skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I will try again. Explain how a person can intend to deceive if he doesn't know his remarks are false. An "intent to deceive" means the speaker knows his remarks are deceitful -- i.e. other than truthful.

The legal definition of lying, and by far the most common one in the everyday world, is that lying requires an intent to deceive and the utterance of a knowing falsehood.

> It appears that you are not interested in having a honest discussion.

What? By defining "lying" as it is defined in the law and in most references? How so?

> only in misrepresenting and twisting what you wrote and what I wrote

When I have quoted you, I have done it by cutting and pasting your exact words, as you typed them, directly from the display. How is that twisting your words?

> for the sake of defending a claim you made that is obviously false.

It is not "obviously false," it is not false at all. Lying is knowing, intentional falsehood. To lie, one must know that the statement is false.

Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lie

Quote: "1 : a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood."

How is that in any way confusing to you?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury

Quote: "Statements which entail an interpretation of fact are not perjury because people often draw inaccurate conclusions unwittingly, or make honest mistakes without the intent to deceive. Individuals may have honest but mistaken beliefs about certain facts, or their recollection may be inaccurate, or may have a different perception of what is the accurate way to state the truth. Like most other crimes in the common law system, to be convicted of perjury one must have had the intention (mens rea) to commit the act, and to have actually committed the act (actus reus)." [emphasis added]

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230329960457732...

Quote: "When federal prosecutors can't muster enough evidence to bring charges against a person suspected of a crime, they can still use a controversial law to get a conviction anyway: They charge the person with lying.

The law against lying—known in legal circles simply as "1001"—makes it a crime to knowingly make a material false statement in matters of federal jurisdiction." [emphasis added]

Still confused?
Excellent! This reminds me of "Daily Rotten News".
2D is solved
Show HN: Paceable - An easy way to manage Group Emails
Spaceship Earth: Who Is In Control?
Maybe they need a new measurement like GP100M (gallons used per 100 miles). So for the tesla, that number would be zero, but for the Volt it would be something like 1.7 (first 40 miles is zero, but last 60 would be at 35mpg).
http://play.lighthouseapp.com/projects/82401/tickets/914-jav...
Here are few that are missing from this list

http://www.pythonweekly.com/

http://www.nosqlweekly.com/

http://perlweekly.com/

http://wpmail.me/

http://theweeklydrop.com/
Everybody knows there is no industry standard to measure battery life (basically which workload to run when measuring it). For example Anandtech measured the MacBook Air 13" as having a battery life varying between 3 and 7.52 hours depending on the workload: http://www.anandtech.com/print/6063

So my point is that Google would not specifically have the goal of underestimating battery life, but just that it is almost guaranteed that they have different standards from Apple for measuring battery life.

The only way to fairly compare battery life is to have the same person/group run the same test on the 2 laptops. But even that is prone to human-error (eg. what if the tester forgets to disable LTE when testing the Pixel?).
Yeah, jeez you would have to leave your basement and go out with a lady, I agree, HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE
How to be a Startup Mentor: Raj Malik, David Cohen, Joanne Wilson, etc.
tldr: get off my lawn kids will forever be the sentiment of the current old generation while lol we r so hip will be the sentiment of the 18-20somethings. I don't think this realization is as profound as he is making it seem though, c'est la vie
Facebook, Google & Apple Offer Reward for Extending Human Life
When brainstorming website ideas lately, I find myself often thinking "well shit, that could just as well be a subreddit." Probably not a very productive attitude.
I use Visual Studio on a 1360x768 display all the time, and it's not so bad. It does encourage writing the code better because you can't read large chunks at once.
Bookmarks were the first "read-it-later"service. I think Marco has a good reason to be pissed that someone else keeps staking a claim to the concept of RIL as it exists today because they did a bookmark extension a few months before he introduced, what is essentially the MVP these days for something called a "read-it-later" service.
Someone's never been to Atlanta, I see.
Advice I Wish Someone Had Given Me for My First Job
Can Inkscape reduce the number of incarcerated people?
> Can we improve the job prospects of humanities PhDs?

