skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A note to anyone reading this who's living in the red zones, feeling discouraged.

It's going to be hard. You'll have to seize every opportunity and work as hard as you can with each one because you don't have the money to buy second chances. You'll have to work twice as hard to get a quarter of the distance. You'll have to say goodbye to those that stayed behind because almost everyone will stay. You're going to have survivor's guilt. Your religion will evolve so please don't sacrifice any opportunities over the beliefs you hold today.

If you stay strong, work hard and have a lot of luck you can make it out.
Why should you be sad about personal choices others make? Stop judging people, learn to accept them and you'll be a happier person. For those "masters" - they likely put a higher priority on family than on career, so the view that they 'did nothing with it' is idiotic. They just have different priorities than you.
Needs some help on the design side. The thing looks like it was made out of plumbing connectors sourced at the Home Depot.

So basically it's using algae to convert CO2 to sugar. Great. What happens to the sugar when it's disposed of in the environment? It breaks down, releasing the CO2...
Well, I thank my mother all the time for moving north several years before I was born.

But I'm pretty sure the comment was referring to "Children in homes containing books display intelligence at elevated rates" not the overall article.
steve,down vote all you like. I could have chosen a better words. I agree. But we have seen the immigration system gamed by lots of people and companies. So having a qualified investors is a good thing. Trust me the Canadian government does not have the resources to look into everything.
> full desktop OS

Maemo (full-fledged Debian-based mobile distro, now dead, thanks Elop) user here.

Is Ubuntu Phone really running a full-fledged desktop-as-we-know-it GNU/Linux-derived distro? Because, after I heard about bionic+libhybris stuff and some chroot kludges I start highly doubt it. It's as "Ubuntu desktop" as chrooted Ubuntu install on Android, except for more optimized (compared to VNC-to-localhost, huh) video pipeline.

My perception is that it's neither typical-GNU neither Android but something partially (in)compatible to both.

Would be really nice if I'm wrong on this matter.
Would a reward system make sense? Money to the one who gets a patent rejected?
This quote intrigued me to share this article for further discussion because I want to see this happen sooner than later:

"What would be appealing to Google would be the ability to produce city wide legislature that allowed them to use the entire city of Detroit as real life testing ground for all of their technologies without having to comply to city laws and regulations. This would allow them to test cutting edge technologies in everyday scenarios. It would also present the authority needed to re-imagine how a city operates on an information level, and not only to test their driver-less cars, but test products such as mobile commerce, free public internet and free public transportation as well."
I've had to make a personal rule to not get involved in anybody's life from where I grew up. It's simply too depressing watching them struggle with bad life-choice after bad life-choice, and only a few small changes would revolutionize their life and solve nearly all of their top issues.

The next biggest problem is that all of them want to talk about these bad life-choices with me, but don't want to hear the correct choice.
From Wikipedia: "Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel to have successfully completed the Health Effects Testing requirements (Tier I and Tier II) of the Clean Air Act (1990)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_biodie...

Either way the tetraethyl lead situation was completely different. It was very clear early on that the stuff was extremely toxic. Lead was already known to be toxic, and workers at the refineries were dying left and right due to exposure.
> If "Selling Hotdogs" sounds like it might make you even 1/10 as much, you're simply not charging enough.

Actually, my side biz is selling food. Unless you propose that I make way over a million dollars a year while contracting (no thanks to that stress)...I think my restaurant does okay. If I sunk the same amount of time in my restaurant that I did for contracting, then I'd definitely make more money with the restaurant than with contracting. I'm fairly confident I can compete with many bay area salaries at those numbers, and I could sink more effort and money into opening more restaurants and.... you see where I'm going with this, right?

My business is fairly small fry anyway. Had I a couple million bucks in the bank, I'd be looking at running restaurants with $40k+/month net profit. (How many engineers make that, before stock options and ignoring the value of the business itself?)

There are a LOT of other ways to make bank and saying being a developer is the only way to do it is incredibly narrow.
You may have to worry about the incentives, but you don't have to worry about any cost in tax dollars of rejecting applications.

Unless somehow they began rejecting so many applications, and those rejections all cost more than the fees collected from those applications, so as to total more in losses than the surplus revenue of the rest of the PTO (all other patent and trademark activity, including renewals) over its costs.

Which Isn't Going To Happen.
If you are looking for funding in canada, Fundica.com lists grants, loans, equity sources of financing, based on industry and location etc.
Area 51, Roswell: The anonymous whistler blower goes on the record
At this point, everyone in the mobile OS, whether it be Android, iOS or Windows Phone is "inspiring" something from one another. I am just glad there are new competitions in the mobile space along with the fact that they are encouraging HTML5 apps.
Touch: Where Microsoft Went Wrong
I very much doubt that the biological value has anything to do with it (as in the "absolute", evolutionary biological value). I think society evolve much too fast for that to be a lingering vestige from when that would actually matter in an evolutionary sense.

