skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the perjury jurisdiction can't reach India, then maybe the DMCA notice shouldn't reach the USA. At the very least, it would be a good example case to bring up with your Congress-critter about changing the DMCA.
Personal airplanes already exists, that does not mean people fly around and hit buildings or shoot people. There are aviation regulations in place and airspace is heavily regulated. I don't think drones will be any different regardless their size. If a tiny drone can fly miles in any direction for hours it could be banned outdoors or limited to certain areas.
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I do agree that unix/linux was full applications written by neckbeards for neckbeards at one point. The push to have applications that are more usable is good. The problem is they have taken this too far, and the programs and DEs that are being created now are truly annoying to use, and harder to learn for anyone.

I think the biggest problem is that everything is being written for "The N00b". I don't think anyone has a very clear picture of who this person actually is, so they cut back functionality and UI elements to try to make it more friendly for this person. What you end up with is a DE like Gnome Shell, that is significantly different to what many people are used to, and takes longer to learn how to use. I also think many developers wouldn't actually use some of their applications, which leads to many more problems. There was a talk at an Australian linux conference recently where a speaker told the story of how he had tried to use evolution, but came across many bugs. After talking to the developers, he found that none of them used/tested the features he was using, so these kind of bugs can popup without soneone fixing them.
Hey, you said 30 and it shows 21. Also, I've did a shirt and am doing some more. Here's my first one: http://teespring.com/opengov. If more than a 100 people by the shirt it won't stop the campaign will it?
CS291, interactive rendering (https://www.udacity.com/course/cs291), is WebGL based. The instructor is Eric Haines, one of the authors of Real-Time Rendering, so I'm guessing the course will be a solid intro to real-time graphics that goes beyond a how to use WebGL tutorial.
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Sorry to hear that. It's the little stuff that people remember, like your uncle laying in the car with the kids on top of him. People don't have to be rich powerful or famous to make their mark and make the lives of their family better. Sorry to hear about your loss as well.
damn! is this for real
I remember hearing that Joe Nuxoll[1] (from the Java Posse[2] podcast, and ex-Apple employee[3]) did start working at Tesla, about near about the time I stopped listening (about a year ago?)

Though I'm not sure what position he had here, but it does line up with your claim.

1. https://twitter.com/joeracer
2. http://javaposse.com/
3. http://www.linkedin.com/in/joenuxoll
Stole this link from a comment below http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/
They're both using the same virtualization. What's your use case that requires that much CPU? I'd bet spot instances would be a better fit in most cases.
They say the mechanic's car is the most neglected and that's often true. But if helping others is what makes you happy no reason to change it. And yes not everyone appreciates it, but many do and it's worthwhile.
Just a quick correction, I've definitely had bagless vacuums long before the Dyson company was around.

I'm fine with Dysons as vacuums, they look interesting and do good work. I think you're spot on with the Apple comparison though since Dyson products seem to generate a similar amount of smug.
Somehow the low information density makes this presentation very difficult to consume. It looks very pretty, but three lines visible at a time on 1440x900 resolution? I just kept scrolling to the end quickly, desperate to get some kind of big picture what this is about.
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For those who are curious, a direct link to the documentation: http://platform.seatgeek.com/#recommendations
You can always steal it from thepiratebay/megaconz
Can it be run in-process from Go as a library?
I completely agree that start-ups would gain the most value with this kind of legal advice at the time of formation.

I like your suggestion of a flat fee and including the State filing fee. At $750-$1000 I could advise business start-ups at the time of formation and "draft/file the docs" to form the company in most States. However, it gets tricky to have a flat fee which includes the State filing fee in some cases. Example, in California I would always recommended paying the State to expedite the formation but its optional, or in New York separate from the State filing fee LLC's must publish in a weekly and daily paper once a week for 6 weeks and publication costs are subject to change.

At $1,000.00 I would feel comfortable advising client's before formation and continue with unlimited legal advice over the phone for the remainder of the year for the business. However, I think your suggesting $1,000 above and beyond the State filing fee may not be reasonable for the average tech start-up, especially because the start-ups would generally only utilize the unlimited legal advice at the time of formation and little thereafter.

>I think the idea has merit.

Thanks your feedback was insightful and encouraging.
I am really glad to hear that! If you're the only person inspired and touched by this article it was worth writing in my opinion. Glad he could help!
is for people*.

and yes, I'm putting it bluntly ;)
the incentive would be because either the sponsor thinks they can sell the work for profit (commercial motivation), or fan based motivation (they really like the artist's work, and would pay to see it).

