skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were JK Rowling, I'd complain to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for appropriate discipline.

From their handbook:

"Protection of confidential information is a fundamental feature of your relationship with clients. It exists as a concept both as a matter of law and as a matter of conduct. This duty continues despite the end of the retainer and even after the death of the client."
Interesting criticism, but not sure I'm convinced.
A lot of websites send "monthly newsletter from <site>.com" type emails. Ironically it's the avoidance of such emails that often causes people to use throwaway yahoo accounts.

Once these start appearing in the inbox, the new owner can just do a password reset on these sites.
Does anyone know what patents are claimed by Microsoft on Android? Is it one for FAT16/32? Correct me if I am wrong but isn't FAT16/32 Microsoft's proprietary format? So why is it wrong for them to put a claim on it? Wouldn't Apple do the same?
Minor error in this post: 'IN' doesn't refer to the answer's inclusion in the given DNS type -- it's a short form of Internet, and is meant to denote the address family being returned (the field is called 'CLASS' in DNS-speak). Other options include Hesiod and Chaos (as well as a number of reserved / private values)

https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-paramete...
You'd just see some blinding white light for a few seconds and then maybe nothing else for the rest of your life. Our human eyes and brains limit us from perceiving even everyday things with the majesty they deserve.

Even popping water balloons looks amazing in high speed video. On YouTube, there is a community of people doing silly things with high speed cameras that makes for stimulating watching:

Smarter Every Day: weird glass phenomenon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs

Smarter Every Day: cat righting itself in midair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU

Lots of high speed videos
http://m.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys
Nodes can share the same blockchain within the I2P network and to the open Internet. If enough nodes do this, then the resulting blockchain will be the same in both networks.
While I do agree with what you've said, it is also worthwhile nothing that the UK today is obviously not the same people.
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How does a game end up on top 25 for this country and that country upon launch? Is it luck? Are there things I can do to prep?
That looks like an extremely useful service (good work!), but your examples (source.com.) don't work, since the zone apex can't be a CNAME (this is addressed in the article under "Why CNAME is Messed Up"). So this can be used with www.source.com. but not source.com.
I wanted to say this is poorly titled because it's not about all software, but content management since this is on CMSwire. But let's get to the point:

This is a weak article that only adds to the internet noise.

What insight was shared here other than regurgitating what Gartner said? Why not just link to Gartner and be done with it. Why aren't the following questions answered or tackled:

* "doesn’t seem likely that they’ll be displaced by other vendors, proprietary or OSS, anytime soon." ... why?

* what steps could companies/projects take to rank better in the Magic Quadrant?

* what threats are there to the current incumbents?

If CMWire's goal is to "focus on intelligent information management" this isn't doing it.
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Sorry, what I meant was that I don't believe in the network effect like I don't believe in [the eternal "rightness" of] Communism, not like I don't believe in Santa Claus.
Apologize for the actions of people who are long gone?
FAT goes back to CPM, maybe even farther (long before Microsoft, and any patents on the original would have expired 20 years ago, and there weren't software patents back then). The extension from FAT12 to FAT16 and FAT32 is trivial.
Can it? So far it seems that anytime the status quo is challenged, the establishment responds with yet another power grab.
Its an inferior filesystem (a data layout convention, nothing more) that Android supports to be compatible with windows systems.

Imagine BMW patenting the shape of the hole you use to fuel your car, and then sending invoices to every fuel station.
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Sorry, but I find that connection tenuous at best. He's talking about overarching design, not editing.

Wait for someone to make a post about how much of an insane pain in the ass HTML and CSS is. Then hock your wares.
Fixed! Not sure how I missed that, thanks! :-)
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A pardon in the UK won't clear a criminal record - it's a 'forgiveness of the crime'.
There's a lot of historical evidence indicating the power of communism, so I'm not really sure why you don't believe in it, even if you don't like it.
Good points, but "minimalism" is still rather heavy on the code front. If you like at a typical minimal theme lately, just after excluding the majority of the HTML weight, there's still a lot of stuff being sent to the browser.

Ironically, simplicity and minimalism is still doesn't equate to a light-weight web page. It's possible, but few people seem to be going that route.
Spot on.

If only all of humanity did this to each other.
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Ok, then I don't think we'll agree. about the nature of evidence, or this.
It's been decades since I read RS, and probably more decades since I bought one, if indeed I ever did. What disgusts me about The Cover is the way it glamorizes a terrorist.
You should really validate your email field when someone clicks the submit button...
Minimalist, in this context, refers to an aesthetic, not a measurement of SLOC.
> For the world of design... there’s high value in simple
> typefaces, and noise-less, minimalistic design that’s easy
> to load and create for any device. If this type of design
> converts well, can be easily produced and increases the
> value you wish to attain... everything else in how the
> market works will trend in that direction.
>
> Sameness is a market effect, not a technological one.

