skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I could tell you stories. OBGYNs who didn't know the answer to a question, and spent all of 10 minutes Googling it (I'm not kidding) and coming back with an "authoritative" recommendation. But really, there is a big difference between researchers and practitioners.

You do point out a very important phenomenon, however. A good many doctors don't know a thing about proper statistical analysis, or bayesian reasoning. They implicitly trust whatever research falls into their laps, even if they don't fully understand it, and they begin to treat based upon their faulty understanding.
The last high-profile case was the aforementioned Apple v. Microsoft from 1988.

They've issued plenty of C&D letters and takedown notices to individuals making Aqua-alike UI themes for other operating systems, as well. Not nearly the same threat display as an actual suit, but indicative of Apple being proactive about IP defense.
Of course, what would be the point of making my (admittedly short and detail-less) critique if I hadn't?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Krust_Caribbean_Bakery_%...

The company was started with friends and relatives contributing $100 a week after they couldn't get a loan from a bank.
I feel like this post, the essay on the phrase "it turns out," and the post on eating slower to reduce caloric intake, all showed up at the same time for a reason.

"It turns out, eating slower will help you avoid choking on hot dogs, too."
Maybe they want to scare hardware makers out of using Android.
Something I discovered by accident: in the "Final Words" section, if you mouse over the italic words "Ogg isn't bad, it's just different", they change to "Ogg isn't dead, it's just resting".

I don't really understand the reason behind that.
I agree. I don't think it is necessarily POSIX that needs changing. The POSIX interface still works fine, it is only the implementation that needs modification.
I disagree. Lots of applications only require dumb bit buckets. There is no real sophistication or structure to the data. Anything more is over engineering for a large majority of products which data storage is not particularly useful or meaningful.
Granted, I don't think these have been used offensively, but here are two patents that they benefit greatly from.

Menu bar - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_bar#Ease_of_use

iPod click wheel - http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-receive...

I have no doubt that they would protect these if other companies infringed upon them. They offer significant usability advantages that Apple doesn't want others to have.

What we're seeing now is a bit different. The market is moving so quickly now that Apple is trying to setup some boundaries that they don't want others to touch. I don't think they really had to do this with these examples. I'm not saying any of this is right, I'm just not all that surprised by it happening.
That is definitely a possibility. We're coping with it for this first event by targeting companies that aren't cherry picking skill sets; they're willing to give someone time to learn as long as it's a smart developer who gets things done.

For future events, we'll try to break things out more and specialize, not only by programming language, but we'll start to have events for designers, systems administrators, etc.
I help put on the Boulder version, highly recommend it!
Meta note: This comment in my opinion asks a good question and furthers the discussion, as is evidenced by the many replies. I don't agree with it, you may not either, but that's not a good reason, in my opinion, to downvote it.
I think the interesting point is that if HTC settles using either cross licensing some patent of their own, or by paying to license whichever of Apple's patents are upheld, the outcome will be to limit Android to those who can defend themselves similarly.

This might actually be good for innovation. Android - strong as it is, is not a leap forward from the iPhone, but it's now the center of gravity for most people who need a mobile os to go on their touchscreen devices. If there was more incentive to develop a truly radical mobile ux on top of Linux, it might be better for all of us.
Quad trees would be a cool algorithm to cover.
"the use of a proxy object to communicate between threads"

WTF. How the hell do they get away with establishing non-obviousness for these things? (Wouldn't that cover OTP, Go channels, Java Channels, etc.?)

I have no beef with Apple per se (thus would have you wish that for all companies) but clearly software patent system is fundamentally flawed.
No it doesn't. There just hasn't been a windows developer who cared enough to write the interface you want. That could be you if you care.
"Who will want a pale imitation when they could have the original?"

I'd imagine it's the people who want a cheaper option that does most of the things an iPhone does and don't mind the lack of polish.
You can't talk about productivity if you don't define what the goals are. One can be more productive with even HTML than with C++ if the goal is to produce a simple website.
Topeka 'renames' itself 'Google, Kansas'
I use Ogg... Sometimes. I'm actually a bit curious about why no-one has suggested the use of mkv. It is an open container format, and works quite well in my experience.
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Not rivers, but aquifers: http://www.svtc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=svtc_silicon_va...
Anyone know of any touchsreens in the 5-7" range that cost <$50 in bulk, or where to look for them?
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This is the best of the best events for entrepreneurs anywhere!!!!!!! My number read of the day. Read it!!!!
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The Android sound API is unfortunately very far behind the iPhone. There is as of yet no low level native API for sound whatsoever.
No. Bob Dylan is still the Bob Dylan of our times. Go listen to Modern Times or Love and Theft again. In the genre, I'll still put Common above Kanye in lyrics, and so would Jay-Z. How about The Roots?

