skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. That would have been all in all much nicer.

But a bit of clarification; it was _not_ a gagging order — which are handed out by courts — but a confidentiality agreement, which they were not obligated to sign.

A less than sterling response on Apple's part, but this has been blown out of proportion.
It's worth it.

I did it last year, and it took almost two weeks before i felt like i was even somewhat productive again. However, now, i feel exactly the same way when trying to use an editor without a VIM mode. What? I have to use the arrow keys to move the cursor? But, i'll have to move my hands! sigh
You forgot "apparently enough things happen to justify a news site dedicated solely to domain names"
The other half of this article, that Clojure code requires less testing, is also interesting. I've noticed the same thing myself. Once the author had specified the problem, I thought of the solution in my head "he's going to map over the epochs, rounding them to dates, and then call merge-with". Scroll down, yep, almost exactly what I had in mind.

I don't normally do that in other languages. I attribute a large part of that to the map/filter/reduce paradigm. Functional languages tend to have a much more expressive vocabulary than C/C++/Java. Rather than writing a for loop to filter an array, you just write (filter ...). The language is almost declarative, in that you specify what you want to happen, rather than how.

Tests are an important part of developing these days. They should count in pg's assertion that program shortness == power. Needing to write fewer tests to be sure of a program's correctness is an important attribute.
This has to be a joke of some kind or the families they are putting this surveillance on must have some kind of criminal records. Even then spending >$600MM on 20000 families to make sure the kids get proper care is ridiculous. They can rather develop schools with dorms with free education/food to make sure of that. WOW!!!
Honestly I think about these things a lot, too.
It might have something to do with the fact that the app store provides a market where people pay money for software.
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Grad school for me is like this: class, sleep, write, and no social life. I question some of the assignments, but find the content interesting. I just wonder sometimes what other people (ladies) my age are doing. I assume marriage, dating, or having children. I do not think of myself as abnormal for not taking that route, but instead realize I just do not have time for these things at the moment.
"You conveniently assume that by not providing evidence as to the size of this figure, the plaintiffs, defendants and jury have valued it at zero."

It's irrelevant what they valued it at: no evidence means no damages. Period. Cases are dismissed every day for failing this fundamental requirement.

But, you say, there's a statute that presumes some level of damages. That's true. What's also true is that the statute authorizes punitive damages, lumped together with actual damages.

That's a problem under recent due process / punitive damages jurisprudence. Per the Campbell case, you cannot have punitive damages that grossly exceed the actual damages. Here, actual damages appear to be a single person's use of 30 songs, yet the jury awarded $675,000. There is, quite obviously, a large punitive element.

You are not in a position to argue these punitives were only a small fraction of the award, since, as noted above, actual damages proven were, at most, $30.

Your argument is that Congress can simply sweep these issues aside, lump them together in a statute, and be done with it.

That's not how constitutional law works.
I think there's a risk of overgeneralizing here. The title may hold true for world-class athletes, but the author offers nothing to suggest this would be causally related to performance in business.
I think that all articles should have a mandatory cars-on-a-bridge analogy.
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Passion before a paycheck
Interesting article. Another tip I've heard mentioned is that when most people are looking for a hiding spot, they naturally tend to hone in on areas that +/- 2ft of eye level.

Other tips I've heard are that many burglars do not like ending up in "dead end" places like basements. A well-hidden stash in the basement (if you have one) is likely more secure that most 1st/2nd floor areas.

I found the comments about looking for the stash of money very interesting though. I can say that at any given time, except for some spare change, there is $0 in my house when I am not there. This is not because I don't have any liquid accessible cash, just that I see no reason to horde cash at home...
You know I think I shall always wish to be a student.
You clearly don't understand what statutory damages are.

Statutory damages are not punitive damages.
Statutory damages are compensatory damages, for when calculation of actual harm is impossible or practically so, though harm clearly exists. Here -- it's clear that the record company lost some money from the defendant's file sharing eating into sales, but how much?

Statutory damages are the only compensatory damages that are allowed to account for the legal costs of pursuing action. Attorney's fees are not awarded as part of compensatory damages, and are usually are only available for intentional torts. Finally, Statutory damages are in lieu of all other compensatory damages, and judges will rarely if ever grant punitive damages alongside a statutory election.

In response to your arguments above: Philip Morris is a punitive ("make an example of") damages case. It only applies to punitive damages. It does not apply to compensatory damages.
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The more prepared you are, the less likely you will go to try. I spent a week preparing to depose the opposing party -- 15 minutes before it started, he offered us close to what we sued for.
I recommend checking out Komodo Edit. It has a really great vim emulation, and has all the nice IDE features that are useful (projects, file browsing, remote file editing). It has most of the nice things from Textmate (the Cmd+t quick open), extensions, and much more. Plus it's own snippet system as well.
Twenty minutes ago. I actually voted up someone who had responded to me. I didn't agree with their point, but someone had voted them to 0. It was still a valid part of the discussion, so I voted it back up to 1.

