skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they could start shoveling money over to politicians and lobbyists in order to create regulatory barriers to new entrants. Not exactly 'capitalism' in the truest sense of the definition, but certainly a common practice in our version of it.
personal disappointment is pretty high up on the list: i was an early adopter SVG ninja, i believed in the revolution, and the revolution didn't happen.

and i understood why: SVG is a technology invented and specified by a committee built upon a technology invented and specified by a committee (XML). now combine this with the most anarchistic technology in the internet, i'm talking about the one technology that is still untamed in it's raw from, mischievous and sometimes plain dumbevil in it's details, yes, i'm talking about the DOM. that's why working with SVG always felt clunky and massochistic to me.

so if you touch SVG always use a high level clever abstraction. and well this seems the point of snap.svg. maybe i will give it another try. but the thing is, whenever i use a high level abstraction i will sooner or later go down into the pits again, because i want to know how it works and whatever else i can make it do, and then i will probably hate myself again for giving svg another shot....
I think it's more of an assumption than anecdotal. Sublimetext is a very expensive piece of software. You have the forever trial thing, but people don't usually want to get hooked up.

And now piece of anecdotal - I don't know a single person around me that uses it.
It really doesn't go against economic theories. Demand has no direct relationship with profit. Supply and demand affect price, which has an effect on profit. When demand goes down production slows and supply eventually reaches a new equilibrium with demand at a new price. Cars that are already constrained in supply could continue to do well while commodity cars would go unsold. There would be a short term downward pressure on price, but it wouldn't last forever.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be a hard blow for the car industry at all. It would decimate it. But what would be left standing would be the most expensive cars and cars equipped to be rented, and the margins on those are much higher. Companies like BMW are more well equipped to take on that new market reality.

Perhaps the part I was unclear about is that the "them" in my OP was high end car manufacturers like BMW.
Uhm... Apple doesn't whitelist nor blacklist services -- read: TCP connections to whoever you want. LinkedIn, in this case, is well within Apple's TOS/EULA.

I think you're confused about the policies on their app store.
I don't follow the chemist example.

The chemist doesn't want to spend time going around to companies trying to license his technology, and he certainly doesn't want to spend years in litigation. He's busy dying (and/or cooking meth) -- he wants to sell his technology to a company which will do the licensing and/or litigating for him.
Request for help optimising a Clojure program - Google Groups
At OpenStreetMap we would love a map-based CAPTCHA that actually contributes to our map. Right now we (like most people) use ReCAPTCHA on our wiki... which has the rather exasperating effect of contributing map data (StreetView house numbers) to our main competitor, Google.

On the upside, you can usually type a wrong number into the ReCAPTCHA. ;)
Drone footage of NSW (Australia) bushfires
The monopoly no longer has value to the original holder once he sells it. He has realized the entire value of the monopoly for a short term profit. This isn't incompatible with the notion that, effective immediately upon such realization of value, the patent should expire. You may disagree that it should expire at that point; in which case we'll have to agree to disagree.
Apple, to my knowledge, has never revoked a single cert for config profiles since they're rarely used outside of the mobile dev market.

Any examples of them doing what you have proposed?
> What can they do with it that damages me?

You can take your pick here and see what's most important to you: http://pleasedeletefacebook.com/

The consequences range from enabling the surveillance state, data theft, NSA slurping, job loss, employer intrusion, bullying, lowering of credit scores, depression, stalking, jail.

These are some interesting ones to name a few:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129...

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-c...

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/finding_sociop...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1247257/facebook-scan...

> Doesn't take many of those for wholesale evacuation of Facebook, does it?

