skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Is Now Worth More Than Intel And Microsoft Combined
A patent for what? And how useful would it be anyway? The scrappers steal the content, and all the content is user generated.
As long as programmers know the difference, I think that's all that matters. The media will do what it wants.
I'm really bewildered by all the options for emacs-git integration. Which one is your method of choice?
A friend of mine is a very active entrepreneur in our country (Cameroon) and his company (http://www.feeperfect.com/) already launched two really great products.
You should contact him, I'm sure he will be glad to work with you.
So the "exclusive right" in this case is that Nvidia has to notify MS of any offers and their amount?
Forcing the risk on IRS is exactly the point. The idea is to force them to value things in a (more) rational way.

Today, they don't have to. Their incentive is exactly the opposite: overvalue things to get more tax out of it.

I think we can all agree the best thing is to take away ability to tax phantom money from IRS. Next best thing is to setup the rules so that IRS is on the hook if they overvalue phantom money.
Looks not to be true, although I can't verify this. A commenter posted the following hours later:

I was there and filmed it.

He did not fly the printed engine. The rocket you saw fly was a solid for testing GPS systems. The printed engine was run for 2 minutes on a stand.
I'm just betting that the investors, who are pretty savvy, do know whether their financials are good.

You should probably stay far away from Wall St for your own good. The savviness of the investors should be a warning sign, not one that instills trust. Remember, in an IPO, they are the ones on the other side of the handshake. They have every incentive to fool you.

As for your other points. A ponzi scheme is like Bernie Madoff where you pay off early investors with the money from later investors. I don't believe being open with how the money works would change that. Pyramids are usually where members are pressured to get even more members because a percentage of the new hires' sales goes to the person who brought them in. The bottom of the pyramid cannot get their investment back because they run out of "greater fools". It's all a bit confused because if you buy into Groupon you also get ownership of a business which may or may not be worth something.

We really can argue about the semantics of these labels but really what it comes down to for me are these two questions: Is this a healthy business, and have the founders acted in the best interest of the business? To me the answers are I don't think so and absolutely not. I don't trust an executive team that would allow 90% of a non-profitable company's runway to go into their own pocket with my money.

They've acted in their own self interest to which many would say "whatever, it was a fair trade". I want people the people who think that way to realize that sometimes we restrict trades that are "fair" regardless of how stupid you are for getting into them. Roulette is a losing game but it is a fair game. We also restrict and regulate it heavily.

Anyway, I think we're in agreement on this: it's really interesting to talk about. :-)
in march.
This is indeed a huge problem. My friends were once building an app that needed to talk to a bunch of other apps via intents. It required hours of reverse engineering and hit-and-trial to get it working. They gave up on it after a few weeks.
Sure it works and you can blog out of the box, but might as well go to WordPress.com for a free blog and just use custom domain for that then, right?

It's true that many go on and talk about 20 "must" plugins, when you really must have only a handful. But none... bad advice.

With that said, truly must haves are something like these - Cache (W3 Total Cache), backups (e.g. WP-DBManager) and optimization (WP Smush.it).

And unless theme provides the functionality, not using XML Sitemap generator and some SEO-plugin is throwing away free traffic.

Plus personally, I consider Google Analytics for WordPress a must, as it makes special tracking easy/automatic (e.g. views per category), that would require theme tweaking otherwise - in addition to adding analytics tracking code handily to the blog.

p.s. Using cache has very little to do with traffic - and one of the biggest mistakes people make is to start thinking about caching when they already have traffic - what if something goes wrong when you're getting 500 visitors a day? Wouldn't it have been smarter to do all that when you had 1 (yourself)? - The site just works better with cache and optimization, even if just one person reads it - and the few visitors like it more because it's fast.
It's a sign of how vulnerable Microsoft is feeling. If Nvidia were purchased by Apple (or even HP, say) then Microsoft might suddenly find itself trying to compete in the mobile market without access to a credible hardware stack.
You do need iTunes to activate the device, though.
"Restaurants, spas, etc have fixed costs on food, rent, staff etc - filling in gaps to cover dead zone times w/groupon manages and mitigates those costs."

The assumption that Groupons are redeemed at off hours is false: customers use Groupons whenever they want--usually at peak times, just like most people would prefer to. The opportunity cost to a business in these situations is enormous.
This is a very good idea my friend. I may be following soon.
The trouble with cancers is that they are basically just you, with a bit of a mutation somewhere. It's hard to find anything that "targets" cancer without targeting your normal cells as well.
Some interesting observations there

e.g:

"Here is something you've may have heard but never quite believed before: Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete. Don't get me wrong, their hardware and datacenters are the best in the world, and as far as I know, nobody is close to matching it. But the software stack on top of it is 10 years old, aging and designed for building search engines and crawlers. And it is well and truly obsolete.

