skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my analogy was not about people deserving the output of the factory due to having worked there. it was just an attempt to reduce the problem to a single system to illustrate how earning potential tends to leak out, and why that would actually be a good thing if only "earning" and "being provided for" were decoupled. the very fact that you can use the word "entitled" illustrates the basic problem in the current system, where it is physically possible for a small fraction of the population to produce enough for everyone to consume, but where that is being blocked by the notion that there is something immoral about getting stuff you haven't "earned".
>Is there a technical limitation/reason? Or has it just not been explored yet?

Neither.

They are just Open Source projects with diverse contributors, internal politics and varying skillsets.

That makes it hard to beat a dedicated full time team of world class experts working on just one thing, focused for 3+ years (which is how we got V8).
> I think Ubuntu actually takes the Testing packages anyway.

The automatic synchronization actually picks from unstable. Not that it changes a lot, because the majority of packages end up migrating. I'm not too familiar with the ubuntu processes, but I assume that if the next ubuntu release contains uninstallable packages (or other things that can happen in unstable but should not in testing), they reimport a later package.
My statement wasn't based on a "reading" of anybody's announcement; I'm pretty familiar with the situation at hand and with the system. There's no optimal way to maintain separate sites for high school and collegiate questions, or any reason to do so, since most writers write questions for both sets. Obviously there are privilege and access problems with the software, and with the way that privileges are implemented across the software's different features, but that can't be solved by walling off the sets of questions (especially since some sets can't even be explicitly categorized as "high school" or "college").
I have no question that animals far exceed the cognitive capabilities most humans give them credit for. It saddens me that there's such a massive void in knowledge about this world we live in. I wonder how much more advanced humans would be if more time were spent expanding that knowledge instead of gratifying our other pleasure-systems by focusing instead on increasing bank account balances, political power, or participating in destructive conflicts with other humans. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge seems to be turning into one of those huge unappreciated things that seems to have been degraded in its worth unless it's able to be leveraged to some competitive advantage.
According to various sources, Larry Page had occasion to speak with Steve Jobs and ask his advice--in general terms--a few months before Jobs' death. Jobs originally wasn't inclined to give Page his time (he was still bitter about Android) but felt that, as he had reached out to an earlier generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs himself, he should pay it forward.

Jobs' advice was to focus on the most important products and prune the rest. It appears Google is now following this advice.
Show HN: Esuna: Classy Front-End framework
Here is another very similar one: https://github.com/thoj/go-ircevent
Yeah, I hope so too. Currently, they look pretty tacky and are not configurable as far as I know.
Ask HN: Is there a job title for product manager & software engineer?
I have been a product manager for a number of years and have always dabbled in the coding side of things. Over the past couple years my technical skills have progressed to the point where I am now spending half of my time programming (django/python/html/css/javascript/angularjs) and half of my time as a product manager. This kicked into full gear when our lead developer left last year and I became the defacto person who knew both the product and its codebase the best.

I'm formalizing this time split in my job description with my employer and have the opportunity to pick a job title that reflects both roles.

I could obviously do something like "Product Manager & Software Engineer", but if there is a way to capture it in a single title that would be better IMO.

Any ideas?
Hastebin: a better way to pastebin code
As someone who started an open source project on KickStarter 2 years ago I can attest it doesn't kill open source at all. As others have pointed out, FOSS is free as in freedom.

I see the OP's point. However, it already exists. Imagine you spend 15 hours a week on an open source project and someone comes along landing a paid position to work on the same project. As unfortunate as that may be it's the reality that has always existed.

Kickstarter allowed me to start something that I've spent 2 years full time on, raised $400k in total grants for, and fostered a community of devs in the hundreds. And all that work is open source on Github for anyone to do anything with.

Money is a very real and necessary part of open source. Kickstarter is making something that's very difficult a little bit easier. Everyone wins, including open source.
This is a hugely important decision. Any blog that excerpts a bit of a news story is now guilty of copyright infringement, and it will be seen as infringement for profit (hampering a fair use defense and increasing penalties) if the blog has ads or a tip jar.
A Release candidate for Python 2.7.4 has been released
Httpie should suffice for any, well like they say, human.
The speed w/ which Google deployed, and then discontinued Google Buzz discouraged the adoption of Google+ for many folks, myself included.

> Launched	February 9, 2010
> Current status	Discontinued December 15, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz
Judging by the design, two? :P
^Z will just suspend `sl`, at which point bash will immediately launch another copy. That's what the loop is for.
I pay use tax. I've also been audited several times. It's easy to say, "oh, everybody ignores x tax, it's completely unenforceable," but if you get audited, yeah, the state can look through your bank and credit card records and get a pretty good idea of what you owe.
Isn't AP just (aspiring to be) a cartel? What makes them interesting? Not sure I get it.
US Senate Approves Proposed Internet Sales Tax
I guess I need to go back to manually appending "mdn" to all my html/css/js-related queries. How much longer is w3schools going to stay at the top of those results?

