skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And second I wish the author wouldn't try to ram his point about tax down. He's looking back at his life and saying taxes gave me a leg up and ignoring the places where low taxes and regulation did the same (the private school, AOL).

Furthermore, millions of others avail themselves of the same benefits without anything close to this result. He seems to imply that without the help of "the taxpayers" he would never have made it, but honestly both he and his mother sound like the sorts of people who would have "found a way"
It was standard practice for typing on a typewriter which wasn't proportionally spaced. For some of us, especially when using monospace fonts (e.g.: in a terminal or text editor) text still looks wrong when a sentence-ending period, or a colon, aren't followed by two spaces. Contextually, it's a useful indicator to distinguish between an abberviation followed by a capital letter, vs. the proper end of a sentence. This isn't usually a problem, though it can be. Much as the Oxford comma isn't desperately needed until it is.

So I asked the Dr. Parent should we conduct the confirming test?
It's not cognitive dissonance; it's a relevant distinction in the law.

Adults aren't responsible for the actions of other adults (generally, and with respect to piracy). So while an IP address can identify a group of adults, it can't ever identify which one was committing piracy.

But corporations are typically responsible for the actions of their employees, that is, they are vicariously liable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_liability. Under at least some circumstances, if a studio's employees are committing piracy, the studio is also liable for that piracy. As long as the IP address corresponds to that corporation, it's "close enough" to signal legal liability (under some circumstances).
Ask HN: How to code for humanity?
I am interested in spending a year doing coding for humanitarian purposes and as the Code for America application process is closed for 2013, I am looking for alternatives. Doesn't necessarily have to be just like CFA or even in America, but I would like to spend a year getting better at coding while making the world a better place. Any suggestions?
I am not against fat models. However, the point of separating code into tiers makes it cleaner. The author does approve of concerns. His point is models are becoming too fat over time and people need to follow techniques like concerns and use cases to take out business logic. Essentially something already well known in other platforms is unknown in these communities.
I'm 21 and learned using the two spaces method. I still do it instinctively, I've been trying to unlearn the behaviour though.
Did OP just break the Victoria's Secret Web Site Terms, Conditions
and Notices? Were it enforceable, what sort of penalty could OP face?
Android has the features you're looking for.
So this submission is, itself, against the terms and conditions.

In case you're wondering, the specific sentence is in the section called "Special Notice" and the sentences starts with the word "Linking"
The irony is that the first chapter is about advanced category theory and chapter 2 is about monads.
It probably has something to do with the sentence preceding it about SEO.

"Specifically, the use of our trademarks or names in metatag keywords is trademark infringement, and the use of trademarks or names in page text, metatags, and/or hidden text for purposes of gaining higher rankings from search engines is unfair competition."
The relevent text, for the lazy:

> We have a no-tolerance policy regarding the use of our trademarks or names (e.g., of Victoria's Secret, Victoria's Secret Pink, or Pink Nation) in metatags and/or hidden text. Specifically, the use of our trademarks or names in metatag keywords is trademark infringement, and the use of trademarks or names in page text, metatags, and/or hidden text for purposes of gaining higher rankings from search engines is unfair competition. Linking to any web page on this Web site is prohibited absent our express written permission. Associating or juxtaposing our Web site or its Materials (e.g., through framing or inline linking) with advertisements and/or other information not originating from our Web site is expressly prohibited.
Military strategy? Some people have ambition of world domination I suppose but in all seriousness all you need is The Art of War. Oh yeah the link in the second computer science thread is bad.
Jack Dorsey talk - The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration
So.. Does Google obey these TOS? And - are they obliged to?
I can't encode my video files or music with Opus because you can't arbitrarily seek the track without backing up around 80ms and playing back up to the point where I want. So it isn't available in webm containers yet for that reason.
Just got this from macports ("port install gtypist") and I really struggled with it using the HOME position. I can type about 105-110 WPM (typeracer.com) but I don't use the HOME position like gtypist wants you to. My default finger position is:

Left hand: sdfv
Right hand: njkl

Anyone else?
So?

This shows that there exists employees of anti-pirate companies who themselves pirate. This doesn't prove that, say, the head of these organisations-- who are the ones setting these policies and conversing with the media-- are the ones doing the pirating.

I can't be a surprise to anyone that people's moral compass doesn't consistently align with their employers.
Ahh..The old "starving philosophers". If you were going to make me pick 5 thngs I could remember from my CS courses, this would probably come in at 4 or 5.
That changing of the cost structure exactly.

It is much harder than it looks like to do, and is exactly the sort of change that existing industries routinely fail to do, leading to their demise.

