skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably under $100k... Location location location, am I right? Even if it was more, that's your brand. As we've seen that search engines can make or break you, this is one of the few things you can control.
It was basically the stupidest conversation I've ever seen. Lot of people with opinions on a matter they know nothing about (and I can say with no reservation that any of them know the circumstances around what happened).

People are just gullible, and the internet hasn't helped. I swear you could tweet that Einstein was a purple midget and as a result 5 people would go their graves believing it.
Use a for loop?

for f in *.md; do
pandoc $f --to html > $(basename -s.md $f).html
done

EDIT to fix the adjectival basename call.
Right, but the decision to remove rape jokes, given all the obscene content related to far more severe acts (including genocide), is just so arbitrary it's hilarious.
The trade-off he has presented can be translated like so: "The overall problem of women not feeling able to come forward to report sexual assault is worse than the overall problem of false accusations by women of sexual assault"

I would agree with that statement, and do not consider it gross at all.
It's funny you should say it like that. I was honestly considering writing about it in a more neutral way, but I wanted to capture the gravity of the allegations that these officials are (ab)using to blackmail journalists.

Nevertheless, that interview actually does transitively point to a good deal of the information in the article.
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Very true, but it's more about solidifying a pivot away from music annotation than simply buying a new domain.

Now they can annotate anything. Imagine if the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy had granular explanations on annotation.

They can move into new territories without the brandname causing confusion.
> genius.com isn't exactly synonymous with music

Nor should it be, as they want to do more than music. news.genius.com, rap.genius.com, academia.genius.com, etc. can all be created and enjoy a single umbrella brand.
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> I think Terms of Service are an agreement between the end-user and the site/service, not the software developer and the site.

Don't be too sure about that -- the software developer usually is an end-user to at least some extent, if for no other reason than to ascertain how to scrape the site, and might very well be bound by the ToS. (Check out the link I provided about browse-wrap agreements.)

> Google isn't agreeing to the ToS of every site someone visits using Chrome.

No, but you might be inducing someone else's infringement, which could make you just as liable.

You really need to talk to a good copyright lawyer about this. (Not me -- unfortunately I'm committed to other projects.)
The problem with having to "lawyer up" is someone is trying to ruin him over something that isn't real. If he really is innocent, the most likely explanation is that this woman's life has not gone well, and now she is hoping to take revenge on someone who really has only helped her in the past, and in doing so hopefully avoid whatever pain it is the future she's running from; either that or she's just a psychopath.
Those are interesting resources, but do remember that a context-free grammar is exactly that: context-free. It might be a fun starting point, but it's much more limited than a grammar you would usually find a real programming language.
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Specious logic...
Users don't care about. Not worth doing.
"It’s taken a few stumbles and one less founder to get here, but Genius tells me “we’re psyched to pursue our mission of global annotation with newfound vigor.”"

Mentioned but hidden...
While I was lurking around to find a realtime baas for an app, I stumbled on this site, which has a bunch of different services categorized, even realtime services. So, my first impression is good. There is a bunch of different categories to choose from http://leanstack.io/categories
It has nothing to do with what the program is used for. It is the idea that simply hosting code that could be used to do something illegal with is itself illegal. This isn't a piracy or copyright debate, it's a freedom of speech debate.
This doesn't seem like an upgrade from Dear Kate's (dearkates.com) products except for the partnership to give back. Love the few pairs I have from Dear Kate, they work really well.
Yeah, the pace at which he pumps out code is absolutely incredible.

However, I imagine he wouldn't want to work for another company unless they also allowed him to spend a lot of time on the project.
This article is evidence that more people need to invest some time in learning shell scripting.
Although I realize that on some level it's just not my kind of humor, I honestly think this game is pretty disgusting and I'm surprised by how popular it is.
I think it's a great idea to consolidate annotations for all kids of genres in one site, but it will surely make their lives much harder trying to keep track of all that. It's just so much more content than a company their size can sustain.
> Stepping back to the original point, there are other significantly important/powerful ideas in the world, and lisp users are somewhat over-the-top in their significance-to-hype ratio.

Lisp is not a version of lambda calculus. It's a programming language. Macro programming in Lisp works fine in many cases.

> type theory does better ... not the role of type systems in the world of practical software development).

