skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that this was written over 120 years ago is a little depressing (in that we still confuse/have a hard time discerning privacy and property, at great public expense).

A couple quotes I find especially satisfying to read today:

"The possibility of future profits is not a right of property which the law ordinarily recognizes; it must, therefore, be an infraction of other rights which constitutes the wrongful act, and that infraction is equally wrongful"

"Thus, in Abernethy v. Hutchinson, 3 L. J. Ch. 209 (1825), where the plaintiff, a distinguished surgeon, sought to restrain the publication in the 'Lancet' of unpublished lectures which he had delivered as St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Lord Eldon doubted whether there could be property in lectures which had not been reduced to writing, but granted the injunction on the ground of breach of confidence, holding 'that when persons were admitted as pupils or otherwise, to hear these lectures, although they were orally delivered, and although the parties might go to the extent, if they were able to do so, of putting down the whole by means of short-hand, yet they could do that only for the purposes of their own information, and could not publish, for profit, that which they had not obtained the right of selling.'"

"The common law has always recognized a man's house as his castle, impregnable, often, even to his own officers engaged in the execution of its command."

My personal summary and interpretation: privacy is not the formative rational for copyright, patents, etc, and only for-profit imaginary property can be considered to be the subject of infringement since everything else is a mere statement of fact that has already been consensually published (and is therefor also not an invasion of privacy by those sharing and speaking of those facts, at their own expense).

The right to privacy has nothing to do with copyright, IMHO. In fact, if imaginary rights are taken to the extreme, my physical rights are obliterated by the desire to enforce imaginary rights (by spying and invading privacy - a physical right as considered by the article - and interference with my own computer usage and ownership) - IMHO - and I do not accept that.
Then I guess I was just ignorant. For me he was always one of the C icons and diehards, similar to Linus Torvalds. He's incredibly conservative about games and doesn't value creative game mechanics.

But it's nice to hear, hopefully John Carmack and id will make at least one more great in the future.
At what point does it go from terrorism to a civil war?

I'm not saying syria is or isn't one, but you got me thinking about how a civil war could very well be labeled terrorism and vice versa depending on the spin you wanted to put on it.
It isn't really a free market though, it is a fixed market. If it was true free market it would be individual to service, that is why prices are all over the place. We just need to return to individual health care plans, paid for by employees individually (or give them cash health benefits). If your employer paid your auto insurance we'd have the same problem.

Not sure how you fix it, maybe by temporarily making it illegal to allow a company to provide health benefits through insurers to fix this. Employers should only be allowed to give you the money for an individual plan (most startups sometimes do this instead). Employers don't pay your auto insurance, home insurance or other insurance. Maybe a one time convert of employer groups to individual groups managed for risk, then, for privacy, for business, for better health care the individual has that (also probably a back up plan for those in need).

Why should employers know about your health? This is ancient thinking where you stayed with a company forever. It's also a privacy thing. I think it would also combat ageism. It will also make starting companies and competing much easier with less friction. It would also allow employees to more easily go from job to job, when you have an employer plan it is a scary predicament sometimes.

Cost can only be competitive if they are seen, they will be seen if it is moved away from employer provided.
I apologize for the cynicism, but can you point to an example wherein pushing back accomplished more than mere delayment and/or change of form?
It's also offensive that non-computer science majors take for granted how much work goes into earning a CS degree.

Coding JavaScript is to Computer Science as drafting is to a Mechanical Engineer. Your argument shows how naive your CS knowledge really is.

Also, as has been stated, SEng majors can get the iron ring, so the whole argument you are talking about is moot.
I don't know where to start.

> using pure immutable structures for frame buffers, shaders and other graphical concepts is simply not an option to write games.

Seeing as people have written games in Haskell, this is clearly not true.

> Haskell is interesting in the sense that it doesn't prevent you from using mutable structures (e.g. Lenses, Writer)

Lenses and Writer both only use immutable data. It is possible to use actual mutable data in the ST and IO monads.

> but it encodes this information in the type system.

This is true of IO, but not of ST. With ST, runST :: (forall s. ST s a) -> a, hides the effects.

> it's often much easier to reason about locks and semaphores than about immutable lazily initialized structures.

I don't know what you mean by this. In terms of functional correctness, immutable data-strucutures, lazy or otherwise, are much easier to reason about. If you are talking about resource-usage, sure, it's a little harder to reason about lazy data-structures than strict ones, but give me a space leak over a race condition to track down any day.
In this regard USA is a development country
Revealing specific information would identify an asset in the program. For example, if they confirmed that the warheads were made of thin sheet aluminum over wooden forms, there are a reasonably limited number of people who would legitimately have that information. A few more confirmations, and the number of people in the Venn diagrams of cleared individuals would be reduced.

