skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Federal laws are not copyrightable per 17 U.S.C. § 105:

http://www.plainsite.org/laws/index.html?id=13347

I'm not sure if D.C. is considered part of the federal government, but if it is, then there's nothing to worry about in terms of copyright violations.
Nobody uses Java Applets just like nobody uses Windows XP and IE6.
I had a password exposed via a compromise/dump of the perlmonks.org website a year or two ago.

That didn't bother me since I use per-site passwords, stored in a pwsafe database. But it is an example of sites compromising passwords.
>I'm then left wondering...

Stop. Your mind is made up. You don't want or care if people without javascript can see your stuff - fair enough.
I think it's worth (re)reading this comment on the original Storage Pod from several years ago:

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5899-Some-perspective-to-th...

I have essentially have all of the same questions for Storage Pod 3.0 -- and in particular, what does the software stack look like? (This config is absolutely begging for ZFS, but I have a haunting feeling that something janky is afoot upstack.) I would also be curious as to the specific nature of failures that have been seen with the deployed architecture. Have the concerns from three years ago proven to be alarmist or prescient?

That said: I think it's very valuable to get configs like this out there for public discussion -- and I think it might be inspiring us (Joyent) to similarly publicly discuss our own high density storage config...
Ruby is a wrapper around c.
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All those extra steps have a purpose, all those extra steps can be glossed over if you don't care.

git add is never needed if you always git commit -a

if you don't care what git fetch && git merge does, just use git pull

The biggest problem with learning git is that all git experts love to talk about the advanced workflows, but all the beginners just want to be able to push and pull.
That's even weirder because that's better for user experience.
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To be sure, Safari is invoking a system level PDF reader to handle inline PDFs. That's what gets you that silky performance and nice rendering.

When you pop the PDF out, it then gets passed to the full Preview.app.
Square's $275 plan is only for the first 250k; after that they charge a normal credit-card rate.

What's the value of GoPago over Square for that 50k merchant? Mobile Storefront -- which has been a fantastic discovery tool to connect consumers with merchants on GoPago. It allows people to place orders on their phone to the POS terminal itself, no phone-calls necessary. We also have a much more robust reporting suite, support for scanners, support for wireless chit printers (so merchants don't have to ferry order receipts to the kitchen), a modifier system (this is huge if you do any sort of volume -- on Square's software, you need to manually input modifiers and their prices every time you ring up an item with modifiers like condiments/toppings).

Also, the cost difference in Square's favor is not realized until the end of the first year. If you're starting a business, the outlay needed for Square is precious money that could go elsewhere in your organization.
How I Over-Engineered ASP.NET Health Monitoring
> Some bugs were related to the development process itself. The Protoss Carrier regularly lagged behind other units because it had its own way of doing … everything. At some point in time the code for the Carrier was branched from the main game code and had diverged beyond any hope of re-integration. Consequently any time a feature was added for other units, it had to be re-implemented for the Carrier. And any time a bug was fixed for other units, a similar bug would later be found in the Carrier code too, only more devious and difficult to fix.

I guess it's comforting to know that even elite development teams also struggle with code design. I wonder how far off the branch the Carrier unit was that required it to have its own reimplemented features...and what kind of features needed to be reimplemented for it? (story-game events, path-finding?)
Troll attorney lawyers up, admits he never met his “client” Alan Cooper
Downvoted - this is not HN material. Please go back to Reddit.
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>Chrome's viewer is still much better

On Linux - both FF19 and Chrome Stable are very close. FF rendering is a bit jerkier than Chrome but not by much.
Interestingly, there are also a prototype Flash in JavaScript called Shumway: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway

And an IIUC a DOM renderer in JS https://github.com/andreasgal/dom.js/

I don't know if PDF.js will ever reach full PDF compatibility (with all it's weird forms and other stuff), but I do hope so. With a liberal licence I can totally see people embedding pdf.js to render their pdfs on site.
If he can't decide, he can still use Perl Catalyst or Mojolicious ! Catalyst guy have a good way to define what's'the difference between RoR and Catalyst: RoR makes easy things simple but complex tasks very hard (when try to run out of the rails). Catalyst (and I believe Django too) makes easy things a little more difficult but complex things possible and maintainable.
It's sad that when your problems are genuinely different from other people's problems, people won't believe you. They will keep giving you advice that worked for them.
I don't really care what people do on their phones, it's reflective of who they are anyway

Precisely. So phones give passive, stupid people easier access to their passive, stupid habits. Similarly, phones give active, intelligent people access to their active, intelligent habits.

It sounds to me like you have a sincere dislike for a majority of people, and technology has nothing to do with it. You're better than all those mindless drones, and you would have been 50 years ago as well -- smart phones just magnify the effect.

