skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats funny, I thought Lion was acting up. So yeah, you guys should perhaps think a second time about those :)
Just use the debt clock http://www.usdebtclock.org/

It shows $46,571 per citizen and, more importantly, $129,902 per tax payer.
Reminder that the BBB isn't a governmental or law enforcement agency and has no power or authority outside of civil litigation.
Greece defaults
SproutCore 2.0 Beta Released
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I like the idea of layered frameworks.

For Ruby, there's Innate, a light-weight framework, and on top of that is built Ramaze, a more developed framework (though still comparatively light). Likewise there is Sinatra, and on top of that was built Padrino.

And both Innate and Sinatra are built on top of Rack. So if you don't care for the direction or feel of a framework you can pop down the layers once or twice and build something you like without having to start completely from scratch.
They should be "application specific", maybe even with options to choose which parts of Google Services it can access. I don't want my Digsby generated password to be able to access my email via IMAP. It's unlikely to be leaked in plain-text but it's silly to call it application specific.
> I don't claim LulzSec represents any cause.
> It is offtopic, but I respect LulzSec specifically because I think they have the potential to drive home the concepts and ramifications of computer security, a topic which I find particularly interesting and important for personal reasons.

You justify violating individuals privacy in order to further the cause of computer security? That is an acceptable trade off to you?

> I didn't address this at first because you are making too many assumptions about myself for it to be very interesting

Please quote me on unfounded assumption about you or your views

> Doesn't effect me, so I don't give a shit.

I think this is the most telling response you've made. You might have well as said "Human rights are not important, unless they are mine" because thats how it reads.
Now they just patent troll Android OEMs for having infringements in the linux kernel
Actually, cakes were sent for 3 and 4, and a cupcake for 5: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/cupcake-firefox-5-microsoft-fun...
What about bug reports? How will developers know which apk has the bug if the user doesn't also submit which device, version, screen size etc it has?
Facebook to update iPhone app, addressing complaints
It's not a problem with 2 factor is it? It's a problem with not having 2 factor authentication with app-specific passwords.
Your reply gives the impression that you might think that I work at Etsy - I don't.

No one here has cited examples of how Etsy's API has failed. At least, nothing substantive. I'd love to see examples as the few times I have used it, its worked fine.

I guess the questions are:

- (1) If Etsy's API is defective, then what makes it so?

- (2) What potion of the blame lies with the language it was written in?

Anyone?
> “The vast bulk of Microsoft’s contributions has been to its own Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor drivers. Hyper-V is Microsoft’s 64-bit hypervisor-based virtualization system,”

"whatever the reason might be" as if it wasn't clearly stated in the article.
"An annual income that typically grows 2.5%"

If you're lucky enough to work at a company that does actually have a policy of CPI pay increases every year.

Of all the companies I've worked for (7), only 1 did.
SproutCore 2.0 Beta 2 Released
The Daily Finally Fixes its iPad App - Actually Usable Now
Did you see the context of that comment? It was direct quote from the user I was replying to. I used the term "vandalism", in quotes, because that was how the previous poster categorized them. Do I consider them vandalism, on par with graffiti? No. Will a semantic discussion about how to refer to the crimes change anything? I don't see how.
Brain Crack
The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA2kqAIOoZM
"You justify violating individuals privacy in order to further the cause of computer security? That is an acceptable trade off to you?"

Yes. Does that bother you? Because I don't care.
Yes, just like all the other hackers...
> At this point, I'm not sure which one I find more scary.

Maybe the ones with guns.

Today I have not heard of a single case of hackers using guns to make a point, but the government does all of the time.

I can live with all of the hysteria in the world if someone does not mame my body, with blunt objects, explosions, pointy things, or projectiles.
I can also access some of them via my school. But for instance for SpringerLink and ACM we only have access to recent material and I sometimes want to read stuff I don't have access to even through my school.

Anyway, schools and universities really have a lot of better stuff to do with their money than paying thieves.
And you would, validly, be deserving of the same retaliation by any children of the exec, who you barbarously forced to watch the execution. You should read the Oresteia, just for the small chance you might suddenly grasp the ideal of justice.

Arguing for lynch mob vengeance shows you are completely inept at managing your feelings of righteous anger, potentially sociopathic in your inability to empathize, unconcerned with accuracy or the case of false positives, and just as lame-brained as every single idiot that hit a car in the Vancouver riots.

Furthermore, you should also know that Axelrod's tit-for-tat game theory strategy wins in iterative situations that continue past the first reaction and also relies on forgiveness.
The latest versions of Unicode have an official encoding for emoji, and (after having installed a suitable font) the resulting page renders just fine in Firefox Aurora on Ubuntu 11.04.

