skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now, in the present, we live in a world where English is the dominant language (again, having a huge number of speakers it's a whole different thing) so, as a citizen, you have to adapt.

Secondly, at a no point I said anything against this guy, he at least put in the effort and is commendable. My whole point was that thinking about resorting to translators instead of thinking about how to improve the number of English speakers is being narrow-minded. It's like saying: building a dam is hard, let's just keep the floods coming.
I followed RED closely when they first started and it's sad to see Jannard bow out like this. Their accomplishments as stated in his letter do sound impressive, but I think they are more noteworthy as a catalyst of change throughout the professional camera industry. Scarlet, when it was initially announced, sounded like a dream camera, but they were never able to deliver on that initial promise (at least not on the price and quality in the timeline that they initially aimed for). With that announcement alone though the other camera manufacturers suddenly had to compete at a completely new level. It's unfortunate that RED took too long to actually get their product to the market, because in many ways they defined the DSLR cinematography market without ever even entering it. Had they actually entered the market as they initially intended, we would have an even more impressive array of cameras to choose from today. Instead, many of the same artificial limitations exist (limited bitrate recording, lack of raw capability, smaller colorspace, etc. etc.).

It's a pity that they didn't deliver there. It's also a pity that Jannard let the hordes of basement dwelling internet trolls and self-entitled, quasi-pro blog dorks get him down, and I wonder if he had paid less attention to these toxic non-customers if they would have been able to execute their initial vision for the Scarlet.
With wording like that, it's very possible that some people could interpret speech to be a tool of terror.

Bona fide investigative journalism certainly can satisfy the criteria for (b) and (c). Is there anywhere where they define the nature of the threat? Does it just have to be "perceived" as a threat or does the threat need to be physical as opposed to informational?
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It makes me hate other Indians though. Admit there's a problem, and work to fix it. Don't just brush it to the side and pretend it's not a big deal if you ignore it. All that's doing is putting a bandage on an open sore which is going to fester and make it harder to fix down the line.
I definitely agree with you on this. The response from the engineer could've been better. Some sort of canned response would have worked.

IMHO, the whole ToS business was a way to give him a slap on the wrist for embarrassing them.
I have, and it's probably the third throwaway i open here -- keep forgetting pws, sorry. I don't feel authorized to disclose any details regarding the originator of the proposition, but i can assure you the project i am doing (surprise, it's a webapp with an api!) has been funded.
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On the other hand, if you're going to mock a proposal, it makes good sense to actually read it thoroughly. His criticisms on the thermal expansion issue are founded on the mistaken assumption that the tube is fixed to the pylons; this is contradicted by the first paragraph in the pylon section, which indicates that the pipe is not fixed longitudinally to the pylons. It slides.
I've worked on both sides of the government/contractor line and my gut feel says it's a culture that started in government, but I could be wrong, obviously. But since there are policy-makers and politicians who believe that one of the functions of government is to provide jobs, it makes sense that it would start on the government side. There would be little to no incentive to be more efficient since that would result in a loss of jobs. And then some of those inefficient processes and workflows become embedded in the contracts and so it goes.
FWIW, his initial bug report included a link to a post he made on a non-friend's wall. So his first TOS violation was prior to his first attempt to file a bug. The second TOS violation (posting on Zuck's wall) was what got him press time.
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I've gotten to the point where I'm not sucked in and addicted to MC anymore, but since it was the building part that I got stuck on, never modding or multi-player, I still get plenty of enjoyment when I periodically think of something new to build.

(E.g. I built a residence, garden, etc. in a cloud then decided I could expand that to a several-cloud city. Then decided I could build a tower with railroad in an attempt to bring cows and pigs up there. The next project might be an underwater city, or play around with the new horse stuff they added.)

New content is added occasionally. I'm not entirely sure why, since they don't have continuous subscription revenue like WOW does. I actually find it kind of annoying since then I need to explore another huge swath of territory to get new chunks to generate with the new stuff in it. Or worse, if the new stuff breaks the timing on some of my red stone circuitry or the effectiveness of my experience generator.
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I was really surprised to find out (because this post piqued my curiosity) that the Star Wars prequels were shot in only 1080p. I'm really surprised that that didn't look atrocious on the big screen. Hell, that's like half a centimeter per pixel.
Stuxnet certainly meets that criteria.
I personally don't think that HTML and CSS are a good fit for building complicated, highly performant mobile layouts in the first place.