If I disagree with a comment, and it's at 1, I won't upvote it. But if it's less than one, I'll correctively upvote it.
This story is of dubious provenance, based solely on an article in the UK's Daily/Sunday Express (a rather lowbrow tabloid).
Perhaps the causes or whatever drives people to be religious or criminal are not the same? Perhaps removing criminals from British society was enough to 'reform' a lot of them.The puritans chose to go to the US, I believe.

If we had sent all the criminals to the US and all the puritans to Australia then perhaps the results would have been switched.
I'll play devil's advocate here, since (almost) everyone seems to be applauding Apple for this.

The issues, as I see them, are:

1) high volume of apps,

2) low quality / low utility apps,

3) copyright infringement

A lot of the cheering seems to be related to 1) and 2) - getting an "app spammer" out of the app store, improving the user experience, etc. IMO, these are precisely the wrong reasons to cheer. They are perfect examples of the problems with the app store from a developer's perspective - arbitrary judgement calls which often end up being inconsistently applied. Apps do get rejected all the time for having "limited functionality" - these two concerns should be addressed during the approval process, and, if necessary, by removing specific apps, NOT by outright banning a developer AFTER the apps are approved (thus signaling to the developer that Apple is OK with them). If there are "too many" apps, throw in a per-app listing fee after a certain number of apps. If the app is low quality, don't approve it. These are messy, hard to define rules otherwise.

intellectual property complaints concerning over 100 of your Applications - Say a developer has 8 apps in the app store, one of the eight apps uses unlicensed images, and Apple bans the developer instead of removing the one app. I suspect the reaction here would be a bit different.

The ONLY acceptable reason in this case is repeated copyright infringement - easy to define, easy to detect, and simple for the developer to avoid in the first place. And yes, that is the reason Apple is giving - but it doesn't seem to be the reason most celebrated by the comments here, it's mostly that something bad happened to someone we don't like.
If your primary goal is to compare several items, make a bar chart. If you want to show a composition of something, make it a pie chart (And make it hollow).
Can they force him to pay refunds? I suppose customers who bought his (cr)apps would need to delete them because they contained unlicensed content. (A bit like the Kindle/1984 issue only I think Apple has no technical possibility to kill apps that have already been bought). Anyway, everyone should be entitled to a refund.
I see they are using the alternate definition of the word "catch" meaning "did not catch". Interesting.
I think they're probably more concerned with bringing it back up at the moment than they are with informing people about what is going on. (I understand that there are more than just engineers working there, but I can understand a PHB screaming at somebody to stop jacking around on twitter during a crisis).

Either that or they hoped that they could rectify the problem before anybody noticed.
Why Software Certificates Aren't a Second Authentication Factor
I switch back and forth between TextMate and MacVim. MacVim is slightly, annoyingly slow; TextMate feels more natural (including smooth, fast block editing without modes); TextMate doesn't have split view or buffers. To be honest, I'm not that happy with either. I've tried emacs a few times because Aquamacs is a nice app, but emacs makes my vim-trained brain hurt and I end up wresting with it and giving up.
Punitive damages are awarded for intentionally injurious behavior. They are not required to match up to actual harm -- they are intended to punish and to encourage the defendant to avoid future injurious behavior.

Punitive damage case law is inapplicable to compensatory damage cases (statutory damages are compensatory, not punitive).

It's like crime: if you commit a crime, you waive due process in regards to the formula used to determine what sentence you serve. Your only protection is what the people, via the legislature, has determined is a fair formula for determining sentencing.

BTW, you should check your case law. Statutory damages have always been upheld by the courts.
Sniffing the Unsniffable on Windows
Please lets not turn into Reddit. Several UK tabloids make a living from scaring the public with crazy surveillance stories. Reposting them here isn't useful.
I read RadioShack's press release, and can't tell if it's changing its name.
I always up vote anyone who responds to me with well-articulated points, regardless of whether I agree with them or not. As long as they have taken the time to explain a viewpoint in a manner that contributes to the conversation I feel that it is worthy of consideration.
Clojure would look something like this:

(defstruct mountain :name :latitude :longitude :country)
(struct mountain "Zugspitze" 47.416667 10.983333 "Germany")
Am I the only one who failed at navigating Teague's website to actually find information on the bike?

