skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's record on this sort of thing is to try it out for a week, then pull it. I'm guessing they don't have much faith in the concept, but are willing to try anyway.
Oracle presented 12 files to the court. I would consider a source code file to a song. Just look at the files I presented here:
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-support...

I have updated the blog post on reexamination and dismissal of copyright claims with an explanation concerning the scope of what was copied. So thanks for raising the issue, even though you quoted selectively because you left out the reference to 12 source files.
I'd love to see you write a blog post when you have a moment
Or a programming language. We can measure 'level' in pointers.
Then we'd have a practical application of the term 'three star programmer.'
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I'm looking to begin developing a widget for others to embed on their site. As it is, it will just be a stand-alone widget (not a WP plugin or Drupal Module). I've been trying to do some searches for getting started, and best practices however, I have been coming up a bit thin. Was curious if anyone could give me some tips, examples from work, or resources to take a look at. Any and anything is greatly appreciated.
Fair enough, fascism also has non-economic context and that's not the point I was making.
It's hard to say what exactly is happening right now, but I don't think there's much of a reason to expect an industry wide "pop" soon. As mkr-hn said, the companies are certainly more responsible now than a decade ago, and despite the seemingly outrageous valuations of companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga, there are equally as many reasonable valuations for smaller, still successful, tech companies.
Five Reasons to be cheerful about Nokia-Microsoft
I agree. (thanks :)
It's all cylical, always has been, always will be.
Where else are you going to put your cash.....the bank so you can 1.5%? Or how about some realestate?
Apart from a few activists, I don't think computing communities feel we are missing out on a female perspective [1]. But for some reason, this attitude is often a point of criticism by the activists. Why is that?

(Incidentally, nursing does need men - a lot of men are uncomfortable having a woman assist them in personal care activities. More male nurses = increased patient satisfaction.)

[1] Near as I can tell, the only place we could possibly be missing out is in some UX fields, and even there it seems that empirically-minded men are doing a good job (see: Facebook, Zynga, Apple).
You could use Flippa.com to sell it. Just include your website and app as part of the package, and it should meet your needs.
Also from the article:

He added that any such attack would have some connection to the government in China, which is also known for producing so-called "patriotic hackers" devoted to targeting institutions or governments perceived as threatening to the government at home.

Are we in a cyber cold war?
I'm watching this in pure joy, since the HN crowd typically consists of homo-erotic Apple fanboys. Having their gay nature into account, they obviously like to get screwed by Apple on a daily basis and yet maintain the "anti-Microsoft" attitude.

I'm curious how long is this gonna last.
In terms of expense to my business, the hardware isn't the only number I'm focused on. By using a VPS hosting provider that I know and trust, I don't have to worry about contracts with colocation facilities, secure access auditing, host hardware failure, image-level backups, console access (in case of network issues [DDoS]), host system updates and upgrades, and a host of other things that I probably don't even know about.

Although, I probably stated that incorrectly when I said I don't have to worry about these things. I do worry about them, but I have delegated them to someone I trust and has served me well for years. That's worth at least a full time salary + hardware, which is more than I pay for a few VPSs. Of course, that equation changes as my hardware requirements increase. At some point, economies of scale shift in favor of running my own gear, but that's a long ways off for most small to medium sized businesses.
Google is capable of crawling Javascript links and flowing juice through them these days, at least some of the time. Test if you don't believe me: Googlebot is capable of both JS evaluation and heuristics to get useful things without fully evaluating the JS.

One would assume that they don't pass link juice for AdWords ads.
Me too, but that's because the implied preposition makes the word order look funny. The subject of the title sentence is "I".
Google Refine 2.0
Microsoft never had 90% of the "operating system" market. They had 90% of the "desktop operating system" market.

What marketshare does iTunes have in "phone synchronisation software"? Carefully define your market and you can probably find a monopoly.
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Actually offering a discount for cash is typically a violation of the agreement the merchant signs with Mastercard/Visa.
I think it sounds odd because it's disconnected from its preposition.
In fact, I'm not sure I've ever heard a sentence starting with "whom."
To remind everyone:

An economic bubble is "trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values"
It will have gone full circle when Facebook, Groupon and Twitter will have an IPO. VCs and other investors will get their money back and individual investors will absorb the losses of the collapsing pyramid.
Yes. I'm wrong. But the ratings of the debt of corporations are highly correlated with their valuations.

