skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered that putting her DVD-oriented business online could be a bad idea? It is one thing to demo the technique in person and then follow up with a "hot sale" of the DVD. This is easy-peasy and works well. And it is a completely different thing to get random people look at the website and get them excited enough to order a DVD. This is an impulsive buy product if sold online. You see it, you get excited (IF that happens), you want it now. DVD in the mail translates not "no, thanks" at best and a visit to the torrents site at worst.

I just do not see this working at all. It would seem more logical to focus on promoting her seminars instead.
Republican in the house ^^^
Compare the traffic in an American mall on Thursdays to the weekend and you have your answer.
I've been coding Java/Python for 10+ years (C/C++ before that), and recently started on Clojure a few months ago. I'm having trouble grokking Clojure since I'm not a Lisp guy, but after stumbling around like a blind rat I find that Clojure's syntax is quite extraordinary. I hope Clojure will become more mainstream as more people use them, and creates more tutorials for a layman like me.
"Your argument requires universal incompetence by litigators and/or decision-makers."

Incompetent and or comprimised. Yes.
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startup + opensource = fun!
Personally, I just backup my dotfiles via FTP as they don't change very often, but I lot of my fellow Arch Linux users seem to like backing up their dotfiles to Github. I have never used GitHub myself but everyone seems happy with it.
Since you didn't mention it, here is a good example of the well-off being better able to compete for them: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/09/dastardly-clever-sche.... To quote the final sentence:

In the end, the goal of the rent control laws is thwarted (the low rents are enjoyed by well-paid tenured faculty rather than the needy), the income tax laws are thwarted (a sizable part of compensation is untaxed), and all this is done by a nonprofit institution (the university) whose ostensible purpose is to serve the public interest.
How many of the former Novell developers will work in Xamarin?
It doesn't usually make any sense to speak of getter methods in Clojure. Records are immutable after construction.
Only when I own the patents!
What jessedhillon said. I thought it was the iOS version of RAGE rendered with WebGL. Very, very misleading.
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How does this idea serve to protect the American people?
Usually I would just go to a museum store. There is always a bunch of items that you wouldn't find normally in a shop.
My first impression is that this algorithm is going to be much slower than Base64 due to all the branching. This probably won't be visible in Python, but I don't think there's any way to make it really fly when optimized.

There are probably cases where this is acceptable, but I'm inclined to think that Base32 is a better choice if larger size is acceptable, and that Base64 with domain appropriate characters is better where performance counts.
Because there is a layer of UI/UX between the screen and "their box" that Apple traditionally hates. If there is an Apple TV with a screen (and I'm not saying there will be) then you can be sure the input switching madness, weird motion interpolation, iron-maiden remotes, and shitty setup experience will all be gone. If it ever comes to exist, it will exist to close that final gap between Apple/iTunes and your couch.
I am not sure if there is a legal minefield to begin with. I had a startup incorporated in Vancouver few years ago, it got mentioned on TechCrunch in passing and this generated a torrent of calls from VCs, many of which were from States. None of them appeared to be a bit concerned about Canadian registration, and in the end the company got acquired by the US company and that too happened without much legal fuss.

What it is that you are trying to safeguard against? Perhaps you are overthnking the issue?
Internships work pretty well for everyone at entry level. Not just programming: lawyers, investment bankers, consultants, etc. But you don't really have that option for more experienced applicants, especially those who are employed elsewhere.
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Probably a better description:

The binary files from the iOS version are interpreted in JavaScript and rendered with WebGL.
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So, under "For Buyers", it says that if you don't release the funds, it gets refunded to you.

Under "For Sellers", it says that you get the funds unless they specifically block it.

WTF?
...must every headline be this inflammatory? Must everything be "Anti-Facebook", "Anti-Google", or an "iPhone Killer"??

They're just promoting a new idea. No Anti-Facebook. Just a thought and innovation.

For the love of god, Zuck invested $1k in them.
At this point, Clojure is the it Lisp on the JVM.
Uptrends has a pretty good service. Probes that run every 10 minutes. http://uptrends.com
Set top box (ATV upgrade) with app store and new form of remote would, IMO, go nuts. I'd like to see MS Surface-type technology within reach of the public but doubt the market would be as big as a set top box?
I know there are some asshole IP contracts out there, but I think even so a company would have a hard time claiming ownership of a project an employee did for someone else, in his own time.
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Kudos to John Carmack for being kind enough to help the developer get the demo working.

He seems like a nice guy and it's cool that he's still very much involved with game development (and apparently rockets).
Diaspora needs to just launch. They are repeating the same mistake Google Wave made. If it's invitation only, your friends are not on it, so there's no reason to use it.

I give it 0.01% chance of succeeding if keep things the way they are.

