skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what the GPL wants to do as quite noble. It's a share-and-share-alike system.

I've run into many people who are very opposed to the GPL, generally because they can't build upon GPL code without being required to release their code under a GPL license. In general, I see these people as wanting a license to protect their ideas, but a license isn't designed for that. A license protects work (by preventing what you can do with it, while the idea is often evident, documented, or easily derivable). A patent protects ideas. If your idea is so good it can stand on its own then you can patent it and release the code in whatever way you want because you can still prevent people from using your idea even if they can see your code.

Heck, if your code is so great that you should get all the royalties, then wouldn't you want everyone else to be able to see how awesome it is?
Yes it is wild superstition. There is no evidence that most modern insecticides harm humans at all (some do but they are less commonly used, mostly only for specific classes of pest). DDT for example had no deleterious effect on human health, until the environmentalist idiots got it banned and malaria started killing millions again in tropical regions. The most dangerous insecticides were phased out long ago, first the arsenicals, then nicotine sulfate, both of which were very dangerous to people.

ETA: DDT was dusted directly on people for flea and lice control and typhus prevention and was primarily sprayed indoors for malaria prevention so there was a lot more direct human contact than even production plant workers have with insecticides currently.
Getting Around the EU Ban: Germans Hoarding Traditional Light Bulbs
Funny, no one paid much attention when this was posted four weeks ago. People never pay much attention to security until its about to bite them.

Ho hum, if you would like to avoid the SMS apocalypse you can hope that Apple releases a security update before the conference, or you can sign up for AT&T's Smart Limits for Wireless Parental Controls ($5/mo) and set your SMS quota to 0 (add your Mom to the whitelist first).
This makes me wonder if the reason we haven't seen major threats on other mobile devices/platforms is due more to the lack of a market penetration vs. a lack of security.

It's the old 'Apple doesn't get viruses' argument in reverse. Not as many viruses targeted Macs because it had a smaller user base, so they focused on Windows. Now that Apple has serious traction with a device which is in someways ideally suited to forwarding the virus, they are becoming the focus on an attack.
I'd suggest famous and successful people who used it. "Thomas Jefferson" brand with a picture of his Declaration. "Mr. X" brand with a picture of the cosmos. I'm sure you could find a bunch of more recent celebrity endorsements, too.
As inept as the criticisms he's responding to are, Wordpress themes needing to be GPL is totally ridiculous -- they're input to the program!
Random and funny isn't too far off the mark.

Certainly there'd be big companies that were successful. Anyone that could put out a lot for cheap would be a big brand for sure, especially soon after legalization.

But as far as actual brand success-- where the brand itself helps the company-- there's no telling. The "counterculture" nature of the market makes any attempt at branding a shot in the dark. So a stay in school panda has a pretty good chance.
Yahoo Got Binged
I think I get why people don't like the GPL -- it forces them to do something, whereas other licenses don't. If you use GPL'd code, your code has to be GPL, there is no option. If you use BSD code, you have the option of making your code free, or you have the option of not doing that.

I read a book called "Predictably Irrational" that documents this effect. The author set people up with a computer game where the goal was to run around and collect as many points as possible. Bags would randomly appear, you would collect them, and that would get you the points. Different rooms had different rates of points appearing, and some rooms would produce higher value objects, etc. He tried a variety of scenarios to see how people would behave; one involved a door to another room (which might have more earning potential than the current room) that you could travel through at the cost of a certain number of points. If you didn't go through the door, it would eventually disappear. He found that people, even after finding that the room that the door led to was worthless, would still waste time and points to keep the door open. Nobody wanted to let an opportunity, even a poor one, pass.

I think this explains the (predictably) irrational hatred for the GPL; it makes doors close, and that is something we are apparently hard-wired to hate. Even though we know we are never going to make our free app proprietary, we want that option.
No, Honda's robot is named Asimo, and it's been named that for many years now.
The appendix a popular target just because people aren't entirely sure what it is there for, or weren't for a long time. In recent years we have found more evidence that it has a function in the immune system and in the health and homeostasis of the intestine.

Of course, the relative health of people who have had their appendix removed reinforces this, but the same could be said of a few teeth and kidneys.

We really know very little about the actual purpose and processes of the body. It's an incredibly complex machine. In fact, it is so complex that we currently lack the ability to intelligently design a better one.
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Random aside, but could we avoid using URL shorteners here? HN already truncates URL text after a certain length, but at least we can have a clue as to where we're going before we click a link.
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730994
I had the idea the other day that perhaps increasing allergy prevalence is a side effect of women taking birth control. Taking birth control causes women to prefer mates with a major histocompatibility complex that is similar to their own, as opposed to different. I'm wondering if allergies are the result of violating nature's usual preference in this regard.

