skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't mean powered they mean connected, I thought they were charging it based on residual wifi signal (from the title) but it's just a regular mouse that connects over wifi instead of bluetooth or whatever.

Sounds like it would be a pain when your wireless router goes down and you want to navigate to its control panel and click the reboot button on screen.
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However, if you're writing fiction, passive voice is your friend. My high school teachers never realized this despite handing out creative fiction assignments.
To add to that

- Ecological advantages. Am I crazy or does it seem many pro-environment types are pro-dead-tree? Nostalgia is a factor, but I think vinyl vs. mp3 would be a better analogy in that the proponents can point to certain experiential benefits (tactile, smell of an old book etc).

- Ergonomically more practical in most cases. Weight, page flipping, etc. Downside is eye strain in low light, but the current kindle is not too far off from reading a printed page.
Zaarly on Capitol Hill: Why the Startup Ecosystem Matters
Samsung announces 10.1" tablet monitor with 300dpi
That's interesting... I just signed up using my Facebook account. Do you have a FB account?
As the legend goes, the "never end a sentence with a preposition" rule was actually a revisionist prescription at some point in the (relatively recent) past. The goal was to make English more "elegant" and Latinate in its usage. This prescription actually flies in the face of English's origins. English did not derive from Latin, even though it borrows a lot of words and phrases from Latin. The rules of English grammar do not follow those of Latin, nor should they.
It's not about a "fight" here. Whatever law these were seized under, I'm sure it's been on the books for many years. The customs officer, on the other hand, doesn't have a helluva lot of authority to make the decision. I think it's silly, but hey, silly cases are what gives the Canadian Government a reason to change the law.

On the other hand, a badly-drawn comic book about characters who appear to be children engaged in graphic sexual activity might not be case that does it.
Enterprise plumbers?
I was planning to learn to design septic systems until I learned that you had to apprentice for four years (and they wouldn't acknowledge the ten years I'd been working for my dad off and on) or possess a Bachelor's degree (or have a plumber's license)... There's only a handful of these guys left in the state of Arkansas... most of them in their fifties and about to retire...
Maybe they are going to get a set of wins against the developers and then add those up on a case against Apple for the same functionality. Kind of a "see we won here, here and here for this same thing"
For Geocoding, here's another nice gem that uses Google/Yahoo/Freegeoip: https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder.
Ah yes, but what fraction of clowns are social media experts?
Overcommit was a design decision that seems wrong at first, but when taken with a wide viewpoint makes some sense. The motivating reason for overccomit is to make fork cheap. (the article even briefly touched on this). It's a trade off between the speed of spawning new processes (and threads) and ease of understanding how your system will behave in low memory situations. I think they made the right choice.

Another thing to note. The systems in the article were in trouble regardless of the overcommit, it's just that overcommit hid the problem and made it occur in a non-obvious place.
Tsunami Run on the Chrome Web Store
No on the timezone deletion. While I support the ISO Date and 24 hour clock, doing away with timezones adds confusion and accomplishes little.

People generally live their lives within the local sphere. There is a lot said in the phase "My plane lands at Narita at 13:00/1PM" that isn't said in the phrase "My plane lands at Narita at 05:00 GMT".

With the first, I know that the locals are just finishing lunch, it's likely to be the warmest part of the day, and that it'll be busy getting to the hotel, but everything should be open.

Converting everyone to GMT means that every time you leave your region, you need to figure out what time customary activities take place - and you need to do this for every single different place you visit.

Standardized GMT doesn't work unless you are a hermit with no friends or need for communication.
There are a lot of legitimate uses for IAP, for example games that sell additional levels. There are essentially 3 types of IAP: non-consumable, consumable, and subscription. The type you are referring to (consumable) lends itself well to predatory practices, but I dare say 90% is hyperbole. Apple has taken steps to mitigate the issue, and a lot of times it's pretty obvious when the developer is just trying to nickel-and-dime their customers to death.