It doesn't render in the URL bar, of course, but that's Firefox's IDN whitelist at work.
This is why I can't stand Gentoo. We had a dude who was the Sysadmin before me who loved it. He upgraded the kernel deleted the old one and didn't reboot. Several months later the server had to be shutdown and didn't come backup. I spent several hours fighting to get the machine to a point where I could rebuild a working kernel.

Within a week I prepared and migrated the system to something more reasonable.
Lodsys ups the ante, files suit against EA, Atari, Rovio and more
Ask HN: I'm a successful founder biz-dev guy. Should I get an MBA?
Back in 2008 my two best friends and I founded a startup straight out of college. It was tough, but earlier this year the venture started to really take off.

As the business guy for the startup, I would like to eventually transition to project management at a larger tech company. Since the startup is successful, I'm not in a hurry, this is more of a longer-term goal, which is why I'm thinking about MBA programs.

A family member who is a senior project manager at a large tech consultancy said I should just go to b-school right now because I will definitely need it. My cofounders disdain MBA programs.

I'm a light web developer, a designer, and I live and breath the internet, but I don't have any formal qualifications for the job, so I've been favoring the idea of getting an MBA.

Hacker news if full of people with more experience than I, so I thought I would ask and see if anyone would like to help a young grasshopper like myself.
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Perhaps your puzzlement comes from a lack of exposure to all the variables? Not being critical here, I don't know anything about your background.

For some people, they have a demonstrated level of competence which allows them to work on what ever they are passionate about. If that is combined with a modest disregard for money such that they work somewhere because they are passionate, and for any salary as long as it meets some base level. If you want to hire them it is effectively impossible.

You have recruiters call them, they brush them off. You invite them to conferences and schmooze them with all the great things going on at BigCorp and they thank you politely for the invite and don't call back. You shower them with flattery, gifts, whatever and they persistently ignore you.

But if they get passionate about an idea and start a company around it and work day and night to breathe life in it, and more importantly take outside money, then BigCorp gets a chance. If BigCorp can convince the investor(s) to sell them the company they can move this thing you are passionate about into their company and have this star entrepreneur follow it.

Then there is a somewhat less sensational side, you've started a company and you've convinced people to invest, people who are now your friends, and it hasn't turned out quite the way you hoped it might. Perhaps the timing is off, or there was some gotcha you thought would be insignificant but turned out to be much more difficult, or maybe someone turned up a patent or something that makes your idea impossible to implement. Maybe its as simple as customers are willing to pay you what you need to make in order for you idea to be a viable business. You've got talent, you demonstrated an ability to execute, but your investors aren't going to come in on another round of funding because they, like you, no the concept as planned is dead.

You are friends with these folks (your investors) and you don't want to screw that up, so if BigCorp comes along and buys the company which pays off the investors, you get to keep your friendships intact, BigCorp gets to put some golden shackles on you for some period of time, and you get to try again after the shackles come off.

The short of it is that its rarely successful for a large corporation to 'poach' employees by luring them away with promises of better pay and more regular working hours.
Similar to http://imgfave.com ?
It is possible that no individual person knew the full scope of what was happening. What is needed is anytime a company pursues legal action is a line from the CEO (or delegate) saying they are fully aware of the details of this case and take personal responsibility for its correctness.
Maim.

MAME is an arcade machine emulator. ;)
> Given Oracle's recent activities

What do you mean? Sure, Oracle is an aggressive company, but they are clearly doing business, and not a non-practicing patent troll. Even in suing Google over Java in Android, they not only use Java but are the center of its development. Sun itself sued [Microsoft] over Java.

This acquisition makes sense to them, since linux is a key part of their vertical offering. If no one else can offer it (because patented), it makes even more sense.

I agree that their IP department would analyze the patent for value in other areas - but how could that be the "real prize", when its final form and very existence is unknown?

That said, hot swapping code has been around for a while e.g. a PhD supervisor of mine had another student working in it around 2005, and these are dated 2009. They might very well have a new technique, applied in a specific area, but would be necessarily limited by prior art.

---

QUESTION: how much value would this patent application be worth as part of this acquisition?

Clearly, it depends on the base value of the company; the contribution of the technology (e.g. acquisitions also acquire customers and talent); the competitive advantage of blocking it (e.g. do customers care about this - is it an important factor in purchasing decisions?); how well this patent blocks it; and how likely it is to be granted in a useful form.
Google Places Makes its Move, Pushes Other Reviews Into the Background
This is better than nothing, and I suppose it's far too late to do anything else, but I was really hoping they'd force manufacturers to provide updates and unify the platform a little.

If you have to test on all the devices and make individual builds for different devices, development sucks. I was at Loopt when we supported J2ME, where every phone that was supposed to be the same[1] was different, and per-device builds were the only solution. It was a nightmare. In the long term, I fear Android won't be much better in that regard.

