skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is incredibly hyperbolic...there's no such thing as a compulsory reply. It's not your responsibility if someone reacts badly and gets upset because you don't want to respond; they need to deal with it. Period.

Read receipts really aren't this serious. They don't even warrant an entire article about the sociological implications of their implementation. It just says the other person got it, and read it. That's it. No mandates follow. Just have the personal fortitude to not respond when you don't want to respond, that should be second nature before you engage in social communication.

It's really not a big deal to ignore people. You shouldn't be afraid to just because of what they'll think. It's not your problem - it wasn't before this technology, and it won't be after the next innovation.
My favorite screenwriting book is based on Joseph Campbell. It is called the Writer's Journey and applies the Hero's Journey to the three act structure.

Based on that book I've decided that Die Hard was one of the better scripts ever written. It just nails the Hero's Journey.

This topic has actually been on my todo list to write a blog post about for a while.
At least in the past that has been very problematic. Perhaps it will change, but I would very much like to see Clojure become a new ClojureScript target.
> If I felt my agency couldn’t deliver the full solution, I saw that as an opportunity to partner with another service provider. I would pay them for the work, developing a lasting business partnership along the way. And in the process, I’d learn about their area of expertise to get better at both selling and delivering it to my clients.

This seems a little off to me. Would you tell the client that you're outsourcing?
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There's reasonable evidence they've gotten that formulaic in recent times:

http://rocknerd.co.uk/2011/03/08/why-movies-right-now-suck-m...

“The closer you get to (or the farther you get from) your thirtieth birthday, the more likely you are to develop things like taste and discernment, which render you such an exhausting proposition in terms of selling a movie that, well, you might as well have a vagina.”
Here's a video about this (feat. some gamers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXpEUkqVXM
now you sound like a communist.
The same could be said of Cocoa.
Asiana crash: Death of girl hit by firetruck prompts safety review
Theoretically, they shouldn't have to. If he's too busy, he probably didn't open it in the first place, leaving only one option.

In practice, however, I find people can usually tell via context that they're being ignored. There are some subjects you'd expect this or see it coming before other, more benign ones.
Because a big part of these stories is how they are being spun and downplayed by the corporate media. Reddit is one of the few places in which such stories (concerning the loss of individual rights and government checks and balances) can still reach a large audience. And /r/news is one of the few remaining default subreddits that is relevant to such stories. For it to be deleted right as it is about to reach the front page is concerning, because we need an informed public now more than ever.
This is pretty much the songwriting bits of The Manual, for films. http://rocknerd.co.uk/2013/07/19/the-manual-hollywood-editio...
The age demographic on HN is also deeply skewed. I'm hoping that once the 25ish-year-olds run for Congress we'll see a shift.

It's all I can do right now, other than write my Congressman.
Then how would you know they were using the same source in their binaries?
Excel offers far more than familiarity. Anyone that thinks the competitors are on-par probably doesn't use Excel much.
The three-minute pop song is as formulaic, as horrible done badly, and as wonderful done well. It's like haiku, for lots of money.
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Are you concerned about competition? Many online CCGs have rulesets capable of supporting asynchronous play (Might and Magic: Duel of Champions, Solforge, Sword Girls, Elements the Game, etc.) and Infinity Wars' devs have publicly announced that they will do it.

Notably Hex seems to have the same issue as MtG where asynchronous play is not practical.
No one ever reads blog posts titled "Decent books worth reading for some people" or "Mildly useful advice that applies in certain situations". The format of the web and sites like HN and Reddit almost forces hyperbole.
I think it's related to the fact that they're actually announcing two projects:

* rumm, a CLI for managing Rackspace Cloud.
* MVCLI, a Ruby framework for writing CLI apps (on which rumm is built).

It's a bit confusing how the rumm website is pushing both projects, whence I assume the title confusion derives.
It's hard to believe that something this long would have been scheduled but that they wouldn't have told anyone about it.
AFAIK the post was deleted because of a misleading title.
This is all good and well, but the Harry Potter books are some of the best I've ever read for many reasons. It's not luck that she created something so good
Exactly... People who are being ignored usually have reason to be. If you're too dim to realize I'm just busy, then I probably don't want to be texting you anyway. If you're in a situation where I might be ignoring you because you did something to perturb me, I'd rather you assume I'm ignoring you, because then it'll drive the point home.
Interesting. Will have to look into integrating this with searchcode.com

My biggest issue with github search is it still has issues with searches like $i++ as it will not match something like for(i=0;i++;i<100) which is occasionally frustrating. For reference a comparison http://searchcode.com/?q=i%2B%2B vs https://github.com/search?q=i%2B%2B&type=Code&ref=searchresu...
How was the freedom of the press infringed? I mean, the government requires that journalists and newspapers pay taxes, so is that another infringement?
So? A neighbor who continually calls the cops on you for noise complaints during daytime hours would be throwing a hissy fit, even if it was legal. He has a right to complain, of course, but that doesn't mean anyone else can't complain about his actions. Satisfying the spirit of the licence and missing out a tiny piece of legalese, and being punished for it, is not something a society wants to encourage.

