skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sound like you've thought a lot about the issue, so i'm curious what impact you think the WIPO Copyright Treaty will have. Since anti-circumvention is required by a treaty that we ratified, doesn't that make trying to totally repeal it an extremely uphill battle? Are there any recent examples where we did that? What is the impact on the US with WIPO if we officially contradict it?

What are the pros and cons versus trying to amend it down until it didn't apply to much of anything?
What did they break?
> system's now set up

The system has always been set up this way. There is a reason that the Founders were wealthy merchants, lawyers, and plantation owners, rather than workaday stiffs dependent on a paycheck.
I have a hypothesis. If the results are exactly what I want and are so good that I don't need to do multiple permutations of the same search, it won't matter one bit that the search takes a long time to complete.
Arguably the interpretation of the Constitution has changed little. It's society that's has changed. Consider, the impact of actually having cars vs people walking and the amount of constitutional protection when doing each. Cellphones and Credit cards can be traced. Email made it practical for large scale mail interception. Even just the amount of interstate commerce is so radically altered that virtually every transaction crosses state boarders. EX: Used a credit card to buy local grain, that now involves multiple states.
I thought we had moved beyond these gripes about Wayland. Wayland already supports a far more performant remote networking ability and XWayland gives you all the compatibility you need.
You're absolutely right about this and this is why third parties have to be a huge part of any reform effort. The system has been gerrymandered to support two parties, but not three. If someone can attack the entrenched party from either the left or right and gain passion about specific, focused issues the whole corrupt system falls apart, hopefully long enough to pass a widespread reform effort.
Remember AS7007!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00444.ht...

http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/lore/2006-August/00...
You know, the "Greedy Advertisers" showed up when "Greedy Website Operators" decided that they didn't want to pay out of pocket to provide people with information. And that, actually, they'd like to make a buck or two doing it.

The web today has far more information and functionality than ever before. Much of this free to me because of advertising.

You act like the advertisers some how force things down your throat. If you don't want to deal with advertising, the answer is simple: Avoid websites that rely on advertising dollars.
Interesting. I had assumed at this point in time that computers were ubiquitous in math research. It's mind-boggling to me that there is still any significant level of pushback against using them. (I suppose that getting a CS-specific math degree gives one a skewed perspective on such details.)

Also, the point of not having standard programming classes leads to a lack of standards in research coding is an important one.
Came here to opine on the exact same topic! I was going to dig up some Raymond Chen blog entries but your CreateFont example illustrates it equally well. I guess hacks are inevitable when you are dealing with that kind of scale/complexity.
i'm surprised berkeley topped stanford. Also, I wonder what oxford did to jump ahead of both cal and stanford.
Speaking from experience, Chinese plastic filament is almost always out-of-spec enough to mess up prints on today's 3D printers.
It's very beautiful, but as danso commented it's very jarring.

I appreciate it, but I'm afraid I don't personally like the look of it, I'd never use it myself.
Lawmaker says biking bad for the environment
Have you considered applying to product design companies like Ideo?
> While I would agree that some segments of the population have increased in societal freedoms to a degree

If by "some segments" you 95% of the population who isn't a white, male, landowner.

> The Founding Fathers were deeply paranoid of an overbearing government and an very powerful political class.

This is middle school civics drivel. The dominant force in the Constitutional process were the federalists, who wanted a very strong central government. The federal government we have today is based on a reasonable reading of the Commerce Clause, which was always intended to be a very broad power and was a key piece of what the federalists wanted out of the new constitution. All that's happened since then is that we've gone from being largely self-sufficient farmers to people who even argue with each other over channels of interstate commerce.
Note, if you are using Bash, then the $CDPATH variable, already built in to Bash, will let you do everything your script provides.
Forget top ten, look at the drop between 6 and 7!
The rule of law is not mutually exclusive with a "military-industrial complex."

Anyway, where did you move that's so much better? Somewhere else you can organize a petition against the interest of major corporations and receive a phone call from the highest levels of government agreeing with you and asking to work with you. Sure, some small uniform Scandinavian governments might be more accessible, but I'm curious what your choice was.
This issue has been a colossal pain in the ass! I need this!
Are they planning on releasing this code to replace the buffer?
I'm not a programmer by any means, but I did write this little word-counter while going through a Ruby book. You might find it useful...?

