skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only response to you would be that you should take immense pride in the fact that you beat the odds. (Just by posting here I'm sure you have)

You've faced a challenge in life that would destroy most people, and you overcame it. I can only wish that I have the same determination as you.
"Upon your payment of the applicable fees set by Amazon, Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by Amazon as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless otherwise expressly provided by Amazon."

From: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

The last 1.5 sentences seem to nullify the rest of the paragraph for all intents and purposes...
Embarrassingly enough, I didn't know that IE supported downloadable fonts. Thanks for the clarification.
i couldn't find San Francisco or Bay Area or SFBay in the list!
How To: Building Your Own Render Farm : Introduction - Review Tom's Hardware
Hi I've done the same thing, http://www.craigdiddy.com and I also have a list of all the other sites that do this and why mine is the best. Besides email you can currently get free sms to find out even faster (via Twitter) and I plan on releasing the non-interface code on github.
I had a similar experience, though not as bad. And Junior High was worse than High School, but it was for the most part the same group of kids.

You don't forget it, ever.
Randal Schwartz's "Learning Perl" was one of the easiest and most entertaining introductions to any language I've ever read.
Owtch. This post would probably have a better score of people knew Lee Valley didn't have an affiliate program.
Agreed. You really need to read the CL TOS and make sure you're working with CL to use their data.
You're interpreting it wrong. The majority doesn't know where the attacks are coming from, but the minority has a specific hypothesis about where they are coming from (e.g. North Korea).
The book is under copyright still in America. The Orwell estate is to be blamed for this, not Amazon, except they should be trashed for not vetting, properly, a book they thought was in the public domain.
You know, I had a Sony mp3 player a while back. One day the music library software updated itself and installed DRM retroactively on the device and I could never change the music that was on it; I threw it out after I got tired of hearing the same 12 songs.

Yes, 12. 64mb storage =]
I was hedging with "essentially". I didn't want to make an already biogeeky post too obscure. Some proteins can renature without chaperones.

Also to quote the wikipedia article, "Chaperones do not necessarily convey steric information required for proteins to fold: thus statements of the form `chaperones fold proteins` can be misleading."
Hello there Mary,

I'd never even heard of you before today but your account has moved me quite a bit.

It's really nice to see you hanging in there and having the strength to go out and tell the world what happened.

Is the disorder you have a genetic one ?

best regards, & I hope you'll be back to your old energy level soon.

Jacques Mattheij
Withdrawls never went down, but only get delayed if it isn't obvious you're a real person. Investigating a social graph is hard from my iPhone. I'm in the middle of nowhere right now. That I'm posting at all is pretty hot sauce.
It requires the OWL-S semantic annotations to be there in the first place unfortunately. Personally I have a hope that formal services will have some kind of buy-in to the semantic trends, way more than regular websites.
I imagine that eventually Palm will figure out a way to provide native access to the features he wants.

I just hope Palm is more developer friendly than Apple. Specifically, I don't want to have to deal with certificates and the App Store anymore, but I'm skeptical of Palm making it that open.
At this point, I'd actually accept a special "Disney gets to make money from Mickey Mouse forever" law in exchange for shorter copyrights for everything else.
Add Hapkido in there, too. (Karate : Judo as Taekwondo : Hapkido)
Lol. I just realized that the [scribd] tag was a separate link, and not a warning that the entire link was to scribd. I guess not everyone hates scribd as much as me.
The problem isn't that Palm bunted. It's not like they wanted to bunt or consciously made that choice. The problem is that it's the only move they could make. It took Apple a year to get their SDK out. Palm is a smaller company and while, doubtless, they learned a lot from Apple's experiences, it doesn't change the fact that it takes a while to make a good SDK.

Hopefully, over time, Palm will be able to do better. But it's amazing that Palm was able to put together such a nice device in the first place. If they didn't paint themselves into a corner that they can't get out of, they could extend the SDK to do what it's currently lacking while getting an SDK out that handles many applications today.

Often, it comes down to doing what you're able to do. You can't just choose the best. You have to work at it and that takes time. Hopefully Palm will be able to do well :-).
I can't argue with most of the 5 points, but I think the first one misses the mark-- Linux is indeed "hard to love", but we don't know enough about ChromeOS yet to know if it will resemble Linux at all; all we really know is that it will have a Linux kernel. (Insert Mac/BSD analogy here.)
It's cool and useful--the thing is there are a ton of cool/useful apps that COULD be built on top of craigslist, but craigslist does everything in its power to prevent that from happening. Is there a reason you won't get shut down?
Co founder problems
Person A & B decide to start a company. Both didn't sign any document for the company. Never signed it.

A does: business plan, exe summary, ROI, pricing, gives input for the website

B Does: All tech work with patent, reg the company with delware state, get bank AC, Gets IRS numbers etc.
On the any of the doc, Person A names is not there.