I'm just a layman, so feel free to correct or scoff at the plausability of my pet theory.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=birth-contr...
Or they might be permitted some land of their own where they can grow their own food, or be given access to commons to where they and their animals can forrage.

You have a totally skewed way of thinking if you think we need free markets in order for people to avoid starving. People are perfectly capable of providing their own food given some land some seeds and some sun, and some water. The amount of land required isn't even all that high.

Indeed, it is probably their ability to produce a surplus that lead to markets in the first place and those markets made it possible to justify cutting people off from the ability to feed themselves. At this point, there are plenty of cities in the US where it isn't legal to store rain water that falls on your own land.
So, is this an affiliate program/pyramid scheme mashup? That seems pretty clever.
Worrying about the Chinese Stimulus
XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet - OWASP
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730664
Let's not advocate software patents.

I would like to, say, write a windowing system from scratch without having to worry that my use of xor-ing a cursor onto the screen is patented. (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/int-p...)

Sure, that's a good idea, but the value is in the windowing system, not a tiny implementation detail. That is why copyright is the right tool for protecting computer programs; patents just stall progress.
at least it sounds better than 'Bing got Yahooed'
Correction: Dan Ariely
Image brand names....
Pot in the box <- Chain weed selling store
"Let's be blunt, it's good" <- Catch phrase or whatever

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What an interesting world this would be...But we wouldn't care how interesting it would be because we'd be high? Right?
Yahoo Selects Google as its Default Search Engine Provider (2002)
I come to Hacker News to avoid having to read words ending in "tards".
I'm amazed by their living/working space and it makes me feel a lot less bad about where I work from.
For $5000 I rather buy a Kawasaki Ninja 500R and look cool.

Even ATVs are cooler and there are some new models coming that look badass.

Now, if it was $900 like a mountain bike, I may give it a try.
Thanks a ton for this!! I think I will look into it.
It's network marketing pyramid scheme of Netvibes. I don't know where these people come from. Do they breed them somewhere?

"We did research to see if anyone else did this before. NO ONE HAS. So we filed patents"... Yup no one has done an internet start page before. Sigh.
Apple's claims are fake.
Here is what you should know
http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1499
http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1499
That's a good rule anywhere outside of China as well.

You only have one reputation, you can lose it in a couple of weeks after building it up over a lifetime. Word does get around, and between archive.org and google if you screw someone over chances are it will leave a trail that a future contact will easily be able to find.
You missed the point. We are talking about founders who could potentially create a great company and jobs for Americans.
Did you read Paul's essay? I suggest you take a look and think about how many founders/developers are foreign born.
Collectible gifts 
Here at My Collectible Gifts, we realize that a collectible often means different things to different people. It can range from a little figurine, a stamp, or a rare coin to name just a few. A true collector might give an in-depth answer and refer to feelings that are invoked, an investment made, or the quest to find an item that has sentimental or personal value.
Considering the insult, may be the car driver is just a "flag waving, war loving, homophobic, yellow-ribbon-on-gas-guzzling-SUV, 'patriot'" angry at someone they consider to be a "latte sipping, tree hugging, segway riding, book reading, weed smoking, 'unamerican' atheist elitist hippie".
Yay link-jacking?

I'll send a memo to my squad of social media engine search optimization experts.
Why is the GPL the only option for people who would like to see how awesome their code is? Why is getting royalties incompatible with letting people see the source?

The answer, of course, is that both questions are nonsense.
This is called Oral Allergy Syndrome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome

For most of my life I've thought I was allergic to melons and cucumber.

As it turns out, I'm allergic to ragweed pollen. By way of allergy shots for the ragweed pollen, I'm finding myself not nearly as sensitive to either melons or cucumber.
http://www.ocweekly.com/content/printVersion/479478
"GitHub must be allowed to use the code commercially without restriction, regardless of the license choosen."

I'm not too crazy about this. Contests can be good and bad at the same time. "Here guys, solve this very hard problem for us for free and we'll take it off your hands and we'll completely ignore your licensing wishes and use it without any restrictions whatsoever."

I envision a lot of "Well if you don't want to participate, DON'T!", but the point of the matter is, I see GitHub as taking advantage of a warm and supportive open-source community. The license of the submitted code should apply to everyone, including GitHub!
It really is more if a general reference document or a summary.

