skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacking business cards for a portable presentation
Well, there is to my knowledge no other vcs that does this. Mercurial will hapily blow your changes away if you do a hg update -C. If you want your changes to stick around, you do a git stash first.
>"He lost the lawsuit because he never filed an appearance." //

Is that how law works in USA, forget finding if the claimant has a case just destroy the little guy?

As this was a tort case, assuming it's like English law (big assumption), then the measure of guilt is the balance of probabilities. On balance with the evidence available did the defendant commit copyright infringement? Doesn't appear so - there's one DVD that no one can actually link to the supplier.

Also "He lost the lawsuit". Wasn't he just the CEO of an LLC?
Well, I don't consider 10M buyers a small subset of people.

In any event, "small subset" vs. "large market" are the parent's words. And, yes, of course a product that is aimed at a small subset of the market is the opposite of a product that is aimed at a large market. So, it contradicts, as you say.

These are relative terms that speak to the size of the market being addressed, so by definition small vs. large are opposites.

Perhaps the parent meant to say a "small, but profitable market".
I don't mean to be overly judgmental or ungrateful for his great work, it just seems very out of character with the rest of the site which seems focused on the technical stuff.

I don't mean to be judgmental in that horrible anonymous internet fashion, so apologies to the site creator if he happens to read that and think I am being attacking in some way - not intended.

I guess part of it for me (as a typical Englishman) is reading so many overly-emotional pieces in seemingly out of context places in articles all over and perhaps reacting partly due to that.
People successful in a particular domain do tend to have a new found say in politics. Like Ronald Reagan.
People aren't frogs and while the temperature of the water has been rising slowly increasing numbers of people are noticing.

When I was at the BBC in the early 2000's they experimented with Digital TV and gradually reduced the bitrate of the broadcasts until the numbers of complaints grew. The interesting thing was when the bitrates were returned to their original levels the complaints didn't stop as the viewers had been educated in compression artefacts.

I think that the gradual drift in user unfriendliness (privacy, increasing search ads, reader, G+'s pushiness into other areas etc.) is causing pushing various people to their limits of what can be allowed to pass without comment or action. It will be interesting if Google pulls back whether the complaints and departures (if they are actually happening yet - many people seem very tied to Gmail) actually slow or stop.
So China gets little scraps of paper with numbers written on them, and we get iPods and Nikes. I don't think it's quite as obvious who's winning and who's losing...

I seem to have heard this exact same thing 25 years ago with Japan (that is @camus2's comment, not the FA). At least when Japan was our counterparty they bought real estate and companies and were not so foolish as to buy Treasury bonds.
You're probably right that most forks aren't very interesting - I wonder if it would be possible to parse out actual diffs made by the user on the fork. I've contributed a fair amount of code to BioPython, which is going to be impressive to people in my field. To contribute you work on your own fork and submit a pull request. Under this scheme a single person is getting credit for all the work of the BioPython developers on their own development forks that gets merged into the main repo (or maybe no one is getting credit, as the central repo is owned by an organization.)
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It would be nice if it included gists, because I have some interesting non-trivial snippets on there that it doesn't make sense to put into a full repo on Github.
I'm using it as a currency. Compared to PayPal it's heaven - there are no weird rules about to whom you can send money and when and what for, it's much easier to use (you don't have to spend weeks to confirm your account, wait for credit card bills, fill out a thousand forms, etc.) and transactions are free, even international ones. Another bonus is that all accounts are publicly visible, so before donating to someone you can check how they're doing and decide whether to donate or not.

P.S. Comparing it to banks... doesn't really make sense. It's like comparing the Internet not to a telephone, but to a telegraph. That's why I used PayPal.
The title sorely misses a [2010] tag; this is almost three years old.
I'm not sure if we can private message on here, but if you would email me at aaronm67@gmail.com, or contact us on the github project, I can let you know our progress and where we got caught up.
Indeed -- the news organization is a loss leader to sell terminals.
It's a really nice tool, but it's a SAAS - no go for us.
I don't understand one point - he was protected by an LLC, how then did he have a personal liability for the goods held by Amazon when the LLC failed.

Similarly with the tort case for alleged copyright infringement - were Warner/Sony/etc. CEO's fined for their companies infringement of the music for the "you wouldn't steal a car" ads a while back?
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It's frightening in that it points out the big weaknesses of depending on standardized service offerings from big vendors.

This guy ran a sort-of successful business that was utterly dependent on Amazon fulfillment services without a good contract. No human at Amazon had any incentive for his business to continue -- not even a salesman. So when Amazon decided he was done, he was out of business. At least the email support guy felt bad about it.

At the same time, he's utterly dependent on Amazon. Fast shipping and outsourced fulfillment with the Prime tie-in keep him in business.

