respect to the C standard.

What it is, however, is hard-to-read and -maintain code.
> Magnetic disks have always had incredibly inconsistent random IO performance

From a non-realtime app POV disk seek performance is pretty consistent: you get 5-25ms seek cies that center around 10ms.
Especially In contrast to network backed where you get to contend with hiccups and contention with other users.

OS disk caching came about for a different reason.
that is because they are keeping themselves open to have a Steam packaging format.

It is something I have always bet that they will eventually do - once they see the number of support questions by people who have some sort of dependency problems (e.g [1], [2] and [3]).

I wonder how long will it take for them to latch on to something like Zeroinstall or nix.

[1] http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846940247...
[2] http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/846940247...
[3] http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/882965118...
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The Steam executable, libraries, data files, and games install with user permissions. This way games can install and update, and Steam itself can auto-update, without privledge escalation. Windows and Mac versions behave this way.

There is a launcher script that is installed in /usr/bin/steam. There was strong feedback from users that updating this script should belong to the system package manager. This is why the repo exists - so this script can be updated and managed by the system package manager.
This is pretty cool. At some point we release an API for all of Soundkeeps creative commons samples/tracks. It would be a good combination with tools like yours.
I don't care what anyone says, Aaron Greenspan you have once again impressed me... can't say the same for Zuckerberg. Well done.

As for IV, I came across an amusing quote from their co-founder at a recent conference: he claimed, among other things, that 1. concerns about IV's consistent use of _cryptically-named_ shells[1] is a "red herring" and 2. for $80K any company could do a freedom-to-operate analysis on every claim in IV's entire portfolio.

1. You need not browse past page one of Aaron's list to get a taste of how descriptive the shell company names are. Take, for example, Aht Chu LLC. As the co-founder noted at the conference, thousands of shell companies with cryptic names are necessary because they make it easier for IV to segregate its IP assets. I suspect there might have some other advantages too. ;)
this being an ideal application of simd kind of parallelism, i am wondering of a farm of gpu's might be much cheaper (and faster) rather than a general purpose cpu ?
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Sorry for the delayed reply. HN is again making my browser crazy and my browser crashed the last time I tried to reply. As I was saying: I am not absolutely certain the occasional outright crash is caused by hn. I am absolutely certain that hn routinely causes me to get a message that my browser is not responding and asking if I wish to force close or wait. This sometimes occurs every single time I click on anything here. It occurs if it is the only window I have open. It is sometimes pretty extreme and frustrating.

Would that be 9am to 11pm Pacific time?

Thanks.
Company list:

http://www.plainsite.org/tags/index.html?id=640
He seems like a smart guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold ... wonder what made him turn his hand to patent litigation?
I'd like to see the NY Times do investigative reporting like this.
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They have/added a link at the bottom: http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/17/project-uses-a-bullet-ti...

The images are pretty cool.
I'm fascinated by the vexatious litigant point. Would a lawyer here care to comment on that?

Once found a vexatious litigant, an entity can no longer file suit in court. In California, for example, all it takes to be found a vexatious litigant is to file five unsuccessful lawsuits in seven years [1]. Could something similar be used to stop Intellectual Ventures somehow? I'd love to understand it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation#United_Sta...
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This seems like an overreaction. Or perhaps more accurately, this seems like a too-late reaction.

Instagram's TOS before these sweeping, far-reaching changes was already hostile to photographers. You granted Instagram a transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual license that has no expiry or termination condition, ever the moment you uploaded something.

The terms of the license you grant Instagram is about as broad as it gets, and reaches substantially further than just about any reputable photo sharing service out there.

For example, Flickr and 500px's TOS gives them license only as long as you hold the account and the image hasn't been deleted. Deleting your account or the photos themselves is revocation of their usage rights. Instagram is bound by no such rules.

By posting to Instagram before the new TOS NatGeo already exposed their photographers to tremendous IP risk - one can only hope NatGeo themselves hold the right to grant an irrevocable, perpetual, sublicensable license to the photos in the first place.

I'm glad to see companies with photographer-hostile TOSes getting called out for the tremendous overreach in their legalese, but this isn't really new, Instagram was like this from the get-go.
Nat Geo is one of the few to be worried about this, as their images can be used by Instagram for free.
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Depending on the situation that is probably ok with some people. I think a lot of it would come down to quite a few variables.

I can't think of any clear examples but I'm sure there are cases to be made.
Maybe "amazed and breathless" is a bit hyperbolic, but I assume the parent is referring to the number of people who had up-voted it at the time of his posting.

Perhaps for people who don't really know C, that's interesting information, but anyone who calls themselves a "C programmer" should not be surprised by that bit of code (well, you should be surprised if anyone still writes code like that, but not surprised that it's valid).

It's not even just an "exposed to legacy code" thing: C is a fairly simple language in both syntax and concepts (esp. when compared to most other languages people are using today), and I don't believe you can call yourself fluent in C without this kind of knowledge.

(I could also argue from the other angle: if you haven't been exposed to that sort of legacy C code, you probably haven't done it enough to call yourself fluent.)

