skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one who assumes the NY Times considered the futility of trying to stop every single 2000-bit hack and is rather trying to change the way intelligent consumers of news and culture with disposable income approach the Times, and perhaps quality content generally, online.

I think they've done a fair job of trying to handhold users through the transition. I expect the success or failure of the paywall not to depend on the fact of the paywall itself (obviously), but on how easy and frictionless they'll make it to pay. If they can make it graceful enough, I will happily pay for content I know there are loopholes for accessing. If it's a clusterfuck, as with other DRM schemes, I'll either seek out the leaks or give up.

I'm hoping they've adopted something like this approach, a slightly more rigorous version of the NPR pledge model, and are relying on the goodwill and intelligence of their readership and not its stupidity.
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Seems like people would be interested in knowing how many potential suitors were watching their status and waiting for them to become available. You can envision this as the new status symbol. Instead of how many friends you have, it would be how many people are on your notifier list. In fact, some of those people being followed might jump ship earlier knowing that there are plenty of others waiting in the wings.
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Sorry, but I can't find a link to the app. Do I have to install the browser version first?
This is brilliant!!!

Thanks for this explanation. That makes total sense :)
"And, with so many stores online to choose from, how can you blame them? There’s no way a normal man can find a way to pull it all together. So he lets dress.me do it for him."

I've been reading a lot lately about how the web is dominated by women, and that men shouldn't try and sell to women.
That. In reverse.
Thanks for the data, Jason. It continues to surprise me how many people primarily use email to invite their friends. I remember reading an article from AddThis (or maybe it was ShareThis) reporting that email also dominated as the most used channel.

(Sorry, I couldn't find the original source)
Oh, I don't know - the chart ten years ago would have had fewer columns. :)
Google actually has very few patents. Which makes sense. You own and generate a lot of patents if

1. You're interested in shaking-down others (IBM comes to mind)

2. You've written a big cheque to someone who shook you down and now you're trying to defend yourself.

#1 certainly doesn't apply to Google - not yet at least. And I don't think that Google has been badly burned in a patent dispute with anyone yet, so it doesn't look like they've made generating defensive lawsuits a big priority yet.

One source on the web from a couple of years ago says that Google's name appears on only about 190 patents in total. I did a search and was able to find ~600 patents with Google as the assignee. The same search yielded ~3700 patents for Apple, ~17000 for Microsoft, and ~64000 for IBM. Apparently Apple was issued more than 700 patents in 2010 alone, versus Google's 282. For the last few years, this is how many patents some of these companies have been issued:

#2010:
Apple 722
Google 282
Microsoft 3305
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#2009:
Apple 399
Google 143
Microsoft 3160
Foxconn/honhai 1310

#2008:
Apple 254
Google 60
Microsoft 2310
Foxconn/honhai 1005

#2007:
Apple 157
Google 35
Microsoft 1958
Foxconn/honhai 673

#2006:
Apple 133
Google 22
Microsoft 1614
Foxconn/honhai 653

#1999-2005
Apple 843
Google 14
Microsoft 3643
Foxconn/honhai 3262

Searching through some of these patents is really discouraging. I remember that when Apple brought their suit against HTC (really, against Android and Google), there were a lot of armchair lawyers here on HN and elsewhere claiming just how obvious some of the patents that Apple was weilding were. At the time I actually believed that some of them had merit. But looking through some of these patents, especially some of the Foxconn ones, is there anyone who really believes that the front bezel design for a PC case (http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/D512721.html) or the particulars of a generic USB stick (http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/D537819.html) should be patentable? Some of the stuff that I've been looking at over the last hour makes Apple's and Microsoft's patents look like Bell's patent on the telephone.
Surely you must have enjoyed thumbing through a telephone book sized Computer Shopper magazine before?
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They should just call it Amazn Store.
The short version is that Amazon's brand is beginning to catch up to its infrastructure.
do you not fear P/E contraction?
Very cool, now if someone could just make a Javascript IDE that works on the desktop, I'm just beginning to work in node.js and do most of my PHP in NetBeans, I really want an IDE that recognises that a project can be JS!
Irrelevance?

They really did something new with the Wii controls, landed a huge hit and Sony/Microsoft are only recently getting back with similar controls (Kinect, Move). I think they deserve a point here.

The Wii is still the best selling console and the DS the best selling handheld(by far!). Perhaps it's irrelevant from a HN pov, but certainly not from a familiy/kids/recreational gaming pov.

