skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me see if I've got this right.

The journal wants to ensure that anyone can read the articles and all supporting information so they insist the author of the piece allow them to publish it under a Creative Commons license. The author would like to use one of this photographer's pictures and requests the permission. The photographer doesn't want to allow that. He (the photographer) suggests "I'd be happy to let you could use it in the article as long as you won't let anyone else copy it", but that's not OK with the journal. So the picture doesn't get used.

All sounds right to me. That's how it's supposed to work.
People here are forgetting that you can buy a fully functioning tablet on a retail shelf for less than the cost of a temperature controlled kettle. You can buy a tablet AND a conventional kettle for less than the cost of the temperature controlled kettle. Tablet makers have to deal with QC and retail markup and all of the other things mentioned in this thread as possible drivers of the price so I don't find many of the explanations convincing.

In reality, it's likely that either a) these things are being sold at massive profit margins or b) they're being produced very inefficiently with lots of waste in the production process.
I've been vegan about as long as I've been vegetarian. Since quorn has almost no vegan options (this has changed very recently), I haven't had a chance to try. But there are several other vegetarian products that are delicious and satisfying that I have enjoyed more than their "real" counterparts.
You would probably find there are performance penalties in areas Docker don't really bother benchmarking or even talking about since they don't align to the design goals. I've only seen some fairly rudimentary demonstrations of VNC and X over the Network for isolating GUI apps in Docker.
Quoridor AI in JavaScript (Demo)
That doesn't really refute my point at all. Catholic charities devoted to human services are counted under human services.

I'm not sure where I said religious charities don't help people. They most certainly help members of their respective congregations. But they also can do a lot of harm, like you know, oppressing people by opposing same sex marriage, or pretty much anyone who doesn't share their religious beliefs.

Since we're focusing on catholics, what good is done by denying all of your employee's spouses insurance coverage, just so you don't have to extend the benefit to people in same sex marriages? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...
Here is a 1986 documentary from the PBS show "Entrepreneurs" about Jobs at Pixar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Owau3YHs5E
The difference between disability and a stipend is that you lose disability benefits the minute you engage in any productive activity, whereas the stipend dispersed by the Cherokee tribe came with no such conditions.

Unsurprisingly, people who are not prohibited from improving their lives tend to live better.
Maybe most of them couldn't dream of actually owning property.
The monthly packages include an assumed package with disk for the VMs, disk for DB, and IP addresses. The hourly rate is raw VM pricing solely.
10M annually, or 3.3% of the US population. Religious charities are great, but they're not a substitute for a national safety net.
Sorry, what do you have against Lake Merritt?
I think even when there is a single founder, those are the two things you have to do.

I think investors, employees, and the public, want/need to be lied to about how easy it all is. You have to do impossible things but then completely deny all the work that goes into it, and act like it's just because you're great.
Deploying freeNAS as iSCSI SAN for VMware vSphere
Poor white people were left out of that comment because the writer's point was about minorities with access to a payment that didn't feel like "theirs". A poor white person receiving welfare from a largely white government/authority might not be a good comparison.
I agree with this! Nice post!
Elegantly presented data (can't wait until this is no longer worth an HN entry because it's become commonplace), but I don't see why the graph needs to move.
"Natural" has more than one definition, dependent on its context. In some definitions of the word "natural", yes, twinkies are technically natural. In the more colloquial senses they are not. I prefer the more technical sense: since humans are derived from nature, they are natural, hence anything they do is natural. Unless you subscribe to some sort of man/nature metaphysical duality I don't see how you can argue that humans are not natural.

Twinkies are made from the same atoms as everything else. A glucose molecule assembled by a hypothetical atom arranger is indistinguishable from one synthesized in an organism. Twinkies are ultimately derived from nature, just as humans are ultimately derived from nature. Twinkies are a result of the congruence of multiple ideas that have evolved by natural selection. Among others, the ideas of refining and processing the chemical products of plants and animals, and how to make a twinkie-like baked good. Twinkies did not spontaneously appear in a vacuum.