Lisp is about practical software development.
I wanted to say I'm amazed by the number of commenters who just assume the OP states the truth, but I'm not, not really. HN is awfully quick to take sides, and it's very predictable where it comes down. (In the aggregate. Yes, I know there's no HN group mind)

So, as food for thought: What if something happened between these two that was rather awkward, and can be interpreted either way? In that case, I think the OPs response is entirely reasonable - "Oh fuck, this is not what I thought it was, or what I intended it to be. I'd like to talk to her".

I'm very sad the woman's first reaction was to lob a public accusation, yes. If she thinks it's rape, she should've file charges, instead of instigating a pitchfork campaign. On the flip side, the reactions here show exactly how most women claiming rape are treated, including by law enforcement. It immediately becomes a witch hunt.

So how about we withhold judgment on this for a little while, until there are actual facts?

Or are we so desperate for yellow journalism that we must comment on other's private lives without any information?
I beat Ultima 4 when I was 13 on my Amiga 500. I found the game to be much easier than some other RPGs that I played when I was a kid. Bards Tale 1 comes to mind as about the hardest.
I think it's quite a bit more complicated and nuanced.

For example, derivative works and transformative works are totally different beasts, so using the words as synonyms, and then saying this stuff isn't complex, I think is itself a good counterpoint.

If you're interested, take a look at the article I linked on Personal Use and Copyright Exhaustion.
Or, they could release them via BT, and then people using this service can watch them ala Netflix. This is, currently, a channel we can access--indeed, one perhaps preferable to one of the "official" mechanisms.

Then again, who would help the poor, embattled movie publishing houses? I hear they're barely getting by these days.
Exactly. Even if they had a hundred rolls, it would still have been good practice to be frugal with it. They run into similar things on the ISS: everything is limited except for vacuum. Being efficient and careful with resources is extremely important in those environments;
Server Sent Events aren't used enough. I'm a big fan, so I wrote a little Node.js library which wraps (with options for preprocessing) an event emitter in an express middleware for the company I work for. https://www.npmjs.org/package/nudge
Curious, feel kind of sorry for him.
Have you seen what telehash.org is doing?
And you can divide by two (person A calling to person B is just one conversation needing to be recorded, instead of two recordings for person A and person B), and you're at less than 100 TB per day. That's pocket money.
Three way calling (conference calling):

Subscriber A (who has 3 way calling) calls Subscriber B and an answering machine or modem answers the call; Subscriber A hangs up and quickly picks up the phone to make another call or the receiver bounces when they hung up (hookflash).

The phone system thinks Sub A tried to conference in another caller so it put subscriber B on hold (instead of disconnect), but since the three way call failed, it attempts to reconnect Sub A to the call on hold with Sub B. To do this, it rings back Subscriber A.

Subscriber A's answers their ringing phone, but hear nothing. Subscriber B's answering machine records the system calling Subscriber A back (ringback tones) and the confused "hello?, HELLO?!?" from Subscriber A who hears nothing as the answering machine is silent.

This also sometimes happened when a friend of mine tried to setup a modem game with me for DOOM at 2am. If the connection failed for some reason and did a hookflash (and my modem was still trying to connect), it attempted to reconnect him by ringing his line back and waking up his entire family. When his mom answered the call to my screeching modem that was still trying to connect: BUSTED.

So lesson learned: disable 3 way calling. You probably don't use it and it often results in this absurd but sometimes hilarious behaviour. Playing DOOM at 2am will result in terrible grades in high school.
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I love hearing stories like this because it's amazing how many coincidences can occur (especially when we look for them). As the article almost points out (in reference to human nature), we're totally in the dark about all the things that make the girls different.

I also think commonalities can be asymmetric ... they both hate pork rinds and love candy is markedly more likely than they both hate candy and love pork rinds.
We share similar interests. What did you do to get better with girls? What did you read? what steps did you follow? It is commendable that you did that
This is from his e-shop;

> Sorry, foreign person, but our store is not yet available in your inferior country.

He is a d*ckhead, after all.
Let's say you wanted to encode a single decimal digit using this PI method. So, to start, you list out PI until you get all the possible decimal digits:

03 14159 26535 897
01 23456 78901 234

There, that's all of them. I cheated a bit and put a zero in the front, as the first zero in the expansion is another 10 digits or so away. So now, we can represent any decimal digit by indexing into PI!

