skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read an interesting theory about "Leave It To Beaver" leading to more social problems than truly violent television; the premise is that the sanitized depiction of family life and the easy resolution of problems set a false standard in very young children that left them unable to cope with real problems, eventually leading to more violent behavior.

I wonder if marijuana used by teenagers could sometimes have a similiar effect; the actual payload is peaceful and gentle, but seen as part of the broader system of someone's emotional development, there might be a net-negative effect of antisocial behavior. (Hippies may smoke pot, but so do violent gangsters.)

I'm not reflexively pot-negative; it's absolutely nothing compared to alcohol, and should not be illegal (among other things, street dealers don't ask for ID). But like you, I'd be very interested to see the data.
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/07/22/leaked-pakistan-... informs about number of people including children killed by drones.

http://news.yahoo.com/faa-warns-public-against-shooting-guns... has information regarding drones used in USA.
The key phrase, with additional emphasis:

> I am sick of having to choose between screen estate and PPI.
I use it a lot for natural language unit conversion; it's so much better at this than everything else — it's like Fantastical compared to Outlook's New Event dialog.
> Or does anyone actually use vi?

Folks working on machines without vim who don't have root.

Source: an 18 month consulting gig several years ago.
For all this article's many faults, at least it is long-form and has more than two sources. I hope PandoDaily continues to support long-form journalism and I hope they inspire other tech blogs to do the same.
Unfortunately, there is currently no video of gameplay. There are images on the app store info page. You could search for "Penguin Plunge: Stuck in Antarctica!" on the app store to see the pictures of gameplay and then download the app.
It's what's called a trumped-up charge, or Kangaroo Court. This kind of thing happens to unsympathetic defendants like Weev first. Then later it can happen to anyone who gets in the way.
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Problem is that these long-form postings are rarely getting to the front page unless they are about personal issues. If both of our posts get buried try submitting each of the articles over the day and I am sure we can get one to catch on.

It seems to me that there are probably only a few dozen people actively voting in the newly submitted category, so it takes a bit of luck to have the right kind of people lurking at the right moment giving their vote.
instead of the bad old days where it was Photoshop or Fireworks

Can you elaborate more on this? Photoshop looks much more advanced than this app (there is no way we can compare them)

It's not meant or designed to produce HTML/CSS web designed and never claimed that.
No, because CFAA isn't a strict liability crime and the prosecution is required to prove intent.
I really like how you send a link to the game via SMS. May I ask which service you're using to do that?
Yes: []

But that's only because it hasn't been used for anything worth suing over.
Surprising how they made a nice UI but at the 1min mark they show eastern Asia with the shades of yellow reversed. The land mass should be darker than the ocean. It makes it look like the cities are on a land mass that is the shape of the ocean.
glad i haven't been jailed for things i've considered. i'd be down for murdering a lot of commentators on hn...
Another one. HN subject titles often link to the New York Times. Not having a subscription and offended with their offensive dark screen blinding pop-up `dark pattern' `hook'
--free, or otherwise-- I now only read the respective HN comments.

NYT coverage is usually good, I miss it, but now BBC, Reuters, Guardian, rt, Der Spiegel, HN, are my primary news feeds.
If memory serves (i read the original plus a mirror on github), this originated from the somethingawful forums.

I'll see if I still have those bookmarks at home and throw them in a website archivist.
Does this site really need to be over 15MB large?
> some rich people did to get richer

As I said, it all comes from scarcity. Things that are abundant are monetary worthless, and if everything is free, then people don't need to make money, ergo no copyright anymore (there's a slight simplification here actually, because copyrights also grant control, which is actively thought). That said, while the system is mostly used by the richest, poor people can profit from it as well, if they manage to produce valuable IP.

The problem that we really have here imho is that code is just logic written in an often clever way, like a math theorem. Do we want to have these things protected by copyrights or patents? Does it make sense? That's the real question behind the issue at hand I believe.
We're definitely planning to add gameplay videos to these pages down the road. If you don't want to give your email/number you can also click the "Download on the app store" and "Get it on google play" buttons to go directly to the app store
$99 is the price of exactly the 16-core node they started to ship.

64-core node is going to cost you quite a bit more (the pledge for it on Kickstrater was $199).
Samsung is now the most profitable consumer electronics company in the world
Well, I was just daydreaming yesterday about usage scenarios that may require an FPGA on a drone. :)
Linux and iOS coming soon. :)
> Why are you involving the rationals?

Number systems with a well behaved division operation (fields) are heavily studied and have lots of wonderful properties. If we allow for division, thus turning the integers into the rationals (which form a field), then we have access to all this.

