skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I've ever seen Apple gloat about software patents. They mostly talk about hardware patents, things like the MagSafe connector, which is a really good invention and they deserve to keep the credit for inventing it.

Their software patents too are always very specialized, with no real vague areas that can be used for patent trolling. Not that they need to make a habit of patent trolling when they can print money with their sales anyway.
That comment by the author, along with some others, makes TechStars seem more like going to grad school and less like intrepidly going balls-out to make a company work in the real world. I'm not saying that's the reality of the situation, but that's what his argument seems to posit. If that's indeed the case, I'll pick the latter (YC).
I'm wary of this. Are the bad guys really going to be honest about what icons they display? (edit: I realize I'm repeating what's written in the article)
It's my understanding that the Internet is structured in such a way that this kind of thing is impossible unless there is a massive buy in of all involved countries.

I very much prefer the Internet raw and unfiltered. I know enough to know which sites I like and which I don't.

Furthermore, the Internet is an expression of the human condition, and as such it is itself art, and should not be censored for this reason as well.

We already have enough trouble with ICE seizing domains
> In the end, Ernst and EMI settled their differences confidentially and out of court.

Pragmatic.

Curious side-note: when it was first introduced into Victoria Australia, Hungry Jacks (Burger King in US) failed to trademark the term "whopper", because was a generic term. But, today, it's a registered trademark. Over time, advertising can create an association.
Buy a business
FIRST!!!!!111
Games Are More Important Than Music
And if you get hit by a car?

And if you get cancer, despite your healthy lifestyle, which happens to millions?
I'm having some difficulty in deciphering how this study defines success regarding 4chan. From what I recall (google-fu failing me), 4chan is expensive to run and Chris is having a hard time generating revenue off the beast.

Perhaps success here is defined as success was defined previously -- lots of users, great potential for monetization, just need to figure out a successful business strategy.
HTC Puccini
"Having this capability in the compiler is pretty cool and brings C/C++ a small step closer to working in higher level languages"

C++0x is another (much bigger, in my opinion) step that makes C++ a lot easier to program. It's not quite as easy as higher level languages, but far closer than before, and the performance gains over most other languages make it worth using.
21-year-old Filipino carves amazing wooden car sculptures
Detect css3 property browser support
I think one of the barriers to "monetization" is that the user base finds the concept offensive.

A community does not need to be making its creators money hand over fist, or indeed making money at all to be successful in terms of what the users expect/want from it.
Google Maps updated for Android, iPhone
Android developers form ‘union’ to protest Google policies
What Makes Music Expressive?
I think the Go* language is proof they are trying to solve some of C++'s problems without giving up speed.

It would be an amazing research project to take a couple different, large Google C++ programs and port them to Haskel and Erlang to see how they compre.

* Why does it have to be such a common word for it's name? Just means it's name, for all practical purposes, is "Go Language".
I chose the human version in all examples. What about you?
Opa: one language for all the web app stack
just found this: seems really promising
This is very cool. I remember reading about Dean Kamen's "Luke Arm" a few years back but haven't heard about it in a while. He and his lab were profiled, and they demonstrated the arm, which had, what looked like, the fine motor control that this one does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rloSSqiUCM&feature=fvwre...

Anybody know if this is the same arm, or if not, what happened to Kamen's arm?
Exactly my thoughts!

Edit: Given the lack of visible points a comment is needed to signal to others that others do agree with the comment. How would you like me to phrase it?
I just bought it from my iPad, ( had to gift it to myself to get it to go through). I got it for free. It came up as a .99 album and a $.99 discount/promotion. I have no idea what happened unless they are making it free to make up for the technical issues.

Also, I don't know if I get the 20gb for first album purchase (probably not but I can deal with that) or if it will end up in my cloud locker when I accept the 'gift'.
iirc i don't think the focus of this study was on 'success' in the business sense
Indeed. The point being that comparing cities is much more relevant than countries. It has also the nice property to avoid too much country-bias.
http://marcgrabanski.com/articles/long-live-the-hacker-entre...
What I need from pen test reports.
The article goes on to say that it's not a new concept. What they're suggesting is basically screencast.com linked in a bug report. Good idea, but all the necessary parts are already built
Why not just add a line with "current interests" and put these other things you're working on learning? Then put in 30 hours to learn the basics.

Don't bullshit - live up to what you want to be.
(and to a lesser extent EMI, if they had any decency,
shouldn't have attempted to trademark it).

This is not something 'to a lesser extent': this one of the central problems. (Legal) Persons should take responsibility and not abuse the law.

The other central problem is that the US courts seem to support this blatant abuse of the law.
This is interesting, but I disagree. It's certainly possible to be able to engage in rational discussion about things related to ones own identity.

