skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a developer on the CMS in question when this happened. The possibility of this guy getting up to 10 years in prison seems harsh.
> an open source web app
Maybe as part of an OwnCloud:
https://owncloud.org/

("OwnCloud" is hipster for "web hosting", I guess?)
While I agree with you - I really do - it's also an incredibly difficult choice. You'd have to give up owning nearly all movies and TV shows legally, the lion's share of ebooks, and nearly all commercial audiobooks. You basically have to live a life where the only media you can consume is in formats created before the 90s, or those rare one-offs where new content is issued in DRM-free formats.

I don't really have an answer for this. I feel guilty every time I buy a Blu-Ray, but I haven't stopped buying them either.

edit: and, oh, yeah, video games. Not all of them, but most of them.
It's not the stability of the node.js code itself that was the issue -- it was the stability of the protocol used to communicate with our servers. We didn't want to put it in the NPM before we were ready to support that version of the protocol going forward (once it's live on our devs servers, it could be there a very long time).

The wire protocol is solid now, so we're making the commitment to be backwards compatible from this point onwards.
I've tried that also but still no luck. I have the commands in separate bat files but I wouldn't expect that to affect it, or I might be using the wrong chrome executable?
One of the largest benefits for us was the ability to rent numbers through the API. Since developer accounts can't rent real numbers will you be renting out some sort of internal numbers? Not allowing any numbers to be rented seems like an oversight since I'd imagine a lot of apps use (and want to test) this type of functionality.
Regardless of the hugin conflict, it'd be nice not to have to spell the name out to people when recommending this. Maybe even something ambitious like just calling it "Tubes"? (I'm not aware of anything else with that name.)
Why can't we just roll our own CalDAV server via open source projects instead of getting upset that Google is dropping it?

Google is dropping Reader, but we can use opens source projects to find another RSS reader. Heck I use Thunderbird for my RSS reading.
Co-author here, and a totally valid question! I started my blog about eCommerce / drop shipping for a number of reasons:

1) To expand my professional network and opportunities

I just finished co-writing a book with Shopify on drop shipping, which is something I never would have had the opportunity to do without the blog. It's allowed me to build credibility and expand my network.

Additionally, the blog allows me to reach out to really interesting people when I otherwise wouldn't be able to. For example, I recently interviewed Gary Vaynerchuk - something I never would have been to do without leveraging eCommerceFuel.

2) To connect with other eCommerce entrepreneurs

I've had the chance to connect with hundreds of other eCommerce merchants and share strategies and tips. I eventually hope to build a really vibrant community for small eCommerce merchants (as I think that's lacking online), and this is helping me accomplish that.

3) To eventually diversify my income stream with something new

Like all entrepreneurs, I think the desire to try new things is strong - especially after you've been doing the same thing for a while. I saw the blog as a way to create another income source that leveraged the experience I have.

While one of my eventual goals is to make money from the blog, my first priority is to keep the content extremely high quality, genuine, authentic and USEFUL. I wanted to give away a ton of useful information before I asked for anything in return.

Take the eBook on my site, for example. I spent 2 weeks solid writing it and I give it away for free. If you download it and don't think it's one of the better free resources you've come across online just let me know and I'll send you $20 via PayPal for wasting your time. :-)

4) To dispel the the idea of "easy money" online

You asked why I'm teaching people to setup "copycat" business, and I'd argue I'm doing nothing of the sort. 80% of success with any kind of business involves the execution and strategy - and not picking the perfect niche or having some "secret" sauce.

If Alexis Ohanian released a killer guide to programming in Python that doesn't mean someone is going to be able to create a Reddit copycat... ...at least one that will successfully compete with them. Also, just because someone is sharing their knowledge and/or tactics doesn't mean that their original project is no longer viable. It simply means they're interested in sharing their experience.

If building a profitable drop shipping business was an easy 48-hour project, I'd be less likely to share so publicly - you're right! But just like any business, it takes a lot of hard work. The knowledge is important, but the legwork is really what makes it difficult to implement.

I completely understand your skepticism as the online business space is full of scams. But hopefully if you invest a few minutes reading our guide, and my blog (http://www.eCommerceFuel.com) you'll realize we're committed to publishing quality, useful content and not trying to rip people off.

Let me know if you have any questions - happy to answer them.
At least in the US, the word "buy" should apply only to things subject to the right of first sale.
I vote yes. It's one consonant different from an existing application/thing. Having said that I'm terrible with naming things and can't offer any alternatives.
DRM may be easy to break, but breaking it is illegal under the DMCA. And even if it's not a crime normally prosecuted, that's a very big problem.
"If you are good at something, never do it for free." -The Joker "The Dark Knight"
Ah... JManga... I didn't think this place was the best example of electronic publishing to begin with.
Their page structure was very misleading, too. They had some "informative" page, that is unavailable to "buy" and such.

