skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goalsontrack.com is one, it attempts to link your long-term goals with everyday tasks.
Sprite Tricks used in Amiga Games
via https://twitter.com/photonstorm/status/289508176397746179
You could handle withdrawals out of a float fund, without actually reconciling against the user funds until an offline process completes. This way, at most, your float is at risk, and it's your money, not the customer's.
Start charging people. Or hire someone to monetize it and give them a percentage of all revenue.
Depends on what you do in your app.

But if it was somewhat important, kill the application servers until you can be sure to have upgraded properly.
I want democracy to be about human to human negotiation. I don't want the basic unit of our society to be as abstract as one that would include corporations and unions (and computer programs? and other, smaller governments?). Corporations and unions exist to further human endeavors. To the extent that they aid individual humans, those humans will voice their support for higher-order structures. The higher-order structures should always be responsible to the entire field of individuals, and never granted moral status of their own.
For you nothing has changed then. This change doesn't benefit you in the slightest.
>Whatsapp has won messaging, text and instant. What will Twitter and Skype do?

Seriously? Operating a centralized walled garden does not satisfy any definition of won messaging when you consider the architecture of the internet.

Nobody has won instant messaging until they all interoperate on the same capacity that email is interoperable, defined by an RFC.
Trello does have Google Drive integration. You can attach files to cards from your Computer, Google Drive or Dropbox.
Ray Kurzweil On Future AI Project At Google
via https://twitter.com/photonstorm/status/289508176397746179
I wish my browser had a setting called "disable scroll events and position: fixed"..
Well, Java in its very core idea is supposed to be safe in the first place, because of the restrictive programming model that leads also to problems in efficiency. And if the entire idea of abstraction and safety does not work, what's the point of Java overall? I'd better use C++ then.
I suggest we start with the existing concept of a legal person. Lawyers, judges, and legislators already know quite well that a corporation is not a real person, which is why I referred to it as a 'legal fiction' above. The purpose of such a legal fiction is economy, that is not having to have two complete sets for rules for individuals and groups in matters of property, contract, and tort.

I would not begin with your definition above; I just gave a few obvious examples of why corporate personhood makes legal disputes an awful lot simpler for everyone involved, to the point where most people take it for granted. Corporations are the solution to legal problems involving collective action. Their history is intertwined with the development of modern democracy, as groups became a viable alternative to monarchs. If you want to understand the origin of corporations in common law systems, you may as well begin with the City of London Corporation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation
Nokia Sold 14 Million Smartphones In Q4: Planning To Switch To Android
is there some kind of animation of the purple tag at the top of the page that i'm missing? the svg image is only half visible, with a "string" above - https://waza.heroku.com/images/layout/logo-waza.svg
Teen Bieber Fan To 4Chan: Why Do You Want Me To Cut Myself?
seems like it lol... Thinkpad users probably do not even know what ycombinator is...
I see what they are saying but I don't understand their conclusion that we should focus our effort on increasing wealth.

So as a result of these findings we see that as wealth rises so does happiness... but the thing is the graph becomes logarithmic. Germans are only marginally more satisfied than Brazilians. To increase their satisfaction all they need to earn a whole lot more than they do already.

Doesn't this just prove or enhance the point that we should look beyond economic growth to drive our prosperity?
>Thus we loop over each item in the class dict and only append them to the list if they are not callable (i.e. not methods). Pretty slick and it doesn’t require any imports! But there’s an even easier way!

Actually, objects can be callable by implementing the __call__ method. The inspect.ismethod() is the better solution
FDIC insurance applies if the bank goes bankrupt (and has since the 1930s), ergo, I would still get my money back. It is not a matter of arbitration; banks have gone bust frequently enough that there is a settled procedure for issuing insurance proceeds to depositors of a failed bank.

Banks pay for FDIC insurance coverage as part of their capital requirements for being a bank.
Imgur Now Serves 3.6B Pageviews To 56M Visitors Per Month
I have strabismus and I can see 3d movies if it's the old kind with the red and blue tinted glasses. For the new ones I can't see the 3d, it just looks like the normal 2d but darker.
Seems like people on this thread are OK when Apple remotely fiddle with what they can and can't run on their own machine without a notice. Interesting times.
I'm wondering what happens to corporate Macs where the users require Java in the browser to do their job. Is there any kind of trouble Apple could get into for removing this without warning when corporations have specifically installed what they need to work?
Admittedly, I didn't try it in any real world setting, but my gut reaction was horror. Even reading through the example paragraph, I did not find the gradients as useful landmarks.