HNers should think about that when they make decisions that lock them into various tenant-based technology stacks.
I have the raspi collecting images every 5 seconds, then shipping them off to a local box i'm dedicating to render the videos using ffmpeg (ffmpeg -r 30 -i "images_*.jpg" [+ x264 and crf at 23]). Then I ship them off to S3 for storage/serving.
The UI was custom built and is still very bare right now. Simply includes HTML5-video object with 2 video options (ogv and mp4).
The quality of the rendered video, as well as capture settings (controlling exposure instead of auto, etc.) still needs a lot of work, and this is an ongoing project for me.
And I would say that if you think there is a one-dimensional battle, "State: for or against? Pick a side, we're at war!", then you're ignoring most of real politics.
I liked this quote:

David Krane, a senior spokesperson for Google, told SVW: "I never liked it. I always felt that it would come back to bite us in some way, that we would end up building concentration camps, or something even worse. The universe seems to love irony, why leave ourselves wide open?"

Well, the universe does love irony, but concentration camps are unnecessary in this day and age. Knowledge is power, and building a company whose purpose it is to collect and use as much personal information as possible is bad enough.
Not plagiarism. Beyond the title, I don't see any similarities. The words are different. The focus is different. Only the conclusion is the same.
The problem is an entrenched system that has nerfed the ability to impose change at the ballot box, and it is the same problem for everyone looking for substantive change. Statism, fascism, the military industrial complex, corporatism... call it what you like. Voting, or even engagement with the political process, is not the starting point.

Obamacare is the recent high water mark for change. Woo! Right? We have to solve that problem first.
Turning into Microsoft means saddling your users with shitty experiences and shitty products because you're focusing more on monopolizing them than on building something great for your users. Google has done this, but Apple and Amazon never did, despite whatever other evils they might have committed.
no, the terminal and the news are unrelated. the main reason to subscribe to the terminal are messaging and data.
> The interview makes clear he has a communist/socialist mindset.

Mmm. "Firm believer in taxation" opposes crypto-currency. Film at 11.
I feel you. Personally, If I want something to change, I know I'm going to have to do something about it myself. All else I can just try to prepare to do the future by taking baby steps and staying informed/in the loop. I try to keep my head down and work on my shit.
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You're right! Most 'real' politicians only pick the 'for' side. ;)
Bitcoin might well be here to stay in the way that tulip bulbs were here to stay - you can still buy and sell tulip bulbs, the price just isn't skyrocketing.
If we assume that Larry and his execs are fairly smart, then what is their rationale for pushing G+? I think they figured that G+ is just like FB, so no one would have a problem with it. All that social data can only improve Google's services. And G+ blunts any advantage that FB has. All good things. The downside is that people (particularly devs) hate when their existing services change. Also, G+ has never offered a compelling reason to switch, and few people are going to manage 2 identical social networking accounts. Google will have to build/buy something great, as they did with Maps & Mail, to attract users to G+. Otherwise, it's Buzz and Orkut all over again.
If someone is interested in how kibit is implemented I've got some slides at http://jonase.github.io/kibit-demo/. It's quite easy and a good (I think) introduction to core.logic.
Napster's been dead for over 10 years, and music sharing, while rampant, is far enough underground that the music companies are making a ton of cash selling digital music.
Then explain why Google Maps are a no-choice for iOS?

P.S. Did not downvote you.
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Are you making this up? Which private banks had problems? Unless you mean the same problems that worldwide private banking faced during the world crisis.

Cajas problems were related but they couldn't make through because they were already ill. The financial crisis was just the final blow.

In case you're unaware of what happened to public banks, check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6754390

Please, name a single private bank that had to be intervened during the spanish financial crisis.
> Google around maybe five or six years ago was a wasteland of shoddy, broken, unintegrated products, many with half-assed, confusing interfaces.

But:

> GMail's interface pisses me off, the new Maps layout is infuriating, and search is broadly speaking totally broken for me in places.

But it's all well integrated, and there's focus, and isn't that what counts?
You do realise there is a huge huge difference between "actually more of a socialist" and communist right?
I have no idea if you're right or not, but I really hate how people downmod on HN instead of stating their disagreements.
Sure! It went really good for Spain. Check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6754390
Please make sure you read the article to understand the context of this title (which I find misleading).

While I don't agree that you can't beat politics with technology, I do agree with what Sunde is saying, in the context he is putting it.
We have cooperative banks in the US and even the state-owned Bank of North Dakota. There are many organizational structures apart from the investor-owned model.
Oppo is the undisputed quality leader in BluRay players.
Well, somebody had to make those great slides.
At the same time, Napster et al. haven't made a dent in copyright laws..
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Snapchat’s Biggest Mistake: Rejecting Facebook’s $3 Billion Offer?
On the related note - if you need a solid looking offline resume and don't want to spend hours formatting it, check out Almagreta Resume Templates - set of 5 great looking Word templates with some cool features.

http://almagreta.com/resume-templates/
Death is going to happen whether you plan on it, or you don't. Sorry...
Original: http://habrahabr.ru/post/202578/
GCHQ ordered to break up 'dark web' used by paedophiles
Interesting, given that the original article makes the point about Steve Jobs' advice.

