skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, those who want people to want everyone to adopt (2) are those who have the eyes and ears of both a large amount of the populace--how many videos have you rented or bought that have an unskippable intro telling you in big flashing grungy type that "you wouldn't steal a car...so you shouldn't make illegal downloads"--and of the politicians who make laws and sign treaties.

The US courts, by and large, have been fairly sensible on this so far, thank God.

So I'll say it again: Digital copying is not theft.
I am in a very similar boat. Luckily, I can apply for opt in my first year then do tn1
The English language comes from what is now Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. A lot of influence from Old Norse, which is also what Swedish originates from.

Maybe Æ will be a part of English again in 700 years :)
I really enjoyed this article. I do take issue with a couple of sentences:

"We hear in stereo 3-D." This is not true unless we move our heads. We hear in one dimension, left-to-right.

"We hear better than we see." This is an apples-to-monkeys comparison.
"No big studio picked up the film [Ink] for theatrical and home distribution. Double Edge Films pitched the movie directly to independent cinemas and to the DVD, Blu-ray and online distribution by themselves. After the release it became the most downloaded movies in file sharing torrent sites more accurately 400,000 times in a single week and exposed the film to a large audience, leading to higher DVD and Blu-ray sales in return. The independent filmmakers wrote in their newsletter that they had "embraced the piracy" and are "happy Ink is getting unprecedented exposure." : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071804/trivia
Two definitions of a kernel? Why "kernel trick"?
The limit appears to be 5MB[1], but I haven't been able to find a direct source from Apple on that.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2908459/mobile-safari-5mb...
The lack of corporate influence / manipulation during it's birth. Which is really saying same thing as lack of regulation since most regulation originates with incumbent corporate interests trying to lock in "cartels/monopolies", lock out any new competition, and gobble up as much public money as possible.
Cloud Providers: A Roadmap of What Not to do to Your Customers
Where is MS PR department? I can't believe that they're so dumb to miss this buzz..
FWIW, I saw both the original fan sub and the newer official release (japanese with subs) and I definitely preferred the fan subs. They explain some nitty gritties and colloquialisms rather nicely, things that are certainly ignored by official releases.
RIM preparing to bring BBM to iOS and Android, change everything again?
I think this a big mistake by rim. It's one of the few reasons that users are still on their platform. They also just gave all of their users that won't leave for bbm a reason. Also, from the wording in the article it seems that it will be vastly crippled (messaging only), cost money, and won't be out for many months.

Full disclosure: launching a mobile messaging app called freespeech at SXSW.
Sales haven't changed since winning the award, it has been a steady 10k/day for months now.
Zero Punishment? Tell that to Lehman Brothers. You do realize that the banks lose money when mortgages go bad, right? If your complaint is that the federal government through Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac is underwriting the risk of these loans, I would agree that's a problem. But the solution is to no longer underwrite loans, not throw business people in jail.
Why programmers don’t like maintenance projects
About the "joys of the craft" when programming...
Overall looks nice but there is a thing that I don't like: the dark background on your homepage and pricing page, it really breaks the page as a whole. Make it a lighter color, a light, warm blue or green or yellow. The dark color really bothers my eyes.
Consoles aren't attempting to replace general purpose PCs, while Apple has made it clear that they expect and want the majority of users to be using an iOS-like platform in the future. Having personal computing devices switch from open by default to closed by default would be a substantial change for the worse.
Ten Reasons To Practice Mindfulness Meditation
You can be in Taiwan and shoot a BBM to your partner in SF without having to worry about some ridiculous charge.

BBM uses data, right? Wouldn't there be outrageous per kilobyte charges? Or does RIM have deals in place to get around that somehow?
CRM Pioneer Jon Ferrara's Nimble Launches Public Beta
That does seem surprising to me. I can pretty much divide up my social circle into people who don't read, people who have print subscriptions to stuff like the New Yorker and Harper's and think that the Internet is mostly good for shopping, and people who have every writer in the universe in their RSS feed and never leave Google Reader.
I've always found Men's Health to have pretty ideal male physical forms on the cover. They've had Obama on the cover, Beckham, and sometimes the cover man isn't even shirtless. In fact, when I'm at the gym talking about goals, I'll sometimes say "more like Men's Health, not MuscleMag".
Kill Blackboard
How We’ll Beat Traffic and Find Parking Spots in the Future
Get Charlie Sheen placeholder images for your designs
I'm reminded of the punchline of the old econ joke "we've already established what kind of woman you are, now we're just haggling over price." We always have to remember in web publishing, ads _are_ content. Your users _will_ judge you based on the ads you display (if they are not in the tiny minority who block them). And, rightfully so. Do you think Vogue would allow some crappy ad from T.J. Maxx between LV and Prada? Never. That (and their readership who pour over the ads to see what's hot) is why they have sky-high CPMs. It can be done online, too.
Fair point, and I suppose that IMaaS is going to have a good profit margin, but the sheer numbers of people I know who have bought a BlackBerry handset because of BBM probably wouldn't have had it been available cross-platform.
localshow.tv plays music videos by the bands playing upcoming concerts in your city.

