skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is true. It's in the U.S. Constitution, in fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_trial#Civil_trial_procedur...

The right to trial by jury in a civil case is addressed by the 7th Amendment, which provides: "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."

Though there are also details that matter. Here's one:

The right to a jury trial in civil cases does not extend to the states, except when a state court is enforcing a federally created right, of which the right to trial by jury is a substantial part.
Last summer, my aunt was crossing the street in NYC and was hit by a cyclist. She landed on her head and ended up spending days in a coma, weeks in a hospital ward, months in physical therapy, and a six-figure medical bill. Fortunately, she had insurance. (If she didn’t, would she have received all that physical therapy, or would she have been discharged as soon as she was capable of walking out of the hospital under her own power, even if she was incapable of getting a job or caring for her children?)
Adobe seems to think that those three things aren't related to HTML5. That may or may not formally be the case, but HTML5 without canvas is so much less.
Try asking O'Reilly directly.
Her messages were public. She just thought that nobody will find them except her friend.
I'm a bit historically confused. The "demise of Bell Labs" wasn't due to the breakup, right?

I thought they continued on for a long time after that. After all, didn't Bell Labs convert into Lucent just 7 or 8 years ago?
Ask HN: Would you use this service?
How many times have you received an email that started:

> Following recent correspondence, ...

Sometimes it's true, but mostly it's a lie.

If someone started a database of reports of companies that lied in this fashion, would you be interested? After all, information that a company tells lies like this is a suggestion that they will lie about other things as well.

What safeguards would you want to see? How would you gather the data? How would you make it available? How would you charge for it?

I don't have time, possibly it's not worth anything, but I'd really like to see this sort of blatant lying exposed.
Ask HN: Does anyone want this? Central Badge/Achievement service for the Web
I'm working on a badge/achievement provider for social sites. I'm close to having something ready for beta, but the slew of Customer Development posts recently got me wondering: does anyone actually want the thing I'm building?

My thought is that as more social sites start providing badges or achievements, it will be useful for users to be able to track all of their badges at a central location, and it will be useful for providers to have an API available to create and assign badges, and generate leaderboards, statistics, and webpages.

Does anyone have a site that would benefit from that? Is there something I've missed that would make the service more useful, given my brief description above? Questions, advice, criticism all welcome.

EDIT: To clarify, our customers are the social sites that would like to provide badges/achievements to their users but don't want to manage that themselves.
I love the Meyers books like most everyone below, but I don't think they are a good place to start learning C++. I'd begin with the 4th ed of C++ Primer, which differs from previous editions in that it uses the standard libraries from beginning so you don't spend 400 pages wading through bad code that you would (hopefully) never write in the real world.
MD5 hash reveals Lost TV Series ending?
Is that how that works? Thanks for the tip!
This looks like a summary of the first lecture of the Stanford machine learning course on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E
Ask HN:

I don't have a Google Profile, I said no thanks when Gmail asked me if I wanted to try Buzz, and I clicked "turn off buzz" at the bottom of gmail. Can anyone tell me if people can follow me in Buzz? Or if I'm following anybody?

I have been clicking around in Google and I have no idea how to control this and I don't want to turn Buzz on by accident...

Rant:

The terrible thing is, I didn't give Buzz another thought until all this negative publicity turned up. Now I'm sitting here very paranoid that Google is misusing information about me. And I'm wasting a lot of time trying to figure out what it is or isn't doing. I resent having this fear and I am annoyed that my lack of confidence that "No Means No" leads to wasting time on Google.

You can definitely add me to the list of people who believe Google is the new Microsoft. They have hired some of this generations' best and brightest for what? To find new ways to spray ad feces on the Internet, to kowtow to oppressive regimes up to the moment when they realized they were being back stabbed, and to treat privacy as a quaint and archaic notion.

Worst of all, from the perspective of the HN community, they seem to be acting like the Microsoft of old: Instead of indexing information, they want to own it themselves, which is why they roll out services like Buzz directly competing with Twitter, Foursquare, Friendfeed, Facebook, and so on.

It's a sad day for Google when I start to sympathize with Rupert Murdoch. But now I understand why he wasn't rushing to embrace how Google would add value to his news businesses.
1. Raising Arizona

2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

3. 12 Monkeys
I'm a Prime customer, and I love it. I buy way more on Amazon than I used to, and I find it very convenient. It pays for itself on Christmas shopping alone.

This could be a smart move. I've often thought about a Kindle, but never really wanted one bad enough to shell out for it (although I'm pretty sure I'll get the iPad). Dropping one in my lap, knowing that I spend a lot of money on Amazon, could be a very smart move for Amazon to make. Maybe I'll love the Kindle, use it a ton, buy a ton of books, and show all my friends.
Wow, it's very high level but exhaustive in coverage with lots of links; for example, just what will be required to build practical exaflop systems?

