skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt any of the developers being sued by Lodsys knew they were infringing on these patents.

And there is no sure way to know which small thing is under patent than to spend hours going through the patent archives or hiring expensive patent lawyers.
Is this due to the recent drama with Zed Shaw being invited to the "DongML" project? Very entertaining as an observer, but very annoying for Zed I'm sure.

Sad that they still haven't added a requirement that you accept an invite to become a collaborator, or at least a profile setting on your account that requires that confirmation.
Your strategy involving submitting cracked versions of your app was quite interesting. It would be interesting to see the rate of the app store purchases vs. piracy for your app. I would expect your strategy would reduce the rate of piracy
If people really wanted to stalk someone, they can do it outside of HN although I've seen a thread on this in the past so I know what you're referring to but it's usually very unlikely. That said, I'm using my real name LOL
One way to decimate adversaries is to open-source your entire competitive advantage. Unfortunately that only works when you’re the market leader.

So nobody cares about open-sourcing WebRTC. Something that would be actually noticeable in this field right now would be Microsoft that open-sources Skype and gives everything away under the BSD license.
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It doesn't really measure how time it would take to replace. Compared to KDE or Firefox code, GNU code is much more succinct and optimally written.

I really doubt that that code could be replaced easily in a single pass.
This is a very good feature, but I am also afraid it will make Zed Shaw and others think that his attempt to out-troll the trolls and multiply internet drama was a force for positive change. "If you throw a big enough temper tantrum and incite a large enough shitstorm, developers will address your concerns" is an unfortunate precedent. The fact that controversy and negativity attracts eyeballs and can trigger improvements is understandable, but it also creates perverse incentives.
Just curious: Does the business itself generate more cash flows than you are spending on it? more than you are spending overall for personal and business matters? [ie can you actually quit your consulting]
Previous submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605739
I'm really surprised at the number of sales. Congrats!
Of course, this 0.00% assumed growth rate omits the obvious, which is that a company as successful as Apple has a lot of competition brewing in each of its markets, and a negative growth rate is certainly possible.

Technology is an industry where you run to stay still. Apple's cash flows are far less predictable than, say, Procter and Gamble's. What's Apple has done in the last ten years could continue for another ten, or reverse entirely.
Dig the idea, but agree the design is lacking. I'm still going to subscribe - good luck!
This is a long standing problem. Babble fish had an Api and it was also shut down.
oops, yep. sorry about that.
I'm not convinced that the appearance of that terminology in the file means the developer is unaware of the difference between encoding and encrypting something. I think we all know the meanings of some words, but continue to misuse them out of convenience and/or habit. It can be difficult to break such a habit. Perhaps you should simply include a patch that will reword the file in the correct manner. :)
Sad that they still haven't added a requirement that you accept an invite to become a collaborator

That's one way to look at it..the other way is that they just designed coded, tested and rolled out a feature a day or two after a fairly hostile and accusatory customer complaint.
I'm sure that their attorneys have let them know that acknowledging that they sent out spam would expose them to massive damages under the CAN-SPAM laws. So AirBnB can't really acknowledge what they did and try and move on... financially, it would be ruinous for them. They are probably hoping that the controversy will blow over, until the statute of limitations expires at which point they can apologize and blame the previous regime.
I think this was a good response to an attention whore.

EDIT: I wasn't trolling. Not even a single response?
I looked at the article and it seems to strengthen the argument for calling it a GNU/Linux distribution. The top contributors as per the chart.

1. kernel 9%
2. gnu 8%
3. kde 8%
4,5 java, mozilla 6%
6. gnome 3%

If you combine gnu with gnome, we have
1. gnu 13%
2. kernel 9%

Also considering that java/mozilla are platform agnostic, the candidate names we have are

linux-gnu-kde OR gnu-linux(-kde)

If you are not running KDE, then gnu-linux seems like a very strong candidate for the name. The argument for calling it linux would revolve around the availability of GNU software on other non-linux distributions in some form or the other, thus making GNU a not very distinctive moniker. But MacOS/BSD doesn't really carry as much GNU as Linux distros do.