A decide to move on to diff direction.

So Person B decide to give some stocks to A, Person A rejects saying, needs more numbers of stocks.

As a Person A can i file a lawsuite againt person B company?

What are the best ways to win the case or based on your experience what / how person B will do for the case?
"Aside from having parents block all third-party apps, which neither Apple nor developers want, the only option is to have a "your kid could potentially access adult content" rating."

They could parent protect the data connection. I think this would work fine for younger kids who don't need to be on twitter or whatever, and for whom parental protection is the most important (presumably).

With the arrival of the 3GS, a 1st generation iPhone just trickled down to my 2 year old. I just put it on airplane mode, but I am guessing that trick is only going to work for a couple of years.
The Kindle is absolutely worth buying. Just break the DRM on the books you get, take back-ups, and remember that The Pirate Bay is your friend when Amazon does something stupid.

(http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5003507/1984_-_George_Orwell, for people in a rebellious mood.)
It's still under copyright in the US and UK, but not in Canada, where the copyright was "only" the author's life plus 50 years.

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/info.htm
So what is the third option? What happens to the calories that are neither calories out or stored energy?
Yeah wouldn't those annotations be copyrighted by the owner, and hence Amazon seizing them would constitute basis for case of appropriating someone else's work.

Of course IANAL, I'm just speculating, and am 95% certain what I just said wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Could you name an example of this? I scraped CL for a while and they didn't say a word, and I've never heard of them shutting someone down.
Yahoo and Microsoft Said to Be Closer to Search Deal
I couldn't agree more. I saw the refund email this morning but didn't put it together until I read about it on the web (it didn't mention deactivating the book). I checked my iPhone Kindle app and, sure enough, "1984" had been removed. I almost can't believe it. They reached into my device and turned off a book I bought from them.

I now know I'll never get a Kindle. Also I will not buy any more digital books from Amazon. It's a shame. I liked it.
I'm reminded of a story Diamond(?) tells of two Polynesian(?) strangers meeting in the road. They start talking about common family or friends they might have. They are looking for an excuse not to kill each other.
How about adding results to a special anonymized (not password protected, because they can't really handle it yet) RSS URL?
> They do. They're just not moving fast enough to please everybody....

Problems with adhoc and provisioning in general were somewhat understandable and are (sorta) being fixed and documented all over the place, which is not what I have a gripe with minus the occasional issue that makes me want to rip my hair out and wonder why it's not any better. It's that situations change and then Apple announces some arbitrary change with seemingly good intentions but with disastrous effect on apps in the store now. You see things like the change where any app with UGC should now be rated 17+ lest Apple reject updates until you change it to 17+...who on earth thought that was a good idea?

So then when I do have this occasional issue that makes me want to rip my hair out, combined with all these new problems that arise and that nobody at ADC is particularly helpful when problems do arise (I still have unanswered emails to Apple that are over a year old), I wonder if I'm being paid enough to deal with this :)
"Don't compare bullying to rape. They are not in the same class. That's not to say that bullying isn't bad, just that rape is on a different level entirely."

I'm saying that different types of trauma provide similar reactions. I don't find it productive to compare different types of abuse and decide which is worst.

"Ergo, the victim is best advised to take steps to cure themselves, regardless of what happens to the perpetrators."

Avoiding the perpetrators of abuse is normally part of healing, though, which is all this guy's trying to do.
No about, no contact, not even a privacy statement where you assure not to do bad things with all the mail address you collect.
Well, in my opinion there will not be any winners here, only losers (except for the lawyers).

But if you want to get what's yours (and to me it looks like a buy-out offer is the best that is in the cards) it helps if you have as much documentation as you can find, then visit a lawyer that will take your case on a no-cure-no-pay basis. Otherwise you might be out a large amount of $ just to find that you won't get anything at all (or just enough to pay your lawyer...).

It also helps to get an idea of what you think this company is worth. If it is worth more than several tens of thousands of dollars then you have to explain why you never had any kind of contract drawn up.

In the current situation, having an argument with your partner is actually a pretty good moment to figure out where you stand, after all he's still around to argue with.

Imagine how it would have turned out if one day he'd died and you would have had to prove to his estate that you own part of it...

Have a man-to-man talk, lay out the land for him, be fair and pay up what's a reasonable amount (and be reasonable) then go do something else, or alternatively offer to buy him out.

If there is no friendly response weigh your options and if you think it is worth it get a lawyer.

good luck, you'll need it.

This will take a lot of time.
I'm not an attorney and I don't know all the facts...but:

Lawsuits = $

Before this snowballs and the attorneys end up being the only ones winning... why don't you see if the venture succeeds?