One minor detail is that as you scale the CPU etc. 1000 times, you're only going to be able afford a 10 fold increase in power ("It is generally agreed that an exaflop system must consume around 20 MWs [!!!], otherwise their operating costs would be prohibitively expensive").

Recommended.
No

1) Noise. I have opinions about things but they are just adding more noise. The only place I write is here... and I know I shouldn't...

2) Blogging is writing about doing instead of doing (I think Jeff Atwood said that).

3) Bloggers will do anything for self-promotion and it makes me sick.

4) What a blogger writes just doesn't matter.
If you really want to make the big bucks, what you really need is a monopoly on the desktop operating system. But the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1 and 2, and Clayton Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. § 25, are real bitches.

That's how Bill Gates made $100B. He had an opportunity to monopolize desktop OS'es and the luck/insight to bet they would one day be worth a lot, and the skills to execute on that opportunity. Yes, that kind of opportunity is very rare, but $1-100M opportunities are not.

That said, I agree with everything else you said - I agree that I'd much more like to live in a world where a black person with a poor single parent in a small town in Mississippi is given the tools to take advantage of the same opportunities as a Kennedy, but we should also accept that although it's something to strive for, and something to take steps towards (affirmative action/universal education/healthcare), there are also aspects which make it impossible. Ironically, one step towards equality is the removal of the meme "I was born <this and that>, so I can never accomplish what Bill Gates did".
When I'm picking up some new technical subject, the best way to learn about it is to google it. Most of the time, what I end up at is some blog post that tells me more or less exactly what I want to know. So it seemed only fair that I should try to give a little something back.

Some of my blog articles have been pretty popular. A couple of times they have been used as answers at StackOverflow. I always get a little buzz when I am the top google hit for some technical term.

Google rewarded me for frequent blogging by increasing my PageRank to 3. Now I don't blog as much as I used to, and they demoted me to 2. sadface

shameless plug: http://www.platinumball.net/blog/
Combinations of a String
It's kind of like Solr, but comes distributed and sharded out of the box with no configuration, uses JSON as the only document type and is completely schemaless. This leads to some really neat tricks - see here for a good example: http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/2010/02/12/yourdatayoursea...
An Angel Investor’s Approach To Assessing Your Big Idea
My Tech Interviews
Many studies have shown that older entrepreneurs are more successful. The canonical example is Ray Kroc, who started McDonalds in his fifties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc
Maybe they type "google" into Live, click the first link, then type "facebook login" into Google.
They have me a copy of that book during my orientation at Google, along with a series of other books on the core languages used within Google. Obviously, it's up to every engineer to put that to good use, but the company is making an effort to have people do things the right way.
1. The best of Youth. (Italian movie, 6 hours long, completely moving)
2. Empire of the Sun
3. ...
If only we could comment on a blog by cooking.

Less sarcastically, maybe people would like a system for posting voice comments to blogs. Startup opportunity for ya.
Great question. We actually have customers across the board, from public companies to 2-person startups. I'd say the thing that makes them typical is understanding how individuals watch their videos is important.

In the case of 2-person startup this might mean sending out pitches to investors and learning who's interested based how much time they spend watching demos. At the other end of the spectrum, it could be anything from empowering sales reps to compliance training.
Nope - I never configured anything and had about 25 followers and was following 25 people - 2/3 of which were just people I had had to email in bursts who I didn't know. Seriously flawed execution here...
I've got the same question. Shoot me an email and I can try to follow you and report back; I'd appreciate if you did the same.
All Amazon is doing is making people buy the iPad 2.0 or 3.0.
Yeah, I am not sure that one can argue that the eventual demise of Bell Labs was caused by the divestiture except, perhaps, in that AT&T would have remained a stronger company longer had it not happened. It seems more likely that they were simply the victim of the relentless focus on short term ROI that has characterized big business for the last decade(s).

I'm not even sure you can blame that on the company, considering that it's the shareholders who fundamentally encourage that behavior.
Buildapp - Create executables with SBCL
So we agree that there is a lot of room for innovation in the space of tools enabling people to output to the HTML5 stack.
YouTube Video Speed Dashboard, how good is your connection?
> [1] Or can you say that only about handwriting?

Although something that is illegible is certainly unreadable, you have hit here on the fact that the converse is false, explaining why we need both words. (I.e.: a piece of writing is illegible if the glyphs that constitute it cannot be discovered; the unfortunate comment you found was made only of recognisable glyphs, so perfectly legible, but unreadable.)
At first, I was thinking this came from Google intensely dogfooding their products in-house before releasing them into the wild: Within a company, you solve privacy issues simply by not sharing personal secrets. The frame of communication is professional and work-related and the mundane chatter won't get you in trouble.

