skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the author of Radian. We're working on making it open source. If it comes down to it, I may just buy the IP back from the company I developed it for. It's to their benefit to have the thing open (more eyes). The only people who might lose out are the company's current start-up funders, but it's pretty clear that Radian doesn't actually have that much value as a closed source product.
IP is a granted permissions by the state. It can not be owned by the individual.

The same goes for any other form of permissions. If I get a government permission to sell drugs or produce weapons, I would not call that a property right, comparable to the car I own. The permission to enter a house is not comparable to the property right of the person who owns the house.

If we look at copyright specific, it is an intrusion into the property right of others. Its not just a permissions, but also a restrictions of the actually property owners rights. By calling copyright a property equal to physical objects, we are making the term property meaningless to the point of contradiction.
Possibly because while we have a rich ecosystem of tools for dealing with text in myriad form and ways, and have conditioned ourselves over the years on how to read text in a general form, I don't think the same can be said for more graphical representations of programs.

While a representation that uses graphical cues in lieu of textual ones may be easier to learn and understand initially, the disadvantage of not being able to use the thousands of utilities for searching, refactoring examining code are then less useful, if not entirely useless.

P.S. In a way, idiomatic structure to code puts a graphical representation on the textual form. Programmers learn to recognize this. Python goes as far as to enforce it.
Ugliest app ever?
Just as if you click a link in an email without understanding who it's really from, you get what you deserve.

So, spam works. It still doesn't make it morally right to trick people into following you.
Unlike Call of Duty, you don't get points for killing in real life. Wasting an enemy's time and hurting their morale on a pointless task trying to detect and disarm explosive devices that don't exist might be more powerful than a single one that does.

Making the enemy believe something is frequently more powerful than making them dead: http://www.psywarrior.com/dissemination.html
I think it's very tidy to make the distinction between copying art to enjoy it as a consumer and copying work to pass it off as your own for economic gain.
The use of semicolons and braces was a decision made in the early days to make C++ programmers feel more at home. There are really good arguments both for and against whitespace-oriented syntax. (I actually prefer whitespace-oriented syntax, although I can see the arguments on the other side!) But we had to pick one and disappoint somebody.
Show HN: BOX'NGO - Online Selling Made Easy
So by your logic, you have no problem with email spammers because the people who fall for their spam get what they deserve?
My whole life is a lie!

Thanks. Never thought people would actually use an efficiency rating where 1 didn't mean 1:1. Now I know better.
Short term: wants a meeting, and this should probably do the trick. Long term: doesn't want get killed, prefers to partner with Twitter and sustain a lesser profit margin for a longer period of time.

I say a slow clap is in order here, no matter what his true intentions are, only if for being so focused on what he wants from Twitter Inc.
Very misleading article title. The entire thing is about collisions, which only limit the length between ethernet cards, which is 5 times the length in the title. I suspect the 500m is related to the bandwidth and signal degradation rather than anything in the ethernet protocol.
FounderFuel Teams up with Global Accelerators for International Demo Day
What would Time know about this?
I recently just had great success using coroutines to build a sort of function pipeline that can work in both code and at the command line with minimal effort; I'm doing a lot of text processing. A contrived example that prints the numbers in range(0, 100) ends up looking something like this:

@producer
def prod():
for i in range(0,100):
yield i

@producer
@consumer
def middleman():
for i in (yield):
yield i

@consumer
def cons():
for i in (yield):
print i

Producers can yield values and consumers can use yield to get their input. I will fully admit that code, abstracted away by those decorators, is not the prettiest and took a minute to understand when writing. The biggest gotcha was with both a producer and consumer. You have to be very careful to capture the return value of the generator.send(input) call as it ends up being the item of the first yield. Also, pure consumers will immediately throw a StopIteration exception after sending the input. I'm very glad, however, that I stumbled upon using generators in this way as it results in a very clean implementation at this level. The internals are a little dicey, however, which I think is what you're eluding to.