Also, am I the only one who wants to buy one right now?
They are not very inconsistent with rules

I disagree. The rules might be consistent, but Apple certainly doesn't apply them consistently. The classic example is a simple bugfix update, which adds no new functionality, being rejected for something that is already in the approved version of the app. (happened to me, happened to Nine Inch Nails).
"It has a really great vim emulation"

Will it read in my .vimrc file and my custom scripts? That's the big win with vi for me, that I can customize and automate things.
I am very pleased to see a legitimate post about hacking on Hacker News. Well played, sir.

I have similar feelings about Detours. Microsoft Research is in their own little world sometimes.
Being from the UK, I will ignore this story until I see it reported by a source more reliable than the Sunday Express newspaper. This article from this source is akin to a clown car driving down your street and pretending to throw buckets of water over you,

So far I can't find any news articles about this on the web that aren't just a regurgitation of the Express article (along with attribution).

Here's just one of the reasons to wash your hands after touching this rag:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Express_Dunblane_controv...
>It makes something that once seemed complicated simple, and after you wonder how you could ever have thought that it was complicated.

"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."

-Warren Buffett
Wow. Just wow. I give it 6 months before this is abandoned or all the cool kids leave.
I'd honestly love for this to be a fabrication of some sort. The implications of its being true are a little disquieting.
So you've got a million dollar iPhone app idea...
What a title!

Not that there are few similar services right now (be-a-magpie for instance), and Twitter hasn't collapsed.

To even say more, if I remember correctly, @ev is OK with them.
That's true for everything except credit card data. If you have to ask, storing users' credit card data is almost always a bad idea. The information is very sensitive, and any compromise is very serious. That's why if you store payment information, you generally have to implement a number of best practices to achieve "PCI compliance". This costs you time & money, as well as additional policies and regulations at your company. Unless your revenue is reasonably significant (say, over a million per year), it's probably not worth the hassle. Outsource your payment processing.
Well, you studied CS and he studied comp lit :)
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Amazon does regular "game day" drills that involve things like unplugging an entire datacenter to simulate an electrical failure. It's the only way to really figure out how things will break.
What does that mean? His novels certainly contained violence but I don't recall any of them expressing enthusiasm for it. And a man is not his writings. Scifi authors often explored worlds with different values and conditions. For example many of his novels contemplate polygamy and alternative marriage/family structures but I have never heard anything to suggest that he himself practiced anything like that.
I get the irony, but I suppose here it is so that the ads all get a second hit.
MacVim is slow? Since when?
The upper-classes are pretty grotesque as well.
I want to review some "offline maps" apps. There are 2 nice apps that let's you download maps from OpenStreetMaps...

If you search for "offline maps" here:

http://appshopper.com/search/?cat=&set=&search=offli...

You get one offMaps, and the developer of the second result also has another nice app (oMaps).

But there is also a guy that has spammed the app store with hundreds of "offline maps" apps, one for each major city in the world, using the same OpenStreetMaps source. I think that he does that with an automated script, and he is not going to stop until he has an app for every city or village in the world.
Ah, thanks. British tabloids seem to be a lot better than American tabloids at disguising themselves as legitimate news. I'll add this one to my mental blacklist alongside the Daily Mail.

Submission flagged.
When you build accessories for the ipod, you talk with apple before you go and make it to see if they would be fine with it.
A lot of the "criminals" were really just poor people and the puritans chose to go the US largely because nobody in Europe wanted them around.
If you are referring to NERDTree, NERDTree is awesome!

*C* (that's capital C), to switch the folder under the point to root
*r* to refresh
*m* to perform (or pick) a file system command
*cursor-keys* to move up and down
*?* for help

How can you not master that! Vim is awesome!
I dunno if fasting for 12+ hours is worth it for a three hour time difference!
The primary issue I am working through at the moment going solo with my web app is that there is just so much work.

(The load would be easier to handle if I didn't have a full time consulting gig.)

The good thing is that I get to learn something about everything.
I Can Be Better?
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When we launched IMSafer, we had 3 technical guys. One focused on UI, one focused on client code (we had a client download), and one guy on backend/DB work. Each of the three guys knew enough to cover/help on other parts, but having that separation helped them be extremely productive.
Why "the end of the information age"? Edge.org sells well without the extra hype.

In fact this is the beginning of a new age where digital, spiritual and biological mashups will augment reality.

You are already feeding the machine with your spirit through memes. When your biological id uploaded will met your brain the resulting mashup will be very similar to you at this current moment.

After collecting enough Life Experience Credits you can download (one of yours, or perhaps some of your friends) digital doppelganger back to your body ... Or maybe into some of your friends body.

Then you won't know who you are and where, in which universe are you living. Your ego will completelly disappear so you'll become immortal.

