skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to see GoLang running on that thing.
Here's the thing, I think the CAN-SPAM act actually defined this pretty well:

The CAN-SPAM Act defines commercial messages as those
that primarily advertise or promote a commercial product or
service. The FCC’s ban does not cover “transactional or
relationship” messages -- that is, notices to facilitate a
transaction you have already agreed to -- for example,
messages that provide information about your existing
account or warranty information about a product you’ve
purchased.

If you have an account with them, and it's informational, even if it's just about a new service you can take advantage on that account you already have, they can contact you about it.

If you don't want that, opt out.

If you don't like how they handled the email process, complain to the company.

If you still don't like it, stop using the service.

Anything else just means that they have no way of notifying you about anything unless you visit their site. In some cases, I sure as hell want to know if they are offering free services or other promotions. In others, I opt out.
They won because the products (messaging) are identical, the customers (people over 13) are the same, the distribution channels (the Internet) are the same, and because Facebook has a huge recognition in the social media sector (matched in the survey only by Twitter) and many many users (despite the fact that people can sign up for more than one account).

Facebook aren't asking to police all uses of Face*, they asked to stop a specific trademark for a single product.
The tweet is now deleted.
That's not true. I can see individual pixels from my 1080p projector sitting 15 feet away. My screen is huge though.
It wouldn't fly, because to the copyright holder, the license simply doesn't apply. At all. You only need a license if you're restricted by copyright law from doing what you're doing, but copyright law doesn't restrict the holder themselves.
Regarding 1, I really don't believe you can run code without copies, or copies of a derivitave work, being made in the process.

That said, I can't read a book without reflections in my eyes...
Very cool. I haven't often seen pixel art outside the context of icons or video games.

Edit: He has a website: http://hallasko.com
It'll take a long time. Observe that:

1) Unemployment is high and shows no signs of structural reduction, and minimum wage remains flat.

2) Salaries for computer programmers are at an all-time high, when you can recruit them.

3) Energy and materials costs continue to increase.

It doesn't make economic sense to have a lot of highly-paid engineers building resource-intensive robots when you can hire people to do the same jobs.
I'd just like to add that this is a bit less true in some European countries, specifically with regards to fatherhood. With the introduction of "use it or lose it" paternity leave, it's getting much more accepted and even expected for fathers to take a few months off. When you see men with strollers everywhere, and fathers hanging out at the park in groups while their kids are playing, attitudes tend to change pretty quickly. It's just one area though, the "man up, grow a pair" attitude will probably always be there.
Except, law is invariably perverted to provide an advantage to a select group.
It is good to see that some politicians still have the balls to speak truthfully about this issue...
The NSA continues to be viewed as a shadowy government agency, limited in its capabilities by federal law. But what do we really know about that? Besides trivial inconvenience, is there any real disadvantage to taking the most paranoid and defensive stance against it?

I continue bringing this up whenever a submission like this appears, because I am very much afraid that the technical community will accept a congressional victory as "okay, let's continue business as usual", when we need to be reinventing everything that has made mass-wiretapping possible in the first place.
Update: If you go to the SDK, they do have linux support (version 0.8.0.5300) as a Debian package. From the release notes, it supports: Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

I was able to install and run it on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. It had a dependency issue because I had previously upgraded to lts-quantal - the install did not recognize the OpenGL package because it was (from memory) "libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-quantal" instead of the expected "libgl1-mesa-glx", but I did a --force-depends and it installed and ran fine.
wow... next you will be able to trademark letters
As someone who works at a relatively large warehouse for a billion pound UK retailer, i can attest to the "walking is not pretty light exercise". Sure, if you walked for leisure, it'd be nothing, but when you have such high targets you need to reach and management always peering around corners and always ending their conversations with "Okay now, hurry up you're falling behind", it makes the experience way more difficult. Also, the breaks are set out in a way that makes life absolute hell (for me, anyway). On Saturday, we have 10-15 minutes after 2 hours. Then 2 hours after that, we have a 45 minute unpaid lunch. Then 2 hours after that, we have a 20 minute break. That day goes by so fast and without any problems. On Sundays, we have a 15 minute break less than an hour after our shift starts. After 2 hours, we have 45 minute unpaid lunch. 2 hours after that, we have our last break. Then we have a solid block of 3.5 hours without any rest. It typically takes me a full day of resting my feet to feel better because i'm not the lightest person, and being on my feet for so long especially without rest really makes a big big difference when comparing Sat and Sun.