Sadly, I wouldn't bet on it.
Not a very helpful title (on IndieGoGo). I didn't even realize this was about a product at all.
Just continue teaching people, like you are doing now.
Ask HN: neoliberal policies as compared to socialist policies?
Ask HN: What has been the influence of neoliberal policies as compared to socialist policies in various parts of the world?
Can you explain? On the face of it, an entity without any skin in the game (i.e., can't be sued, it'll just fold and re-emerge as another company) sounds like a complete abuse of the system.
With your claim, why not make your e-mail public? If you're not worried about Google -- who is already in bed with the NSA -- and you're not worried about LinkedIn -- who is proposing to proxy ALL your e-mails -- then just setup a script to auto-dump every single e-mail you get to GitHub.

Win Win! You get to act like privacy isn't a real threat, and you validate your point!
Interestingly Pennsylvania is the only place where I was suspected being Greek (I'm Lithuanian). Lithuanian and Greek surnames sometimes has the same ending "is" but in Pixelmator case it does not apply.
Semantics matter, communication is not possible without agreement on the meaning of words. And the OP made the argument, not me, I'm simply agreeing with his point that's it's wrong to personify evolution, it's why so many people don't understand it.
No, that's not the point at all. If it reads as condescending, you didn't pick up on the last few sentences well enough.

I've done plenty of stuff that I regret, some of it worse than what I'm sure the average person has done.
What would you do (for me) for a web summit ticket?
So I have a spare ticket for the web summit (worth €1,000). Open to selling it, but maybe you could trade me some skill or service? Here's my startup: http://wyldsson.com/ Open to suggestions!
For PACs in the 2012 cycle Amazons PAC spent $220K, Microsoft spent $2.3M, Oracle $540. In direct lobbying this year Amazon spent $1.7M, Microsoft $5.5M, and Oracle $3.7M.

So yeah, Amazon is paying to get representation. But they're still significantly smaller than the "enterprise" folks.
That was a BIG BIG disappointment for me. I assume the UI frameworks on Go are not on the same level as would be available for C/C++. Also I suspect portability is an issue.
Yea, like zero people believe water has memory or zero people believe the earth is 6000 years old. Open your eyes, people believe shit they hear that's absurd constantly and in my anecdotal experience maybe 1 in 8 people I've met understood evolution. But maybe you don't live in a red state.
European and Asian entrepreneurs: SparkLabs launched a $30m seed-stage fund
Decline of Wikipedia?
This is a crime. How is this allowed?
You're right, noahmarc, it's the same for me, I'm now too used to working with D3j, that I definitely need to find my way in Snapsvg library, as it really looks promising; maybe it'd be better to arrange a high level specialized class library to handle not only worst case scenario, but even common chart functions, as the Api itself looks quite low level code...
The message seems to be that I should work hard and take risks, but it is illustrated by a story about somebody getting incredibly lucky by talking shit at a bar.
> Capitalism forces companies to adapt to competition

Only in theory, in practice this sort of thing happens: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/november/lcd-price-fixi...
Yes. Users with friends, an activity feed, and job classifieds are all solved problems that many underemployed web developers could throw a prototype together in weeks or a few months. Tack on that pointless skills voting junk and webboards as desired. Did I miss anything?

The fact that they have stockholders means they always have to do something: Google and driverless cars, Musk going to Mars, Facebook going phone...this IMAP hijacking is LinkedIn's current something that they have to come up with to have a story to tell investors so that they don't think LinkedIn is "stagnating."
Or for free or a while too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_House_Expression
Can Qualcomm Avoid Broadcom’s Drop?
Yes, and what you end up with is San Francisco, where housing supply has been far outpaced by demand because developers can't make the numbers work.
I remember all three formats.

You have to keep in mind the context of the times; there was no Linux yet, almost no one had heard of the internet, and certainly there were no things like the world wide web or wikipedia. No one really knew about open source or the legal fight between SEA and PKWARE. We all switched to PKZIP because it created the same size archive files as ARC and it uncompressed so much faster.