The complaint isn't about "my friends wanting to make sure I get home safely", it's about "my friends thinking I'm unable to make sane judgements, and take care of myself -- unlike when I was a child and was afforded equal consideration to my male peers".
That may or may not be true. Indiegogo (unlike Kickstarter) offers a flexible funding option which lets fundraises keep what they raise, regardless of whether or not they meet their goal.

[EDIT] - Never mind, just saw the fixed funding underneath the fundraising target :)
Pebble is the only one I've heard of on the list and their website claims they are in Silicon Valley, so I guess that reenforces my point?

Additionally, I think it is quite reasonable to argue that Kickstarter is the source of their success, but Kickstarter is still not yet available to Canadians. Not until later this summer.
> I assumed that people upvoted it because they were interested in the discussion that it would produce.

I wonder how many people here do this (i.e. upvote topics for HN discussion, not for the submission itself). Personally I do that quite often.
Is that $20/mo per app? I'm assuming if you had your own domain Docker will not be covering the DNS registry and such, effectively making it $30/mo to host a low-traffic app landing page. Honestly, I'm not sure that I would pay that much for my small apps (seeing as these are hobbies).

If it's $20/mo for, say, 5 apps, I'd be much more inclined.

Have you considered anything like a landing page builder that you can host yourself? Just a thought.

Take this all as conjecture. I hope you guys really make a sound product because this has been a serious frustration and pain point for me.

edit: Another feature that would be nice: quotes and links to reviews so you can show off any press or praise that the app has gotten.
My family's sign-making business back in Ireland got a lot of work out of UL and the Plassey Technological Park back in the day. It always did feel weird, like an alien had plonked them down on the edge of Limerick. Now I know that's at least partially true!
Ubuntu Forums Hack: 1.8 Million Passwords Stolen
The Underbelly of Racket Macro Basics
Showing the problems without requiring login would really help conversion. Let people invest time and effort on their solution, then make them log in to share.
I have been asked by my employer (a large software company) to avoid looking at patents in any form. It is precisely because, as you cite, it exposes the entire company to willful infringement claims around any patents that I were to view.
I have one gifted son and another brilliant son, and I really understand what you mean.
I can see these differences quite clearly in my sons.
Giftedness is not same as having very high IQ, it has its own characteristics which are often overshadowed by the high IQ.
No kidding. It's always so tempting to jump in on these sort of "founder" things early, but $600 is not small change...
The Best Music For Coding
> "SSDs give us three advantages. First, they tend to fail gradually over time rather than catastrophically"

Uh, I've never had one fail gradually...

> "Intel reports that the 520-series drives have a mean time between failure (MTBF) of 1,200,000 hours (about 137 years)."

Yes, but they have a maximum write cycle, you can blow through the average consumer drive in a month and a half of concerted writing.
I agree that the self-contained nature of compiled Go programs is one of Go's most appealing characteristics. In fact, I think you were too diplomatic toward Ruby, and most other popular languages. In my opinion, to insist that distributing a program should not be easy is to expect too little of our tools. I can identify two main deficiencies that make it hard to distribute programs:

1. Lack of a module system that scales well to large programs while still using static linking. According to the talk "Go at Google: Language design in the service of software engineering" (http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article), this is one of the main problems that the Go developers aimed to solve.

2. Too much dynamism in the language, such that a packaging tool can't tell with certainty what a program needs, and just as important, what it doesn't need. Go is static enough that this simply doesn't apply. Dart is more static than JavaScript, but still allows some dynamism. The Google Closure tools solve the problem by subsetting JavaScript. Is there any such subset for Python or Ruby? (I don't count RPython, since AFAIK that's only intended for PyPy itself.)

So when choosing a language for a program that one expects to distribute to many users, I think it's a good idea to take these things into account. This may mean choosing a language that lacks some dynamic features that many of us find convenient. (Compile-time metaprogramming can compensate; too bad neither Go nor Dart has it.) Go looks like a pretty good language for servers and command-line utilities.
> "(As for why the investors have to be from an approved list? Probably to avoid sham "angel investors" fake-funding their acquaintances, or outright selling visas."

This is a valid concern, though I'm worried it will swing the pendulum in the other direction also - that it basically gives non-regulated, non-governmental, non-accountable entities the ability to wield immigration as a stick.

That or allow an existing cabal of VCs to lock out competing, upstart VCs.
If one's password is "password", the choice of hash algorithms and salts is irrelevant anyway.
150GB/month usage?

