skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we allowed to discuss?

I don't really have anything to add to the list since I like G+ But perhaps I can add why your reasons didn't apply to me - if anyone should care. I don't intend to argue - mind you, just offering a compare and contrast, since this is entirely an issue of personal preference.

1) Happened not to be a facebook user - and have a twitter that I don't actually use.

2) A couple of my friends joined but most of em aren't engaging - but actually that's not my chief enjoyment. It's allowed me to discover/follow a whole bunch of really interesting people - and the vibe seems to be that most folk don't mind you following them - and will often follow you back. It's like twitter in that respect - but because it allows longer posts, it allows me to better find interesting posts. Because of twitter truncation and url obfuscation - I could never tell if a link might be worth clicking - and so generally never bothered.

3) I don't care either. But I must admit I wouldn't mind seeing facebook at least humbled a little. I just hope Google's success doesn't give it a super-monopoly.

4) I agree there needs to be improvement in this space. I want to be able to configure my stream to default include only the circles I dig the most. Lots of people have said this though - so I don't doubt that it is in the pipeline.
I use this, too, and it's excellent with cygwin. Also if you use Puttygen to generate RSA keys you can set-up easy one-click access to your favorite servers.
Making the most of your mistakes – how we sent 2000+ emails instead of 20
You know, PuTTY has always been one of those tools I never consciously considered as being "developed". In the same way as the "mv" command never was. Maybe I'm being naive. But PuTTY has always done exactly what I ask of it, without fail, and my complaints about it are few and trivial. So what if it has not been updated in four years? It's not like the SSH standard changes often. Personally, I am proud of the PuTTY folks for creating a product that did not need a release for four years.
Have you tried MinTTY? It's based on PuTTY's terminal emulation code, and provides shells for Cygwin and MSys. http://mintty.googlecode.com/
I'm from Europe and I agree with you.
"Your neighbours' Ferrari is built from atoms you can use too!"

SCNR!

The title somehow implies that everyone can have their own Google+ clone with little effort. Which is unfortunately not the case.

-jsl
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What would be an example of a Nortel patent that applies to Android? Just because they have 6000 patents doesn't mean they are useful? Anybody could get 6000 nonsense patents with enough money.

In fact I just wonder, has anybody ever tried to DoS the patent office? If one application costs 10000$, one billion dollars would buy you one million potential patents. Something like the "academic paper generator" could be used.
We're pretty creative when it comes to craft. Yes we reuse what packaging and what-have-you that we can but this isn't at all the same experience as a kid thinking "hmm I'd like to make a checker board" and then being free to go out and buy the materials and make it with their dad.

Lets be honest, you can only make so much out of plastic drinks cartons and cardboard packaging. Even then it's like, oh we need some clamps, a decent trimming tool, etc..

Don't worry I'm just exhausted with "making do" at the moment. At the risk of broadcasting a break down I think I'd better slip away quietly ...
Dui St. Johns
Arrestedinstjohns.com is a criminal attorney in St. Johns. Representing thousands of individuals Law Firms singled out during criminal investigations and charged with all levels of crimes.
Is it just me, or is it broken in Google Chrome?
In Firefox it works fine for me, but in Chrome, I initially see the "Everything is OK now" sign and can't click on anything...
"He threatened the life of the Vice President,"

Oh my. The poor defenseless president. Besides, you're missing the point - he was impersonating a fictional character threatening the life of the Vice President.

"He distributed child pornography". Come on.
This is disappointing, especially for BillMonk refugees. Abandoned again!
Why would you want to click anything if everything is ok now?

(Works for me in Chrome 12 on Windows 7.)
One side has an extensive, recent track record of offensive IP suits. The other does not. There's a difference between buying a gun to protect yourself in your own home and taking a Glock around the block for a drive-by.

