skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, releasing it with a couple of working examples would be sufficient to get the ball rolling for most of the hacker types who would be interested in working with the prototype.

As the code is C# based, Visual Studio Express would provide the perfect vehicle for experimentation, requiring little in the way of formal packaging.

Release it under Github and let the organic evolutionary forking work.

I would expect there to be a flurry of prototyping activity, which should be culled into a stable release once this phase settles.

I would recommend to get the ball rolling now before the conference in October so that it can be released then.
Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development
I've had good luck using Haskell for similar things that you are describing. Hackage has a good variety of packages that do similar things to beautifulsoup, numpy, pandas, etc. Generally, I've found them to be less built up, but they still provide a decent level of abstraction. Cabal hell is real though.
I know this is silly and probably more than a little undeserved, but I stay away from java, JARs and WARs like the plague. I barely use Java for anything anymore, and I know 8 is great, but I'm just not comfortable running that/taking care of it.

I've actually rolled up my sleeves and written some login adapters (for internal use) in gitlab, and I'm much more comfortable writing ruby in rails than I would ever be writing Java. Again, this is probably a stupid opinion, but until I see the Java light, I don't think I'll be back to it.

Also, gitblit looks nowhere as good as gitlab (or even gitorious) does. Neither does gitbucket -- they don't have the polish that I see on other solutions... Yeah it's a really fickle point, but I want to reward groups that also prioritize design/visuals in their projects.
A different approach to this is Bartender [1]. It hides the menubar apps on the right but keeps the menus on the left.

[1] http://www.macbartender.com/
Let's accept your premise.

Assume the USA lowers taxes until again it is attractive to relocate businesses there. The obvious happens, and businesses move to the USA. Yay!

But other countries don't appreciate this loss of business and retaliate by lowering their taxes. Businesses again leave. So the USA lowers theirs again, and so on and so forth.

Eventually you hit a point where one country breaks and can lower their taxes no further, but everyone suffers, because taxes are now so low that revenue gained from the aforementioned business taxes is basically nothing.

It's not a wise plan.
It's a neat idea, but I hope you've done some sort of privacy assessment on the concept. If I understand the app right, you share with everyone, but only if they are within a 1 mile radius of you. Maybe I'm being oversensitive, but when I see the picture of the baby or the girl in the club I think that is exposing too much information to potentially unsavory characters -- and they will be within a mile of the subject.
I use Bartender[1] for ~the same purpose. I love the idea of a minimal menu bar there's just too much stuff I might want to check occasionally.

So Bartender just shows me my time tracker (important for client work), Fantastical (I could probably ditch this) and battery status; everything else is in the hidden Bartender draw until I need it. Just one hotkey away - I bind it to Hyper-B[2]

[1] http://www.macbartender.com/

[2] http://brettterpstra.com/2012/12/08/a-useful-caps-lock-key/
It's kind of sad that this project has become so dead that an update to a dev build is news worthy.
Why do humans grow up so slowly? Blame the brain
How does not reading the contract and then not paying what's owed equate to "legitimately" thinking they acquired the software at a reduced rate? I have to assume that during the initial dispute the contract was a matter of discussion.

Anyway, as others have said: shut up, get lawyer.
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Yes and don't skimp. You want someone who has experience litigating and will be able to accurately advise you on your chances of succeeding. You will probably want to use at least midsize firm if you are not located where they are since you may have more choice of venue. You will have to decide for yourself whether the expected outcome is worth the cost.

If you decide to sue never talk to anyone about this again. In my experience lawyering is better left to the lawyers.
Lets all raise a Double Double for August the 24th, 1814.
Ever consider that you may like to be someone else's personal trainer or maybe partner with a few trainers and open up a cross-fit place?

