skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simpler guide to "Smart Drugs"
When you have the ability to define custom fonts, and there's great fonts out there such as Open Sans which are supported by a whole whack of users, it doesn't make sense not to use that hand have a unified look across browsers and Operating Systems.

Note that I never said that it shouldn't be decoupled, or that people shouldn't use their own designs. But if you want people to see your site as you intended, I'd for sure want them to see it with the exact font I choose, not some close alternative.
I was impressed when they hacked mit.edu, but geesh, how did they get a .gov -- that's pretty crazy.
The article I read simply stated that the FBI was made aware of someone plotting to kill protesters, not that they were planning to do it themselves.

Other than that, I get the point of your post.
Then why not use font-face for everything and have a font which can be viewed across operating systems like OpenSans?
Psychotherapy is a category, not a specific practice. You are almost certainly talking about 19th century style freudian psychoanalysis, which is not representative of the field today. Modern psychotherapy is largely based around sensible evidence based things like CBT, mentioned many times in this thread. Lots of it is carried out by trained and qualified MD type people. CBT for example is part of the NHS's mental health system. The people who provide it are called psychiatrists.

Obviously there are a lot of quacks out there but I have faith that the OP is not vulnerable enough to be taken in by them.
Announcing UX Write Pro (Not)
Don't know if you've seen any other Anon releases, but they almost always deliver the message in this style.
If you feel like talking be sure to email me (in profile). I will listen. I'm not a doctor or anything. Just being friendly.
Yea I'm definitely thinking of eventually expanding to node. Thanks for the suggestions and that link, looks interesting!
Owner wins court battle against feds trying to seize his Tewksbury motel
I think "Paul's" comments in the original thread have it right. I am not a lawyer, but I am a songwriter and have researched this a lot in the past. It's complicated enough that it's easy to forget the particulars, but the general upshot is that if you do a cover, no matter how creative your cover is, you basically have no rights except for the sound recording.

Your book example is a different question entirely.

Look at it this way. You can also take a song with a melody, and completely alter the melody into something entirely different, but it doesn't mean that you get a songwriter credit on the new version. If it did, people would be doing this all the time. And the original version of the song isn't "half a song", as in everything but a melody - not legally speaking. If that were true, we'd have thirty years now of people trying to write melodies for already-released rap tunes, in an effort to get their financial cut.

So legally speaking, putting a melody on a rap tune still only yields a derivative work. Coulton has no rights as a songwriter in this case.

Again though, if Fox took the audio to his backing track... that's a different matter entirely.

One big asterisk, though. It might be too late for this, but Coulton arguably could have gathered more leverage had he called his version a parody. But that's a really high bar, because for it to be a parody, it would have to implicitly comment on the previous work, thereby transforming it. As opposed to a simple satire, which "builds on top" of an existing work. A parody is protected by fair use, and it is possible to copyright the original parts of the parody. So if he had been able to argue that his song was a parody, he could have copyrighted the melody. And given that Coulton's artistic choice was limited to putting a nice melody on top of a rap tune, I doubt that would hold up in court, because it would set a hell of a precedent to all the other rap tunes out there.
What is considered an active user?
In 'Che' shirts, even. Satire is dead.
Read the "Installation" section, there's "A nicer way to run Drake" subsection. But I would advise to read the whole "Installation" section carefully.
H.265 Approved
You're assuming your alternatives are within their intellect or capability (whether in terms of ability to pull it off or ability to get information that does not exist / never happened). I don't think they are. So a question: is this action better than no action at all, which is the reasonable alternative for these people? I reckon you're right that this is a waste of time.
Tim Berners-Lee thinks we should develop new payment protocols
Like many major European cities. You'll struggle to find a building in Rome's center that didn't exist 150 years ago.
I want to know this too. I don't know of any of my facebook friends that actively use Google+.
If you follow the links to the source Globalwebindex doc, they defined it as "Used or contributed to in the past month".
Soundcloud, but for fashion.

I'm afraid this will drive people to build these.
What about the rm -rf / on the command line?

Tricky, but not a lot of people know how/where to use that command line in the first place.
If humanity could solve this one problem, many others would be solved automatically.
Beginning Enterprise Sales in Japan: Notes for Startups
Good marketing by everyone involved, honestly. Everyone wins!
Early 30s? Let me tell you, it most certainly IS NOT too late to go back to school if you want to. My mother is mid 50s and planning on going back to school for accounting. She's always liked accounting, and wants to pursue it after she retires.

Life isn't over until it's over.
And a waste of perfectly good security flaws. Save that hole in Apache for something good.
> I freaking love OXO products.

