skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article repeatedly mentions O'Dwyer's lack of connection to the USA. Isn't the connection clearly the American ownership of the content he's accused of infringing (I have no comment on whether simply aggregating links to it actually constitutes a crime).

Maybe it's a stretch, but the analogy I can concoct is: someone steals something from an American and a British person assists the thief in fencing the item to some non-American and takes a cut for his services (like the ad revenue).
I wonder when the spammers start to pay for those incidents...

Hope, you and your friends are well!
How good is the quality by 99design?
I see it as fairly unnecessary to qualify things that way, because it's implied in any statement of fact that we're speaking according to our knowledge. I'd never write "according to your knowledge."

At any rate, this is still not a reversal of any stance. Apple never said it would not ship a Java runtime for Lion (and iirc it has been this way in Lion for a long time), and it still isn't recommended that developers depend on this.
"the vested interests of a particular large corporation are sometimes very different from mine."

Couldn't agree more! Especially when it comes to large corporations where you are a product being sold to advertisers, they're even worse than large corporations that accept money from you in return for goods and services.
First, I don't have to keep looking for ids/classes across multiple files when I'm maintaining/modifying an object. This makes maintaining an object that much easier.

Also, because Agility allows me to refer to the root element of a view as the selector "&", I don't have to worry about maintaining that additional id/class. This becomes especially useful when you have many MVC objects (as most projects do), each with their own root element. Suddenly you have eliminated dozens of unnecessary ids/classes.
- I'm a technical guy with great credentials and some very high end industry experience, I'd be able to find a job with one of the big boys (where I'm at right now) in a blink of an eye, even though I generally hate interview processes and would much rather never have to do one again :)

- Will be married very soon if everything goes well, but my partner is very supportive of me and I see it as a plus as far as starting a company is concerned

- This one is tough, and definitely a good question. I've been making quite a bit as a corporate drone for several years now and so I don't remember last time I had to question a purchase. On the other hand, I'd give up almost everything to never have to see management's face again, go through performance reviews, fill out HR questionnaires and have to play office politics for that measly bonus, all while not learning anything new as an engineer in a long time. To me, not hating myself every day is worth more than probably 75% of my salary :) From a motivation standpoint, I feel that the fear of running out of money and the terror of having to go back to writing emails 80% of my day in corpspeak will be sufficient to keep me crunching all day every day.

Cynicism apart, it's all about being able to work on something that I'm ultimately responsible for, something that someone cares about and have a purpose in mind, those three are a huge motivation to me, and have been for the past half a year I've been doing 80 hour weeks.
You know, the alternatives might not be great, but between Go and JavaScript V8, I bet Google could pull Java out of Android. It might take a few years, but it's possible. Then again, Oracle is trying to get Google to pay the $6 billion it paid for Sun.

Google should have just bought Sun, sold off the hardware business to say IBM, and kept Java and the patents.

In this case I think the nerds at Google were too clever for their own good and it's going to bite them in the long run.
I don't play it, but Tarn really deserves more support as it sounds like he and his brother skate by on very little.
If we are talking about 4Mb/s, then yes, that's at least half of the slowest speeds you'd expect nowadays. The cheapest package my ISP offers is 10Mb/s, with the average priced one being 30Mb/s.
Preface: This is not legal advice. Consult your attorney and CPA. Blah blah blah

This is a great question.

The short answer is to license the IP between several corporate entities.

Here's a structure that offers a huge amount of protection and risk reduction:

-You own 100% of Company A

-Company A owns all IP

-Company B licenses the IP from Company A

-Company B is an operational company (with a merchant account, employees, office, etc).

Any potential litigation will target Company B because it's exposed. However, you structure the licensing agreement between Company A and Company B such that:

-Company A is indemnified of all of Company B's transgressions

-Company A has very little value because most income is paid to Company B as the licensing fee. You want Company B to essentially be worthless, which means it's not a big target for lawsuits.

