skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) I said nothing about any imaginary "rights" to modify software; I said that I would choose to avoid software that I couldn't modify, for practical reasons.

(2) I made an analogy to books to explain what I meant by commercial open source software. The author or publisher would retain the copyright, and I would have no rights to redistribute sources or compiled versions. This, of course, is directly contrary to what the free software movement advocates.
Nurturing the future of computer science
I'm not sure about online purchases -- except on Amazon, which is very liberal in what it accepts, in my experience -- but brick and mortar retailers in the US are often very open to accepting open goods for returns (and the Target I usually go to, for instance, often has returned, opened electronics in the clearance section).

In my experience, it's not particularly unusual for grocery stores to take back open food, even.

I have heard personally once, and online many times, from foreigners marvelling at how readily many US retailers will take returns, even for silly reasons.

I am not aware of any regulations mandating such practices, though I suppose they could exist.
Make it so!
*soon
But for electronics you can't test the item in store.
You can also find it here: https://sites.google.com/site/algoxy/home
You think all file contents are redundant? Deep man, deep.
um.. what do you mean, exactly? all types in C are fixed bitwidth. but the uintx_t types make it obvious what what programmer wants.
Actually WebObjects/Project Wonder is still around and kicking. It is a Java port which has an ORM layer that has the same lineage as Core Data.

http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WEB/Home
> Once you've learned Haskell, actually, you can be far more productive in it than most other languages.

Not when you're doing mathematical research. You can write x86 machine code and the time spent programming is still completely dwarfed by the time spent doing math. Mathematics is full of renowned professors who write F77 by hunting and pecking with one finger. There's no reason for them to use anything "more productive" because they can already code far, far faster than they can think of what to code.

There are extreme outliers for whom this doesn't hold, but they are few and far between.
It's alarming to me that we allow corporations to control how and how we are not allowed to use words. Trademarks should be limited to preventing people from selling similar products using your company name. They shouldn't be a way for companies to control related culture.
It's not just the retina Macbook screens, the image retention issue affects basically every LG IPS laptop panel manufactured before 2013. It's just that Apple wasn't using the IPS panels until the Retina.
I like the multipart aspect but the key signing and putting your keys in plaintext seems unnecessary.

Here is an alternative: make a bucket with a policy where it will accept anonymous uploads (but not reads) and automatic object deletion after say 24 hours. You can then on the backend just copy the object to it's final destination. The simplicity means it becomes very versatile.

There is of course a risk that somebody will maliciously dump a huge file on you or many but it won't cost you anything because the files get automatically deleted. Furthermore, none of the files are publicly readable.
Same offer for Dallas.
>Your app looks great, but I won't even consider using it unless it's open source. I need to know I can modify it (for my own use), see what it does, and recompile it if I need to when I upgrade my operating system if you've stopped supporting it.

Yeah, but the parent doesn't have to care much about your use case (if he doesn't want to), because that's extremely atypical, and millions of units of proprietary software are sold every year just fine.
Nice library. I currently use Plupload's S3 module [1], which does not support multipart uploads, but is otherwise convenient.

[1] http://www.plupload.com/docs/Upload-to-Amazon-S3
In what way is The Coroner's Toolkit using postfix vulnerabilities?

The only relationship those two project has is that they share the same developer. COFEE however exploit microsoft own products.

It seems you are arguing that trust is not effected if companies first sells a product, then sells exploits for that product in secret. It may be small, or unimportant, or old product, but it doesn't really matter to me. Trust is not something that should be given out lightly.
I was immediately thinking of a town in Pokemon Red/Blue.
>And the Free Software movement also supports selling your software.

Yeah, but in a way that clashes with most real life ways to sell software. Basically, if you're not selling support or add-on services (or if your software doesn't need either) you can't really much sell "free software".

Sure, you'll find 2-3 people that have done it. I doubt you'll find 10.
That's a ridiculous generalization, there are many varieties of comics created in the U.S., not just superhero comics.
Elite Postmortem at GDC

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Also, according to that list, the central black hole of NGC 1277 is only 1/3 as large as claimed in the article, taking it out of contention entirely.
Don't put anything in your model code

This is a SERIOUS code smell in my opinion. You want business logic in your model layer. That's where it belongs. A good persistence layer does not dictate model design.
I've been following the wiffleball for a while too. It seems to have the best chance of getting out of the woods and into commercial production. They just need a little more funding!
As someone who has used Haskell for math, I would comment that the standard prelude (Haskell's standard library) can be quite obnoxious to work with depending on what you are doing. When I use Haskell for math, I normally switch to the numeric-prelude [0].