Regardless of the words we use, the core idea of what we term "artificial selection" is a subset of the core idea of what we term "natural selection".
Replacing info? But info is fantastic! I use it on a regular basis for reading docs.
I am using www.inoreader.com

I was a big Google Reader user, and I found this a perfect replacement. Even has an Android App and its all synced.
And means testing adds to administrative overheads too.
Bank data of 20 million customers leaked in South Korea
Most of what's usually said about Steve Jobs' role in Pixar is a complete myth. It's quite outrageous the level of falsehood when you read about it from those who were there before Pixar was big.

For starters, Steve Jobs didn't invest in the Pixar that you know (the one which makes films), it was a hardware company and it never occured to him to make an animated movie, just sell hardware. It was the people working there that saw the potential for films made 100% with computers.

He didn't even pay much attention to Pixar until after they made the deal with Disney to make Toy Story and critics started saying it was going to be huge. After that the "visionary" took charge and, of course, took all the credit for himself.

You can read more about it in the link below. You aks who Alvy Ray Smith is? Well, one of the cofounders of Pixar and its first Vice President. And by the way, he was the inventor of the Alpha Channel.
http://alvyray.com/Pixar/PixarHistoryRevisited.htm
Agreed. Gustavo writes very informative blog.
i've tried heroku a few times, always found it kinda painful to learn and felt helpless when things go wrong..

not sure if its because i'm used to building own servers (which might be inefficient)

maybe heroku is better for people with less sys admin skills? or it might just be way better now (i haven't tried in over a year).

now i use rackspace/ec2/linode for rails.
So... what's your point? You seem to be making a semantic argument, to what end?

Sometimes there's not a germane statistic and you might just have to go off of your own lived experience.
Siracusa and short version are not things that go together and long may this last. The only tolerable thing about my daily commute is listening to him discuss his pet peeves. File systems, TVs, programming languages, the Minecraft install process (great episode) ebook formatting etc. He must be interesting to know as there are very few things he appears just accept and use without pondering improvements.
Maybe you need 3 dynos to match the performance of Ninefold's starter tier? I wouldn't have thought so though... 2 dynos will be plenty responsive and won't need to be kept alive with New Relic/Pingdom etc either.
Not only that, but they allow quite low level access to the hardware. One would have to build, say, libGL on top of whatever drivers Sony might have built.
Do you have a cat?
I want to create a website, and here in YC, someone recommended me create one about cats.

What would you like to have the new website?

Links about what? videos? photos? memes? everything? xD

Be free to comment
I initially disagreed with your arbitrary cutoff point for what's natural, but your condescension and lack of explanation of your argument in this post really sold me.
I grew up 3,000 miles from Silicon Valley, and my childhood was pretty much the same as yours, except with less organic fruit.
Lord Vishnu ?
Pet peeve, sorry, but it irritates me that Clojure people act like this guilty-until-proven-innocent policy about macros is somehow original. It has been standard advice for decades. Chapter 8 of On Lisp (1994) is called "When to Use Macros" and its first section is "When Nothing Else Will Do":

By default we should use functions: it is inelegant to use a macro where a function would do. We should use macros only when they bring us some specific advantage.

I understand from a language marketing point of view why someone might say, "Oh, those other Lisps made wild and crazy use of macros. It was really bad! But we are enlightened and have restricted them." But it's a bogus way of playing to a bogus criticism. It would be better to just say that there's a tradition of how to use macros correctly.
The non-free drivers are allowed to be redistributed by the copyright holders. The reason to not distribute them would be ideological.

Linux and ZFS's licenses are incompatible, which would make it illegal to distribute them together. Both ZFS and Linux copyright owners could choose to sue any entity that would distribute Linux with ZFS support.
I agree with that comment, which was one of the reasons rtc.io was created in the first place. A lot of the other libraries hide away the core browser objects through higher-level JS objects, whereas the core rtc.io library (rtc - https://github.com/rtc-io/rtc) encourages direct use of the browser api.

