skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW:

For personal reasons, I've made drastic lifestyle changes. Part of the result is that my expenses have dropped drastically and my concept of "essential possessions" has been radically altered. Although it wasn't done specifically to help me venture out on my own, it has become increasingly clear that it has better positioned me to do exactly that. I currently live without a car. I currently have a lot less clothes than the typical american. We cook most of our meals from scratch yet own one frying pan, one pot, and one oven pan. I have very little furniture. Etc.

It's been very freeing and the result is I have more time, energy and mental focus for working on personal goals.
Nice idea but it doesn't work because when I sue you with a bogus patent troll, you can't make money out of it. All you can do is make the lawsuit go away and lose as little money as possible.

So it's a win-lose scenario. So there is no insurance possible. The best lawyers in your hypothetical insurance company, at best could convince the judge that you are not infringing. But it won't make you any money. So there is no business insuring against patent troll.

Don't get me wrong, I wish there was.
Where are those libertarian commenters when you need them? This is a classic example of letting the market decide.

If there is enough demand for cracking a given disc, then users will pay higher prices for ripping software updates and crackers will put more effort into it. If no one cares about a given disc, then it may never get ripped (but no one cares so it doesn't matter).
That seems like a really good way to handle it. Each account has a unique password, then, and it's only available to the admin. As long as the controller's coded well, this seems like a great solution. (If anyone has any concerns, I'd love to hear them.)
I sing, play guitar, bass, and saxophone, as well as enough drums and keyboards to get by in rock or pop settings.

With my current group we've started to use a heavy dosage of Max/MSP for audio and Quartz Composer for visuals... my professional programming experience really helps with creating really good interfaces for the software (not just UI, programmatic interfaces as well), so extending or modifying the software happens at a pace that keeps up with the rest of the band... and being that music is prety much realtime...

If you're interested, we've got some demos up... http://redblueyellow.com

Of course I did our website as well... Rails ;)

And how many bands have a github account? Sorry, no public repos yet... http://github.com/redblueyellow

At one point we had three software developers in the band, but we've slimmed down due to gasp, guys getting jobs in the industry elsewhere (other than SF, I know, right?) and now I'm the lone coder.

I'd say I'm about 50/50 when it comes to music... I've had periods where I did it full-time, and I've had periods where I've coded full-time. Right now I'm burning the candle at both ends with a contract job and spending at least 30 hours a week on the band.

I know quite a few professional programmers who are also professional or semi-pro/very dedicated musicians.

I think there is more to it than mere correlation.

And can I say that the 10,000 hour thing is WAY WAY off?

I'll put it in musical terms:

I started playing the saxophone in 5th grade. I played for 2 years. I switched to guitar. About 4 years ago I picked up a sax because the band I was in needed some horns. After about a week, I was 100 times better than I ever was before. So what happened? Well, I learned more about music in the mean time. I'm sure I could pick up any instrument much, much quicker than someone who has never played any instruments. What am I getting at? Well, a lot of things in life have more than just a passing similarity. They have core fundamentals that are shared. I am completely convinced that this applies to music and software development, although I have no idea why.
The new Google phone's lack of software support for multi-touch is something which has come up recently.
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Somebody should patent the process of patent trolling. Then, at least, there would just be one doing it...
She's just calling it like she sees it.
And she sees it each and every day.
With lesser engineers, Facebook would've degraded into MySpace very quickly.
I love this concept.

Back in the day I had a Macintosh Duo laptop that you just slid into a dock that included full ports, a better video card, etc and to this day I miss that set-up.
Call me back when they actually have some video samples showing this chip in action. (With examples of the extracted left & right video views to demonstrate the 3D conversion.)
An addendum from Fred Wilson (another one of the partners at USV): http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/01/why-we-need-an-independent-i... -

"But anyone who has spent a significant time in technology based businesses will understand that two groups working completely independently from each other will often solve a problem similarly. One group is not copying or ripping off the other group. They are simply coming to similar conclusions about how to get something done.