But the kernel is running all the time when booted up. A better argument would be that only a fraction of GNU software is active at any moment, so by percentage of GNU v/s kernel code executed in any given time interval, the kernel should win handily. This pie chart, as it stands, actually makes a case for calling it GNU\Linux.
PCC would probably be easier, and it is still open source. Although a BSD-userland Linux would be interesting, I think the GCC compiler has become so widespread that it is almost impossible not to use it (except for Windows, of course). Even the BSDs, which are thoroughly against copyleft licenses, use GCC.
Looks like a fire trap. Be careful.
You could chalk it up to stress testing that pointed out a flaw. And to GitHub's credit they provided a quick fix and a professional response, kudos to them. Peace has been restored in the Valley, and the trolls are left to twiddle their ASCII dongs.
The spam filters today are good not because of magic, but because billions of dollars have been spent securing email.

What a complete and utter waste of resources.
Usenet is officially dead ...
I'm a beginner at programming, and am wondering which text editor to use. Emacs or TextMate?
How do I type that?
Hey now, nothing wrong with being Canadian :p
Sometimes you have to look at what somebody says, and not how they say it. I personally wouldn't have approached the trolls the way Zed did, but he was right that this was broken and needed to be fixed. Github did a great job - as far as I can tell they handled things professionally and cranked out a fix in just a few days. Everybody wins (except the trolls).
Actually, it implies the opposite.

If someone who is not a nutjob is spouting the theory it will get debunked, regardless of placement on Hacker News. If Hacker News were in the nutjob category, it would be irrelevant in the flowchart. The chart would simply point from "repeated by a nutjob"->"Am I bored?"

Hacker News only takes effect if a nutjob's theory winds up on Hacker News, which based on the chart, is more akin to "Are they a nutjob?"->"No" (but not quite the same). So, while something does not need to be on Hacker News to be debunked, placement on Hacker News will result in a theory being debunked. Thus, the article implies that Hacker News is a community made up of people who are expressly not nutjobs.
They said they didn't want to be contacted. It isn't up to others to decide that they are a special case. Any marketer would find the wiggle room to make their email a special case.
I enjoy my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH . I had a WRT54G as well, but then I got an internet connection faster than it could handle (it became the bottleneck). Comes stock with (a modified version of) DD-WRT (and flashing your own is supported).

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Buffalo_WZR-HP-G300NH
So, I am impressed that you can't note the difference between Buenos Aires and other Latin American cities, since tourists spot the differences pretty quickly.
Yeah, I think that's what ilkhd2 was attempting. But the attempt at parody doesn't make any sense, because the sentiment he is trying parody is actually perfectly sensible and reasonable. He just rewrites sentiment in bad English to make it look stupid - that's a pretty low form of criticism. The statement "universities produce liberals/progressives" is completely true in my observation. It happened to me, and it happened to almost everyone I know. And if you're conservative, its completely sensible to view this as a bad thing. There is nothing about this belief to parody.
It is interesting to note that it is impossible for a theory spouted by nutjobs to be true in this flowchart. A non-nutjob must endorse a theory before it enters the realm of possibly true. Danny must have an incredibly low opinion of conspiracy theorists and a high opinion of Google's practices. ;)
It was. But he is technically a "customer". More eyeballs == more potential conversions. Zed happens to give that, fortunately or unfortunately. But they were able to please a potential customer, and just give a better product overall. So maybe its because of something bad, but it's great product iteration.
It's interesting to me that so many people want confirmations. You can remove yourself from any repository you wish at https://github.com/account/repositories (yes, I know — this is a confusing place. It's something I'd like to improve). But the idea is that "Confirm? Reject." is the same number of steps/interactions as "Added. Reject." Confirmations wouldn't make the experience any better for someone being annoyingly added to projects. They'd just be rejecting invitations instead of rejecting access.

As it stands, when you are added as a collaborator to a project it shows up in exactly one place — your private, logged in dashboard. It doesn't show up publicly anywhere.

Bypassing confirmations keeps the workflow simple for the professionals who use GitHub and want to collaborate with ease.
Based on the quick shadows, manually-placed arrows, and PNG metadata I would say Inkscape.
By that line of thinking, why call it "Linux" (or anything else) either? I agree that "GNU/Linux" sounds kind of dumb, if that's what you're driving at -- but I'd be happy to call the operating system "GNU".
The problem with disconnecting is that so many programming problems are best solved by a liberal application of Google. Similarly, I've never found man pages to be as efficient or helpful as a well-constructed Google query. I suppose one solution would be to install OpenWRT on your router and keep a whitelist of sites (or a blacklist if you can easily classify 95% of your time-wasters) for your work computer and allow free reign to your home computer.
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AirBnB has a history of clever and aggressive PR, and this title is probably deliberate in that regard.

