skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is imaginative but flawed technophilia at best. People with grand visionary ideas always seem to get two things wrong:

1) They underestimate problems with their ideas, and then brush them off with solutions which, when summed together, make the visionary idea much less palatable. For example, the idea that we can abandon traffic lights and stop signs is complicated by the fact that not everybody can, will, or even should use a car to get around. But in the world without traffic lights and stop signs, pedestrians and cyclists are trapped by fear. Sure, they might technically be able to walk out into traffic and the wondercars will stop for them, but in reality, nobody will do that, because the cost of being wrong is death. In every conversation I have had with these technophiles, the solution always ends up being some massively costly network of pedestrian bridges at every intersection of the city. Yeah, not so palatable anymore.

2) They fail to understand that, like evolution, intermediate states have to be viable improvements on their own merits. Wheeled animals do not exist, not because wheeled animals wouldn't have superior mobility, but because no possible intermediate evolutionary state has incremental benefit over the previous legged state. How do you transition a 2 lane road into three lanes when only 50% of the cars are self-driving? What about when 99.9% are self-driving? There are thousands of imaginary future states that do not have credible intermediate states, and will likely never see the future state as a result.
Thank you for the clarification. Yes, that makes sense -- you were hearing from the disciples of Agile. I think you observed and concluded wisely.
> * which the data seems to support*

Which the hand picked examples seem to support.

Any time I see "country/state/city did X and got result Y" I am immediately suspicious of the lack of broadly sampled statistics. It's very easy to cherrypick examples for and against any policy setting you care about.
Totally anecdotally, as cliche as it sounds I feel like what my parents (and other people who don't care about games) mistakingly call video games is a good indication of the current market.

When I was a kid, every video game was "Nintendo"

During the PSX/PS2 era, every video game was "Playstation"

Now, every video game is "xbox"

(Also a PSP is a "DS")

I imagine they pick up the words unconsciously over time from TV/news/papers/passing conversation, which could be a pretty good indication of where the brands stand next to each other.
Could you do this with the system mouse cursor?
Not legally in the US as only the explicitly named groups in law are protected. (But I do think that there's discrimination against socially awkward people--it's almost inherent in the term. However, I think this is all driven by management doing whatever they think will work to drive results and developers happily accepting the BS.)
In fact, the author is just a student.
Still a great resource to make this effect with modern OpenGL. Nearly all modern games that have motion blur use a variation of the process I linked to.
Nice visualization. Looking at the keyboard from the side [1] reminds me of some youtube piano tutorials [2] where the keys drop from above (just like guitar hero).

I tried to drag & drop one of my MIDI files (as advised) but it didn't work.

A MIDI element is basically 3 values: height (pitch), length (duration), and velocity (intensity). The latter is the only one not implemented (the colors don't seem to mean anything in particular).

One interesting (but probably difficult to implement) feature would be to distinguish both left and right hands.

[1]: http://imgur.com/lYhLpHW

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F7GNQAO4T4
> As for Oracle, not much can redeem them.

If anything. :)

> I wish Adobe would let it die already.

I know many here can't accept the truth that Flash had, has and will have its place on the Internet. There was a need for such a technology and there still is. I will be here for another 5-15 years or so, so we should make the best out of it instead of screaming 'DIE ALREADY'. But as always, there is plenty of room for improvements. :)

FYI: Adobe donated Flex to the ASF a while ago and the mailing list is already the most active on ASF. It is actively developed and people are quite motivated.
Yes. Math. Hard.
You both should take a look at Salt Cloud. Since you are already working with Python Jake it may be worth looking into. The project is doing a lot of the same things and it has the advantage of bootstrapping with Salt.
In an open source operating system, it could be done.
Jeri Ellsworth fired by Valve
Ask HN: Who uses web scraping?
A few survey questions about collecting data via the web:

Do you have experience with people using web scraping commercially?

What field or industry was it being used in?

Do you think it fell in a 'grey' area, or was it explicitly disallowed or allowed?

Thanks for any info!
GitHub is fantastic if you have an UNIX/Linux background. I can understand the scary felling of someone that uses Windows on daily bases (for example) and suddenly have to work with SSH, GIT, Markdown, etc. I love GitHub but I don't think it is made for ordinary people. One day maybe it will be.
While I agree with your message, I don't think "butt hurt" is the most appropriate term you could have used here.
Why? Curiosity.

The chances are that once I knew more about it, I'd think it's crazy too, especially for the general case. I'm curious whether it is possible to reduce the difficulty of operating as a single person limited liability company to the same level of difficulty as operating as a sole-trader.
Hm. No?
> "Mexico: Learning from China's Success"

This stuff always drives me a little nuts.