Apple is a company that famously suggests and pushes people into how it thinks things should be done.

From what you are saying, Larry seems to have heard that advice (which when I first read it I took to be about focus, not profit) and heard "push your users down a particular path".

Moving from a "free to do it your way" model to a "best if you do it our way" model is undoubtably going to cause a lot of grief to long-time Google users. In a similar vein that explains the upset about "moving" stuff from AOSP to Play Services.
Worth noting that the guys at www.3D-Avatar-Store.com are former VFX pipeline developers offering auto-creation of photo-real 3D heads, just supply one facial photo and you get a fully rigged head ready to stick on any body.
It's sad that the Armed Forces are now looked upon with disdain by hackers mere decades after the West wrested the world from Germany's grasp.

Say what you want about the military industrial complex, but lets not forget that should any of our countries be invaded, we will be very grateful that those guns pointing at the invaders.
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"The parent and I have both read lots of papers like these,"

Can you please post the title/author of the ones that are most relevant?
I wish they would refer to password hashes as password hashes and not call them 'encrypted passwords'. Encrypted passwords screams that you don't understand security and were storing real passwords instead of hashes. (Or, more properly, salted hashes.)
I have a simple thought with all of these here nsa addresses. While some look fake, some do in fact look legit. Bu the question I ultimatly have is that since the NSA is all about spying, subterfuge, code breaking, and the like, why are they giving the workers @nsa.gov addresses? Wouldn't they give something that would point other people away from thinking of the NSA?
Matt Schaub, Andre Johnson get heated in Texans' loss
Agreed, I was pulling hair out of my head--convinced for a moment there was no order in the universe until I realized that console.log could time travel.

It appears to me that webkit's logging by reference is actually fuzzy; after some magical amount of time the logged object will be displayed "how it used to be"; but in some cases like

obj = {foo: 'something bad mwahahhaa'};
console.log(obj);
obj.foo = 'something good ;-)';

it will just go ahead and time travel to 'something good' and you will never see the 'something bad'.

however, if you expand the the object in the console (side note, would be nice to have an option to display expanded by default) it doesn't ever time travel and

obj = {foo: 'something bad mwahahhaa'};
console.log(obj);
// some magic amount of time or lines of execution
obj.foo = 'something good ;-)';

will also not time travel
It is not about no bothering with security settings. I would rather pay something, and have it signed. I will not run it --even if free-- if not.
Do you go beyond public sources for you data? Commission research?
Tiny Speck releases entire Glitch art archives into public domain
You might want to rethink your opinion on this. It's much more accurate to say that the default quality that most outsourcers are willing to pay for is crap. It comes down to going for the lowest price and poor description of requirements from overseas.

The last few years I've been getting tons of small-run, custom manufactured goods from China, ranging from custom keyboards (and CNC'd aluminum cases for them), custom electronics (mostly routers), to handcrafted belts and tailored clothes. All of them are of absolutely outstanding quality and all of the communication I've seen demonstrates some incredibly skilled craftsmen who take pride in their products.

A lot of the knowledge/experience is gone from US manufacturing.

Once they figure out customer service (which is generally poor, but good with some shops), you're going to see a lot more people doing what I've been doing.
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Schneier tells Washington NSA broke Internet’s security for everyone
I think you just proved Sunde's point.
you realise that people said that when it reached the dizzy heights of $10/BTC, $100/BTC, $200/BTC, etc. The April 2013 crash looked like a massive spike until a few weeks ago, now it's a tiny blip. Who's to say whether the November 2013 spike will look like a tiny blip in 6 months?
Funny how news organizations don't like when employees leak internal information. I'm all for whistleblowing, but what great public interest is served by publishing e.g. the colors of the new IPhone before it's announced? Certainly less important interests than that served by knowing Bloomberg News is kowtowing to the Chinese government.
If only I had known that before I recommended it to a client.
A Year Working Remotely
Wouldn't be an active github user devote less time to the work's projects? Personally I know that after my 8-9 hours work day, I barely (no at all) have energy for a side project. How these people can spent almost full time working on the OSS project? (I know some of the developers' job is to work on OSS project, but what about others?)
Fuck that guy. HE of all people is talking about people being arrogant bastards for trying to solve problems with technology?

