skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that a well known mark should get more protection because it is well known--otherwise people could just trademark every word in the dictionary and enforce it with equal weight as Google.

But OP wasn't using Facebook, he wasn't using Facebok, he wasn't using Facbook, he wasn't pretending to be Facebook, we wasn't competing with facebook, he wasn't using the colors, the image, or anything related to the brand.

No, he was punished (i.e. the government used force against him to hider his free market ability) for using a name that started with Face. That's simply not a threshold that we, as a society, should accept as protected--no matter the popularity of the brand, no matter the laws a group of 435 people influenced heavily by corporations have managed to actually pass.

Besides that, the ruling is by it's very nature a subjective decision. I disagree with their subjective decision.
Dude, your missing his point entirely. He's saying that young males are smoking weed instead of doing hard drugs and therefore less likely to commit violent crimes. It may or may not be true, but it's an interesting thought.
This seems like a well thought out measure for development that considers life expectancy, education, and income. It adjusts each of these factors for inequality by the geometric mean of the factor across the population. [1]

This is similar to assigning a logarithmic utility to income, life, and education and estimating the loss from inequality by looking at the difference between the computed utility and what one would get if income, life expectancy, and education were constant across the population.

I once did a calculation like this for income over the last century, and noticed that although inflation-adjusted mean incomes have risen since the 1970s, once inequality is accounted for, that rise disappears.

[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/papers/HDRP_20...
Technically you could just run a standard LAMP stack since it's running an ARM-compatible version of Ubuntu. It just won't take advantage of the multiple processors.
Not sure if you're trolling, but hyperbole involving a comparison to Nazi's is surely a godwin. Go on, read up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

"Godwin's law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Nazis – often referred to as "playing the Hitler card"."

Your point is obscured by making a hyperbolic claim that ignores the actual impact of the wrong action.
Win for Monsanto: US raises allowable levels of company’s pesticide in crops
Oh waaaaah, poor spammers are losing money.
How are RMS & JWZ not famous for using emacs? I was expecting more people outside of the usual computer science & industry suspects.
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It's also simply bad business. It puts all US internet companies at a huge starting disadvantage against internet companies in countries which don't force private organizations to silently spy for their national militaries by default.

Sure, assuming that the US is the only country that would be involved in such activity.

> Personally, the "we only spy on non-Americans!" bit bothers me because my wife is permanent resident, not a US citizen. Should I be concerned about the distinction? What privacy is she afforded?

She's treated the same as a US citizen would be. The law covers US persons, which include green card holders.

I'm not saying the whole NSA/PRISM story isn't concerning. Just that the idea of limiting the NSA's(and, presumably, other agencies) surveillance on foreign individuals who are specifically under investigation (whatever that means, the OP wasn't specific) is a non sequitur idea that finds no meaningful support in our constitution.
I'm a happy customer of both Simple.com and USAA. Both are very customer focused banks. The industry is being broken down, just really really slowly.
New Zealand: Up to 85 cases of illegal spying uncovered
> any suggestions on how to fix this?

Could you have separate input boxes for each segment of the phone number? (as in #2 here: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1015 )
98%? Can I ask who your SaaS companies are selling to? If you are reaching a diverse business audience, I would think > 2% of your customers each year would implicitly cancel by going bust.
That's odd, I consider ';' as one of the easiest things to type. What kind of keyboard are you on?

I'm a C++ developer and go so far as to make it harder. I map ; to <esc> in vim, and enter the actual char with a second ; (from from normal mode).
So what is the final state of the switch be if you want your self NOT to be tracked or reduced the amount of tracking : OFF or ON ?
Yeah, I don't have nearly such a problem with simulations. You don't have to hurt somebody to make them, you're not embarrassing anybody by distributing them (it's typically illegal to distribute any private photograph that the subject does not want distributed), it's not at all clear that simulations increase the likelihood of acting stuff out in the real world, and they may even have a net positive effect over no porn at all. In my own experience with child sexual abuse, if the perpetrators had had access to simulated porn, it's quite reasonable to think that maybe there wouldn't be as much of a problem.

Although I believe that it's harder to detect fake ivory than it is to detect fake child porn, below a certain age.

