skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The military kills people. We stopped caring whether those people were civilians during WWII.

Uh, one might regret that civilian deaths were ignored during one or another time period (and they've been ignored many times). But putting it as "we've gotten away with this killing, now we have carte blanche, forever" is rather objectionable.

A balanced view of the overall toll of war is nice but we shouldn't dismiss one concern simply with the excuse that it doesn't mention another.

Another reason people object to drones is that they are weapon of, uh, terror, in the sense that having flying, killing machines around terrifies far more people than are actually kiled by the drone (the use of aircraft to inspire terror has always been part of its military use btw).

Edit: Also, the talk of "friends" and "enemies" is glib and doesn't reflect the situation is Afghanistan. It is a counter-insurgency war where most of the population is civilians that are neither "friendly" nor "unfriendly" off-the-bat. But keep your drones in the air long enough and it seem like you will find a hostile civilian population.
Linux 3.8's features staked out
Agreed. "Western medicine" only exists as half of a false dichotomy.

If the doctors so labeled really were stubborn and close-minded, then we would still perform blood-lettings and chew tree mark (instead of just the active ingredient). Instead, these doctors are more open to new information; they're just willing to also incorporate the evidence against efficacy so often ignored by "alternative medicine" practitioners.
Sounds like the photo itself may or may not be deleted, but the keys definitely are. Though the "two days" part is a bit of a misnomer as the key backups exist for 90 days. Even if they are deleting the db copy of the photo, they probably aren't going the whole hog and clearing it out of backups,etc (as mentioned elsewhere) so this is why the keys are relevant.
If the designer was particularly paranoid, they could be keeping the keys in RAM only (on machines without swap, of course). If the keys never touch disk, easier to purge them and know they're gone.
I stand in direct opposition to alarmist article titles.
> The problem is that there's a limited amount of supply of real estate. Everyone wants real estate, so market participants bid up the price until supply and demand match.

In most developed countries, real estate prices are artificially inflated by restrictions on the construction of new housing stock.

This is far from a simple case of supply and demand.
It's secretive because "GNU is not about openness".

I personally believe it's okay to have a "cabalistic" mailing list, the problems are: 1) that the open mailing lists (bug-standards, gnu-system-discuss) are basically unused; 2) that rms is trying to make some topics (e.g., discussing if something could be used as a GPL loophole) taboo even for gnu-prog-discuss.
Currently using a TL-WR703N to build my own nest thermostat. Very cool device.
The biggest fallacy in this way of thinking is the notion that your idea is "original" in the first place. Maybe you're the first to market, but that doesn't mean there weren't 10 guys a month behind you, and it doesn't mean that your idea and execution can't be improved upon.

While it's easy to list unoriginal innovators (Ford, Edison, Eastman, Jobs, Gates) I can't name anyone that's had a truly original idea that no one else soon before or after thought of. That's because our ideas are improvements upon current technology. DaVinci didn't imagine things like the Apple I because electricity hadn't been harnessed. All of the great innovators we talk about didn't invent the entire world around them, they just took an idea and added their own "claim to fame" to it.

It seems to me that chances are your idea won't be even remotely original, but more likely it's just now technically feasible to build. I'm sick of hearing about software patents "stifling innovation" then seeing people act as if there isn't enough protection of intellectual property.
I'm pretty sure Hamas doesn't really care about precision.
I sure wish I could get a front page with 300 articles instead of 30. Yes, I can use bigrss if I want the awkward interface and restricted data about each article that RSS readers provide. And, yes, I can just click the "more" button...wait...again...wait...oh the heck with it. Even if I go through all that and actually read an article on page 3, the more button will die while I'm reading and return its "too bad for you" timeout message if I try to get to page 4.

What I want is a very long front page that I can use to explore the past few days' articles without the annoying not worth the trouble to read beyond the front page current interface.
Blue-collar knowledge workers will save the economy
There was recent discussion on HN when the company tried to revoke its ggpl license, but then renegged.
The developer CEO is trying to prove or disprove the model in his own head.

Whereas the Sale Guy CEO is trying to allow a model to form in his head.

I think you will learn more using the second method. But for a programmer to accept the second view is very hard. It requires us to shut the eff up.
He made a good point here in eliminating unnecessary risks (for him, dropping out of college) by retaining as much optionality for as long as he can, and at the same time working hard at his startup. As an entrepreneur there are lots of risks in running a startup, a lot of which are not within the founders' control (traction, market direction, etc). Managing risk is an important part of managing one's psychology as a founder.

Leo's story is one of humility and gratitude - I have always found them(the Buffer team) as an inspiration not just because of their startup's traction (which can be unpredictable) but more because of their character, endless seeking of improvement professionally and personally, and passion in giving back to the startup community.
If by "basic experience of programming", you mean 10+ years of experience or a Stanford/MIT/Berkeley degree, and by "western world" you mean Silicon Valley (and a few other very select areas, all of them within the US), yeah, I agree.