Person A (if he was smart) would keep his mouth shut until the venture ends up making big $... thn he would go to court

Person B (if he was smart) would be flexible with person A and/or create a vesting schedule where nobody has any stock in the company unless they work on the company for a year and achieve certain deliverables... if person A does not achieve any deliverables, Person A's stock does not vest and he has 0% equity stake in the company.

overall Don't be greedy...person A or person B... go out for some beers and just move-on.
Or use this:
http://neil.fraser.name/hardware/locraker/
"That is, unless you want an inconsistent experience for your users."

I'm not so sure why people fight so hard for an IDENTICAL experience between browsers. People running IE6 probably won't even notice your square corners. This is why I keep proposing serving a mobile version to IE6 users. The next time something is off by one row of pixels in IE6, completely ignore it. Chances are, IE6 users will too.
You can use pdflrfwin to read full size PDFs on the Reader pretty comfortably. It can rotate the file landscape-wise, and cuts it into 2-3 chunks, smartly merging across page boundaries.
Can anyone recommend other good resources about Biz Dev? Like books, blogs or people?
Ask HN : How to get traffic to your new site
I have released several websites, and I've never been successful in generating traffic. I've bought ads, tried SEO tricks, blogged, nothing seems to work.

What methods and tricks have you guys used to get users to your site after launching?
A victim of abuse--who has gotten over it and had a successful career--is upset at being reminded of his abuse. I'm not sure exactly why you're blaming him.

In fact, don't ever speak this way to an actual victim of abuse in person, ever. All you'd accomplish is encouraging them to repress their pain and feel guilty over it. People heal in their own time.
You can code your app in whatever scripting language you want, but it can't download and execute code arbitrarily. For example, the unity game engine for iPhone uses mono & C#/javascript for all it's game programming/scripting. But when you use the app, the app doesn't act as a player but as a standalone application.
Sony is able to sell ebooks for its reader w/o being able to retroactively delete them. Why can't Amazon? I'm not sure they "hate it as much as I do". They may hate the fact that they're out of the refund money in this case, but love their ability to own the books on the customers' Kindles and be able to delete them at will.
Or their presentations are not any good?

Yes. Exactly. I'd say "not as good", but whatever you like.
A craig's site I used before, has changed their name, one of the reasons for change was:

This is the big one. Craigslist doesn't like related
sites that use their 'Craig' name. And that's only fair.
As always, I try to do everything possible not to
irritate the big guy. The site hasn't drawn his wrath
yet, and this change is an important step to keep it
that way.
Pedantic comments about usage of the word "engineering" are missing the point of this article. What's important is a guy who has been an industry leader for decades reflecting on what he, and the industry as a whole, got fundamentally wrong about making software. That's pretty relevant to anyone who wants to learn from previous experience. (Not everyone does, of course. A lot of software people appear to believe that the past, by virtue of the fact that it didn't contain them, is inherently stupider than the present.)
Poll HN: Do you smoke Cigarettes?
Do you smoke Cigarettes? Just curious.
I agree - I've been using craigwatch for a while - once you configure your report, I keep a cronjob running once a day to update me with all the new stuff in my area that I might be interested in. The results are way better then craigslist's or these other online systems. Once its setup, it just works automatically - Plus, I dont have to worry about all the spam coming in from a forked-over email address
Is that really how contracts work (honest question)? You can essentially put "just kidding" at the end of a contract and everything above it is nullified? If this is the case than those portions of the contract would seem to act solely for the purposes of deception.
I generally have clients sign up for their own apple certificate under their company, so the app purchases go directly to their bank account, the app the branded under their company name, and you don't have to think about that.
Etch A Sketch made possible.
how popular is your site? I remember they shut down some real estate site that mashed up craiglist data with google maps that got shut down pretty quickly. Not sure what the name was.
The answer to your question correlates to the answers to "why does Amazon have so many more titles available than sony?"
Have there been many discussions on doing this versus spooling up EC2 instances (or something similar)?

I would imagine that EC2 is cheaper in the short term, or if you only occasionally need this kind of processing power; and then owning your own hardware would get cheaper eventually (assuming your power costs don't kill you).
There's nothing wrong with telling someone that they're wrong.
Yup, just like the 'unless' keyword in Perl.
The data geek in me would have been interested in seeing:

No - never did

No - I stopped
I am appalled at some of the responses telling the author to "get over it". If it were the case of the kids not inviting him to the prom or verbally mocking him, it would be one thing.

But having a swastika a swastika painted with gasoline on his lawn and having their fingers broken?

I'd say in vast majority of this country, if someone (particularly Jewish, or as in the authors' case mixed-race) saw somebody lighting their property on fire in shape of an unmistakable hate symbol and reached for the family heirloom M1 Garand (that their grandfather used against other fans of this particular "symbol"), that would the very example of a "justifiable homicide"/"castle doctrine".

