skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I have the EXACT same issue. Tree Style Tab is so incredibly valuable, I simply can't use a browser without it for any serious work.
I recall reading more than a few articles about a strong positive correlation between socioeconomic status and autism diagnosis rate.

What I've never seen addressed in any of the underlying studies, was whether the rate could be determined to be tied to prevalence of condition or prevalence of diagnosis.

Given the "flavor of the month" status that Autism Spectrum Disorders have attained, I'm very skeptical that the socioeconomic link is anything more than the same helicopter parenting that seemed to lead the explosion of attention disorder diagnoses and prescription rates.
Ask HN: How did AirBnB solve the marketplace problem?
Jason Cohen recently wrote "Solving the 'marketplace' business model" http://blog.asmartbear.com/marketplace-business-model.html

How did AirBnB do it?
And that only further proves the importance of Norvig's point.
Also, you can easily add custom keyword searches under Preferences. For example:

Name: Youtube
Keyword: y
URL: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s

Then just type "y civilization v" and shazam, you're on Youtube, looking at a list of trailers and previews for Civilization V.

Firefox has the same feature; I believe it's called "Keyword Search" and can be accessed through Bookmark Manager. I always found Firefox's separate search box redundant for this reason.
http://newzleech.com - I've always used newzleech. They were also shut down for a while but they are back now.
From Design to Market In Eight Days Or Less (2006)
"If you’re in the United States though, don’t bother pulling out your phone to check out the site for yourself — none of the US carriers are on board."

Totally not surprised.
Xobni brings Google Gadgets to Microsoft Outlook
There was a related thread about "movies that motivate you" just a little while ago, too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1349566
This is an interesting point - thank you. What would you consider the level of transparency to be? Does it mean sharing detailed revenue figures, or is it more about simply being open about your "growing pains"? Thanks!
Yeah, I'm not aware of any precedent with that specific arrangement (though that doesn't mean there isn't one). My guess (purely a guess) is that US courts wouldn't consider it anticompetitive without more of a smoking gun, especially since Facebook isn't a monopoly (they have strong market position, maybe even dominance, but not anything like what e.g. Microsoft had in late-90s desktop OSs). If you are a monopoly, subsidizing almost anything gets looked at under a microscope.
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Agreed. I actually have found that the kind of high I get from caffeine greatly depends on the source it comes from.

For me, coffee is drastically inferior to the high I get from earl grey tea (most black teas in general). I find that with tea the high is much smoother and lasts longer; if you can imagine a bell curve, it would be wider and with a smaller amplitude, whereas coffee would be narrower and with a taller amplitude.

Also, I've found a 20 minute nap at mid-day with green tea afterwards (about half the caffeine content of my morning breakfast tea) to be much more effective in improving cognitive performance than to skip the nap and rely solely on caffeine. For the rest of the day I'm caffeine free.

</personal-experience-disclaimer>
Can an admin please fix the title?
This seems like a nice gesture to be sure. The cynic in me can't help but wondering whether you're going to get more traffic from this offer than the selected startups will get from the free advertising. Does codesketch.com have traffic?
>However, I'm surprised at how little Apple has emphasized Flash's fatal flaw for mobile: memory use.

It's because this isn't REALLY about technical issues. If it really was, Apple could easily say "Sure, we'll include Flash if you give us a version that performs to our satisfaction under these scenarios, otherwise too bad", and that would be the bulk of the argument for not including Flash. I haven't seen much evidence of this happening.
And only the 4th time Microsoft has made a patent claim against another company, which is amazing considering the large number of patents they have.

I wouldn't be surprised if they are starting to investigate there patents applications and possible breaches more.
A question I'm wondering is how this works with credit cards... do they offer a credit card payment option?

From the article: "...Frierdich tried to hand him $12 in cash, but he directed her to put it in the donation jar."

Seems like an opportunity for a new tech that would allow a "customer" to make a credit card donation of an amount they choose. Maybe on exit? Or... idk. Could be an interesting project for someone with a little credit card industry knowledge.
SVG or Canvas? Сhoosing between the two
Ouch. Sounds like they're being sued for making money.

I looked at the complaint but not the underlying patents. Seems a little generic, huh?
I like this as brilliant guerrilla marketing for CodeSketch. I had honestly never heard of it before this offer. Brilliant move for CodeSketch to effectively advertise free on HN (Compete.com says ~250,000 unique monthly visitors) in order to build new loyalty for CodeSketch (Compete.com says ~10,000 unique monthly visitors).

