skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reactions to an emotional post from one of our colleagues are interesting in that they too
contain a large amount of emotional references.
Some random examples:

Fuck ‘m all
You failed
Having lost touch
You just got lucky
Being average
It is ok to be xyz
You aren’t alone
Own it
It sucks
Things may not be as bad
Disappointing
Frustrating
Don’t give up
The first time is the worst
It can be hard to keep our head
Freaked out
Taking other people’s money is a big one
On the brink of bankruptcy
Staring death in the eye
Going down with the ship
Don’t worry
Poems and questions from social heroes

Emotional generalizations, value-based references, hero-based metaphors are stomach (feeling) based expressions.
Probably posted in the hope to change our colleague’s feelings. I hope it works.

An additional approach is to move our focus & energy away from the stomach and into to the head (thinking).
As such, a non-emotional metaphor would be something like:
A startup = an analysis + a set of assumptions/decisions + certain actions, resulting in specific projected results.
The original analysis includes the resource constraints assumptions (yup, if xyz happens, we will run out of $ by this month).
Then the standard actions start:
Regular review the of obtained results + if not as projected, revisit the analysis, decisions and actions. Keep doing these steps till the projected results are realized or till the resources run out.
Whatever comes first.
Period.
Feelings not required.
Ah, you beat me too it. That's exactly the link I was trying to paste. I thought the URL updated automatically, I didn't realise you needed to click share.
The "man on the street" test says the same, many people call their Android phones "Droid" regardless of manufacturer. "Droid" has become generic and synonymous with the hardware, not the platform. With that being said, can you blame them? Non-tech folk might love their Android phone, but I doubt that they care about the platform.
very cool experiment
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There aren't that many combinations you need to brute force in order for it to work. http://www.blackhatlibrary.net/TCP-RST_Injection has sample code and an explanation of the attack.

EDIT: Just downloaded the sample code and it looks like it won't quite work out of the box, but I'm sure someone with more time could through together something with scapy or similar pretty quickly.
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> That solves the license input but doesn't make anyone more likely to check the license at go-live time.

My point is exactly that you shouldn't have to. If all your license information sat in the files themselves checking licensing would be accomplished by adding a few standard lines to your deployment script.

If your website used Creative Commons-licensed media your CMS would even be able to generate attribution data to be shown at the bottom of the pages that use that media on its own resulting in fully automated compliance.
I'd have done it for free ;)

The funny bit is that he probably said it in jest but out loud in front of four very wealthy customers so rather than cheapening out he paid up and ended up cementing our relationship in trust. Jan is an absolutely awesome guy, I learned more about telecommunications from him than from the CCITT books. His knowledge is literally encyclopedic, even today he's current on the state of the art.

Jan single-handedly designed and implemented a clustered system that would scale horizontally to insane volumes of messages (faxes and telexes) and he did that with early 80's technology.

Even today, with our current tech you'd be hard pressed to create a system that is as elegant as what he put together, he's both an awesome teacher and a good friend.
This comes up as porn for me... (work filters)
Why is everyone doing REST wrong?
Again, how is that willfully breaking the rules? Am I will breaking the rules here becaus I don't explicitly state that I am following HN guidelines in all my posts?
At the time it would have been the equivalent of a programmers monthly net salary.
The trust isn't going to disappear if the business goes away no more so than any other legal document. These guys appear to just be facilitators for setting up a trust.
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My dad likes to say "English is the most powerful programming language." (offhandedly, so "English" is shorthand for "spoken language")
How about a fishing net?
Yeah, they stick to less serious steps such as lawsuits and rootkits instead of something this egregious.
That reminds me of the story Isaac Asimov told. He'd been given a TRS-80 desktop by Radio Shack to use. It worked fine until one day. He couldn't figure out why the hell it wouldn't turn on. He spent a lot of time trying to figure it out and was getting in a panic. He called Radio Shack and they sent over a tech who found the problem instantly. The computer wasn't plugged in!
Should we also write: "Someone who works for Sony created PS3"?
Somehow we highly doubt that.
You can draw attention to the issue without impugning the character of the person in the way. Even saying "that's not true" is better, since it doesn't unambiguously assign a negative motive.
> "Naturally, the FA's warning bothered me and I felt the need to explain myself." Why?

Because that's a very natural reaction to being accused, explicitly or implicitly, of being a bad person. (Yes, it would have simplified his life to have suppressed his emotions at this point. But I completely understand why he felt like he did.)
I was surprised by XRP as well. Apparently they introduced it as an anti-DOS mechanism, meaning that you have to destroy some XRP to do a ripple transaction[1]. To me it would have made more sense if each of the accounts involved in a ripple transaction could simply charge a transaction fee nominated in the currency being transacted.

edit: it seems that such transaction fees are possible[2]. Not sure why XRP is needed then.

