skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people lose sight of just what patents are for; they are to encourage innovation.

From the US Consitution:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

Software patents as currently practiced do not serve this purpose. Imagine if you were a writer and the words you commonly used for you craft were "owned" by others? This is the situation now for software developers.
All those little yellow boxes -- the ones many Google searchers think mark the extra quality results (no joke!)

Citation needed.
Dude, they're still right where they were... running the show.
I Bet You Didn't Think AdWords Could Help With Your Organic Listing?
If I compare to the internet of 2000 and extrapolate, I guess by 2020 we'll all be using 1 site where we all post a constant stream of "lol"; the rest of the Internet will consist of billions of useless HyperRails apps to interface with FaceTwitSpace.
Hush. Not in front of the VCs.
Yeah, when I moved to the US I was wondering why everyone called it health "insurance" since it basically works completely opposite from how "real" insurance (home, liability, etc) works.

Maybe this is why people are hung up on it, because of the word? It's not insurance and it's never been intended to be insurance. IMHO, medical care is a basic human right, and needs to be treated as such.

Whether people with "risky lifestyles" should be forced to pay something more is a separate issue. (Incidentally, smoking is a bad example, though, because lung cancer tends to kill relatively early and quickly. I've seen figures that it actually lowers the lifetime health care cost compared to decades of geriatric care.)
Everywhere but Goldman, it appears.
CCTV security aimed at the register will capture your face, perhaps a parking lot camera will grab your license plate...

While the chances of someone using that information to track you down is pretty slim, it is still possible.
The Republican ideas, especially #3, #4 and #5, don't appear to actually represent the Republican consensus. If you showed me those bullets blind, I'd guess they were Democratic or neutral.
Yes, I do actually have billions of rows. See http://www.w3counter.com
Shorts: almost never. You're not 9, or trailer trash.

cough I suggest one pays attention to local cultural norms before following sweeping advice on the Internet. I work in a building full of men in shorts and sandals. None of them are 9 or trailer trash - most of them are 40 year old PhDs. They are fine. Shorts are particularly popular with people who grew up in colder climates. Provided they are a good length (say 10 inch inseam) and casual rather than sporting, there is nothing wrong with them.

Oh and I guess somebody had better throw me out of the sisterhood because I don't give a damn what shoes anybody wears. My only request is if you wear an open toe shoe, like a sandal, please practice basic hygiene and nail care.

[PS. I am talking about normal day dress. I am aware PG has opinions on what you should wear while pitching your startup; if you are pitching your startup to PG, by all means wear what PG likes. If he likes clown suits, wear a clown suit. Geddit?]
It's an analogy. A tool to further understanding. On many levels software is just like many other businesses, Just like many other businesses are like software on some levels.

I own a restaurant and I release early and often!
I am not much of a Ruby guy but iPad, HTML5 and Go are definitely on my watch list.
PyPy implements ctypes and can work with C libraries.
Am I missing something or is the Venn Diagram horrible. There are "Stage 1 Compliant" and "Stage 2 Compliant" areas, the overlap of which would logically be "Stage 1 and Stage 2 Compliant" Instead there is a third area for "Stage 1 and Stage 2 Compliant" with the count in the label instead of the area.

That whole chart is either ridiculous or I am a moron and can't parse it with my brain.
You eventually have to have code to run on the CPU. LLVM lets your compiler output LLVM instructions instead of assembly, and then LLVM converts those instructions to assembly. The level of expressiveness is about the same.

Your CPU doesn't do GC, so LLVM is not necessarily the best place to do it, either. (LLVM does do other things your CPU doesn't do, which is why C compiled to LLVM runs faster than C compiled to native code in many cases. I imagine this will work well for GHC, as well, although GHC's native codegen can outperform gcc too.)

