skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is? It's driving to the right, which is towards big wheel, unless the picture has been flipped.
I'd be curious to know where the Walmart is and what searches you tried.
I just started using jQuery on something I've been developing and I've been dying because I can get things to work, but I don't know if what I'm doing is best practice. This definitely helps a ton!
A few observations from a lawyer perspective:

1. At the risk of sounding simplistic, it is the patents, and not the copyrights, that matter most here.

2. Copyright infringement might provide a basis for a damage award but this, in a worst case, could readily be absorbed by Google, even as it works around any copyrighted code issues in future Android releases. What is more, the main copyright claims appear to center on a bizarre technical point, at least as framed by the court pleadings - that is, that the so-called open-sourcing done by Sun of the Java SE specification was, in effect, illusory because no such license was valid unless a vendor (such as ASF) could show "compatibility" with the Java specification via test suites made available by Sun through a license of its TCK, which in turn required that vendor to pay license fees and to agree to restrict distribution to the desktop only. Whether that claim stands remains to be seen but it would seem to me that Google (even if had to pay damages) could clean up any infringing code without too much harm to its prospects for the Android market in doing its future releases.

3. The patent claims pose the greatest risks for Google. Should it lose here, Google could be permanently enjoined from doing further Android distribution and would (I assume) find it exceedingly hard to do any workarounds. In that case, Google stands to lose potentially a vast, critical market and would effectively have to make Oracle its strategic partner for all of the mobile space in order to solve this problem. Very bad news indeed.

4. The good news is that Google has a strong track record of fighting off extortionist patent claims and has hit back hard (see, e.g., the HN discussion on a piece entitled "Google Bowls a Googly," http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1899156).

I would be interested in how those who are technically knowledgeable assess the risks to Google from the legal framework set forth above or in how you might clarify or reframe those legal issues based on technical points that I have missed.
Typically those .edu sites have been hacked at some point.
Don't just stand around saying somebody should do something: Be someone
Cracking The Credit Card Code
Robots.txt Adventure
> (I know it happens to me).

How?
Wrong. I mentioned this before. Check out AdSense on the NY Times homepage. If you punish AdSense sites, you'll mostly punish smaller business or one-person sites that are not big enough to have in-house ad sales.
Given two super powers, one infested with patents and IP laws that limit progress, the other one with zero patent laws where everybody can further develop the work of others, which one do you think will progress faster?

If I was the chinese president I would be flipping the bird to the cameras with a smile in my face.
Found that game earlier this week due to BoingBoing. Nice job.
Sorry, let me clarify. The cyclist in Palo Alto rides a reverse penny-farthing, while the vehicle generated by the genetic algorithm is the traditional penny-farthing.
It's on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5nWRE-LAE

My favourite Horizons episode so far is "How long is a piece of string?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQU1AcWUnpo
Perhaps not for a darling product company. But for something like a fencing company? Sure could be a great reason: You're a surly sonofabitch who doesn't like having a boss and fencing pays fine enough, etc.
Inflatable greenhouses on the moon
Isn't this the whole problem? 90% of the web is crap. If Google can't deliver the non-crap, I'll be looking elsewhere.
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mwilton13, I passed this on to my team when you mentioned it to me on Twitter recently. Have you mentioned the site to Posterous too?
Agriculture On-The-Go and Reformatting the Planet
CED (NC) Kicks off New Mentoring Program for Startups
Related: Previously, on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594521
Minecraft + Kinect : Building Worlds
Violation of the spirit rather than the letter of the law, surely. Which would indicate that the guidelines probably need to be tweaked to close such loopholes.
Pylons is dead. The authors moved on to Pyramid after declaring Pylons core too difficult to maintain. The upgrade path to Pyramid is "Run your pylons app inside pyramid as you rewrite it from scratch [into our new shiny framework we promise not to abandon]!"
Like vimperator, too slow to feel usable. The delay in hitting F to getting links is way too deep into human perceptibility to be anything other than irritating.

The highlighting drives me mad too, and no I don't care if it can be shut off. The slowness already killed my enthusiasm.

Is there something about how Firefox interacts with plugins that vimperator and now Pentadactyl can't seem to get the performance down?
Tim Berners-Lee Seeks Voice-Enabled Internet in Africa
The Socioeconomics of Parenting: Why Rich Parents Don't Matter
Should you care if our small business succeeds?
Great. So why isn't this prominently stated in the article?
IANA IPv4 Addresses "Officially" Exhausted
I totally agree. I was saying that psychedelics are the easy (cheater's) way, and meditation is "for the more industrious."
More details:

http://www.cednc.org/content/mentor+program/12270
If you do not analyze if you should be doing something, even if you really want to do it, you're jumping in without showing good judgement.

