skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably want a reliable and streamlined access to the audio and video. With a plugin they're probably able to go at a lower-level in the OS and have much better control and quality.
Patent paranoia is a form of value-destroying premature optimization.

Will they get the patent? Will its actual claims cover what you do? Will they or their successors ever enforce it? If they do will it hold up?

You can actually make yourself more trouble in these situations by research -- even beyond the wasted time worrying -- because the earlier you demonstrate knowledge of the patent's existence and details the more likely you could then be accused of 'willful infringement', which has higher damages.
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Yeah, combine that with the fact that most of these vary according to region, and you'll find out that most of these are useless.

I guess I'll have to go set a fire at a hospital and see if they call "Dr. Firestone", or, you know, pull the fire alarm.
I'm not gonna mess with it at work, but it sounds like a cool project. Keep going.
I really doubt, if anybody would join when there is no budget for salaries, unless you can offer them a partnership and they actually believe in the probability of success of the idea.

And unless you alrady know them well, it would be tough to either convince them of the probability of success or keep the idea protected till they sign up or both.

But then, everything is possible, you just have to figure out how.

Cheers
So prisons are merely approaching the cost of higher education, sorry. (9.6% versus 14.3%).
I think notifying users in advance may cause confusion. When will the url redirect, etc.

I think it is probably best to send them an email when you make the dns change, and make sure you have a header on redirected pages (if they went to your old url) explaining why they are on a site with a different name.
you don't think that manipulation on the level of being able to fully remove free will would have to originate from a fundamental force?
I love that here on HN you frequently get comments from the original author or subject of the article.
Yeah, when I think "conspiracy", I rush over to 4chan to see what the internet's finest minds have come up with.
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Why can't someone interested in a future in philanthropy, volunteerism, family building, etc., succeed at building a startup?

None of them are likely to be income-generating ventures, meaning for all intents and purposes, it's a life of retirement. Retirement does not imply doing "nothing" for the rest of one's life.
How about his failure in predicting UK elections results, US unemployment rate, Maine's same sex marriage vote, special Senate elections in Massachusetts? These are just a few examples that I remember. But then the NY Times thinks that Krugman deserves the coverage too...
That's a good choice too. I was just more familiar with the 6310i; Sir Philip Green had bought a lot of them.
Horribly written article, but very interesting topic.
T-Mobile really seems to have turned their act around. I was with them for a long time but went to AT&T for the 3Gs (at the time being able to tether at a decent speed was worth it).

Now, I don't know. I'm on Verizon and Verizon's coverage was surprisingly good in places I've never had GSM coverage. I'm not sure if I could go back. I wish I could, though - I'd love to give them my support for things like that.
I've had several friends come to me after installing their first OS X application, saying they thought they had a virus.

"Whenever I try to run this application, I get the warning 'This was downloaded from the internet', etc., etc. I have to click 'Okay' every time I use the app. It doesn't seem safe."

The problem? They had dragged the app straight from the disk image onto the dock.

That said, OS X installation is about as simple as you can get. (Though I wish Apple would finally include Homebrew as its default package manager.)
>You can accuse me of being "confused and ignorant"

It isn't an accusation or an insult: Every developer on the planet has recurring periods where they are confused and ignorant. I can't make any such a claim in this case, but can only point out that such public displays often grow from such temporary roots.

However yes I cede a thousandfold that Android has an endless array of quirks and nuances that seem...non-optimal. Parts of the API show their Google lineage, while other parts draw from the Java norm. And on the "quirksmode" thing, couldn't agree more.

It was the "Android Tools Are Horrendous, OS Is Hideous" bit that caught my eye: I can't imagine someone seriously developing for something they consider hideous, with horrendous tools, especially when they have shown themselves to be principled.
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When Sonicity failed, I was the second of the three founders to leave; the CEO was the last to go, and we had something like 5 employees up the last day of the company, which was something like a month or two after I left.

I got a job at another startup, this time in Ann Arbor, MI. We packed up and moved from SF to A2 (truth be told, we were happy to get out of California and back towards the Midwest). I honestly didn't interview at all in California; my friend Dug had invited me to the A2 company many months before, and I just chose to take him up on the offer when Sonicity blew up.

If you have funding, the story gets (very slightly) trickier than if you're bootstrapped. Sonicity was (very) funded, so there were liquidation details I wasn't party to. Presumably someone at Sony owns all our old source code. The company assets were (mostly) liquidated.

Nobody cares if you fail with a startup. That's what startups do: they fail. Losing a startup is precisely the same as losing a job. You pick yourself up and get another one (a job or a startup, interchangeably).

