skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount being copied makes a big difference, in terms of fair use. If you're copying the entire page, and showing it to people, then that's a more egregious violation than taking a small snippet to provide context.

I'd also say that Google's caching is a copyright violation, and should be opt-in. Google seems to have this notion that because they're above the law when it comes to copyright. They're not. They may be doing this for good reasons, and it may have positive effects for the users of their search engine, but that's irrelevant. The law is the law.

Also, I never said that it was evil. I only said that they shouldn't do it. There is a wide gap between those two assertions.

*Edited to change "provide text" to "provide context" at the end of the first paragraph, and remove an unfortunate use of all caps. Wasn't thinking as clearly as I should have been, sorry.
So MS is suing Motorola, Motorola is suing Apple, Apple is suing HTC, Oracle is suing Google. Did I miss any?
I do, yes.

In the future, I think there's a strong chance that we're all going to end up as specialists - I'd like it if there was a network / site / application that allowed these informal working arrangements to function well.
This is often quoted, but I suspect it's no longer true. When I referred him to an online article last year, he immediately replied about it. I bet he has access to a web browser when needed.
Google Drops Face Recognition in Picasa Web Album
True, but.....what else could replace them?

Good luck replicating the relationships that the local newspapers have with the people in their communities who are able and willing to report on them. It's true that we don't have to use newspapers to distribute local reporting, but the only companies in most communities that have connections to the journalists there happen to be called newspapers and happen to put out a print product.

Any new service that wants to distribute local journalism will have a hard time re-doing all the relationship building that the newspapers have.

When I started Windy Citizen two years ago, I thought we'd be able to give people a better way to find news in their city. That's gone quite well, but I've learned firsthand that the real value that the "newspapers" have is that they're the ones that have all the journalists. There's a non-profit news startup here in Chicago called the Chicago News Coop that also had a similar goal when they started up. But instead of making a cool new product and taking lessons from hacker culture, they went out and stole away the crown jewel reporters from the Tribune and the local alt. weekly. They may be broke as a joke, but good journalists definitely would like to work there, which means in the end, they'll have a good product.

You know how people on HN talk about how hackers only want to work for and with other hackers?

Most journalists only want to work for and with other journalists. I thought that was one of the big takeaways from the NewsTilt post-mortem.
This is a borderline ad farm, so I flagged it and would encourage others to do the same. The content is stretched so thin, it hurts. A clear attempt at getting eyeballs on the ads without really bringing anything to the table.

Also, I'd recommend that a moderator investigate UXMovement, the user who posted it.
There has been plenty of commentary and feedback about how businesses view Groupon, but less about users. What is the prototypical Groupon user? A coupon chasing cheapo or someone who is looking to try new places in their city?
The headline is a little ambiguous, this article is about how to arrange your website menu bar links (and not about how to optimize placing an order in a restaurant, as I first supposed)
Cool, and powered by Erlang too. Neat.

I've been working on my own MMORPG using Erlang (http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/) but I'm waiting for the dust to settle in the HTML5/Flash/Capuccino/etc field to choose the editor/game engine to use for the web frontend.

Bookmarked, keep up the good work.
The problem has less to do with the companies than it does with us.

As Eric Schmidt said in his Atlantic interview, 70% of the laws are written by lobbyists. The masses clearly aren't outraged enough by this process, and industries with decrepit business models get away with using the legal system to protect themselves.

If people came out for fairer copyright laws in the same numbers that the Tea Partyers do, don't you think some politicians would take heed?
>If you're not strong enough to impose your will on someone making violence on you, then train and get stronger. If you're intelligent, it doesn't matter if the other guy is bigger than you. Take up boxing or martial arts. Brain beats brawn.

In 9th grade having a little boxing under my belt, i was attacked by and successfully won the fight with 2 10th graders. Well, a half-day latter, the 10+ of them met me. Not everybody was beating me though - it was just too crowded :). And they weren't even too cruel - i was even able to walk several hours later. They taught me a valuable lesson - for any force there will always be a much bigger force.
Please don't concede things like that. I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't seriously interested in your reasoning.
How do you convince companies and potential candidates that you know your stuff?
They'd be dumb not to. They also own bingsucks.com, and probably a couple hundred other variations.
Have you used a Droid 2? They're loaded with bloatware now... it's like buying a Dell PC.

I got the HTC Incredible and there isn't really any bloatware on it (some people don't like the Sense UI, but the phone doesn't suffer for it and most reviews I read were positive on it).

Several of my friends have iPhones, and I am never envious.
The Good and the Bad of the IPO Market
You're missing the point, people will assume a sync will be one way. As in contact details onto phone. Not phone numbers onto facebook.

This article is a knee-jerk, it doesn't matter what's really happening, why the hell did Facebook take people's phone numbers?

