skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ashu! Your friends at iCracked would love to help... reach out to me anytime man! Rachel, I feel it'd be nice to have a visual indicator as I touch the screen, right now if you can press anywhere and it just seems unresponsive. Also, for a while I didn't realize you could move obstacles so the "get a hint" constantly resetting the level was a little confusing. Finally, undo occasionally crashes the app. Overall, great work!
Teleport yourself to SIGGRAPH
No, unfortunately. It is proprietary.
> Currently, anyone can create an account on GitHub and without proof-of-positive-ID can apply any license to any code they choose to upload. Whether they have the right to issue this license is unknown to the user other than by direct due diligence.

A good exemplar of this from just the other day:

http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2013-July/00...
Well I'm pretty sure I'm less rich than Cory if he is a MS employee.

I pay about $85/hour to fly and don't own a plane. If I lived in the USA it would be $68/hr due to lower gas prices. I think the majority of Americans can afford to spend $68/month on their hobby (assuming they flew once a month).
Thank you! One of my ideas is to let people design their own levels and challenge their friends with the level they wrote. This is something I've thought about implementing in a future update. If anyone here has any thoughts, I would love to hear them.
We shouldn't aim for "brutally honest", we should aim for "honest" (meaning telling the truth, but trying our best not to hurt the other party's feelings).

Also, the author seems to assume that the person being brutally honest is always right in his/her criticism. But what if he/she isn't? This is the situation many employees find themselves in: Their boss lacks the qualifications to bring valuable input to the table, but still thinks he/she should be allowed to be "brutally honest" (which in those cases basically means being dumb and a loudmouth at the same time).
Blah blah blah, people know where they want to go before they are booking a damned flight, and Google Flights already lets you book them significantly more easily and cheaper than a single airline.

If you want to compete with Zagats, do that.
So what you're saying is that I shouldn't be trusting burnside and ThickAsThieves with my ASICMINER shares?
Banks seem to be doing ok.
Since this article, we've all experienced the shift from status.net and yet another blow to the AGPL. Via many discussions out there [1], as may have been pointed out, but deserves repetition, is that this is the Status.net _service_ being migrated to that pump.io's new software project (the company is changing forms as well).

Despite this, of course StatusNet software source code will still remain free, available and working from code repositories. And it is definitely not the end of free social networking. Other than this, there are several projects working with the open protocol OStatus for federated social networking.

Also - last but not least - GNU Social (essentially the same codebase as StatusNet) is still very much alive! It is an FSF endorsed social networking project and has had a recent boost of encouragement in the mailing lists (much as a result from the Status.net thing):

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/social/2012-12/msg00043.ht...

[1] http://trisquel.info/en/forum/statusnet-identica-and-another...
> by the time the programmer realizes he's in hell, it's too late to fix it.

From what I've seen, it's more that management doesn't want to take resources from fighting fires to move some gasoline. A disciplined group can even take rat's nest code and whip it into shape: but only if management is clueful enough to make that a priority. Usually, they're making decisions on a short-term basis.
For now. It's only a matter of time before a startup or two breaks that industry down just like they have for many others.
in iOS7 Advertising is in Privacy. Maybe apple are taking notes.
I didn't make a throwaway to play Devil's Advocate. I mostly lurk here. I have an old account that I haven't used for three years, and felt weird logging into it.

The reason I took so much offense to your post is that it seems to capitalize "instant virtuoso" phenomenon, where parents want to sacrifice their kids happiness in order to make them proficient at something to compete with others, often vicariously. It's a cycle that ends with burnt out kids who feel bad about themselves for no good reason. I sound dramatic until you see what actually happens to gifted kids who are unrealistically pushed from a young age (hint: they kill themselves).

Like I said, I think trying to approach this as "giving kids marketable skills" is the wrong way to go. Teach a 6-year-old Python and HTML to be marketable? Yikes. You're mostly going to appeal to pushy parents, who think their kid will be the next Zuckerberg (cringe) if they pay for your lessons. Not only does that suck for the kid, but that'll suck for you too! It'll be frustrating and, if you care, heartbreaking to push 20 kids along at the same time.

IMO, what you want to cultivate in kids is a spark, not a concrete list of skills. Children don't work as plumbers for a reason.

I completely understand your view of your life, and you have my respect for thinking of something different. I have much the same problem, except I've lost most of my interest in computing-related things going into adulthood. I quit a Fortune 500 job where everyone drove BMW's and Mercedes, while being recognized as "talented", because I wasn't happy. I totally understand.