It's like going to get a PhD without researching what that makes your life like, etc, just because you like ______ topic.

"Should I be an entrepreneur" is a good question to ask oneself before being one. It shows measured caution, which is evaluation of oneself before embarking on something. The mark of a successful entrepreneur is taking measured risks, not silly risks. Those who take silly risks are just accidental winners if they win.

The unwillingness to figure out if you'd be good at something before jumping in with both feet is a great way to show where you are on the spectrum of the Dunning–Kruger effect.
IIRC, a lion eats 90 pounds of meat a week; they're wicked expensive. I can't imagine what it would cost to feed a T-Rex.

And then there's PETA.
Good.

First, the world continues to turn on its axis (for instance, it is not the case that I am suddenly unable to procure a cheap Slicehost instance with a routable /32). But now there's one less hypoxic argument about the impending death of the Internet if we don't immediately cut over to IPv6.

Second, plenty of companies are holding on to /16s, or multiple /16s, or (contiguously routable) /15s, or (god help us this is apparently true) /8s. Those addresses will urgently begin to pick up a real market value. Fantastic: IPv4 addresses always should have had a monetary value commensurate with their market value, and now some of those vanity allocations will get liquidated.
I just googled the AirStash and it looks awesome!
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It seems to me a $200M company offering to sell a product to you via their website would seem more legit than, say, a site you're redirected to after someone hacked some .edu account. (At this moment, the second result on Google for buy viagra appears is a link to www.engineering.uga.edu, but that redirects to some pharmacy site if you click through from Google (but not if you load directly).)

So yes, I'd say there's at least some way to compare the legitimacy here.
Letter to a young entrepreneur
>>I recall about.com as a decent site a while ago, but I believe it was acquired a while ago by ... Yahoo!? Go figure.

About.com is owned by the New York Times Company, not Yahoo.
Here's the story about AirBnb:

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/smallbusiness/1003/galle...
It assumes that getting the most sleep will be beneficial. Perhaps getting up 5 hours earlier would be better; perhaps it would be better to arrive late. But this is unsubstantiated.
The Toshiba Tablet
We looked at lightweight frameworks and went with Yii (http://www.yiiframework.com/). CodeIgniter is getting a bit long in the tooth. Yii is a modern object oriented framework.

Yii uses demand loading of classes to avoid the performance problems of object oriented frameworks which load all the files off the disk for every request (see http://talks.php.net/show/froscon08). And it uses prepared statements for SQL, improving performance and avoiding SQL injection attacks.

It's nice for simple applications, but lately has been growing to include other features.
I think that part of the problem might be that you're trying to change ingrained actions. People are used to hitting snooze. People aren't used to talking to their alarm clocks.

Beyond the ability to speak the snooze function, does it offer $1.99 worth of value over the built-in alarm function of the iPhone?
I doubt that a brontosaurus will try to kill you (or even notice you) unless you did something stupid at close range. A velociraptor on the other hand WILL hunt you down and try to kill you. It will not stop until it feels your blood on its claws.

Or at least that's what they did in the movies :)
Reptyr: move an already-running process into screen (better than screenify)
I wonder what MS is offering in 'consultancy fees' to some government officials for that not to become a mandated standard?
I wrote code for this ten or so years ago. I don't say that to brag, but to express my annoyance at every credit card form I encounter on the internet. Why do you ask me for my number and what type of card I've got?
Fun with HTTP headers
> "Sure, but the user experience on Linux is nowhere near that what Apple's Mac OS X or iOS provides."

You mean about installing applications right? Copy to /Applications or click "Buy" in App Store.

But if I give Systems Preferences to a "common" user instead of /etc, for the majority of users, in my experience, they feel the same bad user experience of a configuration utility, with a great number of concepts that they do not understand, at least it's prettier.

My mother still does not understands why she needs iTunes at all to upgrade her iPhone, and that after upgrading iTunes simply deletes the two applications that she does use, Apple insists she needs it.

This last case is anecdotal, but it shows that Apple also does have it's poor user experience with some of its decisions, the common user, contrary to the average Joe iPod user, does not understand why the hell iTunes is necessary if he doesn't listen to music.

