skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is just a short list.

a) Different cultures

b) Different languages

c) Different tax systems

d) Different company types

e) Different legality

All these in combination creates a lot of friction that makes it harder. There are obviously exceptions (ex. skype) but in general it's just very hard to navigate compared to the US.
>It makes perfect sense -- if you provide a freeform content section of an otherwise strictly formed document (for interoperability reasons), then people will abuse it to store arbitrary, uninteroperable data (as was seen with binary blobs being dumped into XML).

That will then be their own bloody problem, not Crockfords.
Is there a way to install in ubuntu?
probably just stale object files, hardly unique to MSVC
The problem is that your code should have been expecting that field to be a string and nothing else, and other fields that contain dates to be a date and nothing else. In other words, if you're parsing JSON in this manner you need to apply some sort of schema to the data or have another field in the record denote the datatype. Anytime you're trying to auto-magically detect the datatype of the field, you're gonna have a bad time.
It's pretty well established though.

Check out this article.

http://www.economist.com/node/21559618
Why shouldn't it be written by hand?

If you have an object or list literal in your JS, it's already "almost-JSON". People write a lot of "almost-JSON". I want to separate data from code and put it into a data file, but then I have to remove final commas, comments, and so on. This is great for static data that would otherwise be in your code.

Also it is great as a config file format. Sublime Text uses JSON+comments, for example. Everybody who knows Python, JS, or JSON knows how to use it immediately.

I don't know where the problem is, since with the current implementation it is not possible to write JSON5 not by hand! JSON5.stringify just calls the reference JSON serializer.

The added complexity is not much, and has already been implemented. You don't need to change every implementation. It's just a drop-in replacement for JSON so you can have comments in your static JSON data files. I think it's extremely convenient. Using JSON as a config file format in Sublime Text for example is only viable since they are heavily commented.
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>Are you serious? Would you put tabs in source code too?

Of course. Why the fuck wouldn't I put tabs in source code?

We INDENT the code pressing tab. We don't press 4 spaces. Why shouldn't the code reflect that? And tabs are symbolic (logical entities), so they are customizable.

You suggest we'd rather use the elaborate kludges to handle spaces as tabs in the editor? What year is this? 1978?
Cool. Cartoons meet stock photos. The problem I'm seeing is that some cartoons sometimes are tightly coupled to a specific topic, and may be seasonal. Especially current events/politically/socially related cartoons and satire. IMHO.
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Ironically no as dalke comments below I think it mist have been some odd build efect over several hundred modules of code.
Actually it is. Then you can treat them the same way.

And since it's a configuration format, you know what keys are accepted and what keys are for the metadata, and thus won't clash.
-g should really be controlling the emission of debug info, and nothing else, I would have thought? This is independent of the amount of optimization being performed.

In fact the code part of the result should be identical in both cases, and ideally at runtime it should be impossible to tell the difference between -g and not (since presumably the loader won't load/map the debug info even if it's embedded).
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"Debate about laws governing filming on farms in Idaho started in 2012 when someone hired by Mercy for Animals got a job at a Bettencourt Dairies operation in Hansen and filmed workers caning, beating and sexually abusing cows.

The video was used to prosecute employees at the dairy, and it convinced Idaho’s dairy industry to create a worker training program to help prevent animal abuse. But it also set in motion a concerted effort by the dairy industry to make sure such embarrassing videos weren’t made in the state again."
I think it's rather obvious, from the fact that boys are much more encouraged to play competitive team sports like Soccer and American Football, where aggressiveness is an important skill.

(It should be noted that she said aggressiveness, not violence)
Imagine someone posting the url to access your commercial product because your dev didn't secure the download. And you have control over the post. What would you do then? And Github can delete anything they want. If anyone has problem with that, they sure can sue Github.
>The size of the sample is irrelevant for its accuracy

It might not be the only relevant thing, but it sure is relevant.
There are no date literals in Javascript or Python, so would loose compatibility. The nice thing is that you can just take almost any object literal and put it into a json5 file, and it is valid json5.
That's just my guess, based on not running into any Flash-only videos. I've loaded a few hundred YouTube pages in the last month. I see that VEVO videos and the rare RTMPE-protected videos still require Flash.
Most kids are (and have been for a while) taught English in schools. If you create your site with English as the first language you can target most European countries + the US. Regarding company types you set up your business in the country you're based in - you don't need a separate company for every country you operate it. I believe the same applies to tax. You pay it in the country you are based in.
To be fair, Xulrunner can end up being so close to native it barely matters: Komodo is a great example. Sure parts are definitely not native widgets, but they look close enough and allow for customisation that'd be very difficult otherwise :)
Like I said - I get that.