So, while you are correct, to a mathematician it might be simpler to start with a field and then be able to wave our hands at centuries of work in field theory and just say, "All that stuff applies here."

In particular, the notion of linear independence is generally defined only for subsets of a vector space. And being a vector space requires that the scalars (allowable coefficients) form a field.
Where as in the consumer world you get rewarded for attention, in the SaaS business the most profitable guys try to be quiet to prevent a flurry of competitors.
To add onto it in a beneficial way to the user.
Also, MPL allows static linking, the LGPL doesn't unless you explicitly state it.

For the record, would 'GPL + Linking exception' be incompatible with the GPL and LGPL?
I think one point of the article was that recurring revenue is more complex than that. It all depends on pricing, time to recoup customer acquisition cost, and a few other things.

If it takes 18 months to become a "jacket" (ie break even), then whether or not it's worth it depends on factors such as churn, cost of account servicing, cost of IT, etc.
Pretty good. Making a free app with ads means that you need to increase engagement (i.e., make the app more fun). That sort of aligns your interests with the user's interests, since the user wants more content, and you want more eyeballs looking at the ads.

I also offer in-app purchases which will unlock more content, and also remove ads permanently. About 1.5% of users will upgrade / remove ads.
The “LTV” of a Louis Vuitton
It's probably a lot easier to learn emacs when you implement it.
It's not just the code itself, but also derivatives thereof. Eg, no one would argue that iOS is free in any sense of the word.

There are many, many reasons for wanting the ability to inspect, modify and compile code yourself. The GPL secures those rights in perpetuity, while other licenses are more lax towards those particular rights. So, for example, you'd be losing that freedom by using BSD-derived iOS.

Basically the GPL is designed to protect users of the software, not developers of the software.
Japan: Hunt on for serial killer who leaves haiku clue
It would be way more valid to analyse click through rates than open rates.
RMS hasn't built anything in ages! (As far as I know.)
As a top-50 HN poster, this is what I like to keep telling myself. ;)
What are the top 3 non-tech challenges your startup faces?
Great, but can't I at least be told that there is a Windows version that I can either run in Wine or a virtual machine?
You might want to look at one of the headless web browsers, like phantom or casper,

http://phantomjs.org/
http://casperjs.org/
There are high school students who drop thousands of $$$ into their hobbies. My hobby (computers and video games) was cheap in comparison to those getting tuned-up small cars as made famous in movies and racing games. $68/hr is a fairly inexpensive hobby indeed.
50% of approximately nothing is still approximately nothing. What's our current exposure nowadays?
I don't think it's so much "hypocritical" as "ineffective". I would have said "pointless", but venting spleen can be a healthy and enjoyable pastime.
Eben Moglen is also not there - sure he's now a Stallman collaborator and involved with the FSF, but he is 'just' a lawyer and/or law professor - yet in one of his earliest contacts with RMS, he apparently already claimed to use emacs every day.
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Well, considering 97% percent of the page load is images (average size: 400 kB), and the page contains slides that explain and complement the article... yeah, I think it does!
My dad sold my SNES and Final Fantasy II for money to keep his kids fed. Poor kids didn't necessarily have shit back then, and certainly the used game market wasn't as available as it is now.
Show HN: I built a new portfolio site because I need a new job. Thoughts?
GP wording was perhaps a bit awkward, but I don't think he meant that modifications had to be released unilaterally: He just indicated the difference between gplv2 and v3 in the situations when the licenses force the release of the modifications (ie. when distributing the program in non source form).
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You mean the last line of the commit message, at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/commit/.... Your link just shows the code diff.
Ask HN: What Are The Top 3 Non-Tech Challenges Your Startup Faces?
Just got this in my email.
I actually disagree. I think getting users is a subproblem of creating a MVP (Minimally Viable Product), which is incredibly hard in these spaces. You can't get users unless you have an MVP. But what if your MVP takes 1000 person years to create? (That's not the case for email or a travel web site, necessarily, but certainly is the case for an airline reservation system... or a web browser.)

Remember Vonage? All they had to do was offer an MVP for voice phone. But it turns out that if a customer picks up the phone once a month and doesn't get a dial tone and a clear connection, they're going to abandon you.

Lesson: MVP(voice phone) != MVP(photo sharing app).