Company B would probably be a US-based company. However, Company A could be based in another country, which would further reduce the likelihood of a lawsuit touching the IP.

So you get to operate in the US, but still protect your IP from litigation. The best of both worlds.
"However, most importantly, it is that people are an unstoppable force. "

well, there are several proven ways to stop the enthusiastic outpouring of people's creativity. For example city council, zoning and ordinances. Introduce such stuff into the game, with building permit needing 6 months to clear the design review stage only and you'll see how "unstoppable" the force is :)
7 Unwritten Laws of Social Media
This sounds a lot like Geckoboard with some plugins: http://www.geckoboard.com/
Why Google Is Now A Social Company: Bradley Horowitz & Vic Gundotra
I'm speaking generically. It is difficult to imagine a moral code by which al'Qaedas actions are not objectionable (although there is obviously at least one). That being said, we often conflate absolute morality with personal perspective. Some causes have more gray areas than others for certain.

Good point on the cartoon, I had forgotten it was published there and can understand the outrage stemming from it.
Links to other solutions?
And as long as we're geeking out, money existed but not in the Federation. So, not for humanity. Outside cultures had it, which made them an interesting foil for a humanity whose abundance taught them to value other things.
IOS 5 beta 4 is out
http://www.dataliberation.org/ has methods for retrieving pretty much all of your google data.
Like the concept but kind of sketches me out that they're that good at running systems in RAM after reading about how stuxnet does exactly that. Take a little give a little I guess
Doesn't pass the verbal test. Is that "I" or is that "eye" or is it "aye"?
>"Files stored in Library"
>"Scrolling behavior opposite of expected"
>These are not 'issues', this is by design.

I would imagine that their support people have gotten questions about both of these, and they are here mainly to say "this is by design in 10.7".

>"Rosetta support no longer included with Lion"
>This was known way before wide release of Lion,
>no reason for Adobe to be unprepared for it.

Do you have any evidence that Adobe was unprepared for it? The article talks about CS2 or earlier versions of Adobe products. CS3, which is Intel-native, was released in 2007. Again, I would imagine this is here because they have had customers complaining that their old versions do not run on the new OS.
It's usually called the Department of Business Development.

It might be at a city level, a county level or at a state level. There's also the federal option of the SBA.

They are not that hard to find. Just call your city's mayor's office or town hall and ask.
Is Fortran faster than C?
Um, what use this?

If I click on a dropdown box, I can already type the value on my keyboard to select it. No javascript necessary.

(using chromium on ubuntu)
That's what it's starting to look like, yeah. Which is reassuring, in a way - the upside of a lifestyle business is that you're not particularly beholden to investors.
I recall a family vacation when I was younger, driving down the Florida coast; my dad screaming (not a bad scream, but a hurried, excited, educated scream). He kept asking my brother and I in the back seat if we wanted to see the astronauts go into space. Circa 12 years old, you fucking bet we did. We tried to find a good spot, but unfortunately, weren't able to (the launch was also cancelled that day for a reason I can't remember).

I'm fairly happy to know that my parents tried to show this to my brother and I. After reading this account, I can say that at some point in my life, I'd like to see humans going into space.

It may be cheesy, but this just set a wonderful tone for my weekend.
How to find your Twitter peeps on Google Plus
For a good portion of my people (in my experience, at least 50%) any domain but .com might as well not exist. With them, ".com" is four characters that must ritually be applied to all domains to appease the computer gods.
I'm not saying Cook was a bad guy. I don't think it is necessary for there to be a bad guy, despite Cosma's rather bilious essay. Would Wolfram have tried to claim the result as his own? Maybe, maybe not, I don't know, but it doesn't seem consistent with what I do know about him. I'll ask Stephen the next time I talk to him.
Based on the type of world being built, it might eventually be equally unethical to turn it on.
If I remember correctly, in Tiger the default install included a few gigabytes of printer drivers that were removed and downloaded on demand in later versions. The OS itself has remained fairly constant in size.
Another interesting fact: every time your eyes move, you're blind for a couple milliseconds. But you never notice this because your brain fills in these gaps in time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking
Google+ Games To Be Released Soon?
Flask vs webapp2 for Google App Engine
Mea maxima culpa -.-

I upvoted you both for my sin.