GDP per capita (PPP) (Wikipedia)
Mexico: $15,177
China: $9,146

HDI (Wikipedia)
Mexico: .77
China: .66

Percent living on $2 / day (PPP)
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.2DAY
Mexico: 5.2%
China: 28.8%

A quick scan of the quality of life facts would suggest that China has more to learn from Mexico than vice versa. Perhaps China will escape the middle income trap, but it hasn't done so yet, and remains considerably poorer than Mexico.
As a cyclist myself, I can easily put myself in his place. If someone stole my bike, I would probably go to extreme lengths to get it back. But he's REALLY lucky he didn't end up with a puncture wound from the guy. Kudos for getting the bike back in the end though!
Apple Doesn't Care, That's Why It's Winning
Another View: The inconvenient truth about electric cars
Reality of VC in Triangle: No home runs, no big exits, little money
Neil Harbisson Is A Cyborg Who Hears More Of The World Than We See
Sounds great to me. She is basically making them waste a lot of time and money. At this point 200K could as well be a 100 billion. She will never pay. I know it, she knows it, the RIAA know it. Is not like they can throw her in jail for not paying. I'm glad she is making them waste their time and really do hope this goes to the supreme court. RIAA like to play dirty games so I'm OK when somebody plays as dirty as them.

I'm sure they are regretting their bad luck in suing somebody that will just not bend over and take it. Which is probably why they probably offered her the 5K settlement a second time.

Her fighting spirit sets a "bad" example for the rest of us. It may even inspire a lot of us to follow her example and not bend over when the RIAA comes knocking. If that happens then the RIAA is pretty much fucked.
I agree completely. Once you do enough psychedelics you quite literally think and see differently, and if you're going to continue exploring --particularly at high doses-- you don't want to risk entering that place without being surrounded by those who have navigated it before and who you trust.
I think you've hit it right on the nail here. Countries are also fictitious, in a way. Your mind expands when you realize this, and it gives you a set of tools to think about "cyberspace" in a more accurate way than by waving your arms around saying that cyberspace isn't a geographical location.
Hacker with terminal illness seeks to opt out of death
There was an interesting story on NPR Planet Money that indicates that private cars are actually not the issue in Manhattan, and adding more taxi cabs will actually slow traffic down. The context is that NYC is looking at adding 2,000 cab licenses to the 13,000 licenses it already has.

The summary is that the commutes are brutal, but the private cars get to work and get parked, off the road, and they're not a big deal. But cabs are on the road and take up space all the time. The 2,000 additional cabs will cause traffic to move 12% slower, including deliveries, buses, and commutes.

People commuting in/out of the city is not as bad as just getting around the city.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/31/157477611/does-new...
There were a variety of forms of secret art (in the sense that the inventor could not possibly have known about them when they filed for the patent), they were only brought up in re-exams or trials, of course.

There are also some sad cases where out-of-order patent processing caused later filed patents issued more than a year before earlier filed pending app. You don't get interference proceedings if the later-filed patent issued more than a year before your pending app. You just get a huge mess instead ;)

To answer the other question, since AIA makes secret commercialization not prior art, I expect more people will sell stuff under NDA[1]. Hopefully, more people will publish too.

[1] The statute itself is a bit ambiguous, but the PTO's new guidelines say "The legislative history of the AIA indicates that the inclusion of this clause in AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) should be viewed as indicating that AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) does not cover non-public uses or nonpublic offers for sale
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I've actually known quite a lot of people who have used LSD to that end. The Mushroom, however, is a different, more spiritual journey that is very difficult to evade.
"Best" is highly subjective, as you can always write better code.
But I can somehow agree that unwanted noise is an unneeded distraction while coding.
Of course the subject of headphone in a workplace is always a touchy subject, but they are sometime necessary.
The assertion/snow clone "[x] makes you dumber just for hearing it" can sometimes be more accurately formulated "I do not have an adequately developed set of reasoning tools to grapple with and understand [x]."

Usually it's paired with that "doesn't know enough to recognize inadequacy" problem.
She's making us waste a lot of time and money, too. How much do you think trials cost? Who do you think pays for them?
Well done and nice to see that some understood that motion blur is more important than just high fps.
Being against all patents is an extreme position. Imagine investing 10 years and Hundreds of millions of dollars into making a brand new revolutionary motor for train propulsion. And having it ripped off within the first year of commercially using it because it wasn't patented.
Totally agree plus Haml is slow like shit.
First to file doesn't change prior art.

It's easy to imagine lots of horrid scenarios. In practice these are rare.

What's more common, and much more expensive, is patent "interference" cases.

The US patent system has imposed de facto bookkeeping requirements on inventors anyway. It's just that instead of being called a "patent", it's called "inventor's logbooks".

