skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they put a hard limit on "continued use", what would it achieve?

Probably a few more sales, but at the cost of forcing some current users to stop using their product (if they can't afford the full version yet), or waste time jumping through anti-DRM hoops -- I've known people who are constantly setting their computer clock back, or tinkering with the Windows registry, or... all kinds of silly things so they can keep using an expired trial version of some software.

If they can keep those users on the trial version (and earn some goodwill as well for their flexibility), eventually some of them will be in a better financial or mental situation (whichever variable needs to change!) and will pay the license fee.

If they start the user down the path of battling DRM, or being forced to stop using their software, in either case they're starting a conflict.

So it's a business (and human) decision; they want to stay on your side even if you are pushing their internal definition of "continued use".
Neat. I would have taken the plain game but with a different perspective, but that's pretty mind boggling right there.
This is why I'm (slowly) weaning myself off of Apple platforms after being an Apple user and enthusiast since 1984. A computing platform where the vendor is the ultimate arbiter of what software the user can and cannot run is fundamentally broken.

iOS has always been this way and, though I used it for a while, eventually the stories of apps being rejected for all sorts of reason were too significant to ignore. When Apple tried to dictate the set of acceptable _programming language_ for apps I gave up my iOS devices.

Though I can still run software on my macs without permission, I'm now looking for a suitable replacement for Mac OS as well. It's difficult to imagine a day coming where the Mac would be "app store only" like iOS, but it's not impossible.
>That's silly, freedom is a matter of degree. A market with some simple rules governing violence and the enforcement of contracts is certainly more free than a Soviet style planned economy. You can neither have a perfectly free market nor a perfectly controlled market.

No -- but the ideology of the free market sidesteps the issues of huge imbalances and influencing and maintains BS about invisible hands and "egoism working for the better" long after they have been proven dead and burried.

Now, if that was only spread by some naive "free market" bloggers and the like that would be ok. But the bullshiting includes most of the souped down political economy that is fed to the masses and to policy makers by "financial experts" and "economy advisors" (and even most university classes on economy).
Indeed. It's surprising to me that no-one has yet been successful combining Slashdot's idea of meaningful moderations with the almost universal practice on newer forums of promoting highly moderated material to earlier in the discussion but having the advantage decay over time if that material doesn't continue to receive strong endorsements. If demoting material had to come with a stated reason, like giving incorrect information or being off-topic, it might also mean fewer people use the down arrow as a substitute for "I disagree", which IMHO would be no bad thing on sites like Reddit and HN.
New socioeconomic dynamics: too much for some brains.
I will agree with everything except for two points.

The "stop reading code" snippet.. I think its important he continues to read code and mess around, it is what keeps passion alive and influences you. He should start building things on top of what he already doing

Another point, about "the best software is written by one person" is completely false. Any significant software project usually requires a team with good chemistry. You kind of alluded to the whole "genius programmer" myth.

I am not saying people can't write great software or build great products alone. Just that its not good to think of programming as an activity done in isolation. If not just for the fact you can get more ideas and feedback working with a team.

A lot of other stuff you said is sound advice. :-)
If monsanto is the supplier it makes little difference, especially for the future of agriculture.
Oh, wow. I had not realized that number was the DAILY signups...
Reaching SMB owners at scale is not reay an issue. Has never been. Problem is most startups only care about online marketing. Which in this case, is not the right choice. Offline is the magic bullet here.

Plus $10 may not seem a lot, but a Facebook page is $0. It also allows them to directly market to their niche. Try and achieve that with a stand alone website.

And next to the HN crowd rest. owners might not seem tech savy. But they can sure see the value in marketing where their customers spend about an hour of their lives every day. They will never get that kind of attention on a stand alone website. Plus you would be surprised how knowledgeable people in the restaurant business are when it comes to tech.
I just had someone not long ago ask me for a POS system with Facebook integration.
Curiosity rover snaps panorama of massive Mars mountain
In the case of H1B for example, how I get referred or where I find companies that accept H1B and how I apply?