[1] Java runs the same everywhere! All the JREs are validated by Sun and pass the same tests!
I suspect the size of this sensor to be entirely prototypical. Despite being an avid photographer since 15 years back, with all the market insight accompanying that, I just can't see what market segment an interchangeable lens system with a sensor size between M4/3 and that of a pocket camera would be aimed at.

Does anyone know of any long-lived system from any manufacturer with a sensor of this size? There are a few novelty models out there, but they never seem to catch on, always resulting in a single camera model with just a few lenses, disappearing from the market soon after.
Often those are draft copies that are usually very good but occasionally you'll hit one where there's an error corrected in the final version but still in there. Or figures are missing. Etc.
GP conflated RFID and NFC a bit, at least their colloquially accepted meanings. What we normally call 'NFC' has a range of <20cm, often <<20cm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication). This is what also makes NFC more suitable for mobile payments than RFID.
Yeah, I wasn't too serious about the x86 "solution". It's an impressive hack, but that's all ATM.

I forgot about the LLVM compiler - that's a very promising project.
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too many startups are not solving any real-world problems. that's why they are going to flop.
I believe Closure optimizes many uses of arguments.
Thinking out loud here (and I know I will regret this) but is there really that big a market out there for email merging for a $350k funding?

EDIT: Nvm, just saw the features to track - viewed, clicked and bounced. That does give it an edge. Maybe the frontpage features should link through to the tours page (just my two cents)
> Space exploration is just one of many such wasteful examples.

Only if you place low value on the scientific returns. Science research is one thing the private sector does poorly, and it's something NASA does a lot of.

The other main area is human spaceflight which you could say is wasteful, but NASA did a lot of the high cost low return R&D for human spaceflight. Now private companies can go into the effort with timescales that can keep investors happy.
I'm not sure if it's just me, or is there a ton of news coming out surrounding ebooks? Google eBooksore, book renting on Kindles, Kobo > Borders, and Nook color doing well. With more readers gravitating toward eBooks, I think authors are going to want to continue to have that personal touch with their readers. Digital autographs may be filling that void in a small way. I'm excited to see what's next. I know I want a personalized haiku. :)
Do the wealthy fund long term scientific research projects?
Even if they force manufacturers to provide updates, that doesn't completely solve the problem. Just look at how many iOS devices are on older releases just because users have never plugged them into their computers to get updates. And just because Android allows carriers to push updates OTA doesn't mean users will actually install them.
Mashable has renamed their account to be an individual (Pete Cashmore, the CEO).

"Mashable will be launching a new business profile and building it up from scratch once business accounts are available.

This account will continue to exist, but going forward it'll have my name and picture, and I'll continue to post here."

https://plus.google.com/101849747879612982297/posts
How to sell green cleaning products w/high-end design and environmental science
Well, I think that about sums things up. burgerbrain doesn't "give a shit" about your rights, only his own! But we should still respect his option for some reason I can't think of right now.
The less fantastic news, is that your ratings will be averaged over each phone/tablet/API version. As you leave features out of older-API versions, those users will be unhappy and leave negative reviews.

Until Google presents reviews and ratings associated to specific versions, and now APKs, these reviews and ratings will continue to be problematic.
Thankfully I never use Mail or iCal or Address Book.

The lack of visible scrollbars is really throwing me off sometimes. If content lines up right there is no visual indication that it extends beyond its frame. I think this is a step backward in usability.
I like the old testament standard:

(Deut 19:16-19)
If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse
someone of a crime, the judges must make a
thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to
be a liar, then do to the false witness as
that witness intended to do to the other party.

I think that should be the normal response to malicious use of the legal system.
Can a Playground Be Too Safe?
How to deal with deprecated APIs in Android
From the Wikipedia entry for "Linux kernel":

"In July 2009 Microsoft submitted Hyper-V drivers to the kernel, which improve the performance of virtual Linux guest systems in a Windows hosted environment. Microsoft was forced to submit the code when it was discovered that Microsoft had incorporated a Hyper-V network driver with GPL-licensed components statically linked to closed-source binaries."

So obviously Microsoft didn't do it for altruistic motives.
I love working from home, although my trip into town for a Ruby user group meeting was the first time I've been outside in three weeks.

I'm not a naturally social person, so without being forced to interact with other people by work I'll tend to only talk to my wife and the daily Skype meeting with colleagues in the office.

That's probably not healthy.
In Bay Area Conversion of Apartments to Rentals for Tourists Is Surging
What do you think has been the "best" purchase of a startup?
Was discussing with a friend. What do you think has been the "best" purchase of a startup so far.

