skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the medical claim, the judge retorts with the quote "...which really boils down to ‘hurt feelings’". Heh.

The Chinese quotation was startling. Having read the judgement, methinks I'm allowed to copy it.

Overall the entire opinion impresses me both with the comprehensive wit and precision applied to eviscerate the claim, and with the sobering observation that current judicial practice calls for a 30-page comprehensive opinion required to reach the conclusion when "you idiot, get out of my courtroom" should have been sufficient.
It looks great but I just want the data, I would like just text info, to make it as quick and clean as possible. Images and colors are sexy but I want to do a transaction not look at the site. This is my personal weirdness so take it for what it is worth.

I do not know the display requirements for each provider but a clean look, where I can sort by coupon category would be nice. I really don't care about the provider of the deal, just the deal.

That being said it looks like a really good start.
Somebody better update the people using it as an anti-science argument.

Edit: I'm serious. Conservapedia used to have an article about it and how it discredits the scientific model and whatnot. There's a huge knowledge gap between this views and we should do our best to eliminate it.
I hope the RIAA challenges this to the highest court possible, because it would seem blindingly obvious to me that judges would rule in favor of the consumer in these scenarios. This is music that I've bought and paid for. The RIAA is taking this too far, and any sensible person can see that.
Using an ancient JavaScript technique to drive conversion rate . . .
Nice try at a cheap jab, but 3 or 4 character directory names are typical of unix systems, not 2.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Filesystem_Hi... Not a single 2 letter directory name.
Kansas City, Kansas, to get 1 GBPS line from Google
Is it hypocritical to ask that their competitors be held to the same rules that they had to pay €1.35B for breaking?
After Blippy, Pud Contemplates His Next Move
It makes sense if the primary value one sees in HN is the articles, i.e. HN as high quality news aggregator.

If the primary value one sees is in the insight provided by the comments, it perhaps makes less sense, i.e. HN as a high quality discussion forum.
It would be important to know if an iPad can be as responsive as a wacom tablet.

I think an iPad version of photoshop could work as a simple photo retouching app as shown in this demo. But it will be really, really hard for Adobe to get the same level of functionality into an iPad app that they currently have on the desktop. Can you imagine using the type tool, or manipulating a document with hundreds of layers and groups on a 10" screen? Seems difficult.

That said, a fast tablet with video out to a bigger screen would be pretty amazing, actually: palettes and details on the tablet, image you're manipulating on the big screen.

The iPad has a long way to come in equaling the speed of desktop, but you can almost see it down the road.
What are you guys doing that Yipit doesn't do? Not that there isn't a place for multiple deal aggregators, but they've been doing/refining aggregation for a while.
Could you, please, provide a more elegant example in other statically typed language.
Wouldn't you have to have balls of steel to do human testing for this? If it doesn't work, don't you essentially contract HIV?
If you mean that developers adjust pixels sizes for the finger (like "button should be no less than 40x40 points"), then it's not that strict. iPad has less points per inch than iPhone, but the standard buttons all have the same logical sizes on both devices. If iPhone 5(6,7) has a bigger physical screen, then all the controls will simply become a little bit bigger (but still smaller than on iPad, btw) and retina display resolution will still be high enough to have sharp text and graphics.

The only apps that rely on physical size are some sort of virtual rulers. When pixel size is changed, they need to be modified to adjust to that.
> (...) is futile.

A negation of `should not be derided / may turn out to be important' doesn't read `is always unimportant'. I agree with you wholeheartedly pointed research is important.

Anyway!

Maximum usefulness on what timescale? [1]

To judge the impact of future use, you'd pretty much have to both 1) invent all the important uses on the spot, 2) judge the market impact of each -- including any ripple effect and any combination with other, possibly totally unrelated at first, technologies [2]. Good luck with doing that in a reliable way.

The honesty of the research itself will be at risk, if there is any incentive in that [3].

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[1] E. W. Dijkstra makes some pretty sound comments on timescale of research: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EW...

[2] a semiconductor, by itself, is a high impact thing. Computer Science (the theory, without the machines) by itself has little impact on anything. The both combined gives the -- unbelievably transformative -- computer :-)

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-drop_experiment#Millikan.27... -- subsequent scientists, instead of reporting objective results of their experiments, tended to skew the data (more or less unintentionally) towards the original reference value (which was eventually found to be off by a good bit). The only incentive here was consistency -- a pretty subtle one!
For those unfamiliar with the Nginx/Lua setup, here's the introduction:

"Lua-nginx-module integrated Lua into NginX, and providing high-concurrent & non-blocking request processing ability without forcing developers explicitly dividing business logics into state machine. Developers can write their programs in plain-old sequential ways, and lua-nginx-module will automatically interrupt the program logic at blockable I/O operations, save the context and delegate these I/O ops to NginX’s event mechanism. When I/O ops are done, lua-nginx-module will restore the context and restore the normal running of the program logic. User program itself will feel everything as usual as never being interrupted.

