skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, there was some mention of using this mechanism as a way to make sales to consumers in the patent. I agree, it seems more like this is over the "Rate me" dialog popup boxes than the IAP, but the suits seem to have hit developers that use IAP more than anyhting else.
After all, I am known for my reserved, duplicitous, and very guarded twitter account.
Rapture Tomorrow: Why Were You Left Behind?
No? Programmers get better offers all the time. Why make less money at an uncertain startup when you can make more money somewhere that has a certain future?

I have no idea that this happened, but people leave for reasons other than "the product sucks". In fact, I would guess that compensation and getting along with your coworkers are much bigger factors.
Not really. It depends on each person's metabolism. I know people that get fat just by having regular desserts for a few days, and others (generally very young) that can eat anything until they burst without moving the needle.
Wow, where did you get the Dr. Atkins died of heart failure? He slipped on ice, hit his head and died as a result.

Do people really believe that this is how he died?
Image processing with JRuby
Deadly explosion at iPad factory in Chengdu (2 dead, 16 injured)
Speak your customer's love language (or How To Fail at IT Service Delivery)
I started reading HN about 2 years ago. Jokes and "Internet snark" were extremely rare, if I ever saw them at all. To me, that was the single greatest thing about HN - much more important even than the articles. Subjectively, I've noticed a gradual decline in comment quality starting about a year ago, and a much more drastic, rapid decline into a more Reddit-like culture going back only about 4-5 months.
It may be interesting to note that Red Hat's Richard Jones wrote some nice system utilities in OCaml, such as virt-top and guestfs-browser:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=virt-top.git;a=summary

http://git.annexia.org/?p=guestfs-browser.git;a=summary
SoundCloud Voices: Stack Exchange, Tech Zing, The Next Web
So this is another way to create animated banners... only banners that take more power and performance to be displayed, plus still locked to their platform.

Gotcha. What an advance.
How about controlling the DNS for corporation.com? Any company with a reasonably competent IT staff should be able to flatly deny a request for a subdomain. "You want to setup myblinkenlightsbox.corporation.com? Has that machine been hardened to corporate standards? Request denied."
Would you please post a link to that report.

The article linked to in this HN post is poorly sourced. I'm hoping to read a credible journalistic article on this subject.
The role of the CIO is to run the high level vision of an IT Organization such that it properly maps to all other goals and objectives of the business.

The cloud is just a tool - and any CIO worth their salt will see the cloud for what it is and has been for years; managed services.

The issues are that any CIO that starts dropping the word cloud too often probably is too abstracted from the technologies and stacks that enable the cloud. They are no different than what you have internally - and you have to really understand the pros and cons of cloud deployment as it specifically pertains to your business.

The cloud is fantastic for any service that needs to be abstracted from the tactical infrastructure deployments of hardware so they can focus on their core service (Netflix being the most beautiful example of this)

But where does the cloud not make sense?

Internal traditional IT services that are never going away: Active directory, file, print, security, etc..

So - does the cloud change the role of the CIO - no not at all.

What it does do it start to change the technology choices that the CIO has to pick from, understand and evaluate.

Managed services (ASP/Saas/PaaS/Iaas/ETC) make sense when you want to leverage the infrastructure expertise of a provider and your mission is to deliver content or an application. You could still utilize the cloud for large scale apps like ERP, EHR and even file storage (dropbox enterprise better come soon or I'll have to go knock on Drews door) -- but putting large scale, mission critical apps in the cloud introduces a layer of points-of-failure that many enterprises are not yet comfortable with.

So, to mitigate the risks of relying on cloud services, an organization - a CIO in specific, better make sure he has a top network architect advising on multiple carrier, divergent pathing to the internet to ensure that you eliminate premise inet failures as a POF to your service.

Finally - the idea behind an enterprise (traditional enterprise) leveraging cloud services is to (ideally) use the cloud as a elastic capacity rather than sole source.

The starting question in the eval should be: WTF do we do when AWS goes down?

If your first question about any service is not "WTF do we do about downtime" -- then you shouldn't be a CIO.
For consumer applications, maybe it does make sense to go a different direction if you want to make money from your application; but if you're developing software to sell to businesses, it makes a lot of sense to go the open source route. See, for reference:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/survey-56-expect-that-...
hah, great find - thanks for that!
I just find it striking how people want to give their product (source code) away for free, without limitation.

I'm pretty sure that typical open source licenses, such as the GPL, count as a "limitation".

