skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the post .." There was a time just a few months ago when I did not have google wave. I think of that time with horror - because that epoch was marked with conflicts, total chaos, money was being lost every day, fights were happening between me and my collaborators. Google wave came in, and within a couple of weeks, a heavenly peace had descended on my business..." ....Accepted..Google wave helped him..But my point is people can still do that without wave
Their mass lawsuits do not. But I was referring to the DMCA...a BD+ cracker (or whatever is would be called) is illegal software in the U.S.
I just restarted the server. Users are lazily loaded, so the leaderboard will look odd for a brief period after a restart.
Ah, I guess it's just main that implicitly returns 0.
I sit next to the Broadersheet guys.

The language is certainly not fake; the exuberance is definitely real.
On God and Integrity
Actually,

Here is where insurance can actually increase litigation: a person without assets often isn't worth suing but a person with the deep pockets of an insurance company can become worth suing.

I still think it's good idea to create an anti-patent legal pool but it's important to understand all the angles...
And you care bacause?
Poe's Law: http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law
I think you've missed the point I was making. The consequences are unknowable at the point of writing. The ability to search, organize and analyze data has grown and will continue to grow.

Online practices that were downright conservative in 1997 would expose personal details today. Similarly, what is safe now, likely won't be in the future as data from even more sources gets correlated.

"ANY words you write on the internet or even in email start to have a life of their own right after you hit that 'reply' button. If you're the kind of person that would not stand by their words even years later then you probably shouldn't be clicking that button."

This idea is ridiculous. People can't be expected to never change their minds and email users clearly have an expectation of privacy. Perhaps a few odd characters would happily "stand by their words" and share their email histories with the world, but the vast majority of us would not.
I think that Lua is what Javascript may have grown into if it had 15 years mature, rather then getting its design prematurely frozen. They seem to have very similar design goals, though where Javascript has the web, Lua has C.

Lua is really powerful, but it's been carefully designed so that a subset of the language can be used for configuration files, data dumps (much like JSON), etc., without having to know anything about programming. The deep elements are there, you just have to look for them. Coroutines, prototypes, metatables, tail-calls, first-class functions, eval, real lambdas, etc. And, did I mention that it mixes well with C?
Documentary on Jelly Belly Entrepreneur
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Talent has always struck me as a strange thing to compliment people on, much like complementing them on the country they were born in or their last name. It's not something you can really help if we accept it as something innate. If however you think that someone shows particular adeptness at a skill of some kind, imo it's more applicable to compliment hard work or to note that years of practice has clearly paid off.
Don’t Let Your Code Marry An Axe Murderer
Your criticism misses the mark, as I don't actually defend the violent reaction to the cartoons and have said as much.

Also, this was never about questioning, as much as about the intention. You may or may not be aware that the newspaper solicited the cartoons, challenging the artists to make them as inflammatory as possible. It was a political and commercial stunt under the guise of a moral battle, making the whole thing even more despicable.
Protecting your email with 'AT domain DOT com' is making it easier to find
Good stuff. I have often thought the same of trolls, and that group of people that decries "fake!" at every posted video or picture.
I used to think that I wasn’t smart enough. I was jealous of those that did crazy code stuff that I couldn’t even comprehend. Then, one day, I ran into something I did not understand and instead of giving up, I pushed through.

You shouldn't be jealous of people that do "crazy code stuff". It's a sign that they haven't learned how to create simple solutions yet.
Face Detection with OpenCV and Clojure
Myths of the American Revolution
I'd like to suggest some of Michigan's programs for your review: University of Michigan's "Techarb" Business Accelerator (http://cfe.engin.umich.edu/businessaccelerator), Ann Arbor SPARK Business Accelerator (http://www.annarborusa.org/start-ups/spark-business-accelera...) and Wayne State's SmartStart Business Development Program (http://techtownwsu.org/business/smartstart.php)

I've interacted with each of these program on some level and can provide more information later if desired.
Hrm. You're right. Secondary benefit of the hashing is so that a user's re-used password isn't compromised for other sites, but ... yeah.

Your dynamically-generated temporary password is probably a better way to go about it. Or the hashed master password.

Thanks.
I've been using EveryDNS for over five years now. Great service. Frankly I'm torn because David deserves lots of credit and to do with the service whatever he wants. I just hope this isn't a quick buy and turn for DynDns.

They are obviously a for-profit company, did an ROI calculation, and there are probably limited options for monetizing their acquisition without charging customers for things they used to get for free.

As Dharmesh would say, if I were a betting man, and I am, I'd give two to one odds they start charging for services that are currently free in the next eighteen months.

This, of course, would open up the opportunity for someone to fly in underneath them. They probably expect that, but of course in the short term there will be a win because it will take time for that person to get the word out.