It's also worth noting that Apple (and others) have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into LLVM. Taking advantage of that is always good, and the whole point of "free software", in fact.
Instructions for grabbing the source with git:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Git
I wish more professors were on the edge as you are. Congratulations on the useful work.
This is rediculous, I'm just glad to see that this has resurfaced and people are taking notice.
As I said, I was pressed for time, but the first few links I clicked on all had "research", "study", "survey", or "report" in the body text. That's not just somebody's opinion. Usually with nouns like this there is funding and somebody somewhat professional behind it.

But if it's just rampant speculation by uninformed people I apologize. I certainly didn't mean to spam the board. Care to prove your point that somehow all of these reports, surveys, studies, and findings are bogus? Or is this just a way not to deal with the overwhelming amount of research with unusual conclusions that somehow links into climate change?

By the way, my guess is that this is a conservative list, created for impact. The actual list of suspicious links and conclusions is probably much more boring -- and much more extensive. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

But I'm happy to be proven wrong.
I'm with this guy about a lot of these things, except for CSS3 and HTML5. I just can't get excited about either of these standards. I'm so upset that my utopian world where HTML could be parsed by anything other than a huge C program has been killed again. CSS3 is feeling very disjointed to me also.
Use this Greasemonkey.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46822
http://instapaper.com is different, and it shows. It borders on http://rescuetime.com levels of productivity boosting usefulness.
Am I doing something wrong? http://debian.org, theregister.co.uk, and slashdot.org were all "malware".
Standard ini files: ...what? Take a good look at all non-GNOME and non-KDE config files. Which one of them are ini files? I dare you to point even 3 non-GNOME non-KDE apps that use the same config file format!

Not removing configuration: yes, GConf doesn't remove old configuration automatically. Guess what, neither does everything else. Uninstall nano and /etc/nanorc will happily stick around until you manually remove it.

'find' not finding anything: I guess you didn't use find correctly:

bash:~/.gconf$ find -name 'gedit*'
./apps/gedit-2
./apps/gnome-settings/gedit

Memory usage: straw man. You would be right if there are hundreds of daemons each eating a few hundred KB, but there aren't: there are only a hand full such daemons. Okay, so gconfd-2 eats 2.3 MB of private RSS. I was wrong. But still not bad since there's only one instance per user. However the comparison with Vista is totally straw man: fact is all those daemons together eat nowhere as much as memory as Vista. They provide useful services for a reasonable amount of memory, so all is well. Memory usage is a trade-off, zero memory is only possible if there are zero features; if you want to have all your RAM available why don't you go use your bash shell with no 'ls' or anything else installed?

Grouping services together into a single process: yes, you can save memory, but is it worth to? Suppose we have a low memory system with only 128 MB of memory. There are about 10 GNOME daemons, each with a private RSS of between 500 KB and 2 MB. I'd say the total memory consumption is 12 MB. Suppose you group them together to save the process overheads, and save 30% of memory. Memory usage has gone down to 8.4. Compared to the 128 MB of RAM you've saved 2.8%. Whohoo! Now was that worth it? I think developers have better things to do with their time than to save 2.8% memory on a 128 MB system from years ago.

As hardware capacities continue to rise, the point of diminishing returns draws closer and closer: soon the developer will have to spend 100 hours of time just to reduce the already tiny 10 MB memory usage by 2%. All this to please old-gregg who would otherwise continue to complain. Now do you honestly think all that labor is worth it?
I thought the same. However some content would be better for you and some content would be better for your competitors, and the advertising budgets should be allocated according to the generated sales.

Suppose the content in question is an article on high speed photography, and some cameras are better at this than others. Surely an efficient market would reward the article with proportionally more advertising dollars from high speed camera sellers.
Study Shows Users Willing to Pay for “Freemium” Social Network Services
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Seems pretty clear to me.
http://www.google.com is also malware.
If your app just randomly stops working, and enough people tell Apple about it, they'll pull the app. It's a violation of the app store terms.
Google Spreadsheet Formulas
It varies.