What does facebook need them for, apart from nefarious evil?

We all know non-techies don't read alerts, they just expect things to work as they'd expect.
I think Patch will stick around long enough to kill of many, many local papers.

Then AOL will have a leadership changeover or will get bored of it not really making much money and shut it down creating a void in many communities.
Without getting too political, I can't help but be reminded of Atlas Shrugged. There are so many things wrong with the way our government runs its financial affairs, not the least of which is maintaining a global military empire, massive entitlement programs, endless foreign aid, staggeringly unfunded liabilities... You can go on and on, and Ron Paul seems to be just about the only elected official who cares in the slightest or even grasps where we seem to be headed. Yet in spite of all this, as the tech community we're stilling willing to do our best to keep all those plates spinning as it nears impossibility. The government acts like a teenager with its first credit card, and we do what we can to tell it how it can save a few bucks with a rewards program... I can't help but wonder at what point we're all going to shrug and say, "Who is John Galt?"
It is not suspicious on any level. They are probably doing it on advice of counsel. The actual physical shares will need to be tracked down if they go public, and if any people/shares cannot be found they will have to reissue the shares. Having all of the physical shares in one place protects everyone.
.mov will only play in the Safaris, not even Chrome.

Better to use a .mp4 and .ogv (or webm) if you're want to go pure HTML5 and have the best results across browsers. The mobile browsers have additional restrictions.
Oh yes you did. Nokia is suing Apple which is suing Nokia.

For a full picture: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/...
Should be fairly straightforward. Simply 'save' the last time this user has posted a message. Then the next time they attempt to post a message check if the alloted time has passed and process accordingly.

I see you are using dict, so just add a record with that info and you should be set.
Never bet against a hacker
This thing looked like it was written by me minus the beautiful, loving girl! :-) I was so energetic once but for past 1 year i feel not so. I believe it's the hunger. I don't feel it and I'm too shameful to tell I forgot to eat. I'm writing this with only a small meal in the past 24 hrs. I have to change.
Starbucks makes hire via iPhone
Google owns googlesucks.com and several others, they're just protecting their brand.
What percentage of the 32% of people that bought a smart phone in that period had the option of buying an iPhone on their preferred carrier? How many people just go to their carrier's retail store and buy the phone they like best? Until the iPhone came out, that was how I bought my phones!
Do you need to back-up work social media accounts?
"You can also opt out of these on a per-post basis by clicking the "unsubscribe" link under the title of each post."

THANK YOU.
> that the state will have to go to the IMF, cap in hand, and accept an austerity program in return for further assistance, just like any other state that can't pay its debts.

Will the IMF loan to a US state?
Standard operating procedure for a lot of companies, corporations should own all of the obvious typos of their name and the obvious hate sites too. It costs little if you get them early.
Paypal Sender Country XSS
Motorola Sues Apple Over Pretty Much Everything Phone-Related
Are botnets the second-hand smoke of computer security?
How to Write a Promissory Note
I've used this maybe once or twice. Granted, I'd have been pretty annoyed if I tried to do it and discovered I couldn't, but it would have had fairly minimal impact after the initial indignation wore off.
I'm having the same dilemma with a SaaS startup. Up until now we've been using Quickbooks online's gateway and recurring payments capabilities, but the process of setting up new payments is manual and tedious and we want to go with more of a self serve model.

We are considering Braintree and Authorize.net's ARB. Another option is PayPal's Website Payments Pro gateway service. Here is a comparison of the two:

PayPal Website Payments Pro w/Recurring Payments:
Discount Rate: 2.9% $0-3k; 2.5% $3k-10k; 2.2% 10k+
Transaction Fee: $0.30
Monthly Fee: $30/mo
Recurring Billing Fee: $30/mo
Monthly Minimum: $0

Braintree:
Discount Rate: 2.29% qualified; 2.89% non-qualified
Transaction Fee: $0.30
Monthly Fee: $35/mo
Recurring Billing Fee: $0.10/transaction + $20/mo and $0.01/card for the Vault service
Monthly Minimum: $75 (does not include monthly fee)
If you want people to back off, the first thing you have to do is show them that you are willing to take things much further than the situation warrants.

If you think someone is going to go apeshit on you for something small, you don't ever risk seeing what they'll do in response to stronger stimuli.
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The real question is will the Obama administration welcome the ideas, especially from outsiders?

I think it's more complex than that. I'm sure the administration will welcome the ideas, but the federal government is like an aircraft carrier while businesses are like speedboats...you can't turn the government around as quickly. It will probably take several acts of congress to get any of these implemented, and senators and representatives will likely fight every one because it will kill jobs in their districts.
Exactly. There's nothing dishonorable about arbitrage.
What kind of projects/jobs do you get usually? I mean, do you do facebook apps, iphone, customize WP/drupal, or code websites from scratch, or...?
What, I'm just supposed to put up with your barbs, and tptacek's, and act like this is all somehow civil and continue wasting time here?

