skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand, it's really impressive to see something like this running in a browser after having years and years of flash games as the pinnacle of browser gaming. On the other, it seems somewhat sad to me that it has about the same performance as a modern cellphone when there is so much more power hiding under the browser. Perhaps off topic, but this really makes me think that there is need for things like Native Client, despite a lot of people openly saying they wish the project would just die since it is not what the web "needs".
This comment reminded me about the most overlooked detail of the whole shebang, in my opinion:

There was a 9.0 earthquake near a population center. There are 15037 people confirmed dead and 9487 people missing. Estimates of material loss range up to $300000000000. Also, a powerplant broke.
THIS is the company Microsoft needs to fund. Not Skype or Nokia.
All I know is Merlin Mann became famous by selling productivity porn. Now he repents and he's a prophet?
While this would have been unthinkable six months ago, it does seem awfully plausible at this point. Elop has already run the company into the ground, somebody might as well pick up the pieces for cheap.

The part I don't understand is how NSN is supposed to survive without the dumb/smart phone divisions to support it. Ever since the Siemens merger the network business has struggled, and it's hard to see how buying the remains of Motorola's network business is going to help them. Meanwhile Huawei is eating both Ericsson and NSN alive.
Am I the only one bugged by the quote "This legislation is a serious threat both to Facebook’s business in California"? A serious threat both to Facebook's business in California and... what?

I demand answers!
OpenSim - open source virtual world server is also written in Mono.
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MacBook Air Type-R. Extra stickers and a bigger exhaust will make it go faster and louder.
It is interesting that this poll does not mention the problem that I most care about: that the bar for "obviousness" seems to be way too low for software patents. It is so low that I actually worry in my every day work that I will accidentally violate patents simply by solving simple every day problems in obvious ways.

I would support some kind of software patents for truly novel inventions. However so many software patents that I see are almost insultingly obvious, even when you place them in context of their time.

So, yes to software patents if:

1. Shorter time period - 20 years was based on an industrial era time frame for physical manufacture and distribution

2. Much higher threshold for obviousness. Companies should have to declare problems they are applying for patents for publicly and fund a bounty for members of the public or any challenging organization to win by submitting solutions. Only when third parties fail to suggest the methods in the claims should something become patentable.
I think you'd be surprised. It's picked up a bit over the last year or two. The jedit-users list is still reasonably active.
Clicking directly only gives you the first few paragraphs then says you need to subscribe. For the full article, Google it and click the article link: http://www.google.com/search?q=H-P+Chief+Warns+of+Tough+Time...
I used to mv the old files, but now I just rm.

Host- specific files I handle by doing
if [ -f ~/.host-bashrc ]; then . ~/.host-bashrc; fi

I also use proper extensions on my files like bashrc.sh and emacs.el for automatic syntax highlighting in editors.

My shell script just goes through the current dir turning eg. bashrc.sh into a link at ~/.bashrc
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Depending on the project, you could try to see if can get even one sale before you go all Gung-Ho Startup Mode. If the project can earn that first dollar, then you have much more evidence that it is business material and worth your time. If you cannot get even a dollar, then maybe it isn't worth your time.

And you will probably regret not trying later on. Better to fear regret than taste it.
You ask the child for all their passwords and install a monitor on their computer for other activity. If the child is going to circumvent this by creating a fake account or lying to you about being on a social network then this law still won't help you. In order for a website to give you access to an account, you have to know that account exists.

Bottom line, monitoring your child is part of being a parent and there are already tools in place to help with this. As the saying goes Trust but verify.
Well, it could be used to gain access to a minor's profile. Say Maurice Minor sets up a Spacelook account and elects to share his personal data with Spacelook Friends only. His parents become concerned because strange people start appearing at the door every day claiming to be Maurice's good friends, but since Maurice's parents are not Friends with him on Spacelook they can't tell exactly what information he's making available. Fearing for young Maurice's safety, they demand Spacelook get rid of his personal data but the company does not respond. They sue, Spacelook asks the court to dismiss their suit and denies any liability, and now the parents ask the Court to order that Spacelook reveal any and all data about Maurice's account.

But as written, it doesn't seem like the parents can just demand access to any and all personal information about a minor's social network account - only that it be removed or restricted from public view. I don't know what existing law says about access rights of parents to a minor's data/accounts - that'd be a bit of a project. IANAL, TINLA, etc.
It's also interesting that Nintendo and Apple often innovate with similar technologies. The central innovations of the DS and wii -- touchscreen and motion controls respectively -- would up being tentpoles of the iPhone.

