skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was vague about the lenght of the protection because it depends on when you filed your patent. It's beside the point, the point is that current protection is very very long, roughly 20 years.

You are correct, I have no proof that 7 years is the right number. I'd be happy for people to debate if it should be 6 or 10 or whatever. But I believe it's a simple enough fix.

Believe me, I have been through enough patent issues, I strongly wish the system would be fixed. But most proposals so far are jist plain impractical. I'd love for patent examiners to really understand the technology and only grant truly innovative patents. But it's almost impossible. I'd like for lawsuits to not take so long and not be so arbitrary, but it would require a full reform of the legal system. Not realistic.

s/20/7/a sounds much easier to me, and achieves a lot. Not perfect, but a decent tradeoff. I'm an engineer, I do tradeoffs.
"48.9 per cent claimed not to believe in any god, with 49.6 per cent claiming no religious affiliation[....]an astonishing 57.3 per cent of the Oxford sample did [consider themselves as "athiest" or "agnostic"]."

How does that make sense? Doesn't that mean there are quite a few who both consider themselves "athiest" or "agnostic" yet still do believe in (at least one) god? I'm confused.
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Seems like a slightly different way of doing things. You can already submit an XML sitemap via Google web master tools, in a way it's accomplishing the same thing (telling them what to crawl). It's not real time but the premise is the same.

Edit: Also, this would definitely lead to more use of PubSubHubbub which I think Google is pushing us towards
The Wikipedia page on the IOCCC has it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOCCC#Examples
"I describe what it really did for me, which LED to the creative freedom."

That is, selection bias.

I think you're understating the amount of work it took you to get to the point where you could launch Twistori and have it be a success. You put in years of effort as a blogger, speaker, and "thought leader".

I really admire how you've built and audience and leveraged it to build a viable lifestyle, but you can't teach that in a 12 week class.
I agree with everything Morisy said - especially dumping the windows - clicking off of them as a way of closing them was very odd. Very cool concept though!
I wonder if this will work - Roger Ebert on website monetization.
Improving Apache performance by cleaning up its configuration
No reason really. Shorter to type = )

For some reason I got in the habit over IM, and wasn't thinking about it.
Alain, I'm actually very sure that small companies do have more trouble.

For one, they have to prove that they (have revenue/are profitable) for X months. If you're a budding Twitter or Facebook in the early days, your revenue is $0 and your profits are also $0 - and that's a red flag to the immigration. And there's other criterias that similar to this where it's easy if you're a big company, but virtually impossible if you're a startup.
I've got a slow Pentium 4. I assure you, it's a real timing... A no-op build on my Core 2 Duo laptop is ~7 minutes.

Either way is ridiculous.
Data are out there and you can do little stuff with it if you want and if you have a precise question in mind.

This is what I did some time ago:
http://www.gilestro.tk/2009/lots-of-smoke-hardly-any-gun-do-...

A recurring argument among denialist is that data are someone tricked to show things that aren't true. Some of those claims can actually be tested, but one needs to know what they are talking about.
I agree with you that excluding someone from a scientific debate because he has no academic credentials or even just not the right kind of academic credentials out of hand is wrong. Certainly wrong in this case, because the linked article doesn’t even make any grandiose claims.

Valid scientific investigation doesn’t require scientific training. That’s certainly correct. That doesn’t mean, though, that every investigation has the same weight. I have no expert knowledge. How am I supposed to know whether an amateur is brilliant or crazy? Academic credentials are more often than not a useful filter to figure just that out. Not perfect, but better than giving everything equal weight.

(Cue conspiracy theories about the academic establishment and generous East Anglia email quoting – NOW! :)
Garrison Keillor: An intellect is like 4-wheel drive. It just gets you stuck in deeper snow.
Armagh itself is a smallish town in Northern Ireland, less than 1000 miles south of the Arctic Circle although bathed in the warm currents of the Gulf stream.

I wonder how stable the Gulf stream is over time.
Human-flesh Search Engines in China
Citizen engineer - sim card hacking
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While the graph is nice and this was a great visualization example in newLisp, drawing conclusions from the graph alone is not really possible without some amount of statistical analysis (e.g., de-meaning or accounting for seasonality somehow).

