skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see a fund ever happening specifically for these reasons. Any state/federal dollars given to a startup will very quickly result in someone making the powerful and valid argument "I don't want my tax dollars going towards [some sensitive activity/company/person]". Tax breaks on the other hand make that argument much less meaningful.
IMHO you are missing an absolutely critical point and are therefore falling prey to the hindsight effect.
Let's imagine that you have a brilliant idea right now, one that NOW is not at all obvious. What does that mean? It means that NOW (a) there is no prior art (b) there may well be teaching away from the art, in other words, even though the field is a familiar one and you would think it obvious once pointed out, nonetheless there is no evidence that anyone has thought of it before (c) there is no public domain publication or record of a talk etc .... Such evidence is taken as evidence that it is not obvious. Now let's assume that you take your idea further and turn it from an idea - an insight if you will - into an invention. That may involve a great deal of time and money. In some cases it certainly does. Now let us assume that you release a product and it achieves great success. The very success of your product means that it will become a part of popular culture and there have been several studies that show that within a remarkably short period of time people take what was your innovation for granted and consider it obvious. Bear in mind however that it wasn't obvious when you thought of it and when its obviousness was considered, for example, by the patent office. Failure to recognize this and the associated hindsight effect leads to people making statements about how obvious something is when that is completely irrelevant. The question is not how obvious it is but how obvious it was. If a patent is granted it can always be challenged and invalidated if someone is able to demonstrate that there was indeed prior art. The patent is assumed to have validity but that does not mean that evidence of prior art will just be disregarded, it just means that the evidence has to be clear.
One thing that is not really talked about is how Big Corps are probably more careful about going after geek enthusiast who may violate a gray area of their IP in fear of angering hacker groups like Anonymous. Now, they would never admit this publicly but I'd bet the whole PSN thing will cause Corps to at least think before doing the once knee-jerk reaction thing of sending the lawyers.
why is this the biggest thing we're trying to solve? can't we use these incredibly powerful algorithms to solve a real problem? there are so many restaurant recommenders out or coming soon."You have to ask yourself, are we working on the right things?"
Good lord that is slow. Either an update screwed my browser up or this person needs to change their approach or optimize something.
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Great question, and I'm figuring this out as I go along. I majored in German and was a consultant for 12 years. Though I learned some coding skills I know that I can never be the technical person, unless we had a much longer time to build the product. An option that doesn't work financially and given the pace of things on the web.
I think this case does make things marginally better. Before you jump all over me, look at the holding.

The Court said that it will maintain the CCE standard for invalidity defenses, not plaintiffs' claims of invalidity. It's a fine point, but important one neverhtless.

You see, CCE has been the standard for plaintiffs alleging patent invalidity since 1982. It's right in the statute. http://openjurist.org/title-35/us-code/section-282/presumpti... . The problem was that Microsoft was trying to reduce the burden of proof for the defense.

A weaker burden for defenses is very very bad. That means, even if a plaintiff shows, by substantial evidence, that a patent is invalid, a defendant can just give the minimal amount of defense...and the defendant will win.

So, this improves things...a tiny, weeny bit.
I've had good results with JakPrints.com for a printer.
No. Because the law is perfectly clear on this point. Algorithms cannot be patented.
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>Kudos to whomever hacked them and took the high road.

It was LulzSec. They've been attacking a number of security firms, lately.
I know this is how most people feel, and I do try to pretend to be a sane, rational person who doesn't get angry when dealing with customers, and I think that helps me a lot. Flying off the handle at a customer almost never makes business sense.

But I don't think it's such a good overall heuristic for picking service providers. Personally, I'd rather deal with an employee who was good technically and bad socially than deal with someone who is the other way around. (I mean, if I could get both at a price I could afford, that'd be perfect. but that's not usually how my world works.)

If the food is good and the service is fast, sure, it'd be nice if the waiter was also friendly, but if I had to sacrifice something; price, speed of service, quality of food, or politeness of service, I'm going to pick the rude fast waiter and the good cook every time.
Thanks for your feedback. I think you'll like what we are up to! (I work at urbantag) If you have an iPhone, contact us and we'll prioritize you in the beta (reference this HN comment).
So much for creativity and art and open source. the resume 2.0 is definitely a new trend but it is not going to be saturated by any sense. It clearly shows what one is capable of doing without risk to the company looking at you. It is doing the work, to get the work. Any founder here would be happier with someone that did this than someone that cranked out a word doc.
"Documents you’ve written, presentations you’ve prepared, spreadsheets you’ve made — your iWork apps can store them in iCloud. Which means you can view and edit the same document, in its latest state, on all your devices. And since iCloud automatically updates any changes you make, you don’t even have to remember to save your work."