I doubt Google will sue Apple for ripping half of the new iOS 5 features from Android but they'd be within their rights to do so.
You do not have to move, all you need to do is split the company into different parts and setup those parts in different countries that give you the protection you seek. For example you could have a US company that does the development and a company in a different country that does the sales. You really need to talk to a lawyer about this so you can make informed choices about how the companies relate and also potential investors so that not only are you legally covered but that the arrangements do not spook future potential investors.
Show HN: ChatVoting - American Idol-like voting for everyone
Ask HN: Video formats for web use.
I'm looking for a video format that can be embedded into PDFs, Powerpoint, HTML, etc, and which works equally well on Macs and Windows. Linux a bonus.

The only thing I've found so far is animated GIFs, but they're HUGE.

Please, suggestions and advics requested, as I'm having trouble achieving universality of experience for my users.

Thx.
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The Demise of the Antivirus Industry
The problem is even if those patents aren't relevant, legally establishing that fact is expensive and risky. With MS already shaking down handset makers for royalties there are important, near-term consequences of that kind of uncertainty.
That looks really good ... going to need a hot-glue gun first. Actually though some multi-purpose tube glue that I use to stick my shoes with should do it. Still not free.

It's funny, so often with these makes there are hidden costs. Silver spray can is quite expensive where I am. Of course you can skip that part.
+1 made me smile. Just what i needed right now
I've finally reached MVP stage for this and would really love to know what HN thinks.

What do you think I should change on the landing page, or in the app?

It is built with Sinatra running on Heroku and uses Twilio for SMS services.
I usually shy away from these "Do what you love" stories, but when I saw the domain it came from I had to read it. I thought the universe (or PG) was sending me a direct message via HN! (And no, I'm not that stupid or that much of a megalomaniac, I hope.)

So, from one Justin Briggs to another, thanks for an inspiring story, a newfound respect for SEO, and for bringing back some similar memories from my path.

Good Luck!
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From changelog:

- On Windows: the Appearance panel now includes a checkbox to allow
the selection of non-fixed-width fonts(...) Thanks
to Randall Munroe for a serious suggestion that inspired this.

This Randall Munroe? I guess the word "serious" is not by accident there :D.
New Firefox 7 Aurora Build Promises To Fix Memory Leak Issues
I don't want to be a curmudgeon, but why would anyone donate to that? Especially with no info about who is behind the site and why they did it.
So basically the American justice system admits that it is incapable of rehabilitation and that its only purpose is punishing and/or isolating offenders from society. Got it.
Works for me in Chrome 12.0 on Crunchbang (Debian) Linux.
I like this point. But actually that has already happened to an extent offline even if it hasn't much online. Billboards are often sexual or colorful -- even beautiful: they are created by graphic designers. Adverts often have music that we enjoy. Some restaurants try to advertise their food by wofting the smell towards us, etc...

However it could go a lot further. I'm surprised people aren't spraying women's perfume/pheremones on adverts for Lynx for example...
Ask HN: Any HN app out there to view article and comments in same window?
Question above.
Robots are the answer for a lot of problems, most notably healthcare and domestic industrial competitiveness. As the article states; if the US (and other countries mind you) don't step up, China will only get stronger as they not only have the cheap wetware but are also deploying hardware at alarming rates.
What is Wrong with 3G?
Wasn’t 3G not supposed to be about voice and SMS but whizzy new services: video calling, football highlights, interactive games. If 3G is as good as the marketing hype then why do we need 3.5G at all?

The first thing that turned out to be more hype than performance from 3G was the data rate.
One of the few profitable, promising Indian startups. Keep rocking.
Because it is fun, thought-provoking a little bit, and just made me smile :).
My son (5) has his own workbench next to mine, and regularly likes to go "build stuff" with me. He's built several "houses" (random blocks of wood glued/screwed/nailed together) on his own, and loves helping cut/drill/nail whatever project we happen to be working on. If I'm working on electronics stuff he likes to take the voltmeter and check the resistance of various objects to see if it beeps.