I think it's an interesting question from the perspective of "what are some cool language gotchas that people not familiar with the language would find neat?"... or from the perspective of someone who is new to C, came across some code like that, and is trying to learn what's going on (and is apparently too lazy to google the C specification and spend 2 minutes reading it).
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I sense sarcasm
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That would be a killer app, I'd pay for this.
It's not possible to look at any page but the first one. Entering another number takes you to page with links to 24 hour Fitness and 3M Corporation. Also, clicking on the individual entries doesn't provide you with any evidence or a link to the USPTO record, just the company's mailing address.

Sounded interesting, but all we've got here is the badly-presented output of a web scraping session.
Those are good changes and hopefully they last.

But to be bluntly honest I feel like all it will take is some time to pass and the next boom cycle to come and the same gunslinger-types will regain the management reigns with the same old outcome.

Edit: Just want to add I don't have any particular idea how to solve this type of problem, so I'm not trying to condemn you or those in your profession.
Just in case there is still someone left out there who believes in Zuck's lie about openess of the internet and giving users ability to connect and access their information freely. This is your wakeup call. Facebook can shine on the outside but it will take predatory steps against anyone fucking around with them and affecting their ad sale stock display.
Sure, but what makes the whole "in a browser" genre interesting is that (usually) you don't need special dependencies to get started. If I need Silverlight and the whole .NET compiler, why not just tell me to download Visual F# Express Edition to get started?
Now do bg3.
Interesting! Why is the image so tiny? IMO it would look great on a bigger image.
Looks like I'm reading from a toilet paper now! ;)
..and who wins at life? in all seriousness.
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You can, but you might not want to for reasons of privacy (if one wanted to record one's own intimate moments, say). On the other, there's no particular reason to use your own home for the mechanical business of product photography.
The provision you're referring to only applies to pro se litigants (people who represent themselves in court).
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Very cool!

This would really benefit from a gallery. Examples:

http://glsl.heroku.com/

http://codepen.io/
A litigant though is a 'legal person'. if you have 2000 legal entities (ie, legally== persons), it seems to help you on the math. But your question still stands and is a good one. Its not clear what role a common "controling entity" would have, for example, on the ability of affiliates, spv's and relatives/children to file or be found 'vexatious' etc.[1]

________

[1] INAL, but I think this question should be answerable.
No, I understand not distributing the games in DEB form, but what's the point of versioning an installer that then goes and downloads the latest version of the client? Just put the client in the repo...
If Cleveland had its own currency, you could derive globally applicable lessons. But it doesn't.

The "normal way" is much much better than deflationary expenditure cutting. Deflation increases the debt burden in real terms.

The underlying reason governments are following austerity is because protecting old people's benefits & pensions (the people on the credit side of the debt, i.e. claims on future production) is more important than growing the economy for young people, because that's how the votes are structured in the economies that matter (Germany in Europe). Politics and demographics are pro-austerity, not economists.
Can someone pls explain me what happened here?
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Short but true. He has explained that, even though it doesn't really make sense, the current regulatory environment makes this business extremely profitable and it makes (business) sense to do it.
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This isn't directed at you, but that sounds like exactly what I'd expect of someone who doesn't understand the point of package managers.
Some more stats I put together awhile ago:

http://andrewwooster.com/everest.html
I don't know what the cause might be, unfortunately. But the site is lightly loaded and thus pretty fast now, so if you can reproduce the problem now, it's something weird on your end.
> You say the author is incorrect in implying that artistic expression may inhibit us

No. I didn't say any such thing. Please don't misquote me. It's not that I don't think that trying to make better content is inhibitive, it's that it's worth it. Quantity, populist or not, does not automatically usurp quality.
This makes sense to me. I'm definitely still in the indignation and anger part of the process, but I can appreciate that this is just a nice chance to develop some new tools. I can figure out whether I have any clout, use it if I do and then just move on.
Thanks. Sorry, our proxy server was choking for some reason :/ Good to hear from you, Max.
Good. Now we are getting somewhere. I too would love it if OP (or I guess in this case OC) elaborated on these points.

EDIT: Ok I see we are both editing the temper down some ;) I will refrain from my other comments, which were rather unhelpful.
Well the writing is somewhat turgid in its use of nominalizations and the passive voice but that really doesn't mean its saying nothing. It just makes it a bit harder to read.
I've heard him interviewed about his interest in cooking. He sounded like one of those fastidious geniuses who look at you like you're an insect - totally calculating, without a single molecule of empathy (you didn't know empathy had a molecule? well, it does).

I think with Intellectual Ventures he saw an opportunity to make a lot (more) money within the legal framework of the United States, and despite already having a great deal of money, he simply seized the opportunity. Money is nice, and more money is nicer. It's doubtful that he feels anything like remorse for the destruction his company has inflicted on the nation's innovators. No doubt he sees himself simply as a shrewd businessman who saw an opening and took it.

One of his rationalizations, if he is ever bothered to make one, might be, "Well, if I wasn't doing this someone else would be." Of course, that is true.

