skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be true - but that article needs a {citation needed} at the end of about every sentence.
Also, while it was in effect it was not enforced against apps that used Mono.
This is awesome, but the title is misleading.

At first I thought it was saying that the iOS version of RAGE was rendered with WebGL. Then I thought maybe that the iOS version of game was ported to a browser. Actually, the levels from the iOS version were extracted and are being rendered in a browser using WebGL.
>Bloom filter allows Chrome to use precise verification service practically only when the user actually goes to a malicious web site.

Not quite true. This ignores priors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability) How many websites does an average Chrome user visit in a day? Let's pull a number out of the air -- 1000? If, as the article suggests, 1% of them are false positives, the bloom filter will have 10 false positives per day.

How often does a user hit an actual malicious site? Once a day? a week? Let's say once a day. So 1 true positive malicious sites, 10 false positives. Over 90% of positives are false! So most of the time when you need to precisely verify the maliciousness of a site, the site is safe.

Of course, given that you only need to do this check a handful of times per day, this seems like a valid tradeoff, but Bloom filters here are no panacea.
No patents would suck a few ways - new ideas might well end up being locked in obfuscated machine code or sealed in ROM until someone puts in the effort of disassembling them and teasing out the algorithm.

But, they still suck less than the alternative, a world in which programmers are prevented from doing the right thing, innovation and start-ups require a willingness to dare a legal minefield blindfolded, big companies have unanswerable bludgeons against little companies, and unproductive trolls get to charge productive people for using ideas they couldn't comprehend, let alone create or use.

Tear it down. Replace it with nothing.
...and to clearify (a bit at least): We have built a de-centralised e-commerce system that will work where web standards work.
I'm not sure if that really lowers your overall risk. Finding out afterward that you accidentally broke some patent which you could have avoided easily isn't necessarily better even if you don't have to pay treble damages.
Few things -- yes, we have been working on our stuff for a while. I've been doing it since 1999 at various grad schools and research labs, for example. Notice however we do not release things before they are good. I've spent 12 years working on this stuff and the state of the art simply wasn't ready until recently. First impressions are very important for music, if you lose the trust of your users it's hard to get it back.

Re: "warmup": My point was technologies like ours don't need a warm up period where users give us catalog and preference data. You can have great results without relying on that. Even better, we think.

Also, re: "please buy us" -- come by the office sometime and have some drinks and you'll see why we all found that comment pretty funny. Hopefully someone still reading this thread knows us well enough to +1 this. Come to a music hack day if you're not near boston.

(post-edit: davemebs -- our stuff is pretty easy to try for yourself if you're a developer. see developer.echonest.com . if not, wait a little bit for some consumer facing things. we're primarily developer-focused at the moment)
I agree. I think that I have a tendency to give parents access to this type of information much more than many on HN, but you have to do it at the right endpoint: the computer and network a child uses to access the internet. Parents need to install a network appliance that can analyze and present all of the activity that occurs on their network (i.e., a good router). I'm surprised that these are not yet widespread. I would be interested in creating one if someone wants to invest money.
Will Kleiner-Perkins or Sequioa Capital ever come to North Carolina?
The Pirate Bay Ships New Servers to Mountain Cave (with pic)
Immaturity of Maturity Models
We could just criminalize alcohol and tobacco (or start enforcing marijuana in the bay...) if we wanted to do that.
3 Steps to a Better Employer Brand
Want to recruit and retain top talent? Then you better make sure your company has a strong employer brand for potential employees.
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be
much easier to deal with." ('Atlas Shrugged' 1957)
In terms of developer salary alone I have no doubt Novell has put millions of dollars in to Mono with no real obvious profitable products.
YouTube - What do you think about Blekko?
Pinta is another great open source mono app
The patch in the bug report seems solves the problem and allows you to stay on 10.04 LTS. It's a tiny patch and has been stable for us under production load.
I'm not sure what to do about it. Voting doesn't do anything, and hoisting the red and black would only get me kidnapped or murdered.
Why would they go? With those names you go to them. Fly down and setup a meeting do whatever you have to do. Don't wait for them they are fine where they are. :)
MonoTouch generated code is not interpreted.
QR Code Tattoo
Seems like California legislators take Silicon Valley's "capital of innovation" status a bit too much for granted.[1][2][3]

[1] http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/In-Fifty-Days-Payments-...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/16/california-bill-to-give-par...

[3] http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArtic...
Landlords say Newark man refuses to pay rent, trashes apartments
I know a few game companies use it. Sims 3 is probably the biggest recent game using Mono
Web Designers, Get Out There and Make Something
SoCal Startups: I Want to put your logo on my business cards. No strings.
I’m ordering my business cards for The Startup Cafe and I want to put your startup’s logo and URL on the back.

