skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, I have no difficulty with the article itself. The article was well-written.

And while this is admittedly subjective, I find the title itself to invite the sort of things I mentioned above, borderline to link-bait.
You sent in a court order and Amazon failed to comply?
Sorry about that. I didn't realize it had already been posted on here.
First, Spanish, French, and other romance languages are derived from Latin, and so the thinking was exactly that. Learn Latin and you'll have a better understanding of what's going on.

Second, the argument that language X runs language Y under the hood so you should learn Y in order to get a good understanding of X doesn't hold. JavaScript is written in C++ in most cases, which compiles into assembly. So why not learn assembly to get a better understanding of JavaScript?

That's silly.
Here's the project description, I think it's probably safe.

"Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using custom drawing tool, thousands individuals working in isolation from one another painted tiny part the bill without knowledge overall task. Workers were paid cent each via amazon's mechanical turk distributed labor tool. Total cost of the bill, creation, and reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as video piece with 10,000 parts drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, new uncharted combination markets, crowdsourcing, virtual economies, and reproduction."
... I just set a timer on my phone. That way I can finish my thought (if needed).
And, from what I gather, they will, given the proper paper work is filed. Otherwise, this leaves open a loophole that can be exploited.
Wasn't at all surprising to me. Have they never heard of Warhammer 40,000?
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The question from previous discussion remains unanswered. How does he finance his production of top notch open source software? At least for me, the day to day churn of my day job leaves me too mentally exhausted to chase the crazy ideas I get from time to time, let alone finish them.

Imagine a world where hackers, artists and artisans could follow their passions and could chase crazy ideas without a risk of losing the roof on top of their heads and butter over their bread. How many Bellards, we as a humanity, would have running around flinging great code, solving great problems and giving away the fruits of their hard work?

I think we could afford it if we really wanted. If the world just accepted that because of automation fewer and fewer people are needed to work in production (food, items etc.) a huge untapped innovative potential is waiting to be unleashed. In playing Civilization this would be easy, just a click and your society has changed the emphasis of it's production to sciences and art. But how to do this in real life?

I guess I just have to wait and see if the government of Finland gets around and issues citizen’s income as propagated by the Green party. That would be a start and the consequences would be really interesting to see.
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All of that PLUS if you fill up my car too often then it is going to consume more gas (since you're using up gas by carting around a full tank all of the time).
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another reminder : if you're starting a brand, DO NOT simply throw together two generic words and expect to be able to hold on to your trademark.

this is just silly.
Exactly how I felt about it. Like it was written by an old sad salesman with a pasted smile.
This got quite a lot of discussion or reddit the other day and someone supplied a link to term used in fiction from the 30's. it predates this company by about 50 years.
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A vast percentage of all companies fail. Take a look at stock market listings from 20,50, 100 years ago. The question is what kind of value was produced from the organization.
It would be awesome if someone built a Bootstrap version converter. I'm currently using v2.2.2, and I simply don't really have the time to go through all the code to get it upgraded to the extent of making sure nothing breaks.

Does anyone know the best way to do things like this, if a converter doesn't exist? It would be nice if the docs still had old versions, sort of like WordPress or PHP docs do, where you can see what is depreciated and how to change/upgrade things to newer versions.
China's radical new space drive (Wired UK)
You're missing the point: the institutions that are headquartered there conduct a huge volume of Euro-denominated derivatives trading, which becomes impossible if the City loses its license to do so, and it's hard to see them retaining it if the UK leaves the EU. So those banks would have to relocate their investment arms to somewhere in the EU. That's got to be worth several points off the UK's GDP. Instant recession -- and it's not recoverable.
I very much like Heroku, but due to technical restrictions (no WebSockets) we have to use our own dedicated servers. And I wanted to have deployment as easy as Heroku where you just push to a repo and done. Scrz is not quite there yet, though. It's more like: upload a slug to scrz and done. How you create the slug is up to you.

It's Heroku-style in the sense that the developers don't need to know on which servers the apps will be deployed to, and don't need to have ssh access to those servers. There is also no need to have server addresses stored in the project source code like it's usually done with capistrano.