A lot of developers rely on using IAP to make money off their existing (and often small) customer base, and if IAP went away so would a lot of indie game developers.
awesome. ill have to start messing with it
Can someone who actually saw comics in question comment on whether they are of an objectionable nature?
I found the apk on an Android blog I follow (Droid Life). Side-loaded it onto my phone.
Perhaps he couldn't.. but he should. Of course, I can think of a good deal of people like that.
Ah, I didn't know about patent liability insurance. I find it really heartbreaking that the independent developer has to worry about being crushed by lawsuits before they ever have a chance to make it. Just thinking about all of the innovation that will never happen as a result of this is saddening.

Maybe I'm just naive, but everyone always talks about a free market, but one of the most important features of a free market is ease of entry. If software entrepreneurs have to purchase patent liability insurance then this is an artificial barrier to entry. Yet another thing that you have to consider in the course of running your online business.

Every once in a while I use Google patents to browse software patents. What I see is disheartening. There are literally patents on almost anything you can do with a web application.

Even worse, most of the companies behind these patents are not technology companies but law firms with vast portfolios of multiple, redundant patents covering a broad array of topics. They bide their time - waiting for when some unsuspecting web company turns a profit. Then they swoop in to take their cut. I find this to be disgusting. Tech firms get stomped and lawyers get very, very rich.

The worst part of it is that there doesn't seem to be any solution. It seems as though insurance of some kind to protect against patent lawsuits will eventually be a mandatory requirement for any tech startup.

The problem with entrepreneurs purchasing insurance against frivolous patent lawsuits is that it will encourage the proliferation of these lawsuits even more. If everyone is insured then when they are sued they may be more likely to settle - rewarding the patent holders.

Over time the number of lawsuits would increase and so to would the premiums on purchasing this patent liability insurance. Eventually, the cost would become prohibitive for first time entrepreneurs and they would be prevented from being able to enter into the market.

Think about it. People keep talking about how they are looking for the next Google. As software patents pile up in the hands of unscrupulous patent trolls, it becomes less and less likely that there will ever be such a thing.

I don't mean to hyperventilate, but software patents sometimes cause me to lose sleep at night. Getting hammered by a patent infringement lawsuit is my personal worst nightmare. Is anyone with teeth doing anything to fight the patent trolls???
just wait until Comcast/NBC gets going... they'll have us all under their thumb before long.
Customizing the Groovy compilation process
>> Most of the 'rockstar' developers wouldn't want to risk it in a startup (which could fold out anyday) when they already are making > $1500 a month in that BigCo Inc. Unless equity is put on table for grabs, it's a pretty sad deal actually.

This is why I said most challenging part is building a team.

>> Well, aren't investors a major part of the ecosystem? This would be more like the classic railroad paradox. IMHO, only after India sees good number of credible startups with popular products will VCs ever bother to look at India.

Of course, investors are a part of ecosystem; but we have enough of them already. Many top VC firms already have offices and funds in India. The problem is, angel investors in India aren't bold enough.

Investors does not lead, they follow.
Didn't you give consent by using the service? Pretty sure they have a ToS. Just because you didn't bother reading it doesn't mean you're not bound by it.
The site's not showing up...
The WebOS example is reaching. It's still an OS with local apps, just with a web technology stack to build the apps. It also has tight web integration, but it's not overly different than using webviews in iOS or Android for local apps except that there was no native architecture language support initially. I don't think you can blame the HTML/CSS/JS toolset for Palms's lackluster market performance.
Right--but newspapers and books are "professionally published documents." Latterly, there were variable-width fonts in typewriters but that was relatively late in the history of that instrument.
Isolation is holding back data innovation
I am surprised to find a lot resistance to the idea of chromebooks on HN. They are not chasing the market. They are creating in a space that the market is only currently lukewarm. They are creating and letting the market move to them.
Well.. Igor Sysoev (nginx) has pointed out some thoughts about why V8 and node.js isn't good for servers. The most important part is GC. You just can't afford it with enterprise or B2B services. This is very cool framework, V8 is great engine, but this stack can't be used in B2B projects.
Sigh. Powered by wifi would have been pretty awesome. Oh well.
Funny boxing knockout
p(e|c) = p(c|e)*p(e)/p(c)
= .995*p(e)/p(c)
~ .3/.75
= .4
netflix stock price: 246 http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NFLX