Edit:

To be clear, I was talking about dumb money. Usually indexed funds and such. Enron was part of S&P 500 for years.
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wait until atleast Sept. QE2 ends in June. So the Fed will stop pumping money into the economy. You'll have a good idea if we'll slump into a double dip recession by September.
Listen to Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4
I don't see what creating something has to do with owning it. If I have kids, they are not my property, even though their existence entirely depends on me.

The whole point of copyright is that the government decided that people would be more willing to create works of value if they economically protected the creators of those works. This was designed specifically to benefit the public good at the expense of individual freedom. Copyright does nothing but restrict freedom, but it does it so that people will have an incentive to create things of public value.

The free speech argument comes in whenever a content creator has the power to keep other people from saying certain things because he doesn't like them, rather than because he deserves to capitalize on the use of his content. The ideas you create don't belong to you; only the right to make money from them does.
Is it common to have an industry bubble (an industry as large as tech) in the middle of coming out of a huge recession?
Just finished a quick look/read.

Wow!!

Wonderful design, useful content.

Especially,
'The Internationalization Process of Internet Based Companies'
is a very interesting, valuable paper.

Thanks and congrats.
The answer to your question is "yes" according to the antitrust litigation that actually took place — and if you would like to understand why, then pay close attention to the phrase "relevant market" in the "Conclusions of Law" document from the MS v DOJ case. This phrase plays an important role in determining monopoly status (the question raised in this thread) and this document makes interesting reading along these lines.

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f218600/218633.htm

Whether this zone of commercial activity actually qualifies as a market...depends on whether it includes all products "reasonably interchangeable by consumers for the same purposes." ..."Because the ability of consumers to turn to other suppliers restrains a firm from raising prices above the competitive level, the definition of the 'relevant market' rests on a determination of available substitutes."

The court's opinion was that the operating systems you mentioned were not "reasonably interchangeable by consumers for the same purposes". The fact that Microsoft would be able to to raise prices "above the competitive level" was key. This was very much the case in the 90s when this litigation took place.
Selective bubble market. Zynga and GroupOn making tons of real physical money and being valued at something like 25X earnings isn't a bubble. But absurd valuations based purely on audience size with little revenue (Twitter and Facebook) sure as heck is a bubble.
Maybe you were thinking of this post (it was on HN a few weeks ago, I think):

http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/15-web-services-we-rely-on-ever...

They're using Salesforce.
I guess there aren't too many readers around here.
The winner is: With whom am I speaking?

You wouldn't say, "The car am I driving in?". And you should avoid dangling prepositions. If your sentence (or clause) ends in a preposition, it is either extraneous, or your sentence requires rewording.
The basis of reality. Scott Turow is a famous author who has had multiple books made into successful movies.
"In the short run, I can't imagine users would care very much if they could only get their books from apple and not amazon, and it would probably help Apple lock in users."

Have you had any actual users actually tell you this?

Everyone has heard of Amazon, everyone knows Amazon has lots of books, everyone knows Amazon has pretty competitive pricing, and most people who would consider buying an iPhone or iPad have probably also heard of Kindle. Having one device that can read Kindle books and also do a lot of other stuff is part of the current value proposition of iOS devices. If that goes away, it will inform the buying decisions of people in Apple's target markets very quickly.

Just imagine the next Walt Mossberg reviews, comparing Android and iOS devices, pointing out that you can read all your Kindle books on Android, but no longer on iOS. That's not going to immediately affect sales?

Heck, much of Apple's target market may already be hearing this news and taking it into consideration before deciding to buy an iOS device, because they are consulting their geek friends about the decision.

I know you said you think this will happen "in the long run", but I think it could affect Apple's sales much more quickly than you expect.
I have 31% confidence there is something there...
I watched a video today of someone saying we are heading toward an unavoidable train wreck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r1XeE-MQV0 (he loses his cool, be warned)
Wait, when did MS prevent other browser manufacturers from including hardware-accelerated rendering?

Also - to specifically counter your point IE9 will have hardware accelerated rendering via Direct2D:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/11/18/an-early-look-...
Ok, but both rest on the "greater fool" theory...
It wasn't a troll, but you're correct. The word order apparently caused my brain to spasm.
Article is right, but for the wrong reasons.

Watson would be a fun toy for helping doctors diagnosis mystery illnesses.

But the amount of money that Watson could recover in insurance and medicare fraud would absolutely dwarf what he won on Jeopardy...
I think most people here use it to mean "too much money in companies of questionable profitability."

Dictionaries are nice, but even they warn that they're descriptive, not prescriptive. Even a comprehensive dictionary will miss definitions in narrow contexts like tech investment.
By the time this is resolved, the smartphone platform will have been disrupted by something even smaller and more convenient.
I don't think this sounds that bad, to be honest.