Four years later and Nintendo's been first to mass market with a 3D device and the central innovation for the wii 2/HD appears to be advanced haptics, something we've seen a number of Apple patent applications for. It will be interesting to see if Apple again catches the rest of the phone industry napping with their implementations of these technologies.
It's not really an article, just a presentation of data. I was labeling the data.
Hmm, looking at python's base64.urlsafe_b64encode(s), padding is still used. So it sounds like it doesn't fully implement the "modified Base64 for URL" spec.

Base64 encoding also seems to result in quite long ascii strings compared to what I threw together.

Or is there a way to use Base64 which would give results of a comparable length?
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That was around when Adobe was planning to ship Flash with an automatic Flash-to-iOS App exporter. Apple tried to (and managed to) stop that from happening.
iPad has a lock on tablets that's not going to disappear anytime soon. There's too many quality iOS apps. Plus, integration with Apple TV lets me stream video from my iPad 2 to my big Sony 1080p flatpanel and my home theater projector.
downvoting is endemic lately, dont worry. Apple does innovate too, it's just in sectors that are usually overlooked by rivals: industrial design, form-over-function
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When's the last time you looked up a number in the phone book? For us, it was probably around 1999.

Actually I like having it downstairs, I find it quicker than looking up on my phone, and saves the hassle of getting to a computer. That said, I do agree that shipping that many trees to so many people who don't want them is pretty awful.
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So then, "Patent trolling, it has to be unreasonable to exist."

This shows differences in generational understanding of words. "Trolling" in this case predates the widespread use with regards to Internet behavior and actually refers to fishing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing)

Just as trolling attempts to mimic a real school of fish, patent trolling attempts to mimic the legitimate licensing of productive patents. The reasonableness of the "bait" is entirely up to those doing the trolling. (And is largely subjective, which perhaps highlights a fundamental weakness of the current patent system.)
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Very true. Sadly.
Ironic in a way, huh?

I don't mind wasting a little time here and there by posting comments on some forum somewhere -- HN almost exclusively now -- because I think that's about the same as hanging out with a few guys over some beers at the end of the day.

But I long since gave up the idea that I should "blog" about anything, and I think all those people that tell others that they should blog if they want to be successful are giving some pretty narrow-minded advice.

For one, I figure that almost no matter what it is I want to say, someone else somewhere has already said it better. If I want to do myself a favor, I should spend some time trying to find that better instance of whatever it is I feel the need to say, and read it, so that I can learn from it.

For two, nobody really gives a damn. I mean, hell, let's say I write something amazing -- something that hasn't already been said better by someone else -- and it becomes the link of the day on, I dunno, everything. People flock to it from all over the world. But: most of them will only want to flock for about 30 seconds. Few of them will read the entire thing. Fewer still will understand it. And nobody will remember it in a year.

The entire culture around it -- and pop culture, and so many other distractions -- seems to me to be almost exactly like substituting sex for masturbation. Masturbation might be enjoyable while you're doing it, and occasionally it might even be really awesome for a few minutes, but it's wholly forgettable. What you really remember aren't the thousands of times you masturbated last year, but the one time last year you had really great sex.
Ask HN: How do you write a resume when all you've ever done is be a founder?
While I enjoy being a founder, I've received several great potential job offers lately. Problem is, they all say "just get us a resume and we'll schedule an interview". But damn... I'm 30 years old and all I've ever done is run my own businesses as long as I've been an adult.

So my question is... how do you write a resume when all you've ever done is be a founder and done your own thing?
But you've missed the entire point, which is that normally the browser would have to run the slow check on the 1000 sites, now it only has to run the slow check on 10 of them. That's a huge improvement, even if 9 of them turn out to be false positives.
I'd cut the DVD into a bunch of youtube videos and give it away. Make the website really flashy and pump traffic like the previous posters suggestion: how to make healthy pizza. Use the traffic to sell the book and build a name for herself and her seminars. I'd bet some of her older clients could stumble onto a youtube video, say "thats cool" and still buy the dvd.
I posted a reply to this that got auto-killed for some reason. Hilariously, that only reinforces the point I was hoping to make, which nobody will read. :-)
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Which is exactly why some of us are reluctant to cheer Mono on, no matter how dedicated and talented the Mono team might be.
In fairness, this has nothing to do with Win7 specifically. The NCSI service was introduced with Vista.
> Listen, what's the purpose of the law? To help parents control their children?

More likely, the purpose is to grandstand and give technophobic/worried parents the impression something is being done on their behalf, in the hope that they'll vote for the politicians responsible in future. Whether the law works is irrelevant.
I keep telling my wife that if I were Mayor, that it would be legal to leaflet cars, but it would be a $5 fine for every one found on the ground.