Also, like I said - it seems underhanded that they just reach into an account and delete gists
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This reminded me of some other brands which practice the "anti-feature" on their products. There's an IP Camera brand which uses the same PCB board on their range of indoor cameras but blocks usage of some components on it such as MicroSD reader. I noticed that when I opened one of them, it had MicroSD reader inside but it was blocked by the case outside. That's done to justify its lower price, what a foolish thing to do really.

There were also talks in the past about Microsoft turning off features off the Windows to justify the price. Again what a foolish thing to do.
True but Bruce Scheiers panglosian suggestion of just handing over the internal monitoring to the FBI aka the cops is just going to make things worse.

Remberer what the FBI has done in the past (under hoover) compared to what the NSA has not done.
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Colbert's funny as hell and as likeable as they come. But despite his reputation, he's not exactly an "outside the box" thinker.

He's a deeply religious catholic, is patriotic and apparently believes in the rule of law.
It's cultural, Europeans don't believe in making something large from nothing. The idea of a kid with a laptop building an international business, as Zuckerberg was doing, is laughable to them. (And delusional.) They'd probably tell him to go back to school so he can get a real job.
Some of this is disturbing and some is not. I don't know why the article makes a big deal out of predictive policing and it's roots in counter-insurgency. Putting police officers where crime is likely to happen is just good management. More power to them. I could care less whether the software was developed for Fallujah. Why would you want to put police resources where they're not needed?
I do think that Netflix may be on to something with its curation /discovery of new sub-sub niches.

One of the issues with creating fiction compared to non-fiction right now, in any medium, is that it's much harder to niche down in fiction. In non-fiction I can perfectly happily make a viable living from writing to a niche of, say, "owners of cats with behavioural issues", or "Finance-focused startups in need of lead generation knowledge". In fiction, niches are much less granular - at best, you can target, say, "werewolf-based romance", and for many projects, you'll be targeting "fantasy", "hard SF" or similar huge niches with very vague requirements and significant saturation problems.
Yeah good luck building a startup in europe with that view. There is a reason why ex. Facbook localized their content.
What I propose as DRM is nothing but an ACL. This is available with OSS just as you can have file permissions in linux. The reason today's DRM needs 'special sauce' is always because of restricting the copying of content they want to sell people - which is pointless IMO.
I disagree.

If you compare Europe and US, I think there are hotbeds in each one.

However, the articles seem to compare Europe with Silicon Valley / San Francisco, which is silly.

Obviously San Francisco is special, even within the US.

Edit: Also, the Economist article doesn't address Europeans having a fear of failure.
None of these are issues that European entrepreneurs I talk to have ever had.
What is Sponsor O? Why is the interface localized only in those particular languages?
I think our problems come when we start looking for any more than entertainment in our entertainers.

He attributes the "greatest threat to security" to not voting and not watching political money. I would politely disagree. Our "greatest threat to security" is that our people take their opinions from the mouths of celebrities and politicians, and not through careful consideration of the facts.
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This is not meant to displace plain JSON!

JSON5.stringify(obj) produces plain compliant JSON. Using JSON5, programattically produced JSON will always be JSON 1.0. This is for configuration files, and static (hand-edited) data.

And what is wrong with just using ISO dates in strings? I mean whats the difference between, say:

"date": /2010-03-23T23:57Z/,
"date": Date(2010-03-23T23:57Z),

or whatever the syntax would be and

"date": "2010-03-23T23:57Z"

? The irony is that JSON5 without dates is more compatible with JSON, than any JSON implementation with dates. (JSON5.stringify(JSON5.parse(...)) always produces pure JSON without loosing information. I don't know how you would convert a date literal into regular json other than turning it into a string, on the other hand.)
Because negative NPV.
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Snarky but true answer: failure is not always good.

Look, I'm all for removing the social penalties to good-faith failure. I've failed before (in good faith) and I'm a good guy. Some problems are harder than they look, and sometimes the solution is brilliant but no one wants it. However, I can't share that cavalier attitude toward failure that I often encounter in the HN-sphere. I would love to see society become more tolerant of good-faith failure or just bad luck, on the small scale (R&D efforts within companies) as well as the large (bankruptcy laws, a healthcare system that isn't psychotic and mean-spirited like US insurance). However, I've also seen what bad-faith failure looks like: businesses that might start with earnest intention but evolve into long cons. People who call themselves "entrepreneurs" are not all ethical. Some are, some aren't.

Failure hurts people. Money disappears, jobs are lost, and sometimes peoples' careers get ruined. I've lost about $500,000 (mostly, opportunity cost and career retardation) to bad startups.

