skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how Motorola plans to get around Apple's patent for the visual expander aka magnifying glass text selection tool?
I also think every Apple employee was given phones, but I am not sure, where I have worked for Nokia and currently work for RIM so I know that they give phones to their employees. I would rather frame it as a question than say it as a truth.
Yes, but this is the sort of thing that should have come up during the due diligence of the very first round of funding.
The same way Apple got around Nokia's patents and licensing regarding GSM, UMTS, EDGE, WiFi, etc... ignore it and let the issue work itself out in court.
This story reminds me of the time I paid my butler to travel with me to the Four Seasons in Milan. What was I thinking? </sarcasm>
The C++ closure library we use internally at Google has you specify whether the callback is permanent or not. If it isn't permanent, its deleted right after executing. It is a little painful maintaining the memory of your arguments, but people have generally converged to packing them all into a heap allocated struct and deleting when appropriate.
The Redmond Apple Store is (or at least was) the highest-grossing store Apple had.
It's easier to spend money than to change management.
revenge is justice is productive.

I didn't invent it.

The concept of "turning the other cheek" is about 2,000 years old. The concept of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is over twice that old. They represent two different schools of thought that have been debated enough.

PG introduced "turning the other cheek" as a means to resolve "the pain of having ... controversy constantly reintroduced as the top idea ..." and this is biased. There is another way to resolve the issue, it just comes from another culture.

(Or in other words, it is true that "someone who does you an injury hurts you twice: first by the injury itself, and second by taking up your time afterward thinking about it.". You can "at least avoid the second half" - or - you can try and hurt them twice, no matter the cost. Culture choice.)
Wow it shrunk by +1.16%

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Outstanding.
I agree that Gowalla is playing second fiddle and the smart money is on Foursquare, not just because they were/are first but because they seem to be killing it, but many second-comers have succeeded (eg Facebook, Google, Microsoft).

Anyway, to borrow a term I heard from Mark Suster, I view all these location startups are FNACs (feature not a company).
Right but which community is going to customize the cooking site? It won't be foodies who aren't terribly techie because they'll be turned off immediately and won't pass go. So it will be developer types customizing it, even though the potential audience is so much wider.
Not only that a swarm would function like space junk. Imagine NORAD trying to track 100 satellites eventually one will probably hit something important.
Bah. Assuming 2 cookies a person I can manage that with one oven.

500 though, then I probably need a second oven to put out that many cookies at a reasonable rate. I mean, you're not going to get them all at once, so it's pretty simple to spend a Saturday churning them out. And assuming I spent all Saturday I don't think 600 people would be out of the question, though distribution would require a few friends.

Of course, that's the point of cookies is winning friends, so that part can take care of itself, just so you pick your first friends wisely.
I don't know anyone on my 115 person team who isn't at least excited to give it a shot and see if it's better, including the more ardent iPhone fans among us, of which I count myself as one.
Relax. Every profession is stereotyped by every other profession. Programmers are boring nerds who only care about Star Trek. Lawyers are soul-sucking bastards. Plumbers are filthy and walk around with their butt cracks hanging out. Politicians are also soul-sucking bastards. Engineers are like programmers, only drunk. And so forth.

Most people are quite capable of distinguishing between the professional stereotype and any individuals they may meet, though.
I think the wild-west model is usually not very good for users to the same way the gatekeeper model is usually not good for hackers. Maybe we need more janitors instead.
A 4.3-inch display is a bit excessive for a phone, I think. Still, with the right usage pattern (using it for access to the internet and similar things), it could be useful - and, for the right user, the larger screen and presumable better visibility/less squinting would trump the problem of it being comparatively large.
It works on the ipad, but it looks horrible. It's also hard to type on the iphone keyboard.
Um, er, the trolls go after the small fry, too.
I don't think you can call Apple "evil". Arguably you can call it "cynical" however.

Apple's philosophy is to make decisions for you, the consumer. Steve said exactly that in his D8 interview. Frankly, most people like that. Apple makes decisions about stuff most people don't care about.

To explain the "cynical" part, I'll make a tenuous parallel to Thomas Jefferson who said the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Ultimately, people are responsible for keeping themselves informed, not creating monopolies, not giving too much power to certain people, governments or companies and so on so the Apple strategy is fanning ignorance because, let's face it, most people want to enjoy "freedom" without having to actually do anything about it.
I assure you that Holgas are still made. In fact, they are growing in popularity:

http://shop.lomography.com/cameras/holga-cameras
you are totally correct. i am biased by my business interests and many other things. it is important that people understand that. i do try to be as objective as i can be, but i am not anywhere near totally objective
Adding services without the knowledge or consent of users, and making the process to remove them needlessly complex or impossible? It's generally considered to be criminal to charge someone for something they don't want (and haven't asked for).
I always wanted to sell markers you could use in order to write ideas on shower tiles.
Becoming a YouTube for flash games does not make sense to me. It is more like you are throwing names around.