I use the functions in multiprocessing.Process objects as the target by first binding them to pipes and also without binding them to anything, in which case they use stdin/stdout.
As a programmer, not an accountant, a great book I enjoyed reading is Financial Statements by Thomas Ittelson. He walks you through all three reports as someone running an applesauce factory. The great thing about this book is it explains not just what each line means, but why you should care and what common kinds of trouble you can get into. It explains why some lines matter more for one kind of business than another. It's a great introduction!
The Best Runs Are Different
If the goal is anti-spam, BTC is the ideal currency (e.g. "I only accept emails that come with at least 0.0001 BTC."). Paying for a response, though, seems easily gamed.
The Tastes of Japan
At what point in history has copyright truly been about compensating authors? Copyright began with censorship laws, and eventually came to be nothing more than a government-granted monopoly for printing press operators. Despite the Statute of Anne mentioning authors, it was the lobbying pressure by printers who sought a competitive advantage that led to that law being passed. Authors and other artists are an afterthought.
I agree. The OP foolishly brought Twitter's attention to his schemes. They will probably shut it down due to the spammy nature, not because it competes with their ads.
My org is in your situation. We are slowly migrating to GitLab. It is definitely buggier (For a while using repos with certain names like "notes" would cause 404 errors) but it makes up for that in price. A GitHub enterprise license is too expensive for the benefit we got out of it. GitLab is buggier, but being free made up for that.
Targeted Reminders
"If people do not value your book highly enough to pay you for it"

But the crux of the matter is that people will, in overwhelming numbers, choose not to pay if they are not compelled to pay, even if they value the content. If you eliminate the thousands of unauthorized copies, it is not true that I still haven't sold any copies. I would perhaps have several hundred sales. I might prefer the several thousand free downloads, but I should have that choice.

Look at the "Pioneer One" example brought up in another comment. Four million downloads and a mere $20,000 raised. People feel entitled to free stuff; no matter how great they think it is, if they can get away with letting others pay, they will. All the "fans", and they refused to kick in one dollar for the content that they value so highly.
Except, the bag is a star trek replicator.

I think that's totally awesome in theory. In practice, I can give away all of the software, music, and artwork that I create, because we have "replicators" for it, but it seems that Honda can't replicate me a car and the local contracting company can't replicate me a house.

Don't misunderstand me. I really want to give away everything I create for free. I think that would be wonderful. But until and unless the parties that create what I want and need are willing and able to do the same, it kind of puts me in an awkward position.

I guess one solution is to work for pay only on things that aren't copyable yet, and consider all things that are copyable to be, by default, of zero monetary value, and if made at all, then made as a charitable gift to society. Is that a good path? (Really asking, not a trick question.)
MacBook Pro declared 'best performing' Windows laptop
Interesting read, but I'm kinda confused. Some questions:

- Why does the application have to be web based? Why don't you build a desktop application where the user has to use their own API key? This will also help bypass the IP limit.

- Aren't you already breaking their terms? [1]

"Using [third party applications to “Get More Followers Fast!”] is not allowed according to the Twitter Rules."

- How many favorites can an account do every day? Is it unlimited?

[1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/68916-following-rules-a...
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There are also worse things that can happen to you, working without a contract, than not getting paid.
I don't think this idea can scale to the point where you have enough paying users to make it worth the time you put into it.

This is completely my opinion, and is quite subject to debate: this idea also doesn't work because the problem isn't real. There's way more than one way to get a startup off the ground, and if you have a solid foundation that provides viral growth, your launch day shouldn't make or break your product. (Of course, if you're on a tight dealine and need to make user numbers, then that's a different story).

To test the viability of this idea, and the size of the market, I would look at how many Show HN posts appear in a single day. I'm figuring that the type of people posting to Show HN would be in some segment of your target market.

You could also expand this "survey of how people launch sites" to other things, like AngelList (although I don't think they mention when a company is launching) or Reddit.

These folks doing Show HN and stuff are probably your most likely customers, methinks.

Secondly, in your survey of the market, take a look at LaunchRawk Ads. See if you can get in touch with the people at LaunchRock and get an idea of the size of their ad inventory... i.e. how many people are putting up ads on a LaunchRock signup page to advertise another startup.

What would be a nice pivot for this idea, in my opinion, is user-management-as-a-service. The platform idea would be reversed; instead of startups entering information, users would sign up then get login and beta access to all these cool startups who are using the user-management-as-a-service.

Then you solve both the problem of getting startups users and the problem of publicizing the launch.
Ask HN: WWDC worth the price of admission?
Is access to Apple people at WWDC worth the $1599 price of admission? I could see the possibility that we'd get multiple times that value in terms of exposure, possibility of Apple people getting excited about our app/technology, and direct access to work with Apple engineers on technical problems, but I could also see it being not so worth it. Having never been, it's really hard for me to guess. If you've attended before, what kind of value have you derived from it?
I find it interesting that one of them is literally "like facebook, but for dogs".
I assure you, its total lack of movement is due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

Seriously, I use Inferno every day, but my job is building software, so I mostly use it to write shell scripts and execute shell commands. It interfaces well with its host (I can thread calls to host commands in Inferno-sh pipelines), and runs over top of Windows, Linux, and MacOSX.

