skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Maro is commiserating and you give him a theology/philosophy lesson."

You didn't point out a problem clearly, so I'm not sure what you think I should have done instead of branching a philosophy discussion. You'll note that the only thing to which I replied from Maro's answer is his comment about Buddhists being right. My reply has nothing to do with his commiseration, and I believe I stay on topic 100%. Besides, if you want me to reply to Maro's commiseration, my answer is that we should verify everything in OP's post first before deciding with what to commiserate. Why commiserate in places where OP is actually repeatedly at fault and chose the wrong way? How can you properly commiserate at times when OP was right if you can't see where they are? That's not justice to the investors, nor OP, nor is it the way to help OP to find the right way. Fact is neither you nor I know OP. Anyway, see my own reply to OP in my comments.

"Further, I studied buddhism for a while. I have no idea what you're talking about. In other words, YMMV."

I've often experienced this kind of reaction from today's Buddhists. I don't understand why. What I do know is that it's impossible to understand the truth with untruthfulness inside oneself. I also studied Buddhism for long years, traveled a lot, and met a lot of people, but I've never found in any country a Buddhism which is for the living people.

It's critical that this result is informed accurately to human society so that people can protect themselves from being cheated by falsehood.
I love that form. No, I've not committed genocide lately, nor am I entering with the intent of setting myself up as a drug lord... Maybe some light murder and mayhem, though, if I feel bored or the hotel isn't up to scratch.

(for the curious who haven't travelled on the visa waiver program: http://www.usvisalawyers.co.uk/article6add1.htm )
Congratulations, it looks great. Nicer than Flot.

For my purposes, I'll stick with Flot since its free of licensing fees (at least as far as I can tell). But if I had a budget to work with, Highcharts is appealing.
Er. If your startup developers can't write more bytes than necessary, why are you publicly doing a shoot-out? You clearly can't afford to explore all reasonable options. You're wasting everyone's time if by cherry picking outdated Scala frameworks to compare to the state-of-the-art Python frameworks.
On the theoretical side, pure regular expressions (w/o PCRE extensions) can actually parse HTML to the extent that most browsers can. The expressions would be gigantic, unmaintainable messes, and probably not even possible to write by hand, but nonetheless it's more of a practical problem than an issue of formal language power.

For example, WebKit sets a maximum DOM nesting limit of 512 [1], and most other browsers have a limit as well. A context-free language restricted to a finite maximum production depth becomes a regular language, so WebKit's parsing could be done by an NFA or DFA, and the parser could be encoded as a regular expression if desired. But the only plausible way to write such an expression correctly would be to mechanically "compile" it from a grammar. So you're going to need the grammar anyway, at which point you might as well use it directly.

[1] http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/page/Set...
Petitions are just the White House way to troll the people of the internet.

Gives a sense of accomplishment but leads to zero results i.e. the same as arguing on the internet.
This seems a lawsuit hoping for a payoff without having much merit. If you can purchase the item in several different ways, either on other devices or print, then how is it a monopoly? Just because a company enjoys a large market share doesn't necessarily make it a monopoly.

Also, publishers have the ability to specify no DRM on their ebooks for the Kindle. So the fact the DRM exists at all is for the benefit of the publisher, not Amazon. They might as well sue the publishers for exercising their ability to use DRM on the Kindle that creates a monopoly for Amazon.

The open source DRM thing is just for PR and is rather silly. They brought it up in an attempt to make themselves appear reasonable. If such a thing existed then you might as well not use it. If it's open source then it would be trivial to crack it, so what would be the point?

This lawsuit should be tossed, but alas, how much money shall be wasted fighting it that benefits no one but the lawyers for both sides?

Another thing, if the claim is that Amazon has a monopoly on publishing ebooks, does that mean the bookstores are saying that Amazon's monopoly is preventing them from publishing ebooks on the Kindle?
In that case I have prior art:

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Slap_20Bracelet_20Cell_20Phon...
My first reaction to this conversation was to imagine some kind of vacuum hose attachment. My second thought was "oh yeah... that won't work at all" :)
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If Apple were to introduce the device, they have two options. First, patent the design (and then possibly sue others). Second, do not patent the design and get sued by others. Which one would you choose? I would go for the first one (and not sue others without a proper cause, but that’s a different topic).
This sounds like a nightmare. I'm sorry, but you've got a tough road ahead of you if things don't take an upward swing. I'm just a student, no entrepreneurial experience (yet!), but the best advice I can give you is to man up and avoid trying to hide from the people you've let down.

Be honest, no one respects a coward.