Kayne, as a producer, does great work. His lyrics are usually good. (I'm not a fan of Misogynist hits like Kanye's Workout Plan or Golddigger, but hey.) But Bob Dylan?
That's trademark law. Not the same thing as patent law, which in turn is not the same thing as copyright law.
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Is there anything similar for the Nashville area? I know I've heard about Nashville having a small startup community starting to develop and I haven't been able to find any good, up to date, resources like this for Nashville.
Patient-care medicine is not a science. That is, doctors do not use the scientific method when dealing with patients. It's certainly informed by science regarding best practices and techniques, but diagnoses and treatments ultimately comes down to a doctor's intuition about a given situation.
> I read a book that was published over a decade ago, that reported that every one of North America's great lakes had been overly polluted.

Things change in a decade.

> The silicon valleys are known for poisoning rivers.

While fabs are full of toxic things and some of the disposal early on was suboptimal (I'm still waiting for the Sunnyvale city govt to create its own Love Canal by grabbing some of this land for housing), "silicon valleys" have not poisoned rivers.

And no, that's not a metaphor. A metaphor is an analogy between thoughts, ideas, or things.

If you're not correct on the details that I can check/know personally ....
Well, I was being sarcastic. I grew up with the rhymesayers and think Kanye's lyrics are a joke. I'd rather listen to Little Wayne, at least he's not pretending to be deep.
As far as I know Introductory Microeconomics is much more than that... not intending to disrespect to Joel, but my father, being a formed economist with a master degree, laugh reading this some years ago. Watching two courses on Introductory Economics and trying to analyze a [fairly complex] situation with a great number of players is the same thing as passing as a analyst after watching a course on basic calculus.
Takes up some 4% of one core on my Core2 Duo Mac Mini with Safari. Which is entirely too much.

As I understand it this is a mis-appropriation of CSS3 and HTML. What really should be used for animating graphics is the HTML5 Canvas. After all the purpose here is resource generation, and not altering the presentation of a document.
Great idea and great people!
Lots of high-end AV equipment, plus some nifty signed plaques...
Thanks for your comments.

I don't think it is a bad thing that we may be a consumer society.

And you are correct in that observing people passively on the train without asking them about themselves is a biased filter.

In my biased worldview, I do believe strongly that most people are happier consuming content vs the pain and joy of producing original content (for example, the creative army behind a hit series like 'Big Love'). Personally, I am happiest when I am making something (whether it be a homemade crappy non-Hallmark but sentimental birthday card or some Cocoa code for an upcoming iPhone app). And it is very, very easy for my addictive personality to sit on the couch and surf on the iPhone until the battery low warning.

On a tangent, is why I believe Facebook/Twitter/et al. are positive - they allow people to share bits of their interests/lives.

Note: A few of the best conversations I have ever had have been with random strangers (non-regulars) on the train/airplane about their lives
It's not being deleted due to lack of content. The main argument for deletion seems to be the lack of external non-primary sources.
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Patent troll is currently a controversial term, susceptible to numerous definitions, none of which are considered satisfactory from the perspective of understanding how patent trolls should be treated in law. Definitions include a party that does one or more of the following:

- Purchases a patent, often from a bankrupt firm, and then sues another company by claiming that one of its products infringes on the purchased patent;

- Enforces patents against purported infringers without itself intending to manufacture the patented product or supply the patented service;

- Enforces patents but has no manufacturing or research base; or

- Focuses its efforts solely on enforcing patent rights.

- Asserts patent infringement claims against non-copiers or against a large industry that is composed of non-copiers

--------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Trolls#Etymology_and_def...

I think in this case the fifth definition applies?
> In the humanities it is a bit harder than medicine because you can't even do controlled experiments in most situations, and observational statistics is complicated.

That's not the hard part. In the humanities, people care about the answers. They want to find economic value in diversity, for example.

No one went into medicine to prove that a particular compound cured gout.
I haven't read the article yet (disclaimer), but would this speak to the influence of asymmetry of information (who knows what), that has been mentioned in the media more and more in the last few years?
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> Most people that push RDBMS solutions try to shoehorn an RDBMS for every possible scenario.

That's true of Java, garbage collection, FPGAs, and every other type of computer technology.

It may be a consequence of turing completeness.
I believe the targeting of HTC might also be due to their modified android version with almost exact copies of the gesture from the iPhone (pinch to zoom in browser).