Disclosure: I run a company that sells software which is also available under the GPL.
"They keep lowering the temperature increases they expect, from 0.30C per decade in 1990"

Take a look at model B of Hansen et al. 1988 and compare it to the actual temperatures and you'll see that it's not a bad fit. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/12/update... . The 1988 estimate was "0.26+/-0.05 ºC" so "0.25C per decade in 1990" would be a more accurate statement than the overly accurate/imprecise "0.30" you quoted here.

That sequence of 0.30C, 0.20C, 0.15C could very well be 0.26, 0.18, 0.17 if rounding rules were chosen with a view towards exaggerating for the sake of truthiness. But let's say it isn't - without knowing the reason for the changes, and especially without knowing the error bars, then it's hard to comment on the apparent decline. The 1988 paper is one of the first global climate models, so perhaps the parameters needed refinements which later researchers have done.

"In the United States, nearly 90% of official thermometers surveyed by volunteers violate official siting requirements that they not be too close to an artificial heating source."

That has been researched a lot. The phrase "artificial heat source" is a deliberate distraction. The complaint is that the thermometers are too close to parking lots or other things which might contribute an "urban heat island" effect. This is quite different than "artificial heat source" which sound like it's next to a boiler or engine or exhaust from a building.

However, throw out those 90% and look at the 10% and the signal is still there. Look at the sea-based thermometers, and the satellite measurements, and the signal is still there. Thus, the putative "artificial heating source" has no significant effect on the measurements. See for example http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/global_wa... .

"since 2001 the global temperature has levelled off."

That's a biased sample error. 1998/1999 was a hot spike. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png . Extend the average over a longer time and the trend is more obviously trending upward. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Temperature_Anomaly...

"The Earth has been in a warming trend ..."

That's a meaningless statement. No one contests that it's warmer now than the Little Ice Age. The question is, what impact do humans have on the warming trend? Pulling numbers out of thin air: If the breakdown is 0.01C "naturally" per decade and humans during the last century have gotten it to raise by 0.16C per decade, then the natural influences are minor and it's best to be concerned about the human contribution.
"Our accounts sell at $12, $29 and $99, which is usually much cheaper than setting it up on yourself and running your own server. We even have switchers that used to host their own version and came to our online version."

If I want to run a competing business and I have more money for advertising, servers, and employees, I will not only have an advantage over you, but I now don't have to put any time into R&D.
Awesome. This is just what's needed to take the crown from Flash

I've been hearing that for the past few years about every new piece of technology. Hasn't happened yet.

If you think the crappy IDE is the best Flash offers, you're way off base.
Request invite if you're interested, I got it pretty quickly. Great design indeed.
The underlying issue here is not one of legality or technology, but rather economics. Market transactions are based on scarcity, and the ability to cheaply copy information which is expensive to make eliminates that scarcity, resulting in a market ecosystem that is unsustainable without legal and/or technological measures.

Call me a commie if you wish, but I don't think this problem can be eliminated without rethinking capitalism as we know it, at least regarding "intellectual property". (This is arguably a self-healing problem, in that struggling entities will be forced to innovate new business models, as has been happening in the music space for the past 10 years.)

In the meantime, those who care deeply about these issues can {a} stick to real books, {b} pirate (note that you can pay and pirate if you like), and {c} keep yammering on about the issue with the hope of swaying more people to value their freedoms, thereby influencing the market.
> If you want more than that, then you should pay more to get the source code and knowledge that went into making the product.

Opening the source does not instil the knowledge that went into making the product.

> I still don't "get" the allure of open source.

From which perspective? The user or the programmer?

> I just find it striking how people want to give their product (source code) away for free, without limitation.

Most licenses have limitations to some degree. Even BSD licenses.

> go get it for free and piece together yourself

You can also get the ingredients and recipes yourself and make food yourself. As can you do with clothing. Or numerous other things. However, people pay for service.

> Just seems like such a waste and detriment to the software engineering profession

Except for the fact that the software engineering profession is built on the back of open source.
Pulling only from github seems very restrictive to me. So, basically if I want to put a private project on PagodaBox, I have to also purchase a github account.
Startup Stories
I'm also a US-native, and didn't take it as an attempt to offend. I used to live in South America, where people tend to get a little prickly about the US having laid claim to the term "American." They always call people from the US "Estadounidense," literally, UnitedStatsian.

It's really our own fault: we have a country that has an extremely awkward name. We're the United States of America, so "America" is, grammatically speaking, the name of our country, but we're also part of a set of continents that's also called "America." We could actually use a better term like Unitedstatsians or USAians.
I think you'd find such a change counterproductive. Such a license would not qualify as OSS anymore, which would take away the vast majority of the value. So, you'd incur all the costs of releasing the source, without getting the value of OSS.