Yes, i have made it known to senior management that this break arrangement is bizarre for Sundays (it's because we work 12pm - 8pm on Sat but on Sunday, it's 2pm - 10pm so everything shifted forward 2 hours apart from the breaks, which have to accommodate to permanent staff who still work 12pm - 8pm on Sunday). They just tell em they're working on it. Not a lot of people listen to agency workers there, seeing as though we hardly last 2 or 3 months, but i've been working for almost a year now and still i've not got half the attention that's given to permanents. Has it got to do with unions or something?
So the solar panel itself heats up the environment, even if the roof is in shade?
I personally wouldn't do it unless they were also willing to put money on the table. The amount of equity seems very high and makes me doubt how competent they actually are.

Also I'm not familiar with SBIR grants, but frankly I'd run a mile from an advisor who suggested that a software startup go the "government grant" route of financing.
There's a reason that Apple and advocates like the FSF are on different sides here. I know which side I'm on: do you?

In the US the Democrats and Republicans clash on many issues. There are reasons for this as well, which have mostly to do with self-interest. Does this mean that I have to choose one of them, even if my interests align with neither? Might there be a better choice beyond those two?

I'm pretty certain I'm not on either side.
> Where does the idea come from that Python releases at undeterministic time?

It's not the time that's undeterministic, it's that the 'deconstructor' may not be called at all if python can't guarantee collecting cyclical references in the right order. The object will still be released/deallocated.

In this sense, Objective-C—mostly because you have complete control over the reference counting—has superior reference counting semantics.

I'd like to note that there's nothing stopping Python from using similar approaches.
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We're using it where a client requests to pay via cheque. Assumption here is they don't to provide credit/debit card details and frankly I don't mind given the fees Dwolla charge (25c vs. 3%).

Just over 50% of our clients have chosen Dwolla when originally they wanted to pay via cheque to date.
She :)
This complaint is borderline non-sensical to me. Maybe Haskell is magic?

If ZeroMQ transported anything besides binary blobs, it would be marshaling objects or enforcing some kind of encoding to your data, which would dictate much more about your program. Are you upset that you had to use some Haskell.Vector to void* to Haskell.Vector code?

Are threads in Haskell not asynchronous by nature? Do you get synchronization for free somehow?
Neal Stephenson is missing from this list: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson
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As a public market investor, this sort of thing drives me batty. Many companies won't release an actual churn rate, but only a "dollar retention rate," as above. Yelp is one of them.

While the dollar retention rate is certainly nice to know, knowing the actual customer (logo) churn is critical to evaluating the cost of acquisition and overall profitability.

As Jason points out, if it costs too much up-front to acquire each customer, you can still go broke even with a nice-looking dollar retention rate--you still have to pay to acquire the customers you lose.
The map is highly inaccurate, I guess the designer used Illustrator (or similar vector tool) and applied some effects/transformations to the curves representing the borders.
Perhaps look at having an Advisory Board. The kudos could be sufficient payment. Especially if you become a big success.

Alternatively, look at offering them stock options. If they believe in what you're doing, and want continued involvement, then it's worth asking them to have "skin in the game". Their advice will be more tailored to your success if you do.

Ask other businessmen what the cost of offering equity to outsiders is. It's usually more than the cost of giving away something intangible.
Immutability's great, I pass around Callables of final variables in Java all the time to accomplish CSP and immutability.

That's not to say you can only have immutability, though, we're humans here and capable of reasoning about happens-before relationships. I wouldn't implement a parallel linear algebra library, for example, that didn't use mutable just-plain-arrays of floating point values..
The person tweeting about a Royal Baby is probably not the same person thats trying to solve an outage...
All such agencies will lose if we start creating software more responsibly. I understand that Stallman is a somewhat controversial figure here, but his mantra of "freedom over convenience" might bear repeating.
Can you post a list of all lawsuits filed against WTFPL licensed software?
I believe it actually uses the dominant color of the favicon.
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Nicely done, I'm on level 11 and having a good time with it so far. A question and some feedback:

I've always wondered how people do level design for puzzle games like this. Is there a formula or is it just experimentation?