Some of the other modules (rtc-quickconnect, rtc-glue, etc) in the rtc.io suite, however, do take you further away from the metal but if you are comfortable with the core browser APIs then using a combination of rtc-signaller and the connection coupling helper in rtc (https://github.com/rtc-io/rtc/blob/master/couple.js) will probably give the most flexible option for writing a WebRTC application.

Just be aware that there are some bizarre edge cases when working with WebRTC that can leave you scratching your head at times. The rtc/couple module takes care of some, but there are still others that I'm still investigating solutions for, e.g. https://github.com/rtc-io/rtc/issues/14
Steve Wozniak on Google+
https://circuithub.com/explore (disclaimer - i co-founded CircuitHub)

http://contextualelectronics.com/
Me too. The liner being "non-stick" is a bit concerning, but it seems like glass or uncoated metals are impossible to find.

I imagine it has to do with scaling, discoloration, and/or lifetime. I have stayed with my old stovetop kettle until now, simply because it has no plastic/silicone/rubber in contact with the water.
>If he doesn't feel like working hard, he could probably use his VC connections as a cash cow...

Actually, if he doesn't feel like working hard, it sounds like he could retire on a comfortable 6-figure income for the rest of his life. Without interest, naively $6m will yield $100k a year for 60 years, which is more than enough to raise a large family in a nice neighborhood anywhere in the states - especially if the home and taxes are paid for.
Umm... learn (or find a good library to) parse the metadata of submitted sites to create 'profiles' similar to embed.ly. Then let people sign up and tag them or create feeds or whatever. Make sure to respect robots.txt and all that, and include any copyright information, author tags, etc.

I've been working on something vaguely similar for a few months now. Good luck.
Emotional products
This is a buffer overflow exploit in the browser, not an exploit of the API mechanics. On the other hand, most critical Java vulnerabilities are simple sandbox bypasses, not memory corruption ones.
> Woz: And when Jobs (in the movie, but really a board does this) denied stock to the early garage team (some not even shown) I'm surprised that they chose not to show me giving about $10M of my own stock to them because it was the right thing. And $10M was a lot in that time.

I have to say: That speaks volumes. And Woz, if you ever happen to read this: It's still a pile of dough in the year 2014.
Was it inaccurate compared to the book by Isaacson too?
I made the same mistake and tried multiple times because I assumed it was displaying incorrectly. I think the icon needs work.
my stovetop kettle whistles loudly when at boiling.
That first documentary has an amusing title screen... in Chicago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIZGDT7ZqdM#t=119
They should have titled it "Cryptocurrency 2.0" instead, I think.
You can pass Ruby methods around; the syntax is just ugly, and it isn't really used:

def call_on_two fn
fn.call 2
end

call_on_two 1.method(:+) #=> 3

The problem with [1, 2, 3].map(:function_name) is just that map requires a block, and not a method or proc.

A method like that could be easily enough created, though it'd be kind of ugly:

module Enumerable
def map_fn fn
map { |i| method(fn).call i }
end
end

def foo num
num + 2
end

[1, 2, 3].map_fn :foo #=> [3, 4, 5]

I don't know why there isn't an easy way to freely convert between methods, procs, and blocks; it's definitely something the language is missing.
A bit of trivia I find interesting: the etymology of the word passion is "to suffer (as christ did) [1]". I think in reality, DWYL advice is quixotic. But from within the head of an undeclared major, it sounds great. "Kid, just do whatever you like, and people will pay you for it!" And from the perspective of an employer, it sounds even better. "A passionate employee will put in 120% because he wants to do it anyway." So from both party's perspective, it's a win-win. I think this is primarily why DWYL is perpetuated.

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=passion&allowed_in_...
It's arguably better to feel empty about a poorly paid occupation than to feel empty about being unemployed.