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude
1901~2000? Does this comparison make sense?
I think Mac OS X was still very new at that time. 10.1 had been just recently released.
If you read section #1 in the article, you'll note that there are a lot of bad picks out there. To review:

- 4,000 startups a year.
- 3,000 seen by a16z.
- 200 are "fundable."
- 15 of those generate 95% of returns.

If a single VC firm were to fund all 4,000 startups (or even a representative sample of them), they'd be out of business in a few years. A "startup index" unbiased by due diligence is a pretty bad idea from an investor perspective.

That said, if you want an example of a seed fund with a pretty broad approach, take a look at the aptly-named 500 Startups.
Sorry for the slow reply. I haven't looked into setting up notifications for replies. (if that exists on HN?)

But .NET probably represents the largest block of applications I see. Seconded by (shudder) CF. I don't really have any hope for CF but crypto is hardly it's biggest problem.

As far as .NET goes, my first point was that the standard library does not support it; true in this case. I'm aware of CLR and Bouncy Castle as external libraries but neither of them inspires me with confidence.

Supposedly, CLR was released by Microsoft but why didn't they include it in the standard library or release any associated security assessment reports? Were there any?

I've heard the name Bouncy Castle thrown around quite a bit but that's about it. When I dig through their websites, it leaves me with a feeling not unlike trying to find information about Truecrypt. Granted, I haven't followed their project(s) very closely. But because of that feeling, I honestly trust OpenSSL more because people are scared about it.

So, maybe I'm just missing something but this is where I've arrived. Please correct me if I'm way off base.
As far as I can tell, those were larger books collecting the strips in chronological order and/or by theme rather than traditional comic books in magazine form. Those are common for most of the more popular US newspaper strips. There's even a common, distinct, size/format for them - I have a bunch of different ones on my bookshelf, though not Beetle Bailey.

They're very different from the format I have in mind, as they're published much more rarely (as the magazines often only need a handful of new pages per issue, and supplement with re-runs and side-series), in book form rather than magazine form, and rarely sold outside of specialist comic book stores or book stores. The chronological book editions are more aimed for collectors than for casual readers, with conversely tiny print runs in comparison.

We get the chronological collections for collectors in Norway too, but they're relegated to the same role as in the US (Asterix got the most fantastic collectors edition back in the 80's: You could get all of the ones published by then in hardcover on extra heavy paper, with gilded edges, bound in wild boar skin...).
PhoneGap 3.5.0 No Longer Supports iOS 5 and Won’t Support WP 7
That wasn't even the only firmware problem with those drives. There was a later bug that would cause the drive to not be recognized after a hard power down, and it wouldn't show up again until you left the computer sitting at the BIOS screen for at least 20 minutes.
Absolutely. This star has an impressive feature. But it is the least observable of all such impressive features. Thus fitting the least impressive star. :)
Read the text at the link I provided. Especially the second paragraph. And notice that the panels there would be 3 weeks of Sundays for a pretty simple gag.

There's anyway lots of not so super U.S. comics, stuff like "Archie" or "Duck Tales" would be big ones. I sort of wonder how much U.S. stuff is being recycled into the books you are talking about. I don't mean I think it is for sure happening, I actually mean I wonder about how much it happens.

edit: http://www.atomicavenue.com/atomic/titledetail.aspx?TitleID=...
I'm pretty sure that any traditional database (Oracle, MySQL, etc.) needs a way to store indexes on disk.
How annoying... I just implemented 70% of this last night. Sods law.
I accidentally entered https, the link should be:

http://www.thesoftwaredevelopmentlifecycle.com/?p=401
As others have pointed out, Ulbricht has not claimed that they are his bitcoins. In fact he would be undermining his own legal defense if he claimed the bitcoins were his, so the government is taking them unopposed. So if he were found innocent, probably part of the basis for finding him innocent would be that he successfully convinced the government that those were NOT his bitcoins.
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the app's technology can enable several uses in the future, especially with focus in advertising and record companies. What's your opinion?
Given all the people in this post that are talking about wanting a 3D Star Trek game that lets you explore ships, I think I should plug RPG-X, a free game based on Star Trek: Elite Force that lets you do just that. [1]

Full disclosure: I helped develop parts of RPG-X and I administrate the site where most of the community sits now.

[1] http://www.last-outpost.net/rpg-x/
Show HN: Smart simple shuffle for your iOS music
Calling Back a Zombie Ship
While researching this I found a tremendous resource that goes in to pretty good depth of all the alternatives for grid level storage:

http://www.sbc.slb.com/SBCInstitute/Publications/~/media/Fil...
You can also switch the language and then "gather wood" instantly...
I don't how this could be seen as something going wrong? From my perspective the vast majority of programming is solving issues that have already been solved multiple times.