I think the feedback when sliding the penguin could be improved. Sometimes it doesn't respond at all and when it does it either goes or doesn't move at all. I think it would feel better for the user if the penguin slid with your finger but would pop back into place if you don't pass a threshold.
Well logically that still means everyone thinks all software is free. :-)

Excellent metaphor aikido there though.
No, just all uses of FACE- and -BOOK on the internet.

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Facebook,%20Inc.
As a very frequent flier, I want more power tools, not prettier interfaces. When I had the status on Delta, I ended up booking most of my tickets through the Diamond Desk simply because they had tools that let us much more efficiently search the itineraries I was interested in. For any given trip, there are often many thousands of ways to fly it, with very complex trade-offs between the options. Once you get to multi-city trips with things like open jaws and stopovers, all hope is pretty much lost if you're trying to do it without working with the airline.

What I really want is a text query interface to QPX without needing to be an airline and pay seven figures for it. (That's not hiding somewhere in the Matrix interface, is it?) Especially if I could cross-reference it with flightaware's revenue and load data, which is super useful for things like predicting upgrades. Kayak's nice, but it still takes hours to go through all the options, flipping between the tabs. I don't really get Hipmunk.

TL;DR: Flight search is extremely complicated and these screen shots don't cover any of the things I find difficult.
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And then there's science. People are paid to work on things or do it because they want to do it. Once they do something valuable they publish it and everyone can build upon their work.

Openness gave us modern world. Copyright gave us Hollywood and Sony Music.

Property is inherent thing. Not only human. Monkeys also want to own things and they don't like thieves. But extending physical property qualities to creations of human mind is just something some rich people did to get richer.
Heh, no hurt feelings here and I don't think you really needed to make a throwaway account just to play devil's advocate. I guess "how do I quit my day job?" sounds a bit off when you put it like that. I recognize that most good teachers work more than 40 hours a week and I wouldn't mind doing that. I didn't bring this up yet, but my wife is a social worker and I admire her for what she does every day, helping people who really need it. I just feel like if I could teach kids advanced computer topics it would be a better (subjective) use of my talent than working directly or indirectly for the military. If I just wanted money the path of least resistance is right in front of me. I could leverage this internship for any entry level software engineering job and at a lot of companies / locations be making plenty to provide for my family. I just wouldn't be happy.
I was buying leaded gas in Indiana as late as 1990, and had no trouble finding it in the general Illiana area. I don't think it's fair to say it was "mostly gone" in the 70s.
when we need to be reinventing everything that has made mass-wiretapping possible in the first place.

Are you suggesting we somehow roll back the last sixty-odd years of telecommunications and information technology? What do you suggest we replace it with?
He has a planet sized ego made of tissue paper. Not much point in engaging to be honest because you just get to join the end of a line of victims. Live and let live?
I'd note that you may get more views at the Who's Hiring Threads, done at the first of every month.
I use the WTFPL too since it is the most free license and easiest license to understand. It also deals with the non-issue - but common complaint - that "public domain" does not exist in some backwoods third world jurisdictions.

I also use the zlib license which is very similar to WTFPL. It has restrictions against misrepresentation of origin, which in practice only affects plagiarists, so isn't a substantial limitation. An advantage of the zlib license over the WTFPL is that it can be used in "professional corporate" environments where suits have a hissy fit if they see the letters "WTF" in a license, saying that any use of that term is in some way immoral, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they personally are secretly cheating on their spouse, engaging in insider trading, embezzling, looking at donkey porn, and drowning kittens in their spare time at their palatial estate.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html

These two licenses are the ones that preserve actual freedom, unlike certain others that propaganda artists often apply the word "freedom" to, using a definition that exists only in their own imagination and is not consistent with the commonly accepted understanding of the word. These licenses are also comprehensible and far less ambiguous than certain other licenses as well. The zlib and WTFPL licenses are good and useful licenses that are worth consideration by any developers looking to license their code in a way that maintains as much freedom as possible.
> When I went on my first interview at Sun, I thought it made office furniture. The ad had said it was a maker of "workstations", so I thought it was like Hay cubicles. I did not know a thing about high-tech or computers. I lucked into one of the all-time best gigs.