They need the informants to remain valuable. The informant should feel reasonably safe (or scared enough of the consequences of not complying) and able to maintain their access so that they can continue to provide or corroborate information.

Leaking everything would get a lot of people killed. The intelligence agencies would have to cultivate and develop new assets.
I realized I should have clarified

> internet retailers do not legally owe any sales tax to any state they don't have nexus in

This is technically true but highly misleading. In almost all states, the receiving party is required to pay tax on out-of-state mail order. The problem is that the law is unenforceable because the states can't force the retailers to document and collect it. This law closes that loophole.
Selling humor on hn is like selling ice to Greenlanders.
Here's my semi-educated guess on what's going on. I could be off, but I have some sense of app store ebbs and flows by now:

1) Viddy is hurting bad in terms of users -- You'll see that JJ has tens of millions of followers but the interactions and view counts on his videos are very, very low in comparison. It makes sense to give it back because their growth is probably very, very, low. If they are around 40-50th in Photo and Video they are definitely doing less than 10k downloads a day.

2) Viddy actually has quite a good app. They have a pretty solid team, and can ship quite quickly.

3) Apple is promoting the shit out of video applications. Even though no one is really using them* -- things like Vyclone, etc. Either they are hoping for one of these to really take off and cause iPhone sales in the same way Instagram did, or are about to introduce new technology which makes video-capturing much better/easier/etc in the same way that Instagram came at the perfect time for the iPhone 4's camera enhancement.

Since Socialcam's sale, Viddy is definitely in the best position in terms of Instagram-like video apps, so if there are new advancements in the iPhone 5+ that do make video more appealing somehow, they will be the go to app. That being said, video is hard, and no one like to watch shitty videos which is why I'm bearish on video apps in general.

*Vine is up there, but it's still an unproven quantity I would argue. Is it's current success tied to it's insane distribution network? Time will tell.
Taming Asynchronous JavaScript
Call me ignorant, and I may be missing the point... but did anyone else notice this does not scale at all on being resized to tablet or even phone resolution?
Or how about have national healthcare? Like every other decent country on this planet?
DTAG unveils pay as you go vehicle insurance
Meteor can be made to prep stuff for search engines and other spiders, but the current solution (they admit it's a stopgap) involves PhantomJS, which gets into serious resource consumption for a static site.
Cray builds a budget supercomputer
Just because some Syrians express a view on does not make it the view held unanimously by all Syrians, and thus 'the truth'. Different folk will be benefiting and supporting the existing regime while others will be protesting it, look at the States, or any nation and how easy it is to find differing viewpoints on almost anything.

I don't know what the truth about the situation in syria is, nor do i think i ever fully will no matter how many youtube videos/interviews i watch, however from what i have seen of the government's response to the protests makes me lean towards thinking that government is not deserving of the power it has.
Thanks!

"Now that you're not busy" ... haha I wish! (or maybe not).

I'll put it on my todo list though, sure..
Side note, I used to do work with CAD systems for simulating/building gene circuits. I can't wait until we move from open tools (Tinkercell, Biobricks, Genome Compiler, etc) to fully-modeled open platforms for organisms. Imagine having the latest build for E.Coli or C.Elegans, or a package manager to organize them, at your fingertips so that you can hack away at new designs.

It makes you wonder, with so many people independently studying and creating observed and simulated data, are there centralized places to aggregate and share these?
Possibly, but you can't make that leap directly, people/industries don't move that fast. First step is move away from company provided, I am sure there would be renewed interest for it in many against it now, or some workable private and public system where prices are known, more direct.
CPU seems to be playing at 'undefeatable' skill level. Is there a way to decrease her skill level?
Transform your resume using this beautiful LaTeX template
Web2py does badly with pycharm. So I don't use it.
Interesting; thanks for the insight. I still can't claim to really get it, but this definitely sheds at least some light on the subject.
At the risk of this becoming a "bash PHP" thread, that's exactly how I feel. Unless I'm doing something very simple, it's always easier, cleaner, and simpler to do it in Python. Even building a basic CRUD app is night and day between the two languages; Django is beautiful and intuitive, while the PHP frameworks come close but have a few snags that make working with them frustrating.

I write this not to meaninglessly bash PHP but to hopefully convince even a single developer passing by to try out Python. I thought the same thing as you, passer-by dev, once: "Why do I need Python? It's stupid. It uses whitespace weirdly. I can do whatever I need in PHP." But then you realize you could be doing everything you're doing in PHP... better, smarter, and faster.
I'll add that you should read Two Scoops of Django at http://django.2scoops.org
Heroku is the best!
This is getting quite a lot of media attention in AU today.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/nbn-speed-test-we...
SkyDrive support, please. I use it since it integrates into Windows so well, and especially Office 2013. It also helps that my account is old enough that I have 25GB free storage.