But then again, I'm not sure if Eric Schmidt would happily share who he's corresponding with or following with the entire staff...
For anyone who knows Swedish, I can recommend (the free) book "De som byggde Internet i Sverige" (They built the Internet in Sweden) http://www.isoc.se/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
Class action lawsuit?
Replace "digging holes in the ground" with "repairing decaying bridges and highways." Remember that bridge collapse in Minnesota? Remember the spate of news articles about how many other bridges were in similar danger over the next decade? And then silence!
25% of Russian software retailers sell pirated Microsoft products
So what's the real story here? My wild guess is that Microsoft is making noises about implementing more of HTML5. If Adobe gets Canvas shifted out of the spec that radically reduces the chances of it being implemented in IE.

edit: or, "As a First Public Working Draft, this publication will trigger patent policy review." Is Adobe trying to keep patents on Canvas under wraps?
If anything, Google should've learned from the Facebook debacle before releasing a News Feed of their own. Essentially, Google made the SAME EXACT mistakes as Facebook did.
Do you have a connection to this site? Looking at you posting history you seem to post from it a lot.

Just curious.
In high school ('01-05) I had a site called "rants". It was a blog read by maybe 10 people total, including my parents. I happened to email O'Reilly to ask about something and they noticed the blog in my sig. They invited me to start posting reviews in exchange for free copies. I only got through two books but it was fun! Anyway, I found my old review of Learning Perl on the wayback machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030421033045/http://rant.c99.or...
Badly needed Buzz improvement #1: individually hide followees
More detail from one of the authors: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/11/chip-and-pin-i...

I'm not sure why this thread got no interest. EMV chip and pin has been introduced in Canada, and the authors say it is being adopted in the USA. The scheme is designed to put liability with the card holder, so insecurities should be given widespread attention to stop banks from being allowed to blame their customers for their problems.
Thanks! I'll look into the literature you mentioned.
To have some semblance of control over my Google results.
Yes.

I blog for three reasons:

1) To make some written record of my opinions and thoughts for my progeny to read years after I die

2) To organize my thoughts. I find that by writing about things that somewhat confuse me, I am able to clarify what I believe and why

3) To preserve my skill at long-format(!) writing. Blog writing is different than tweeting, or emailing. "Long format" seems a stretch, but in today's technology arena a blog is like a novel used to be. Being able to cogently organize a theme, a tone, a thesis, and supporting details makes me a better communicator overall.

There are some bonus reasons: it also helps me remember easily forgotten details of issues. It is a good way to have some lightweight web design work to tweak every now and then.

Blogging is a good habit that is good for you. I hate to see that Facebook and Twitter take a lot of my time away from it.
You could ask for nothing more than the positive influence over millions that this man had.

Not to mention all the people who suddenly had a reason to find out what a roof looks like up close.
Google should fight Apple with generosity
I didn't have a public profile but Google still automatically added people who were following me. I had to block them one-by-one.
Fortunately, society (theoretically) compels people to adopt certain values.

Which, unless I am misinterpreting the preceding sentence, means that essentially discrimination is never a problem.

What I meant is, there are some attributes that would be acceptable to consider in one context but not in another. For instance, if you were hiring a prison guard to strip-search male inmates, it would be reasonable to confine your search to men. You're discriminating based upon sex, which ordinarily is unacceptable, but in the context of this position, is relevant. If you were interviewing for another position, such as a prison administrator, limiting your search to men would be an arbitrary constraint that's irrelevant and puts an entire group of people at a disadvantage.

Society tends to classify discrimination as bad if you use an arbitrary characteristic AND one that the individual has no control over.
Actually, I've been blog free until just recently. I'm a terribly sentimental type of guy, but I had never realized the potential of a blog to be almost like the "new" photo album.

Since I started with that idea, I've also realized that online identity is becoming very, very important. So much so that people land jobs because of it. It's a great way to break the ice, on the readers terms.

So while I feel like I'm late to the game, I have now immersed myself into social networks. I started blogging, flickring, facebooking, tweeting, githubbing(?), and now, buzzing.
And here I thought that entrepreneurs were the ones who did something nobody else has done before - what's the deal with needing role models that are just like yourself? (And I don't mean the poster specifically)

It really should have no impact on either your performance or your willingness to do something if someone else was this age or that when they did something impressive. IMHO.

If the timing is right and the idea and execution are excellent, it'll be big. If not, it won't. Just go ahead and find out which one it is!
I had two things to say(1,2), back in 2007 or so, so I started a blog. Now I've said them, as well as a few other things, but I don't really blog all that much these days.