The work isn't _given_ away after its done - the sponsors gets to choose what they want to do. If none of the sponsors give away the work, then it could become quite an exclusive/unique piece of work! Or, if one sponsor decides they'd like to share it for free on torrent, it would indeed destroy the business model of the sponsors who might be interested in selling the work commercially. But that's the risk they have to take.
That would imply that US originated DMCA notices shouldn't reach outside the US.
I agree with you that acquisition isn't necessarily any better than IPO as a target. On the other hand, there is a certain amount of money floating around out there and it has to go somewhere. Maybe the total volume of VC money would go down, but I suspect at least a good chunk of it would be re-targeted toward startups with long-term viability of their own.

In terms of the market manipulation, I'm not saying that just anyone can come along and screw with the public markets. Dell can't manipulate the markets because the company is well-understood and operates in a well-understood market. Pretty much by definition startups are not well-understood and most (though certainly not all) operate in poorly-understood markets (or at least operate differently from incumbents in their markets). This means that startups have a better shot at successfully manipulating the public markets, allowing VCs to get paid even if the company itself doesn't pan out.
It took me a while for that really sink in, but I truly believe it. There's nothing wrong with those fancy toys when you can do it, but family and friends are what really matters.
You must not be american, you don't like commercials.
Thank you. He told me several times he was proud but never liked it when I turned it back on him and told him and my mother were the most responsible for my success lol.
We love sentry. We made the switch from Hoptoad/Airbrake, because the pricing based on event volume rather than number of projects. We use it to track a group of small-scale Rails applications - which are growing in number, but reasonably low traffic.

I love everything about it, looking forward to having a poke around the new design!
The Hartl tutorial does start with static pages (in fact I believe that's actually the name of Chapter 3), but fair play - I hear good things about the Prag Prog book too.
Me too. On the latest hardware, JS is a lot better than most people give it credit for, but it still has a long way to go. Unfortunately all the major players have incentives NOT to give us a viable, portable platform.
Interesting Reddit thread. I created http://www.truthfinder.org/ to explore that concept.
Yes but one of the resources (the dryer) has increased significantly too. And since we are both using the word "significant" instead of any real numbers we can prove either point.
After having pissed on Open Source for years and swearing only by Microsoft technologies / C# / SQLServer, Windows, etc., may we ask you why this time you went Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL?

Realized that 99% of the forums out there are running on LAMP stacks and "If you can't beat them, join them"? (I'm not talking about not being able to beat forum software, but about not being able to beat Open Source / Ruby / PostgreSQL / Linux)

It's funny to see a die-hard Microsoftie eventually turn his jacket, especially after having defended Windows / C# / SQL Server so strongly for all these years.

I'm sure people will use words like "pragmatism" or "that's what the team knew" but still...

I can't help but laugh while thinking back at all these blog entires by Atwood pissing on Open Source and pissing on Linux and praising Microsofties as if they were semi-gods.
Yeah, maybe they shouldn't.
At Udacity you learn making stuff.

Ex: the CS-101 is building a search engine from scratch.
Interested to know how people think it compares to Telescope (http://telesc.pe), which is more of a traditional HN-clone social news app (also open source by the way).
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Japanese bathrooms still have toilet paper dispensers, because even those probing little robot arm squirters can only clean so much. The usual protocol is thus to wipe with paper before you enjoy squirty fun time.
This won't happen as long as Rails apps can't be hosted on a $4.99 / month shared host, uploaded through Filezilla, and hooked up to a MySQL DB created through a visual control panel, all in the span of ten minutes.

The barrier to entry for deploying a Rails app is high enough that it's unlikely a significant number of deployments will be installed and forgotten like so many PHP packages.
But that doesn't go anywhere to deciding whether they're infinite or not.
you don't need to maintain servers at many modern cloud/PaaS providers.

It looks like Firebase forked a generic node.js app (https://github.com/anantn/gupshup) that could run on any node.js-compatible platform, and modified it into a Firebase-only app. "serverless" is not the right adjective for that change, really.
A beautiful example that shows how useful genuine understanding of computers can be, even to high-level developers.
Apart from all the space they waste, most implementations of avatars that use gravatar are a privacy leak, associating the MD5 of the user's email with every post on the net anywhere.
If reading research papers is not cognitively demanding, that just means that you're not reading fast enough, or you're not truly absorbing the content. Or are you saying that the speed at which you read research papers is limited by the speed at which your eyes can move?
>About what happens in the middle of the night in those corporate parks

Your office park sounds much more interesting than mine (Menlo). After 9 PM it's crickets all the way down.
+1...