I tried microsoft careers site, but it is not clear there how it works, it kept giving me jobs in my own country (and all the jobs in my own country are marketing...)

I also searched a list of H1B companies, but I only found a bunch of India outsourcing companies (like Tata), and this is not the sort of thing I want. I want real work.
Seems like the intention behind including slippery slope in the OP is in itself an example of slippery slope. Maybe what is implied is drawing a fallacious conclusion from an incomplete argument. But if so, it should be replaced with the latter.
There are lots of ways to express how we should treat eachother (and animals), other than "Rights".

Being able to think outside of the existing paradigm of rights based thinking is not something that is "wrong" it is actually more 'considered' than knee jerk assertions.
It's not an untapped market. Facebook owns it.
fair enough. noted.
Seems like there's a need for a cloud infrastructure/language independent packaging format, to build a "github of installable applications"

Maybe container images that can also be used as bootable images?
Found this in the docs:

"Chart.js uses the canvas element, which is a single DOM node, similar in characteristics to a static image. This does mean that it has a wider scope for compatibility, and less memory implications than SVG based charting solutions. The canvas element also allows for saving the contents as a base 64 string, allowing saving the chart as an image.

In SVG, all of the lines, data points and everything you see is a DOM node. As a result of this, complex charts with a lot of intricacies, or many charts on the page will often see dips in performance when scrolling or generating the chart, especially when there are multiple on the page. SVG also has relatively poor mobile support, with Android not supporting SVG at all before version 3.0, and iOS before 5.0. (caniuse.com/svg-html5)."
From another comment, those numbers appear to be the new signups in the last 24 hours - and as the free option became much harder to find recently, I would expect the number of free signups to decrease dramatically.
Worrying about humans surviving after the sun explodes is not a motivation for anything. We have only existed for moment in time relative to the age of the sun, and any number of things could lead to our extinction in another relative moment's time, such that our entire existence on a solar lifetime calendar would not even be noticed.
like Blockout from the 90s? https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1920...
Toosell blog | How to Change the Computer Motherboard
I think you did put your finger on it! You describe it perfectly. It's got that trying too hard feel. There's just so much of it. It kind of reminds of those fully flash websites. Too much "look pretty."

There's also a bit of information overload going on in the menus. I don't know. I'm not entirely a fan of the bold colors. I personally would have just liked an iteration of the current site, rather than a full revamp.

Something along the lines of Github's clean white background and minimalistic layout would, I think, suit a Python site very well.

I could just be me fearing change, though..
Ok that's more clear.

For the companies that sponsor H1b you can have the list here: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2012-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx...
with some numbers, based on my experience it's not necessarily true or my field of work pays more than that (research).

On the companies like MS, there's not specific keywords for sponsored jobs, just look in the USA and then it's up to the hiring manager to decide if he wants to bother with processing an H1B or not (depends also on budget because it has a cost and a time issue).

The good news is the quota for H1B starts in april, companies can apply for you to get a starting date for the job in October. You have the perfect timing !
Xero ditches HTML5 in favor of native iOS and Android apps
not really. i signed up because the product was dvd + steaming at the time. then it became one or the other (or paying twice).

It was never advertised as dvd plus free trial steaming. if it was, was in small print.
I like the predictive aspect Personally, I'm looking for something with a GR atom API, possibly to even run the existing GR frontend against, not a new UI with a different focus (I would prefer one focusing on curation and workflow over social or sharing).
I think most of these videos are recorded in abattoirs etc with hidden camera. So they are documenting something that would have happened without the presence of a camera.
It would seem unlikely (though I guess not impossible) that animal rights activists would seek to increase the abuse of animals simply to create the videos.
That's a lot of work to fake a profile, so it seems like the odds are much lower with us vs. another site where all you need is an e-mail address. I also think Facebook is also good at detecting fake accounts.
It's been like that for a while on the bigger subs. But it's the same thing that happens on TV, radio, etc. You can't avoid it.
Yea, what tsm posted is a flash clone of that game.
I've played this one too much. Very fun.
I'm no expert but doesn't chinese have single symbols/words that when translated turn into multiple words. And it maybe unrelated but don't chinese characters take up more space in the ASCII table or something. Again I'm no expert.
You find job outside country not in country. Thank you for telling us you superstar.
removing the 9 split jazz is actually shorter (and more readable) http://jsbin.com/idijay/1/edit
Rights are the correlative of duties and obligations. If people have a duty not to X, then who ever that duty is owed to now has a right to X.

