skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The industry only has 6 customers (the studios) who often negotiate as a single entity (the MPAA) and who are big fans of subsidies, so for a a VFX studio to pursue something by themselves would essentially blacklist them and put them out of business. The brilliance of this plan is that it's being organised by the workers whose lives are being affected.
Court dismisses shareholder lawsuit against Zynga
But this plan wasn't organized by workers, it was done by one blogger. He may be donating this strategy to any collection of workers willing to make use of it but he paid the lawyers and they only shared it with him.
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This is in my experience the hardest part of being a founder. Is where I procastinate the most.
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Why do we need a manifesto for "hardware"? Does this not fall under the general-purpose hacker philosophy? Knowledge should be free, and we should be free to learn and experiment with the things we own.

I understand the reasons why hardware's become relevant again, but the pendulum's swinging too much in the direction of a dichotomy, in a time when hardware and software are becoming anywares.
script anyone?! :D
That's awesome! I remember most pages looked like that back in the day actually. I even offered it as a 'service' to Dragonball Z websites. It existed of just a background image with all the borders/effects in it, and transparent tables on top of it with a content structure just like yours. Good times.
If by "do good" you mean "give money to whoever has their hand stuck out the furthest."

Those aren't necessarily people in need who will use the money for some good purpose, often they are in a special parasitic class of professional beggars and con artists.

Hopefully the point is to do more than show off that you are rich and generous.
Why not torrent them instead? I mean it: I assume that collecting bogus data doesn't do them any good and torrenting would save the publisher some server load. A script that buys every book, on the other hand, doesn't even contribute to popularity statistics.
"They're rejecting the combination of me and them together."

That definitely still sound like rejection.

If you downvote this, you're not actually rejecting the comment but just a combination of you and this comment.
Targeted pitching, one at a time.

Pitches are as personalized as reasonably possible (review their website, product reviews, recent news).

Use what you learn from each to improve targeting & approach.
I may be an outlier, but I'm perfectly fine with 90%.
this was my first idea, but I know every tut online does this and I want something special
This is quite an old paper, and I actually wrote a blog post about it (back when I had a blog). However, my issue with this study is that there was no deceptive placebo condition (i.e. what normally happens). I actually attempted to replicate this finding and didn't find any effect when a deceptive condition was involved, suggesting that IBS may be a special case.

Interestingly enough, IBS patients have been found to have non-opioid mediated relief of pain, which is atypical (normally naloxone blocks these effects) so there may be something weird going on with this condition in more general terms.

Also, its worth noting that in modern conceptions of placebo, its part of every treatment. If you have ever felt the effects of a cup of coffee before approximately 30 minutes, that's probably a placebo. Ditto for headache tablets that work immediately, before the active substance could have gotten into the bloodstream.

Also, with respect to the drinking of water, that's unlikely to be an explanation as that quantity of water is typically not enough to provide relief from IBS.
On the topic of men in prison, the US does indeed have a rape culture. I thought it was clear from context that I'm using the term the way western feminists do, but I guess I should have been explicit.

Of the specific business practices I suggested, which one do you believe is not a good way to make money?

I'm not sure why you use the term "impose". I'm a guy with a laptop, I have no power to impose anything on anyone.

The only value I've ever imposed on anyone is my opposition to eve teasing. I'm hoping political correctness hasn't gone crazy enough to consider that one culturally insensitive, but who knows?
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If you do it right (i.e, just have one book in the cart), the button should say Check Out For Free
Well how political...
You'll inevitably have a higher failure rate running your own as I do. Gmail has millions of people contributing to its statistical analysis. You'll have yourself and maybe some friends and family, at best, training the bayesian filter, and periodic updates of static rules from the project's volunteers.

A combination of SA and Spamhaus's zen and dbl blocklists catches the vast majority of spam coming into my server, but I still usually end up with at least a few per day on average.

I can go weeks without looking at the server at all. But when something does go wrong it can take some time. Right now I'm trying to figure out why SA has started silently dropping certain messages to certain addresses after it figures out they're not spam, rather than piping them back into Postfix as it should. This is obviously not good.
> That's certainly a problem, but most people are using trustworthy ISPs (at least in this sense). Comcast seems unlikely to try to steal your bank password, and Verizon is unlikely to try to harvest your HN cookies.

You got it! Really when you think about it, why do we even bother with crypto on the Internet in the first place? It's not like your data is traveling over a series of networks and nodes with different owners/operators that you don't even know and certainly haven't vetted for trustworthiness. That'd be crazy.
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That's actually a quite easy to understand problem as well.

