skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So China is getting in on the patent race... and you believe that the eventual decision will be to do away with patents because it stifles innovation? If everyone is doing it, then there's not going to be anyone competing the monopolies out of business with their innovation.

I think the fallacy is that people think that democracy and "free" markets happen naturally (or organically). But the fact is that it's the opposite. Companies and people that pulled themselves up by their bootstraps do everything they can to stop other people from doing the same thing.

It takes a lot of hard work stop monopolies and keep things fair. That's what allows innovation. But since the US doesn't even believe in public education or public health, for the middle class; I don't think they care much about giving small businesses a opportunity over the big ones either.

It's the same way in Canadian telecom. Bell Canada has low caps and low bandwidth with HIGH overage fees. Their competitors offer the internet without bandwidth caps. So to stay competitive... Bell Canada made the government force the other ISP's to charge by bandwidth as well.
I think the whole approach with print5, print25 is the "correct" solution, but if I were interviewing I would give the best score to the person that gave system("/usr/bin/seq 1000"); as the answer.
KhanApp - Mobile App for Khan Academy
You're missing my point - it's a RubyGems issue not a Debian one. Standards matter.
Why? Your article say no more than the title.
Party bus rentals orange county
There is absolutely no better way to transport a group safely around town than in a party bus.
Two sites I have seen, but not used are:

http://www.builditwith.me/

http://www.techcofounder.com/
I thought that the 55 minutes to watch the video with linked slides was very worthwhile. For me: I need to use pig more often rather than write custom map/reduce jobs; custom pig UDFs deserve a look; liked the explanation of how they tried to use Cassandra to store tweets, decided not to, but how the will be using Cassandra for other tasks; etc. Really interesting stuff.
I know google does try and combat this. For example any adsense account making more than x dollars per day does get investigated and if they're deemed to be too spammy their sites often get penalised in the indexes e.t.c.

But adsense is only one advertiser, there are many more. And the problem is the measures taken to combat this are likely penalise new sites and new (legitimate) content.

It's a difficult line to tread really.
In San Francisco, don't miss the Exploratorium. It's a great experience for anyone who pays attention to the world around them.

A walking tour of the San Francisco waterfront is a good way to get a feeling for the city. There's an App for that -- http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/san-fran-waterfront/id4075675... -- buy it for your iPhone and you'll be set.
Then how do you explain the fact that people get sued for "lifting" just a few seconds off a track?

Consider this latest case: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8497433.stm

Having listened to both the songs, I can honestly say they are nothing alike. And yet Men At Work got sued some 20 years later for "infringement".
Are the extremely high Facebook valuations a result of the company's stock structure? I'll admit my only information on the subject comes from The Social Network, but it sounded like only ~35% of the stock was actually sold. So, since investors are fighting over 35% instead of 100% of the company, a more accurate valuation would be .35*50bil = $17.5 billion. Is this remotely reasonable, or am I way off?
Apple support company sues customer for a complaint
http://ohboard.com - Basically, a piece of whiteboard, but for Google Chrome.

It is my attempt to learn more about the business aspect because I've been developing stuff but barely handles serious business matter. So I am trying to get better and better on marketing, promotion, customer service, etc.
You're committing one of the oldest and most common Economic fallacies, the "Broken Window Fallacy". Bastiat's "That which is seen and that which is not seen"[1] or Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson" would help clear up your confusion, or just a good treatment of the Broken Window Fallacy[2].

[1]http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html

[2]http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fal...
The problem with this argument is that prisons are a different place legally than the rest of the world. In addition to the the limited rights of the prisoners, they also impose limited rights on the people working there. If the prison authorities and whatever legislature has authority over the prison decide that there are no "authorized users" within a prison then there is no violation of the act.
My solution was:

#include <stdio.h>

int show(int i) {
printf("%d\n",i);
return( (i>=1000) || show(i+1));
}

int main(int argc,char argv) {
return show(1);
}
White House has lost nearly a quarter of its value, Zillow says
No, I won't.
Very cool! thank you very much
Seniors increasingly read news online, use social media to stay connected
I am on my path to get better on the business aspect of an app, I've been focusing too much on designing and developing on my previous projects. So for my just-launched whiteboarding Chrome Web App, OhBoard (http://ohboard.com), I am going to learn as much as I can about business by experimenting different approaches.
The SEC may catch up with SecondMarket and plug the leak at any time and possibly quite soon.
I have never noticed any latency. I blame the manufacturer-specific Android "improvements", as I use plain AOSP and don't have any trouble.