[1] https://ripple.com/wiki/Ripple_credits

[2] http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7590/does-ripple-...
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Honest question: Who do you contact and what is the chance that it would be at all an effective approach? Are you basically asking the OP to bang their head against the wall dealing with "tier 1" customer support agents?
This isn't the first time Sony's ripped artwork off.

Back in early 2006 I left a webpage comment (haha, remember them?) with the admins at Digital Blasphemy (that CGI desktop wallpaper site everyone loved back in the day) because I was playing with a mate's Sony W800i mobile phone and noticed that they'd ripped off an image called 'Fluroescence' [1] to create an animated mobile background image - there's a whole series of that image in different colours with different transparencies and they'd just grabbed them all and made an anmiated GIF that faded between them. In doing so, they'd cropped the DigitalBlasphemy watermark in making it a portrait aspect ratio and as far as I could tell not credited DB anywhere.

I ended up getting a 'thanks I'll look in to it' reply, but don't know if anything ever came of it. I figured at the time it may have been the mistake of a lazy artwork designer but part of management of such a project surely must be to ensure that all of the content is legit. It's certainly interesting to see that this company has done this again. As previously, it may well have been the work of a lone employee but it is still the company's responbility to stop that behaviour.

I hope KDE can get a favourable resolution to this problem.

[1]: http://digitalblasphemy.com/preview.shtml?i=fluorescence
The artwork is licensed LGPL, so there is no GPL-ing necessary.
This. The point is not what they are doing, it's what they could do.
Sure it is unmanned, but you can have only so many space projects at once without incurring a risk.

To announce a mission of this magnitude when they already have a manned space program announced (with the budget to go along with it) would seem to me to dilute the funds to the point that both will likely end up aborted.

Maybe they should first complete the stuff they've already announced and then move on to the next target? As it is India's space program is not exactly on schedule adding more projects will likely reduce the chances of existing projects running to completion.
Obviously not "less serious," although certainly more to the point. We can go with "less passive aggressive."

Not that I have a problem with this method, but it isn't usually done with the end goal of fixing the problem.
What search terms do you use to get this particular icon returned?

[settings icon]["settings icon"][free settings icon] etc don't return it.
They are a company that sue others at high costs for similar missteps.
>This.

Samefag detected.
Sony being willing to install rootkits on people's PCs and being quite sue-happy over copyright infringement, then turning around and violating copyright and licensing terms matters in a social context. Sony needs to live up to their own standards (which I would prefer means they need to change their standards, but realistically means that they need to at least obey what they enforce).

Violating the GPL terms matters legally.
>>>a single man behind a computer

What was the computer?
This leads me to a legal question about GPL stuff.. Say the guys at KDE threw their full legal might behind this- what would happen to Sony?

Obviously they would be required to change it (or include the GPL licence), but is that all? What kind of 'damages' could be claimed in such a situation?.. ie what is the risk to Sony in doing this. NB i'm using this (somewhat trivial) example to talk about GPL violation more broadly.
afaik they didn't release their 100-core version. Judging by the changes compared to the TilePRO (more SoC stuff), they seem to be focused on better covering their commercial niche: network and server infrastructure.
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Sorry, one cannot have it both ways.

When one copies a music track that was sung by someone who works for Sony, who sues you? Sony (with all their legal & financial resources)? Or the person who sung the track? The answer is Sony. Likewise, Sony is responsible for putting this out there.

Sony (or anyone) cannot have it both ways when it suits them.
> I've heard a teddybear works pretty well in a pinch.

Ah! The ancient feud between the School of the Duck and the Monastery of the Bear! I think modern times have calmed down the waters and all's right in the world of Engineer Fu.
And it is not alone in there. Antelope that cares is in there.
I think unfortunately the best case of action would be for KDE to sue Sony pre-emptively. Otherwise, some lawyer on Sony's side would notice KDE using "their" icon and sue KDE.
Busby #2 was a bit harder to find:

http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=174.1983...
It is abundantly clear this is not a manned mission (though if they were to attempt that it would be an extremely bold statement).

India has a stated intention to put humans in space and is actively working towards that. Adding yet another arrow to the quiver with such an ambitious goal already underway feels as though it might end up risking both projects.
I'd be tempted to email their listed DMCA contact.
Very true. Options pool != stock the founders have. There are often many classes. It's never simple.
The very high gross margin is more likely - they're charging as much as they can, not as little as they can.
An open source search might have found this image - LGPL isn't CC, but it's close enough to be practical. IANAL, but if it's LGPLed, they can probably just include it without issue - they just need to note that the _image_ is open source, not necessarily the rest of their stuff. The only real problem here is the lack of proper licensing (i.e. the default its-all-ours! license is too strict).