I'm simply providing some brutal feedback because it all hits close to home. I'm not trying to crush your dreams. I don't believe in that.
any info on getting a shell/root/native code?
This is better than the average such article.

I get the sense that many of us are just waiting for a few improvements (like generics and better GC/performance) before using Go for real work, but it seems mature enough for many uses already.
To me this article was more about how Twitter can be an unfriendly place.

If you think about it, on Twitter the barrier between people is pixel-thin. It's pretty easy to get into an argument with someone with a single tweet in mere seconds. Within minutes you could easily find yourself being on the receiving end of the latest internet crusade.

While I'm sure it would be nice if everyone was forced to act nice, the reality is Twitter is so immediate and in-your-face that when you receive a tweet its almost as if someone has come up to you and said it in your face. And to some people that hits deep. Deep enough to start the drama unfolding.
As someone else noted below, it's also like "static typing lite." It has most of the advantages of static typing with much less of the bookkeeping involved.
Even if the government made conversion to A-coins illegal, they couldn't really stop it because they wouldn't be able to shut down the exchanges. It would be the same as P2P filesharing. It's technically illegal, and people do get identified and arrested, but that doesn't stop it. There are just too many people doing it, and there's no popular support for a crusade against filesharers.
> yet there is zero evidence in their profits that any of these deals are netting a dollar of revenue

I'm sorry but I just don't believe you when you say there is zero evidence of them making money. They will be making big money.

Why on earth would any company license its technology for zero revenue gain?

> there is zero evidence

As noted earlier, from the latest Microsoft quaterly reporting figures:

Windows Phone revenue, reflecting patent licensing revenue and sales of Windows Phone licenses, increased $222 million.

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

So Windows Phone revenue is up $222 million for the quarter, which means they are either selling lots of Windows phones or they're making money from their patent licensing agreements.

It must be one or the other. Take your pick. I know which one I'd choose.
Maybe you should re-read that? They are saying they won't try to trick gmail into bypassing the Promotions filter. This is probably in response to customers asking them to do that.
Julian Assange to host live Q&A on Google Hangout
Because they're a waste of money, but because it's part of the system some people still need them?
Show HN: Dead-Simple Crowdsourced 3D Printing with CowFab
I also liked the idea of "Dark Pattern" that he linked and introduced.
Someone else also mentioned getting feedback when you touch the screen. That seems like a great idea and I'll try to update the app to respond to touches immediately.

And thanks for letting me know about your confusion. I'll try to update the tutorial so it's as easy as possible to figure out!

As for the crashes, I am aware of users encountering a few issues and I'll work on fixing those problems.
The evolution of scientific communication
Decently surprising list, at least for me. I think the Torvalds-Stallman relationship got more complicated in my head.
The problem is, the line of what's acceptable communication is different for every user.

Sure it is, but some things are the wrong side of that line for most users. That's why there are laws against them.

Does that mean everyone needs to deal with no email communication by default just because a few people feel it's too hard to find a (legally required) opt-out link in the first email they receive?

As I said, if you're worried enough that you aren't willing to ask people to opt in instead, you're probably a spammer.

"Dealing with no email communication by default" is not what we're talking about. No-one here is saying you shouldn't send e-mails for the purpose that someone actually gave you their address, for example.

If you actually meant "dealing with no marketing email communication by default" then I'm pretty sure most people would "deal with" that just fine. When was the last time you heard someone complain that they didn't get spammed enough today, or their browsing experience was suffering from not having enough ads cluttering the pages they wanted to read?

This isn't a conversation about "SPAM"

I'm pretty sure it is. It's right there in the quote from the article in the first post of this thread, and in numerous further posts between there and here.

But that's begging the question

No, it wasn't. If I'd written "If you want to send people marketing messages that they don't want, you're a spammer", that would indeed have been a tautology. But I left you another option, finding out whether they want them or not by asking first.

In the end, is it really so hard to see how a company acts in it's correspondence before vilifying it?

No, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a company that specialises in sending bulk e-mail discussing the possibility of actively circumventing measures intended to stop users having to read marketing mails they don't want. Again, it's right there in the quotation at the top of this thread.

(Your other examples weren't unreasonable, but they also clearly weren't marketing mail assuming they related to people actually using the service you were sending the information about.)
Poll: Require email verification during signup?
If you had a 3 step (web-based) sign up flow for a business service which requires: company info, billing info, then a required email verification step. Do you think its useful to have that required email validation step?
Yeah, keep those emails valid!
You already got billing details. Let them in without email verification, but nag for it when they're inside.
You already got billing details. Let them in without email verification.
Put the email verification before you ask for billing details.
Don't ask for either. Let them in and require information as needed.
In the example with you putting the disks in a basket, you've intentionally made them available for people that are not your employees to take, so you're distributing them. The license kicks in when one is taken. It's analogous to downloading software.