And to the author's credit, the observations made are not conclusions in themselves.
The File API has changed
Shera Jutt, Pakistan's first Punjabi PC Game by Trango Interactive.
Very interesting work.
isn't the need for population growth decline with the rapid rise in productivity and automation, and at some point population growth becomes a liability?
http://isocket.com

They've powered TechCrunch's ads since last May.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/isocket
The $100 Tablet, $85 Netbook
I know people who claim to be agnostic, but still fall on the side of believing in a god. It is just one that is unknown. Generally I think they would be considered deists but the term seems to be relatively unknown\out of favor.
They're born that way. Then they have to be taught to not be atheist.
Why not map stimulation sequences to single-hand gestures and stop all that peculiar self-tapping? A resolution issue?
following abyssknight's lead I have the following:

(some used to be full sites, some were just because I liked the name, and some were for projects I planned but fell by the way side)

* bgnm.com

* bigjibs.com

* billero.com

* bkexp.com

* boardingnation.com

* bubblerr.com

* costli.com

* divbill.com

* doldr.com

* elsewher.com

* guzzed.com

* fuelrr.com

* fourbean.com

* infilter.com

* revveo.com

* roqem.com

* shiftbase.com

* tabalizer.com
Any idea what their business model is? If not commission based, is it a subscription? Based on page views?
Pretty Soon Everyone Will Be on What We Used to Call Twitter
I think 18-36 months is probably a bit too large of a time span, but I think it’s a good idea (so much so that I did it for my own web app: http://irn.me/r).

I think the idea is most applicable when you have launched with a minimum feature set and have a list of things you know you are going to do. For example, having a mobile version of your site might make a lot of sense, but isn’t important enough to hold up launching.

I agree with you that announcing features beforehand is a bad idea—I’m slowly learning that you must resist that temptation if at all possible. However, if you know that nothing is going to stop you from implementing a feature, it might be a good idea to let your customers know that it’s on your mind (especially if it’s an industry-standard feature that will make them wonder WTF you were doing not to include it).
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I meant the build button, of course you don't have to do a full rebuild every time, that would be insane. Did you honestly think Visual Studio or the cs compiler is that retarded?

However, it doesn't change the fact that you still have to perform it. If you're changing a file that has a lot of dependencies, all of those have to be re-built, unlike if you're sitting in Eclipse coding Java, where you don't.
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Program your support vector machines from an R package! Make your graphs in excel! Have only the most fundamental concept of what a relational database is!

All that, and you still won't know what you're doing to your errors when you take a logarithm.
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2010 Alice In Wonderland Fandango Sales Point To Large Box Office Gross
I don't think your analysis of "free choice" captures the relevant meaning. You can't answer these sorts of questions by playing with words. You need to think about the phenomenon that is being referred to, not the phrase I used to describe it.

>but you know implicitly the mechanism is adaptive and heuristic and that it attempts to maximize value fulfillment payoff

Actually, I'm not sure that I know any of those things (it might help if one of those terms actually meant something).
I am a senior at the University of Delaware and I live in New Jersey. There are a couple of underclassmen here at UD from my home town who don't have cars and I have given them rides during the holidays. Even driving across campus, setting up a time/place to meet, and making sure that our exam schedules coincide can be a hassle when I am ready to head out immediately but they are not.

If I used this service and agreed to drive someone who did not show up for 15-20min I would be very annoyed and probably not use it again (even though I would be getting gas money).

Perhaps they can develop in some kind of rating to describe how punctual previous users have been. Then, I could write on their profile that they were late and other people would be aware of their tendencies before they agreed to give them a lift. This wouldn't work for first time users of the service though, since they would have no history...

Just a thought.
I think there's another implicit point as well, echoed by a lot of more recent startups, which is to fail early and often. If you're going to make the engineering decision to go down a path which will take a year+ to validate (i.e. developing a "PhD thesis" of a filesystem), then you'd better have a very compelling reason to do so over the current solution.
It is indeed a rather contorted argument. I think a much better case is made by Daniel Dilger at RoughlyDrafted: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/02/20/an-adobe-flash-deve... . His contention is that Flash's mouse-heavy interaction model and the iPad's (and the iPhone's) touch model are too fundamentally different for a majority of the content to work, which I'm surprised more people haven't been talking about.
You may be interested in colorForth, which is actually serious.
I was with a team spec'ing out a system ten years ago and we were already talking about this.

I'm guessing, but I'd think they're probably piloting automatic facial recognition right now in various cities. That's from a moving car, not from CCTV (I know that the CCTV guys have been working with live systems for many years now)
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I develop applications for both platforms (no games yet, though) and, despite my disdain for Apple, I'd argue that iPhone is a better platform for developing 'conventional' games.

The iPhone's ability to write in plain C will help if you're planning on using any off-the-shelf libraries. Yes, you can do this with Android's NDK using JNI, but it's not nearly as seamless.

Also, if you're going to be using OpenGL, Android's OpenGL ES 1.1 implementation is 'not complete,' while iPhone claims a complete ES 1.1 implementation, with newer models (3GS, latest iPod) supporting ES 2.0.

Lastly, if you're doing a performance-intensive game, you may want to keep in mind that your Android code will run on top of Dalvik, while iPhone code will be compiled to binary. Hopefully, this won't be an issue, but I imagine it's not fun to realize that you'll have to port most of your physics and game logic to C using the NDK.