0 - 0
1 - 2
2 - 7
3 - 1
4 - 3
5 - 5
6 - 8
7 - 14
8 - 12
9 - 6

So, what did we accomplish? Well, zero stays the same. We successfully renamed 1-6 and 9 to be new numbers. And now 7 and 8 take two decimal digits.

Now, extrapolate this out to every possible 100GB file, and the binary representation of PI.
I played Bard's Tale III Thief of Fate for HOURS and HOURS when I was younger. I didn't understand the concept of grinding back then, so I never made much progress beyond the 3rd world (there were 8 if I remember correctly). Mostly because I kept getting into trouble by not building my characters up enough to be strong enough to tackle the next section.

I had this idea in my mind for the longest time that I would go back and try to replay that game with what I know now and see how much better I could be at it.

So I tried, and you know what?

The game is fucking terrible. It's nearly unplayable. It's tedious, the graphics suck, the sound sucks, the interface sucks, the combat sucks. It does not hold up. I can't believe I spent weeks of my childhood playing this garbage.

On the other hand, Ultima VI and Ultima VII are as good as the day they came out.
Every time I read about this company I get a feeling everyone involved is completely insane
And here goes the pattern. A lot of people simply assuming she's truthful just because she made the accusation, and a lot of people simply assuming she's lying just because he stated a defense.

I personally think the threat of libel (followed by the claim he won't because he's a good person or whatever) is a creepy move if he accepts there's the possibility she might have misinterpreted something. If she legitimately believes she was wronged, then that comes across as an intimidating silencing technique.
I'm not going to discuss this particular case, which I know nothing about, but generally speaking, I think it's fairly to look at it from a distance and say "Maybe it was rape, in which case she should have reported it 10 years ago".

I am not an expert on the matter, but for many rape victims, it is not as easy as it sounds. A lot of different factors come into play when trying to muster the courage to go report a life-shattering incident such as rape. Guilt, fear of not being taken seriously, facing the incident once again, anguish about legal procedures, etc.

Can't emphasize this enough, it's not something you can look at rationally and say "That person should have done that".
Correct. And dammit, I hate making simple punctuation or grammatical mistakes.
Can't help but be reminded of Entertainment 720 from the photos in this article. Congrats on the funding!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGSIf1KXGHs

For those that miss the reference.
So he's required to martyr his reputation to help genuine rape victims? This is twisted.
Maybe they just don't want to deal with open sourced stuff for 1.0 Reference the arm64 stuff, I bet that the situation is that swift is in heavy flux (which if you follow Chris Lattner on the apple forums you realize they're changing things like crazy right now) and they just don't want to deal with people contributing to something that isn't quite ready. They already committed to saying they will introduce breaking changes in future releases. Maybe the whole team just doesn't have the time to deal with it, who knows, lets wait. Its not like C# suffered by not being open source from the start.

I wouldn't put that past Apple. Remember the more we antagonize them the more likely their legal team might go "not worth the effort just keep it in house".
>It is entirely possible she read something completely different than I did into an awkward college hookup.

Absent any further evidence from either party and giving both the benefit of the doubt, doesn't this seem like the most likely explanation? It isn't that uncommon for two people to have two completely different takeaways from the same event. If you throw in the probable lack of experience of the two parties, the likelihood that alcohol was involved, and the admission by one of the participants that they lacked communication skills, those odds would seemingly skyrocket.

This is the reason for the whole 90's politically correct era of asking permission before every escalation. That is the best way to prevent this possible scenario until both parties gain the experience, the communication skills, the confidence, and the level of safety to properly convey what the want from the situation.
It's not that we think they're stupid.

It's that "common sense" is more a function of good advertising than, you know, what actually makes sense.

It's "common sense" that pedestrians should stay out of streets--except that that was the result of careful lobbying by auto makers in the early 1900s.

It's "common sense" decades ago that cigarettes didn't cause harm to anyone --except that they do.

It's "common sense" that piracy is tantamount to theft--except that copying a file does not deprive the original owner of their information.

"Common sense" is a tired refrain used by people who are either too narrow-minded to actually think through policies or who are shilling for a larger player.