I've actually been working on this for over a year, but now I'd like to get feedback from a larger audience and show off the product of my labour.

Please give it a look! Thanks.

Also, feel free to ask me anything.
Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on truth
Yes and no.

There's something funny going on with front-back perception. Normally it shouldn't be doable, but the external part of the ear is like a direction-dependent frequency filter. When the brain hears a familiar sound, but the spectrum is skewed just like this, it goes "aha, this comes from the front side". If the spectrum is skewed the other way, it goes "this comes from behind".

It's not 100% reliable, but it works some times.
You presume that the 199 bad developers are american and adding immigrants to the mix will improve overall quality. But if we follow the article's logic, we would be adding 199 bad immigrants to the 199 bad americans already here. So instead of 199 bad developers and 1 good one, we end up with 398 bad developers and 2 good ones. The end result is, 199 more americans unemployed, decreased pay for the 199 H1-B's, and no overall improvement of quality.

(I am not necessarily arguing against more H1-B visas, I am simply saying the article applies equally to all developers regardless of origin so it really doesn't speak for looser immigration laws - if anything, once you apply the math to the immigration issue, the logical conclusion is negative).
> This article was taken from the April 2011 issue of Wired magazine.

No, it wasn't.
I was, straight out of hell, diagnosed as having bipolar disorder, and subsequent pharmacotherapy not only controlled my most salient symptoms, but helped me untangle many, many psychological issues.

After all that process -- two years, maybe -- me and the shrink began to look into some things that still happened, and arrived the conclusion that I have ADHD too. The comorbidity (epidemiological correlation) is actually not low.

Because I then went into palliative care for the ADHD (it's much less effective than bipolar, essentially because the drugs keep you "more on the edge" so you feel motivated to do things -- which is just a crutch), and I have a good idea of what ADHD and bipolar feel like.

Many things in the essay sound like ADHD. But if you remove the first sentence, that paragraph sounds more like bipolar compressed into a too-short time span. Change "days" for "weeks" and you have rapid-cycling bipolar.

Overall, the cluster that he refers to sounds more like the Dynamic Duo (bipolar+ADHD) than either condition alone.
Yeah, good question. I was wondering this myself. I'm not a guru in this area, but I believe the Stormondemand servers are still virtualized (Xen) but you get the entire server / disk to yourself rather than sharing. They do this to make the server more like a VPS to manage.

I'm not sure where the poor IO comes from with VPS. Certainly part of it is from sharing, but I'm sure some of it is from the overhead of virtalization as well. So, does the Stormondemand servers still take a hit on IO as compared to a "normal" dedicated?

I could be wrong and totally talking out of my a here though. Someone please correct me. ;)
http://www.patentfairness.org/learn/about/
> Would the market app be able to read your devices resolution and then denote which apps are optimized for that? I have an older Android phone (Sprint HTC Hero) with a smaller resolution, can I see/install tablet apps from the market? If yes, that's a bad experience, if no, then it would seem that they can do some sort of detection.

The Android Market already has the ability to hide or filter apps based on the capabilities of your device (eg, features, OS version, etc), and the feature requirements defined by the applications' manifests. If your device doesn't have an accelerometer, you aren't shown any applications that require use of the accelerometers. [1]

For your specific example, you won't see any apps made for Honeycomb on your phone's market just for the simple reason that you aren't running Honeycomb. As for resolution, any application can (and should) be designed with multiple screen resolutions in mind, and the Android API's give developers ample help with this task. [2]

So in all honesty, you shouldn't even have to distinguish between a "tablet app" versus a "phone app"; developers should be making apps that have both segments in mind.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/market-filters.h...

[2]: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support...
Do I make more money if a person as opposed to a commercial actor uses my software without paying?
Well, that’s me told! +1 informative.
Can't he use lean startup principles to launch with his existing device that offers an improvement over a cane, instead of raising $15 MM to offer a perfect product that lets blind people play tennis? If I were blind, I would surely pay thousands of dollars for the K-Sonar device if it could enhance my sensory input beyond "what I feel with my cane within 2 feet" to "everything around me within 15 feet".

If he got the K-Sonar approved as a medical device, I think he'd be able to get paid from deep-pocketed insurance companies too.

Improving the range (and doing research on inner-ear microphone implants) could be done in later versions (if mainstream blind customers really are interested in playing tennis, which I am skeptical about). If v1 makes people more independent, that's a huge deal already!