My EVO 4G gets about 24 hours battery life, with moderate usage during the day. (But again, this is because I don't use HTC's build. With their build, the battery life is barely long enough to boot the phone.)
Weaponized Seismology
I like the UI, how I navigate to the subjects but the videos aren't playing on my iPad. Another suggestion would be to allow people to setup different students so I can share the iPad with my kids (or teachers can have one in a classroom and share with many students).

Great start, please let us know as you update it.
Comment from the blog:

Another "useless" degree is a CS one. Software is another thing you can easily learn later on, IMO, as the talent is 99% genetics and knowledge self-taught. I always regret I didn't do hard science like you did.

If your school taught you that CS == programming/software development you got cheated out of a real education.
There's not enough detail of what kind of "gold platting" the author had done. Now I'm not an expert on "architectures" or "patterns" and my view is just a personal observation when I glanced over HN, slideshare.net, and InfoQ to some extend.

Often I saw 2 types of architectures:

1) System-Level

2) Component-Level

The System-Level type of architecture usually shows up in companies (or person that does the explanation) where the tools being used are UNIX-y: python, ruby, rails, django, apache, nginx, mysql, linux/command-line, syslog, etc. These people/companies tend to adopt a strong "pipe"-like architecture.

The mindset here is to write a program/application that does one thing really well.

The Component-Level type of architecture usually shows up in places where there's a strong OOP/Java/.NET culture. Often, this is the place where many people try to write the best damn code possible. You'll see some sort of "ManagerXYZ.java" or "XYZService.java" or "PolicyXYZ.java" or "XYZProvider.java". The Component-Level type of architecture tends to link many components tightly together and somehow each Component acts as if it is a "mini-API".

The mindset here is to write a library/component/class that does one thing really well.

Which one that the author chose?

Now when ugly code happens. Well.. I'd like to stay away from flame-war and all that stuff so I suppose you'd have to make your own judgement which way is better: System-level or Component-level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

Just a couple years too early...
This article makes such sweeping generalizations.

Customers may not care about the details of the architecture (they may not even know what 'software architecture' means), but rest assured they indirectly care about the architecture. As a layperson when it comes to automobile engineering, I only care about whether or not my Toyota works. But as a customer who relies on its safety, I assure you I care a great deal about whether or not it is well architected. As a layperson when it comes to structural engineering, I only care that my house stays up. But it better be well architected.

Don't mistake a customer's lack of caring about C# vs Java with them not giving a crap about whether or not your application will suddenly spew their credit card numbers to the world due to a slipshod security model. I don't care what approach Toyota took to form my transmission, but I would sue Toyota if my transmission suddenly broke and it turned out they'd put it together in a sloppy fashion.

Like all things, a customer's real care is based on a continuum. I don't care particularly if Reddit or Twitter goes down, but I care a great deal if Bank of America suddenly lowers my balance due to a rounding error.

Of course you can get overwhelmed by architectural possibilities. Assess your customers' expectations of your uptime, overall quality, etc. Assess your customers' expectations of your ability to release new features quickly. Assess projected scaling issues. Avoid buzzwords. Adjust accordingly. A foolish building architect could easily spend a year figuring out the ideal materials, but a competent one will still get the building done safely, on time and on budget. Same with software architecture.
A case in point:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2062057
They had a chance to make it better when they re-wrote their app from Java to PHP no? (If... that is their main cause of failure. Which probably isn't.)
If $US 810^8 (from http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Facebo...) is a good estimate of Facebook's revenue, then, assuming fairly stable advertising income (a reasonable assumption, as Facebook has a market share nearing saturation, and the market in social networking is mainstream enough that it probably won't grow too much), a valuation of $US510^10 is 62.5 years of growth. Facebook's brand has a lot of valuable goodwill, but they are still vulnerable to competition, and might not last 62.5 years - so the valuation seems way too high.
But then again, I never heard anyone in the nutritional mainstream claim that Thanksgiving dinner is what is making America fat.

Well, it is the opening sentence of the Jonah Lehrer piece which Taubes is critiquing:

"Thanksgiving has always been a day of delicious gluttony. According to the American Council on Exercise, the average adult consumes nearly 4,500 calories at the Thanksgiving table, which is about twice the recommended daily intake."

This, following immediately after the title "The Real Culprit in Overeating" could cause the impression that Lehrer (one of the best science journalists out there) is claiming that Thanksgiving dinner is what is making America fat.

You seem to be confusing mainstream nutrition science with people hawking their own wares.

