skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read Wittgenstein. Or Richard M. Hare. Or Gilbert Ryle.

Not all language is truth-functional, and religious language is a language game which consists of no conditions for Assertibility.

Mathematics is a language game in which every "argument" must bear Assertibility conditions, before Truth conditions are discussed.

Please, stop spinning on this topic, thinkers. This has gone on long enough.
Links posted here aren't necessarily about technology.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Screen shots? Blog? Anything beyond a spammish signup screen?
Does anyone have a link to the pricing info? It's not available anywhere on the https://koding.com homepage. I'd like to know what's actually free and what's paid upfront (hopefully without needing to create an account).

The closest I can find is this snippet from a year ago [1]:

As of right now, Devrim Yasar said, Koding gives developers free access to the social IDE to create their applications, and a pricing system will be worked out for companies interested in purchasing their own solutions. Developers interested in using the free services need not worry: He said anything that is free now will always remain free.

[1]: http://sdtimes.com/link/36498
It apparently makes a surprisingly good emulator.
Lack of a slashdot-like voting system is one of the reasons why, on reddit, subreddits become unreadable when they they hit a number of subscribers (e.g. 100k).
Anonymouth Hides Identity: Open Source Project Combats "Styleometry""
1.usa.gov is a DNS alias to bit.ly
> You'd be surprised at how common this is.

Actually, I would. I would be completely surprised if it is common (by that I mean at least more than IE6 usage) at all. However, you've presented no evidence of this fact only anecdote. Seriously there is absolutely no evidence that there is a growing popularity of no-js people out there. Perhaps for very specific demographics, in which case I certainly hope whoever is building product for them knows their customer well enough to know that or God help them.

Either way they are not going to be building the latest in interactive experiences or web-based gaming for your cousin with her rubbish computer are they. That doesn't discount the fact that many people are building exactly that these days.

I'm tired of people on Hacker News making blanket arguments like "never do this" especially something as bland as requiring javascript. They have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.

Bottom line is if I (and Google and 37 signals and countless others) can choose to build something that doesn't support even IE8 I can quite happily choose to require Javascript to use my web application. I would be an idiot however if I required it for my blog.
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Easy to say when its not yours, I suspect. If he got to this point by thinking he was wasting his life at this thing, why would he consider giving it to someone else to waste their life? And his customers are his friends. It's like giving his friends away to a stranger and saying "don't call me".
Without revealing too much detail... one of our clients happens to be a purveyor of online temptation and, although prostitution per-se may not be paying, the "companionship" model apparently still does sell (if the traffic is any hint).

There's also a surprising number of people drawn to the chat model and a major part of their infrastructure is now geared toward concurrent live streams, sessions and sandboxed chat (HTML / JS; no HTML5 WebSockets yet) with by-the-minute or monthly billing.
Thanks for looking into it, I really appreciate it and will mull over this for a while. A revamp of the pricing is pretty high on my list anyway.

I don't have any data to suggest that larger companies have bigger conference calls, but it may still help the value perception of more expensive plans to limit by number of callers. In fact, most of our $9/month customers aren't Professionals that charge $80-$200 per hour, but people that would otherwise use FreeConferenceCall et al and are already stingy about spending that much. A lot of "randos" signing up from Google or ads are very small companies, non profits, organization committees for various things etc. I like those customers and don't want to lose them, but I agree that I should find a way to separate them from the lawyers that sometimes get the $9/month plan as well.

The reason you'd need multiple lines is if you're multiple people. The premise of HipDial is that each person has their own, dedicated conference line and phone number. E.g. sales teams with a few people will sign up for the Team plan.

The viral mechanics actually work out pretty well like you said. That's the reason we have the free plan, too. On the free plan we used to even send text messages to the participants after the call, asking them to use HipDial as well, but those converted so badly and gave us such a bad rep that we canceled them.
(1) A very special woman. (2) Retracing the travels of my great grandfather from a set of 120 year old postcards around Europe as a sort of photography 'then and now' project, donating imagery to libraries and museums along the way. (3) Writing a history of the region of far southwest China. (4) Learning about construction and sustainable building in preparation for building a house. (5) Buying new test locks and practising lock picking after getting addicted to the sport at OHM2013.
Also, don't visit the links in the image or the top comment. Apparently, the "joke" is that redirect is to a search query on fbi.gov and involves committing a felony.
Oh, it's going to get much worse than this. You know how hard it is to be get a bank account and/or financial services if you are US citizen living abroad? Other countries simply do not want US citizen's business in banking and financial services. It's too much trouble. I think non-US based cloud companies will start to require proof that you are not a US citizen if you want to use their service. It's simply too much trouble complying with their requirements and you're risking too much. Look what happened to Freedom Hosting recently. All those sites hacked by US Gov, partially b/c the US citizen was involved (duel Irish/US).
Does it state anywhere that this is the full amount required? Maybe they need this amount for the finances to work to push it forward and eventually seek additional funding.
Reagan was a divorced California playboy actor!