Additionally, despite my love for JavaScript, JavaScript is not as fast as native code on mobile phones. You can really feel the difference between a fully native app and a web based app on iOS. (well, unless you can build something as good as Fastbook[1])

But there are definitely things that you can do with two lines of HTML & CSS (like advanced text layouts) that require much, much more code in Objective-C.

Someday it will become a personal choice and hopefully won't differ at all to the user, but I don't think we're there just yet.

[1] How on earth is this this good? http://fb.html5isready.com/
Here is a nice implementation example.
http://www.ynh.io/2013/05/24/rebuild-youtubes-progress-bar.h...

Previously on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761898
I'm so glad I found this post. It brought back such great memories of when my friends and I used to make mazes, and paper maps and games eerily similar to the ones he shares.

In fact the first product I ever sold, was a maze I drew at age 5, to my aunt for $1.
This post sounds like an attempt to settle an argument - some of the issues you mentioned should be settled as a team. A poorly settled "You're wrong and I'm right" argument might lead to bigger and more serious disagreements down the road.

If it were me... stop what you're doing and sign some papers.
Friendships tend to break when dealing with the potential for making a lot of money. Is your relationship worth a million dollars? Maybe. What about a $100 million dollars? You're friendship isn't going to hold up if what you are forecasting is true. (I'm sure Zuck has 'lost' a lot of friends)

Without much other information on your company, here are some considerations:

If you don't get your % split, would you still be as motivated? work as hard? be as involved? What about your partner? How will it affect your business?

Your partner has crazy connections - how has that helped your business? How will it help your business in the future? How come you haven't raised money yet? If you don't raise money, how else does a VC play in your business?

He's put in $80k, why don't you just give him $80k for 100% of the company?

What if you just up and left, would the company be able to continue without you? (aka are you reasonably replaceable?) What if you just took the code and left?

How will all of this play out with the rest of the team?

Just some food for thought. Good luck!

PS. Unless your designer is doing front-end dev, I feel like you are overpaying your designer.
I kind of find it hard to believe. You just created your account like 17 mins ago.
All monetary systems are speculative bubbles. Some just have the backing of a government to give support to the bubble. The last guy out of assignats probably felt a little foolish.
I have to assume that you can communicate fluently in a non-Germanic language, and that you already know that you can't change the way you think about concepts in a way that doesn't resemble your native language.

Otherwise: Con esa forma tan cerrada de pensar, por favor absténgase de opinar.
Sometimes you can't do what you need to do in HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I was trying to make an application that could read straight off of a TCP socket to stream images from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google+ into a mobile app in real-time. With the amount of data I was pushing though, the JavaScript couldn't keep up and was crashing so I had to go native. I think a lot of light-weight apps can be written in JavaScript, but sometimes it's just not possible.
I would caution against presuming that nine hours of detention in an interrogation room with a team of very well trained, highly motivated interrogators couldn't be extremely intimidating - regardless of location.
He posted on Mark's wall, not as him.

Also, relative to other places you could be spending your time, FB security issues yield relatively little in the blackhat market because of their highly responsive abuse and security teams.
Agreed. To me, the gears make it feel that the page is taking longer to load. It's especially rubbish because the page that loads is normally just text and static images, not some complicated webapp. Should have been fast to begin with.
Angry online comments wear on a lot of people down over time, especially if you feel like you're accountable to your product's fans, because it's hard to just say "he/she's just a stupid commenter" without feeling like you're abandoning that mandate.

Actually, writing this, I'm beginning to think it might be better to abandon that idea of accountability, because I'm sure people like Jannard have high personal standards, and holding themselves to their fans' capricious opinions may be more trouble than it's worth.
I think it's like a teacher checking your bag (under the pretence of "finding drugs") in order to confiscate your camera that contains incriminating pictures of them.
Is there something similar to this for Firefox?
The closest thing I have found is the TrackmeNot extension
http://trackmenot.org/
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

" TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles. To better simulate user behavior TrackMeNot uses a dynamic query mechanism to 'evolve' each client (uniquely) over time, parsing the results of its searches for 'logical' future query terms with which to replace those already used."