As a being capable of moral reflection, I think I have a duty not to inflict, or support the infliction upon, other beings capable of feeling pain and suffering. Thus, other beings have a right not to be inflicted with pain and suffering, from me at least.
but they are also a PITA for the passenger. It's all a matter of creating problems to sell solutions.

and if it wasn't, lobbying sure made thanks to the liquid rule.
Fallacies do not in and of themselves disprove an argument - but I usually see them as a barometer for the quality of discourse and the character of the person making the argument.

An argument strongly compromised by fallacies, made by someone otherwise intelligent, suggests to me disingenuity and intellectual dishonesty - and it affects how willing I am willing to engage in debate in return.
Huh. I'd assume that you'd get top-of-field type people in medicine, science and engineering along for the trip. I'd also assume that you'd get older people, too... brains and experience (and, as they say, getting along with a group) is going to matter more than physical fitness, I would assume. And from what I've seen, most people with technical skills learn social skills much later, if at all.

My worry would not be that I'd get stuck with a bunch of peasants, but that the standards would be so high, with regards to education and useful skills, that I would not qualify for the trip.

If I was trying to pitch myself at the interview, I'd point out all my experience maintaining older equipment with limited resources. (I'm sure they'd point out that nearly all my repair experience is board-level, not component-level, which is the right thing when you have a lot of cheap spares, such as when dealing with older equipment on earth, but completely the wrong thing when you are in an environment where you have to bring or manufacture everything you use.) I'd also point out my years of 24x7 pager experience, (and my experience in knowing where my burn out point is- I will push back rather than work myself to burn-out) Of course, they'd point out that there exist outliers who can work harder and longer than I can without burn-out, and I'm sure a few of them also know how to spot burn-out coming up.

So, yeah; I would assume that if they were taking a credible run at it, they'd get some really good people (including some good medical personnel.)
Be agile, I thank myself for being that way;

Join a Startup if you cannot create one.
In my experience, confidentiality agreements are not effective or enforceable.
I don't remember exactly what I typed in, something along the lines of:

x = 10;
y = 20;
println (x ^ (y ^ y));
If anyone is curious how the code actually works, I've commented up a version below:

<script type="text/javascript">

function matrix() {
// initialize variables
for (s = window.screen,
w = q.width = s.width, // on my monitor: 1920
h = q.height = s.height, // on my monitor: 1200
m = Math.random, // random number from 0-1
p = [],
i = 0;

// i ranges from 0 to 255, one element for each character horizontally
// this is enough characters to fill the entire screen horizontally
// canvas won't let you draw off the screen - so I could set this to 1000
i < 256;

// initialize p (the y coordinate of each character) to start at 1
p[i++] = 1);

setInterval(
// every time we call this function we draw the entire screen a very faint black (with a high transparency of 0.05)
// this means every 33 milliseconds the screen is getting slightly darker
// this also acts to darken and fade the green characters - when they are first printed they are dark green, then they slowly fade to black
function() {
// draw black (0,0,0) with alpha (transparency) value 0.05
q.getContext('2d').fillStyle='rgba(0,0,0,0.05)';
// fill the entire screen
q.getContext('2d').fillRect(0,0,w,h);
// #0f0 is a short form for color green (#00FF00)
q.getContext('2d').fillStyle='#0F0';