There's an analogy here between common law title and Torrens title systems. Yes, Torrens has stunning failure modes. But they are rare and easily repaired compared to having to hope somebody, somewhere, doesn't have a scrap of paper you didn't know about.

(IANAL, TINLA)
github is exclusive to the extraordinary? as much as i'd love to agree...
M.U.L.E. Returns will be a modern, faithful remake, officially licensed: http://mulereturns.com

The release date has been pushed back repeatedly and should be any day now. Apparently making software is hard.

I can't wait. When playing M.U.L.E. on the C64, I've never was able to get four people together. Now I've got a second chance.
If there's enough interest, I can share the original C++/OpenGL code (with Xcode project in latest version, MSVC project in older code).

The problem is that I doubt the code has much value, because the C++/GLSL code does a very poor job of communicating the higher-level abstractions that are going on, and the documentation is nonexistent because I was just doing it as a demo.

In other words, it's not very reusable nor is it easy to learn from. :( Its main value is the running demo.

This problem is one of the things that inspired me to work on my current project which tries to make code/functionality/value more reusable by default (i.e. with less extra effort on your part).
Even in the years after the first, the "jobs" have to be related to your course work ergo "practical training" i.e. internships with some company.
There is no allowance for running your own business anywhere at anytime. I maybe wrong if laws have changed.
Please point to something that says it's ok to run a business. Thanks.

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[1] - Yes

[2] - Lead generation, selling data, consumer + market research

[3] - I think it is always a gray area with regards to another site's TOS. But the burden of proof is on them, not the scraper. That and masking your scrapers is too easy.
It is the RIAA that is wasting our time and money by pursuing these type of cases in the first place. You do know that they could just drop the case. She is doing us a favor by not letting herself be bullied.
Do you guys have internships?
Which is a very good reason for the smart kids to stick to California for their professional lives.

Trying to fight your way out from under a noncompete, or lawyer up on account of a side consulting gig or independently conceived and developed idea, really stinks. And the further you get in your career the more likely you'll encounter such a situation.

Such cases ultimately seriously dampen both enthusiasm for the employer, and the odds of finding talent interested in working under such a regime.

Of course, the ultimate negative would be for California's exceptions to be attacked by corporate interests.
I understood his perspective pretty well, and also his point.

My heart is with you Diego,
Sorry for your loss
And "cyberspace" sheds the ugly association with car culture.
I'm Australian, I own a Pty Ltd.

The limit of my complexity is occasionally emailing my accountant to ask whether to book things against me or the company.

The people I work for require me to be incorporated, so that pretty much settles that.

As for curiousity: again, I just ask the professionals. They are likely to give me a correct answer.

I do sometimes look things up myself, but there's always the nagging doubt that I've mistaken a technical term for its common meaning, or that I lack some key conceptual framework or whathaveyou.
"They will give you "trans-rational" experiences but you still end up interpreting that experience through whatever cognitive constructs you already hold. If you're a fundamentalist christian then you're going to interpret the experience through those constructs. If you're an atheist you're going to interpret it through those constructs."

Haven't done much research, have you?

A simple glance at the literature shows how dramatic a shift psychedelic experiences can have on a person. Its a highly creative class of drugs, and thus tend to inspire creation, not conformity or general past-experience umbrella-like interpretations. Further, there is an incredible amount of research that supports positive changes in individuals suffering from depression, drug abuse, and alcoholism, largely because of the creative, perspective-changing nature of the experience.
The credentials trap
Female singles seems to be related to old people (and thus widows).
Got one of these for my parents for Christmas. Waiting for flies to come out for a true functional test, but the device is solidly built and does a number on a sheet of tinfoil :) a little pricey but a interesting and seemingly well-made gadget.
If you really want people to only pay for the transportation infrastructure they themselves use, that's fine, but look for your gas taxes to triple. You might be paying for public transit you never use, but those of us living and/or working in cities are paying a lot more to maintain a highway to your small town that we never use.
is so many apps exist for your needs.
For example try to use www.teamviewer.com or www.mikogo.com (
I prefer teamviewer, it's provide easy remote input control and switching between connected computers).
Also you can use simultaneously skype voice/video conference and teamviewer session.
Here is a nice free screencast on FnordMetric by Ryan Bates: http://railscasts.com/episodes/378-fnordmetric

Worth checking out.
Well done! That's really impressive work.
So i guess everyone else whose time and money she is wasting outside of the RIAA is just acceptable collateral damage?

Note that while they won't throw her in jail, it will come out of her paycheck, they'll also make her sell a lot of her assets, etc.

Also, ever hear the expression "bad facts make bad law"?