Pulling VLC from the app store was legitimate, but still a hissy fit, as seen by the fact they immediately relicenced it to LGPL and remade the app.
Are we only talking about broad surveillance that is not targeted at specific people, or are we also talking about surveillance where some agency got a warrant to spy on a particular person or place?

For instance, if the FBI gets a warrant to bug the office of the head of the Gambino crime family, should he be able to sue to find that out?
Same in Firefox. It's even a right-click option.
This is like arguing that reporters should be able to break into computers to get information for stories; after all, anything you did to criminalize that would be an infringement on the press.
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I would venture into guessing that the client wasn't told about this. If I was in a similar situation and I'd be told the company I'm paying to work on my project is outsourcing it, I'd think they're either a) they're too busy for me/I'm too small of a client for them, b) money is money so they're taking my project, but I shouldn't bet on spectacular results. Also, there'd be some broken trust involved. There would also be the risk of losing the client altogether the moment they hear you won't actually be working on their project, but someone else would be instead.
After you have the internet connection, why to you need esoteric stuff like a raspberry pi?

also, on the topic of internet connection, at least the contracts i've seen (AT&T, Verizon) you can't have any 'server' or accept any connection initiated from the outside in your home account. As crazy as it may seems, this is on the contract you probably signed to have internet.
Design is like magic, stop giving it away for pennies
I'm not sure if the 5-8 metric is correct. Most of the kids in my school had completely learned reading and writing by 6, and from then on wrote papers and essays without any difficulty (obviously, their vocabulary was not fully developed).
Fun. One thing you might update: you use "he/she" in some places, but just "his" in others. I suggest "he...his" or "he/she...his/hers" instead.
As long as what's being challenged as unconstitutional in court is protected as a state secret, that sadly isn't the case.
As others have pointed out the concept of a more detailed screenplay structure has been around for a very long time, and typically pretty well understood by working screenwritters.

I remember reading about the 9 act structure in the 90s (can't remember if this is the guy who started it, but I think so):
Edit corrected link (thanks to hncommenter13 below): http://web.archive.org/web/19961103105817/http://dsiegel.com

The problem with modern blockbuster films as described in the article is for the most part not because of a better understanding of structure but because of less understanding. Perhaps poor writers are using tools like Save the Cat to believe they understand writing better then they do. Or perhaps studio executives (who are notoriously near pathologically risk averse to new ideas) reading new screenplays use a poor understanding of Save the Cat to validate perspective scripts.

I can say for sure that many modern movies, particularly summer movies, are absolutely not following these structures, good or bad. Mainstream narrative filmmaking always follows the hero's journey, whether your hero is a neurotic writer in new york, a young black girl in New Orleans, or a genetically modified super hero.

Summer blockbusters these days are focused on something different. Visceral response. Well structured storytelling (whether you think that's "Save the Cat" or something else), is about stories and human relatable emotions and characters. Recent films have started focusing more on the roller coster ride of the visuals, and will do any distortion of the story necessary to motivate a visceral impact on the audience. Good storytelling takes a second seat to putting the audience into the most intense situations possible.

This has been helping get people into the theaters because the trailers for these types of films make them seam very exciting. But I would argue that Hollywood is struggling right now - the visual effects industry in particular - due to the audience getting wise to these ploys. A bad film is still a bad film, formalized story telling structure won't save you. Even less so if you ignore it so that you can have a bigger explosion.

Want to be a good screenwriter? First learn how to write a story. And then guess what? You can still have explosions too.
I had the same question (the article isn't that great, it comes from a "bathroom reader"). From previous reading about this fascinating topic, I think they must've established the dates for the other tribes and other islands of the Andaman chain, and then just assummed North Sentinel was similar. I think that's a fair assessment because its size and location is not atypical, so there's no (apparent) reason to assume it was settled earlier or later than the other islands.

This of course begs the question of how they got to the island. In the past, when sea levels were lower, there may have been land bridges between islands and the mainland (not sure 'cause I haven't studied the bathymetry). Another explanation for how they got there is that they did have sails or oars in the past, but they were forgotten over time.
Sadly, we Brits aren't any better off. We don't even pretend to have a constitution or anything like it.
I'm confused: why does the executive branch ("Obama's administration" in paragraph 1) get to tell a judge this or submit a "filing"?