I often push 150GB in a single night!
Sometimes I think the whole lean startup movement is either heavily misunderstood, or just overrated.

If you have a validated market willing to pay for your audience's eyeballs (based on, let's say, startups that have been in the space before), do you still need an experimental MVP? Or should one focus on building the real product?
Did you RTFA?
How Is This Huge Yahoo Stock Deal Not Insider Trading?
Still some scholarships left NoPanels meet vcs & angels direct
It makes portability different. Jitsi runs on Linux/OSX/Windows. To the end user, it's as "portable" as Skype (on the desktop), and I don't know of any alternative that comes anywhere close.

Thanks for the link to pjsip. I agree philosophically. What do you think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy_%28software%29 ?
Yelp acquires restaurant reservations service SeatMe
What you say works well if you already have your data nicely divided into different kinds of objects. However a useful technique with closures is a dictionary of closures allowing you to map things that may be of the same type to different behavior. Wrapping those in objects so that you can use method dispatch can be a lot of useless work.

As a concrete example I point you at http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=34786 where I demonstrated how to take transform a markup language into HTML through the technique of grabbing a token, then passing to a closure that is associated with that token to consume a bit of the document. Porting that closure-based code to an OO style would be a nightmare.
Upvoted, that's great! I'm not saying that the system won't be gamed; I'm saying that using the word 'rape' in this context is inaccurate and of poor taste.

Your point could have been made the first time by just typing "we have seen the immigration system gamed by lots of people and companies. So having a qualified investors is a good thing. Trust me the Canadian government does not have the resources to look into everything." and I'd take zero issue with it.
I read that this week end and what you did is just awesome.
Starting & Finishing Side Projects
It's like he's a child asking Mummy and Daddy to bring his dead hamster back to life.
> Because the "metal must be moved" number is way too low.

I can see that the regulation might be ineffective because of that.

But I don't see how anyone could claim such a regulation makes it more profitable to make late shipments.
...there will be less, not more, that a lawyer can do for you.

At this point in time, OP can take down the repo (but not the 115-and-counting forks thereof), or modify it (someone suggested removing keys issued by Snapchat), or not. How will this set of options change if Snapchat file suit? Of course one must respond to a suit, but couldn't one's response be "ok we've complied with all requests"?

If you're telling me that the suit could allege OP owes Snapchat money for his/her misdeeds, that's true, but it's always true, even after one complies with the sort of namby-pamby "C&D" we see here.
Like President "Franklin", Senators "Ted" and "Bobby" and President "George W." (who was, that's true, on rare occasions nicknamed Dubya) you mean?
Silex based REST interface to the mongodb
Taking anti-forensics to the extreme. Introducing the Fricosu Key.
The biggest skeptic propaganda organization that I know of is the Heartland Institute, which has an annual budget in the single millions. Greenpeace alone has an annual budget in the $hundred millions and there are dozens of other substantial environmentalist non-profits. The NOAA has a budget in the $billions, of which $hundreds of millions are dedicated to climate research, and that is not the only federal organization that deals with climate research. And there are other countries which have budgets allocated for this stuff. For example, all of the choicest anti-science quotes from climategate came out of the UK's University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit[1][2] and their struggle to prevent skeptics from accessing data.

I don't know that the global warming hypothesis is untrue. But I do know that our current process is not a method designed to find truth. Scientific data should be open to all humanity, and not hidden for the sake of advancing political agendas.

[1] "Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?"

[2] "The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone."
I love this concept, but I can't help but think:

If apple releases the next iphone with an hdmi compatible connection, that would eliminate the benefit of this, no?
What is CyanogenMod's "Nemesis"?
A vendor moving from a street stand to a restaurant is essentially what lean startup is. I wrote a post about a coconut man on the steamy sidewalk of saigon here. http://datdiary.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/lean-startup-vietna...
Usually men's nicknames have positive connotations.
Homejoy is growing fast and looking for an Android Developer
True but I always felt that GGC telegraphed Google's move into richer data streams (like video, and potentially telephony) so having the information out there would cause people to understand they were a competitor not a partner. Looking at it from the outside, both the challenges in the Google TV project and the Apple TV project stem, in part, by vigorous roadblocking on the part of the content providers. So you partner with Xfinity for the last might, great, but you have the capability to pump better content over that pipe than they do? Not so great.

The bottom line seems to be the less you know the harder it is to guess what they can and cannot do.
It very much depends where you are and what you can afford in legal fees.

When you signed up you will have agreed not to do this sort of thing in the terms and conditions - whether that is legally enforceable or not could be expensive to prove either way. Though the worst they can do you for here is breach of contract.

With regard to "copyright circumvention": un-rot13 has been classed as an encryption circumvention device before now, so don't bank on the law having any common sense here.