In 1988 I was 14, and really just wanted to play more shareware games. It really didn't matter what format they came in, but if they were in ZIP format, that was great since it took less time to uncompress on a 4.77 MHz processor (yes, you read that correctly - I boosted it to 8 MHz with an 8088 clone chip by NEC called a V20). A few years later it was all moot anyway, since I discovered Linux and everything was using tar/compress or shar (shell archives).
> So capitalism ruthlessly exploited the people it pushed out of a niche, a one-time cost to a small group of people, in exchange for permanent good effects for everyone.

That's pretty much the definition of totalitarianism (the end justify the means, like in The Prince).

> Obviously it would be better if the company was giving good wages from the start, and a social safety net kept that small group from suffering at all. But even with that terrible side effect, the search for efficiency was a good thing.

Our moral compass should tell us that if achieving efficiency without exploitation is possible then it must always be chosen over achieving efficiency with exploitation.

There's another subtle thing to consider here: the capitalists seem to justify and enforce the means when the terrible side effects only apply to others. The line between socialist despotism and liberal despotism is a bit blurry.
This is an incredibly interesting point that I've never heard anyone mention before.
Op, you need to remove the /edit from the end of the link for you to view this article.
Oh yes, and if the Linkedin IMAP MITM stops working for some reason I stop getting my emails?
"Sex Sells And The Japanese Are Buying": A Look At Japan's Love Industry
We are long way off until women's and gay liberation makes married engineers a common sort of family.
I require no such thing, it is possible to have the same discussion without the unnecessary personification of bacterial wants. It adds nothing to the conversation to say bacteria wants rather than the fit survive.
Poll: Which platforms do you develop for?
I see a poll on similar lines "You and mobile development" asked two years back[1]. This would be an interesting exercise, given the rise and fall of platforms since.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3014502
Chrome Store
I like to have one junior and one senior developer along with the software architect review another developers code. This way you get proper code review from the senior, and the junior learns and get exposure to other peoples code. But three people reviewing is actually already a too large team for review imo.
You can fix some libraries by using ipairs. But not all of course.
until the Darkmod Standalone was released...
Apple seems to be continuing a trend of cutting costs and passing the benefits on to themselves.

First, instead of reducing the price on the iPhone 5, we get a plastic 1st-part knock off. I was ridiculed for saying that the high price of this device leaves no reason to choose it over a marginally more expensive 5S, but it now appears that quite a few people are going for the 5S for that very reason.

Second, in spite of the fact that many people complained about RAM utilization on rMBPs, they cut the baseline memory in half, for the sole purpose of deluding people into thinking that they actually reduced the price of the 13" model. 4GB of ram in a computer that already costs nearly double the average price that people pay for a laptop is absolutely ridiculous. I'm happy that its now possible to upgrade to 16GB, but the baseline seriously should have had at least 8GB, at the same price.

Finally, we have the iPad 2, a device that should be priced at about $150-$200 that instead costs $400.

My theory on Apple's mobile devices is that the company was worried that the latest models didn't differentiate themselves enough to compete against the last generation.

As for the rMBP, I really don't have an answer for that, it just seems mind-bogglingly stupid.

I love my iPad, and I was anxiously waiting to see what the new rMBPs had in store for us, but I'm honestly dissapointed with Apple's recent releases. Its like Tim Cook is purposely trying to fulfill the prophecy laid out by all the post-Jobs Apple Naysayers.
Riight. And National Socialism is not to blame for the unfortunate fate of Jews. After all it is DESIGNED to exterminate lesser races.
Let me know if you would like to add a choice.

Edit: Added Embedded/RTOS.
Ahem, your post sounds so enthusiastic about a product that has proven to be a dud with consumers, that I'm missing some kind of disclosure from you. Therefore, let me ask you this: are you in any way affiliated with microsoft? As in, you know, employee, freelance evangelist or member of a benefit program such as MVP.

LATER EDIT: Yeah I looked at your profile, my suspicions were confirmed.
My memories of the iPad 1 might be hazy—though I had friends in education that purchased them well after the iPad 2 was available. Perhaps they were getting bulk orders of refurbished (or third party refurbished) units.