Protocol Buffers, BigTable and MapReduce are ancient, creaking dinosaurs compared to MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. And new projects like GWT, Closure and MegaStore are sluggish, overengineered Leviathans compared to fast, elegant tools like jQuery and mongoDB. Designed by engineers in a vacuum, rather than by developers who have need of tools."

if true, this is a strong indicator that Google is well and truly a BigCo now. Everyone expects a company of Google's size to have its share of politics and crappy middle managers and so on, but this is the first time that I've heard a Google engineer (ok an ex Google engineer) say that its software is bloated and ugly (and more importantly, not getting fixed - see the bits on the rewards structure encouraging territoriality leading to rejection of patches.)

Mind blowing.
This is good stuff, but I want to chime in with a warning.

The major thrust of this piece is that you should exercise your options as soon as you can to start the tax clock ticking on them. That's true, as far as tax optimization goes.

However, doing that costs money. You have to pay for the stock. Once you do that, you probably can't just get the money back.

Be sure you really trust the company if you do this; in fact, not just the company, but also the board. I have friends who bought shares in companies that wiped out the common stock in acquisitions and did retention grants to keep current employees. Anybody who had left got shafted, even though they had put their own money into the company.

(Full disclosure: I decided not to put my own money into shares of the last company I worked for, and that cost me a fair bit of money when they were acquired. I don't really regret the decision, though; I had a choice between investing in the company I was leaving and the company I was starting.)
A Sidenote on iOS Notifications
Currently, but I see no reason that's not fixable.
I'd like to verb to stay linked to the name too.
I hacked that app in one night, sounds pretty good to me.
Blame it on Hollywood.
USA would be a much better place if it also had the death penalty for drug possession. Singapore is mostly Chinese and their obsession with illegal drugs goes back to the "Opium War" fought in the 1840's. Over the top for sure but "it works".
I've read the usenix paper, and I'm reasonably sure I'm right. Care to elaborate on what I'm mistaken about? I (and a few other people I've talked to about schemes isomorphic to this about) may learn something new :-D
17.5% cash >> 17.5% shares of a business, which is struggling to pay 17.5% cash.

If 17.5% of a business is worth less than $1.75M then 100% of the business is worth less than $10M. Thus the tax bill should be lower than $1.75M.

what happens if the business goes under and IRS owns 100% shares of the business?

Then the IRS's initial valuation of $10M was inaccurate. Why should the business owner pay for mistakes made by the IRS?
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One of the big reasons that China or India (which might be linguistically closer) is not a hotbed for Linux innovation is because of the linux leadership.
Hold more conferences here, incorporate features required for a non-Roman script market and see it explode. FYI - every known computer maker sells OS-free machines: both because the local piracy driven market demands it and that a lot of people use Linux as an alternative to Windows (India Dell level 2 customer support will answer Ubuntu questions)
Yes and no. Microsoft's right is Nvidia must sell to Microsoft or nobody if Microsoft matches a competing bid for 30% or more of nVidia. A side effect of that is that nVidia has to inform Microsoft of any deals of that size.

This doesn't really do anything other than keep nVidia out of the hands of a competitor. It doesn't sound like this contract really helps if Microsoft wanted to buy nVidia without other buyers involved.
This was brought up last week:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595066
As always, don't consider this advice to be a golden rule or silver bullet.

Separating fun and addictive can be really tough. I think many people show signs of addiction when playing their favorite games (which are probably the games they say are most fun). Just because you don't think Farmville is fun, doesn't mean it's not fun for someone else. Even if we assume that the tens of millions of Xbox owners all dislike Farmville, that's only a small subset of the hundreds of millions on Facebook.

Also, browser games can sometimes be less complex than a 3d AAA PS3/Xbox game that's built "from scratch". If users need to play it to "get it", you might be better off skipping the video and moving straight to creating a prototype that showcases the addictive features.
Well, without more information, I can't really prove you wrong ;-)

But I still contend that Quora has experts in more domains than HN does. Check out the breadth of industries represented on http://www.quoratop.com/. Of course, it's still tech heavy - but it's more diverse than HN.