How do you get in on this? Simple:

Do you have a Web, open-source, or mobile startup or event located somewhere in SoCal?

Does it have a logo?

Can you design the back of a business card using this template and these guidelines?

Can you upload that design to Flickr and tag it with tscMoo?

Awesome, you’ve made the cut. I’m getting 100 cards printed so get your logo in. First come first served.
for the retail 10th aniversary. I guess a sale is in order
From the study reported at the submitted link:

"These work-life earnings returns by undergraduate field of study partly reflect the differing propensities of people with bachelor’s degrees to obtain advanced degrees. In 2009, about 59 million people had at least attained a bachelor’s degree. Of these, about 21 million (36%) had attained an advanced degree. The likelihood of having an advanced degree varies by undergraduate field of study. Undergraduate majors in education are the most likely to have an advanced degree (45%). People with a bachelor’s degree in the broad field of study―business―were the least likely to have an advanced degree (21%).

"Among workers with a bachelor’s degree but not an advanced degree, the estimated 40-year work-life earnings range from $0.9 million for workers with an education degree to $1.7 million for workers with an engineering degree. Workers with undergraduate majors that require mathematics competencies tend to earn the most over their work lives."
I feel that software patents should be abolished, but barring that, extremely shortened. I would say three to five years; a lifetime in the world of software.
I prefer to keep things simple, and version the home directory directly. I renamed the ~/.git repository to ~/.dotfiles.git in order to keep it out of the way, and set up a broad .gitignore, which can always be overridden with -f. When I need to work on the repository I use the GIT_DIR environment variable. No need for managing symlinks.
Author of the CoffeeScript book here. Thanks for this! I saw more sales in the hour after this HN post than in the preceding week.
I do something else while my subconscious works. Careful: 15 minutes on HN is good; an hour is procrastination.
The nice thing about rising sea levels is that, apart from the occasional catastrophic flood, the rise will happen gradually enough that most of the affected areas can be evacuated decades in advance. There will be a tremendous loss of infrastructure if e.g. Manhattan is under water, but we'll see the water coming.
Can you clarify? I wouldn't use non-LTS on servers, but the LTS ones have a stable and long enough shelf life.

I've personally found Ubuntu more bare bones out of the box than CentOS.
Hiring and cultivating great developers
The Google Pharm Case
For people who already work out, this is a great tool. For people who need a starting point, this needs some work. Some suggestions that may be helpful:

Allow users to specify their starting point or class. How do you want to start exercising? Similar to how players choose classes in MMOs, users could pick a starting point. Srongman, Endurer, Ripped, Swimmer, Biker, Martial Artist, Climber... and the user can choose to start as one of these things and the quests guide the user to achieve that title by focusing on attributes like strength, endurance, tone, lower body workouts, etc.

The reason I think this would help people just starting out is that 1) It helps to have someone tell you what to do. That's why personal trainers are popular. 2) It'll confirm whatever bias/propensity a user has. Some people love to ride bikes and the prospect of riding 100 miles is less daunting than the goal of working up to running 10 miles. Likewise a person who is into cardio will be less inclined to try doing heavy weight training.

Very cool project. Good luck!
You can try it out at https://joindiaspora.com/ but eventually you will be able to choose or host your own federated server.

Also, it's against etiquette to have a sig on this site. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Not a big deal, just kind of annoying.
> that's copyright, not trademark

So...
Thanks, maybe some more background and set up would be good as I jump straight in.

You are right that picking the correct labels is very important, so far we have been working hard to get the right level of discovery and filtering out bad topics. One thing we found is that we can add a topic after and get it automatically linked which help.

Thanks for the feedback.
The idea had so much potential; the execution was flawed though. Too much time has passed and yet Diaspora has yet to make much of an impact on the social network scene. Perhaps it is time to give it a rest, and let some other social network ideas bloom.
I have seen quite a few people who have filed patents state that they don't understand their own patents and (as a general statement) I find this puzzling. A patent has 3 main sections (a) background and prior art (b) description of the invention and (c) the claims.

The claims in particular are indeed technical and difficult for a lay person to readily understand. But the background, the prior art and the description of the implementation are not. Background and prior art are a summary of the technical context and I have never had any difficulty reading or understanding this section. The description may be rather long winded as it has to detail how to implement the invention so that it may be implemented from the description by someone skilled in the art, but it isn't legalese and should certainly be understood by the inventor! The lawyer can't write this by him/herself.

