skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day, laws, like contracts, SLAs, copyrights, EULAs, trademarks, and patents can be viewed from a purely game-theoretic perspective - If I do X then Y will happen. Is it worth Y to me to do X? If so, then I do Y, regardless of whether it means breaking a (contract|EULA|Law|SLA|Patent|Copyright|Trademark).

Also factored into this is the possibility that you may not be caught. And, if you are caught, the maximum damages may not be imposed.

I'm certain that before communicating their enforcement of rules regarding the 70/30 split for all published content on the iPad, that Apple counsel took a long and hard look at the anti-trust laws and made a cost/benefit decision based both on the penalties that they would face, as well as the potential rewards.

Likewise, Ben is just being honest when he says that all sorts of companies have these "Non-Recruit" agreements in place - he's pretty transparent in this article, and just puts it on the table - no pussyfooting around the topic, something that I actually appreciate.
The Inventor of Personal Video Recorder on the Future of TV
Yes, I did read your link. The relationship of NeXT to this discussion (about Microsoft's inability to correctly implement something they invented and that they want others to implement too - because it's a standard after all) escapes me.

Attributing Netscape's demise to a rewrite of the browser is a bit exaggerated. They were under enormous pressure with a company with more resources to spend monthly than their entire market cap and giving away a browser bundled with Windows. The pressure to deliver new versions made them cut corners and allowed the browser to accumulate an enormous quantity of kludges that culminated with the need to throw it out and restart from scratch.

If anything, they should have been rewriting from the start, never allowing the cruft build up. It's an investment that pays back more often than not, specially if you are under the pressure to deliver new features quickly.

BTW, your fixation with Netscape is interesting too. You brought it up and tried to reason I did. That's also something that escapes me.

Why would a full rewrite of Microsoft Office be so expensive? How much did Sun, Oracle and independent collaborators put in OpenOffice anyway? Microsoft has the resources for that. The reason they don't do it is because they don't need to.
Thanks to everyone who has put so much work into this release. We couldn't have done it without the support of our awesome community.
just confirmed that I'm as white/boring as they come

What's boring about being white? Sorry, but this attitude strikes me as being nonsense political correctness. I'm quite sure that whatever race or culture your ancestors come from, there's plenty to be interested in on a personal level at the very least.
15 Interesting Startups From Ex-Googlers
Our corporate IT department blocks most foreign domains, such as .ly, .io, .tv, and .ng. A special exception has been made for bit.ly, but this won't help me with your new startup.
‘Thunder thighs’ dinosaur discovered in Utah
How does it detect that the app is pirated?
Thanks for all the support and upboat love. Happy to answer (almost) any questions. :)

Richard White, Founder/CEO, UserVoice
Pretty sure you meant XBMC.
Launch Conf.
If you don't know about Launch I suggest you check it out. http://launch.is

They are streaming startups pitches live from their conference in SF today, the turnout is pretty good and the startups are doing well in the spotlight.

A quick list of startups that caught my eye today,
@CabanaApp www.cabanaapp.com
@overstat www.overstat.com
@hivetrade www.hivetrade.com
@Gobbler www.gobbler.com
@YouEyeTests www.youeye.com
And many more, including StackOverflow's careers 2.0

To follow along http://bit.ly/f2cfS7
ActiveSync Policies & Windows Phone 7 Walkthrough
Mach isn't a microkernel. For example, NeXTSTEP was based on Mach 2.5, which is a monolithic kernel. Mach 3.0 was the only microkernel version, and to my knowledge, no one has adopted it with any success.
If everything you're consuming is through webkit, who cares if you're on Android or iOS? Might as well use the one with better Javascript performance anyway.