----

lines = File.readlines("text.txt")
line_count = lines.size
text = lines.join
total_characters = text.length
total_characters_nospaces = text.gsub(/\s+/, '').length
word_count = text.split.length
sentence_count = text.split(/\.|\?|!/).length
paragraph_count = text.split(/\n\n/).length

puts "This document contains:"
puts "#{line_count} lines"
puts "#{total_characters} characters"
puts "#{total_characters_nospaces} characters excluding spaces"
puts "#{word_count} words"
puts "#{sentence_count} sentences."
puts "#{paragraph_count} paragraphs."
puts "#{sentence_count / paragraph_count} sentences per paragraph (average)"
puts "#{word_count / sentence_count} words per sentence (average)"
There has been a browser available for free for over 13 years for anyone to take. It comes from a little foundation called Mozilla. Webkit is not novel here
Nope.

Being against scientific studies because what they uncover may lead to measures you dislike is not anti-scientism. It's anti-science. Science, done correctly, inconveniently disregards your values and preferences, so it's perfectly rational to oppose its use in certain situations, but doing so is absolutely anti-science.
Competition is good.

Ubuntu seems to have their reasons not to want to use Wayland. Maybe Mir is awesome. Then I can move to it. If it's not so awesome then like Unity and Upstart I can ignore it.

Seems to me the enemy here is the old fashioned clunky X server. Good. Two armies fighting the same target at least eliminates that target before they start fighting each other.

Besides, if they both end up having support in all the major toolkits and they both have an X server fallback, then we should be able to meet in the middle somewhere eventually.
As some one who (peripherally) lived through the gcc/egcs schism, I'd certainly love to hear their perspective on open-source monoculture. Somehow I don't think it would be nearly as monoculture-friendly as you do.
Yes, it's an innovative product but the company behind it is being held together by masking tape. They doesn't seem interested in going much further than they are.
It is perhaps worth pointing out that sometimes, a good way to redefine a problem is to "widen" it, that is, to consider another problem of which the original one is merely a special case. That's been called "the power of abstraction," and it's pretty much what accounts for the amazing success of mathematics. And it seems to work in a broader, less scientific sense as well: for the longest time, I couldn't find a todo-list on the web that I didn't hate. Along came the Trello guys and created a collaboration tool with task lists. And bingo, for the special case of a single user, they (perhaps involuntarily, I don't know) created the most awesome todo-list website.
MIT students discover 72 years of (nearly) free energy
According to http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/04/facebook-google-dalvik/ and http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/04/google-facebook-android/ , the specific limit being hit was a cap of three million methods per instance of the Dalvik VM.

Wisdom of a three-million-method app aside, I wonder why they didn't fix this in the compilation toolchain rather than by poking around in native memory areas during app startup. Facebook wrote a PHP->C++ compiler; changing the Dalvik compiler to more aggressively inline small methods seems trivial in comparison.
The 'if it's good' part is the problem... Canonical don't exactly have a good record of creating well-engineered software...
Stunningly beautiful!
>Idiot users are toxic; anything that touches them rots.

implying Firefox and Chrome will rot.
Skyscanner has an "everywhere" option of some description.
I generally agreee with the feeling, but keep in mind that on a regular page, the elements would not be all packed together as in this showcase. I imagine the feel would be substantially different.
Just another anecdote for you.

Dose: 10 mg each workday morning.

Side effects: Appetite was severely reduced for the first few weeks, but now I eat normally at meal times (though I don't snack the way I did before). Sleep is fine, no head aches. A slightly elevated blood pressure from before, but not worrisome. However, I am starting to watch sodium intake to combat this. My doctor sees no reason for me not to take Adderall long term.

General experience: Much less anxious and stressed than before, when I was always scared of losing my job. The effects described in the article are much exaggerated from my experience, probably due to the quantity she was consuming. More focus has made work much more fascinating, and led to several small side projects. Social life is better, mostly due to better defined work hours and less anxiety.

The author of the article was fairly stupid- the side effects of Adderall are well known and easily searchable, and she clearly abused her (already high dosage) prescription. Some common sense and restraint would have saved her worlds of pain.
Here is an example of our emails, http://cdn.splatf.com/w/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/fab-email..., it is from a while ago but the layout is the same. As you can see we are a very visual company. The emails mirror the site so you can use that as a reference too. Again very visual and "not easily replaced".
Some info on the methodology here: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki....

Seems highly subjective but more organized than a simple popularity contest. I find it odd that Texas A&M and UF made this list while Dartmouth not at all.
Jarring? Really? Anyways. I think what you're missing is that the flat design principles relying on crafty use of shading and visual hierarchy to structure elements. What I do like about the flat style is that it removes all the visual noise. Were you looking for some faux-leather stitching or something? Maybe a nice, literal notepad theme?
It's reasonable to take the speed hit in order to make it more useful to more people, but the UI seems to be designed with fast searches in mind (for which it'd be perfect), rather than for the necessarily slow searches that actually happen. It'd be a lot nicer to use if you typed your query and something happened to reflect the immense amount of stuff going on behind the scenes rather than just sitting there for a few seconds...
Just beautiful. It looks so refreshing after getting used to Twitter Bootstrap. I love Bootstrap but it's everywhere on the internet now. This looks pretty refreshing and neat. Well done.
It seems likely that clicks would be factored into the logic as well, I wonder if they ever stop emailing people that never click / buy / other action.
To me, this is akin to asking "as building materials grow heavier, will cranes reign?"