She is not the case you want in front of the supreme court. It isn't about wasting time/money, it's about whether she's going to end up fucking over a lot of people who actually stood a chance of getting ridiculous verdicts overturned.
Given her circumstances, there is a significant chance she will be singled out by the supreme court as an example of when 220k for a verdict is okay. It's hard to predict, but instead of helping others and getting a good legal result, she may end up having wasted some RIAA money and fucked over a lot of people.
What a great idea!

In short: You are horrendously short sighted, and courts are not a great place to take our your frustrations on an organization you don't like.
wow. they do not make it easy. turns out after a couple of attempts to delete my cc info and being prompted to reenter it; it was simple as clicking the teeny "None" button for payment type to disable my longstanding card on file. This game of guess-how-the-UI-works coupled with their knowledge base obfuscation of support has woken me up from complacency.
Thank you very much for the update! I apologize for being rude before, I don't want to bring you down on a very successful day on Hacker News. :)

For what it's worth, though the visual editor doesn't work in Nightly, the code editor + saving does work! It was really fun to mess around with the source and edit your sample comic. Great work!
Correcting A Widespread Error in Unification Algorithms [pdf]
But I Have A Family. And A Mercedes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_deflation

It's controversial though.

Austrians have a similar theory - that malinvestment in the boom (rather than a lack of investment in the bust) is the problem.

And then there's the mainstream neo-classicals, who say it must have been the government because the private sector can't make mistakes.
> realistic toggles,

iPhone invented the "guess whether OFF = light blue and ON = dark blue, or vice versa", not realistic toggles.
Barack Obama references Apple during State of the Union speech
If the city is dense enough, there will be minibuses crossing many point to points routes and you'll more likely to be able to travel point to point without changing mode of transport. Of course, it isn't guaranteed.
For car nuts living in the city, it's a bit of a thing you do.

I live in Boston, and I'm fairly certain that the local Porsche dealership is catering to potential customers with very early morning test drives on Storrow Drive with demo cars. During the summer months I almost lose count of the number of 911s I encounter at 2AM (with a driver and a passenger, almost always both male) with window stickers on them, carving through the elevation changes and off-camber corners well beyond the speed limit. Last year it was so frequent I just got over to the rightmost lane whenever I would hear a wailing flat-six approaching.
"A skeuomorph is a physical ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques"

an on/off toggle isn't skeuomorph, it's symbolic.
Except for the delivery guy?
How about being paid according to supply and demand for your talents?

Tying that rate to hours worked, or pieces produced, is a negotiating tactic to focus your mind on irrelevance.

What matters is 1) what value do I produce for the organization (this sets an upper limit on what you can rationally demand in compensation, not that this seems to limit the C-level set), and 2) what can you command elsewhere?

Being able to negotiate from a position of strength, particularly via collective bargaining (why do you think the tech world is so deathly afraid of unions or true professional organizations) boost that through Ricardo's Law of Rent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent).
This actually supports my theory that the 90s were the greatest decade in popular culture history. It jibes so well with the (arguable) Golden Age of Rap/Hip-Hop music as well as the Seattle Grunge and Hard Rock renaissance.

Rap in the 90s had Biggie, Tupac, Wu-Tang, NWA, Nas, Outkast, De La Soul, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and a Tribe Called Quest.

Rock in the 90s had Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Radiohead, the Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Weezer, Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, and Rage Against the Machine.

It also had some of the greatest movies of all time in the 90s as well: Goodfellas, Terminator 2, Trainspotting, Fight Club, the Matrix, Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, the Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, Schindler's List, Rushmore, and Pulp Fiction.

Now, I may be looking through with rose-tinted glasses (and having my adolescence back then, how could I not?), but let's just make it official, and not only with just cartoons. It's almost empirical that the 90s were the greatest decade of American Popular Culture.
The author of this piece is a friend, and I get where he's coming from. But there's one bit in this that rubs me the wrong way, and that's the implication that "later in life" founders magically lack "commitment and passion" somehow, relative to younger founders.

I'll go back to what I said before[1] and contend that - for some, if not most of us - older founders are likely to be more committed and passionate, because we have the "running out of time" mentality.

I also reject the notion that you aren't committed to a startup just because you haven't quit your dayjob yet. I still work, but anybody who has followed the history of Fogbeam Labs for the past 2+ years would be crazy to suggest that I'm not committed to this. The simple truth is, I have to pay my rent and put food on the table while we bootstrap this thing. Although, in my case, it's not like I am driving a Mercedes or living in a big fancy house or anything.

If anything, the very reason I'm still single and childless at (almost) 40, is because I've spent my entire life to this point, relentlessly focused on getting here, to the point of being able to do a startup, and putting myself in a position to have a shot at making it big. Now maybe I'm weird (OK, I know I am), but this "later in life" founder will challenge anyone's level of commitment and passion.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203830