What can I say, I have one of those extra-short attention span...

When opening the link I first thought maybe the black squares pattern was a game-of-life automata and thought "that'd be clever if it was that, added bonus for related words and definitions" and then my blood just boiled so fast when it turned out (wrongly) to be such a basic predicted-afterward parlor trick that I didn't bother noticing the link... (I'll dig myself a bit deeper but I can't help it but say that this click-on-the-link-to-get-the-meat trick is annoying me too, but that's another story (go ahead, I have 64 more karma bits to loose before the ground))
My own Greatest Approaches for Producing High – Converting Targeted Traffic
There is a Firefox icon on the desktop in the screenshot, and the article specifically mentions being able to run Firefox.
Support Vector Machine algorithm threatened by patent enforcement
This is kind of like saying "If I didn't get into Harvard, why should you still go to college?" No matter how big YC gets, they will still be rejecting the vast majority of applicants. Its simply not possible for them to fund every startup that comes their way.

Furthermore, think of companies like instagram, angry birds, quora, github, groupon, and a huge list of others that are not YC companies, but kicking ass. Should these people have given up because they weren't in YC? YC is one of the greatest opportunities in Silicon Valley, but by no means is it the only game in town.
Thanks for the personal validation.

Good for Lloyd and RippleQ.

All that should make his job of finding technical talent much easier.

However, obviously something is askew if what you said is true and yet, he can't find any technical talent.

I'm actually meeting with him next week to see if we can figure it out.
>He was a murder suspect who evaded

Exactly. You see a young black man not paying the $2 bus fare and you immediately treat him as a murder suspect who evaded. "Being black is a probable cause" - seems to be true.

> and shot at the police.

according to the last police version he shot at himself. I guess the next version will be a good theory combining everything together - he shot at the police through his head.

>Let's not go overboard here.

Unfortunately we're already there.
Optically, they're kind of like cameras. I wouldn't be surprised if early camera designers looked to mammalian eyes for inspiration.

But once you get to the retina all bets are off. That's the point of this article.
Well maybe it did so because it wanted to take an undue advantage of its market share. Now is that anti monopolisitc? Sure it is.

Off with their head I say. Google-s I mean.
Ditto. .com is safe to tell people, anything else can lead to confusion.
Wow. I thought Realm of the Mad god (http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/) had low-fi appeal...
that's actually kinda slick. is much API work required or do I just have to plugin a few keys? Surprised a haven't seen that before!

update: http://vimeo.com/19006092 not bad, looks like uses oauth and that sort of thing when possible
So Wolfram Research has been around for 25 years, which is geological time for a software company. It has a (several) niches, and its technology is so far ahead of its competitors that I think the answer to your question is: all of them.
Or if you cherish your time, you keep away from it. It's quite addictive and you can have a lot of Fun.
One idea that I would like to see in ads is the ability for me to fill out some kind of portable profile that ads could use to figure out what to show me. For example if I'm thinking of buying a car it would be nice to only see car ads for a while. Also the ability to blacklist certain kinds of products. Maybe the end users could decide how much info to divulge that would effect their rates in terms of how many ads are required to pay for content.
Voicemail hacking
Awesome! I can definitely understand your point of catching people that fall between the cracks of traditional recruiting methods because they can't pass the arbitrary litmus test most companies use to assess technical capabilities.

