skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its got a mythos as the last frontier of Europe, of hard country and hard men, enduring under dogs ... down trodden but never giving up.

Emerging from each massive injustice with a new culture rich from strife, from the cossacks to beauty hidden within the works of the communist era. And the sadness of what totalitarian rule did to a people trying to build an equal and fair society, the people who died for others, and eventually all in vein.

It resonates as a country to admire, a people to admire, the mystique of its history and taste of its asian influence. And despite that its a foreign place. London to St Petersburg is closer than LA to New York, at times Russia has been part of Europe.

The double standard for me and many of friends (whom I talk history with it) is one of love, sorrow, and admiration. When the illusion of the Russian mythos breaks and the reality of human condition seeps through you get held to that standard. Not one of a distant problem, a stranger in a strange land, one of a friend.
Businesses lie all the time. I believe AT&T was busted a year or so ago for misleading consumers that the fees attached to their phone bill were mandates by the government. Bestbuy was busted on using different instore flyers then the ones they shipped out.
> Doesn't it seem likely that the person who did this is in a better position to judge the potential consequences than you?

In fact, no. If there is a dispute and you forego the legal option you might get your ass handed to you. Things like this blow up in the face of the party doing them as often as they lead to some kind of settlement.

The damage to the client could outweigh the amount owed (assuming there is one) very rapidly.

> Unless OP is right on the threshold of being hard up for work, it makes no real difference to his dealflow, and it has a nonzero probability that it will shame somebody into paying.

It also has a non-zero probability of him/her being sued for (substantial) damages.
The major news is stalking love interests, not the UN. It's news like this that gets people riled up, as it's more easy to relate.

I want to know if anyone was sacked, or went to prison, over this. I refuse to believe that nobody abused this power for revenge against an ex or someone who didn't return their affections. UK police officers have been in court for similar things e.g. looking up new partners on the criminal database
I would certainly listen to somebody with "smallscalethief" as nickname, in matters of money.
> For some reason big companies are really into real names. Actual people not so much.

Totally agree with this, but I wonder why? Why does Google want me to use my real name while browsing videos on YouTube? Why do they care? It's a mystery to me.
Footnote: An author I'd read in some scifi story or something similar had suggested that the mark of our era was the relentless pursuit and shaming of hypocrisy.

That was "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. Lots of other interesting sociocultural post-scarcity speculation there, too.
It took me a little more than 10 seconds with google search to find this ebay bitcoin scam.

http://bitcoinfan.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-selling-bitcoins-...

If something seems too good to be true; it probably is.
I'm assuming the designer doesn't own the website domain. This is like breaking into someone's property, and saying that you won't leave until a demand is met. He should really consult a lawyer before he gets criminally prosecuted.
I think what I was trying to say in my piece is that if you have anonymity AND a reputation you get the best of both worlds. Trolls will be modded down by other users (assuming a reasonable reputation system) and people will be free to speak BOTH respectably and openly. Note that you can always use your real name as your handle if you choose.
you seem to feel strongly about it, so I'll ask you: what's the downside to targeted advertising? I've honestly never figured it out, and honestly if I'm going to have ads shoved in my face, I like it better when it's for things I might actually want.

Not trying to be snarky
There is a spurious 'f' at the beginning of the last word in your comment.

Hope this helps!
It's the wrong conclusion. For example, yesterday there were two submissions of "Linux 3.9 introduced a new way of writing socket servers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6269332 (222 points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6270330 (dead, 3 points, 5 hours later)

The second one was submitted by a user with more karma, average, and days in HN.

Sometimes a story is submitted by two persons and the dupe detector fails. One of them get traction, the selection is by random events, like the hour of the submission, how many upvotes it get's in the first hours, which other stories are in the first page, ... I have seen some good stories that get only 2 or 3 points, and after a month someone else submits a similar story from another source and it gets 50 points. It's also a matter of luck.
It's not surprising, but that doesn't mean that it's not worth getting worked up over, especially given that it is explicitly violating agreements to the contrary. In other words: Everyone else have now learned that when the US government enters into agreements like that, the agreement is worthless and they can't be trusted.
It's Left-wing prats who are defending our freedoms
A verbal (oral) contract is a contract in the US - though very hard to prove. Chain of custody of the code is one way.

Intellectual property rights are all the rage these days and that would mix into this.
Absolutely. It shows these systems can be used for anything the analysts or their superiors want.
I thought I linked to it, but evidently I put an "&t=29:00" instead of "#t=29:00".