Here's a paper they wrote on resisting surveillance in web search. http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/TMN-Howe-Niss08-ch23.pdf
Wouldn't disconnect.me be a better option?
Is the DevOps Movement Leaving the Enterprise Behind?
Only with the version included in the Debian repositories.
Well, I don't have a lawyer (or a judge for that matter...)

And I wouldn't use my own ip (exit node) to do anything that isn't boring. I'd switch to Tor.
Can someone explain this:

>Typical 2K and HD digital movie cameras keep everything in focus. The 4K Red One is more like an analog camera, allowing depth of field control, which blurs the foreground or background.
From another perspective, some of those downsides could be considered behavior as intended.

Basically, in a tax-less scheme, there's a strong financial advantage to just showing up first.

There is an absolutely limited supply of land, and society has an incentive to make sure this limited supply is being used effectively to produce wealth. Society also has an incentive to make sure that everyone is housed, financially stable, and healthy. These are competing concerns.

Say there were no property taxes, so the only incentive for selling land would be a high enough price. Your hypothetical family would be sitting on prime Napa farmland, not producing wine, and society would have that much less wine to drink.

An aspiring young wine-grower might like to purchase this land, and could even trade a bit of land of his own. If the original family doesn't want to move, though, the aspiring wine-grower is out of luck.

A property taxation scheme encourages people to use their land to produce wealth, either by producing it directly, a la farmland, or by housing people and keeping them healthy, such as houses or apartment buildings.

In a tax-less scheme, there's a strong advantage to just showing up first. The lucky few to first colonize Napa can maintain control of the land indefinitely, and younger generations and immigrants are at a financial disadvantage, as they won't have the option of owning their own land, but they'll be in a marketplace competing with persons who don't have to worry about housing at all.
> How is a user's karma calculated? [1]

Roughly, the number of upvotes on their submissions and comments, minus the number of downvotes. (The numbers won't exactly match up, because some votes aren't counted to prevent various types of abuse.)

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
As I mentioned in the reply above, the engineer's response could've been many times better, but you have to agree the bug submitter gave them practically nothing to work with.
But someone who has an older account couldn't possibly be lying.
There are two problems:

1. Crime against women is specially high. Why is it high? Because - wheels of justice turn really slowly here and perpetrator has a good chance of escaping without punishment. From what I hear, Justice (or sometimes lack of it) is swift in China. That itself is a great deterrent.

2.If you go through all the recent rape cases reported in media, perpetrators are almost always - mostly uneducated and poor. For some it was just entertainment(The Delhi case) and in others just an idea that they can get away with it. There is also sad fact that for many Indian males - women are objects [of pleasure]. An stereotype often reinforced by B and C grade movies (guess who watches those movies).
Even the Daily Mail's coverage was surprisingly good (I looked at it explicitly expecting a total hatchet job).

You know they government has fucked this up when even the Daily Mail writes an article that sympathetic about terror law abuses directed at a gay couple closely linked to the Guardian.
I do know English, Spanish and Italian and I'm doing my best learning Portuguese but that doesn't mean we should encourage a world divided by language barriers. I'd be happy to completely forget about every language, including my own native language, and having English as a universal language, it's called progress.

There's no advantage whatsoever in having a fragmented world, and if the mess in my head is any indication the alleged advantages of bilingualism are just BS.
I would have agreed with you before hand, but it turns out that Greenwald and the Guardian were using David Miranda as a data mule:

In an e-mail Monday to The Associated Press, Mr. Greenwald said that he needed material from Ms. Poitras for articles he was working on related to the N.S.A., and that he had things she needed. “David, since he was in Berlin, helped with that exchange,” Mr. Greenwald wrote.

...

Mr. Miranda told reporters in Rio that he had been subjected to deep questioning at Heathrow. “I stayed in a room, there were six different agents, entering and leaving, who spoke with me,” he said. “They asked questions about my whole life, about everything. They took my computer, video game, cellphone, memory thumb drives — everything.”

Mr. Greenwald said that all of the documents encrypted on the thumb drives came from the trove of materials provided by Mr. Snowden.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/europe/britain-detai...

And:

He had spent the previous week in Berlin visiting Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker who has also been helping to disseminate Mr. Snowden's leaks, to assist Mr. Greenwald. The Guardian had paid for the trip, Mr. Greenwald said, and Mr. Miranda was on his way home to Rio de Janeiro.

Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver documents related to Mr. Greenwald's investigation into government surveillance to Ms. Poitras, Mr. Greenwald said. Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different documents to pass to Mr. Greenwald. Those documents, which were stored on encrypted thumb drives, were confiscated by airport security, Mr. Greenwald said. All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden. The British authorities seized all of his electronic media — including video games, DVDs and data storage devices — and did not return them, Mr. Greenwald said.

Source: http://theweek.com/article/index/248385/the-miranda-mess

Having read that, I now believe the British were justified in detaining Miranda, though doing so for 9 hours was clearly excessive. What on earth was Greenwald thinking though letting his spouse, who lacks any kind of journalistic privilege, travel through the UK while carrying classified leaked NSA and GCHQ documents? It was foolish at best.
Awesome!

Thanks to all contributors for the hard work!
I grew up in India. In one of the major metros. And deterioration over the years was all too striking. I couldn't really put down finger on what snowballed it to such a state but materialism is definitely a big part of it.

As a 10 year old, I used to walk for kilometres in ridge areas all alone. At 12-13, I have ridden bicycle to the most reclusive parts of the neighbourhood. And thought of something awful happening was in nobody's mind. Any of these activities would be unthinkable now.

More and more people have poured into the cities. With political class elected by force and threats and educated being outnumbered and helpless by democratic disguise, I don't know what can remedy the situation.
India's Gini Coefficient (Income inequality) is smaller than that of the US and Switzerland, both democracies.

It might however be true that the difference between the middle class and the poor is significantly higher.
No, Glenn Greenwald didn’t ‘vow vengeance.’ He said he was going to do his job.
Ability to detect humans versus bots... sounds great.
Grants might help fund it. If your software is genuinely helping third world clinics, you can probably get some funding for it. Talk to a nonprofit grant-writing organization specializing in third world health care.

You might also be able to negotiate a special rate (or even free) from Pearson as a charitable contribution. If their software costs are what threaten your financial stability, and it's for a good cause, they might be willing to write it off.

So talk to Pearson, and talk to nonprofit health care grant specialists. Those would be potentially more effective than trying to figure out how to monetize.
Glad to see that Mark put the theme information is right on top :). Hopefully this will allay criticism from the "why is it flat" developers.
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This is just indescribably terrible, I feel awful for women who have endured this torture.

As I was reading the article I couldn't help but think, "This woman is going to end up with PTSD", and sure enough she did. :(
> Assuming all this squashing and stretching doesn't involve discontinuities, at best you're back where you're started from.

Are we sure space is perfectly elastic? What if space is infinitely plastic? Then when you turn the drive off, for all observable data you would be sitting in normal space just short of your destination.
Or he doesn't want to connect being part of it to a different account.
I hope that any credible hacker would be able to realise that to get paid for a white hat vulnerability, you have to use it in a white hat way - i.e. show your working in accordance with the security team's guidelines. Deliberately posting to other people's timelines "for exposure" isn't white hat in the slightest.
So long as uninformed speculation is running loose...
Lavabit's comment that "If you knew what I know about e-mail, you might not use it either." points in a email specific direction as opposed to simple sniffing of traffic.

Perhaps he is referring to the Stored Communications Act ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act ). I haven't seen it referenced in coverage of this but the gist is under the right circumstances email that is older than six months and stored on a server that you don't own can be accessed without a warrant. Lavabit's encryption process as described would interfere with that. Not being able to comply AND being unwilling to take steps to comply in the future is the sort of thing that feds don't like.

This wasn't a big deal when it was passed in 1986 and small mail quotas were the norm but now with IMAP, multiple devices, and archiving it becomes a pretty big issue as you are talking about someone's electronic life instead of abandoned mailboxes.

AFAIK the issue of Fourth Amendment issues and SCA hasn't made it to the Supreme Court yet so interpretations vary depending on circuit.
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drivebyacct2 you are hellbanned.

>Partner is the only gender neutral way of expressing this thought

Not really. Significant other does the job fine and cannot be confused with a business partner.
Given how much of the web is dynamically loaded now, it seems like there really out to be a built-in API for displaying load progress to the user.
Thanks for that. But it doesn't really answer my question. I know how Karma is calculated and that does not really explain why everything starts with 1 point that isn't counted.
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He wasn't detained until he was on the return leg of the trip being paid for by the guardian, so the detainment can't really be the reason they paid for it.
You would prove nothing other than that crime pays.