skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no "moral basis" for patents: they're entirely a creation of positive law, which generates an artificial monopoly in an inherently non-rival good, for the explicit purpose of "promot[ing] the Progress of Science and useful Arts". No "sacred, difficult act of Creation" is recognized, nor has ever been recognized, as the source of patent law.
Copyright Fatality? Derivative work or lawful reference?
Posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5344902

As stated in that Forbes article, it seems the only advantage is for certain corporate entities with restrictions on what they can invest in. Other players like individuals could just buy Bitcoins on their own without exposure to an additional layer of fees.
Yes, yes there is.

Most banks, and many other businesses that have been around 30+ years, are still running on COBOL.

It was popular because of its highly readable syntax and its fixed-point packed decimal math for financial calculations.
I love the really clear way that infringement is shown here. Even I can see that one work is a copy of the other.
You are offended? Then don't use the website. It is not your right to not be offended.

I think the swearing is brilliant.
It's possible RPS isn't known by many on HN. Gaming journalism doesn't often make its way to this place.
Bitcoin Network Shaken By Blockchain Fork after updates to bitcoind
You won't hear that claim from me. I hold exactly 0 bitcoins.
That kind of article doesn't appeal to me. I've been using both Pocket and Kippt, as well as Evernote. What does your product bring that those three don't?

I feel like you should have shared your homepage instead (i.e. http://www.dragdis.com/).
There are many times when I said "I need to do X, I know it's ugly, but I've considered all the alternatives and, for reasons too lengthy to go into right now, I just need to do X. How can I do it?" only to get people treating me like an idiot who doesn't know anything, and only giving an answer after I've responded to every single of the alternatives with my reasons.

Sometimes, people aren't new.
Very similar to a side-project I'd been working on for Chrome! Can't wait to get into the beta and see if it hits all the points I want hit from a bookmarking service!
Sneak preview:

(Drafted) consequences:
Someone will die -> you will see a 8-bit character running towards you with a gun
My girlfriend is going to leave me -> 8-bit girl running away from 8-bit boy
I will start hurting myself -> 8-bit you carrying a knife...
I like you!
I'm guessing that the traffic from this will alert them pretty soon so either way you'll want to take action quickly Hiroki.

Might be fun to hellban them, alter your JS to show visitors nothing when they visit their sites. Won't last for long but if you only do that for visitors with fewer than 3 visits then it'll take them a little while to figure it out.
Having worked in higher ed for 10+ years, let me tell you, in a lot of disciplines, they don't vet as much as you might think.

Certainly, high profile/cost courses with lots of interest in teaching them are, but the big money makers such as con-ed, distance learning and apprenticeship take the most convenient person available and throw them in, often at the last minute with zero preparation.

I don't see how this differs from ureddit.
Why waste time blowing hot air (myth, shmyth) when we have facts at our disposal?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/dec/04/io...

Value of iOS purchases are about 5x those of Android: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/...

So while we can speculate about reasons for this, the fact is that people spend a lot more money on apps in iOS.
What's cheddar?
I think the key to dealing with mental conditions is to identify/diagnose/recognize it, accept it and work with professionals to learn to manage it. My own struggle was with acceptance. In my mind, my depression was due to the label placed on me via diagnosis. It took over a decade to find the right support system. My advice to those with mental conditions is to "Never give up!" May sound cliche... Yet although these conditions may not be curable, they can be manageable.
PlayPozz launches today! Solo non-technical founder and YC W13 reject, but rolled with it. Would love to know what everyone thinks.
>since you don't have real typing you can have heterogeneous collections

You can have heterogeneous collections in Haskell, you just have to mean to. :) Check out the the "Obj" example here [1]

[1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Existential_types
I love it! Please release an API for this! :D
Could be spam prevention?
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> Successful at commoditizing programmer talent? Perhaps.

Yes this is what I mean.

In most enterprise companies nowadays, developers are seen as easy to replace programming cogs.

> Successful at producing high-quality software, relative to the resources they are expending on it? Not so much.

Who cares about quality when the price is right?! :)

Being sarcastic here, I am the opinion the software industry should be under the same quality regulations and expectations as the other industries.

Usually most people return stuff that does not work properly, while with software they just live with whatever bugs the software has.
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I've been waiting for someone to build this... I occasionally googled "markdown track changes" in the hopes that something turned up.

My need for such a service stemmed from working at a full-service agency, where website copy would be written in docx, sent to the client for review by email attachment with track changes enabled, then eventually on to the coders to flow in to the site.

It would be so refreshing to receive copy in markdown format instead of poorly utilized docx files! (It drives me nuts seeing headings done by bolding and increasing size...). In the meantime I wrote a decent XSLT to transform docx to markdown... But ideally everyone in the chain would be using markdown.