Lua-nginx-module use one-coroutine-per-request request handling model, i.e. for each incoming request, lua-nginx-module spawns a coroutine to run user code to process the request, and the coroutine is destroyed when request handling process is done. Every coroutine has its own independent global environment, which inherits shared read-only common data. So any globals injected by user code won’t affect other request’s processing, and will be freed when request handling is done. You can imagine that user code is running in a ‘sandbox’, which shares the same lifecycle with request itself. By this way, lua-nginx-module can prevent memory-leak caused by the abusing of globals in user code, and improved service robustness.

Benefit from Lua’s excellant coroutine support, lua-nginx-module can handle tens of thousands of concurrent requests with very low memory overhead. According to our tests, the memory overhead for each request in lua-nginx-module is only 2 KB or even half smaller if LuaJIT is used. So obviously lua-nginx-module is a good candidate for implementing extensive concurrent services."

https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module/wiki/Introdu...

The ability to do async-IO without changing code flow is a big plus.
But it would make sense to be Canada, seeing as it initially all started with dealpage.ca only based out of a few cities major cities in Canada. Just recently it was updated to handle a lot more cities within NA
great links, thanks. http://www.quora.com/What-are-best-practices-for-building-so... has some more ...
Qwiki Raises $1 Million From Groupon Co-Founders
Essential question:

send and receive telephone calls

play music with headphones and podcasts

nice maps with gps

basic internet

I have never owned a smartphone before, I like the maps on ipad, and want something more portable
Mozilla's Do Not Track header gaining ad industry support
Let there be light bulbs
Everyone here on HN always seems to say the same thing: the way math is being taught in most schools sucks, we need to change it. Math is glorious, it's the kicks, etc.

I'm curious why everyone is so enamored with mathematics here though; I've tried to understand what is so captivating about the subject but have failed to do so for years.

I've never gotten past trigonometry and algebra myself, and this idea of Calculus being more than the tedious integration work that textbooks I tried to self teach from said it was is intriguing.

Enlighten me, how is mathematics not just a bunch of rules and methods to solve problems within constraints, and that some professional practitioners are forced to prove...

How many of you programmers and software engineers here even interact with the Calculus you learned in high school/college on a day-to-day basis in your apps/software projects?
Microsoft Accuses Google of Anti-Competition
That's because the ad targeting networks know you already have an android.

/semi-sarcasm.
Bacn: Is there a better way to deal with it?
Ask HN: How to become enterprise architecture
Hello all,

I'm 24 years old now and I'm working as a Oracle DBA in a corporation. But I do not want to work as an operation staff for a long time, I want to contribute more to the information systems development of my current organization. Therefore, I want to study about enterprise architecture and information system project management. So, I want to ask two questions:
1. What do I need to become an enterprise architecture (hard and soft skills need to develop, experience need to gain). Which courses do I need to participate? Some recommended books I need to study.

2. Can I become an Information systems project manager? If yes, what do I need to learn and gain?

Thanks,
Hear hear. Here's to the questions. The foundation, root, body and crown of science.
Love this idea. I vote for this. Or maybe if anyone can actually edit the HN source and make the app self-post when it is first of every month (IMO keeping it automated will be easier...)

bigsassy's point about searching is right. It surely makes it easier to browse these threads when you have a dedicated whoishiring user account.

Whoever is posting this, please mention the format of the job posts clearly on every thread (whatever format... this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057704 says location first. It's description is a good example).
I think you're misunderstanding valuation -- valuation represents the potential revenue of a company. Who owns how much of it generally doesn't affect a company's valuation though, in the case of YC (or others known to be successful), it almost certainly chips the valuation up, due to the value add.

Who holds issuances of common stock isn't generally something that will negatively affect a valuation.
Quadrocopter Ball Juggling
Kindle, Lulu-alike, and after you have a book written likely it will be easy to do a deal with a traditional publisher as well.

The rule should be IMHO: first write then understand how to publish. This gives the power to the author. The other way around gives the power to the publisher.
Move your office for a month to another country
This isn't exactly publishing.

Serious question: How would this be different (and better) than Wikibooks from the Wikimedia foundation?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
I sure hope someone got fired for that one snicker
Perhaps that statement came out slightly more hyperbolic than I meant it.

