skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is a very big difference between "We should share generously" and "All data should be public."

If they were advocating the sharing of their own property, that's one thing. However, they advocate (and facilitate), the sharing of other people's intellectual property without their consent. I have heard many reasons as to why this should be okay. "Data can't be stolen, only copied", "Information needs to be free", etc.

So, going by their own rules, this is fine because email, password hashes, and usernames are just data. Information that can be freely copied and distributed without any harm to the original owner (they still have a copy of it. It's not like it's stealing).

"The Pirate Bay doesn't advocate leaking credit card numbers or anything"

No, but if I had their credit cards on an open forum, I wouldn't expect them to take legal action (unless of course they are hypocrites). Credit card numbers, like torrents, are just 1s and 0s that could be used for harm (IE: downloading illegal information).

I find the people from the piratebay very hypocritical. They have this new service coming out that allows you to give donations (I can't remember the name.but I saw a video on it). They charge a 10% service fee, which is enormous compared to many alternative services out there right now. Why not charge $0? Yes, it may cost money to run such a service, but it also costs money to create many of the software applications, games, and movies that they seem to have no problem "sharing" (yes, I know they don't actually host the file..only torrents..but they host readme files on almost every torrent which explain exactly what the file is. They also run many of the trackers out there.).
What makes you believe they are politically right leaning Christians?

Point to the place in my comment where I said that.

I specifically said "e.g". This means "for example". Nowhere in my comment did I make the claim that all people requesting data were American politically right leaning Christians. I simply observed that they had been involved for a long time.
If you want to hear pretty lies, go watch Sex and the City. It's well known that 40 year old women are almost infertile. And their pregnancies tend to be riskier. I didn't make the rules, so don't shoot the messenger.

Show me a man starting a family with a 40 year old, and I will show you a man without options.
re 2: ain't it wonderful that it's in nearly every white-paste-product out there? Toothpaste and sun screens in particular.
Works for me on Mint (a Ubuntu derivative). I'm glad I use Slackware on my production machines (no PAM).
You want to get what's called a Nerve Conduction/EMG Test to determine whether it's actually Carpal Tunnel or not.

There are other neuropathies that can look like Carpal Tunnel like onset peripheral neuropathy, an entirely different condition.

If it is indeed Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and it's moderate to advanced you might want to consider surgery. They're standard and minimally invasive these days.
Not in the US, although implementation patents are easier to defend you can write very broad patents.

You can have a business method patent, eg look at the prices charged by various retailers and buy the lowest one, or even a patent on the plot of a novel. Both of these have been patented in the US.

Your 'invention' no longer has to be workable for it to be patented nor do you have to demonstrate a working implementation.

That's the issue with a lot of software patents on things like H264 - the patent can simply be on the concept of compressing video, you don't have to invent a particular encoding scheme.
Mozilla is Developing a new Language: Rust
Rust (a new systems lang from Mozilla) FAQ
It's funny you would say that. In my Intro to Software Engineering class my team basically built this (location-based restroom finder with ratings etc.)

George Constanza was my inspiration haha.

We called it "Poopt" though.
For varying definitions of "right". On my phone, Trapster runs, displays an icon in the notification bar and you know "just works" (where have I heard this before) with no user interference.

Some mobile OSes have an application architecture and structure that were built to be multitasked, others are only now adding it and it shows in some apps, like this. It's all about the mindset that the platform takes to multitasking. That is, if you want to call the various implementations "multitasking".
Flattr creates a system where neither the giver nor the receiver knows how large a donation is until next month. That's not really a solution and it certainly isn't elegant.
New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products
If only the search itself is stored, without any separate and possibly-identifying information (IP, sesssion, time), then it doesn’t matter if you are the only one that searches for these things.

By their account, if you search something (A) and then you search something else (B), there is no way to link A and B. They are two separate searches and they could have been performed by separate users.

Granted, given a ton of disparate searches, you could theoretically group searches by possible users — or at the very least, by similar users — by statistical means.

(Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, while they mention timestamps in terms of other search engines, they do not mention their own policy regarding them. Timestamps are not directly “identifying information” but they still significantly boost the likelihood that a specific user is performing a given set of searches.)
1: just find someone else to compare yourself to. Even if there's no one better than you at your job/in your group of friends/whatever, there definitely are people better than you.