And the major games from Nintendo itself (Mario Galaxy, Zelda....) are rock solid, high quality games.
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To be honest, the assets, revenue or the total employees of a company don't really matter in this case.

Google is a relative new comer to the mobile space. All the other companies have been entrenched for a long time and have a much bigger patent portfolio compared to Google.
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The mark granted to it is for "App Store". Under relevant trademark law, a mark cannot be registered if it consists solely of a generic or purely descriptive term. "Store" is generic. So too is the word "application" - which is commonly thought of as being what the word "app" refers to. Therefore, no trademark could ever be registered for the word "store" or for the word "application" and certainly not for "application store" (no trademark can be registered when all of its constituent elements are generic).

What about www.containerstore.com? Is there a principle in law that would permit The Container Store to defend their trademark while preventing Apple from doing the same with their App Store?

Not necessarily disagreeing with your take on the issue, just pointing out that this issue is grayer than you're making it sound.
You are overlooking the second part of this:

such that the public comes to identify the relevant term with one vendor and not as a primarily descriptive term, then that item is said to acquire "secondary meaning.

It is not clear that the public identifies "app" as something from Apple only.
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I've used them as a proxy/redirect to my other lines, and generally I don't like the sound quality to my cellphone. SMS works well enough, at least within the limitations of the SMS system.

If my cellphone wasn't already the one number to reach me at, then I'd be more interested.
You can't fight Darwin.
I've seen robotic welders, but I've yet to see robotic bricklayers.
The protection against redirection is inherent in the underlying peer-to-peer media streaming technology we built on top of (RTMFP), as is the crypto. Going off your profile you seem to be a security researcher type. Would love to discuss things further with you offband. Feel free to email me directly, email is in my profile.
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So good you guys are blocked at the local library.

I see it as validation and a compliment, well done.
I'd have done the same thing. And yes, I upvoted your shameless plug. ;)
I guess what I'm wondering is how're you implementing it beyond just telling about 1 in 5 teachers not to come in to school next term?

It sounds like you're planning on having a "person with a big stick" in a room of 35 kids playing a video on a screen. Or possibly in a room of 35 computers with kids at each one.

For sure, have a room of 1000 computers and one person with a machine gun ... sorted!??
It was my pleasure and honor to be able to give the PyPy guys that grant. Here's to the next year!
Thanks for mentioning that! I had no idea they gave free private repos to students.

For anyone else, you can apply for the free student account here: https://github.com/edu
What was the CPC and CPA (i.e. cost per registration) with your Facebook advertising?
The implication in those decrying the 'wives are expensive' comment is that they do not believe spouses in general are expensive. Anecdotally, I find that very hard to believe.
Simple pricing schemes are also a major differentiator for many MVNOs in Germany. At least the two biggest carriers with their own network in Germany are just as confusing as their US counterparts but the MVNOs (some of which are subsidiaries of the big carriers) advertise their simple pricing heavily. (This is my favorite plan at the moment: 15 euro for 1GB of HSPA data, GPRS data unlimited; 9 cent for every minute [nothing for incoming minutes as is usual in Europe] and SMS; two SIMs. Perfect for someone like me who doesn’t need many minutes or write many SMS but would like to use data quite heavily.)
The install button is the helper app! The in browser part should work immediately with no need to install any other software.
>It's probably better to simply report the news rather than give an incorrect spin.

i don't see any newsworthy in the Apple accepting homosexuality curing application. Taken together these 2 cases highlight idiosyncratic nature of censuring.

>Steve admitted on stage (at D3?) that rejecting the political caricature app was a mistake.

Later he can admit that this curing app was a mistake. What would it change?
Surely the internet has killed the need for little metal discs? I can't remember the last time I used one.
They already have one, it's called Vim. :)
I don't believe that your email is there. I may take a whack at it later this week (we're launching a product and I'm pretty busy, but I do love me some custom crypto protocol.)
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Consider that quote not from the perspective of a (briefly) outraged public, but as a post mortem delivered to investors, who seriously want to know if something similar is likely to happen again.

If these guys guys deflected all blame from themselves and tried to focus it all on their partner, that would be a bad sign. But if they also blame themselves for having selected a dicey partner, and have figured out what errors led to that error, then I really think they're handling themselves - and the situation - quite well.
Wow, I read it twice. Things I thought about when reading that page:

1) The OP hasn't a clue about market research. There is scale, there is volume, and there is price.

2) Anytime there is a massive lack of standards, there is a huge complexity play. This was a surprise?

3) Two pivots that were not mentioned, really high end home theater setups, and custom remote construction framework.

