skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that it is difficult for people to follow the diet consistently.
This is a shame for Bruji. That said, the clause prohibiting mobile apps did indeed exist when they launched last June. I remember seeing it in there in the early months of 2008, when I was looking into it.

I hate to say it, but it's hard to feel sorry for a company that charges money for a product which violates another company's TOS. Especially when they blame it on the other company when they get called out on it. They claim to have not known, but even a skim though the TOS should have made it clear that mobile apps are not allowed without explicit permission.
>and [Python, Ruby] will get their turn at being the whipping boy.

I don't know about that. I think a large reason for the fan boys' FUD against Perl is that the three languages are quite similar. Competition.

Edit: What I mean is, the coming new languages will probably be quite different and fill different ecological niches.

You can make a good argument that today with Moose/CPAN etc, Perl 5 is hard-to-beat as a development environment. The main disadvantage IMHO is that it is a lot to learn.

I really don't know what good can be said about PHP though, which is eating all three's lunch. (-: What was Larry Wall's quote? "Takes worse is better to new depths". :-)
Yeah, but the problem with that is that with PDF the page layout is really set in stone. What's appropriate for a 24" monitor may not be appropriate to read on your phone, or netbook, or what not.

The best format, IMO, is plain HTML. It can come with a custom style sheet, or can be overridden to taste on the client. It can be read by anything, it can be endlessly adapted .. it's just the best overall solution, IMO.
That a very sly move on the developers part. Next time I submit a pdf, I'll just us a url masking service.
I think of "special" interest as the opposite (by some imaginary scale) of "public" interest. Public interest that which costs/benefits people equally - so things done "in the public interest" will benefit the majority of people. Democratic governments are good [1] because they tend to do things which are "in the public interest". Things done "for special interests" are those done for a minority at the expense of the majority - "special" because that minority has some sort of power (lobbying) that the majority of people don't have.

1. According to utilitarianism - the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribution to overall utility: that is, its contribution to happiness or pleasure as summed among all people [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism]
Great advice. I've told folks this forever: War is not won by the winner but lost by the loser.
What percentage is Person B offering? Person A really does not deserve any shares. If you had signed documents, it would have been proper to vest shares, and it does not look like Person A has done enough work to warrant vesting. So Person A should be happy with the shares he recieves, wish Person B the best luck, and hopes the lottery tickets will be worth something someday. If Person A files a lawsuit, the chance of the company failing goes from 95% to 100%. So what's the point?
Im not sure I agree much there.

I really don see the difference between Foxit reader browser plugin and Scribd.

The bandwidth is going to be used anyway so that's a bit of a moot point perhaps?

In terms of site traffic... yeh the argument has merit. But tbh I cant recall a time I clicked a PDF link and then later surfed the related site.

I see what your saying though - I can see how it would annoy someone (personally if they arent taking creidt then it wouldn't worry me too much - I consider the content more important then where they read it per se)
For those that do, please don't throw your butts on the ground or out the car window. It's extremely irresponsible -- yet I see it happening all the time.
Interesting comment.

I feel like too many people are speaking up on HN just to speak (I wonder if the demographic has changed lately). I like this comment because it adds some data, not just an opinion or crafted argument.

I come to HN to hear first hand accounts from people. jknupp's comment is a good example. Other great examples are when founders comment on articles about their companies, or programmers about their code, or authors about their articles. But above this comment, with 40+ upvotes, are a couple of comments where the commenter doesn't even own a kindle, nevermind having 1984. sigh.
I'm very eagerly watching your progress! For a while now, I have wanted to try something like this on my own, but I've just never found (or made?) the time to do it. Hopefully when things free up a bit down the road, I'll be able to contribute some code towards this awesome project.
Never have, don't see a reason why. From the outside all I see is death, sickness, and billions of dollars in profit for huge corporations, and I have never tried nicotine so I don't know how it feels.
Too bad y2combinator[1] is no longer around. I'm sure they could help you :-)

1- http://web.archive.org/web/20070705045529/http://y2combinato...
It's a game. A silly one too - not really a HN type thing.

I wouldnt click if I were you - it basically amounts to abuse of Arrington.. which doesnt help anyone.
I concur - bonehead handling by Amazon perhaps, Exhibit A to why the copyright laws might need reforming, but not likely to lead to legal liabilities for Amazon given that they refunded everybody's payments.

Amazon needs to make its licensing policies clear up front and not bury them in fine print.

I may not like it when I only get a license that might be yanked, but I'll be a lot less upset about it the day it is yanked if I did the deal with open eyes at the start.

Though Amazon may be technically correct, it deserves the drubbing it is getting by failing to make its DRM policies clear up front to its customers.