Sticking those things under my wiper is like saying "here you throw this away"[1].

[1] credit to Mitch Hedberg
probably a small cluster of w2k8 servers? I doubt ms would be using anything else.
Not that I've had to directly use it, but a friend of mine was showing me their university's new student center portal called SOLUS, and it's awful. It's impossible to find anything on it, and yet it's the only way to change courses, check marks, etc. It's sort of like a router interface, but harder to use and swamped with more information. The worst part, of course, is how much money it must've cost to transition this year.
It's a lot longer because it doesn't know your have encoded your input data in, essentially base-1. If you to convert it to base-256 (that is, and array of bytes, instead or array of bits as you have now) it would produce the same length. Yes, there is base64 implementation in pretty much any language, though they usually use + and / for the two extra characters.

As wikipedia says, padding can be added or removed as a matter of taste: From a theoretical point of view the padding character is not needed, since the number of missing bytes can be calculated from the number of base64 digits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Padding
This video is a presentation by Jeremy Zawodny, who co-wrote O'Reilly's "High Performance MySQL" ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101718 ). If there's anybody worth watching a video about switching from MySQL to MongoDB, it's that guy.
Yes, we do plan on further fleshing out the groups feature soon. One idea we're bouncing around is having a PvP style challenge system between groups, or I suppose more appropriately, GvG :)
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I should? Really? Actually, i think i'm just fine without signing up to be spammed by you. Thanks for asking so politely, though!
Reminds me of this post from yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551436

What was written as fiction, is actually happening in real life. We've made defending against frivolous patent claims expensive enough that someone with a broad enough patent can nickel and dime a large enough group of people hoping many of them will say "0.575%? Fuck it, I'll just pay..."

It will be interesting to see how this pans out in the long run...
#1 is a great example of why founders should be vested. The rest aren't really about startups as much as teams (dev or sales) in general, but obviously they're still relevant to startups, and further illustrate how important the hiring process is for startups.
Perhaps using some kind of Markov chain process? It could be amusing, but would be more interesting with some kind of understanding of parts of speech.
Basically because Apple wants to control the whole experience from turning it on to turning it off. Not saying that everyone cares about that level of integration, but if the past is anything to go by then Apple does.
Right, that makes sense, thank you for the explanation. I guess interopertability between the two services implied to me they could speak eachothers' protocols in entirety (at least ideally), so i pictured gtalk talking to the aim chat room via its protocol. Oh well.

BTW this has implications for google apps users since there are no usable persistent chat rooms in gtalk. Well i guess any users, but for businesses chat rooms are more useful than for casual users I think.
It's just hard for most people [including me] to look at any smartphone today (essentially all of which are clearly directly descended from the iPhone) and agree with the idea that "Apple is not innovative". I'm not sure what one would have to be looking at to not see the products they ship as innovative.
First, put all the things you've done/run/started as line items on your resume.

Next, think about what you've done in those "positions" that's worth talking about (hint: probably a lot).

Talk about those things you've done. Emphasize that you're a "self-starter" (you are, and it shows), that you're able to self motivate (same), and that you see things through to completion (if you do).
I have this problem where people come into the building I live in and slide ads under my door. I just slide them back out again.
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Shouldn't someone ask, "what defines a software patent?"

The author of this post should really clarify this since the term "software patent" could be easily be extrapolated by any polster here, thus polluting the end result.
I can see this in terms of offering a Javascript for embedding in web pages.
Let's be realistic. New product announcements from Apple happen at planned press events. The 10th anniversary of their first store will probably just have fancy new store displays and a give-away.

Edit: Disagreement probably warrants a reply, not a down-vote.
Not to take away from the substance of the article itself, but is anyone else surprised that they have 2 billion "documents", which presumably means active ads/listings? That seems like an awful lot.
If we could, we wouldn't call it base62, as base62 normally means converting the entire "bigint" (all bytes of input data as one big number) into base-62 representation. At least that's how baseXX has been used to far (I searched the web before doing this), and I am in favor of sticking to that naming convention. Agreed?

Now, whether we could come up with such streaming algorithm I'm not sure. I tried solving this problem, and this is what I came up with. Maybe I haven't tried hard enough to go the other route... I guess you could simply slice the incoming stream into a set of chunks, each small enough to make bigin base62 conversion fast (which is square of the size of the chunk), and yet large enough to obscure the occasional loss of space at the chunk boundaries... I guess that would be an option...
Only personally identifying information can be removed. And the bill is fairly restrictive in what counts. SS number, Credit Card number, drivers license number. Images and videos only count if they reveal the individuals current location.

