skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although NY times nofollowed a handful of the links to the spammy sites that did the linking to jcpenney, they surprisingly failed to nofollow all of them.

The link to the SEO firm that JCPenney used for the blackhat campaign was also DO-followed!

So, the NYTimes is unwittingly contributing to the problem by exposing it.
It's a marketing barrier, not a technical one. The core is very much the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_40#Operating_system
This is so true. It would probably be safer to just leave it completely devoid of any human artefact and cross our fingers nobody goes there.
I can't really imagine any situation where our current civilization wouldn't go down there. A bunch of pictures of dying people and something buried in the earth? Sounds pretty tempting.
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted into oblivion here, I was asking a genuine question
For how long will that advantage exist? Would you like to lose performance on your game because your phone wants to chat with the cell towers?
>I have not seen any empirical evidence to suggest that IP laws are necessary other than what people said.

Suppose I take http://libregamewiki.org and copy it completely (logos, attributions and all) and put it up on the .com address. Remove the license and puts some ads on there.

You'd just say "oh well, fairplay"??

Your LibertyGaming blog pages too use CC-BY, that only works because you have control via copyright law, without copyright law I can use your content without any attribution or say by you.
Since the Meiji era, Japanese schoolchildren have been given the duty of cleaning the school (think treating it like a dojo). I always liked the idea of having kids help run the school. I think this particular practice is starting to fall out of favor, though.
1. Buy shares in companies hit by media hysteria.
2. Wait for hysteria to pass.
3. Profit!
Doesn't work on Linux though.
A really good warning would be "Death comes on wings to he who enters the tomb of a pharaoh." That should keep out the curious.
Considering the beating Nokia shares took after the announcement, I don't think that same public has any faith on Microsoft's ability to deliver a modern operating system.
They made titles like this before AOL, so not relevant.
Next time you send an army to invade a foreign country, you can call it a "partnership".
I couldn't find out exactly which school the writer works at (I'm sure he wishes to remain anonymous as much as possible), however I was able to dig up some other data.

Per student expenditures for public schools in The Bronx can be found here (input district values of 08,09,10, or 11 for Bronx schools):
https://www.nycenet.edu/offices/d_chanc_oper/budget/exp01/y2...

Per student spending in The Bronx appears to be around $17.5k. This is significantly higher than the national average (of about $11k). More notably it's the same as Stuyvesant High School (also in New York city, http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/02/M475/AboutUs/Statist...) which is regarded as one of the top schools in the country: http://education.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/listings/high...

Given this I find little evidence to support the contention that Bronx schools need more money. I think it's quite likely that important things (like supplies and building maintenance) aren't being paid for, but I don't see evidence that this is due to lack of funds rather than mismanagement.
The more dire the warning, the more likely it is that it will be slaves who are forced to give their lives to recover the treasure.
The good thing is that it can't get negative
To be fair to the trolls it's fairly common for companies to do funding rounds that are not publicly announced.
Cool, I will try it. Side note: How much did you pay for UpOut.com? It's pretty good.
Can we compare this to the warnings of being cursed on Egyptian tombs? I know 4,000 years later when we read that something is cursed it pretty much falls on death ears, how are we going to convince people 10,000 years later that we have their best interests in mind and they should just let it be?
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And that is exactly the problem of hiring softies - they export the amazingly successful practices that resulted in blockbusters like Vista, Zune and Kin.
>both British technologies protected by patent in Britain, but their patents weren't recognized or enforceable in America.

That's not a disregard for IP law though. That in a way is IP law working. The British company got their limited monopoly to ensure they could pay their workers and continue to innovate and the public domain got the explicit and detailed knowledge on how to exploit that invention.

>In Britain, Boulton and Watt's patent allowed them to block development of high-pressure steam engines, because Watt thought they were dangerous.

This is certainly not a feature of current patent legislation, I suspect it wasn't then either. Patents protect commercial exploitation. They do not prevent rivals from using the invention for research and development, indeed that's half the point. Patents are an exchange of knowledge for a limited monopoly on it's commercial use.

Also, you're free to use a patent specification and work the invention for yourself as a private individual.
I posted it on the page but one guy some here might like:

L. Peter Deutsch for writing the PDP-1 version of Lisp at the age 12 (he was the son of an MIT prof and was hanging out with MIT Hackers back in the 60s) he also wrote Ghostscript
I'll go one step further and emphatically state "this isn't his entire genome."

Additionally, this data could be radically improved if his phenotype was also included. Just because we know that the marker says "AA" without the correlating information of "blond hair" doesn't tell us whether "AA" is important for hair color.

What you can mine with this type of information is the correlation between the markers themselves: if rs1001 = AA, then rs2002 = {GG(85%), TT(10%), GT(5%)}. This is where community software could definitely benefit from more data.