But frankly, that stuff falls in the obvious category to me. And Apple claims to being a great company with awesome originality does feel like re-visioning history.
Gravity is proved. Evolution is rock solid. We still don't know if coffee is good or bad for us.

Gravity is not proven. Falling is easily observed, and general relativity is a pretty good theory for it, but the jury is still out on how exactly gravity works. Evolution is also easily observed (e.g., drug resistant pathogens); its basis in natural selection and genetics is the part that is rock solid.

As for coffee, it's some combination of good and bad. Which part dominates in which situations is up for debate.

(Apologies for being pedantic -- caffeine high just set in.)
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How do you do the Splitscreen interviews? Is that all done with Justin.tv?
The author needed to beef up his argument.
Getting benchmarking right (Clojure)
a great idea well implemented!
"True, but my question is, why not go after HTC et al sooner?"

Nobody sues if they can avoid it. Lawsuits are extremely expensive, and companies will exhaust all other options first. The lawsuit means Apple demanded more than HTC was willing to pay, and decided they would fair better in court.

Also, "iPhone knockoffs" doesn't necessarily mean patent infringements. Without doing in-depth research into the specific claims infringed, you can't say for sure whether any infringement took place.

Patents and patent law are incredibly complicated. There is no simple answer to _why_.
I'm sure it's different in every city, but the one I have here is pretty disappointing. It basically only covers a few events that are affiliated with two or three of the local universities.
How relevant should networking and extr-vs-introversion be in the age of internet. Online forums create more value (more variety, more open critique) than face to face converstions. I'd bet extroversion and physical networking increasingly become liabilities in business. Those who communicate onlne and just get work done should be doing better than 'movers and shakers'.
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A time-based bounce rate measurement would largely minimize all the downsides listed in the article. (That plus some sort of event tracking for outside links.) It's unfortunate that's not the standard, default measurement for bounce rates.
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Then my argument is even stronger, and you're not consuming 330, 440, or 550 calories.

Body mass of any type ups your daily burn rate. If you weigh 350 pounds, you may be burning quite a bit more than 2950 calories by just sitting there being fat.

Here is one calculator: http://walking.about.com/cs/calories/l/blcalcalc.htm
I went to Amherst, and I think you're spot-on with the east-coast mentality. In my experience, most of the students there just got onto the law-school/grad-school/Wall-Street bus and sailed comfortably into their next gig.

It's also worth noting that Harvard used to actively encourage undergraduates to take a year off to recharge their batteries and get a better sense of life outside of college.
Everyone should vote with their wallets. I make a concerted effort to purchase pork that has been raised in a sustainable and compassionate manner. I eat at restaurants like Chipotle who care about the farmers that they do business with. Where and what you buy is the way to change things.
Does that training include training them on what makes it valuable? There's a lot of great benefit to getting your content and brand out there, and you're absolutely correct that it can be done much cheaper than the $1k press release, but I've seen a lot of companies just start content pushing without an objective or goal besides exposure, and then flounder when undefined objectives aren't met because they don't have the analytics to go after a market they haven't targeted.

Three's a lot of social media expertise out there, but little that currently aligns it properly to a business objective, in my opinion. This guide is a handy how-to, but without knowing where you want to go you're just spinning your tires.
I don't feel Steve Jobs is notable solely because he 'consistently raises the bar', but his approach to creation. Jay-z admitted in his lyrics where he says "I wanna rhyme like Common Sense, but i did five Mil,
I ain't been rhymin' like Common since" that he prefers to be more profitable rather than to fulfill his desire to rap about what he wants to. Biggie doesn't have a catalog(2 studio albums) large enough to really say that he consistently raises the bar. Also both Biggie and Tupac came from an era that produced Naughty by Nature, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, The Wu-Tang Clan and many others. It's a bit much they raised the bar when there were others around pushing hip hop at least as far. But I digress, the ways in which you can draw similarities to Kanye and Steve Jobs is that they prize aesthetics, are known for creating what they see as ideal, a disdain for compromise, going against the grain and being extremely successful at what they do. So I think Kanye is far more analogous to Steve Jobs than anyone else in hip hop.
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You should hook in with location based services to make achievements based upon completing x% of a weekly set.
I fail to see how Apple stating their intent to be an asshole makes them any less of an asshole.

Patents are, in the words of @lapcat: anti-competition, anti-free market, anti-consumer. First to market is already a huge competitive advantage.

Patents are a huge part of the reason you're paying so much for health insurance right now. They play a large role in stifling innovation. Imagine you have a great idea that hasn't been done before, but you suddenly discover parts of it have been patented. The patenter isn't doing shit with the idea, yet they have a 20-year monopoly on it.