Seriously; can't find the classic picture of him with a surfboard, but as I recall he was the first President to have been divorced, and that was an issue in the 1980 election. When James Watt did his Beach Boys kerfuffle one thing that reversed it was Reagan and Nancy being fans of the band.
In Vancouver, Traffic Decreases as Population Rises
You spent a significant chunk of your post suggesting self study. For something like math, this is really really really unrealistic. Most pure math textbooks don't have simple problems you can just check in the back. They're multistep proofs that can be done in a number of different ways. Oh, and you encounter plenty of material where you can easily trick yourself into thinking that you really understand it when you actually don't. Additionally, there is a standard of rigor that you don't experience at bad schools (or with no schooling). You could be writing complete nonsense solutions and not even know it.

Also: how are you going to self-study when you don't live at home? Studying is a full time job.
Prototype for peer-to-peer auction classifieds in Phoenix Arizona.

http://www.openvalleymarket.com
I'm an Australian ex-patriot who went straight to Microsoft after study and although myself and other friends who did the same aren't paying back their HECS now we all agree in the mid-to-late future when we return to Australia we will pay our HECS in full and likely later than others so with a little more interest too.

Honestly I think the brain drain is the biggest downside to Australians moving overseas after higher education, it's hard for me to move back after seeing the opportunities here.
I think a HN clone might get better traction not necessarily focusing on hackers/programmers, who likely are already perfectly happy being here. Maybe make one for all the stories and things that HN users don't want to see, or for different communities altogether.
The secret sauce is green.
I don't believe Reagan was ever anti-gay, being an actor in Hollywood and all, and so this doesn't represent much of a change in position.

We could imagine Wallace having regrets for being a racist, because he expressed them in his lifetime. But actually, Wallace was a populist, and overt racism was out of vogue even in Alabama by the late 70s.

Even if stubborn, Reagan was similarly a conservative populist: what do the people say they want, and give it to them. So his war on drugs was geared toward public opinion at the time, and he was right: a lot of Americans hate drugs. But unlike racism going out of vogue, drugs are still considered evil by most (conservative) Americans; what pressure would there be for Reagan to change his opinion now?
This is awesome. So glad you did this!
> Are mobile web apps slow?

A meaningless question. Slow relative to what? Slow for whom? What sort of app are we talking about?
How Do Booters Work? Inside a DDoS for Hire Attack
TLDR; So when it comes to "social networking," thanks but no thanks.
ipv6 support is one of them.
1) What does that have to do with the subject at hand?

2) Citation?
Although I won't upvote this story. I found it interesting and related to economic and cultural trends. Which are not entirely unrelated to technology.
This is a good point, and the most positive interpretation of Zynga's actions.

But I doubt one more competitor in the gaming industry would have a substantial impact on Zynga's long-term health. There are so many competitors already, many of whom create smash-out hits. Zynga does not anymore. OMGPOP's existence or non-existence won't change that.
In grad school, there was one office door that had an envelope taped to it marked "Safeway shuffle" or something like that, with an explanation to take a card and leave a card. It had a similar effect.
What are you people so afraid of? It's standard marketing. You go in a database with millions of others and your data is aggregated and analyzed. Nobody is hunting you down based on what products you purchase from the grocery store.
In languages where verbs and adjectives are not superfluously extraneous.
I never did see his definition of "win", but Clojure does have a great community and I consider that one of its greatest strengths.

That said, I can never see Clojure "winning" as in how Java "won". For all of Clojure's strengths, it's at best an intermediate step up from Ruby, Python, Perl... It's not that next order of magnitude leap of productivity that is necessary to "win".