Yes, but what about reading offline? Is the convenience of using the iPad going to suffer?
Hard to tell what the parent meant, but I took "Apple's hardware" to mean the infrastructure that runs the App Store and iTunes platform (like using Facebook's hardware to run there).
I like it. But this is more of a business and economic rule, no?
Look, I'm not saying it wouldn't be worse if a rival company broke in and stole the plans to give themselves a competitive advantage, but the kid still knew it was wrong and proceeded for his own sake (not money, but bragging rights and curiousity). So his crime wasn't grossly malicious, but it was grossly irresponsible considering the damage caused.

Quite simply, he should have known better. I know what a false dichotomy is - and it's exactly what you are purveying by insisting (so far without justification) that crimes with physical effects are not comparable to those without.
Here's the original Quora discussion: http://www.quora.com/Google-Inc-company/What-startups-have-b...
> As a developer for and a user of iOS this just furthers Apple's value to me

So, the disappearance of Pandora, Kindle & Netflix is great for the iOS user, because you can now subscribe without pulling out your credit card.

> They may not kowtow to egomaniacs

It is great that you make a good living off iOS, but labeling everyone who will be put out of business because of Apple's price fixing arrangement and prohibition of external purchase links as egomania is amazingly blinkered. All the discussion that has followed Apple's announcement is clear and simple, how egomania enters here is beyond me. If anything, what is amazing is your inability to appreciate the significance of events if they do not impact you negatively.
This was a huge release, we'll be around to help anyone who wants to get started with the new version or Cappuccino in general. Find us on Freenode at #cappuccino or the mailing list, http://groups.google.com/group/objectivej.

Thanks to everyone that helped make this release happen!
A utility function or cost/benefit tradeoff isn't a matter of opinion. If your situation and available information dictates that a certain decision is rational, then we aren't talking about you.

The whole point is that, given a concrete, rational analysis of any particular situation, studies show that people have cognitive biases which induce them to select the wrong choice. The examples given are some of the more popular ones.

It's not just a matter of people using different mathematical models. Decision making is an inherently emotive process, and pretending human beings are, on the whole, totally rational decision makers is a fantasy. That said, we are perfectly capable of making rational decisions if we are trained how to do so and disciplined enough to follow through, but the power of cognitive biases should not be understated.
Amazon could use Kindle for Web and dump iOS app « The Orange View
This from a huge libertarian?

Being a libertarian doesn't conflict with wanting to be forward looking, or with wanting to do ambitious projects. And a "small 'l' libertarian" might even be OK with the State managing the construction of something like the Interstate highway system. A "Big 'L' Libertarian" would oppose funding such a project through coercive, involuntary taxation, but wouldn't necessarily oppose the idea in itself. They would just argue that a means of funding should be found that doesn't involve coercion.

That said, I don't know Peter Thiel and I don't know how deeply his libertarian roots run, or how much of an ideologue he is. There are a lot of people who call themselves libertarians that I wouldn't necessarily call libertarians myself. <shrug />
I don't think there's a lack of radical innovation. maybe it's less concentrated in silicon valley , but all across the u.s. and worldwide you can see radical innovations unfolding.

Things like robotics and artificial intelligence are probably the most radical technologies since the industrial revolution. probably much more radical.

And what about clean energy and clean technology ? the solution to the biggest problem of the 21th century ? and on the way make our chemical manufacturing clean ?

And what about stem cells ? they hold the potential to be a cure to many chronic diseases.

And telepresence , the holodeck at every home?

Things just take time , that's all.
This is the first generation with worse health and life expectency than its parents.

Could you explain why you believe this? The simple timeseries tells a different story.

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_le...
I think at first it doesn't matter. Facebook was originally thefacebook.com, delicious.com was del.ico.us, dropbox was getdropbox.com.

I know those examples are all .com, but the point is that you can change your domain once your product gains traction and you have a proven product. Then you can spend the big bucks on the domain you really want.
Congrats.. good work!
Amazing release
One motivation for writing this post was that I was surprised to see how often the Facebook API will drop/omit data that exists and that you should be able to access.