So I whipped up a quick weebly site: http://everydnsforever.weebly.com/

Submit your email address there if you'd like to get one email if and only if (a) EveryDNS becomes less free than it is today, and (b) a credible, great, free service is created in EveryDNS's place.

(By making this site I am hoping to do my part to increase the cost to Dyn Inc. of changing EveryDNS. Thanks!)

(Edit: grammar.)
And his point is, without any tool, people can still do most anything. But if the tool is particularly good, they'll do that same thing better now.

People were still doing backups before dropbox. I, for one, am just doing them better now.
The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes Facebook as its Newest Sponsor
Pure curiosity of how it works. That's all. I don't really care either way where I rank.
The Ruse of the Creative Class
Well-designed maintenance page: Mint.com
People comment on good lucks all the time, and it's largely inherited. You can work out, eat right, etc, but you can't change your bone structure (without surgery, at least).
I do not measure myself against the programming greats, but against those projects on my Github profile from years ago.

This is good advice. It is the best way continually increase your status without constantly feeling like you are trying to one up your peers.
There should be a distinction if a party is a public servant on duty.

There should be a distinction if the party being recorded is in public. Courts have routinely ruled to the effect that one has "no expectation of privacy" when out in public. That the party being recorded is a public servant, engaged in (purportedly) public service just makes it all the more ... well, public.
To be fair, that first story ends by saying forChan is "truly innocuous until you enter a web address in the URL field", that removing it would "set yet another dangerous precedent", and that Safari "does exactly what forChan does".
Yes, they are the new Microsoft. But one that doesn't charge you for their services. That's why we love them. And they're savvy.
The Three Horsemen of the VC Apocalypse
How could code run differently on one Android 1.6 device from another?
Better person??? Basic and constantly used knowledge will become internalized: despite using an IDE I don't need Intellisense to navigate all of the most commonly used APIs. I think what will be important is knowing how to find and apply the correct information rather than just rote memorization of information.
The Nexus One costs about the same as the iPhone to produce, yet the unlocked version is sold by the the same price that what an unlocked iPhone would be.

You can't buy an unlocked iPhone from Apple in the US. You can buy a contract-free iPhone for $600, which is more than the Nexus One and still locked to AT&T. Yes you may be able to unlock the iPhone yourself, but that gets you in a constant cat-and-mouse game with Apple who considers you a criminal at that point.

No non-technical user in his sane mind would pay $330 more for an unlocked phone.

T-Mobile's plans are $20/month cheaper if you're not paying off a subsidized phone, so you'll more than recoup the cost difference of the unsubsidized N1 over two years.
And thus one that works fine for many uses. Most "sorting" happens (at least when measuring "most" by line of code written) because you're about to display something to the user. Using a quadratic algorithm on the few hundred entries a person can actually interpret is hardly a problem. Pick the tool for the job (though, as pointed out elsewhere, that tool should probably be a library function). Algorithmic optimization isn't always as important as your textbooks tell you it is.

If I were going to nitpick about this kind of exercise, I'd pick the insanity of compressing the whitespace (and symbol naming) of the thing, which a trivial deterministic tool can do. It represents no insight on the part of the author.
It's more likely that too much waxing rhetorical has led parts of Mayer's dopamine system to overproduce. :)

Actually, I've given this some thought. Here's a related essay from last summer: http://raisethehammer.org/blog/1486/
If you program in this style you are simply asking for trouble.

C is a great little language but I've seen it be described as a racecar. Take too many turns on two wheels and you'll end up regretting it.

There is absolutely no benefit from trying to cram something like this in to two lines other than to show off your C fu, it sets a bad example and and makes for very obscure bugs.

A defensive programming style with clarity in mind rather than weird little optimizations like this are a great way to get good mileage out of what is essentially a luxury assembler.

The lower the level of the language you are working the more important clarity is. As soon as you start to rely on obscure language features or possibly even implementation dependent tricks you clearly no longer have the mindset required for long term maintainable code.

Of course it is a fun little exercise but it really is an example of exactly how not to program in C.

Incidentally, this code will only compile on C99 standard compilers and even then it will probably give you a warning or two about missing return types.
Or people didn't think the attempt at humor was funny and was just noise. As I've said here before, you're probably not as funny as you think you are.
This video from Ira Glass (of This American Life fame) sums up the discrepancy between taste and ability beautifully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE

He talks about how you get into a creative field because there are works of it which you love and you can distinguish early on between good/interesting and bad/banal work.

But then you start making stuff. And for the first few years, it just isn't very good, and you realize that.

He talks about bridging that gap and how it took him eight (!) years before he started making things which he even recognized as being interesting and good.

It's probably the best piece of advice I've ever seen for people still at the frustrating end of a creative career.

