skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep thats right. I actually really like ads from google because it isnt obstructive and they actually help look for what your after. I am well aware of how they get this information so they can target things to you and whether or not you agree with this is i guess a different issue which i have some thoughts on but in the regards to just the adverts discussion alone and their "intrusiveness or helpfulness" i like them and think they are useful. Interms of ad quality tho, i cant say the same for facebook ads.

Many years ago when google first started doing targeted ads on their search i didn't even know they were paid for ads. I thought it was just a new design and didn't think much more of it. Then i realised "sponsored ads" meant they where ads people paid for and thought it was a much better way of doing it then how some search engines where doing it (which at the time) was artificially putting paid ads higher in the results which obviously skewed your search result and turned any good search engine into total crap.

Also currently im in aus and just launching a product and the traction has been pretty good and we have done so by using direct marketing but trying to get to a more global audience we cant do it the same way as we are when we do it locally.

We cant hand out flyers, we can do newspaper ads, hell we cant even talk to the target people, the best we can do is use facebook twitter and tools like adwords and admob and if you use these tools right people take notice and it helps build your business. Im happy these things exist cause otherwise how the hell do we get the audience on the other side of the world if we dont have presence there.
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While Google doesn't release an API of Google+, I developed this extension that adds a "Share to Google+" link in Google Reader.

And of course, it's open source: https://github.com/felipeelias/reader_to_plus
> He said Android emulator this could be emulating just the OS portion of Android with a jvm that targets x86.

That's exactly what the iOS simulator does. It would not be an emulator in that case. It would be a simulator. Like the iOS simulator.

> From what I understand of iOS development they do it the other way. They compile to x86 and emulate the iOS system calls. They don't emulate an ARM and run the real iOS on it.

Hence being a simulator.

> Therefore the Apple way is a little fake, it is possible for behavior to differ between emulated iOS and real iOS.

It's not fake, it's a simulator. That's the whole point, and that's why it's called "simulator" not "emulator".
If a dedicated and talented reverse engineer wants to acquire the know-how (code) and resources (images, icons, ...) of a binary, it is impossible to stop them. You could make the discovery more difficult, but you can never make it impossible. It's not a matter or Android versus iOS, instead, it's just a fact of systems and binaries. It can and does happen on iOS as well. If it is accessible, then it's vulnerable. Plain and simple.

The backend code on SaaS is not accessible, save for a breach, so to combat the above, many in the mobile space have moved to SaaS models, or models with an important SaaS component. If you are just serving data from your on-line component, then you're even more stuffed by others figuring out your secret sauce since their clones will/could be using the data services you are paying for to support your customers.
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How Facial Recognition Can Be Used To Get Your Social Security Number
I like that... Can you elaborate, or is it hush-hush?

Also, what happens when the other person doesn't redeem? (I tried to send myself the free $5 but found the process cumbersome so I didn't redeem).
There will be a lot of breakage on this product, which is potentially great for you in the short run but bad in the long run.
The preferences menu is also very similar to Chrome's.
However, he is correct if you just examine laptop sales among college students:

http://daringfireball.net/misc/2011/07/u-texas.png

When I worked IT for my college, we saw a similar pattern amongst residential computer registrations - almost all of students' machines were laptops, and the majority of those were running OS X.

This might not have been such a big deal back in the day (once they graduated, they probably got a job that forced them to use a PC, and so they stuck with one), but the PC landscape is changing dramatically. Nowadays, it's a lot easier to mainline a Mac after graduating.
"Prediction #1: XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011."

WRONG.

Aren't we capable of calling "false" statements "false" anymore? I can't believe that the author defended this prediction.

I'm sure you can twist the words "popular", "database", and "XML" around enough to try to make some argument that he was almost right. But if you read the full original prediction it's even more clear that he was as wrong as it is possible to be in a prediction.
I think it's 'too late' in the sense that Perl may have lost some developer share b/c people started looking elsewhere for direction - and Moose hasn't been strong enough a reason for them to come back.

(said as someone who used and advocated Perl in production for 12+ years but no longer actively uses it)

At one point Perl was the golden child of dynamic website development. It was really attractive to both developers and business types because of the productivity increase over other technologies - you could ship faster (which is what often counts most). It has other viable competitors in that space now. Devs have a limited amount of time to invest in any technology - once they've reached a certain threshold of investment getting them to switch is nigh impossible (see also language flame wars - which are about that threshold more than any real differences between most languages).
GiftRocket is a new take on gift cards. Recipients prefer cash to gift cards, but it's tacky to give cash as a gift. We're trying to capture the sentiment of a gift card (I thought of you, I thought you'd enjoy this place) without the restrictiveness of a traditional gift card.
1) Ok, so let's say, you get ratio the number of men to no more than 20% of the women (overall/in certain geographic areas), and remove inactive profiles from search

2) That's fine - let's go for the low cost end. A fee that's half to 1/3 of the major sites, but for a whole year. No hassle of remembering to stop the billing, or checking your bills. Yes, this will mean after a year, you're likely to loose a high % due to not rebilling...but hey maybe this is a great product?