At the end of the day, you'll be alive. You have clean water and probably an iPhone- it could be much worse. You've learned a lesson too, don't take loans from friends/family.
However if I recall correctly, whether this is actually innate ability in humans, of something that happens when you throw large neural network on a problem is still an open question. Seeing what even 100 neurons in artificial nerual network can learn, I'd guess the latter, but that's just a guess.
In the US, we also get to port our numbers to new carriers. It's been this way for a while.

Do Brazilian carriers offer contract-subsidized phones? Many carriers here will unlock your phone once your contract is complete. See AT&T's unlock details at [1]

[1] https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/client/en_US/
It's a way of expressing to lawmakers that people care about an issue.
Well, what is the lesser of all evils? We need lots of energy, and it's only going to get worse as India, China, and the rest of the world come online.
If only it had the most "usable" pricing structure too:

http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html

One price for a "web page" that's not a "web application" and then pricing per developer? Just ridiculous. Why not add a per CPU surcharge while we're at it?
Ack, no, you're good. I usually think of myself as adept at identifying sarcasm but that totally went over my head. Sorry!
next to him is an easter egg if you zoom out slightly http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=169.0923...
I use Keychain on Mac OS X to store passwords automatically and I make password protected notes for sites or apps where passwords are not recommended correctly.

I make general rules for passwords and follow those. I also use poor, easy memorisable passwords for various sites that I don't deem important but require a login and password.
Well I guess that makes me a hobby programmer. Half the time I don't know what server the code will be deployed on when I start coding. 9 times out of 10 the hardware is completely out of my control (often it's whatever cloud server provider X decides to spin up that week, which can often be something completely different from what they decided to spin up last week).

Obviously making sure your test environment is as close to possible as your production environment is important, but I don't get too bothered about making sure the machine my text editor runs on is identical to the machine I will end up deploying to. But then again, I'm just a hobby programmer.
Yes, I think that's a good way of putting it. I think it's data manipulation and reporting capabilities are excellent. In previous jobs where I used to work with a lot of data it was often easier just to output to Excel to allow the teams to manipulate and create whatever reports they needed.
Fuck DRM, get DRM free ebooks at ebookoid.com
Sega release retro gaming laptops
Of course! I walk past that road everyday so could make an educated guess at 40km/hr. Mind you, my maths skills are poor so I won't be about to start delving any deeper into the calculation!
Last page of the internet.
I am almost certain aircon buttons are patented.

For instance: "Control device for motor vehicle air conditioning, with driver preferences settings"

http://www.google.com/patents/EP0908338A1?cl=en&dq=car+d...
Sorry, I misspoke. I meant to say that they no longer support IE7 (or apparently IE8) going forward with the new version, 2.x.
Yes, there is no shadow around him, unlike the guy walking past. I think it has been photoshopped in.
This is really interesting. Seems like Snapchat would have fallen into the first two buckets (I can't see their upside being higher than an exit to somewhere like Facebook or Twitter, but I'd be happy if I were wrong).
I guess he was talking about logic mistakes, not bugs as in "under certains conditions this fails". Logic mistakes are really hard to find because they don't make Excel crash.
What if I go to some site, that offers me movies for free and states "commercial usage allowed" ?
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The KDE Developer that wrote this needs to take a deep breath...they asked: "Should KDE e.V. and Nuno's Oxygen friends start a new business model by sueing them for everything they're worth?"

Really? Sue them for all they are worth?

Go ahead and try, but you need money to sue and no Judge is going to award you "All they are worth" over an icon.

You haven't lost anything with Sony using this icon. You have gained because now there is an subconscious association between Sony and KDE.

Well, for those that even recognise that it is KDE artwork to begin with.
Being nice and polite to people in the hope that maybe they will stop abusing their power over you is a sign of weakness.
Self-doubt and fear... Those two feelings will be your friends if you take the time to know them. But are you willing to make that journey? Are you willing to make the sacrifices to be great?

It's sounds like you want assurances now, before pouring in the years of work, sweat and failures. You want guarantees and validation now, then you'll commit? Is that how you want it?

Just know this: patience is greater than understanding. You need patience first. Be okay with uncertainty. Even the things you think you know aren't so.