It's not like this is the first solution there's ever been to solve this problem.
What I would like to know is what happens when the two black holes collide.
Alternatively, I think it might be possible if you can cause arbitrary interrupts to the operating system and control some registers and perhaps the stack as well. Depending on the shell, you might be able to do this; you certainly don't need the standard command-line tools for chmod and cat, because those are just small programs that pass through to actual system calls:

http://docs.cs.up.ac.za/programming/asm/derick_tut/syscalls....
From the article:

> China used more cement in the last three years than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.

It seemed strange to exclude years from the 21st century.

From 2011 to 2013, China consumed roughly 28 times that of the U.S.

From 2002 to 2013, China consumed roughly 15 times that of the U.S.

____

http://www.ficem.org/boletines/ct-2013/presentaciones2013/1-...
> On the other hand, the idea of using a limited series outside of the normal (cannon) universe to both introduce new heroes and kill them off in the same book/series

Alan Moore actually originally wanted to use a bunch of characters that DC had just bought, in order for the characters to be recognized to the readers before he revealed their flaws and/or killed them off.

Needless to say, the DC editor that read his proposal did not believe DC would be willing to have characters they'd just spent good money on killed off, or (much worse - death does not need to be permanent in these universes after all -), morally compromised in a way that readers would not forget. So Moore was convinced to go back and find a way to make it work with new characters.
Anyone remember ikeaheights?
> After all the work I've put into this thing I'm selfish. I want to benefit from what I created...

You are evidently aware of free/open source software, so I'm curious: if you thought that other people would be interested enough in this software that they might pay for it, why did you put in all the effort up front to develop it yourself? Why didn't you instead make the project open source much earlier, so that you wouldn't have to pay all the costs of developing it yourself?

I'm not being sarcastic or rhetorical; I'm asking because I can't imagine starting a large software project like this and not wanting to get the benefits of open source development. If you are considering open source now, why did you decide not to do it earlier?

> what's in it for ME if I open source?

At this point, there may or may not be much you can get from this project in the way of monetary reward by open sourcing it. That depends on who would use this software, whether they'd pay you to support it or customize it, etc.

But apart from money, you'd likely get: other people reviewing, testing, debugging and maintaining your code; other people packaging your code for distribution on various platforms; other people helping to support users of your software on mailing lists and in forums; other people writing documentation; the satisfaction of providing something useful to others; and praise and thanks from users of FOSS. None of those benefits come in the form of money, but they are nevertheless non-trivial.
The Google Street Art Project
Kingston was always the dodgy cheap brand.
I'm amused that the author chose a centuries old color name that's been in relatively frequent written use all that time for the title. The article centers on the history behind huge catalogs number of obscure color names, but he chose one that's not at all obscure. OTOH it's kind of a win because cerulean isn't the generic "blue" most people would think of, so it nicely illustrates the use of distinguishing color names.
I don't think you know enough pure mathematicians.
> On one hand, trademark preservation is important.

That seems reasonable, up to a point. To me it seems difficult to argue that point when the brand is already so large that some rinky dink site could never measurably impact the company's brand recognition/reputation.
Sounds like ikeahackers should just redirect all the pages on that site to a different domain name that doesn't use the IKEA trademark, and then serve advertising.
It's called the internet. Dell's feelings weren't hurt.
A JavaScript Developer's Take on Swift
I wanted to see how far you could push Swift and make it work like Javascript. The results surprised me. This is by no means a good practice. But since there are no best practices anyway, right now is the time for exploration. Perhaps this will lead us down a road where it will become trivial to write a Javascript to Swift Transpiler.
Sigh, even retro Starb Trek pixel art is infected by casual sexual objectification of (exclusively) women, with short skirts and huge chests.
No I know :-D I didn't find anything that did quite what I wanted and I understand how the signing process all works now and how to send files with XML Http Request which I didn't before. Just got a deadline for Monday morning and time spent on this could have been better spent.

It's just more that something like this appears literally the day after I build something that does the same thing - a look at the code would have helped no doubt.
In your analogy, these auto factories would also bundle each bought car with a horse.

Google sells TV service, just like any other TV provider.

(Not disagreeing with you necessarily, just pointing out a flaw in your analogy)
I was pointing out his hyphenation to point out how it's something that nobody does, just like almost nobody writes e-mail anymore instead of email. The term seemed new at the time, so esr thought he needed special recommendations on how to use it.

And yes, I agree again with you, open source existed for a long time before OSI. It was and is called free software. All that OSI attempted to do was provide a more business-friendly synonym for free software, but their message seems to have gotten distorted, and people seem to think that open source is something different from free software. It was never meant to be different.
And, from the wikipedia article:

"In the Sun, radiation pressure is still quite small when compared to the gas pressure. In the heaviest non-degenerate stars, radiation pressure is the dominant pressure component"
How has the 500 Startup Fund done?
Looking at the example video provided I feel like I must be missing something; it doesn't really resemble a spreadsheet to me.
Hey great job! I've used mule-uploader [1] in the past, seems similar in feature set. Perhaps you can take some inspiration from that project.