I realized all the hands-on/building/tools/etc was really paying off when he changed the batteries in a baby bouncer completely by himself. (For those unfamiliar with anything baby related, this means he had to work a screwdriver and remove several screws to take the cover off just to get to the batteries - I know adults who can't really work a screwdriver.) He even had the appropriate remark of frustration when at the end of it all he realized he'd put the cover back in the wrong way and had to take the whole thing off and re-do it...
Man gets 18 years in prison for hacking account and inflicting unfathomable psychic damage, making his victim feel vulnerable in their own home.
Amazing animation of fluid, fire/smoke/hair and cloth simulation
Liquid Filled Glass Text in Photoshop
Two questions about TPC-C on a sharded database.

How are you sharding the TPC-C workload?

If the answer is sharding on warehouse, how are you implementing the distributed transactions in new order?
Really? I've seen GSSAPI patched versions of Putty for two years at least, but never an official version with those patches included.
Opera mini 6.0.1 for ios is now available in Apple application store
The whole premise of the article is that the only acceptable reason for Microsoft to bid on the patents was out of fear that their existing licensing agreements would be invalidated. With thousands of patents in the portfolio, and a limited number of them licensed by Microsoft, that premise seems to need a bit of justification - something which the article lacks.

Furthermore, where is the explanation for Apple's participation? Is it also evil? What about Intel's failed bid? Evil too? RIM? Consistent attribution of the motives applied to Microsoft would have all Google's competitors as evil doers.

Finally, the article goes on to imply that the Nortel portfolio is somehow key to Microsoft's patent licensing program around Android which does not appear to be the case because those agreements are based on Microsoft's existing patent portfolio. (None of which is intended to argue for the merits of patent licensing.)
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I have tried several brain/mind stimulant. Coffee, Kola Nut, Chew Gum, Alcohol e.t.c. But what has worked best is the euphoria that comes from breaking limits or conquering resistance. What works best for you?
My most favorite sysadmin tool on Windows is mRemoteNG (http://www.mremoteng.org/). It integrated Putty for SSH, but also gives you RDP, Citrix, FTP, HTTP, etc, all integrated with tabs and passwords automatically sent for login.

It's the one Windows-only tool that I wish worked cross-platform.
Put yourself in his shoes. He had been accused of being a pedophile. He responded by trying to frame his neighbor as a pedophile, a philanderer, and a threat to national security.

Psychopathic tendencies? He was obviously angry, but he probably felt justified in his anger. In his eyes, he was just getting a bit of his own back.
I could have sworn reading many, many statistical models which show that the consumer market (for tablets) is driving the enterprise (business) market. In fact, I believe it is so overwhelming that the Blackberry, the business staple, is loosing out to iPhone/Android and iPad.

The days of the enterprise market leading the consumer market appear to be over.

That is, unless Microsoft comes out with a radically new version of Excel which every business just has to have. ;)
We've been beta testing Twilio for awhile now. It should be coming soon.
Sexualité et écoloqie – est-ce possible?
You could use almost any glue for the non-engine parts. The hot glue is good because it's simple. Agree on the silver paint, it is expensive and totally unnecessary. I painted it because there was a can in the house that my SO had used for spraying pine cones to make Christmas decorations and I figure there was no point the last of it going to waste.