Here's the direct link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soYKFWqVVzg#t=1819
I have a friend who drove mining trucks in a Copper Mine in British Columbia when he was a student. He told me it was the most mind blowing boring job except for the time he almost fell asleep and drove it over a cliff. From his description, it didn't sound like a particularly high skilled job - but perhaps the type of Mine he was in had a different type of truck system.
Agreed on the ransom, moreover - they gave the site to the owner on good faith that they would get paid, now they are complaining that they were fooled.
On a related historical note, this can happen if you don't pay the chiselers building your church: http://www.holidaycheck.de/data/urlaubsbilder/images/41/1163... (part of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiburg_Minster).
Testing compile time constness and null pointers with C11′s _Generic
Plenty of letters in the alphabet, even more words! It's not the name that makes the product.
Protecting business ideas: pros and cons
Are you too smart for your job?
Concentrate on building a kick-ass product! If anything, your app might get accidental exposure due to Rdio feature.
One thing you should not do if you don't have money to defend yourself is make potentially defamatory allegations ("[Company] just stole our name") when it could be "just a coincidence."

Because if it is just a coincidence, and [Company] can demonstrate that your allegation on a popular web forum has hurt its business, then [Company] can sue you for libel (the written form of slander).

You might consider posing your question in such a way that you do not actually name the company involved.
She's famous for not calling herself a feminist. http://www.makers.com/marissa-mayer/moments/distance-feminis...

But she describes herself as blind to gender (what is known as gender neutral) and believes in equality between men and women, which is actually the definition of feminism.
What if one writes in English under a pseudonym but only in another language under ones real name?
Sorry for the late-ish reply, but the point I think I failed to elaborate on fully enough was that the topic of politics is tolerated here as long as it is relate-able to most.

But if it involves a topic like Syrians, even if the topic involves Bluecoat.com's hardware being used to track dissidents, something most users here fear the NSA/GCHQ may be doing, it is down-voted.

The accounts that post it have been hell banned if they dare point out the relevance of the issue if ethnic and national borders are ignored.

"If I keep going on like this," this is something I have to do, before I have examples of white dissidents to show as well.
But.... you don't have to install anything to get the password.

Open a new tab, Google "safari reveal password javascript", open the second or third link, drag the bookmark, reveal the password.
When it comes to Apple, everyone’s a critic.
> If the store owner doesn't let emotion cloud his judgement, he should figure out very quickly that it would be better to pay up rather then face further negative publicity.

Disputes like this should be handled where they belong, in small claims court, not by damaging (possibly irreparably) one parties reputation.

If I were the store owner (which I'm not, and I'd have paid that bill if the work were done as agreed upon) and we'd be in a dispute over something and you'd pull a stunt like this then I would most certainly rake you over the coals.

This is a dis-proportionate response in the eyes of many, quite possibly in the eyes of the judge handling the case which could lead to all kinds of misery for the designer. One thing you don't do in a dispute is to hand your opponent ammunition.
No such thing as bad publicity. You've got tamber.com, time to start getting your product out there and leverage off Rdio's less-than-friendly choice of product name.
Many brokerage houses offer "simulated" accounts which you can use to practice with real data (i.e. they behave like real accounts and use real data except the transactions aren't actually done) and often have APIs you can use if you want to automate your strategy.
Don't worry about it. As long as you started using it before them, there's really nothing Rdio can do to screw you, and I don't think there's much risk of confusion. And it's not like everyone are using Rdio anyway.

Focus on your own product, make it awesome! Don't spend time trying to find/worry about all the things that could possibly make you fail :)
You could call your company "Tambr", and hope Yahoo buys you and runs you into the ground!
Is tamber your Rdio username? username + FM = "A station personalized to your history and taste"
Was the second article posted with the '/2' at the end of the link? Things like that seem to cause most filter hiccups, I tried to discount those obviously.

For science and all that, can you think of other examples?

edit: Oh I see it is different chapters, /1 /2 etc. Nevermind that.
Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal.

-- Steve Jobs

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/dear-steve-...

The name won't make or break your product/company. But getting distracted by this bullshit might. Not worth it.
I can't find anything about tamber fm with rdio.. So maybe?
Uuuugh.

Link straight from Reddit, and probably an illegal act from the designer. (Sorry but that's probably the law, like it or not)

Much as we all love to string people up, the reality is it's not professional, and probably not good for society.

Where is the proof the designer got stiffed???? The reason everyone loves this is cause we love to string someone up, proof not needed.

Not a healthy way to be.
This talk is from 2006, a year before PRISM bagan according to the slides (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg)

It's interesting that the PRISM timeline begins in 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg), one year after the DOJ lost its suit against Google to obtain private user data without a warrant (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/judge-tells-doj-no-on...).
I think meeting with the lead product guy (assuming the meeting is documented somehow, for instance in email and follow up) would be enough to get rid of the 'possible coincidence' angle.
I have one and I live in the UK, so the definitely do exist. Of course, I may be unique.
So, it sounds like the NSA is doing the job it was chartered for back in 52. Temporary internet outrage at the NSA will die off soon....
"I mean, simply put, what are the things that in the US would get you in jail and they wouldn't in, let's say, the UK?"