I was in the same boat a few years back, I had an amazing job with great pay but wasn't happy. I had to force myself to give up on certain fun/costly activities so I could save even a little bit at a time. At some point for me, it was more about trying different things while I still had money coming. You seem to be having an early mid-life crisis! Might want to consider a career coach or a life coach, sounds strange but, there are some sites that offer great options like https://www.pivotplanet.com/

Good Luck!
hardly a noteworthy update.
Show HN: GCiaB
An introduction to Apache Hadoop for big data
Yup...http://i.imgur.com/NnoGhN1.gif
Isn't this basically what Amazon does? I've always felt very comfortable and safe when pushing the buy button on their site.
> People go there because it is Canadian and also because it is cheap

Because it's cheap, yes, because it's Canadian, probably not.

Tim's effectively owns the market for cheap coffee. There's no where else you can go except a gas station, if you want cheap coffee.

McD's has made some headway, but they've got their own thing outside of TH's narrow focus.
Of course eBay has to spin off PayPal. Here’s why it hasn’t done so…. yet
I hate to be that guy but a phone is not worth a small brick of gold. Half an ounce of gold is about $700 and has the same mass as a nickel.
Would it be feasible to have a global federation that played referee to negotiations between citizens and ISP's on pricing for Internet access?
we aren't allowed to put a tent anywhere and sleep in it, which is rather sad

Probably connected to the risk that squatter's rights poses to the land owner... not that pitching a tent for a night is a serious risk, but squatter's rights really encourages that kind of culture.
I was using Instagram Hyperlapse before the MSR paper was published. It came out of a Hackathon project at Facebook.

And yes, the concept existed well before both.

Note: FB employee.
Hey, thanks for responding!

I absolutely love the product. The install guide is fantastic, I don't know if that can be any better than it already is. The thing is, I'm a little paranoid about downloading & installing random binaries on our computers at work (I work in a very IP-sensitive company), so I generally go for source-builds.

I've actually been writing a fabric script to automate the entire install, believe it or not (the whole thing might be an exercise in futility, since people could just download the package), and I've installed gitlab enough times that I'm not really worried about it -- so at this point it's not a huge problem.
First things first, definitely edit the OP. You get nothing from outing them, much less calling them "thieves" in public. Don't give them any ammo.

Second, gather your contract and lawyer up right now. The reality is you're probably still squeezing blood from a turnip (despite the VC); your best move would probably be asking for a licensing agreement in lieu of a bulk sum.

Third, I think it makes sense to bring this to the attention of the VCs - it won't hurt (the way publicly outing them might) and they could possibly work at mitigating/mediating this.

Again, $2M might seem like a lot to you, but this is mostly budgeted already. If, like most startups, this is relatively short-lived, you may want to recoup via a license, although this is a new contract that would need to be drawn up fresh.
Reducing sales headcount is expected to reduce revenue.
For instance: http://articles.courant.com/2010-11-11/business/hc-tim-horto...
I just want to join the choir and thank the author/poster. Really great article. I managed to learn quite a few things and there was just enough detail given to go and look up any background information necessary to complete understanding.
[Success Story]- How Did Kriesi Sell Over $1M on Envato MarketPlace?
The downgrade concern mentioned in the post is moot with server-to-server SMTP because we have to intentionally allow downgrades to account for old mail servers.

The other concerns with STARTTLS still apply to server-to-server SMTP, but since our only options for server-to-server SMTP are STARTTLS or no encryption at all, we have to just use STARTTLS here.
Success Story : Kriesi, is an Austrian web designer, was the 1st theme-forest author to Sell $1,000,000 Worth of Items, and also the first guy to cross 2 million mark on ENVATO marketplace.
Sort of. New members don't get share rights any more.
It's 2014, can we get Android and iOS versions at the same time? Starting to feel tired of all this "Android soon".
I hear you. I hate having scheduled meeting almost every day, early, that ramble about things that usually don't affect me. My time would have been better spent still in bed until it was time to start building (coding, designing, writing, etc)
You do realize that a great deal of the problems associated with heroin addiction come from the very fact that it is illegal? The crime, the marginalization from society, the lack of access to health care or rehabilitation clinics, these things all make the addiction far, far worse than if we treated this whole thing a little saner and more compassionately.
I feel like this is the only right answer.