I had a good chuckle at that. Reminded me of this interview from "The IT Crowd" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuPolrd9yuo
Snipers aimed at engineers? Really?
Thanks so much for your feedback.

I designed the first 50 levels by experimentation. There are a total of 1000 levels, so the last 950 were computer generated.

That's a really great idea and definitely something I would love to implement in the next update.
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The good thing with online bullies is that they often don't have all that much power. You can be content to ignore them. And sure, maybe sometimes a sharp reply is needed, but stick to the facts, don't get dragged into the mud.
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I like the comment that disagrees and then ends by saying "I am not sure what Mr. Dao is looking for except a hug."

Tut tut Mr. Dao. Did you think you were going to be allowed to "lean out" just then?
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Admittedly I did not make it through the whole article, but the comparison to iOS early on is laughable. The difference is A) access to a social graph of your friends and their trivial online activities vs B) a powerful touch screen computer in your pocket.

The Facebook API did not have some incredible mishandled potential. Instead, it was a very cool and forward-thinking API that had to constantly be modified to fight spam and keep up with Facebook's rapidly evolving product (which is a couple orders of magnitude more engaging now than it was in 2007 I might add).

Sure the Facebook API could have been better managed. Documentation and stability could have been better for sure. Maybe even the features could have been better. But the Facebook API is not a world changer. The Twitter API is more along the lines of a world changer, but they decided they needed to build the most profitable business possible and being plumbing was not in the cards. The Facebook API is a way to bolster the core Facebook product (which is amazing, probably the most engaging product ever created in human history short of addictive substances). This idea that if they just did right by developers it could have been so much more amazing is just a cyberpunk fantasy. The Facebook API could never be more than a reflection of a product.

Looking back on the mashup era, the future is not going to be from the goodwill of corporations to provide amazing APIs. Rather it will be open source, open protocols and open data that allow for true advancement in the state of the art.
Yeah, there are just so many possibilities now. There is something wrong with your link, though.
I'm surprised that pressing enter on the result in Spotlight doesn't copy it to the clipboard. Amusingly, it opens up the Calculator which I never need after getting the answer.
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I've been on google+ since the beginning (2nd half of 2011).

For the whole 18-20 months whenever I have gone to google+ on the web it has first had an obstacle "Find your friends" page asking me to spam all my contacts about google+.

It still does it even today. There is no opt-out or "stop asking me to do this" checkbox. Even though I am an active plus user with posts and comments, it still treats me like a first timer.

I'm trying to get into google+ but there is no way I'm going to spam my friends.

That it has been doing this to me hundreds of times for nearly two years is unbelievable.
Works fine with safari on my 2008 macbook.
No, that's Amazon.
I tried to use it a lot when it came out. It seemed like the strategy would be to use trial and error as a method for teasing out tricks in the syntax. However, very little seems standardized, and what works one month, means something else the next month, so it's difficult to get "good" at using it.

It is also difficult to be explicit about types, such as what you mean if you input "orange", or "Washington", and it doesn't seem to allow grouping with parentheses, etc—though admittedly I gave up pretty quickly when I got inconsistent results.

It probably did become a better "computational engine" than Google Calculator, once Google Calculator seemed to shift to a smaller focus on what it could do.

At one point I thought maybe its best functionality was as an alternative to Wikipedia, when comparing different members of a category, because the information would be consistently structured. Yet, the source data is pretty terrible. One, because they appear to have had little strategy for keeping it current, and, two, because without user input it's even more likely that the source is something bizarre, when with Wikipedia someone with domain specific knowledge would have been able to lend a hand.
Really enjoyed reading that. Just got through the first two.

Here's a list of the links for anyone who wants to read em all. (reverse order)

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My comment referred to the Techdirt story to which this thread was originally attached, as you might have discerned from the fact that it refers to Techdirt.
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I do that too, with textadept & Lua instead of Emacs & elisp.