I don't think so, although I will request a certain artistic license. I was thinking primarily of the signs up in my local Kaiser health facility encouraging people to take the stairs (rather than the elevator) in the parking garage. Mind you, I do take the stairs, and think it's a good thing. But like Taubes (who looks quite fit and trim in his publicity photos), I'm not sure this is an adequate solution to a national health crisis. Or at the least, I'm concerned that this solution is not currently working that well.

Overall, I think you're selling Taubes a bit short. If he's a hack flogging his books for sake of nothing but sales, he's at least got a better basis than most. Time will tell, of course, but I'm betting that in the end he wins the calorie counting argument, and the idea of counting all calories as equal regardless of source won't last.
(Twitter) Feeding on Quakes
Yes, the YouTube videos are behaving weird on the iPad. They work on iPhone and Android ok though.

If I understand your suggestion correctly, the app should allow for setting up of a customized curriculum?
Content-Type: web; charset=utf-8

On desktop Safari that turns into a download of your HTML to my Downloads folder.
We sure have different perspectives.

Having read Eckhart as well as Kant, I strongly prefer Kant's take on enlightenment. I feel Kant's perspective actually shines some light on the topic in a way which can benefit the reader's life- not in terms of moving further down a prescribed spiritual path, but instead urging people to further adapt to and interact with the world.

I really feel like we might see things in completely opposite directions. Kant's thought here, and the whole western tradition of enlightenment, urges people to follow their own reason rather than the reasoning of a church or religion, be it Buddhist or Christian.

Am I confused about two applications of the term Enlightenment or do you think we actually disagree?
Looks very nice. I take it you must be using jQuery Mobile or something along those lines?

(Minor problem I've encountered - for some reason, I can't land on your homepage from Safari Version 5.0.3 (6533.19.4) on OS X 10.6.5.)
Didn't it start as a tool/gathering place/whatever for YC founders?
Even Faster is mostly JavaScript and image optimisations. Not quite the holy Grail of the first book but a good one to have in your collection none the less.
Same problem here, OSX-Safari thinks it's a download of some sort. The page never opens. You should fix this ASAP.

Page loads on OSX-Chrome though.
My reading of the article was that it's illegal for anyone (including guards etc) to possess cellphones within the prison.
*nix systems have a dictionary daemon dictd that can talk to many dictionaries. I remember running a Latin-English/English-Latin dictionary on my Debian system years ago.

You could try googling for that and the FreeDict dictionary databases.
FTA: "The end result was mediocre product reviews and slow sales. But man, was my code beautiful."

The author is missing the point. Features and user experience drive sales not architecture or beautiful code. Sound architecture and clean code provides a basis for ongoing development. Simple once only app then be a cowboy and hack it together, want a product with an ongoing development cycle then care is needed when building the foundations. "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure" - Benjamin Franklin.
Agreed. But it does loads on Chrome.
The CIA Meets MIT
doesn't that violate the "w/o conditionals" part?
I've not seen that many apps that utilize jQuery Mobile so far, but your implementation is pretty wonderful - I only need 2 taps to get to the actual video.
Goldman's special purpose vehicle sounds like something you'd design if you wanted to piss the SEC off and get into trouble.

Also couldn't help but laugh at this line:

The stake by Goldman Sachs, considered one of Wall Street’s savviest investors, signals the increasing might of Facebook, which has already been bearing down on giants like Google.

One of Wall Street's savviest investors is investing in Facebook in 2011?
Those plugins are great but you really need to look at the waterfall breakdown of your site to really grasp where best to spend your time. The net panel in firebug can be amazingly helpful at showing you where blocking and latency is causing the most grief.
People care, they just don't know what to call it. People who use iPhones try out an Android device and say things like "it's just not as polished", or just notice that it doesn't feel right. That "not feeling right" is because when you scroll on an iPhone it really feels like there's a piece of paper under the screen that your physically moving around with the tip of you finger. With Android it just feels like your finger is telling a computer what to do, which is in turn doing a reasonably good job of doing it.
Transmitting messages such that the intended recipient is impossible to know for any third-party observer. If you're sufficiently and justifiably paranoid, you'll want to obscure both the content of your messages and who you're talking with.

I can think of some uses for this, mostly related to spying and espionage. On the other hand, if you're really paranoid you don't want anyone to know that you're transmitting messages - because that can lead to danger, if they choose to take the lead pipe approach to finding out what you want to keep secret.
Who Is More Willing To Trick Users, Apple Or Google?
How do I make a command-line tool in Ruby?
If you are interested, I can hand you an invite to http://forrst.com. It's a community for developers and designers to share ideas/screenshots/code/questions, which can potentially let you meet other folks and start projects together.