The first three google results for "billion dollar company" all refer to companies with billions in revenue.

According to Google and every economics class I ever took, people assume it refers to revenue. In common vernacular, "billion dollar company" means a company that actually generated a billion dollars in revenue, not speculative investment.

I mean come on... why is it fair to refer to AirBnB as a billion dollar company when there are actually companies generating a billion in revenue?
I think zed had a reasonable complaint. was he a jerk about it? maybe, but it's a customer's prerogative to complain about a bad experience. github's prompt response to zed has made me a happier (paying) customer. way to go!
"The most heavily armed states in the USA actually have lower gun crime and violent crime."

That's not true in the slightest. Prevalence of guns directly equates to a greater incidence of gun crime, on both an international (say, U.S. vs. other nations) and intranational basis.
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The way the nerve is wrapped around other structures is totally consistent with what the fossil record says about how life evolved.

The gross inefficiency was retained because it is more difficult or unlikely that one structure can be moved past another. It could be that if someone were born with a nerve that long and it doesn't loop around a structure, it might not work properly or get pinched very easily or flop around.

There are plenty of possible explanations for what we find in nature. And just because we haven't figured things out doesn't mean supernatural forces are responsible.
Remember Slashdot?
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LLVM built a working linux kernel 218 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1832712

Why not just run FreeBSD?
You should look at selling your own adspace using tools like OIOPublisher or OpenX OnRamp.

I'm not sure the amount of traffic that you have, but OpenX has served me greatly on a similar project.

It's important to note the market your app attracts. If it's highly sought after and lucrative, you may be able to find a small advertising network focused on your niche. Something to think about.
Building a Web App Using All Web Services
R&JTech is one such distributor for Clevo barebones;

http://rjtech.com/shop/index.php
"The" is very much a sticking point for native speakers of languages that don't have a similar construct; i.e. a Spanish speaker wouldn't likely have trouble with it, but a Japanese or Korean speaker more likely would.

The issue is 'a' vs 'the' vs nothing:

he went to the school
he went to a school
he went to school

All have very different meanings - "the" is effectively an adjective describing the specificity of the noun. The first describes a specific school, the second describes some not-yet-defined school, the third describes an abstract concept.

'Chocolate' is another example of this, where the issue extends to the use of words like 'some', 'how many', and 'how much' (countable vs. uncountable quantities). Even if a person understands these concepts, it's still difficult to propagate it through a sentence so that everything type-checks (subject-verb agreement, etc), especially if you're coming from a language that doesn't have this kind of redundancy. It gets even harder with hypotheticals, where sometimes one might switch between both singular/plural and non-specific/specific mid sentence, all while English lacks gender-neutral singular third-person pronouns.

On top of this there are cases where the use of one over the other really just comes down to philosophy (whether native speakers of a language consider something distinct, concrete, or countable, or not). Similar issues come up with prepositions - which preposition goes with which verb differs even when describing the same concept in two very similar languages. (Best example I can think of at the moment is that in Japanese, people say "I bought it to her" instead of "I bought it for her"; I know English<->Spanish has similar issues, but my Spanish is rusty)
ta men bu le zhi dao

Although, you'd have to visually select characters after typing pinyin, so it would be useless if someone looked over your shoulder.
https://www.paypalobjects.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_micropaym...

PayPal Micropayments would be 10c/transaction.
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The kernel is pretty closely coupled to the GNU userland. stali[1] is trying to accomplish the same thing. I think they are using utilities/ibraries from OpenBSD. Not sure if they have a working system, though.

1: http://sta.li
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Why do we call it aspirin instead of acetylsalicylic acid? It's familiar, easy to spell, and easy to remember. It's an accident of history. What would be accomplished by renaming it?
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Multiple of my email addresses posted online unmasked multiple times, so I certainly get spam. My point is that filters are quite effective.
I don't, actually. I left 6 months ago. :)
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Hey Grant, I saw your news:yc app in Installous and see that it was submitted by you (chpwn). Usually when app-authors submit their own apps to Installous, it's to deter pirates by shaming them and disabling the whole functionality of the app until it gets cracked by someone else, or to log who actually pirates.