You might consider something like the AGPL instead, which still qualifies as Open Source, but which provides added protections for a hosted service.
I am quite fond of the original intent of the US Constitution with upper house being territory-based and the lower house being population-based. I don't like the direct election of the Senators since it separates them too much from the concerns of the state. I guess I would prefer to have the state legislatures appoint them or else remove the 2 senators and substitute the state's governor (travel time / communication not being that big an issue).
I love Spain and feel your pain
The problem is we've given up long-term benefits in exchange for short-term ones, and it's not clear where that's going to lead us.

Steam makes my life super convenient, but what happens if I move to a country with super-aggressive bandwidth caps? For that matter, I don't even know if Steam would let me access my US-bought materials from another country.

As hackers, we're used to working around the problem. The problem is that that attitude lacks foresight, and "death by a thousand cuts" can become a reality.
Side note: the original french version is here : http://cristal.inria.fr/~remy/poly/system/camlunix/index.htm...
In a similar boat I was initially using a free template from templateworld.com which I hacked into what I wanted.

I recently ditched that and switched to using blueprint (http://www.blueprintcss.org/) as a framework. There isn't an overall finished look out of the box, but it is a much better foundation.

A very simple grid comes off looking remarkably clean, I now understand everything in the layout and feel like I am in control of the design rather than changing template stuff until it magically looks more or less right!
I think I'd go with ad negotium. Otherwise, I agree.
Does Twitter have any obligations to UK law? Are they incorporated there somehow?
Startups: scalability from the start?
In implementing an idea/product would it be better to push quickly then iterate, or design and implement for scalability from the start?

Recommendations for scaling would help too.

Posted this on Quora as well:
http://b.qr.ae/jWRWB7
Better question - Why are people always trying to subtract something from they're diet? Wouldn't it be better to just eat a well balanced plate?
One step forward, fifty thousand steps back?
See Mozilla v.s. Netscape.
Yes, presenting this as a "youth protest" seems like an attempt by the establishment to distract people from the real issue, which is a political system that they created and voted for during the past 30 years. You reap what you sow.
Apple? Doing something for its developers?

Preposterous.
Why is logic bad?

Because it is not really logic, in this case-- it's hacker-who-is-committed-to-piracy-being-noncriminal logic. In other words, it's an ex post facto justification of something based on little more than wishful thinking.

This case is open-and-shut. The guy produced counterfeit tickets, plain and simple.
DARPA's request for input on their 100 year starship study
Wired Covers Y Combinator
My scariest experience of American food was on my first night in the country. I was in the lobby of the hotel and kinda peckish, so I ordered the nearest thing I could find to a ham sandwich, a montecristo.

Despite it being actually fairly cheap, what arrived, was a MASSIVE batter encrusted mountain of about 50 sandwich quarters...

Good grief America!
Thanks! I was really impressed with this as soon as I saw it.
IBM to Invest $100 Million to Further Watson-Like Technology
Throwing the last dart
I'm as lost as you. From the patent text:

"One of the core purposes of the invention is illustrated in FIG. 15. This is the ability to learn interactively and iteratively from the users of products and information systems anywhere in the world while they are in use—without having to travel to their sites (or without having to bring them to a testing laboratory). Since this is a two-way link, it also offers the ability to respond meaningfully to customers and users based on worldwide, local, organizational or individual needs regardless of where they are located."

...

"As envisioned by this invention, as customers and vendor employees interact to produce continuous improvement, the marketplace may be e-engineered into an interactive development environment (i.e., research and development environment, or R&D environment) with a national or global scope."

It seems that they've patented a survey. I don't get it. And, anyway, a "purchase" button sure isn't what they had in mind when they wrote the patent! (BTW, "e-engineered" is verbatim. Maybe it's a term I don't know, but I took it as a typo of "re-engineered.")
Here's a direct link to the pdf request for input: https://www.fbo.gov/download/4e9/4e97f00f960077f97483818426f...

The linked blog post provides a reasonable summary.
FWIW, it certainly doesn't sound like it was for a better offer. He's actually on the market right now:
http://twitter.com/#!/KirinDave/status/70222704883662848
http://twitter.com/#!/KirinDave/status/70221497888808960
Ars Technica Investigates the State of Malware on the Mac
Very well, I suppose some people might want to be tracked like a bunch of cattle. In the event that someone does want to do this, then they should have to opt-in. The default should not be opt-out for something as invasive as this.

If Apple were caught doing this, there would be a hearing in front of congress.
Tell HN: NC govenor refuses to veto H.129, municipal Internet over?
It looks like North Carolina is about to pass a bill that will hinder or outright prohibit municipalities from offering their own internet service to residents.