There is no way in the UK to get a life sentence from a small crime in the way that the three strikes laws do in the US.

In general our jail sentences are much shorter for equivalent crimes in the US and we have nowhere near the rate of incarcerating children either and are much less likely to get the police involved for misbehaving in school.

We are also much less likely to incarcerate for drug possession over here.

There are also crimes that simply do not exist in the UK, such as jaywalking, which got the Oxford historian, Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto, locked up for the evening when he visited Atlanta for a conference. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jan/11/highereducation.ed...

The US also has a habit of handing out sentences far longer than the possible lifespan of the accused even for non-violent offences, such as the 124 years that Hector Monsegur is being threatened with for his role in lulzsec, or the 150 years handed out to Bernie Madoff, which the Judge stated was "to send a symbolic message".

Overall, for the same acts, in the US you are much more likely to be jailed than in the UK and also, even if you would have been jailed in the UK, the length of sentence is far far higher in the US.
Is this really different from what hosting companies do? Most of them, if you have a bit more traffic than usual and pass the agreed limit, will replace your site with a message and only remove it if you upgrade your plan. Never saw anyone go apeshit on those cases like people are on this one.
ownCloud would be perfect for this case. Users can share files, have disk quotas to avoid misuse, share contacts and calendar events. If you want you can user ownCloud user management or integrate with AD or OpenLDAP.
Both community and commercial support is also available.
Someone always types up this same response to any incident like this, and it always sounds like exactly what I'd expect to hear from the sort of person who stiffs people.
>The major news is stalking love interests, not the UN. It's news like this that gets people riled up, as it's more easy to relate.

Yes, because god forbid an inane and infantilized population can understand the significance of actual politics without human interest stories in them...
Oh my god, they just stole my name for their new radio feature called "Jimmy FM" they stole that from me, I'm going to sue - my mother gave me that...
I was told by Paypal Ireland (oversees EU) that they do not allow chargebacks for "virtual/digital" items and I was granted a win in a dispute on a number of occasions when buyer topped up his account on my service site and then wanted to reverse that transaction after service was consumed.
True, but you need an identity and written material to compare it to.
The most you can do is write a professional letter calling Rdio out on their tomfoolery and how disappointed you are in them. Aside from that, sueing them is really your only option.
It's only a quick whois search away. With the name & city, the designer's website is easy to find. It's a Flash-only website (second clue about the designer).

whois nycfreshmarket.com

Onemine
710 West End Ave 3d
New York City, ny 10025
US
The Scandinavian languages and English have a lot in common. I believe they even share a common language stem. You can take any word in a sentence, and switch it out with an english word or vice versa. So some of the basics are already there.
I knew a guy who didn't pay me and who then posted that video to his Facebook wall when he, in turn, didn't get paid.
Yeah, I gotta agree with this. Naming is hard and it's really difficult to create names for stuff (I suck at it!) but IMHO, Tamber is a really bad name.

Pick a new name.
Indeed. This is the answer.

I suspect the OP needs some sleep.
The version on Politiken: http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE2057284/documentation-r...
Can't wait for that EU data protection law to come in that will require services to have a delete option. Self-regulation, as this list shows, isn't working.
VeriSign Embraces FreeBSD for Diversity
Excellent bit of steam punk. I want one connected to a mobile Web dongle that can print SMS messages!

http://twittertape.co.uk/ for the builder's own Web site.
MapDB Reloaded
>Can we agree that writing did have negative impacts, but given the trajectory of human civilization since then, that the benefits have outweighed the costs?

Sounds reasonable, but then again, the work of philosophy (or thought in general) is to question what sounds reasonable.

For example, why should we have to be that proud of the "trajectory of human civilization since then"?

Sure, we since had computers and brain surgery.

We also had nazi concentration camps, 2 wolrd wars, colonialism, Stalinism, the nuclear arms race, and global warming. Oh, and Justin Bieber.

If a WW III thing was to happen in the next 50 years, taking most of the population with it, I'm sure more than a few people will think "Damn, we were better off before all that technological shit -- perhaps even writing enabled us for more that we were good to handle".
The universal behavior is to consistently behave inconsistently?
20-somethings jump into super PACs
Yes, because some BS plane project is the same as the UN. And because the US didn't do exactly the same for similar Chinese projects.
Well soon it might be law. The EU Data Protection reform is include requiring organisations that keep personal data to allow the user to delete them.
I get it is asthetic taste, but I love whenever I move somewhere and I literally have nothing but white walls, bare floors, a desk, a bed, and a few drawers of clothes and necesssary accessories.