We have our CI server configured so it automatically uploads the slug to scrz. So for us it's really like Heroku, developers push to a git repo and the app is automatically deployed.
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great articel with interesting learnings. rock on!
Ubuntu's kernel is often ahead of upstream in terms of drivers. Being open source, all distributions get the benefit.
super article :)
I have around 100 domains and only "use" about 10 of them. I'd be interested in being able to upload a "portfolio" listing all my domains that others could browse. If another user wants one of my domains, a message would be sent to me. I could then browse their "portfolio" and see if I wanted one of their domains. If so, a 1-to-1 trade would be proposed which both parties would then have to agree to. At that point, we would each transfer the domains to the other party (without some type of escrow, you'd be on the honor system and have to trust the other party, but some type of "reputation" or "karma" could maybe be implemented for that?).
The "beigeness" in europe was specifically engineered to avoid another world war. Everyone chooses a slightly different shade of beige in their own country and then sticks to it. Every couple of years they all go to an EU summit and sign a treaty that enshrines more "beige" as the way things are done.

Is moderate prosperous apathetic "beige" better than the alternative? The founders of the EU seem to think so, it's not like there are any great ideological alternatives is there?
Unless you want to find a straight line (great circle) between two distant points.
You mention to spend on user acquisition when you're close to the Top 10 position, but how can you tell when you're close to the Top 10? Do you just do it on your own data ratios of signups / review conversions and then look at other app review quantities?
"Surely Amazon have pretty clear evidence in front of them. Someone's reported their kindle stolen, they see the kindle registered in someone else's name shortly after that report, the police have contacted them. Amazon can surely create their own paper trail - verifying the identity of the police first."

The contents of a police report are allegations not facts. The evidence is ambiguous. Persons sell items and then report them stolen. It is quite reasonable for Amazon to refuse to adjudicate disputed ownership of $100 worth of hardware.

Amazon's responsibilities differ with respect to the digital goods in their care. Those are tied to an individual in a way that a physical device is not.
Same on Mozilla's official Firefox 19 (beta channel). Raising the font size (Ctrl +) makes the issue go away.
JQuery is slowly moving in that direction [0] and YUI has long let you pick and choose which "abstractions" you need [1].

[0] https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/README.md
[1] http://yuilibrary.com/yui/configurator/

[edited with better link to JQuery build documentation]
I'd love to have source and context for that last quote.. not because I don't believe you, but because it seems rather scary and vaguely important, and the more details the better.
AFAIK CSS uses camelCase for variables.[1]

1: http://css-tricks.com/currentcolor/
Also not to forget the LTE/4G base station implementation running on PC. http://bellard.org/lte/
How hard is it to just walk away when a script tells you to or even forces you out for 1 minute or so? And besides that I know dvorak (I could pick another lay-out), most of my passwords are muscle-memory. I don't actually know them. I once saw a password of mine somewhere in a saved passwords list, thinking it was one I must have used once and then forgotten, but it turned out (after trying it) that I type it almost every day. It also wouldn't be the first time that I have to lookup a keyboard layout to login to our router.

Yes, passphrases are probably a better idea, but by the time I realized this I already had enough strong passwords remembered. Most of my passwords are also designed to be fast to type (on a qwerty keyboard, that is) while still providing enough entropy, so passphrases would be slower.

Anyway, this tool won't work for me, and it looks a lot like addiction to me if you can't walk away when someone or something tells you to. I forget the time often enough, but unless playing in a clanmatch or something, I don't need a screensaver to blank my screen and lock me out.
I think the Starblazer's cartoon had Space Marines and I think Robotech did as well.
The (rather convoluted) plan seems to consider Dvorak so fantastically hard, that the user never just learns to write his/her password using it, but must look up a reference on a different machine every time.

I've never used Dvorak, but I think I would be able to memorize a single string after having been forced to type it, after a while.
We have our own KPI dashboard. For Apple: We track track manually and we're also using http://www.appfigures.com/
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I'm a fan of the BreakTime app for something similar (and a bit easier). But I find it very challenging to be forced into breaks, especially for how often you are supposed to take them.

I think what would be ideal is a script that would detect when my system was idle for, say, 15 or 30 seconds. It would then check the last time I took my break. If it had been past a predetermined time, then it would prompt me for a break.

With forced break apps I find it very annoying to be interrupted in the middle of a thought, or line of code, and end up disabling those apps.
WTH is up with these comments from fake users. Stop spamming and trying to game HN.
try appfigures or similar tools
I actually think if not most, then at least many of those who use ASAP do it, unknowing that it can be harmful. So yeah, people must be educated on this, both those who need to get a task done and the one who is supposed to do it.

