skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gravity doesn't do anything on its own, in the absence of other forces, the orbit of a steel nut around the earth would be stable (that's also why we haven't yet crashed into the sun even after being in its gravitational field for billions of years). (Well, you would get some instability because neither the earth nor the nut are perfect spheres or perfectly rigid, but those effects would take billions of years to become noticeable.)
I've used both and both are adequate for deploying a web application. That said, I'd recommend AWS if you're looking for more than just a box e.g dns, cdn etc.
Author could have mentioned that Tesla and SpaceX received sizable government funding.
It may be clear, but still the title shouldn't mention "1998".
An example HN article about that:
http://firstround.com/article/The-inside-story-of-how-382-re...
Source? There is no way that figure is correct.
TSA != FAA
Mobile first - Yeah! Can anyone compare/constrast the mobilefirst-ness of Bootstrap3 and Zurb4 ?? Why would I use one vs the other??
Is it me or do they use greyish text on white background that makes the whole thing hard to read ? i'd like to understand , what the hell is that low contrast trend and how does it make the text more readable ? Designer should quit it. Are they stupid or what ? Also this flat trend make the design very poor , but maybe that's the intended effect.
Ask HN: How do blind people code and work with terminals?
In the space of half a day, vision in my right eye deteriorated to the point that I can't even see an eye exam chart with it. I've already gone to the hospital and going back tomorrow for another round of tests. It's not a tumor, no signs of MS, no signs of infection.<p>I know they're are people considered legally blind that still write code, so how do they do it? Is there an OS that's better geared for accessibility, and are there any tools that can help make life easier?
thanks to being open source

Something can be open source and still have patent threats.

That's one of the big differences between patents and copyright. If I go into a room and don't talk to anyone and independently write some software, then no-one can sue me for copyright infringement, but they might be able to sue me for patent infringment.
Tool is subject to change, particularly when change looks like an upgrade.
Not sure about blind, but blindfold chess is a thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindfold_chess
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Python (using the boto library to interact with AWS).
xkcd gets it right:
http://xkcd.com/651/

I never understood why do they ban water bottles but allow laptop batteries through, it's just plain ridiculous.
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If we want the captcha to be accessible outside the target demographic, we should scrap the whole chess thing as well.
For example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/13/spotify-songwrit...

But Pokerface is now 4 years old, not sure if the numbers are still representative.
Yeah but they both regulate the flying public. They should talk!
There's no such thing as overengineering if it entertains the users while meeting the mission intent. :P
If you cut the crap, does this mean VP8 is safe to use for everyone for free (without royalties to either MPEG-LA or Google) or not?
That post just confused me greatly

In the modern web, pages are still in HTML, font's can still be adjusted, and ads are automatically filtered out.
Sure but a few problems with that:

a) WARNING you are leaving safety, are you sure you want to go out into the DANGEROUS Internet? Your friends will miss you! How about some Soma instead?
b) Censorship
c) They have the power to turn off hyperlinks at any time--like YouTube has already done.
Not impossible, but it's highly improbable to continue. The API changes aren't the biggest factor, but it requires some changes across the entire app, and I would like to take the chance to revamp a good part of it (It's major version 3, I've revamped it twice across the years already). Till now, they haven't answered me on how many user tokens I have used up, so it's a big risk for me to put in major effort, not knowing how much sales I can get in return. There's also some technical issue users are facing that they have been very slow to respond to (read: not yet), so frankly, I think I'm a low priority to them anyway.

I remember when I was on honeymoon and my web host fired me an email about blocking internet access because I was overloading their DNS server. I explained my situation (hey it's a production site and I'm away on vacation) and requested for them to keep me up for 4 more days when I'll be back home. They refused and I had to worked on it at the hotel, while my newly-wedded wife waited. I remember when I woke up in the night 2-5am, doing support, replying to users. I was fanatic about supporting users well.

I loved what I did. But that love has waned. Why stay when you aren't welcome?
Fair enough, if you want to automatically execute an anonymous function, your example isn't idiomatic C# either. The idiomatic version would look like this:

var func = () => "foo";
func();

As far as "you don't see this type of code being used much", that's just patently false. Anonymous functions (particularly predicates) are the whole way you interact with LINQ.

So I'll ask this: what's the equivalent example in Java?
It makes it really easy to target ssh hosts and tell them to do things remotely, while also doing things locally, in one or more scripts.