The Lean Startup wisdom about focusing on an MVP and getting to market fit is absolutely right. The issue is: what exactly is the MVP for your space? Not all MVPs are equally easy to create. Try creating an MVP for a nuclear reactor, for example. Well understood tech? Yes. Easy? No.
Actually, they can't. Airline tickets are not priced the way static inventory in a warehouse is priced. The pricing is dynamic and extremely complex.
> he was a sadistic monster of a troll who delighted in ruining people's lives

Could you elaborate?
Is there a way to use ability to branch to speed up raytracing? Can I create with Parallella raytracer in some way more efficient than gpu based ones?
An original Motorola Droid, with dock? I see one on ebay for 35 bucks.
Sadly the amount of resource to learn emacs is pretty sparse while it is not for vim.

Also emacs doesn't run properly on windows (at least not on an azerty keyboard)
...unless you make money using software, in which case you can be disobedient all you want, from the cardboard box in which you live.
That's probably because it's a 15MB page including all the assets -- Somebody doesn't believe in jpegs.

The page still downloaded for me in 2.5s though, so I have to give the guy some credit for having a beefy host.
The drop in crime also correlates very well with the massive upswell of incarceration in the US, not to mention that 'entertainment-on-demand' swelled over the same period (crime is frequently a result of boredom).
That's exactly what I want. I don't mind people using the code, I just want the changes re-released.
I can't find a reference to it anywhere, but for a while Google's calculator processed ridiculously esoteric natural language units.

If I remember it correctly, after a thread on Reddit, they even implemented "refrigerator heights" and "fingernail years" as units to measure length.
Guys these videos are an awesome concept but are they really helping your customer?

Just think what's going to make their life better or make them want to use your product.
You have a point. The question for us is: do we want to promote Inky under Wine as a supported platform? Since we don't run it that way ourselves (ever), we're not terribly comfortable doing that.

We do have the core running under Linux and are working on getting the UI up under Linux. We'd really like to have Linux Inky for ourselves, if nothing else, because Linux offers the best environment for dev/debugging. So it's coming. :)
You are heavily downvoted, but the NSA self-funding would not be entirely without precedent. They certainly have the ability, the only question is if they have balls large enough to actually do it.
Good point that is sometimes overlooked. Optimize your design for higher conversion rates. A/B test everything. If everything else is equal, then go with the pretty design.

Optimizely's landing page is a good example. The call-to-action button is above the fold, and you can quickly test out their product.

http://www.optimizely.com/
Just curious, what benefits do you get from simple.com that USAA does not provide? I looked at it in the beginning but it didn't seem to add anything, perhaps that's changed.
How long until a Silicon Valley startup cracks the hard problem of low-margin heroin smuggling?
Dell shows off the UltraSharp 32-inch Ultra HD display
I'm going to nitpick a bit here, mostly because it's entertaining to play devil's advocate on a topic that's always met with such one-sided responses on HN (in this case: dark patterns).

My question is: Why should a company make it easy for people to do exactly what it doesn't want them to do?

Sure, outright trickery and lies are almost unarguably immoral. And the author definitely identifies many examples of that. But there are other instances where I just can't agree with classification of the UX as a dark pattern.

Let's take The Ladders, for example. In order to cancel, you have to fill out a form with a few required fields. What a shady, underhanded, and downright spiteful trick! Or is it? Most cancellation forms online will take you through an intermediary confirmation step, anyway. What's so evil about requiring a small form to be filled out? The questions are directly relevant to the act of canceling, and if you truly don't give a shit, you can fill it in with gibberish. Even if you give honest answers, you could be done with this form in literally 5 seconds. It almost certainly took you longer to fire up your browser and navigate to their site, anyway.

My point is: The company is not attempting to trick you or obfuscate the truth. They know that the presence of the form will likely lower their cancellation rates by a marginal amount, yes, but there's nothing immoral about lowering cancellation rates. And the form isn't nearly long enough to be considered difficult or unreasonable, so it's not like they're attempting to frustrate people into staying. In the end, it convinces some people to change their minds, but nobody gets hurt.

Compare that to, say, The Ladder's decision to auto-renew monthly subscriptions while hiding that fact at the bottom of the page in small gray font. Or to email subscriptions with no unsubscribe link. Or to burying opt-out checkboxes within gigantic forms. In these cases, companies are outright tricking people.
That's a 7 month old article. identi.ca didn't go away (it's running new software called pump.io). Some other sites are still running StatusNet software, see http://www.skilledtests.com/wiki/List_of_Independent_Statusn...

More recent, idiosyncratic post about this autonomo.us/2013/07/12/pumped/
It's not the violence per se, it's the ability to get entertainment on demand. Whether it's Call of Duty or Minecraft, the thing is that you aren't left with 'nothing to do'.
all this is just words on paper right now- a competent marketing team can make any product sound amazing/indispensible. tack on the standard kickstarter/indiegogo delays, and this feels like as far from a no brainer as can be.

i don't see how you could trust any company, let alone a company making their first phone, with $600/$830 before seeing and playing with the software OR the hardware.
then whether or not it's worth it depends on factors such as churn, cost of account servicing, cost of IT, etc.

