skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The author's main problem stems from his desire to use Stack Overflow as a mechanism for gaining internet points

Nope. His argument is that the site encourages its users to behave that way and that this results in several very real, relevant, negative impacts on the usefulness of the site and the quality of the answers (and questions).

Your suggestions are not a sufficient solution for the problems he describes.
That message is only going to reach an extreme minority of people, of which an extreme minority will actually put it into action.
Ha neat! Thanks for your part in the war on spam, we all owe you a debt of gratitude :-)
Oh boy...

I don't know if you're actually interested in discussing Objectivism or just bashing on Objectivists, but in an effort to stay intellectually-honest you might avoid confusing philosophies with philosophers.
While I agree with you in principle, some of the specifics I take issue with:

1. Writing new Mickey stories - This is an odd legal/moral area for me. It's not unreasonable for Disney to want to protect Mickey and if you wrote a Mickey story, it's possible that people could feel that a 3rd party product is endorsed by Disney. That could affect Disney's future business. Distributing Steamboat Willy on YouTube will not.

2. Mickey Mouse ears - Pretty clearly a trademark violation. Outside of the domain of copyright entirely.

I don't mean to nitpick, but I don't think it helps to confuse different types of intellectual property in this discussion. Steamboat Willy is a discreet work of art that should enter the public domain. As should all other works from that time. That is good for society and really has no bearing on anyone's ability to create commercially viable works of art (other than derivative works such as a Steamboat Willy stage play or novelization).

The brand of Mickey is separate and Disney has a legitimate (though perhaps not legitimate enough, I'll admit) interest in protecting it. Part of the problem is they are deceiving people into conflating the two issues to protect a supplementary revenue stream and control their brand.
Thanks! Do you have a link to your product so I can check it out?
Dennard's Laws (which say that smaller transistors use less power) are also ending.
I know because it heats up like hell when it's recording (not hot against the skin, but you can feel it radiating). I suppose it could be taking snapshots, but at this point it needs to sleep as aggressively as it can to stretch that tiny battery.
Neither does Python2.

$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 25 2013, 00:04:04)
>>> xrange(10)
xrange(10)
>>> list(_)
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
I've only played single player but it's a pretty decent game, lots of cutsceens and loading screens though.
It probably correlates more to age than anything. SF is a more popular place to live if you are young, single, and outgoing (i.e. more to do there). Mountain View (and areas like PA, Menlo Park, etc) are much more appealing to people with families.
You're always going to have old documentation on the Internet (and it's a good thing!). The more annoying problem I encounter (not Python specific) is blog posts or news stories without publish dates.

All of the Python communities I've seen have a "Python 2 or 3?" section that's pretty clear--"depends on what you want to get done. Python 2 is most widely deployed. Python 3 is complete but lacking an install base and library support." I've written a small amount of code in Python 3 and they're not that different.

I entirely agree about package management (and virutalenv). It finally appears they have a way forward with package management. If that's implemented in Python 3, it'd be a significant reason to adopt. Virtualenv is already part of Python 3.

At my workplace, we're still transitioning from Cent5 (ships with Python2.4, but we're using 2.6) to Cent6 (ships with 2.6). Our third-party packages are still on 2.6 and the newest versions of them are finally using 2.7. So we've brought up Python3, but are still just talking about moving to 2.7. I, too, wish adoption of Python3 was faster, but even if there were more enticing features my workplace is beholden to the platform we're using. I think now that newer distros default to Python3 is fantastic, and it will take the long term versions defaulting to them before most companies are convinced to switch (still a few years off).
Heres a link to some binary to text encodings to abuse the blockchain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding

With very modest client software modification, you could MIME encode any arbitrary binary file then squirt out one line of base64 per "post". Or the venerable uuencoded format.

What would prevent abuse would be some manner of throttling in the protocol to stop both this technique of blockchain abuse or arbitrary file length abuse.

I'm not thinking of apps like distributing cracked bluerays which would be fairly ridiculous, but much smaller binary files like a GPG key or SSH or whatever. Yeah yeah cut and paste whatever, why not automate it if you can. Click this menu option to send an extremely small file as a binary rather than screwing around with cut and paste.
>What tangible difference in incentive exists for creating new works if your protection is 60 years or 1000 years after you die?

You think Disney or anyone else will invest if they lose their copyright protections in 60 years? No, it is stability that encourages creation and investment.

>Information cannot be permanently locked behind a paywall, especially as it becomes important to study it historically

That is the problem...misconception that copyrighted work is behind a paywall. Copyrighted work is subject to fair use and a number of other exceptions such as academic/scientific purposes.
Damn that's well written. Of course I can also show some business cards and some bull. But when push came to shove, my target market were not prepared to pay.