I believe that in 20 years SpaceX will have serious competition. I'm pretty sure it won't be Boeing or Lockheed-Martin.
> I don't write poor quality movie reviews anyway, then rage on anyone who tells me that my taste in movies isn't so good. That's some American Idol shit right there.

Quit being disingenuous. You didn't just tell me that my taste in design isn't so good, you urged me to go get trained in design before I'm allowed to speak about it. You're entitled to your opinions regarding film, and I'm entitled to mine that your reviews reflect poor taste in film. I will not, however, tell you that you're not allowed to write about film until you've graduated film school. There's a difference.

I have no idea what "American Idol shit" is supposed to mean.

> You are arguing against both (many) trained designers and heavily up-voted items -- don't you think that means anything?

Actually, my comment bitching about you and loud designers like you in the other thread is the single most heavily upvoted comment on any account I've ever had. Put it this way: it singlehandedly gave me downvote privileges on this relatively new account.

I think many people in tech, myself included, are tired of know-it-alls that poopoo everything that doesn't meet their standards. You are that, and the worst kind; the one that appeals to "taste" and other ivory tower ideals in their zealotry to squash all things below them.

> There's no arrogance or elitism here, it's self-awareness.

The absolute last thing you are is self-aware.
The need for an ethical search algorithm
Why is this being submitted now? This is not recent.
What a terrible idea. If people don't want to stay for even a year, they don't need equity in a startup. That's what salary is for. And getting 1/4000th of the first year's equity grant after the first month won't motivate anybody who understands math, which is probably a trait that startups are looking for.
I'd rather ask why Google didn't make vp8 defacto on youtube instead of adopting h.264, let the Apple mobile devices flounder without support, and push really hard on Android manufacturers to hardware accelerate vp8 (or 9 now). They could have taken over the online video market, and gotten webm as the video tag standard easily. Instead the last 5 years played out in a battle of attrition because nobody actually uses webm media excusively the way big media uses h264.
My comment has nothing to do with the law.
python of course
I think you drew the opposite inference from what I intended. Postal mail is more protected because the Post Office is (was) an organ of the government. As an organ of the government, it is restricted by the 4th amendment as to what it can do with your mail.

E-mail is different because the intermediaries are non-governmental third parties. The idea is that you do not give up your expectation of privacy by giving mail to the Post Office to deliver, because you know the Post Office is limited by the 4th amendment, while you do give up your expectation of privacy by giving mail to your e-mail provider, because you know your e-mail provider has no obligation to protect your privacy.
But will one of the studios have the MPAA or some other org file lawsuits against that studio? So what if it was just a few low level people doing it - it happened with the studio's equipment. All of them were gung-ho to send threatening notices to university campuses when some students were pirating. Either their policies should be enforced across the board, or they lose any moral weight in this discussion (which, ftr, I think they lost ages ago).
I just discovered this program and immediately installed and tried it out. I do not like the fact that backspace seems not to work correctly after when mistyping a letter. It is strange as well having 2 spaces at the end of phrases. I would like a nice typing tutor program for the Unix console.

Some months ago I discovered the program "Klavaro". It exists for Linux and Windows (and maybe others). I quite like its behavior when typing the text, including handling typing errors.

Update: I just discovered, that I judged too quickly. The behavior seems to depend on lessons. For example in Lesson V19/3 there is text that you just overwrite. And when making errors you can come back with the backspace.
I can't help but wonder if they could avoid using copper.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/09/23/british-t...
Alice Munro: "The Love of a Good Woman"

Ms. Munro is a masterful storyteller. Each story is different, some you may enjoy more than others, some you will struggle through, all are boutique crafted.
Short answer: No.

Longer answer: It will take a lot more work to adapt Java SE to mobile devices. Android Java has had years to refine this adaptation. For example, Android's JIT strategy is very different from from the Java SE JIT.

While there is nothing in this that is insurmountable - the source code is all there - it does take resources and commitment to catch up.

At this point, Android Java is the de facto interactive Java application environment, not Java SE. Many of the top Java best-sellers on Amazon are Android books. And there are products available for running Android apps in OSs other than Android.
I use that one a lot. Roughly one 9/11 every month, continually, and nobody really cares.
> Linking to any web page on this Web site is prohibited absent our express written permission. Associating or juxtaposing our Web site or its Materials (e.g., through framing or inline linking) with advertisements and/or other information not originating from our Web site is expressly prohibited.

There are a bunch of websites with similar "restrictions".

A notable example is from the UK: The Shetland Times vs The Shetland News (http://www.linksandlaw.com/linkingcases-deeplinks.htm#Shetla... Times v. Shetland News) Mentioned on the talk page of the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Shetland_Times)

British American Tobacco is a good example of a site from a company with too many lawyers: (http://www.bat.com/group/sites/uk__3mnfen.nsf/vwPagesWebLive...)