Traditionally, and for various reasons, some to do with bargaining-power in the market, some with (good, but patronizing) care for citizens, others with bureaucracy, gave benefits to large, international corporations (tax breaks, complicated regulations that keep small competitors out, and the occasional bailout...).

And now startups get some support too. I see where most criticism here is coming from, but honestly, in the pragmatic scheme of things, this could actually help startups, and thus the economy, by leveling the playing-field (a bit) again...
"The money must come from taxes or inflation," that's not how gov economics work. You borrow that money, hence you only pay the interest (until you can't). Now this model can be sustained as long as the economy grows faster than the interest you have to pay. This is why deficits spending isn't in itself that bad, it's the size of the deficit that's the issue. (probably oversimplified the whole issue but that's what I got from second semester of macroecon)
Silicon Valley has always had boom/bust cycles. What's happening now is part of the same pattern that has been going on in the Valley since the '50s.

Yes, we're in a boom.

But because the last boom created a stock market bubble, it's temping to assume that boom==bubble. I don't think that's true in this case, as bubbles have a significant psychological component that I don't see in the current boom:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble#Social_psycholo...
word of caution: usually by the time something is referred to as a bubble, it is already too late to get in or out :)

so let's brace ourselves for an impact!
It's also helpful when the recruiter edits your resume (e.g., adding skills).

Having your own printed copy will convince the employer that it's the recruiter (not you) who is being dishonest.
More people that I know of use Python and PyQt to program for the N900 than C++.
You don't need to have a monopoly to engage in anti-competitive behavior. Of course it makes it easier, but it isn't required. Consider obvious examples like dumping or tying.

I'm not an expert, but I believe one benchmark the EU uses in competition law is a "dominant position" which from memory can exist at > ~40% market share.

Clearly Apple has a dominant position in online music sales, so it is likely that they could be subject to oversight at least as far as music goes. As they have built all of their other services into their music store (still literally, iTunes) it seems possible to me that review might extend further into the iTunes ecosystem.

Given that by all appearances they have just lost Symbian despite efforts to promote an EU produced competitor in the smartphone market they are probably watching it all quite closely.

It isn't clear to me that you can discount any action here even if traditional benchmarks aren't being met. Technological rate of change may be out pacing traditional regulatory adaptations.

Computing platforms are becoming intimately involved in everything we do. It isn't much of a stretch to imagine a world where one device wakes you up, gets you to work, pays for your lunch, opens your locks, handles all communications, proves your identity, and saves all your mementos.

It seems unlikely to me that Euro or US regulators will want to let a mobile computing platform become so vertically integrated that it controls all content, payments and communications arbitrarily with the only remedy being switching to a competing totally integrated platform.
In all ways except being supported by the browsers used by the majority of the users.
A pyramid scheme is a very specific type of fraud: starting with a very small group and adding tiers of people, using the entry fees (whatever the pretense) of the lower tiers to pay dividends to those in the higher tiers.
Why doesn’t this cause an Exception?
From the Internet somewhere:

On his first day at Harvard, a young freshman from Georgia was exploring the campus and, in his southern drawl, asked an older student:
“Can you please tell me where the library is at?”
The student looked down his nose and and said, in his New England accent, “At Harvard, we don’t end our sentences in a proposition.”
The freshman replied. “Pardon me. Can you please tell me where the library is at, jackass?”
I would have to say that's a pretty harsh indictment of Linux distributions and Mac OS by the US DoJ.

By that definition, it makes me wonder if iTunes has a monopoly in "phone synchronisation software". This monopoly allows Apple to raise its store prices above a competitive level.
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But you might say "Which car am I driving in?"
I've heard PCM audio through the PC speaker, it'd be interesting to try similar techniques with this setup.
There are some initiatives, though they're pretty recent and most are still at the stage where governments have commissioned somebody to study the problem and come back with a report, but not implemented anything. It seems the main ones to be implemented are informal ones, like greater advertising to try to encourage men to enter the teaching profession, and unofficial preferences given to men in hiring, if equally qualified men and women apply for the same position. This paper has a survey of some of the responses: http://eng.kedi.re.kr/upload_data/kedi_jrn/07_Maleteacher.pd...
> I realize that there is a lot of talk about "subsets of C++" and "20% of C++, yadda yadda", but I've not found a satisfactory explanation of what that means in practical terms.

