skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem with IP laws is that to fully enforce them you need a police state.

I don't know precisely what you are thinking, but my view is that the IP framework should be: For a published work to be eligible for copyright, source code must be published. Something like a cross between github and the library of congress.

Publishing source code does not currently relinquish all rights. This would add greatly to our societies store of knowledge and would help prevent the IP theft in the code of published works.
That's actually how I wanted to do it - I got overruled by our designer. You just helped me win that argument, thanks!

Should be fixed up in a second :)
I'm pretty sure much of the pop sold in Canada contains HFCS. They call it glucose/fructose there. In the UK it's referred to as: "glucose-fructose syrup". This sometimes leads to confusion.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
I went with Brilliant Earth. They do Canadian diamonds (so not De Beers). They use recycled gold too, and also offer other gemstones.
As with the previous post, this seems to be missing the point that grad school isn't really about the same thing as YCombinator. Grad school is about advancing the state of scientific knowledge, which might result in useful products or services, but not necessarily, and often not in the short-term. Startups are about producing useful products or services, getting them to market, and monetizing them, which might result in scientific advances, but not necessarily, and often you actually hope not to need any (needing to solve an open scientific question in the critical path to getting a product out the door is a huge risk).
I'd talk to Doug the Head. If it's stones and it's stolen, Doug's the man to speak to.
No, pick another gemstone, perhaps a Sapphire.
Now if someone could just make the untoxic version of this taste like cheese...
Start at 0:44 to skip over the event intro.
How We Can Convince Apple to Allow Flash on The iPhone/iPad
I just had this crazy notion that would ultimately revolutionize a protest for Apple to allow Flash content on their mobile devices
http://curtisp.com/Article.aspx?blist_id=5c8c1438dd&cat=iPhone,iPad
If it's exclusively a paid service, then why do they have ads? I can't tell for certain if they do in the paid version, but looking at the sample page on the "subscribe now" link, there appears to be an ad for something like a smartphone.

And plenty of other newspaper sites give content for free, and only lock older articles. They seem to be doing well enough with that model.

edit: and then why allow Googlers to access everything for free?
Yeah. Very important if your wife-to-be is "waiting for marriage" to maintain their market value, and you want to use the ring as a way to get the benefits of marriage before the ceremony.

A big splurge on a ring means that you are serious, and will go through with the ceremony. Breaking off the engagement will leave you out of pocket.

But most people aren't in that position any more. Girls don't "wait-for-marriage" to maintain their market value any more.
Take it as an anecdote.
Flag it.
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The submitter probably went to the link from google and didn't realize it was a pay wall.

Go ahead and try it http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

It is under the nytimes article at this time
Unfortunately the interface is incredibly obtuse. It took me ages to figure out that you access data by clicking on someone's face. Some good ideas here which have been a bit marred by the need to kiss the narcissistic butts of a bunch of bureaucrats.
Even without the markup, diamonds are not going to be easy to sell. A valuation based on cut, caret, color and clarity is going to be hard to do. The buyer must accept a risk that they have undervalued (and you will shop around to find the buyer who undervalues it the most), so they need to give themselves some margin of error.
While this certainly looks very cool (almost like a real Babel Fish out of Douglas Adams books) Google would have to come up with some amazing breakthroughs to both translation and voice recognition technology for this to work acceptably.

Their own service (Google Translate) is really poor and is only useful to give you a very rough idea of what a foreign language text actually says.
I wish they'd mentioned whether they tested diet versions or just sugared.
Or have the same user that runs php access to write to your webroot. This incurs other vulnerabilities though.
Why do you think an API can't expose exactly the kind of data and content found on a site?
Creating a toy virtual machine with PyPy
Weird. Still likely shouldn't be a link here, though I can grant it's more likely a mistake.
Let's just hope no soldiers attempt a rocket jump in the real world.
I'm also an app developer, and I agree with your assessment.

But... how the hell can Google not get GV in the store? Or Google Navigation?

There's spam in the app store now. But we're missing out on multiple, high-quality, well-backed apps because Apple's busy playing hardball with app review.

There are effective community spam countermeasures (see XNA) that work, and work well. I wouldn't be opposed to charging a per-app submission fee to keep spam out.

Of course simply replacing app review with nothing would be a disaster. But nobody's seriously suggesting that. The computer industry has decades of experience dealing with spam. The only really dumb idea is to hire full-time employees to find it by hand.
Indeed, I was expecting something more along the lines of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro
people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer first, educator second.
A case study in perfect marketing. I remember mentioning to some reasonably intelligent girl on how I would never buy my wife-to-be a diamond, and remember the reaction being the very definition of "scoff". The fact that someone wouldn't buy their lover a worthless rock is just too unreasonable to even contemplate.

