skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reusing natural heat/cold should really be more common... Free energy. I remember seeing designs for a shower whose drainpipe wrapped around the cold water pipe. The heat transfer through the pe between the two made for a 30ish percent energy reduction.
Wouldn't this just be a company's logo or slogan? (ie Nike: Just Do It).
Sure and what do you get for the price of an iPod?

The life's work of the greatest genius in CS and a set of knowledge that will last you more than your lifetime.
There's actually quite a few ads on Reddit that I've seen about "Avoiding the Obama Homesexual Agenda" (not to mention Scientology), so it seems more like Conde Nast is protecting their specific interests. Or at least, not allowing ads that oppose their views.
Paul Allen Sues Apple, Google, Others Over Patents.com
Hardback edition $200

Kindle edition $100

Empty slipcase with fake spines to impress your friends $50
Any source on the split adblock opinion? Sounds interesting.
The Internet's Secret Back Door
Condo is a company that exist for one single reason - to make as much money as possible for their share holders. That is their legal requirment, so if they don't do that and leave money on the table they open the self up to liability from their share holders.
point of evidence 5,436 that US software patents are a joke and need to be destroyed.
How did they find you?
BTW, I have an extra set of volumes 1-3 that I got by mistake, if someone's around Paris, mail me to get them. A poor student would be best :)
Do you have some evidence to support this?
Getting a middleman advisor who does M&A to represent you for a commission may not be a bad idea.
"This lawsuit against some of America's most innovative companies reflects an unfortunate trend of people trying to compete in the courtroom instead of the marketplace," a Google spokesman said.

I nearly choked. Are you shitting me? Marketplace doesn't allow you to "steal" others technologies. How would they feel about others infringing their search engine patents. Before anyone go wild on me, let me make it clear I am not supporting Mr. Allen or software patents or even know if there is a patent infringement here. All I am saying is if there is an infringement, I don't get this Googler.
You're saying needing more money might help raise more money? I suppose. Hardware products are tough to bootstrap, and tough to flesh out issues with before having volume... and they don't get software margins. That said, I'm sure there's interest.. and it's probably inflated when the hardware is well understood, and maybe driven by software margins (Square comes to mind).
The more surprising thing IMHO is the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion, and especially over people who watch Fox News etc.

Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. So instead of a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Fox, they get a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Reddit.
You can get a similar effect in Clojure with the "->" operator:

http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloj...;

So you can take

(foo (bar (baz "Hi!")))

and make it

(-> "Hi!" baz bar foo)
my estimation of Mr. Allen has just plummeted
Also some of the old phone company (AT&T prior to the 1974 breakup) employees had their retirement benefits whittled away over the years, my father-in-law included. Additionally most private sector employees are not under any sort of contract. I didn't sign a contract at any of the three corporations I've ever worked for (over the past 22 years). Fortunately my retirement was all 401k and as I changed jobs I rolled those into a rollover IRA under my control so I don't have to worry about under-funded pensions, I only have to worry about how bad I suck at picking stocks.
That's a very interesting consequence of the GPL I hadn't considered before. I wonder where the law would draw the line in regards to modification. I mean, if I download OpenJDK, and delete 99% of it and then code something else, is it still the same software? Does my new program have the same patent protection?
After all these years, it looks like the publishing industry is still threatened by marijuana.
I have all of the input devices mentioned in this thread, and cannot find anything to compare to the old Kensington "Expert Mouse" track balls, with the heavy ball the size of a billiards ball, a scroll wheel around it, and 4 buttons.

The ball's diameter allows pinpoint accuracy when needed, the weight allows a flick with momentum to carry the cursor across two 30" screens, the scroll wheel is under your ring finger for simultaneous use.

That said, the recent magic trackpad is growing on me.
It's more of an example of you not reading the short article but commenting on it anyway.

The article is about Microsoft analyzing crash reports, which include bits of compiled code that crash, and finding that sometimes those compiled bits are viruses under development.
Check out jumpcut too. It has a mode to pop up a bezel where you can keyboard your way through the various copy/paste buffers you've used. I use quicksilver, but I also run jumpcut just for its paste buffers.
Does that mean you can't use it to buy the Myhrvold cooking bible?
Stack based 'mental' scope is one of the bigger things to 'unlearn'.

When I look at a function I build up a mental image of what is going on on the stack as the function executes. Things that I don't see declared within the function or that are explicitly allocated update the heap. To get away from that image is very hard to do at first.

I compare it to learning real life languages, like English versus German. If you've never seen a language that has declinations in the endings of words then it can completely overwhelm you. Likewise tonal languages are strange when you've only spoken English or German.

Each of those opens up the perspective you had before you learned that language to show you that there is more under the sun than what you thought was 'normal', and that your way is not always the better one.