No, thank you.

I've procrastinated long enough today, and given that I was taking a day off from dealing with people today, I've just encountered a little more "people" than I wanted to. news.yc is getting redirected to my localhost for the rest of the day.
>Can I download my data off Google?

Yes. In nearly every product, and the rest are on the way. www.dataliberation.org/
Probably, along with a ton of other me-to niche social networks.
Same for me, except it was a 360 :) That, coffee, an 8 foot manual rack along with a copy of Stern's book on Assembly kept me going until the wee hours...
That's the best post in this entire thread. People don't get bullied in adulthood because there is a working police and judicial entity. People get bullied as kids because there isn't one.

Currently kids grow up for 18 years in a everyone-for-himself, in-order-to-be-successfull-you-need-physical-strength-and-iron-will world, and just then they switch to the much better and fairer world where being sucessful is not dependant on being able to defend your own flesh.

That adult system of self-fulfillment while not having to mind fighting bad guys all the time is the basis of our scientific and economic progress of the past 200 years. The big question: why do we put our kids into a different, unnecessery, dangerous and toxic environment for their first 18 years?
> True, but.....what else could replace them?

The web. more specifically, web versions of articles, like how you see news websites now. Alternatively, crowdsourcing websites, like reddit and twitter. The content quality is generally pretty low, with a surplus of editorializing but you get news quickly.

I live in a podunk area, but already most of our local journalists and our newspaper have hopped on the web bandwagon. They were actually pretty proactive about it, surprisingly.

From the number of comments posted on the sites, it appears their web editions are very, very popular. My only beef is that most of the comments are low quality, not well thought out, and/or trolls, and I wish the staff would moderate similarly to how print editions do "Letters to the editors".

My contact at the local paper indicates they regularly have "Is it time to cut out the print edition, yet?". Thus far the answer has been "no", but that "yes" day is getting pretty close.
500 million vs 1.5 billion is a meaningless metric regarding which social network people will use. They will use the one their friends are using, and no one has near enough friends for those gigantic numbers to have any relevance.
At this rate you'll be coming up with original stuff before long. 6 months from discovering state machines to here is pretty impressive. Definitely don't let it stop you that this was already done before, keep at it!
If they don't want their criticisms acted upon, why are they criticizing?
They're using MarkMonitor; it's basically MarkMonitor's value proposition to do stuff like this.
Depends on perspective, I suppose. It can be a detriment to the local market.

I frequent a local thrift store (Deseret Industries, run by the LDS church), where I always quickly scan all 6 book shelves. Every morning (that I've been there that early), there's one dude that rushes his way to the "new" book shelves (the ones that were just rolled out of the back and not yet sorted onto the shelves), towing a cart, and he proceeds to monopolize the shelves as he roots through all the books and searches them manually on his phone (which I assume it internet-enabled).

I can't help but get a little annoyed by his presence, especially once I figured out what he was doing. He wasn't reading all those books, of course; he was hoping to make a profit on them. I, like many others, look for books to, you know, actually read, and I view this man's actions as rude. Likewise, when I offload a box or two of books to this same store, I am doing so out of a desire to give back to the local community, and it kind of chaps my hide that this asshat with his phone might buy one of my tech-related softbacks for $1 and sell it on Amazon for $5 or more, potentially denying some poor, local kid who may want to better himself by stumbling on that same book I donated.

These days, because of this leech at the thrift store, I'm more inclined to simply shred my books (they make good animal bedding and compost well) than take the effort to load them up into the car and donate them. Sure, that may be viewed as somewhat selfish, but then again, that's exactly how I view that guy who buys all the books to make a quick buck.
Advanced features, but easy to use.
Hrm, no mention of "negative externality", which is what they mean, and what it really comes down to.
Not-So-Ancient Secrets Of Japanese Life Expectancy (And How You Can Do It Too)
You're thinking of solid-fuel uranium reactors.

Actually, thorium reactors have a natural load-following capability due to their negative thermal coefficient of reactivity. You suck power out of them too fast, they cool, get denser, and the reaction rate increases, increasing power output.

In addition, shutting down a liquid salt reactor is literally a matter of pulling, actually melting, a plug. Simply overheat the core, melting the freeze plug, and the fuel falls into a subcritically shaped catchment tray. Reheat and reload and the reactor is up again. They're very easy to start and stop.