The sole caveat to this is that if you're a serial startup flopper, your resume will communicate flakiness. This is very easy to fix: don't repeatedly start new companies, but instead alternate between starting things and doing something useful for someone else's (established!) startup. Consider as a rule of thumb that you should always start a company after a high note of some sort.
Of course, you're on a social network right now which uses game mechanisms.

My understanding is the entire x-box live is based on game mechanisms.
I think Douglas Adams talked about how he used that phrase in Salmon of Doubt:

“Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression ‘it turns out’ to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It’s great. It’s hugely better than its predecessors ‘I read somewhere that...’ or the craven ‘they say that...’ because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it’s research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight.”
Now if only my Google voice number wouldn't give a busy signal to half of the people that try to call me, I would love this.
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I'd love to see some data on this as well, are there no instances of slow and steady winning the race in the startup world?
From what I've heard Google actually pays less than average because you're working at "Google". Whatever that means.
I'll add to the deadline section "the ability to actually ship." Beware of the brilliant computer scientist who is working on their baby, and sees the performance of their software as reflection of their character.

The software will never be "good enough" to release, and "no one will buy it" as it is. They'll run out of money before they actually launch anything.
Microbes survive a year and a half in space
Thanks, there is some great stuff on there.
I am already familiar with AWS and a little Cassandra
IAC is in NYC. It's kind of a giant dot-conglomerate. I don't know about the cafeteria there though.
A friend of mine runs CareerCup - http://careercup.com/

Highly recommended as a place to find/practice tech interview questions.
Thanx man. Its probably best not to use from work because people post up some really odd stuff. That was my main reason for adding the search screen and not just having a map. I didn't want it to turn into chatroulette. My hope is that people tag things properly so only people looking for X will see X.
Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web
bit.ly has enterprise accounts: http://bit.ly/pro/products
One data point:

The hospital (in New Jersey) where my wife works uses the "Dr. Firestone" thing. A "Dr. Clearwater" cancels the alert.
The issue is not that they can sell

It's that they can't sell easily so are instead giving away their product, effectively flooding the market with free goods.
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yea, definitely. just saw this. shoot me an email at jessecmaddox [at] gmail . Didn't see any info in your profile, but if you happen to see this let me know!
1) have the details (and top level descriptions) of the work you have already done and put on your resume, on your fingertips.
2) Remind yourself of the obstacles you have faced in your projects and how you solved them - see that your explanations as to how you solved them will highlight the positives in you such as resourcefulness, creative problem solving, readiness to take help, determination, etc
3) If the requirements are for skills that you do not have, but think you can pick them up fast, figure out how your current skills and past exposure will enable you to quickly pick up tne new skills
4) Know the requiremetns very well so that you don't get any surprises
5) know your resume very well

If I were the interviewer, I would also ask (preferably through a questionnaire) a ton of questions to check problem solving capabilities and attitudes about different stuff.

Good luck and cheers.
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I am obviously expecting that in a few years time Android will suck much less, or I wouldn't bother investing time in it.
Hmm, depends on your interpretation, I always deem flagging a submission worthy of asking why it was posted even though I disagree with it's content being worthy of HN. I don't consider that to be complaining, it's a valid question.

I generally like to admit that I flagged the post for discretionary purposes during a conversation in the comments, but since you're being pedantic and four other users agree, it doesn't do me any harm to leave that bit out when I ask why an article is being posted on HN.
Exactly. Every developer, working on any platform, might tweet stuff like that from time to time. Coming from someone of his experience it's definitely interesting as HN discussion, but completely insane as a Yahoo!Finance story (with AAPL/GOOG charts, as if the stocks turn based on a coder's tweets..)
How Intellectual Ventures Wants to Reinvent Invention
They would just not be "employees"; more like founders or associates, with a significant equity (eg: not 1%).
Sure, and the people who buy AdWords subsidize search for the rest of us who don't. So?
I'm not sure about bit.ly specifically, but there is the hope that the data about what is trending could be valuable if sold. They know, for instance, what urls people are sharing, and they know how many people are clicking on them.
"Note that the distribution will near to perfect because of the SHA1 statistical properties."

That's what really makes this trick work so well. Besides that, what's really neat about it is that you can implement it at the client layer until it is pushed down into core in a later release.
It's really easy to get caught up in anti-copyright and anti-(software-)patent fervor and get so caught up that you want to toss it all out, even trademarks! And it is true that trademarks have been abused.