4: You're probably trying to make it too perfect before you launch. Pick a date that seems a little too close, and resolve to submit it to HN by that date no matter what. If you end up pushing half of those "finishing bits" to after launch, whatever. It's quite possible that no one on HN will say that it should have one of those finishing bits, which probably means you can cross it off the list.
The Danger of What Could Come – Apple Post Steve Jobs
Is this sustainable? As an advertiser, I probably wouldn't want to pay those rates to be included in an app people use while trying to find something that fell under their car seat at night.
What will be in the new Ubuntu "app store"?
Right up there with Microsoft Bob

Bob was certainly a well-known failure, but how much money did they actually lose on it? How many people were demoralized by the failure? How many partners were screwed by the failure? How many customers will think to themselves, "Don't be the first to buy a Microsoft product, they might drop it within days or weeks of launch?"

Kin could have very deep and lasting repercussions. It makes Bob look like a minor annoyance and Vista look like a success in comparison. SteveB doesn't call me up and tell me how to write code, so I won't criticize him. But I think it's fair for shareholders to ask him to detail exactly what he was doing as a manager while all this transpired. He's a manager, he shouldn't have any difficulty showing off how well he managed.
I'm a bigot, simply for observing that a large number of politically right leaning Christians have been very interested in climate change for a long time?

Wow.
One take-away from this is this, though:

When it comes to patents - the fact that your software is non-commercial, or that you invented it independently without knowing about the patents does not matter.

Unless you can prove you created the infringing work before the original patent applicants did, in which case you can invalidate and/or take over the patent, patent rights are fairly absolute, and have nothing to do with derivative works or anything like that (which is why software patents suck so much....)

Patents are granted via application, and apply unilaterally, regardless of how the infringing works were created. The only defences in general against patent infringement are a)your product does not actually infringe on the patent because it's different enough and b)attacking the validity of the patent itself.

Contrast with Copyright, which is granted automatically, and independent creation of similar works (even identical) is permissible, as long as they were truly independent and not copying each other.

(This is why clean-room reverse-engineering techniques, where one group revere engineers the software and documents it's function, and a completely separate group who's never seen the original work writes new code to those specifications) work for software when it comes to copyright, but not against patents.
iAd has good eCPM, but there's no way that's sustainable.
I trust my luck with the sun rather than sunscreen, I love the salt stick deodorant (works great, reapply as needed), and there is no better toothpaste than flouride free Toms of Maine :)
poopt is a great name!
While that sounds very useful, what I'm working on is more along the lines of Heroku's distributed dyno model. In their terminology, a dyno is a Thin web application server process. When an app needs to be started up, it will be possible to determine how many dynos are needed, and they will be automatically started up across the grid of virtual servers and balanced using a custom load balancer.
Christianity is irrelevant, but it is true that climate skepticism tends to be more popular on the political right. Why is this? Because "climate change" is being used as a justification for left-wing economic policies.

It is only natural that if you say "my computer model predicts that we should rob Peter to pay Paul" that Peter is going to wind up looking more skeptically upon your computer model than Paul is.
This reminds me of a guy I knew who wrote an ASM based OS for the m68k called Synthesis or Synthetix or something like that. It even had it's own window manager, and was apparently blazingly fast. It was especially as a developer station as they'd written their own C compiler in assembly that for it's time was (allegedly) the fastest compiler out there. I think his name was Henry Massalin.
enough passive income to live on

Tesla Roadster

help a loved one to get cured of a horrible health problem

not necessarily in that order, and not necessarily interesting to others, but they are among my top goals right now
great suggestion. thanks!
There's a good point made in the comments in that article (MRL) - how do we know how much flattr take as their cut?

The answer is made in their terms:

"Revenue to Site Owners: Site Owners receive 90% of the contributed revenue (monies contributed by Flattr Users and distributed to the Flattr accounts of Site Owners). Flattr retains the remaining 10% as its fee. "

I think that's just about reasonable. Certainly any more than that and I'd feel it was a little unjust.
500 users
8300 test emulators with test accounts
He's kind of a douche. Between this [1] and his infatuation with the God-hates-gays Fred Phelps, his ties to antisemitism, etc, he strikes me as not a real nice guy.

[1] "Auernheimer claimed responsibility for the disruption to Amazon's services in April 2009 when many books on gay issues were reclassified as pornography."
the most important story is about the actual science as people now do not trust it.

AIU your statement, you mean "the actual science [of climate change]". If so, your statement is incorrect.

The unethical actions of these scientists has brought into disrepute not just the study of climate change, but also of biology and pharma research, alternative energy, etc.