Who knows, maybe I'll get inspired again one of these days...

(1)
http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/02/two-weeks-vaca...

(2)
http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2008/05/laid-off-one-t...
You do realize that China is also losing manufacturing jobs as well right? Most manufacturing jobs are lost to robots not China.
I think your comment is most on point here. I understand the original poster's need to find validation but the reality is the forces that decide whether you can be a successful tech entrepreneur aren't external. It's the Internet for God's sake you can be 15 or 115 and people probably won't even know. Those who will know probably don't care (there have been YCom. startups by people in their 30s)

The question's that matter are internal. Do you still have it in you? The one advantage youth has is energy. Can you work the 7-9 schedule? Can you make it through the 84 hour weeks? Are you passionate enough about your idea to do that?

That's what matters. The rest is just navel gazing imho
Funny coincidence, I just ordered the book a day before this link pops up.

Really looking forward to reading it now.
You're wrong. All sorts of people were following me, and me following them, just by clicking the Buzz link.
Is there some reason that 'blocking' a person wouldn't accomplish this? I keep seeing people request this, but within Google Profiles, there is a 'block' feature that you can apply to a given person. I admittedly haven't tested it, but I honestly can't imagine what else it might do.
...2500 years ago.
It appears that representatives from Google and Opera are the ones playing politics:

At least two members of this team, Ian Hickson[1] and Anne van Kesteren[2], representing Google and Opera, respectively, have been writing this morning that Adobe is officially blocking publication of HTML5. This type of communication could cause FUD among the community of users, and should be addressed as soon as possible.
Andrew Black was in his 30s when he founded Betfair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betfair
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but is this article suggesting that brain damage is causally linked to increased spirituality?

If so... lmao?
This reason is kind of lazy, but: Blogs help in making an awesome site devoted only to a particular subject and news about that subject easily. But the only criteria is: don't let it look like a normal blog.

For a personal blog:
1) Love writing about ideas and my thoughts even though a selected few would only read them. Makes me feel good and keeps my brain working.

2) After school, we didn't have a proper language subject, just computer science, maths ..., writing maintains the communication strength. Language is important too!
The main reason I blog is so other people can avoid having to go through some of the struggles that I went through. Examples: posting a useful code snippet; I will soon post a guide about how I fixed my insomnia. I soon hope to get the courage to tackle deeper, more personal issues about depression, friendship, identity, purpose, family, conflict, relationships. Although insomnia is serious and personal, which is why I'm holding off on posting it... for now. It will be written and published soon. I declare it.
Ask HN: Try out my new spec list app, Speckle
Ha! I didn't even make it that far I was so turned off. But I'm not a Grammar Nazi. Even Stanford students can use English how they want.
Building a Common Lisp webapp using Python's envbuilder
It seems another website is now the top result for facebook login, with equally uhm.. odd comments: http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?do=comment&news_id=c5...
So Arrington is the neo-con of tech reporters?
Or it may possible he forgot the links are password protected because he's part of the discussion and doesn't sign in everyday...

Occam's or conspiracy? you decide...
I thought this was already widely accepted as simply a control issue?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_machine
http://www.grandin.com/inc/squeeze.html
Ray Kroc, Jeff Bezos and others are, of course, extremely successful, but these are more than a decade old examples. Anyone aware of more recent cases? I'm not doubting quantity/quality of the "modern" cases, I just can't recall any at the moment..
Read the formatting information. New lines don't create new lines, leave a blank line to create a new paragraph.

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Then here we part company: as a Roman Catholic, I believe that human beings come first -- although we are to be stewards of the earth rather than masters of it.
Meet The First Miners of the New Social Graph
Or his intended audience is people on that list, I suppose.
I'm not sure where the customer pain is? Are there really users out there frustrated because they can't see all their badges in one place?

If you're approaching the problem from the other POV, as in social sites don't want to manage their own badge process, and hence you're offering a 'white label' badge service, then there is potential.
Translating to english it says that one possible cause of religion is brain damage.

I don't know how good their science is but no wonder they had to hide the conclusions behind convoluted language.
Absolutely. And it would be a good thing, since every new internet connected platform is going to implement an HTML5 runtime, and the more people who can create stuff the better.
Just thought I should point this out: that Euphoria video is totally fake (that is, prerendered and not actually generated in real time like they want you to think--it's less impressive than a second year animation student's demo reel). See http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/11/why-we-are-not-using-euphori... for details.
U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile
The weird part is that of my 6 followers, 2 are people I've never heard of before. One is following 20 and the other 77 and they don't look like spammers, just complete strangers with no reason to have found and followed me.