But it does make me wonder if other forms of spatial landmarks could be employed in large paragraph text. Perhaps enlarge the start of each, if only for a couple of words, in a way that quickly tappers back to the normal text height. Extreme run-on sentences might require subclauses to be highlighted similarly. Line spacing should accommodate the extra needed height, but remain regular, making the whole document appear double spaced.

At least, that is the picture in my head. It might not do any better than this Beeline reader.
Job offers are not demands
Your talking about multi-occupancy vs single occupancy, not temporary vs permanent structures. Not sure to which one the OP meant, though.
And trite sayings don't mean they are correct, either.

The social contract in the constitution was to grant people with limited exclusivity for works they created. Patents have roughly stayed within that parameter (with exception to patent abuses on design and software).

For copyright, it was originally 17 years, extendable another 17 years. Works released in 1981 (my date of birth) will expire in 120 years. I will be dead before they are in public domain.

The social contract was 'reneogiated' by campaign donations, without input from the people. The supreme court found that forever extensions the way congress is implementing them as 'constitutional' and it was Congress's problem.

So yes, I believe that should open up the debate on piracy as a legitimate solution.
Zynga could be considered evidence. There is nothing so special about other classes of applications that make them immune.
Yah - I've seen the same thing. It's more about working closely with founders and then, "oh yah that thing you were planning on adding in 6 months, I'm gonna do that now and steal your IP"
I think you're being a bit dramatic about little part of one sentence.

There are many application developers out there using Rails, PHP or Django who can go years without invoking locks or semaphores due to the strengths of the APIs and frameworks they use.

As they learn and grow as developers, they will be introduced to new problems and solutions. A semaphore can be exotic, not because they've never heard of it before, but because they've not used them very much outside of that one assignment they did in CS 5 years ago.

How about instead of criticizing people's eductions, we encourage them to be mindful about what they don't know, and to learn whatever they can when they get a chance?
I hadn't even heard of Whatsapp until I saw it mentioned here.
Pretty neat hack.

However, it's a bit odd that it parses the intended-for-humans NASM documentation instead of the machine-readable insns.dat that NASM actually uses to generate opcodes: http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git/blob/HEAD:/insns.dat
Every generation must discover, and embellish in its own way, panics about the "Imminent Death of the Net".
>To me the whole copyright extension issue is a good argument
>for justification of piracy.

There's very little pirating of content that is over 20 years old, so I'm not sure how the copyright extension thing would justify piracy...
Gold is inherently useful as a tangible object with exploitable physical properties. Gold, for example, has good conductivity and is used to plate electrical connections. Gold is also useful for its rust-resistance.

Thus, on this basis, like all useable physical goods, gold has some inherent value as a commodity.
Not sure what Zynga is evidence of?
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I suppose the idea of this article is supposed to be that since there is a lot of smart people and technology there it is ironic they can't get transit right.

However, Bay transit is very good compared to most of the rest of the US.

And it's not necessarily correct to assume that the great intellectuals in the area are drawn to working for public administration as bureaucrats.
The isDeleted flag is good because it gives the appearance that the data is gone, without removing the context of the data itself.

Immutable facts are great if you want to:

1) Avoid a large amount of updates/race conditions on your tables. Immutable facts, being immutable, can be done using purely inserts.

2) Want to keep a trail or context to the data you're storing. This has a benefit of keeping a log that you can later use to trace issues, behaviours or generate statistics. If you're keeping a state in a database column, without external logs you aren't able to check when or why that state changes. Immutable facts keep track of this for you, but require quite a bit more overhead.
I am not sure that "support on basically every platform" really qualifies as a language feature, but I can grant that it is a strong motivation for choosing C or C++. As for parameterized/typed/compile-time constructs, you can get that in other languages if you want it; in Lisp, you can get static typing as a macro library, and the support for compile-time processing in C++ does not hold a candle to Lisp's macro system.

Speed is overrated for C++. Ada and Lisp can compete with C++ on speed in any task except in cases where there is some special hardware that is giving you a speed boost and which only has tools that support C/C++ (and even then, language support tends to expand over time, so this will only really be a short-term gain). C and C++ actually constrain a programmer's ability to optimize code in some cases; CL-PPCRE, for example, is faster than libpcre because rather than set up a pointer structure and interpret a regular expression, CL-PPCRE creates a compiled, callable function that matches the regex. The lack of support for high-level features winds up hurting C++ in some cases, by forcing programmers to come up with their own way to accomplish the task, which is usually slower than what a mature compiler produces. On the other hand, there are compilers for high level languages that do allow programmers to do low-level optimizations; CMUCL and SBCL, for example, support a form of inline assembly, and have mechanisms that allow programmers to access low-level pointers and other constructs.

