skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a replacement battery for my 2006 Macbook Pro and it started acting funny after about 6 months (the original lasted a while and had run its course). Went to the Apple Store, they did a diagnosis test on it, determined it was bad, and handed me a free replacement.

4 months later the replacement started having issues too. They tested it, found it was bad, and gave me another free replacement. That one's going on 8 months strong without issues.

I asked the tech why this was happening, if it was an issue with my laptop or something. He said that sometimes batteries go bad. It's the nature of the beast.
You're right, many users won't care about the DRM. What they will care about is a game freezing up and crashing. They won't even realize it's from DRM issues.

I also wouldn't underestimate the tech chops of gamers. These are the guys who overclock hardware, do case mods... just because they're not hardcore hackers doesn't mean they don't understand or care about these issues.
" their own unofficial servers before the games were even out of beta."

Now here's a real challenge: Starcraft 2 beta server
Again, not true. Have you lived in Astoria (N train to Manhattan in half hour), Fort Greene (so many choices and 15 min to manhattan), Jersey City (path train to manhattan in less than half hour).

Brooklyn Heights is a terrible example. It's where the executives who work across the water live. Of course that is going to be super expensive.

There are lots of places that you can find, that are comparable to SF & Boston, and sometimes cheaper. Let me know if you need help here!
hmm... already submitted (and non-linkjacked)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151999
Ok. So you do think that being employed by 'the public' means that you shouldn't have the protection of a contract? That is, if you sign a contract, and you are a public employee, that contract should be worthless in asserting your rights under the contract?

And this:
> And, public employee unions can drive tax dollars into their members pockets.

Makes no sense to me at all. Of course they can. That's kind of their purpose...
I don't get it. It's a nice Tower Defense clone, but a clone nonetheless. There are hundreds of them out there.
I follow that discussion too (and posted some messages). The new proposal is great IMO. Simple yet powerful.

There's no formal semantics, that's true, but I think one wouldn't be very long (although I would be absolutely unable to write it myself). The semantics of the more elaborate constructs of the language (the generic for loop, metamethods) are detailed in the manual as Lua code.

One could argue that code is math, according to the Curry-Howard isomorphism... But I'm no mathematician so I don't know if the point is valid in this context.
Previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=501970
here's a link from 630 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210859
Its the keyword that has sold the game.

ZOMBIES....
Well obviously pricing them too low won't make you any money. There is a big difference between 25 dollars and 99 cents.
Do you think Linux developers lack software engineering skills and that's why they don't support the latest 3D card or wireless dongle while, at the same time, they support an astonishing range of devices running on all kinds of machines, from handhelds to building-sized boxes, on about a dozen processor and machine architectures?

Apple's choice is marketing-driven. There is no point in porting OSX for machines Apple won't make. It also saves them a lot of money. I never claimed Apple engineers don't know what they are doing. I only said that, as far as hardware support is concerned, OSX is no leader.

Neither is Windows, BTW.
Images That Look Altered But Are Not
If you look at the file history of the patent application (which you can get from http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair), you will see that the patent was allowed only after adding the "where the link enables a viewing user to participate in the same activity" limitation. It is mentioned in the Interview Summary.
I saved the bookmarklet with the keyword 'read', so when I'm a site that could benefit from it (which happens a lot) it's a simple: Ctrl-l read <return> away
ToDoList is open source. Unfortunately, it is Windows based. On the other hand, I've heard it runs fine under Wine.

The developer, Dan, is a good guy.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/todolist2.aspx
Google Chrome plugin version: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jggheggpdocamnea... It's faster than the bookmarklet.
Brownstone Brooklyn isn't exactly cheap -- my place is considered a steal here in Park Slope, but it's still an eyebrow raising amount of money.