Again, I have no experience developing a legitimate game on either platform, so take my words with a grain of salt. And as an Android user myself, I'd love to see more games on the platform. Best of luck, and let us know what you choose!
This was said much better by ESR in The Curse of the Gifted. Yeah, I don't like ESR that much, but this time he actually said something insightful. See http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20... for details.
The Last Big Thing from Apple
You're right, Flash on iPhone doesn't make sense. specifically it doesn't make cents for Apple.

Apple explicitly forbids electronic distribution of content in apps which compete against iTunes. There will never be a Hulu or Netflix or Amazon Mp3 app.

Enabling Flash on the iPhone would open the doors to allowing people to watch Hulu, Netflix, and play almost as many games they want for free. That is the main reason why iPhone and iPad will not support Flash.
Please don't underestimate the power of music to change a life. A Perfect Circle's "Judith" was a song that came out as I was leaving an abusive religious group. That, and other music, was part of a major transition in my life, allowing myself to reprogram innate beliefs of my unworthiness as an individual, among other things.

Leaving that religious group, quite literally, saved my life as I was on a track to suicide. Punk music did the same to many in that generation.
One (of the many) definitions of agnosticism is to " the view that the truth value of certain claims - especially claims about the existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims - is unknown or unknowable." In other words, you think it's impossible to know. I've written a blog post on the matter a few days ago http://syskall.com/why-we-should-eradicate-agnosticism-from-...
Video w/ fingers over book is uber-cool. Need to touch up their website & make video more like the original dropbox vid. (I.e. entertaining)
Turning peer review into modern-day holy scripture
I'm not sure that's true. A Deist is someone who believes there's a God. That's different from someone who is agnostic but who would say there's a God if forced to give an opinion.

Example: A deist is probably going to read religious text even if they don't completely believe in them. Because a Deist believes there is a God meaning that God has some preference as far as our behavior and so they'd be looking for evidence of that preference even if they don't believe in things like miracles (think Thomas Jefferson creating a Bible that omitted any supernatural elements).

An agnostic who might lean towards a God isn't going to preoccupy his or her self with moral judgments of a God because they're not really convinced one exists. They might try to be a good person for secular reasons and "just in case" but they aren't going to go out of their way to divine the judgement of something that may very well be imaginary.

In other words: One's a seeker while the other just holds an academic belief that there might be something to seek.
Actually, police have no duty to protect individuals. The Supreme Court and lower courts have ruled this repeatedly.
The repetition of death
We are finding most of the advertisers are users of mixcloud, and are buying ads to promote either their blogs or their own mixcloud profiles. The idea is the users of your site, buy ads on it, so community based.

Inventory is currently a single fixed 300wx250w image but thats just for our use case, and would need changing.
I wonder about the degrees of those that believed in telepathy according to the World Values Survey - are they "soft" or humanities degrees? Self-reported or aggrandized degrees?

I am acquainted with people with those beliefs, and many of those that are college educated have degrees from the easier colleges (or even degree mills), or in more dubious areas. This is of course anecdotal and highly local :) - and yes, very non politically-correct, but I don't believe all degrees should be held as equal.
Thanks, they never showed up in our search for a solution, prior to going and building it :)
It doesn't really change the issue, as far as I can see. I don't think of myself as being nothing more than a very complex machine. The fact that people have mental states doesn't imply that they're responsible for the outcomes of the interaction of those states with the outside world.
Or do they sell the excess inventory you dont to a larger ad network??
7 minutes following a successful build? That just can't be due to stat/getdents() calls, it can't. Check the log, no doubt there's a broken dependency in there causing something to happen (e.g. an unconditional copy done, and things that depend on the copied file). Again, you should be able to get hundreds of millions (!) of files stat'd in those seven minutes.

There may well be something wrong with the mozilla build, but I swear, it's not the metadata reads from make.
With the emergence of decent smartphone web browsers and netbooks, it really shouldn't be all that surprising.
Homeland Security chief Napolitano seeks citizen cybercrime fighters
Bigger images for better viewing in facebook
Thanks for the link! I'll take a look at that and change my strategy accordingly.
"The true value of an object lies in what it says, not its mere existance [sic]."

Ironic that his post harps on the increased importance of editors in the new age of rich digital textual content.
I kinda suspect the majority of this kind of traveler wouldn't be viewing it as an "on-time every time" mode of travel, just as AirBnB users aren't expecting hotel-style lodgings. I'm thinking it would just be a modern-day replacement for hitch-hiking...you're not sure when you'll get where you're going, you're not sure which route you'll take, but you're certain to meet someone new and probably learn something.

