skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially since they seem to be saying it'll work on any 8GB drive. However, any of us who have used very cheap USB drives (the sort you might get at a conference and the sort these people would get) will know they are about as reliable as floppy disks.
It's all lovely and shit, but once you hook up on Club Mate and leave Germany you feel quite damned. I feel the same about Savanna Dry (South African Sider) but in recent years they expanded the market quite dramatically hope germans will do the same :)
Is there no "more fast food in USA" hypothesis?

(I.e. a lack of fiber, vitamins or something?)
>... because I think it doesn't serve the economic purpose of copyright (preventing free-riding).

Au contraire, I think it clearly solves the economic problem of free-riding in this particular case. Consider:

1) Sun (and now by proxy, Oracle) made a huge investment in engineering to make Java, and a big part of its success was a API for the standard lib that maintained a coherence across disparate domains ranging from file systems to networking to databases to cryptography to UIs.

2) Sun made an even more massive investment in marketing to make Java as prevalent as it is today. Without marketing a language goes nowhere, and yet Java is ubiquitous. Along with 1), this represents a massive economic investment.

3) Google had no inclination of investing its own time, money and resources to build its own ecosystem and build developer mindshare for it, not when it was trying to compete with the iPhone and wanted warm bodies to build apps for their platform. To make it worse, Google's engineers and executives knew that a) they had no better alternatives and would require a license (google "Lindholm email"), and b) that they were not going to be complying with Sun's terms (Ctrl-F "Rubin" on this page). Yet they went ahead and re-used Java for their purposes without permission or recompense to Sun.

I don't see how that's not "economic free-riding" in the most literal sense.
I think the point is that companies that use Python tend to be able to switch out to other languages where they need speed very easily, where it makes sense; for example, a lot of Python developers got very excited about Go, and now there's mostly-Python apps with certain functionality written in Go dotted about the place. The idea of calling out to services to do things is decidedly normal in Python.

PHP companies tend to have more of an issue with this, for various reasons. PHP apps can suffer from the "big ball of muck" issue quite easily, where there's not nearly enough abstraction to allow for parts of the code to be written in other languages. Such an architecture would also require additional deployment steps, vs PHP's "copy everything to the right place", and there's a lot of PHP devs who, while rather good at PHP, are quite resistant to new languages.
Yes, it's damn difficult to get it outside of Germany, but well... if you're really hooked up on it, you'll always find a way :).
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When I speak of Buddhism I'm referring to the teachings of Buddha, not Buddhism as an organised religion. I lived in East Asia for a couple of years and the Buddhism there seemed pretty much the opposite of what Buddha taught; e.g. people praying to statues of Buddha for wealth.
If it's so good why shouldn't someone Kickstarter a company to make something similar in the US? Seems like a real opportunity. Just advertise on HN and profit.
Flora Power was surprisingly great, and indeed a little less sugary. Tried it at 30c3 for the first time too.
Club Mate is the only caffeinated soda that isn't overly sweet, doesn't give me a bad stomach and doesn't make me jittery. The first time I had it was at a CCC event in 2002, and back then, it was really obscure. In the last 5 or so years though, it has became a staple in Berlin, and you can get it at practically every corner shop.
It gets way harder if you travel a lot. To get some delivered within EU should be fairly easy there are plenty of individuals doing cargo delivery business with insanely low prices but if you in asia or africa you out of options...
Looks like pointless complaints to me. You're losing confidence in CC because their process for reporting security issues is okay, but not perfect?

They did the hard thing, which was emailing users about a "breach" that may or may not have been exploited. I mean we're only talking about names/emails here but whatever.

I donated to CC a couple times and may be in that file but frankly I couldn't care any less, as long as CC does an outstanding job improving their licenses (which they do!).
According to your article, the size of our brains has also decreased over the years. I would assume that this would also decrease our processing power and overall brain function. Interesting.
stack exchange = solve my problem, help others, feel good.

quora = find question, ask to log in to fb, close window.
Just checked my RescueTime account, spent about 2.5 hours last week on HN which accounts for about 6% of my total time spent on laptop.
It's nearly impossible to be nuanced in the comic strip medium, but that does not mean it's useless for serious commentary.

The one in question is right this moment spurring serious discussion (here on HN, in this thread,) that's no doubt its intended purpose. Which in your analogy makes it not a dictated scheme, but a scetched canvas; ready to be painted.
I thought type inference in Haskell or ML was a global algorithm.
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Seems like a "submarine"

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
You linked to the "updates" page. Hardly the first thing you want newcomers to read.
I think it is similar in that are many cola options, but only one Coca-Cola. Although there are many mate alternatives as well, the mystique surrounding Club Mate and its recipe is what makes it stand out from the rest.
Frankly, I think Perl has the best approach to this specific problem. We all want to do some string concatenation. We all want to render some non-string values as strings sometimes. So:

1 + 0 = 1
1 . 0 = 10

Just stop using + to concatenate strings.
"The golden soda has become essential nourishment for anyone in Berlin involved in hacktivism, club culture, dance music, tech—just about everyone in the city under the age of 40."