If someone had their fingers broken by a stranger on the street, the stranger-- if caught and identified-- would face assault charges.

Why is that what would be unambiguously a felony crime when done in the street, treated as something that should be "forgiven" when it's done in a high school environment?

Yes, many of the bullies came from abusive families and suffered many psychological issues themselves. However, I doubt this excuse would work in court on trial for an arson charge with a hate crime enhancement --or in an assault case. These people should be in prison, where they themselves may themselves find out what it's like to be weaker/smaller/less "street smart" than somebody else.
Excellent! Thanks for the recommendation.
It's hard to remember that everyone doesn't have 7+ Gb of email storage. If I wanted to use a service like this, I can't imagine an email with the fulltext of a listing being big enough to ever bother me.

Giving your users the option to only receive links can't hurt, though.
Sampa is closing
one email is not a problem, its getting 40 emails a day
That could be simulated by both a No and a Yes upvote, if there's some way to know how many people voted, total.
I am stupid!
but if you're suggesting

I'm not.
Yes, that book is great. Just a joke about Perl's relative syntactic obscurity. I love me some Perl because of the elegance and power the operators provide me, but its murder on a noob, especially if its not great code.
Google Says Mobile Web Apps Will Win In The Long Haul
"A programmer is someone who, given ten days to complete a task, will spend nine days figuring out how to do it in one day."
I'm pretty surprised at the negative karma. How can you all feel anything but outrage about IE? Have you not delt with its bugs for a decade? Do you think this was accidental?
Is a TOS a legally binding contract?
Unit test procedures as returned values?
I've been having a fantastic experience working through the Lil Schemer using Schemeunit to test my progress. I have, however, hit a stumbling block. Maybe i'm missing something, but I can't see how to go about testing for correct procedures as my returned values. Anyone have any suggestions? I am not terribly axed to do this in any particular lisp, though I do seem to prefer Scheme so far.
So, when you argue with your client over this specification for hours, and they decide to give the job to someone who will make it consistent, then what?

From a business point of view, especially in the marketing world, you'll have a hard time compelling the every day firm to ditch IE support. And as I said in the previous thread about this same exact thing, the elites can do it and still get plenty of business, but is everyone in the position to be able to turn down a job because of this?

The answer is probably no.

EDIT:

I guess the real issue is more along the lines of an education issue, and people who don't grasp it, getting put in charge of whatever new micro-marketing site you're releasing this quarter.
It is most definitely not illegal.

When you "purchase a book" from the kindle store, all you are actually purchasing is a license to view the book that is bound by amazon's terms of use.
1984 the book only tells us about a bleak future. Amazon's Kindle policies show u that future. They're just following the maxim "Show, don't tell!"

Obligatory link to Stallman's Right to Read essay: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Deleting the books is actually one of the more benign things they can do. What is truly scary is them or others changing the content of books Ministry of Truth style, without us realizing it.
Former Googler Launches Sharein, a Social Tool for Twitter, Facebook, and E-mail
"That's all very well in practice, but will it ever work in theory?" -- G. R. Hill III
How Humans Could End War
Google Ad-films:Google commercial as good as their services
the labs. the people. the other attendees. the fact that you can actually go up to an engineer who worked on something that has been bothering you for weeks and at least leave with a workaround, if not a full on fix for it. that alone to me is well worth more than $1500.
Oops. Thanks. I have to improve more in my English.
I had this on my Kindle and didn't realize it had been deleted until I read the story here. The email from Amazon is in the "Your Amazon.com Order #XXX..." format familiar to anyone who buys kindle content regularly, so many will not even realize this was removed.

1984 is literally my favorite book. I was happy to have it on my Kindle, readily available at all times. You would think, then, that I would be outraged by this. To be honest, after I got over the initial creepy "they went into MY device and deleted something" feeling, my (positive) feelings about either Amazon and the Kindle itself were unchanged. It's still an amazingly useful device that I get a ton of mileage out of, and they made a dumb mistake that just happened to affect me. I've been fully reimbursed for the title (all $0.99 of it), so no harm done.

The concerns about Amazon randomly deleting content on your Kindle seem overblown. The ostensible purpose of the Kindle is to drive sales of Amazon's e-books. How would deleting customers' purchases on a frequent basis further that goal? I'm willing to write this off as a one-time occurrence, albeit an unfortunate and somewhat frustrating one.
Just underlines the market opportunity for someone who is not beholden to publishers to launch an open ereader...
Although I went to WWDC, I'm also a student, and if I wanted the videos because I thought I would learn from them, I would happily pay $300 for them. Just like how I've purchased a fair number of iPhone programming books, just like how I'm buying a new MacBook Pro..