I guess any statement about the future is a lie, since you can't know. Interesting how he relates a similar propensity to "lie": optimism. OTOH, the self-fulfilling prophecy is a real effect: expect success, and you increase its likelihood.
while will_paginate works fine on rails 3 it pollutes Array which kaminari doesn't. it's an easy switch as well (unless your doing some really custom stuff)
> The union is worried about the flux on new plumbers but your individual plumber would be happy to be the last plumber alive in Cleveland as he could name whatever rate he wanted.

This is one of those classic economics/free market sayings that shows who wrong the theory can be. That's like saying I would be happy if I was the only guitarist or only web developer in the world, which is patently untrue. Maybe the plumber enjoys what he does, finds value in it, and wants to teach others how to do it. Maybe, god forbid, he doesn't want to make as much money as possible at the expense of others. Crazy, right? I'm glad there are other musicians and web developers, not only is the world better for it, I am better at both for it. Looking at things your way leaves so much out of the equation and ultimately leads to a conclusion that is bizarre, detached from reality, and incorrect.
Why we've reached the end of the camera megapixel race
Apple Restricts Hard Drive Replacements on New iMacs
Every moron with a social networking account and a college degree markets themselves as a "social media expert" and I take anyone with that label about as seriously as I do anyone who calls themselves a "Tech Crunch journalist" (except, of course, at least Tech Crunch doesn't pretend to be journalism).
How did they leave off "Upstream vendor"?
The burger-flipping zoologist seems to be a bit of a myth. Of all the folks I know who have (science) PhDs, they're all either employed in their field or making craploads of money outside it. Of course the latter group of people are smart enough that they'd also be making craploads if they'd skipped the PhD.

If you do a PhD for the right reasons I don't think you're likely to regret it. I, for instance, have a PhD in physics because I couldn't imagine not having a PhD in physics. When they offered to pay me a pittance to do physics research for three and a half years in order to get the word "Doctor" before my name my reaction was not "hmm, let me calculate the effect of this on my total lifetime earnings" but "Wow? You mean you'll actually pay me to do this? A whole pittance? I'm in!"
I'll ask the obvious: Why do you use .NET?
What a nice surprise to wake up and check HN to find an article I'd written four years ago trending on the front page. :-)
Show HN: MakeSomethingPeopleWant.org
I present my latest side project: a website and accompanying chrome extension (firefox extension forthcoming). Here's what it does:

Problem: I keep typing in facebook.com/news.ycombinator.com/etc before I think about it. I waste t time on that site. After t time, I come back to my work throughly distracted and lost.

Solution: http://makesomethingpeoplewant.org/ and its chrome extension.

Method: The chrome extension redirects the sites of your choice to http://makesomethingpeoplewant.org/, a simple site that displays a random quotation designed to motivate you and get you back to work.

(Name shamelessly copied from one of PG's great quotes.)

This is very much a rough project, I'd love suggestions for:

quotes
design
anything else
Regardless, if Apple were to just to remove IAP and let the devs rot on this the message would be terrible - that the devs, who likely have minimal resources to fight back, are now fair game for using Apple's platform in the way Apple prescribes. What other features can be trolled?
Can anyone confirm if this is for real?
Maybe I´m just naive, but I don´t feel like dismissing anything when it comes to the evolution of technology.
Everyone's already mentioned plenty of sites on the net, so I'll just list my quad-fecta of magazines/periodicals - Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, NYRB.
Rob Pike: Writing Web Apps in Go
The best resource in my opinion is http://www.ruby-toolbox.com/.
Microsoft Close To A Big Search Deal With Baidu, Says Chinese Press
the perceived risks taken by locals in this story, and the way this plays out in the 'storify' flow is great. That Prey company should have some 'emergency' guidelines for how to track and get back your laptop. Like -- what is the best way to approach law enforcement, instead of vigilante tactics. heh
On Income Inequality, Unemployment, and Technology
99.5 percent of Gary Vaynerchuk is a clown.
I encourage you to visit www.patentinsurance.com, Intellectual Property Insurance Services Corporation.
They still do welding in high schools.