I haven't gone the Installous route, so I'm wondering what you've decided to do with the version on filedude and fileape?
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Just checking because it sounded a little fishy to me, that's all.
They do, they sell ready made contracts. They just charge you for writing them ;)
Try emailing pg - that's the main way most things not supported by the web interface are dealt with (deleting accounts, password recovery, and so forth). I'm not sure if he's able to change account names, but it's possible, and it wouldn't hurt to try.

If you ask and pg does change your username, would you mind replying to say so? It's useful information to have, and would allow greater accuracy in answers if the same question is asked again.
My understanding was the reverse. Twitter integration at the OS level, allowing you to Tweet from any app (and not needing to go through any Auth at an individual app level). Remember that Gruber places incredible significance in Twitter. How else to explain his 6.2 iPhone/Android Twitter Client posts each week?
Curious to know PG's opinion on this.
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It's a logical feature for a site with a social aspect to offer, and I'm surprised github hadn't done so previously. I suppose the audience for the site tends to be mature.

Good for Github for going ahead and doing it. I know of some companies who would have dug their heels in and ignored the issue, or stubbornly maintained that it wasn't needed.
He just tweeted that they caught the guy.
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That's actually the full app. news:yc is open source, and I want anyone to be able to use it, even if they don't want to (or can't) pay. Since building the app yourself isn't always easy (or possible), I submitted it there so anyone could install it easily.
Those videos ar real creepy, it freaked me out.
Yes, that's better than a lynch mob with no rule of law.
Bing copies Google, now Google copies Bing.
Bing was ripping off Google's search results, but now Google is trying to become a "decision" engine..
Sure, just like if you take out the 3 guys in charge of Al Queda, you would end terrorism.
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You can create an object that implements the ArrayAccess interface, but it doesn't extend the native array object in the traditional sense.
Very nice, thank you Google.

Glancing over the API docs, I'm not clear what will be used for signaling. It appears to be based on XMPP/Jingle, am I right?

What about SIP?
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https://twitter.com/jmk/status/75766707834200064

Arrested
You could try to somehow monetize your data that describes who is paying for what services. Even if it's just blog posts with general graphs (like OkCupid) it could at least help your brand. For instance, ADP's employment statistics are as closely watched as government statistics by some people on wall st.

I wouldn't necessarily encourage you to directly sell detailed info about your users to marketers as it may very well annoy your customers, although there is probably a market for it.

At the very least, bringing in a consultant to do some data mining to find patterns that correlate to actual revenue may help you with all your other concerns.

Once you feel confident you know who is really spending money and why, an inside sales person to cultivate a list of potential customers is probably fairly cheap and may lead to a real uptick in sales. You seem uniquely situated to hire someone like that through your own service.

While writing this comment, I keep being reminded of Groupon. The last time they raised an obscene amount of money, the investors kept talking about (1) their sales army that had a relationship with thousands and thousands of small businesses and (2) sales data for all those businesses. You could read up on them to see if you get any ideas.
This is GitHub's response to the (killed) article I posted yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342
This merger is bad news for those of us from the Phoenix metro area. I'd say Verizon and T-mobile are the only two carriers with good coverage and T-Mo is the only carrier that provides a decent service and competes on price.

At least when I switch to Verizon I'll get a new phone!
Just because you can identify the mechanism by which this most-basic feature of social networks was implemented, that doesn't mean that it's a bad thing.

The cart should not be put before the horse by implying that this missing feature was simply used as an excuse to be negative. What's the perverse incentive here, that it's actually in GitHub's interest to prevent users from blocking each other?

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease" and public shame were invented way before the Internet, so this makes no precedent. It's just one of the myriad ways in which things get done. Ever had a boss?
I think anamax's point was that there's no incentive system for police to act in anything but their own interest. Their interest is not to solve crimes, its simply to not get fired.
Ub Iwerks was a true genius! In addition to doing the work on that camera he designed the original Mickey Mouse and later did some brilliant works with traveling matts. The work done in the early days of Disney really reminds me a great deal of Pixar in terms of combining creative with tech. It's hard to appreciate today but Disney did the first color animated shorts, the first real feature and the first company to really make a cartoon revolve around sound (instead of the other way around). At the very end Disney was fascinated by audio-anamatrobics which remind me a great deal of the early days of computer animation.