This assumes that the thought put into many site designs is driven by metrics like conversion rates, etc. I suspect that this may only be true for 1 in 10 of the designs we see, and that the other 9 are actually just following what everyone else is doing. That's not to say that following what others is doing has no value, but that what is valued in the design is not improving things like conversion rates, but rather in making the site appear young and hip, etc.

So, still a market effect overall, just not usually for the reasons the author suggests.
Hezbollah is in conflict with Israel.

Carlos Ghosn's background is Maronite Christian.
Leave them alone, or find a way to study them without their knowledge.
Another very forgivable error is a mis-understanding about how recursive queries work. The article says

"dig randomly picked one of the root server responses, in this case f.root-servers.net., and asked it for the next part of the domain name in question, info. The info section of the hierarchy is run by a company that operates their own set of servers. dig asks one of these servers for the NS records for bugsplat.info and then finally asks one of those servers for the A record for empoknor.bugsplat.info.."

but in actuality every server in the hierarchy is queried for the full name; "empoknor.bugsplat.info". Technically even the root servers may be authoritative for that name, there's no way to know in advance where the zone-cuts are.
Great story of compassion and triumph. So... How do we make it scale?

Is it mandatory insurance? Insurance doesn't make everything affordable, but it probably wild have been helpful. Though maybe the co-pay would have been $50k.

Universal tax-payer funded insurance? The term "tax payer" is interesting because politicians and pundits forget that we're all tax payers in one form or another. Granted some pay more, some are net consumers of govt services. But tax payers mean us, and those with more earned income more than those with less. I think the main difference between taxes and donation is choice.

Single-payer or government provided healthcare? Pretty sure that no one would identify the government as the picture perfect example of efficiency. Plus, putting elected officials or their appointees in charge of handing out goods and services doesnt seem to be sustainable. Not that putting profit seeking entities in charge has yielded the ideal result.

Making drug providers, healthcare providers and everyone else in that supply chain non-profit? Profit has enormous motivational powers. Not always for good. But it is pretty amazing what can be accomplished by organizations setup to create wealth.

Big Data? Sorry, I couldn't resist. Well, lets use that as a proxy for innovation. It would seem that greater opportunity for innovation would help. Lower barriers to trying new drugs, procedures, diet, treatments would allow for potentially lower cost solutions to be created.

Separating health care from your job? Of your insurer only needs you to be healthy until you find a new job, there's not much in incentive for long-term healthcare and preventative screenings to identify tumors and other problems before they become an expensive problem. Though that would seem to be an arguement in favor of a single payer system.

Sorry, I don't have an answer. Hopefully, great stories like the OP continue. But if we don't make it scale then we haven't really done all we possibly can do.
Sure. Though I'm usually looking at economic variables instead of data/filesystems
I agree, FAT is very old and an inferior filesystem especially when compared to EXT.

>Imagine BMW patenting the shape of the hole you use to fuel your car, and then sending invoices to every fuel station.

That is an unfair comparison. I would have agreed to that statement if the patent was vague but it is very specific to implementation.

>Android supports to be compatible with windows systems.

Neither do I see any other reason to stick with FAT16/32 unless it is somehow required on booting.
You have literally not looked at any of the receipts in 2 years? If you've cancelled any of the credit cards, you had no idea that there was an autopay problem? The merchants had no way of contacting you, because you never checked that email?

For me, this is done through the web interface in almost all cases. Did my hosting account try to charge my credit-card and it was declined? It'll show up in the account dashboard. Do I want to look at my Amazon receipts? They're under Your Account -> Your Orders.

I'm updating some old emails now since I was reminded of it, but generally I don't care about receiving email from websites, so I typically send them to an account I don't check in order to keep them out of my way, and to ensure that if they sell my email, the spam will go there too (in my case it's an old AOL account). A number of sites won't even send you anything via email except "please log in" anyway. For example, when my bank sends me a "bank statement" by email, all it contains is a notification that there is a new bank statement waiting online, if I want to log in and read it. So the email is not needed or useful for services where I already log in regularly.
The idea Microsoft gets money from Android devices despite not doing anything other than stiffling innovation for the last ten years makes me want ppl in Microsoft have bad stuff happening to them.
*in England & Wales. There is a bill that will be considered in Scotland once the parliament reconvenes. Northern Ireland has thus far rejected all legislation to change the law there.
Yep. I switched from grep to ack then to ag. ag is incredibly fast.