I'd love a follow-up report in a couple months, in the style of Bingo Card Creator.
The future of the Microsoft tax.
I think the claim was the 4th time Microsoft had made a patent claim against a competing company. I don't know how significant that distinction is.
http://vimeo.com/10119028

Here's the story from the founders themselves.
"Policy change!"
This announcement means that a developer can build a gadget for gmail using Google's APIs, and Xobni will fully support that Google API to bring the same gadget into Outlook. Build once and deploy to both gmail & Outlook

More here: http://www.xobni.com/developer

And feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to learn more
Sales is awful. I want to be a web developer. Where should I start?
When I was much younger, I spent the majority of my time immersed in web technology and eating up any scrap of information available. But then something very, very tragic happened.

I learned about sales commissions.

I’m nearly 7 years deep into advertising sales with an excruciating year in pharmaceutical sales. I frequently find myself fantasizing about the ROI of “accidentally” cutting my finger off in an apple slicing accident in the break room so I can go home for the day and continue with my self-teaching of web development. Other days, I’ve painted an image in my mind where I survive a non-fatal traffic incident and due to my bodily injuries, I am limited to listening to books on tape – all of which would be about XHTML and the like -- while cocooned in a full body cast.

If I have to spend one more day prairie-dogging in sales cubicle hell, I am going to lose it.

In my spare time, I draw interesting websites I’d like to create and mobile apps that would make my life a billion times easier (perhaps yours, but that’s kind of a crapshoot bet, right?). Too many times, these plans have been executed by someone else either because I’m subconsciously a no-talent plagiarist or because maybe I actually have some great ideas but I have no idea where to even start to bring them to fruition.

So, Hacker News, if I want to develop these life-changing sites and mobile applications while simultaneously experiencing the Heaven-parting/angel singing/riding on a unicorn kind of joy of leaving sales at some point, where should I start? I’ll gladly do an unpaid internship outside of work hours, or maybe I should take evening classes at the local community college?

What would you do if you had to start all over again?

Your advice is greatly appreciated!
Is it just me or are all these patents pretty trifling? Stacking toolbars, web templates, mouse timing? Really Microsoft?

Did Marc Benioff say something mean to Horacio Gutiérrez?

Maybe they can team up with Intellectual Ventures and do some awesome lawsuits.

When you can't win in the marketplace...
As far as I know the camera LED in MacBooks is hardwired to the camera. You can’t turn it off in software. If the camera gets power the LED gets power (as it should be).
one step closer to googol-sized acquisition. make it so brezina.
Digital recordkeeping has yet to improve health care efficiency or cut costs
Sued for making money .... using common practices we've probably all violated most of, repeatedly!

Shameful act on MS's part.
What's a comp?
I've come to terms with the fact that even here on HN, many people still mistake a summary for a legal definition of the invention covered.

But I had held out hope that this wasn't the sort of place where one could condemn patents by title alone, let alone the sort of place where a false argument like that would find approval.

No point is bolstered by pretending the titles have any bearing on the legal or philosophical validity of those patents.

If you have a philosophical issue with patents in general or software patents in particular, just state that and save time.
> Have you tried CoffeeScript?

Nope. I'm apprehensive about adding another layer to the development process when I know JS very well and don't find it at all limiting. So I'm probably not part of your target audience.
Yes, codesketch has traffic (not massive, but respectable). It's relatively new (launched in December), and has been averaging 10,000+ hits a week. More importantly, we've found a strong niche that loves technology and design. Based on analytics, our readers are tech savvy and have some cash. I know already that some of the startup submissions will be a perfect fit.

This is just a sincere thank you to the community for helping me grow.
All poisons are regulated, to stop terrorist or other attacks, or to limit suicide attempts. Alcohol, Pot, Cigarettes, Cocaine are all drugs that are regulated in some way.

The amount of regulation they receive is mainly based on their potency.

In some ways I am against the legalization of pot, although I agree with a number of points for it. I can not help but agree that moving this from the underground is a good thing. But pot is also a great demotivator, experience with a great number of people who smoke it has shown me.
ctrl+L gets you to the address bar. "?" + your query forces a default search (so you can do ?http://www.cnn.com and it will actually search for cnn.com, not take you to the site). If you add keywords, then you just ctrl+l then type, say "php in_array" and your query gets submitted directly to php.net's search engine (if you've pre-programmed it). This is actually very much like Firefox's implementation.
I don't know how they get away with this. Google links almost exclusively to copyrighted content, but they're not shut down. Why is Google allowed to exist and other indexes aren't?
The Geek Code
FMRI Scans Reveal Some ‘Vegetative' Patients Are Actually Conscious
Thats great, but the devil's in the details. Are you using the same Extractors API so it'll inspect the messages and provide matches?
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anyone in IT can ask John a question on the Future of Enterprise Applications. He'll select up to 10 questions to answer, and OutSystems will post videos of his replies online
Thanks for making my day in two ways: a great example of a successful startup doing good things, and a pretty hilarious rant on your blog.