It can go on for a while, but it doesn't mean people shouldn't address their problems.
San Jose Is Hell On Earth (1996)
I read this last night in some off-hand article I came across but really liked it. I'm translating from Portuguese, but here's what it said.

"You know those things that we start doing almost by chance and they end up becoming a goal in life? There's a lot of people that choose their profession like this: do something because you want to and then that thing ends up being so important that it lasts many, many years. It doesn't mean that it's any less important than the projects that already start out with large goals."

There's obviously something to be said for marrying the two. I've been captivated by a subject matter for my entire adult life (though I'm only in my 30s) but I never seriously tried to make it into a business. I never made it a matter of 'sink or swim' and I think that's been my problem.
Previous submission on electric kettles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018560

Also, electric kettles aren't really a thing in the US. Almost everybody uses the stovetop kind.
For some reason I never heard much about this screed by Maureen Tkacik (formerly of the Atlantic).

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/02/22/the-book-of...
Why does the author seem to think that a digital solution is required for control over temperature?

The bimetallic approach can be extended to select temperature. An analogue dial can adjust the switch cutoff position (or alternatively, the starting angle of the bimetallic strip) with a screw. All you'd need to do is calibrate the dial, and the added cost shouldn't be more than 50 US cents on the end retail price.

IMO the reason a "good" kettle costs $90+ is because there isn't enough demand to create enough competition and support enough production to amortize the fixed costs. It's essentially a market broken apart into two of Porter's three fundamental strategies, cost leadership and differentiation. The cheapest kettles would be uncompetitive with a temperature selector even if it added only pennies, while the differentiated kettles have specific features for smaller, less cost sensitive markets. Most people simply don't need temperature selection.
"Jobs was good at recognizing when the right time to bet on a technology was. When you are filthy rich, you can turn this talent into a license to print money. When you aren't already rich, it just makes you the average person on HN."

Jobs recognized the right time to bet on the personal computer when he had almost no money, and started Apple. You seem to be inferring Jobs always had a lot of money, which just isn't true.
The post is kind of confusing. Are they suggesting someone called in a bomb threat to clear out their building, giving intruders some time to get in and grab an admin's phpBB database backup without worrying about incident responders?

If so, sounds like some pretty dedicated attackers.
"It would make for an arduous life if everyone was required to research and/or acknowledge the first recorded instance of every notion they have before sharing."

Such is the nature of professional standards. Just a nod is enough.
Being an asshole works in the short term. Being empathatic works in the long term.

A CEO can screw his shareholders in the short term. A CEO that takes care of his shareholders does well in the long term.

You can stiff a restaurant and run out on the tab. Helps your pocketbook. But you can never come back.

In essence, being an asshole helps in one round prisoner's dilemma games. Life is about repeat games. Cooperation, and putting yourself in the other person's shoes, is what it's all about.
It's possible he did consider that fact and the kettle wasn't on the same circuit with another high draw appliance.
Write in Markdown for Gmail, Evernote, Wordpress, etc.
I came across Markdown Here today. This link seems to be posted every 6 months - just following the pattern to enlighten more everyday.
What is your email? Would like to contact you to share few things. My startup has similar approach to you, but in different industry/field. Thanks.
The healthcare isn't free no matter how many times you people say that.

But you're also wrong about Australia being "a very similar society to the US". Maybe at one time, but Australia has some very authoritarian laws these days - from gun control to internet filters, etc..
You don't need millions to make technology bets. You were so sure RIM was going to implode? Why didn't you short the stock and laugh all the way to the bank?

I'll tell you why. Things aren't so obvious when you have some skin in the game.
I thought that too. Seems...unbelievable.
The Amazing Adventures of NSArray
A dive into some the fun parts of NSArray.
Systems thinking and process thinking are very big.