One thing I like about wars is that they help thin out the human race. Hopefully one day, we will completely kill ourselves off; then I can finally be happy knowing that everyone alive will be thinking for themselves.
Although it's a cool hack, what's the advantage of doing this over using a GUID or a UUID? Fewer bits?
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Why I love everything you hate about Java
I wish the search would search contacts...

(Yes I know I can go to the contacts widget and do a completely different search in there - not the same)
I think about this questions sometimes for my future. Can anyone who has experienced both offer their thoughts?
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How is EQ or WoW different than "you are thrown in with a bunch of anonymous strangers"? It's not as if MMOs really allow you to choose servers anyways (yes, you can choose realms, but that's still tens of thousands of total strangers, not friends you play with constantly).

In fact, you will find these stories about WoW marriages and such come from guilds and other organized social groups within these games... these still exist in "random match" FPSes like Modern Warfare (in the form of clans, or just plain social gaming groups that play together). I suspect we will hear more about such relationships in the future, not less.

For me though, I still prefer picking my servers... it's good to know that there's an admin out there to swing the banhammer decisively and quickly when necessary. It's also nice to log onto the same server and see the same familiar faces (er, nicknames rather) without having to commit to joining a clan of some sort.
> Was there a particular one that bothered you?

All of them. ;)

I mean that in a nice constructive way. After setting up OpenBravo and other open source POS/ERP systems I am looking to get info on your product quickly. How do I import existing products? How do I perform end of year inventory? How are gift cards/gift certificates handled - if at all? etc.

Personally I'd rather read all the answers than be forced to watch dozens of slow paced videos, but if you could speed them up I guess that would be ok too.
so how many viruses have you downloaded to your Mac in last year?
Interesting.

I have a G1, and anyone can release apps to the app market. While there's crap available, it is nowhere anything like your scenario.

Maybe I just don't spend enough time checking out new apps.
What does the difference in cancer development have to be with samples these small to find a statistically significant association?
This get a lot of crap regardless: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2146-theres-quality-control-f...

With 140,000+ apps, the bulk are bound to be shit.

Deal with spammers and hardcore porn like every other site on the web deals with it. "Is this inappropriate?" flags. It's worked fine for places like Flickr to keep out the pornsters, it can work fine here.

This is a sham argument for control.
I think that is a stretch. For every person who is sedentary when they are bored, there's a person bored by exercise and least bored when sitting in front of their computer/book/writing/etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
Really? How is the android market any different? This has not happened there.
I believe that that is not correct, and that correct usage says that the whole comprises its parts, the parts compose the whole, and the whole is composed of its parts.

As with all prescriptions, this is not universally agreed upon; Merriam Webster (the first Google hit for ‘comprise’, at http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/comprise) says (say?):

> Although it has been in use since the late 18th century, sense 3 [the relevant one for this discussion] is still attacked as wrong. Why it has been singled out is not clear …. You should be aware, however, that if you use sense 3 you may be subject to criticism for doing so, and you may want to choose a safer synonym such as compose or make up.
You're saying that because there will be a ton of porn/scammy apps on the app store, people are going to stop wanting apps?

I'm not sure what you're implying, so could you tell me what you think, realistically, will happen if the approval process lets everyone in, that cannot be solved by smart filters

(ie. top apps lists, child-safe apps, as voted upon by people using the store)
I find Alexa stats sad. Om could add the Alexa toolbar today and rocket up that chart.
No you don't. It upgrades in place by pulling down files and updating itself. And you don't need to let it write to your whole webroot, just to the wordpress install directory.
So that's easily solvable using a filter of some sort.

What's stopping apple from adding a filter that says: "Child-safe" but allowing every app in to the app store, so that you can turn the filter off and browse whatever it is that you want.

By market I really meant, people, as opposed to referring to a free market of some sort. I think a free market would be great if there was some mechanism to allow the good stuff to bubble up to the top.
You'll probably get a biased view on a Ycombinator forum, but I think in essence the decision is pretty easy:

If you like to go deep into problems, conducting basic science, and attempting to solve fundamentally difficult problems that may ultimately be intractable, and if deadlines stress you out and you feel like you don't get a chance to do anything "right" and if you have the ability to focus on the same thing for months or years at time, then grad school will probably suit you well.

