skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First:
Further, the project communities of the ASF, home to Apache Tomcat, Ant, Xerces, Geronimo,
Velocity and nearly a 100 mainstay java components have implemented countless JSRs and serve
on and contribute to many of the JCPs technical expert groups.

And then:

To that end, our representative has informed the JCP's Program Management Office of our resignation,
effective immediately. As such, the ASF is removing all official representatives from any
and all JSRs. In addition, we will refuse any renewal of our JCP membership and, of course,
our EC position.

Holy crap!
That just sounds like Java is really bleeding now. Anyone knows how significant the real impact of leaving representatives on the JSRs is?
It seems like there are a few climbers on here, could one of you please explain how a climber goes about deciding that a flake is too dangerous to apply a horizontal force to but safe enough to apply a vertical force to?
Yes, I couldn't tell if the guy that I asked the questions was just yes-ing me away...
What kind of book? A math book? biography? romance fiction? In that respect, programming is also like cooking. For cooking, you can go from one extreme of food science, like NASA practices for food going up in space, to popping a frozen pizza into the oven, to many points in between. Programming allows a wide range of discipline to be executed in the process.
"Crash course" doesn't explicitly mean non-technical. It could have included an overview of the encoding algorithm that doesn't go into perf improvements most commonly used.
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Upvoted, but one nit:

>Publishing leaked classified information, however, is protected by the 3rd Amendment.

First. The Third is "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.".
You are talking about a team of people here, so your data are already out of your control. I think you have more to fear from someone on the team going rogue or being compromised than from Dropbox disclosing your data to a 3rd party.
I want to know the answer to this to.
Some useful sanity. And a couple of good quotes:

"War isn't just nameless attacks between parties that are not nation-states to begin with," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure. "WikiLeaks is not a country. MasterCard is not a country."

And Bruce Schneier: "War. W-A-R. It's a big word," Schneier said. "How could this be a cyber war? It's certainly a cyber attack, right? It's certainly politically motivated. But this stuff has been going on for a couple of decades now. Do you mean there have been thousands of wars that haven't been noticed?"
I saw that, but it's a couple years old. If someone does want to use that link be sure to sort by votes, the default order has several zero-voted options in the top few. A link to sort-by-vote:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689?tab=votes#tab-top
I'm not so sure how I feel about this.

On one hand, this is a direct shot across the bow of the cablecos/telcos. By essentially taking the roadmap of bandwidth expansion via slow, rolling upgrades over a long long period of time and going straight to the ultimate destination, GOOG is sucking a whole lot of "value" out of the existing infrastructure.

On the other hand, this will place enormous stress on the regional/long haul networks which I'll be forced to upgrade yet again. Unless they can charge more, this cant be good news for level3 or VZ or T.

I forsee an acceleration towards metered b/w in our future.
There must be some exceptions to this, though, because IRS forms generally come with copyright notices. (Or, at least, they did the last time I did my taxes on paper, which was 5-10 years ago.)
I decided to ask for one today after seeing this. I said that I want to bring the dynamic environment of Emacs to "normal people", and Chrome OS is the first compelling technology that could make that a reality.

We'll see what happens.
I like the experience of having hundreds of books in my backpack, without having to carry them. I tend to prefer Kindle books when available, but I read them on my iPad (my wife inherited the actual Kindle). It's easy enough to take notes and make highlights within the Kindle app. If I need to make a sketch, I'll grab a pad of paper, just like I would with a dead-tree book.

I do buy books that are not available in eBook form or that are an "experience," like the collected Sandman comics.

I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

You make it sound like it's an ideological issue. For me, it's simply personal preference.
I like Consolas. It's monospaced and designed for programming.
But the word "computer" is different than the word "telescope" in that the computer is actually fundamental to computer science. Computer science is about what information can be expressed with a computing device. It is fundamental information science that is as transcendental as physics, and frankly probably more transcendental than biology (as we know it today).

You can do biology w/o the existence of microscopes. But there is no computer science w/o the existence of computers (models where computation is performed). "Computer" is to computer science what "life" is to life science or "physical" is to physical science. It's the fundamental underpinning on which it is built. It's just happenstance that we have physical devices that manifest a specific representation of a computational model.
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ok I think I figured it out. The key parts were 1) high turnover, people only last a few months, and 2) the company gets 50%.

Suppose the traders have no insight into the market and trade randomly. As a whole they incur losses due to costs. To simplify, suppose there is a 50% chance they will lose 100 bucks, and a 50% chance they will make 90 bucks. The firms money goes down by 10 dollars, but then they take half of the winnings, 45 bucks, and so thus profit 35 dollars. Is my logic sound?

