skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty huge key point. Do you happen to have a citation? The relevant granting of rights (the VP8 Bitstream Specification License[1]) doesn't seem to say anything about that: "a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer implementations of this specification ..."

[1] http://www.webmproject.org/license/bitstream/
> Alcohol kills, and so does alcohol withdrawal... The only drug that kills more people per year is tobacco/nicotine, which is also legal.
Perhaps alcohol and tobacco should be prohibited too? (I am not really saying that)

If sometime in the future I invented a substance that was very addictive, would cause people to have altered behaviour (i.e. be more inclined to shop for more of the drug specifically at http://meric.com), and ends up being taken by millions so they shop at my website every day, and one day the FDA comes out and says my drug is now banned because it is a form of 'mind control', will you be against that decision because 'it is your right to put whatever you want in your own body'?

I don't see nicotine being much different, instead of buying only cigarettes from https://www.marlboro.com/ they are merely buying more cigarettes from anywhere else.

I can definitely see the point of view that government shouldn't influence people's private lives. That's why I am not so quick to say I support for/against prohibiting mind-altering substances...

Just saying, I'd hate the idea the that anything have influence over decisions I make, no matter if its the government, alcohol or cigarettes. (Anything, not anyone.)
Well, that's what it says on Wikipedia -- though as it happens, the citations are both dead links, so your guess is as good as mine.

edit: Trivial search turned this up:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514083931.ht...

Wikipedia was apparently talking about a handicap match. Still, it's very telling that 2008 was the first time a computer beat a pro even in a handicap match.
I second that.
the next thing you will do is probably ask your mom to rank you against your brothers.
With a resolution independent interface please. My eyes can't handle widgets and icons getting much smaller, but they would love more detail.
I think that the logic is that you are 'not in your right mind,' though I suppose you could end up in a situation where drugs are legal, but anyone that would use them is 'not in their right mind' according to the establishment.
http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/

>Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of this implementation of VP8, where such license applies only to those patent claims, both currently owned by Google and acquired in the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by this implementation of VP8. This grant does not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of this implementation. If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of VP8 or any code incorporated within this implementation of VP8 constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of VP8 shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

It explicitly grants you the ability to modify the library in whatever way you want. This naturally includes a complete re-implementation.

There's a strangely worded section in there, but it is a clear cause-and-effect:

>This grant does not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of this implementation.

So, any claims infringed only as a consequence of further modification are not covered. But if the patent claims were already infringed by Google's implementation, then you are covered.
That's a good move to increase Linkedin stickiness. At the end, it's all about how relevant the information is to the users. Apparently, everyone would definitely want to know how many of his/her business connections had moved to a new venture.
http://domaintools.com
Without units, it doesn't give any sort of scale.

Heroin apparently ranks "almost" a 3 on this graph, the highest shown, but not quite a 3. Why does it fall slightly short? If this is purely comparative then why isn't doesn't the most dangerous drug align with the highest number? And why 3? A scale of 1 to 10 seems like a more common choice for arbitrary scales. And where would something obviously more harmful (like say, draincleaner) fall on that graph? It tells us that Heroin is apparently more harmful than cocaine, but gives us absolutely no indication of how much so. THC ranks as a '1' on this harmful meter. Does that mean heroin is only 3 times as harmful as a substance that nobody has ever overdosed on?

I could construct a similar graph with water, apples, and THC, but it would end up being extraordinarily misleading and just as useless. In fact, the more I think about it, this is probably the worst graphic I've seen in a long time, there are just so many layers to what's wrong with it...
T5's not awful, or anything, except for one thing: power outlets, or, actually, the extreme lack thereof. There are very few places you can sit while simultaneously charging your laptop and keeping an eye on the departure board.
No. randomwalker's point is that every branch must be proved to be a win.

In alpha-beta pruning, branches are only eliminated when they can only be reached through suboptimal play on one player's part. Suboptimal play on either player's part can clearly result in a loss for that player, but this is not very interesting.

This is also incorrect. As mentioned in other comments, the branching factor of chess implies that it is not brute force solvable using the entire universe as a computer--let alone just Earth.

This depends on how much time you're willing to devote to the task. My laptop (or my phone even) would be able to "solve" Chess given an infinite amount of time.

Now, the entire universe used as memory would be unable to store such a solution, but that isn't really germane to the decision problem.
Ah, you're right. :) I guess that is confusing if it used to be there and now isn't, but like I said, Mozilla Corporation doesn't deal with Thunderbird at all (they don't own it and have no rights to it), so there's no reason to link to it there other than just being nice (to end users trying to find it).
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http://www.blogger.com/profile/01193243920681352112
From: http://www.webmproject.org/about/faq/#licensing

Q: What if someone makes a change to the code and gives it to me. Do I have a patent license from Google for that change?