But I already do this on Google Docs, and I don't have to buy a Mac to do it. In fact, I don't have to buy anything to do it; I already have a desktop/laptop/phone, and Google Docs is free of charge. Plus, most people I know already have Google Accounts, so sharing is already implemented.
At least those photo guys are trying to innovate and solve new problems. Think about the thousands upon thousands of engineers that spend their lives tweaking seo knobs so they can serve up a few more ads.
Proprietary vs open source: don’t limit yourself and use both
Ok, but you can't develop as fast in Java or C# even if you knew what you were doing.
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There is a way to get money from the government funds now for your startup. One of the companies I work with went after grants (and were awarded them) to help develop our technology.

You have to attempt to solve a problem that those offering grants care about, but I think this is an often overlooked opportunity for startups.

I won't be holding my breathe for a fund here in LA.
Apparently he reads those books while lying in a 'Presidential Cotton Rope Hammock' [1], which is at the bottom of his Bookshelf list ;-)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Presidential-Cotton-Rope-Hammock-Size/...
> and could be worked around trivially by making every object respond to a dictionary protocol. This would give you the best of both worlds.

You do realize that's the approach Clojure takes right?
Ask HN: Is RSS dying?
What do you think?
Future of SMIL(Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language)?
SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) got updated last in 2008, does anyone know if there are better protocol to follow when it comes to synchronizing multi-media files?
They could do a matching fund, or provide tax incentives.
The deep Twitter integration into iOS 5 says that Apple is happy to let others do the foundational legwork in that domain. The fact that there is no public Photostream, for example, that you could publish to certain audiences, speaks volumes to Apple's conservative approach to the iCloud rollout.

Conceptually, it may be a lot to thrust on a user all at once that iCloud is not only your own personal magical data synching tool, but that it also publishes your data to others, which has data privacy implications. Maybe a gradual roll-out of social features gives time for people to be comfortable with using the existing features without worrying about the social implications of their actions.
California can barely keep itself running - the odds of this great idea happening are 0 unfortunately.
He actually gave an entire talk on the subject at Clojure Conj

http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586
There was some commentary here about whether or not Apple's messaging system was a threat to texting or not. This suggests that the SMS market may be losing steam.
Is this still up?! Now that's embarrassing.
Microsoft must pay $290m for patent infringement
First of all, I think its a great effort. I'd keep refining it over time. I agree that maybe you would want to shift the content to a less resume-y look at your skills and work. But using HTML5 tech is cool. Targeting a specific employer is great but pull down the last one. Also a little more research into specific companies toolsets would be worth your time (ie. 37signals is a rails house, love sass and coffee-script and yeah, I would bet PHP is not at the top of their skills list (but that is just an opinion))

Take a look at prosite.com for a great way to develop a portfolio site. Consider connecting your site to your git repo or dribble, behance, or forrst accounts in a more visual way. I didn't see it here (I certainly didnt want to read it to find it).

I'm sure you will end up exactly where you want to go. Keep pushing for colorlovers. persistence is everything. Especially if you really want it.

And I see a small side business in this for you. I'm sure there are quite a few people (non-techies) that would kill for their own resume 2.0.
What a great technical problem, except for this bit:

> Btw, I didn't try to hide behind "this is scientific computing -- no way to optimize". It's just that the basis for this code is something that comes out of a "black box" where I have no real access to

Black box != science.
No all those languages suffer (except JS) from the fact they don't give you uniform access. Consider the different forms of access for dict types, array types, object types in said languages.
Ask HN: What is a typical startup job interview like?
Can anyone share their experience of interviewing at a startup? What is the process? How long does it usually take for them to make a decision? Are the technical questions asked as hard as Google interview questions or TopCoder's top level questions?

One important thing would be, what is the different between interviewing at big companies (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) vs startup companies?
click the link to watch the Twillio demo. It was fantastic magic.

EDIT: here is the link: http://www.livestream.com/nytechmeetup/video?clipId=pla_8b03...
That domain name is running an open FTP server. I'll bet a dictionary attack against the 'root' or 'admin' user was all that was necessary.
It was still up for me.