The point is that for a license to be binding it has to be offered willingly. If I sign a blank check and you steal it from me, filling out $1000 and your name, although you'll be able to cash it, you have no right to the money, and I can undo the action.

The reason internal code is special is because the employees are not considered individuals to whom the company has distributed the software. Instead they are a part of the company.

I identified some relevant questions in the GPL FAQ. I believe that the first one and third one are what you care about.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#StolenCopy

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePo...

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InternalDistributi...

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributeSubsidia...

I hope that helps. The FSF might respond if you write to them, it's worth a shot if you're still not convinced.
Thank you for letting me know, I'll try to fix this issue.
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Wolfram Alpha never was supposed to be a Google competitor. I'm not sure where you got that idea, but it seems to be a common misconception. It mostly takes your query in natural language and does computations on it, but also has various sources of facts and figures to incorporate into the calculations where applicable. Although there is a little bit over overlap in that Google tries to show information about the terms you searched alongside web search results, and will also do some computations (nothing compared to Wolfram Alpha though), they are not the same thing at all.
Your choice of not wanting to accept the GPL doesn't limit your freedom, you had the choice to accept it and you declined. The fact that the software is copyrighted in the first place is the only thing that could be potentially limiting your freedom, and the GPL cannot do anything about that.
Rachel, we're beta testing a new 'hub' feature of our SDK that allows users to create and share levels, Elemental Fury (http://mgw.us/ef) will be using it in a future version. The hub behaves similarly to a social network, where every level created is a post that can be liked, completed and commented on. You can view the feed of levels that everyone you're following has interacted with, or look at lists of top, new and trending levels. We're curious to see whether it can become an fun multiplayer mechanic for puzzle games
To be fair, Linus uses uemacs. He says "real" emacs is the tool of the devil ;-)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LinusTorvalds/posts/iySKQGtkmtb
Strongly disagree.
1. Your chart could be simplified to 'the temperature at every point on Earth is broadly always the same' - is this a useful visualisation? (Perhaps, but surely not at the same level of detail)
2. In your chart, what should the maximum temperature be set to?

Since we're talking about temperatures on Earth, it's statistically more appropriate to use a range which covers just the minimum and maximum (conceivable) temperatures on Earth.
Most Famous: The hacker from http://books.google.com/books/about/CUCKOO_S_EGG.html?id=0q1... hahaha.
Maven. [shudder] We must speak of this evil no more in public.
Show HN: Game video recording and FPS calculator intercepting DirectX
Show HN: Tapster 2.0, a simple iOS game
Helped a friend give Tapster a complete refresh. Please take a look and let me know what you think!
Great post but the 75% retention thing was odd. All of the SaaS companies we know would flip their shit if annual retention dipped below 98%. Even 98% would be very painful.
Ask HN: How should I replace my dead Chumby?
Woke this morning to no alarm! My Chumby is dead, alas, alack! My main use of it was as a highly configurable alarm, and clock. I know that was a lame use of it, but for those tasks, it was truly head and shoulders above normal alarm clocks.

I guess the TL;DR is what type of device can replace my Chumby as a small, highly configurable, and simple alarm clock?
Consider this example which is based on actual events.
Consider Project A which is based on code released by company X under GPLv2 only. We're grateful for the release of this code and start to develop a project based around it.

Then organisation Y releases Library B, something which would help us immensely with our project. However it's released under the GPLv3 and one of two scenarios occurs, they want to change the license but have distributed copyright ownership and cannot contact the original authors so the license cannot be changed, or they don't want to be seen eroding 'freedom', so they refuse.

Who is right in this situation? Why should two projects who have the goal of progressing FOSS be doomed to non-collaboration?
subscription = no sale

Renting software is bullshit.
So you trust the phone company more than the NSA

It's not about whom you trust more. It's about the power of the phone company to string together your phone calls, your cell phone calls, your Internet access, your library books, and your license plate camera sightings. That power is nil with the phone company since they don't have all that other data and they don't have any kind of reason or mandate to make those kinds of connections. The NSA, on the other hand...
Ironically it might be in the form of a EULA or developer agreement.
Does anybody has the same list with vi?
Living in a bay area city with a recent alarming increase in armed robbery due to a shrinking police force (guess which one), I would suggest that crime, like real estate, is local, local, local. Perhaps Times Square and Talinn are safer than before, but the negative dividends of the crack epidemic, the rise of gangs and guns and glorification of criminal culture, the lack of parenting in at risk communities, and the collapse of municipal finances since 2008 has left cities like mine in the US with soaring violent crime rates.
I guess the JVM is just too sophisticated for my taste.