Did you connect with Lloyd? It sounds like he could use your services.
How much do you rely on someone else for your digital identity?
Anyone heard anything more about the fall release date?
This is definitely resonating with me. Could I get you to say more about "If you are building anything consumer-focused, definitely don't quit your day job"? What do you see as the biggest obstacles in building a consumer-market product?
Why Spotify Will Kill iTunes
Because patches can be applied against sources that haven't been completely audited.
I've summarised the most recommended resources here and on SO in a blog post at http://alicious.com/javascript-tutorials/ (aff links abound, sorry if that bothers you).
The approach of mixing it all together - not just html/css/js, but also MVC - but still clearly separate those semantically, is very interesting. Thanks for sharing, @arturadib.

What flavors of server-side frameworks would go well with it?
If this was in NYC I would sign up in a flash.
The Minister of Justice just confirmed that the shooter was Norwegian in a press conference. They have not confirmed his etnisity though.
I wouldn't say one is necessarily worse than the other. It's more that my interests overlap and disagree with either of them in different areas.

Ad driven companies have an incentive to spy on me and I have to defend against that. On the other hand, they have to be pretty agnostic when it comes to the type of content they enable and that gives me free and anonymous access to pretty much anything I want.
I didn't find opening up Terminal.app and typing 'java' difficult or confusing either. The rest of the blog post (with the symlinks) is about telling Eclipse where to find the source code.

That said, I think that it sure would be nice if my OS already came with Java. But I use Java every day, so maybe I'm biased.

For those of you who are worried about Apple needing to spend a few of the billions of dollars it has in the bank on paying a couple engineers to maintain security patches, it doesn't have to be the Apple or Oracle one either. OpenJDK would be fine.
This was my first thought, too. Safari does the same thing.
And in private frameworks you can find macruby as well interestingly. Tonight I'm going to find out whats using it, i'm curious.
I looked into using Backbone for my current project, and took a peek at several other MVC libs as well. In the end I decided they all did way more than I was looking for. I just wanted a simple way to separate my models from the DOM. This project seems better than anything else I've seen, but still, 1000 loc seems like a whole lot.

Here's how I'm currently doing it:

window.models = {}
function json_to_model(json, parent_model) {
// Create initial attrs.
var id = '' + Math.round(Math.random() * 100000000000)
var children = json.children
delete json.children
json['id'] = id; json.is_expanded = true
json.child_ids = []; json.parent_id = null;
if(parent_model) {
json.parent_id = parent_model.get('id')
var child_ids = parent_model.get('child_ids')
child_ids.push(json.id)
parent_model.set('child_ids', child_ids)
}

// Store models. Recurse children.
var new_model = {attrs:json}
add_get_set(new_model)
window.models[id] = new_model
render_model(new_model)
if(children) {
for(var i = 0; i < children.length; i++)
json_to_model(children[i], new_model)
}
return new_model
}

// Get and set. Render on set.
function add_get_set(model) {
model.get = function(key){ return this.attrs[key] }
model.set = function(key, val) {
this.attrs[key] = val
render_model(this)
localStorage.setItem('models', JSON.stringify(window.models))
}
}

Now, that doesn't do much. But for prototyping a gui, it seems pretty good. Less is more. I wonder how little code I can add to get it to work with a real backend.
Right. I use me@...
I agree, but 99% of the users out there don't know that. :\
Ask HN: Android Game Marketing
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bullmandev.swerveanddestroydemo

A few months ago there was a craze over the iPhone game Tilt to Live. Although the specifics are rather hazy, a friend of mine who knew I dabbled in android app development mockingly asked me to clone the game for android. In the end things got a little carried away and I created a full featured game on the same basic premise called Swerve and Destroy. Having done the programming (which comes naturally to me) I could use some help/advice with marketing (a completely foreign concept most kids never deal with). Any suggestions? Use the code "HackerNews" (this code will work 500 times) to upgrade from the demo (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bullmandev.swerveanddestroydemo) to the full version. I am mostly interested in marketing advice, but also welcome game ideas and comments. Thank you.
What a sensational title
About 80% of the way through his essay, he mentions that a Googler did originally try to help him. I presume that was before he started spamming Twitter? I think I read somewhere (Twitter?) that it was Matt Cutts that originally tried to help him -- not an SVP but still a very influential guy.
FinTech Innovation Lab investor day
You said it...responsible for something that someone cares about. Find that out first if it is something someone cares about. If not you could be spinning your wheels for a long time.
Thanks for the extensive response, much appreciated! A couple of questions:

- tell us more about how your mentoring arrangement works. I've never heard of business mentorship before (I've only done mentorship at work at my organization), is it suitable for someone doing an agile lean startup like you are? Also, how does compare to finding an actual mentor from the startup world (unless that's exactly what it is) and how do I sign up? :)

- best of luck with your demos, it's an exciting time!!!