I am a programmer, and primarily I identify as a C++ and Python programmer. Compared to other languages, for a given problem (unless it's truly massive, where the efficiency/expressiveness gain over the other two is large to offset becoming an expert in it), I am almost certainly going to provide an adequate solution quickest in one of those languages.

But if you say that Python is slow, doesn't do concurrency well, or has trouble scaling to truly large, 100+ programmer codebases, I'll agree with you.

And if you call C++ a large, ugly, language with a ton of ways to really screw yourself, and that is tied to a slow edit/compile/debug cycle, I'll agree with you there too.

Here perhaps maybe enlarging my identity helped, if I was just a Python programmer, I wouldn't see how static typing and a really good code searching system would help getting an anchor on a large, complicated C++ code base. Those static types and non-virtual functions means that yes, I can see every place that this particular function is called in our entire code base without having to dig all that much. And if I was just a C++ programmer, I wouldn't know the bliss that is hacking a 200 line program in Python, and solving some mildy complicated but mostly self contained problem in few hour session, all without the bondage of makefiles, compiles, static typing and seg faults.
I couldn't make it through the whole thing. The content was somehow interesting, but the delivery was so poor that it really put me off.
I should have asked: Does Apple's license make it harder for someone else to challenge the patent?

I assumed it would, but if I'm reading MedImmune v. Genentech correctly then it doesn't even make it harder for Apple to challenge.
Ask HN: How would I go about negotiating an extended working vacation?
I'm the sole developer at a small, profitable eCommerce company.

I have my own office, but I don't need it - I am easily able to do everything remotely.

So, I want to take 2 months next year to work remotely... as in, way remotely. I'm in Dallas, I want to work from Central America for 2 months.

I'm a big boy, and I am not afraid to sit down with the boss and list this out as a demand - but I want to go about it in a tactful way that does not make him feel like I am taking advantage of the company.

I've brought working remotely up before, and his reasoning for not allowing me so far has been that he's had bad experiences with previous developers (no longer there) that were able to work remotely. I know that by the time June rolls around there'll be no question about my commitment to the company and the benefits I bring to having me around, so I do not believe this will be a valid excuse at all.

All I can think of is working from El Salvador in a hammock! Please give me some advice that I can use to my advantage.
It's funny. As humans we spend a lot of time trying to do things like a machine. For instance play a musical piece from memory perfectly.

Whereas we also spend time trying to get our machines to do things like a human. Like get a machine to play a piece as expressively as a human
This article seems to say that MS patented this BEFORE Apple did:

"Last month the United States Patent and Trademark office denied Apple a patent for some user interface elements of the popular iPod MP3 player, citing a patent submitted by Microsoft developer John Platt five months BEFORE Apple’s claim."

Whereas you say Microsoft patented a key aspect of the iPod's navigation UI 5 months after Apple released the iPod and then demanded licensing fees. Obviously MS couldn't patent something used in a product months after release (and if they did it would be overthrown in court).
I'm quite fine with no Flash on iOS, too. I never use it on Android - Jobs is right when he says the interfaces for Flash apps don't work well on touch screens, and I can't think of any sites where it's required. I guess it's nice to know it's there on Android if I need it, but I never miss Flash when browsing on my iPod.
Funny how these thoughts don't come up with phone networks, when the Internet could theoretically run via modems over phone networks. It's pretty clear that the unbridled, egalitarian power the Internet offers ordinary people is a scary concept to hierarchical power structures.

Btw nice thought with the Internet being art, but it might be a bit of a stretch in realpolitik terms.
Climate Change Is Getting Expensive For The Insurance Industry
Any example apps more complex than typical hello world stuff? I'm interested
Magento Development India
A GR brains is one of the best magento developer company based on Ahmadabad, India. We have expert magento developers with highly qualified professionals. We have delivered many of magento web application development projects for our clients.
Sitting Really Is Killing You (Try Standing Instead)
Thank you! I'm glad you asked about this, because I'm really proud of how well we worked together. We had two developers and two designers/strategists, and only one person with previous hackathon experience. The idea came from an offhand comment when we got stuck on another silly idea. After hashing it out, we realized that we all had the same goal in mind and started to build.

It was easy to split up the work because our skill sets were so different. We weren't stepping on each other's feet, and because of the time constraints, we didn't have time to second-guess anything. We used Dropbox and Github to manage our files, and frequently pushed updates to each other.

Dmitri wrote the server and scraped the CrunchBase. I wrote all the Javascript, except for the backend API calls and some setup logic. Adrian and Chris created all of the game mechanics and graphics, our main website, and some sounds that we never ended up using.