I loved the article, but I'm a bit surprised that you're surprised. What else would you expect from a massive NoSQL installation? It seems to me a given that they are going to trade some data integrity (in the form of missing attributes) for speed of access. I'd assume that was a fundamental design goal of the architecture.
Brunch - lightweight html5 framework using backbone, eco, stylus, coffeescript
It is better to make $5 a month on something you created than spend a million dollars on learning how to build the perfect startup.

The more I learn about startups the more I realize that the answers are not found in a book or on a blog somewhere. Startups are about synthesis, not instructions. That means until you execute, you don't know what you're doing. Hell, you don't know what you're doing even after you execute.

Also the more I learn the more I realize that me sitting around and writing comments like this are a big part of the problem. Both for me and others.

Back to work.
not if you're looking for a tablet to be a laptop replacement
I've been using my iPad for software books. The speed of search/navigation is critical for that.
I own a K2 and K3, in addition to my iPad. If I'm reading linear text outdoors in bright sunlight, or at the beach, I prefer the kindles. For all other situations (Office, Home, Bed, textbooks, random-text (references) - I use my iPad. I've got about 15 textbooks (though I ended up having to buy Radia Perlman's Interconnections from O'Reilly's "Safari Books Online" one PDF chapter at a time and read it through goodreader) and about thirty linear-text books. I'd say the ratio is about 70/30 right now in favor of the iPad.
I was part of that influx (I registered 5 days before pg's Erlang post). I apologize for making the page worse for the rest of you ;-). Honestly, the Erlang posts contributed to keeping my interest (though I didn't pay much attention during the following summer as I was busy coding).
Apple cuts iAd minimum spend in half to $500,000
Yep, I'm kicking myself. And to think I was just about to implement Facebook Credits. Fool me once...
So they didn't even give you any notice, just "boom you're gone"? Disappointing.

Some of the suggestions in "How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech" might be helpful -- http://www.talesfromthe.net/blog/?p=28
How do you deal with spoofed emails?
There's a lot more to it than that. Terman encouraged students and professors to take the research they did at Stanford (on the DoD's dime) and found companies to mostly build electronic warfare equipment for the NSA/CIA/Air Force. Blank's painting the picture of the magnitude of the crisis that drove the development then vs. the profit motive that drives it now is worth the time.

Blank's diagram of semiconductor companies that came from Shockley through the Fairchild Traitorous Eight is blurry at Flash-Slideshare and in the PDF, but another version of that story showing the connections of Zilog, National Semi, Cirrus and Cypress is at Business Week http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/fairkid.pdf
if you're looking for a tablet to be a laptop replacement, it needs HDMI out. i don't consume 100% of media in my own house, and 100% of my friends aren't upgrading to a web TV with me.
seen the presentation at viennajs. looks very promising.
The MiniDP connector is small enough to fit in an Air and already designed for multi-GHz signaling.
awesome! I don't arrive until tomorrow but hope you all have a great time tonight.
I don't think you can compare generational innovation. These things are all relative. It's hard for me to believe that today's minds who are building a supercomputer that can reproduce human logic and understanding couldn't produce the Manhattan Project.

We aren't becoming more short-term focused, rather the future is shrinking. A 20 year time frame in past generations is now 3 years. In this day, if you have a long-term scope and vision you will become obsolete in five years. Adaptation is crucial to innovation as well.
Fix your golf swing w/ Zepp’s motion capture app
we just presented brunch at the vienna javascript user group (viennajs.org).

we still need some input on good client side testing tools that would make sense to be integrated with a js framework. further we need to get rid of some rough edges and will focus on providing documentation and examples.

currently we would like to get feedback on the chosen toolchain and love to hear suggestions on how to improve their integration (we currently ship a file watcher, still need to add uglify support and different build targets - build.phonegap.com, chrome webstore, …)

cheers,
tosh
They're probably mad they didn't think of it first.
Great post!

I would add one thing about momentum: don't be afraid to say "I'll get back to that problem" and focus on keeping the momentum going. This has made a HUGE difference in my project. A feature could have stopped me in my tracks, I bypassed it to keep development going and now it turns out that I don't need that feature. It could have stopped my process for weeks, but now, not at all.