Computers have always been envisioned as levers for the mind. The fact that mathematicians of all people aren't taking full advantage of that principle utterly boggles my mind too.
What comparison to IPv4 vs IPv6? There are very few parallels...

I guess you could say that X and Wayland are like IPv4 and IPv6, where we strive for total migration to the new, better protocol, but in the meantime you can have a dual-stack setup with both that works fine. But it's not like anyone is coming in with a competitor to IPv6, so the analogy completely breaks down...
Or, for consistency it could have the gray border and white fill like the unselected radio button. (Every designer's dream - unsolicited design by committee. Yay!)
To be technical, you could still see an object that is smaller to than your resolving power (this happens essentially every time we observe individual stars). The issue is what is called the "confusion limit" - the point at which you can't be confident that what appears to be a source is not just the summed emission from a bunch of fainter background objects.

But you are right that increased resolution is key. The higher resolution helps you beat the confusion limit by working to resolve the faint background sources into individual objects, so you can separate them.

So, if you wanted to be certain that what you were seeing was the refracted light from Earth, you would need the high resolution to be sure that what you were seeing was actually that reflection, and not just a superposition of fainter background sources.

More on the confusion limit:
http://coolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php/Confusion
A similar old thread can be found here :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1778185
API Documentation study
This is what I've been looking for - trip ideas based on a vague spec. Speed isn't actually as important to me getting a comprehensive list of options. If you take my order and then email me the results in 30 minutes, that's better than 30 minutes wasted on Kayak and the like.
The founders knew they were such and actually had a go at giving the workaday stiff a fighting chance. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it worked out as well as they'd hoped.
Wharton caves to religious bigots
He apologized and recanted:

http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/03/04/rep-orcutt-says-bi...
A Minix monoculture never happened. But what would actually have been wrong with it?

Think of all of Tanenbaum's design decisions that Linus ended up changing. One big reason we know, in detail, what would have been wrong with a Minix monoculture is that it never happened.
Atomoxetine has different effects in different parts of the brain. In the motivational centers it promotes a sense of tiredness, which tends to wear off after several weeks. In the frontal lobes it increases the action of dopamine, promoting focus and persistence.
Nice implementation of a suggestion/voting site.

My suggestion is singular: Let posts be tagged for startups, and bootstrapping, so I can filter everything else out.

I'm happy to geek on my own time but what I come here is for startup content and less interesting/novelty stuff.
Why only TPB and not other sites
Why does it seem like that only TPB are under attack, when there are so many other torrent sites out there.
Windows Login Recovery
When we forget Windows login password, we have a lot of ways to get the lost password recovered. One of the fastest ways is to make use of a third-party tool, say, Windows Login recovery.You can learn more from http://www.windowsloginrecovery.com
> Hacker News' name policy..

Did I miss something? I can't find any username policy in HN's guidelines.
Another possibility (perhaps more feasible?) would be for an intelligent alien civilization to observe light / radio transmissions from Earth, record them, and kindly play them back for us.
The best part is that they are "working to fix" this issue, no body cares.
No. I think we should keep the "required to" list as short as possible, in general.
We agree, I just called that not delivering.
People with ADHD often self-medicate with caffeine.
The average website essentially boils down to a CRUD app of some sort. You're creating, reading, updating, and deleting text in a database.

Does using C really benefit the average new business with this task?

I'd love to do more C web-development, but it's sort of logical that C web frameworks aren't as common as other languages.
ah thanks for posting the reply.
Damn straight I would.

I also do casting, and natural PLA has a nice burnoff for it. I also have access to a metal lathe and a few other pieces of heavy equipment. I can make. out of junk and scrap, pretty much anything I want. My next work will be a CNC table using a mounted dremel (printed bracket, of course).

And some of people who know what I do already have asked "can I make them guns for them?". Yeah. I could do nice guns. Dont really care too much about 'vs human' and 'vs animal' ballistsics.

I'm also working on a cheap 3d scanner to feed fodder into my system :) Im sure I breaking copyrights AND patents, and maybe a few trademarks too.
As time goes by a skill gap grows between the developers and one will become the go to person while the other just watches. Especially if one part of the pair develops outside of work and the other does not. This creates resentment and results in the more skilled developer having to use less elegant solutions to a problem so that the other developer can understand what is happening.