We did have some tense moments where Dmitri and I were both editing the Javascript and had conflicts, so we decided to both work on the same screen to stay sane. But everything else was a collaboration towards a shared vision, where we each had very clearly delineated roles.
Even if your screen is sufficiently bright, it's still a waste of power and dimmer than it otherwise would be. But sure, this can be mitigated with a brighter screen.
Write down your needs, and have an honest conversation with your boss. Never know unless you ask.
The icons aren't loading for me. Is there a mirror?
Idea people started dying out around YC's launch...

Once hackers (pg and such) got capital, it was game over for people that can't execute.

The title is bad because hackers become entrepreneurs when they embark on an enterprise.
It doesn't necessarily take a complex organism to fight disease. Pretty much every organism, including unicellular ones such as bacteria, possesses some form of innate immunity against that organism's most common pathogens. Simpler organisms fight disease by simply reproducing faster than the disease can kill them.

As for the brain having some sort of monopoly on "organizing intelligent bahavior", that is a complex issue. I wouldn't say that the adaptive immune system necessarily possesses intelligence. It consists of many small and relatively simple components that interact to produce complex behavior. Realize that during somatic hypermutation, the immune system is not intelligently choosing which mutations to generate. It simply generates a random sample of all possible mutations and then sets up a simple selection process that produces a result that looks intelligent to us.

On the other hand, one could plausibly make a similar argument about the brain's intelligence being the product of the interaction of individual neurons. Many people believe that our brains are no less deterministic than a silicon-based computer. Complexity is complex.

Anyway, to give you another example, cancer cells are subject to greatly increased mutation rates, and mutations that result in faster growth or better recruitment of nutrient-supplying blood vessels (vascularization) will quickly become fixed in the tumor as the cells with that mutation overtake the growth of others. This also provides an example where selection at the cellular level is at conflict with selection at the organismal level. Within the tumor, selection favors faster-growing cancer cells, but these same cells are clearly the most detrimental to the organism as a whole.
> It's not really an issue I don't know why everyone jumps to assuming you need. Php interpreter.

Yes, you do need a php interpreter to run wordpress themes as many wordpress php functions need to be customized in order to change the css.

> Anything running node.js can run php.

That doesn't make any sense. Anything that can run node.js can also run erlang, so let's use some erlang code inside node.js, right?
It depends on the code - while GCC, being more mature, is typically better at most optimisations, there are a few cases where Clang produces code that is a fair bit faster.

Over time, as Clang gets more mature, it will become more and more on par (or better) than GCC.
Phi phi island
One of probably the most beautiful island in Thailand, just subsequent Phuket.
Super macho
Super Macho is a high potency health supplement boosted by B vitamins, amino acids, ginseng &amp; glandular extract for the ultimate mens energy vitamin.
I'm pretty sure if you make a version without authentication more GitHub user will use it.
Ask HN: Where's the best place to hone your coding skills?
I'm in the middle of a job search; I've talked to tiny startups, medium startups and bigcos. I'm wondering: where did you really develop your coding skills? What really made the difference? If I want to develop serious coding skills, what should I look for in a company?
مشاهدة مباراة الهلال والاتحاد بث مباشر 24/5/2011
Ask HN: What are you working on this summer?
I honestly don't see how "length of time data is stored", "whether or not data is sold to third parties", "whether or not data is shared with advertisers", and "whether or not data is shared with law enforcement when not legally required" leaves room for a judgement call.

At least, not one that would stand up in a courtroom.
Architecural choices in mobile development
I believe that there is a chrome extension for this.

If you can't reply (and I can't find it myself), I'll make it for you.

Edit: to clarify, I believe that there is a chrome extension that does this inside twitter.com
I managed to find this

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec96/840131722.Dv.r.ht...

but unfortunately it also does not cite a source :)
Ask him. If he says 'no' then give him 2 weeks notice and start looking for a boss that's cool with that. (That's how you negotiate. If are not ready or willing to leave the job, then you are merely arguing with him.)
Unfortunately while this may work for design, it doesn't go the other way with programming, and so I then cast doubt on it working for design. I've never had opening problems with doors, so obviously I wouldn't think about designing them differently. I highly doubt I'd be the guy to think "Hey, we should put a 'push' or 'pull' sign on this door!" Several weeks ago someone posted on HN the fact that on some cars, the windshield wipers speed up automatically as the car speeds up, and vice versa, and concluded that the people who originally designed the wipers had never driven in the rain before. I've driven in the rain many times, and such an automation never occurred to me. My mind is elsewhere.

As others mentioned, maybe if programmers wanted to, they could put in the 10k hours and be designers. The tricky word there is want, and it's not very easy to change core desires. And wanting isn't always enough, some people can put in the 10k hours and still suck. Some people can immerse their minds in a subject and still suck. To me, all-equal ability is as mythical as natural born ability.
Of Round Pegs and Square's Holes
Pawn, don't be a pawn! The only way I could justify him giving you 20% is if he has customers secured. Secured means money in the bank account and not verbal commitments.