In summary, they could just be taking advantage of the uninformed chinese traders. (It goes without saying: the business could be completely legitimate, can't say for sure from the article. Just seemed a little odd).
That was kind of a dumb article. There are many business reasons a company with a patent might transfer the patent into a subsidiary company other than trying to keep people from knowing it is yours. For instance if you are generating revenue from a patent by licensing, having the patent in the hands of a subsidiary would make it easier if you someday wanted to sell the patent. You could instead of directly selling the patent just sell the subsidiary. Your licensees then keep sending their royalty checks to the same company, and the contracts don't have to be updated to specify a new name, and so on.

If you transfer a patent to a subsidiary just to hide your involvement in a lawsuit, that is unlikely to even work. When people see that FooCorp is suing over patent #NNNNNNN, and FooCorp is a new corporation and the patent was assigned to IV up until shortly before FooCorp acquired it, it does not take a genius to figure out that FooCorp is almost certainly an IV subsidiary.

So, an accurate story would be something like: "IV has sued several companies over patents before. They are now suing some more companies. Probably meaningless trivia--this time they didn't make a subsidiary to deal with the suit".

I remain unimpressed with Techdirt.
They put a bolt about halfway up it some time ago, but it must be climbed free.
Thank you Jey. Yes, we already have hardware designed, but open to changes if necessary.
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Which model? I have to charge my N86 every night; and sometimes in the middle of the day if I want to use the wifi hotspot.
Hilarious, but flagged for being off-topic here.
I think people want video of the actual device that will ship into the hands of people. Not a nearly year old prototype that may bear little recognition to what they ship.
> B) Do you want to be told - "sorry, I can't accept your BoA airline rewards miles VISA card, please use a different VISA card"? I'm pretty sure Visa/MC TOS prevent that.

Why would you do that? As far as a vendor is concerned, a visa is a visa is a visa. If you take a look at the card and say you don't want to accept it based on it being some kind of rewards card that's just bizarre nonsense that would definitely keep customers away.
Aaaaaaaaaaand this is the best news I have heard all week. We have eight 100GB accounts at my company. Shared quotas and central admin are what we have been dreaming about. I started using Dropbox in its beta, and it is beautiful to watch this baby grow up.
nope, nevermind, I am double counting money there.
You need a mix of practical (short-term) and seemingly impractical (long-term). The former drives the evolution of current ideas while the latter leads to completely new ones.

And don't easily dismiss the "interesting but arcane fields". In and of themselves, they may hold no direct applications but how you go about the research does. Think searching for the Higgs boson and the construction of the LHC.
You seem to be conflating driving traffic and monetizing.

I mostly talk about paying money to sites like Google to drive traffic. You can only do this effectively if you are selling something.

Unless you have a Bing-size budget, it's near impossible to arbitrage ad clicks into profitable visitors to an ad-supported site.
check out snip.ly -- the do a good job of emphasizing text you select but still let people get to the whole article.

http://www.snip.ly/alpha
> Both teaching my daughter and the volume license coincided

I think this is the first time in the thread that it came out that you actually have a daughter and were actually considering teaching her with the software. In your first telling, it sounded (to me, and I think to others) like this was entirely made up for the purpose of testing the vendor's response. So it was puzzling that you objected so vehemently to it being called a "lie". Re-reading it now, though, I don't see what part of your comment made me think that (though it's not an obviously wrong interpretation either); maybe it was the influence of other comments.
Given the conclusion (that JCP is not an open specification process), I wonder whether they will move away from implementing JCP specs, and towards other technologies.

Huge loss for the JCP either way.
I thought electrode surface area related to recharge Time, not capacity? Its a current-density thing.
They way I like to phrase it is that computer science is everything that involves the theory behind and the implementation of the concept of computation.
> Personally, I think there's a more interesting market opportunity in helping developers monetize from the daily deals space, rather than making a daily deals product meant for developers as end-users.

Things like a marketplace for matching deals to sites or a "Shopify" for coupon sites?
I have to dive into new codebases on a daily basis.

The best way to start wrapping your head around it is one, actually try and use all of the features of the software.

Then as the above poster said, start fixing small bugs and adding small features.

