skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is its only $5 and it's not even worth worrying about getting the money back, it's not going to hurt Google doing a chargeback anywhere near as much as this blog post will hopefully hurt them.

Unfortuanlty for Google, because they have essentially no human face, public shaming is our only option to open up a dialog with them.
Nothing has to be free, everything is free -- the only thing that you ever pay for is the convenience of things being distributed to you. Beef is free, if you can get a cow, kill it and prepare it; those who can't pay those who can for the convenience. Oil is free too - if you can extract and process it yourself. Heck -- even air is free, yet we still pay for the convenience of providing it when we go somewhere where it isn't in such abundance, such as scuba diving.

Whenever changes in distribution patterns occur, there are those who have vested interest in the old distribution channels and want to restrict access to the new ones, at least unless they go out of business or turn to the new channels themselves.
Mint (Cinnamon) and Fedora (LXDE spin)
That's a reasonable way to think about bind().

On a pedantic note, due to complications with the new() operator, you can't actually implement .bind() in JS using only .call() and .apply() and get the prototype of the resulting objects right.
That's pretty spiffy. Nice to see the inclusion of a postfix expression mode.
I think people are missing the point here. So yes, the webkit portion is large and complicated, but the idea here is that you can use whatever you want to script together the ui pieces and keyboard commands etc. That is really useful if, for example, you want to use your WM's tabbing of windows, rather than have the tabs built into the browser itself (or not use tabs at all and use different desktops entirely). The point is that with some of these minimal linux systems (mostly Arch+awesome/xmonad/dwm etc), you can integrate the browser itself better because uzbl is designed to be accessed in the smallest atomic unit a browser can actually be.
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won't name it, but all international expansion is self funded (and it is more than 4 offices). we focus on a single industry, delivering enterprise products in a SaaS model. we're not public yet, so sorry for my dancing around.

think Workday, but profitable, growing 100% YoY ;)

and frugality is a mindset, not a problem. overall it is a very good way to keep the business successful, our founders are all industry veterans and have seen all the mistakes of the various bubbles before. our kitchens in the bay area offices have coffee, soft drinks, some granola bars and bananas - nothing crazy like chefs or a starbucks.

that business class thing is my only point of disagreement.
In that case they should have expedited a cheque in the mail. I thought they are offering money so we aren't tempted to sell it to malicious parties.
>I'm not sure that blockbuster-type movies could get funded using kickstarter-type funding.

I agree (for now), but i'm not sure this would be a bad thing. You might not be able to make Transformers 3, but you could make most (all?) of Hitchcock's movies.

Extravagance is a fairly recent trend in movies, and-- whilst i love some of the high budget movies-- i'm not at all certain it provides a great deal of benefit as a whole; the story trumps the effects.
Maybe we should measure in terms of time spent using the device rather than just raw device count. I have a suspicion that if you did that, Windows would come off a lot stronger due to time spent at work, and even if you factored in microwaves, they wouldn't be a big slice of the pie.
I think that's a misleading description. They do identify specific base pairs of your genotype (and you can download this data as a file), the difference is that they only identify a small subset of all base pairs, whereas sequencing identifies all of them.

More info: http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/23andme-moves-into-...
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
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Isn't this what your credit card company is for?

I had an issue where Paypal never refunded the $2 fee for verifying my account and instead pocketed the cash instead. I got my bank to issue a chargeback over the phone - it took all of five minutes.
Interesting, do you have any example of what you've done in 2012?
How does a retainer work? Fixed hours for fixed pay per month?
As confronting as it is, most of these seem to me spot on. Most of European history is indeed about war. Most of the African and Asian history that is written about is indeed about who colonized what.

It's a great map: it provides an easily digestible visualization of the limitations of history writing.
This would be an amazing demonstration of cultural relativism.

You used the "en.wikipedia.org" site for the source. Good. Now put a loop around the whole thing, and after you're done making the English-"history-of ____" map (which you have just done), repeat with the French - "history of___ map", and so forth for every language that has entries (some may be blank for some countries).

Next, you can take your 40-80 or whatever maps (whichever languages you decided to complete this for), and translate them via automated translation into English.

So, we get "the different language Wikipedia's different views of the world", with English (untranslated) being only the first source, and additional sources both native and translated directly into English.

For example, while for Russia, "soviet" won out from the English-language

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

going from http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%... (by clicking "Russian" on the interwiki link on the left) I would be interested in what the most common word is on THAT page :).