In these cases, it makes no sense to protect one group from the other. Nobody has taken anyone's "intellectual property." Both groups should own their inventions outright without having to license technology from the other."
I agree. I hate the "all talk and no bite" talks .. we can argue to death about every single point, but we need some execution, even if it's to disprove a hypothesis

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!” - Edison
This is awesome. Having computed a reasonable distance function between users, you should be able to use this distance function as edge weights in a big graph. Rendering this graph with a force-directed layout algorithm like Fruchtermann-Reingold might create visually appealing results by clustering related users.

I've done this before on different datasets and would love to cooperate with you on it...
Actually it is possible to have an arts degree in comp sci (i have one). Second - it doesn't matter what language you use; you can be a code "artist" and program in any language. I don't get why people obsess over obscure languages instead of developing marketable skills. Nobody uses Haskell! Finally, please not another computer science vs engineering vs art vs science debate. It gets old. Who really cares anyway?
Sigh, I had this idea about a month ago and did about a day's worth of hacking on it. At least, a similar idea. I wanted to generate a report at the end of a month to check my credit card statement against. I'm too lazy to do it by hand, but with a decent app, I'd do it.
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The good guys pay me money for insurance, I promise to release my team of ruthless lawyers on anyone that sue them, the patent trolls see my scary lawyers and don't sue. Doesn't that work?
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It filters on karma as well.

All of those guys showup in my default results, but I can't get any of them to pick me up. Clearly I don't post enough.
Yahoo needs a FriendFeed aquisition to better tie together their many sub-properties.

Millions of people (myself included) participate in a variety of their tools : commerce, stocks, email, chat, flickr, etc. but there is no clear thread holding them together.

Their homepage does a poor job of this IMO.
That's kind of the point. If you want to know what it takes to eke out a living from your web project, it's good to ask other people eking out a living from their web projects, rather than a very talented marketing guru who is a couple of decades removed from having to worry about that class of problem.
Aren't disks cracked in batches though? It seems to my (admittedly not as familiar as I'd like) eye that there are releases of BD+ reference code pushed out every few months that make it on to a few dozen titles, big and small.

Maybe publishers should release decryption keys for movies after a few months out using something akin to the street-performer protocol. :)
I kinda wondered about that. If people could photosynthesize, why would we ever move around? The only thing I can think of is to migrate to where it's sunnier, and only eat in the winter.

On another note, for a startup, a lot of the cost is in food and rent. If you can get rid of the food part by sitting by the sun, I guess that'd be another advantage for startups in CA.
No, but let's pretend a master password app silently sends the password info back home periodically. Apple's process would let an app like that through. It'd be pretty stupid for a developer to do this (I even think it's stupid for an Android dev to do this), as they'd certainly get caught. But Apple's submission process wouldn't be what caught them.
America's been failed by its leaders. It isn't a partisan thing because the problem has been with both parties.

The assasinations, riots and corruption at the highest levels in the sixties and early seventies tore at the very fabric of our country.

But we found great leadership and came back. We will do it again, stronger than before.
This article contains quite a bit of inaccurate information.

Despite the size of 22 double-XL instances, they were a small portion of our overall footprint in EC2; it takes well over that kind of capacity to run the platform.

Those instance types all happened to be in one availability zone for a variety of reasons. Our platform overall does not live in a single zone.

Losing machines is not a problem for us (we cycle them constantly, in fact). Normally losing even that many machines would not even be noticed by our customers; this was an unusual case in which several factors cascaded into a larger problem.

To be clear, this downtime (45 minutes or so, with full normal state by 90 minutes) was, unfortunately, our fault - not Amazon's. EC2 instances vaporizing is an expected part of using the service.

We've made a couple of operational changes that will prevent these issues in the future, and we sincerely apologize to any customers who were affected.
If that were the case then I would show up, and I don't either.