Compare this young guy: http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/12010TanLeather3822Web...

with this older man: http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/11810DGscarf3456Web.jp...

The second man has serious style, and his outfit could be tailored to a heavier man. However, if you're not a young, handsome guy who pays so much attention to your hairstyle that people will notice it before your epic static cling, you can't get away with the first man's look.
JQuery 1.4.2 Released
LLVM is mainly developed by Apple and Objective-C (via clang) requires garbage collection, therefore garbage collection shouldn't be a problem.
I am individual contractor C, and company B pays me hourly as a contractor. I do most (95%) of my work for various clients of company B, but they are mainly concerned with my results, not every detail of my work. If I have questions, I usually ask the A's directly.

I believe I am operating properly here.
Perhaps this pretty graphic is true for at most 15% of the 30000 people laid off from Bear Stearns and Lehman but it's certainly not true for the all 30000 people who were working at those banks because the headcount at the remaining banks has not risen accordingly. It's entirely possible that not everyone on the planet has a LinkedIn profile.
I would not consider it any great loss if reclining was disabled in all seats. I'm not especially tall (6'), so it doesn't hurt my legs (usually) when the guy in front of me reclines, but it does destroy any possibility of using the tray table. No room for my netbook, can't put a book in there, can't really even have a glass of soda. Even when the seat is up, I'm uneasy using my netbook because the seat in front of me could recline suddenly, catch my screen, and break it.
No you weren't doing anything wrong, I was updating the malware database and how it checks for malware.
i know that change sucks for some. heck, my partner, sam, had a hell of time adjusting for the first two weeks...but, at the end of the day,

The other owner can't even navigate his own site? Maybe that's a sign...

i felt an obligation to continue to push the envelope for music discovery and was prepared to fail outright rather than sit comfortable with a subpar yet familiar music experience.

I don't know why he felt that the old site wasn't good for music discovery. It was clearly working for thousands of listeners and artists. People were even spending money on the old site.
you read this?

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care
Where the Ivy League elite socialize
This is a website I started visiting when I got into Harvard Law. It's frequented by other Ivy League types, but it's not a geek fest. We discuss everything from french philosophy to our romantic lives to current events.
> I work in a building full of men in shorts and sandals.

You work in a building full of men who look ridiculous. They and their peers may not care, but many do. And what's the point of needlessly alienating others?

I think fashion and the disdain programmers have for it play a role in creating the popular misconception among non-programmers that skilled software people should be very cheap. Skilled professionals dress like skilled professionals. Look at doctors and lawyers. Deal with it or deal with the consequences.
please pardon my ignorance but how exactly this is different from tinyurl.com or bit.ly?
"Error: MYSQL related..."
Ask HN: Whoa - why did Google bork us?
Google is suddenly linking to a test site, not our main site. Does PageRank not matter?

Looks like Google borked us, and with it, a lot of the effort we have done is currently being flushed down the drain.

Searching for our more common keywords (amahi, linux home server, linux home networking, linux server, etc.) leads to Google displaying (at least to many people), not our long-established, PageRank-6, award-winning, super-duper, url (http://www.amahi.org) but our internal site called admin:

admin dot amahi dot org

as the link for Amahi!?! (forgive me that I not to link to it here!)

It doesn't even show the sitelinks they used to show because the admin site does not have them, according to Google's Webmaster tools (WMT). There are no links on the web for our admin site (we only use it internally), near as I (or WMT) can tell.

Also, the description is not the metadata description in our site, but it's picked up from a <p> somewhere down in the first page of the site. (I just noticed Bing also having this same description so, unless they stole it from Google, maybe it's our fault.)

We went to Google WMT and claimed the admin site. The content was identical to the main site most of the time. It allowed us to test new things in it and it was meant to be private! As of a few hours, it's doing nothing but 301s to www.amahi.org bug Googlebot is still slurping it.

Any ideas what went wrong here?