One advantage of using Limbo to play around with systems programming in Inferno is that since it's a VM, you can muck it up as much as you like without affecting your host. Also, with the clean, spare implementation, there's less cruft to learn to work with the OS (also the userland).

To start, there's a few blogs and Google code projects on programming in Inferno, as well as a book.

http://www.ueber.net/who/mjl/inferno/getting-started.html

http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/books/inferno_programming_with_...

Limbo is also a good way to learn some of the ideas in Go, which also has modules, strong types, IPC over typed channels, automatic garbage collection, and simple abstract data types. (I'd love to see Inferno updated and re-implemented in Go.)
All "property rights" are sets of permissions granted by the state to an individual (or legal entity) to certain exclusive privileges with regard to whatever it is the "property right" relates to. This is just as true of rights to tangible personal property (like an iPhone) or real property (like a house) as it is to intellectual property (like a copyright), or intangible personal property that is not intellectual property (like a stock).
Homeless Sandy Victims Facing Deadline to move out of temporary hotel housing
That distinction has been made by the Creative Commons licenses. Copyheart seems like a lovely idea, but it's trying to solve a problem that CC solved a long time ago.
None of this applies to modern gigabit ethernet installations, which are full-duplex and switched so that collisions don't occur. Maximum cable length is limited by signal degradation, so the limit is soft. With good quality cables you can go a little beyond the rated maximum.
No. Freaking. Way. I noticed this same exact issue pop up on my New Relic interface. Multiple times a day our app would get H13's, crash, and then restart. Have been trying to get to the bottom of this ever since. Awesome detective work on this. Our app (and tech team) thank you very much!
Technically speaking, there's nothing to stop Yelp from manipulating results within their search engine, just like there's nothing to stop Google.

I mean we all think Google doesn't mess with search rankings but we all know they do (see the google blog post about catching Microsoft by inserting fake long-tail search results).

In short, does Yelp do this? I don't see why not; there's basically no way for anyone to verify whether Yelp does this unless they get to dive into emails for discovery in a big trial. Then again, I have to think Yelp has enough integrity not to mess with results; but my point is you would never know except through hearsay and gossip.

There's no ChillingEffects for Yelp Reviews.
True! Really common misconception and yet I fell for it, thanks.
Quotes from the article:

"I want to grow and build a business more than anyone can understand."

"When you want something bad enough, you’re forced to create a path or quit."

To me personally, this appears to be the behavior of a clinical narcissist and sociopath.

"Love me or hate me. This is the raw me."

Confirmed.

Where are the entrepreneurs who are able to say, "I will succeed only if I have something to offer." And why? Because it's true -- in the final analysis, you will only succeed if you have something to offer that people want. No amount of lying and media manipulation can stand in for actually having a useful product.
Trust him about what? That article says:
- He's "pretty sure" (direct quote) that they offered to take down reviews. Hardly a smoking gun.
- He doesn't agree with the reviews of his business. No surprises there.
- There's an article in a newspaper where a bunch of business owners claimed Yelp punished them for not advertising.
- I think he even implies that Yelp's PR people being scared about that article is somehow evidence of it being true...which is borderline funny.

I trust my heroes too, but like, that blog post doesn't really...say anything.
Hey, this is my blog post! Thanks for submitting it to HN. :)
Sure, but how do you get the sharks 100 feet up? And won't they suffocate without water?
You're welcome! Our community runs on paying it forward, afterall!
Weaknesses of Hire Slow Fire Fast
I'm not paying $162 a month. This is my first bill after switching to AT&T from Verizon. It includes activation fees as well as a partial service period.
I don't want to be that guy but I used your network for two months and I was really disappointed. I quit your service in March and I hope you solved these issues by now. I was annoyed about the fact that the stats stopped to be shown to me after a month. I was just receiving money without knowing what clicks or impressions I had for the banners placed on my sites. Another thing that I disliked was that in the last month of partnership, there was only one advertiser in my banner cycle which meant that the variety of banners was low, leading to a decreasing number of clicks. I surely hope that by now you contacted more advertisers. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying these things to give you bad publicity, instead I'm hoping that you solved/are solving these problems so that me along with other publishers will use your service again. For the moment, I'm using Adsense and I'm receiving more money than from influAds.
"Right click and save as" is the last thing to go away imo.

There are a LOT of things that need to go away first (to name a few: crappy development, obligatory js to view content, AWFUL prefixes (-o-, -webkit-, -whatever-) and of course browsers that suck your RAM like there's no tomorrow (yes, I'm talking about firefox and chrom{e,ium})).