Additionally, I feel long term pairing creates tunnel vision and stifles innovation as there is no time to stop pairing and think out a solution. The focus is cranking out features without spending the time that you get working alone to get more creative.

The lack of creativity is actually a side effect of the increased productivity. You are definitely more productive working as a pair because there are no breaks. You can't check hackernews, reddit, etc when you have some watching everything you do. I view this as a good thing, but I wouldn't be checking those sites during work time anyway. Sometimes I just need a few minutes to research alternative solutions instead of just going for the first one that the pair comes across.

In my view, pairing works best when used in moderation. Adding a new team member? Have them rotate and pair with different team members for the first 4 months. Pairing will get them up to speed with the rest of the team in no time. The new hire will learn the programming culture of the company and experience various team members insights.

I think pairing together to work on a feature on an occasional basis is also a great team building strategy. The key is moderation and rotating the pairs so that it doesn't become stale.

Having experienced the Pivotal way for a good amount of time, I feel they have taken pairing too far.
Accurately and faithfully recording things as they are in the world often runs afoul of the preconceptions of data monkeys.

The usual examples of things that sometimes just have to be correctly dealt with are non specific gender [1], family trees with actual inbreeding and cycles (omg; it's a graph not a tree :/) and flying about Fiji means you can cross -179.99 to +179.99 and back again several times in an hour (oh shit, the plane's upside down again :/)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex (Australian Passport database now has M / F / X).
Is it possible that once toolkits like qt and gtk have been ported to simpler/more direct APIs like wayland (w.r.t X11), porting them to other APIs like this mir would be easier than starting from scratch?
Have you never seen someone comment "Gingerbread is the new IE6"? What do you think that means in terms of bug-for-bug compatibility?
It gives people looking for a smaller project some ideas.
By inactive I meant that it's not swallowing anything currently, but I guess if it has attracted a gas cloud this is simply not true. Must be quite a sight. Imagine there's a civilization on one of the central stars (if that's even possible considering the bursts of radiation they must get there) - I wonder what the night sky would look like.
Let me repeat what has been said in the other Hacker News threads about the same story:

This is neither the law nor the actual practice in the US. It is just something crazy that DHS once said. If they ever actually searched someone 100 miles away from the border, that person could sue and there is no reason to believe that the verdict would be different from Almeida-Sanchez v. United States.
Started the same exact way
We do tons of hiring on behalf of other companies. Everyone seems to love the word "Jack-of-all-trades." When we post jobs with this title we get lots more applications than for other titles such as Operations Associate. Weird but true.
Because it sucks to deal with strings in C & C++, and the web is mostly strings.
Yes, I practice part-time pair programming, as do a lot of programmers I know. Frankly, I think it's good to pair full-time while you (you, personally or your team) are learning it, but not beyond that. The OP tried pairing for a month - not enough time to learn how to do it well, IMO.

People pair for all sorts of reasons - as a continuous code review, knowledge sharing, and mentoring; but as the OP described, it comes at a cost - of flexibility, and of innovative design[1]. It takes experience to learn how the cost/benefit of pairing stacks up for any given situation[2].

One of these days I'll get around to documenting pairing ant-patterns I've witnessed. For now, here's one:

Guerrilla Pairing: Programmer A is in the middle of a task. Programmer B is blocked waiting on something so feels the need to pair, notices Programmer A is unpaired, and jumps in. Programmer A will now spend time bringing Programmer B up to speed, at which time, Programmer B becomes unblocked on her original task and jumps back to that, rendering the disruption in Programmer A's day pointless.

[1] Any design that cannot be communicated orally or sketched out in code in under 5 minutes is unlikely to emerge from a pair.

[2] Situations including type of work, availability of a pair, etc.
Any data to back that 10 year claim?

Equating any and all stimulant usage with unproductive evenings, crashing, mood swings, and malaise is pretty exaggerated.
It was at the O'Hare airport: http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/2011.09.21_-_doc_17_-_pl._s...
No, what was jarring was how the elements were under the heading "Buttons," and so my eyes and brain were fighting each other over what to really think. Having to do that with every possible element on a page seems like more work than it needs to be.

Some of the other elements were easier to interpret, such as the movie UI, because icons in the conventional-nav-control are obviously buttons of some type.
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Indeed, he goes on to say that he supports a bicycle tax only so far as it goes towards actually helping expand bicycle infrastructure, and that he made this suggestions after it was brought to him by the bicycling community.

This seems like much ado about nothing.