If you are interested in helping create a "Google for DNA", drop us a line at SeqCentral.com
> Given this I find little evidence to support the contention that Bronx schools need more money. I think it's quite likely that important things (like supplies and building maintenance) aren't being paid for, but I don't see evidence that this is due to lack of funds rather than mismanagement.

That's an incredibly unfair conclusion to come to based on almost no information. For example, you compare the average expenditure per studend in the Bronx with the average at Stuyvesant - enrollment at Stuyvesant is based on a competitive exam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School#Enrollme...) and I've be willing to bet that Stuyvesant doesn't have to put up with SpEd and disciplinary problems the author's school does which could easily chew up a whole chunk of money.
Programmer's intuition ;).

I really like your question. Personally I value stories, creations, etc. in which authors make multiple layers of "jokes" or references. Unfortunately, I'm not good enough to know what letters I'm actually changing :(.
"there is always a defect margin and if that's within the government required percentage then they really shouldn't need to publicly disclose anything at all"

Um, that was my point. It was NOT within government regulations. It was illegal. And they paid the maximum fine allowed by law for it.
Gaffes galore as US politicians grapple with geography (video)
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Your comment seems like a total non sequitur. Plus, you conveniently exclude successes like Windows XP, Windows 7, Office, SQL Server, Sharepoint, XBox, etc.
Why would a startup in China focus on the American market? A Chinese startup has a vastly larger local market to address, one that doesn't require localisation support or careful negotiation of cultural differences. Until they've saturated the local market, marketing in America would be a waste of time and effort.
The solution is to bring more full time PARENTS into the school. Sounds like an issue where teachers are subbing for a complete failure in parental guidance.

Money won't fix the behavior, but money can provide a legion of full-time parents to do some butt-kicking parental loving discipline to the hell raisers.
I'm 58, doing arcane mainframe systems stuff, mostly in my sleep. Pays well and got the kids through college, but I've been doing it for a long time.

The days are past when I could routinely wrap the clock on an interesting problem. If I did that now I'd be a zombie for a couple of days. Oh well: there aren't all that many interesting problems that come along in the day job anyway, so I make up interesting ways to solve the mundane problems. I wrote some REXX code not so long ago that builds and traverses trees to process an obscure many-to-many relationship in our database schema. One of my comments said that I was trying to see "how much of TAOCP I can remember".

If anybody ever looks at that code I'll bet a buck they won't know what TAOCP means.

None of the people at work my age know what HN is, and only one has ever even heard of Slashdot. Hell, I run the only Linux desktop in the whole enterprise - everybody else is plain vanilla MS-Windows. The kids who run the MS-Windows server farm, 20-somethings, have their own set of blinders on and if studying something doesn't lead to a Cisco or Microsoft certificate they won't bother with it. Young mercenaries, harumph. One of them admits to having heard about tomshardware so there may be some hope for him.

Sigh... nobody to talk to. I checked out a hackerspace in my area, but the kids there (don't mean that to sound pejorative, but I do have 30 years on them) were doing odd web hacks and Makerbot tricks and drinking cheap beer, none of which I found very interesting.

So I take out my creative frustrations at home, hacking at my personal machines. My darling this past year has been Clojure, and going to the Conj back October was an exciting thing. I kept up pretty well and discovered I wasn't quite the oldest guy there, so I haven't gone completely stale.

Have to pay a bit more attention to my body than I used to; I was immortal when I was 24, but now I've got those wrists and my liver to take care of.

(Man, they can't get those telomere therapies going fast enough.)
On the whole you're on the right track, but I'd like to explain a little further about what you're doing and the possible long-term implications.

Feature Branches can become corrosive. Any changes made on the mainline will have to be merged with every feature branch. This is fine with small teams (< 3) but can become frustrating when you have a lot of feature branches or high velocity on your trunk/master. Long-lived branches and refactorings must be merged regularly to prevent merge conflict hell! A lot of this comes down to having disciplined developers.

Why develop on mainline? A lot of this comes from the non-dvcs days. It was expensive to make a branch/tag and they tended to be made when making a release. The beauty of keeping mainline up-to-date (commits once per day) is that you have a regular tracking point to revert changes back from on production. Instead of trying to remember which feature branch was deployed, you have a consistent (linear) timeline.

As you've said this becomes beneficial when you automatically test and deploy your code. A lot of this is to enable best practices for when you decide to setup a CI server like Jenkins to run your unit/integration tests and then deploy automatically (maybe) on a clean run.

Regarding git, I'm going to assume that you've taught your devs enough to follow good habits to keep them sane. Many find that learning git takes a fortnight or so to fully understand. Still, it's always worth throwing a bunch of resources their way. In no particular order:

http://progit.org/book/
http://www.gitready.com/
http://book.git-scm.com/

For more on this kind of stuff and no doubt a better explanation, check out Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and Dave Farley. Link: http://continuousdelivery.com/
> That's why less-funded private schools in NYC consistently outperform public schools.