I can certainly sympathize with those who can't follow the claims (although I have found it to be perfectly possible with determined effort), but I simply fail to understand how a lawyer turns it into something "I can't understand any more." Find alien and unfamiliar - yes. But incomprehensible?
> You're missing a critical difference. Patents are supposed to be "unobvious". A normal person just working in their shop should not just accidentally stumble across a patented thing, because by definition the patented thing should not be obvious to one skilled in the art.

"should" is the problem with that argument. Just as "all bugs are shallow to the right eyes", all machines are obvious to a fair number of people.

> In fact, the very fact that we have patent trolls that can run around and sue business after business after business for the same patent, while the businesses have no evidence that shows they have communicated with each other about the patented subject, ought to be proof positive that the patent is obvious and shouldn't be patentable.

No, that's not "proof positive" of anything, any more than AG Bell's race to the patent office "proves" that telephony was "obvious".

> Perhaps programmers are overreacting

because the intertubes provide a great forum for overreacting. After all, overracting and porn are internet's the dominant uses.
Ok, I was mistaken that it is against the rules. You are right, it is fine to change the title if it doesn't put too much of an editorial spin on it. My apologies.

Having said that, the title in this case was changed to emphasize something which only made up a small part of the story: that the fictitious daughter was first sued in the womb. This is only briefly mentioned in the story itself, so the title editing looks a little bit like link-baiting to me, which is why I would have preferred if it were left unedited.

Of course, another HN poster pointed out that the author posted the title on twitter. Since I do not know or follow the author, I did not know that when I wrote my first comment, at which point it looked like the title was changed purely for the purpose of catching peoples attention. Had I known this 9 hours ago, I probably wouldn't have commented.
YouTube: 6 Years and Counting [Infographic]
Video giant YouTube has been around just over 6 years, and to date 35 hours of content is uploaded every minute. Talk about some serious adoption of their software! Everyone from music stars, to broadcast channels, corporations to small mom and pop shops, teenagers to little old men sitting in nursing homes have uploaded videos to YouTube. You can find professionally recorded skits, to spur of the moment cell phone videos. YouTube (owned by Google) has changed the way we watch and share video.
Ask HN: Advice on hiring a commission-only salesperson.
For a B2B webapp, do you give them a sales commission on the lifetime value of the account (i.e. for every month from now until they quit, they get X% of the revenue from that sale) ?

Would love to hear some feedback on what you guys do.

Also, what % is fair - in terms of commission ?
Share with the class so I don't have to click the link, would you?
Remind HN: The latest BundleHunt has launched
BundleHunt is another one of those web designer/developer discount bundles, targeted at Mac owners. The latest bundle launched earlier today, and contains some great resources for graphic designers too. I'd get it for the Smashing Mag eBooks alone.

Here's the link: http://bundlehunt.com/
Clickable link: http://bundlehunt.com/
Ask HN: Is working on a startup a terrible idea for a graduate student?
I'm a graduate student at a good school. (I study hard science, but I'd prefer not to specify which department.) The thing is, this spring I decided to build my programming skills by working on a project; pretty soon, one of my friends said, "That's not just a toy project, that's a business, and I want to be your partner." He's a smart, successful guy, so I got really excited. I've been more motivated and had more fun working on my project than I've ever experienced with academic work. And I've gotten positive responses from a lot of people.<p>But then reality set in. Most startups fail. Most startups take all your time. The most likely scenario if I throw myself into this project is that it'll interfere with school, and I'll wind up with no PhD and a failed business, and I'll be screwed. I really want to at least code up a prototype. But going further than that... I'm worried. I don't want to ruin my life just because hacking is fun.
What I was saying is that a 'reasonable contractor fee' would have to be about double your current hourly wage, since the first half would only compensate the cost of burning the vacation day.
I've long suspected Fair Trade goods were an economic impossibility. I would be curious to hear about any systems the article maligns as "do-gooder" that have been successful in beating market realities.

The rental market in New York City fails similarly. A certain percentage of each building must be set aside for rent stabilized apartments. A select few housing lottery winners receive housing at well below market rates. Many of the lottery winners don't deserve the housing in the first place (e.g., voluntarily "low-income" children of wealthy parents).

There is fierce aftermarket competition for these artificially cheap apartments. Everybody wants these apartments, not only the poor, because setting the rate below market value hands any resident a clear profit. Well-off people are better equipped to compete for them, and they very often win them.

Rent stabilized apartments are often in the hands of people who don't deserve them, by any standards. They are illegally sublet at a profit. They are traded as favors to friends, or traded in exchange for off-the-book proceeds. A lot of effort is expended by landlords, usually of the nasty kind, in getting rent-stabilized tenants to move out when the time comes to reallocate the building.