And totally unnecessary too, probably. I seriously doubt this kind of software is in any way an edge over their competitors - it's probably just big corp habit.
Google Glass patent application
The Blue Flame
And that (in ref to the last few paragraphs of the article) might turn out to be a good thing.
Google knows what it is upto. Unless it really wants Android to be recognized as Galaxy then God save Android.

So is 'open source' the problem here? -- "sell an "Android phone" makes you a cheap commodity play. Nobody wants that, they all want to be cool and different. Leave Android to the Chinese knock-offs."
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What's funny is that is' happening both ways. Lots of people are confusing "copyright infringement" with "claiming another work as your own". There was an article here about mundane/average computer users trying to use copyrighted music tracks on YouTube, and it being banned. Users were confused how it was being taken down for 'copyright infringement' when the person wasn't claiming it was their music.
Well I did post the source port, which reduces the effort by a factor of tens of thousands... also, the up-thread did say "with a single fake RST or FIN packet"... which is why I mentioned window guessing...

Also, crap, I'm an idiot. Let me do that non-natted ;)

tcp 0 0 216.240.155.220:4007 60.225.131.226:43972 ESTABLISHED 18694/nc
The article addresses that.

The real question is why new hospitals don't open up and charge less than these hyper-inflated retail rates and compete on price?

I'm only on page 3, maybe that's addressed too - but I doubt it.
Your site never seems to load for me.
"1. Take the least amount of stock possible is not a good generally-applicable rule. It might have worked for you in the past, but it sure wouldn't have worked well for any of the employees of Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Weebly, etc."

And for the people who won the Powerball, "Don't buy lottery tickets" wouldn't have worked well for them. That doesn't mean "Don't buy lottery tickets" isn't a good generally-applicable rule.

Cashing out big on your startup might not be quite as rare as winning the Powerball, but it's still awfully unlikely.
I think two things are getting mixed up here: 1) what Google does/wants (apparently, they don't want it anymore, which is the interesting part of the article) and 2) what the people perceive (Android vs iPhone). The article itself states it at the end, who knows iOS? Mostly geeks, I agree. But who knows Android? Everyone and their mom. Google is not simply going to null this, and I don't think they should either, but that is another story.
This is a great move by Google. Android has a strange brand image going for it - but it's definitely not a premium brand. The main problem Android is currently facing on the consumer side is that people who have bought cheap Android devices (especially tablets) get a (deservedly) terrible impression of Android.

Google is fixing this in the best way possible. Instead of having a 'Windows Phone', a 'Blackberry', an 'Apple', and an 'Android', you now have a 'Galaxy', a 'Droid', a 'Nexus', and an 'Android' (cheap Chinese), etc.

This means that instead of Blackberry now competing against just Android and being a go-to choice if you didn't like Android, they're now competing in mind share with each individual manufacturer. This is going to be very bad for non-Android, as their brand share is now being heavily diluted among countless choices for general consumers.

Brilliant marketing play - I wonder if it's a conscious move by the Android alliance, or it's just playing out naturally?
Of course it would have been better to say it differently; that doesn't make what he said instead a justification for what happened, or that it would have changed anything.
The image is under LGPL3, all they really need to do is acknowledge this and provide copies of the image and derivatives.
Keep your head up. I had a really, really, really hard time with it, too. Identical situation (nearly).
Man alive. That sounds like no fun.

Also an entrepreneur here, and admittedly no (major) failures as yet, but I envy you at least having parents to fall back on.

All alone in the world here. Nothing like the absence of any safety net to make you consider your decisions carefully.
Why are people upvoting this inane nothing-article.

>Explain.

Ok, basically android is well known, it is not just geeks (yes there are some technophobes that don't, but a minority IMO). It is market dominant. So no, it's not a 'feature' any more, and google don't need to explain that their phones have android. The phone manufacturers have always been keen to create their own brand, over time that obviously becomes more successful. The additional nexus brand is google's way of trying to steer the ship.

So, we knew all this stuff. Google is not actively replacing (killing) the android brand, it's just natural evolution. There is no (more) push to use the 'google' brand like the article suggests, and obviously nexus must be a different brand because it is a subset of android. So, this article has 0 substance, most of it is made up of just telling you normal people don't know their phone OS, fascinating.
Jans desktop was for the time pretty powerful, there were quite a few servers there as well (> 30).

The machines were mostly powered by 486/33, on a micronics motherboard, adaptec controllers (1542) to hook up drives.

Using the 286 version of QnX, all the joys of 'mixed model' programming. QnX took forever to release their 32 bit version (this was the main reason I wrote a clone).