I get that you are implying that you have a large library of games, but when I see YouTube I think movies but not a movie library. A large collection of one hit wonders fading away as the next new sensation starts up around the corner.

If you are going to stick with the name dropping, I would suggest changing it to "Heyzap is quickly becoming the YouTube for Flash Games" to suggest more of a singular statement that you are the one doing this and not just another in the list of hopefuls.
import_c<stdio.h>

You can import C headers without your language being a superset of C.
Although the plastic buttons are sturdy and responsive, they feel like a step down from the capacitive action buttons on the N1 and the EVO.

I disagree fairly strongly here. Capacitive buttons should have a longer lifespan and some "cool factor" over standard mechanical buttons, but they're a lot harder to use by feel. I see them as a significant step down in usability, and I don't understand why more professional reviewers don't seem to feel the same way. I don't think the lifespan is a big issue; using components of half-decent quality, the buttons should significantly exceed the standard 2-year life of a smartphone.
Yep. I've invested in 40 or so companies and many are hiring. Job boards are hard for early startups because the early employees are so formative that it really is about hiring exceptional people rather than filling headcount.
This should help bolster their third party app selection a bit. Lots of MS folks will be writing apps.
The recently-revealed "Rust" appears to be your salvation: http://wiki.github.com/graydon/rust/language-faq

Written by Mozilla employees, and very much like Go, except that shared state is immutable by default, no global GC, and no null pointers. It does have fine struct layout control, RAII always, and type-parametric user code (purely structural too!).

It does have a real module system for grownups, which even if it doesn't preclude your fetish for #include, it will at least make you feel bad about it.
Poor fellow, one should never take the help along on trips or, indeed, have them anywhere near the living quarters for terribly long. I well recall the termination of my last scullery maid: she took a nasty head cold and would most stop sneezing at all hours. Being most inconvenienced by the--I couldn't sleep!--we had to let the maid go. Though the head butler carried out this nasty bit of work, the poor wench's sobs did ruin a perfectly good tea time.
Going off on a bit of a tangent for a second... I didn't realize that Ars had started charging if you wanted to view/print an entire article instead of viewing it one page at a time. It's a good example of one of the worst ways to monetize a product. I don't feel like I'm being offered a premium product or extra content, I feel like I'm being artificially penalized because I'm not handing over $5 a month.

Better ways to encourage subscribers?

Give non-subscribers access to a deep, but not in-depth, review. Perhaps 5-6 pages instead of 10.

Offer additional content related to the article. Thoughts from other staff writers, head-to-head section with competing products, more examples photos/videos taken of the device.

Include a 2-3 minute "video review" where I can see the device demonstrated in close up HD video.

None of these ideas are particularly groundbreaking, but you feel like you're GETTING something, instead of not losing something basic that used to be standard practice.
Can't you do that with an otherwise complete digital camera? I don't see why one can't introduce kitschy design flaws in the LCD... and furthermore putting an LCD with standard inputs creates even more opportunities for hacking.
I'll hazard the guess that hazzen is interpreting 'lambdas' to involve closures.
The idea of channeling the mojo of the Holga isn't so exciting to me. However, I've wondered for a while about the feasibility of an "open-source" camera that was designed publicly and could be produced by any manufacturer. My guess is that high-quality sensors aren't an off-the-shelf part and so would be difficult to source and stabilization technology may also present challenges.

CHDK has shown that letting developers at the internals of camera operation can have cool results. I think a platform designed from the ground up for tinkerers could be amazing for photography.
Good radar or no, you still have to keep an eye out for the unknowable "black swans". In any case, good radar for trouble just means you've traded away most of the peace of mind that comes with obliviousness in exchange for an unquantifiable reduction in hassles.
Nice one :D
SAW Fluxes and Strip Cladding
Even larger companies only get them so they don't get caught out of position in the patent war. You need patents in your arsenal (mutually assured destruction).
I'll take whatever i can get that actually spends in useful places (like the internet). Let me know when amazon takes gold (or seashells for that matter).
I have been getting that message for 2 years...I assumed it never worked.
There are tons of sites like reddit. Digg, delicious, Hacker News itself...it's not a good sign that Reddit needs to outsource its search to IndexTank, when literally every other site like it can handle search themselves.
We haven't said Youtube of Flash gaming since January 2009. TC mentioned it in passing.