Of course, in places where there is no reasonable mass transit option, and for distances short enough to make flying too expensive or inconvenient (I'd rather drive from LA to SF than deal with flying, for example), it could possibly be a more efficient carpool creation tool. There are folks who make the same trip every week and hooking them up could be a useful endeavor, as well. In such a case, obviously, being on-time would be more important.

Maybe allowing selection of leisure or business travel would be a useful option.
What a superficial criteria for blog reading. Points 2 and 4 have some validity, but point 1 (You must have glitz) and point 5 (I need sharing tools because I am lazy) have nothing to do with content or annoying the reader. Point 3 is why we go to blogs these days, if you don't have the attention span save the page or just read stuff on microblogging sites.
Following that train thought how do you explain that all (most?) human civilizations have invented (discovered?) gods?
I think the best point this article makes is that you hurt your cause whenever you assume the other side of an argument is "just stupid". Part of the problem atheists have in debates is they tend to think the other side's beliefs are so ridiculous that they don't even think through counter points (beyond foolish things like "If there's a God why do we suffer")

To Tichy: I can't reply because of the killing of the article but the basic point is that empirical data shows that (a) religion is not just for fools and (b) that there might be an evolutionary reason for it and as such it shouldn't be discounted as "just stupid"
"Apple brings to market a revolutionary next step in personal computers; "

In this case, Apple popularized the next step - they neither invented it, nor were they the first one to do it. In the iPhone case, you an look at the LG Prada (revealed about a month prior to the iPhone) or the HTC phones of that era (shipped a few weeks before the iPhone). If people kept that in mind, there'd be far less sympathy for what Apple is doing right now - that is trying to stop progress that would have occurred whether or not they were there to capitalize on it.
This does not look like a scam to me at all.
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$4K is a significant investment. Assuming they were not part of a conference, which courses on writing, specifically did you take?
Treating all customers as morons is certainly a bad idea - but so is treating all customers (including those who are morons and/or assholes) as kings, very often.

It's a tradeoff between the asshole customer's money being just as good as the pleasant customer's, and the effort you have to expend to get it.

A customer who repeatedly ties up service people for hours with baseless, aggressive complaints about their $20 purchase is simply not a customer worth having.
The only reason incremental compilation is possible in Java is that the language completely lacks abstractions like macros and overloading which can globally affect the meaning of existing code. I already spend more time reading and writing code than recompiling, so making recompiling faster by making the code more verbose, repetitive, and error-prone is not a tradeoff I'm happy about.
The iPhone handles Twistori.com perfectly out of the box.

Can't say I give two hoots about the alternatives.
Open source will always win out
What? I think the override is fine in an interactive environment.

My team and I use a hack which overrides cd and as well as calling builtin cd it sources a script if it exists from cwd. This means you can get the exact enviroment you need for that working copy of a project.
Virtual good sales have made good money from free and $.99 apps. I'm drawing a blank on the game, but even people who pirated one iPhone game still bought virtual goods in-game.
Can Flex save Flash?
Amazon's Code Named "Vitamin C" for Online Merchants Rolls Out
No, several questions are being debated. The comment you refer to also asked why eating should be considered evil. And the question of whether or not humans have evolved to eat meat, especially to eat meat anywhere near the levels that Westerners (and increasingly, Easterners) do today. Of course, it has been downmodded because it doesn't comport with the status quo.

The reason I asked for people to justify their eating of meat is that this is the first logical step in any of these debates. It is not up to me to tell you why your behavior is unjustified before you have even attempted to justify it yourself. Of course, whether or not humans evolved to eat is a separate question from whether or not it is moral to cause unnecessary suffering.

You can deride moral beliefs as mere "opinions," but moral propositions -- like all propositions -- contain ontological commitments. Those moral propositions that are founded upon false ontological propositions are bad moral propositions. Opinion doesn't come into that equation. Those who value their own suffering but do not value the suffering of others have breached logic and upheld falsehoods.
What did you want to say?
How does the article make that point, that is, how does it explain how religion is not "just stupid"? What point did the article make at all?
That would make sense - I've seen some strange ads on TechCrunch that could be explained by that.
What are we going to start debating whether god exists in this thread now? I'm flagging this.
Twistori's success had pretty much nothing to do with it. It was just that I did it. It didn't need to have the response it did. I didn't start getting the consulting work til >9 mos later, which was well after I realized what a fundamental change I'd just made.

I did calculatedly create something that would capture the zeitgeist, and that is certainly a skill you can teach. Tho that's not what the course is about.

What you can teach in a 12-week course is how to identify and/or create a money-making opportunity, begin to build an audience before you launch, the skills to self-manage a project and get it out there to earn money.

Which is, coincidentally, what it's about.

If you want to read it as being about "Twistori was successful and that changed my life," I can't stop you. But what it's actually about was "I shipped something on my very own and THAT changed my life."
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