Most of the Haskell books I've come across are presented in the tutorial style where they slowly present new concepts. This makes it hard to find simple definitions for things, as they're scattered throughout the book. This "cheatsheet" should be handy.
i should really know better. (my gf is Colombian) :)
Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far
I put the Segway in the same category as the fanny pack. They both seem like they ought to be useful, but for the most part both are more trouble than they're worth in actual practice. Plus they offend our sense of aesthetics in hard to define ways.
Jobs is one of the most deliberate, careful and calculated when it comes to public statements. More on PR see http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

While the post highlights the PR bit you can see though, it does include a couple of useful links with good insights about the role of design in the product development process.
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They probably aren't the only ones who have figured it out, as the recent Anti-Sec people are making very clear. Making it public forces it to get fixed so that nobody can use it, instead of only the Russian Business Network being able to use it.

This is a defect in the product which could substantially harm the users of the product. The people who know about the defect have a moral obligation to inform the people who are at risk, and to give those people adequate information to verify that the defect really exists.

It's also worth noting that Apple has imposed technical measures which attempt to prevent iPhone users from correcting this defect on their own iPhones, even if they know where it is. I think they also claim that copyright law prohibits those users from correcting the defect. Under these circumstances, Apple and the attacker ought to be jointly liable for any damages caused by an attacker exploiting the flaw.
You're comparing apples and oranges there.
Ask HN: Ubuntu PC or a MAC
Should I buy an PC and throw Ubuntu on it, or just get a Mac?
You're kind of stacking the deck here. It's true that a programmer who knows for certain that she's never going to make her code proprietary would be behaving irrationally to insist on keeping an option she'll never use.

But that's a rare case. What about the more numerous programmers who don't know for certain? If they choose to keep the proprietary option open by eschewing GPL-licensed code, that could be perfectly rational, depending on the value to them of the GPL-licensed code they're declining to use.

And what about the programmers, like Daniel Jalkut, who work on proprietary commercial projects? Of course he'd prefer for other projects to use liberal licenses that would allow him to make use of them. That's the opposite of irrational; it's just straightforward incentives.
More sources needed. I don't trust the word of a single sensationlist gossip rag.
Chris Fralic - FRC - Biz Dev For StartUps: 25 Years of learning in 25 Slides
Free? If you win, you get a lifetime GitHub account and a tasty bottle of bourbon.

We're trading you the prizes for a commercial license.
not link jacking, it's putting a message before the redirect. You're still redirected to the original page. One way to think of it is a reverse twitter, instead of a message with a link, it's a link then a message.
If a license prohibit commercial usage, then it violated the open source etho of the community.
The $12 Startup
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I'd prefer to not need to be "protected" from a preventable condition in the first place, and fully enjoy the benefits of exercise as well.
uh, what are you going to use it for? do you have experience using either operating system?
The passenger with the severe nut allergy was named Hazel?

(And are there any other names for people which are also names for nuts?)
That only works if your time is worth $0.
Could you please point out examples where GMO crops have been wiped out because of monoculture? I have yet to see any examples and yet people continue to use that argument. (Serious question, I would love to see more info on this issue!)
I don't think it really matters much one way or the other, though I do like the list of sites and they way they have chosen. The only one I do not like how it does it is twitter, login/sign out... though with the recent redesign they have changed it to sign in/sign out.
Some info about this chap: http://www.clicksniper.com/ijango-scam-cameron-sharpe/
Getting More Out of Amazon EBS
If you are comfortable with Linux I would recommend Ubuntu. They're both fine choices, but you'll get more bang for your buck with Linux than with OS X.

(I do most of my development at home on a Mac. I don't like dicking around with my operating system though.)
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Mr. Peanut?

Edit: Come on, people! That was hilarious! :)
That's what I was going to say too. If the payout isn't high enough, then don't sell :).
I have both and in practice I find that I use the ubuntu pc for almost everything except mac compatibility testing.

The main reason I guess is that most of my servers run linux and I don't need to mentally make the switch from one flavour of unix to another ten times per day. Stuff on my dev box lives in exactly the same places as it does on my production machines.

The mac is very slick though, but that's not a good enough reason to buy one if you have to choose between them.
What country/state/province law are you using for the age cutoff for the bourbon? :-p
just wait til the straight edge smalltalk fans catch wind of this.
i couldn't stand watching/listening to the guy. what's his message?
Wouldn't you think that the best hackers of all time are the ones we've never heard of? The ones who walked away with the money, rather than the ones that did jail time?
Difference is people in cars are going places that are too far to walk. The perception is that any place you'd go on a segway you'd be able to walk to as well. For the hassle of parking and plugging it in, I'd certainly choose walking over the segway.
What's the current state of development on Dexter compared to this? http://anybots.com/abouttherobots.html
And all of that is less important from a health perspective than a reduction in Vitamin D. Its a net loss.
And yet we actually have incredibly clean, great milk without any significant levels of these things.
I think the reason I don't like the GPL is that it is aggressively pessimistic. If you release your code under MIT or BSD and _ask_ people to contribute back if they improve it, most people actually will - I don't think I've ever used GPL and I've gotten hundreds of patches for projects of mine. People don't contribute to open source because they're forced, they do it because they want the network effect of everyone else contributing and they want the software to be better.