Funny that I still remember those details after all these years.
Of course by that definition LivingSocial didn't do a lot of good.
Here's the Nexus 4 page: http://www.google.com/nexus/4/
Indeed, Google is everywhere, and Android is mentioned at the very bottom.
Don't think so. That rather reads like the description of an undiagnosed asperger or not-so-dramatic (not in a sense of not severe, in a sense of "not screaming when overloaden" unlike in movies) autistic patterns. He even mentions an Aspie-board, maybe he is aware of it but didn't want to mention it in his article?

The water, the need for routine, the unabilty to fully play chess when in a social context, the need to simulate social interactions - the "funny" thing is that if that diagnosis is right, he is not faking by faking it, it's simply him.

The not so funny thing is that if that diagnosis were right, many comments in this thread like "we all feel like we are not normal" mask that condition, and lead to unhelpful advice.
I totally agree on non-binary sentience. I think level of sentience correlates with capacity to experience dreams. I think cats and dogs and even smaller animals are somewhat sentient because they dream.

What's more interesting, what level of sentience could be achieved with brain that has lot more power than human brain?
RIAA says Google’s attempts to fight piracy in search results are ineffective
Unless it really wants Android to be recognized as Galaxy then God save Android.

A few weeks ago I heard a CNN reporter refer to the "iPad and Galaxy ecosystems." I wonder if it's already too late.
I used to shut myself in a lot of time when I was playing poker avidly. Instead of going to parties, bars, socialize with friends, there were always tournaments to grind.
Putting in more hands meant cutting down on variance, meant being able to deal better with bad luck and facilitating a more consistent winning playing style.

Obviously it was the thing I loved at that moment, the riches allured to me and my friends didn't "Get" the amounts I would be playing for anyway. They also didn't "get it" why it sucked so hard to end up 11/1500 in a big tournament. (Hey you still won right?).

You're right when you see relationships don't work when you always have a communication problem.

Usually though, the problem is not that people don't understand you - (sidenote: i know there are just stupid people who don't, or don't want to. You don't need them anyway).
The problem is you won't let people understand you, because you are ignorant, arrogant and self-righteous. No offence but, if you were such a genius you wouldn't be working on Ruby projects (no pun.)
People probably would understand you, and you would probably have better socializing experiences if you tried.

Seems you sucked at this stuff when you were a kid, and now when you've grown up enough to be able to understand yourself and put everything into words, you still decide its the best route to go.

Well die lonely then if you like it. It's not for me.
The two day strike currently taking place in India is said to have resulted into loss of ~25000 crore..
It is interesting to look at the selection of phones available at Walmart http://preview.tinyurl.com/bgdvobh

Android is only mentioned some of time even for Android phones, and it is always out of date versions (usually the 18+ month old 2.3 versions). Even the feature phones are dressed up to look like they are smartphones (eg similar launcher layout). Asymco talk about this in more detail in this episode http://5by5.tv/criticalpath/69 and posting http://www.asymco.com/2013/01/03/the-last-featurephone/

What can be deduced is that some people just use their phones for calls and texting, and that those phones are increasingly running old Android versions.
Better question here - who are you to judge this? A prospective employee is by no means forced to accept employment with a start-up where they're receiving a smaller share of equity than the founders. There is no grounds for any sort of argument of what is "fair" when you are on the receiving end of a job offer. If it's not fair, don't sign on. If you don't like the terms of the deal, renegotiate or find another one. The founders / current employees can offer whatever they would like - you have the ability to decide whether or not you want to accept those terms.
On the flip side, when playing the part of the outsider, never be afraid to ask if it is plugged in (etc.). If you can shape your local culture, help ensure those sorts of questions are understood as basic due diligence and not an insult. I always half apologize, but about 1/3rd of the time, yeah, that's it. (Oops.) We all do it.
I think KDE's source control system would prove otherwise...
A very good article that reminds me of an understanding that I've come to a couple of years ago - that free market capitalism and health care just don't mix.

Having the option to choose against a service, or being physically able to choose another service vendor if one is ripping you off are some of the core rules keeping the worst absurdities of capitalism in check.

Without them, the result is that people are being held hostage - pay here or die here. People aren't usually inclined to choose the second.
I'm used to it by now. Whenever I post a criticism, I try very carefully to make verifiable and repeatable claims with as much evidence (preferably video) as possible.

Even so, I've been accused of being a paid schill for Apple, Dell, Google, RIM, Nokia, Samsung, Sony and - on one memorable occasion - Panasonic!

I really wish I was in the pocket of all these companies - I'd be minted :-)
Could have happened months or years ago. Google Images seems to shuffle quite a lot.
I've got my little "nights and weekend" project, with the web server part currently running on Google's app engine (http://h4labs.com). I was trying to use Scala for a while but now it's just HTML/Javascript.

Occasionally, I do get this urge to move to Amazon so I can "play" with Haskell, Go, Racket, Scala, etc. Has anyone created a "Frankenstein" website on their side-project site? It would be a great way to learn many of these "non-mainstream" languages.
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