Be happy that there is documentation, even a small amount. Then also be joyous that it was written in python. It is a lot easier to read than diving into some legacy C++ code.
Coffeescript has a much better syntax. Actually it has two much better syntaxes, one with a common semantics: a closure that captures the value of self (which is the default one in ruby/smalltak/python/scala, etc).
Doesn't show up on all profils for me, I think it's a security issue.
Great use of Django, seems like you are a real pro! Are you made any other sites, would love to check them out?
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Ooops *Have you made any other sites?
Hi JC, the key stacks that could be involved include HCI, ACL, L2CAP, and RFCOMM. It is an embedded system with no OS. hardware design has already been done, but we are open to changes related to the bluetooth part. Folks with security background would be even better (right now our plan is to handle security at the app level.) Thanks also for the contact info suggestion.
Everything I hear about WebSockets (things like http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg02149.h... and http://blogs.webtide.com/gregw/entry/how_to_improve_websocke... and now this) makes me convinced the current draft standard is unworkable.
I find this to be quite acceptable. Reddit is constantly facing the question of what exactly a downvote is. (There was even a very funny comic on the topic recently.) Everyone sees downvote as the opposite of upvote, which is understandable, but this gets problematic because people don't like being disagreed with so polarizing arguments tend to end up with net 0 upvotes. Just by changing the name from downvote to flag it makes it enforces a different user behavior.
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Great call out. Of course money is always going to be a key factor. If you look at Maslow's hierarchy, you've got to address the survival needs before the esteem needs are even a factor. I think the difference between 1 on 1 recognition and public recognition on the chart is interesting. I wonder how much of this is dependent on a person's personality.
According to the web, "The depth sensor uses a monochrome image sensor. Looking at the signals from the sensor, resolution appears to be 1200x960 pixels at a framerate of 30Hz." It would perhaps be better to be able to run it at a lower resolution and a higher framerate; maybe it's possible. Processing 35M pixels per second does sound like something that could use up a CPU cycle or two. It also sounds like something that OpenCL would be good at handling, doesn't it?

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Hardware_info
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What's the deal with 3G? Is it activated?
Just got word that one arrived at home.
There's a pile of "textbooks" on my wishlist that I just can't afford. Something like this that would knock off a significant portion of the price would be amazing.

When the Pragmatic Bookshelf had their huge Thanksgiving sale last year, I dropped $300 dollars on books, which is pretty close to my usually yearly tech book spend.
Had this discussion with a friend 13 years ago in college. Didn't know how get it to market and IIRC my friend found someone else had a patent on it.
Presumably the already late Java 7/8 will be further delayed.
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I looked at a couple of the security patents, where they're suing Symantec, Trend Micro, McAfee, and Checkpoint. These certainly seem to be acquisition rather than IV-developed ideas. So the methodology here (buy up undervalued patents and sue big companies) looks trollish to me.
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Agreed. However, I bet Indian Standard Time will become a lot more of a common term over the next decade.
I did the same thing, but first from the browser on Tuesday. Instant regret for filling out both, but the longer form has a lot more info that I thought they'd like. Either way, something worked. It showed up today.
Expanding flakes (ones that will move when you pull outward on them) are not good placements for active gear. As the cam pushes outward on a fall the flake might expand and the the cam might pull out because it is past it's usable range. Hammering pitons in a flake like this will do it too. As you hammer a piton higher up the flake it loosens the lower piton because it expands the flake from above to the point that the lower piton might fall out.
It's also a display model problem. A big bitmap that you draw on arbitrarily is just harder to optimize than a decomposable scenegraph.

This downside of Canvas also means it may become a dead-end for high-performance 2D, unless we discover some way of making all manipulations go completely on-GPU. Canvas is presently best suited for creation of individual textures and sprites, while other methods(CSS, SVG, WebGL) are better to render and transform them.
Very cool! Congrats on launching something.

One thing I would absolutely love is a way to convert HTML into FBML, which is currently just an awful awful process.
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My computer science education has been a schizoid mixture of classes geared to the practical, which I think of as "engineering" classes, and classes geared to the theoretical, which I think of as "computer science" classes. The latter are not about a science though, they are about a branch of mathematics.
For now it's same as bookmarking a website but with a bigger icon. Probably in future chrome app store will let people buy native apps for their devices that run on Chrome OS.
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It all depends on how much data you really use. Since sharing folders takes up space in all accounts that use the share, 7x50GB != 350GB shared storage.

My initial thought was the opposite, "Wow, this is incredibly cheap for that much dropbox storage!". Dropbox standard = $0.165 per GB per month, Dropbox for teams = $0.19 per GB per month, most other services >$0.5 per GB per month.
Not really. JSRs have never been leading the innovation in Java world: Ant, Maven, Velocity, Spring, Hibernate, Grails, Hadoop, GWT, Android, Struts, Wicket, Eclipse - none of them started as a JSR.