You would be wise to ask yourself whether you have a superiority complex.

[EDIT] - Yeah I can see that, sawyer. I've changed it.
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> it has sequential commit numbers

That right there illustrates the disconnect that causes some people to dislike git while others love it. Git is truly distributed.

In a distributed system, commits are not totally ordered. It is fundamentally impossible to give them all meaningful sequential numbers, because some are really neither newer nor older than others. They are "in parallel".

Git excels at truly distributed workflows, and distributed workflows dominate in open source. That's why git dominates the open source world. The basic issue in open source is this: code is shared across organizational boundaries. You need to make and deploy a change today, without knowing or necessarily even caring whether the upstream project is going to take the patch. But your code needs to stay consistent and cleanly mergeable at every point through this process, even as multiple patches are flying in multiple directions.
What's amusing about the letter is that it shows how even executives buy into cultural stereotypes to justify their activities.

The substance of the letter is this: we'd rather buy an Indian or Chinese tire company to get the government subsidies and take advantage of the low cost of labor.

The stuff about French workers only working three hours a day is fluff, and on top of that almost certainly exaggerated out of context and/or apocryphal.

See: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/work-life-balance/

The French work on average 1,554 hours per year, about 10% lower than the OECD average of 1,749. Is that 10% breaking the backs of French tire manufacturing? Of course not. Consider that South Koreans work on average 2,193 hours per year, a staggering 25% higher than the OECD average. Why doesn't Titan manufacture tires in South Korea?

The answer is that relatively small differences in the number of hours people worked aren't driving the economics here. The French work somewhat less than say Americans, but also make somewhat less money than say Americans (last I checked, manufacturing jobs paid on an hourly basis). To be accurate, the letter could have said: "we won't manufacture tires in France because the French work 6.5 hours per day on average versus 7.5 per day for Americans." But that would have sounded stupid. Hence the need to exaggerate and say: "the French only work 3 hours per day!"

What's driving the economics is, as the letter points out, $1/hour wages in China or India, where people are happy to get so little money because those countries are poor and have low standards of living relative to western countries. The rest is just handwaving and fluff.
Of course it is bullshit. Here is the latest progress (that I am aware of) on that front.
https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/293/293.F3d.791.99...

>>For the reasons discussed above, we REVERSE the district court's judgment against Peter Veeck, and REMAND with instructions to dismiss SBCCI's claims.

I'm told that this decision does not make precedent for the whole US, but rather only that which is under the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

See also: https://law.resource.org/
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What language would Google Glass apps be made in?
I am currently introducing myself to programming and would love to build apps for a piece of hardware like that. Thanks
Actually, last night, I spotted some BART cops with glasses that had a little camera on the side. Pretty sure that they didn't have screens but it brought a smile to my face. Definitely a step in the right direction.
engineers gonna engineer
...not necessarily causation.
This is certainly a problem, but I see a larger, more troubling problem here associated with access to the legal code.

Yes, what laws exist should be made available in as many formats as possible, including some easily accessible electronic format. I doubt that anybody here would disagree with that.

But the real issue here is that there are so many laws and regulations that it becomes impossible for any one human being to know all of them. Any person who goes about their day in a normal fashion breaks multiple laws every day.

When the state starts policing moral and ethical behavior rather than merely defending people against aggression, you come up with page after page of laws and it becomes impossible to know what is correct. This culture of "every problem needs a law to solve it" is in my opinion the priority here, not merely making thousands of pages of useless laws somehow more accessible. You're never going to read them anyway.
Session Qualifiers…what have you done for me lately?
Stanford scientists fit light-emitting bioprobe in a single cell
> But what about if it was necessary to have one command that changed the state of more than one resource?

Then you need to have another resource that encompasses the aspects that need to be changed. Sometimes resources have to be somewhat abstract.

> since certain aspects of the API (like honk horn) are unfit for REST, does it make sense to have the other parts of the API in REST?

If the application benefits from the constraints that REST provides then why wouldn't it make sense? It's still one API, "honk" and "flash" don't need to be walled off from the other elements of the API in any way.
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The big difference between the two is that Glass is powered 100% by voice, Android is powered primarily by touch. I am sure that by the time Google starts rolling this out to the mass market in other countries, they will have those problems figured out.
I can't see how taunting government leaders ends well for a company. You may not agree with them, but what good comes from taunting? Will this really be productive to getting France to ease up on union laws?
There are a lot of people I really enjoy working with that I wouldn't want to partner up with.

Kinda like there are a lot of girls I'd go dancing with but that doesn't mean I've proposed to all of them.
Phew, good thing you have a shit Nokia. Otherwise society would probably come to a grinding halt.
> using the same shitty Blackberry for 6 years now.