It's been said, but there's not much value in discussing this in public; it just introduces risk/complication.

Are you really going to put any weight on insight gained from this thread? If not, the cost/benefit of keeping this up is out of whack.

In that case, the "benefit" become solely the name/shame which isn't an awesome reflection of professionalism, either.
I think that the MS Research project probably has a few advantages over this although I've only looked at Instagram's example videos on Vimeo so far.

The main advantage I see for MS Research is that they enable the full dropping of multiple frames to remove large camera motions such as having a head mounted camera and briefly looking from side to side.

In the Instagram examples, the camera stays on a fixed subject and their Hyperlapse algorithm reduces the shake. I suspect that if there were large camera motions, they would be translated into the final product which could detract a lot from the appeal of that video.
Sorry, but this seems like a stupid law. Clearly fraud was already illegal, all that was needed were court cases clearly demonstrating these patterns.

A law like this just encourages people to tweak their practices slightly and continue as before.
Any links to information about the decision? Googling the two company names didn't turn up much. Has this been publicized?
+1 for the solid alternative. I hadn't see this before. Thanks!
Which gets to my point, and for which a lawyer, as an emotionally uninvolved 3rd party can be far more valuable than as someone who merely knows the law:

Decide what you want to get out of this:

Do you want to destroy the company? Perhaps take them over/replace them in some way? (A good lawyer will ask "What does this accomplish", although deterrence is not illegitimate in my viewpoint).

Get paid for your work, with suitable interest and penalties?

Get a piece of the action of the other company?

If you're telling the truth, there's a good chance you've got them in an exquisitely delicate situation. While they've officially raised a lot of money, if it just happened there it's unlikely it's all been transferred to their bank account. Even if so, you can mess them up going forwards with justified legal action.

For those panicking over defamation, truth is an absolute defense to it, you just have to be able to afford to get your day in court. Although I'll note everyone who's every been in a lawsuit, on whatever side, says it becomes a consuming thing, you've got to think about the opportunity cost. Something a good lawyer will bring up.
So a company started by felons stole software from you.
Currencies don't have any inherent useful value, while commodities do.
Emailed, great idea. Excited to hear back from you.
That is a very simplified view of how taxation works. There is quite a bit more to corporate taxes in American than just the percentage.

The bothersome part is, people seem to think our country is just so great that businesses should want to pay ludicrous taxes here, almost like it's patriotic to pay higher tax rates among other things. Well, it's not.
I seem to be missing something, are the direct fines for non compliance. Refunds and keeping an item are all nice and such but still requires action on part of the consumer. Some sites may factor that in and continue the process.
It's a cache problem, and it's clearly visible once you click on specific image.

Here's an "official" thread: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/gNv...
I am a Haskell programmer who got to use OPAM when installing Coq (HoTT version) recently. It was surprisingly nice.

Also, you can pick which version of the compiler to run, and have it manage switching everything.

It seemed like it was years ahead of cabal, but that might just be because I only used it a little, I don't know. But there are some things to learn from OPAM.

Do you have a blog post like this, or something I could post the the Haskell subreddit?
The problem with short term burst of overtime is the setting of the wrong expectation. People who only see result but don't know the process would expect the same result the next time. You are under the gun to do it again. Doing it enough time and it becomes crunch mode.
Share the recipes that he likes
The actual driving test is pretty much the same length and difficulty. (although I did the car test in France and the motorbike test in the UK)
The French theory test needs a bit more preparation as more trick questions are asked.
Also, the difference is perhaps, as far as I can remember, that French driving school offer more preparation to the theory test than is really required. In other words, they can keep you coming to the classroom until they are sure you will pass the theory...
Given a 2.4Ghz pure sine wave and a couple signal strength detectors couldn't one iteratively modify the frequency dependent values for the various walls?
Yeah, that's a great alternative. Thanks for mentioning.
In this particular case, they specifically say it is because they are waiting for certain Camera API changes. I suspect it is probably related to the need to gather gyroscope / accelerometer data that is keyed to the individual frames of the video.