But people who acquire humanities degrees are obviously not interested in employment. If they were, they would choose a more marketable degree.

So here's how to improve the job prospects for humanities PhDs: get them to go back to school, this time with the intention to acquire marketable skills.

It's disingenuous to spend years arguing about whether Shakespeare actually wrote the plays attributed to him, then hit the pavement and complain that no one will hire you.
Yes, I agree, you should stay on Facebook and do whatever.
This finally motivated me to write up about it :)

http://drippurple.com/
> Maybe they moved to Scala because Scala is a superior language.

As you are probably aware, this is a highly controversial claim and there is certainly no widespread agreement on it.
> If you're doing heavy client-side work (e.g. WebGL)

Really? If you're the one person in the world doing heavy WebGL this might be the product for you.
Japan Develops Smartphone Application That Sends Smells
Yeah I was confused by this too.

People in Indiana, do you have a lot of strangers over for parties or something?
Globe Devathon Challenge
On Linux there seems to be little difference between 32 and 64 bit. It seems that the calling convention is different, and that no shadow space is allocated.

I am not sure if this is how you are supposed to use the function. I only tried the first example, but I am not sure if I used it correctly.

g++ stackuse_simple.cpp -o stackuse64
g++ -m32 stackuse_simple.cpp -o stackuse32
---------------------------------------------------------
//stackuse_simple.cpp
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

void StackUse(size_t *depth)
{
volatile size_t *ptr = 0;
if (depth != NULL)
ptr = depth;
cout << *ptr << endl;
(*ptr)++;
StackUse(depth);
(*ptr)--;
}

int main() {
size_t d = 0;
StackUse(&d);
}
Short selling is nothing more than selling before you buy. If you believe that short selling drives prices down, then you believe that taking long positions drives it up. Neither is true.

Short selling provides more information and better liquidity to the market. It's a good thing.
Hopefully something about Facebook becoming the "new internet"
The first time I realized this was the direction things were going was when the Fire was released. On Amazon's page, I saw only one mention of "Android", and that was referring to the "Amazon App Store for Android". The current page only has one other reference (referring to the Amazon app for movies, in a list of other OS's where it's compatible). The focus in both cases being on Amazon, not Android.
Server side frameworks can use [the X-Requested-With header] to determine the type of content to return, such as JSON if the header is present and HTML otherwise.

Isn't that what the Accept header is for? How else do servers typically use X-Requested-With?
The day The Onion sues an obvious parody for copyright violation is the day I eat my shoe. Or write a very angry letter to the editor, one of the two.
Letterpress — A minimal, Markdown based blogging system written in Python
You'd burn less petroleum if you drove rather than walking, and ate less food to compensate for your smaller calorie burn.
Try selling it to Yahoo!.
Elon is betting on SpaceX.
> ... it is almost guaranteed that they have different standards from Apple for measuring battery life.

Yes, most likely, which is why Consumer Reports articles are often such interesting reading.

> The only way to fairly compare battery life is to have the same person/group run the same test on the 2 laptops.

Yes, and (just to make it more scientific) the testers shouldn't be able to tell which laptop they're testing. Not so easy to do, but necessary for an unbiased evaluation.