EDIT: Actually, it turns out I've been using the linked Chrome extension (went to install, discovered it was already installed). I just conflated the two services and forgot about the extension. So to make this productive, I recommend this extension. I haven't seen w3schools in months.
or that they succeeded well enough that they no longer need additional data. note from the description of the panda algorithm [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda] "Google Panda affects the ranking of an entire site or a specific section rather than just the individual pages on a site."
Ask HN: Fastest way to get a web app from 0 to 60
Hey everyone, I'm a college student in CS and aspiring startup founder. I've stumbled upon a problem I want to solve, and I believe that the best way to test this idea's feasibility is to get a v1 launched and exposed to users ASAP (most likely my college campus to get started). However, I've been focusing on coursework and ML stuff over the last few years, so the last time I did web application development, it was in raw LAMP, and I know the technology du jour has changed. Since I know Python, I've been looking a bit into using Django or Google App Engine to get a first version running (since I know Python already but not Ruby), but I'd apprecate any advice on what would be the most frictionless way to get something, anything, running. Also, does anyone have any tips on where to find/buy templates/design packages so the site looks decent without having to actually hire a designer? Thanks - any input from those more experienced is much appreciated.
I wonder if part of the current price drop is lack of transactions from coinbase
You are accusing me of intellectual dishonesty which started from PG not addressing the question of title changes.

The only statement he made on that point is:

"That convention is for company names that appear in headlines of stories."

And in pointing to the guidelines, there is something that is relevant to the titles: "In titles, please don't describe things by their relation to YC unless they're actually associated with YC."

So he didn't give a response that explained why the title was changed. He thinks the issue is between "killing the story" and "renaming the title". But if he thinks that killing the story is a way to respond, that suggests he doesn't appreciate the severity of the situation.

I've seen a similar situation before with much more money (15M) so I know how frustrating it is to wonder if you will ever get your money back and to plan for lawsuits. In my case, it took complaints to SEC to get them to finally return the money. You may think this is a trivial issue, but it's very hard to re-establish trust once it is lost.

Back on point, I don't think PG appreciates the severity of the issue at hand.
I think you misread the repo name as "Batman", but it's "Bateman", as in, Patrick Bateman, the character in American Psycho.
Other primates had been tested, but they had been tested on human faces -- based on the assumption that ours are the easiest to tell apart.

::face-palm::
Who buys desktops anymore? They can pay sales tax.

Plus, if you really wanted to tax TV's and not computer monitors, they're usually different SKU's and accept different inputs. If it has HDMI, coax, or component inputs, tax it as a TV. VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, tax it as a monitor.
Most tests concerning intelligence fall prey to confirmation bias. Some, even worse, setup the test to fall into what we already know is an ability/tendency of an organism and then wrap it in a human-oriented; often overly-emotional, abstraction.
But you get a list of all apps via Alt-Tab. There is no isolation, so I end up with OSX-like mess of apps. Each desktop must have its own list of apps.

I submitted that as a bug to Gnome bugzilla and they told me that's "by design". I later found a 3rd party shell extension to fix it, but it was ugly as hell and kept breaking after each version bump. So I gave up. Besides, I do not want to rely on 3rd party extensions for core functionality, like switching between applications.

There is a 2nd reason why their dynamic workspaces cannot be used as a replacement for proper virtual desktops: the desktop numbers (index) keep changing: if I have desktops #1, #2 and #3 (and I use shortcuts for them, like Win+1, Win+2, etc), and I close the last window in desktop #2, Gnome3 immediately kills #3 and moves all its windows to #2. That's insane. It won't allow me to have an empty desktop in the middle.
larry page is trying to make the company more focussed (as per the advice of steve jobs). eric schmidt had a very different and unfocused philosophy.

besides google reader, most of the cuts have been good or just not important. I always felt like this feature was a reaction to blekko search engine, and not very interesting. curiously i found myself not wanting to block crappy sites like ehow just cuz they might have a good page and would rather just trust google.
> Starlight (and sunlight) chiefly is thermal radiation.

I just wanted to clarify for others that while we are used to learning that stellar radiation "originates" from nuclear fusion, most of the emission from fusion is absorbed by the outer layers of the star and then re-emitted. Hence why it is all thermal, and why starlight replicates blackbody radiation so well.

Just something I had been confused about for a while. Feel free to correct me if I am still confused. ;)
i'm sure that was the original intention, and the reason for the discontinuation is that nobody used it and the cost of maintaining the feature exceeded the value of the data they gathered from it. (or else everybody blocked the same few things in the first couple weeks the feature was available, and then they stopped learning anything from the feature)
Nationwide Google Fiber is a lofty 'pipe dream'
You must work at a very sedate, serious, mature workplace.