The main point is that it's not unreasonable to think Apple would keep products around for enterprise/education markets without selling them publicly, or at the very least without mentioning them during a high profile keynote.
"Being a good admin is like being a father..." best quote ever.
No distinction between string and byte array? I foresee all the fun of python 3 in go's future. Those of us programming in the real world need to deal with legacy character sets in strings obtained from elsewhere, and it's no fun at all to discover that what you thought was a string is actually an array of SJIS or iso8859-1 bytes.
Tangential, I hope that this trend will bring some genericity and open access to car parts (as much as possible) to avoid the weird scam that is fixing anything on it right now. Even though I doubt it will be and might end up just like cellphones: features and look first, "fixability" on a few models.
Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing
This is not a completely unique situation, but it can feel very unique. I suppose it's like being gay or something, in that, until you realize there are others like you, you feel like there is nobody like you.

For me, I have similar difficulty with observing relationships, whether love, marriage, business, or other. I see people getting into relationships and thinking, "What the heck are they thinking, can't they see what's going to happen a mile away?" But when someone gets hitched in one of these relationships, whether dating, marriage, or business, how can you say anything other than congratulations without everyone labeling you a total jerk? And because I go overboard thinking of all those things from a mile away, I usually take very few risks in relationships at all (again, all encompassing including love and business). http://xkcd.com/439/

Delayed gratification is often cited as an important variable for predicting future success of people. That in turn speaks to level of willpower. I am not saying I am good at it, as I know I am not (though it's quite easy for me to avoid stupid relationship decisions).

Having good willpower and good delayed gratification capability is supposed to be good for one's future. Just make sure that you don't let the good quality of willpower enable you to rationalize yourself into being gunshy so that you don't do anything at all. I am still learning that.

I realize that having willpower to keep your integrity and avoiding risks are two subjects not necessarily related. So sorry if I made the turn go even farther off-road.
The life insurance policy protects against divorce.
Research suggests you won't enjoy that higher standing as much as you are think you will.
I did most of the design for this app. I also suffer from bad acid reflux right now, and designed this app for someone like me. :)

A year ago I figured out separate, gluten-based problems by using iCal in this manner: log meals in blue, symptoms in red, see what I've eaten ~24 hours before a red entry.

Right now this is a nicer and more focused version of iCal or a spreadsheet for this purpose, but we're planning on adding some correlation analysis similar to http://skygazerlabs.com/wp/
The combined income of 50 families is probably not noticeable to an oil oligarch.
So why do native Objective-C/iOS and native .NET/WP 8.x apps work faster and more fluid than Android ones?
Two things:

1) I would assume that you can invest at the same level of risk at existing public company (e.g. micro cup, or investing in options), the this point is mute.

2) core pillar of modern finance is portfolio theory . I.e. how to mitigate a specific company risk by investing in portfolio of companies (which is what VCs are essentially doing). Hence, this would also imply here (regardless of the amount of audit employed). So really a risk of a single company is a non issue.
The Buffalo Theory, and the courage of the entrepreneur (take 2)
Reverse it. The salaries drove up the cost of housing. Standard auction economics.
Volvo has had adaptive cruise control for a while which sounds a lot better than that BMW system you quoted.

Here's a terribly boring, real-world demo from 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCevarh5j5g
This is what Steve Jobs dreamed about
What is the Manoa Falls Dare?
That's obnoxiously presumptuous to start, and disregards many people's community oriented value system to finish.

Not every child is a spoiled brat who needs an umbilical cord pumping money and is only happy when partying.
That depends on the state that makes the social net. Scandinavian countries make way better social nets.
McDonald's Tells Its Employees to Sign Up for Food Stamps
What if, by doing good work, s/he inspires them to join his effort?
This is certainly kind of legislation that could come down to a close vote, especially if IV throws around some lobbying dollars against it.