I just think Google's battery life specification is most likely correct -- they have no good reason to over- or underestimate it. But I agree that an independent test would be useful.
The Brand-New Yahoo Homepage Is Actually Four Years Old
If you could short Tesla at a price of $135,000 per share, would you do it? I sure as hell would, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with my feelings about Tesla's business, except that it's not worth $135,000 per share today.
Just for easier comparison, 1.00USD/Gallon is about 0.26USD/Litre; Still a fair bit more, but perhaps not shockingly so?
Wow, all three customers?
All right, but the "real" value of a stock is just one factor. Another one is the well-documented tendency of the public to be swept up in fervor for a company and an equity for reasons other than true value. That's another horse to ride.
Profundity is all personalization syntactic sugar these days anyway. La vie.
That's a cool trick - almost as clever as the trusting trust attack itself. And (thinking of other contemporaneous debates), an excellent example of the advantages of a having diverse set of implementations of the same building blocks.
thanks Aashay! Try it out and tell us what you think...
The NYT article is the best thing that could've happened to Tesla. Any news is good news. Being irrelevant is the thing that kills startups. - DROdio
I'm taking that type of view on this stock. - DROdio
You can't see the code, but surely it can't do anything useful—i.e. change anything outside its extremely limited memory.
I suppose.this is a snarky joke. Can someone explain to me why the joke? What yahoo! did?
Since there's a lot of assertion and not much data here, let's bring some in. After some quick research, this Quora article seemed to have some useful statistics:
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-truth-behind-9-out-of-10-st...

In short, 13% of VC-backed startups exit for over $10M, 5% exit for over $50M, and 2% exit for over $100M, which is what I'd call a meaningful exit for all parties involved.
I understand this, but i was asking a broader question; is there any real deterrent or risk for a company to use GPL code (in violation) first, and then fix it if/when they get found out and threatened legal action.

No one has brought up a case that got to the point of there being actual damages, which leads me to believe there isn't, really. The closest i (as by no means an expert) can think of in terms of commercial 'damage' is when Linksys released the source code for their routers found using linux. (And this release probably led to them making more money anyway).
Bitcoin breaks 30 USD
Did you see the show from Cannes last year?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cseTX_rW3uM&t=50

I don't know how much of that was motion-capture, it seems like a quite difficult environment to have done that...
Nashville, a Burgeoning Tech City
Not at all. From my comment above:

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Since there's a lot of assertion and not much data here, let's bring some in. After some quick research, this Quora article seemed to have some useful statistics:
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-truth-behind-9-out-of-10-st...

In short, 13% of VC-backed startups exit for over $10M, 5% exit for over $50M, and 2% exit for over $100M, which is what I'd call significant.

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Besides, there are a lot of startup opportunities that pay market, so you aren't "investing" anything in the equity, it's a bonus over what you'd get paid elsewhere.
Regarding fonts: it's not the Onion you really have to worry about, but the actual owner of the fonts. That's who is going to come after you for copyright infringement.
Does anyone know how many customers they do have to put this into perspective ?
Because KE is proportional to v^2, and then you get another factor of v since the volume (and thus mass) of air through the rotors per unit time is proportional to how fast the air is moving.

At least that's my guess. And if I'm right, it's also why, to a first approximation, the power generated by a windmill is proportional to the cube of the wind speed.
> I have paddle shifters for the DSG but I never use them.

Somehow I don't see that replicating my enjoyment of a true stick shift.
Play is an open source project that has been around for a few years. In fact, that's one of the big selling points for us: we're not inventing something new, but using something the community is using, and contributing back to it.
Wearable Device With Input and Output Structures (Google Glass Patent)
High charts is AMAZING! I'm a strong supporter of not building things like charts yourself, and have been recently astonished by the amount of custom styling you can apply to Highcharts without modifying any of their code, and keeping your code perfectly clean.

Cant tell you how much i love this product, leaves every charting package i've ever touched in the dust. Keep up the great work!
Curious how it compares with SCTP over DTLS over UDP (which WebRTC uses).
Pressure from gas companies?
The headline had me cringing in expectation for a brain dead article, but how stupid of me! It's fricking William Gibson. Almost everything he said in this article seems to be spot on, then and now.

In case you have any remaining worry that Gibson is some crotchety "get of my lawn" type, check him out on twitter. He is one the most prolific, bizarre, and interesting users I follow: https://twitter.com/GreatDismal Recent examples:

>Once saw fake Zippo lighters with Confederate flags with swastikas in Shinjuku. Mindless mashup getting it right anyway.

>I've had the tv-in-the-mirror in bathrooms of a few hotel rooms. Have never turned one on. Feels like bad sci-fi prop-design.