Where I work, every time someone says "fsck" or "fork" or "Poller" (it's an elderly in-house system) someone snickers. Usually a woman.

The rest of us have a little fun at work, there's the occasional double entendre, and the work gets done.

Once I was in a meeting during a very high frustration time in a project and as we went around giving status everyone said "fuck" at some point. Including the very genteel female BA who said "I might as well too" right before she dropped her f-bomb. It was a good laugh and a good stress relief.

AR unquestionably went too far - she over-reacted, she broadcast what she should have uni-cast, and she appeared to have questionable motivations.

What a big mess this all is.
I'm glad they've decided to address this 13 years into v7?
Awesome. Too bad the Swank protocol is very much CL-centric and this probably has to be heavily hacked around. I'm now waiting until someone writes an nREPL backend for JS.
How is AP a cartel?
Apple Patent Could Make iPhone Cases Obsolete
> The names sound scary, but I think Ubuntu actually takes the Testing packages anyway

Ubuntu LTS releases are based on Testing, other normal releases are based on Unstable.
Doesn't surprise me at all. In the race for profit schools are diluting their own brand. Around DC I constantly see advertisements for Harvard/Georgetown/American University/etc Night/Online/Extended Learning classes. There is a big land rush when it comes to "legitimate" online learning institutions. But they are going to seriously dilute the value of their brand in the process. I find it amazing that these schools aren't more hesitant in offering these backdoor ways at getting a Harvard, etc "degree" just for a few extra bucks.
Delivered.

https://github.com/imkmf/got
I'm sorry that Ultron and Droid Assault haven't done well, but they're both twin-stick shooters that aren't playable using a gamepad. That's an initial turn off for many hardcore fans of the genre.

I can't speak for Ultron because the demo (not available on Steam) won't run on Windows 8, but last time I tried Droid Assault, it took a while to pick up in difficulty. I didn't encounter much challenge until near the end of the (rather long) demo.

Droid Assault was also pretty easy to exploit; the first few boss enemies won't chase you off screen, so it was possible to pop in and out of hiding, firing off a few shots at a time. This makes for boring gameplay, but the game didn't discourage it.

The games don't seem to be aimed at hardcore gamers, and they're not popular with casual gamers. Who is Puppygames target audience?
The things listed are kind of old... this discussion has been going on for a while. Goldfish and tit for tat, fish and tool use, none of it is really new... so the implication that we're just getting to it isn't quite accurate, and the article didn't even mention what little actually is unique to humans. If you want an interesting talk about "uniqueness" Robert Sapolsky has one from a few years back that has been highlighted on ted, but I feel like the way it is approached in the article implies it is new, and it is not.

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_h...

One thing that is not correct is that humans are unique in sex not being used solely for reproduction, bonobos are very reliant on sex for social purposes.
I suspect it's theoretically demonstrable (though I couldn't do it, admittedly) that a black market must always exist.
LayerVault could use it for their file browser.
Fuck Paper
That's a hyperbolic interpretation of this, to say the least. The issue was that Meltwater was copying the essential portions of AP's works (e.g., the lede) such that there wasn't any need to ever read the original articles. That's a far cry from merely "excerpting a bit of a news story."

If you're a blog who reposts the core parts of news stories and gives no incentive for users to actually read the original story, then yes, you're probably infringing, but that was true before this ruling. If you're excerpting a small portion of a news story for the purposes of critique, context, or comment, this ruling doesn't void that fair use, either.
New Patent Law Changes As Of March 16th, 2013
Hold ctrl + c down, eventually sl will have quit, and bash will quit the while loop. I've never had issues quitting out of

while true; do echo "stuff"; done

for example.
"Sales tax is the most economically beneficial tax..., encouraging savings, reducing consumption, ..."

Encouraging savings and reducing consumption might be good things for society, but it seems that they hurt the economy (less trade, fewer jobs) rather than benefiting it.
We've never had a problem with the former - always works and always up!
I'm guessing, but probably the GNOME upstream don't want Cinnamon's patches?
Besides search and gmail, I have no intention of ever using another Google offering again. I also now regularly back up up gmail using Thunderbird just in case Google does something stupid there as well.
Avent's article (which Krugman's is discussing) discusses Google in the context of possibly being a monopoly. Krugman's presenting an analysis that shows that even a monopolist may not be able to make money in some circumstances where there's positive social value to a service being provided. One would naively expect that a monopolist would be able to make a profit and stay in business in those circumstances even if perfectly competitive firms couldn't, and they often can which is why we have regulated monopolies, but Krugman's showing that isn't always true.