Oh, and they also happen to be a huge monolithic organization with thousands of employees worldwide that is patenting thousands of ideas every year, yet actually implementing only a small fraction of those ideas.

Don't think this happens? You don't know much about patents then. The patent system is one of the best examples of an idea backfiring on itself that I know of. It was supposed to protect the guy toiling in his garage on the next best thing (read: Apple in its infancy), but today it's doing the exact opposite while screwing consumers over to boot.
I find the asininity of this debate exasperating.
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Predictably Irrational is the fun intro, but a better overview of the subject is Poundstone's Priceless - The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It). It's a newer book and doesn't focus so much on Ariely. I just took a behavioral economics class last semester and kind of feel like Priceless is giving me a better feel for the field than my actual class did.

I'm actually very interested in this problem space and will be thinking about it in my spare time, so email me if you want to discuss it.
That's too bad, send Abishek the curator in Pittsburgh about the events you like in Pittsburgh. Or email me directly chris at thestartupdigest.com and I can put you in touch with him.

Thanks for the feedback!
For the record I'm not calling you evil. So this isn't an ad hominem attack... unless you're a factory farmer, in which case, you probably are. ;-)

People eat more meat at more meals than they ever have in history. The truth is that it's unsustainable and it causes huge long term problems for our environment. The fact that we have always done it doesn't really matter. We know we can live without it and be healthy. The question is should we continue to do it and if so, at what cost? And as hackers, we might ask if there's a way around it.

Comparing loss of human life in the deadliest war that humans have ever fought (where most of us have no problem labeling certain actors evil) perfectly illustrates the magnitude of the "magic" large numbers. The very best killing apparatus that war has ever seen is beat by factory farming in one country in 3 days. I find that to be truly incredible.

Maybe you don't want to stop eating meat. But maybe you do care about some of the problems the world faces because of it (water shortages, global warming, human famine, rainforest depletion, run-off into other food and streams, mad cow or swine flu, etc).

For many people this is a truly emotional issue. A judgement about factory farms feels like a judgement about themselves. I was once at a very expensive conference (like $2k a ticket) and after a speaker suggested that people cut their meat intake to solve some the world's problems about a 1/3 of the people got up and left. But most people who don't eat meat today did at one point in their lives. I'm part of a family that until I left college ate meat at every meal.

It's not enough to say we're going to keep doing what we're doing because we've been doing it forever. As hackers and entrepreneurs we know that human behavior can change and we often try to be the ones who cause it. We don't happily accept the status quo. So why do so many of us readily do so when it comes to eating meat?
While that may be logical, it may not be true in this instance. Apple has a track record of filing lawsuits it knows it almost certainly won't win. I don't think they're afraid of losing money on a lawsuit.
"SVN vs Git"

An excellent comparative case in point that in my opinion actually undercuts what you are asserting.

You do not lose features and functionality in that transition (where as noSQL is by design reductive), and further, Git is a replacement for SVN and not a complementary tool.
By "time-based" do you mean how long they spent on the page?
When a person talks that way, they've either "drunk the Kool Aid" or are trying to get you to drink the Kool Aid. Either way, you have cause for concern -- whether they are (fanatically) naive or disingenuous.

EDIT: Now having read the article, I don't see his comments as being quite that strong, despite the use of the term "religiously". But I'll leave my prior comment: When people rule out the competition without good (or any) reason, it's a warning sign.
You can find the video here, the show that ran it is called "Report Mainz" (Mainz is the name of a town).

http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl...
I would check out BarCamp Nashville and 48Hour Launch.

Failing that contact @ecmathews directly with a question. Eric is one of the most outspoken and hardworking startup proponents in Memphis so he'll certainly know more about the Nashville scene than I do.

Edit: 48Hour Launch is similar to Startup Weekend. The first event was held in Chattanooga recently and Memphis's inaugural is this weekend.

http://www.barcampnashville.com/

http://www.48hourlaunch.org/

http://twitter.com/ecmathews
This is something that OSS folks in general need to work on. People forget that tone does matter. Speaking your mind is good, but speaking your mind in a caustic fashion doesn't help your cause. Especially when the issue is a complex domain-specific one (like the convoluted world of AV containers and codecs), and the vast majority of people are not going to understand the fine technical nuances of your argument.
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The Ottoman Empire was religiously tolerant and motivated by conquest as well. (The irony of the 20th century is that if the empire could have staved off its breakup for just a little longer, they would have had Iraq's oil wealth to back them up and very well could have developed into a modern superpower.)
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