I know too many kids who showed an early eye for quality in some field (architecture, CS, etc) but then gave up out of frustration when the stuff they made wasn't up their own standards.
Agreed. I think most people know where http://flippa.com/ is
Where's nickb?
Hey, cool. ANSI C89 has a sort function that is part of the standard library too! So does 3BSD! Small world. :)

I'm sure qsort() is older than even 3BSD, but that's the oldest source base I have sitting on this box.
Surprisingly, the South Butt is not selling butts, so tarnishment is not a serious claim. (Unless, of course, butts are "unsavory" in the jurisdiction - had a sufficiently rude word been used, tarnishment would be likely). In fact, they are selling clothing. So the standard interpretation of trademark blurring is also not quite applicable. Using a parody of a famous brand as your own brand even for commercial purposes is... apparently ok, in many cases.

I think they have a great case for infringement, though. From a reasonable distance (a few feet), I can't tell the difference. Oh, right - the south butt logo is on the left. Except, of course, when the item in question (say, a bag) is lying on the floor. Or maybe I don't care that much to remember details, relying more on crass pattern-recognition.

If you think that the text of a logo has all that much to do with the logo, then you're missing the point of having a logo. A "South Butt" logo could have been made that infringed on pepsi, or on mcdonalds. But we'll see how this goes.
multiplayer (6 player network style, or something cool like that) tetris?

MMORPG based on snake. Thousands of snakes running around trying to eat the apples and get the epic armor.
You mean they turned into a big profitable company with huge market share?

Yeah, I can see how that sucks for them. How many CEO's would cut off their left hand to have a company like Google?

They are in the process of changing (for better or worse) the mobile/cell phone market. So big, profitable and powerful.

Possibly getting evil? I don't know.
New Media Hoop Dreams: The Smart Kids’ NBA
I don't think Google would release any non-Web clients. Just look at the sorrow state of Google Talk.

It's would most likely to be a browser plugin based on Gears or HTL5
Popularity of chains by Loopt check in volume
I'd be OK with this if the network effect didn't exist. If the iPhone becomes the de facto standard, it's a loss for mobile developers everywhere.
This does not stop people from changing lanes despite the lane dividers anyway... (also, you forgot c, the people who keep going in the 110 lanes because the sole exit lane for the 5 is backed up a mile to chinatown, who then try to change lanes closer to the exit either dangerously by going from 70mph to like 10 in a matter of seconds or by blocking traffic).

I've always wondered about something every time I passed that exit, which used to be on my daily commute for a few years. The exit for the 5 expands to two lanes immediately after the sharp turn. There seems to be enough room to make two exit lanes to get to the 5, or at least good enough reason to expand that little area to two exit lanes right there where there is currently some type of barricade. I wonder why that's never happened, because a two lane exit would probably cut down on the traffic and dangerous merging.
Am i missing something here - Google Wave is still invite only isn't it ?

I have a Google Wave account and i can invite others but the invitees are not immediately accepted , so one of your collaborators does not have a Wave account , how do you collaborate with him ? So now, you have to have multiple ways of collaboration - not good.

Unless of course i am missing something obvious.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/musical-talent-pro...
I had a coworker once that used a library of his in all of the company's main applications but kept it out of source control

That is seriously anti-social behaviour, and should not be tolerated.
You should probably ask a lawyer, but as I understand as a layman if it can be demonstrated that you knew about an infringing trademark but ignored it, it is a lot harder to win a lawsuit.

I think the basic idea is that trademark rights are valid for as long as you need them, however you lose those rights if you abandon the mark. I think that ignoring infringement is a piece of evidence that the mark is not useful for you anymore. It may not be absolutely critical, but certainly doesn't help.

Suppose some other company markets the brand "The Fourth Ace" using the South Butt logo, and they get successful and start stealing business. The North Face sues them, but have trouble in the case because North Place points out that their logo is a variation on South Butt, which doesn't seem to bother them.
It is an intellectual trap to believe that just because a skill you worked hard to achieve is no longer necessary, you are a "better person" than those who no longer need that skill.

Can you use a slide rule? I bet you can't. But when pocket calculators were invented engineers were scornful of a new generation who could only punch in numbers. Can you write in assembly? Probably not, but when higher-level languages first turned up you weren't considered a "real" programmer unless you could hack assembly -- and then again when Java overtook C, and then again when interpreted languages like PHP overtook Java.

Why does having memorized an API make you better than somebody who uses a tool that makes memorizing the API unnecessary? Unless you can show that one makes you demonstrably more efficient, it's immaterial.
I can accept that, but why not stop at -1? Why keep downvoting -- unfunny joke does not need to be beaten down the same way racist troll does.
Google News stops hosting new Associated Press content
Time rarely is the real problem. Fears, lack of energy, lack of focus, etc usually is what prevents people from doing things... And even when time is the issue, often stopping yourself from wasting time is an effective solution.
I was going to link that video. Everyone should watch it.
This is the "14 Days of jQuery" site.