Email: me@stephenou.com
Anyone who thinks Android's animation is "fast enough" is either using a faster device than I have ever tried, or has never tried to compare, say, scrolling lists versus the iPhone.

I'm not saying the GPU is the answer, and maybe 2.3 is the answer, but ignoring the problem is not.

(Edit: So why does a GC pause stop animation, and not just by taking up CPU time, since moving to the GPU would help in that case? Is the animation code itself written in Java and waiting on the GC? If so, I bet rewriting it in C would be a massive help. Also, yuck.)
Yeah, let me create users and when you open the app, pick a user to start watching videos with then record which videos they've watched so you can keep track of where you're at.
fixing now.
The task never said it had to stop at 1000.

void f(int n){
printf("%d\n",n);
f(n+1);
}

int main(){
f(1);
}
I'd really love Google to accept characters like < or } in their normal search query. Makes it convenient for code snippet search.
Is that reasonable? Suppose that Facebook eventually needs to settle at a P/E of 10:1. Then it needs $5B/year of profits. If Facebook is like Microsoft in that it can maintain a high profit margin due to continuing to successfully exclude any competitors from its market, just as it has so far (in Microsoft's case, through a combination of government-granted monopolies, criminality, and consistently not fucking up; in Facebook's case, perhaps not) then it could have profits like that with as little as $6B/year or so of revenue. Presumably, within a couple of years, the majority of the internet's users will be Facebook users, which is something like two or three billion people.

Is it reasonable to expect Facebook to extract US$2 to US$3 per year per user? It's hard for me to imagine how they could fail to extract several times that. If nothing else, the blackmail value of the data they already have on hand ought to be larger than that. ("Upgrade to Facebook Premium today in order to have the option to keep your past private messages from being visible to all your Facebook friends!" But it probably wouldn't be done in such a public way, in order to dampen backlash.) They can probably also sell preprocessed datasets of people who read subversive literature online to national intelligence agencies: not just the US and UK, but also Egypt, China, Pakistan, Syria, Italy, and Russia. If laundered through some kind of data broker, they could even get plausible deniability.

That would be out of keeping with the kind of privacy invasion Facebook is currently well-known for, though, so it probably wouldn't happen without a change of control of the company first.

So the mere $50B valuation represents an assessment that Facebook's popularity could be short-lived, or that it could become subject to much more intense competition than it is today, driving its revenues down toward their costs.

I hope to God that Goldman is right.
printf("1 10 11 100 101 110 111 1000");
If you Google it, you'll get a comprehensive list of dry cleaners/Thai restaurants with an accompanying map. And that list usually shows up at the very top rendering everything below meaningless. Try it.
How a Microsoft engineer dealt with the Stuxnet worm after it was discovered
The real problem was noise. Everything was predicated on being able to do cross-continent mach 1+ flights. When the US then Europe closed off faster-than-sound flights over land, that was it.

After that, it couldn't make money. Then everything else started to become more significant and you could see the writing on the wall.
I remembered it was somewhere in southeast Asia and then I remembered there was something about Vietnam. I didn't put the whole thing together until a while after I posted the comment. Great book though.
Offer HN: Will write Ruby for Food
Hello HN,

Happy New Year to you all.

I wish I was writing to you under more successful circumstances or had some awesome side project to show off. I do have one cool project that will have to wait for the time being.

Instead I am financially hard up and looking for some side work to help reduce debt and help pay for a new baby due in Feb. My wife is an entrepreneur an recently fell on hard-times with her biz. I need to jump in and help save our family at this point. My current fulltime position isn't enough $$ and I need to freelance.
Enough sob story.

About me:
Experienced Rubyist and general web dev with 6 years exp. I helped build one well-known ecommerce startup from the ground up and recently left after 2 years. I also worked on four different startup side projects in the last 2 years for different entrepreneurs. Email me for the details. I also built web apps for some major Fortune 500 companies.

What I am looking for:
One or more moonlighting gigs coding Ruby, Rails, Javascript, PHP or CSS. I can do frontend work well if your just looking for that. I live in the Midwest so my hourly rate is pretty affordable. I need $$ so equity is not really interesting to me at all.

Please check out my profile for links to my portfolio.

Thanks HN!

EDIT: Added PHP to the list
Has DHH exploded yet (again)?

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...
European nations begin seizing private pensions
Adding ASLR (Address space layout randomization) to Jailbroken iPhones
There are a lot of ways for SEOs to get links. The simplest is to buy them.