The "less-funded private schools" are also allowed to choose the cream-of-the-crop, are not required to enroll child with special needs and can jettison problem students at the drop of a hat. As I wrote earlier, if the problem was strictly "unions" you would expect states without collective bargaining agreements to outperform states with those agreements and they don't: http://shankerblog.org/?p=895
It's worth pointing out that the FDA has since voted to reduce the levels of acetaminophen in vicodin.

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=12607415
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Can you elaborate on unicorn being expensive with 1.9.2 in comparison to thin?

IIRC they're both using the prefork model, so shouldn't they have roughly the same COW/GC issues?
The sillier part of adding acetaminophen to hydrocodone and other opiates is that it's easy to remove the acetaminophen via cold water extraction. Thus, anyone looking to seriously abuse Vicodin can avoid the damage with just a bit of work.
What's not so clear is that this strategy was the right one. Particularly since the big, bold move isn't doing Windows Phone 7. (They're late to that party already; LG, Samsung and HTC already have phones out now.) Instead, what distinguishes Nokia so far is what they're not doing: fielding an Android device. And if you think Nokia doesn't have enough resources to do both, why haven't they dumped Meego yet?

There may be unannounced considerations that make this deal reasonable. But if you're going to bet your company on a single third-party platform (something that you don't need to do), it seems odd for it to be one that has yet to gain any serious traction in the marketplace.

Hence (I think) the suggestions that, to put it politely, Elop's past affiliations have skewed his judgment...
>Eliminate patents for everything.

vs

>We may give them a year to profit from their discovery*

Which is it?

>I rather go to the drugstore and find 10 cures for cancer than none because somebody got a patent and has a monopoly for that drug.

I'd agree the terms are too long, Pharma's spend more on advertising than R&D.

However, this is short sighted. In part the funding comes from investment, the investment won't be there if once the drug goes on sale the Pharma can't prevent their rivals (who didn't have the up front costs) from simply capitalising on the invention. The investors unfortunately aren't investing to find a cure (generally) they're investing to make money. It's capitalism.

If you're going to keep capitalism I think you need to keep some form of patent (but I'd limit the term more and probably add a profit multiplier limitation too if it's possible to work out the details effectively).
So total aside, inspired by the mention of denatured alcohol. How come you can buy bitters, which are up to 50% alcohol (i.e. 100 proof), without having to be of legal age?
the face of journalism's changed since I was a kid; I've talked with plenty of journalists researching stories, and things like twitter posts and linkedin profiles are part of the landscape now. we as readers like to put much of the onus on the writer, in this day and age it's probably more important for the reader to be aware and informed as well.
The above exactly the kind of exercise we were assigned in my high school's intro CS course. The course was taught by a math teacher.

BUT:

The school waited until a month before the semester started to tell the math teacher that she'd be teaching the course. Worse, they had already picked out a textbook that was filled with exercises like this. Worst of all, she had basically never done any programming before.

As time went on, and she actually had a chance to learn the material, this kind of coursework was replaced with more interesting and useful programming assignments.

I later took a calculus course from this teacher, and in that course, she actually took great pains to avoid repetitive problem sets; almost every problem she assigned was designed to teach us something different.

Repetitve exercises are likely easiest to assign and grade.
Exactly. Anyone who wants to abuse opiates can do a simple cold water extraction to almost completely remove the acetaminophen in less than five minutes, or else they can potentiate them using the techniques here so they only need a tiny dosage:

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=305596

What this means is that the vast majority of those dying are those using these drugs for legitimate medical problems. And it's not a small number of people either; 7,500 people in the US die each year from NSAIDs, and countless more survive but are permanently crippled.

The new government guidelines do absolutely nothing to fix the problem, they're just propaganda to support what is essentially a government campaign to poison the elderly and chronic pain patients.
Good luck finding an embryogenesis machine on eBay.
Tell PG: The username field in the login uses auto capitalization on phones
When logging in on an iPhone or iPad, the username textbox auto capitalizes the entry. As the field is case-sensitive, I was wondering if you could try to disable this. I realize you don't spend much time offering support for mobile devices on HN, but this could prevent a lot of bad logins from occurring.

I'm not 100% if this would work, but you may be able to add an "autocapitalize" property to the field in the form. See: http://dotnetperls.com/iphone

Any web designer should be able to confirm if this could work.
Stuyvesant has the same per student expenditures for regular (non-special ed) students as for many schools in The Bronx (check my links).

As for Stuyvesant's students, yes, it is a special school which takes gifted students. So is your contention that it costs less money to educate gifted students? That building maintenance is cheaper? That gifted students require fewer equipment, can make do with fewer classrooms, or can do without textbooks?