Bookmarked both the blog and the service!
You are right about the bias, of course, though I think there's a much stronger bias in favor of theories you've come up with yourself.

I think that in the context of climate science, if you make a statement that you disagree with "GW theory", you are making a statement that is very close to a blanket denial. Which specific facts of the theory do you disagree with, and what is your alternative? Are you disagreeing with the IPCC number for the climate sensitivity? Or are you disagreeing with the idea that anthropogenic global warming can be true? Those are very different, the first is well within the scientific mainstream, the second is not.
5 years is a long time on the internet. Who is to say it either Zynga or FB be relevant by then.
Other people here will tell you how to get into web development. But it sounds like you're very unhappy with your job (though don't overlook that there could be a different/other problem). Why don't you quit your job and get by doing something you don't hate?
Apart from physical activity, regularly seeing some sunshine (i.e. more than the 2 minutes it takes to walk to a car) is one of the other lifestyle-change options that can sometimes have surprisingly large effects. It's pretty easy to try, at least.
Get a book on PHP, Python or whatever language your mobile platform of choice uses. Learn the language and try actually doing the examples in the book and getting them to work.

Once you've done that start making things. It doesn't need to be novel, just make a simple twitter clone or something like that. You'll learn how to setup a server, a database, make a website etc. I've found the best way to learn something is usually by doing something your interested in (i.e. a project of your choice rather than an internship) and it also gives you flexibility in terms of how much time you can choose to spend or not spend on it. Try to Google answers, but if you're really stuck you can ask questions on a site like StackOverflow.com
I would like to "not hate" a job in web development.

Don't get me wrong, there are some days I LOVE my job and I certainly love everyone I work with, but it's just not clicking despite my extensive efforts. It feels like a loveless marriage and I'm on my way to starring on "Snapped."
Cloud computing creates legal uncertainties for users
Apple: iPad and Emacs
> ctrl+L gets you to the address bar. "?" + your query forces a default search

And for the keystroke-obsessed, Ctrl+K clears the location bar and puts in the question mark for you. :)
Debugging in Python (2009)
Yes. We support the exact same google Extractors API, so you'll have all the info you need to show relevant context to the message.
My brother had his identity stolen while he was in school. The perpetrator turned out to be a person who worked in the registrar's office!

When I started grad school they used SSN as the ID number too. I went to the registrar and asked them to change mine. They said they couldn't do it because, as a TA, I was considered an employee and they "had to" use my SSN. You can imagine I wasn't happy.
All companies exist because structures are created that enable them to exist.

We do this because by facilitating companies we get employment, goods, services and wealth for owners. Of these the utility from wealth for owners is the least significant.

From the point of view of a retirement saver who invests at a single price per day, high frequency traders do hold positions for close to zero time. So in this zero sum game hft traders are just reducing our income.
That's actually kinda funny. Choosing a more complex word to say they're making things less complex.
Personal anecdote I know, but I used AirBnB to stay in Paris last month - it was all about price.
This is really unfortunate. I felt that this was a rather good service and I'd have paid more for my usage of it. While Usenet servers are a dime a dozen, Newzbin provided something slightly unique compared to their competition.
I applaud you for actually digging in and understanding what the studies are saying, it's a vast field and to try to do that is daunting.

However, I don't think it's a surprise that not believing in man-made GW is met with a huge amount of distrust (I assume you mean by actual scientists) because to most climate scientists, that question is settled. There is argument over the severity of the effect, but not over its basic existence. Even if you have an good explanation of why the majority of scientists got everything totally wrong, any community has more inertia than being swayed by lone dissenting voices unless they are very well known and respected, because you will basically be telling them all that they fucked up.
If you are interested in Rails, I recommend http://guides.rails.info (Rails 3.0) or the excellent http://www.railstutorial.org/ (Rails 2.3.5)
Yes - and it's the perfect match of a just-big-enough blog, and a community that supports these kinds of gestures. Either way, it's a good gesture, nobody gets hurt, and we get exposed to a cool blog like CodeSketch.
Great, now I won't sleep tonight as I learn the difference between syllabic alphabets and syllabaries. I hate you in the kindest way possible. ;]
Well, I'll take this as an opportunity to pimp my free book I'm working on:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

Depending on how much code experience you have it may be great or dead boring. Try it out, and drop me your comments in the ticket system on the site.

Good luck.
The difference is striking. This is a great tip, thank you for sharing.
Google looks to make peace with Murdoch
It's really funny that a SSN is enough in the USA to get somebody else in so much trouble.