Drafting was incredibly fun, mostly because we got to sit around BSing while still turning out these oddly attractive little drawings. My favorite part was always drawing the dimension lines/arrows.
It's Official - Cell Phones are Killing Bees
Native Apps Or Web Apps? Particle Code Wants You To Do Both
Do you know how it compares to Geokit?
It would be much too large for this picture.
> So (...) my usual null-checking of malloc() returns is insufficient?

I also understand it so. Moreover, on your server, even if your process is well-behaved and some other process only temporarily gets memory-hungry your well behaved and important process can get killed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545049

Wow.
People got native apps because hackers were like "neat!" and cracked that sucker wide open. Apple stemmed the loss somewhat by offering a path for native apps.

Then everybody was like "neat!"
I have no specific information, but I suspect it's Dan Abelow (http://www.abelow.com), a patent troll who runs a bunch of patent trolling LLCs (Lodsys, Webventions, etc).
The fundamental disagreement I have here is that, in light of the political aspects (should governments allow nuclear power in general) this sort of thing affects all of us, and we all have a potential affect on the outcome, as political and economic actors.

If a news article is allowed to come out when "nothing has changed in Japan", and affect public opinion, I think we're allowed to deliberate it to do the same.
A. Skype and Facebook are close on that and you would be on Facebook's platform.

B. Has good promise. Workers wouldn't like it but it may put managers as ease.

C. Has good promise. You could make it into an app and focus on some niche content.
Your first point is related to patents, not copyright, moreover patents doesn't exist in art. You can for example make a painting of a duck, which get's me inspired to make a painting of a duck with a hat, that is perfectly fine.

So you think that taking for example Microsoft Word, re-package it in a new box call it "Awsome word 2011" and re-sell it at half price should be ok? Without any cost associated with the production what so ever, that would be possible. You can still invent a new distribution plattform, look at amazon for example, you just have to pitch it to the owner whose products you are going to sell, and of course pay them, that is how all trade works. How can selling someone elses work, make a profit, and not paying them be morally justified?

Regarding China, the point is that the effect on foreign relations could be similar in regards to copyright.
What? Now, I don't support internet censorship, but unless you support anarchy, who do you expect to decide on laws? That's a fairly large part of what governments are meant to do.
"Apple does not indemnify its developers against patent claims so unless a suit is brought against Apple directly it doesn't technically need to do anything."

I agree. However, the choice not to protect the developers creates problems for Apple which may be as bad as those created by protecting them. And the dilemma of a PR disaster and the precedent of establishing a B2B relationship with developers is what makes the situation so interesting.
Not surprising, since the US has in general a much broader notion of freedom of speech and freedom of the press than Canada does.
Alan Ginsberg's HOWL was seized by customs in the 1950s when being imported into the US from the foreign printer. He had his day and court and the obscenity charge was overturned. So it is possible that the Canadian courts will decide not to censor the material.
Just responding to your 'for once': U.S. publishers have long had this kind of trouble with Canadian obscenity standards. In many ways the U.S.'s free-speech regime is pretty broad-minded compared with other western democracies. I suspect you're experiencing a kind of sample bias, where you (as an American) hear more about U.S. free-speech violations than about restrictions elsewhere, and thus believe that they're more frequent.
Or it uses replaceable nozzles which also solves that problem. Anyway, welding robots have been in use for a long time so I expect the basic mechanics to have already been worked out.