It's also beneficial from a security point of view.

Even if Ruby had a few security exploits recently, there shall never be as many issues as there have been with PHP.

I'm a huge forum users and they're regularly brought down (2+2, one of the biggest forum on the planet, was taken offline for weeks due to a PHP exploit).
Close. The main issue is not that you are violating any copyright, but that in order to jailbreak, you must bypass the DRM system, and under the DMCA it is illegal to do so apart from specific exemptions that are determined every 3 years by the library of congress. From the law (section 1201):
"`(a) VIOLATIONS REGARDING CIRCUMVENTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES- (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. "

"`(C) During the 2-year period described in subparagraph (A), and during each succeeding 3-year period, the Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, who shall consult with the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce and report and comment on his or her views in making such recommendation, shall make the determination in a rulemaking proceeding on the record for purposes of subparagraph (B) of whether persons who are users of a copyrighted work are, or are likely to be in the succeeding 3-year period, adversely affected by the prohibition under subparagraph (A) in their ability to make noninfringing uses under this title of a particular class of copyrighted works. In conducting such rulemaking, the Librarian shall examine--
`(i) the availability for use of copyrighted works;
`(ii) the availability for use of works for nonprofit archival, preservation, and educational purposes;
`(iii) the impact that the prohibition on the circumvention of technological measures applied to copyrighted works has on criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research;
`(iv) the effect of circumvention of technological measures on the market for or value of copyrighted works; and
`(v) such other factors as the Librarian considers appropriate."

"`(3) As used in this subsection--
`(A) to `circumvent a technological measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
`(B) a technological measure `effectively controls access to a work' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work."

http://w2.eff.org/IP/DMCA/hr2281_dmca_law_19981020_pl105-304...
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If the penalties for abusing the DMCA can't reach outside of the US, then why should the benefits?
Arg, should not have chosen that name: http://godrb.com/
Good point. But you want a crush-collapsible zone, so they keep the hood.
I start to wonder: what can we do to actively prevent such things to happen? E.g. someone can copy a blog content, set the date back by a few months, publish it, and submit the DMCA takedown. Even if it reaches the court, who and how will decide who the original author was?
The official Github-repo in case any one want to run it themselves: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/

Install instructions: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/INSTALL.m...
How would it be able to calculate results from an arbitrary vector of preferences in realtime? It seems like the sort of thing that could not be done quickly enough to respond with a synchronous API request. In other words, it seems like the sort of thing that is naturally backgrounded.
Interested to know how people think it compares to Telescope (http://telesc.pe), which is more of a traditional HN-clone social news app (also open source by the way).

(I also posted in the other topic, sorry for the double post but I'm really interested in knowing what people think since both apps have similar goals)
Native apps receive updates during OS upgrades.
Is this sanctioned by Google?
It would be cool to keep the racers on a set path (like a floating road) with a certain boundary so they would not deviate too far from the width of the imaginary path, and have the pilots fly within it to make it a more "closer" race
Sadly no camera per default, but you can 'easily' add one yourself.
I use coffee shop for meetings, yet I have not gone their alone, after reading this post and the comments I would love to try it out.
Decided to try the first few lessons and got a fun error:

> Expected 30 to be greater than 32.25806451612903.

They need to clarify the erroneous function call. (I was calling setInterval with 30ms instead of 1000/30)
FWIW, Wikipedia's Visual Editor has been in public beta since December, and it's arguably a much harder job because of the baroque complexity of MediaWiki's markup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor

Not that this takes anything away from MapBox's achievement, and OSM were foresighted in choosing a sanely structured data model that allows things like this.
What you're after here is called parametric polymorphism (commonly known as "generics"). Go does not have it. Debates still rage on the ML about whether to have it or not, but nobody has yet come up with an implementation makes most happy.

Go does have polymorphism though, in the form of subtype polymorphism. In Go, it is achieved using interfaces.

Subtype polymorphism typically has more programmer overhead than parametric polymorphism, so it is not used for simpler things like a generic map, fold, etc. However, it can be used to reduce code duplication in other cases, like sorting (among many other things).
Not as good as the Pokki app Instagrille for the desktop. The instagram website is barely useable.
You would be right, it is similar. Also pretty helpful to see what they offer and their fee ($23.99/month).

It would be tough to match legalzoom's fee. At that point I would simply have to bring on to many client's to generate a stream of revenue that I would not be able to continue focusing on my start-up.
Atwood says that SO is a place for great questions and great answers.