I don't trust Dropbox security wise. Google does so many product launches/retirements that I don't trust anything beyond search and Chrome to stay around.
Looks awesome - and a bit overwhelming at first. Perhaps include a link to the tutorial in the very first popup window?
The Anatomy of a Perfect Web Page
Same here. Recently I just re-wrote a language runtime from a toy compiler I had, from C to Assembly.

Was a rational thing to do? Maybe not, but it was fun to do.
I'm still on your "How to Learn Javascript Properly" track, but I've being hearing about Meteor in passing quite a bit lately.

Your recommendation for this book is all that I needed to convince me to take the leap (once I've got the fundamentals down, of course). Thanks for your recommendation and guidance. You've done a great deal to make me feel like I'm meaningfully progressing to a state of professional competency.
If I plot a route from Hyde and Bay to 6th and Mission, it routes me over Nob Hill. If I change it two streets to 4th and Mission, it routes me around the Embarcadero, which is much flatter. Is there a reason it takes the more direct (less flat) route in the first instance?

Having played around, the route given seems to vary slightly as I move an endpoint slightly at either end and then massively recalculate - perhaps it caches certain segments and favours those?

Just curious really, it's a cool idea!
It works. For the authors anyway. For poor developers like me it blows.
In the game industry such stories are important. Unless you are either a celebrity or a unknown indie you have to use such a story to back up every decision you make. For example, before id Software's DOOM nobody would write a game in C just because no high profile game had been written in C.

Of course, Wolf 3D won't become a case but, if it goes okay, it could be a step to a case for Haskell eventually.
C icons?

His games have been C++ for quite some time now.
These kind of hacks improving the world. Thanks for to the hacks (not for stealing CCs or usernames) that they showed up again there is no f.cking security in the world.
Spotify, New York, Site Reliability Engineer, Full time, on site.

We want to connect millions of people with their favorite songs and create a service that people love to use. As a Systems Engineer working on Spotify’s Site Reliability Engineering Team, your mission will be to ensure Spotify is always fast, available, and scalable.

The primary mission of the Site Reliability Engineering Team is to make sure that the music never stops streaming. In order to achieve this, you will have the opportunity to work with many different teams at Spotify. You will be involved in architecting and designing new systems and driving improvements to existing ones. You’ll have a unique chance to work with large-scale systems in a very fast-growing environment.

Responsibilities

Work in our Site Reliability Engineering team, focusing on automation and maintainability at large scale to keep the music playing

Work with a service platform built with Open Source Software

Help us strategically scale our data centers and networks to reach more and more users around the world

Troubleshoot and analyze applications, networks, and hardware

Collaborate with development teams to ensure all systems are built to scale along with our user growth, acting as a stakeholder.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience

Linux: the internals of the kernel, the intricacies of userland, and the ins and outs of packaging

Networking protocols at all layers of the stack

High availability, high performance, high security, and where each needs to be applied

Configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc)

System automation with scripting languages

Revision control systems

Databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, etc)

Out of the box solutions for problems most haven’t encountered

Excellent written and verbal communication

Debian GNU/Linux knowledge a plus

https://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/view/oqqSWfwo/
Solar company made fake reviews, lied about panels
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Holy flat designs, Batman!
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ここではバッグ 通販通販専門店です。トートバッグ美しく包装さの広い範囲で，さまざまな顧客の要件を満たすことができ，買い物天国です。
Hi, I'm a wheelchair user in Australia. Would be very very interested in adapting your app. Please get in touch!
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

Same is with communications. We will have easier time in the short run, but a few years down the road we will face MSRB terrorists and criminals - that have learned to be ghosts due to the selection pressure. We don't want them to become smart and imaginative.
For any canadians who are curious, our copyright seems to be Life + 50 years.

So apparently The Great Gatsby has been public domain in canada for 20+ years already!
Do people just downvote sarcasm or are people just not recognizing it? Thought this was hilarious.
There have been many, many, many Java REPLs over the years. I have a feeling that you didn't do a search before writing your reply.
One good aspect doesn't make it a boon. In my personal experience, the law has made insurance less affordable. I'm in between jobs and bought an inexpensive short-term, high-deductible plan. However, the plan has been deprecated (no renewals after a certain date) because it does not meet all provisions of the ACA.
Perhaps the poster used Matlab just to plot things.
I remember when I upgraded to Lion everything got messed up. I had to spend a whole day mucking about trying to fix thing. I remember the only solution was to get a list of everything installed, uninstall everything, reinstall the latest version of MacPorts and then reinstall all the original packages.
Interesting. I, and at least one other person I know, had it after receiving our US citizenship. Weird. It did go away pretty soon though :-)
If copyrights aren't transferable authors can't sell their books. That's not going to work very well.
Hi summerlunch,

You're right that you should build something that you could show off, however I suggest something other than a Facebook (or any other) clone.