Furthermore, the parents can only do this if the individual _identifies_ themselves as under 18. If they do not do so, Facebook (or whoever) doesn't have to do anything the parents request.

And again, this can only be removed if the parents have knowledge and access to the information they're trying to get rid of in the first place.
In terms of code, graphics, etc. there are two common approaches:

1) Release everything generated on the weekend into public domain or under a general free licence (LGPL, Creative commons) that for practical purposes let's everyone use what was generated.

2) Draft an agreement which says something along the lines of "anyone in this group is granted a perpetual licence to use the IP generated on the weekend for whatever purpose they see fit"

What you want to avoid doing is granting equity based upon IP created on the weekend, that will just cause you a nightmare down the line. Equity should only be given to people who are making a long term commitment to the project, and use cliffs, etc.

Typically IP only covers code, design, etc. it doesn't cover ideas, so an idea for a pivot wouldn't be protected by IP law regardless of who came up with it or where. If you decide to build a startup based on your pivot idea just don't use any code, designs, etc. from the weekend unless you've got some kind of agreement in place for it.
Makes their recent destruction of competing iOS ebook apps even more insidious...

"We'll require you to sell everything via in app purchases at 30% commission to us, even though we know the industry standard gross margin comes out to exactly that 30% we're going to take off you. Oh, and we're not going to tell you about the patent we've got a licence for which means you're going to owe somebody else another 0.575% as well. Good luck making a living on that."

Thanks Apple... You're making the decision about whether to invest my time in iOS app development for my clients a lot easier... HTML5 mobile webapps FTW...
I thought it was germane, and much more interesting than the mish-mash of warmed-over Marxist invective that is the OP. (Once again, Evernote comes in handy in enabling me to find a ref I read long ago.)
Agreed - My feeling has always been that Microsoft would weakly support the "toy" effort on other platforms and then encourage/threaten people to deploy to a "real" platform when the time comes.
You're neglecting the fact that which distro you choose has a large influence on the kernel version you get to run

That's nonsense. Most EC2 AMIs are linked to the amazon AKIs which are unrelated to whatever distro the AMI contains. Most of my debian instances run on a kernel tagged "fc8xen".

The ability to chainload a self-compiled kernel on EC2 is a relatively recent invention (mid-2010) and I have yet to see a good reason to do that for linux.

The article does unfortunately not mention which AKI(s) are affected, but it seems likely this bug was introduced because someone figured "newer is better" and went with the latest Ubuntu kernel instead of sticking to a proven amazon AKI.
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I didn't emphasize that part of it, no; I was attempting to respond to only the part I quoted. I guess I should've tempered my original comment by saying that although the quote was incorrect, the Bloom filter overall is still a great help.
You're both right, and I'm pretty sure zck understands and appreciate the time savings that you're talking about. He's just pointing that the author's statement that "only malicious sites needed to be tested" is blatantly wrong.
I actually use my phone book at least two or three times a year; partly because some of the information just isn't easily findable online (I live in a smaller city) and partly because it's sometimes just more convenient to look it up in the book.

That said, I don't know that I need an updated book every single year.
Theres one work related site which requires IE to properly work (it can limp through with Safari, and doesn't with other browsers). That is the most annoying.
... A String is a sequence of characters. Why would you want a "list of characters"? That's called a String.
I was about to impulsively donate when I first saw the Kickstarter page but decided to watch the video to get more info. Watching these guys talk made me realize they had no idea what they were doing (the thought in my mind was "have they ever coded anything?"). Diaspora: shitty engineering with great web design (not unlike most social startups today). Luckily this leaves the playing field open for people who actually know their shit.
Claiming this is dense, OK. That's just math. But how can you claim this is "speedy" when you have an unpolished Python implementation in hand? You need to bench against best-of-breed Base64 implementations, not some pure-Python comparison you may write up in the future, and for that you're going to need to go at least C, and I wouldn't be surprised down to the assembler. Just stick with "dense" and claim "speedy" when you've got some numbers.

(I suspect you won't beat or even tie Base64, but I'm prepared to accept that you only got within X% of base64 but that X% is worth it in some scenario. And maybe if you get clever enough you can prove me wrong.)
For patents in particular, though, a big part of the justification is that they constitute a disclosure of the invention to other practitioners in the field. It's a quid pro quo: we grant you a limited term of protection, in return for you divulging the details.

As part of that arrangement, it seems like we ought to require that the disclosure be in English, not merely in a tongue that shares some English words and syntax.
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