It obviously obscured this issue to ensure that the issue would not harm Kindle sales. Now that this bomb has exploded, Kindle sales will be hurt anyway.
E-Commerce fraud detection API
The API compares shipping / billing information with IP geolocation data for all countries. For USA and Canada, the API also confirm area code and postal/zip code information. It is very flexible, parameters weight can be set manually
It is like a safe harbor provision. If you exclude processed foods and grains, then you are in a relatively safe place food-wise, though not perfectly safe of course.

If you do eat processed foods, then you take your chances or you must spend a lot of time educating yourself about various ingredients and the studies about them.
IP subnet by country
IP subnet (CIDR) by country
Yes, not proud of it though...
Your link is broken for me, shorten to the first /weegee/ and click "entertainment", then browse.
If person A truly wants to move off in a different direction, take the stock and run. Don't waste your time and energy on a lawsuit, particularly a venture that has no capital. Put it into your new direction.

If you really, absolutely can't get it out of your craw, wait until B's venture is funded and then sue.
On the topic of propaganda and people who don't know better...

Once upon a time (five years ago or so) I did Perl professionally. At first I bought into the CPAN hype -- everything's there! Any library you'll ever need has already been written and is in the CPAN! -- but after actually using it for a while, I learned that Sturgeon's Law has no exceptions. There were so many packages which were broken, uninstallable, non-functional or nearly undocumented that trying to use stuff from CPAN could end up involving more time than just writing from scratch.

When, one day, I encountered documentation for one project which listed all its dependencies, and then gave a long list of things it needed which were in CPAN but in such broken states that CPAN couldn't actually be used to install them (and an even longer list of instructions for how to manually install and work through the bugs), I started looking for something else.
A tale about design
There might be if most TOS didn't say, "we reserve the right to change these terms at any point in time, yada, yada, yada..."
It's not "leasing", either, though - unless they're indefinite-time leases for a fixed price, with the right to "withdraw" the lease for a full refund. Most leased cars are returned, I imagine. Most "DRM-bought" Kindle books are not.

So while "buy" isn't the right word, neither is "lease". It's a whole different beast altogether.
It has to be the best bit of copyright ever. HBTY is one of those songs you assume is so old it has no rights left to it. It's like ninja rights holding :)
Not in high school, but in middle school. I was reasonably popular in high school - had a decent group of friends, even if I wasn't in the "popular kids" crowd, and I was on good terms with most of the kids who were in the "popular kids" crowd. Occasionally see some of them, even.

In middle school, I was beaten up on a daily basis.

I think that a lot of this is an information cascade based on who the dominant kids are in your year. In my elementary/middle school district, the most dominant personality was a kid who I swear was a sociopath. He started tormenting everyone else in first grade. When we were 8 years old, we went on a field trip to an old historical house, and upon being shown the herb garden, his comment was "Is this where they keep the heroin?" My 3rd grade teacher mentioned privately that he thought this kid was mostly likely to end up in prison in 10 years. And sure enough, the last I heard of him, when I was about 17 years old and had long since moved to another school, was a notice in the paper that he had been arrested for assault and battery with a caribeaner.

My sister had no such problems, coming one year behind me, because there was no such person in her year. For her grade, the "cool" kids were all smart, diligent students, and so the culture of the class followed them. In mine, everybody kowtowed to this one sociopath because we were all afraid of what he'd do to us after school if we didn't.

The unfortunate thing is that it's all too easy for one bad apple to spoil the whole bunch, and school administration will all too often look the other way. If just one person with authority stands up and says "Look, this is not acceptable, quit threatening the other kids or don't come back to school," it stops. But a lot of teachers and administrators are so afraid of lawsuits that that rarely happens.
Your comment goes a little too far (this is not the full realisation of 1984, not yet anyway) but you do raise a good point. It introduces the first actual working memory hole; one of the key enablers of the 1984 regime.

Imagine some little guy writes a controversial tell-all book, it's published. People buy it on Kindle. The guy is sued by The Man, loses, and any unsold books are pulped - plus, now, any Kindle books are recalled, or possibly revised.

We have the technology ...
> a $1m project with expected value of $1.1m vs $1m project with expected value of $50m

Expected utility fail. Dollars are fungible; it is exactly equally important to save money on both projects, but on the second project, we are much more concerned with percentage losses of expected output value as a function of cost-saving attempts.
There have been some talks since the announcement of Mono.SIMD about providing JIT hints.

There is a partial patch on mono's mailing list archives that provides initial infrastructure for querying for those hints. The initial idea was to provide inlining hints for caller and callee.

If you feel inclined to have such thing, please drop by our irc channel or mailing lists to discuss this and contribute some code.
jquerylist.com, 9.31MB uncompressed
It's not that a particular idea does not have any value; it's that without proper execution, it does not realize its potential value.