P.S. Patience is greater than understanding. This sentence hit me hard. It's also the answer to something I'm struggling with. Time to take my own medicine.
As a person coming from a EU country, I have absolutely no words for this. Like seriously, what the actual fuck America?? You will fight to the death to preserve your right to bear weapons,but any suggestion to make health care public and not let idiotic situations like this happen are fought with ferocity. What the hell.
Try a new hobby. I began a new hobby about a year and a half ago and have doubled the amount of people I know. Some of them are acquaintances while some I see as "meaningful" friends.
Good idea. Thanks for the idea.
Could you further explain why calling Java methods from Scala is not idiomatic? I have virtually no real exposure to Scala, but a decent amount of Clojure experience. I've found in my pet Clojure project that it's not really painful to wrap up calls to Java libraries in idiomatic clojure (in fact I'm writing the graphics renderer in Java for performance). Does Scala really make it that much trouble to call Java methods?
I think it depends how you measure popularity. For example at my work Racket is the most popular Lisp: I use it and no one else ever used or is going to use any other Lisp... :)

Racket is a very young language. Until a few (3?) years ago it was a (PLT) Scheme; Scheme has it's uses but they are very specific, nobody would use a Scheme as a general purpose, systems programming language. Racket evolved and is now much more than simply a Scheme-with-extensions: it's a platform for language creation as well as robust runtime and has many very good tools.

It all makes sense if you look at Racket as a fresh language, that only started a few years ago - think about Python in it's infancy. It is very impressive and surprisingly mature in comparison, but it's still very young and has many parts missing - it's almost ready for production, but not quite there yet and I don't think this should be rushed.

Sticking with Racket now is a kind of gamble. I think that in a six to eight years time Racket will be competing with Clojure for a place of the most popular Lisp in existence and I think that in the future it will be the "new hot thing" for a while, just as Python or Ruby or JavaScript were. Most importantly Racket is a language that I'd really like to use in ten years. But still, it's uncertain and any number of things can go wrong and Racket can remain unpopular, niche product for eternity. That's the risk of using young, aspiring languages - I once won betting on Python and now I'm going to try again with Racket.

So, to summarize this rant: Racket is very young; languages need time to gain traction; if Racket evolves as fast as it does it will become insanely popular when the time comes.
What I really like in this library is it provides an automatic case class <> json binding (so it's convenient) but without using any Reflection: It uses the Scala Macros and is type-safe.
See also: http://mandubian.com/2012/11/11/JSON-inception/
Linkedin's growing problem
I'd chip in.
There's a reason you had to capitalize it.
Information Architecture vs. User Experience
and naturally it provides real Json validation with error aggregation which is interesting in many cases (not only Web actually)
That thing where it says "web font support" apparently means the opposite, I'm afraid.
"If it's open source then it would be trivial to crack it, so what would be the point?"

You are subscribing to the security-through-obscurity myth and I claim my five dollars.
Ask HN: Recommendation on online marketing training
In about a month, I will be launching a SaaS application and I need some practical training on online marketing to hit the ground running. I found some online courses like marketmotive and rhhbschool. I don't mind paying if the value is there, but at $2k per course I want to make sure it is worth it.
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great talk
This seems to be an image search site like google images. It does find the same icon on toshiba.com: http://us.toshiba.com/computers/accessories

This icon seems to be very popular indeed...
Why would Samsung want to suddenly switch to a Nexus device when they're dominating the entire Android market with the Galaxy brand? Most users don't know what version of Android they're running, let alone worry about what stock Android is or whether or not an update is available. In fact, now that Samsung has a greater brand name than Android, they can be more confident that their Tizen project will have a greater head start than if they hadn't started with Android initially.

You're looking at it from the angle of a tech consumer, not a business. They've done very well with their Android strategy considering the marketshare it has. Pretty much all Android users will be using at least one Google service which generates revenue or signed up to Google services that will tie them to their ecosystem.
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It's nice to see another Drupal MVP :)
Firstly, this isn't a shoot-out. I apologize if the title feels that way. It's our account on why we chose one(language) over the other looking into various real-life variables, not just web frameworks.

>> You clearly can't afford to explore all reasonable options.
How else would we know which one to go with and save extra bytes?

Lift/Play are surely not outdated. I am just stating objective facts that led us to one over the other.

Read both the articles we have posted to get a flavour :)
This will probably be a big help for China if it is cheap enough given their use of coal. Coal is what we used to get to our current status and it will be what everyone else uses unless we come up with something cheaper and just as constant.
Is your comment aimed at people who didn't read the linked article?
To be fair, a few seconds with Google will usually identify the source of a given image with reasonable accuracy if that image has been copied from another public project. So yes, there almost certainly are people at Sony who could do what you described.

I'm torn on this whole issue. On the one hand, I think the world would be a much better place if we didn't have silly draconian copyright laws, so I don't like to see those silly laws given any further legitimacy by using them (and I write that as a guy who makes his living creating stuff that is protected by copyright). On the other hand, those laws are laws because of companies like Sony, and hoping they won't be used doesn't stop them being laws.