As do I until I made the mistake of buying their kitchen timer which has one redeeming feature (many hours of timing - most are limited to 90 minutes) and sucks in every other way possible: buttons that don't work well, bizarre modes (clock, timer, expired timer, repeat last time) and a hard to read display.
The text to speech voice seems pretty good. Can anyone point out what TTS engine they might be using ?
Fettuccine con crema di funghi, primi piatti veloci
It's "a beginner's guide" that starts with an explanation of what an API is and then jumps straight into PHP code with cURL!

When someone just learnt what an API is and doesn't have a clear idea of what it is or how it works an example code doesn't help at all.

When I'm asked to explain what APIs are these are the things I mention,

- an API is a fancy name for 'a way to talk to an external service'

- when you need to do something with an external service like Twitter you have to use their API to communicate with them

- an API is like a 'contract for communication' which specifies how to talk to the external party

- Most web APIs use the HTTP protocol as a way of communication to send messages back and forth and they also have a method of representing data, for example JSON or XML, that's just the same thing but a different way, using JSON or XML is like saying the same thing in English or Spanish, using the HTTP protocol or something else is like writing down a sentence vs shouting it out.

- When you use Twitter's API to unfollow someone, you don't know how exactly the unfollow happens, you don't have to know, all you know and have agreed with Twitter is that you ask Twitter to unfollow someone and they will do it, so in a way, using the API you are just sending them a 'signal' to do something. They can go ahead and change the inner workings of that API and as long as the part that is exposed to you remains the same you don't care because as far as you are concerned it does the same thing even though it may be doing it in a very different way

Here's a trivial example of a real-world API,

Imagine you run a restaurant and you need to buy fresh supplies to cook your delicious dishes every day.

You hire someone and teach them to buy the supplies as you order. You trust them to buy good quality stuff and deliver them to you.

You agree to give them order instructions via SMS. And you agree on the following format:

BUY
15 Salmon Fish
20 Avocados
DELIVER BEFORE 30 January 2013 14:00
END

Now the person you have hired can use your 'Order API' to work with you. You send them a message in a format that you have agreed upon and using a medium that you have agreed (SMS).

Hope that helps some beginner who is struggling with all the fancy terms being thrown around without explaining the principals and the simple details that everyone takes for granted once they have passed the initial learning phase.
I believe this is the case for most British universities, most "traditional" universities anyway (not sure about former polytechnics, etc). Sometimes there is also coursework that contributes to your final degree (my CS course had a group project in the second year and an a dissertation based on an individual project in the final year), but all the exams take place at the end of the year.

My uni also weighted the exams so that the final year contributed much more to the final "grade" than the first year, effectively putting most of the pressure on the final term of the last year.
Forgot to add that I'm also not going to upgrade to Windows 8.
Self-righteous idiots. Who made them judge and jury of the world? Do something positive.
Who made you the judge and jury of their actions?
I've been in the tech industry for too long. The first few times, I read "Quirky" as "Quirk.ly".

That said, this sounds insane to me. Why would you spend money going to war with a competitor over such a trivial matter? ("OXO copied a patent that we also copied. Help, help, I'm being repressed.") Only to lose in the end? I don't get it.

One other observation: excellent application of Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
You wrote, “recommended him to Square for a job”

Keith wrote, “I recommended that he interview at Square.”

The first is a recommendation given to Square. The second is a recommendation given to the thus-far-anonymous party. Big difference.

Perhaps it will come out that Keith did put in a good word at Square, but thus far Keith is denying this.
Gotta love the trailing: && rm -rf /

Classy ;-)
Piracy is a bit more forgivable than reselling someone else's work.
I call design is simply not as black and white as you'd like it to be and cynicism is lazy. To deny that this aesthetic is controversial is to have not read any of this thread. The very fact that you are suggesting a lack of purpose in the design of the masthead and using a strawman to back it up suggests a modicum of controversy.
You do sound depressed.

I think you also need to forgive yourself for your mistakes.

There's hardly anyone who doesn't make some wrong turns in their 20s. (And I'm not saying everyone has it all figured out by 30, either.) Your situation is not even unusual, except that you're feeling so bad about it.

I'm a lot older than you are, and I assure you that it's ludicrous to think it's too late for you to have a good life. Actually, things can get steadily better into middle age, though perhaps not as fast as you would like.
Often the people most critical of activists and actions are the ones not doing any activism themselves.
Also there are plenty of us that are pro-reform and anti-outrageous lawsuits who are also against the infringement as well.

When I see a large player in the industry fuck up and "steal" someone's copyrighted work, it's yet another example of how they don't give a shit about artists, despite what they claim. These incidents are perhaps a good way to show the public what large media corporations are really concerned with; making money for the execs at the expense of anyone else. If the public is aware, maybe we'll have better success at reforming copyright and other IP laws. (Although I cannot deny there is the schadenfreude aspect of it also.)