You can limit the files it searches with -G <pattern>
It's great that people here helped him out and that a life was saved, but it's also sad that some US citizens - in this case a veteran - have to beg for healthcare.
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Yes, they discriminate against a different class of people. Immigrants. They are different yet they are the same. Learning from your mistakes means minimizing discrimination wherever it exists. Apologies are empty otherwise.

To emphasize my point further (which I briefly illustrated in another comment). This apology, I argue, is the same class of apologies as say an apology by the U.K. for atrocities committed in Kenya [1] during the uprising and then going forth into Iraq in the same decade.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising#Deaths_and_atr...
Its at least a model for humanity. It proves it is possible to help your fellow out in times of need. Good on you HN, you are a WinRAR.
Rowling actively rid herself of cash and fell out of the top 100 richest last year, I think money isn't that important to her.
You should not be able to patent data exchange formats; getting money from said patents makes one take a huge karma hit.

I made a sabbatical in hating Microsoft for a few years but now I see why it is important for me to resume doing so.
I thought it was going to say after 10 years, but it's just 1 year. Someone at yahoo is on LSD.
HN : 1 USA health system : 0
Focus on your own success
I thought FAT came from DOS, which was Microsoft owned. If FAT wasn't Microsoft's original design, then I think its very unfair that they got the patent for it in the first place, let alone enforcing it.
I'd really like to see the briefest synopsis of what your project does in the post title. Especially on mobile it's a bit of a pain to click through just to see what the site is.

That is, unless you just prefer being coy.
I wholeheartedly agree that the oncologists deserve a lot of praise/gratitude for their work. That gratitude is precisely the reason why I disagree with the latter half of your statement. I think it is unfair to to suggest that they would have accepted a monetary loss. Nobody visits an oncology specialist because life is wonderful. Every patient is somebody's mother, brother or spouse and every patient is facing an uphill battle.

Doctors deserve a paycheck to feed their families and pay off medical school debt just like everyone else.
> she doesn't need the money

Doesn't have to be about money. Success and acclaim as equally addictive.
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> Do they really expect engineers to start ignoring the laws of physics?

Well apparently they have been for a while already.
Not quite what you want, but you can restrict the search to filenames matching certain pattern with the -G option. For example, ag <pattern> -G \.c will only search on C files.
You can do something like : ag -G ".txt$" hello
What angers me the forced chemical treatment of Alan Turings homosexuality indirect was a crime against humanity as he was a genius. We will never know what else he could have invented.

This would have been similar to giving other geniuses such as Einstein, Gauss, Tesla bad medicine which would have destroyed them.
What about their grandchildren? They could get a good education, integrate into modern society and have the opportunity to live a way happier life than if they had stayed in the island.
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Father time has a vaccum (and it works most of the time).
I don't buy this 'outed' story one second.

This is either marketing or fear of public reception of her non-Potter book (imagine the pressure she must have). Either way, this is crap.
Of course they do. But if he'd only raised $30k, they'd have gone "Welp, not enough, guess you're just going to have to die"? I seriously doubt it. You're going to serve the patients you can serve and get the recompense you can - people without insurance are going to bring some losses, but you don't just let them die.
I don't begin to understand the US health system (I live in the UK with its National Health), but didn't Obama try bring in compulsory health insurance to counteract just this sort of thing and it was defeated?
Koyaanisqatsi, the 1982 movie uses similar footage from the Apollo 12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9K0013nITs
Correct, and very common misconception. While I applaud the author's attempts to simplify DNS, it's somewhat evident they've not looked at the very clearly written RFCs which cover both mistakes.
This is truly a wonderful story. But it makes you wonder how many others in a similar situation weren't so fortunate.

I lived in the US for two years, and I never understood the aversion to government healthcare. The Canadian system is far from perfect, and I know there are failures. But it's still a lot better than soliciting for online charity on a case by case basis.

I'm impressed and humbled that it worked in this case. Just a little disturbed that it was necessary at all.
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At our startup (18 employees), we're about to give Collabtive (open source project management app http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/). Anyone tried it? If so, what did you think?

If you've used a good free or paid project management app, feel free to drop me a reply with a recommendation.
what no CLI?
This HN post talks about a new service that might allow you to sell it & maybe recoup some of your losses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6075273
Not defeated, it just hasn't rolled out fully yet. States are figuring out how to implement everything, and of course the partisan foes of his health plan stage votes in Congress to repeal it (which never pass) every month or so.
Read up on the various forms of talk therapy used for treating panic attacks and pick one that you like the sound of. Don't keep seeing a therapist that you don't like.
The fat patents Microsoft holds describe encoding names that are not 8.3 format like dos/cpm
What about when someone uses their old email address as the password recovery email for the new email address? I agree with Silhouette in that I hope they follow through with this... It will surely be fun to watch, and also people will become a little bit more security conscious.
OK depending on the specific area.