This would be an awesome example of cultural relativism.
Sublime Text 2 and Tomorrow night scheme was a real discover for me.
Presumably they make movies, music, etc, in rural Bulgaria, priced commensurately with the local market? To turn the analogy a bit--rural Bulgarians can't afford to import American call girls, why should they be able to afford American movies?
I was saying that to due to the fact that it's true for each and every photo, even the guys I find attractive are in the front rows. I felt that the photos were slightly weird because of that. Additionally, I think many things about the logo are sexist, the needle and stitch thing is more sexist then any comment I made.
" a new twist: the merger of the private sector, DHS and the FBI means that any of us can become WikiLeaks, a point that Julian Assange was trying to make in explaining the argument behind his recent book. The fusion of the tracking of money and the suppression of dissent means that a huge area of vulnerability in civil society – people's income streams and financial records – is now firmly in the hands of the banks, which are, in turn, now in the business of tracking your dissent."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coor...
A python map reduce data store
Yeah, I'd be interested in doing an associative version of this (sort of like what we did for this[1]), though my mapping skills are not quite up to the author's/

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-peopl...
It would probably be better for usability to just have the tool on the front page. The first two steps of the tutorial - "Enter your text." and "Submit to Nitpicker." - will already be clear to anyone who has used a few web forms. You could then include a hint on the Analyze step that one can click on the issues to pop up the menu.

This would lower the barrier to using the tool, and reduce the amount of text and exposition new users have to slog through.
Do you find that balancing the business, marketing, and writing side of things comes naturally or is it something you have to force a bit? I can do it, but it seems like a grind versus learning new and rewarding software techniques.
Joe Biden tried to ban email encryption back in 1991
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Not sure about 2, or 3, but the interface could definitely do with some work. Screenshots are a big part of convincing potential users to download your app (once they've found it on the app store).

From a dev point of view it looks lazy (a jqm/phonegap app, using the standard theme with a few colour changes). I wouldn't download it because I'd assume the same amount of effort has gone into the functionality as the interface (not much).

From the average public point of view it doesn't look like a normal iOS app. Rightly or wrongly, design of the interface plays a big part in the success of a mobile app (at least for iOS apps anyway).

Of course, this is assuming that there are users out there who want an app like this and are finding it on the app store.
Then your GMail account is instantly locked for fraud activity, since you foolishly used the same account for everything. Good luck contacting them for support to fix it.
No, I said women in the field. Then I commented that /girls/ that I know. (people who are 17, 18, years old, which, if you're still living off your parents etc, you're still a boy or a girl)

I feel that even at my age, I am still a "girl" rather then a "women" personally.
Hands-on with Jolla's Sailfish OS
You get my upvote. It's long overdue that Google overhauls this.
It could have taken less time to call your CC company than to write this blog post.
Operating system is more than the kernel. I do consider for example Arch and Ubuntu to be different operating systems although both use Linux as their kernel.

Perhaps some people consider the kernel to be the OS and the userland to be whatever else. I am much more bent towards the thought of an actual distribution being the OS, and the underlying kernel being just one part of the OS as a whole.
Even the people who lived through actual battles (where technology and tactics would be relevant) tend to tell stories that are mostly about hunger, deprivation and being cold. Shooting people and executing strategic plans hardly ever figure in them.

And this makes sense: most soldiers spend most of their time waiting around for battles or marching from one battle to the next. The actual battles themselves take up very little of their time (even if they're extremely stressful).

The stories of those that lived through wars as civilians (the vast majority of people) of course never talk about technology and tactics as they had nothing to do with them.
Liberal arts graduates got something that 'STEM' graduates will be missing their whole lives: education. Education not in the sense of training in a specialized technical domain but in cultivation, in deeper understanding of their own cultural, historical, social, economical and political context. It is not surprising that the zeitgeist disregards those fields of study.
My flippant response would be to provide it to mozilla users where you are surely not charged. You didn't mention the site, so i don't know if you could just publish it there (surely that can be done with chrome extensions?) or just as a bookmarklet?
Only downside of that is that it might flag the account as being fraudulent.
PyProxy - Web Proxy Written In Python
Google, for a company that reputes to perform services, is probably the single most consumer-unfriendly company on the planet. Their customer care dept. consists of one crazy cat lady in a cabin in the hills of California. They've sold enterprise services for years (or pretend enterprise services, at least), sold multiple phones and devices, have the largest ad network on the Internet and they STILL don't have anyone you can call if things go wrong. Unless you're Kevin Rose and Google will get bad pub, they absolutely do not care about your problem. Shut up slave, or go back to Hotmail.

Your experience is not even irregular. I'd say this is the typical experience for people dealing with Google when everything doesn't go 100% correct.
Indeed, it sounds more like a way to verify an identity and having someone liable attached to the account.
I don't disagree with you. Actually, you're spot on.