I've received some email from David (the guy that built it), he's going to fix this and the lowercase issue as soon as things quiet down a bit.
Concealing your identity makes you a loser if you do it so nobody can make you responsible for your acts. That was not _why's case, he did it because of privacy reasons.
Except then you're patenting math.
I saw a presentation by Expensify once: https://www.expensify.com/

It looked like a very full-featured system that does what "Just the Bill" seems to do and more. It was integrated with various credit card company backends.
Gentlemen,

Let me introduce you to the power of online snowfall telemetry stations. They usually report air temperature, wind speed & direction, precipitation, snow depth and water content in real time on an hour-by-hour basis. Find one or two nearby your local ski hill and study them for a season, comparing them to your in-the-field perceptions of ski conditions.

You'll soon be telling your friends about the "8 inches of cold dry powder that's just fallen on soft layer that was laid down last week" and distinguishing that from the "8 inches of heavy wet snow that just fell and then refroze onto the ice layer from last week".

For bonus points, take an avalanche safety course in your area. They will introduce you to a wealth of unbiased data sources. Mountain guides use these sources to maintain a deep understanding of the snow pack as it evolves throughout the winter season.

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And of course any numbers that can be derived from numbers that you might generate.

I think Wolfram should get it over with and simply copyright { Z }, that would at least make it clear where we stand on this.
You run a hosted application environment. You experience an outage that affects all of your customers. Do you a) admit that you encountered a problem that sysadmins have known about since the dawn of the Internet, or b) spin it as a novel web 2.0 problem ("unknown unknown", seriously?), solvable only by your crack team of cloud computing experts?

For those of us that still host our own servers, it's a little bit frustrating to see this spun as something new. It's not. If you design services that require high uptime, you incorporate the notion of losing a datacenter, which is effectively what happened here.
I think it bears mentioning that at one point in time the hardware was the software for the most part. Now the hardware has grown powerful and general-purpose enough that it can largely be abstracted out of the picture for most applications (or at least abstracted to down to general high-level parts -- e.g. X Mb/Gb of RAM vs what type of controller chip is being used).

I think that most people that are interested in 'tinkering' with things are doing it in software instead of hardware.
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So I made Wells Fargo a fan page yesterday.
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In order for a bogus patent troll to sue, that troll would have to have the patent. It wouldn't be so bogus.
For what it's worth, I like the idea for the site....particularly the prospects of getting really specific info about schools that is neither university-funded PR, or the crap that passes for 'Rate My Professor' dot com. I think the format could prove to be a little more inviting than Facebook (in this regard), as a I find the latter to be better for person-to-person communication as opposed to a place to find out decent info on specific topics (such as a college or university). Just my two cents.
Not true at all. Cryptography Research has patented most of the implementation techniques required to do hardware crypto without being susceptible to differential power analysis (btw: that? My favorite business model ever!). That was almost pure systems research.
God damn I hate nothing more than patent trolls. I'm positive that Lucifer is reserving a special place in hell for them, because there's no question they're going to burn.
Someone is trying to make up for that, it would seem:

"Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail" by Danica McKellar

and by the same author: Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss
It wouldn't work for warm blooded creatures - we use too much energy to be supplied by the sun on our skin.
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That doesn't make any sense. You think an insurance company makes money when you wreck your car? No. Yet there are thousands of them in business. They make money by making the premiums of the insurance cost more than what they have to pay to fix people's cars. This patent insurance would work the same way.
the newish cartoon The Mighty B draws heavily on the John K style. Not as continuously rich as R&S, but decently-drawn.
Not so much Cocoa's code quality as the worst-of-both-worlds situation it's in with exposure to crappy C code and a very dynamic runtime that is basically impossible to lock down ASLR and W^X-style.
> The average T1 costs around $250/month

What's the relevance of this T1? How many of the 45k apps do you think you can serve concurrently in 1.544Mbps?

I don't have as much bandwidth as most people I know, but I can't imagine having any issues saturating a T1 on my own.
Yeah, I need a better term for high-level-language than "garbage collected" (I do some Cocoa dev in my spare time, and I do like being able to ignore reference counting. Oh! Reference counting! Another security weakness with Cocoa.)
Can you tell us a little more on what type of work you outsource and where you get your contractors from?
Macrovision makes money for its licensees. Money: useful. All allusions to "fair use" aside, I think we all know the score: most of the value they rescue from protected titles was rescued from illegal BitTorrent sharing.