If Draft could make this type of workflow more appealing than passing around docx files by email, I'm sure you'd get many agencies jumping on this service. Good money to be made there.
To be honest, I still don't see the need for such a distribution to exist, as all the packages I ever needed during pentesting were available on Gentoo's Portage. When I've tested it, the mental overhead of having to run it on a VM, or even dual-boot it was quite annoying.
Maybe because of the fact that bots usually scan the href attribute, but not the onclick attribute?
This just isn't true. Everything in Haskell is about the types and that's what you have to come to grips with if you want to use the language. Have you looked at projects like Yesod or Snap? Not a lot of math there but a hell of a lot about types.
Fantastic. I just stuck on some metal and got some shit done for 25 minutes, although I was a little disappointed when nothing happened at 00:00. :(
Sam Soffes is a toy.
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If that were the aim, and he's content to rely on JS, why not set the href attribute at runtime?

In any case I'd think a small contact form a worthy investment, as I doubt he's charging pennies.
Full APL isn't just unicode, though, it's also a total commitment to single-character operators as the primary language construct. Take a look at some Agda or Unicode-enabled Haskell code to see it really improving readability... though hampering type-ability.
Saying "I wouldn't trust my xyz to a person who does abc" is not a witchhunt, it's a statement of opinion based on another person's very public and controversial choices.

Am I not allowed to find cross-compiling to PHP, ASP and vbscript technically questionable?

Or be wary that their founder claims that one of their apps has "literally millions" of calculations on a single page?

That just seems like exercising discretion. Just like everyone does when some free service turns draconian and some HNers complain and other HNers say "Well look what they did to their last startup / look what these other free services always end up as, you should have seen the pattern matching on the wall." I believe you've left a few comments to that effect, yourself. Where do you see a difference?

Note that I didn't call their app some kind of ridiculous and insulting car metaphor or deliberately leave off features in order to smear them… if we're going to talk about witchhunts.
> Erlang is big and complicated compared to Go.

No. OTP is big (arguably), Erlang isn't even remotely. It's also completely irrelevant to OP's remark.

> It's not easy, and besides it is functional (not easy)

That doesn't make sense. What's hard in Erlang? That you don't have a for loop?
What happens when you try and make a product more flexible than a competitor?
> bicause noe 2, thynges, can be moare equalle

Which is not to say that a higher degree of equality can't be attained; it's just that then you'd have one thing instead of two.
This promo video makes me instantly uncomfortable.
They seems to be in Europe though... what happens in that case?
I don't think you could find a good (modern and complete) online resource for learning C++. You will find bits of knowledge here and there.

Your best bet is to read C++ Primer 5th edition by Lippman or wait another month or two for the book of B. Stroustrup to be published.
Lisp is a huge paradigm shift, but once you get that writing code in Lisp is basically just writing parse trees directly, it's not so scary.

If you don't already get recursion, though, you will struggle. Everyone struggles with recursion at first.
Author here: I like promises and I think they have their uses but I think for most cases simply writing well structured and encapsulated code will make them superfluous. You also have the problem of working with APIs that don't return promises.
We currently use servers with SSD and I am always interested to look at new offers.

I found your site very nice in term of design but the message is really not clear. "Excellent CPU- and IO-Performance 24/7" does not mean anything, I want to have more concrete information with for example an overview of I/O performances.

The 100% SLA agreement does not mean anything for me. I would prefer to have an overview of the technical architecture and decide myself if it worth it or not...

And the end I did not found enough technical information to go further.
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Well they do have a live chat on those two pages. Might as well make use of it! Or you could contact their live chat provider and mention the copying. They might care.
Incompetent programmers are here to stay as they are cheaper to hire.

We need languages that are not designed to allow security exploits by accident, like Ada, Modula-2 or any other in the same school of thought.
Detainee hacker asks Dutch Minister help from U.S. prison
"Because you'd get more of them (just like now)? The only difference is that instead of having to cover inflation, any positive rate would give you profit over just holding them."

But you must charge a positive rate, which means the gap between deflation and rate charge may have to be huge.
--edit-- And the bigger the gap (the more deflation there is) the higher the rate of positive interest you would want to charge to represent the risk that the person can't pay back, and the relatively high income to be gained by doing nothing.

"But it's not eased, because as you say in the next paragraph, the lender prices in the inflation in that percentage. How do you benefit from USD being 3% cheaper, if the interest is 3% higher because of it? Only unexpected (not accounted for) inflation benefits the borrower."

See above. A positive rate must be charged for it to be worthwhile, even if this is so far above deflation it's not funny.

"But the interest rates are dropped to account for that fact."