So really, what this boils down to is not that C++ is necessarily faster, nor that it's language features are unique, but that it is just a lingua franca of sorts that has some very limited support for some high-level features.
Laptops are useless with their hulking mass and short battery life. Netbooks rule the world: they always have three or more hours of battery life and they're so cheap you can replace them if they break. Which they don't. And everything works thanks to proven hardware.

I don't understand anyone buying non-Apple non-netbook laptops.
Being made obsolete by mobile.
That picture looks like a MBP though?
Ask HN: Is this fair compensation for Lead Developer at a start-up?
The company was founded by a friend of mine who is very passionate and driven, and has been working at it for ~5 years. They have approximately twenty employees working on content, all of whom are compensated through shares. They have significant traffic to their website, and are looking to have it redesigned from scratch. So far they don't have any revenue, but have recently secured investment on the condition of a working prototype.

I have an undergraduate degree in software engineering, and am currently working towards my master's. I have 5+ years of experience in building web applications. I will be the first real software engineer that they've had, since they've outsourced all of their development work so far.

My friend, the CEO, has offered me a trial run of three weeks, after which point we'll proceed based on the quality of my work. He said he'll offer around 5%/year, but it could be more or less, depending on the quality.

My question is: is this fair? Seeing as the product is a web application, I know that the actual execution is the key to whether the company fails or succeeds, and I feel like 5%/year isn't really reflective of that. On the other hand, I realize there's a lot more to running a company, such as finding the right people and building a reputation, and he's been at it for years.

From his perspective, I will just be another employee. From my perspective, it'll essentially be my job to make this thing work.

What does HN think? Any input would be appreciated :)
What the NHL Lockout Reveals About Capital and Labor
If a Linux distro released a kernel patch for a super-critical security vulnerability that lied about its nature, AND downplayed its importance, users would go apeshit (justifiably).
A lot has changed already since 1998. I don't think it is outside the realm of possibility that the current 2019 date could be allowed to lapse when it arrives, especially if we continue with raising awareness, lobbying/organizing efforts, trying to get notable/influential figures signing on to the cause, etc, for the next 6 years.

That would be a depressing "starting point" of progress, to be sure, but since it only requires inaction it might be more achievable than positive copyright reform that requires action, especially since everyone disagrees on the proper action to take.
Really? I was surprised the Chinese government didn't outright own them...
Nice idea but it breaks horribly if you have a smooth / bouncy scroll plugin (like Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller) installed. I don't know if it's easy to detect plugins in Chrome any more, but if you can't you might want to mention that somewhere up front. The one I use has a button in the browser UI to turn it off on a given page.
I use Trello (https://trello.com) for personal TODO and to work https://www.activecollab.com/
I doubt that they do it to prevent copying. I can access every article from the newspaper on their website as nicely formated HTML.
> Oh wait, except that then government cannot tax you, of course.

There are actually some voices saying that Bitcoin needs a taxation protocol.
Like all grandiose sayings, this one is demonstrably false.

Consider the startup we all love to hate, Groupon. Groupon was founded solely on a Big Idea. I think thats why it got so much hate in the beginning, because all it took was that fucking idea and any one of us could have had it.

Without Lightbank to hyper-fuel its growth, one of the million knockoffs run by a larger company would have pushed to the fore and destroyed them. Every bit of stealth was essential.
It's not a broken UI of Google, it's a browser related issue, wrong calculations of page height.
Yup. But what I've seen even more is people cozying up to new founders and mooching time, publicity, connections, and money off them.

One thing to be on guard against is the human social capital version of the Ponzi scheme. In this a self-promoter makes wild promises, gets you talking them up, and then uses you as a reference to climb the social ladder and gain access to people further up the success chain. At no point is anything actually done or delivered to anyone. The end-game for such a person is to worm their way into a successful venture at just the right moment to hitch a ride... such as at the moment of a liquidity event. Another goal can be for them to get their "stink" on as many entrepreneurs as possible-- get their names on contracts, etc.-- so that if someone is successful they can come along later and sue. If they time it right, they might catch you at a liquidity point and you'll pay them off to make them go away... very similar to a patent troll.

These people will waste your time and make you look like a jerk. You'd be surprised how many of these there are, especially if you're in a "startup hub."
Can someone make the argument about why should Disney be forced to give up copyright to Mickey Mouse? Or The Beatles to the music they created?
I agree, and I misspoke on the point which you corrected me on.
You really don't see a difference?

If I write out a book parametrization a Wankel engine and describing the chemistry and physics of the system necessary to make it turn, I have not implemented a Wankel engine, and I am in violation of no patents. It is a description of the engine, not an engine.

A mathematical description of an algorithm can be executed. It is the algorithm. The description is an implementation and any implementation is the description. There is literally no line between the two, the only thing that you can change is the notation in which you write it.