My advice:

1. If it is just a weekend project it isn't worth the hassle, drop it as requested.

2. If you really care about it, lawyer up and prepare to fight.

In either case post to HN and as many other places as you can that are relevant to make sure their status as litigious wankers is recorded as far and wide as possible ;-)
What sort of experience do you have with RethinkDB? Have you used it in production?
> Should we ban those too or at least be able to opt out of those?

No, but that doesn't mean all discussion and criticism goes out the window. When jeswin talks about porn not having any affect, that invites a discussion about porn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
http://www.gameenginebook.com/gdc09-statescripting-uncharted...

Caveat lector: I'm not familiar with the current state of the art in gamedev, so this may not be new or interesting.

The gist of this is that you prefer composition over inheritance, which is a bit more functional than an OO inheritance hierarchy. It's not strictly functional and it's definitely not purely functional. But it's a step in that direction, as it lends itself to viewing your system as a series of transformations over data rather than a system of actors.

The second piece is also possibly only tangential, as it does have state. But it shows an interesting way to incorporate concepts germane to FP like continuations, and it does use a homegrown Lisp as its scripting language.
I studied math/physics at Colorado State Pueblo, a small school with very minimal focus on research. I would absolutely recommend it to my kids when they're deciding on a school, because having actual professors teach what they love in a dept that actually cared if the students learned was wonderful.... And the professors were happy, too.
On every[0] Humble Bundle so far, the highest average donations come from Linux users.

On some, they've even donated the same amount or more in total dollars compared to OS X users - ie, Linux users have been more profitable even though they have a much smaller market share.

In short, Linux users are very profitable (per-user).

[0] I can't confirm that it's 100%, but it's been every Humble Bundle I've participated in (a lot), which I think is a large enough sample size for the purposes of this statement.
They'd have been doing the French test, presumably. You only have to do one or the other. No point making it hard on yourself, right?
Yeah, I've gotten two today. Can anyone speak to the aim of these?
> "as I get the impression has happened in the US."

Yeah, you don't need to worry about the qualifiers.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-op...

Maybe it's just that level of background exposure that set my expectations, but I'm (pleasantly) surprised that the problem might not be universal.
Good luck mate :)
Hrm... you're right. I'm wondering why they would do that? Does it really take $32M to create a new phone for mass market?
Tree command and its alternatives
I'd also like to hear someone's experience with RethinkDB. The admin interface is fantastic.
The data is extremely scary. Global temperature trends are about to drop out of the bottom of the 95% confidence interval for academic climate predictions[1]. Do we really want to live in a world where people are not whipped up into an environmentalist hysteria?

[1] http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/29...
I see this case as being different to copying someone's work. I do admit it's a bit morally questionable, in the sense that it's something that Snapchat doesn't want people doing. However, my view of the relationship between Internet services and client software which accesses those services is such that alternative implementations of both should be considered legitimate.

You have raised a very good point though, and it's certainly made me revisit my take on this. I've personally been the victim of others taking copies of my app and selling it under different names (which I obviously do have a problem with). However I've also seen other people implement similar features and a similar UI to my own app, and I don't have a problem with that - we only got to where we are today because of the spread of ideas through these means (see: Xerox PARC and all the companies that have used their work).

In this particular case there was no IP violation. It was simply an alternative implementation of a network protocol - and in fact it was just a library, not an application in and of itself. The only thing I think the author did wrong was to include the API keys.
That hasn't been our experience. While we've optimized our file system to minimize wear, we do an extremely high volume of reads and writes on our SSDs. We have many SSDs (previous generations) that have been running full steam for 3 years in production. We've been pleasantly surprised with the number of write cycles they can endure without failure.
The video got taken down, is there a mirror anywhere?
The hardness doesn't mean that it won't break or crack. The only difference is that in low-impact situations it won't scratch as easily.
One key thing to note is that Canadian Citizenship Law does not require the applicant to be present physically on Canadian soil while the application is being processed, nor does it require "proof of intent to live in Canada" for award of Citizenship.

What this means is that in theory, someone could land as a PR one Day 1, file the application exactly 3 years and 1 day later, and then leave Canada and go sit in a hut in Guatemala while the application is being processed. [1] After it is ready for the test/oath in 2-3 years, applicant flies back, declares a desire to live and die in Guatemala, and still gets his Canadian citizenship, a shiny new Canadian passport, and leaves the country. And all this is 100% legal, at least as per Canadian Citizenship Law as of 2013.

[1] Unfortunately, C&IC will only correspond to Canadian addresses, so the applicant does need a reliable mailing address in Canada
Force skeptics to outer circles, and then ridicule anything that doesn't come from the inner circle. It's an incredibly effective way at insulating the brain from inconvenient argument.