Landlords don't like setting aside apartments for low income tenants. Naturally they raise the price on all the other apartments in the building. The net effect? The other tenants subsidize the rent stabilized apartments...to the tune of hundreds of dollars a month.

You can imagine the effect fully subsidized public housing has on the real estate market. You can view this as a side channel that collects taxes and pays for housing, but that's not exactly how it works. Some of the poor benefit greatly, the rest of the poor deal with the same inflated market as everyone else. And, let's face it, the middle class in NYC already has a terrible time paying for housing.
Only on simulcast I'm afraid :(

Marcin (http://linkfindr.com)
Ask HN: Why some submission are automatically marked [dead]?
I've just submitted a link to one of Lew Rockwell's article [1]; it was automatically marked as [dead].

Are there any specific rules on how this works?

Thank you in advance.

[1]
http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/google-pharm-case179.html
Which means that your "real project" is delayed and all the effort you spent on bootstrapping that person is wasted.
The deal is much better/easier for you if you can do it all up front; maybe 100% of the first month?

edit: oh, until they quit. I think if your sales are currently low and this person can deliver, something like 25% would be appropriate.
PogoPlug (http://www.pogoplug.com/) and Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/) are more popular than Diaspora, methinks. Maybe they could rename themselves to "Diaspora Cloud" or similar.
I thought sports car makers, fashion designers, wine makers, jewellers etc have already proven that centuries ago.
whenever both are true simutaneously:

1. child doesn't want to share his online presence with his/her parents

2. and the parents still insist on it

then this parent/child relationship has much more serious problem than just the issue of access to the online page, and applying the government force on the side of the parent against the will of the child - how would it make the situation better?
I love the idea of starting from her fan base. Thanks percept! I like the idea of seeding some content on eHow and YouTube.
I think only the FBI should be able to access my kids' facebook accounts. Heaven help us all if someone who knows, loves and has their best interest at heart should learn about my kids interests, friends and beliefs!
IE9 Surpasses IE6 In Market Share
One well documented problem here is 'hindsight effect.' After something has been invented and has been used for even a short while it becomes 'obvious.' This effect is so powerful that it is in fact difficult for attorneys representing patent holders where patents are being challenged for being 'obvious' to defend the case because juries now find what was non-obvious at the time to now be obvious. Studies show that this is not only potent but pervasive - being smart and well educated does not mean one can rewind time any better than the next person. It is hard to recapture that innocent state before the innovation.
Actually, having switched to a 27 inch imac (2560x1440), I find that one monitor is actually better than two smaller monitors. I was hoping the article would come to that type of conclusion. Alas ...
Just a little thing, but Windows Live Messenger seems to support leaving video messages for people. I've never used it, but the option is there in the interface.
Is that 25% of total revenue for the lifetime of the account ?

So if they register for a $100 plan, every single month I cut a check for $25 to that salesperson, until that customer leaves ?

Is that how it usually works ?
Most Ph.D programs have a way to take a leave of absence or something similar. Larry & Sergey aren't technically Ph.D dropouts, they're just "on leave from the Stanford Ph.D program".

See if you can do something similar. That way, you can see if your startup takes off, and at worst, you come back to your Ph.D where you left off. At best, you end up making a few million and can return to the Ph.D for fun, but you won't have to worry about ruining your life ever again...
display != living room tv
Guys, it's a cheap trick. Introduce some ridiculous charges, hear the expected outrage, tune it down a bit to the levels they wanted.
I'm so glad Congress wasn't paying attention to the Internet when I was a kid.
> As I understand it that is no US Constitutional distinction between rights of parents or rights of children..ie when you are born in the US you have full rights under the constitution despite not being able to enter contracts a non-minor.

You need to re-read the US Constititution. It has several prohibitions based on age. And the Supremes have been more than happy to accept several others.

> That would mean that a parent getting private access to a private other FB member account of a child would fall under the right be to be secure form search and seizure ..among other constitutional issues

In almost all circumstances, parents can consent to have their children's physical property searched. (This is very settled law.) Given that, what makes you that "virtual property" would be treated any differently?

BTW - Even if you're an adult, other people can consent to have your property searched in many circumstances.

To my reading, 4th amendment law doesn't much follow the 4th amendment, but the Supremes have gone a different direction for decades.
God, I like reading stuff like this, but personally I think articles about keeping your entire home directory under version control are more interesting (Joey Hess does this, I believe, and probably others I don't know about).

Stuff like this is why I enjoy Hacker News.
Admirable.
Except, famously, it's not.