> I'm 20 now.

So, you had a Blackberry when you were 14? Your post has a luddite like quality to it, but this fact is quite the opposite.
What, this is not what a web browser is supposed to do.
Only permitted for showgirls.
I like people who tell it like they see it. Sure, he could tone it down a bit, but I would prefer he does not. When you guard your words and hold back how you really feel, you are not doing anyone any favors.

Saying nice, comforting things to them (while they fail and people lose their jobs) would be a greater injustice than being honest and frank. I bet no one else has ever spoken that directly about the matter. Sometimes, that's precisely what is needed.
Well, I imagine that they download the file in the background, and if the viewer seeks to a non-downloaded part of the file, then it just blocks with "Loading" until that part is downloaded.
I see. As a non-native english speaker, I guess I read it wrong.
Well, you are wrong on the etymology of 'travail' (as is everybody else), but maybe you got it less wrong

(And curiously, in the latin languages it's all the same root)

The real origin is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripalium

"A tripalium is a three-staked instrument of torture."
Aren't statutes and laws merely facts? I thought facts aren't protected by copyright.
It does only one thing. Firefox doesn't depend on PDF.js and vice-versa, they're just bundled together.
Is anyone else encountering errors with the installation? I'm on a Mac 10.8.2
worlds worst foursquare user! :)
This will probably sound obvious, but well made suits and properly fitted shirts and suits aren't really uncomfortable a all. Of course most people don't factor in the costs of tailoring into their suit purchases, and buy inferior suits like the Jos. A Bank sales, which hey great if you're on the road all the time, but otherwise 2-3 basic suits, 2 pairs of shoes, some ties, and a few white and blue shirts will go a long, long way.
The Protoss Carrier regularly lagged behind other units because it had its own way of doing … everything.

The Carrier should have been scrapped entirely and replaced with a different air unit. Even to the latest upgrades of Starcraft I, the AI simply couldn't deal with the carrier effectively--they would always attack the interceptors first. This made using the carrier a cheap game-breaking trick against the computer.
Ask HN: Is the ER Accelerator (NYC based YC clone) worth applying to?
DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels
Confirmed here, Ubuntu 12.04 Chrome Version 24.0.1312.70.
>Over concerned humans must cause at least some percentage of suicides. Someone needs to compile the stats and do a TED talk stat.

Now that's an interesting hypothesis. I have seen a study on how insufficient parental attention increases the risk of suicide in teenagers but not this.

Edit: searching for "overprotection and suicide" ("overprotection" is the best keyword I could come up with; I did the search without the quotes) yields little.
I dont think the unemployment affects the stats that much but anyway the US has a higher GDP per capita and higher GDP per hour worked than France. I was just replying to the common stereotype that France is significatively less productive than other european countries (say, Germany).

Another fact that contradicts that stereotype is France's position as a recipient of foreign direct investment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_received_F...

Why would people invest so much in a supposedly "lazy" country?
Their site is: http://eranyc.com/

I'd love to hear from anyone with direct experience.
"Touch-computing is a fad, according to Newell. The future is in things like wrist-bands with highly-accurate motion controls."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/12/10/why-valves-s...
If you want to try PDF.js from your current browser, here's a demo:

http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html

I wonder what's keeping this so ugly in Chrome. Also, does anyone know if printing is intended to work? It doesn't appear to have the pagination right, again at least on Chrome.
My guess would be Java, since that's what Android apps are built from.
They just had a developer event for Google Glass, but there are NDA's, so you won't get any info from anyone who attended.
Sure, but this is not in any way productive.

Another thing that bugs me is the hypocritical stance of suing Chinese tire manufacturers and then turning around and manufacturing in China.

If you do something like this - it's a pretty drastic departure from good form - there ought to be a reason for it, some kind of upside to balance the obvious downsides.
The fact that you could potentially stream whatever you see all the time makes me wonder if there will be places where it will be compulsory to switch them off, probably you won't be able to bring one at a concerts or sports event because of copyright.

And I guess it's a safe bet that you wouldn't want to take it with you on a night out, because there's always someone who'd rather not be filmed while being underage drinking, or on a date with their lover or doing drugs. Just think of the implications of being in a bar knowing that potentially a few people in said bar might be filming everything that's happening.
I think people are so intent on the style of their communication that sometimes forget that they are writing something in order to communicate.

Today I was discussing a reminder email ("You have an appointment coming up!") from my dentist - it had pretty pictures but lacked the date and time of the oppointment.