4) Vision limited by an individual's capabilities. Its good to know what you can and cannot pull off but its important to be able to see a bigger picture so that if you could find someone who could do 'x' (missing piece) it would be a better play.

I wonder sometimes about the urge to move to a bigger thing than the current thing. The post on Entreporn touched on this as well.

Oh and I got to see a spam comment in HN comments, that was interesting.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513
> when I click "buy" on that 99¢ app I know I'll be billed exactly $1.07 (sales tax), not a cent more or less.

Coming from a country that always includes (for consumers) tax in the advertised price I find it amusing that "99 cents becomes $1.07" is considered simple. :)
Although we try to avoid deadlocks as much as possible at Yelp, retrying when a deadlock occurs is usually a viable strategy to take. Some deadlocks seem to be somewhat unavoidable.
I dunno, the 3DS looks pretty interesting...
But for 3g you also have to price in Verizon vs ATT as they have different pricing structures.
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You could use mysql's REPLACE INTO which is basically a macro for delete + insert

less efficient than on duplicate key update because it will replace the entire row every time. But that's not any worse if you were going to do that anyway manually.
I do, and I would gladly pay for a service that handled the bulk of the work for me. Especially if it had real people on the other end making the clothing suggestions based on my measurements and/or photos.
This should be the OP. Thank you.
Swipe mode doesn't seem to be working on the iPad in safari.

Otherwise... Awesome!
I guess anything from sql-injection to fixing borked firewalls? I'm interested to know too.
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GitX is nice, but there's a fork of it that's so much nicer:

http://brotherbard.com/blog/2010/11/experimental-gitx-update...
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I went back to VMWare fusion from Virtual Box on the Mac. I will be the first to admit that some of the reason was political Oracle killed 3 Sun projects that I used pretty extensively so I have some sour grapes. Just wanted to give that full disclosure but I also after working with both found VMWare to be the superior product in terms of perceived speed and stability. That being said we have kicked around the idea of maintaining a gold developer VM that we could use to get a developer up and running ASAP. There are a lot of reasons to consider doing so and the article covers many of them. We will probably make the move before the next project.
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Emailed you instead.
If you don't want to read the article,

The US solicitor general, which represents the federal government in the Supreme Court, on Friday filed an amicus brief in support of i4i, saying that the US Patent and Trademark Office should not be second-guessed by a jury.

(Microsoft winning this is a good thing.)
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I assumed they want to see how people will react (they are in essence A/B testing Canada vs the USA). And that they're oping that people will end up using the service more or less as intended.

It's an interesting experiment, I read more than 20 articles from NYTimes.com a month, but I don't need more than a few. If the blogosphere starts pointing to the BBC instead, I'll end up reading that.

I should probably mention that it's my code (if we can call it that) we're talking about. The traffic is killing my blog now, but I a few hours ago made it out of curiosity if I could hack that (it was 20 minutes all in).
iBooks is very slow on my iPhone 3G, but the Kindle app, though not as pretty, runs fine.
just FYI, i suspect the OP and the blogger are two different people
Poll: Minorities, how often are you discriminated against in your career?
And more importantly, what can other people do to help counteract this discrimination? A lot of discrimination is done subconsciously, so how can we get rid of this nature that we inherit?

This poll was inspired by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2349477
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Considering Reddit isn't profitable (or barely so, I can never remember), I highly doubt they have anywhere near the cash needed to do that. Also, the only reason conde nast would do this is to make a return on their fairly lost investment of ~$20M in reddit.
Quest communications was allegedly the only telecom co that didn't roll over to the NSA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying

A lot of time has passed, and they have a new CEO. I wonder if they have continued to hold out, or have quietly installed the black-room...

EDIT: I see they were just acquired last year by CenturyLink. I have to doubt that they have now not rolled over (call me a pessimist).

Very sad that corporations are so willing to forsake the privacy of the entire country's citizens (on the level of a constitutional breach) in order to make a dime or curry favor. Beyond sad, it is terrifying that the government then used warrantless wiretapping to specifically target our journalists:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/25/tice_nsa_revelations...

...at least according to the same source that was responsible for leaking the existence of the black-rooms in the first place.

Sigh. Maybe I'll pick up my old copy of 1984. It's getting ironic now.
No, it would be more like Toshiba would have to pay to ESPN based on number of televisions sold.
Public key cryptography seems like the wrong choice for phones, because it's relatively computationally intensive, and you'd want a phone to use the cheapest hardware imaginable. However, there is an alternative that would work.