>Fellatio illegal in 11 states. Lawmakers afraid to risk being known ever after as "the blowjob senator", if they act to strike them down?
Wait, what? This made me laugh. May be true, but the way you said it, "syntacti sugar"... So cynical...
New Relic: "Upgrade to see accurate heroku queue times"
Dolphin Studies Could Reveal Secrets of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
When we know it for sure, the stock will be in a much different place. - DROdio
We Choose The Moon
To me, saying that a short is like a bet against the company is like saying that a loan is a bet against the currency.
Wait. What? Am I misunderstanding you, or are you seriously suggesting that someone wanting to direct people's web browsers to some interesting resource ought to copy the bits onto their own server, thereby potentially violating the creator's copyright, instead of simply pointing people at the original file?

I understand that other people have made up this idea that "hotlinking" is bad, but it never made any sense to me and I never got on board that train. People "hotlink" stuff off my blog all the time and I think that's great. I put the photos up there to be looked at; if people want to share them, I read that as a sign that I took a good photo. If I wanted to stop people from looking at my photos in certain ways - when the referer comes from a site other than my own, for example - then I would configure my web server not to serve out the bits under those conditions.

If the Onion doesn't want to serve out their CSS file under certain conditions, they should configure their server not to serve the bits under those conditions. If the Onion chooses instead to configure their web server to serve the bits to anyone who asks for them, people should feel free to ask for them.
What did you think? It's a new blogging platform called SETT. I'm sure @tynan the creator would love to get your thoughts on it. - DROdio
I think they recently received 60 million of investment, so it's more than 3.
> in reality we're going to be relying on car-based transportation for the foreseeable future—which means decades at the very least.

Well, maybe you (and much of the U.S.) will be. Not me or my friends in Europe, China, etc, though....

Anyway, the fact that there's a long way to go (in many places) makes it all the more important to push hard, and soon. Part of the issue is that even though many countries haven't sunk to a level quite as low as the U.S., they still ironically look to the U.S. as an example, so when the U.S. does something bad, the effect is magnified.

... and yeah, getting rid of idiotic zoning laws is an important part of the solution.
Paypal Here (Square Competitor) enters the UK w/ Chip & Pin
I have always wondered why servers don't have wireless adapters for cluster heartbeats / elections / fencing etc.

With heartbeating etc. you want the minimal number of moving parts required (minimal chance of failuer).

The heartbeat is not high traffic and can be picked up by all servers in a cluster without worring about network faults.

Seems like a win-win, but then I am not a data-center expert.
In the US, diesel is more heavily taxed than gas [1], in no small part because it's primarily used commercially, so higher taxes are met with less popular dismay.

Of course, taxes per mile make for a more interesting comparison than taxes per gallon, so the higher per-gallon tax isn't necessarily the best metric to consider. But the higher taxation does mean that fluctuations in the price of oil has less of an impact percentage-wise.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...
I lost my car keys and found them on Craigslist once too. When I showed up to get them, the guy told me this story about how he started up an affair with the woman in the house next door after returning her lost keys to her. I am a guy, so I am pretty sure he wasn't trying to get fresh with me.
Homepage says more than 25,000 companies
Indeed. You buy when you think the the company undervalued and sell when you think it is overvalued. The order in which you do that is irrelevant and signals no emotion.
It seems he's reacting to the headline, not the article.
I really wish they'd focus all their energy on Android instead. They've come a long way in the last few years but there are still a lot of holes to stop up and I don't see why Android couldn't be adapted to run well on hardware like this too.
> I was initially enthusiastic about these online petitions

Really? I'm honestly surprised to find anyone who is genuinely surprised to discover State malfeasance these days.

Did you really, honestly, hand-on-heart believe that these petitions would change anything?

I think it was P. J. O'Rourke who opined that if voting could change anything, it'd be outlawed.
When I'm writing code, I need a proper keyboard and a nice, big desktop monitor (preferably two). I still use a laptop, but it's hooked to a keyboard/monitor for the majority of my work.