But again, that's just me. :)
There are serious problems for failing to disclose. Of course that doesn't discharge the buyer that doesn't look for them but as a seller you also have obligations.
I thought this stuff was full-duplex now, with each direction using different wires. So there's only ever one device that can transmit on a given set of wires, thus no chance for collisions. Is that not the case?
Wanted: Developers. Reward: A puppy
Well the PSA test specifically, not prostate exams in general (i.e. rectal exam palpation). And like mammograms it depends on the population of interest and repeated tests.

What bothers me is the lack of equal awareness and emphasis of prostate cancer with breast cancer even though it has a greater incidence and more profound negative effects from treatment. When a guy gets prostate cancer and has a prostectomy, he will more often than not experience severe erectile dysfunction. I hear a lot about how women feel disempowered when they get a mastectomy even though it can be replaced without any loss in sexual function, but much less on the scarring effects of prostate cancer on men with permanent sexual dysfunction.
looking forward to this, emf was awesome, emw should be great.
Most people lives happily for decades with many cancers. The difficult question is finding those cancers that are likely to actually cause harm. Mammograms are not very useful here, and may be a net negative for health outcomes because...

The "Feel-Good War" is causing a lot of harm: tens of thousands of women tortured by medically unnecessarily poisoning and radiation, inflicted by well-meaning but ignorant doctors.
Oh cool, looks interesting - out of town unfortunately.

Completely OT but that's the boat they used for the disastrous Bloc weekend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVX32i806Aw
This is true - most do not. But many writers, composers, photographers, etc. do in fact earn a living from creating. I just said that I want to live in a world where this remains possible. If we throw this out along with copyright, we've certainly lost something.
Ask HN: Discussion with Ben Franklin.
or Thomas Jefferson, etc.

I apologize in advance if this kind of post is frowned upon here.

I'd bring up how powerless the citizens of America are vs. our government, how Congress works in the 21st century, the school system, and the countless occurrences of the government ignoring its rules. Oh, and the zones the DHS has where they suspend all limitations placed upon them. And surveillance.
This is an interesting idea, especially if it doesn't depend on 'self picking' alone but also on history. (for example if you reviewed 10 burger joints you're probably an 'expert' on it)
Some further clarification:

Henges have a ditch with an outer bank. At Stonehenge it is reversed, with a ditch OUTSIDE the bank - effectively making the world around it the structure for which it is named.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henge
What is the difference between a string and a String? I've written Java for 15 years, and I've never heard of a lowercase-s string before.
Short term: probably will get killed.
In addition to the actual topic of the post (issues with a Heroku beta feature), I find this post pretty interesting for a number of reasons.
It seems that for blog posts are the preferred method of reporting deeper issues. I guess it's a way of publicizing the work of tracking down the problem and earning developer cred. (Do people have blog posts for pull requests too?)
Also, it's impressive to see how fast Heroku's Ryan Daigle replied. Hopefully this issue will be short-lived as the runtime metrics are pretty handy.
Seems glaringly obvious to me, a yellowish background that is more contrasty than the HackerNews background color, that's on a Dell 30" monitor, a MacBook Retina, and a ChromeBook. Google can't auto-detect people's monitor calibrations or poor contrast. You continually claim on HN that Google ads are so subtle that people are fooled into thinking they are regular content, but I don't know anyone is who is regularly fooled by Web ads, even elderly inlaws are who total computer newbies.

Secondly, Google does disclose that Shopping is paid inclusion, it quite clearly says "Sponsored", without a click through.

The claim is 95% of the content is Google properties and ads seems ridiculously hyperbolic.
Exactly. The switches buffer packets. The article is talking about a CSMA limitation of the old unbuffered hub architecture (and the "real electrical bus" coax networks before that) which have been irrelevant for over a decade now.

And my experience is that you can actually get well beyond the official lengths for most signal types even with comparatively cheap cables as long as you're willing to test and throw out the odd cable or connector. Standards are written with conservatism in mind.
You want to see how the masses think just watch American Idol or a similar show.
That's the problem, because anyone can contact you the most sensible thing is not to display your email address but with a system like this or something similar that could change for the better because usually when you email someone you want something, and in most cases your willing to compensate that person for their time.

Take for instance a finance blogger, you could possibly send an email but then most people are already doing that so currently you don't stand out but if you think that person's time is worth $50 you could pay that person an incentive with the hope of getting a reply, no reply then you get a full refund.

Currently email and the internet in general don't place a value on people's time, but that's changing because Google can't provide the answers to all our questions - sometimes the experts opinion is what's required and it's time their compensated, it's only fair.
I've switched from Ubuntu to Bodhi and then to Gentoo. Much more enjoyable experience for my power-user needs.
Same in Finland. .com and .se just show "Website not available", but .is works just fine, but we'll see if it gets blocked as well or not.