In programming languages it is much the same way.
Reminds me another Steve Jobs conversation, about the NeXT logo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb8idEf-Iak

He talks about Paul Rand, who refused to give Steve multiple options on the NeXT logo. He would do just one, it would be right, and Steve could take it or leave it.

I admire the courage involved in saying "taste is more than subjective, it's right vs. wrong, and I choose to be right."

That's a huge part of the power in Apple's branding.
Indeed. Though if you can compete on the world market and be more expensive, there's got to be something to justify that.
I found this to be a let down. The story was structured as a first person narrative, I didn't expect it to be fiction.
They are a private company owned by the Newhouse family. They can do what they want.
While that may be why SpiderOak does what they do, I disagree with most of their arguments?

First, you can do variable block-based de-duplication, which is how major storage vendors do it - not per-file, which doesn't really buy you much.

Leveraging this in the SAN firmware also prevents their ridiculous file transfer 'vulnerability' (which only exists due the way they wrote their software) - all of your files copy over the network to the storage system. Once they're on the storage system, at some later time and asynchronously, the storage system runs a dedupe on the blocks, and winnows down its storage. Think of it like transparently compressing on the storage side, only, hopefully, less intense on I/O.

Finally, they could simply encrypt everything and then they can't answer subpoenas about who has knowledge of what - it was all encrypted immediately after uploading, and no log is kept. If the data doesn't exist, you can't be forced to give it up...
If I were Conde Nast, the fallout would be firing them, and yes I'm aware this may kill reddit.

You were bought. Reddit does not belong to you, and you don't get to decide what to do with it.

If you can't handle that then you should never have sold, or in this case you should quit.
Only if your provider is doing it in the ridiculous and naive manner suggested in the post.
> I tried to read your story, but the firewall over here thinks your site has pornography

Not that I'm aware of!
No, because patent trolls that don't make products can't be destroyed by patents.
Did you cook up your own authentication or is that provided by one of those?
+1 for divvy, especially if you switch back and forth between an external monitor and the laptop display at different resolutions. I have a ton of app-hotkeys setup to resize everything to the aspect ratio I like after swapping resolutions.
He didn't know how to sell himself, then.

I've seen job postings here in Uruguay that pay 4x the average local programming wage for anyone that knows COBOL decently (about U$ 3000 monthly)

He might even be willing to relocate here for that money (you can live princely here with that much). It was for state telecom company ANTEL, last year (I learned some COBOL at university, but not enough) .
Why does this feel more like spam than real information?
Those are some pretty slick tricks. Too bad the author didn't know how to craft his own ls, cat and other commands using bash builtins and functions, as I wrote here: http://www.h-i-r.net/2009/08/cratered-your-linux-box-here-ar...

I'm definitely adding some of this to my little book of tricks!
FLUD iPad app is Flipboard Killer
"Fashion and food were traditionally not protected by patents because to make a cake or a dress, one only needed an oven or a sowing machine. "

Is that really true? I don't know I am just asking. I personally don't think capital investment should have anything to do with the patent. It's like giving no value to the innovative technologies made by people in garage. Just doesn't make sense to me.

On a side note, do you consider time as capital investment?
I use a wiki. As I dump thoughts onto it I generate documentation, "ToDo" lists, possible new features, critiques of existing features, problems I have to solve, solutions to problems I have solved, and links to other ideas and projects.

Then I have a script that pulls the "To Do" and "Problems" sections into a prioritized work-list, and I'm off and running.
And I salute you for including it in the bundle!
Oh of course, but I can see it being used fairly widely since it does have (esp on larger networks) the obvious advantage of being able to save a LOT on hardware if a lot of stored data is duplicates.

I don't think a lot of backup providers do this but file-mesh services and file sharing services surely do.
I thought an iPad was for consumption, not creation.

Then I found out it has not one, but two, complete office suites compatible with Microsoft Office. (Documents To Go, Pages, Numbers, Keynote).

Then I found out it could completely replace my guitar amp, with 5 different amps, 11 stomps, 5 cabinets, and 2 mics. (AmpliTube, AmpKit)

Then I found out it could do advanced photo editing. (PhotoGene, PhotoForge)

Then I found out it could create paintings for the cover of the New Yorker (Brushes, Layers)

Then I found out it could more quickly and easily do my homework than pen and paper could. (Penultimate)

Then I found out it could completely replace a DJ’s equipment. (Looptastic HD, AC-7 Pro, Pianist Pro)

These are just what I’ve come across in my relatively limited exposure to the iPad App Store, and even then only in my relative niches.

It’s still more than enough to tell me the invented dichotomy of “consumption vs. creation” for the iPad is completely false, yet somehow, it’s gained enough hold to generate just short of 4 million hits on Google.