As always, I am always keen to connect with bright people and good ideas.
Nevermind, found it. Looks pretty cool. Joelle and I use Trello for this currently, but lots of hacks are involved to make it work the way we want. Would love to test out your product when it's ready.
Yup - http://HelloPosts.com

Edit: Just saw your previous comment haha.
I am a little tiny bit dumber for having read this.
Thank you for all of your hard work, and the work of the SO team. Helping us share all these fishes around.
Indeed. There are two forces pushing against each other in this discussion of the arts. On the one hand, tech money does find it's way into the hands of artists. (In NY there's a saying that "Every financial services job pays for an artist" and employment in the latter follows the former)

But artists need a place to live. When artists leave, they can't afford to move in because of anti-development policies that discourage investment in the housing stock. The rent control policies protect existing inhabitants of existing buildings, but wind up crushing everyone else. Good intentions, but terrible unintended consequences.
Yes, well, that's why I said it would be sweet of them. You know, like, a grouchy old military dad taking his daughter to see Snow White. It may not he his choice of entertainment, but it's very sweet of him to take her. :-)
‘JFK Customs destroyed 11 of my instruments’
From my experience, every answer I came up already fall in two categories:
1) Already answered on SO
2) Will not get answered on SO

So.... Most of current contributors just fight for points really.
>I like the idea that the kids would be watching Bridge on the River Kwai instead of the latest recruitment video but it doesn't seem likely.

The kids aren't the purchasers of the majority of entertainment products.

If the kids had a choice between free River Kwai, and a $12 modern version of 3:10 to Yuma (or something funner), the $12 would become $2 in no time.

Prices on new product would have to be lowered to compete with free old product.
Old news unfortunately; I'm specifically speaking of Ember data from July / August 2013 era. It was purportedly worse before that, I don't know because I only looked at it this summer.

I understand many people don't write data centric apps and they full well find they don't need Ember-data or need a very sophisticated Ember-data but try to do anything of substance data wise and it's a nightmare.
What saddens me most is that the Bugs Bunny cartoon is held back. The Barber of Seville cartoon is wonderful as well.
Reading the other comments here, a lot of people think mods are those with 2k. Or at least those with edit privileges.
The BeOS user API is interesting. It's not clear to me that the kernel is actually different in any appreciable way.
This is not a HN story. We skip most responses to the original tin foil stories.
Thanks, I definitely plan on using HookFeed if I use Stripe for HelloPosts.
That's a dangerous oversimplification. Read about the billion-dollar Viacom / YouTube lawsuit, and how it was anything but a sure thing that YouTube would win, despite their DMCA protections.
5 rules to follow when building software for the world
Well, I guess there is the experience of those of us in the trenches actually working with these frameworks and large data centric applications and then there are people who want to argue semantics.
Database Normal Forms – Simplified
Thanks for the laugh. I would pay a few bucks to see that play out.
13 Data Milestones for 2013
Don't forget to check out Project Gutenberg for a collection of works already in public domain.

http://www.gutenberg.org/
You can copy and distribute any creation for free thanks to the internet. A publisher is not required for the next On the Road. But creating the next Bridge Over the River Kwai will require serious resources.

Samuel Johnson, who did an awful lot of writing, and was not that one can tell a greedy man, said that No man but blockhead ever wrote but for money.
Didn't that make you feel a little better?
Yep, he once asked if there was anything he should change about this talk - I said get rid of the Comic Sans, but keep the casual feel. This was in 2010. You know that a is talk finely tuned when the only thing someone can think to change is the font!
Or maybe the D700 is equivalent to a 7970.
Nothing ironic about it. When these plots were being sold off the car was king (and really still is) and passenger train service was almost discontinued due to lack of ridership. Putting tech centers next to freeways was quite sensible at the time.
I'm sympathetic to these arguments, largely until the people making them open their mouths.
Yeap, that's what i did as well, and i think that's the documented way ( using a flask test request context i think). But having to do this let me understand a lot more about sqlalchemy session, flushing and object states, in a multithreaded environment. I recommend doing that for an in-depth understanding.
>Seems more languages catch on the last 5-10 years than they did in previous decades.

I think that's partly due to the increasing acceptance of "polyglot programmers", the realization that many programming concepts are shared across languages and that good programmers work with those concepts rather than just syntax or implementations, the resulting push-back against "X years of experience in Y language" type recruiting, and the "use the right tool for the job" while interfacing across different platforms via defined API/messaging system only.