Places like Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, and Clinton Hill are gentrifying quickly, and rents are getting up near the $2k month for a 1 bedroom mark. It's just not sustainable.
I don't really know if we're reacting appropriately, overreacting, or underreacting to climate change; but I think your last sentence is kind of like saying "Volcanoes have been erupting since Earth began, who cares if a supervolcano is about to erupt?".
That's what I thought: Deep-cycling Li-ion is much worse than keeping them charged up.
Not quite. Indeed it doesn't affect exceptions that are caught and handled; but in interactive Python use it affects exceptions that reach the toplevel (producing a traceback message) even though that doesn't make Python exit.
Phrases that should set off an alarm in every software developers brain
In software development there are some requirements that should immediately trigger all available bells in your subconscious alarming system...
NoSQL: Riak vs. Voldemort performance comparision
I love my IBM Thinkpad Z50 precisely for its ability to run NetBSD.

But no. My OS of choice is Ubuntu's Linux. To be honest, my choice of OS was dictated by the availability of decent package management and recent packages. This is subject to change (as I moved from Red Hat to Debian to Ubuntu).

But I won't move to a BSD until it plays well with APT.
TI-OS 2.53 Released for TI-84+ Family
Ron Conway, one of the Valley's most active angel investors, who has backed 190 companies

Anyone happen to know if that number accurate? It seems like, given the length of time he has been investing, that number would be higher.
Good searching. Looks like you've found quite a few more vulnerable sites too.
What's the point? IMHO, INR is a perfectly unique and well understood way of calling the Rupee.
If you're wondering what things like "operational" and "denotational" mean and what they look like in code, I created this article for my compilers students:

http://matt.might.net/articles/writing-an-interpreter-substi...

Short version:

* A denotational semantics is a function M : Program -> (Value -> Value) that maps a program to a mathematical function.

* An operational semantics is a relation (=>) between consecutive machine states. That is, if state => state' holds, then the machine transitions from state to state'.

* The relation in a "big-step" operational semantics need not be decidable. Big-step relations are usually recursive.

* The relation in a "small-step" operational semantics must be decidable.

* When you implement a transition relation, =>, it's usually implemented as a function. That is, if you have a relation R \subseteq State x State, you can encode this as a "transfer function" f : State -> 2^State.
It's easier to teach compliance than initiative
An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups
Snowboarding? There’s a couple of Powerbooks for that
I too know LinkedIn obsessors. I personally pay little attention to it...
Building Successful Web Apps
Would Erlang fit this catagory?

I ask because it's the language I'm trying to learn currently and so far it seems to have a core that's something like "Scheme with syntax" (Although I guess it's actually a lisp-2). But I don't know if it has weird edge cases that I haven't gotten to yet.
You are quite right, you do need to white-list the valid inputs for reasons other than SQL injection.

I did not explain very clearly. What I was trying to say was that output normalisation will prevent SQL injection attacks.

I am considering the components of the SQL statement, such as the string O'Beirne, to be things that have to be normalised before being output to the database in the SQL statement. This output normalisation, as the other replies to my post have correctly said, is best done for you by a library. It cannot be done properly by restricting the inputs, as my O'Beirne example shows, only by output normalisation of the SQL.
It doesn't really look like there are any advertisements on the linked page, so I'm unsure of how this is "SPAMMING.".

Is it really that much work to just not read the article? I love reading about reprap, and I think a lot of other HN readers do too.
X3 Terran Conflict had an annoying, disruptive DRM that only allowed you to install the game 5 times and would count any significant change in hardware config as a new machine. When I got more memory and had to return them, plus reinstalled my OS, I used up 4/5 in the first two weeks.

Normally, I wouldn't touch this with a five-foot pole, given that it puts me at the mercy of them having their servers up to give me a new license just to play my own game. But they did something really reasonable:

After 9 months or so, they released a patch to remove the DRM.

That seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
Tell HN: Daeken Discount Program
...and Super Mario Brothers was just Pitfall with mushrooms? It is a fun, quirky game. What's not to like?
Just curious, do you live and/or work in NYC? I find the rent (even in places like Astoria and Fort Greene) to be unreasonable, especially once you consider broker's fees.