I totally disagree. SO is a place for answers (sometimes great) which are fitting the "bandwagon threshold theory" (where every technique/tool/methodology/concept too recent is considered dumb and shred to tears but once there's a sufficient number of early adopters, suddenly it becomes the one way to do things).

And SO is certainly not a place for great questions. Great questions are sure to bring the ire of the mods and the relentless hate of the participants not understanding the question. Great questions require discussion, background, exchange of points of views. And only then can great answers be given to great questions.

Great questions on SO are the ones with 200+ votes and are nearly always closed.
Thanks for asking the question. I noticed the color was different, but wasn't too sure which color it was because of my colorblindness..
I'd be happy to try it, in fact I have a site idea dying for a good forum. However, like all things new what I'd hate to have happen is to install it, get some messages flowing and then have a huge problem upgrading to the next version. He cites Wordpress, but can he make it as painless to upgrade as that?
I second the need to have a view that shows the exception group and displays the differences between input data. I use it extensively with other log levels and treat it as a log aggregator (especially for INFO). However, it's really hard to view the variables within the input data which is necessary for any entries that are not one-off exceptions. Otherwise it's a wonderful service.
Hi, I created a throwaway bc it seemed tacky to associate my salary with my name. But I am a graduating BS student in Computer Science from a Big Ten School.

I have the following offers:

Microsoft (Redmond): $100k

Amazon (Seattle): $90k

Boeing (St Louis): $70k

IBM (Columbus): $65k

Nationwide (Columbus): $55k

It's also worth noting that Amazon and Microsoft each are giving generous relocation packages. And Microsoft gave me a $5000 dollar bonus when I signed.
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The article fails to mention the very huge dependency on scale for such a methods.

These methods will work on a sales graph built from numbers like [27, 41, 55, 73]. Part of these methods (not all) may work on a sales graph built from numbers like [27 000, 41 000, 55 000, 73 000] ... and give the exact same result as for [27, 41, 55, 73].

And none of them will give any reasonable results for numbers like [27 123, 41 432, 55 132, 73 433] - there's not enough information for that.
Deploying to Heroku fixes this. If not actually deploying to Heroku, then the spirit of doing it the same way which will probably come about in other implementations.
Exactly - the title should be "here's an easier way to do WebRTC with less backend code, less servers, and more frontend code", not "meet serverless WebRTC". Can you appreciate the difference between these two statements?
>The United States is one of the biggest spenders in the world on K-12 education. How much more money do you want to spend on a broken system?

Certainly spending less won't fix it.

>The unions get much better pensions than the rest of us. And their political machines own the state capitals. How much higher should they go?

Extend those rights to non unionized workers.

>The United States spends far more money per person on health care than other countries. How much more do you want to spend?

I want to spend less by having universal public healthcare.

>This year, the top capital gains tax rate in California went up 52%. That's a substantial bite on innovation to ensure public workers get gold-plated defined-benefit pensions.

Capital tax gains mostly affect more affluent households. I'm willing to bet that even with this rate, taxation is regressive in the US.
It can be done fast enough. There is some pre-processing of the raw data at startup time, so all we store in memory is a matrix representation of our user/artist preference graph.

A typical preference calculation for a new arbitrary set of artists takes 50-100ms, at which point it is cached for a while. Our most common queries [individual performers, for example] tend to read from cache, which helps.
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Is there a demo somewhere to play with? I'd like to give it a look.
We do this too. The trick is making sure everyone keeps everyone else's public keys up to date and signed in their clients, because if you edit the file and re-encrypt it for everyone else to read, it's easy to overlook that GPG ignored one of the recipients due to you not having their key signed, etc.

None of us are fluent enough in GPG practices to do this stuff off the top of our heads, though, so our management of these files involves a lot of rote "here's how to re-encrypt the file" or "here's how to import the new guy's key" instructions. It's pretty clunky.
Is this mainly competing on price, or does it have additional advantages vs. existing consoles?
I want to look into this in more detail and I'm not making any judgments; it does sound interesting. However, I have never understood why Jeff hates forums so much. I visited discourse.org briefly, and I think congratulations to the team, but right now I'm not sure how this so much better than the "evil" forums. Right now, I feel like this is something that feels like a bit too much going on the site for me to get it; I certainly don't see how this trumping the horrible "b-movie" that is allegedly what forums are.
Maybe you could OkCupid style analysis blog posts on t-shirt design, what's popular, what sells ets ... I'd imagine that could drive quite a bit of traffic/lead generation.

OkC doesn't do those blogs anymore, but you can read their old entries at blog.okcupid.com.