A: You still have the right to redistribute but no patent license for the changes (if there are any patents covering it). We can't give patent licenses for changes people make after we distribute the code, as we have no way to predict what those changes will be. Other common licenses take the same approach, including the Apache license.

I'm not sure if it supports your statement, it would be great if someone more knowledgable about this can clarify.
Interesting writeup; I also may buy one of your cameras since we're having twins in May!
As someone who has worked for a bank and has many contacts still at the 'front line' of UK retail banking, my experience is that the system is entirely set out to screw you, while simultaneously training its employees to believe the opposite.

So you have institutions staffed by people who honestly want to help you as much as they can, and a corporate regime that wants to fuck you as hard as it can.

I've no idea how that compares to American banks, but it's pretty screwed up.
They are complicated, large and extremely expensive. Nothing one could do in a garage.
No his guess is better than yours. Go programs are still trying to compete with amateurs.
DailyTech - Biotic Video Games Created with Living Microorganisms
I figure Flex and AIR are just becoming the new PHP. People love to hate, but I really like programming in both even though my favorite languages are Python and Scheme.

When people say programming in Flex is annoying.. have they ever done SWT development, or Swing? GUI work in general usually bugs the crap out of me, but MXML with AS and HTML with JS are fantastic.
800 × 480 resolution, 4.13 in diagonal, widescreen

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet

Display size: 3.54" × 2.12" (9cm × 5.4cm) = 225.9 PPI, 0.1124mm dot pitch, 51029 PPI²

From: http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html
The fundamental issue is yield. The more pixels in a display, the greater the likelihood that you'll end up with an obtrusive stuck pixel or a significant number of dead pixels, rendering the panel unsaleable. This is one of the major reasons why we haven't seen any significant increases in the resolution of laptop or desktop displays in some years. The Retina display on the iPhone 4 isn't hugely expensive, nor particularly innovative - there are a number of other handsets with similar pixel densities. 960x340 is 0.6 million pixels, versus three million pixels in this rumoured iPad 2.

Very high resolution displays ameliorate this issue somewhat because bad pixels are less noticeable, but I just don't see how anyone could produce a display with such a vast pixel count cheaply enough to meet the iPad's price point.

If Apple have figured it out, the iPad 2 is almost irrelevant. This would be one of the most significant breakthroughs in display technology in decades. Bear in mind that 2560x1600 is the same resolution as the current class-leader in desktop displays, the $900 30-inch Dell Ultrasharp. In order to make it work, Apple would have to change the entire economics of LCD manufacture. I really do hope it's true, but I can't see how.
“Done and deployed” he cried, held aloft by the delirious party-goers
I don't get the difference between "drug use is legal" and "drug use is decriminalized." It sounds like mere possession is legal, but selling/trafficking is not, I would qualify that as 'drug use is legal.'
hahaaa. I guess I still live in a cave.
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Completely agree, but my point is that even if you score it from a trusted dealer -- the so-called "pure" ecstasy you're getting is still dangerous to your body and mental state, even in the absence of additives.
Would he have considered the product at all if it was Windows-native only?
One reverse example.

LSD is mostly safe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Poss...

Alcohol is mostly toxic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol#Al...
3D mapping Tron Legacy skateboard ramp
The Bitter and Sweet
There is very informative discussion on StackOverflow about
Titanium vs PhoneGap :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1482586/comparison-betwee...
Clever Uses for the Cloud
"... 2010 had the first occurrence of cyber-warfare between nation states in our history ..."

Estonia reported in 2007 - "Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia" Ian Traynor, Guardian, 17 May 2007 ~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/may/17/topstories3.russ...
I'm curious why this didn't get more upvotes. 5.75 is a diagonal I think?
This story would be more interesting if Microsoft and/or Siemens actually helped develop this malware.
I've actually taken time to think through my personal participation of the internet. I'm always cognizant of what information I'm exposing about myself with every post (including this one). I think one has to be if one wants to protect their own privacy.

These companies sure aren't going to protect your privacy for you. I think the answer is to be aware of what sort of information trail one leaves on a particular service, then to be aware of what information is given to that service.

I don't know if this will even help, only time will tell. But I do know that just sharing everything like the services prompt you to do probably won't end up being a good thing.
Do Smarter People Make More Money?
In that sense, everything we do, especially when we produce something new, is an experiment since we rarely can predict many of the consequences. Most of the people responsible for the creation of the automobile, and most who bought the early ones, would probably have preferred to keep shoveling horse manure if they could have foreseen many of the social and cultural changes the auto has brought about.
San Francisco Academy of Sciences Confronts Escaping Ants
I don't think your criticism is entirely fair; for one, you can only compare OS X users to Windows users, which isn't at issue. Perhaps if you had a native version of your application the conversion rate would be 4x that of Windows. Furthermore, I would suggest that Bingo card applications have a different target audience than developer chat applications and that the former is less bothered by platform inconsistencies.
It's not critical for browsers to play raw video from H.264 cameras.