Doesn't work in the other countries, as long as you don't send in copies of your passport or identity card to claim a fake lottery win ;).
Speculation is not always indistinguishable from hedging. If you have $100 in fixed rate debt, then a $100 fixed floating swap can be hedging. A $1,000 swap is speculating.

Speculation sometimes has negative consequences for the economy. For example a few years ago oil prices were driven higher than they would otherwise be by speculation and this reduced GDP.
Old Copiers Retain Pictures Long After Copying
This may prevent wider embarrassment from, ahem, moments of pubescent weakness...
The iPad will not save publishing
You don't need a search bar in chrome, just type the address of the site you want to search with and hit TAB. Example:

youtu+TAB and then enter your keyword. Works with every site that support opensearch. en.wiki+TAB will search wikipedia etc.
I believe it stands for 'Graphic Composition'. One version of a design of anything.

I wonder if this is a red flag...the name that is.
This is a great idea. If I was only finished with my project. Couple months off.
I was about to cite the second law of thermodynamics. I don't think people are on the whole bad to each other, but the ones that are can ruin it for everybody too easily in the absence of rules. Your example is perfect.
Honestly. Most climate scientists shrug :-) as I said it's rationale that man has an affect on the climate. If you consider the work done so far there really is not much more we can honestly say than that.

It always amuses me, too, the slanging match that evolves over what could be a fairly trivial point. Truthfully we are sorely lacking in long term data (no easy solution to that) and filling that void is this "elephant".

Ultimately a rational decision must be made that is completely unnconnected to GW. And that is: what is climate change going to do, and how do we need to react?

Currently I have quiet confidence we will start to ask that within the next decade.
AppNinjas acquired
That went well, but they are still working on editing it together and figuring out exactly what they are doing with it. They interviewed you too as well right?
It sounds similar to Microsoft making deals with computer companies to have their software installed on consumer machines.
Patent for electronic catalog bites the dust as obvious
Sure, you can have a "successful" business that grosses $250k / year. If you can do that with no employees and go surf every day, there will be a lot of jealous surfers out there.

But if you're looking to bootstrap a startup into a sustainable enterprise that "solves the money problem" (as Paul puts it), there are plenty of fabulous examples with $2million, $10mil, $50mil in revenue. Study them.
Why JavaScript is a toy language
right, but students were told it is a bug.. I dont know for sure, but probably by that sys admin lady whos job it was to administer the laptops.

I dunno about you, but I just find this whole thing way to bizarre. How it was found out, the magnitude, the fact that it seems one person has done all of this.
Nobody mistakes a title for a summary, or a summary for an exhaustive 40 page patent.

Nobody mistakes an academic article title for an abstract, or the abstract for the text, or the text for the data, either. But that doesn't stop us from mentioning articles by title.

I thought it would be helpful to list the patents since they are not listed in the original article and one has to scan a 10 page pdf to find them. I'm not sure what you would prefer. Don't list the patents? Full text? Links to full text? Please educate me on proper summarization of a patent lawsuit.
Good stuff. Does this also clear up a path for a Xobni plus type gadget for use within Gmail (or google apps, more likely)? I'm guessing it could be monetized in the same fashion as the outlook tools are.
This is all about an issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease that's dedicated to "Therapeutic Opportunities for Caffeine in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders".

You can find the whole issue online here: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/t13614762731/

This special issue arose from a meeting held in Lisbon, in July 2009, on "Caffeine and the Brain".

The meeting, and this special issue of the journal, were sponsored by the Associado Industrial e Comercial do Cafe: the Industrial and Commercial Coffee Association.

It is claimed that this organization "generously financed both the meeting and this special issue while leaving full scientific independence to all contributors". Even if that's perfectly true, I suggest that there might be just a teeny bit of selection bias in the papers in this issue of the journal.

[EDITED to add: of course there is no mention of the sponsorship in the PhysOrg article. Why is it that every single time I see a PhysOrg link on HN there's something rather wrong with it?]
It seems like anyone doing automatic software updates is in violation of "Method and system for identifying and obtaining computer software from a remote computer."

When a user accesses the remote update service, an update service computer conducts an automatic inventory of the computer software on the user computer. The data collected from the inventory of the user computer software is then used to make comparisons to database entries from a database on the update service computer. The database entries contain information about computer software available on the update service computer. The comparison is conducted to identify software available from the remote update service that might be appropriate for installation on the user computer (i.e. new computer software, new versions of existing computer software, patches or fixes for existing computer software, new help files, etc.). After the comparison is completed, the update service computer makes the computer software stored at the remote update service computer available to the user.
Software patents are always ridiculous.
This reminds me of "Googlezon": http://robinsloan.com/epic/