And I also believe that legalizing videos of illegal acts encourages the illegal acts, provided the videos are willingly being made by the criminals and they are being used for entertainment as opposed to journalism or analysis. But this is really just a belief, and I do understand that you have the opposite belief.
I can confirm this. The language is "limit ad tracking" instead of "disable," which worries me a bit.
Those projects aren't doomed to non-collaboration because that is a non-issue. Worst case scenario you'll have to modify one of those projects so they can invoke the other one as an external program. Free software license incompatibility is blown way out of proportion.
The Trap
The transparent avatar in your brain
Does Docker really not allow you to set environment variables? That would be a rather strange design choice, if true. And I always took the config requirement of 12factor to mean you keep it out of source control. Store it wherever you want, be it Chef, Capistrano, or just a shell script you use to deploy, but keep it out of your code.
No, they'll garnish my wages. That doesn't require violence at all, the banks and/or my employer will be quite happy to comply.
Mailing lists are supposed to be filtered into the Updates or Forums tab, depending on whether they are computer-generated or sent by humans.

You can drag the first few emails into the appropriate tab to teach Gmail to do the same for future messages.
You can use xclip on Linux (presumably other X based systems) to write to the clipboard.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
The site did run fine for me without java script, after I deleted the semi transparent div that told me that the site needs java script. ( Apparently to automatically hide the div.)

Seriously, I sometimes wonder if there would be a market for a lightweight text display app, the server would then serve some kind of markdown text, perhaps with a few hints like headlines and the client would render the text based on the local screen setting and the hints of the text structure in the markdown. That would be great for short articles.
I think people either really overestimate the abilities of lawyers, or underestimate a persons ability to learn and understand the law and legal process themselves.

Yes, good lawyers are valuable and cannot be underestimated. But let's not be fooled to think that some C student lawyer who limped though the Bar is any more capable than someone with passion and intellect devoted to a specific case or issue.
Near as I can tell, he's saying that the advertisement tracking toggle (located under General > About, down past the version numbers, MAC addresses, etc.), named "Limit Ad Tracking" and defaulting to "Off" is actually another brilliant example of Apple's premier, user-centric interface experience design.

But I've never really figured out the "double-negative, Newspeak is good for you!" thing, so I'm not sure.
1000 levels! I think I'm going to call it a night at level 21 in that case. Enjoyed it so far. Well done :)
"Existential depression" is not a euphemism, it has a specific meaning. While, I do not have the primary references to back up my point [so I guess you may take me to task for that] I too am very much immersed in the gifted field. There is most definitely a consensus among the people who deal with gifted children, especially their emotional needs, that existential depression hits earlier and more often in these kids than in the general population of children. I do not know about giftedness in general, including adult giftedness.
While the general assessment is correct, I think the core argument confuses marginal and fixed costs.

Say the average customer represents R dollars in annual revenue. That’s:

$4R of revenue over the lifetime of the customer. But:
$1.5R is spent to acquire the customer (the pay-back period).
$1.2R is spent in gross margin to service the customer (4 years times 30% cost).
$0.6R spent on R&D (15% over 4 years).
$0.6R spent on Admin (15% over 4 years).

The last two items strike me as decidedly fixed. That is, that until some critical mass is hit, there is no difference in cost for R&D and things like HR between supporting one customer, five customers, or fifty customers. Therefore it isn't appropriate to allocate a set percentage to each customer as once you've established an R&D department, each incremental customer is not contributing 15% of its margin to that cost.

Additionally, there is an inherent assumption that no matter what, as long as the company is growing it will necessarily be unprofitable. This is only true if you can assume that there is no point that your customer base is large enough to overcome customer acquisition costs. In reality, the pace of growth is probably going to level off at some point whereas the churn rate of the customer base could be low enough to turn a profit.

I know that the assumption was 70% retention but this seems largely speculative and unfair considering the considerable R&D spend. If new developments are made, one might assume higher retention is a possibility.
The article is a bit confusing, since, as far as I can tell, the "first model to be shipped" only has 16 (+2 ARM) cores. The 64 (+2) core board is not shipping/reservable yet.

Congrats to the people at Parallella though! I've been excitedly checking their site/twitter about every other day.
Except jackets have no recurring revenue.
Like you just said, the government can already generally enforce their laws just fine without violence.

If you go try to beat up the policeman when they come at you with a signed warrant, or ever point a gun in their direction, then don't be surprised when they don't decide to just roll over and die. This is, again, consonant with you mention about personal assault.

But don't try to brush away the question: What does an anarchist propose to do about thieves? Rapists? Murderers? Apparently your answer will not involve violence and will involve sterning telling people to be moral to each other. But I'm not worried about people who are moral, I'm worried about people who aren't.
Commercial newsletters are not a problem - and having tabs for Promotions and Updates made them more friendly.

This way, users can review and maybe-read the newsletters once a week, instead of having them mixed with actually urgent emails from their family and "server is down" alerts.
I find it strange that Daniel Weinreb, Guy Steele and Richard Stallman are on this list. Steele co-wrote ?macs with David Moon and John Kulp. Dan Weinreb was a beta tester on ?macs before Stallman joined the project, and he would later become the first one to write an Emacs in a lisp (EINE). Stallman, of course, created GNU Emacs. Putting them on a list with Assange and Zuckerberg is ridiculous.
Take out theocratic and you could be talking about Obama. Leave it in and it could be Bush.
And the last line of the last commit to his uemacs repo is, "I really should just learn another editor, rather than continue to polish this turd."