Writing the functionality of Fabric in shell would take you a long time and give you something which was buggy and inflexible. Someone else wrote it in Python for you. There's no good reason to write it in shell.
This comment is a great example of what I call 'cynical/naive'. You're trying to be cynical but putting forward such a naive, simplified view of the interrelationships between those companies, the relevant regulatory bodies, legislators, local/state governments, lobbyists, market competition and lack thereof, steak dinners and whatever.

The tier 3 internet business of these corps is different from the consumer internet business. The consumer internet business's legal monopolies aren't so much an arm of a big federal government as they are completely dominant over thousands of very small local governments, where $50k of local access TV funding will buy you exclusivity because those governments have been squeezed for funding for the last 10 years.

It's also not really comparable to the way things work in China, except insofar as 'corruption and imperfections exist' in both cases.
The alleged infringement was massive - every download of Chrome 6+ and every Gingerbread+ Android device (or at least the ones with the Google apps) to start. And all of it could easily have been willful - On2 and MPEG-LA had apparently tangled long before Google got involved.

Given that, I think not finding out financial terms is a tell all by itself. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I don't think Google would be able to hide the cost of an MPEG-LA win in their earnings reports.
Why do people continually upvote forbes.com articles? A full-page ad for a fluff piece that adds zero content to the original reddit post (which happened a few days ago)

EDIT: the original post was http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/19xb2m/a_letter_from... but that was deleted. Another author reproduced the original post in http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/19xb2m/a_letter_from...

The original HN post was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5346752
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Wonder whenever it is capable of working with non-IP sockets (like AF_PACKET or AF_NETLINK)
I have no doubt that mission statements are real at some companies, and that they influence results in a positive way.

After making my comment, I made a short search, and posted this: Sex, Lies and Mission Statements. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5352298

It's from 1997. Things may have improved, I don't follow HR research. But it's at least a description of how things can go wrong, and probably still do.

Summary: Most managers report that their company's mission statement is ineffective, and many report that it's counter productive. Employee involvement in creating the mission statement is correlated with positive influence on behavior, yet that involvement is rare. Free coffee cups for everyone!
"platforms like Facebook never could arise without the free internet"

Word.
I think you need to relax. If the design is so poor then customize it. Or even better, submit a pull request that includes your own brilliant design skills.
> The organ console is an electrical or pneumatic
> controller

When asked about the manual (keyboard) on an organ, many experienced organists will make fond noises about the mechanical action windchest. In this, the fingers get feedback from the windbox. Modern systems tend to control the wind supply through electronics which means no feedback for the organist.

I've no criticism of your theremin example though.
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I predict this employee will have a short and sweet talk with his manager on Monday, followed by a quick exit interview with HR. Optional escort out of the building by security.

"Don't say goodbye, he's just leaving early" -- Tom Waits

Which is all a shame, but nowhere near the true tragedy of SimCity. EA has /no problem/ turning out the lights on old games; they're often not even that old. If you want to play in 2018, you'll likely be doing that on a cracked version because EA will have a slightly newer version of SimCity they want to push, and if you're playing the old one they think you're taking their money. Rinse, repeat.

I'd love to see EA let people run their own servers at some point. Chances of this happening are essentially zero.
I know this is not about programming, but from what I know the same principal could be applied. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuLGrab9JA
The article makes that exact point:

> Only governments had the long view and available cash to fund things like supercolliders, deep space programs and - oh yeah - the development of the Internet.
I wonder if Russia can demand compensation from China.

It's not like China wasn't warned - I remember tons of criticism of them before they launched, yet they did it anyway.

If you deliberately cause damage, you should be liable.
Fabric does let you do pretty much anything. But what it actually does is limited to certain basic tools. Tools like Chef and Puppet don't let you do just anything, but they also do a lot more. Some of the things they do would be pretty insane to do on top of Fabric.
> At what altitude, more precisely, does the objects start to experiment drag or the lack of it therefore?

There is no cutoff. It just gets less and less the higher you go, but there is no point where you can say "zero".
This CAPTCHAs are easy enough for humans :)

And writing a bot to defeat them would take more time than posting your viagra ads manually in all four sections of this forum.
Firefox was never blocked from Google Play. It was up within an hour of Mozilla publishing it on the store.