It's not perfect - but it's a much better candidate than HN.
Software Development and India: A Nice Blending Assuring Quality Services
A software development company offers you A to Z solutions for any kind of application or web based requirements, no matter whether you want it for individual purpose or for corporate houses.
You are absolutely wrong, they are for a fact imprisoned.
Read : http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108423.htm
Search for Jehovah witness. Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jehovahs_Witness...
search for Singapore.
"It was a political decision not to use Busybox, rather than a technical one, he said."

Anybody know what that means? Licensing conflict, perhaps?
I was just skimming through that page to find options. My usual mode is just j/k. But good to know.
Also of potential interest is Stanford's "Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets" (MMDS):

http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmds/
> Mac address of network card + current time?

you're trolling, right?

If not, begin your journey to enlightenment at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.html (15 years old now!), http://www.schneier.com/paper-prngs.pdf and the kernel source for your favourite OS' /dev/random (the OpenBSD one is pretty well commented)
its policies would be too liberal.
Rounding can just as easily give you the wrong answer as truncating e.g:

100000...000000
199999...999999
Industry Puts Heat on Schools to Teach Skills Employers Need
Not at all. The article says the agreement is over 10 years old, and to me seems to have been a smart move on Microsoft's part.

Basically, they recognized that they were very reliant on NVidia's technology, and while buying from NVidia is cheaper than making it themselves, they mitigated risk of losing that option by giving them the chance to pony up to keep any other company, competitor or not, from changing things.
By mobile, do you mean Win 8 tablets? AMD is claiming their
solution will be the fastest x86 Win 8 on a tablet, and Nvidia has nothing to do right now with WP7 devices.

The deal had to do with the original XBox. Nvidia was doing less well at that time catering to enthusiasts and thus if taken over, would pose a big danger to the XBox with all the graphics IP possibly lost to a competitor like Sony and MS having to basically start over again.
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OK, so you can chain bcrypt in theory, but if you look at the API and how it stores rounds/salt, I don't think you'll enjoy implementing the code to do so. You can't just store hash_b, you'll need to store hash_a too. It's not worth it.

Basically, the assumption that bcrypt is just a function that returns a hash oversimplifies the detail of how salt is stored in practice.
I wouldn't call it vulnerability as it seems like a sensible requirement to place on the manufacturer of a critical component to a business you are going to sink millions into. They likely made it part of the original negotiations.
Some thoughts on cancer from a computation biologist working in the field of proteomics:

The author of the article mentions "a million different proteins" - The human genome contains about 20,000 genes, each coding for a different protein. Some small fraction of these genes would be involved in cancer, although the exact proportion is an interesting question which we're not entirely sure of. Perhaps with splice variants we're getting into the millions, but obviously you can't consider splice variants to be unique proteins. In any case, the problem is at least 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the author is thinking. Currently, there are 10s of thousands of cancer researchers worldwide, and hundreds of millions of patients, so the studies he talks about are quite feasible.

More troubling is the fact that with the huge amounts of money available, cancer biology attracts a gigantic number of researchers, many of whom are not doing especially great science. There are many, many different pathways in the body that can drive cancer generation, so you can study almost any of them and call yourself a cancer researcher, even though the chances are that most of that work won't lead directly to a cure.

My opinion: cancer is impossible to cure - people will always get cancer. There are deep, fundamental connections between our ability to evolve and adapt to our environment and the inevitability of getting cancer. My opinion on how to beat the disease: genomic profiling of an individual's propensity to develop cancer, early detection, anti-metastasis drugs and improved surgical procedures.

For anyone interested, there is a fantastic review called "The Hallmarks of Cancer", published in Cell that you should check out.
I have a couch available in the city, although it might turn out not to be the same city you're thinking of.
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Forward exercising seems to me to be a horrible idea.

When you forward exercise, you're putting all of your financial eggs in one basket. This is the best way to get majorly rich in a hurry. It is also a good way to lose your shirt.

A large fraction of your income is already tied up with the success of the company. Standard financial advice is to seek to diversify at every opportunity.
This has been posted before? It's about a patient who was given a bone marrow, stem cell transplant that "had astounding results".
The First Motorola boast Dual SIM cards Android Smartphone
The Motorola XT882 that the new Motorola Android smartphone, one of the first Android phone to boast two slots for SIM cards.
Yup, in this case the cure is worse than the disease.
This story -- which is no doubt remarkable -- seems to make the rounds frequently both on mainstream news and HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=357144
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478354
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678857
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1139637
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002843
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004448
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005318
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006975
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007580
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2554536
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617358
A brief Sony password analysis
So the Sony saga continues. As if the whole thing about 77 million breached PlayStation Network accounts wasn’t bad enough, numerous other security breaches in other Sony services have followed in the ensuing weeks, most recently with SonyPictures.com where a significant portion of the database was publicly disclosed a few days back.