- How can this happen?
- How did their crawler find the admin site??
- referrers?
- a toolbar? (we don't use any - though maybe once or twice we did for quick testing)
- ????
- Does PageRank and their famous incoming link equations not matter?? How can this be so off?
- Have we been punished? If so, for what? (we're not doing anything even remotely fishy - it's a nice burgeoning community)
- How long will this last?
- We have gone to WMT to dramatically accelerate the crawl rate of www.amahi.org
- We have set the admin site to 301 all the way into the main site
- We have asked WMT to not remove the admin site from the search index
- More importantly, how can we prevent this from happening again?
- More proactive monitoring?
- Any recommended ways to do this efficiently?

Our traffic and users has been trending down for a few days now and we're not sure how long has been going on (we just started to look at the logs and Googlebot has been at it for a little while).
Can you as us citizen register company in Canada and provide your services in US? Is there anything against it? Import tax on services?
Reading this wall of text makes me really glad Grellas set up my company.
[In Canada] There is rarely a tax reason to incorporate, unlike other [countries]. For example, incorporating and paying out dividends will run you just as much tax as running as a sole proprietor. Usually.

To elaborate slightly: The tax system treatment of dividends is set up to make "company produces a profit; company pays corporate income tax; company pays out the rest as dividends; individuals pay personal tax on the dividends" approximately equivalent to "sole proprietorship produces a profit; owner pays personal income tax". Depending on how much other income the owners have, the effective tax rate can be a few % better in either direction -- things don't line up perfectly -- but on average it works out pretty evenly.

There are, however, three common situations where incorporating produces a tax advantage in Canada: 1. If you use the company to "buffer" profits, retaining some of them in good years and paying them out in poor years (either as dividends or salary), in order to keep your personal income in a lower tax bracket (many professional corporations use this approach); 2. If you reinvest profits, since avoiding personal income taxes allows you to compound more effectively; 3. If you sell the company, since capital gains are taxed at a lower rate and in some cases capital gains on the sale of a small business are entirely tax-exempt.

Of course, I am not a Canadian Tax Lawyer, etc.
huh. didn't know that. can you show me the relevant sections in the agreement? maybe i can slightly un-cripple it in a way that would comply with their terms.
All good points. Working on the text now.
Yes, I've looked hard at using LLVM for the backend of a project, so I'm familiar with the above.

However LLVM does at least one thing that assembly doesn't, which is implement a stack. It also obviously handles CPU registers (and opaquely). To do accurate garbage collection (http://llvm.org/docs/GarbageCollection.html; note, the whole site LLVM site is not loading for me right now) you have to work with it to find roots in the stack(s) and registers. And the state of the implementation of that is what I was talking about.

Does this GHC backend use a conservative collector such as the Boehm collector? As I recall VMKit does.
Oh, I believe it, but I don't think putting Hellfire missiles on whatever's getting the realtime updates is in their plans... right now, at least.
The title is a bit silly. Hosting things in the home is not exactly a new concept, and I doubt it's something Google's particularly worried about it. Google bases a lot of decisions on the idea that everything is going to end up in the cloud and most people are ok with that. So far, nothing has happened to suggest otherwise.
Make sure you're escaping user input. I got a revealing MySQL error before and found that I _could_ have injected some nasty strings.

Teehee.
Don't forget about the porn!
You aren't missing anything. It's a nonsensical diagram.
>Tshirts. Fitted solid color shirt with jeans that fit and shoes that impress = coffee shop, homework at the library, class. Easy as pie, and if you get the fit right and are in decent shape you look good.

This is such a good piece of advice. One day when I decided about 5 years ago to be fashionable, I bought a bunch of solid dark colored tshirts, some shortsleeve and some longsleeve.

I wear them with jeans, and make sure to wash them carefully so neither my shirts nor jeans get faded or raggedy looking.