Outside that, the number of decent opportunities you'll get as a developer will be too low for you to be picky.
sed 's/,/ /g' myfile.csv | ... works as well
That feature wasn't present when I started using it a month or so ago. It made it impossible to find friends on it.
Rather annoying that you can't yet buy the $8 version on their site. It's out tomorrow.
If you can afford to do it on this scale, there are probably better things you can do with your time and money.
like gnuplot?
I'm not aware there is a non-pejorative sense of the term "patent troll." Using it to cover pure IP companies puts ARM, MIPS, etc, into the patent troll category.
I don't really understand this criticism. It's perfectly reasonable to want to install, for example, gnuplot to be able to do plots without depending on a networked service. But this is neat, and could be convenient if you're on a machine without plotting software installed. He didn't take away your gnuplot by creating this, so really, what's the problem? (On another note, for these types of graphs the gnuplot command is "plot", so I don't see why the author has trouble remembering that.)
@see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3642570
Yeah, but that's not what actually happened. "Free software" and "open source" are terms whose etymologies are fairly well documented, and many of us remember when and why they were coined. The term, "open source" in particular (as applied to software) was coined in 1998 to market free software to the types of businesspeople who equated "free" with "cheap, crappy, etc".

There's a documentary on YouTube that does a reasonably good job of telling the story of how and why this happened, including the conflicts between the various factions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaC8Pq9-V0
No, I do not have it backwards. The persecution of the Native Americans and Africans continued well after U.S. became a nation. Just because abuses started before the U.S. was founded, doesn't excuse the hypocritical foundation the U.S. was built off of.

No doubt that other European countries have their own bloody histories. However, the ease with which history is glossed over, and propaganda is spread regarding the supposedly democratic freedoms the U.S. ushered in, seems predominantly a U.S. issue.
Good lord. There's gotta be some logical fallacy named after this.

Yes, all these things happened by some fortunate cosmic happenstance. But that is true for everything. Take away a few key pieces from a flow in history, and the flow might not have taken place at all.

The point is that, statistically, such fortunate confluences happen all the time. Only a few produce a flow that blazes a trail. And it does have a lot to do with the characteristics of the people who find themselves at the cusp of it.

Could someone else have been as successful as Steve had these early things happened to them? Maybe, maybe not.

Could someone else have been as successful as Steve had some other set of fortunate events come together? Maybe, maybe not.

It is silly to take away from a person, and attribute it all to luck.
OK, a typical website acting alone can't know what DNS servers my local machine is configured to contact, and furthermore doesn't use such DNS sensing to geo-localize its content (the claim I was responding to).

But, with the technique you've described, a website coordinating with a DNS server can probe to learn one of the DNS servers that gets consulted (directly or indirectly) by my machine. Got it. Neat and useful trick.
Like any DRM this is easily defeated. I could run the app in a virtual machine and take the screenshot from the hypervisor or host machine instead. Or I can capture the network traffic. Or I can take a photo of my phone. And so on and so on.
Check the dates: the MIT course is "As taught in 2008".
This article says its 50 civilians killed for every targeted militant.

If true, that's horrific, and I'll be the first to criticize it. But I'm going to need to see some methodology on that before I believe you.

In particular, given that the above link established that 2% of drone kills were on media-confirmed terrorist leaders, that means your article is claiming all the other kills, all 3000+, have been on innocent civilians.

I find that a rather unlikely level of incompetence.
What is Facebook's monetization strategy for a feature that will be used primarily for 15 year olds sending each other naked pics? I can't believe they don't have one.
On ~what~?
Well, there is a python library that will render nice graphs on your computer in a variety of formats (on the screen, as a png/jpg/svg, etc).

http://matplotlib.org/

I'm not sure what rendering it in Node.js/D3 buys you on top of that.
'missing each of 8 pieces individually' is not 'missing a certain piece'.
They certainly used to have an appeals process, but apparently they no longer do.

I created a 'Downfall' parody video two years ago that was yanked by order of Constantin Films the day after I posted it. The notification from YouTube contained a link to dispute the DMCA notice, which I did, claiming fair use. YouTube restored the video almost immediately.

I would have been pretty pissed if I'd received this notice with no way to appeal the takedown.

Google, are you not even going through the motions of "don't be evil" anymore?
I disagree, I think timr is correct, and despite him being criticized for poor socialization, he is in fact picking up the subtle but obvious social and language cues that you and dmor either fail to notice or choose to ignore.

This is clearly a compare and contrast piece. He is contrasting what he took from the meeting with what the Developer CEO took from the meeting, with a heavy implication that those benefits were exclusive to each other. He says it more or less explicitly:

"I suspect in his mind the benefit of meeting was directly related to his perception of the quality of data in my answers."