So, next time some writer says you’ll need a non-existent PalmPad with a rumored stylus in order to do “real content creation”, or someone tries to equate a dedicated e-book reader to an iPad, or a competitor’s COO pretends their 9 year old “Tablet PC” initiative is somehow going to be better at content creation, using an operating system designed for a mice and keyboard, ignore it. They are relying on assumptions that aren’t born out from actually using the device and exploring the available software, or they are unaware of how young the platform is (it’s only been 7 months since developers were able to start programming for it, trust me, we’re only just starting to see real innovative apps released), or they are a competitor who is knocking on the iPad because they have to.

My iPad has replaced my notebooks, pens, paper, laptop, guitar amp, PS3, board games, and books. It will only be able to do more in the future.
I think "MAC" is a kind of makeup: http://www.maccosmetics.com/

The computer is capitalized "Mac": http://www.apple.com/mac/
The strategy behind both Nike's and Apple's branding is much further expounded on in a great film called Art & Copy. I highly recommend it.

Nike's message is "just do it". It isn't about hanging out with athletes, it's appreciating aspiration and athleticism of all stripes [1]. Nike is a dominant enough clothing brand that they benefit from encouraging general athleticism. Their products are barely present in their branding, if at all.

Apple's message is (and has been) to "think different" and "we're here to help you change the world for the better". Sure, it appeals to the rebellious youth in people, but it also appeals to scientists, artists, and philosophers in search of new paradigms to overturn the status quo. The "think different" commercial isn't about their computers. It's a public service announcement sponsored by Apple.

1. Even when Nike puts Michael Jordan in a commercial, it isn't about "hanging out with him", but about overcoming fear of failure, and "just doing it": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc

PS: Just searched for "nike michael jordan commercial" for more, and found another brilliant piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBxcunGc_nA (again, I'd argue this is about appreciating the beauty of athleticism more so than "hanging out with Jordan").
The Cost of Tweets (CO2 Emissions)
Been meaning to try this, but haven't gotten around to it: http://people.msoe.edu/~bovorasr/

S/w to create your own logbooks.
I understand that Harmony's VM is a JVM, Dalvik is a circumvention of Sun's J2ME, which is a different issue (I believe Sun tried to protect J2ME far more strongly than the regular JVM, it's licensed differently and stuff)
Whether that is his intent or not, we can hope that a consortium of the defendant/victim corporations might be able to launch some action (in-court or in-congress) to begin at last the patent-reform process.
To be expected really. It's a farce if Oracle can still call Java "Open".
This begs the question: why isn't an iPad a computer?
> What Oracle is doing is absolutely no different than what SCO was engaged in.

SCO asserted ownership of code they didn't own and licenses they didn't have. How is that even remotely similar?
The odd thing is that the semantics of the Unix pipeline model is more similar to lazy sequences in Haskell or Clojure.

It is common to have one function generating a lazy sequence, another taking the output of that function and generating another lazy sequence, and so on until you get your final results out at the other end. The nice thing is that at no point in time is it necessary to have the entire sequence in memory.

A Unix pipeline is similar, in that one process consumes the output of another process as it becomes available, as opposed to having to wait for the first process to complete its task before the next process in the pipeline can start.
Hmm, Culpeper and Richmond are only 'Southern Virginia' compared to Arlington/Mclean/NCR area.

Microsoft's project is WAY out in the middle of nowhere, right near the Carolina border, but conveniently, nowhere near Hampton Roads (Norfolk/Virginia Beach area), where this is actually a sizable population (where I live).

I guess there's probably a sizable fiber bundle down I-85, and they're simply peeling off of that. The only other real fiber deployment in South Eastern VA is the Lambda Rail and DoD leased fiber going to Norfolk Naval Station.
Reddit Tells Conde Nast to Go to Hell
> because he makes nothing

He does license patents, if IBM can prove one the licensed patent is based on one or more IBM patents, they could counter sue.
Buy one real, so you can take it out.
Indeed it's still a big difference, but it's not "off the charts!" as the graph would have you believe.

Plus, it's fairly reasonable that there would be such a difference between private / public job loss rates.

Employment rates in the operations department of most companies I've worked for are relatively flat during both boom and bust times, when the rates of the rest of the organisation fluctuate wildly. In boom times you need IT/HR/Facilities/Finance... and in bust times you do, too. Sales? R&D? Maybe not so much.

I can imagine that most public services are more on the Ops side and less on the Sales side.
Yah, what kind of decision is it to become a 'high-profile person'?
My point is specifically that many of them are doing so in this ridiculous way. You can try for yourself: upload a bunch of pirated mp3s and see if the transfer is suspiciously fast.
Yes, they're different things, for sure, but this is a patent lawsuit, so the only thing that matters is if the code infringes. Whether it does or doesn't... only the case will tell, I guess. It's worrisome, though.

