skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can always persuade a manufacturer to dropship for you. As a jewelry manufacturer, we dropship for retailers all the time. As for thr second concern, its valid and I dont have a solution.
If nothing else, I've been doing that in videogames for the past 20 years now (since Wolf3d and Doom), and it's getting boring.

I've had this problem too for the last several years. I like 3d, and I like hyper-realistic game environments, and I like science fiction. But I am sick to the back teeth of gore, and of being confronted by hideous mutants/ zombies/ creatures that I'm supposed to splatter all over the walls. I play games far less than I used to because I'm tired of this horror element.

What gets me is that even within these genre conventions, there seem to be very few new ideas. How come I don't see survival-horror games based around super-powered alien insects that can walk on the ceiling? Why isn't there a Terminator game that involves fighting giant robots in Shadow-of-the-colossus style as well as FPS? Why not a game set in an abandoned but heavily trapped environment where destructibility is a key game mechanic?
Are there that many $250 laptops with 6 hours of battery life?

And you don't have to "waste a lot of time". Crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) makes setting up and using a chrooted Ubuntu incredibly simple and straightforward, and there are other easy ways as well.
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen: The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution
You assume without evidence that this act was a cry for attention, and not the more obvious attempt to hurt people.
WTF do you think the purpose of the National Guard is? A weekend exercise program?
In my case macfusión with st2
Maybe they had enough of name calling?
I like maple syrup and I like cheese, at a level that puts me in perhaps the top quintile of HN syrup-and-cheese- likers, and I've never thought "you know what I need right now? Some Vermont."

If you're serious about capitalizing on Vermont craft industries, something to consider is creating a brand. Don't sell "Vermont cheese" or "Vermont syrup"; sell "Awesome Craft Syrup (a product of Vermont)".

Look at Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, MI for an example of this business executed at its highest levels.
I didn't say it was a good idea, just that there was a market lol. There is actually a pretty significant market for hard to find or out of production sodas.

That being said, everything you noted about legal compliance is likely completely accurate and is the differentiator between existing market and feasible business idea.
I wish I followed this advice. I'm turned thirty today, have a 1 year old, and make more money than I thought I would at this age (poor background).

I thought with the career, money, and family, I'd be much more free to travel. Consequently, the anxiety associated with traveling with a small child is my "yeah, but".

We go to NY and other domestic locations (subconsciously feel safer and less risk than abroad?), but I feel like I missed my window to go to more adventurous places.
Because this is a relativity question, we must consider two perspectives:

Perspective 1: that of an observer watching the milk speed by. Answer -- no, because the milk is (hypothetically) traveling as C, like a photon it doesn't experience time, so it cannot spoil, and the independent observer so reports.

Perspective 2: that of the milk, hypothetically traveling at C. Because the milk is traveling at C, the speed of time, there is no time dimension in any meaningful sense. Lacking a time dimension, the milk isn't in a conventional four-dimensional spacetime frame, therefore it cannot spoil, indeed nothing at all can be said to "happen" in the conventional spacetime sense.

There's a reason why the speed of light is special, and why relativistic frame comparisons break down at that speed -- primarily, there aren't four dimensions essential to forming a basis for relativistic perspectives. So, if we somehow get around the mass-moving-at-C limitation, time still poses an insurmountable problem.

Further reading: http://arachnoid.com/relativity
You'll also find that some breweries, like Three Floyds in Indiana, would not sell more beer over a wider area even if it were lawful, because they're already straining against the definition of "microbrewery" and are exploiting product scarcity as part of their product strategy.

This is just another reason why selling beer online is not a great business.
I'm happily using crouton with Ubuntu and xfce4 on ARM Chromebook. The machine is on the cheap side, especially for someone spoiled with Retina MacBook Pros like me, but the best thing about it is that it lacks a fan. The machine is completely silent (except for the noise from its capacitors), it never gets hot, and the battery life is better than advertised, and the keyboard is surprisingly good for a machine this cheap. I am not a big fan of x86 Chromebooks (to be fair, I haven't seen the Pixel yet), but the ARM one is close to a MacBook Air that's four times the price.
Well I'm originally from Ohio and quite familiar with the midwest.