Built to Last by Collins covers this a lot. They don't skip goals (it's a big part of it) but much of the book is about soft things done right. Leadership is huge. Building systems is huge.
I happen to like the lcd screen console in the Tesla, so it was interesting how quickly the author lost much of the credibility I as the reader had given him when he falsely assumed that I too would agree that it was poor design.
Which OS? Is this just c-mode?
test-ipv6.com is intentionally IPv4-only, because otherwise people with broken IPv6 wouldn't be able to run the test. It's covered in the FAQ:

http://test-ipv6.com/faq.html

However, the prevalence of IPv6 brokenness has declined a bit since most browsers started doing Happy Eyeballs.
"Today, Mexico City is mind-blowingly different, boasting high-rise buildings, cleaner air, new roads and modern bridges. You still find pockets of poverty, but when we visit now, we think, "Wow—most people here are middle-class. What a miracle."

-- Bill and Melinda Gates
Example:

1. User wants to use my GPL'd library in their application. Their application is released as source code under the 3-clause BSD license.

2. User sends me an email asking me to change my library's license to MIT or 3-clause BSD so their open-source app can use it.

3. I reply with the longform equivalent of "u wot m8?"

4. They reply that if I change my license to MIT, they will be able to "relicense" it to 3-clause BSD and use it as a dependency in their application's build script.

5. I explain that they don't need permission to just depend on a library, since they're not distributing any of it. And besides, if they did include some of my code in their tarballs, they still can't change the license because they don't own the copyright.

I suspect this stems from the same sort of pseudo-religious copyright knowledge that leads to "no copyright intended" disclaimers on YouTube. Lots of people grew up in the era of Napster and copy-pasted MySpace javascript, and never really gave much thought to how copyright actually works.
It's stunning to me that many people think this is some sort of novel and patentable idea, even though it's very general and widespread.

It's a great idea, certainly, but this type of thinking has been around for decades. The first major adoption was probably W. Edwards Deming's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming) quality principles that were used to pull Japan out of the post-WWII recession. His ideas on systems thinking and management are still relevant today.

This idea -- that systems thinking is valuable, and how to approach it -- is such a generic concept as to be unattributable. It would be nice to have a nod toward history, certainly, and it would help support his writing; but I just like to see it in the first place. We need more of this.
Or "Building on the Bitcoin Blockchain" ;-)

I agree, they tricked me too!
How much has changed in 18 years? (article was written in 1996 by the look of it)
With a little bit of investigation, you can see this headline is alarmist. These aren't hijackings, they are just restaurants who are authorizing other companies to manage their online presence.
he could have also started with something else besides Apple

Assuming he had a Woz, perhaps. Perhaps he would have found another engineer, or perhaps Woz had a unique combination of skills that really meant Jobs was in the right place at the right time.

Jobs failed in his vision - a lot. Had the Apple II not kept Apple plodding along - remember what Woz said about Jobs's desire to kill it - and some of the strategic investments along the way from outside (Microsoft's investment of $150M when Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy), Apple would be a memory today.

I know that violates the meme on HN and elsewhere that Apple's success is purely the result of Jobs's genius and vision, but that's a rewriting of history.
Love it! I actually developed an ad-hoc version of this for use in a personal project (I was syncing to local IndexedDB, the local browser's Filesystem API, and a server endpoint), and would have loved to have had this already.
Las redes sociales virtuales invaden la realidad
Edison invented a practical light bulb.

He also invented the industry that was able to deliver power to homes so they could use those light bulbs.
This seems suspect. Taking the first example from the post:

http://www.azuca.net/azuca/ and https://azucasaborlatino.com/

These two websites do not point to each other at any point. The domain for the first website appears registered by the restaurant themselves, pointing to nameservers belonging to Dine Online - which looks like a marketing/web dev firm.

The second domain is registered by EatStreet.

Now, it seems likely to me that Azuca and EatStreet have some working relationship, most probably the same sort of relationship restaurants have with GrubHub or Seamless.

The problem here is language. EatStreet's page does not make it clear at all that this is a third party, and in fact seems to go out of its way to insinuate that this is in fact the official website for the restaurant. This seems like trademark infringement to me, but IANAL.

Sketchy, to say the least.