Cameras shoot in HD and realtime compression isn't very efficient, so such raw files are unsuitable for the web.

For the web you still need to lower resolution and bitrate of the files. Re-encoding step is necessary, and it allows format of web video to be independent of source format.
Not to mention there's often good money to be made at the nine fives level.
Most public golf courses I know of charge fees. Anyone can play as long as they pay. Some people actually do complain the fees are too expensive, but it's better than some country clubs where you need to be invited, approved, and then upfront dues atart at $100k.

Now I know your point wasn't actually about golf, but a lot of "open" facilities do cost money to use. It's just that they're non-discrimanatory about their use and charge what they consider reasonable fees (enough to pay for staff, upkeep, improvements, etc...).

This is actually very similar to MPEG-LA, the big difference being that MPEG-LA is not non-profit. But then again neither is Google. What would be a nice move by Google is to actually give all On2 property to Mozilla or Xiph. Or ever better yet, Outercurve (to show that they don't really want to indirectly exert disproportionate influence).
Does it use jQuery UI theme support? I've been waiting for jQuery UI to finish cloning all of the HTML form elements for some time. This could be a nice bridge.
this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_densi... says the device has a 4.1" screen, with a dpi of 225

for comparison, here's the dpi of some other devices

2010 iPhone/iPod 326
2010 Sony Ericsson X1 312
2007 Toshiba Portege G900 313
2010 Samsung Jet s8003 300
2010 HTC Touch Diamond 2 292
2010 Droid X 228
2010 Sony Vaio Z128 168
2007 iPhone 163
2010 PSP Go 145
2010 11" MacBook Air 135
2010 iPad 132
2008 Nintendo DSi 110
It's all about getting shit done and bringing value to clients. Design fetishism affects very small percentage of both users and builders (which are also sophisticated users)
Table Folds Like Origami, Becomes Four Tables in One
I haven't decided yet how to feel about Stuxnet. On one hand, good guys don't release viruses into the wild, period. On the other hand, only good has come from this. Iran doesn't get nukes until later and industry figures out that they need to lock down their machine controllers, without any real damage.
webapp vs native, do users really care about the technology as long as you can make them happy?

The approach we took is native for mobile and webapp for everything else.

Our users are asking for a "desktop app", so we are looking at wrapping our webapp in a SSB and distributing that.
For the record, patricia tries in the literature are defined to have this "critbit" property. The wikipedia article on that subject is a little broken, but djb's article is correct when it states:

"This idea was introduced by Morrison in 1968 under the name PATRICIA, and independently by Gwehenberger at about the same time."
Thieves Raid Traffic Lights for SIM Cards to Make Free Calls
Before you decide to learn one programming language in 61 days please read this short essay: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
I think the story would be more interesting if the malware appeared to have come from aliens from outside our solar system who knew that Iran getting nuclear capability would destroy the world and eventually set the galaxy out of balance. They send a virus back through time to stop Iran.

This reporter finds evidence of this in the virus, and additionally finds indications of future events that have yet to unfold, but which this virus will also disrupt.

Otherwise, I think you're left with a pretty mundane story.
> If that's really the case, it seems like Rasmus has eliminated a large swath of null byte vulnerabilities in PHP applications.

Yes -- this specific change mitigates a lot of simple local file inclusion vulnerabilities. It's not a cure-all, but it does at least prevent many common antipatterns (e.g, include("languages/$_COOKIE['lang'].php")) from being trivially exploited.
This is basically a radix/patricia/critbit tree. Those might be O(1) for the number of keys but are O(n) for the length of the key. Note this is true for hashtables as well.

Such trees are pretty excellent in practice; they give hash-like fast lookup while preserving ordering. Hashtables do have the advantage of being less prone to cache thrashing as you traverse the tree, which is probably why nedtries is best for <10,000 elements. Not to mention the key distribution may affect tree balance and hence lookup times. Probably an issue when you're allocating memory from sequential addresses.

I have a unoptimized and under-tested implementation of such a binary trie, which uses string keys.
https://github.com/j0sh/radixtree

edit: another big plus to these types of trees: they use a minimum of space, unlike a hash table.
Rachel Botsman gave a TED talk on the same topic. It's worth a watch.

http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_case_for_collabo...
Facebook and the Hoodie
Aren't people worried Iran could potentially develop something similar to target oil rigs? Is there a guy at the CIA saying, "Oh don't worry about it boys; it's a one off, they'll never be able to figure it out or respond in kind."