What a ridiculous sentence.
It solves a problem, if the only computers you can use:

- are slow and virus-ridden.

- don't belong to you, and you have shared or sporadic access (not a good place to leave your files).

- don't have the software you want, and you can't install programs (or do much else) 'in case you break it'.

There's not ONE overriding problem to be solved, this is just one way for people using shared computers to get their own secure and consistent environment. Plenty of people (in Western countries) carry around USB sticks with their files and some portable apps; this is just a logical step further.
its seems to be a bit more specific than that
Maybe. But it is also interesting. I upvoted this because the "every Hackerspace in the world drinks Club Mate" phenomenon is real, and I'm happy I could learn more about the stuff I drink all the time ;).
Man I have given this serious thought before. Anyone else? Get in touch if you want to kick some ideas around. I don't know the first thing about distribution, but I'm interested in brewing craft sodas, and I could make a kickass website for it.
So we can patent camera and lighting angles now?
The flashing is $.32 per device ... it's accounted for above

The software is Android, it's maintained by Google and already exists - as does the documentation.

The distribution of the USB stick, as the article states, is through http://www.liveinslums.org/.

The duo also are explicitly not distributing the older hardware - although I guess they could be testing it.

They surely have added some software to an existing Android ISO. Was that their personal investment? No.

People gave them $40,000 to do that through indiegogo. The $90 donation point was a 200% markup from the base price (which I believe is 40% inflated) - They were paid a disclosed $28,000 (probably closer to $32,500) to make the product. That's 3 months on a handsome 6-figure salary to write essentially a few shell scripts.

Now they have a for-profit android-based distro that They Are Selling to impoverished African children which was built through donations.

They will pitch it as "We need your money to help the children" (and, ahem, our pocket books).

Also, they want to sell a separate USB device for each child as opposed to 1 which supports multiple accounts for a single classroom (or more likely, single school). So they sell 80 to a school where 2 would do fine.

Why? I'm guessing it has to do with the "for-profit" part. It's more profitable for them if each kid has to manually reboot the computer and switch the USB stick then it is to just switch accounts.

How is this not just a clever scam?
This appears to be the broadest claim at a quick glance. If you do at least one thing different to this I believe you would not be covered:

2. A studio arrangement, comprising: a background comprising a cyclorama; a front light source positioned in a longitudinal axis intersecting the background, the longitudinal axis further being substantially perpendicular to a surface of the background; an image capture position located between the background and the front light source in the longitudinal axis; an elevated platform positioned at a first distance from the elevated platform and between the image capture position and the background along the longitudinal axis, the front light source being directed toward the elevated platform; a first at least one rear light source positioned between the elevated platform and the background, the at least one rear light source directed towards the background; a second at least one rear light source positioned in a lateral axis intersecting the elevated platform and being substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis; at least one light shield positioned between the second at least one rear light source and the elevated platform, the at least one light shield configured to shield the elevated platform from light emitted directly from the second at least one rear light source from lighting an upper surface of the elevated platform; and wherein a top surface of the elevated platform reflects light emanating from the background such that the elevated platform appears a substantially similar color as the background and a rear edge of the elevated platform is substantially imperceptible to an image capture device positioned at the image capture position.

Claim 1 (the only other independent claim) seems much narrower so that if you aren't using an 85mm lens AND some particular settings of the camera you wouldn't be covered.

Note: I am not taking a position on the validity or use of this patent just that the title[0] of this thread seems to be something of an extreme simplification to me.

[0] "Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background" (in case it changes).
Meditation isn't necessary; you don't need to be a Buddhist to see that, with sufficient analysis/deconstruction, distinctions between the subject and object - or between anything and anything - break down and reveal themselves as arbitrary.

Meditation corrects errors in thought by stopping thought. But logical understanding of the fallacious nature of concepts allows such errors to be avoided even when not meditating.
Well said! Trenton - hat tip for the (on point) gets boys reference
The type system enforce some kind of usage.

myObject[ someFunction() ] = 1;

No compiler in the world would be able to detect if myObject.field should exists or not.

In a (good) type system oriented language, you have to declare that myObject is a Map, and therefore when you want to access "field" you know this access could be "Nothing". The type system alert you if you don't handle the "Nothing" value.
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Amazon's UI/UX
Why dont the Amazon redesign its site.
I took a look at the wayback screen show of amazon from 2007 below
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20070403101518/http://www.amazon.com/

I dont see any major changes in design from the current site.