I suspect if companies like Sony started paying obscenely disproportionate fines for careless minor infringements, this might be the fastest way to get the problem fixed, though regrettably with significant collateral damage resulting along the way. For example, if they have sponsored laws that call for criminal sanctions against individuals who infringe copyright for commercial gain, those laws should be hovering over any conceivably responsible individuals at Sony and anywhere they outsourced to as well in cases like this. If merely working for a company like Sony on any creative project is potentially enough to get you a criminal record, the true damage caused by draconian copyright laws will become apparent to them very quickly (and probably quite briefly, since it seems unlikely that a company that became so toxic to employees and agencies would last very long).

I really dislike that I've come to that conclusion, but looking at the world as it is rather than as I wish it to be, I have trouble seeing any more logical outcome.
Totally weird observation, but this is the first time I'm seeing an aesthetic quite like the background [0] on that fat gray header area - sort of gritty like a blackboard, but yet nice and gridlike?

[0] Link: http://jquery.com/jquery-wp-content/themes/jquery/images/dar...
If you're into that sort of thing, just look through my comment history, it's not that far down. I'm pretty much done with that discussion.
Hello HN:

Quick overview: We're a group of friends with design, tech and fashion backgrounds that came from all over the world to build Seat14a.com out of New Delhi, India. ( a place that we have fallen in love with btw)

We're still very early ( we just launched our first collection a few days ago), but the premise of the idea is simple. We connect consumers to designers affordably by working directly with designers and our manufacturers to come up with micro-collections (currently only for men). We have the micro-collection up for about 2 weeks or till it's sold out; during which time we provide our distribution partners with real-time analytics ( purchase velocity, geo, etc.) so they can make informed buy decisions.

Few things to note:

- A different designer every 2 weeks (no house look)
- Free shipping to anywhere in the world.

We'd love to get your thoughts on our concept and our first collection.

PS: If in Delhi, do get in touch - we'll show you around, chat about fashion + Tech and of course have some chai (not the latte).

Much love,

Nav, Jas, Adi, T-dawg ( founders@seat14a.com )
Since at least 1970, when the Controlled Substances Act gave the executive branch of government the power to declare drugs illegal without involving Congress.
OK, something I don't understand. What's to stop someone from opening a store that sells unlocked phones?

Is it because of the lack of carrier discount? If that's the case, people have already voted with their money on what they value more.
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We’re two co-founders of a Buffalo, NY startup developing a PaaS product. We’ve managed to score a meeting with a well-known founder to talk about our ideas and get some advice, and as we have the rest of the day free, we’d love to be able to meet with other founders or investors to chat.

Apart from our meeting at 2pm-3pm, we’re free pretty much all day. Who’s up for it? If you want to get in touch, I'm dan@halftreelabs.com.
Seriously, why the downvotes? I don't think developing in secret is how things should be done (in a perfect world). I'm just theorising why Google might have chosen to work that way. Is this not a reasonable motive, or is there a better explanation for their behaviour?
I've been tossing around an idea of setting up a small PAC dedicated to tech issues. It would rate legislators on their stances on issues like net neutrality, patent reform, etc. Additionally, it would have a campaign fund, and each election cycle it would target the most egregiously bad legislators with that campaign fund.

I've written some of the code -- but since that time I've learned a lot more so I will probably scrap what I have to rebuild.
It would be nice if people didn't abandon things that benefit the mouse just because they don't work on touch. It's possible to support both a hover-based and a touch-based interaction paradigm for footnotes.
Interesting, thanks.

I posed the question more as a realistic observation: I haven't changed the world with technology x or web app y, so I accept that I probably won't. I'm OK with this, I'm just wondering what is out there for someone like me: your average joe!

What I'm interested in is the stories and experiences of those people who are in the background or aren't the star of the show. My question was vague as hell, though - so all responses read!
Reminds me very much of what I refer to as the Microsoft Access problem.

Somebody with no database design background hacks out an app in Access, which works.
Ten years later, the dude has long sinced left the company, you have a horrid, non-resilient and unmaintainable application, which nobody understands, but is utterly critical to the business.

It can get even worse, when Access applications connect to the enterprise database. I've seen pure horrors with such scenarios, ranging from queries that bog down the entire system up to ghost locks, which wouldn't go away without recycling the data server.

The problems are somewhat different, but the root cause is the same: Trying to scale something, which is clearly designed for the desktop, to enterprise level.
How is the set of all programs countable?
Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in soft development
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In Eastern Europe there are certainly numerous environmental consequences to the coal mining. One that isn't that grave but makes for a lasting impression is the huge spoil tips (e.g., http://imgur.com/a/aB1EJ) that can often burn slowly inside.
The Hardest Part