Android, more than 'circumventing' Java ME, is its own system. You can't run Java ME code with it. Android has its own API.
The problem with hurricanes isn't going to be the wind and water (hopefully they've accounted for flooding). It's going to be the trees and other debris flying through the air at 100+mph. Without concrete to absorb/mitigate that damage, I'd hate to see what happens :)
I remember reading a paper a long time ago about traffic engineering. It turns out that when there's a traffic problem you have three choices more or less:

1) Add something

2) Change something

3) Remove something

The paper talked about how most civil engineers have a strong bias toward 1, followed by 2, and then rarely 3. The first thought is almost always to add something. Something is wrong? That means we need something more to solve it, right?

Complexity is not a virtue. It's actually a vice and a liability. It is better to solve a problem by removing something than by adding something. This (along with losing sight of what customers want) is the problem with engineer-driven design. Engineers like to add stuff, not remove stuff.

Wave always looked horridly over-complex to me. The protocol was a tower of babel. It was "open," but it was so complex that nobody would bother climbing its learning curve. It tried to solve too many problems at once, it was slow, and it was cumbersome to use. Those are all signs of over-engineering.
Also, it sort of shows their hand on size - you can just fly over and tell exactly how extensive their installation is. No hidden cages/etc. It's a very interesting choice, and I'd love to know what inspired it.
The horror category seems to be top notch, but the horror genera is generally horrible b-class movies anyways.
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I'd actually do it the opposite way. Take your chances when your young and are more willing to work 24/7. When you get older, do the gov't job with the pension ready at the normal retirement age.
>Is that really true?

Yes. Or more precisely because clothes and food are too "utilitarian".

"Lessons from fashion's free culture"

http://ca.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion...

"Copyright law's grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry ... and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley."
But saying that other companies are doing things wrong, doesn't mean you have to throw the baby out with the bathwater - you can still do de-duping, you just won't do it in a way that exposes vulnerabilities/etc.

The article makes it sound like it cannot be done.
That's pretty content-free compared with the items on Lipton's blog:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632763

http://searchyc.com/submissions/NP?page=2&sort=by_date
I was hoping to keep thing nice and simple. :) You brought up a good point in the subtle problem in using closure. Yes, in some implementation of closure, both foo and bar access the same closed variable x.

The best way to treat this is to view closed variables as global variables in different scopes. Global variables imply they are shared.

e.g.

x = 1 // environment in the global scope

function baz()
// environment in baz's scope shared by foo and bar
x = 3
foo = function() { x += 1 }
bar = function(){ x -= 1 }
return [foo, bar]

foo1, bar1 = baz() // create a baz_env1 [x:3]
bar1() // baz_env1 [x:2]
foo1() // baz_env1 [x:3]
foo1() // baz_env1 [x:4]

foo2, bar2 = baz() // create a baz_env2 [x:3]
bar2() // baz_env2 [x:2]

x = 10

// At this point,
// global environment's x is 10
// baz_env1 x is 4
// baz_env2 x is 2

Hope that clarifies things.
Already been submitted about 7 links below...http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639679
The lack of content to be streamed, which has more to do with the studios than with Netflix.
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That is useful, but it is actually just one example of price discrimination - and you might want to create more than one competitor to your product.
One of the big challenges of scaling a backup service is maximizing the upload rate from customers, so there's a strong incentive to do the de-duplication before the upload when possible. I don't wish to call anyone out specifically, but several storage services operate exactly in this way.

I disagree that requiring end-users to effectively operate their own encryption software is a robust path to privacy.
"Both Xobni and Dropbox were single-founder startups initially"

Initially, I think, is the key here. Am I wrong to assume that you loved the idea, the technology, and the potential of the marketplace and that any concerns you might have had over a single-founder was assuaged by the founder's desire (but not yet accomplished) goal to find a proper co-founder/partner?
Someone's got to be better than Jobs at negotiating. Most likely, it's not me, but I'd give it a shot ;)
No, they are avoiding ads that they think will cost them money.
Well the higher-ups could actually have been honest when they said they just didn't want to benefit financially, and might have approved the free ads.
Steve Blank's list of the best books for building a startup
Does running the ads for free count as a donation to the prop 19 campaign, and possibly trigger reporting obligations on the part of Conde Nast?
First question in my mind is why would you sell? Are you in it for the money or to build a great product.

Would you still get to lead the project if they acquire you and the company?

Do you think you can be more successful on your own?

I think those the important questions first. But if you do want to work for them what ever you reasons. Meet them see if you like the people and the culture. The rest is negotiations and I wouldn't give them your source code what ever you do.

Do your self a favor and get your self a lawyer for the contracts and not one they supply you. A lawyer they supply you really just works for them.
That was the point.

Wonder if microsoft has a deal with Allen or if he just doesn't want to sue the company he has a stake in.

This could easily be spun as Allen as the attack dog against microsofts competition.