Main criteria for "best" being that it was a young startup, not like the YouTube purchase or someone that was already huge and successful, but also "best" meaning it involved a huge sum of money for the startup, enough to let them retire or at least consider themselves successful.

If anything, it's a fun thing to think about and research. I just lost an hour Wiki'ing various purchases over the last decade or so.
Which functional programming language should I choose to learn?
Having programmed in C++ for several years and having read HN for several months, I would like to learn a functional programming language to expand/change the way I think about writing programs. Which functional programming language should I choose? Python, Ruby, Haskell, others? It would be nice to have decent library support so that I can actually write a web based product using it and host it somewhere :). Please advice
We automatically add that info to our feedback button emails...
Wow, fantastic work and what an important project. I can't believe I haven't used these libraries before.
Microsoft’s big gaming gamble is finally paying off
There is a startup out of Raleigh, NC that's trying to solve this exact problem.

deja Mi has built an iPhone app that allows you to capture media and upload it to a collection of media assigned to the specific venue or event you're attending. You can hear the spiel straight from the horse's mouth here: http://www.mycarolinatoday.com/2011/07/deja-mi/

On a side note, for those local to the Triangle, NC there's going to be free concerts throughout the weekend in downtown Raleigh to kick off the release of their app. The lineup of musicians is very impressive, go check it out if you're able. More details: http://dejami.com/dejafest

http://dejami.com/
http://itunes.apple.com/app/deja-mi/id447681380?mt=8
That was a quote from manifesto.
I absolutely don't think that the current system means that the contents of journals are absolute truth -- I've been a referee and seen what happens to rejected articles (they show up a month later in another journal).

The point is not so much about the quality of what does come out, it's about the quality of the crap that currently does not come out. While I agree that it could be useful to have open discussions about papers, I think if that happens at the expense of the ability of everyone who thinks they have an idea to put stuff out there, the result might be a net decrease in signal/noise.
I wish the market made a distinction between "reviews from people for whom the app is working" and "reviews from people for whom the app is broken". Most apps work fine on my G2, and it's useless when the first page of reviews is filled with 1-stars saying "FC's (force closes) on my Samsung Matrix Galactus++ Z".
The problem is that the US doesn't pick random citizens to be on death row

The point of your professor's analysis was not that black people were more likely to be convicted, but that we've created a society where black people are more likely to commit crime. This is still a very serious social problem, if not quite as serious as the hypothetical one you dismiss.
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Short Hairstyles 2011,Just this year alone we have witnessed stars such as Rihanna, Nicole Richie, Sienna Miller and Jessica Alba hitting the red carpet with glorious quick hair styles.
As you leave features out of older versions, those users will be unhappy and leave negative reviews.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? It seems like you're saying users will be unhappy because they can't get new features without having to update, which seems odd.
> A few minutes planned downtime now in much better than hours of unplanned downtime at some indeterminate future time.

This reminds me of something that OpenSolaris did that I really liked. When you updated packages, it would take a ZFS snapshot. It only took up space for the changed bits, and happened almost instantly. If things stopped working after the reboot, then you could select a GRUB menu option to boot into the old snapshot again and everything would work.
Same for me, how can I see the document? I asked for access several times without response
I do not value scientific research in directions that are not important to me.

If I don't need spaceflight in the next 100 years, there is no point spending valuable resources on researching human spaceflight. 100 years from now such research would be significantly less expensive and more meaningful.

I'd rather see valuable resources spend on what's important. For example on better rating system on HN.

Government is not capable of doing things like that.
[meta whinge]
Cursor trails? _Really?_ In 2011? Is this some sort of GeoCities-esque retro fashion thing?
Hey, what conference did you go to around mobile marketing?
Bzzzzz. Sea bass is often really Antarctic toothfish, a species which, while certified as 'sustainable' is anything but. See http://www.lastocean.co.nz for details on a campaign to protect the Ross Sea, one of the World's last almost untouched wild places.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that one before. :)

Yeah, it's a similar concept, as is http://mlkshk.com/ with their new bookmarklet.

I think two things set imagestash apart:

1. The bookmarklet has many more features, and works in more cases. You can use it to snag multiple images at once, view any images on a page as a slideshow, expose images obscured by CSS or Javascript trickery, find full size images from thumbnails, or download a batch of images directly from their page as a .zip.

On browsers that support <canvas>, it will even get images behind a login wall where the server can't download them directly.

2. imgfave, mlkshk, imgur, etc. are all geared toward sharing first, and private collections second, if at all. Imagestash prioritizes the other way -- building your own collection is the primary goal, and sharing publicly is secondary/optional.
- Piscetarians have lower rates of heart disease than both vegans and occasional meat eaters

Would you have a link for that? I'd add it to my collection for future diet discussions ...