Also look at the language construct used:

"Whereas he based the value of the meeting on the quality of the data I focus on how much I think I got an accurate snapshot of how the person thinks and operates."

The google definition of 'whereas' is "In contrast or comparison with the fact that.".

To possibly overthink social cues, I think that timr wrote a true but slightly condescending response to a slightly condescending article. Since engineers commonly are condescending to sales people, and since HN is filled with contrarians, someone felt obligated to stick up for the sales guy.
You can't clone the Network Effect.
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(Khan Academy dev here.) The datastore being a black box is a slight concern to me personally, but the really great tradeoff is letting Google handle the responsibility of keeping our persistence layer, among many other services, up and running. They're quite good at doing that.
24 damage happens 64% of the time, not 43%. Given that you can't use your spare attack elsewhere, the 3x damage even includes the pathway of the 2x damage event.

Another classic example of this randomness-pain is earlier versions of the Civ series, where you could lose tanks against pikemen or other ancient unit types. Not likely, but it hurt when it happened.
Sorry, I couldn't get past implied flattery of 'original ideas.' I'd say these are at least a million times more rare than people believe.
That's good to hear. My numbers were from some retailers I knew. Their biz must have been pretty skewed towards the holiday. Thanks for digging out that report!
Or the following python script:

import pandas
from pylab import *

d = pandas.read_csv(sys.argv[1])
plot(d[d.columns[0]], d[d.columns[1]])
xlabel(d.columns[0])
xlabel(d.columns[1])
show()

That'll just pop up a window displaying the graph. With 2-3 extra lines of code and more than 30 seconds of effort, I'm sure it would be easy to upload to imgur.

Example output: http://i.imgur.com/m7ooj.png
Meh. I dropped out for awhile, learned a lot, went back to college, learned some more. Dropping out should be a non-issue, something that just happens because you ran out of time. Making arguments for it just always struck me as apologetics.
The "take a photo of my phone" is the one that non-geeks can easily remember to do. And they will.
Nobody uses "open source" that way except for certain companies that are deliberately trying to create confusion. They would do so no matter what terminology was used.
Most businesses you are correct. My customers are not most businesses and never will be! :-)

Having customers you're excited to help succeed can not be underestimated as a valuable motivator. Most businesses aren't interesting to me, so I'm incredibly lucky that I'm in a space with really cool businesses. :-)
This article is completely wrong. I have read a few articles (I think there was one on TorrentFreak) on this point in the last few days that seem to completely misunderstand what property is and how intellectual and real property rights are related.

Firstly, 'property' is not a clearly defined concept. It has a series of features, which may not be present in all types of property. For instance, I might own real property which my local authorities put conditions on, forbidding me from building anything above three stories, or requiring a building permit before commencing works. Nobody would suggest that this is not my property though.

So what is property? Property at its core involves society granting one or more 'property rights' in respect of an object. Those property rights are all monopolies over certain things, such as a monopoly over possession, a monopoly over any profits etc etc. Each one of these rights can be individually cut off and assigned to a third party, or temporarily licensed to someone.

Which brings us to intellectual property, or more specifically in this instance, copyright. Copyright too is a grant of a series of monopolies rather than a single monopoly. The right to reproduce, the right to create derivative works etc are what is termed 'the exclusive rights' of copyright owners. What this article is describing is the exercise of those rights. Yes, when you purchase a DVD, you are not purchasing the underlying property. If you were, then you would be getting the film company's rights (which they may have spent hundreds of millions of dollars creating) for the very low price of $19.99 (or whatever you happened to pay for the DVD). Because they are granting you a licence, you get a limited licence for a fee.

If you don't like it, contact them directly and arrange terms of a different licence for a different fee. They have the power to do this because they own the property, not you. You might think you own the property but if you think harder about it, you own the physical DVD with its copy of the film, not the right to make unlimited copies of the film itself (which would amount to you owning the film, which is ridiculous).

The problem with Hollywood has nothing to do with some sort of fundamental flaw in the nature of copyright itself that we have failed to spot - it has to do with the failings of Hollywood to build a distribution model for the digital age that uses an online intermediary as a means of protecting property rights rather than suing individuals in a bid to make an example of people. It has to do with the fact that as Larry Lessig said, in the modern era, code is law - the software we create to protect things is more important than the laws we use to do so. The fact that it took so long for Netflix and Spotify to build businesses is proof of the fact that the code here hasn't kept pace with the law - if it had, we wouldn't have this problem. If the RIAA spent half their lobbying budget funding innovative new startups, they would have saved themselves a ton of money and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
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I don't get the commotion. In light of the analog hole [1], isn't this whole thing with Poke's privacy/encryption just a big pointless media/PR circus?