The research just isn't going in that direction. The research is going into type systems and static guarantees. And I think the real productivity boosters of the future will be in very smart tooling - a conversation with your IDE I would say. Maybe Clojure could have different views (different surface syntaxes). Maybe it could be the basis of something like intentional programming. But straight Clojure with Emacs isn't going to be "winning" in the big way.
Also for more on the tech side, check out the Ugly Mugs web app mentioned in the article.

https://uknswp.org/um/
Right, but it doesn't make sense for it to be on a retail floor then. All the machines should be in a big Amazon style warehouse to share supplies, service support, programmers, etc...
If I were in this position, I'd try to work something out with one or more of the 15 staff. Those are the people most likely to be able to derive ongoing benefit from the business.

Consulting businesses are notoriously hard to sell, the perception (rightly or wrongly) being that a lot of the value lies in the current leadership.
About point 2 and point 3: the quality of the undergraduate education is considered in applicants to top schools. Like I said before, there is definitely a standard of rigor that you don't experience at every school. As soon as you decide to optimize for financial cost (picking the cheapest school, doing community college), you've already placed on a burden on yourself.
Trolling guys with guns and a monopoly on violence seems like a bad idea to me.
Hello Zuviko,

This is Sandy KM. I would like to speak to you on this as have been involved in couple of support projects of softwares like in Barter Industry, BFSI, RE, Enterprise solutions. Let's speak sometime, I have share an invite on Google Hangout.

Thanks & Regards!
Sandy KM
Ingrid,
If you are reading this then please take another shot at the FAFSA. You are quite right that the computer systems and standard rules screwed you over.

That is why Financial Aid Advisers (the ones at your school) can make judgement calls on a case by case basis to override the computer system.

Specifically, there are two qualities of your described situation which qualify you for such an override.
1. You mentioned that you are couch surfing with friends. This means you are homeless
2. You made a good amount on previous employment and your story seems to suggest that said employment is no longer active. This means you have recently lost your job.
According to FAFSA guides for financial aid advisers, professional judgement may be used to adjust parameters which are used to calculate your expected family contribution.

Your situation appears to apply to several typical cases in which professional judgement is recommended.

1. "A student is considered homeless if he or she lacks fixed, regular, and adequate housing. This includes students who are living in shelters, motels, cars, or parks, or who are temporarily living with other people because they have nowhere else to go." -https://fafsa.ed.gov/fotw1314/help/fahelp29a.htm

2. "Special circumstances may include tuition
expenses at an elementary or secondary
school, medical, dental, or nursing home
expenses not covered by insurance, unusually high child care or dependent care costs,
recent unemployment of a family member
or an independent student, a student or
family member who is a dislocated worker
(as defined in section 101 of the Workforce
Investment Act of 1998), the number of
parents enrolled at least half time in a degree, certificate, or other program leading
to a recognized educational credential at
an institution with a program participation
agreement under section 487, a change in
housing status that results in an individual
being homeless (as defined in section 103
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance
Act), or other changes in a family’s income,
a family’s assets or a student’s status. Special circumstances shall be conditions that
differentiate an individual student from a
class of students rather than conditions that
exist across a class of students. Adequate
documentation for such adjustments shall
substantiate such special circumstances of
individual students."
-http://ifap.ed.gov/fsahandbook/attachments/1314AVGCh5.pdf
-http://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/hea98/sec478.html

All of this amounts to the your case calling for professional judgement by your financial aid advisers. I do not know what made them turn you away before but it may be as simple as not knowing. I had a similar situation in school myself, it turned out that the first adviser I worked with was somewhat new to their job and just did not know they could make a judgement call.

Never give up. If it seems like the system is broken, make it work for you. I hope this information helps.

For anyone else who happens to know Ingrid Avendano or how to get her a message, please pass this info along.
> Vote third party. Put the hurt on the major parties and force them to move, and if they do not move, remove them and put new parties in their place.

This is so important. We've been deluded by the right:left dichotomy. We have got to resist the urge.
Not true regarding FERPA. We have a system on AWS and our clients are ok with it given our security measures.
The Hegelian Dialectic in full affect.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_sutton.html
I sometimes feel like a salesman for Unbounce (I actually don't have any business relationship with them): http://www.unbounce.com

Very cool landing page / lead capture app they have going. AB testing baked right in.
Do you buy food from a supermarket? Do you test it for salmonella and ecoli using your own bio-lab?

Do you fly on commercial (or governmental) airlines? Do you personally preflight the plane?

Even if you trust every member of these organizations, that isn't enough. It's them acting as organizations that allows them to achieve safety. If you don't trust organizations, you basically can't function in society.
Sounds like a very long lesson learned on product market fit. Best of luck to the op if he tries again.
If there is one man in this world that can bring 3D virtual reality gaming to the mainstream and do it right, it's John Carmack. We are talking about a guy here with proven interest and knowledge of 3D gaming, this is massive news. I guess given the amount of support John has given to the project, joining the project officially makes sense to me.