We've all seen web sites with flashy graphics but no contact info and/or how to buy what they are selling.
If that is the purpose, it fails miserably. I don't know of anyone who was looking to build a business on handling a million idle tcp connections. Ruby is a slow language, it is not a misconception. Having a million idle connections doesn't make a language fast.
I liked the dig on the perversion of gamification here.

"Achievements" have become very popular in games -- you might have fully complete a game level, but there's a bonus if you use a specific weapon or not kill people or not do something odd while doing so. So sometimes people spend inordinate amount of time in games that they've already completed, doing something over and over again to gain a perfect "score".

Here he cuts the cucumber imperfectly, not getting the perfect score and so he discards it. The date is also heavily scored, and the augmented reality wall seems to have plenty of other perfect achievements. He longer cares as much about the end result, but just about the achievement badge (perhaps to be flaunted to others).
LivingSocial raises $110mm
It was an interesting read and I saw a lot of myself in there. Instead of books on science I was reading books on philosophy. My favorites were Neitzsche, Sarte and Kirkegaard. One thing that definitely struck me about this though was how much it reminded me of the narration of Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, maybe that is why I enjoyed this as much as I did.
All benchmarks come with the implicit disclaimer:

The best benchmark is always your application. All benchmarks are flawed, use your judgement and determine how flawed a benchmark is; Any flaws are relative to your application similarity to what the benchmark tests. An imperfect tool is not a useless tool, so long as you are smart about how you use it.

This is probably relevant too: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...
That's good news, that was a major pain point when I used svn a few years ago.
It's a pity that this major article seems to have fallen through the cracks here.
In Dutch we also have 'arbeid'.
> you also buy politicians

Citations please!
I like the direction Yahoo is going with the new design of Yahoo.com page. I can go to Yahoo and in a few seconds get a snapshot of the stocks I follow, the weather, and important news stories.

Mayer seems to understand how a product like Yahoo fits into the life a person and then designs around that.
It's less painful if you invert those files. For example, create settings/defaults.py, then in settings/dev.py, import * from defaults and override what you need to. Set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE appropriately. You'll thank me when you're adding dev-only apps, middlewares, etc. and can say INSTALLED_APPS = INSTALLED_APPS + [...].
Crowdsource a complete transcription and make it public. That should be legal, but I'm not totally sure, since I don't have a copy of the law.
Yep, this was inspired by TextMate. Here's the blog post when this was announced:
https://github.com/blog/793-introducing-the-file-finder

Hard to believe that shipped two years ago
It's not anonymous by any means, but I have a little (open source) project that is all about pair programming over the Internet. It is called "termbeamer" and it lets one person host a Linux terminal session and one or more people view the session. Coupled with a voice or video communication channel it makes for pretty good remote pair programming. See termbeamer.com for more details.
I would love to have a PDF viewer app for OS X based on PDF.js. Better still if it could be sandboxed and have other enhanced security.

Just tried out Firefox 19, and the PDF reader is good. Responsive enough, with just the barest hint of render lag. Minor nit: Firefox isn't currently registered as handling PDF, but will still open it happily.

EDIT: I have Firefox as my OS X Mountain Lion's PDF viewer app now. Works quite well!
libjingle has been around for years; Wikipedia says December 2005.

(It doesn't matter, but I also raised an eyebrow and started looking for the date on the blog entry when I read that sentence.)
Don't be a damn idiot. It's in a housing on the same side as the display, it kind of balances at your ear. I've worn a pair, I didn't have to put on some sort of massive backpack.
Perhaps he just wants high fives from like minded CEOs. Getting political jabs in when they can seems popular with biz guys with too much time on their hands. It's the executive version of "doing it for the lulz."
If only there was a unix-oriented backup provider with bulk pricing lower than S3, 12 years of history, and a public, aggressive stance on privacy and civil liberties.

Oh, if only such a provider existed. (rsync.net)
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LA In Sync: Traffic Signals To Cut Travel Times
The people we have elected to make the laws have steadily moved in the direction that "we the people" on a jury (grand or otherwise) can't determine whether someone has committed a crime or not so everything must be codified so we no longer can determine our own cultural and common law.

Perhaps we should focus on writing laws that protect people and allow common sense back into our court rooms? These "protecting" laws would primarily used by appellate courts to throw out "bad" convictions (i.e. ones where race or social class likely were used as motive to convict someone, thus preventing legal injustices such as were committed during the Jim Crow era).
The logistical challenge of swapping 1000+ drives into/out of a small number chassis, keeping track of what data you've copied, would have been painful (but not impossible if stretched over a week)

I think the key issues here would be was moving the data at all time sensitive (is a two month latency not a problem), and, did they really have a "free" 1 GigPort they could sneak under the 5% window with? If it really was free (or very, very cheap) - then maybe it would have been worth it.
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