The best values IMO are in the NJ suburbs, where you can catch a 40 min direct train into Penn Station, but pay half the rent of Manhattan, Hoboken, Astoria, etc. But that's obviously not quite as sexy and appealing.

I think a point everyone's missing is that even if you both live and work in Manhattan, you could have a 45 minute commute each way.
The Brickyard – Great Ideas Can Win… Even in Shitty Markets
I decided to launch this experiment today. Don't know if it'll be successful or not, but I think you guys will be interested in it.
I guess I'm failing to see why this doesn't apply to a whole bunch of generic social activity feeds. Github's activity feed, for example, seems to fall under the patent. What am I missing?
It's not easy for the average person to just dump snapshots on iStockPhoto and make money. You really need a DSLR to begin with (though I have gotten photos approved and sold that were taken with a Canon S3 IS), good composition, and interesting subjects. You will also likely need to spend some time in Photoshop on most images. So if you're looking at a startup cost, that's a bare minimum of $1k for camera and lens and likely $700 for Photoshop. (You could try free image editors though.) If you're shooting indoors at all, add at least a few more hundred for lights, reflectors, stands, screens, etc.

After all that, there is a lot of competition on the site. Being active in the community there helps a lot. I doubt he got to 13k downloads by just posting photos and waiting for downloads.
The problem is that we, as a society, aren't ready for the level of efficiency that technology is making possible. We don't have the values or the tools to survive a society without certain inefficiencies. The worst example of this is the tangle of buttfail known as private health insurance. Lobbyists for those companies are fighting to the death against efficiency and progress (nationalized health coverage) because, for those firms and their employees, this is a matter of "life" (employment) and death (layoffs).

In 50 years, only a minority will be able to earn a living on a free labor market. The current economic model (no basic income; minimum wage on which it's impossible to live, but that can't be raised to a liveable level without exacerbating the unemployment problem) cannot survive this change.
> Ok. So you do think that being employed by 'the public' means that you shouldn't have the protection of a contract?

No, but thanks for raising a strawman.

As I wrote, I think that public employee contracts should be limited in ways that private employee contracts aren't limited.

> Makes no sense to me at all. Of course they can. That's kind of their purpose...

I agree that that's their purpose. As a member of the public I object. Ford can't get my money without my agreement. Since govt can, I want different rules.

And, if someone doesn't like those terms, they're free to find an employer that has the terms that they do like. As long as tax money isn't involved, I don't care.
Sorry to hear about your feelings re: Boston. I really enjoyed it during my trip this week and briefly considered moving as FC has an office in Cambridge.

I do, however, feel your ecosystem pain. NYC is such a money town, and while there are pockets of sun, air, & water here and there, they don't instantiate enough to be completely nourishing.

That said, culture evolves and history re-writes itself with every passing second. Given time, I can see the city reaching her potential as a startup hub; she will make her inexorable way forward. Certainly it's time that neither you nor I can afford to let slip by, but if it's not people like you and I (& other like-minded folks) who help move this city forward, people who give a damn and follow passion up with action, who's it going to be?

I realize that you've got to put your company first, but the two (help NYC/grow company) aren't mutually exclusive. For instance Mouse.org -- I'll be chatting with them soon, & if SpeakerText is still in town, would love to place a capable high school intern from one of their squads with you.

We (NYC entrepreneurs & investors alike) might make more progress if we could set aside more than a couple hours a month to work concertedly on building culture and making history.
so what's the point of having a big battery then if it never charges to 100%?
Does clicking a github news item cause you to also make a commit?

And realize that if github and other social networks have similar features that were added after 2006, they are infringers, not prior art.
Correct.

In "modern" laptops with Li or Li-Poly batteries, it's really more about the embedded intelligence, or lack there of, of the power regulator relative to the reactance headroom of the power source (relative to system demands) than the battery itself.

