skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit odd to make a distinction between "the company" and "the shareholders" when the shareholders are the owners of the company. I think it's better to say "management".
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I don't think that's quite correct. I see "gamers" being more marketing-sensitive than they are price-sensitive. There are sales in many other places but for whatever reason they don't get as much public exposure as the Steam sales. Even though almost all of it can be acquired for free, people tend to contribute financially to what they think is the least fraudulent option because they certainly do see the service value in purchasing any kind of content. Unfortunately, when it comes to this content, most people also seem have no idea how the publishing business behind it works. Of course all the publishing companies want to keep it this way.
Even if they were making local changes, I personally couldn't fault them, really; they're playing by the rules.

If they want to give up the intangible benefits they would get from sharing those changes (at least the non-business-strategic ones), that's disheartening, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
Marissa's gesture applies to Yahoos who been doing lots of personal and "side projects" away from premises at Yahoo's expense and not necessarily for Yahoo's benefits.
As a matter of cleaning the house - she's is 100% right. Everyone should get a sense of discipline at least for the time being.

Sincerely - I been working from home for full-time clients for a long time and having two dogs and two kids and kitchen smells around the house does not help to focus and be productive.

I actually like being [in the nice] office and communicate with [nice] people.

Marissa is cleaning the house and everyone is invited! :)
What is completely wrong about the way C++ does "objects?"

I've recently been digging hard-core into C++ after making such disparaging comments for years and have been rather surprised to see that it's not as terrible as I once thought -- It's actually quite good.

I agree however with your point about dangerous abstractions. DSLs when implemented with careful, thoughtful restraint are rather powerful. SQL being a really good example. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing their database queries by directly sifting through and filtering datums from the domain using the primitive functions and operations of their programming language of choice... but it's clear that SQL is much more powerful and lets us express such problems in a succinct way.

But just like programming languages, once introduced, a DSL is likely to be misunderstood and abused. The problem I believe lies not with the technique but with the users. A double-edged sword is a fine tool but will likely maim an inexperienced user. Which will probably lead them to writing DoubleEdgeSwordWrapperMachineGun classes and then someone else to write a DSL on top of that...
Changing titles is one thing but changing the URL to a different site seems a step too far.
Does this really solve the problem though? If a file that contains the attack appears legitimate, it could potentially be shared. If the file is saved to google docs or dropbox everyone who tracks that folder is compromised also.
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Yes, the cost of keeping HW up to date is non-negligible, even if it is a small part of the costs.

That 12h per frame has remained more or less constant for the past years, they'd rather have more details than speed it up =) (I suppose modern hardware can render Toy Story today in real time and even more)

But the cost of artists reflect the cost of where they live, pick a less expensive city in the US and you can probably match UK/New Zealand

Of course, it can't be NullPointer, Wyoming but in a bigger area it shouldn't be a problem
You're not wrong to feel that way. It is not strictly required to contribute back to the community when using F/OSS products - but doing so is the best thing to do by a wide margin. It's okay to feel uncomfortable when the company you work for is being a free rider.
Thanks - I meant to update my comment after I went and looked up xz, I've used 7zip and LZMA before, but I've never directly come across a .xz file, odd!
So do they have a policy of no instant messages or emails? I'd be pretty upset if I was forced to come into work only to continue to communicate with my coworkers through IM and email.
It's easy to blame minorities
One can argue that tax jurisdictions compete with each other in a market. Which is a good thing, as it helps put an upper bound on how aggressive a jurisdiction can get before capital starts fleeing.

But of course this picture is missing one of the key mechanisms of a truly free market -- there's no market pricing of the market participants themselves. You can't buy out a government that's acting foolishly.
Why do you mention the notion of expiration? Wouldn't that apply instead to old (say, pre-1923) works?

If anything, I believe the author's very right of placing a (recent) work in the public domain is what is debated. Which... to me is beyond unfair and absurd, but may very well be "the law"...

An interesting example appears in SQLite's copyright page [1]. They acknowledge that, even though the code has been placed in the public domain, some legal teams may advise their companies to purchase a license.

[1] http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
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The puking phase is only a couple of weeks, really. I think you exaggerate...
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It would be great to see a repo with this set of examples with code for both what is run under PyPy and the type-annotated cython code, and the exact settings that were used.
Yes, with a strong bias to not forking and maintaining. Stale project, well you gotta fork and maintain. Active project, avoid forking with the intention of using a custom build in your system.
I should have clarified that. I do not want everyone to do that. Just that I hate the way RIAA and MIAA take the approach to other extreme and eat a lot of money that artists should get.