Sure, but that's stating the obvious for anyone in the SaaS business.
Docker does support setting arbitrary environment variables.
I think there's an analogous problem with encryption and GPG: like with credit unions (USAA in particular) there's an easy solution out there, but relatively few people use it.
Sadly, Dan Weinreb died almost a year ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Weinreb
I'll believe it when I see it. These guys have been pushing off and pushing off, I've all but written off my "contribution".

The fact that they're preselling the 16 core boards before we have even received ours, and that they come with storage( the contributors have to supply our own sd cards ) at the same price point, I'm left with an unpleasant taste.
I love the idea of fund-raising from customers. There are a few different angles on it, and one memorable one was the TextDrive thing[1][2].

That turned out a little bit controversial later[3], but it illustrates some nice, creative thinking. Is there a way you can get your customer to commit some money today, to an extent that they might not otherwise, based on future considerations? If you can do it without creating a scenario that bankrupts you in the future, it might be worth a shot.

[1]: http://www.joyent.com/blog/celebrating-textdrives-three-year...

[2]: http://photodude.com/2004/06/01/textdrive-or-how-to-raise-40...

[3]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/cloud-computing-company-joy...
Yes, I will take this into account, thank you.

Either way, it doesn't seem to be about actually funding companies. Maybe stock trades can help influence companies to change strategies or leaders, but I don't see the point of doing it in a forum from which the companies will never see the investment.

I don't think I understand the stock market as being anything more than a gambling game for people with a ton of money. Not sure what the IPOs of Facebook, Groupon, or Zynga did for anyone other than top execs who were already making a ton of cash per year, or the traders who bought and sold options.
Criminologists understand that crime moves in waves, and different crimes move differently. Crime overall might be down, but a particular class of crimes might have risen.

This is not an unusual state of affairs, but the news for the general public has no interest in educating people on this topic - after all, they need something with which to excoriate politicians; something will usually be 'on the rise', so politicians will be 'failing' in the whole field.
Setting the human rights issues aside, here's a compelling practical reason: spying on other countries can be a side-step towards domestic spying. By spying on China, we can also capture any data they've captured on us, without circumventing any laws prohibiting spying on citizens.

It wouldn't take long before this devolved to backdoor deals with allies; we spy on Germany, Germany spies on us, and we each "accidentally" get to scoop up data on our own citizens. (Of course, this is already happening now; they just don't have to lean on it as heavily, since most of the countries in question are spying domestically with impunity.)
In the last 5 hours when I looked (roughly 4pm - 9pm in the eastern U.S.), they had raised $59,000. That's about $290,000 a day they are currently running at. They are going to need a very big push at the end if they stay at that rate for most of the month (since they need about $1 million a day).
Are those lower benefits spread across a wider demographic, or has the demographic been reduced as well? Just wondering about "10% of the population on $$" versus "40% on $"...
James Gosling still uses Emacs?
1) For many categories measured in the original article (murders, armed robberies of stores) it's not likely that a major part is unreported;

2) For simple thefts, of course, a large portion is not reported because people don't bother - but are you really arguing that in suddenly all the (very different) countries people started reporting crimes much less than 20 years ago; or that municipalities in 2000'ies are fudging numbers much more massively than they could in 1980's?
I see copyleft as a kind of parody on copyright. The name itself is a play on words. Its goal, respecting freedom, is an admirable one. Copyright's goal on the other hand is not very admirable. Copyright exists to enforce an artificial monopoly on ideas, the primary incentive of which is to protect the financial interests of creators. The impetus behind copyright is not all bad--after all, the laborer is worthy of his wages. But it has the nasty side effect of making creators over-protective of their work. If creators were fairly compensated for the value they provide they might not feel such a need for copyright protection. That's why I hope things like gittip and Kickstarter become more and more mainstream.

Copylefting a project says to the world that we value freedom more than compensation. It's the right message but depends on the wrong "logic" of copyright. Ideally, we would all reward companies that value freedom above profits, thus ensuring that freedom is profitable. But for now, copyleft exists as a strong-arm tactic against the over-protection of information. In the sense that copyleft utilizes copyright law to enforce freedom, it's hard to say whether GPL or other open source licenses have a greater respect for freedom.
The official average wait time is currently 25 months, from what I can find, if you are in the "routine" category (35 months if you aren't): http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/cit-pr...
Regardless, it seems that they're railroading a guilty person.
But then your eyes will have to refocus between your screen and your work surface.