It's one of those times when I wish we lived in smaller communities, where people like Nathan would have to deal with the ire of the community - to look people in the eye, to see the hatred and the anger that his actions are causing. Barring that, the AIA is not enough, and we need legislation to put IV and it's ilk out of business for good. E.g. let's turn that hatred and anger that Myrvold never sees (and probably wouldn't care about if he did) into real political action to take his weapons away from him.
Ireland and Greece are only quasi-sovereign as they adopted the Euro; their hands are tied unless they adopt their own currency.
It is mostly better than usual this evening, but not gone. It is a not infrequent issue generally, but noticeably way worse on hn.

Thanks.
Estonia and Latvia are doing pretty well with austerity: <http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-19/krugmenistan...;

It's understandable that regular readers of Krugman may not know this since he goes to great pains to deny the obvious on this point.
> take a gander at some art history.

I have. Hence my reaction to the article's unqualified introductory move "when photography was first popular it was used for x." We don't know how the author measures 'popular' or exactly what time frame he's referring to by 'when.' It's the sort of statement that needs to be framed, explained and supported, not one that can easily be taken for granted.
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Package managers need better support for installing under a user.
Hmm maybe we're not seeing the same thing this URI:

//www.plainsite.org/tags/index.html?table=entitiestags&page=3&id=640

You can change the page=3 to any number between 1 and 44 to get more company names.
This is the kind of stuff I wish WikiLeaks did.
I'd guess that it's a technical feat, but not necessarily a new idea or new technique. There's no harm in sharing the how in that case.

The client didn't share sample photos ilkely because they want to keep things quiet about their product/art till launch.
Doesn't your university have an online/anonymous course evaluation system? If it does, fill it out! If it doesn't, every university should have one. No one will give a shit if you're just complaining to be a bitch, but if there are serious problems to be found and you're not a single data point, they will take action, whether it be they remove him from teaching the class or otherwise. Sometimes action will be taken and you won't know about it. The best you can do is make sure you back up everything you say with intellectual comments and actual facts. No one will do anything about a bitter student who didn't get the A he desperately wanted but didn't deserve.
You're missing the negative effects on innovation in your analysis of #7. It's estimated that the existence of patent trolls costs the economy $29 billion/year: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/new-study-same-au...
His book on cooking is called Modernist Cuisine, and is turning into something of a Landmark publishing/reference work. Its ~5 volumes and retails for ~$500 dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_Cuisine

Just begs the question, though. Doesn't this guy have something better to do? Dunno.
From the emoji frequency graphs at the bottom, how did they get a trollface emoji? Is that a joke?
What I found very useful was http://4clojure.org . The elementary-level and easy-level problems provide a good start.
Going into endless debt does not grow economies any more than running up your credit cards makes you wealthier. It just gives you the illusion of growth. If you want to see where this leads look at what happens in Japan over the next 12 to 18 months.

And anybody who lived through the Carter years understands high inflation is something to be avoided at all costs. It's not a stimulant to the economy, it's a drag. Companies don't know what the real return on their money will be so they don't make investments.

>Politics and demographics are pro-austerity, not economists.

Nonsense. Politics is very, very, very anti-austerity. Governments do not get smaller without a major upheaval. Look at the UK, where you hear much wailing and gnashing of teeth over "austerity" that's simply a tiny cut in the rate of growth of the budget.
This isn't the Instagram effect... This is the Facebook effect. I don't know a single person who trusts Facebook.
He doesn't call out any Enterprise Tech Incumbents at all. We're all left guessing - making this entire article complete hyperbole.
I don't think they ever ported HL1 to Mac, though, so I wouldn't hold my breath for a Linux version. :(
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Yes, and Japan, the country he's held out as a great Keynesian success in the past, is going over the falls right before our eyes:

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/12/kyle-bass...
Not really news...
The page number field is working for me now.
US during the 30's started off trying to use austerity. That is what made it longer and more painful.
...everywhere except Linux.
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Because silverlight takes all of 15 seconds to download and install, and Visual F# is an hour+ to install, plus a couple hundred megabytes of additional assets?
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Problem:
everybody can see the results of my:
http://polldaal.com/polls/46
http://polldaal.com/embed/46
or your:
http://polldaal.com/polls/41
http://polldaal.com/embed/41

polls, along with all the polls that have ever been created, no matter if whether you select them for being private.

Apart from that, it obviously needs a lot of work, but nice idea.
If the argument that scale hurts (all small western countries are very rich, but big countries complain "we're too big because we can't do that and that), then the obvious solution would be to split up. For me it seems just too easy. I think the reasons are more related to the culture than to the size.
Just looking to validate whether people will use it or not.
Disclaimer: I coded up the thing!
AWS has farms of GPUs you can rent by the hour - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ - Look at "Cluster GPU Instances"
>Welcome to Try F#! Your system does not support the execution of F# code in the browser.
>For additional help: http://test.tryfsharp.org/Help

Help doesn't do anything. Thanks?
For the record, I paraphrased First, Break All The Rules, and the way it was presented there makes me suspect that it was reasonably original to them.