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/diff/?i...
To be fair, the KDE team knew that they were dealing with a corporate entity that would want to retain some sort of control over how software it creates and distributes is licensed.
Signing a CLA is nothing new, in fact the FSF do exactly the same thing so they can shunt their projects to the next GPL without having to contact developers.
If developers have an issue with such an arrangement, then they shouldn't be contributing to those companies and organisations in the first place.
The name of the game on the landing page, "Penguin Plunge", is the name of a different game in the iOS app store.

I liked the gameplay. The game would be a bit better if you could undo more than once.
> Also important: money is fungible.

Yes and no. Congress can specifically prevent agencies from spending money on given activities with riders on budget bills. Evading such a ban would be a bigger deal than the current story, if only because congress would have explicitly stated tha such activities may not be conducted with congressionally provided funds. Assuming word of the program got out.
Cryptographically Secure Bloom Filters [pdf]
FreePress.net | URGENT: Call Congress to Stop the Spying
"Cloud Native": Data persistence with the Object Store and the Block Store
Very well written, enjoyed it. (Obviously fictional, just in case).
By the way, if I were a highschool student, I would totally take a programming class in this vein, so don't take me the wrong way.

May I suggest age-segmented lessons? Pretty pictures for a little kids who want to play with it, and a focused curriculum for older kids?
I kind of got the impression that Weev getting sent up for identity fraud was a lot like Al Capone getting it for tax evasion. Which is to say, he was a sadistic monster of a troll who delighted in ruining people's lives, but he was cunning enough to never quite cross the criminal-harassment line with anyone brave enough to press charges, so they got him on this instead.

It's a rotten precedent, and I can't really blame anyone for opposing it on principle, but let's do remember that Weev himself is not any kind of hero.
I agree with you. It's perfectly reasonable for a firm to pour money into its customer acquisition machine so long as the return is greater than the cost of capital plus a risk premium.

Failure to reinvest every dollar under those circumstances is a Type I error.
Hell, it probably is true. But it is something that can and should be covered an agreement. The alternative is no agreement and the status quo of nations spying on each other, and citizens getting caught up in the crossfire since we now all share the same Internet.
A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95
Adam Hupp from Facebook gave an interesting talk at the last HN London around how FB managed the scaling of the kind of thing that pump.io seems to be offering:

http://vimeo.com/70563893
PIN Cracking Schemes
I had the exact same sentiment when I read that line. If marketers were typing each email instead of doing a generic name substation, then I could understand this, but they aren't.
In many cases you can with LGPL, and you can with GPL if you explicitly add a licensing exception.

Also, regarding "use ... proprietary modules ... to better your program or library": depends on your definition of "better", but if that's one of your goals, then I agree that you don't want the GPL.
Generally, it's illegal not to use banks beyond a certain point.

That is, transporting large amounts of cash is strong evidence of criminal behaviour, is subject to seizure, etc.
There's nothing "Exactly" about it, unless you're trying to claim that cultural norms are the same as races now.
The law is not a computer program that you can fool by giving it unexpected inputs.

Bitcoin is obviously a currency. Law that applies to currency applies to Bitcoin. Trying that "it's just electronic messages" thing in front of a judge will get you laughed out of court.
Other comments made in this thread by snitko.

"Police officers, firefighters, teachers... Could it be that we don't really need any government to finance them? The demand is there. Private companies will be more than happy to fill it."

"I agree. Let's use Bitcoin. It's possible right here today and you don't give anyone a cut."

I hope people read the books OP mentioned. Anyone who advocates that we get rid police officers, firefighters, and teachers in place of private entities is an extremist. Plain and simple.

He mentions David D. Friedman and Stefan Molyneux whom are libertarians. It doesn't matter if the government is funding private prisons, private prisons have one goal and one goal only: to get as many prisoners as possible. They will do whatever they can to get more prisoners. They've permanently damaged families across the country. How would you fund prisons beyond taxes? Bill the prisoner? The family? What about someone who maintains their innocence? The point of the matter is that snitko has come into a thread and contributed absolutely nothing.
Yes, there is another game named Penguin Plunge. This is the free app and the full title is "Penguin Plunge: Stuck in Antarctica!".