The fact remains that Android's fragmentation is something I deal with on a daily basis. Any time spent fixing issues that crop up on particular phones is time I don't spend adding features to our application. Keeping customers from knowing the joys of fragmentation is one of the things I spend a lot of thought and work at.
I have endorsed two companies each of which I've worked with for over a year as part of the Boston University Kindle Mentoring program. One of the founders told me this morning that -- in his "networking" to get more endorsements -- he's met some "movers and shakers" in Boston who will be a big help for his business. This is exactly the intended result when the MassChallenge Team added the "endorsement" step to the process. If nothing else, MassChallenge is well thought out. And last year it was well executed by a hoard of people volunteering their time and energy.
Show HN: Mobile aggregation of national and local Daily Deals
Bug:

Select United States

Select District of Columbia

There is no option in the final dropdown since the final location is in the second dropdown there can be no third selection option. Because of this the page never loads the deals for USA, DC.
huge_ness, this is a great service. Please note however that acangiano+dealpage@gmail.com is a valid email address.
HTC in particular has a long history of keeping a few different systems in their lines. They can prioritise Windows Phone more. But with Nokia there already they might want to keep it approx. 50-50 anyway.

Others like Motorola and Samsung, I'd expect them to stick to Android whatever happens, at least for the high end. This is why Google is doing this.
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2006-September/0184...
Being hypocritical isn't the same as being wrong.
Linkedin sued over privacy leak allegations
Sounds like an awesome idea if you have the budget and the logistics don't interfere too much with life.
80 national and 2,500 local Daily Deals (local deals coming soon to Android).
Design & Marketing Resources From March 2011
> Doesn't Android use the Linux kernel which is GPL'ed (among other parts)? Can they legally withhold code for a shipping product by saying the software isn't finished?

Yes, the kernel is GPL, so they have released that source. It's the rest of the platform they are withholding, which is generally under an Apache license.
Your World of Text
New Boston Company Makes it Easy to Unsubscribe
Yipit isn't in Canada. DealPage seems to be going International.
Don't be territorial -- share the code.
Of the world record, at least. The actual olympic competitions are still valid.
Sharing a password is an uphill battle with the problem of the commons. Automating one account would seem a lot easier.
At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]
A tribunal would find out soon enough. Ker-ching!
I think I would look at the traffic and whichever is highest be the default. Since it was posted on HN, in general, traffic will be predominantly from the states.
A simple "Your email validation has a bug" would have been sufficient. No need to be condescending.
The Modern Perl Book was also written via Github: https://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book/network
Mass Challenge? Is that like some kinda "Guess the Weight" competition?
>To judge the impact of future use, you'd pretty much have to both 1) invent all the important uses, 2) judge the market impact of each

We are in disagreement here about how prediction works even after your use of the qualifiers "pretty much" and "important" is taken into account. (I should add that I am not saying that there is nothing to your assertion in grandparent, just that it is not the whole story and is too pessimistic about the human ability to predict.)

Parenthetically, I once got into a similar disagreement on Less Wrong -- with someone who claimed that the only way to predict any aspect of the outcome of a computer program was to run the program. So let me get your opinion on that, and let me use Dijkstra to choose a unambiguous question to ask you:

Dijkstra claimed that a person could arrive at a high confidence that a program has particular useful properties (e.g., that a program that keeps tracks of balances in bank accounts obeys the "law of the conservation of money") without ever running the program but rather by developing a proof of the "correctness" of a program (using techniques whose development form a large part of Dijkstra's reputation) at the same time one develops the program. Do you disagree with Dijkstra? I'm interested in replies from others too.
If the screen presented in the lightbox when the page loads is critical enough that it needs to happen every time any user visits the homepage, then perhaps consider incorporating it onto the page itself as the first thing users see when they land on 'home'.

The forced interaction of requiring a user to make an additional click on the 'x' to move on to anywhere else on your site is frustrating. (Considering the banner is also ever-present this seems redundant)

Edit: Lightbox also showing up on your About page - it's a bit much at this point.
Slovene language support files. SL is their ISO 639-1 code.

http://www.samsungtomorrow.com/1071
I disagree. Solid intellectual background, good work ethic have nothing to do with creativity, nor do they lay a "basis" for it. From personal experience, I have know so many who have those attributes, but are just participants in the system. Sure, they excel, and are successful people, but devoid of creativity entirely. In fact you can argue, people who are successful inside the system because they have the attributes you mentioned, are the least motivated to challenge the status quo. They have much to lose.
OMG, this is amazing.
Very funny!
And you can actually say " there must be a bug here, i just cant find", and read everthing.
"Mass" as in "Massachusetts."
Why picking a name for a startup does matter
What any sensible person can see is not always dispositive. Viz: the justification that the federal government can regulate essentially anything since it affects interstate commerce - http://reason.com/archives/2003/12/19/pot-luck
Ask Hacker News:  Information about the Japan earthquake?
It has been two weeks now, and there seems to be almost no coverage of the situation in the affected areas of Japan. Does anyone know where to get information regarding the severity of destruction, the cleaning and rebuilding efforts, the impact of aftershocks, etc.? How is life there now? What kind of help would be needed?
Yep, every month seems to end shorter and shorter based on when those appear. Who is behind 'whoishiring'?
I was astounded when I noticed a coworker using hunt-and-peck typing. I simply don't understand how a professional who is passionate about their work can not spend the time to master their tools - especially one as fundamental as a keyboard for someone who uses the keyboard 8+ hours a day.
From 2 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380759

Very popular - it was on the front page for ages - loads of comments.