But they exist for a very good reason, and I could see copyright and patents being tossed out in toto before trademarks went away. (And yes, I consider that to have negligible probability too.) You have a right to know with what entity you are dealing, and that's the problem trademarks solve. To that end, a trademark does not just cover the literal thing trademarked, it is explicitly defined in terms of things that may confuse a normal person, because that is the entire purpose. "Sort of like" is the entire point.

I think the idea that these people named their product with no intention of trying to ride Facebook's coattails completely implausible. They knew what they were doing. They may not have realized it's illegal, but this is simply the purpose of the law being fulfilled. (And the odds that they did know what they were doing and acted in bad faith anyhow are definitely nontrivial.) This is little different than trying to sell a Sorny TV.
Great advice! I would add knowing common data structures such as trees, linked-lists and queues/stacks and how to traverse/sort/build them
>it's not built into the HTTP request process, even though async HTTP is what you want... basically always

In the Android world that simply isn't the case, and thread-oriented (as opposed to evented) development is the most common strategy, which is why the calls are synchronous -- you toss off a thread to do some web service calls, processing the request and updating the UI.

Regardless, a universal HttpAsyncTask class, with an oncomplete delegate, is a trivial undertaking (there is no need to create one for every unique call). Should there be one in the stock library? Maybe. The lack of one by default is indicative of the fundamentally different general approaches however. Not better or worse, just different.
Any one from facebook has some balls to be throwing stones. They are the owners of one of the wackiest APIs known to man and a site design so bad there are browser plugins specifically to fix it.
They missed the only one I know in the UK - "Inspector Sands" I'm sure used to be associated with bomb / terror threats but wikipedia says it's just a general euphemism for something in a train/tube station that needs immediate attention from staff.
Congrats to Nate, but I wonder why this was necessary. How could this possibly lead to better quality posts?
Imagine if the anonymous funder was Apple, attempting to take Google out by choking them off of ad revenue.
I really used to like that phrase; it makes real life into more of a narrative. Now it's becoming overused (that's not pg's fault). I'm avoiding it. Quel dommage.
> Debit cards come to mind, if only they were managed by the government and not by private entities.

What govt would resist the temptation to do dumb things with debit cards?

For example, the combination of school locations and laws about how close some people can live to schools means that there are many cities where such people can't live. (The specific category that I'm thinking of is registered sex offenders but there are others.)

Govt means that the majority gets to decide what happens to the minority. What could possibly go wrong....
I can make my computer output the number 42, and we can argue that there is a force behind me that resulted in that program to output 42 (as well as in Scott Adams's choice of the number and my inevitable reading of his books, etc etc). But it is easier to identify that I manipulated my computer to output 42.

Similarly, our environment may be affected by any number of forces, and we may be entirely pattern-matching, reacting machines who learned how to react from experiences in our environment.
5. Your bad employees rarely quit

If you've ever worked for, or with, the government this is readily apparent.
and this: http://www.ehow.com/how_4526446_prepare-software-developer-i...
Hack the posters? I think the term "hack" is being stretched in that argument. If it were some clever social experiment, that would be different, this is merely an article about disgruntled city officials that decided to get mildly creative.
The larger a company is, the easier it is for bad employees to hideout in the org. The path of least resistance for the average manager is to just let it slide.

It is also my experience that letting poor performers slide has a big impact on your top performers. Top performers want to be part of a winning team, and letting slackers ride sends a terrible message.
http://www.blenderguru.com/blender-2-5-cheat-sheet/ a better one came out today
Ask HN: What Virtual Machine solution do you use?
I am a Mac user and wanted to have Windows 7 as a Virtual Machine. I know about only two possible solutions/software that I can install on Mac

1. VirtualBox

2. VMWare Fusion (not free)

I am not sure which one to install. My needs are:

1. It should be free

2. It should be available for Macs
I failed big last year with an iPhone app.

I'm at it again this year with a web app - trying not to make the same mistakes I made the first time around.

The jury's still out on the 2nd round but I am releasing in a few weeks time so I'll know soon enough.
I think that should be "Ask HN" not HW
I've left several companies because of the general attitude of letting lazy/bad/non-caring employees slide by.
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The unlucky point is so true. All kinds of crazy costs and snafus will sneak up and knock you off your feet. Taking care to plan ahead always helps, but having that new server go dead or finding some unexpected legal fees or finding an unanticipated tax bill in the mail can really knock you off your game for a few days.

Just be sure to keep some emergency cash reserves on hand if you can afford to do so. It can save your sanity and your company (I've had 2 instances where the cash reserves have saved my company's behind: (1) was for a costly rescue from DriveSavers and (2) was for some hefty but worthwhile legal fees from an unexpected legal dispute.
Well... I just saw some news special on how Craigslist has become a hub for prostitution. So you'll have that.