The difference is pretty major. It's believable that someone forgot to consider the case where a new certificate was negotiated. It's downright inconceivable that no one tested whether a bad certificate failed validation. That's like selling a pregnancy test without testing what happens if the person isn't pregnant.
I really enjoyed Halting State, and Accelerando, and also the MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood as well as Philip K. Dicks works, Valis in particular.
so the grammars are still a bunch of regexes? that'd be kind of a letdown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303361

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303068

Comments on both.
Copyright fair use is ambiguously defined, really.

Here's a checklist from Columbia University which helps clarify what qualifies as fair use: http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/fair-use/fair-use-ch...
Mt. Gox new announcement ( February 26th 2014 )
Copied from https://www.mtgox.com/

February 26th 2014

Dear MtGox Customers,

As there is a lot of speculation regarding MtGox and its future, I would like to use this opportunity to reassure everyone that I am still in Japan, and working very hard with the support of different parties to find a solution to our recent issues.

Furthermore I would like to kindly ask that people refrain from asking questions to our staff: they have been instructed not to give any response or information. Please visit this page for further announcements and updates.

Sincerely,
Mark Karpeles
Dear Mark,

Should you be reading this, please could you answer a very simple question...

For each of the currencies you support - including BTC, USD etc:
1) How much do people have in their MtGox account?
2) How much do you have in the bank/wallet?

Thanks,

Alex
The news here is that bitcoin is apparently considered to be money by this prosecutor. Or at least close enough to it.
This is a mixture of WordArt inspired logos, with some more "traditional GNU" ones and some that are just WTF

DDD, EMMS, look nice

What is GTick supposed to convey? Groff? Recutils?
Indeed most of them are pretty unprofessional looking, but then again GNU isn't like companies who will spend tons of effort on finding a good logo.
Somebody really thought this one through: https://www.gnu.org/graphics/httptunnel-w.png

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Oh, and deja gnu, somebody? I mean, this is genius at work here.
So they failed to monitor $10 bn in transactions. 1% of that is $100 m. The fine was 19x larger. What am I missing?
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It's worth 0% assurance that you are still in Japan, Mark. Just sayin.
Well said. If you don't like it, improve & contribute.

I'm indebted to the amount of amazing tools available by GNU and can't imagine how much they've contributed to the growth of numerous lean startups. Not all open source contributors are great designers and they mostly do this in their spare time.
Ehh, it's cute. Which is more than can be said about most GNU logos.
Oh, man, I love seeing the typical uptight HNer in action. ONLY SERIOUS BUSINESS HERE, GUISE, PLEASE. cries and hides
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making fun of other people

not sure the intent really is to make fun of people. I read it as (light) criticism, which isn't the same thing, and which should be allowed by all means preferrably without people getting all politically correct about it. Imo.

Apart from that: I'm no designer but some of these logos look hideous to me. Though I also think some of them are just meant to be like that, as a f*k you statement: "it's about the content, not about the logo". Which is prefectly understandable: ever had to come up with a decent original logo? That can take days which could as well be spent programing for instance.
All grey horizontal lines are parallel while they don't look like it. Shifting black/white rectangles makes the lines look angled

Well, actually when image is huge, it is not obvious but if you scale page zoom down, you can notice the trick.
hmm, the logo's don't look like some giant-and-evil inc. is trying to sell you something so this could really appeal to the target community. makes sense.

I remember reading an article about discount supermarket chains where the designs of the product packaging and the store itself were intentionally made cheap-looking to communicate the message "you pay only for the product, not for the fancy packaging, advertisement or store".

So the logos of GNU maybe communicates just the right message instead of looking fancy.
do you think is good enough to leave a image to represent a heading? you might think, oh cool that look nice, but remember it affects SEO

Having an image for a logo often consumes less bandwidth than a web font (because there's a lot of CSS and a font file involved with a web font). SEO shouldn't be a problem if you use the "alt" attribute in the image tag.
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Yeah, I guess you'll keep telling yourself that because it makes you happy and remain unable to comprehend just how wrong you are...
> GNU might have marketing not everybody agrees with, but it has a lot of it.

Exactly. It's just a different type of marketing from the Bootstrap-powered, coffee-house-backdrop intro video with indie guitar: "Hi! My name's Rob! Sometimes, I need to cross-compile to an embedded..."
Many activities are affordable only as long as the true costs are not paid in full. The world had to allow massive burning of fuels, even if it's costly for the environment, only because the alternatives were not feasible yet. When better technologies allowed even a mild reduction of the pollution's effects (like combustion engine improvements, and later development of hybrid/electric solutions), things started to change and the reckless burn of fuel is now discouraged. Don't stop at the level of 125 launches per year, expect it to grow orders of magnitude, and the effects to grow proportionally. The market cost for fuel may be only $200,000 and it might get even lower, but the true costs... well, I think you got the idea.
Is there a reference implementation for SSH? I don't think so.