Some systems, notably netbooks, have virtually zero variance in their reactive power loads so the manufacturer can skimp a little on the regulator--not so for full-featured notebooks with multiple drive and fan servos powered by induction motors. A MackbookPro running only an SSD and idling fans has the same effective reactance profile of a netbook.

A suitable analogy can be made with automobile transmissions. Two identical models can have vastly different mpg performance and component wear with different transmissions under different loads though they weigh nearly the same, run on the same fuel, and have the same horsepower/torque curve.
That looks great, but I couldn't work in an office with such a large window and no blinds. The glare would be too much.I'd retreat with a laptop to one of those circular objects and shut the door.
Why passion is not what you need in a programmer
I bet it depends on the benchmark you are running.
I hate Boston. Would never live there. So ignoring that city, where are you going to find, ohh, let's say Speech Engineers?

Why hate Boston? I would disagree. Boston's a great city to live in. It's much smaller than NYC so you can walk from one end to the other, is a lot more scenic, and my favorite part of all is that it isn't gritty/dirty like NYC is (unless you head out to Boston's outskirts like Ashland/Brighton/Somerville). Whenever I've visited NYC, all of the pretty parts (outside of Central Park) were tucked away in some place most people can't afford. Being rich in NYC looks like fun, but most people aren't rich.

NYC feels like an extension of an office cubicle to me. Crammed buildings. "Rat Race" economics in full effect. No nature, no beauty. You're insulated inside a sea of cement and brick. The only thing that's missing are the metal bars.

IMHO of course. Boston isn't perfect either, but I wouldn't dismiss it as a startup hub. Great universities, plenty of talented people available. No, it's not Silicon Valley, but an admirable alternative none-the-less. NYC certainly is too, regardless if I personally like it or not.
Approved Facebook patent for dynamic news feeds from users! US Patent: 7669123
Can we please not hijack this article's comments for another vehement argument about climate change? Nowhere in its brief content does it mention climate change, and it has become obvious that such discussions are both unhealthy and unbecoming of HN.
Doesn't seem to quite work. My simple alert "Hello World" came back with a message box containing "Hello Dorld". Seems like that kind of error level might put a bit of a crimp in any malicious scripts I try to encode...
Pedalr - A marketplace for people who love bikes
This is not my website. Just a project of someone else I found on metafilter projects.
It appears here too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/26/antarctica....
This iceberg has a fresh water enough to supply a third world's population for one year.
WebInspect looks interesting, but for this usage, does it actually offer anything above Metasploit?

(The marketing copy for it doesn't give much detail, though it does claim you can use this for hipaa compliance, among other things https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpdc/fetchPDF.do)
bug filed - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manage...
"Where is a good place to get started with studying formal semantics?"

I found "Design Concepts in Programming Languages" by Gifford and Turbak (http://www.amazon.com/Design-Concepts-Programming-Languages-...) well written and comprehensive. ( I am self taught too! :-))
You were able to figure out the orangefuse site? It's flash hell. Only half my clicks are even registering.

edit: christ they suck. Check out justlines.com (warning: autoplay sound). Click on portfolio and try to actually use the scrolly thing on the left.
Refine your searches by location
No, I meant where do you have evidence for it ever being a problem.

There was a lot of FUD around fly by wire in the early days of Airbus, none of which ever panned out. So I'm asking you to justify your similar statements.
Personally, I love the "Music Animation Machine" visualizations, especially of Bach.

Toccata and Fugue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

"Little" Fugue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVadl4ocX0M

Also enjoyable: Debussy's Clair de lune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o
readability plus http://instapaper.com are how I read anything of length online.