You'll just have to keep policing it. But I don't think most people will mind a bit of NSFW content.
Never mind. It's because the submitter is spamming. Flagged.
I don't hate Java, but I dislike Java because I almost always find situations where I wish I had better abstraction mechanisms (where "better" means neither "Your IDE can generate code for you!" or "What do you have against writing XML files to perform code generation at startup?")
There was a science story published today on technologyreview.com that reported on a team that purported to essentially prove that quantum entanglement proves free will.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25665/
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I'd love to see a No Assholes rule on HN. By that I mean if an admin saw a post that was asshole-ish, the poster account would be disabled. It would encourage polite discussion. The current point system mostly encourages point-baiting and groupthink/PC-ness. Internet posting seems to encourage rude behavior, and it's exacerbated when you have a bunch of geek personalities who often lack good social skills.
Maybe you missed the official acknowledgment that a priority of the US Government is to continue widespread extrajudicial "detention, transfer and interrogation" of "suspects", with the valued co-operation of foreign allies - without any kind of reciprocal agreements, of course.
virtualbox works great for me. I don't think it will handle any 3d graphics, but for testing websites on windows and doing image editing it works great. Simple to setup.
Don't know if I agree with #2. There are plenty of overnight success stories that are 10 years in the making (Zappos comes to mind). And plenty of startups had to muscle through tough times without seeing "quick success" (Pandora). Countless others.

If things things that succeed tend to do so quickly, why is the idea of a pivot so important?
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In middle school one day there was a loudspeaker announcement that all teachers were to stay after school for "the special meeting, I repeat, the special meeting." It was so obvious to everyone that this was a coded message and we got it out of the Spanish teacher pretty quickly that this meant there had been a bomb threat.
Funny this was also the top-voted comment on the previous discussion of this same post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163040
You do realize that even people who have incredibly good prediction records, do get things wrong. You can't really point to a specific thing and say, "you suck because you didn't predict this". Look at the totality of their record.

And Krugman has a Nobel Prize in Economics, and numerous other awards for his work in Economics. I honestly think you'd be hardpressed to find a more qualified economist (on matters of economics). You may not agree with him, but I don't think anyone at the NYTimes is losing sleep grappling with the issue of if Paul Krugman is worthy of being in the paper.
How do you know it's approaching? Higher education is 50% higher but I don't know if corrections is growing at a faster rate.
I assume the kind of information alluded to is information which is in principle public and of public interest, but its flow is artificially restricted (or at least deliberately not encouraged) by a party with a commercial interest in holding a monopoly on said information. This is normally information in the "data" sense, not "photos from the wild party last night". Example: price comparison websites.
1. Beautiful site

2. To those who are interested in its background, you should read Heuer's original masterpiece on analysis (what this software package is based on I believe). It's very easy to read and elucidate many rationales you think is "obvious" but can't explain why.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Offering economic incentives by making it easy to generate revenue from direct sales seems unlikely to stem the flood.

If you don't like the competition then you should be happy they're limited to ad revenue in the App store, which will only be the right solution for a subset of apps.

If you've got a moral issue with American companies being slow to enable other options for developers in certain nations then you need to think of a better way of expressing that than worrying about them "flooding the market" with their products and implying that they're substandard.
Not the actual released iMac, but the rumor was that its form was from a project at Apple started as a network computer (Ellison's thing at the time).

http://www.macobserver.com/columns/1temporalloop/2007/05/15....
I do not care about 3D graphics. I want to use it for simple stuff like testing for IE on Windows etc.
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umm is it down?
"The individual or groups that conduct the DDoS attacks are most of the time hired to complete the job."

Purely out of curiosity, how do people go about finding such nefarious characters?
Do those really count as "start ups"? If so I've had about 10 start ups. And I really don't consider anything I've done as a "start up".
Married couples do not become more similar over time
Fair cop. This one has the link to the PDF of the real paper though, unlike the Economist piece.
Kinda. Is Digg still relevant?
The answer is already in the linked article IMHO. What if I started a phone directory service named phonebook (which is a perfectly valid english of the dutch "Telefoonboek"). Shouldn't be a problem IMHO.
Can you recommend a good matte cover? I was just going to replace the entire screen on my MacBook.
You move on to a new project.

Dismantle the project and organize the technology and assets you developed over the course of your startup. Try to sell those individually if possible, otherwise document and keep them for future use if that's viable (eg. frameworks, algorithms, etc).