Is this just them stating their position? At what point can/will SCOTUS get involved?

(pardon my ignorance if I incorrectly assumed the president doesn't get to decide what's constitutional)
He did not give a list of books for everyone to read just suggesting 4 books to be used as references for graduate level writing which I find hard to argue with. Along with one for presentations and persuasion which you are going to do so I doin't think there is as much to argue with as you might think.
If I recall correctly, at least one company (Euclid Analytics) tracks you around places even when you are not connected to the network, and instructs you to opt out if you don't like it.

Speaking of, http://euclidanalytics.com/privacy/ and https://signup.euclidelements.com/optout

So yes. Turn it all the way off.
This isn't the "change" people voted for. That's why he's furious. He sadly mistook what a politician said to get votes for what he would actually do once in power. Most people make that mistake, I can't say I blame him.
I really don't get the windows 8 hate. Yes, metro isn't for everyone, but it can be disabled. Aside from that, boot time is incredibly fast, memory and power consumption are light, and the UI overall seems incredibly well polished. Now if they would just include a decent terminal I might consider using it.
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Who appoints the judges?

Wouldn't be the government, would it?
I think you were downvoted because the comment is empty. "Hey this is cool" type comment that adds nothing to the discussion.
It's a really nice idea. I like it.

Sadly in order for it to be effective, at least according to a recent article I saw, you'd have to connect yourself purposefully with a terrorist to less than 3 degrees.
Its cheques and bank balances.
might be inevitable for Google. Might not be for another clever service provider, or might not be for a paying-solution.

Either way, Gmail is going down with things like that. Internet is one space where people can choose not to have ads, and nobody likes ads.
In all seriousness, where is this happening?

It must have been public school.
Interesting, it looks like the WebObjects application(s) has actually been undeployed.

I poked around the main developer.apple.com for a bit until I got here: https://developer.apple.com/programs/start/safari/enroll.php...

Clicking the "Individual" button on the bottom throws up a WebObjects error: http://i.imgur.com/xcfZ5ip.png (Yes, that's probably the smallest I've ever made my Safari window. You're welcome, mobile readers)
What you're talking is yield and volatility. When you're running a fund, you need to manage to benchmarks, and MSFT is a great position for exposure. IV is on the low end, there is plenty of liquidity should you need to raise cash, and with a dividend of right around 3% you have a nice predictable return, which is a big deal with institutional investing.

Additionally securities like MSFT, you can comfortably get 'aggressive' through call writing, and juice returns a little more without your risk metrics being outside your targets.
When I had a blackberry, and BBM was all the rage, read receipts would give me a lot of headaches. Most of the time it was fine, but I remember occasions where I'd turn data off on my phone so I could read a message without the person knowing that I'd read it.
Which is a better rephrasing:

* The judicial branch decided in the executive branch's favour.

* America decided in America's favour.

If you abstract far enough out, we're all part of the same group (humans), so any thing done that favours anyone else is just us being self-interested, right?
Yes! Note that you can get halfway to the place McDerment (and Patrick McKenzie) were at simply by not charging by the hour. Simply moving your pricing increment from hours to days or (ideally) weeks changes the conversation you're having with your client.

McDerment had to develop serious sales skills to pivot inbound requests for website paint jobs to strategic marketing engagements. But you don't need sales skills to establish a minimum billing increment of a day. Doing that will pull you towards more strategic discussions and allow you to dip your toes in the water of solution sales.

Incidentally, while my hat is definitely off to McDerment for pulling this off, I assume he'd be the first to tell you that this is the moral of every book on consulting ever written.
It's more like the FBI bugged every office in the city, but only listened in on suspicious people (which probably includes the Gambinos), so nobody is allowed to complain about it since the chances of any given individual being suspicious are negligible.
All these questions fall flat when the federal government can slap 'national security secret' on anything.

Suffice to say the government will pull out all stops to combat your legal challenge, the judicial branch will side with them for obvious reasons, and your congressional representative will send you a canned response detailing how it's for the children/for fighting terrorists/none of your business.
So you can't explain why you believe something you do?

I agree. It is at this point when I cannot continue a discussion. Have a good day.
In my high school Spanish was the only foreign language (even though lots of students were central/South American so that was an easy pass for them). The closest we got to writing poetry was a haiku.
I hate read receipts because the UI interactions which tend to make an application respond with a read receipt if it is configured to do so don't actually correspond to me having read the message; that is, they fairly consistently prove to be false positives in their advertised role.