I'd say you need to come out and visit Vermont and it's beer scene. You might never leave ;)
That only holds up to the boundary of the speed of light. If you're actually moving the speed of light time doesn't pass at all, no? Or at least that is my impression -- that to a photon of light it is both simultaneously the big bang and we are all already dead.
Why do the police--the people getting shot at, want a spectacle?
In terms of complexity, certainly. When you look at the assembly code from the inside, with something like IDA it branches out infinitely. In terms of fun. I'm not so sure.

Say, finding and replacing some part in an aviation radio is a lot more fun, than spending time annotating insides of some executable.
> Is game dev really fun enough to justify this kind of treatment?

By the same first hand accounts, it seems like it's not. The turn over rate is very high, with very few working in the industry more than 5 years.

Young, naive people are attracted by the glamour, then exploited. As they mature, they realize, it is not the life they want, and leave.
Those are never "apprehended" because they are not silly.

In argentina, the "news" that Maradona was dead flew around several times, creating distraction in key days of political trials.

A city-wide shutdown is an opportunity for a vast number of people, both legal and criminal in activity. And now , you can consider a home-made bomb that doesnt even kill someone knowing the reaction.

A little paranoid maybe :)
A couple of great resources for information and inspiration about entrepreneurship:
- Inc. magazine.
- "Mixergy" podcasts - free on iTunes, and $25/month for access to the entire collection.

Good luck.
Nothing new either. We Europeans did our fair share a century or four ago. Romans before that. Some one will in the future. Probably the Chinese, again, historically speaking.

We'll never learn.
There's a Bay Bridge in Oakland that could use some Pong.
Ohioans are not to be trusted.
No IPv6 support :(
Making Privacy Compatible With Big Data
Trust me to not make the same mistake twice. However, if I hadn't gotten my foot wet at in the first place, I may never have learned at all.
Too bad it doesn't explain why it's called "HAVE QUICK".
They get more funding in the end, because somehow people see them as the good guys again.
You're saying you tried to scan an IPv6 address? Sorry I didn't even think of that! I'll look into adding it.
I do hope your example is correct, I now think I understand the concept!!!
I think (and quite possibly you agree with me) it shows a lot of class on the part of the brewers that you got a phone call from one of their family and not a snotty letter from their lawyers or visit from a tipped-off member of law enforcement.
You are just wrong.

Compare Headline News -- a constant loopy stream of Headlines to CNN. Don't blame CNN because you are bored so they tell you more stuff. Don't blame HN do being repetitive. Change the channel if you don't need the infom
This is a great post and a good crack at addressing the problem. Your post raising awareness of the importance of clear licensing is probably a more valuable contribution than your script itself. I've lost track of how many times I had to pass up on a good project on Github because of an unclear licensing situation.
Would save alot of time wouldnt it? All this security BS to support applets which shouldnt even be allowed to run in the first place. And yes Im looking at you CISCO VPN CLIENT
I wonder if doing something similar to Ciphercloud, using a homomorphic encryption library like libScarab[0], would actually make it secure. I guess I still don't understand what Ciphercloud does.

[0] https://hcrypt.com/scarab-library/
I suppose I've illustrated that point quite well...
We sang music notes into Vine, and made a vine-powered web audio keyboard
This approach works really well with any number of tethered device scenario. You can use the same basic approach to debug distributed Erlang program, work with tethered mobile devices, or even work on many core machines. If you are trying to explore the behavior of a system interactively, you really need peek, poke, and run.
Damn Excel – How the 'most important application' is ruining the world
I'm not sure that's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Commo...
It's the right to exclusively use some land and accompanying buildings
even though the neighborhood hasn't really changed in that time

I have no idea where you get that notion. Are you suggesting that Manhattan and the surrounding area hasn't changed? It's the very changes that have driven the rise in value for living there.

it's generally the right to receive a certain percentage of the profits of a company over time

Not even close. Most equities these days don't distribute dividends.