Now lets see what his next move is. The gauntlet has been thrown down, lets battle.
Exactly. I have run into this problem with event calendars. For example: Schedule a recurring event for 1pm. It happens to be EDT at the moment so you store the event date/time in UTC by adding 5 hours. Then, in days, weeks, or months, we change to EST. The 1pm meeting is now showing at noon.

To fix this I run a cron job on the ST/DT boundaries that increments or decrements stored date/times in the event calendar.
Onlive does this on pretty much any device, here is their Android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onlive.cli...
I totally get where you're coming from and applaud your responsibility, but as a user I'd kinda prefer to asked 'are you sure about this laughably insecure password?' and click a buton saying 'yes, and it's my problem,' for most things short of email, banking and suchlike. Basically, if you don't collect my credit card details, then chances are I don't care about the security - if I do, I'll switch it later.

That said, I signed up anyway and hope the service does well. I just think this is an ideal candidate for OAuth or some other low-friction thing, because it's supposed to be fun and enjoyable - and I'm a musician, so I'm more professionally interested than most users would be.
The surprising science of happiness
I feel I should mention Mailer

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailer

I think everyone who has ever used the python standard library email modules has had the thought "Well, if I just made a small wrapper around this... it wouldn't be so bad"

And just about everyone who thought that did it.
Disney's Club Penguin is an example of a site with implicit maximum age restrictions.

Per the "How do I become a member?" FAQ [1]:

"It's very simple to become a Club Penguin member. Before you purchase a membership, you'll need to ask an adult for their permission.

"Once you have an adult's permission, visit our Membership page together to add a membership to your penguin account. "

[1] http://www.clubpenguin.com/help/help-topics/membership/how-d...
Apps to Send Smartphone Files Into the Cloud
> The major criticism of the system is that students can just incur this debt then flee the country.

That would be the big roadblock to implementing something like that in the US.

In the US, when evaluating whether or not to do (or continue) some program that provides aid or assistance, there are a lot of people who focus primarily on whether or not it is possible to cheat the system. It doesn't matter to them if 99 out of 100 people getting the aid are following the rules and having their lives greatly improved (and indirectly improving things for the country as a whole). It is that 1 out of 100 who gets aid who did not qualify that is all they see.

> If they earn no taxable income here, they never have to pay it back no matter how much they earn overseas. I can't really think of an easy way to resolve this because it's impossible to garnish income from another country.

This should be solvable. Change the law so that payment is owed on foreign income, even if that income is not taxable in Australia, and make it so that the Australian government can bring a civil suit for a monetary judgement against those who do not pay.

I believe (but someone should check me on this) that at least in the US, Australia could enforce that judgement. The US would recognize the Australian court's jurisdiction (assuming the defendant is still an Australian citizen), and would recognize Australia's right to tax foreign income. That, combined with whatever treaties I am almost certain the US and Australia have, should be enough for the US to consider the judgement enforceable, and to enforce it for Australia.

My recollection is that due to various treaties between most pairs of first world countries, escaping debt in one by going to another is fairly difficult, unless the debt in the first involved something that is morally frowned upon in the second. E.g., if you owed a pimp for prostitution services in some country where prostitution is legal, countries where prostitution is not legal might not recognize this even if they otherwise recognize debts from the first country.
Previous discussion (2011):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555349
I dub thee, Heroku-Killer.
> And, errr, here you posit "total - non-trivial number < most"

I would posit that you have a significantly higher percentage of pro-legalization Democrats than Republicans. Most opposition to legalization comes from Republicans.

Consider H.R. 499, the bill to legalize marijuana. It had 16 co-sponsors; 15 of them Democrats and only 1 Republican.
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/499/cosponsor...
It's possible something like Vagrant may help, but there's still a learning curve.
> but it doesn't make sense for it to be on a retail floor then

It's showmanship and a selling point.

many 3d printers smell aweful too. Doesn't mean they're not still a spectacle.
> And from the famous Ivy League schools, it's generally easier to get accepted for a Ph.D. than for a Bachelors.

Since in many cases PhD is basically free, it is by far more competitive than Bachelors.
This is a good reminder, especially to contractors and freelancers, that when you receive a contract, it's just the beginning of a negotiation, not a sign-and-send situation.