Seriously, a year of fucking development? Facebook launched after a few hours.
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Use 0 and 1, like everyone else. Those #defines are just meaningless syntactical sugar that get in the way.
A thought experiment: how quickly would this bill be killed if Facebook played hardball and threatened to kill all California accounts?
That makes some sense.

However I would then argue that Apple should put all the 'TV stuff' (cable input, av input, etc) in the Apple TV and have that plug in to the TV. Added benefit of being way more portable/modular.

EDIT:

Actually I'm not sure that makes sense. It seems like Apple's goal is to get you consuming content through Apple. How would a TV be any better for that purpose than the Apple TV? With the growth of streaming video and the decline of cable it seems dumb to optimize for cable. The user experience would be for you to leave the input on the Apple TV all the time and do everything there -- tv, movies, iOS games/apps.
You can still be the first to bring a product to market and you have the people who will have the best knowledge because they developed it. Also don't underestimate the willingness of people to _want_ to research. And lets not forget that companies in Europe do not have software patents (yeah, some gray area still exists...) and still do research, so we already know the software world won't break down without software patents.

And while your arguments are still valid to a certain extend - it has to be evaluated against the costs of the patent system and the benefits you'll get from erasing the patent system. For example right now every startup-up is in danger of running into patent troubles unless they start pair-coding with a lawyer. People avoid looking at patents because they are scared of treble damages and people avoid coding optimal solutions trying to work around patents. Companies can block each other and managers and investors are in a constant state of risk that their coders will violate patents (mostly without even knowing it). Patents are no longer used to boost innovation, but they are used primarly as a weapon.
I am not very impressed with this article. What the legislation actually says is that social networking websites have to set privacy options to maximum by default for new users, and that any user (or if a minor, their parents) can have certain personally identifying information removed within 48 hours on request.

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_24... It's very short, and although I think it's a bit flawed, it's clearly aimed at protecting privacy rather than enabling snooping.
Maybe someone upvoted the story, causing it to get bumped back up?
"Let's pull a number out of the air -- 1000"

That number seems extremely high; are you sure you didn't pull it out of something else?

I'd think the order of 100 distinct sites per day is reasonable for someone who's also supposed to be working, which gives one true positive and one false positive, which isn't very much per day.
Why am I being downvoted? Turning their display into a tv may not be a big step but turning their display into a tv that will replace the current living room tv certainly is.
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Yes, but the fact that it's impossible is considered a feature, not a bug, by those who use it -- it keeps the bastards employed.
I'm not using Gigwalk, but I'd like to offer some advice: the fact that Gigwalk exists, and released before you did, and got investment capital means...someone else has already done the hard work of proving to an investor that there's maybe-hopefully a market, and that they think they can capitalize on it.

This is a killer opportunity for you - jump on it!
Often the important part of an invention isn't figuring out how solve a problem; it's figuring out what the problem is in the first place.

Yes, I'm quite aware that some problems only have a few feasible solutions.
There are two (sometimes more) versions of Ubuntu: Server and Destkop. Desktop is definitely inappropriate for running production web servers (AMI or otherwise), for the reasons you indicate.

Server, however, is perfectly appropriate, especially the LTS release (which is supported for five years). Ubuntu LTS will probably actually be supported longer than (for example) Debian Stable.
Software = math, math can't be patented, therefore software can't be patented.

I know the mantra. I just don't buy it. Math provides the building blocks used to produce creative (and sometimes very innovative) solutions to problems in the form of software. Material properties and laws of physics similarly provide the building blocks used to produce creative solutions to problems in the form of physical devices or mechanisms.

Just because the basic building blocks used to formulate an innovation aren't patentable, it doesn't necessarily follow that the innovation itself shouldn't be patentable if it's truly innovative and worth protecting (which most software patents certainly aren't, but some undoubtedly are).
Seriously, a year of fucking development? Facebook launched after a few hours.

It amazes me the kinds of expectations people have. I mean, Diaspora is partly to blame with making huge promises and feeding the hype machine, but that can only be a small fraction of the problem, the ideas people have about what's possible in this problem domain is really off the charts. Even hackers and geeks, who really should know better.