I bet he could get pretty far just by reallocating his existing $200k/year budget to commercializing the technology, which has the potential to be embraced by a lot more people than the blind people he is introduced to (only 10% of whom even get good at echolocation-through-clicking).
You don't patent a combination of natural facts. You patent the apparatus that combines them. If the "apparatus" was itself a natural fact, it would not be statutory.

But this is all theory. What's patentable isn't what you read in statute or SCOTUS opinions. What's patentable is whatever can cause you legal troubles.
Privacy Enforcement Storm: HHS, FTC and FINRA Act
Depends on the type and scale of infringement and gets slightly pedantic: if I can no longer workably exercise my right -- if the infringement is too widespread, say -- do I still have it?
I work in a big shop. By and large our programmers don't venture outside their specialities (their choice). You could rephrase what I said as "even people who don't know anything about the code and have very limited experience with JS..."

I can see how what I said may have made the wrong impression. I don't think there's anything Ruby-specific that makes people good or bad at JS.
I would strengthen your statement by saying that if you are borrowing, you are by definition spending beyond your means regardless of the circumstance.
11 years old and still relevant.

As commercially available products, they're definitely not dead. Studios keep churning out point-and-click adventure games, just check out www.jayisgames.com, the Nintendo DS, and the smart phone app stores.

However, innovation within the genre is on life support and in critical condition, but it has been like that since long before that article was published.

They still largely depend on puzzles with only a single correct solution, even if you have items in plain view on the screen that in reality would solve the problem (this is the "dream logic" mentioned in the linked article). They also rely on pixel hunting. Nothing has really changed.
Most browser support custom keywords for "search engines". For example in Opera you can rightclick any form field(?) and "create search". Enter a keyword like w for Wikipedia and from now on you can simply enter "w whatever" in the address bar. That way you truly have no middleman.

In Firefox this feature is called "keymarks" I think. Add a bookmark from a search result page, then edit it, replace the searched string with %s and add the keymark (letter or short string, same as with Opera).
Yes, Mr. Comic Book Guy, it's not hard.
Thanks for this, we used librelist.com to create our ML last months, but it was too opened (archives on google, anyone could join) for some people.

https://fiesta.cc/about do you use mongodb in the backend?

If so, could you give us more technical details about how you connect your mail server to the DB?
CriticalMass is Critical...
When the cartridges cost more than the printer: the Inkjet market is absurd
Android Becomes Number One in U.S. Smartphone Market Share
Also would be useful for business if I could "private label" the service to work on my own domain name (or sub domain) simply by adding a fiesta.cc mx record to my dns.
The Gaiman Principle: piracy is advertising & why Ramen Music encourages sharing
Inside One Man’s Kickstarter Quest to Build True Artificial Life
This is the best explanation of this that I've yet seen. Very well done.

It seems to me obvious that the software "machine" which encodes or decodes video should be a patentable device. The trouble has less to do with patentability of software in general, and more with a) the lifespan of the patents, b) the ease with which they are acquired, and c) the time and money required to oppose and strike down a patent which should never have been granted in the first place.
Women’s Rights: What’s in it for Men?
Also: people who depend on behind-the-ear hearing aids do not get the benefit of these echoes, which means that, for example, it’s harder for them to distinguish the voice of someone talking to them from background noise or from echoes off the walls.
Quick & Dirty iPhone App Wireframes
Title has nothing to do with article--- fix it.
It would be better to say that it shows the performance improvements of COG over the interpreted VM.

It's also yet another bit of FUD by the Pharo folks. It labels the interpreted VM "Squeak" and the JIT-compiling VM "Pharo-COG". In fact, both Squeak and Pharo will run on either VM, and in a fair comparison, their performance is very similar.
If owners comply with their feline's wishes to interact, then the cat will often comply with the owner's wishes at other times.

I would change that to "might generously consider".
Cats are tiny hackers: curious, nocturnal, not fans of authority. The one purring on my lap right now has figured out how to open every door that it's physically possible for her to, and has trained me to throw rubber dice down the hall on demand so she can chase them.
Of course complaining on Facebook is going to "kill" Blackboard - after all, that's the primary resource that administrators use when deciding what to buy. Really, there's no need to do something productive, like actually working on a replacement. (Or even just trying out one of the alternatives!)
Yeah, the other nice thing about this compared to librelist is that you can use any list name you want without worrying about conflicts (since lists are tied to the sender's address).

Yup, using MongoDB to store everything. I will definitely be doing a post discussing the architecture, etc. Follow @mdirolf or @fiesta and you'll see it when it pops up.

The short answer, though, is that I'm running a 3 node replica set. Each mailserver (right now there are 2) is running on one of those nodes.
UI Design Seminar Lecture on UI Design Patterns
Yes, yes they will. And an "affront" includes leaving the house for longer than the time to the next feeding :)
I don't claim to understand much about that world but I bet the VCs were happy with a 5X return for a company that has been around for 6 years. The bulk of the money was only recently invested too.
According to the article, it's about 'protecting visual space for reading'. But now that I see this comment's been upvoted, I'm curious - if good writing does in fact 'suffer' when placed beside an advertisement you don't trust, why is that, and how exactly does the writing suffer?