> " Apple gets an A in that category (App Store on Mac OS X and iOS is a success), Linux a D (Package managers are a success, but the user experience isn't)."

I would completely agree with the idea if Apple pricing was not so elitist and if the majority of users that I know that have a Apple product was not a techie nerd at least (ie, he knows how to deal with the basics of a computer, whatever system he's using, can install a program if you provide instructions, he follows technology section of his favorite newspaper, etc.).
Facebook Buying A Jet? Raises $1.5 Billion Valued at $50 Billion
I see four random logos on the front page but I can't find a complete list anywhere.
What I Don't like about the cloud (More CR48 Rambling)
Doesn't matter if it makes it to devices or not. The code was checked into Android repository and was available for download. In other words, the code was made available. With a different license. That is illegal.
Breaking Down The Infamous Apple Email Style
Less Text, Please: Contemporary Reading Behaviors and Short Formats
ZDNet and Ars refuted Florian's claims, but according to this Engadget update, it is still a violation:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/21/android-source-code-java-...
You're not forced to use the Forms class in Django. You can process and output forms manually; that part never felt natural to me so I just skipped it and work with them like I do in PHP.
Heh that's a really good point, actually - experts have to weigh a much larger number of factors that most people aren't aware of.

I'm the sort that cares about making the right choice the first time with expensive stuff, though, so when it comes to a field I know nothing about, I generally need to become knowledgeable in it first before I'll make a decision. Simpler when there's a more limited range of choices and they're all pretty good.
China nationalizes eleven rare earth mines for strategic reasons
MAMA - Metadata Analysis and Mining Application
Just to clarify this is about running SproutCore during development. In production, SproutCore apps are just plain HTML/CSS/JS files served by your web server.
"... Interesting to hear that they went through 10 iterations with a 3D on-demand printer before even posting to Kickstarter ..."

10 iterations isn't that many compared computer code in software.
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>Passion for your product or solution should be the driving force behind an entrepreneurial endeavor.

I had this discussion with a co-worker. While I think you shouldn't have hatred/distaste for your product or solution, I think it's more important that you have passion for helping your customers/clients in a good-for-everyone way. For this reason I'd ideally entrepreneur in the charity sector, because I have a passion for helping charity organizations.

There might be varying shades of grey to this argument. I'm a web application developer, and my co-worker would only pursue building ASP.NET websites related to his passion, music. Less extreme versions would be either building for any platform in any programming language, something music related. Or building ASP.NET web sites/services but not for music. Also varying definitions of "passion".
The same place as Van Gogh and Emily Dickinson. She had little influence while she was alive, but will gain more as time goes on. Posthumous fame is a cliche in the arts.
"These results capture the stunning developmental inequalities that set in almost immediately, so that even the mental ability of 2-year-olds can be profoundly affected by the socio-economic status of their parents. As a result, their genetic potential is held back."
Might enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0 .
The original Venn diagram
> SpamAssassin is rules based, on a known corpus with rule modifications sent out from time to time. In order to get better detection, you can run something like dspam or crm-114 along with, which are statistics based, and with a short training period, can get close to gmail's accuracy.

FWIW I do train my SA installation (actually amavisd-new) with sa-learn.

> The other benefit to gmail is shared inoculation.

A very good point. My mail server has very, very few users.

On the other hand, I am using DNSBLs, Razor, and Pyzor through SA, so you might think I'd benefit more from that. (Which is not to say SA isn't blocking a ton of spam--it's just not doing as good as Google: one every six weeks or something from Gmail, a handful every day from SA.)
Yeah, that'd be great if you could share (padmapper at gmail). I started recreating the google transit overlay, but it's pretty nontrivial to make a readable subway map programmatically and I got sidetracked on other projects.

If there's no map link, it attempts to infer based on that other info you mention and classifies them as likely inaccurate. Frequently it's the map link that's wrong, since people often file it in re wrong sub-CL and CL seems to modify the map link based on that info.

I'd be really interested if there were aspects you liked (or didn't like) about the others you tried.

Thanks!
And calculators? “Hey look, a computer that doesn’t run LISP/C/Python!”