On the other hand, if you more interested in getting tangible results fast, and getting other people interested in what your doing, and providing a product that regular people find valuable, and you're willing to change direction a lot and throw out good work for no other reason than that market isn't biting, then doing a startup will probably suit you well.
I love reading about how my phone is going to be even better soon. Never had a phone that updates itself on a regular basis and gets better with each update.
How can you be bored by exercise? You can be bored by the premise of exercise, sure, but all the chemicals and adrenalines and whatnot make sure you're not bored when you're actually doing it.
And what, pray tell, is the difference between a business and a hobby? I became an entrepreneur precisely because that allows me to focus on doing what I like doing and doing those things in a way that I can feel good about myself. To me, that means my business /is/ a hobby, even though I'm full time on it now.
I think if you are asking yourself and others this question then you aren't ready for either. My advice for anyone who is confused about this is to get a job in your field of study first, then after a time you will know what the answer is.
I don't see how you can be anything but completely wrong on this. Why have none of your predictions come true for the Android Market?

(Yes, it's quite a bit smaller than Apple's App Store, but it's still plenty big enough that if you were on track, we'd see evidence there.)
grad school is a 5+ year commitment. Launching a startup probably takes less time. Also, grad. school is not about entrepreneurship. Perhaps there are transferable skills, but research has different goals.
Kashflow software's Duane Jackson's tips on running a succesful business
This is a duplicate post from a while ago, but fascinating all the same.
The problem here is that you're paying attention to their bullshit question. When you spend time justifying yourself it rewards the person for asking the question (because they're getting attention) and makes it look like you need to justify yourself.

(Although I suppose after enough impromptu five minute speeches about blood diamonds people will learn to stop asking you about the ring :) )
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Finishing a startup is probably also a 5+ year commitment. And going to grad school itself takes less time than finishing grad school.
When my wife and I became engaged, she wanted to choose her own ring. Since I was leaving on a business trip, we agreed on a ballpark price range and she went looking.

While she likes diamonds, they are not her favorite gem stone. She ended up buying a very nice emerald ring with much smaller diamonds channel set on either side.

So when an anniversary approached, and I want to give her a bracelet, earrings, or some such item, diamonds don't even come into consideration.

While I don't preach my view to others, I have been asked a few times about gift ideas by other guys. I try to steer them away from diamonds, endeavoring to explain the scam for what it is.
The media is also more likely to report on a pretzel choking incident when it concerns a person of interest like the president rather than a less interesting subject like me...
I thought last night's onside kick to start off the second half was a video game move
"Aylay is built on the collective intelligence of the Web. With Aylay Agile Search, start searching and get results simultaneously from the sites you know and trust, instantly. Refine your search and get results in real time without leaving the page."

That's quite a bit of marketese. None of that really tells me what it does. Is it a search engine? Does it search for trending topics? Is it a news aggregator?

I did a search for BioShock 2 and that showed me what it did. I think some better home copy would be "See search results from Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Digg and more, all on one page." or maybe "Search multiple sites and see their results all on one page."

It's actually a pretty cool service though. I don't like the custom scrollbars on the results though. They just aren't standard enough. Maybe add a slider type function, or just a normal scrollbar.
Emeralds aren't a scam?
Do you have any references to real-life instances of this happening?

It's interesting, but speculation. And it reminds me of the so-called Tragedy of the Commons, a oft-cited parable that doesn't play out quite like that in real life.

http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2542
That's Scala, not Java.

And this doesn't even begin to cover everything I dislike about Java.
The additional functionality is okay with me, so long as Google keeps it in the Labs section.

Just out of curiosity, what is being added that is making gmail less stable for you? In the years I have been using gmail, I've never had any issues, and I currently have 17 labs features running (FWIW).
I wonder if boredom could be a proxy for depression in this case. Boredom is a normal state, but people who aren't depressed escape boredom by seeking out stimulation. Depression makes it harder to pursue activities that offer an escape from boredom and harder to enjoy the activities that you do engage in.
...Mueller says the researchers didn't ask specifically about diet soda consumption, but that most of the soda drunk was regular or sweetened.

In Singapore at that time, Mueller says, there was very little intake of diet soda.
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You might want to keep an eye on http://lexpubli.ca/
They're slowly building up a library of contract templates available for use under CC.
Um, I don't hate Factories, Dependency Injection and Decorators. I hate that Java makes it very cumbersome to use them, typically via xml configuration files (so that it can be dynamic) and adding complex syntax (generics, annotations). And I hate that I can not pass functions as parameters. As he says in the article: "function composition is a degenerate case of the Decorator pattern." (not sure why "degenerate") - so instead of just composing functions, in Java I have to write countless classes and interfaces. That's what I hate.
As a guess, by "elementary econ 101 mistakes" do you mean he doesn't adopt the (quite arbitrary) Ayn Rand Axiom System?
Quoth the author:

In a very dynamic language like Ruby, open classes and method aliasing (e.g., alias_method_chain) mitigate this problem, but they don’t solve it. If you manipulate a class to add logging, all instances of that class will have logging; you can’t take a surgical approach and say “just objects instantiated in this context”.