The idea of the service it was actually interesting, and they perhaps had a better chance if it was all-you-can-eat subscription model as opposed to retailing.

A bit of shame especially after coming into the market with big fanfare of how all Japanese publishers joined the force making this possible... (and, it is plausible whole business model was dictated by influences of those publishers.)
I like this. Kind of reminds me of the WordPress.org/.com model. If I don't want to run it myself I can easily use .com, but if I want full control I can easily run the .org software on my own server.
Having transferred companies to both O365 and GApps from Exachange I really have to say that O365 is a horrible product. It is slow and nearly everything about the back-end seems like it was put together in haste.
That's true, but physical archiving has it's challenges too.

I think there's an important difference between something being hard because it is and something being deliberately made more difficult that it needs to be.
Lots of companies will give you a leg-up for the masters, but it's going to be most valuable if it adds a dimension to your profile that isn't reflected in your BS. E.g. if you're at a school with a combined EE/CS department, try to get your MS in EE or Comp. Eng. This will give you the credentials to work in areas like embedded devices or wireless, which you might find interesting if you find web development boring.
I'm getting an Internal Server Error. :(
This is nitpicking. He clearly meant to say:

> If you bought it, you should own it.

If the "real" meaning if the transaction is "rent till we decide you can't anymore", then it shouldn't be misrepresented as a purchase.
OK, probably it's better to rephrase the question, since copyright law and fair use concept predate DMCA. Why DMCA didn't include provisions of being not applicable in cases of fair use from the copyright law perspective?

The point of fair use is obvious - to limit copyright restrictions for sensible use cases (like personal use, accessibility and so on). Comes along DMCA and claims that cases covered by fair use are illegal. Was it the intention all along, or it was a sneaky way to do it? Can't DMCA be challenged on this grounds as being invalid as is?
As far as I'm aware, that's not done here. (Warning: I've read analysis on the process, but haven't looked at the code myself)
First: I'm always skeptical. I fear how easily it would be to be marked with a scarlet letter. I rather 10 guilty men go free, for any crime of any magnitude, than have 1 innocent man be punished.

Second:

Murder yields a body.

Theft creates a void.

Vandalism leaves a mark.

The body left by rape cannot distinguish between regret and terror. The void cannot be measured by the outside. The mark may be an act of theater.

However, the public demands justice and often we lose sight of our principles. The court of public opinion cares not about a shadow of a doubt.
Most Lisps aren't so great with arithmetic. Afterall arithmetic notation has been refined through 100's of years to be readable and concise, and I've never seen anybody use prefix notation for operators voluntarily. But infix notation can be added easily: this is a quick'n dirty solution in Clojure with left associativity, no precedence and many gotchas. Incanter has a much better implementation called $= with less gotchas and many more features:

(defmacro arith [& args]
(letfn [(res [v]
(cond
(vector? v) (apply arith-body v)
(list? v) (map res v)
:else v))
(arith-body [s & args]
(reduce (fn ([expr] expr) ([expr [op arg]] `(~op ~expr ~(res arg))))
(res s)
(partition 2 args)))]
(apply arith-body args)))

(defn deriv [f]
(let [dx 0.001]
(fn [x] (arith
(f [x + dx]) - (f x) / dx))))

((deriv (fn [x] (arith x * x))) 3)

Another common problem is the piping of results from one function to the next:

(f
(g
(h a)))

where you usually want to start reading the code in the lower rightmost corner and go upwards towards the left. Very messy in many lisps.

Clojure has solved that problem with the threading macros, yielding postfix notation when you need it the most:

(-> a h g f)

Piping subresults between functions really doesn't get much better in any language.

And that's of course some of the appeal of Lisp: The syntax may start controversial, but you can choose most of it yourself and make it depend on the problem, your tastes and of course, your readers.
I smell an app

Google Glass (or even a simple voice recorder in an app designed for the purpose) would also be great to reduce the friction of having to type something into a phone while talking to an investor.
Thanks, that is what I was thinking of doing. Maybe even set up a list of the RSS feeds on a simple text / HTML page; then use Huginn to pull the entire list from the URL, combine, sort, remove duplicates and output the HTML. Anytime you wanted to change the list of feeds, you can just edit the HTML page.
In a restaurant crowded with founders and investors I think it's easy to say "I said yes to the wrong sms"... Otherwise a malicious founder could overhear a conversation and send a sms at the right time to have a yes "proof"...