You can use a symmetric cipher (AES is the current standard), and exchange keys via Diffie-Hellman key exchange, which is a method of securely generating a shared private cipher key over a public channel.

As I understand it, the primary advantage of public key cryptography is that it makes encryption and decryption asymmetric processes - i.e. everyone can encrypt something using your public key, but only you can decrypt it, because only you know your private key. In the phone case, the asymmetry would actually be annoying, because both parties want to send encrypted messages to each other, so you'd have to deal with two key pairs for each phone conversation.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard .
Sorry, but claiming to reject "Objectionable" material that they classify themselves opened them up to a "political" issue.

While I find this app sad, I don't have any issue with it being there... Except when compared to some of the apps that have been rejected.
Yes it has, but was it the convenience of typing the name of a movie and streaming it? Or was it the convenience of watching a movie without having to navigate through commercials and menu options designed to ruin the movie experience?

Check all that apply :-)

One thing that absolutely killed DVDs for me was having children. If you ever want to put a movie on for kids, you want to put it on, press play, and watch. Navigating menus and ads just doesn't work for my kids, no way, no how.

I had to handbrake my entire collection of family DVDs. I buy movies through iTunes. A DVD is a pain in the ass if you want to watch a movie with kids.
Emulators aren't 100%, I had a problem with an app that worked perfectly on the simulator, and crashed on the device. Also, if you are doing something with the new features, like the cameras, you will need a new device.
Over the years, I've had about a dozen close girlfriends and hundreds of casual girls-night-out buddies. Not once do I remember anyone joking about men not being too smart. Where do you get your "all women, always" from?
It seems wrong to apply logic to people's perceptions of humour and offensiveness, since perceptions are rarely logical. But going with this, if the person telling this same joke were black, would that be OK? Or equivalently, are there classes of jokes that may only be told by black people?

(also I feel I should point out that jokes about race tend not to be equivalent in offensiveness to jokes about sex, so this whole premise is largely irrelevant)
The concept of broadband means the death of little metal discs.

Companies like Comcast and AT&T are ensuring that we will need them forever.
Likewise. I'm looking forward to when DVD/BD drives on laptops are replaced with additional batteries.
Control.

Right now they control Trident as they like. A shift to WebKit would mean ceding a lot of that control to Apple and Google and all the other WebKit contributors/maintainers.
The latest trend in business: make money by creating no value whatsoever!

Actually, in my experience this is the MBA ideal. From the pure bean-counting perspective, the ideal business would be something that just made free money. No staff, no overhead, etc.
World-wide you might be right. But in the US for about the last 30 years you can borrow any book you want 100% free straight from your computer (albeit usually with a 2-3 day wait) thanks to the magic of inter-library loan.
I just had the same problem (redirect loop), but not on your page, I hit it on the link next to yours on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2350430. Maybe he confused the two?
Siegler is surprised that MS is doing something greedy and underhanded? Is he even aware of MS's history from not even 10 years ago?
How are the the PyPy developers supporting themselves? Are they being paid salaries from the project, which (if I understand correctly) is currently being funded as an EU research project?

Obviously the PyPy code will deliver vastly more than $10k of value to the world. Keep up the good work.
We do plan to eventually launch everywhere, but that's something that has to scale based on what we learn from the beta. I don't plan to relocate in the near future, but there's always the possibility of having local representatives if we feel it's necessary.

The splash page intentionally keeps information about the app to a minimum. I'm trying to gauge how people respond based on the problems they face, and not on a list product features.
Based on recent trends, you've at least got the "long" and "slow" parts correct. Some may even say their march hasn't even begun!
> Thus, for Microsoft, "Windows" eventually acquired secondary meaning in the world of computer software (but not as applied to window installation in the building industry). Others can freely use "windows" in most any category of goods or services they want in the building trades but, given that the term "Windows" is now exclusively associated with a product from Microsoft in that class, not in the class of computer goods to which "Windows" belongs.

Note that they can't/don't sue products like wxWindows, even though it refers to windows on computer screens, because it refers to the generic usage and not in terms of a OS. Thus they sued Lindows (and lost?) because it was an OS and with a similarly sounding name and settled.
Put up a privacy policy with an assurance that you won't sell/give/share/spam/whatever email addresses.
I will let the pypy folks themselves speak to their funding - but as for the 10k, it is a small investment in a much larger project to be sure.
Some of us (myself included) are volunteers. Others have it as their day job, by virtue of funding from the German and Swedish government. These funds will probably be used to allow devs to work on PyPy full time, as well as to bring devs to sprints.