A year is nothing compared to the scope of what they're trying to solve. Appleseed, Elgg, OneSocialWeb, etc. have all been in development for years.
What I've seen work: everyone who worked on it has full rights to the IP generated by that team (so if there's a split of opinion on how to proceed, separate team members are free to fork). Then you can move forward with the team members who want to continue and agree equity going forward on the same basis as any other startup.
Agreed, I use a relatively simple shell script to link all of my files in a "home" directory in dropbox to my real home directory on multiple machines:

#named link.sh, greps out some common things we don't want to link, also have vim stuff in a different dotfiles repo
cd $(dirname $0)

for F in $(ls -a1 | grep -v link.sh | egrep -v "^..?$" | grep -v .DS_Store | egrep -v ".hg(ignore)?$" | egrep -v "^vim$"); do
if [ -a $HOME/$F ]; then
echo "**** Found existing $F, skipping..."
elif [ -h $HOME/$F ]; then
echo "Already symlinked $F, skipping..."
else
echo "Linking $F"
ln -s $PWD/$F $HOME/$F
fi
done
Yeah, but do you really need to tear up a whole store over a marathon saturday night for a phone upgrade?
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This is a crucial point. The displays Apple sells are nothing like your average Living Room TV in dimensions, service requirements, or capabilities.

Apple doesn't have the retail floorspace to stock or sell 50" TVs, they don't have experience with cable tuners and all of the other associated crap that distinguishes a TV from a simple display, and they don't have in-home warrantee repairmen; expecting the purchaser to schlep a 50" behemoth to the genius bar for service is out of the question.
"Distributed single point of failure" is the term we use where I work.
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Combating the Distillation Effect in Social Games
Douglas Crockford's keynote was awesome. It's up on InfoQ I believe.
Yes, that's the point.

Sadly, it's pretty trivial to disprove this by counterexample.
I find the results surprising. More than 500 points for software patents in some form? On HN?
I'm not saying, that arguments for software patents are all wrong. And I'm excited about the discussion.

But again, I'm surprised...
I agree with you. When I use C#, MonoDevelop (or VS) is my choice. I can barely write a class without an IDE's intellisense.

Python or Javascript: I use Vim with joy.
Am I the only one who'd basically forgotten about Diaspora until this popped up?
As someone else mentioned, some of the quests require equipment that I don't have. How about asking the user what type of equipment they have? I wouldn't go too detailed into it, but say something like 'gym membership', 'small home gym', 'treadmill', etc. Once you have that information, you could scope the quests based on that.

Another thing that would be useful would be some videos or instructions on some of the exercises. Showing correct form and/or how to use certain equipment would be great.
Amazon prepping dual-core ‘Coyote’ and quad-core ‘Hollywood’ tablets for 2011
I hope to be as awesome as Marak when I grow up ....

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Making this a felony is beyond harsh. For reference, here are a few other crimes classified as felonies:

Murder, criminal sexual conduct, manslaughter, criminal vehicular homicide, assault, robbery (simple or aggravated), kidnapping, neglect or endangerment of a child, solicitation of juveniles, prostitution, arson, and burglary.

And, if these senators (and their media industry supporters) are successful, unauthorized streaming of 10 or more copyrighted works in a 180-day period.

You can't really argue that unauthorized streaming doesn't impact the entertainment industry negatively, but it should be obvious to everyone that the impact is not significant enough to make it a felony.
quoting fiction doesn't help your case.
That's correct for patents in general - but I don't really think it's valid for software. Software is a lot more like book writing than like manufacturing. You can generally just do it once you manage to finance yourself for a while. Once you have really thought through all the details you are usually finished with the work.
The list of titles that's on sale (today through Friday) is at http://pragprog.com/news/rails-sale-40-off
Why isn't Elon Musk in any of these photos? I thought he co-founded PayPal?
"What are you in for?"

"Karaoke."
Commission = one month's bill is pretty common.
Hmm, from what point? The book pages themselves show only the sale price right now. (To take my own book as an example, the eBook is normally $18 but currently shows as $10.80: http://pragprog.com/titles/tbcoffee/coffeescript) When you add it to your cart, both the full price ($18) and the discount ($7.20) are shown.
It's worth noting that at the moment nearly 2400 people flat out want all software patents abolished.

Plus, lumping the other options in together isn't necessarily fair. Revoking existing software patents would have some pretty severe effects on legitimate companies and their shareholders. And the "other changes" is extremely vague - one could assume that other changes includes placing the onus on the company applying for the patent to prove its uniqueness, which would increase the cost to receive a patent and decrease the likelihood of abuse.

All in all, 19 votes at the moment support the current system. Less than 1%. And to be fair, roughly 15% believe better software patents would be OK.
Er...Dropbox only uses one encryption key...for everybody?
I choked on a sandwich when I read that part
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I'm sure there are plenty of kids that can circumvent this and access facebook from friends' computers, from school, cafes, etc. This is especially true if the kid knows they are being watched or if they have a laptop. Kids are smart. You suggest that a parent out-tech their child. I don't imagine thats so easy to do for some parents that aren't great with computers when they are up against a tech-savvy teenager.
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What is better than Hadoop? I'm very curious about it.
I think you should run your idea by a few other people (maybe some advisers?) and see what they have to say. I've never been to grad school, but I don't think it would be out of the question to get that prototype going while pursuing your degree. Assuming you're not devoting crazy amounts of time to research/dissertation, that is.
How about a pure software product? There's been rumors of a cloud-music solution; or a relaunch of MobileMe.
e.g. welfare?
why is base62 quadratic?
I wouldn't label it stupidity or ignorance, but it is a weel documented quirk of human behavior the default state of opt in / opt out systems makes a huge difference.