Why do they stick to the same 2007ish design when every other company is redesigning for UX?
If I look at the company I work for, it's quite diverse.

Munich: human-made espresso and beer. I haven't seen much tea.

Düsseldorf: machine-made espresso, Club-Mate and a variety of tea.

Don't know what they drink in Frankfurt.

The tea drinkers in Düsseldorf are not yet very sophisticated. What most of them failed to understand: absolutely excellent Japanese green tea is available - due to s strong Japanese community.

Many of these trends are actually from Hamburg. The CCC originated in Hamburg. New drinks like the Flora Power mate and 1337MATE are from Hamburg.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/leetmate-hackerbrause-aus...
Regarding the "Why join YC?", Adam has answered this on Quora:

here are a bunch of reasons why it's valuable for Quora to be a YC company:
We'll have Sam and all the other partners to help us.
We get to be part of the YC community / alumni network of founders.
We get access to all the resources of YC.

We were raising money anyway, so there was no overhead in letting YC participate. And independent of the benefits to Quora, I think it will be fun personally to participate in some of the YC events. I hope my perspective can help some of the other companies.

Link - http://qr.ae/yY9x4 (does not require login)
Oh, I'm fine with the discussion. But please, there is better starting point than this shit. "your rich own most of your politicians", "a nation hurtling towards decline" are hardly things that can be stated without justification, and I doubt even Fox News would put them in the "fair and balanced" column. Hell, where was the panel comparing the quality of American and Scandinavian universities: of the top 10 universities, as ranked by QS, 6 are American, a not insignificant fact. And I wouldn't mention it had the author not picked the region out for special treatment, but the top university in a Scandinavian country is ranked 45 on that list.

The comic also assumes that the fact that schools in the US are not free automatically leads to the absence of "an educated population [which] equals a strong, steady state ready for the future", which I don't think can be taken to be true without evidence. Ha, most of the things he states can't be taken to be true without evidence, which is so conveniently missing. Regardless, this comic is shit.

So sure, we can talk about this stuff. But can we have a source not so blatantly targeted at the lowest denominator of the left next time, please?
The advantage you mention is one of many (over OOP interfaces), I'll repeat it as (A).

(A) Ability to instantiate old types with new classes

(B) Conditional instantiation: "Maybe a" is an instance of "Show" iff "a" is an instance of "Show"

(C) Can do return-type polymorphism, or polymorphism on any part of the signature

(D) Objects do not need to pay for the interface vtable pointer. Large array of some type-class instance can be much smaller than an array of an OOP interface subclass.

(E) When comparing two Ord instance values, there is only one Ord dictionary, rather than 2 to choose from. No false dilemma.
I'd like to stress what the article says about the difference to other caffeinated drinks. I drink coffee a lot, since it is more easily available, but I prefer club mate if I can get some. For work it is much better than coffee. I tend to get very shaky and restless from coffee, my leg will start bouncing after a lot of programming (i.e. concentrated work periods in front of a computer). With mate the caffeine rush is much better, I stay more focussed and can concentrate more easily. I am not as restless. Yet it is possible to overdose. One bottle can last for hours, I bet the guy in the article could look through time after 10 bottles a day. If you can get it, try it!
We also have a matekarte, which shows Mate availability world-wide:

https://www.matekarte.de

Various Mate brands:

https://www.matekarte.de/brands
I think the word you look for is "tanning". [Not as in sunburnt.]
What the heck is up with the URL?
You can order it in North America from the 2600 store: http://store.2600.com/clubmate.html

Funny there was no mention in the article that they are the eastern distributor what with them being a hacker organization with deep ties to the CCC.
Direct link: http://www.printtopeer.com
As a professional liberal, it pains me to have to do this. But since nobody else is, here's the conservative take. Because, seriously, there are real debates about this stuff.

Imaginary Cato institute position: "Leaving higher education to the free market is always more efficient. People naturally make the most rational economic decisions in their journey to achieve maximum happiness. Government interventions, such as confiscating money through the threat of violence (this is what they call taxes) to support free higher education will always distort this market, leading to inefficiencies on the path to maximum happiness. Governments are incompetent and inefficient because of the lack of market incentives, while markets are ruthlessly efficient."

Imaginary Mitt Romney position: The financial support I have received from for-profit colleges is immense. Seriously, those places basically print money. We need more of them.

Real Heritage Foundation positions:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/01/ways-to-mak...

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/08/10/the-assault-on-for-profi...