In the end, not only does climate change research get damned, but so do all other areas in which we're relying on the ethics of the researchers. That's a superset of the climate research, and thus a much larger and important problem.
free AND legal

lots of places to pee, not all legal or with privacy

useful app idea
All they'd have to do is to put 3 fingers on the surface.
Develop a programming language which allows you to easily write inline grammars then use them and mutate them at compile- and run-time. Additionally have a nice (default) syntax, nice support for concurrency (I'm thinking something similar to goroutines), and actually try to make the language reasonably popular (the most insane of my goals).

Roadblocks: Myself, more than anything. So hard to work on something a. so big, and b. in spare time when I so often feel like chilling out!
Pretty cool for the beta.

You can tell the video is made by a technical person talking about 'redirects' and explaining the login process, and describing the minutia of how each process works. If they are looking to go mainstream with this, I'd recommend a more dynamic demo with less description and more about how useful it is.

At the same time, I don't find the UI very compelling. I was expecting a 'timeline' showing tweets with similar themes, etc. This doesn't seem much different from reading my tweets.
By gathering some metrics on the number of followers from the tweeter (reader being tweetee) TSR may be able to provide a better method of showing you the most popular tweet on a given topic. Tag cloud navigation doesn't strike me as effective use of NLP vs theme clustering. But maybe that's just me.

Best of luck
Apple uses paid apps to make switching away from iPhone painful. Google doesn't have that leverage (@gmail addresses excepted, perhaps) and so does Nike - no leverage unless you purchased that iPod gizmo. It's also pretty painless to switch from Starbucks to any other coffee shop.

Very few companies enjoy the network effects Microsoft depends on. And yes, Microsoft will enter a market, even burn tons of money, so that no other company gains a foothold there that could be used to threaten its dominance in other markets. They did it with the Xbox - they burned tons of money and did not achieve anything close to dominance, but were extremely successful on preventing Nintendo and Sony from doing so.

When you have a network of monopolies (or mutually reinforcing market positions), it's very smart to disrupt every market you can't dominate because, if it doesn't strengthen your position, it will at least weaken your competitor's and prevent giving them a position they could leverage against one of Microsoft's captive markets.
Taming Finance in an Age of Austerity
How the Browser roundhouse-kicked Chuck Norris
That's a good point, and a bit of reading (not research, so take it with a grain of salt) says that atmospheric NOx breaksdown into nitrate particles + some nasties.
You're right; perhaps it should say "with no prosecutors".

In other words, this inquiry had nobody there to aggressively put forth the case that the defendant was guilty.
Otherwise known as "No kid has ever gone to their prom in diapers." It'll happen.
This makes me want a version for actual peer-reviewed papers.
So?

It sounds to me like you're working towards an argument of "they escalated to this level, so we had no choice but to follow suit". That is absolutely not a valid argument, either morally or in terms of logic.
In other languages, yield is used for coroutine (continuation) return. Bad choice. There is actually no reason not to use return, or to disallow break and continue. These could all have the same meaning as they do in a SAM implemented with an inner class.
Essentials of Programming Languages.

Engineering a Compiler.

Managing Gigabytes.

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Unix Network Programming

On Lisp

Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation

Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming

Design Concepts in Programming Languages

Lambda-Calculus and Combinators (the new Hindley/Seldin book, just got it 2 weeks ago)

Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures

Abstract Computing Machines: A Lambda-Calculus Perspective
For stupid web apps that serve content straight from cache, or for servers that are very I/O bound (like anything involving messaging) ... then Node.js may blow Clojure out of the water.

For everything else ... i.e. most startups I see on HN ... you really have to take the CPU-bound or synchronous logic out of Node.js, otherwise it sucks big donkey balls.

People striving for the ultimate development experience have really forgotten what it's like to have brute processing power. Web apps like PlentyOfFish which had 1.2 billion page views/month in 2009 ran only on 2 balanced web servers ... and this considering that on a dating site everything's dynamic, you really can't have too much caching.

Clojure might turn out to be the best of both worlds ... a productive programming language coupled with the brute CPU-bound performance that the JVM can yield.
Simple explanation: patents and the FDA represent barriers to entry for new competitors. Costs going up just means more money spent within the industry, and more profit to be taken later. Costs (and profits) going up are a consequence of patents and regulation, not the other way around. Remove patents and regulation and watch costs plummet.
Trail blazing innovators - Use Emacs
I am glad that most American suburbs have free public restrooms. I am also glad that I live in those suburbs.
Certainly not. It was an observation, not a defense.
Showcase of 9 browser-based games (in HTML5 and flash)
Assume a slower moving boat which fires quick boats forward. In that the 'bullets' would interact with the pattern first, you have a possibility of the things destroying everything in the path of the slow boat. Could work, but the boat itself would need to destroy everything in its path.
Masters or PhD?
lots of companies send nastygrams like this even if they have no intention of following through with legal action. it costs them nothing (except reputation on HN) and there's a good chance the recipient will get scared and give in without a fight.

there are important issues on the line here and it makes me sad that so many people feel like they need to walk away because of the possible legal expenses.

i know it's easy for me to say this as i've never been sued myself, but for once, just once, i'd like to see someone fight back against something that is so clearly wrong.
Utilize tap to reveal a hover state.