I think Mies van der Rohe, if he were a coder, would like Go for all the same reasons that Java programmers don't like it.

Like I said, this is religion.

If Java works for you, phenomenal.

I'm not a big fan of languages that become corporate standards, or languages that are now controlled by companies like Oracle.

Perhaps this is just rebellion without cause... but I'm pretty happy worshiping my gods.
We need help: New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens
Hi HN,

There are events unfolding in New Zealand that are pushing forward with questionable surveillance laws despite the NSA scandals. The NZ government wants to legalize collection of meta-data about citizens of the nation with no rules or courts that would be able to interfere, similar to the behaviors of the NSA in the USA. We need to stop this but the government isn't listening despite 85% of NZers being against the change.

The government claims that the "opposition is for the sake of opposition" and that we have "nothing to hide" but the actions of the NSA have illustrated already how this is a problem and now it's about to happen here.

We don't have the EFF fighting for us. We don't have many people who even understand this. If we could get this on the world stage, we might be able to get the government here to listen. If anyone can help with getting the word out, please do. We're losing the privacy battle and nobody cares. Please help spread the world.

Here is some background:

A TL;DR on the proposed changes: http://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1iuu43/can_i_get_a_tldr_on_the_gcsb_and_tics_bills/

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/326441001-gcsb-bill--pm-reckons-people-are-on-his-side

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/13/07/22/239250/new-zealand-government-about-to-legalize-spying-on-nz-citizens

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/politics/8953442/Spy-law-opposition-for-the-sake-of-politics-Key

http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2013/07/23/gordon-campbell-on-peter-dunnes-illusory-gains-on-the-gcsb-bill/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8951548/High-profile-GCSB-bill-opposition?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Wow... he badgered the courts into letting him go? When Jim Bell tried that, they just slapped him with "harassment and stalking of federal agents" and stuck him back in jail.
Live-usb-install | Helmut Hirner's Notizblog
And Vernor Vinge (http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...).
way too many images - whats the TLDR on this?
Senator Wyden: the US could become an irreversible surveillance state
You can use someone else's proprietary modules in MPL code to better your program or library, you can't do the same with (L)GPL.
I dislike the modern neo-positivist tendency to call everything an "accident." To place everything in a single set obliterates that set's meaning. If everything is an accident then nothing is.

To me the money quote though is that we'd need an innovation wave about eight times as powerful as the last one to continue the trend.

Get cracking!
Just used this site to call my representative. It was super easy, and the person who took my message was very polite.

Let's put some momentum on this thing!
US secretary of state threatens Venezuela over Snowden asylum
This is really important to those of us in the infosec industry. A criminal sentence for changing a parameter in a GET tag is not appropriate. I wonder whether blocking tracking cookies could also be considered unauthorized modification.

Unfortunately there's huge incentive for companies with a public reputation to make this sound like the work of evil hackers rather than their own unwillingness to perform basic security protection on their public-facing services. Money on lawyers and PR are only spent when there's a known threat whereas preventative security is successful when nothing happens.
Inside the Chinese village where thousands of artists recreate iconic paintings
Hacking for autism: Apps to help everyone on the spectrum
Were they research positions?
When some corporation sells you some proprietary software, the consumer has the FREEDOM to choose if he wants to fork over his cash in exchange for it.

When the proprietary developer encounters some piece of GPL software, he's being forced to comply with it, even if it's still his own decision whether or not to incorporate the code in his project.

Ah, language.

(TL;DR: nobody is forcing anyone to accept the GPL. The GPL offers you a deal - passing forward the four freedoms is just the price of using the library.)
> I don't want some ed tech startup with vc funding to use this code.

Startups would still be free to use it as long as they abide by the license.

With the AGPLv1, they have to publish their changes. Also, if the project offers a facility for end-users to obtain the source code, it can't be removed, so you can ensure the source remains available, whether modified or not.

AGPLv3 projects must offer the source no matter what.
Did you happen to read the section on Experts Exchange?
I agree the wiki page is more informative.

I'm just posting to say that I peeled off that retardo javascript-required page blocker with the "element hiding helper" add-on to the ad-block plus add-on. I dunno what I was missing without javascript but the site seemed to work pretty well without it.

https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper
The Xbox 180: Why designing the business matters
> Richard Stallman – the creator of GNU Emacs, the founder of GNU

Did anybody think he was secretly using vi in the closet?