Its not something we compare ourselves too.
And the twist is if Ceglia truly did have this contract with Zuckerberg, it leaves the ConnectU guys in a particular interesting situation.

No it doesn't. The issue was never "who thought of Facebook first". All of this was when Myspace was at it's peak. Everyone had the idea to do a Myspace competitor.

The issue is Zuckerberg taking people's money and making false commitments by accepting a job and lying to the ConnectU guys that he was still working on it to delay them as much as he could.
How are you locked in? They had one of the first APIs where you can access your data..
This hit me like a ton of bricks. It makes so much sense now that this could easily be the grounding principle behind the common saying "Do what you love and the money will follow". If you're doing what you love, your thoughts are focused on that. When what you love is your top idea you have the focus to innovate, solve problems, etc.

If you're too worried about making money, you'll be too preoccupied with that to give any thought to other things. If you're too concerned with a specific outcome, you end up taking energy away from the actions that will ultimately drive any outcome at all. Focus on your top idea and the rest will follow. It's not always as simple as it sounds, but I think there's a lot of truth there.
Jeff has actually spoken about this a few times. The ghost sites do have a cost beyond just resources. The stack exchange format only really works when you get a certain critical mass of people to ask questions. They have found if you get people together and people ask questions then people will come to answer them. The trick is getting enough people together to start asking questions.

When you have an empty site and someone sees the last question was weeks or months ago they just browse away. Helping getting the community over that initial hurdle is important.
So long as his name is not Sweeny :)
Is there some context to this? I'm not sure what's going on here.
I try to be generally positive, especially when discussing a concept or prototype... however, I am passionate about film photography and this really rubs me the wrong way.

Making a digital camera that is a) ugly and b) designed to be hard to use misses the whole point of why Holga/Lomo/film is growing in popularity. There is a strong correlation to the impressive sales of vinyl LP records over the past few years (which has been through the roof compared to other physical formats). My speculation is that people are fatigued on things that don't feel "real". They are tired of copies and want something that their kids might be excited to discover in the closet.

Anyhow, the whole point of film is that it has a character all its own, depending on which of the hundreds available you try to use. And embracing the constraint of making each shot count and delayed gratification has made me a more thoughtful photo taker. I find that I can remember every shot I've taken; how I felt at the time, what was happening.

A Holga weighs 200g and if you run it over with your car, you can just buy another one. No batteries required and it can do pinhole stuff, as well as many other modifications:

http://microsites.lomography.com/holga/modifications/fignatu...

I'm all for open source camera platforms, but don't put out something with a bunch of arbitrary features removed and various attempts to make the output look shitty "because then it's like film!"

Believe it or not, there's a reason most film cameras work the way that they do which has a direct relationship to the available technology and manufacturing processes at the time it was made.

I want to end my rant on a positive note, so here is a great commercial by Charles and Ray Eames advertising the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EdwmaQltHc
[Signs] You Are Suffering From Socialitis
A deconstruction would look more at things like subconscious signaling, cultural values and biological influences. For a funny play on the less interesting distractions that a lot of deconstructionists of the last century embarrassed themselves with see dugmartin's comment above, I was trying to lean away from that school by using the word semiotic, but dugmartin expertly nailed that too :)
Most politicians are lawyers by trade, never ever forget that. When you really realize the implications of this, it starts making way more sense why things are as screwed up as they are.
The real differences begins when some prefer, choice (because one wants, enjoys it) to stay home coding instead of go out and socialize. This is how great software projects, like nginx, created and evolved.

Find and take a look of a video of lectures given by Igor (nginx's author) and you will, probably, understand - he isn't a public person.

You should be a little bit autistic (say, near Asperger's) in order to produce something extraordinary. It is just a mater of time, energy and concentration. And practicing, practicing, practicing.

Analogy with public activity, like a politics is rather stupid. You need totally different skill set for any public relations, while those skills are requiring a lot of time of practicing, practicing and practicing.

Professional communication is as difficult as professional programming, btw. man NLP. ^_^
No, he can't pull their changes into his commercial version, and he'd probably want to avoid pulling their changes into his AGPL version. But, the hypothetical forkers would also have to re-apply their patches to pkrumins version each time he comes out with an update, assuming they want to incorporate his changes. It's close to a level playing field, with what I'd say is a slight advantage for pkrumins. As opposed to the situation he's in with any other Open Source license.

The only danger for pkrumins is if the "forker" is able to make his new fork the more popular, more advanced fork. That doesn't happen very often, and really, when it comes down to it it's just a case of being out-competed, which is a danger every business faces.