(And, if instead they are being confirmation of delivery-to-inbox, they aren't right for that role, either, since they rely on interaction that happens long after that. I can receive, see the sender of, and delete your message without sending a read receipt.)

There is basically no useful information for which they are a good proxy.
Or it could be that the shared storage that the apps are likely hosted on could have a problem.
The new Chrome App Launcher: Google's backdoor into the offline world
I remember that site! It's a shame he didn't get any recognition - IIRC his outline was a little more vague than the one being described in this article, and therefore had more room for surprise and creativity.
So along these lines the government should have no problem supplying me with the names and home addresses of all of the government officials, provided that I really, REALLY promise (seriously!) to not look at it unless I'm authorized to. Because I don't actually HAVE it until I LOOK at it.

Cool, where do I find this data? I promise not to look until I'm authorized!
As much as patent trolls are an enormous problem, they are not the only villains in this story. The others are of course the lawyers and the courts.

Let's say that you received a summons in the mail informing you that your startup was being sued. First of all, why are you receiving it in the mail? Why can't the Secretary of State ask for your e-mail address (as some do) and actually use it for service of process? (Answer: because the courts aren't even sure they want to allow a technology as sophisticated as Certified Mail to be permitted for service of process, let alone fax. E-mail? You must be joking.)

Once you get the summons, assuming you can even understand what it means, what do you do? Look up the case on-line? Probably not. That would require you to have a PACER account, which costs money beyond $15.00 per quarter in fake-page access at $0.10 per fake-page. It would also require you to know how to navigate the system, which isn't particularly easy. Assuming that you could, and could understand the legal documents, you might be able to learn a lot right there.

Instead, what most people would do is pay a lawyer to handle all of this for them, at anywhere from $300 to $600 per hour. But what does lawyering really involve? Copying and pasting from Microsoft Word templates, turning Word files into PDFs, attesting to obvious things ("I have caused this envelope to be placed in the mail as of this date") and occasionally reading a similar case to cite. But mostly it's not that difficult. There are definitely aspects that require skill and logical thinking. That's maybe 5% of the work.

So why are we paying $300 to $600 per hour for highly indebted people to do things that computers could? Because the courts won't let computers into the picture. They won't even let companies represent themselves through their founders, even though Citizens United guarantees corporate freedom of speech (everywhere except inside the courtroom, apparently). If they did allow technology to enter the picture, handling a patent infringement assertion might actually be fairly trivial--something you could do in a few minutes on a web form--and at worst, as annoying as calling customer service.

The USPTO isn't blameless either. For more on that you can look at some slides from a presentation I gave at the USPTO Software Patent Round Table in February, 2013.

Slides http://www.aarongreenspan.com/technology/20130212.softwarepa...

Video http://helix-1.uspto.gov/asxgen/20130212_SoftwarePartnership...
Most boilerplate consulting contracts require you to notify clients of subcontracting arrangements, and many BigCo client boilerplates forbid subcontracting altogether.

But so what? You talk to your client about a prospective engagement, then you build a "dream team" proposal that puts you on the hook for the performance of the whole project and makes you the single point of contact for all project matters, but then uses the specialized expertise of partner firms as a sales point. You sell with the subcontracting arrangement, not in spite of it. It's not something you sneak in under the wire.
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I have been reading up on distant islands for years. The topic is fascinating and seemingly endless (wikipedia now has more and more articles covering these remote specs).

However, Tristan da Cunha was uninhabited and the current settlement is part of the modern world--just significantly limited by distance and difficulty of access. It is fascinating to study how humans live and relate in such small communities, but Tristan's inhabitants are fundamentally unlike the Sentinelese with their status as an uncontacted tribe.
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Somehow I think this is closer to the truth. Took the Cinema 150 class at USC (nice general ed credit) and the structure of screenplays was covered both from a classical "Hero's Journey" sort of way and the 3 act play sort of way. As others have mentioned studying story telling goes waaaaay back.

In general I suspect that the marginal return in the movie due to the story is not high enough to justify investing there. If a movie made to a formula earns the same as a bespoke movie but costs less because it was made in 4 months instead of a year, guess what the formula movies get funded.
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Well you would have to calculate the value of your time vs. either a) cost of attorneys (whose time is very expensive and it's a black box of costs) b) other things that you do that could be offloaded to someone else or perhaps c) putting someone of less value in charge of wasting of time.

We are not talking about hours and hours all at once either. We are talking about being a constant time waster and pain in the ass a little bit at a time or as much as possible while still flying under the radar and appearing not to be doing it on purpose (which you are).

At a certain point people will act in their self interest and perhaps give you what you want. At least that has been my experience when I've followed this path.