> [...] and you may make use of the embedded share button and Email a Friend functions to share parts of this website via the particular social media networks or by email (using the Email a Friend function) as applicable. Other than as stated in these conditions of use, you may not make any part of the website available as part of another website, whether by hyperlink framing on the Internet or otherwise unless you have been authorised to do so in writing by British American Tobacco.

Guess I've just broken their TOS?
Or that the role of the US Government, as presently practiced is to do anything other than funnel tax money to crony capitalists. Take it form the middle class and give it to the plutocrats.
Apparently you can do this with Home Sharing (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819). Initially you will need to use the same Apple ID across all devices to download the apps you want to share. Once they have been downloaded and authorized, you can then sign in with a different Apple ID and use the 'shared' apps fine. I have not personally tried this, but there is plenty of evidence that this works from scanning a few Google search results.
I think that the most important idea may be in the title.

Yes, every new platform or framework reinvents the wheel, because they are almost all designed to do basically the same things, like CRUD.

I think the only way to avoid reinventing the wheel is to to adopt a common machine-processable abstraction that is at a higher level than the language and domain and use that to build the language and platform. Some type of knowledge representation maybe. Of course I'm not suggesting that is an easy thing to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_re...
Don't sign other peoples' device into your iCloud account.

What you want is to have each person have their own iCloud account, but then do all the iTunes store purchases under a separate account. This is obviously tricky if you already have a single iCloud account which has a lot of iTunes purchases. There is no way out of that.

If you're completely new to iOS, or are old enough to have an iTunes account that pre-dates iCloud and thus likely have a separate iCloud account, you are golden :)
> You could create a new account for each kid. At a mininum, this means that you have to re-purchase all the paid apps from every account.

That's what apple wants, and that's also what a lot of other companies try to do (steam ? kindle ?).

I'm interested in the outcome of this if one day someone takes it to court in the EU. I don't know for other countries but I know that here in France it was ruled several times with "old medias" (box games, books, music cd, ...) that when buying one it was your right to share it with your household (I'm simplifying a bit it, but basically you shouldn't have to buy a new copy for each person as you had the right to share one). I'm pretty sure whoever seriously tried to push for court would get a settlement offered pretty quick to avoid any judgment on the matter.
Legal distinctions may have no bearing on your ethical judgments, but they may for other people -- and an explanation of other people's ethical judgments is what you asked about.

Edit: I don't wanna get in an internet fight, dude.
SRT Shifter
A command line tool that synchronizes SubRip files!
You can have a spectate iCloud account for each child. And if you want to redownload apps to their devise just log in with your iTunes account. iCloud and iTunes accounts do not need to be the same email.
I wouldn't class Ready Player One as the best book of 2012, but it was certainly enjoyable (when I read it in 2011). I prefer This Is Not A Game and Pattern Recognition in this genre; also worth checking out is Tad Williams' Otherland series.
What happened to OpenStack? Is nobody supporting that?
You're absolutely right, I agree. But I thought something like that, what if you had another account only for use with iCloud etc. and an account for purchases and to setup other iDevices?
You do not have to re purchase apps for new accounts, you just need to use itunes to transfer/share apps.

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/share_iphone_applicat...

This seems to be a way around having to use itunes
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57467103-285/how-to-shar...
Thinking about it, there is a possible way out if you don't have separate iTunes/iCloud accounts already.

If you're not using the email address on the iCloud account with all your iTunes purchases, simply sign yourself up to a new one and migrate your data over, then remove contacts/calendars/etc from the account with all the purchases and use that one for signing into the iTunes store on all the family's devices.
This is not quite correct. While the setup should most probably be made easier and more apparent it is quite possible and even not that hard to setup properly those family devises.

The main idea is that you use common 'itunes' account to share your app purchases between the devices but you can have separate iCloud, iMessage and other account. in fact many of the services have per-service apple-id configuration.

A quite comprehensive overview can be found at http://gigaom.com/apple/how-many-apple-ids-should-your-famil...
Robots.txt is only an indication of which pages should/shouldn't be visited.

Instructions about which pages can be included in a search engine's index (and hence linked to from results pages) would go in a meta tag on the relevant page.

Very large sites would love to see a 'noindex' parameter in robots.txt; sadly it's not there.
Google Apps Moving Onto Microsoft’s Business Turf
Terrible idea, and based on the title of your blog, it's no surprise to me that you'd like all your equity in year one.

There are reasons for 3,4 or N year vesting - namely keeping employees invested in the business. If employees at a startup turned over every year, it simply wouldn't survive.