In my career in computers, I have come across people with great ideas a few times, who have done nothing with that idea (primarily because they wouldn't leave their safe jobs), only to see it become insanely successful when someone else, who had the same idea independently, executed on it. So the idea obviously had value, but only because the potential was realized with the execution.
Yes, proud of it. Helps give me a legal high, great when working on problems or making decisions, very effective social lubricant.
There are so many great threads here that I don't know where to dump this comment. The original article inspired me to phone up the organizer of my reunion and promptly drive to meet her to deliver the check.
> "IE helped you make money"

If IE6 hadn't existed then we would have had Op., Konq, FF, Saf and been able to move onto use PNG about 8 years earlier, the agreed box model for CSS, less screwy flash implementation, etc.. In addition we'd probably have moved on a lot more with SVG and XHTML would have been accepted by all browsers so we wouldn't be moving backwards from XML to less a consistent SGML-like HTML. We'd have been able to use opacity earlier. Web designers would have been able to concentrate on extended functionality and graceful design rather that how messed up IE was. Websites would have cost 20%+ less to make.

How the heck has IE helped make web designers / devs money? That's like saying having a leg amputation helped to make you more mobile.
Huh? Does owning a Kindle give you some special insight into the question of DRM, copyright, consumer rights, etc, inaccessible to others? How would owning a Kindle make you more qualified to comment on this development?

Maybe a lot of people didn't buy the Kindle because they have compelling, well-argued positions on why they don't accept the limitations imposed on you by the product's terms and conditions. If anything those people are probably more informed on the issue than someone who just bought the latest gadget.

Speaking up just to speak is a problem, yes. But if you're going to impose barriers to participation, let's have them be a little less arbitrary than "owns a Kindle".
Diamond is far from the only one to write about tribal killings in Papua New Guinea. That doesn't mean he didn't make it up, but if he did make something up it probably wouldn't be something easily proven wrong.
An overview of TraceMonkey
I'm thinking about that too, that's a great idea! Thank you!!
Amazon wanted to have that kind of control

(1) Amazon makes money when it sells books

(2) Amazon loses money when it "recalls" them

(3) Amazon is a public company, hence it tries to maximize (1) and minimize (2)

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Hence, Amazon is really on the customers' side here when it comes to "buying" versus "refunding random books, rubbing hands together, and laughing manically". The only reason Amazon would want this kind of control is to extend it to publishers.
It's always bugged me how deficient perldocs seemed compared to php.net's layout. Hurray for change!
So you're saying other languages have somehow magically managed to keep their third party packages and libraries from ever breaking? Or that they don't have dependencies?

Look, when you've got a large enough library of third-party contributions, some portion of them will be broken. And the more libraries people use to build their own libraries, the more dependencies there'll be.

Let me know when some other languages manage to solve these problems, or when the upstart languages actually get enough third party libraries for them to have to start facing this problem themselves.
Nope. I've had enough second-hand while I was a child thank you very much...
Actually, that sounds OK. I know my body reacts very differently to HFCS vs sucrose, for example. My problem with GP is that Calories In == Calories Expended + Calories Stored, always (unless you have diarrhea or something). The differences in the way your body responds only changes the ratio of energy stored to energy expended, by making you hyper or relaxed.
I didn't intend to brush it off, but the assumption in the article seems to be that the SDK is this playpen that Palm has belted developers into. Of course developers don't have full access to every internal API yet, but this is a real SDK that real, solid apps have been developed on.

High performance apps are clearly not the focus of this SDK, and suggesting the SDK is inadequate because of this ignores the areas where the SDK shines. Perhaps I'll post something later about my favorite parts.
The Joy Of Rereleasing Old Games
How could a user prove their annotations ever even existed?
This is not for the original levels that ship with a game - it's only for levels that users submit. I agree that having a nice progression of levels in order of difficulty would be cool - maybe in a future release we could have the concept of a level pack, ordered by difficulty.
I remember thinking "This is pretty stupid" when doing that peanut burning experiment in class. Glad that I was on to something for a change.
App Store Lessons: No promo codes for apps rated 17+
Do you expect we'll see more signifiant OS updates now that the SDK is nearing completion?
According to this graph of job ads over the last five years, PHP is more popular than Python and Ruby, but only half as popular as Perl:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=perl%2C+python%2C+ruby%2C+...
What could Amazon possible say to defend their actions? The facts are plain to see. Personally I could do without their lame corporate spin, anyway.

edit: why the downvotes? It's a sincere comment! When Sony installed frickin' rootkits on people's computers, did anyone say "wait, wait, let's wait for their side of the story"? Of course not.

"Why" doesn't matter. What matters is that it can be done, that it has been done, and it might well be done again. Nothing Amazon says changes any of that. I stand by what I said.
Any reasons for a newbie to learn Perl instead of Python these days?