Instagram is certainly capable of putting out apps for both platforms simultaneously. I don't think they wouldn't fail on that without a good reason.
I've almost given up with Sublime Text. I have a bug with the Linux version on xubuntu which causes the application window to shudder when I scroll. It's something to do with smooth scrolling.

I can't register at their forums as it requires a keyword which you can only get by emailing keyword@sublimetext.com - I've tried three times and each time I've been ignored. I've also tried email the other ST employee, but been ignored also.

Very frustrating when I've paid for a licence.
Not sure I subscribe to the idea that ST is "dead". The base editor is stable enough for day to day use ("dev" build be damned) and all the extra functionality (i.e. new features) is provided by plugins anyways.

ST could never see another update and would remain a competitive editor for daily use due to its plugin ecosystem.
You really need to be careful about how you approach this sort of issue.

While the advice may be trite, it is particularly apt here to emphasize the importance of consulting with a lawyer who is strong on IP issues.

In particular, this would normally need a careful evaluation of the contract language, which may or may not define what happens in the particular case you describe. If it should not adequately define what happens in express contract language, then there are default rules that potentially govern what happens. Those rules may or may not support your position. I have bumped into cases where the default rules basically say that the contract assigns the IP rights to the customer regardless of non-payment, with the remedy for the developer simply being to sue for payment. I am not saying that such rules govern your case because it is not possible for anyone to really know your case absent a proper legal review by a knowledgeable lawyer. I am saying you may be making assumptions about your legal rights that may or may not be correct and you should not casually just assume that they are.

It goes without saying as well that you should be cautious about using pejorative language about the person who did this in public because of the obvious risk of setting yourself up for a defamation claim. Again, in the end you may be justified but why complicate your own claims by giving those who did whatever these people did free ammunition to fight you with.

I don't mean to sound unsympathetic. It hurts to get screwed and it sounds like that happened here. Just be careful to go about it the right way in trying to correct the wrong that did occur.
For the same reason some MDs go to work for Médecins Sans Frontières instead of a top-paying job at a private hospital or partnership. A sense of duty. I grew up in a small town dominated by military/industrial companies. A lot of top talent moves there because they believe working for the government is what they should do.
I'm Patrick McKenzie (patio11). I make and sell software. Ask me anything
It is a deliberate strategy. It is partly to reduce key person risk, and partly to reduce complexity.

It is also because the business is run by lawyers, accountants, underwriters, and actuaries, and they have almost zero knowledge of software.

And, yes, actuaries. I mean you. You write terrible code. Terrible, terrible code.
As a Canadian but not a coffee drinker, most coffee drinkers I know love Tim Hortons and nearly refuse to drink coffee from anywhere else.
Hyperlapse can be used to only steady but not accelerate videos as well.
> "you should have printed the PDF at home"

Just remember that with Ryanair, simple is not an option unless you pay and pay and pay and pay.

Example: Printing boarding passes a few days ahead: not possible. Oh, unless you pay for reserved seats. Otherwise feel free to wait until a few days ahead of departure, remember to check in, or you'll be hit with another charge at checkin.