Sometimes failure is no one's fault and a learning experience. Sometimes, there's some serious malfeasance behind it. If you've been around tech as long as I have (and I'm only 30) you know that there are some really wonderful people, but also some really terrible people, in it.

There are some severe issues involved in the question of how to handle business failure: moral hazard, asymmetric risk. Most people attack these hard ethical questions by falling back on instinct and social proof: the way they separate bad-faith and good-faith failure is by asking around, checking references, reading news articles. That's how the Valley works: it tolerates failure if you can convince it that you failed in good faith, but the waters are so murky that social proof rules the day. That, predictably, makes the worst kinds of people (social influence peddlers) powerful, and they evolve into extortionists and manipulators. It turns into a feudalistic reputation economy. It's not a scalable solution. It's actually hypocritical, because a world in which reputation and social access matter that much is exactly the sort of world that becomes risk-averse and sclerotic. (That takes time, but you see it happening in the Valley.)

The happy medium is somewhere in between the risk-averse conservatism of Europe and the Midwest, and the pro-failure attitude of California, which arrives either at recklessness or hypocrisy. Maybe Seattle? (I'm considering moving to the PNW in 2015, so I've given this a lot of thought.)
My suggestion - you can't predict the future. Evaluate the best of what's currently available based on momentum, user base, and community. Pick the best for your current use cases. You can decide not to use the latest and greatest- observe what will stay constant, and use that.
As a brit we do not fear failiure, its well known that Up to one fifth of the 400000 businesses that start up each year fail within the first 12 months of operation in the UK.

investors dont write blank cheques is the main difference. we are blunt and dont flower up potential so monetry failiure is more relative to business size.
To desire failure, this probably means you are trying to do something new. Below I am speaking purely on conjecture, no real sound theory.

I get the distinct impression that Europe cares more about tradition and therefore less about disruption. As such, there is not as big a desire to try something new, and therefore no reason to consider whether failure is good. In fact, if the emphasis is on tradition, failure is frowned on not because it is bad, but rather, because it is evidence that someone tried to do something new.

My thoughts on this come from a chapter of Alan Greenspan's memoirs on his experience in Vienna and thoughts on cultural differences, especially when it came to Vienna's timelessness and beauty.
Well, is there any sort of content that you would not fault them for removing?
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While I don't disagree that the NSA's directive is international information gathering, and that should be the limit of its scope, I think Colbert's wrong to think that's something that can exist without ever going far beyond its scope. By natural consequence of having an extremely well funded organization with zero oversight, if we don't have whistleblowers, they're going to take advantage of the situation.

Which brings me to the counterpoint which is that Snowden shouldn't spend the rest of his life in jail, which is what would invariably happen would be go to trial in the US. I think it's of little matter that he revealed how we spy on other countries. I think the point of that was to show that that's how we're being spied on by the 5 Eyes, who will freely share their spying information.
>What does full time mean? SAG-AFTRA has 160,000 members who make enough from acting that ponying up 3k/year makes financial sense.

Or it doesn't, and they make it out of vanity reasons, or because "soon, I'll have my big chance...".
It seems they want to pay their taxes a la carte.
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4614ec62feaea32392ad7f6b3a80534c8ad0c758ed210cabafcc86c5c49a49a1 atom-mac.zip

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Interesting point.

In fiction, it's often easy to identify what people want to read / watch / consume - a Joss Whedon fan wants "stuff like Buffy", a 24 fan wants "more 24". You're in the Naruto niche.

This is niche identification, just like in non-fiction - where as I mention in a comment above, you can target down to tiny niches.

The difference in fiction is that it's illegal to target those niches because of copyright-created monopolies. I can't say "OK, ZenoArrow wants more Naruto" and make some without getting extremely sued.

I'm not sure what to do about that, but it's an interesting identification of the problem.

This also explains why new fiction is so hard to launch - you're creating a new niche, something that's traditionally randomly successful and very difficult.

(The traditional solution, of course, is either to license popular IP - not really doable for indies - or to base your fiction on a niche that's not copyright-protected. Hence the number of Sherlock Holmes-based films, TV shows, and books, for example - the Sherlock Holmes niche is actually available.)
>we are blunt and dont flower up potential

This nails it. You're not going to even investigate potential - your investors don't have that kind of vision (or interest). Not a snowball's chance in Hell a Brit VC would have acted as Peter Thiel did when he came on board with Facebook. Because that would have been "flowering up potential".

Or as I like to call it, vision.
Yeah, you can do that in your .js source, but not in a separate, non-executed file. It is useful IMHO to separate static data from code. Also, this is useful for configuration files.
Since costs are dominated by labour & fixed costs, the production costs may well be close to linear with diameter.
Looks to me like a government contract[1], for whatever reason it irks me a little that the main target seems to be Iran[2].