When I do have to work directly on the laptop, I find it much less comfortable and slower. This is due to both screen real-estate and ergonomics. Your mileage may vary.

At the moment I'm primarily doing iOS and Java development (for a GWT web app), so I'm dealing with Eclipse, XCode, the iOS simulator, and a few browser windows. The secondary screen tends to be where I park reference material, IM, and sometimes logs. Eclipse likes to have a lot of pixels, but is a necessary evil to make Java development bearable.

How does Google deal with Java IDE's? Remote desktop?
The screen and the greater graphics usage related to it is likely to be significant. It may draw much more power for any given brightness than an MBA.
Given Zendesk is a Rails shop, Id love to hear if this hack was related to any of the recent Rails exploits
I was going to reply with something like 'The NYTimes is a waste of time (2013)' - but that is a really good short piece.
I feel, personally, that the author is using a thesaurus too heavily.
I like MuPDF. It doesn't really have an "interface" though. Just page-up, page-down, and +/- to zoom. But if all you're doing is reading pdfs...
HP profit falls 16%, but share prices rise big time
I get that this was rushed, etc. But it's not like you did a soft launch to test this thing out, or that you're on some kind of deadline here. You built the site lazily and rudely (in my opinion), and then immediately began promotion of it.

Also, you state that you only spent a few hours, and that "most of that time was spent playing with caching and deployment". If you were spending time making sure that the site was cached and performant, it seems less like the hotlinking was an oversight, and more like it was something you just didn't care about.

If you would have taken another few hours, made sure that your ducks were in a row, and THEN began promoting it, you'd be in much better shape right now, and I wouldn't be commenting here.

As for the circles, if you don't know anyone on the dev team, why are you repeatedly claiming to have a tacit OK from us?

As to the fonts, I want to be clear: your current use of the fonts is infringement. We have paid to license those fonts for use on our site. You have not done this, and so you're now infringing--not against us, but against the owners of those fonts. We're not going to come after you, I'd bet that someone will (eventually).

To summarize my position again: I'm not at all a fan of how you went about doing this, but it's honestly not a huge deal—just a bit rude.
I got my first taste of Meteor at a meetup in NYC on Tuesday night. I hacked something together with no experience in about 30 minutes that would be a pain to write in anything else, and completely trivial to write in Meteor. In fact I didn't bother to read the documentation. The app is a shared grocery list: http://www.teamgrocery.com/

The app never deletes anything, and I suppose a grocery list shared among all HN users should get overwhelmed really quickly :)

I can't remember the last time I have had so much fun playing with a new framework. Meteor is going to be my goto technology for hackathons/prototypes.
I'd argue that Unity looks much, much better on high DPI. I run it on an old crappy 1024x768 and a newer 1920x1080 of around the same size, and the icons/launcher actually look sane at almost double the DPI of the older screen. Unity makes the low-DPI computer look (and feel) like a toy, but I like it a lot on my new computer.

I'd agree with you if you're running Gnome 2, or KDE, though.
Ouch, but so true. The things that truly define a great place to work are not quantifiable. They're qualitative, and reporters can't objectively report on them, so they just don't report on it. They're left with random tangibles, like how shiny an office is, and that only further helps this bad status quo.

I wonder what were to happen if the company would tell people that there's a certain budget and they can anonymously vote on whether they want that money paid out in their paychecks or used on office perks, and if so, which perks.
I'm interested to see it pass $32, which should have symbolic significance if nothing else (the peak happened at $31.91 and crashed to $10 days later).
Ask HN : Facebook API vs Foursquare API? 
Hi i'm wondering if one is building a location based service that needs signing in what's the better API to use? Foursquare or facebook?

I know when it comes to locations foursquare is better but they don't have that many users isn't it? So most people won't be able to use what we build from the API isn't it as when using facebook instead?

But then again if we use foursquare API with facebook login the service will ght API limits of foursquare cause we're using only one auth keys to to foursquare api than using many keys when allowing people to sign in from foursquare. What do you think?

Any idea on this