The only JSR that matter is JavaSE and I don't see it having technical problems. JavaME is dying and Spring showed JavaEE how things should be done so they are catching up now.
I've seen that argument made several times.

Given the fact that facebook has been loath to do anything with video one can't help but wonder what it is that they know that we don't know.
Not for those of us who don't have an FB account.
People in engineering have to solve scientific problems too... and the author of the article doesn't understand completely what he wrote about.

Science is not biology nor physics nor chemistry and it's not truly about understanding the "universe and all it contains".

Science is a process of seeing, understanding, and confirming.

The word science does not have a claim on that process.

And almost every scientist today certainly does not have a valid claim on understanding "all" that the world contains.

If engineers didn't use science then they couldn't understand anything new and thus they couldn't engineer stuff because, as the author states, engineering is about understanding and solving problems.

Therefore there are some things in the world that engineers have to find out through a trustworthy process of confirmation and if they use controls in order to see and test things of the world then this falls squarely into the scientific process.

The author acts like someone can't be a scientist and an engineer at the same time but neither practice would be able to exist like it is today without the other one.
>Who determines product direction?

Everyone submits ideas, some voting and discussion takes place, then people work on what they want to work on.

Splitting equity and revenue is a much more complicated issue. In my experience it's easy to figure this out for small teams, provided the members are reasonable and can appreciate each other's work.

There was a software startup that was trying to do exactly this but I can't remember what it's called. Quirky is also doing this, albeit for tangible products, and they have an interesting approach.
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Is there any other free video streaming API's other then justin.tv? What did chatroulette use to build their site. A video API or their own? Any suggestions on a free or inexpensive live video streaming api for multiple viewers and users would be great Thanks.
Apache Leaves the JCP
Do you mean based on number of lines of code?!
This is great! There are so many of these HN related projects/websites/tools out there that get lost after they hit the front page, I'm wondering if there's a directory of everything? I asked today but didn't get any feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987756
It mystifies me that you have the highest ranked comment in this story by blatantly ignoring the content of the article.
It exists already -

http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/technology/brake_force_displa...

http://www.google.com/search?q=break+force+display+bmw
Arguing about what science and engineering is all fine and dandy, far be it from me to tell people what to discuss, but I would highlight the actual point of the piece, which is the suggestion that we are overinvesting in science in certain areas where we should be investing in engineering.

I find myself thinking back to an article earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986640 , about the virus that could improve lithium battery's capacity by up to 10 times... from scientists at the University of Maryland. As some people say in the comments, they're tired of hearing about these advances that never make it to market. Perhaps this is part of the reason why? If nobody takes this to engineers or funds engineers, this was, if not entirely a waste of time, certainly a suboptimal use of time.

(Certainly part of the reason why is some of these ideas simply don't pan out in practice; batteries with 10 times the capacity but at 100x the cost may have such a limited market as to be effectively no market. But it seems like some of these things ought to be happening. The various promised-but-never-materializing advances in the field of solar energy particularly come to mind.)
Only after the crash of 1857. Prior to that American railroad networks were quite decentralized and much more competitive (not only with themselves, but also with canal systems). Most were financed by local entrepreneurs and often by the British and American companies that sold track on credit.
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If they had nothing to do with it, they would not have been pressured by the government. They picked a side. DDoSing them is not immoral. (though if it's a zombie net, that is immoral.)
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So far, I know of

YCombinator - San Fran
TechStars - Boston, Boulder, NYC and Seattle
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Wow, when I filled out the application (developer) form only two days ago I was sure I wouldn't be receiving one considering they even mentioned there were limited numbers available.

Mine showed up at my doorstep just over an hour ago. Amazing.
Gary Vaynerchuk just used it as the most known example. Lots of sites, apps, and games use Facebook Connect purely for verification purposes, as opposed to email verification, because it does end up being better. We've got throwaway email addresses, but not really throwaway Facebooks.
Well a 'no' is definitely a lot better than the silent treatment
Sure, I understand that, I contest that I was borderline deceptive but I understand. While I understand the frustration, the manner in which a vendor handles these responses tells a story about that vendor. We are selective in our clientele as well but we do treat everyone with respect no matter how absurd the request. That being said, I don't feel that my request was unreasonable. I don't even feel that his response was unreasonable, just that it was not the response I would allow from my organization and therefore by proxy I would not be OEM'ing his software.
It is much easier for business to pay yearly vs. monthly.