They had a beta you could manually install before that. That could be what is confusing you. You had to go to a website, click a link and then click install. So I really don't understand your usage of "open".
Another haxor wannabe (regardless of his age) using tech as an excuse to be rude. Kinda like programmers and their endless complaint about documentation :)
What's the problem with Angular's choice?

Proprietary elements in Angular are called directives. You define them and choose how to render them, what data to pass to them and linked functions to call after rendering. Everything is taken care of, it's not like the browser is going to freakout and not know what to do.
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>I can make flat DIVs myself, thank you very much.

What about the scaffolding, the grid system and sane typographic rhythm? What about the glyphicons and out of the box mobile awesomeness?

Bootstrap is more than 3D buttons and box shadows, perhaps they are moving away from that to focus on the utilities that make the framework great, and not for the shiny buttons.
When writing instructions for users who might see the instructions frequently, putting an introduction like that, especially with the locally-relevant data buried, is not helpful.

Instead, their terse instructions, written in a familiar and easily-parsable format are ideal. Placing a "What is this?" link afterward that opens[1] to more detailed instructions is how you should approach this.

[1] Through whatever mechanism is most appropriate for your audience. I'd suggest a tooltip by default.
Hi, when i was in training some time ago, my IT manager was totally blind and use a braille tablet to read its screen. Characters was translated into braille and 'printed' to it's tablet. He has no need for a screen and use a regular keyboard. He also use a screen reader app for emails, internet and documents.
Some great insight, but I do wonder if it was ghost-written. Courtney certainly didn't give up her Prada pants, nor has she fully quit the machine: in 2004, she released a solo LP on Virgin records, and in 2010 she released another as part of reformed Hole on Mercury, a Universal Music subsidiary.

EDIT: On the other hand, Kevin Shields of the My Bloody Valentine whom Courtney mentions has made some great choices by waiting for digital distribution to mature and self-releasing his long-awaited album. Good work.
WordPress could be expanded to do battle with Facebook, IMO.
Inception OST is insane too.
Live long, Hans Zimmer!
http://1.usa.gov/Yju9G6

Please help shut this show down
There is a male equivalent to girl scouts- boy scouts/eagle scouts. There isn't a male equivalent to these events, and middle-school aged kids and above could definitely figure this out.
>Also this flat trend make the design very poor.

Bootstrap is not just a UI framework.
Previous discussion & link to an excellent StackOverflow article. - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5210648
What's with the whitish glow on button text?
There are loads of websites that do this
>> Charge third party developers for increased API capacity.

> For the same reason as above, you can't.

Twitter is already charging developers $infinity for > 100k API tokens; lowering that to $1/per token or something isn't going to harm the app ecosystem.
Will this be cheaper than Twilo?

Will this have an easier API than Twilo?
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You are almost certainly correct about material stuff minimalism, but I wonder about my head. I live pretty minimalist outwardly, but my browser has 40+ tabs open, I have 100+ unanswered emails, there are dozens of apps and platforms that I should "check out", and oh so many articles that I've bookmarked "to read later." Not to mention the hundreds of random files on my desktop. I feel all this is cluttering my attention and my time, and need a path to minimalism in my online world too.
"Silicon Valley loves to talk big about innovation; it's just not as good at following through."

BS. Computing, Networking, Biotech, Internet, and more. Silicon Valley has delivered, and there is more to come.

Not every new investment is going to change the world. But collectively, the track record is very strong.
Standing behind your own product IRL: Texas Armoring Corp.
"Outrage as pedestrian killed by self driving car"
Naive question from someone who knows next to nothing about IPOs:

Why not just divide the shares up amongst the existing shareholders, and just let them sell them normally on the market? Then the company/founders/vcs can just sell shares at whatever pace they want to, at whatever fair market value is.

It seems like the only possible outcome of a single day sale is information asymmetry, which means someone will always get "screwed".
Old thread on this topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058761

SO discussion (linked in thread above as well):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra...

In my experience, programming, in general, has nothing to do with sight – its more about how you load the entire application (architecture/design/flow – whatever you may call it) in your head. Great description by PG on this particular phenomenon [0].

As far as accessibility goes, there are blind developers for all the 3 major OS – Mac/Linux/Windows. Basically you use a screen reading application to get speech output and rely on keyboard shortcuts heavily (in GUI environments).