Just, keep track of those things so you can get back to them later.
Hi Matt --

I know this really isn't a big deal, and I really don't want to be a dick about it, but I've been known as Reinhardt in HN for 169 days now and I would really appreciate it if you'd change the name. I think if I changed my nick to "photomattt" you'd feel similarly, right? I really don't want this to turn into A Thing, so how about you just see this as a small favor for a fellow HNer and I owe you beer/whiskey/whatever?

Please feel free to get in touch personally if you want to talk further - I'm reinhardt@reinhardtian.org.

(I'm Reinhardt, one of the lead HN lurkers.)
Network interfaces aren't files, so you can't create symlinks to them. I don't think linux has a facility for referring to a network interface by more than one name.

My hope is that consumer distributions will stop presenting the device name and configuration at all. When I'm trying to show new Ubuntu users how to connect to wired and wireless networks, it's annoying to have to explain what NetworkManager means by "Auto eth0".

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+b...
What is your favorite inspirational quote?
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
~ Martin H. Fischer
On credit applications our business bank specifically asks if more than 25% of your revenue came from one source in the past calendar year.

If you think about it, a typical brick and mortar gets its money from hundreds if not thousands of customers every year (restaurant/cafe, auto mechanic, etc).
Show HN: 5factsabout.me
http://5factsabout.me

My recent project, using rails (mainly to get me acquainted with rails. Inspired by the threewords.me website.

What do you think?
You're completely shifting the argument. The point isn't that Apple's latest mandate affects iOS-only developers adversely or even at all; it's that it is intended to destroy cross-platform services, or at least leech their money.

If you have a freemium webapp which finally rolls out an iphone app, you now have to eat costs for people who download the app and sign up through there. You don't have any choice in the matter.

How you went from that entire issue to comparing iOS and Android APIs, I frankly have no idea.
Nope, zero notice. It was basically "Poof!" and then the app wouldn't work. Doubly annoying since I was sleeping when it was deactivated (4am PST).
That depends on the specificity of the employee's skills, and the variety of other options. If the employee's top two options are the companies with close CEOs, maybe the inter-corporate coordination is part of the reason the employee has especially valuable skills. If the employee has other options, the tiny marginal loss from being disqualified from one open position may have been outweighed by the benefits they had previously received by being 'inside the zone or cooperation'. There are too many considerations to offer a pat judgement for all cases.

If giant employers have a no-poaching agreement covering thousands of employees, I can see that being mostly harmful – and also the easiest practice to detect and punish (as with the DOJ action regarding Apple, Google and others). If the no-poaching agreement is limited to a small number of strategically-central people, or a few very chummy smaller-enterprise management teams, its benefits could outweigh the costs.
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The comment by Myzplk is quite insightful:

They're profit margin is impressive, but there are quite a few companies in the same range - http://ycharts.com/calculations/rankings/sectors/Technology/...
It's undocumentable because as strange as it seems, no two problems are the same. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, not even a one-size-fits-many. At best we have a series of one-size-may-fit-you-if-you're-lucky options. Disqus isn't using NoSQL or Nginx, something a good number of scaled web applications have switched to. Why? It doesn't solve their problem. Why is their problem different from others? That's a long and complex answer that revolves around almost every aspect of how their applications run, access data, what types of data they're accessing, and so on, and so forth.

Is the problem their algorithm? Does it spend a long amount of CPU time working away? Could it be written a different way?
Is it data access, is the lag caused by queries taking to long?
Is that down to badly formatted queries, inefficient schema, server problems or something else?
Is it even a single problem or a combination of a multitude of minor little niggles that combine into a big headache?
Do you do thousands of little queries, or smaller numbers of big ones? Are your tables narrow or wide? What size and types of data do you store in the fields?