I like this approach, but as noted, often the problem is "users get no cue that tapping... is even an option".

I think a suitable solution is to start with one item 'pre-tapped', with strong cues that it is 'selected' (via highlighting, intensified colors, icons, etc.). That provides a strong clue that its peer items could be tapped to show the same 'hover' controls.
Question: Does anonymizing/cleaning of the searches break a site owners analytics report, where it doesn't show which keywords drive traffic to the site ?
I'm not sure the novelty will wear off though. I played with the Nissan LEAF ad a few days ago, and it was genuinely an engaging and enjoyable experience, certainly more so than any other ad platform I've seen.
Airships are already capable of staying in the air for days at a time. But they're so expensive to operate that they're no good for most of the possible applications of this thing.
> First, I cringe at the idea of trying to explain this finger manipulation pattern to my mom.

Just have her put her 3 fingers down on the iPad. No words necessary!

> Second, placing three fingers from the same hand on the touch screen would block the place on the screen I am trying to magnify/manipulate from my view.

Wrong. Only certain triangular placements will do this and users will easily learn not to do that. Very flat triangles will have the hand off to the side, just as if you were holding a magnifying glass with no handle. With the right hand, you can do this by having the index finger and thumb extended, with the middle finger bent to sit just below and to the right of the index finger, like so:

x
x

x

Since your hand is forming a backwards L, less than 1/4th of the magnifier circle is obscured by your hand. There are many other possible positionings which result in an unobscured view of the reticle.

EDIT: This gesture would only work on the iPad. The iPhone would be too small to accommodate it.
8297, probably.
8,810 is the number of monthly active users, so I would venture to guess that they've sold much more.
Google provides a quite adequate translation (I do not read German):

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wiki...

I doubt you'll find much more information unless you trawl through the referenced sources.
Quite obviously the eCPM will go down as the novelty factor wears off.
Great advice, and totally agree.

On a more practical level, try OkCupid.com. Seriously, I've been so impressed with that site. If match.com is like myspace, okcupid.com is like facebook. High quality, smart people. The girls actually write you back. I'm averaging about 2 dates a month from OkCupid right now.

Also, the site is just a well designed and fun web app, so I can appreciate it on that level.
On forking (2003)
Titanium dioxide is only suspected to be a carcinogen when inhaled in considerable concentration.

As it stands today, I wouldn't want to breathe concrete or tarmac dust in high concentration. Adding or refusing to add titanium dioxide will not alter my feelings on that. :)
Thx. I've toyed with having themes, and a "more professional" look would certainly be among them. If anyone wants to take a stab at one, let me know.
You said that the CRU folks withholding data "...was quite clearly in reaction to activists who were already operating in the opposite direction (e.g. American politically-right-leaning Christians...". The hacked emails suggest it was quite clearly in reaction to McIntyre and McKitrick (MM, as the CRU folks called them).

Are you suggesting that the CRU folks withheld data from two Canadians because they were afraid that some right wing American Christians might, in the future, also request data? You didn't clarify in your previous post that the activists operating in the opposite direction were hypothetical.
"Damaged" i.e. lose a lot of value. Precisely. We could no longer afford to buy goods from China, Japan, etc. China doesn't have the internal economy to risk that. Yet. US manufacturing, and the US social fabric, would win win win. This is absolutely a war we can fight to win. And win it we must.
How is Firefox Going to Compete with Chrome?
Who is the author arguing against here? Did I miss it when someone said "Chicks writing programs? Psh, that'll go the way of pogs and pokemon in no time at all!"
...another logical solution could be breeding/genetic engineering a strain that would enjoy the environment out here. That would be a fun project, actually =)
they have a patent the idea of music-matching, not the implementation.

This is indeed the exact opposite of how the patent system is supposed to work. But it is none-the-less a description of how the patent system is more and more winding up working.
All my Linux computers count as happy Windows users because all of them were sold with Windows installed.

They obviously tweak their numbers to save face. They must do it at all levels and the fact this ill-conceived aberration actually made into production and hit the market must have involved some pretty heavy sugarcoating of actual numbers.

It's a charlie-foxtrot, no matter how you look at it.