It feels very clean to me. I don't like cluttering up space for no reason than to occupy it.
It's Left-wing prats who are defending our freedoms

(Published title).
Is the US trying to start a new cold war, this time with the rest of the world?
Tech has a higher profit margin, but is a smaller industry. So depends which metric you want to use to define better- Efficiency or total profit. Comparatively the largest pure tech (none hardware) company Google is valued at $290bn publicly, and the Financial Times estimates the largest pure oil company Saudi Aramco privately at $2000-$7000bn based on the size of it's reserves.

It's a fruitless argument either way. I simply meant the fact industries with larger figures exist, doesn't mean VCs just look at the random top-line numbers and ignore an industry because it's 'not big enough' when you're dealing with billions of dollars.
Again - that is what they are designed to do. The system is based on trust and espionage . . . it is a complicated relationship there, but again not news just the job description.
Grandma Scratch cake was always the best http://pegasuslegen... on Twitpic
Unfortunately if the CPU is waiting for memory, then thread is stuck, even if the hardware CPU had resources to execute some other instructions it cannot execute them from the same stream of instructions. Instead it could execute another stream of instructions, i.e. another thread. This is how hyperthreading works and still requires you to write a multithreaded application with the same problems and requirements.
Turnkeylinux has a prepared image with it http://www.turnkeylinux.org/gitlab
I hear what you say, and I half agree with you. It's probably that the moderators will agree with you and change it, but I'm quoting the final line, which seems a more accurate reflection of the apparent purpose of the piece, rather than the title, which seems less indicative.
It's Time for the PC to Evolve
It would be awesome to have a chance to share.
Eagerly waiting for the results. Well thought through questions.
Are you a Turing Test program that misunderstood and went off on a tangent? (That would explain a lot on HN, recently.) Or are you just trying to change the subject?
"So how exactly does the government design that?"

Restricting affordable housing so that it doesn't grow as fast as population. In the UK the rise in the price of housing is expected to hit 7%, whereas inflation is supposed to maybe get as high as 2% over the next two years. This should give a property bubble in the southeast before the next election, which the government can claim represents an economic recovery.
Jon Martin Sundet and colleagues (2004) examined scores on intelligence tests given to Norwegian conscripts between the 1950s and 2002. They found that the increase of scores of general intelligence stopped after the mid-1990s and declined in numerical reasoning sub-tests.[31]
Teasdale and Owen (2005) examined the results of IQ tests given to Danish male conscripts. Between 1959 and 1979 the gains were 3 points per decade. Between 1979 and 1989 the increase approached 2 IQ points. Between 1989 and 1998 the gain was about 1.3 points. Between 1998 and 2004 IQ declined by about the same amount as it gained between 1989 and 1998.

(...)

In the United Kingdom, a study by Flynn (2009) found that tests carried out in 1980 and again in 2008 show that the IQ score of an average 14-year-old dropped by more than two points over the period. For the upper half of the results the performance was even worse. Average IQ scores declined by six points.
> could definitely see a market for it

Yep me too, I'd definitely buy some of the contracts as work is tough to come by here in Scotland!
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I think this is a common response because it's actually the right choice(s) to make. I mean yes, not getting paid is never fun. There's a video posted in another comment titled "fuck you, pay me" and I think it really addresses this for freelancers. The short version of the video is have a lawyer and write a contract and if they don't pay then enforce the contract. Just my thoughts.
Is this, like, really "illegal" in New York? Are you really sure about that? I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that me that the grocery store has breached the contract and the designer has a number of options available to remedy the situation, including not delivering his part of the agreement. It would be interesting to hear the opinion of someone qualified in New York Contract Law.
> WE already have a legal system in place to handle these issues

If you've ever had to sue someone you'll know that it's a distraction and not a magical solution to problems. Even when you get judgement, you've then got to collect and there are people that will drag their heels making your victory a pyrrhic one.

The person that didn't pay their web designer deserves to be shamed. You can argue that it's unprofessional of the web designer (and it probably is), but it's also unprofessional of the client.
well, "concurrent" literally means "that run together", without specifing how the race takes place, perhaps the runners have to interleave their steps :-)
>50 years from now, most of my physical books will still be around

I must admit I don't share your confidence in modern book making methods. I've had books fall apart after a couple of months, so I don't see 50 years happening.

Its the same with CD & DVD...we are promised many years of safe storage but in practice they fail soon.
This depends on the value of repeat business. Here that value is really really small, both with this customer and potentially similar customers who might or might not hear about the incident. Also the web designer is a small player in a big pond, reducing further the risk to his reputation.

The customer - before the retaliation - believed the risk of non-payment to be worth it. Often in small contract work, the contractor can't profitably sue or they believe it's not worth the harassment.

Unless the customer can now sue the web designer for additional damages, this might be strategically the best thing he could do.
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