- tell us a bit more about your experience hiring a designer

- I didn't quite get the tech support part. Are you talking about "tech support" or someone to support you with the engineering work involved in developing the product? If it's the former, are you looking for some small company to help you or just for an individual person you can train to understand your service?

- How did you get in touch with your current potential customers? You talk about the importance of being able to sell the product to a customer yourself, as a backend monkey myself I've been as far as possible from that aspect of the business in my career. Tips?
Completely agree with Tarn. I would go further, and describe certain types of games as evil. Social games, in particular, I believe have evil game design.

Here's an interview with the somewhat controversial but always interesting game designer Jonathan Blow: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/02/15/jonathan-blow-interview-so...

In the second half, he talks about social game design. I'm very much with him on this.
Top Startup Lessons From Our Main Investor Bill Liao
http://whiteyboard.tumblr.com/post/7938397966/bill-liaos-top-10-start-up-fails-to-avoid
Most LiveCDs don't mount hard drives unless you specifically tell it to do so, for example, by clicking on the drive icon. Perhaps this distro disables even that capability, so you can't leave any trace on the machine even if someone got you to run the latest Firefox exploit.
Apple’s full change log for iOS 5 beta 4
Apple was the only vendor that took up Sun's original model of java where each vendor tailored the JVM to their situation. Look at what Microsoft did with that compared to Apple.

I'm a bigger fan of having Oracle deal with the porting since they have a much larger interest in getting java working everywhere well and securely than Apple has in keeping java working on their platform.
I was asked to look at is, as I was also testing a Cr-48 at the time. I'm pretty sure I'm the target audience, and the target audience is offered many services via Citrix. Citrix has had Receiver for Linux for years. This project just isn't there yet.
IMAP is horribly unreliable. POP discards information.

IMAP also discards information - I don't just want my email, I want my tagged email.
Bill has been a great investor for us from across the pond. He adds a lot of insight as one of the co-founders of Xing.com and 6 other companies he founded to take public. If anyone has thought about expanding to europe and wants an intro, Im happy to do it.
We're often mistaken.
Linked page wants username/password. A copy/paste of the contents, anyone?
I'm selling my current model for about what I spent on it (got an employee discount from a friend). So it's only costing about $200 to upgrade :)
I was just responding to your erroneous correction that Apple never said it was "deprecated", when in fact they explicitly said so. :)

Even our Apple rep said it was deprecated and he sure as heck doesn't read Developer notes, so I'd have to assume he got the news through some other chain at Apple.

Perhaps other orgs were protesting as loudly as our org was.
Good thought.

Will not using G OAuth and probably delete all photos from my Picasa, now that they were automatically moved over to G+.

You never know what the automatic image scanner may think it has found in those photos that violates some G+ rules. I don't want to lose all my data in my G account, only because an automated scanner thinks my friend's face was a bare female breast.
Thanks! I guess right now, given that the only persistence adapter provided is RESTful, any server-side that speaks REST should play well (Rails, Node-Express, etc).

Check out the The Wall demo code for a Node.js example:

https://github.com/arturadib/thewall
There's a Tatt for That: Tattoo Ink Read by iPhones
lol; It was the most useful part of a good article and I thought it would entice more people to read the whole article.
Apple’s iOS 5 Beta 4 Update Now Available, First To Be Released Over-The-Air
The manned space shuttle era ends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 launched in march.