If your a morning person, look at Livermore - long commute but if you hit the commute early you will be fine.

Also look at Halfmoon bay on the coast, another long commute but REALLY nice coastal town, As long as your on the road by 6:30am you will be OK
Stifling innovation? Microsoft was developing software for mobile devices more than 10 years before Google did and for a long time it was the main driver behind the market for PDA/smart phone components (e.g., colour/touch screens, ARM CPUs).
Except for the US, most of the developed world does, via public health care. It's not perfect, but better than the alternative.
Thanks for the corrections! I'll fix the article when I get back to a computer.
The outcome you're trying to predict is how people will vote, and you're free to go and ask them how they will vote.

True, but what Nate Silver brings to the table goes far beyond that. Polls are inaccurate. His statistical models adjust for all sorts of information you don't get from polling. Like which way undecideds will swing late (towards the incumbent) or sampling bias (poll respondents lean Republican) or even outright lying ("sure I'd vote for a black president", then doesn't in the privacy of the voting booth.) That's what set Silver's predictions far above all others in accuracy, and how he correctly captured the election swinging decisively for Obama as hardly anyone else foresaw.
I wonder if they have evolved differently. Is 65,000 years enough time for any significant change given their circumstances?
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This footage reminds me of a post some time back about why in 1969 it was actually easier to fly to the moon than fake all the video footage.
What do you want them to do? Just ignore it? As much as we might want to we can't change history. Times change, social norms change and hopefully laws change with them (gay marriage is not legal in the UK, for example), but the best we can really do is say, "Yeah, we fucked up." and hopefully that creates a meaningful dialogue.
It is a fact of life, but still one that amazes me, how unclear most people are in their communication. And it is at least partly my issue, because I've worked with many very successful people whose written requests strike me as one step above randomly mashing the keyboard.
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Single-payer or government provided healthcare? Pretty sure that no one would identify the government as the picture perfect example of efficiency. Plus, putting elected officials or their appointees in charge of handing out goods and services doesnt seem to be sustainable.

It seems odd to me that so many Americans seem pessimistic about their own government. I could understand if the attitude was, "We could make universal, socialized healthcare work. We could make it cheaper than Canada's. We could make it better than Sweden's. We just don't want to for ideological reasons."

But how can it be that the attitude is, "It would never work here?" You're the greatest empire in the history of civilization. What is this word "can't" and why is it in your vocabulary?
I wouldn't dismiss our perception as lacking majesty :) That would be very depressing. Subjectivity aside, however, you're right – what we experience is determined in part by the constrains of our nervous system and perception organs (remember the rapidly spinning fan blades that look like a disk?). But, this is just the conditions on life, a fact to which we need to adjust, for we cannot change it.

It's also worth pointing out that for humans, this is where science comes in :)

The slow motion videos illustrate very convincingly that we are always omitting data. I love them for that. One cannot watch them and not be persuaded into a sense of how unavoidably probabilistic our inferences are, as well as into a sense of wonderment and curiosity. They are both desirable responses, because they are key to sanity.
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Hi! It looks interesting. Send me an email at: daniel.boles at gmail dot com .
> the islanders on the other hand have deliberately chosen isolation rather than having isolation forced upon them by any external agent.

There is an implicit assumption that they are a democratic society where a decision was taken with the consent of everyone. You have no way of knowing that. For all you know, they could very well be a cult with some old fogey launching attack troops at the evil invaders whilst the young struggle mightily against the oppressive regime.

> I can't picture them building a particle accelerator or sitting around all day puzzling over integrals.

That is rather patronizing. You have no way of knowing if they are interested in that. No one knows if they like blueberry pie unless they actually try blueberry pie.
Are you in the market for $40,000 websites?

Additionally, this is not about playing games -- it's about finding what is valuable to a client and delivering it.
Sounds interesting, but what's the benefit of using this over, say, Flippa? Is this more targeted towards not-necessarily-money-making projects?
I have often wondered given the kind of cost involved in good health care in USA, along with college fees, why don't more Americans move to Europe for health care and education where it is probably free most of the time?

P.S.: I am from Pakistan.
IMO, the best practical feature about Netbeans is easy code-indenting, while writing large HTML/JS code.
A marketing stunt that involves severely damaging a law-firm's reputation?

They could've had anyone leak the info, it doesn't make sense to implicate their law-firm with it. If the publisher did actually set this up, and that law-firm ever finds out it was orchestrated, the publisher is going to be in huge trouble.
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