Step 1) Don't use a CMS for your web site.
Step 2) see step 1.
>How many of us are doing something that is going to improve the lives of Henderson and Rebecca in Tupelo, Mississippi? How many of us are making something that is going to help them save money or help them make money or help them increase their quality of life?

Henderson and Rebecca are able to pay for the services, directly or indirectly (by, for example, having ads being displayed to them from businesses who make money by selling stuff to them)

Unfortunately there are no money in solving these problems:

http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20f...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Characteristics :

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Every year nearly 11 million children living in poverty die before their fifth birthday.

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According to a UN report on modern slavery, the most common form of human trafficking is for prostitution, which is largely fueled by poverty.[57][58] In Zimbabwe, a number of girls are turning to prostitution for food to survive because of the increasing poverty.[59] In one survey, 67% of children from disadvantaged inner cities said they had witnessed a serious assault, and 33% reported witnessing a homicide.[60] 51% of fifth graders from New Orleans (median income for a household: $27,133) have been found to be victims of violence, compared to 32% in Washington, DC (mean income for a household: $40,127).[61]

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These children aren't a feasible market. Too bad for them.
Google: "Security built in
Chromebooks run the first operating system designed from the ground up to defend against the ongoing threat of malware and viruses. They employ the principle of "defense in depth" to provide multiple layers of protection, including sandboxing, data encryption and verified boot."

Thank god Best Buy is selling Anti-Virus with these!

Sarcasm off ... why are these $429+?
computer code is 'just' an algorithm. that is simply true. if algorithms cannot be patented then neither can computer code.
Can you also include the link to enter the short url to automatically playback the tune?
How do early stage startups recruit hackers?
I am considering providing hacker recruiting services specifically for startups (bootstrapped or in seed stage), but I am not sure if I should establish my channel strategy directly to startup founders, or through recruiting agencies/headhunters. So, my question is ... how do early stage startups recruit hackers? Do they only rely on people they know? Do they hire headhunters or recruiting agencies? Do investors have a say on how/where you should hire the dev team?
I have to admit that this distinction seems really minor. But maybe I'm missing something here. I'd love to see an example if anyone has one.
A bit of background for HN: Most security folks consider Joe Black (of Black & Berg) to be a total joke and snake oil vendor.

See http://attrition.org/postal/asshats/joe_black/
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I suggested to try and use LuaJIT.

It has very good double precision floating point, and it looks like SSE/SIMD were not used directly from the code.

LuaJIT should garbage collect unused code, if not it always regenerates it. It should be able to compile and execute tons of code as he has (and it looks like all his stuff is generated, but for C++).
"Are there any security firms that actually know what they're doing?"

I think the takeaway is that knowing what you're doing is less then half the battle here.

Just as most people know how to lose weight (diet and exercise), actually making those lifestyle changes can be very difficult. Similarly businesses, even security companies, let their security lapse because it's hard to take the time, effort and focus away from products, sales, cash to set up proper standards and controls.
Well, clearly that wasn't the case. Unless the 'compromise' consisted of Apple relenting fully. Almost all the terms of IAP for subscriptions that were unfavorable to publishers have been removed.
They are only useless if your goal is to address one of the basic human needs you mention and even then maybe they do.
"Someone could do my laundry so I can complete my research paper on curing cancer"
Everyone here seems sure that "Black & Berg" is an actual security company that issued a challenge and actually intended to pay someone money. Does anyone have any independent sources on that?

Just from the look of the site, it seems so much like a farcical joke on HBGary-type companies, I wonder if it's not a viral marketing campaign.
Citation needed. Press release by MSFT please.
That's a decent summary, but the actual marketplace is far more complex and strategic than that.

AdMeld was a pub aggregator, a company that offers ad optimization to a large number of publishers (relying more on scale than technology imo). There are several other pub aggregators, including PubMatic and the Rubicon Project. It's a growing segment within the overall online advertising industry and google needed to be involved in it to stay competitive strategically. So they chose to buy AdMeld. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the other major pub aggregators is acquired or merges in the next few months.

At one point I had laid out the strategic online advertising market on a map from the board game Risk. It has a level of depth and complexity that I think is really interesting.
Yes, but they don't have marketing departments.
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on the bottom of the page:

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I have been waiting for this device for months.