If someone wants to sell for $1000, I am in. But if some middleman wants to sell it for $1000 and give $10 to creator plus restrict me from using the content the way I want, I hate that!
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They are in theory an investment, more often they turn into huge wastes of money and cripple the industry they are supposed to help.
What you see as complaining maybe Stripe sees as valuable feedback that they can use in their business strategy. Imagine if there were 0 "complaints" - couldn't that be interpreted as a meaningful signal that interest in Stripe outside of the US is low?
I'm surprised it's not a massive singular compound word
How is this any different than a team building a set of APIs?
bizarre, sorry about that.
I'm not sure if that would be to their detriment. Demand in other EU countries is likely to go down, since it's plausible to incorporate (or incorporate a subsidiary) in the UK to get Stripe now :)
What a strange article.

I kept looking for the <sarcasm/> tag.
I dont understand all the fus around these exploits. Are they exploits? Yes. Do people actually use java in the web? Not really.

Maybe im in the minority but i never see java applets, and i think i browse ~ the avg. Of course i also disable all plugins until i click on something.
Wow, unanimous 1-star reviews on Yelp. Very impressive: http://www.yelp.com/biz/theladders-new-york-2?sort_by=date_d...

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That article is mostly based on Freud who had little to no scientific basis for his theories. I do not recommend reading it without also reading up on the current theories first.
True, although by the time you've signed up and proven ID, you've lost the 'spontaneous' appeal of the site (making it quick and easy to have a bet). I guess the site still has the advantage of low-cost money transfers and no risk of chargebacks, so bitcoins may have a use here.

I wonder if it is possible to use bitcoins and comply with the UK gambling restrictions against money laundering? At first glance, it looks impossible, bitcoins being (supposedly) untraceable. However, you might be able to comply if you insist that winnings are always paid back to the same bitcoin wallet that they came from. The justification here being that your website won't have 'washed' the money any further than it was already laundered.
Apple's problems stem from Jobs not Cook. Apple's downfall was set in motion when they decided to turn their back on the technical community and the entrepreneurial community and made products that were more and more mere consumer appliances instead of computers.

Although in numbers, techies and entrepreneurs are a minor customer of Apple, they have disproportionate influence and are trend setters.

I remember back in 2001, there was a lot of chatter among techies about OSX. It was all about how it came with a BSD licensed core, good terminal, a standard Unix environment, Perl out of the box, etc.

It was a fresh alternative to Windows which was a lot more open than iOS of today but still pushed software development in non standard and monopolistic directions compared to the Unix based OSX.

Thus began the rise of OSX. It was a credible technical platform and at the same time it would spawn some killer consumer features, a nice and fast simplified desktop environment and well integrated innovative consumer accessories such as the iPod. Sure Apple pretty much always limited their OS to their own hardware, but it didn't matter to techies as long as they played well with others by staying mostly compatible with Unix standards. Entrepreneurs were also free to sell software for it directly to their customers. You could buy a subscription on the devices without giving 30% of the revenues to Apple.

I tried to run a Perl script on my mac the other day and a perl module wouldn't compile because of some error with PowerPC compiler flags. PowerPC! Clearly Perl on OSX has not been maintained for a while.

I'm currently writing a subscription web service along with apps and the 30% cut to Apple is a dilemma for management.

Amazon doesn't let just anyone run apps on their Kindle devices either. However Amazon devices are meant to be pure consumption devices mostly for Amazon products whereas Apple wants iOS to be the main computing platform of the 'post PC era'. Pure consumption devices have a much more limited market than computing platforms. When Apple locks up their platform they are limiting themselves to this much smaller market.

No developer wants their computing platform to be locked down, non standard and encumbered by huge revenue levies.

The software development and entrepreneurial world needed a credible alternative thus came Android. None of them wanted another closed, non standard, fee encumbered platform thus failed, Palm, BB and Windows Phone and eventually Apple.
I have to imagine the folks over at FarmLogs (YC W12) would have some thoughts on datamining in agriculture: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5189241

Might be worth reaching out to them.
Text email shows your bitino URL (href)- suggest your edit/remove it as well.
So to avoid leaking any private data to third parties, I should send all my private data to a third party using a proprietary protocol?
> Marissa's gesture applies to Yahoos who been doing lots of personal and "side projects" away from premises at Yahoo's expense and not necessarily for Yahoo's benefits

Does it? Because from all the information provided publicly it seems to apply to all remote workers - are you sure they're all lazy moonlighters? Doesn't seem probable.