I can buy that it's easier to teach gifted students, but I can't quite buy that it's cheaper to provide them the basic necessities like books, classrooms, and laptops.
Not wrong at all, @travisp. The (excellent) paper you cite refers to economic value. What I referred to was commercial value. These are not synonyms. Often, they're antonyms. In many ways, their opposition represents the crux of the issue.

The Groklaw post summed it up nicely by saying "That's what protection means. It means protection from innovation. Let's call a spade a spade."

The only sense in which IP law directly "protects" intangible goods themselves (as opposed to the economic interests of their rights holders) is when it hinders their obsolescence.
http://www.storenvy.com/help/articles/can-i-use-any-payment-...
I didn't say they always made the right decision, did I? However, the courts don't usually agree with the government because they're part of the government themselves.
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[Ask HN]: Really testing out my website..
MacBook OS X 10.6, 8gb RAM, 750gb SATA, took out my SuperDrive and put in a second 750GB.

I have an HTML5 video streaming site I have been working on, about 300gb and I develop it fully on my MacBook.

I want to get a sense how well the site runs in terms of resources for each connection or get an idea of the coding changes I make if they are increasing resources needed or decreasing...Get an idea of when someone just lands on the site, how much did that cost in terms of resources? if I make JavaScript changes are they saving or costing?

Get what I am saying? I am having a hard time phrasing it in the manner I want.

Tools that I can use to decide if the changes I am making are good or bad, ways for me to see what parts of my site are using the most resources...

A long time ago I remember Rational had a testing suite, but I am poor and would like OSS or low cost..

Thinking more out loud with an example. Say I measure my current site and then I rewrite using the HTML5 boilerplate template and see how that stacks up before I deploy everything to production..or maybe after than I optimizing my JS better, what does the site now cost per session...
> The source would be great for the people looking for evidence of who wrote it and what their intentions were, but that is about it.

I think that's more the point than attempting to use it, which like you say, is not really feasible or even useful.
A bit like shooting someone who is attempting suicide. Prohibition v. 2 has proven to be just as disastrous as v. 1, when will there finally be enough political momentum behind ending it?
You would think the author would double check seeing as he wrote the previous piece about 'decor my eyes' where links followed from the NYT and Bloomberg got them to rank high.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/PDM_FAQ

Public domain mark FAQ from the CC people.

You'll probably want to look at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ which is the disclaimer from copyright (CC0) FAQ.

An excerpt from the later:

"How does it work?

A person using CC0 (called the “affirmer” in the legal code) waives all of his or her copyright and neighboring and related rights in a work, to the fullest extent permitted by law. If the waiver isn’t effective for any reason, then CC0 acts as a license from the affirmer granting the public an unconditional, irrevocable, non exclusive, royalty free license to use the work for any purpose."
sigh, so in the process of fixing the list formatting and making an edit note I didn't actually fix the text. Time for a nap.
2,400 pages of results into a 47-pound, six-volume collection that costs $625 and requires four pounds of ink to print.

Kindle version please.
The value of writing things down - details about finger pain and waxy skin surely would have been lost memories, but are the things that make stories like this so great.
Sure, if someone can tell me authoritatively what to do.
I tried to buy bitters at 4 am the other day and they wouldn't let me due to the alcohol content. Pretty stupid, since getting intoxicated from bitters would be about as much fun as drinking cooking wine.
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I agree, but still applaud Manu's release of something many consider so private.

Even though this isn't a genome sequence, there is potential for interesting analyses if lots of people release their 23andme data. (I believe 23andme use the same SNPs for every user).
One alternative he doesn't mention is Vicoprofen, which contains ibuprofen rather than acetaminophen.
Sitting in Germany I can only say that the world needs such a thing!
@cturner - You've understood my point exactly. Thanks for making it clearer.
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> I can't quite buy that it's cheaper to provide them the basic necessities like books, classrooms, and laptops.

If unmotivated/uncaring students are constantly destroying books, and laptops and require more supervision (extra paraprofessionals for example), yes, I can buy that it's cheaper to provide motivated/well-behaved students necessities that they actually care for.

My point is that you took a broad spending per pupil number and immediately jumped to the conclusion that the problem was "mismanagement." Show me that the per-pupil numbers are the same and that the rates of consumption (books, etc), disciplinary, poverty/hunger, ESL, etc data are the same, then I might accept the problem is mismanagement. You haven't come close to doing that.
Summary: An important executive didn't like Yammer. The company had to stop using it even though it had taken off.
Etsy exhibits an ever-changing array of glitches and bugs which are difficult to pin down, monitor and understand. These are exhibited in both the web interface and the API.

I think that their plan to 'push code' 25 times a day or whatever plays a role in that. And really, I don't think having their dogs, VCs and first day employees publish changes to the site helps.

I think the issue is which test they have written - their tests aren't catching a few important details here and there.