p.map(
// this function will be called 256 times - once for each element of array p,
function(v,i){
// map over the array p
// v is the value in the array p, which represents the y-coordinate of the text going down
// i is the index of the array p, which represents the x coordinate
// start from unicode char code 30,000 (0x7530) then add a random number from 0-33
// from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_Unified_Ideographs,_part_2_of_4
// U+753x	田	由	甲	申	甴	电	甶	男	甸	甹	町	画	甼	甽	甾	甿
// U+754x	畀	畁	畂	畃	畄	畅	畆	畇	畈	畉	畊	畋	界	畍	畎	畏
// U+755x	畐
randomNum = m()*33;
// note how the asian characters are slightly different shades
// of green, this depends on their line thickness etc, and doesn't
// really happen for english characters
randomAsianChar = String.fromCharCode(30000 + randomNum);

q.getContext('2d').fillText(
randomAsianChar,
i*10, // x coordinate - each character is 10 x 10
v // y coordinate
);
// draw at least 758 characters down before reseting to the start
minimumHeight=758
num = minimumHeight+m()*10000;
p[i] = (v>num) ? 0 : v+10 // increment the y coordinate by one character (10 pixels), reset when y-coord gets too big
})
},
33) // call every 33 milliseconds
}
</script>

<body style=margin:0 onload="matrix()"><canvas id=q>
"a fellacious piece that described, in dulcet tones ..."

More likely freudian slip than inspired coinage, but it's a word English could use.
This is so much more challenging than regular tetris!
I've been vegetarian all my life, 31 years.
It's been a problem probably once or twice. People always expect it to be difficult, but it just isn't. The only part about it I don't like is the 60 something year old, usually male, who pops up about once a year to make lame jokes that usually somehow relate being vegetarian to being effeminate, homosexual or some such thing. And seem to think its hilarious bringing it into conversation as much as possible. This is by far the most annoying thing. I have travelled through a fair few countries and have never found it to be problematic - and I have been prepared to compromise being veetarian if it would have been rude not to when in foreign countries. I have never had to however.
Most animals would eat us, given the choice.
+100 for corporations
-1 for consumers

According to the book "Diet for a Small Planet" the beef industry gets $50 billion a year of free water from the federal government. Doesn't sound like fair market capitalism to me. It does sound like our elected officials can be easily bribed.

The super rich have won. Hopefully not too far of topic, but a friend just sent me this video link about income inequality - an eye opener! http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM&desktop_uri=%...
How I Met 75 Investors and Raised $650,000
I was so looking forward to a Doom/Tetris mashup. Disappointed.
I also think the docs are pretty good. However, the one thing I would absolutely LOVE is if they added a table at the top of every page that has functionName and return Type (like so many other languages do).

The thing that irks me about the docs now it that they're almost too in depth. Sometimes, when I just need to get a quick refresher of what function X does, it takes me nearly 45 seconds to just find the thing. Ctrl + F doesn't help because the docs are so verbose that searching for one thing usually results in 20+ hits or references on the page.

Just a little table like the Java docs, and I'd be pleased as punch!
Lisp Hackers: Vladimir Sedach Interview
I'm surprised someone would try to ban such videos. You'd think it more productive to ban the act of "crushing" itself. That someone recorded the act just provides evidence for any appropriate legal action (and vigilante justice too, it seems).
Fantastic! I dropped you (and Sean) a line.
Make sense now that someone points it out! For those who mouse click to mark reading point.
Ironically, doing evented/fiber code right is probably harder than doing threads right, for this kind of stuff.

I'm a bit astounded that heroku, in their attempt to deal with, um, let's call it "routing-gate", aren't talking about talking about multi-threaded dispatch and config.threadsafe!, but only unicorn with 2-4 forked processes. When it seems awfully likely that multi-threaded dispatch is going to scale a lot more efficiently with regard to number of overlapping requests.