Ratified bill: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/HTML/H129v6.html

One viewpoint on why this sucks: http://www.muninetworks.org/content/digging-h129-another-bill-nc-limit-local-authority-and-broadband-competition

Is this the beginning of the end of municipal internet service?
CPU Emulation: How does bellard.org/jslinux work?
"Take a standalone product like Camtasia. It works really well and its worth the money to buy it. But if it was FOSS and I could just donwload the sources, build and it use it, and only had to pay for support -- well I probably would never buy it. I've never needed support with it. It's so easy to use, I've never had a need for support (in fact, that's partially why I'm willing to pay for it!)."

Not only this, but anyone could build and maintain a free version and make it so the average user doesn't need to even compile it.

Open sourcing an app doesn't really make sense for a business. You will be making it easier for competitors to put you out of business.
What are your problems with backups? Does Rackspace Sites solve them?
I really like microsoft outlook
Of course the scores should be reversed on a place called "Hacker News"
but you know the reason why the scores are the way they are; As the
popularity of this site increases, the average skill set of the users
deceases. Your "embarrassing" post is comprehensible to unskilled
people, but your beautiful post is well beyond the skills of most users
to understand.
Generally speaking, it's entirely possible to be successful with longer, more infrequent posting, however increasing the number of posts gives you more chances to get noticed (as well as more opportunities to promote your content). Do keep in mind though that while post frequency and length are important factors, consistency and having a solid strategy that justifies your schedule matters even more.
Sony Hacked Again Again (1K worth of 'points' stolen)
An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations
And why does Google's invasion of privacy make this okay?

This is why the governments of the world need to implement do not track laws.
What you can't do (right now), is take a copy, send that copy to someone and be prevented from reading the

I thought you could do exactly that, if the author allows it, for something like 14 days. But there is a difference here: the author has the say on that (for now, anyway).
There is a subtle difference between quality and trustworthiness. It's possible I missed the thread you're talking about, but as far as I can see, most of the discussions here are discussing quality. Like I said, I agree score does not correlate to quality necessarily. I was simply pointing out that in the case of specialized topics like wheels mentioned, even a score of 5 is a useful signal in telling me that it's trustworthy, versus reading a comment with a score of 1 that could be complete BS and should be taken with a grain of salt.
I don't know about you, but that attitude does not gain any nuance at all just because you apply it to nations instead of individuals. In fact, given that nations contain a myriad forces opposing each other that an individual would not (and therefore conflicting views on pretty much anything), it seems considerably worse to apply it to nations than individuals.

And it's already bad enough using patriotism to blackmail individuals into supporting you.
WhereBerry?
I Was Left Behind On May 21, 2011: Why Were You Left Behind?
I'm with you on #4 without reservation.

Most of the examples shown on the Hype site are – and I don't want to be overdramatic here – terrible. They're the kind of inaccessible, hard-to-update, ploddingly-paced, opaque sort of web front end I had to wean myself off of half a decade ago, and open web standards and mobile compatibility don't suddenly make these practices okay again in 2011. I'm kind of dumbfounded at Gruber gushing that these constitute "a glimpse of the future."

I am excited about Hype, though. Not as a tool to build sites, but as a tool to build the kind of informational animations and animated elements for which we used to use Flash. I'm sure I'll be building all sorts of things that go into semantically-formed pages with Hype.
I couldn't agree more.

The MBTA trains leak when they get wet. Every day there are delays due to "signal problems". There's a major crash on the Green Line annually. Getting the basics of electronic billing is about fourth on the list of things that the MBTA needs to address.
Nice list.fairly accurate summaries.
Ask HN: Should there be a "Hustler News?"
I started thinking about this after reading alot of frustrated posts on HN after the countless "I need a tech co-founder" posts. I don't consider myself a good programmer or hacker and I've had alot of questions myself for this community from a business perspective.

And it got me thinking, should there be a similar community built for entrepreneurs interested in building an internet start-up who aren't hackers? I feel like many existing communities are like HN which is mostly tech entrepreneurs and other entrepreneurship forums are focused on brick and mortar/real estate/investing. Is there a need for Hustler News?
I'm talking about making your offering better so you're the main choice, not adding crap to your open-source offering so it's harder.
Perhaps HN actually prefers "infotainment" over genuinely difficult information? Or prefers things that are within or near the shared knowledge to things it knows little about?
Sorry, I meant: Why did you decide to go for Mac OS only? I imagine that you could gain a userbase from Linux users who can't natively use the Adobe Suite. It's all web technologies after all, I imagine you could code the frame in Qt.