I really do agree with the above comic strip. But liberals like me don't operate on a vacuum. Donate some money to us, you rich silicon valley types.
Is there much difference between the effects of mate and standard black tea? Because there's almost the same amount of caffeine in a strongly brewed black tea as there is in coffee.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/nov/27/caffeine-compare...
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I wish Google would do something about Android in "desktop mode". But I don't expect things to change as long as former ChromeOS boss is running the Android division. Unless Google and its partners plan to release $7 ChromeSticks, then they should at least make the open source Android be usable on desktops, with a more optimized interface for it.
http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/
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Those are different phenomena. The fast growth we experienced at the last centuries isn't related to genetic changes.
We are trying two approaches which may or may not work for you considering we are still in process:

* We select a niche say Cloud Hosting Providers, we then make a personalized yet generic landing page which contains placeholders for the name of the person we are going to cold call/email and his company. Once we contact them we also send them the URL which seems personalized and thus increases the chances of conversion or at least better response. Change the name of the person and company name and you have yet another landing page for a different company.

* Make a short 1-2 min video and clearly explain what's in it for them if they take up your product. Video should be made preferably by the CEO. Upload it to youtube and make it private. Send out the link to the concerned person.

These two tactics can be accommodated in many different scenarios so keep your mind open if you try them.
You can define a mutable std::sort like function in Haskell:

mutableSort :: (MArray arr elem m, Ord elem, Ix ix) => arr ix elem -> m ()

This can work on mutable arrays in the IO, ST, or other mutable-array supporting monads. It also has a generalized index type (though newer array libraries threw that part away, so it's not considered a good idea anymore).
This sounds reminiscent of similar accusations regarding books from Lightning Source being sold on Amazon being given long delivery estimates.

Lightning source is a print-on-demand publishing service from Ingram that competes with Amazon's CreateSpace PoD service.

http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2011/09/amazon-and-lightning-...
That's great!

Don't expect to "pick up the language" in an evening :)

Haskell takes a few evenings at the very least!
To deal with inferiority, don't take yourself seriously.

First off, there are signs fear is good in helping you choose what to do next.

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear
tells us what we have to do.

Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a
work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to
do it.

- Steven Pressfield

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose
things. If I ever feel that this is dangerous or I'm
scared of it, then that probably draws me more towards it.

- Nicole Kidman

If you're not worrying that something you're making will
come out badly, or that you won't be able to understand
something you're studying, then it isn't hard enough.
There has to be suspense.

- Paul Graham

But like other people in this thread said, it's important to not be afraid of making mistakes.

Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as
the fear of making a mistake.

- John Cleese

So how do you deal with inferiority? Pressure yourself to not have expectations. Expectations kill creativity. Creative people might have a childlike state partly to counteract pressure of expectations, which then frees them to have thoughts their unconscious felt it wasn't allowed to have otherwise.

(low EQ)

I'm going on a limb here, but personally I make a lot of programming decisions emotionally. When something smells off with the design of a solution it makes me grow uncomfortable in playing along, and that turns out to be a good thing because it leads to a better solution.

I wonder how many other programmers either are, or choose to confess they are, emotional in how they choose what to program.
The abstract sounds far-reaching, but for patents the claims are what matter. And the claims of this patent are extremely narrow. It shouldn't be difficult to sidestep these. My general rule is that if you see specific numbers in the claims ("eighty-five millimeter lens", " configured with an ISO setting of about three hundred twenty", etc.) you probably have a pretty weak patent.
Thanks for the link! I've been wondering where I could take some beginner classes for arduino and the like, but now I know.
there is an online store for the US if you promise not resell it:

http://club-mate.us/
Until later? What later. An hour later?

Let's look at a few chapter titles of Real World Haskell.

Chapter 2: Types and Functions

Chapter 3: Defining types, streamlining functions

Chapter 4: Functional Programming

Chapter 6: Using Typeclasses

Chapter 14: Monads

Chapter 15: Programming with Monads

Chapter 18: Monad transformers
Taking from the comments, it could be "useless", but the technology could be very interesting and the start of something bigger. I can imagine that Apple would be interesting in acquiring this technology and developing it further.
Everything in existence ignores the needs of someone (except maybe air and water). Even the closed-captioned version would ignore the needs of the blind.
Just read any given thread here about a language or a library. People argue the aesthetics of them, therefore they're a work with some creative/artistic element.
Whats written on the stickers?

... or bust?
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>I feel the same about Savanna Dry

There is always the Hunters range produced by the sister company of the Savanna Dry producer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider#South_Africa
Well, to be fair it's traditionally drank in a kind of tea preparation (in the broad sense of an infusion, not in the strict sense of a tea plant)

It's mixed with hot water (or cold) than drank through a filter/straw
The Australian government is particularly stupid at the moment. I leave as an exercise for the reader the question of whether this is example or counter-example of that.