This ted talk is an excellent and talks about the very significant differences in organ donation rates between countries that use an opt out system vs. those that use an opt in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI
The main difference between Ubuntu-LTS and Debian is that Debian's stable release cycle is longer and more thorough. This means that Ubuntu-LTS will have slightly newer software, but Debian will likely have less bugs.

Debian's primary concern with its release cycle is stability. Other distributions like Ubuntu or CentOS trade a little stability for newer software.

My method: Use Debian but when you must have newer versions just add an unofficial repository to your apt sources (assuming you're prepared to deal with the complexity and inconsistency this might introduce).
It would be nice if the subject of the post (Datameer) got named in the HN headline.
I use homesick https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
Your math is a bit topsy-turvy. You're ignoring the 990 sites it didn't have to check.

That's 10 sites to check out of 1000 - 1% of the load of checking (remotely) all 1000 sites (or 0.9% if you only count the false positives) wasted.
I was thinking along those same lines - there is my beta, and in fact I was referred to another angel group just today. Instead of feeling discouraged, I feel great for all the reasons that you mentioned - $1.7 Million of investor validation in the idea. Thanks!
For the features you're looking for, the other commenters gave you the two best-bets that I'm aware of. Personally, I use Visual Studio 2010 and really like it, primarily because of the multi-pane, multi-monitor support. In other words, I use it as a really fancy text editor. I do code heavily in ExtJs. For integrated debugging with ExtJs, Firebug is totally indispensible.

Getting started with Ext can be hard. I'd suggest starting with the demos and tweaking the code from there for your needs. The API reference online is very useful. StackOverflow is about on par with the forums for questions.

Good luck.
I think things would actually need to go poorly for Apple in order for that to happen...
It's probably just a Macbook Air refresh. The MBA uses Intel Core 2 Duo and the Core 2 Duo's have been completely discontinued, with only a few being manufactured until the end of Q1 2011:http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2010/2010060901_Intel_to_disco....

Apple will have to move to Sandy Bridge at some point in the next year. Some may argue Apple is special and Intel will continue manufacturing things for them, but they have to move all their fabs to the 32nm process.

Also, the iMac and Macbook Pro were both refreshed recently getting Thunderbolt and the Sandry Bridge line.
You're neglecting the fact that which distro you choose has a large influence on the kernel version you get to run. With the amount of work going into stabilizing the kernel when running in a virtualized environment, chaining yourself to a slow-moving distro will cause the exact opposite of stability when running on Xen. See: this blog post.
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I'm fairly sceptical towards software patents but I'd argue that the math argument is a red herring. Software is clearly not math in the sense that the people who wrote that word into the law understands math. And as someone else pointed out: If this argument gets any traction, and if the powers that be want patentable software, they're going to clarify the language, not get into semantics over what people who couldn't in their wildest dreams imagine computers might have thought. It just a law and laws change all the time.
An effective business model does not require patents, because by the time someone copies your idea well enough to be a threat, you've already come up with a better way to do it. Trying to make a business out of inventing one thing has never worked - you stay in business by inventing things faster than your competitors.
How long until some poor gay or trans kid gets outed and kicked out of home by religious parents because of this? I think it's going in absolutely the wrong direction. Kids should have their privacy respected.
Marginal improvements like this don't seem worthy of such an announcement. I'm sure a faster Macbook Air would be nice to have, but it's not profoundly different than the previous generation in terms of the value it provides to a consumer.
I was never arguing that. But if you wish, the sentence in the story is not just oversimplified, it's just ignorant and wrong. I would never tell my child such things.
Naive implementation certainly is, as it involves one multiplication (of number whose size depends linearly depends on number of previously processed bytes) for each input byte and one division for each output byte. But on the other hand I have this feeling, that more effective implementation is possible (and actually used by modern compression algorithms like RAR and LZMA).
You might be better served asking somewhere else that is not going to be as biased. Try reddit.com/r/AskReddit .
Personally I think the claims of Apple's innovation are way overblown. They aren't innovators, they are generally executors. They execute very well, and market very well.

The only innovation I can really find where they were truly leaders is the concept of the app store - which admittedly has been huge - but outside of that they sell an extremely well executed smart phone and tablet.

Aside from that, Nintendo's strategy is miles away from Apple's.