Did it myself until I realized that it was the reason I haven't yet completed a task because all the other ones had a deadline.

Define "possible", it's quite a relative term.
Different VCs look for different things, even if you've got a great startup in the transactional space a VC which primarily focuses on marketplace/network plays isn't going to be interested.

There are dozens of factors that go into a VCs decision, everything ranging from the age of their active fund to how well the relevant partner gets on with the founders.

Not every deal is right for every VC.

Also you need to be careful of survivor bias, for every Groupon that succeeds there might have been a hundred that looked identical to it at seed-stage but ultimately failed.
i definitely think frameworks are a huge help, however, i do believe that understanding the underlying source of the frameworks will help you even more. Use the framework as needed but truely understand why they chose the direction they went with in the framework/toolkit in order to better yourself and grow as a developer
I do that on an airplane. It's included in the parking services.

You are probably thinking on putting a movable gas station (read: truck) inside a private parking lot (where people pay monthly). I think that would work great in NYC.

But I see this as more of a feature.
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My theory is that Fabrice is not human and most likely a creature not of this world. Seriously, how the hell can someone be so talented and amazing and above all remain such a nice guy? Fabrice is a down to Earth and amazingly talented individual who will go down in history; text books will reference him, heck he'll have a movie one day (maybe not). I don't care if this is an old article, Bellard deserves to be on the frontpage of HN multiple times, he's earned it.

For me, the LTE/4G base station running on a PC that he did is mindblowingly amazing: http://bellard.org/lte/
Awesome project! Didn't understand it at first when I was hovering until I read the about page. Really really cool art!
So… it does work like that. The value of the collection and of your house is a combination of its raw value, as well as less tangible/quantifiable factors (location, condition) – not to mention supply/demand.

The accumulated effort of building your house – and thus the worth – is encapsulated right there in the number of rooms, location, and condition. In fact, I'd bet the human effort in building a house (planning, building, decorating) is more than the cost of bricks and mortar.
I've heard two game theory ideas about why politics works the way it does.

The first is: When you have three political parties and each party has about a third of the vote, it makes sense for the two parties that are closest to merge, giving them two thirds of the vote, letting them win and implement their policies. So electoral systems like in the US and UK naturally tend towards being two-party systems.

(There are other countries with political systems that don't tend towards two-party systems, but these have their weaknesses too; Belgium's multiparty system sometimes doesn't produce a government at all.)

The second is Hotelling's Law [1] - to win elections, both parties want to attract floating voters/capture the middle ground with centrist policies, so both parties end up next to each other.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law
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we haven't been on the receiving end of a bunch of jack-booted fascists or their communist equivalents organizing putsches

This brings to mind a quote [1] from George Carlin:

"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts, it will not be in jackboots, it will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts. Smiley smiley."

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKQs-jDI7j8 (around 4:00.. though the whole thing, especially the end, is relevant here)
I guess I still don't see anything there that could be construed as 'chemophobia'. She doesn't want her kid to self-identify as sick or to die of liver failure. I don't see how either of these concerns are crazy or anti-technology or whatever. Especially since in the beginning she says she was excited about the diagnosis because it meant they could try different drugs.
What I found works for me is having Windows as primary installation and running Linux in the VM. Then I can just alt-tab between these two OSs as I desire.
> This is not something you should use in production, but just a quick example:

Your quick example is risky and likely broken to all MSIE <= 8: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/NodeList#Why_ca...
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I'm essentially doing it. It's hard. You have to quit your job and organize income. For me it's a combination of open source donations and consulting with living in a relatively low income (and low cost) country, so consulting can pay for a lot more, if you do it on a global scale.
I'm not calling people trolls for no reason, though I take your point that in some cases (such as perhaps this one) it is not the correct response. So, my apologies.

However, we are still discussing the subject matter that things like Women's Studies and Sociology deal with, so using the terminology makes more sense than not using the terminology, especially when people who are going to actually be able to say anything useful about this will mostly either already know the terminology or quickly learn. Getting exasperated at people who will not use the correct terminology even after it is explained to them seems justified to me, in the same way that if some people kept saying that a "page" obviously only refers to either a piece of paper or a trainee knight or a trainee legislator, "because common English usage and anything else is Orwellian psyops" (quote marks indicating aggregate ranting of the hypothetical other), when we were talking about single page applications in the context of webapps, and they resisted correction, exasperation would be justified, and accusations of trolling would not be remiss.