You can get a job at craig's list. Which... from what I've heard, is a really good job.
I, too, am disappointed that we have pages after pages of comments of knee-jerk reactions with without anyone bothering to take a moment and ask "why did they do this?".
uh, what do you base this on?

most users seem unable to determine what a browser is. I think you have wildly unrealistic expectations of what real users want.
"according to Apple, apps that feature an embedded web browser or provide access to 3rd party content also automatically require the 17+ rating, regardless of the application's content or intended audience."

This seems like they will be painting the 17+ rating with an awfully broad brush. Could this really be Apple's best solution to rating apps?
Poll: Do you smoke marijuana?
I'm curious to know how canabis affects hacking abilities.
Web Product Guidelines (Leah Culver)
Yeah but MSIE decided to go with EOT which is arguably why no-one else bothered. If they'd used TTF then other browsers would have implemented it earlier because it would actually be a usable solution.
While we're wishing for things...

I want a full-size e-paper display so I can edit code/use command lines outside in full sunlight. Think software development in a grove of trees from a hammock.
As someone that was actually affected by the decision Amazon took, I think jknupp has an opinion more valid than someone considering the situation hypothetically.
Whether it's "confusing" is entirely subjective. I found Perl's syntax quite straightforward, having already been familiar with shell scripts, regular expressions, and sed (not to mention a variety of other languages I'd learned). But I suppose I was not your typical newbie programmer when I started learning Perl.

Maybe Perl wouldn't make for the ideal first language, but it's certainly not nearly as difficult as assembly, certain functional languages, or even C/C++.
That's certainly one of the reasons that the numbers are so favorable.
If this was indeed the case then the better solution would have been for Amazon to pay the royalties to the copyright holder on the previous sales and quietly remove the 99 cent version from the store. This is a public relations disaster for the Kindle.

I disagree with your argument that people should have known this was too good to be true. Orwell has been dead for almost 60 years, 1984 will be public domain soon enough.
And we have the legal basis, in some parts of the world (notably, China).
I got over my anger about high school, but there is no way I would buy a plane ticket to visit those jerks.

I moved on from my hellish HS life and also would rather not re-visit that past.
It was a blog hosted by the Times, not an article in the Times.
Google Chrome is the competitor for Windows 8. Hasn't Ballmer admitted that Windows 7 will be the last traditional desktop Windows?
No.

But I did live in a house with a weed smoker for 2 years. Never really worried me except the living room always smelt stuffy in the mornings.

Oh and I had a really hilarious mix up with a dealer once. Mistook him for the pizza delivery guy and got all the way down a side street and too his car before I twigged. doh.
I know at least the clojure book (http://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure) is available in epub format which is essentially xhtml zipped with metadata files (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB).
This is a good thing. Nobody minds DRM when it doesn't bite them. When it starts fucking them over, they will start getting upset and stop buying intentionally crippled products. Then DRM will die. (Does DRM'd music even exist anymore?)
You're missing the point. It isn't Amazon that needs to want to delete your content, it's the publisher. Amazon enables the publisher to do it. In this case, Amazon didn't want to delete 1984 off your Kindle, the publisher did.

Say you bought a non-fiction book exposing some company's practices, or the Church of Scientology, or whoever, and they come after the publisher with defamation lawsuits. The publisher withdraws the book because it can't afford the legal battle, and Amazon deletes it off your Kindle. You don't get a say, Amazon doesn't get a say, Amazon's general desire to drive up its sales, which you base your optimisitic assessment on, plays no role whatsoever.

Or maybe it's not a defamation lawsuit, it's a copyright case over 10 lines of quotations in a novel you bought on your Kindle. And the publisher is just threatened with a suit, and decides to withdraw the book.

Or maybe you bought some memoirs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Little_Pieces), and later there's a scandal over how the author made it all up. To hush up the scandal, the publisher simply withdraws the book.

Etc. etc.
I'm all for precision in language, but this one is easy. A "special interest" is an entity that is a beneficiary of public policy intended to benefit some small subsector of the population. The "general interest" is the utility of society as a whole.

Interestingly, there are strong economic incentives for democracies to create policy that benefits special interests at the expense of the general interest.
I look forward to it (no sarcasm intended at all), and looking forward to giving the SDK a whirl myself. If only there was a way to buy a device without the requisite contract...

I sincerely hope Palm comes up with a SDK that gives much lower level access to the machine - and something more performant than JS. A lot of the iPhone's prowess comes from the fact that it can run some seriously beefy apps very quickly. Obj-C is no slouch when it comes to speed.
Markets are conversations. Conversations are marketing.

How is trying to sell your friends on where to hunt different from trying to sell them on a new pair of sneakers?
Seems like a good idea. I guess the invisible light provides high-resolution luminance data, and the low-resolution visible shot provides the chroma. Since our eyes are more sensitive to luma than chroma, the image is not degraded much compared to a "correct" exposure.
You failed to convey a point.