By your standards then SSH is broken, which is false. I don't want to have it both ways.
I think if you are running a money service that you should not rely on variables that were known to be malleable since 2011. There's even a wiki page about it, on a site the guy owned, since Jan 2013.
Either they run someone elses code and made sure it worked, or run their own code and made sure it worked - and by worked I meant worked the way they needed it to, not the way they expected it to.
> Radiation is only a minor concern, astronauts in the space station experience similar radiation doses.

Why would they be similar? The space station is only in LEO. That's not remotely comparable to geostationary orbit, or the Van Allen belts.

Fortunately, shielding is a lot cheaper than on anything a rocket carries.
Agreed, everyone enjoys playing armchair critic and in the majority of the time have no idea how the internal systems are structured or managed.
thanks, i'll give that a try
I really like the DDD logo personally! The bug is smiling!

And the ghostscript and gimp logos. The GNU always looks really happy.
I think most would consider that at best a distraction.

More often then not overly flashy websites seem to look bad on my book. To me it seems more like they are trying to slip something under the rug while simple designs come across as more focused. Like http://prgmr.com http://tarsnap.com and http://nearlyfreespeech.net .
Unfortunately more than $500,000 in USD.
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Call me non typically British but it's pretty obvious why they didn't ask. Even if 100% of people they asked were fine with it (Scott seems to imply he is) probably less than 10% would bother to respond, that then knackers their startup instantly. "Better to do something now and apologise later than ask for permission and not get it" as I think a saying goes.

Better attribution would have been good, and possibly reaching out to original creators asking them to opt out if they'd rather not be involved. Offering something in return (the embedded player for relevant articles) could have helped grease the wheels. Ultimately, if they get bug they may not need massive support from content creators like Scott but they do need not to be on the wrong side of them.
Not sure if they've just changed it, but the offer for the mailing list is now 50% off your next book. Or is that a different offer?
They're still less efficient. With a gun, you have to put all your energy in as kinetic energy at the start of the trip, which means the payload leaves the earth at a considerable speed. Objects passing through the atmosphere with that sort of speed lose a lot of energy as drag.

There's a continuum between guns and rockets: you can fire a projectile with a motor on board. That lets you launch with a lower speed, but you have to lift fuel along with your payload. It's a tradeoff.

Space elevators step outside the tradeoff because they add energy to the payload during the trip, to avoiding the drag cost, but don't have to lift the energy as fuel, so avoiding the weight cost.
Just tried it. I'm not a native English speaker, and yet I found the 500 wpm speed far too slow, not to mention the loss of the ability to go back and forth. It works: I was able to read and understand, but it's slow, causes sea-sickness, and not comfortable for more than two paragraphs of text. I guess it can work for reading emails on a watch.
The original Steely-Eyed Missile Man.
Overnight, the entire internet converted into this sludge of a medium where text looked like links and links looked like text. You had no idea where to click

Ha! I am still pissed off about this. I remember my first days on StackOverflow, going to a 'moved' question (thanks alot, Google) and not knowing where the hell it was moved to nor how to get there. Am I expected to move my mouse slowly over the page until it changes? Look at the source code of the page? Read a FAQ or something?

PS Also pissed off about these new cars that I can't figure out how to start- nor turn off!
What is OpenID Connect? Why should I use it?
I don't think my actions are as significant as you make them out to be.

> You're behaving as if you know what's best for resources you don't even own, nor operate yourself.

I don't know best — so I file an issue to start the question. This is how you start discussions. An issue/bug report does not always mean "this is a software bug, fix it now!"

> Your knee-jerk is the very essence of vigilantism

Really? Vigilantism is filing a github issue? Lollerskates. I see things that go against my intuition, I file bugs, this is how you make software better. Sometimes the bug reports are invalid shrug. My intuition is usually good. Sorry it was wrong in this case.

> Maybe think before you speak?

This phrase gets thrown around a lot but only when talking to other people. What makes you think that I didn't think before I wrote that? Or that somehow your snide suggestion is more likely to convince me to "think more" before I file future bugs than Github and Valve's professional responses ("we're cool with this, closing")?

> Not everyone needs an activist.

I still think you're making out filing a two-sentence GH issue as waaaaaay more involved or significant than it really is. I'm not a Github activist. I just write code.
How about "WELCOME TO MY SITE" scrolling in the browser statusbar?

Apparently that still works in Safari http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut11.shtml
The shipping industry has been disrupted many times. Two of the more recent ones are the transformation to containerized shipping, and the switch to slow steaming.

The Maersk's Triple E class ships, for example, are less powerful than the previous generation of ships.

The next disruption is likely the New Panamax will allow ships with up to 13,000 TEU through the Panama Canal, rather than the old limit of about 5,000.

This disruption, and the creation of the Panama and Suez canals, are counter-examples to your idea that people "don't want to discuss, even as speculation" disruptive ideas. Some don't - the British didn't want the competition to their India trade - but certainly many, including Napolean, wanted a Suez canal.