IMHO, it comes down to whether pkrumins is going to gain more (in mindshare, in community contributions, etc.) by going open source, vs entirely closed source. If he's going open source, AGPLv3 lets him minimize the leverage his source releases would give to a direct competitor, with no likely reduction in his upsides (i.e., the previously mentioned increase in mindshare, the community contributions, etc).

That's of course hypothesizing that there are upsides for him in going Open Source. Clearly he seems to think there are.
And besides, you have to save "zeroth" for something transcendental or meta, not trivial, as in the Laws of Robotics.
I disagree with the general premise of your argument that he was preyed upon. At the time Mark's company was making zero dollars. It was a high risk investment and the investor knew it.
> But there will always be programs that have to be written in a language like C and C++. That includes kernels, drivers, highly performance-sensitive code like game engines, virtual machines, some kinds of networking code, and so on.

Thank you. I am not looking forward to the day when people begin to advocate Java or something like that for these applications, and I am glad to see this explicitly acknowledged.
I was thinking some kind of supported version or support agreement. Lots of companies won't run anything internally that doesn't come with some kind of vendor support.
No corporation or shares existed at the time the work for hire was done....
Headers are how the clients know to gzip the content.

You think http libs and web servers figure out whether or not something is gzipped by guessing? :)
Wouldn't every conventional operating system be using the wild-west model? Windows, OSX, even Linux[1][2]: if you need a program, you go out onto the internet and look for it.

[1] At least, it can be used that way. It fits the Janitor model much better when using repositories to install programs, or at least what I imagine the Janitor model to be (weakly curated system with misbehaving applications removed).

[2] I'm also ignoring all of the less common/lower profile operating systems, because the only one I can name is BSD and I've never used it.
In my first apartment, that meant about two minutes.
I think you should attempt to understand the culture before being sarcastic. Most people don't own cars and don't drive in India. Getting a driver in India is more like getting a ZipCar for the afternoon here in North America.
Verizon launching $80 5GB prepaid data plan
Demand they explain to you what your nominal value to the company is and also what your home-run value is. Then structure the base pay at the nominal and find an incentive scheme to scale up to the home run. Ask them to propose the structure, then ask questions about everything you don't understand. It things get testy, that's probably a bad sign. Finally, if you're not confident what they're saying is valid, take a couple of days and get good advice.
I'm not sure I agree with his points on Google, while GMail was innovative(still is) I'd say Android is tearing up the mobile market and showing no sign of slowing down. Apple opened the door and holds a big piece of the pie but so does Android.
Sorry if I came across as if I worked for them. Feel free to click my profile link and check out my businesses - I use my real name and have nothing to hide. I sell software to cattle ranchers and horse owners.

The reason I mentioned Braintree was I've seen their ads on The Deck and came across them being used by several popular Rails SAAS companies. Maybe I've drank their kool-aid. Feel free to substitute any small payment processor (non Paypal/Google Checkout/AuthorizeNet).
Ask HN: Open source iPhone tethering app?
I was reading the Gizmodo story on the fake flashlight app that was actually a tethering app:

http://gizmodo.com/5592521/how-a-guy-tricked-apple-with-a-disguised-iphone-tethering-app

It's been pulled from the app store, but apparently it actually worked.

Hopefully this will show up as an app for jailbroken phones, but another idea would be to make the app source/package openly available so any developer can compile and install it on their own phones and their friends.

I'm too busy/lazy to take a shot at it, but it'd be a nice thing for someone to do. Anyone want to write an open source tethering app?
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Link to the first HN thread discussing this blog: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1530914
Completely agree. I totally think this is the right way to do it, and I really hope we can sustain that model. At the very least, it'll be awesome while it lasts. :)
I agreed with your statement, I took a part of your statement and expanded upon it. To be clear I am in no way disagreeing, in fact I agreed with, enjoyed and up-voted your comment.

:)
Why Winning Is The Greatest Strategy
Already have my answer - started at 100% at noon, but 6pm, down to 32%.
What are the signs that A) A company has this problem B) A company is good.

I know of a few good examples such as GOOG, MSFT(depending), Netflix, some startups etc but I know the Midwest(my location) is chock full of these IT houses that don't care.
Take it to email, this isn't the place for this.
I don't think it's that unique. I was in math, but I got job offers pretty easily (a few months of casually browsing startuply and HN "who's hiring" posts). I know a number of others who successfully and unsuccessfully made the leap, both coders and non (the coders did better, obviously).

The key is to actually go all out in your new field. It's pretty obvious when you talk to people whether they actually want to pursue their new field, or whether they view it as a poor substitute for academia. Obviously, the latter attitude doesn't go over so well.

In academic math, you prove things. In a hedge fund, if it makes money it's correct.