The problem was the phrasing in the OP: "Inequality doesn’t just spring up without a context." That doesn't jive, because inequality doesn't need some "context." It's always there.
Wauw, so all that happens if you save dropboxs ass is that you get a special mention on their special page that very few people know about?

Why even bother to tell them then?
In a nutshell yes.

We also bundled in some additional value added services to that retainer.
The comments seem to prove why the map is useful. What would you like your countries word to be? Work to that end. Or find a word you like and emigrate.
Maybe you stopped reading after the first half of the article? The rest is about access to culture and teaching material.

Also, "free" is not the only aspect of the question. Please don't ignore e.g. Saudi people being grateful for access to material otherwise not available in their country.
Replace your instagram-appearance with ownStaGram on your own server
Unless Google retaliates somehow. I’d be surprised if they didn’t immediately ban or somehow freeze all of his Google accounts and services in response to a chargeback.
Yeah, we recieved an email about this, is it just the signup form out of alignment with the list or the entire thing?
Google is not anymore a company it used to be. They are now just in the process of streamlining their profits - closing down products that are not creating huge amounts of money , making free products into paid ones , over-promoting their social network and making lives of webmasters into roll-coaster rides by frantically updating their search algorithms .

I suppose Customer Support is the least of their concerns

But ironically enough as you have posted the problem on HN , it will surely be solved very swiftly less in the sense of customer goodwill but more of a PR move. This just reminds me of how are governments work - You have to know somebody from the inside to get the work done - and this is what Google is becoming.
It's appealing to me. I've got some Maildir (I think) archives sitting around, I've been contemplating feeding them into my GMail, but this seems like a neat and straight-forward way to do it. It's not like I need to interact with the e-mail anymore, it's at least three years out of date, but I've needed something from it a few times and it's fun to take trips down memory lane.
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And it probably would get your Google account locked for fraud, brah.

Free services are AWESOME.
"Those Hollywood movies would not be created if it was legal to distribute them for free."

I find this to be one of the most hilarious stances of IP advocates. Yes, $50+ million classics like Blade 2 might not be created without the monopoly system of copyright protection. IP apologists act like we would be in a movieless, art-free world if we got rid of copyright.
$280 a month? Is that maybe an employer plan that your wife is on?
If not, I've got to get more agressive in my insurance shopping. We haven't gotten a quote below $1000 a month for a family of four.
Last week I put most of my belongings in storage. I drove my cat & car down to the parents house for the holidays. Jan 1st 2013, I have 0 obligations. My "big plan" for 2013 is to have absolutely no plans. Pretty psyched :)
Ubuntu LTS (so currently 12.04)
It's a best practice because it gives the user as much possible as soon as possible, and because there are file size savings.

When you say

it would be better to have a placeholder there that is the same frame as the final image size, then have the final image appear upon completion

isn't that the quality of progressive jpegs?
Please describe what were your initial thoughts?
- Can I host a social network on my own server?
- what about privacy?
- what about security?
- are messages encrypted on client-site?
- is it possible for site-admins to read private messages between users?
- how far can I control my entries?
- who can see which informations?
- How can I leave the network?
- Can I transfer my data to another network?
- Is there an open api to connect from another application?
From what I can tell, it's not responsive.
Mechanism: I wrote myself a Google doc with my new year's resolutions and I'm going to set Astrid reminders to review them quarterly (let's say at the end of March, June, September, and in time for 2014's resolutions). I agree with @kator's comment that it's totally arbitrary. Maybe, but it's convenient!
Also I'm sharing it here to make myself feel like I'm obligated to someone. :)

The full doc would be boring to put here, so here is the tl;dr version:

1. Productivity
2. School
3. Fitness

Slightly longer version:

1. Productivity - primary goal: "I will be productive and inspired all the time." Practically, this means wasting less time, doing more personal coding projects, learning new skills, and other things.
My first task in this goal is to finish reading and start implementing GTD.
A couple of inspiring discussions:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979938
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982649

2. School (I am a master's degree student) - primary goal: "I will finish all my course requirements and at least 70% of my thesis research and writing". (The definition of 70% is "feels like 70%".)
Secondary goal: "My school time will be much more relaxed and awesome than it is currently, and I'll leave more time for side projects, side work, and personal stuff."

3. Fitness - primary goal: "By the end of 2013 I will be stunningly sexy."
Inspiring discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196
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Don't get me wrong, I think there is a ton of valuable information in the path of transitioning from: salaried engineer -> freelancer/consultant -> standalone product sales, and I'm glad you (and others) have shared your experiences.

I also think these ebooks/courses people are producing probably contain tons of useful information to the folks that buy them.