"An online event marking the release of jQuery 1.4. To celebrate, we're unveiling 14 releases over a period of 14 days."
Exactly. If I'd been him, I'd have changed the logo to be more obviously a parody (maybe made it pink or something), and changed the font or something so that it's clearly distinguishable.
I use Wave as a compliment to Skype. Imagine you're working with somebody on a timeline or document. As you talk over Skype, both of you can edit the document at the same time and you can see and build on each others edits. It's incredibly productive for this specific purpose.
I had no idea that you could define a method on a single instance with access to the current scope. I used to always call instance_variable_set before def to get the data I needed in there.
Arrangements for home-schooling varies but one common thread is that kids do a lot of reading and writing but not as much speaking so pronunciation slips through. It's just a result of the circumstances.
Whatever, I never get spam with Gmail.
Thanks to the Streisand effect South Butt now has the marketeers wet dream come true.

Even if they lose the lawsuit and will be forced to change their brand they still come out ahead, because the news of the name change will get a lot of airplay too.

And if they prevail they should send the North Face execs a bunch of flowers and thank them profusely.
Is Costa Rica Really the Happiest Nation on Earth?
Thanks Max, I took a second look at Wave and lo and behold it's actually pretty neat. I was surprised that right when I hopped in a wave, a friend of mine was already there(apparently he keeps wave open all day) and said "Finally you will figure out how sweeeeet this is!"

Looks like there's something to it after all.
We haven't added any payment functionality to the site. We have code in a branch that integrates with Amazon's FPS but it hasn't been pushed to the production site.

That was our next logical step and there are actually a lot of opportunities in the product to upsell on features.
They've had software installing on a client machine after acquisitions though - SketchUp, Picasa and Google Earth.
I'd milk it for what it's worth before doing that.

The time to quit is when the cost starts to outweigh the benefits, in this case that time may not have arrived (yet).
I really like this. It's simple and cheap.

One question. How much does computer voice affect participation. I would think a fair number of call receivers will hang up when they hear the computer. Is that true?
No. It's just myself and my co-founder and we're interested in selling it outright. We haven't taken any funding and our main goal is to alleviate ourselves from managing the site. It is pretty much on autopilot but we're focusing more on a separate venture and would like to find a good home for the site.
Yeah I think if this logo had appeared in a Simpsons Episode or on Penny-Arcade it would clearly not be infringement. The fact that he's selling clothes changes things.
I believe you...
I believe thirst for knowledge can be learned. Ask any child (or adult!) who gets their mind blown what they see through a magnifying glass or a telescope. Maybe that's not learning thirst for knowledge so much as kick-starting it, but I think it's close enough.

I'm not sure about clever ingenuity, but it's not a stretch to say that that's a faculty that can be exercised and cultivated, no matter how paltry or weak it is initially. A lot of things can be learned, states of mind included. Ask any Buddhist monk.

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How to get involved with open source
Before I read this story, I had always thought that that sign was put up by Caltrans as a semi-permanent thing until they replaced the aging sign altogether. I've driven all over the place in LA for it not to matter because I knew of the (very badly designed and unlabeled until the very end up until about a year ago) exit to the 5 freeway, but it was probably a fantastic thing to people new to the area, since that general location is where something like 3 freeways meet, and if you wanted to get on the 5, there was a big sign for 5 South, but nothing whatsoever for 5 North, unless you maybe saw a small sign or something (I forget what it was) that said to take the 110 North to get on the 5.
Yep. I've seen that. It's a must watch.
Another resource: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm...
while the developer mentions that it could be used to browse pictures of fully naked girls—and has some boards with that kind of pictures...

There's your difference. Apple takes pains not to brand Safari as an app for surfing porn.

For example, I don't think I've ever seen an Apple site explain just what "Private Browsing" mode is designed for... ;)

If you want to do business with Apple you've got to think about such things.
I don't think you're missing anything, except perhaps that the author's collaborators have already received and accepted their invitations to Wave.
I don't think it's so clear cut.

People know the internet. They know it contains a ton of crap, obscene stuff, NSFW etc. That's fine. Great.

Apps on the other hand, people have different expectations for. Especially if they're paying for them.

I (as an Apple customer), don't really care about the app store. I like the fact it gave me an ssh client for my iPhone, but that's about it. If it hadn't I could have used a webapp.

I firmly believe the app store is just a short term stop gap until everyone has 24/7 connectivity. Why would I bother downloading (and purchasing) apps, which are just duplication of functionality found on the web.

The web is the future man, and safari is the best mobile browser at the moment. But I agree. If you don't like it, buy another phone.