However, GPL says "I don't trust you, and I don't trust you so much that I'm going to legally severely limit what you can do with my code unless you promise legally to share my philosophy". It's not only frustrating when you're trying to figure out what you can and can't do with it, but it just seems kind of mean-spirited. It implies that they feel that if they don't legally force you to, you'll try to take advantage of everyone, which is sad.

Maybe I want to use a library for a commercial application and would then be able to spend part of my work day improving it - if it's GPL, it's use is not even an option assuming that the company will not open source the main product, if it's not GPL than both the library and the company benefits.

I guess at the end of the day, I just don't care if someone takes advantage of some of my code - several of our GitHub competitors use our MIT'd Grit library we use to run their own sites, but honestly we don't really care - we'd rather have a larger user base and volunteer pool and let even our competitors be able to contribute back than shut everyone out because we are so distrustful and protective of our code and time.

I just think that asking is more effective than threatening, and to me the GPL is threatening.
"Yahoo is now a media creation and curation company"

Oye. Isn't that what AOL was?
My feet can fit into all kinds of places where Segways can't, and when I use them to move around I get the benefits of aerobic exercise and whole body movement.
The black knight - suicide
I'd have expected the physicists to be first with the string theory. The mathematicians should have spent at least one week discussing knot topologies.
It's not sensitive, it's intelligent. Fashion is a matter of presenting yourself in ways that display your best attributes. It's design that applies to the self.

Why are we allowed to critique a web site for having small type and a shitty font and bad colors, but we can't criticize people with poor fashion sense? They're one and the same. The fact that fashion is subject to marketing doesn't make it inherently worthless.

For once I can't disagree with a thing Paul said in this essay. When you ride a Segway, you look lazy. You're expending no muscle and you're not going particularly quickly. If you want to go faster, ride a bike, or jog. By riding a Segway you tell me you're too slobby to learn to job. That's not going to be the truth in all situations, but that's what it says nonetheless.
Pot is already effectively (though not officially) legal in Holland. Just look to how Dutch coffeshops have gone about branding and marketing their products.

Also, you might want to open any issue of High Times. They advertise a million hemp and pot-related products, many of which could just as well be advertising pot itself.
Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Stripe
With LG Deal, Vudu Shifts Focus to Televisions
I also have both, and I rarely use the mac (a MBP) except for demos.

The mac is really pretty, but almost all the hard work is done in a hp laptop connected to a 25.5" monitor, external mouse and keyboard and running windows xp and a couple of virtualbox machines.

Use whatever tool make you more productive. Don't waste money in a mac just because fashion.
It seems you work on Kiw.is so I'm not sure if I should even try to articulate why I find your product to be annoying.
Ugh. Andres' transformation (photos at bottom) reminds me of "faces of meth".
I get way less than I used to, but people have gotten used to seeing me. When there are insults, it's usually high school age boys screaming out the car window as they drive by. "Faggot!" "Mall cop!" "Walk, you lazy bastard!"

Funny: they never do it when their cars are stopped.
Plus they offend our sense of aesthetics in hard to define ways.

Human beings probably have long-adapted evolutionary modules influencing which appearances of other human beings look cool and which look dorky. It's hard to fight human nature on such things.
Entrepreneur Thorkil Sonne on what you can learn from employees with autism
Why people acts like this is news? Apple loves this kind of control.
I think it ultimately comes down to price. When the Segway first came out, it was available for pre-order on Amazon for $10000! This is an extremely high price, which is orders of magnitude higher than the alternatives: bicycles, motorized bicycles and scooters, motorized skateboards, etc.

The high price instantly relegated the product into a niche. At that price, the Segway is only viable for businesses (consumers can't afford it) that can really justify the need for the product.

Imagine for a second that the first Segway came out at a price of $1000, and that the price gradually dropped to $400 - $500. I think a good number of early adopters would have bought the first dorky-looking version. These people would have used the Segway, and some would have complained about the look. Some people would have started customizing it and making it look cooler, go faster, attach jets to it, etc. Gradually, the manufacturer would have listened to the customers, and would have started making many versions of the product, some for kids, others for teens, adults, etc. They would have created off-road extreme versions of it and one-wheel versions of it.

Basically, I believe that there is a healthy demand for getting around town quickly, and that if the price of the Segway was right, the mass market would adopt it. Mass market adoption would then quickly iron out the dorkyness of the Segway though many iterations of the product.
from seinfeld:

You know what I love? How there's two nuts named after people: Hazel and Filbert.
Here's Tim Bray's own history of the early days of the XML committee:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People