It's good see all that come together and enable and incentivize a Cambrian explosion of programming language experimentation. Good time to be in the field.
Ellis Act is tricky. It's threatened far more than it's executed. That's because it bad for renter credit (supposedly) to have an eviction and it imposes a bunch of random restrictions on the owner. So it gets threatened and then occupants take a payout and move out quietly.
1 year? Just ship product regularly brother.
How many LuaJIT experts do you suppose there are reviewing edits on Stack Overflow?
This sentiment has its roots in the Freeway Revolts of the 60s and 70s. Caltrans had massive plans to wrap the entire Bay Area in freeways (plans which were only partially implemented) and the backlash put the brakes on not just new highway construction, but any kind of major infrastructure improvement. The high number of land takings is part of the reason why high speed rail is drawing a lot of criticism. In fact, peninsula residents more likely oppose the aerial grade-separation structures that would improve Caltrain service as well, not HSR itself.
I was thinking the same thing. The website appears to be making it very easy to aid and abet (not in the strict legal sense) piracy. It's very shaky ground.
Did you check out rust? That's within rust's feature set, though it isn't "production ready" yet.
There are no business models which depend on a revenue stream existing 30 years from now to encourage the creation of works. In fact I can't think of any business models that are dependent upon such lengths of time; patents don't even exceed 20 years.

You are not encouraging any additional creation by making the copyright indefinite, you are simply handing creators exclusivity enforcement forever at the expense of the public.

As a creator you are not entitled to ownership of information, it is given to you by the government. It is not relinquished from you to the people. Copyright is a social contract, not an inalienable right arbitrarily given to creators simply for the act of creation.

In the first Supreme Court case on Copyright, they ruled:

“Congress… by this act, instead of sanctioning an existing right… created it.”
This is why we need pirates.
There's a related conversation happening in the neighborhood I live in, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Not about techies specifically, but about the general wave of wealthier young folks moving in and driving up rents. Displacing existing residents. Gentrifying. Etc.

Now, I can afford to continue living there, so maybe it's easy to hold this view, but I never felt I could get too upset about this situation.

First: It's a great sign that the neighborhood's so desirable that people will spend to move there. It's bringing in business (and helping existing businesses). It's making things safer. Making things more interesting.

Second: I've been around for longer than many people, but I transplanted there at some point, as well.

Third: Neighborhoods and cities change. No way around it. Much rather they grow and become popular with smart, upwardly-mobile young people (with a creative streak) than grow stale or decay.

Fourth: If something is a limited resource but in high demand, the price goes up! While I don't believe people should be kicked out their homes willy-nilly, I also believe that if a ton of people want something, then it's fair for the market to respond by raising prices (with some constraints, of course, which I'm not going to get into here). To me, this is one of the downsides of renting. You run that risk. If that's not appealing, then one should try to own (which could be a nice investment if your area is booming).

Am I being a douchebag gentrification-sympathizer? Maybe I'm just one of the people the "real residents" get to hate on -- a white male with a bit of extra disposable income.

Anyway: Not SF-specific. But certainly other parts of the country are having similar issues. (I lived in Austin for 27 years, and though I don't keep up with local politics there, I bet they're also going through a light-weight version of this in areas.)
> Uh...have you actually ridden Caltrain?

No, and that's sort of my point. I've lived in SF since the summer of 2008, and not once in all that time has Caltrain ever been useful to me. It doesn't pick up anywhere near anything, and it doesn't run to any place I want to go.

Meanwhile, when I lived in New York, I rode the subway, the LIRR, the PATH train, Metro North, and even Amtrak all over the place, in no small part because Penn Station and Grand Central are located right in the middle of everything and thoroughly connected to local transit.
As a developer and solo founder, I just can not finish a serious project in one year.
For example, it took me two years to get version 1 of torapp guilloche designer
(www.torapp.info). We did not get consistent/significant customers and we need a new product to survive.

To evaluate more ideas and to be familiar with respective areas took me another year easily (without deep knowledge in the area, how can you beat your competitors?).

So how can you guys roll out a product in 3 months? How can you quickly pivot?
> No one (rational) is arguing for no legal protections.

There are many quite rational anarchists who would argue for that. Personally, I wouldn't advocate for throwing that switch in today's world, because we only have like 5% of the infrastructure needed to support a healthy anarchistic society. But if in the future we have a fairly complete complement of anarchistic technology and culture I could rationally argue that copyright would be superfluous, if not outright harmful in that world.
If Google becomes aware of such a link, for any reason, it is obliged by law to deindex.
I know this is completely off-topic, and I know this is a war I will lose, but must we call ourselves "bullish"/"bearish"?