This is not true in Ruby!

myinstance = MyClass.new
def myinstance.special_method()
puts "only on these instances!"
end
myinstance.special_method()

The author's point about avoiding unnecessary binding is well taken, but he should refrain from declaiming on languages he doesn't know that well.
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If our society collapses, rebuilding parts of it will give great economies of scale to those with the requisite knowledge. Gold might not be the most worthful metal, though; that might go to copper, until the infrastructure gets built back up to the point where we're concerned with gold's particular conductivity.
This article has nothing to do with Java. You can write modular code in any decent language. In fact, I would argue that the author's approach would work better in a more dynamic language.
I don't disagree with the facts as stated. I'm just saying they would be relevant if webkit had 90% market share and somehow went back in time to fail acid3 and stopped releasing new versions and nobody forked it. Then you might be able to compare it with IE6.
I know of many people on the list, and to me all the videos appear purposely made for the creation.
Gears is being phased out in favor of HTML5

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/01/google-is-phasing-ou...
Currency is artifice.
Wireless spectrum rules impact venues: theme parks to broadway shows
Author identification by machine learning - ethics?
I'm working on a personal project involving automated text classification for a variety of purposes, including identifying the author of a sample of text given samples of training text from a very large number of authors.

I'm far from the first to use machine learning algorithms to identify the author of a text, but I think I have something a little better than most of the research projects I've read about and open-source tools I've tested. Initial results show significantly greater accuracy and a couple orders of magnitude more speed in situations involving thousands of possible authors.

I can imagine potentially good uses for this sort of tech, ranging from keeping banned users out of an online community to identifying the author of a ransom note, death threat or the like. I can also imagine evil uses, such as identifying political dissidents to persecute.

I'm not sure how I feel about releasing such a thing in to the world (as open-source or as a product), knowing that it will be used for both good and evil. Any comments?
Since you don't control the code that manufactures instances of MyClass.new, you don't have an opportunity to manipulate the metaclass/singleton class of instances of MyClass. So this technique doesn't work.
Have you ever looked at the Android market? Aside from the porn, it has all of those problems.
huh. my experience with my own wiki is that you need to watch it, else it will get filled with spam. have you got users doing that?
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Why do you say that? The Moissonite sounds nice. Good colour, clarity, and hardness. More brilliance than diamond.
America is not lost yet.
thanks for the feedback, I will definitely edit the copy to be more direct

glad you like the service, and we welcome any more feedback
Spatial Statistics in R: An Introduction (video)
I think Chomsky's most valuable intellectual contribution is his focus on South/Central America and the atrocities that America funds there.
Google doesn't allow porno apps in the Market:

"Nudity and Sexually Explicit Material
We don't allow content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. We also don't allow content that drives traffic to commercial pornography sites."

Gratuitous updates are a problem on Android. I find it hard to believe that apps like Wifi Analyzer or Mabilo Ringtones are really being updated 2-3 times a week. Maybe but it seems strange to me. They could just be honestly submitting daily builds or something. Supposedly 1.6 has made improvements to the Market that might nullify the problem (I'm stuck on 1.5 so I wouldn't know firsthand)

For security concerns we did see the fake Bank of America app make it into the Android Market briefly. It's not a widespread problem but it's happened so we can't ignore it.
Java especially in its enterprisey form is reasonably good at covering the maximum number of possible use cases, but it's bad at making the common cases simple. Yes, I should be able to write the one-line Future without boilerplate to get reasonable default behavior, and then add custom configuration later if I actually need it. That both reduces the amount of code and makes nonstandard usage more prominent.
I'll admit I haven't ever written a JIT, but I wouldn't say I'm not informed about them. Its a question of tradeoffs: JITs can help you get good run-time performance if your types are static for some large portion of run-time, but not really known at compile-time. I would allege that they are available at compile-time. I think my research showed I could prove a type for about 60% of variables/fields/etc, and tie it down to {int,float} or {object,null} in most other cases. I guess I forgot to put that in.
I think folks who complain about java must make sure that they are using a very powerful ide first (example: eclipse or intellij idea) If, having used and mastered a good ide and all it's features, you still don't like it, it's a fair point.

Eclipse can make so many things in java drastically fast and easy. And I think that's where java shines. I'm yet to see as powerful an IDE for any other language. (Although I admit, I do not program for msft platforms and hence, never used msft ides)