I don't even care, though. I'm just saying, you could do a lot worse as a hacker than to have the CS problems Macrovision gets to grapple with.
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My biggest wishlist item for the tablet is strong desktop Mac integration. I'll probably buy one either way but being able to use it in conjunction with my Mac would add a lot of value. It could be used as a auxiliary display, input device, and have strong software integration. For example, when it's docked it constantly keeps track of which tabs I have open in Safari so I can just undock it and have the same tabs open in Mobile Safari.
Call back and talk to another agent. Be polite and nice. Different agents will often act differently, but if are rude to them, will not let you get anything. Be polite.

If that doesn't work, use social engineering. Tell them you set up overdraft protection with them 6 months ago (from the account that you transferred the $500 from) and ask why this did not cover the overdraft. They'll tell you there is none, tell them, politely, that they told you it was set up and ask them to set it up now and reverse your charges.
We're probably treading close to the line where Nate can't talk about stuff. I should say that it would seem downright weird to me for them to simply publish the circumvention to a currently unbroken BD+ VM, or unprotection information for any protected title.
Meat and Potato diets should be separated, especially.

Starches mixed with proteins (animal proteins in particular) stimulate the stomach to over-produce digestive acids which strain it, and as a result bile needs to be produced to neutralize the acids which strains the small intestine - it often results in very little nutrition actually being absorbed from the food because the acids produced for the two different types combine into an acid that doesn't digest either starches or protein very well.

Meat and Potato diets are highly stressful on the body, also keep in mind that the fasting aspect of this "paleo" diet is very important, without the fasting, your colon won't have enough time to eliminate all of it and it can end up compacted in the colon.

Consistent and high animal protein diets are unhealthy, but animal protein diets spaced with fasting and vegetables (fibers and nutrients) are great for the body.
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Chloroplasts are not produced by the cells. They have their own DNA and they replicate independently.
It's different because of the source.

People trust the bank's website because they see the URL and know that it's genuine. People trust brick and mortar stores because they trust Best Buy to deliver products from the people they say they're from. People trust the app store on their phone just like a brick and mortar store... that is, they expect that somebody is ensuring the validity of the products that are being shown to them.

There is no other way for the consumer to validate this information, so the store provider must.
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"... It's called 'post-and-beam' ... I considered using it for an addition to our house in Canada but eventually settled for the more common 2x6 sandwich construction. ..."

Was that because of cost? (time X exerpertise) or for other reasons?
It's even worse, it's not their software (linked on the page) and the specs required for the software seem to be fairly high compared to the specs of that arm chip.

And the 3D is 'psuedo 3D', taking a 2D movie and converting it to a '3D' experience for some definition of 3D.
That's fine, but what mechanisms are in place for the consumer to ensure that what they are being shown is from who the app says it's from? I haven't submitted an app to the Android app store, so I'm unsure.
I think that most of the 45K instances are small experiments that only get a few HTTP requests per day. I would guess that in this case an instance that does not get a request for a while that it gets 'swapped out.'

I have no firm data, but a customer last year put a very low volume web app on Heroku, and I guess this is exactly what we saw: the first request after a quiesant period took many seconds - then subsequent requests were quick. If I am right about this, customers with high volume web apps would not notice this.
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Simply because I couldn't find anybody with that kind of experience locally. We built the whole thing ourselves, (foundation included) contracting was definitely not in the budget.

pictures here:

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It doesn't look very large but the building next to it could stand in the middle of the other one if there were a hole in the floor.

That was the first time I ever put up a construction of that size, my previous experience was limited to fixing things up, never to put up the main structure.
What is the business model associated with differential power analysis? Why is it your favorite?
I can't imagine any legal basis for such a claim. Then again, I never went to law school. If you're covering up the ad and any branding the billboard company has framing the ad, there's no intellectual property there to defend.
I liked the book scholarship idea.

I would like to suggest that to make finding colleges easier you make it so you can jump to the first letters of the school instead of numbers of the page.