Source: Traveled w/Ryanair this summer with my family. The whole process was so annoying that I made it a priority not to give them a single € extra, even if that meant spending more than an hour at a slow internet café somewhere to print boarding passes for our flight home.
No they don't:

* Can't get shipping charges before the last step (after selecting the credit card which implies I am about to pay)

* Sneaking in Prime

* Fucked up search
It isn't science until you close the feedback loop.
The FAQ is very good. I wish the experimental section went into a discussion of error sources. There may be unexpected error sources which are just as interesting as the signal they're searching for (gravitational waves, who knows)

As one example of an error source, I can predict this thing would make a beast of a seismometer. Which in itself is interesting.

http://holometer.fnal.gov/faq.html#experiment
VBulletin doesn't delete forum accounts
I know US laws allow companies to keep user data indefinitely, but I think it's really bad that a well-known Internet brand like vBulletin acts in that way. What do you think?
While I agree with you, on the flip side the alternative is that they don't sell their goods here, and people wouldn't be very happy about that. You have to draw a line somewhere to decide what's a reasonable price/tax/etc. for everybody, but it's not really an easy thing to do.
"Third, I think it makes sense to bring this to the attention of the VCs - it won't hurt (the way publicly outing them might) and they could possibly work at mitigating/mediating this."

This seems like the best option. The VCs will want to minimize risk. If they think they can pay you a reasonable sum to make the past dispute go away, this may be your best option. It will most likely not involve expensive lawyers for too many billable hours.
You're forgetting provincial taxes.
Check out the KPMG report which shows that Canadian Corporate Tax rates are generally 38%. There are some loopholes to lower that rate

http://www.kpmg.com/ca/en/issuesandinsights/articlespublicat...
STARTTLS is vulnerable to active MITM downgrade attack. Are there any equivalent techniques to HTTP Strict Transport Security ("Remember me and don't talk to me over an insecure protocols again") for SMTP?
I would be very interested in reading a detailed post about your experiences with Nix/NixOS.

I've been hearing a lot about this project, but I always thought it was just an academic experiment. I'm in the process of packaging and maintaining a Python+Javascript+Redis+PostgreSQL application and Nix certainly is something I should learn more about.
Ever had problems looking for you favorite t-shirt?
Not quite my hometown, but the closest reasonably sized town to there has around 5 Tim Hortons but no Starbucks.
If you have the insane financial position that someone like Musk does, it gives you the ability to edit a lot of annoyance/stress out of your life. Most of the day to day crap that most of us deal with can be automated or delegated away.
Nobody can give you much more advice than to collect all your papers/email/documents regarding this and discuss it with a lawyer.

I know your upset, and want to hit them hard – but outing them probably won't do much good in the long run.
There's an easy fix; get an iPhone.

If you find yourself constantly feeling this... that may be a sign you're not in the most suitable walled garden.
Well I guess when you look at it that way, it makes sense. Sometimes it helps to have a swift kick in the ass :)
The numbers '4' and '8' and the words 'four' and 'eight' in your example are already abstract symbols. In fact most words in natural languages are symbols/pointers to different things or processes in the human experience.

Of course you can argue that the 4 number, is more abstract than the word, and that the variable x is more abstract, than the 'concrete' number 4 ... even so, you can build arbitrary complex structures with just 1 level of abstraction/indirection.

In this sence, I agree with scoofy: '(usage of) natural language IS symbolic reasoning' indeed.
I'm curious, why people are so afraid to name others? Whether to complain about cheats and crooks, or to commend and applaud someone doing something good, people are reluctant to give names. But this seems like an important information for everyone!
How we're using SVG + Grunt for icons instead of the Rails asset pipeline
The oil curse is a silly notion. The US and Canada have both avoided any 'curse.' China is the world's 5th largest oil producer, it too is certainly not cursed by oil.

Norway however has a huge problem coming, soon. Their oil production is running out rapidly: http://i.imgur.com/UlR1B0a.jpg

It has fallen about 40% in a decade +/-.

Even with their large sovereign fund, they will exhaust that quickly if the oil production doesn't stop falling soon. At the rate it's falling, in another decade Norway is going to be in the midst of a crisis economically.

I know some people in Norway are paying attention to this and trying to think ahead. Being conservative about the sovereign fund certainly seems like the very wise thing to do.