With all this customer data now unfortunately out there for public viewing, I thought it would be interesting to do some analysis on password practices. There are some rather alarming (although not entirely surprising) findings including:

36% of passwords appear in a common password dictionary.
50% of passwords are 7 characters or less.
67% of accounts on both Sony and Gawker use the same password.
82% of passwords are lowercase alphanumeric of 9 characters or less.
99% of passwords don’t contain a single non-alphanumeric character.
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It may store it as plaintext as well, without HTTPS it does not really matter. I mean it is easier to obtain passwords with tools like firesheep instead of trying to break into DB.
On the other hand, it is not like you have something secret there. The worst thing that could happen is someone pretending to be you.
That said I'd love to have https option.
Patios statement was that moving to SaaS model removes piracy.

I see no asshole-ish nature and I'd bet it's 100% on the money, though I've never sold downloadables so I can't speak from experience.

Let's stay above name calling. We're all adults here.
I said that OP had reimplemented something that already existed, but with fewer features and tests. Or did you get something else out of those six words?
"But of course I am sure apple's implementations will be considered gamechangers and revolutionary according to the fanboys."

Call me a fan boy then. Many companies tried to make tablets before apple. The ipad was game changing. Many people tried to make mp3 players before apple. The ipod was game changing. Many people tried to make smart phones before apple. The iphone was game changing.

On that note, gmail + google docs + google apps were game changing. If apple can do as well or better, on their much superior platform, it will be game changing.
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When somebody asks me to help them with their computer ("you're good with computers, right?"), I like to say that this is like asking an architect to fix your leaking roof.
I wrote a comment to the effect of "you can just chain bcrypt" but deleted it because I didn't want to wade into exactly this tarpit. If a client asked me how to upgrade the cost of their password hashes, I'd probably tell them to validate incoming plaintext and then create a fresh hash.

I agree: this is not a big deal in practice. bcrypt with a cost factor of 10 is so much slower than SHA1 that this is just not going to be an issue.
Hopefully you meant to say that it should be about more than just the money.
And for those of you trying to figure out how to report NSO's on a schedule D or a tax program like turbotax - not intuitive at all. Since most employers report NSO proceeds and taxes in your regular W-2 wages and taxes, the schedule D has to show a loss - basically the reported income on that line is a loss because of exercise fees.

http://forums.kiplinger.com/showthread.php?1690-How-to-repor...
Watch a production log file for 5 minutes and tell me if you can get anything meaningful out of it.

OP's ignorance makes him a threat to himself and others. It's this absolute refusal to learn the existing toolset that's pervading modern software development, putting projects in jeopardy. What's odd to me is that not only is the HN community complacent in this, you actually applaud it.

FWIW, this is why your sysadmin is pithy. He has seen software developers pull stunts like this for far too long, unwilling to listen to reason, unwilling to be technically cuckolded by a software package that's existed for thirty years.

Ignorance doesn't listen to reason.
Oops, check it now :)
Also seemed like a high proportion of the curriculum in coding. I like coding, but...
>content is user generated

This is the biggest excuse. Thats how everyone escapes, isn't it? Even funnyjunk does that with oatmeal and claims that it's user generated content http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/funnyjunk-vs...
Hmmm... So, even though Gruber is restating the obvious and then minimizing the behinded-ness, you'd agree that Apple's possible announcement is "game-changing"? Or is he, as I speculated, trolling?
I'd love to see this succeed. The automotive space is the reason why I entered the market three years ago.

At the time, auto parts and eventually vehicles, would sell on the site but the biggest hurdle to overcome was aggregating demand for generalist products. This looks like the same case here. If you look a auto forums in particular, which are designated by car manufacturer, I'd bet they have the highest chance of pulling something like this off. Forums generally have sections for their members to group purchase, so this isn't that far of a stretch. In this case, through forum's audience is plugged in to following the manufacturer and therefore is a very engaged community that can facilitate commerce.
"A threat to himself and others"? You're simply griefing. Please stop.
His original comment was ok - its the delivery that sucks.

Patio has developed a style that is abrasive. One liner statements of fact come off as assholish.

My comment was meant to be constructive for him.
I'd like to see eink used like this.
I might be interested in getting this to work on linux.
One question is, what license are the data files under, and if you could include them in the git repository.