There's just something that makes me feel weird about the way these information products are being bandied about to the audience on HN.
A picture says more than words: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/pycoders.png/

Edit: It seems to be caused by the sign up form. If I delete that in Firebug the content is centered correctly. This code seems to fix it:

#mc_embed_signup {
position: absolute;
}

#templateContainer {
margin-top: 136px;
}

Not a very nice solution but it works.
Why we’ve decided to stop producing TNW Magazine for Android
var self = this; why do people bother with 'this'?
Actually, I think "the application" is the antithesis of the Unix philosophy. The browser is an example, into which we're pushing more and more stuff. That said, it's certainly a spectrum, and this seems a big improvement over any other browser I've seen. I have some speculations about how to do better still but they're entirely untested...
Standard "I'm not a fanboy" disclaimer here.

1) On my system, the square of the app you're switching to is shown brighter. I don't know why it doesn't happen on yours.
2) Alt always used to be bound (it didn't pop up a textbox, it selected the menu), especially in Windows (it might have been different in Gnome, I can't remember now, but I think it wasn't).
3) There's a control panel with all the configuration elements, but yes, compizconfig is a maze, and I don't think it's even installed by default.
4) I find this extremely frustrating too, it's the same on OS X. You open two terminals, you only get one button.
5) Same as OS X again (I don't know why you say it doesn't work like the Mac, when it's exactly the same). Alt+tab switches apps, Alt+` switches windows, like in OS X. I hate it.
6) Yeah, I don't know why they can't bundle Chromium in a PPA by default.

Ultimately, we're an entirely different market from regular users. The average "Linux on the desktop" user doesn't care about readline shortcuts, or configuration, or pressing the alt key. They want all their programs in a dock, and all my family/friends whom I've switched to Ubuntu (to decrease my support time, and it worked fabulously) swear by it.
step-backward and step-forward look awfully similar.
I just use it in the mobile Web browser; I wish I didn't have to say "no thanks" every time.
The author wants to publish a Chrome extension. Disputing the charge will not help in that goal.
Unicode rxvt reflows text too. Only other terminal that does outside of the osx terminals.
I didn't either. It's definitely good for recording things but I think OneNote has other strengths that make it way better.
What was the first one?
Cool, what are you going to make? And what did you make before?
What struck me is that $1M in revenue from 10 people is low.
I could try that, thanks for the suggestions. The website is of the Dutch public transportation system, the part where you can view which trips you've made with your electronic travel card. It was designed completely from the viewpoint of the system, not that of the user. I.e.: Instead of seeing how much each trip costs, you see what got subtracted (a sort of deposit) when you checked in, and what you got back when you checked out. etc etc. Once I can publish the extension I'll write another post with the details...
Because American movie as a stream of bits is not a product. It is information. Information should be free regardless of it's contents. There should be no such thing as "copyright infringing pattern of bits" for example. Yet it exists, if I haven't paid for a right to "consume" the "content". How do you enforce this? At what cost?

You can not fight technology, you can not stop it. It is inevitable that information will become free.

Luckily, it is now easier than ever to enjoy cross-cultural content in digital form.

I am not advocating for a society where one doesn't get paid for the content they provide, but rather for a society where information is free. Where information is not scarce. Where anyone can benefit from the works of others. Sharing is caring! Stop competing, start co-operating.
Would this scale if you're editing the videos manually?
I didn't say we wouldn't have movies. I said we wouldn't have big budget Hollywood films. Which would be fine with me, but those are the subject of the major traffic on TPB.

That's the part I find tremendously disingenuous. All this tall about art--there is a ton of great free or cheap art. Indie movies, music, etc. But people don't want that. They want the high budget entertainment products. Well, it's the copyright system that makes those products viable. Without copyright, you'd have lots of art, but not the kind the torrenters are interested in.
NHK Creative Library
I think this is a an easily believable lie.

People in developing countries almost exclusively do not have a personal computer and internet connection at home or work they can use to download stuff. They have basically three options:

- buy movies and console games on the street 1000x faster and cheaper than downloading and 100% reliably

- pay by the hour in an internet cafe to download to their usb stick or dumb phone / mp3 player, very heavily restricted by time, price and storage capacity

- offline sharing amongst friends/family

TPB is just a playground for rich kids in rich countries to download everything they want in exchange for viewing a smorgasbord of advertisements and affiliate links and dodgy spyware offers.
Interesting, thank you. I should think about doing that with a few small clients as well.
That can only get the money back, while the author would
clearly prefer he get the service he paid for months ago (and be able to deploy/promote his software).

Complicating the transaction with a dispute/chargeback could make that real goal even harder to achieve, not just by making the previous purchase attempt appear 'unpaid', but also perhaps giving his account/card a 'uses chargebacks' flag within Google.