My main point is that it doesn't hurt to be explicit when confusion is possible.
Cool. FWIW, I'd use a micro image (or instructions for installing on top of a standard Ubuntu 12.10 image) if it was available.
It would be a boring diversion, but his most recent hysterics about Google and WebM are the height of obnoxious defensiveness: Google pays $100 million for a widely respected and legally clear video codec company, open sourcing the crown jewels for anyone's use. To Arment's jaded, bitter, anti-any-competitor-to-Apple perspective this is "a clear pattern: Google clearly (and often willfully) infringes on someone else’s IP, can’t believe that it’ll ever have any repercussions, and claims they’re doing it to be “open” or some bullshit. It betrays a culture at Google’s highest levels of arrogance, entitlement, and dishonesty."

This is a pattern of hilariously biased perspective that he demonstrates time and time again, while occasionally trying to pretend that he's even keeled.

Just incredible.

It is not terribly surprisingly that Arment shields himself from dissent, and tries to build a world where alternative opinions can only be wrong.

EDIT: Marco is funnelling his minions in here (because he totally doesn't read this place, am I right?), so expect moderation to reflect that.
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While it is possible to argue about analogies til the end of days, I don't think your analogy quite captures the essence of what is going on with the DMCA.

Allow me to present a refinement:

There exists one law that says it is only legal to make a right turn on red if you stop and look to the right first. There exists another law that says if you stop on red, you can't look to the right. The net result is that in order to avoid breaking any laws, you can't make a right turn on red.

These laws are technically not contradictory, but the end result is to nullify the ability to turn left on red just as the DMCA nullifies the ability to make a copy for any reason, fair use or otherwise.
okay, I've never heard the term "drop shipping" before and I read the entire intro page and I still have no idea what it is. I guess you plan to tell me in Chapter One, but that's a lot more commitment than I want to make when I have no idea what you're talking about.
What can you actually use the credits for? You can't pay for incoming calls/sms or outgoing calls/sms. That leaves IP calls and transcription costs. Is that it? Or am I missing something.

And if I do bring my own phone number, what do I still pay for to Plivo?
Isn't DMCA unconstitutional as is? It restricts free speech rights.

But my question was not about it being directly unconstitutional (which I think it is). It was about it being nonsensical in the light of fair use (as the other commenter brought above about forbidding to look to the right before making a turn).
oh the arrogance and hubris of humanity will never cease to amaze me....
congrats andrew, see you at the event tonight
Sorry, lots of traffic. If you refresh a couple times, it usually comes back :)
After 10 minutes, not a single slide apart from the cloudera ad has been shown. This is a podcast.
The refund is only for the points you haven't spent yet. If you 'bought' something you will not get the money back and you will never get to see it again.
What a paranoid post. Google "manipulates" results for financial gain? The assumption that there is a pure solution to a search query is ignorant of search and information retrieval, which fundamentally rely on human-curated content.

PageRank also relied on "Human-curated content". In fact, anything having to do with natural language processing does so in some way.

This is a far cry from saying that Google is hand-tuning search results. In fact, Google has only begun to do so recently as a response to government-orders to hide terms relating to media piracy or Chinese politics. This post displays a lot of romantic confusion about the effects of social media on web search.
Marco Arment is a cofounder of hugely successful Tumblr and creator of Instapaper, both of which certainly make or made him more money than he'll ever make from ads on his blog, however popular.

The GP post should be nuked from orbit, but the reasoning you put there is hilariously specious. If it is so irrelevant, then why are they there? Why does Arment stuff entries full of credibility-diminishing "sponsored by" text, or worse insidious Amazon affiliate links?

Every ounce of reality says that he cares very much about his blog income, your imaginings of his external wealth notwithstanding.
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Mark's co-author, Andrew, here. I just published a really length reply above, so hopefully that answers your question. In a nutshell, just like in business the biggest secret sauce is hard work and consistency - it's not like we're giving away the keys to the treasury where they print money!

With that being said, there are a lot of nuances to picking a good niche (especially in drop shipping where the competition can be fierce and margins low) and to operating a drop shipping business (as it can get logistically complex). Those are some of the things we're trying to shed more light on in the guide.
Yes, I've been doing it since 1998, and that includes three major separate gigs including (1) a corporate job, (2) free-lance, and (3) a founder of our own firm. So that's 15 years and counting! Best wishes to you.
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Do your customers/users scan it?
I work at a Wholesale supplier and he pretty much nailed the 3 points regarding the Google searches.
Yeah, but no app developer is explicitly saying that.

> If a farmer's market set up shop in your town, and little kids stole the merchandise all the time

I've found that comparisons between physical theft and digital "theft" are always going to be flawed due to fundamental differences between the two domains.
Feedly's first out of the gate already here.
You are right! I think I should have provided all 4 options to begin with
There's no reason to avoid the JVM ecosystem just because you don't like Java, especially if you've never done enough Java to develop a strong and well-founded hatred for its verbosity and excessive emphasis on mutability rather than for its unfamiliar object system and static typing, which tends to be what people starting with Java seem to dislike.