As another responder said, you're not understanding how people value assets - whether they be property or stocks.

Value is inherently fluid but ultimately only what someone will pay for it. Your arguments for the limited nature of property vs stocks are tortured. You're working extremely hard to call gains from property value "undue". Gains from speculation are fundamentally the same whether they come from stocks, currency, property, commodities, collectors items, whatever.
The top ranking story on reddit.com/r/news was constantly updated with corrections/clarifications and citing sources with their level of trustworthiness.
Sometimes I wish there was a way to flag a comment and have it pulled while it's investigated. I wonder if there's enough reviews on the App Store to make that impractical.

Also, I'd ban people from reviewing apps once they are found to leave inappropriate ones like "this isn't a very fun game" on Instapaper - it makes me immediately think they're a troll.

[Edit] to a degree, I wonder if we could algorithmically determine if a comment is likely to be inappropriate and have it hidden until investigated. But this all reminds me of a quote: "You can't solve social problems with technology".
Not the tools, but for ARM performance: first, how does your 550 compare with the Acer C7 Chromebook? http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/acer-c7-chromeb... Both are listed as having a dual-core Celeron. EDIT google says your 550 is 867, 1.3 GHz; Acer C7 is B847 1.1 GHz, so yours is about 20% faster...?

I ask, because I did an informal comparison between the Acer C7 and the samsung ARM chromebook (with dual-core cortex-A15), using a computationally intensive JS demo. The Acer C7 was far more performant - by a factor of about x2-x3. Which disappointed me... I'd hoped the A15 was getting there.
Marco's statement is not an instance of "The 1% Fallacy". He's not suggesting that you can throw arbitrary products against the wall and succeed because 1% => 500k; he's saying "it's silly to try to cater to every customer because the math doesn't make sense".
"I've lost track of how many times I had to pass up on a good project on Github because of an unclear licensing situation."

A situation many of us have experienced. Until today, I thought I was alone in my concerns regarding licensing.

" your script itself"

It's a gist for a reason. If I truly thought it was the best starting point for a proper "license niggler", I would have made it a proper repo :) This fits my particular licensing scheme (only using a LICENSE file).
Ah, forgot one of the strong arguments I was thinking during the shutdown; as expressed by Megan McArdle (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/19/should-the-...):

"it [sends a] message: if you set off bombs in a public space, we will shut down the city and hunt you like vermin until we find you."

Of course, that only works if they actually do find you, which they didn't, although they might be able to spin it that way.
There's chromebooks for $199 and $250 now: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebooks.htm... http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebooks.htm...
I think Steve Jobs being a prick was directly related to his success.

Jobs did many awful things, such as refusing to acknowledge the existence of his daughter or effectively stealing money from Woz. But that's not where the perception of Jobs being a jerk comes from-many CEOs have done worse. The main reason people seem to have found found working for Jobs exhausting is because he'd always tell you your work was shit.

But the effect of this was that Jobs managed to get top performers to perform 5 or 10 times better. He took 10x people and turned them into 100x. It may have been exhausting and emotionally draining, but quite a few people report producing the best work of their lives while working for Jobs.

Can you imagine working with Woz, Jeff Dean, JK Rowling, or Marc Benioff and telling them their work wasn't good enough and they had to produce work that was 10x better? And being credible and convincing enough to get them to believe it?

Obviously, just telling people their work sucks isn't enough. I've worked with a fairly large number of people, and I've met exactly one who managed to pull significantly better performance out of me than I could myself. It was exhausting, but in the end I produced work that was substantially higher quality and quantity than anything I'd done before (at least outside academia). Said manager was also considered very abrasive, and people tended to love him or hate him. And it's not hard to see why-when someone tells you that the quality of your work is a small fraction of what it can and should be, it hurts.