I.e. when I'm ready, and how I like it.
Until today I always used to CTRL+Scroll and highlight text... NO MORE :)

I have it on my FF bar now... would love the feature to change the style it while looking at the page.. different pages need different reading styles for me.
Exactly correct - and if you are using Oracle and not using parameterised queries (known as bind variables in the Oracle world), you are quickly going to have performance problems too. That's not the case with MYSQL as it doesn't have a cursor cache in the same way Oracle has. I have no idea about Postgres or SQLServer.

A rule of thumb is that if you are concatenting user input strings into your SQL query strings you are doing it wrong.
> When Apple decides whether a battery is defective or has been worn out normally, the “special utility” they run is System Profiler. You can run it, too. Check the Power section, and it’ll tell you your battery’s cycle count, the intended capacity at manufacture, and how much capacity per cycle remains. Apple technicians compare the cycle count to the capacity loss. If your battery has lost a lot of capacity in its first year but hasn’t performed enough cycles to reasonably correlate to the capacity loss, they’ll replace it under warranty.

Apple actually does have a special application that they run to determine if the battery should be replaced and if its under warranty or not for that replacement. I recently got a new battery from them and the genius pulled out an iPod Mini and booted from it and ran what looked like a Carbon app, it was certainly unpolished and reminded me of the OS 9 days. It pulled data from what I assume was the battery and plot it on a 2-D axis, where depending on what quadrant it was in they make a determination on replacement and warranty. That all being said, it might just be an easy way for them to make a determination instead of going to system profiler, but it'd make the most sense to have a standard tool for the entire company.
Having lived in both NYC and the Bay Area for extended periods of time, I would say that at least in terms of rent and location, that there are many more options for running a start-up cheaply in the Bay Area. You might be able to find a decent deal on housing in, say, Astoria, but if you look in Silicon Valley, Berkeley, Oakland, or even certain areas of SF, you'll find many cheaper options that give you twice the space and are just as conveniently located.
How Are You Preparing Your Small Business Taxes?
A road gets named after lara croft - The Inquirer
Boston is f'ing cold. And I'm from SoCal. Plus, it's a bit more blue-blooded. And honestly, I love the NYC grit. Big selling point for me.
What have you made so far? This could work really well if you had other projects out there that people could see to get a feel for what sort of work you do.

Although, I think your prices are too high; and I think you should increase the discount you give with the amount of money people give you.

You're basically giving 5% off for every $50 up to $250; I don't think that encourages people to give you larger amounts.
I use this and highly recommend it.
Intalling Drupal on LAMP
The author seems to assume that being hard to crack will be a discouragement. The people cracking games are hackers. For a significant chunk of them, the game being difficult gives the draw of being an interesting challenge, as well as a way of getting street cred in the cracking community.
Point well taken, thanks. I'm going to update it to include a list of what I've worked on and what I'm going to be working on in the future.

Edit: Done. Thanks again.

Edit #2: I considered changing the pricing, but I'm not certain of how I should go about it. Perhaps 5% at $50, 10% at $90, 25% at $200? That'd give a good benefit to going higher.

Edit #3: Decided to change over to that pricing; what the hell, why not.
How about the DRM on the Xbox and PS 3 version of the game? 'Same' game, but it is instead a vote for locked-down 'computing'. For those who do need to buy ACII.
For what it's worth, my VW has had the "pushing the gas and brake simultaneously disables the gas" functionality since 2001. It's not like this is something new and revolutionary.

(Though that of course doesn't answer the question of whether you think Toyota's implementation is bug free. But I'd wager that if they bricked the ECU, you'd get a new one...)
Yes, you are correct: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1909

At least, that is the way it is supposed to work. I've been through a few batteries that were replaced under warranty free of charge by Apple for premature failure.

I've noticed that one of my 4 MagSafe chargers is not charging correctly any more even though it can power the computer just fine. It took me a while to figure out that was the case as I kept incorrectly concluding that the problem was in the battery. There have been reported problems with the chargers failing in this way.

I think that because a modern laptop can now have intelligence in the charger, the battery itself, and the power management functions of the laptop, we are seeing problems that are hard to debug.