You'd be capable of identifying good writing without any advertising alongside it. But when the exact same article is placed beside an acai berry ad, somehow the experience is worse. How come? Does having the acai berry ad there make you feel foolish somehow? Do you not want to be associated with it? Are you worried that someone might see you reading something alongside an acai berry ad? When you read the content, are you thinking of acai berries? These thoughts never enter my mind, but I could be atypical. Perhaps you're simply less likely to start the article, having seen the acai berries first?

If most people out there can't evaluate content independent of the advertising that supports it, that's got interesting implications for the online ad industry. Perhaps quality brands should start charging sites for the privilege of displaying their reputation-enhancing banners.
Because originally in English it actually was "uu", not "vv".

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W#History if you want to understand why.
> My experience with the issue includes an incident where an organization with revenues in the multiple billions of dollars used the software I built

I'm pretty sure noone here thinks that that specific case is ok.

Technically there's no difference between that company pirating your software and someone illegaly downloading a movie off of the internet, the crime is the same, both actions are copyright infringement.

But the main arguments of the pirate movement is that there is a difference between the actions and that the law should reflect that. Arguing that private non-commercial infringement should be allowed is different from arguing that commercial for-profit infringement should be allowed. There's a lot of people in this thread arguing the former, but noone arguing the latter.
this is exactly one of the ideas that I want to pursue!
"cat aficionado women" has to be the euphemism of the year.
Some additional points:

On storage: But given the standard pace of technological improvement, one would expect a 128-gigabyte hard drive by now.

Has this person not followed Apple before? The same company that has not bumped the entry level iPod touch from 8GB since it was introduced in 2007? No one cares, because the entry iPod touch still sells like hotcakes to kids who use their touch for gaming.

On screen resolution: meaning the iPad 2 is already lagging behind the iPhone 4, with its much-touted retina display.

The next best tablet screen on the market (Xoom's 10.1") is 1280x800. That's only 17 ppi more than the iPad. Why would Apple push its tablet to 300+ ppi and decrease their margins when no one else has gone that far?
I could have used some context in that page. For a moment I was thinking it was referencing actual black boards sarcasticaly.
Opera finding new ways into your Mac
Great break down!

I think it's important to remember that groups B and C aren't static.

In my, completely unsubstantiated, opinion group B would be much larger for blockbuster media.

Think a new video game from Valve or Id Software or movies like Avatar or Titanic. These types of media don't really need piracy to market due to the fact that many/most people already know they exist. I would also guess that they gain much less from word of mouth, but I'll fully grant that's just an opinion:)

On the other hand you'd have "indy" games and movies, and other niches like anime, where piracy may actually help spread the word about this media and help it gain sales through increasing the size of group C.
If you adjust for the socioeconomic factors of each student individually, you can separate them out...

This is precisely what VAM does. Each student gets a predicted grade and they are combined to get an overall class grade.

If things like well-behavedness are correlated with socioeconomic status, they will be incorporated into the predictor. Thus, a low SES class will have a lower predicted grade, and their poor behavior will be part of the reason why.

The only component of student behavior the predictor will not account for is whatever component of behavioral factors which are uncorrelated with SES, but are correlated with the distribution of students between classes. I.e., there will need to be a systematic reason why rich white kids who are more poorly behaved than the average rich white kid go to classroom 101 but not classroom 201.

(If they are uncorrelated with the distribution between classes, they will merely contribute to sampling error. See my response to jbooth illustrating how the law of large numbers makes errors like this a small problem. Feel free to plug in your own numbers.)
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With Elfoid, you can carry the uncanny valley in your pocket
Apple's A5 CPU in iPad 2 has 512MB of RAM, same as iPhone 4 - report
You want to kill blackboard? Build a better product. Make it easy to move blackboard data into your product. Support legacy hardware, operating systems, and/or browsers.

Snark & $10 on a domain name isn't going to get the job done.
There's a difference between "able to articulate well" and "exceptional mastery of one's native tongue".
Thanks, I'd never heard of this visa but it sounds like exactly what I need!
Piracy first increases product visibility and increases overall sales until a saturation point is reached. Once market visibility is achieved then piracy represents a loss of sales.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/24446/is-ther...

As for the X is or is not theft discussions, let's see what Richard Feynman has to say about it:

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Lot of nitpicks and to be expected framing/number fudging by Steve, but straight up misquoting the Samsung rep was very odd. That had been widely corrected, so either Apple did not research their presentation (unlikely) or just knowingly lied (yuck).