Based on reports, it sounds like Steve Jobs was more or less capable of pulling those kind of performance increases out of anyone, or at least a huge variety of people. And based on the (very) small sample of people I've seen who can do the same, it seems like you need to be at least somewhat of a jerk to pull it off.

(Not to say that pulling great work out of people was Jobs's only skill. He was also amazing at picking markets and product design, which probably don't require you to be a jerk.)
The problem with Reinhardt-Rogoff has nothing to do with Excel. It was a programing error that could have happened anywhere. The problem is that it took them years to reluctantly share their spreadsheet. Open data research and computation is the solution to that problem.
I've proposed a PR that do just that (maybe a little bit more readable): https://github.com/paulsm/bashtime/pull/1

Also, the code is now used in the liquid prompt:
https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt/commit/91959b636af751...
You're not following his reasoning to its conclusion. The people who run Isohunt surely don't want to spend their time writing court filings. But they'd be sitting on top of a mountain of potential claims, which would prove lucrative if even a tiny percentage resulted in damages. Unscrupulous law firms would notice and send Isohunt offers; at some point, it would become irrational of Isohunt not to accept one of them.
> In other words - why develop on a Chromebook as opposed to a lightweight notebook?

It's half the price of the Lenovo you mentioned. It has fairly long battery life, it's small yet has a full-size keyboard. It's slick hardware compared to a $299 Best Buy laptop or a netbook. But it has a whole list of disadvantages.

You can't fire up a VM. You can't browse using the actual desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or IE. You can't use software package X. You need to be connected to the internet to do development. It's just a fancy ssh/rdp terminal in this case.

I understand the romanticism about developing on a Chromebook. I love the 11" Air, and despite the low-resolution screen and low specs (ULV CPU, 2GB or 4GB RAM and 64GB/128GB SSD) you can actually get stuff done. Is it the 'Ultimate Developer PC'? No, but a great machine.

The Chromebook is far more limited, but maybe the next revision along with a regular Linux distribution will be a workable solution for the rest of us.
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Jigsaw will likely never be implemented because of IBMs cram down of OSGI (which should have never been implemented). Look Java is a dead language. The only reason people even talk about module systems for Java is they have this fantasy that they can reduce JVM startup time to something faster than watching paint dry on the millenium falcon. Java has a module system already its called Jar files. Adding more features especially features like modules to Java will only increase the likelihood that noone will want to use this language in the future, and most already dont.
Why video games, and not programming in general? Useful work is actively discouraged? Heck, there are tons of scouting-relevant apps one could make, around trip planning, navigation, information+-cataloging..
An adaptive prompt for Bash and Zsh
I currently work & live in Chennai. I am long time lurker (+2 years), first time poster, If anyone is organizing a meet in Chennai, anytime this or next month I am totally in.

I would have gone to this meet, if I had known about it 2 days ago, at-least today morning.Heck, I've got something meaningful to post on HN.
Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' Creep Into Nation's Food Supply
Exactly. A bad workman always blames his tools.
Here here. March's point is also that if you piss off 99% of the potential market, you can still make a lot of money. He's addressing the 100% fallacy, the idea that you have to satisfy 100%. He's pointing out that that's not necessary
I didn't have a good reaction to this article. I suppose it is because it hints at a world where there is no violent conflict and it wants us to believe that we should protect children from knowledge of the world as it is in favor of that made-up one. In way, it's sort of like the view of sex in the Victorian era.

I'm not happy with the amount of violence in the world, but I do think that its presence is an unalterable aspect of the human condition.

We can frame FPSs squeamishly as an aspect of our evil animal nature that we dare not acknowledge, or we can frame them realistically, noting that armed conflict is not going to go away anytime soon and, as pacifistic as we want to be, we do lend legitimacy to armed conflict for defensive ends. The fact that we do does mean that there is a role for that skill as much as we might not want to accept it.
There was Portal. And then Portal 2. And also Mirror's Edge. And... that's about it? sigh
I've mirrored everything I can find[0].