One major downside was the lack of multiple file upload support, maybe that's the direction you can take your project.

[1] https://github.com/cinely/mule-uploader
It should be noted that Australia is currently transitioning lexicon from Soccer to Football. The local governing body, FFA (Football Federation Australia) has stopped using the word, though it still exists in part with our national team, the Socceroos.
Agree with this as well. This type of community is a gold mine for Ikea and is not something a marketing department can whip up overnight. I am sure Ikea could have lowballed the site owner and he'd still be happy.

Right now the majority of the OBL's on the site are to what appears to be his Amazon store:

http://i.imgur.com/PKrZAyR.png

Ikea could redirect all 18,000 of those links to Ikea.com product pages instead of his personal amazon store.

In addition that type of community that the webmaster built is gold! 100s of thousands of comments, a huge Facebook Page, a very well done Pinterest page along with other social media accounts all for the taking.
>if you thought that other people would be interested enough in this software that they might pay for it, why did you put in all the effort up front to develop it yourself? Why didn't you instead make the project open source much earlier, so that you wouldn't have to pay all the costs of developing it yourself?

"If you knew people might pay you money for it, why didn't you make it so they didn't have to, instead of making them pay money for it?" What?
> And the Free Software movement also supports selling your software. In the words of rms, "redistributing free software is a good and legitimate activity; if you do it, you might as well make a profit from it."

When that was written, redistribution was hard. The Internet did not yet exist. Redistribution often meant mailing a tape. Someone actually had to do work to redistribute.

Redistribution now is trivial and for most of us has a marginal cost too low to be wroth measuring. It's automated, and usually available from multiple sources.
Why is it strange? "The 20th century" is a complete and relatable concept for many people, easy to comprehend as a unit.
I'm shocked that Bill Gates drinks 3-4 Diet Cokes a day. Probably harder for me to understand than seeing educated people smoke (since, at least with smoking, there's a chemical dependency at play)
M6.4 Quake hits Indian Ocean
It would be nice if:

(1) You could do <address> in EUR... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1Ez69SnzzmePmZX3WpEzMKTrcBF2gpNQ55...

(2) It auto-converted to a reasonable default currency for your country, based upon IP address.
A group doing focus fusion is raising money on Indiegogo [0]. Looks like they're well along to their $200k goal. They're trying for an aneutronic hydrogen-boron reaction.

I think the Polywell people should try crowdfunding too. I don't have a clear sense of which is more likely to succeed, though focus seems farther along in development.

[0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/focus-fusion-empowerthewo...
I've always wondered how this maneuver isn't considered a major free market failure.
Thank their lawyers for the excellent legal advice, and then forbid them from sending the C&D because its such monumentally bad PR. Follow that up by instructing them to find an alternative way to deal with possible trademark issues.

The best course of action from a legal perspective is often not the best course of action from a business perspective.
A really good resource to get started with Rust. Definitely worth checking.
The commercial open source model may work for Redhat because it caters to enterprise customers who need commercial support, but this is somewhat intellectually dishonest. Redhat doesn't sell software; it sells support. If you don't want support, you get CentOS.

If your users are ordinary people - not corporations that need to placate their boards - there is no reason to expect that you would be able to pay for development time by selling support.
i believe stephen hawking stated that matter does/or could escape black holes, but this subject matter is beyond my expertise so i suggest you ask him.

with that being said, it would seem to me that yes, black holes can move, our milky way is not stationary, and black holes have been known to have very fast rotation speeds.
This is an amazing cultural reference point for modern western thinking. I mean, no longer do you actually build something out of real materials like wood: rather, you take the notwood chipboard+plastic laminate available in an over-marketed unit shipped half way around the world in volume, modify it, then post to the internet about how to do it. Finally, people respond with anecdotes like the comment here ... http://www.ikeahackers.net/2014/06/balcony-bar.html ... this is going to be some hardcore retro content in another twenty years.
42.zip has a weissman score of 42
Even if you are right, and I'd only grant you that I am partially wrong about java because the JCP has collapsed since the Oracle takeover - the rest are just you adding qualifiers to minimize the contradiction, so what?

Your position is simply to dismiss the value of standards and state that it's fine that Dart is proprietary.

Also your statement about ECMAScript is flat out disingenuous. JavaScript implementations may move ahead between ECMAScript standards, but it is standardized, and by a real cross-industry group, not just a rubber stamp from one company.

It is hard to take seriously an assertion that the level of standardization between Dart and JavaScript is comparable.