If you don't see the difference, you are just being obtuse. The difference is as plain the difference between physics and mathematics.
> An argument people make on Hollywood's side is that sure, there are entire storage facilities of content that should be moved into the public domain, but who is going to fund the conversion (old deteriorated 35mm film) to media usable by the mass public?

I'm not familiar with this argument. My understanding is nothing has to be "funded" to be "moved" into the public domain, it just becomes public domain by default and if anyone wants to make the necessary conversions that's their voluntary prerogative (ex. Gutenberg Project). In fact I've read that public domain works are generally more likely to be preserved, and that there are loads of early 20th century works that are fading away because essentially no one is free to make copies of them to keep them around.
Bay Transit is good compared to where? Maybe L.A. or Dallas or Miami? Really great company to be in...
Peeling back the exterior and getting at the meat of the argument, I think the author is really arguing that the future "makers" of things are having their perception of the internet and computing shaped by their interactions with walled garden devices and controlled environments. Building off of this, they will proceed to continue perpetuating a world emphasized by unique apps and walled gardens instead of the creativity of current and prior hacker generations. What would be really interesting is if the author did a study looking at past generations and how their initial perception of connectivity shaped what they built using it. I.E. all the phone phreakers and hardware hackers in the 70s and 80s laying the foundation for modern computing.
when you register it shows the string
> just trying to pump up their own reference counts

Don't most bibliometrics exclude self-citations?
There's been plenty of input from the people. The people vote every 2 years for representatives and every 6 years for senators. By and large, the people's input has been to keep the congresspeople who voted for these extensions.

The reality is that most of "the people" just don't care about this issue. But they've had their input.
At the time it was solving my own problem (college, short term group projects, dropbox wasn't as great then).
Samsung cancels Windows RT plans in U.S.
Yeah, my last employer did all their accounting in an Oracle ERP system that was built on Java Applets. They would be screwed right now if they were using Mac machines.

I could be wrong about this, but it sounds like if you go in and edit Xprotect.plist manually to remove the Java plugin from the blacklist, Apple will just update it again and blow out your changes within a day or so.
> Doesn't this just prove or enhance the point that we should look beyond economic growth to drive our prosperity?

You're creating a false dichotomy. It does not prove we must look beyond economic growth; on the contrary it shows that economic growth is correlated positively with well-being so we should at least partially concentrate on wealth.

But yes, I agree with you that mean wealth is not everything. As the article points out, inequality also reduces happiness. It's the philosophy behing Bhutan's gross national happiness: take a look at what makes people happy beyond wealth.
There's a famous 1965 experiment to generate synthetic Mondrians by computer. Most people couldn't tell which was real, and people actually liked the fake better. This was some of the earliest computer art, done on an IBM 7090. (Just a historical note, not a comment on the current contest.)

http://www.newmediacaucus.org/wp/routing-mondrian-the-a-mich...

http://www.dam.org/mix/noll-all-artworks-4-computer-patterns...
This is what I had done:

1. Edit Gemfile and change rails version from 2.3.14 to 2.3.15.

2. Commit and push changes

3. bundle exec cap deploy (this is our standard method and works well.)

4. Double check rails -v returns 2.3.15 on production server.

5. On the production server run

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X POST -d '<id type="yaml">--- !ruby/object:ActionController::Base bar: 1</id>' --insecure http://localhost

Result:

Parameters: {"id"=>#<ActionController::Base:0xb570d2e8 @bar=1>}

Once I got the curl command to run against my production site (see my comment just below) and saw that it was still vulnerable, I quickly hacked

ActionController::Base.param_parsers.delete(Mime::XML)

into environments.rb and re-deployed and that fixed it. Now when I run the curl command I get a parameter-less GET request in the log. I still do not understand why updating to 2.3.15 per the recommended method did not fix the problem, but at least our app doesn't need the xml in that way.
Installed on Xubuntu 12.04, using dual-monitors. "f.lux indicator applet" shows up in my Accessories menu. First time running it I gave it latitude & longitude. It starts up (its icon shows up in the tray), but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

Trying to open the applet's Preferences has no effect.
Running HAProxy behind Amazon's ELB
This is not distributed via Software Update, but via Apple's XProtect malware protection system and should be updated silently in the background. You can check /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta.plist to see if it's up to date. To force an update, run "sudo /usr/libexec/XProtectUpdater" or "sudo launchctl start com.apple.xprotectupdater".
Well games on the web has never really taken off as a thing, Zynga I would guess were the people to do it most successfully.

There is huge value in having a standard, indexed repository of information like the www. If I want to find some specific information I don't want to have to find and download a specific app every time.