I think some of it is the lack of mature, robust, 'self-managing' app server solutions. For MRI (with the GIL), what's likely needed is something that can fork multiple processes (to use all cores), with each of those processes dispatching multi-threaded (to deal with I/O blocking as well as even-ing out latency when not all requests finish in identical time). So far as I know, Passenger 4 Enterprise is the only thing that can do this for you, without you having to manually set it all up.
> pain and suffering

As far as you know.
There is this monthly Who is hiring thread, which shows which companies are hiring with H1B. The last one was here[1]

Angel list also has a pretty great job search tool, with both salaries and equity[2]

Note that H1B workers on the US will only be able to start in October this year, so being willing to work remotely for a while can be necessary. Also, H1B process takes a while, not to mention the interviewing (I know this from my own experience).

If you need cash in the meantine, there is also the freelance version of Who is hiring[3]

I'm sorry to hear about you and your co-founder. Breakups happens to many startups. Elad Gil, who advises/invest in startups, recently disclosed[4]:

One Y Combinator founder I spoke with felt that about ~20% of startups in his batch blew up in the first 9-12 months after entering YC due to founder issues.

Yes, it sucks (also, from my experience). But I hope you will get back on your feet soon.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304169

[2] https://angel.co/salaries

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304173

[4] http://blog.eladgil.com/2013/01/how-to-fire-co-founder.html
Not necessarily. Remember, "Silicon Valley celebrates failure".
"mobile (iOS, Android, J2ME), C++, C, C#, some other rare skills I cannot specify (because will identify me)"

If this is true, also look at Canada - especially Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary.
I agree, this is a great model. To shameless plug myself I plan on doing the same with Pinry: http://getpinry.com/
I do not think any animal rights activist would straight up think, "boy, I wish there were more abuse videos out there." However, by watching the videos that do exist, an audience is created. Where there is an audience, there are people looking to gain from that audience.

People do all kinds of crazy things to get hits on their YouTube page, even without direct monetary incentive. If you just have to hurt a few animals to do the same, why not? I mean it is not in my nature, but not everyone shares my (and I assume your) values.
I didn't know who he was before reading this, but much respect to him. Truly awesome ideas.
Huh, the ^ operator isn't defined yet, but that shouldn't have caused it. Damn, I would have liked to find this out, because the end user should never see exceptions of course. Anyway, thanks for telling me, I hope it'll crop up again in the future!
The American military astroturfing on reddit is off the charts. Desert-puppy-holding and worship-baiting-poignant-reunion photos are pumped out like clockwork.
Tired of copy-pasting the Facebook JS SDK?
Is it just me or does everyone involved in a twitter argument ever look like a moron?
Thanks kamaal! It probably looks larger than it is, there is still a huge amount of stuff missing that people would expect from a real programming language (and also, a lot of bugs still need to be fixed).
Doesn't there have to be a logical argument for there to be a logical fallacy?

Can't speak for Phil, but I did come here simply to point out that the article comes off a little strange with JLG trying to sound like an outsider while talking about a company he worked at for over a decade, and in an executive capacity. It was twenty years ago, and by bringing it up I don't mean to imply a problem with what he's saying (I agree with it), I just wonder if he is a household name and this is considered common knowledge, or if anyone else thought it was an interesting omission.
Well done nick. This is the perfect example of a unicorn project - the perfect mix a technical solution, but with immaculate design sense. Even the documentation is beautiful.

Would love to see this MIT licensed.

I would love to see you rewarded for this project. Donations or a commercial support licence?
Not for everyone. I know of two women who were both long-term vegetarians and went back to an omnivorous diet because they were always feeling wan and listless. Both women were foodies (one from a 'foodie' family), and both have tertiary education in biology and biochemistry, so they were quite aware of good diets and balancing. This doesn't mean that all women will have this problem, it just means that not everyone can go meat-free and have no quality-of-life issues.
Most animals will breed with their siblings left to their own.

What is your argument? That we should always follow animal behavior despite our ability to think?