(pause)

Yup - on the front page for about 17 hours.
OCaml: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Y_combinator#OCaml
Yipit is actually in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
"The findings are false-positive proof since I have used the tool that discovered it for six years now and I am yet to see it misidentify an item throughout the years."

Mohamed's lesson: Just because you were unable to prove a false-positive with the same program for 6 years doesn't mean there weren't any.
I am happy about this

Suppose google doesnt approve changes to the source code before the companies release products. Suppose the changes to that source code stop certain apps from working on certain phones, therefore putting it on the shoulders of the developers to make certain their app works on every different phone.

It would hurt the quality of the apps and the platform if Android lost its mostly seamless cross platform ability
Shifts in eCommerce
There are exactly zero occurrences of the words "women" or "female" in the article. The only reference to gender at all is a brief and completely inconsequential mention of the fact that your typical Postgres hacker is, among other things, male.

Yet somehow you end up debating the veracity of, "Since there are so few women contributing to Postgres, it's obvious that it's not a meritocracy", a statement neither made verbatim nor in any way implied by the actual article.

Isn't it just a little crazy? Can a writer mention a simple fact without it becoming all about battle of the sexes?
This is great. But why isn't it async?
Social Media Monitoring Company Visible Technologies Lands $6 Million
Just one question -- does the US have a shortage of engineers because math education isn't touchy-feely enough now?
At this point we have no more evidence that Samsung has keyloggers than Thinkpads or MacBook Pros.

We really should be doing what you suggest for all brands and models of laptops. There's no evidence to suggest a specific issue with Samsung at this point.

Even the antivirus manufacturer who detected the problem has acknowledged they made a mistake.

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/samsung-laptops-do-n...

A pretty first class post in my opinion.

It would be like a newspaper reporting that "Falcolas kills 5 people!" And then turns out that you actually saved five people from drowning, and the newspaper prints a retraction. But then someone says, "But can you prove he didn't also kill five people at some point along the way? No one has really come out to say that he's never killed five people." Sure you may have, but at that point we have no reason to believe you have moreso than anyone else.
Biology is not science?
Sounds familiar:

http://www.inkling.com/blog/art-content-engineering/
Thanks for all your feedback - keep it coming.

You can turn off the lightbox by checking the "never show me again" checkbox.
It's not just the Market, it's all the Google created apps so: Gmail, Voice, Maps, Navigation. Maybe even the Youtube app is included?
>I'm currently writing a "commercial" book (the redis book)

Nice! When do you think that's going to be out? (Horrible question to ask an author I know.) And if it's not self published, who is publishing it?
Exactly what I was going to ask for! Thanks!
It was pointing out how annoying broken validations can be, rather than trying to be condescending. Nevertheless, I rephrased it in a nicer way. Thanks.
It's a table for 4 up against a wall, on which one could hang menus, condiments, flat-screen TV, etc. More space...

Or have a rectangular table for 6 with a low divider down the middle, so that it doesn't feel intrusive to join it (nor exclusionary to talk only amongst each 3).
Jeremy Ashkenas on Code as Commons
Thanks for all the quality feedback. Please let us know of any comments/criticism you have - very valuable to us.
This is very good news for us developers. Hopefully a fixed set of screen dimensions and expectations can be established so we know what we are writing for. Every time a big name Android app gets released, a laundry list of which devices it works on and which ones it doesn't gets made, too. I hate this. Either our software needs to run on Android or it doesn't.
They were an enom reseller, but that is no longer true (since around the start of 2008).

Sources:
http://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&...
http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/accredited-list.html
"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -- often attributed to Mark Twain

The original article was so poorly fact checked. It really reflects poorly on Mohamed Hassan (and all his fancy yet meaningless credentials) and M. E. Kabay (who apparently worships Mr Hassan unquestioningly). I will not hold my breath out for a public apology from either of those two, although they are the ones who owe Samsung one.

And the irony is in fact delicious. A security expert finds a virus using an anti-virus scanner tool, and confirms it with some call center employee with the company. What does being a "security expert" have to do with any of that? My 10 year old nephew could have done that!