Unless I misunderstand something here, the other party can store your data indefinitely, and no amount of DRM lockdown can really change that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
Don't use that pay information openly during negotiation, at some companies that sort of thing is grounds for dismissal. ( I'm assuming that you're in the US, other cultures might treat it differently. )

More to the point though, it sounds like you don't enjoy the internship that much anyway. I'd suggest you look for a different internship on the side. You can always stay where you are if nothing else works out.
A rather deep research and clinical practice on working with the mind to cure the body has been conducted by John E Sarno.

The Mindbody Prescription [1] and The Divided Mind [2] are two of his books.

My interest in this started with the motivation to get some relief for the RSI-like symptoms and it's been part of my recovery for a few weeks together with the improved ergonomics.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Divided-Mind-Epidemic-Disorders/dp...
It's kitschy schlock that makes Horatio Alger look like Voldemort.
Most "stuff" decreases in economic value faster than money, so I don't really see the point you're making.
Curious to know if any B2B or other non-social hosting sites out there have been successful. Youtube is obviously the big 800lb gorilla in the room for wide distribution videos.
This is the first torrent I downloaded in probably 5 years, and I did so because the movie isn't released yet. I agree with the parent.
Hacking browser copy/paste to support Excel compatible clipboard in a web page
Yes, other atrocities have occurred at the hands of other countries. My post was mainly in reply to a critique specifically about the U.S.
I'm sure an update will be released in a week. Facebook likes to "move fast and break things".
The Rails Composer tool now offers a choice of Stripe or Recurly when you choose to generate a membership/subscription/saas application. There's a "crazy deep" (as @peterc likes to say) tutorial for each version.

Comparing Stripe and Recurly: It's faster to get going with Stripe (no merchant account required) but Recurly appears to offer more automated customer retention features (no need to implement webhooks to send dunning emails).
Gnome might get you something roughly comparable to Apple/Microsoft/etc, but without the GNU tools there is really no technical reason to prefer Gnome to Apple/Microsoft/etc.

Sure you could use NetBSD's userland instead of GNU, or BusyBox, or any other number of alternative userlands, but who actually does that? BusyBox is very popular, but only in all of the places that Gnome definitely is not.
Ten Thousand Hours
The assumption here being that big companies can simply "clone" another business. In reality, this is not the case.
Non exclusive means it is not an assignment. Copyright assignments are exclusive, and you need to own at least one copyright right exclusively to sue.
They also must be clear assignments to be effective.
At least every ASF agreement I have seen was a license, not an assignment

As for notice, you should ignore notices, they have no real meaning anymore. If they are wrong, they are just wrong, it does not give you any rights by putting your name on code you don't own copyright to. Additionally, for collective works, valid notice for one serves as valid notice for all owners.
Isn't the point not having to worry about presentation and messing the templates? Perhaps I just don't have your command line fu but I don't see how I could do what you are talking about in a single line/simply.
there's a summary of attempts here - http://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/146675-A-film-an-...
Ugh, seriously? DRM? Come on, it's a fun app for friends to send embarrassing pictures of themselves to each other. Obviously there's an "analog hole", but this isn't for incredibly confidential photos.
On my last tour I was assured by our (frankly gorgeous) guide that EVERY family has a PC. Or at least that's the plan.

We drew our own conclusions :)
I'm not sure which criteria he's using for "better", but these guys give you a lot, plus flexibility for nothing:

http://www.appfog.com/

https://openshift.redhat.com/app/
Use it every day and you'll probably think different about it.

(baz 33 (bar 12 (foo 33 (+ 1 42))))

Is way harder to read than:

(->> (+ 1 42)
(foo 33)
(bar 12)
(baz 33))
It's still a case of supply and demand, just that the supply of build able real estate isn't just about dirt. It's dirt with a road,sewage, power and legal status allowing dwellings.

The point still stands - even a radical readjustment in planning policies could maybe double land supply - but a type of moores law with land will never happen.
In this specific case, Snapchat vs FB Poke, it really is the case.
This is great. I would really love to see this tool with a curated list of recipes. The recipes from scraping are hit or miss. Please message me if you want to chat about it, maybe I can help.

I would also have a couple suggestions for improvement.
(1) include the recipe for how to make the cocktail, as opposed to simply the ingredients. This can make a big difference in the result.
(2) include an AND function for the ingredients search (eg. a search for pisco AND lime, I didn't see that this exists currently).
True Randomness = If you roll a six sided die 60 times, each side will NOT get chosen 10 times. 1 side(s) will get chosen more than others, another side(s) might not get chosen at all.

So for all you entrepreneurs, if you fail, don't fall into a depression. Sure you worked just as hard as everyone else, maybe even harder. And yeah it's annoying to see others surpass you even though you've got everything they do. But that's life, you just got a bad batch of rolls.