I'm a big believer in not throwing stuff away that could be potentially useful.
His neighbor had done the same. They told the police he'd kissed their 4-year-old son. That's a reason for a grudge (unless it was true ... but we don't really know)
I was brought up by an awesome dad like the one in the story in many ways, he just exposed me to everything that he was interested in. We had computer guts all over the floor, the garage was full of electronic parts he was fooling around with. No 2nd-hand television lasted that long in our house. A really strong memory for me as a young child was just hanging out with dad making/breaking things, and my dad not in any way playing favourite over me and my big brother (though I was only allowed to watch when they were putting computers together). I am positive that just this exposure gave me the impetus to follow my inclination into the world of making stuff as soon as I became dexterous enough to do so (whether it was anything I found interesting in a 'make stuff' book, treehouse expansions, modding my bike, breaking electronics). I think of it as having the 'scare' taken out of me - just being exposed to a technical workshop from birth meant that I didn't have to make that leap from 'I want to make stuff' to 'how do I make stuff' because my dad and brother had shown me that you just, well, make stuff and figure it out as you go. Now my nephews have the same life - I'm so proud of my 4yr old nephew when I ask him for a specific wrench size or anything from the workshop. Just through exposure he's learnt what all the tools are and what they are for. If he wants to grow up and be a hacker, that's great but whatever he chooses to do in life he'll always know that if something breaks he can try and fix it, or (hopefully) break it himself for his own needs. If your daughter is interested in being a hacker she'll let you know.
Are you against punishment?
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I live in Ottawa and listen to Pandora a lot, actually ;)
Did he accost their toddler, or did the toddle go wandering into his house, and he carried him out? I don't know. But if they did lie about the "kissing a 4-year-old", the neighbors are as bad as him.
i thik google+ will succees then facebook bcz in facebook many limitaion like ifu send 10 frendship request then u bolocked till 10 days .........
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Meh, they're OK. It's pretty easy to layer something more interesting on top of them. Pop in a scripting language for the business logic and you're looking good, with lots of possible deployment options and a wealth of tuning information.
But he also switched from what is generally considered a more open company to one that doesn't even let me export my contacts.
Ask HN: How you send the file after the PayPal purchase
Let say you want to sell icons or templates and the payments are made with PayPal, do you use some external services like http://www.e-junkie.com/ or do you use PayPal Apis or something else.
Mental problems caused by cultural context
Biggest OEM example of why this does not work:

In the US we have two big examples:

1. CDAMA OEMs as they pay a patent fee to Qualcomm.
2. The OEM Apple uses for GSM handsets as they pay a patent fee to Nokia via Apple. Did that OEM suddenly stop making iphones after Nokia won the case?
Who hates the Java platform?

Servlets are actually a decent implementation of a not too bad idea - the problem is the rest of the system (Java server faces, which have all the conciness of XML with the prettiness of PHP and Tag libraries which are essentially a remimplementation of Java in XML and, well, Java) and the bigcorps that normally use it.

Also just because you use the JVM is no reason to use Java (which is a bad language, whoes only redeeming value is that it has fantastic IDEs for it) -- there is Scala and Clojure.
OK, I did miss something. Your explanation sounds probable, I should have thought about it. Now this quote doesn't sound so bad any more.
If they're using their talents to figure how how to show adds exclusively to those people who actually want to see the ads, that's not such a bad thing.
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What I learned today: Startup culture
Defeating SSL
Agreed. I remember hearing a quote when his search engine, WolframAlpha, came out: "I wonder which will become self aware first. WolframAlpha or Wolfram, Stephen".
Firefox 5.0.1 and 3.6.19 compatibility updates is now available for Mac
Sounds steep to me but if these guys are good then 40-50% of a lot is better than 100% of very little. What happens after 18 months?

I'm guessing, as always, the devil is in the detail. Get other proposals so you can compare.
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Symbioses is the issue. The entire f-ing problem. People refuse to give up anything to get a better relationship so they create predatory disguises, try and polish them up and endlessly research ways to hunt customers instead of being one with them. Those who evolve to become one in need and desire with both customers and constituents wiil reap great rewards, monetarily and politically.Someday, someday this society will grow the fuck up.
Ha! This is a flashier and more philosophical cousin of ...

The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything

http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm
http://xkcd.com/840/ (title text of the image)
That's why I prefaced it with "from a business point of view" -- to imply that it isn't the "sole purpose", but it's certainly looked at. I'm not saying that they will game the system by forcing page-views when not needed by the product, but that they will judge success based on usage, not average friend count.
Anyone got a link to a Firefox 3.6.x EOL roadmap?
Maybe it sounds like overkill, but I use SSH to localhost to access the cygwin, as I typically need functioning SSH anyway. Combined with Pageant, I don't have to type login and I type pageant password only once after the boot and it just works. It's all the stuff I need anyway so I don't have to use any patched version of something.
>Well, OK, maybe not that last one.