A number of the things that Disqus have done to scale out aren't appropriate for other environments, by nature of the fundamentals of the app. All they can advise on is how to scale your python/Django/MySQL based commenting system, but even then your approach to writing one might be different to theirs.

Quite simply, no one can tell you how to scale your application and its infrastructure, because every application and infrastructure is unique by the very nature of every problem being unique, and every solution more so.

That's not to say there is no value in the information that Disqus has provided. Quite the contrary, there is every bit of value there, and I greatly appreciate them posting it. There is a good chance that whilst some of what they've done won't be of use to you, some of it may be. It may even be of use for other reasons that are entirely different from those that benefit Disqus.

Quick example. You want to load balance web traffic, what do you chose for it? Is software of hardware best? Do you do lots of SSL (would an SSL Accelerator be of use?) Do you want the servers to directly respond to the client, or respond through the load balancers?

Apache httpd+mod_proxy
Nginx
HAProxy
ldirectord
lighttpd

You want to add in caching:
Varnish
Apache Traffic Server
Squid
Polipo

and so on! Each software package has its own particular strengths and weaknesses, and its as more a matter of gut instinct and intimate knowledge of the way your code and site works, than anything else that can help you find the right way to scale.
Two years ago he was overweight and unhappy.
Fundamental research isn't cheap or fast. Private investors aren't usually going to to take the long road until they can afford it.
Reinventing the Springs for Physics Based simulation
What if there was integration with online labor platforms e.g., a "Hire Joel on oDesk/Elance/Freelancer etc." button on profiles? More than once I've asked a question on SO, gotten excellent answers and then wished I could offer one the responders a short job.

full disclosure - I work at oDesk, but I had this idea before I started.
>>I actually think Jobs is probably the most charitable guy on the planet. Rather than focus on which mosquitoes to kill in Africa (Bill Gates is already focusing on that), Jobs has put his energy into massively improving quality of life with all of his inventions.

I love apple as much as the next fanboy but that was waaaay over the top. I find it scary that someone actually believes that.
You missed the point completely. Yes, as a developer, having Apple handle subscriptions and take 30% off the top is really no big deal.

But what if your app presents content developed by other companies? Lets say, the going price for this content is $1. You purchase this content for 70 cents so when you sell it, you make 30 cents of revenue. With Apple's forced subscription plan, you no longer make any money at all. They take the 30 cents instead of you. You could raise prices, but you have to raise them everywhere since Apple doesn't allow you to have different prices outside the store than inside the store.

This is a mess.
Why can't we all use standard libraries for commonly needed algorithms?
Well, let's see if FB really meant to kick the app out. If it's just a matter of unintended behavior from automated filters, it's more an example of "the way to get kicked off of Facebook is to deviate from the norms they expect."

As Zuckerberg says, the system looks for 'outlying' behavior. "If you behave like an average user you should never trigger the algorithms that will get you kicked off." http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=336

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I hope everyone agrees del.ico.us was the worst URL in history
Breakup Notifier only sent out email notifications for relationship changes for those who explicitly asked for them. You could easily disable it by either personally blocking the app on Facebook, or unselecting those friends.
Are you afraid of your shadow also?
There's an official Inception game/app for iPhone. It purports to tap into your dreams, if you leave it running while you sleep.

Basically it plays a little bit of music and sound effects, and also processes external sounds and plays them backwards and stuff like that (it would pick up on you talking in your sleep). It also uses the movement and light sensors to go through different phases. There are different 'dreams' (basically sound generation algorithms) that you unlock somehow by using the app. One thing that bugs me though is, people always told me not to sleep with headphones on in case you strangle yourself, and for this app that's pretty much required.

When they said Nolan was keen on making a groundbreaking game, I really wasn't expecting this.
another one to look at is http://getsatisfaction.com/
Did you post to a users facebook stream without asking them explicitly if they wanted to share breakup notifier on facebook? What exactly resulted in the stream.publish calls?
Rails 3.0.5.rc1 pushed to Github
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