It's not the second coming or anything, but for those of us that don't want to buy Apple, and think that android is ugly. WebOS devices are a nice balance.

It's also been true that Samsung has not been able to get clean devices out. They are buggy and expensive.

The TouchPad may not be as fast as an iPad 2 or the new Samsung tablet, but it will be faster than the iPad 1, and most of the Android Tablets on the market. The OS is clean and is easy to use.

If the device sells well the app market is not yet crowded and there will be plenty of room for app developers to create a niche for themselves.

I also think that HP will have better distribution into the enterprise.

Touch to Share will not just be about moving files between your phone and tablet, it will be about moving files between all of these devices including your laptop, your printer, and your mobile, ( maybe even your camera ).

Imagine if Mom could buy a printer, a camera, and a phone and just print out photos by taping her phone to the printer. What if you could print out those TPS reports by tapping your tablet on any one of a hundred printers in an enterprise?

And then there is the touch stones, which wirelessly charge your devices.

Yes, I am excited someone is finally competing with iDevices by creating a better experience, not just a cheaper one.

HP don't just make it cheaper, make it easier to use across all of my devices.

And don't forget that there is that rumor of dropbox integration into webos 3.
Oddly enough, you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC

Some people criticize Apple for this, but I think I'm actually quite okay with it to an extent if you think of this as just a natural example of science & engineering working hand in hand to make cool stuff.

Xerox PARC did the science, Apple is doing the Engineering. It's not really much different than basic R&D in materials science and physics modeling getting turned into a bridge or a skyscraper. Or basic academic research in medicine becoming the next billion dollar drug.

A side question is, with these kinds of R&D shops now quite rare (Microsoft Research and....) and seeing how Xerox and AT&T not able to capitalize on their research, what does this mean for the modern version of these places? Is some other company going to just come along and build what Microsoft is researching today? Or is there a chance for one of these companies to actually benefit from these paradigm shifting revolutions in research?
It also depends whether that "few months" was solely spent learning the technology, or whether it was also spent iterating on the concept. It could be that if he'd hired someone, he'd get a prototype of his initial concept in a day, but then have a harder time iterating because he didn't really understand how the prototype worked.
I think Apple crossed this long ago with the iPod.

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
I've been working on a library for the Posterous API (in my free time), and this seems like it's a lot better than the old docs. They were wholly inconsistent. Some places would tell you what a response would look like, yet others wouldn't. A couple of the API calls would always give me a 500 error. The docs seemed to imply the once you had an api_token you didn't need to pass the user/pass in every request (just the api_token), but when I did that all of my requests came back authorization denied. So apparently you needed to send user/pass/api_token with every request. Ugh.

I never got around to trying to contact them about these issues though.

edit: The library, in case anyone was curious: https://github.com/bsandrow/perl-posterous
Right, so this will catch jealous girlfriends, snooping coworkers, and malicious kids. People that would try to grab your credentials and set it up in Outlook Express...
That's pretty unlikely. If you look at their acquisitions they are buying up companies that are sitting in different points of the advertising ecosystem. This purchase gives them yield optimization technology.
Government-run funds are doomed to be crap. I'd much rather have it go towards entrepreneurial education or something. Teach more young people about the idea of starting their own company. They'll do the rest.
Or if you do, (in this case drupal) maybe you should apply the security patches
Ad companies make a lot of money. A mediocre ad network will make more money than a mediocre social site or mobile app. A $400MM acquisition for an ad network isn't even on the high end.

I feel that ads represent a big problem to be solved. They suck so much that people intentionally block them. It's going to take some serious hacking of the system to fix that, it's a huge challenge.
Nope, just the way it's consumed is changing. Rather than installing a dedicated reader, people can just follow an RSS feed via Facebook or Twitter.
We're a large publisher that uses AdMeld; they are a good company with very interesting technology & people. I'm curious to see how this will change their operation - selfishly, I'd hate to see them just absorbed into Google.
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I'd have to go back through the literature, but reuse was not something I heard talked about much at all when I first seriously started doing OO in the 90s.

Maybe it was an '80s thing, but I recall "reusable software components" being touted as the industry savior. OO was all about reuse then.
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For co-founder and early employee roles I only rely on people I know and/or their recommendations.
Posted the article not as a political rally, but in the context of how to approach the journalistic task of combing through 24,000 e-mails that are very relevant.