There's a wealth of information on the Net about these guys. I hope they get built!
I have yet to work for a manager that knows the difference between the right solution and the "quick and dirty" solution. Estimate out what it would take to do it right and then tell them that's how long it will take to do the "quick and dirty" solution.
Of course they have rule of law - _Libyan_ law.
A couple of questions... How do you get rid of the signal rebound due metallic presence in the robot?

provides an object
a unique ID with extremely small uncertainty, whose location is inferred by lowerlevel sensory processing

How precise is your method to locate the object? Are you using an array of antennas to calculate the position of every RFID?
Am I the only person who would rather this was a private group? (so non-members can't see posts). Even if Jason just approved every join request I think this would be better.

Example: your employer doesn't need to know that you are talking to an interesting startup.
Pre Startup School Party [Friday] at the Hacker House
Win32API is not copyrighted. You can find independently created .h files, if you really want, and they are legal. In WINE or Mingw, for example.

Microsoft used "moving target" tactics to avoid having its APIs cloned.
Dalvik doesn't run Java executable code, therefore it isn't a Java VM. If you open up Dalvik up to being a Java VM even through it doesn't run Java code directly then it follows that every CPU and VM is a Java VM.
What a great system we have. Those patents are most certainly ensuring innovation in the industry.

Well, the lawyers are doing well, anyway.
Why is background cut off when window is resized?
While it created a lot of dissatisfied customers, I truly loved the redesign for http://www.thesixtyone.com/ beautiful stuff.
looks like the new 37signals homepage
How Steve Ballmer told me what to do with my iPad
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An Alternative to the MBA
What "hoops" are you talking about? The domain holder doesn't even have to specify an email address or telephone number (in contrast to .com), and the domains are usually registered within less than a minute.
The applause he gets at the end of that "song" makes listening to the whole thing worth it.
New Funding Recommendation Engine Helps Startups Find Investors
It didn't. I'm pretty sure.
It doesn't look like this will be a popular opinion but I think this attitude is totally unprofessional.

Coders and managers should be working together to reach the same goals. They should trust one another. If a manager walks into your office and tells you he has an important presentation in 20 minutes, a critical feature was missing from the spec, I think the professional thing to do is whatever it takes for that important presentation to be a success.

Why would you be ashamed if doing some dirty tricks in the code if the result is a big new client? You should be proud you were able save the day.

This attitude reeks of "not my problem" syndrome where programmers only care about the quality of the code and not the overall success of the business.

Make the hack, save the day, then go back and clean up after.
TestNG vs JUnit4
Websites. Hyperlocal websites are springing up, from nationals like Patch to tiny town-focused sites. The business models aren't quite there yet in a lot of cases, and in others they can't support huge staffs, but this is true of everything from Twitter to the latest MVP here as well.

It's the journalism that matters, whether it's printed, posted, blogged or uploaded.
Moto suing Apple over WCDMA patents..its about to get very interesting
If you do not turn off the notifications, your inbox will look like mine: http://i.imgur.com/RKQ9y.png

I was away from my computer for the past couple hours and came back to 154+ emails. Time to "Edit Notifications"...
If the goal of sales that ban scanners is to get the book into the hands of someone who wants to read it they could do what the Baltimore Book Thing does when they give away free books -- stamp the title page as a free book, not for resale. Kind of like the viral effect of GPL. Once a book has been through the Baltimore Book thing's hands it is always free

http://www.bookthing.org
And they buy massive amounts of coal produced electric energy from germany during peak load times in winter.
So what happens when a social network starts that includes links to your friends current Facebook profiles but guarantees much stronger privacy? Think Friendfeed but more ambitious.
Hum, they must have my bank details wrong.
Yes, RAID-1 on each pair.
Perhaps not appropriate for your app, but who knows, maybe? But this is my favorite UI that I've seen in a very long time. Just click on any of the content boxes.

http://spacecollective.org/projects/The-Total-Library
I'm not saying that simultaneous voice/data isn't useful. I'm saying that decent network coverage is more useful.
Goes Stock Certificates
Stock certificates in private companies are not bearer-coupons (i.e., even if I get my hands on your certificate, that does not make me the owner of your shares).

Furthermore, in 42 states, the board of directors can issue equity shares with a simple amendment to the the company's Operating Agreement.

Finally, if the company was operating in one of the 8 states where that's not allowed, or decided to do certificates anyway, the recipients of that equity should not have had the certificates in their hands for long (i.e., they get issued, the recipient has to sign and return within a few days).

So the idea that the certs are floating around out there and must be returned immediately for an acquisition is suspicious.
I've been using this since you mentioned it a couple of weeks ago on HN. I like it. Can I offer a couple of suggestions?

1. The first thing I go looking for is a synopsis. Amazon isn't always good at this, you should try to incorporate this somehow. (I realize the difficulty with email)

2. On your "staff pick" could you do a bit of a review?

3. Canada. Give me some Canada options eh! (I know, I know, bigger market etc etc)

Keep up the nice work... I will buy books from this.