If all the people in the Pirate Parties wouldn't have tried for years to get their foot into the proverbial door of power but instead worked on technologies and organizations to solve the problems they see in society, we'd be way, WAY farther along the way.

It's not too hard to realize that changing things politically in any major way benefitting humanity is improbable, if not completely impossible. But apparently trying (pointlessly as well as fruitlessly) to get into power to tell others what to do means being less of an arrogant bastard.

The thing is, in politics you can only make changes the public won't be rioting too much over. And while this is true in the positive sense that they can't just go full oppression at once, they also can't make things much better at once - even if they wanted to (which most of them don't, being corrupt and all that). Big changes scare people.

As for gradual change - You probably know how long politicians usually think. You should be able to extrapolate from there…

All too often 'nerds' like Sunde see their surroundings as being average - they're not. The average citizen is much more okay with what the state does than you'd think.

Summarizing, I can only say I'll pick someone working on an open technology meant to make people more independent any day over any 'politician' who thinks he's moving the world.
Why would it create bitterness unless the child felt entitled, which is not a good quality? The person was probably already dealt a better hand than most people on the planet. I, like many people, had to borrow the money for my college education. I managed to pay off my loans (public university) and buy my apartment in my early 30's.
Coin’s warm reception proves the George Costanza wallet must die
hahah, yeah that's a good one :)

>> "The Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny) is the court of last resort in administrative cases e.g. those betweens private citizens (or corporations) and administrative bodies. "
Startups, apps, projects built in Perl
Ok, let me state very clearly my problem with the term "statism": it is a negative. Not a negative in the sense of having a negative emotional connotation, but a negative the way a piece of photographic film is negative.

"Statism" doesn't tell me anything about the position being labelled statist. It only tells me that the person doing the labelling is a ~~libertarian~~ proprietarian minarchist. Left-anarchists don't even use the unvarnished term "statist", not even as a term for policies they oppose.

I want people to stop using terms that tell me about their personalities and start using terms that tell me about the politics under discussion.
Pretty much everything the author is talking about applies to the switching cost of picking up a new language, tool, or framework. The time spent to find all the little gotchas and so on is always bigger than you estimate. This is why a lot of people learn a tech stack like Java, PHP, Rails, C#, Django, etc. and stick with it for so long. Even if the new thing offers awesome benefits, it comes with a lot of those hidden things you have to re-learn and re-invent over and over again.
That chrome logo makes the new 'Minimal' logos look bad.
You do realise I said communist/socialist (slash included) because it is a wide spectrum and I can't place him in a single spot from a few comments in an interview?

Also: communism sees socialism as the transition from capitalism to communism. The only difference is the long term.
Better experiment:

Buy X amount of USD into BTC

wait for the price to rise to X+ε

Buy X amount of goods, using BTC to pay, thus supporting the economy.

Watch the other ε amount in BTC ride the waves
Wait, how is a flat rate internet service using WiFi worse than allowing airlines to implement some sort of LTE antenna booster on every plane so I have the opportunity to have no idea what I'm about to pay to use my phone?

What a horrendous article.
+ New Mac Pro and some iMacs.
The Kibit rule system
"Made in the USA" often means "Assembled in the USA".

[1] http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-03-01/business/36793...

[2]http://cagematch.dvorak.org/index.php?topic=3751.0

And last I knew, Intel did a lot of its chip work in Mexico, though the supply chain issues they had (counterfeits) may have changed that.
Chinese leaders control media, academics to shape the perception of China
Nice to see more apps based on node-webkit, best of luck.
Or just use free ones of you are unemployed and spend the money on food.
I'm reminded of the recent "What 4Chan thinks of HN":

"Article that is actually interesting" 0 comments

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
I wasn't the downvoter, but your initial response didn't answer the question, and was a snide irrelevancy. Was it intended as criticism of the HN audience? So what if it's related to Google?

Your subsequent edit is useful - thank you. I just wish you'd said that in the first place and left out the swipe.
Thanks - I thought it was very cool also.
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This is getting ridiculous now. I've had my password stolen probably at least four times this year.

I think that the browser developers should push for a keychain of random, generated passwords and use as many UI pointers as possible to push people to use these. Apple's implementation in Safari is what we should be aiming for, but pretty useless to me as I have Linux/Windows/Android devices that don't support Safari.
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Tim Berners Lee: "A Call for Continued Open Standards, Neutrality...and DRM"

One of those 3 things doesn't belong in there and isn't compatible with the overarching philosophy. Guess which.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
In general so do I, but in this case the initial reply was a content free snipe. In that case I'm not surprised it got a downvote without investing the time in making a more complete reply.

The subsequent edit was useful, although the attitude is, well, "sharp".
or ispy@nsa.gov
This sort of diatribe is pointless, wistfully remembering the old days through rose colored glasses.

It is just a circlejerk for the author.
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