Well, I had numerous girls tell me after a while that they thought I dressed nice. WTF? Tshirt and jeans? I seriously would be wearing a black 8 dollar target tshirt, some trendy levis (nothing too $$$) and shoes and that counts as fashionable? Why didn't someone tell me sooner?

I guess no wrinkles and something that fits nice goes a long way in terms of what girls wear.
The question is - was it really hot coffee or just a tepid liquid.
That's what I do when my relatives ask for tech support - I'll do it for a home-cooked meal.
If you have high-quality traffic which generates a lot of sales, you actually can negotiate better rates with affiliate networks. Their published payouts are just a starting point for the negotiation.
Harder to type.
Why Apple’s New Ban Against Sexy Apps Is Scary
That's what I was thinking too. The HTML5 spec is trying to specify exactly how HTML is processed and not just the syntax of the markup.
New Co-op Social Network - Workterm
Connect with your friends and co-workers during co-op term.
Experts? Experts at what? Predicting the future of the internet? There is no such thing as an expert opinion on the evolution of a technology like the internet, especially at a timescale of almost 100% its effective lifespan.
Plenty of competition for sure, but we're going after the extreme low end of the market, companies who only have really basic accounting needs.

The cc / no cc thing was actually a test we're running, I turned it off for now so you can signup for a trial account without having to enter your card.

Thanks for the feedback.
Inching My Way to the Equator & Photos
Interesting idea - how can this be accomplished? Require the purchaser to send an iTunes receipt and the email address of the friend (to whom a promo code is sent)? I can't think of an automated technique, so perhaps that's the only way.

Is there a smarter solution I am unaware of?
As far as I know, it's not possible to gift apps to someone. Did that change? Do you have a specific way in mind?
:s/silly/idiotic/
wow they say double speed improvement since 1.4.1
Graduation Gaps for Science Majors
Well, I'm a total marketing n00b, twiddling knobs here.

I knew there was a great deal of demand for the game. For example, when I briefly made Hearts Net free, it was being downloaded 3500 times per day. Then I put it back to non-free, and it was barely ticking along at 5 bucks in sales a day.

I looked at things like in-app purchasing and ad networks, but that seemed like a lot of work. I was very frustrated with the experience at that point, and was just about to quit altogether. Doing even more development didn't seem like a good use of my time. So this seemed like the easiest way to stop competing with myself, with the least amount of effort.

Now that I'm getting some encouraging signs, I'll probably reevaluate the situation and see if I can come up with something better.
I am trying to work out how a large disparate and supposedly valueless list of links to these reports proves that 'uninformed people who've made up their mind in the absence of logic exist on both sides of the debate'. No, I give up.
There are similar rules to the US rules in the UK, but what we do instead is that we hire people cross border in the EU as there is no real coordination on these things between the countries. If there was they would open up a can of worms around where the tax money goes and who gets what for the services.

In fact the only sensible way to work for a Dutch company whilst living in Sweden is to have your own company or be a sole trader, even if you work 100% for the same company in the Netherlands and invoice only them.
Regarding Foursquare and Please Rob Me
If Goldman had wanted them they'd already be there.
I liked this, from the video:

> "Think about the time that you're living in, right, like Don Knuth, who's considered the father of computer science, is still alive and he's in this department. It's sort of like you're geometers and you're living in the time of Euclid."
Doctors stereotypically wear sandals and socks, which is supposed to be the greatest mistake ever. Sure doesn't stop them from costing thousands of dollars.
It sounds like even the original sponsors feel like the provision is incorrect. Now we have a conundrum. If the provision is repealed, will people start running airplanes in to buildings every time they want law changed? Seems like this guy just made it less possible to get rid of an unfair law.
This site ("Dimensions") also has some great math-related visualizations (particularly the ones showing 4-dimensional objects):

http://www.dimensions-math.org/

Fractals are in episode 6 from ~8 minutes onward:

http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_reg_AM.htm
seiken densetsu 3.. the sequel to secret of mana for the SNES.. god that was a great game !