> The heuristic is not that they object, it is that they don't want to discuss, even as speculation.

What if I proposed a nuclear powered aircraft. There are obvious advantages, like unlimited range. Airports wouldn't need the fueling infrastructure, so flights to, say, Easter Island wouldn't have to also pay to get the jet fuel there for the return flight. Ground crew could smoke. It would be highly disruptive, yes?

Of course, there will be people who dismiss it right away. "The reactor and shielding will be too heavy", "there's too much risk in case of accident", "the R&D costs are too high", and so on. Most don't even want to discuss what nuclear powered air travel could do, even as speculation. Each one could shut down the conversation.

By your heuristic, airplane power production is an undisrupted industry.

While the reality is that those objections are absolutely true, and are some of the reasons why we don't have atomic aircraft.

This means your heuristic is wrong, or at least incomplete.

Some ideas are disruptive .. but either physically impossible or economically nonviable.

How do you judge if this ides isn't in one of those two categories? You presume that drone designs will be up and running at some point. What if that point is 100 years in the future? Why should people now be concerned with it?
Well I guess if we can transpose this maxim to dating, my goals are mightily ambitious !
Agreed. Separate launch was actually one of the scenarios considered by NASA. The had F1 engine ready for Saturn so it was not necessary.

But three ships (live module, landing module and return booster) with randevu at moon orbit is the most fuel efficient scenario.
They aren't ecosystems - they're biospheres. They look like a functional system but by operating independently of external forces they stagnate quickly.
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Why not edit anywhere with an ssh client (ie. use vim)? Less overhead, more compatiblity with existing tools...
Interesting. The whole Sublime Text theory takes another buff.

The tmLanguage syntaxing, while limiting, is still pretty damn easy to create and edit, thus I approve. The idea that you have to learn a new way to build new syntaxes for every editor out there is a big issue for me as if you're going to be on the edge using new templating syntaxes, flavors of other languages etc. you just have to be able to fiddle with syntax highlighting, especially with new editors with poor/incomplete syntaxes and few user created syntaxes to fill the holes.
YC S14 applications are open
The fact that you have to have some custom client (I don't care how thin it is) to get interop means it is an ecosystem.

There are business reasons to avoid interop (it costs money, it removes branding opportunities, blah blah blah), but let's not pretend they are anything else.
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It was more of a shared, collective kind of property model. People generally knew which things that people had and who currently had it. Generally, one would 'borrow' a thing indefinitely, until someone else 'borrowed' it. It wasn't uncommon for someone to 'borrow' a car, for example. You would just take it, if you needed it.

It worked well, in that small culture of people. But, it certainly presented a lot of challenges for me as I left that area. It took me a long time to learn that that wasn't accepted behavior for middle-class urban people.

For example, in college, people would come to my dorm, and I'd give them my stuff, not expecting that I'd get it back. Tensions would flare up when I'd 'borrow' other kids' stuff and then lend their stuff out to others. It took me awhile to understand that that was frowned upon. I also had to learn that I couldn't just take stuff. I was used to going to other people's houses and just eating their food, taking video games, music, etc. - Yeah, the middle-class urbanites didn't like that very much.

Even now, I have strange understandings of property. I'm very likely to just give my stuff away, to even people that I don't know very well. Most people who witness this think it is very, very odd.
The irony of saying someone copied anything from Ebaumsworld.
I don't mind being part of your ecosystem as long as I'm part of your family, you care for my needs, think about me, and the whole company is built around my lifestyle and serves it really well leaving not much to be desired. The loss in interoperability is worth it in this case.

If you're not going to be the above, then act like a pipe-able Unix process.
I like my (GitGutter's) concept of displaying removed lines better. This screenshot makes me think line 11 was removed. But I am looking right at it!
Will be interesting to see their actions in Europe from now.
There are two theses:

1) People purchase products from you because they are happy that they can use those products anywhere.

2) People purchase products from you because they are happy they work on the device/service/ecosystem they've invested in, and they don't have lose their sunk cost.

I feel that 1 is a great lead in for new customers - if they have options. I know that 2 definitely wins in the long run - people want to avoid the pain of their sunk cost. That's why lock-in works.

The core of the issue is that people are asking companies who are wildly successful with locking people in to open up their ecosystem on some nebulous promise of future earnings based in popular goodwill.
They still have staff?
There are some examples here:
https://github.com/jeanqasaur/jeeves/wiki/A-Quick-Introducti...

Thanks for the feedback and sorry they were hard to find!
Or just maybe - your goals are exactly as ambitious as you want them to be, and perfectly in line with your abilities.
Is it still working for anyone? I see "Sorry, that promotion code is no longer valid".