Yes, but they have an absolute cutoff.
--edit-- Also what's my incentive, at the moment my stash of cash is losing value by holding it. It's (almost) 100% risk-free with an (almost) guarantee'd small loss in value. If you invent an implement (let's call it bitcoin) with the same risk profile as cash but an (almost) guarantee'd gain in value, many investors would just invest in cash. I know I would.

"Oh, with that I can agree: negative or zero interest lending would stop. But that's hardly all lending, and it's not even clear if we want to encourage it."

I'm not sure negative or zero lending is a thing at the moment...

And I'm pretty sure we do want to encourage investment over hoarding, monetary velocity generally being considered to be a good thing, sitting on piles of cash which give you an ever greater fortune/stake in the economy just by holding them... I don't think that can be healthy for an economy.
One of the interesting things is why are there 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes per hour, etc?

Mathematically, those values are useful because they can be factored in many ways. But who picked them?

I was at the British Museum one time, and they had an horological exhibit (clocks throughout the ages), so I asked one of the curators. He said it was the Babylonians that chose those values.

But since this thread is about notation, I should be asking who picked the colon (:) as the time separator that is generally used. And are there other conventions for this?
It's really tiring to see what the Spolsky and Atwood offsprings are coming up with...

It's nearly always the same "idea": try to prevent users from having opinions and individuality.

Atwood's discourse.org was supposed to be the "next generation of forums because the current forum aren't civilized enough": people supposedly aren't "civilized" enough to be able to have their own forums. No, one should use a forum engine made for and by control freaks that shall enforce civilized discourses.

Now this Kiln Harmony thing is supposed to "end the flamewar" between git/hg: people are allowed to have their own preferences anymore. Everybody is going to "win" because they'd be using the system created by and for control freaks.

And StackOverflow is preventing individuality and allowing a few control freaks to reign king and decided what kind of thoughts people are allowed to have.

In other words these guys think they've identified a "problem": individuality and personal opinions. And they think they have a "solution": control.

Interestingly enough when I just entered discourse.org to see how that one is catching up it seems to be the better ranked in... The republic of China! (no kidding here).

Which is normal: control freaks are going to love software restricting choices and individuality.

But I love my freedom. I love individuality and I think everyone should be free, including free to chose and say why they prefer hg over git or vice-versa.

So their "solutions" (discourse.org, Kiln Harmony) aren't going to be the "next gen anything" because there are too many individuals who value their individuality.

Oh and, and even though I was an early hg adopter, I have to admit that git (and github) won big times.

It's as if they realized they didn't bet on the correct horse (inherent qualities aside, I'm purely talking about market share here) and that hence they've been "owned" by people pointing out to them that git / github was winning. It's an argument they couldn't win: there's no way hg is as succesful as Git (once again: I haven't switched yet to git... I'm a long time hg user but I have to admit defeat here). So because they couldn't admit that they were wrong they decided to create an utterly complicated solution: "To put an end to the flamewar".

I really hate the Spolsky and Atwood of this world because to me they love dictatorship.

I'm for freedom and individuality, not for control freaks trying to decide how people should think / talk / code / use DVCSes etc.

And thankfully there are way enough people like me so that these control freaks are never going to win.

Even SO is going to be replaced the day something less bent on dictatorship comes along.
OTP is big an complicated... Erlang really isn't.
The "number of clicks" table and the pain described in the video (when you see a nice picture online, you'll want to navigate through a messy folder structure and save it to your filesystem) reeks of not having a good idea of the niche the product is trying to fill. The first is fallacious (I don't know how they count, by I can clip things to Evernote in two clicks and I don't think a long drag is necessarily better than two clicks), the second is just weird - non-social bookmarking is as old as the browser, it's called "bookmarks". The UI for the site just looks like Pinterest.
I would take comfort in knowing that the sign up form at http://resinternationalgroup.com/ is impossible to finish :-)
Value is an opinion. The Nexus 4 provides me with more value than an iPhone 5, yet costs nearly half. Therefore the iPhone is overpriced, right?
I can just think of things that I can do in 25 Minutes.. #shame
The business problem isn't the ripoff, it's the fraud in your business space of easy online direct debit set ups. If lots of fraudsters set up in this area with convincing sites, your customers' customers will worry about providing their bank details.
Suggest talking to your sponsoring direct debit bank about shutting the fraudulent sites down. Or you could report to actionfraud.police.uk but I suspect your bank has better connections.
With Pocket, Kippt, Evernote to collect stuff in a organised fashion is 4-5 clicks. With dragdis it's 1 drag&drop!
So main thing - simplicity
Oh, the hotlinking of assets is murder waiting to happen. Show him whatfor!
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This is a great site for getting introduced to UX Design. I just finished a course at General Assembly. Here is my final project: ux.thrivestreams.com
The problem with bookmarks is not whether i need 2 or 4 clicks - it's about sync, browser & device integration, search, temporary dumps with follow-up, intelligent tagging, storing an offline copy, read-later formatting, adding metadata and even credentials, compilations, research buckets, etc.
Neither pinboard nor delicious have solved this for me and i doubt some fancy d&d tool will do it.
Fair enough.