And I'm not sure I understand him saying he has more risks. Is he putting more hours selling than you coding? Is he committing capital? Is he quitting his job?

I have a project I'm currently looking for an equal technical co-founder. email me if you're interested.
This may be the path I end up taking... "I will be taking 2 months to go out of the country. I'd like to be able to work remotely during that time, or we can start making arrangements for someone to take over my responsibilities"?
Ask HN: is web highlighting service topical today?
Idea of one service blowing my mind last year: to create a service, which allows to highlight main ideas in web articles and shadow noise information.

Imagine two markers, green and gray, which you use to mark articles everywhere on the web. And your markings visible to all users of service (unregistered even).

Social highlighting, meta-wiki over Internet.

My fears:
- there were many highlighting services before (shiftspace, webnotes.net) and only Diigo is alive now. BUT: all of them is person centered, when goal of my service is to allow users to speed read the web (and help other users to do it)
- service will be unpopular because people don't like to install extensions, user.js, etc. I don't know any top service, based on extensions.
- people don't need it because most of them prefer to watch and listen instead of read.
- there aren't easy monetization way of such service.

What do you think about vitality of such service?
I'd be precise about the plans - "May and June 2012" and so on.
One article in today's blog of 37signals.com/svn resonates very much with the message.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2919-ten-design-lessons-from-...

Here is an excerpt:
=================
Olmsted had no formal design training and didn’t commit to landscape architecture until he was 44. Before that, he was a New York Times correspondent to the Confederate states, the manager of a California gold mine, and General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. He also ran a farm on Staten Island from 1848 to 1855 and spent time working in a New York dry-goods store.

His views on landscapes developed from travelling and reading. When he was young, he took a year-long voyage in China. And in 1850, he took a six-month walking tour of Europe and the British Isles, during which he saw numerous parks, private estates, and scenic countryside. He was also deeply influenced by Swiss physician Johann Georg von Zimmermann’s writings about nature’s ability to heal “derangements of the mind” through imagination. Olmsted read Zimmermann’s book as a boy and treasured it.
=======================
You've touched upon a very important point. There is huge antipathy on the part of /b/tards towards sites like icanhascheezburger, knowyourmeme, and others that profit off of content created on 4chan and shared for free with its users. /b/ is mostly shit, but there are nuggets of gold there and most /b/tards browse in order to witness their creation. /b/tards generally lament memes that go mainstream. Rickrolling became incredibly painful once the old media picked up on it (long before, really, but the cat was out of the bag), as did chocolate rain. Sites that capitalize on the content created by /b/tards for other /b/tards draw a lot of ire, and are frequently the targets of attacks.

In the same way, most /b/tards would leave if 4chan became anything resembling a legitimate business. There are far too many alternatives out there, and while moot is generally well-liked, not too many people feel a great sense of loyalty towards him. /b/tards have left in droves over far milder insults than trying to make money off them.

The other problem is the content on /b/. It's nearly impossible for moot to find advertising partners, given that gore, beastiality, and child porn are posted fairly regularly. Not many legitimate companies are will to risk being associated with that, so /b/ has had the same banner ads for months on end. I can't imagine they pay much.
Can you back up what you said with any link or quotation? I did not find any mention of the word "axiom" in McCarthy's 1960 paper ("Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine"). Google for "axiomatic system lisp" pops up my own comment above as the first result.
Um.. Which business type character in the social network got an easy ride?
Well there is a lot of wiggle room in those definitions, for instance

Length of data store: under what circumstances is what data stored, performance data, explict user data, all data, some subset of personal information, access logs, and for how long?

whether or not data is sold to third parties/whether or not data is shared with advertisers: notice the "Besides the information exposed via on-page advertisement" exemption, thats a very broad avenue of information sharing, with things such as Google analytics, which if you used, under this exemption would be perfectly fine to say "you don't share data with 3rd parties". However, via such a service you would be sharing a very large amount of information indeed.

whether or not data is shared with law enforcement when not legally required: Nearly impossible to verify, and even if it was verifiable, very hard to stop, i mean look at the AT&T wiretapping situation for instance.
Most of the cases we ran into were metaprogramming techniques which test whether an expression is a valid null pointer constants. These got innocently applied to 'false' and trigger the warning needlessly.
No, It was by mistake
Don't hate the player, hate the game, etc

I'm amazed that almost invariably, when a business doing something egregiously despicable pops up hear, someone here comes up with a "don't hate the player..." type argument.

But the argument falls flat in this case. Entrepreneur Magazine could give up with their trademark tomorrow if they wished. The only thing your argument shows is that to keep their evil, parasitical business model, they have to keep aggressively pushing that evil, parasitical legal extortion on all concerned - they can't just lazily extract only a few unearned bucks from a few unlucky folks.

I think we can hate the player and the game here...