PS: how much longer it takes might be less important than how much cheaper it is per weld. If I can pay someone 12$ an hour for 8 hours to do the same work that someone making 50$ an hour does in 4 it's normally a huge net win. On to of that, it will probably become faster fairly soon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_Law
You seem to assume that encrypted communications are somehow rare or unusual. A large proportion of internet traffic is encrypted.
Beginner or not, every time I stand up a new Rails application I find picking my head up and seeing what gems others are using is well worth the investment. References like this, along with recent Railscasts etc., are invaluable.
Ben Greenman’s Museum of Silly Charts
I prefer this method in irc </sarcasm>
How Microsoft Spent $7B on Skype and $1.5B on a Facebook-Killer Freeroll
Your null-checking has always been insufficient. Nothing you can do in the context of a single app can fix things anyway. Actually try it some time: hack up a malloc() that "fails" beyond a certain heap size and start testing all your "handling" code. I guarantee you it won't do what you think it does.

And this isn't about "malloc" anyway. It's about mmap. Mappings are overcommited because mappings are routinely undercommitted. How much stack do you use for each of your threads? How much stack is mapped? If you don't know the answers to these questions (or worse, don't know how to find out), then you need to do a little more research before pontificating on kernel memory allocation strategies.

Sorry, pet peeve. This is one of those areas where too many people think they understand something that they simply don't.
Interesting tech, but calling it 300 DPI is a bit dishonest. It takes 2 pixels to get the full color gamut, so your effective resolution is cut in half.
I always get so much out of these kinds of roundups. It would be great if somebody smart did them on a regular schedule.

Ruby Toolbox is great too:
http://ruby-toolbox.com/
Software testing is scientific
Google looking to make driverless cars legal in Nevada
Apart from HN (i have them all in my bookmarks toolbar):

http://twitter.com

http://arstechnica.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk

http://www.boingboing.net

http://spiegel.de/international/

http://www.technologyreview.com/

http://www.engadget.com/

http://www.techcrunch.com/ (yes , i am that guy)

http://europe.wsj.com/home-page

every wednesday:

http://theoatmeal.com/

http://xkcd.com/

shameless plug:

http://textchannels.com/
There is no multi-tenant architecture, there are three
That looks like the CoffeeScript version of jQuery.
Twitter Vigilantes Recover Sean Power's Stolen Laptop
After the cops refused to help, the Twitter mob following Sean Power's remote tracking confronted the villain and got the stolen laptop back. Classic! Don't steal computers from people who known computers!
The problem is that the API doesn't violate the patent. Spyro7 linked the patent(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2544889), and it appears that having a "rate me" or IAP button violates the patent. The usage of the API violates the patent, not the API itself.

This is actually worse than just iOS and Android. It applies to basically the entire gaming industry, because any game with a "Buy DLC" button infringes on the patent. Hell, this could apply to any program that has a "Rate this here" button, as well.
See his comment at http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=6075

The guy is not willing to drive 5 miles to meet like minded hackers & entrepreneurs, yet he complains about lack of community.

For reference: Gurgaon is a suburb located right outside New Delhi, and it is considered a part of Delhi NCR region.
2 More Social Media Analytics Companies Get Snapped Up
Twitter mood predicts the stock market.
Open Table Founder Launches new Startup around Neighborhoods
Good question. Obviously only bijections are invertible. Perhaps only bijections are allowed, or perhaps the reversed version of a non-bijective function uses a subset of the original function's codomain as its domain.

It would seem that you would have to be explicit about the domain and codomain of a function to even be able to programmatically figure out an inverse function. Given the author's example of strings to integers, clearly the inverse function will be from integers to strings—but obviously the codomain can't be all strings, but rather ones that are string representations of integers. The validation logic for which strings represent integers (which is essentially the definition of the codomain of the integers->strings function) would certainly have to be explicit somewhere.
>That's like saying I would be happy if I was the only guitarist or only web developer in the world, which is patently untrue.

I actually think yo would be pretty happy. You would automatically be a rock star. Sure, some needs would be unfulfilled, but overall the benefit of being the only one is incredible.