[0] http://scala.sh/ciphercloud/
"But I still kind of hate to be That Guy. Even though it's important, it feels like I am trying to correct someone's grammar. I wish more people would step up and be That Person so I wouldn't have to be."

I can assure you that this is probably worse than anything you've done: https://github.com/stephen-hardy/DOCX.js/issues/1

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Many people assume that code on github is open source, but that is far from the truth. In fact, the Microsoft Office Extensible File License exemplifies Open Source Trolling: each clause an insult to the diligent readers' intellect.

The real problem with all code under the license is that it muddies the water. Microsoft could use your code as a reason to take legal action against others who genuinely try to innovate and use DOCX as a data format. You hurt the community far more than you help by releasing pseudopen source code. Ever think that those lawyers might want you to do this so that they can go after others later on?

@stephen-hardy I think you are a reasonable person, and I might be niggling a bit, but neither of us want to see innovation stifled by myriads of lawsuits because one person's effort to release code created a miasma around a beloved software product. Let this be a clarion call, and please share with your coworkers and superiors: unless the code can be released in a proper open source format, it's better that you don't release it.
"
The joke is:

- How do you know if someone doesn't own a television? They tell you.

The Onion article is just an elaborate version of the joke.

The joke here is people making a big deal about not knowing who Jay-Z is, to the extent they post comments about how they don't know it - rather than just google his name if they were curious. Which indicate that the do know who he is, but want to make a show of being the kind of guy who don't know who someone Jay-Z is.
A quick search for "Vermont maple syrup" on Amazon.com will show you that you'd have a big competitor in the field of on-line syrup sales.
>I suppose I think there's something pretty "off" with both the gaming industry and the community it serves. Wish I had a constructive solution in mind, but for the time being I simply avoid both.

I have much the same conclusion drawn from essentially the same experience.

Though, I think some of the reasons are fairly evident it's just they're all but impossible to discuss productively in or around the community echo chamber.
I wish he'd use a proper license. I can't mix it with anything like this.
Good point.

You can play FPS against bots or campaign style, but many people find the real fun to be the social experience with friends.

In this situation, storytelling is almost completely irrelevant, given that all the game needs is an interesting board or map, and good gameplay and graphics.
I have absolutely no problems coding and reading on a 13.3" monitor all day long.

Though, I do have a lot of problems with my crappy resolution (1366x768) on this monitor (Asus UL30VT).
Searching for "Sputnik" on the Dell, US, site works for me.
I've been using Nitrous.io (formerly Action.io) on my ChromeBook Pixel and loving it. I've been using my Pixel full-time as a development environment for a couple of weeks now, and haven't given up in frustration yet :)

The Nitrous guys have been extremely responsive, fixing a bunch of bugs that were causing me problems (like awaken-from-sleep, problems with $COLUMNS on a retina display). Their terminal emulator is great; it even has mouse support (although it seems to be off by 1 diagonal column -- looking forward to seeing that fixed soon).

One extremely important point: by default today, ChromeOS discards tabs when it runs low on memory. This experience was sufficiently problematic for me that I almost gave up on the entire thing, until I learned about http://gigaom.com/2013/04/05/running-out-of-memory-on-a-chro.... tl;dr Google is experimenting with zRAM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRam), which will eventually be on by default, and you can trivially enable it right now. Do it.
Awwwards.com - Inspiring Web Designers to Create Crap
I can't believe this site. I just heard of it today. The usable designs that are simple, attractive, and load fast get bad scores. The sites with annoying loading screens, annoying animations, and distracting parallax scrolling receive much higher scores, even in the usability rating. What the hell is going on?
I certainly agree. I believe her request was phrased "Our lawyer is quite expensive. Please don't make me use him again."