Is there something you need to scratch your own itch? Perhaps a simple personal finance manager, or something that interacts with the Netflix API. Solve your own problem using Rails, and you'll also have something to show.

Make sure you write clean code, and make it easily available on Github or such. An employer would be less interested in how your app looks than in how it's written.

Good luck!
> There is no copyright.
Well its definitely not hard to find pretty much anything even somewhat popular for download on the internet somewhere despite no small effort to prevent it.
I have to admit I was against ACA for a variety of reasons, but if the first step is increased price transparency and exposing that data, it will do a lot of good.

The best reform I can think of would be a combination of individually purchased (vs. employer) HSAs, where poor people get grants of up to the the full deductible per year in some kind of special account IFF they sign up for HSAs, and price transparency. Employers who currency pay for your entire insurance could give you an equivalent amount (plus deductible) which goes into your Health Savings Account.

You're then effectively paying an army of 300 million to constantly search for the best prices (or rather, to find third party organizations to search for the best prices for them). $3-5k/person is actually not that unreasonable for the poorest 30mm people and those covered by medicare/va/medicare-for-kids/etc.

I'm confident this could drop the prices of procedures by >10x, comparable to other countries. Americans are really good at driving down costs when they know the costs and are paying them out of pocket; look at how much cheaper it is to buy an iPhone in the USA vs. where it's made.
I checked out contrastrebellion... and was amused to find HN highlighted as one of the examples of bad design in the 'No Contrast' section ;-)
Ideal column width for paragraphs online
Storing in plaintext != recoverable password (not hashed)
Yeah, the extra bit of detail theorized there is that atta came from children's vocabulary and the derived word, for whatever reason, replaced the PIE pater-oids. This change is carried forward in all Slavic languages.

But whatever the details - the reason ojciec and vater don't sound related to you is because they aren't, they don't share a root.

This does pop up even for very basic words in related languages with well-established common origins. Water, Wasser and woda sound related - the Latin aqua, not so much. It's not hard to imagine a relationship between fire, Feuer and, say, pyros (like in pyromaniac) but not so much with ogień. Then again, ogień, 'ignite' and 'agni yoga'. The reason for these seems to be that PIE had two different roots each for fire and water, respectively.

Sometimes the common root lives on in fairly different words - Nebel, nebula, nebo share a root. More unexpectedly, so do guest and hostile. Or German Gift and English gift.

And then you have the real winners like 'kobieta' the origin of which is essentially an unsolved mystery.
"if you are lucky enough to have insurance."

This is one of the many sad points about the health system. Luck should have absolutely NO relation to whether you can afford reasonable health care. Reasonable health care should be available to Joe Blow who is earning minimum wage at your local city council and to Mr. Burns who is earning 20x more than Joe Blow.
You actually cannot hit the all more than once.
Cool app, just a few points.

Love the elevation charts, really well done.

One route indicated the lane cove tunnel in Sydney, a place where I can't run or cycle, I could get squished.

Would be interesting to use long/lat co-ordinates, could be really great for bushwalkers and their specific location.

Combine this with something like zombie-run, have the zombies attack at the bottom of a hill/vice versa, you could have a hit with the hard core running community.

Would be nice to see the alternative routes, not just the flattest, but maybe challenging ones, best rated.

But what you've done in a few weeks is still awesome. Well done.
Monocultures are "bad"

(plenty of other issues too!)
For what problem domain? There are very few players in the corporate knowledge management ecosystem, none of which is particularly easy to use, but all of which are pretty powerful at that complex task.
CHP
The only question I'm really interested in...

And Linode isn't saying anything new
How is using a proprietary plugin "simpler"?
A regular expression matcher By Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan (2007)
In addition to the errors other people are experiencing:

- You're not minifying your CSS or JS.

- You're loading your JS at the top of the document, which is slow (http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/high-performance-sites-...)

- Response times for just loading the main page are over a second for me.

- The second panel of your carousel has items that don't fit on one line and break your design.

- 'Select your country' doesn't work.

- Even without interacting with anything on the site, I'm see this error appended to the DOM: "<b>Fatal error</b>: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in <b>/hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/includes/banner_slider.php</b> on line <b>77</b><br />"

- Actually, as I click around more, pretty much the whole site is broken...

Good idea, but the site needs a lot more testing (and some design work) before it's useable.
Great news, they solved this in a very profitable way.

In a few years it will literally be a crime to not have insurance. So cannot afford it? Not their problem - YOUR problem.

Yay 'murica.
My long-term HDHP went from $80/mo to $118/mo, which is high in percentage terms, but still not a big deal IMO. In the process they gave me unlimited lifetime coverage, added free preventive care, etc. -- which IMO seems actuarially impossible, but I'm on the buy side of this transaction.