You know a headline like "My weekend project: father/son NSA hacking" make for a great story to read on HN. ;)
I've used KiTTY but I'm going to have to switch back now: Jumplists are nice, but playing nice with the Windows 7 split-screen/tiling/etc shortcuts is just glorious.
This is the image linked in the post: http://i.imgur.com/vNqt3.png
Allow me to see pricing without signing up.
No print button? Don't really feel like running Instapaper on all 7 pages.
It's my primary work tool for embedded c/c++. That and vim.
I haven't been over to Reddit in a while. Is this really what it's like now?

I remember when I left, /r/programming read pretty much like HN does now, with an occasional mean comment or joke thread left alive to get in the way. The linked thread, though, has no actual discussion. It's just a bunch of people making silly jokes. Sad to see it go that way.
Android Developer Competitions For Google Developer Day
Is there a way to try it without paying first? Or is there a demo video?
Seller of Counterfeit Cisco Gear Heads to Prison
But that doesn't "doesn't do anything"--it reloads the page.
Someone should tell the author, I guess ;)

But, if a page reloads and is exactly the same, did anything really happen?
Game of throns,Season,Episode
game of throns,Season,Episode
past decade to get this body of work made. Children have grown into adults, directors have come and gone, and still, the myth and legend remains as potent as ever
Vitamins. Healthy food. 8-9 hours of sleep.
I don't think governments are going to be bailing out advertisers just yet.
The button and blur effect are both very beautiful, so at first I was excited to see how they were done in code. But it turned out to be just plain images, no fancy CSS. In fact the entire popup dialog is an image, complete with the close button. Ah well...
This is a mean price increase.
There isn't. A demo video is definitely on my roadmap. I'd love to find a way to offer a free demo too, but I'm trying to bootstrap this and twilio charges me for phone numbers and msgs.

Maybe I could allocate a few numbers and let people
demo with one of those for a little while.
I prefer it too. Shame it isn't updated anymore and the author has no plans to resume updating it.
> they did it for exactly the same reasons Apple, Microsoft et al did

Given their track record, I highly doubt that. Rather, it looks like they tried to buy the patent portfolio so their competitors wouldn't try to use it against them.
Study: For Men, Even a Desk Job Brings More Exercise Than Unemployment
This. This article is half-speculation about the simplest parts of the stack that Google still isn't revealing ('probably uses Java servlets').

Google is doing a pathetic job of transparency and an even worse job of open-sourcing the real parts of its infrastructure, and from everything I've read so far, it's hurting them as much or more internally than it starves the developer community.
Ask HN: When will Firefox start supporting 64-bit libflashplayer.so? 
I am still using Firefox 3.6 because the latest versions dont have support for the above mentioned plugin.
Yes. Honestly it's ability to "intelligently" know what I'm trying to select (for copy/paste or whatever) with the mouse is better than any other terminal I've used (OS X, Ubuntu, etc).
Just logged in and saw the lightbox announcing the changes. The first line says "World's easiest A/B testing tool just became even more easier.". That should be either "became even more easy" or "became even easier".

Also, what happened to the section that tells me whether the test is finished or not? There used to be something saying that the results aren't conclusive yet, and the test needs to run longer. Now... nothing?
I look forward to moments like this with my two sons, great story and really well told... thanks!
I/O-efficient algorithms
Noted. Thank you!

So you don't have to login to see pricing, it starts at $10 for what I think most people would use and goes up from there.
The link was not to /r/programming it was to /r/reddit.com. /r/programming has it's own problems, but these comments are definitely not representative of that subreddit.
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Oops, yes! Good catch. Fixing it.