I don’t understand why you need to belittle a useful, specific tool. Prompting for various morning time-sucks is valuable.
there are lots of companies with /8's that can't possibly be using all of the addresses. ibm has 9/8, xerox has 13/8, hp has 15/8 and 16/8, apple has 17/8, mit has 18/8, ford has 19/8, csc.com has 20/8, etc.
Python, the Web and Little Things on my Mind
4 Reasons that LivingSocial's Amazon Gift Card Group Deal was so Successful
I think you got the short stick, I've been watching the page load times and the average is well below a second. Node is holding its ground pretty well.
Ask HN: What's the best open source social networking software?
By best I mean most mature software or easiest to build off of for your own social network system.
Lots of people on the Reddit thread are really into it: "It's heartbreaking when it spawns a totally sweet car, upside down." "my entire office is idle cheering nonentities on"

It's hard to imagine anyone getting as excited about the swf you just linked to.

It's interesting from a user experience perspective as the programs are doing almost the same thing.

There's the colorfulness of the one on Reddit, making the cars more personable. In contrast, the other program kills unsuccessful cars very quickly, without giving you time to think about why the car was unsuccessful/feel its pain. Also, the load bearing concept might be cool in theory, but I think it makes it more difficult for the viewer to process what's going on.

It's also interesting how both authors consciously chose to make their algorithms worse so that the program wouldn't converge to a solution as quickly.
0) It's bloody free money.
Handling over 300 million events per day, in real time, on a budget
Regardless of whether or not they are using all of the addresses, they probably find it easier to continue holding onto them for future needs and convenience than to give any of them up for short term gain.

IT Departments hate having to manage these sorts of changes. Imagine all of the firewall rules that might have to be updated if suddenly part of a /8 range was to be considered "external".
True, though you can't click on what people are currently doing either...or copy it (I mean kind of, but not really).

I do agree that eventually email address harvesters could eventually be made to read them though, and that would be a big weak point if they ever did catch on.
MSNBC cancels it's top rated prime time show after Comcast-NBC deal is approved
Yes, but if the final built product does not contain those elements then at least the final product can continue to ship because it is not infringing.

The tests can then be removed and any damage claims will likely be settled and/or workarounds will be created.

If the code is in the core of android and ends up in the product as shipped by the various handset manufacturers then it's a completely different story.
FutureAdvisor is hiring hackers
Appleseed (I think it's called) comes to mind, every time I saw Diaspora mentioned it was cited as a more mature project with similar goals.
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I'm sure somebody within the 1 billion people there in China could crack whatever protection they put on. Maybe even on day 1 :-)
Show HN: bmrk.it - a simple bookmarking service
I wanted a simple, lightweight and easy to use bookmarking service so I took to the task with this little side project, here's the result:

http://bmrk.it
Unfortunately, this site takes the approach of "look how you can build wiz-bang with only N lines of code" rather than explaining the underlying functionality. This is exactly the wrong approach to impress developers.

It may be that Lift uses versatile and air-tight abstractions to accomplish these things, but we can't really figure that out from what's on this site. I recommend that the authors focus more on the principles on which Lift is built.
About half of all the content on the Internet.

What content is that? The part where keywords are from poor down to useless to characterize what the user wants and means in their search.
I got one that went past 200 by the 3rd generation. You can't claim that you need any certain amount of generations before anything interesting happens, as the mutations are random.
Although the medical iPad market appears compelling, I feel it's a bit of false hope for the industry. The problem was never the hardware - its always been the software.

With all the money being pumped into the industry we've created digital repositories of the paper records. Well now what do we do? In a perfect world we could share data between providers, maintain centralized records, etc. which would cut down costs and improve care. Although this appears trivial, data transfer in this industry is far from a reality.

The solution is software that actually solves a problem physicians are facing. Think this is difficult? Primary care physicians spent upwards of 50% of their day on non-patient care. These tasks include medication refills, referrals, evaluating labs, etc. The kicker the majority of this work could be outsourced to a computer - and your physician would be glad you did.
i think arin/iana will have to start doing audits and make these companies justify their continued use of their entire /8s or else have to give parts of them back. ip addresses aren't owned, they're just leased from arin and companies have to pay yearly fees of thousands of dollars to keep using them.

arin has gotten pretty strict on giving out additional space to ISPs asking for further allocations due to the pool shortage. once the pool runs dry, the only thing they'll be able to do is break up previous allocations into smaller ones.

these companies with /8s only have them because they were given out in the mid '80s, not because they've ever shown a need for 16 million host addresses.
I previously submitted this similar (old) demo: http://www.qubit.devisland.net/ga/
This was very nice. I remember this, we spend a lot of time just watching it.
You need to get out more.
I hear FoundersTable will be kicking off again in 2011. That covers the gap you were discussing: http://stirr.net/founders-table/