But please note the scare quotes, because it's not a theft, due to the exact reasons I would argue regarding any other two entities with copyright disputes.
Well going by the retail price of most of the phones that they give away, they should be paying people $300 to get one on-contract.
The Authority Info Access extension ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3280#section-4.2.2.1 ) can contain caIssuers field that point to URIs from which the issuer certificate may be downloaded.

In practice, there's not a "single" chain for a server. Different clients have different trust anchors, support different signing algorithms, and encounter the same certificates at different times. This has all conspired such that "Every Modern Browser" will, as necessary, examine the AIA extensions presented in the certificates and attempt to construct a valid chain, even if the server supplies an 'invalid' one.

A decent description of the complexity that modern PKI libraries (eg: browsers & OSes) implement can be found at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4...
Going to be released for Win7 eventually. I believe the release preview is pretty close to the final version, but probably needs some optimizations for Win7.
Another open source voxel engine worth checking out is PolyVox (which powers Voxeliens, among other things).

http://www.volumesoffun.com/polyvox-about/
plus some truly good products.
The growing complexity creep in Apple’s products
Am I the only one that think Square sucks for not standing by their COO against this action that looks like blackmail?

His judgement was bad? Enough to fire him over?

Or this another case of a corporation putting overly politically correct perception and avoidance of risk beyond taking care of their own?

If you believe Mr. Rabois' story, he did nothing wrong, and the allegations are baseless.

So, why is Square peeved enough to let him go? I don't believe for an instance that Mr. Rabois is leaving out of altruistic ideals for Square.
Bret Victor: Global Game Jam 2013 Keynote
2013 Cocktail Dress
By the way, I realise this is a very common occurrence, but I'd be interested in any suggestions people may have about how to deal with situations like this - it's the first time this has happened with my app.

I'm pretty sure Apple will take it down fairly quickly once they've had a look into it, but I wanted to alert people to AicooSoft's tactics, as they've done this with many other apps too.
They made this tweet 10 hours before it went down -- https://twitter.com/OpGJResisters/status/294901397147766784

I wonder how this played into the hack...
Its really impressive. Want to know too.
خطوط انتاج ورق الكمبيوتر
خطوط انتاج ورق الكمبيوتر
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
This could be a little bit invalid because of things like Hangouts. My dev team has started using Google Hangouts as a free alternative to conference Skype. I bet I'm considered an "active" Google+ user because I have participated in a Hangout. It gets posted to my Google+ wall every time I do it.

I'm actually kind of annoyed every time I have to log onto Google+ to do something because I know they are about to add me to some press release statistic. There's something "evil" about that in my opinion.

Google's strategy is putting them in danger of becoming more hated than Facebook. At least I intentionally signed up for Facebook. Who at Google thinks they are going to beat Facebook by forcing anyone who uses Google services to be a part of Google+? It feels very Windows 95 let's integrate the browser into the kernel in the sense that I know as a user, this Google+ portion is not necessary to the product I'm trying to use, but it's being forced on me anyways. Same thing happens every time I'm on Youtube now. No, I don't want my Google+ page updated when I watch a video on Youtube, nor do I want to use my "true identity" when browsing Youtube, nor do I want to explain why I don't want to do that in a way that fits into Google's 4 prefabbed reasons that don't seem to include, "I'd just like to be anonymous, now get off my back about it."

The rate their going, I wouldn't be surprised if by next year something will be posted to Google+ when I read my Gmail and I'll be an "Active User".

What ever happened to making your product better so that people want to use it instead of "tricking" them into being a part of it?
Advice from Paul Graham:

Don't regret your 20s: you were not ready for commitment:
This was my reason for not starting a startup for most of my twenties. Like a lot of people that age, I valued freedom most of all. I was reluctant to do anything that required a commitment of more than a few months. Nor would I have wanted to do anything that completely took over my life the way a startup does. And that's fine. If you want to spend your time travelling around, or playing in a band, or whatever, that's a perfectly legitimate reason not to start a company.

Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
Squares are out, Circles are in
It sounds somewhat like 'Brian' http://www.deskshare.com/text-to-speech-voices.aspx
exists: http://canv.as/
Most online piracy is some asshole reselling someone else's work on a website full of ads, charging subscriptions, requiring donations, etc.
So anyone want to take on the challenge of building a "Person of Interest" like system and hook it up to these publicly accessible cams, it would obviously be less early-warning as its fictionally one. Maybe I would try it but I assume the computing resources needed would be large, but wouldn’t a bot-net solve that. Or maybe my first brush of ML experience has left me naive of its capability’s.