> It also includes outreach, especially towards Iranians.

[1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/O...

[2]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/O...
Being a slightly improved Excel has significant advantages as well:

It's more accessible to people who are not coders but need to do statistics on real data, i.e. almost all researchers.

Although personally, I would use R/Python (the UI is more suited to me, and it's free, and I trust the results a little more, and I can read the code if I need to)... do you actually need anything more than SAS/SPSS provides? I doubt it.
But when it comes to doing the right thing for your
country, as Snowden has stated was his reason for leaking
the NSA documents, Colbert said that you must face the
consequences of the law.

Saddam Hussein faced the consequences of law too, but we all knew the outcome before the trial even started.

If I was Snowden I wouldn't be in a hurry to return to the United States and spend twenty years in prison.
Do you have evidence for that at all? Because it sounds like bollocks to me.

The more obvious factors are almost certainly the case - more complex regulatory environment, smaller market, a lower concentration of capital sloshing around than in SV… and myriad other reasons.

Blaming this on an artificial 'European' culture is facile.
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> My thoughts on this come from a chapter of Alan Greenspan's memoirs on his experience in Vienna and thoughts on cultural differences, especially when it came to Vienna's timelessness and beauty.

Then you're talking about Austria, not all of Europe.
I's a strategy for getting the business going. Obviously you begin localising once you've got some traction.
I would argue that it not only matters how large you build your ‘business’ and how many billions you make eventually selling it, but also how much you care for your employees, provide value to society and, most importantly, what sort of business you’re building. Instant success is also not necessary, instead, building your business over the course of 150 years is perfectly acceptable.

Facebook is essentially a marketing company and time-wasting website, both of which are not exactly highly regarded as businesses go. On the other hand, there are many highly successful and innovative European companies building actual stuff, often founded decades ago as small family businesses and growing slowly and steadily until they firmly occupy some niche on a global scale.

And, yes, if you don’t have a PhD, how exactly are you going to be different from your secretary?
You're just repeating old stereotypes.
There is a video of this on youtube: /watch?v=bP9qqdE4O1I
>an extremely well funded organization with zero oversight

This is a false statement since the NSA does have oversight.

>Snowden shouldn't spend the rest of his life in jail, which is what would invariably happen would be go to trial in the US.

This, too, is a false statement and conjecture.
Different media organisations also a factor? A story on the BBC about a popular new thingy might not feature at all on France 24, whereas in the US it might be covered by east and west coast news, getting widespread exposure. Europe has news fire-breaks. High thresholds to jump the synaptic clefts.
Executing analytics code consumes CPU and network resources that I pay for so I do think people should have a say in what a third party does with them.
Got the same hash.
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I've decided to ignore all messaging "apps" unless they're based on open standards. If they believe current open protocols (email, jabber/xmpp, etc) are insufficient for their needs, they can propose a new one, but please, make it open. Otherwise, I doubt they will become the next email.
Nowadays, the most reliable way to see (at least more of) the facts on television is by watching comedy shows. "Real" television news programs are in the business of advertising to their viewers, not informing them.

How can you blame our people for taking their opinion from celebrities, entertainers, and politicians when they are more informative than the avenues that are supposed to inform us?
Yeah, I was just trying to establish something like 'modest hardware works well enough for me'. I think Josm wouldn't work very well with any less ram (swap is an occasional pain point).

Do you think the style of interface presented by iD is more in the right direction? I don't mean the in-browser stuff, I mean the more simplified editing model and such.
Or, as I like to call it, a stopped clock.
> They need to be energized

2006 is when the energy around perl5 / new wave of cpan development became palpable to me.

Have a look at Task::Kensho - you'll find a fair chunk of the stuff mentioned in there originates from 2006-2009 or so (and has been actively developed since).

> My experience, admittedly anecdotal, is that CPAN packages in general are not maintained with the same vigor as in years past. But why would they be, if people are moving their focus to other languages?

That or the CPAN packages you've been using have been superceded but you've not found the replacement.

We're fairly terrible as a community at communicating when that happens.
Area is not the best measure of pizza size either. "Regina-style" pizza is a lot thicker than normal pizza -- an 18" pizza at Vern's weighs 10 pounds.

Even better than selling by weight would be selling by calorie. Virtually all customers would get a good impression of both the value and the costs of that pizza.

Too accurate -- it would probably significantly decrease sales.
If it is the case that they removed it, I would prefer "Github has removed this content" to "Oh, hey, we can't find that".
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I own some restaurants. We have cameras, too. No, they don't scan customers and cars in any way. You're implying those cameras are owned by the police. You're making stuff up.