A little advocacy will go a long way, and it will be very interesting to see if the tech industry gets their act together enough to support it in any meaningful way.
Google's New Tool “uProxy” Helps You To Bypass Censorship and Monitoring
I tried it out briefly, and it came across as extremely buggy and unintuitive.
Steve Jobs had a diverse set of talents and skills, but medical science was not among them.
Nokia Unleashes Lumia 1520
List of Open Source Licences in Mercedes Cars [pdf]
I think it will help not exclusively _Linux_ but it will help more to get real support behind graphics drivers. Sure, some of this is directly related to the kernel (like power management, switchable graphics etc.) but mostly it is stuff which isn't directly related to the kernel (e.g. mesa, xorg, wayland). What I see recently that AMD has really stepped up too (if you own Radeon HD, not the very old Xwhatever series), contributing to kernel code and mesa drivers. Nvidia has some pretty good proprietary drivers, but heh... they are proprietary.
Thats the main problem I have: Both AMD/Nvidia closed drivers offer better 3D performance, better feature support for their chips etc. but when I have trouble with graphics on my system, it's because of the closed drivers. You never know if they still work after updating.
I had to play over 250 rounds to start winning. Of course, I was cheating.
Wow, you are so special.

Edit: I think you took it down for your own sake, not ours.
That's how it already works

The big company usually pays when they don't want to produce it.

Otherwise, they just do it and wait for the lawyers (who are not going to come)
It is a beautiful little machine, looking forward to seeing it in action.

A simpler approach to get a small CT scanner is to use a stationary source and detector. This requires a cone-beam source, which might cost a lot more, but it makes it a lot easier to experiment with phase-contrast and darkfield imaging, which can improve soft-tissue contrast.

For reconstruction from the projections the Cph CT Toolbox
https://code.google.com/p/cphcttoolbox/
contains open source implementations of several reconstruction algorithms. It is written in python.

From my viewpoint, CS student focusing on medical imaging, no single imaging modality will rule them all. It is much more interesting to look at the combinations like PET/CT and PET/MR that gives us complimentary information.
Reducing RAM also lets you pad battery life numbers. It can mean as much as 2-3 watts per GB of RAM.
I've found svg.js unusable for any project I've had as it requires all svg content to be created with svg.js and no imports.
Why are most CRM's B2B rather than B2C?
I've been trying to find a new CRM for my service company but it's like every CRM out there is optimized for Business to Business.

My clients don't have companies that we bill to, we bill to them. I don't need any of those features and it's a major pain in the * working around them. B2C needs tend to be different from B2B and it's hard to fit one into the other.

With some like Salesforce it's virtually impossible (ie. in my 60min trial) to set them up as Business to Consumer.

Is the market truly all about B2B? Where are the CRM's catering to B2C?

More and more service businesses are taking their accounts online. It seems to me a major opportunity is being overlooked by most of the CRM companies.
Because HN can get so hung up on success at nearly any cost? Programmers forget their code has real world impact.
My Google Analytics Data on Launch Day
I wanted to read the article, but I just couldn't make myself do it.
I generally work approximtely from 11am to 6pm (from home, so I have no commute), which adds up to 35h/week, and is more than enough for me.

I can work more if I have to but I'd be pretty miserable in the long term.
It's a lonely occupation.
As an international student in the UK he probably wouldn't qualify for a student loan[1]. He'll be paying the £9,000 out of his own pocket somehow.

[1] http://www.studylondon.ac.uk/application-advice/faqs/student...
The effect of omega 3 acids on human intelligence is a heavily disputed fact. Maybe they get one genius or two, maybe none.
Not exactly a 'list', but many of them are here: http://gtld.123-reg.co.uk/

edit: Here's a list: https://gist.github.com/peteryates/7132974
When the Twin Towers fell, President Bush finished reading the book he was reading to a classroom of kids.

The West Wing President Bartlett stepped down because it would be a national security threat to have the President subject to ransom demands.