Maybe you should start thinking critically about why things are the way they are and whether or not that's actually necessary--after all, that's just common sense.
It's the first release. Of course it's not production ready. But fair enough. The web site will tell you when it's ready to use. :)
In libel suits, the truth is the ultimate defense. He would have to prove that she is lying, not that there is an absence of evidence. Going to court would bring her private emails and messages into the court record, but it would take an email of hers acknowledging that it was a lie in order to win the case.
You can't really compare Windows XP and CVS. It's disingenuous.

CVS isn't deprecated. You can't say that it's fundamentally obsolete, either. It's just really primitive, compared to modern DVCS like Git and Mercurial.

But if the primitive functionality fulfills their use case, why should they switch?
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Nah it's OK, it's a "joke". If you don't get it and you are offended by it, you're most likely an inferior foreigner.

- A Frenchman.
He's not required to, no. It's his choice. And what is so twisted about it? Genuine rape victims have been ignored and under-represented for, well, probably forever. That is twisted. He has the choice of what he does here, many don't. He exercised that choice.
And yet it keeps coming back!

Perhaps there is a reason for this?
agreed, this is exactly the sort of thing for loops in shell are useful for.. incidentally, in zsh you can do this with

for f (*.md) pandoc $f --to html > $f:r.html

personally I find that when I can fit a loop on a single line in zsh I'm much more inclined to use them
Not to mention the ridiculous assertion that the accuser has "nothing to lose."
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I'm choosing to take this as gospel:

https://twitter.com/mxweas/status/474581160454942721

> Max Weisel: Swift will be open source with the release of iOS 8 :)))

https://twitter.com/mxweas/status/474589964823306240

> Max Weisel: Asked at the labs
A lot of people in this thread seem to want Max to become a Men's Rights activist and fight this case on behalf of wronged men everywhere.

What he seems to say in his post is that he is willing to let this slide because the alternative could well result in fewer women speaking out about sexual assaults they have suffered. He has decided that the negative (a false accusation against him) is worth an overall positive (women hopefully feeling free to speak out). That is his choice to make.
That is probably less offensive than anything you could find in a Cards Against Humanity deck.
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Mind if I ask why?
"embeddable annotations so any website can hover over text and see explanations and background info on what that text means."
Doesn't this exist already, and for a while?
I always thought the core service was a pretty good idea, and an exit by selling to a music company seemed feasible...lyrics are fun, more importantly, people are passionate about music. So passionate that that they're googling specifically for these lyrics, and also, they have the lyrics mostly memorized. So annotating, and reading those annotations, is a delight.

But everything else? Such as news and literature? That's a different story. Unlike contemporary lyrics, much of the literature that people want to see annotations for -- i.e. the kind of stuff that's studied in literature class -- is already "annotated" by experts, or at least in the form of "Spark Notes", an already popular service. And news? Sorry, as someone who has worked in the news business, there's less of a collective passion in the exact wording and phrasing of a news story than there is for literature/art that captures our collective cultural attention. For obvious reasons.

And this embeddable annotation system, which presumably require the site owner to enable...how is that system different than an inline-version of Disqus?
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People who belong in tech don't need to be spoon fed. The barriers to entry are some of the lowest for any professional field in history.
Maybe it was rape, in which case she should have reported it 10 years ago

Thankfully, I've never been sexually assaulted, and I have no insight into either side of this particular situation, but I doubt that it's quite that simple for the victim of a rape.
I think the change is intentional, not accidental, but we'll see.
I'm sure its not easy.

But making an accusation on Twitter is all too easy.

In our society, when a crime occurs we want justice. Mob anger on the internet isn't justice.
In terms of China becoming the next big "competition" you may well be right. The one thing I would say is that China has such a large and growing internal market that many Chinese manufacturers may see it as being far easier to concentrate on the domestic market which they understand than an international market which they don't. Given that, it might take a lot longer for those Chinese brands to attempt to crack the international markets than you might think.
That's not how history happened.

Apple was busy shooting itself in the foot as a boutique brand. IBM was not interested in lowering prices. Sun (and SGI for that matter) were heavily wed to the workstation and high-end server market.

Microsoft (and Intel) by careful work made it possible for cheaper hardware to still run a product people wanted, and so create the market pressures you're referring to.

They were a pure software company, and used that to enable competition in the hardware market.