At one point Persians were one of the most educated minorities in the US. They have good universities in Iran and I wouldn't put it past them to develop the capabilities to push back against this attack.
Funny--he started out "after another Campfire outage this week", I thought the post was going to be about the unreliability of Campfire, its platform (ruby, dash of C, AFAIK), and the uptime issues causing user-hostility amongst 37signal's customers.

Which was going to be (and still is) ironic since BankSimple is likely using the same technology stack.

After being down voted: so Alex can call all AIR developers lazy because they don't want to leave their comfort zone and write native apps, but I can't insinuate the same thing about 37signal's not wanting to leave their Ruby comfort zone to make a reliable messaging app? Oh, right, we hate AIR, but love Ruby. Sorry, I missed that there was a double standard. :-)
ZFS supports encryption with deduplication, and Dropbox does dedupe accross customers (and why not? It's not a human digging through things).

http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/compress_encrypt_checksum_... - ZFS link
Yeah, jade pretty much rocks. (I'm a fan of haml too) The nodejs ecosystem is maturing a whole lot.

Express+jade=win:

http://expressjs.com
Heathrow was built at the peak of the UK housing boom - the stories of rates paid to electricians and plumbers at Heathrow made bankers blush.
and why it takes more 2TB drives than 1TB drives...
How is this an argument against making a native app? Don't you have to make the native app before you can AB test it?
Facebook Hacker Cup problems ...
Web Frameworks (An Ah-ha Moment)
Just had an ah-ha moment building a user interface for a new SaaS product written in Perl. Catalyst is cool, Mojolicious is awesome, but Dancer is sweet.

Anyway ... why am I creating redundant views, forms, etc for basic crud operations ... AH-HA, so that why developers prefer CakePHP, Ruby-on-Rails and the like (non-Perl) frameworks.

Convention of Configuration, now get the F$#% outta my way framework.
I saw this guy speak at my university my freshman year. He seemed like a bit of a technophobe. Also this article is 20+ years old, not that I think he has changed.
Arimaa is a great game. I've been playing with friends for a couple of months and I'm always amazed by how complex gameplay can emerge from such simple rules.
Interesting visualization of the data, but I'd like to see more analysis. Further, this isn't exactly speaking to SMARTER people - it's speaking to more educated people. That's a very important distinction to make.
Did you know that each penny can be used more than once in its lifetime, so the cost of minting is amortized across so many usages that it's almost certainly not worth trimming? This author didn't.
And there was video footage of Duke Nukem Forever shown off in 1998.
Last time I flew through Heathrow, I spent an hour and a half going from one gate to another, moving about on literally every kind of transport known to man except watercraft and spaceships. After flying in on an aircraft, I took some combination of train, bus, electric cart, another bus, I think another train, moving sidewalk, and at least one or two other things.

Nearly half of the transit time was spent inside some kind of vehicle in a dark tunnel, an industrial looking processing center, crawling around dimly lit stairwells, and or other such place that clearly said to me "you should not be seeing this stuff! Pay no attention to all this stuff behind the curtains!"

It was ridiculous and absurd and would have been humorous if I hadn't been in a mad dash the entire time trying to make my connection.

After escaping on yet another aircraft I mulled for quite a while over what kind of madness could have come up with such an absolutely insane way of moving from one part of a facility to another...a distance I could have crossed by foot in less than 15 minutes.
"My final and perhaps mv best reason for not owning a computer is that I do not wish to fool myself. I disbelieve, and therefore strongly resent, the assertion that I or anybody else could write better or more easily with a computer than with a pencil. I do not see why I should not be as scientific about this as the next fellow: when somebody has used a computer to write work that is demonstrably better than Dante's, and when this better is demonstrably attributable to the use of a computer, then I will speak of computcr with a more respectful tone of voice, though I still will not buy one."

Well, if he were writing with a computer, odds are good that it would have caught the typos "mv" and "computcr".

Frankly, this is a lot of hypocritical horse-puckey. If the author truly didn't want to be shackled to the "energy corporations", then he also wouldn't have a website, nor many other modern conveniences.
http://dotomator.com
It was telling to me at the time that actual business results directly contrary to hypothesized outcomes identified in advance are treated as having no informational value with regards to the original claim.
"hints included in the new iOS 4.3 beta seeded to developers earlier this week indicate that Apple may be preparing to move to Imagination Technologies' next-generation GPU architecture with the SGX543 on future devices."

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/14/ios-4-3-beta-hints-at-op...