Anyway, Bitcoin may not save the world, but if it does anything like what this blog post says, it may very well save the Internet from the advertising platform it's become.
>I can create and distribute any creation for free thanks to the internet.
>I create because I'm a creator, not because there is a fiscal reward.

Then there is nothing stopping you from doing just that...Just because the protections exist does not mean you must avail yourselves to them, you can give your work away for free all you want or let others take your work reproduce it and sell it as their own (maybe even take credit as the original creator).

However, if your saying you need to create your work off anthers work which is copyrighted and they want to enforce the same, then I would say IP is not what is stifling creativity, rather an unoriginal artist with no creativity to begin with.
I got into a long discussion with a lawyer-colleague who insisted that Disney doesn't have "Mickey Mouse" trademarked, but only a handful of very specific renderings of him. His preferred solution was to give Disney a "right to publicity" for Mickey Mouse (as if Mickey Mouse were a real person) which would let their old stuff enter the public domain while still maintaining control of the character.
Autumn is neat - I wrote a similar function that would turn an email address into one of a handful of colors (hash with some modulo magic), which was used to generate a placeholder avatar for users (until they upload their own). Worked really well, they were unique enough to differentiate and easy to compute.
For anyone else wondering, I believe the statistic comes from p. 15, Table 8.
I think the "Linux hasn't succeeded on its own merits" argument isn't quite apt. Arguably, Windows didn't succeed on its own merits, either--it was a "good enough" platform backed by significant business acumen and, with time, platform lock-in.

That said, it does feel a little strange to credit Linux at large for what is largely an Android revolution. A good parallel is Unix and OS X; however purely Unixy the core is, it would still feel awkward to count Apple's market share under "Unix."
Has anyone compared this to libtommath?
That list is very different from what's in the Mac Pro.

1) You've picked an i7. The Mac Pro uses a Xeon. They're way more expensive.
2) The Mac Pro has ECC RAM which is more expensive.
3) You picked one video card, and it's probably a gamers card (not a GP-GPU like the FirePros, again, MUCH cheaper)
4) OCZ SSDs which have dodgy reliability and are SATA, not PCI-E
5) No Thunderbolt controllers
6) A 750-watt power supply - The mac pro gets by with 450w.

If you assemble a list of parts that are actually similar to what's in the Mac Pro, you'd probably end up closer to $5,400.

And none of that counting the desk space you save, the noise characteristics, the expandability (PCI-E speed and 6 hot-pluggable devices for each thunderbolt 2 port).

Where you're more likely to save money generally with Apple products is with upgrades, as some have pointed out with the Xeons.
He used to be there. You can't find a better expert.

I'd expect mods familiar with Lua to recognize him, and he should have mod powers, to begin with.
Yep. $400 on a $5000 machine? For me, that'd easily be covered by the case, acoustics, and ability to use OSX. Not to mention the knowledge that I've got warranty on the full machine, not just on each individual part. My custom-built desktop is fine for gaming, but if I'm dropping $5k for a professional machine, I want some guarantees.
They did have a Python implementation for a while (IronPython)
This is refreshing. I suspect even though the libertarians are the most vocal among bitcoin adopters (and that's ok), a lot of people actually agree with this.
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It says in the article that Big Dog is a robot made by a company Google bought. Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ
VC-Backed Acquisition Statistics for 2013
I'll say this: a year ago I started wearing a watch again, and I've been amazed at how awesome it is compared to a cellphone. If I want to know the time, nothing beats just looking at my wrist and getting back to what I was doing, as opposed to getting my phone out, pressing unlock, putting it away, and sometimes forgetting the time.

It's truly the smallest of speedups to get over the pettiest of inconveniences, but for something I do constantly, having a watch is awesome. Even though the current crop of smart watches don't interest me, I could see myself getting a watch that makes other common tasks easier if it came at a reasonable price.
My 2013 - A short recap on been a designer, developer and entrepreneur
As an online retailer, what do you do if someone reports fraud? Shrug your shoulders and tell them they should have been more careful with their wallet?

If Bitcoin == cash, what does a storefront do if someone comes to them and says "my stolen cash was used to buy items here"? Usually nothing, yes? Is that what we're saying is the burden of responsibility for an online store with Bitcoin?
"Does anybody pay for a product that's not ready yet?"

Isn't kick starter build around that concept? If people think something is looking good and might help them considerably they might be open to pay for developmental costs.