Salary is used to keep employees for a year. Salary and/or equity is used to keep employees for a meaningful period of time. There will always be the ones there to simply collect a paycheck, and likewise there will be ones who stick around for their 50,000 shares of equity without doing the math to realize their potential upside near 0.
The most I've ever seen for general sale in Canada is 150 proof rum.
While I certainly can't answer your question, you did make me think of something interesting:

Since the internet as a whole acts more and more like a slow brain, and since the internet influences how we act as people more and more (e.g. everything from groupon deals to the Arab Spring), perhaps humanity as a whole is beginning to act like a decentralized network brain!

I recognize there's nothing particularly novel or useful about what I've just said. It's just an interesting visualization.
If pedantry in the law has influenced your ethics that much, it's hard to call those "ethics".
It Starts With Food was the book that has had the most significant impact on my life this year. Power, Speed, Endurance, which I recently got, has a shot at being the next most impactful.

Among Others was one of the most enjoyable fiction reads. Beautiful. Prep was also surprisingly good, and not something I would usually have read.

Leading So People Will Follow surprisingly insightful and clearly actionable.

The Big Nerd Ranch's guide to iOS development carried me through last Christmas and the new year admirably. I haven't really read many programming books this year but it stands out as being well crafted.
Are you guys still using Perl? I'd love to work with you guys, but I'm not a Perl guy.
Specifically there is the Galaxy Player (http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-YP-G1CWY-XAA-4-Inch-Galaxy/dp/...). I had to look it up as I was unaware of any comparable device. The price is comparable to the IPod Touch as well.
Hum, VLC, XBMC and pretty much all the players have a time shift option for subtitles.

I could understand why you'd want to save it again, but shifted subtitles don't usually have a fixed time shift, but rather they drift. Which is why synching them at play-time usually turns out better.
>The war on terror is... about preventing fear.

Many people would argue exactly the opposite
I doubt they strictly enforce this. It's most likely there so they have the power to have links removed if they think it is hurting their rep.
Reading this reminded me I can `brew install gtypist` rather than piss about with make. Thank you.
I think it's possible to likely that Apple would implement something along the lines of sub-accounts for iOS, so that you could hand your iProduct to your kid without worrying that they could read your email, delete pictures, whatever - but it wouldn't be a real account, more like an alias with different settings, but still based on the same apple id.

It's less likely that apple will do a "family plan" - they seem to be pulling away from that model - there are no family plans on the osx app store as far as I know - on the other hand, the osx App Store is way less constrained than the iPhone store (you can install purchases in multiple macs) - I think Apples argument would be along the lines of "when most apps cost less than $10, it shouldn't be a problem to buy them 5 times if 5 people want them"
No, this is not what Apple wants. They make (practically) no money from people buying more apps.

It’s just a bad user experience they haven’t fixed (hopefully yet). Apple’s main goal is and will always be selling more devices. That’s how they make money. If they do sell more devices (as was the case here) it is not in their best interest to make you jump through hoops.

You fail to understand at a fundamental level what kind of company Apple is.

(By the way, this is not what Apple wants for the simple reason that you already don’t have to repurchase anything. You can put apps on any and all devices you control, the problem is just that you have to transfer them using iTunes – and that’s a train-wreck Apple seems to be unaware of. But it is possible.)
Tech-News Web-Crawler, Built on Node.js and jQuery
For a project I'm working on, I wanted to aggregate together a technology news from tons of sources. I felt that it would be worthwhile open-sourcing this technology

1) because I think the plugin-based approach is neat, and worth showing people.

2) because I'd love to have other people contribute crawlers for their favorite news sources.
Now I know that half the facts I know are probably wrong. But which half is that fact in?
Erlang/Haskell

Acoustic Guitar

Drawing

Exercise

Mobile Game

B2B app
Yes! I work for a commercial mathematics company that does OR consulting. We deliver our tools to our customers via SaaS and the user base is basically nothing in comparison to what I have scaled for in the past. The biggest problem we have is writing maintainable code at speed, performance is only a concern on a UX side and is easy to manage.

Not everyone is on the same growth path.
EDBC is Emacs-Lisp-based data access technology
I'd love to know what the link between Victoria's secret and British American Tobacco is.
>I was literally minutes away from being on a bullet train from Shanghai to Beijing that killed "x" people. Chinese authorities cite incredibly low numbers for a train traveling at 300 km/h. Most non-state observers cited hundreds of deaths. China slowly grew its number from 20-40.

I'm unfamiliar with this, is it a reference to bullet trains running over people who somehow got on the tracks?
There is a reason that stock options are called Golden Handcuffs.
I guess I have a small problem with this use of the word "fact" which to me is something provably true. What this piece is actually saying is that half of scientific theory is probably wrong.