You do see it in a lot of places though - that BTC is self-evidently the best payment method ever because of low fees, no middlemen and no chargebacks. Challenge this and someone will tell you it's not a payment method, it's more like cash, you shouldn't expect it to have these features. Tell them it doesn't have the features you'd look for in a currency and it'll be explained to you that it's more like gold, or an investment or... well anyway.
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I think this is where oreilly shines: Some of their early releases (and even the published ones) permit the authors to provide the content for free on the web.

I haven't seen other publishers or authors from the other publishers do this.

Manning is certainly producing some very good books (most of their in Action series is good), but I just hate the look and feel and usability of their website.
I've had a completely different experience. I tend to buy "buy it now" items, particularly electronic items, regularly from ebay. I don't think in perhaps 7 or 8 years of regular ebay purchases (probably between 1 and 10 a month) I've had more than a few issues. Sometimes things get lost in the post (especially if the seller is based in China or Hong Kong), but they're often quite apologetic about it and often send another one if it never arrives.

It may be that in the past postage costs were hidden, but they've made it very clear now. The buyer pays the price + postage, both of which are clearly visible on the search page and repeated on the item and purchase page.

eBay is fantastic for small electronic components. If you need a couple of capacitors or a single (popular) chip, the price + postage is always considerably less than buying from a mainstream retailer (where £10+ postage for anything is the norm). My experience is in the UK, so elsewhere may be different.
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Gamified Goal Achievement Platform
Disrupting the airline industry takes a lot of cash. It's going to take more than some pie-in-the-sky cabin concept.

Let's get realistic about what the industry really needs in order to make flying an enjoyable experience. It's no coincidence that the new American Airlines logo looks like Greyhound's. =p
Feature Request: Allow the use of a hashmark (or a different method) to pre-fill the user input, and auto-start the timer. Then you could send it to people who you want to get stuff done.
awesome Internal Server Error...
Stuff like this screams the "brogrammer" stereotype to me. Strip the profanity and there's not much of a joke left.
The job postings used to have upvotes in the same way that articles did is probably why the OP is questioning this.
I recall using × and ÷ in primary school, before the advent of portable calculators.

I know that's mere anecdotal evidence, but I believe there do exist reliable documentary sources from that era.
The hotlinking is caused by a straight-up copy of OP's JS files. This is a pretty clear cut case of copyright infringement - a DMCA takedown is not abusive here.
I sent this to some writers at an agency and their immediate feedback was pointing out grammatical errors in your website copy (they pointed out the about page specifically). They are looking at the service in greater depth, but nonetheless this was an immediate turn off for them. It's a classic case of judging a book by its cover, but I admit to doing the same when reading over code or even visiting a site with terrible design...

It would be a good idea to make such corrections considering you are targeting writers! ;)

EDIT: you could spin this by asking for collaboration, using your own tool, for the copy on your About page
It should have some kind of :D emoticon and a question along the lines of "So what's next?"
From your site "As developers, we generally like to work across Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, iOS & Android"
Pair programming probably works when you are hooking things up with glue code for the most part, that's my best guess. That's the only case where I could see it working for me and it would probably be kind of fun and interesting. I can't imagine doing anything that required a lot of sustained concentration however, unless your engineers are doing that when they get home from work and find some quiet time (probably.)
Just seconds after 7am...

"Things are really busy right now, and we're assigning tickets as they become available. We'll keep trying to get you a ticket for up to 6 minutes. After that, if we don't have a ticket for you, we'll send you back to the main page and you can try again.

Don't do any of the following. They'll decrease your chances of getting a ticket.

Refresh this page
Try to register in a new tab
Try to register in another browser
Hammer the JavaScript endpoints using the JS Console"*
While having "ghost employees" is troubling and lowers work ethics for other people, it could have been worse. The doctor could have been using the "silicone fingers" to sign drugs out of the drug cabinet. If biometrics were the only protection there, the patsy doctors would have very little recourse to defend themselves.
The MIT course is a bad choice for modern C++ (this course is just C with classes). Just have a look at this lecture:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

The use of C-style arrays and strings is actively discouraged by most C++ gurus (Stroustrup, Sutter, Meyers).
I need to see lists of tasks on which I fucked up and the ones I completed. Basically, I need to track my progress.
And yes, customized timer obviously.

p.s. : More profanity will be appreciated, maybe customize option for that too.