So, I think that insisting on using the correct terminology from the disciplines that deals with something makes sense where we can, whenever we want to actually talk about something in a useful way, and people who insist that using the correct terminology is somehow a conspiracy or evil or whatever (to be clear, you have not suggested that, but others in this thread have) are totally trolls.
More generically than the other answers: Anything with managed strings gets you out of buffer-overflow land.

If you're really concerned about security, something that does not support "eval" is also a good idea. Replacing your buffer exploit which still requires some skill to exploit with the opportunity to create a "Please tell me what code you would like to execute, in source code form" exploit isn't exactly a good trade. You'd think it would be easy to prevent users from executing code, but evidence suggests you'd be wrong.
There are uses cases, see: My wife works in an office building and the parking lot is paid monthly. She HATES going to gas stations and once a week I do that for her. I would easily pay +10 bucks on that parking 'subscription' to have them fill the tank for me. They already do this kind of service for car washing.
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Awesome!

Laughed out loud in my cube at the white block by the tip of his nose.
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Parental controls and migration wizard are the only things the author cited as needing improvement? Come on! Here's my two cents: Ubuntu, and other Linux distros, have the technical side locked up. Now they need to adopt some sort of a design-centric approach to their development efforts. This is where the failure has been. The frontend experience has never sparked anyone's imagination. I'm sure all the major distros are well put together but they all look like they came from the windowsXP era. There's also a tendency to copy windows and mac desktop look-and-feel almost to a fault. The funny thing is that both Microsoft and Apple have shown to be willing to make drastic changes to their flagship products. It makes them look like trailblazers and the open source guys look conservative.
There's no reason to expect that the people currently employed at Games Workshop know that the company had borrowed the term in the first place.
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This whole idea started because copyright is broken. Both licenses are artifacts of this. The original copyright had a term of 14 years, a reasonable balance when granting a limited monopoly. As they extended the term and strengthened the laws, there is no longer any balance and there is nothing limited about the monopoly.

Somewhere in all of this, their is an ideal copyright law with ideal terms and limits which maximizes the progress of science and useful arts.

I believe the success of the BSD license shows it is closer to the optimum than the GPL.
Previous discussion of original story:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5176820
> Its scoping is poorly designed.

Actually its scoping is very well defined: javascript has function scoping and a global scope. That's it.

> In practice, prototype-based OO is inferior to class-based OO.

That is plain and simply not true. A shitty object model is inferior to a good object model, but that's got nothing to do with prototypes v classes (as far as I'm concerned, the world would probably be a lot more enjoyable if more language implemented a self-like object model).

> Its development environments and debuggers are quite lacking.

They're already ahead of most non-corporate languages and keep improving at a fast pace.
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India-nigger.

God says...
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bring done

of David, and by the hand of his servants.

22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day
that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies,
and out of the hand of Saul: 22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock,
and my fortress, and my deliverer; 22:3 The God of my rock; in him
will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high
tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

22:4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I
be saved from mine enemies.

22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men
made me afraid; 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the
snares of death prevented me; 22:7 In my distress I called upon the
LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple,
and my cry did enter into his ears.
I just searched "Ruby Sieve of Eratosthenes" and "go Sieve of Eratosthenes". The language ruby was the focus of the first four results, and after that some were ruby-specific and some were just Sieve with a mention of ruby somewhere.

Exactly the same applied for Go. The first four were Go-specific, and the remainder were a mix of Go-specific and pages about the Sieve with "go" somewhere on the page.

Also, as others have said, one immediately comes across references to golang everywhere.
You could host a script that does it on Google app engine ?
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Don't be sorry, great links such as these never bore. If the readers were bored we wouldn't upvote it agian. Plus, the fact that HN allows reposting URL's after a while seems to be design.
> C++ [...] implementations come with a sensible language and a rich standard library.

You shouldn't make your trolling so obvious, man.
GPL operates on the premise that people are generally selfish and evil, and will never contribute back unless forced to.

BSD operates on the premise that people are generally decent, and many (though not all) will contribute back on principle.
I have a tough time believing the word "confirmed" when the scientists behind the study use the words "likely triggered".
Agree on the ALSA comment. I wouldn't wish ALSA development tasks on my worst enemy. Developers these days should target PulseAudio, and tell users without it to get lost. The Pulse API is a poorly thought-out mess, but it at least behaves fairly consistently. ALSA's behavior is a complete crapshoot.
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