What's the difficulty? It just means using a subset that you like and you feel has good support by different compilers, platforms, etc.
The entire financial sector and large parts of the economy are a bubble but it doesn't matter unless people panic over it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw phantom of the opera
Both people had to learn to use an interface for scheduling speakers on a calendar GUI. Roughly speaking, in the externalized condition, more problem constraints were identifiable through visual feedback, while these were absent and had to be inferred in the internalized condition.

So, (in this paper), we're talking about planning versus relying on more external visual cues. Your WinZip versus tar example is apt, but it also introduces the issue of GUI versus CLI, which isn't addressed by the paper.
Maybe this is the right time to pimp my "Super Mario Bro's theme for laser engraver":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4VLwLFXaE

I'm very interested in the idea of electro-mechanical music. We've all heard machines playing human instruments and machines synthesizing sound, but very few machines built to be novel accoustic instruments in themselves.
I personally think we are at the beginning of a bubble but I'd just like to throw one thought out there. A bubble is only a problem if the businesses spend like the bubble will never end. If companies use their money judiciously than they stay in business and their investors eventually get a pay off (think of companies that survived the first bubble and how rich their investors are now)

So if you're a startup you should act like any other business and get profitable as quickly as possible. If you're an investor you should only invest in companies that use their money wisely. If you do that the bubble shouldn't have any impact on you.
Clearly darwinism hasn't made trolls extinct yet :)

Based on your comments here and the fact you're a newly created account then I am going to have to make the assumption that trolls do indeed exist among us :(
Agreed.

It seems human beings are really bad at mathematics, we could spot a quality, but not the quantity.

In Spain people thought houses near the beach were always in demand by Europeans because of the good weather(quality), but failed to understand there is a limit to the money they will pay for it(quantity).

With facebook people could see the value it gives to the world witch is real (quality) but overstates the amount facebook is going to give back.

facebook is a pyramid scheme designed to make uber-rich the current shares holders(Zuck and employees hold near half the company stock), witch is great for them, bad for those that payed the overprice.
There's almost always a Youtube video for things like that. It's actually pretty impressive how many useful "how-to" videos there are on there.
Surely it's more of a merge than a fork?
Probably not. Here's some questions:

1. Exactly what asset class are we referring to? It's probably not a credit bubble that had issues back in 2008, probably not housing, maybe commodities, maybe equities... but most likely HN discussions revolve around the eye-popping valuations in Groupon, twitter, facebook, zynga, and so on. So it's probably not the bubble, but a bubble.

2. How can you tell the difference between a moderate capital mis-allocation and a straight up bubble?

3. Have you actually compared what was going on now compared to any other bubbles that popped?

4. How much widespread adoption have we had with respect to capital allocations in these "overvalued" names? They aren't public, and there's not widespread participation by the "unwashed masses" in this asset. Compare that back in 1999 when non-revenue companies went IPO and everyone piled in.

5. Speaking of IPOs, how are they doing? How many names go IPO right now and see their stock triple in 90 days?

6. What's the size of the total bucket of money in this "bubble" relative to the total capital market?

7. What kind of deviation from historical valuations are we seeing in VC-land? Is it a total market deviation or limited to a few outliers that everyone loves to hate on?

8. Are bubbles really this obvious?

9. Even if we are in a bubble, are we early stage or late stage? Are we hearing about the million-dollar florist from twitter in Time magazine yet?
I think when they use the words project and program to describe their work, they don't mean software. Their focus seems to be on "helping women get careers in open technology through recruitment and training programs for women, education for community members who want to help women, and working with corporations and projects to improve their outreach to women."

The initiatives they have listed so far are

* Development of guidelines and policies to encourage women’s attendance at conferences, recruitment of women to your company, and participation of women in community projects.
* Workshops to train community members and employees on practical skills for encouraging women.
* Public relations advice for developing and maintaining a women-friendly reputation.
* First Patch Week, a week in which companies and communities sponsor open source software developers to mentor women while they write and submit their first patch.
* Women in open technology and culture survey, a survey of a representative cross-section of projects and communities to develop a baseline for measuring progress in women’s participation.
* Improving women’s participation in Wikipedia and other open data projects.

This seems very different from, and more valuable than, paying programmer salaries.
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If you haven't seen this yet, this is probably the best example of a hack like this that I've seen. It was submitted for a contest that radiohead held, and I believe was the winner (it takes about a minute to get rolling):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ

The sound of the scanner is pretty awesome.

And the original by radiohead in case you need some context.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ky1td3_6LY
I hope Google learns from Buzz, and makes this an "explicit" opt-in. The blog post says that it will be only enabled if the user's Google account is signed in. But a user's Google account could be signed in simply because he is logged in to Gmail.