[0]:
http://paulgraham.com/head.html

Edit: Ok, let me give you a more realistic picture: yes, every other day could prove to be a challenge especially if you are programming in a gui environment – UIs are designed primarily for visual and pointer interaction; however, being a programmer, you have more tools and techniques at your disposal to find alternative ways of doing things than a basic blind computer user. You should always be exploring and shouldn't give up. That's my learning after having been working as a developer in .NET (web/windows) for 5 years and you know, with every new major release/product, Visual Studio and Windows constantly change and break accessibility support in one way or the other.
Another thing: as companies get larger they will try to squeeze competitors, fire employees and do everything possible to increase their margins.

Legal, but they shouldn't brag about it.

Edited to add: Apple, Microsoft and Google alone have close to $250 Billion in the bank, $250,000,000,000 and what we hear each quarter about them? Increased margins, more and more ads, increased prices on software, anti-competitive behavior, essentially cheating on taxes, firing 20% of employees (Motorola) and holding cash overseas not to bring it to US due to taxes. It never ends, they have to be ready for the next quarter
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But look on the bright side - they're providing jobs to the otherwise-virtually-unemployable, if the competence and dedication to work I've seen is indicative of the TSA workforce as a whole.
In my place we routinly use PowerPoint presentations 10-25MB with embedded Excel, images, videos.

Can I assume based on your design that you will handle that?

Don't want to be snarky, but guys... may be you add smth else to design? Like what you can and can not do...

The above was feedback, btw I like the design :-)
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That's a good question that I'd like to see answered. It seems to me that mobile-first is used as a buzzword here. Unless they are literally inventing features for the mobile layout and then finding a way to make them work on desktop -- for example if the navigation bar accordion thing was there before the full desktop navigation bar.
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Mission statements are usually too pithy and vague to be useful. I've seen places where more verbose expressions of values or tenets work better.

Edit: Thinking back, some mission statements worked well. "A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software" comes to mind.
As much as I wish this were the case and admire VP8 as you do, I don't think this is really true yet:

>covering more users and more usage scenarios

given that I'm not aware of any phone, set top box, AV accessory, etc that supports VP8 accelerated decoding.
IE's rendering engine wasn't open source but other browser developers were welcome to use it. The award-winning Maxthon browser did that well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxthon
Actually, the captcha predicate is a GET request that looks like this:

http://en.lichess.org/captcha/78pkfjgz?solution=e5+e4
which returns 1 or 0.

So the brute force captcha solution is to go through 8^4 (~4k) get requests, which you could code in five minutes and execute in a minute.
If you're going to complain about it, why don't you at least link the original for those of us who haven't seen it?
I have a hypothesis that any company reaching a certain growth threshold becomes evil :) If there's already a fancy named law on this matter, let me know. Oh, btw, the very top level is reserved for companies that are too big to fail :)
If blurb.com can make a profit selling your ebooks and keeping only 20%, I'm pretty sure that we're being overcharged at least 10%.

http://www.blurb.com/sell-your-book

"Earn money when people buy your book: you keep 100% of your markup for a print book or PDF, or 80% of the price you set for an ebook"
> Samsung couldn't sue - they've already shipped hundreds of millions of WebM implementations that they lose their patent license for if they do.

I don't understand, why would they stand to lose their patent license for WebM?

It says on Wikipedia about WebM that "The project releases WebM related software under a BSD license and all users are granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license" so how can anyone lose the right to that license?

And given that the above WP quote is in fact true, what would Samsung sue over in the first place?

> And well, um, Google has also clearly taken care of a third major H.264 patent holder outside the MPEG-LA - Motorola.

Because, what did they do to Motorola then?

Would I be sort of correct in saying this whole matter is more about power/politics between these big corporations (using patents as leverage) than it is about the actual legality of who is doing what with whose algorithms--in the sense that they do use these legal tactics to attain their goals but the usual goal (justice) is secondary?

That'd explain why it's so confusing to me, laws are usually quite logical (especially the codified type), but politics and power gets really complex really fast (to me).
This is the reality anywhere you have gatekeepers. I also have to point out that for all its talk about leveling the playing field and connecting artists to fans, the digital world has for the most part been simply replacing the old gatekeepers with new ones... and often at a lower margin for the artist. Look at what artists get from Spotify for instance, and Apple is trying to Wal-Mart the margins even lower.

(Wal-Mart. v. To use access to a massive sales channel as a tool to squeeze margins away from suppliers, often brutally.)
Your criticism is fair. I edited my response to include the link