Of course a 'Global Citizen Operative' would have to take action also, it is not like I proposed a "Global responsive network of autonomous drone to enforce peace and harmony" to would do that instead.

Sorry for the up in the clouds comment but the merciless hand of insomnia grabbed me and prompted my mind to wander.
Why "boring" Middle Market companies are critical to your startup ecosystem
He is well known and deservedly celebrated among groups where few people suffer from the naturalist fallacy, such as libertarians and futurists
Spotify, but for business

Motivational audiobooks? Hmmm....
Gaming on Linux: A guide for sane people with limited patience
"I never saw [them] as more hardworking or intelligent than I"

Maybe that's your problem. You're so confident in yourself that you just expect things to happen for you. (That's what my problem was)

1) "I would be in competition with others who've been practicing their trade for many years."

Common dude that's just BULLSHIT. What do you think college students go through?! They enter a market without any experience, competing with people who are well established and experienced. That's what people do, that's what companies do. The Google guys starting working on a search engine in an era when Microsoft, Yahoo, Lycos, & Alta Vista were established competitors. Same with Facebook > Myspace, same with Walmart > K-Mart > Sears Roebuck, with MS Word > Word Perfect, and the list goes on and on. A bunch of inexperienced no-bodies little by little outrun an experienced established player. Statistically & Historically speaking, you have a chance. So get that "I can't compete" argument out of your head. THAT is what's holding you back.

2) There's "problems" and then there's "issues". Problems can be solved. Issues can never be solved, they must be adjusted to. A flat tire is a problem, a hatred of men because of experiences with your father is an issue. And just like losing your legs, not having a childhood, and jealousy due to insecurity, your "deep seeded regret" is an issue. You cannot fix it. You can only normalize to it, understand it, and move on from it.

3) Cognitive behavioral therapy, as others have mentioned is REALLY amazing and works very well for issues. I got over body dismorphic disorder using CBT. You can't change the world to make yourself feel better, you can only change yourself, your point of view and way of thinking and that's basically what CBT is. CBT can be done with a therapist to talk you through learning to recognize and later stopping the thoughts that lead to your regret. Or you can learn about CBT methods and do it yourself like I did. (I talk to myself 6-12 hours a day which is why I went the self-mediate route. Therapists took too long and were too expensive.)

4) Learn that there is a dark side to dreaming, wishing, fantasizing, and desiring. A very dark side that leads to nothing but disappointments and regrets of not having reached the dream, wish, fantasy, or desire. We've been conditioned our whole lives to dream big and keep trying but when you don't reach those dreams you've set yourself up for decades of regret and heartache. You need to stop comparing what you have to what you wish you had, and instead compare what you have with what others do not. You're lucky, realize that.
Huh. I hear "Leaving on a Jet Plane" while listening to this..

http://grooveshark.com/s/Leaving+On+A+Jet+Plane/3nvT5s?src=5
It has to be pointy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtahqXjFcxU
I've seen some Thinkpad X230's for sale this week for around 750-800. This is a little over your price range but, if you can save a bit extra, this is a great machine. Has an IPS screen which definitely has a great effect when you're staring at editors all day, is easily upgradable. It's going to be as bulletproof as a MacBook but at a cheaper price. The trackpad isn't as good as a MacBook but you do get the trackpoint, which I personally prefer since it doesn't take your fingers away from the keyboard.

Lenovo is generally amiable towards running Linux. It seems to run well on the X230.
To be fair, any of those ideas could produce a great startup with the right team behind it… That's the thing, the idea alone is pretty much meaningless one way or another.
It's incorrect to treat "technological, scientific solutions" as a single entity. There's many entities performing science and creating technology, and some of them pay more attention to side-effects and long-term effects than others.

Ultimately it's more of an economic question -- what can society do to encourage long-term thinking and careful risk-management instead of focusing on the short-term immediate rewards? If we focus on short-term rewards, we end up selecting for profits that are immediately realizable while ignoring the long-term costs.
OpenArtist Is a Linux Distro Prodigy
Interesting, I had already forgotton about that one. It looks like it did not really take off in the meantime...
As a student with design and programming experience, what's a good way to get a career started as a product manager?
"It is our hope that this warhead need never be detonated."
Nit pick - a bubble bursting doesn't wreck the economy any more than dismantling an engine for a tune up wrecks that engine. A recession is really a readjustment of the economy, bringing it in line with reality.
You can't actually execute `rm -rf /` on most modern systems anyway. There's a flag to force it, but you'd have to be pretty determined to nuke your system.
I didn't believe your comment about the Combine, so I googled it. Farmers are pretty awesome hackers: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,8436.0.html