I agree being able to undo more than once would be nice. I'll look into changing this in a future update.
Kamcord (YC S12) - Networking and early traction
Also don't forget that Weev was considering selling the info he got, before he decided to be lazy and just tell the world. So not only is he a massive troll, but his motives for the "hack" were also less than saintly.
You want it to be ON
This is a real life example of a scenario currently playing out between LibreCAD (GPLv2 only) and LibreDWG (GPLv3) because the former was based on the source code released from a company who has no intention of changing it and the latter is the FSF, who see anything but the latest and greatest GPL version for their own projects as undermining free software.
So you have a situation where you have a program and a library that would really benefit each other, yet are unable to combine that code and distribute it.
Vim not vi.

Or does anyone actually use vi?
Clicking that link to inky.com, I had to roll my chair 2 meters backwards to view that screenshot without getting the feeling it's pushed into my face. Large fonts and design is great, really, but in my personal opinion this is too large.

Edit: And I hear from others that they can actually download it. I was looking for "where the hell is their call to action, can I test it somewhere?" but there is just nothing. Turns out that Windows users do get a download link, and Linux users are told "shut up you are not supported and we have no clue that humans invented emulation software that might just work, or at least tell them they can try it in a Windows VM".
Or download it: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
And web server that would take advantage of the multiple cores?
Yes. Comparison. That's the difference. I didn't say "Cyanogenmod is like Hitler". I said "IBM did work for Hitler 60 years ago, and people still remember that." If anything, I compared Cyanogenmod to IBM.

Using the word Nazi or Hitler does not equal a Godwin. The fact that this needs to be explained so damn often really just shows that we need a new law. Freehunter's Law says that any discussion that mentions the words Nazi or Hitler will invariably get someone to invoke Godwin's Law improperly and make a fool out of himself.

Again: Never made a comparison to Hitler. If you're speaking English as a second language, I'll forgive you.
What about the battery life ?
I have also a discrete GPU in addition of the Intel HD 3000 on my HP laptop and when I disable it (with acpi_call) I have 35-40% more autonomy.
Perhaps, but having filtered tabs for Promotions, Updates, Social and Forums is fantastic.

Most of the time when checking email, I only want to know if something urgent and personal has come up. I can read the mailing lists and newsletters once a week when bored.
97-Year-Old Makes Art Exclusively With Microsoft Paint
This story illustrates two things that invalidate a lot of excuses.

1. It's probably not too late to start a new skill.

2. For digital drawing/painting in particular, the tools probably aren't as important as most people think. (Though to say they're not important would be lying. Bad tools shorten your life.)
There's a real lack of context in that article so it's worth mentioning that a less generic thread about this exists here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093710
Which keeps you up to date on important events and helps network with others in the industry. Not the most productive use of time, but better than playing snake.
One large claim made here is that while Dark Patterns may increase subscription rates, they hurt brand image. Are there any scientific studies measuring the magnitude of such damage? Perhaps the occasional irritation is worth 5 others "duped" into accepting more advertising.
I think pg uses vi.
Because that's the legal side of this. You can compile and run GPL software on your computer without agreeing to the licensing terms, but you may not do it. It is very unlikely that someone will check your HDs for offending uses, and besides, any use of GPLed software assumes an implicit acceptance of its license, so if such a check is happening, you would have to be there to say: "I have it but I am not agreeing to the terms". That sounds a bit silly doesn't it?

That's how the rules have been made, and not complying could be assimilated to piracy.
Parse this list: http://wikitravel.org/en/List_of_country_calling_codes to generate a dropdown menu where you choose you country and it puts an uneditable +XX beside the number.

Bonus #1: Most visited country default option

Bonus #2: Use IP geo to pick country
Docker absolutely let's yiubset and read environment variables either via docker run or via the Docker file with the ENV directive.
Things like regulatory capture make it hard for small players to get started in entrenched industries. Some examples: telecommunications (getting leases on existing pipes to sell your services), meat processing (look at the regs that small producers like Polyface Farms have to comply with), car manufacturing (look at the opposition Tesla is facing trying to sell direct to the consumer) -- and yes, banking.
Manipulation and Design
To me an email survey is not personal. If you actually wrote an email to me, saying "Hey Joe, I see that you're doing x, y and z. What can I do to make your experience better?" which is written to me for me and not generic, that's establishing a relationship. I've gotten a hand written card from Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg which I've kept because that is personal.
New MIT software makes it easier to design complex 3D printed objects
Hear Justin Kan, Bill Clerico, Jude Gomila & Ammon Bartram discuss YC's future
I still think he is. He's too productive not to be.
As an aside, that article says that Haskell can't guarantee Monads to also be Functors. Is that a language problem or library problem?
The site is so simple I'm going to feel like an idiot if missed it, but is there a video of the gameplay? I'd rather see that before I give you my email/phone number.