If you want, you can take his post as a counterargument to the "why wouldn't Google charge for Reader" question: it's possible that they could not have charged a price that made it profitable. Without any data, who knows if it's true or not, he's just showing how the logic would fit together.
I hear WooCommerce is good ;)
The same reporter did a more human-interest variant of the story for This American Life (available at http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/t...). It's an interesting perspective on the issue.
you can buy a nice smartphone outright for $50 or less, and get a data and talk plan for $40 / month. 2 years? a contract isn't necessary. if you can't afford the phone that month you can do without, though you might lose your number.
Pretty terrible feedback. It's one of the most simplest apps to use.

-I just download this onto my phone?

"Scan the QR code with your phone. Once you're connected, you can use your phone to present slides on this screen."

-Will my screen be bright and distracting to my audience?

Seriously?

Alakin, ignore most of these questions. I couldn't get the back button to work but apart from that, fine job!
> Any blog that excerpts a bit of a news story is now guilty of copyright infringement

It wasn't "a bit" at all, read the article. News stories are written in pyramid style, with the most important summary being in the lede, the first paragraph. That is what was being copied, as well as the title and any mention in the article that contained whatever keyword the user used for the search.

In this case the copier was also charging users directly for the content, it wasn't some indirect thing. Your summary seems both inaccurate and alarmist.
That's not the case at all. The decision rests of Meltwater's use not being transformative. They basically told there clients: "here is the article where you were mentioned, with the key excerpts." A blog that excerpts a bit of a news story but adds some analysis would be transformative and thus not infringing.

It might very well be applied to blog-spam, that simply excerpts parts of an article without adding anything. Good riddance to that.
Its like Nokia's photobeamer.
I'm not sure how you can call it "self-centered" as neither the founder nor myself were CEO. The reason to use the CEO's salary was because he had the highest salary.

If you want to use more realistic numbers, the engineers were paid $90-150k, and the CEO was paid ~$225k. We had about $1.8M revenue, but still not EBITDA profitable. To give even more data, this is Denver in 2006, at an embedded software/ hardware company.
I managed to actually "tame" unity. I like the concept of of it but viscerally hated the fact that they forced their lefty dock on us, seriously? I managed to permanently hide it (installed AWN instead) and configured a screen corner to summon the dash (which also features the unity dock) in essence functioning like gnome3's dash. It's a pretty neat configuration once their dock is out of sight. I love the global menu, somehow they managed to screw it up when they first released it (even though they were copying one that was perfectly functional) but now it works at it is supposed to.
really shocking to see the extent of myopia over at google, for 'smart people' they are acting incredibly dumb
This is a reaction wheel[1]. 10 ten years ago during my studies I did a presentation of how they're used by spacecraft for attitude control[2].

Never thought I could have one in my pocket someday! ^^

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control
I wonder why so many people wants to live there, if there are no apartments available?
Google was worth 1,838,389 workers in 1998, maybe
For god's sake. I literally just started using it for W3Schools about two months ago. It costs google practically nothing to do that, and now they suggest adding another extension to chew out yet more of my memory.

Plus it looks like they aren't going to adhere to the implications of having a number of users blocking a site. cough w3schools.
Interesting that its over $20K today (Mar 23) which was the target of the original Kickstarter the Mom did. That provides an interesting insight into the motivations behind backers.
$40000 a year is well-off in most parts of the US. $10000 i could see as a basic income.
I found this greasemonkey script and it seems to do the trick.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/95205
Super neat but I can't think of a scenario where I would need it. What was the reason you built this for?
but still the apps are mostly like this:
1000 note taking app,
2000 calculator,
5000 "iframe the same site within app".

The only good ones are from the big ones like twitter, teamviewer, wikipedia etc.
Absolutely love it.
+1 for the ability to continue with the keyboard should the network melt down.
And the app engine only supports a single thread for Go, imagine if you could make it multi-threaded.
For funding categories by year, I really think it would be nicer/more-useful if we could look at a time-series line graph by sector over a longer time period (5+ years) to see trends.
I'd like to see the before and after code. Such difference is not impossible between languages, but it's possible that a better implementation/algorithm in the original code wouldn't bring a similar speedup...
I can't figure out why so many public university employees reply to this thinking their situation is relevant. Governments and 501(c)3's are very different beasts than for-profit companies.
The permanent revolution
One thing to consider is how long each of these companies hd been in existence before getting acquired. One thing with consumer web is that the time between conception and exit is comparatively short compared to other industries.
Doing accessible site is not really that hard. Just make sure it has 'alt' in tags, works without javascript and does not use 'smart' layout. Most sites are not accessible because they have java-script only animations or menus.

Using terminal (text only) browser such as Links is great way to test accessibility.