And don't apply your own experience to everyone else where it doesn't apply - I work from home a lot too - I have no dogs, no kids, no smells - in fact I have a very nice office, with better equipment and environment than any client I've ever worked with. But that's just me, of course.
I just found out that my app doesn't scale - sweet
Or learn from women: the Berlin Geekettes provided "real food" and a relaxation area with a Yoga coach for their Hackathon http://berlingeekettes.github.com/hackathon/
From what I've been hearing about DD, the problem is terrible management more than anything. The outsourcing looks financially attractive on paper but doesn't actually get the job done (the last 10% taking 90% of the time and all that. sound familiar?), leaving Venice to pick up the pieces after the show is already late and over budget.
Uh-oh - they just announced that Dragon is having problems, and there should be a press conference in about 30 min. I hope it is not major.
Shucks, looks like they encountered some issue after reaching orbit.
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Uh.... what just happened?
The problem of people building on top of C is that C is not a language meant for applications. A system collecting and processing scientific data is too high-level for a language like C.

In fact no application should be written on top of a language that doesn't do garbage-collection by default, unless you've got the resources of big companies. Any language that doesn't do garbage-collection by default is dangerous for large scale programming.

On array bounds checking, you can't do such bounds checking at compile time, so you have to rely on runtime checks and metadata. As my highschool professor kept telling us, C is a medium-level programming language. It's optimized for moving bits around in memory, while the code remains reasonably platform-independent. Adding array-bounds checking by default doesn't make sense for a language like C, because it stays in the way of moving bits in memory.
Fire him.
This is true but it's just not realistic. There are situations in life where expectations are totally appropriate. I'd even argue that expectations drive us forward. And if you have no expectation of an outcome, how can you be happy or sad at all at the end? Or how can you tell there has even been an outcome?

If I have to drive somewhere and have no expectation of arrival time then I'll neither be happy nor sad when I get there. I'll have just gotten there. However if I severely lower my expectations then I can be happy when I get there.

But I'm being pedantic here so I'll bring this back to reality now. Disappointment, heartache, sadness, and gloom are part of life and should not be avoided. We often find the motivation or drive to change and improve through our negative emotions. Sure, it sucks to feel that way but it's just as important as being happy and one shouldn't run from those feelings.

If you have good coping skills you can face disappointment head on, feel shitty for a bit, and then plow through and find some happiness or a silver lining. If you've got poor coping skills you'll be running away from all negative emotions and totally stunting your emotional growth because of it.

I know the author wasn't trying to write an authortitative piece on happiness so I won't criticize him. What I will do is add a little wrinkle to his whole point which is: Eliminate or lower expectations when the outcomes aren't important. So, for example, traffic is actually a perfect example. If you can eliminate your anger and frustration over being late or being stuck in traffic you're doing yourself a huge favor as being upset over it isn't doing anything for you. However feeling upset and having expectations about your career or a promotion or meeting a pretty girl one day can be quite helpful. The negative feelings associated with not getting any one of those things should push you to change your situation and get them somehow.

So all in all, I guess the TL;DR version would be: Apply the article's wisdom wisely, not broadly.
The only way here to accept that content will be pirated but trust users to do right thing as well.

Many content creators put off users with their stupid DRM implementations. I remember buying a game for some $34 in 2008. But that game had 5 copy limit. Now I am what you can call a "regular formatter". Formatted PC twice, changed laptop and now I do not own license to that game.

Let user make copies, but trust that they won't copy them further.
Not so fast, seems to be a problem according to the SpaceX webcast. There is supposed to be a press conference within a few hours.
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Thank you. Finally a voice of reason.

I do agree that people work differently. A large part of my job is paying attention to detail, which becomes harder and harder to do when the every day detail gets mired in coworkers stopping by my office to say hello or ask about the latest episode of Breaking Bad. Nobody has ever asked me if this was a good time...

So I suffered through the distractions and the interruptions and slowly came to the conclusion that with every distraction, came a slew of insufferable minutes trying to get back into the same thought process I was in prior to the interruption. Sometimes I made it, sometimes I didn't and would have to pick up where I left off later.

People without my particular mindset, may not understand this thought process as I may not understand yours. But please, please, please, let me tell you that I am wholly more productive if I can either shut my door and lock it....or telecommute and work flexible hours.
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what browser are you using and how are you disabling the plugins?
Reminds me of why the Danes are said to be very happy--low expectations.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/lowered-expe...
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It looks like you can run `sudo -k` without authenticating via password, so I guess you could use this to bypass the password requirement even if the user had not previously entered their password (provided that the account is capable of changing the system time).

It's certainly worth mentioning (and patching), but I wouldn't describe it as "and boom you're root".
Are you sure? If it is it sounds like a possible security issue. Time is pretty sensitive as soon as certificates are involved. Many auth systems assume the clock is properly synchronized across the system.

If that's true IMO that's the security issue, not the arguably strange behaviour of sudo in a situation that should never occur.
I want to know this also? However there is:

https://stripe.com/global

You can sign up to get notified about UK launch, you could try that, I have.
There's technical knowledge with longer shelve-life, too. (Think compiler construction vs the latest craze.)