The web after all is a good place for both of us, the only concern is to have a good UPS to not get interrupted during up- and downloads
This isn't news to me. I've had numerous times where I couldn't log into Paypal, but instead would get Paypal 'This is an error, try again later' messages for a couple of hours.

I also had an item a couple of years ago that I could not pay for. Paypal would just die in the middle of the transaction with a 500 error. I tried for at least a week to get it to work, and Paypal customer service wasn't any help.
I cannot help you with that. Maybe you should be on the outloook of more interesting things to do? I don't know...
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The author sounds extremely stressed. To some extent, this is the big learning of the PhD program that I learned a touch too late : be self directed and manage your time. This line jumped out at me "I could not concentrate. There was too much noise and interruption in my head." I think that there are a variety of meditation techniques that could help you. There is a feedback loop in the brain and I recently saw a talk from a stanford prof detailing how certain kinds of meditation can actually reinforce the executive control process in the brain. The basic types were concentrating on something (e.g. breath) or concentrating on nothing... Here is the substance of the talk by the same fellow : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf6Q0G1iHBI Good luck, keep cool and find a good task management program!
You Disabled The Account?  Really...?
Couldn't help but notice that you (not sure who) disabled the account of the person who submitted the "Why I don't find HN useful anymore" image. I don't agree with the submitters opinion, but I hope there is something I am not aware of that caused his account to be disabled. Disabling his account simply for that post is rather draconian. This isn't the App store, it's Hacker News.
Let me ask a simple Qs: Why would AT&T (if it was involved) ask to only remove the GV app on iPhone? Wouldn't Blackberry and Android have lost their GV apps too?

Blackberry and Androind users can still user GV apps, and AT&T has denied any involvement in this fiasco, leads me to believe it was all Apple's doing.
The Digital Age Is Stamping Out Serendipity
I'm beginning to think that it's time to hide the points totals.
Wow. I've never use the app store as I have a G1, but that's amazing that such an app ever made it through the approval process.
Comet web chat (with MochiWeb)
This is nothing new. Companies have paid celebrities to endorse their products for a long time. This is just taking it to a new level, where companies can pay anyone to endorse their product. I see the effectiveness of this strategy to be limiting because the endorsement is not authentic. Obama doesn't recommend blackberry to his friends because he's paid. College kids didn't create facebook accounts for all their friends because Mark cut them a check. It's authentically loving a business that gets people to talk about it. Twitter is a new means of conversation. But you still can't just pay someone to talk about your product. They have to love it first.
I find the suggestion that people keep a smaller "fake" stash of money in a more obvious place interesting. It would be nice if this could be formalized—have banks offer a service where they sell packets of marked, sequential and perhaps even non-legal-tender bills that you can put in these obvious places. (Of course, the fact that they should be hard for a burglar to recognize at first glance means that they might be used as counterfeits—so an equivalent sum of real money should be kept at the bank as a "deposit" (not in the banking sense of the word) to ensure good will.)
As opposed to what, baseless accusations of fear mongering? I live in North Carolina, and if you drive through Cape Fear with the windows open you wouldn't be so sure of yourself.

It is not my responsibility to educate you with every comment that I make. My comment was a response to the article, and it's absurdities.

If you are too lazy, or perhaps you just don't care enough to look the details of factory farming up for yourself, why are you willing to publicly denounce other people on the same topic?
Most of the manuscripts are good, but I specifically recommend "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science". If you take the time to understand how Dijkstra was thinking when he wrote that, you're already ahead of the vast majority of computer science graduates.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036...
I looked at both Colemak and Dvorak (as well as it's variants) and Colemak made the most sense to me. I too enjoy it though I never actually tried Dvorak so I can't compare them from personal experience. Changing was quick. The only problems that I have experienced are switching from Colemak to QWERTY, setting and using passwords that have to be used with more than one layout, and the occasional problem with at one character not working correctly in the cygwin terminal.
Also very interesting and worth reading is the followup - Where NOT to hide your money!

http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2007/03/06/101152_dont-hide...
It's not just the APIs -- ALL OF PAYPAL has been down intermittently all morning, especially authentication.

From about 10:40 to 11:40 they went as far as turning paypal.com into a static page with just this on it:

We're sprucing things up right now, but we should be done by 11:20 AM PDT.

Want the details? Checkout the PayPal Announcement Board.
http://announcements.paypal.com/us/
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Starting just before 10 AM it became impossible to authenticate. From about 10:40 to 11:40 they went as far as turning paypal.com into a static page with just this on it:

We're sprucing things up right now, but we should be done by 11:20 AM PDT.

Want the details? Checkout the PayPal Announcement Board.
http://announcements.paypal.com/us/

Sprucing things up? When I finally got back in I noticed some new UI with more gradients+shit. Seems like this is a dev iteration turned cascading failure...