You can start to use Clojure effectively without ever importing a Java library. (Even without java.lang.*, although that gets implicitly imported anyhow). The rest, you can pick up as you go. It's not too bad.
Even if it's illegal, society at large ignores it, and there is nothing practically wrong with ignoring it. Surely the right thing to do would be to nullify the 1201 section altogether, but currently it already makes unrealistic demands on reality and people simply don't consider this restriction valid.
If the "real" meaning if the transaction is "rent till we decide you can't anymore", then it shouldn't be misrepresented as a purchase.

it is a purchase, you purchased the rights to some piece of content for some period of time.
Good feedback - we'll have to incorporate this into our 1st round of revisions.

Drop shipping is a fulfillment model where a merchant doesn't carry any inventory. Instead, they only purchase an item from a wholesaler when they receive an order from a customer. Then, they have that item shipped directly from the wholesale warehouse to the customer.

It allows a merchant to start a store without having to invest up-front in inventory, and without having to manage a warehouse.
Really good feedback, thank you. We will add a quick definition in the introduction page.
I see. Thanks.

I'd say data transformation is a part of feature engineering (commonly the bulk of the effort in a ML application). And exploratory analysis is part of model work. W/o those 2 one would be building a model out of dreams and wishes.

Data Science is probably a poorly chosen description. I'd say common use includes infrastructure work which for most of us consists in engineering work.
"Dropshipping is a retail fulfillment method where a store doesn't keep the products it sells in stock. Instead, when a store sells a product, it purchases the item from a third party and has it shipped directly to the customer. As a result, the merchant never sees or handles the product."

First paragraph after the introduction. I mean, this paragraph could probably be written in a gazillion different ways but to me this pretty much explains what Drop Shipping is..

Edit: It seems that this paragraph was added later. :)
Ask HN: How many languages to list on resume
I'm updating my resume and the list of skills/languages and tools is getting super long and looks somewhat ridiculous(at least to me). Is there a way to be selective about it?
1000 prints in an hour is about 3.5 seconds per signature, not too far off my mark, and I imagine you'd need to take more fatigue breaks if you had to sign seven times as many prints.
The problem is that there are no consumer protections built into DRM law. People should never be locked out of their content.

In my opinon, JManga should be forced to continue to support their authentication systems or be forced to permanently unlock the content.
Interestingly, I like Haskell for exactly the opposite reason: not only can I read it, but I don't have to. Haskell is the best language I know for getting the gist of some code at a glance.

This is the same advantage as mathematical notation has over paragraphs of text: I can get the general idea from a formula or diagram without reading it in detail. In a sense, I can infer the "shape" of the notation, which is what lets me avoid actually reading everything.

Getting to this point with both mathematical notation and Haskell took a lot of practice, but it's well worth it: both notations have exceptional information density and allow me to go through more information faster.

Sometimes, for some completely foreign ideas, I do have to read the mathematical notation/Haskell code in much closer detail. And this does take much longer than you'd expect: a single page can take something like half an hour or more. But this is not much of a surprise: if the notation was expanded to prose, it would take up several pages, and not be an easy read by prose standards either.
My problem right now is not getting a list of names of popular feed readers - I can already see that by just browsing any of the many comment threads that have popped up on the internet where people bring up their favourite alternative.

What I really need is something to help me make a decision, by comparing what features does each reader support and so on. How much does it cost? Can I see my read in multiple devices? Does it work on smartphones? Can I share links with people? etc...
Ah just saw the reason for the name on github. I thought you chose it out of the blue. What about a line from Anchorman: "Great Odin's Raven!" or something to that effect :P
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You just said that DMCA is separate from copyright and thus fair use doesn't apply to it conceptually. So DMCA is not related to right to establish exclusive rights to works and etc. And it restricts the free speech. So why is it not unconstitutional? (See https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100402/1856128861.shtml

Or another example of restricting free speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... ).
Foundation 4 is ie9+ while there is a snippet to enable the grid for ie8 and the rest should mostly work just fine http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/support.html Foundation 3, which is still supported, is ie8+ http://foundation.zurb.com/old-docs/f3/support.php

Bootstrap will also soon drop ie7 support in the 3.x branch.
Also worth mentioning you may be covered by the first-sale doctrine[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
A computer or a car or a lamp or soda is different from a plant because they do not propagate and create new versions of themselves. Well, maybe the soda but I am rather sure neither the car of computer can do it. Well, a 3rd printed computer could but lets just say that self-propagating patented products are legally messy things. As a consumer or business owner, there is not much one can do beyond keeping ones eye close and hope no one will sue. If they do sue, hope that the judge is a fair minded person that will consider intent and what is human possible regarding patent knowledge.