3) Fuzzy matching? i.e. I would like to meet someone <around> my height, or meet someone <slightly shorter> than my height. Perhaps we could have a feedback mechanism for those that actually meet. Perhaps we could just remove those people that never meet up with anyone? (Shocking approach I know - but the quality of the user experience would drastically improve!!)

4) Build it and they will come. (errm word play. bad)

But no seriously, whilst it's a competitive market, if you match up someone, and don't rip them off in the mean time, why on earth wouldn't they tell their single mates about the site? It's all about good user experience, which is sadly lacking in the majorly exploitative dating site game.
> and the fact that he didn't even read what he quoted.

Of course I did. An Android emulator can only mean Android running on top of an ARM emulator, otherwise it's a simulator (like the iOS simulator). Emulators are always about hardware unless otherwise specified.
We just bought a bunch of new Mac Minis, the server models with upgraded ram & SSDs. These things are really, really nice and fast, although it's disappointing they're so big when it's basically an Air with no screen and slightly more ram.
The global Java market share has never been above 50%. Moreover, the author combines achieving 4 and 5.
Cool - are you on twitter? I'm http://twitter.com/oceanician
Perl rocks, I can testify to this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vtq6sCdzyKs/TK8Fooqqt9I/AAAAAAAAAG...

I built a 2D mmorpg using Perl and Erlang. The languages a lot of people whine about when it comes to syntax.
Syntax is the LAST thing I had to worry. I'm really happy that I chose those two languages.
Ok, now I know what you're up to. You can't fool me by pretending to be "objective". Listen up, you and the rest of Stanley Jones' cabal can't suppress the truth forever. Read this open letter to your fearless leader, and you'll see that your "secrets" are already out:

http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/OpenLetterToJones.html

That's right. We already know.

And where exactly do you think the U.S got the advanced directed-energy weapons that you would like us to believe don't exist? That's right. It all starts at Roswell, '57.

Shit, for all I know, you're one of them.
There will be years for them to find a way to recover, or, in the absolute worst case, years for you to reinvest.

No, there wouldn't be years for him to reinvest. If it was revealed that Google's best days where behind them -- i.e. revenue was shrinking and they were dipping into their cash reserves to keep things rosy -- then investors would sell, sell, sell and drive down the stock price in a relatively short period of time.
Great I make that 3 of us. Errm tweet me? http://twitter.com/oceanician and we'll get a meetup sorted in the next couple of weeks. Letssss do this :)
I would be much more interested if this were the case.
I have been saying this for about a year now:

Facebook has an opportunity to disrupt Adwords. One of the major reasons Google's Adwords makes so much god damn money, is that they 1) have a HUGE reach and 2) have really good retargeting abilities.

Example: Go browse around on liquidweb.com...then go look at some sites running adsense. I can almost guarantee you'll start seeing liquidweb ads on those sites.

Now, why do you think Google launched +? The major reason was to grab market share in the social networking space, but also because it's a MASSIVE retargeting tool. Now they know what your interests are, and they also know who your friends are and what their interests are. That's some game over type of stuff when it comes to advertising.

Facebook has had this information for years. If they introduced an adsense/adwords platform, they could run a sitewide ad promoting it to webmasters (reaching SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION sets of eyes) and get an instant userbase. That could significantly shake up Google's monopoly on the web advertising space.
Alright, I removed "EDIT: And the downvotes are because...?" as per your request. It was there because I felt like there was nothing wrong with my comment (and still do) and so if someone could bring something to the discussion rather than just downvote me, I would appreciate it. So far, at least two of you have downvoted me for nothing involving what I actually said. More than that still have yet to produce actual criticism.

This all still doesn't explain how "Macs rule" is a valid and unbiased explanation of how MacBooks would come to account for over one-in-two laptops sold.[1] Doesn't that sound absurd if you say it out loud? "Every second person in the country owns a MacBook." That is quite the jump for a company whose cheapest (new, not used) laptop offering appears to start at $999 [2] and who only holds 5% to at best 20% of the market share.

[1] This is slightly simplified to a world where all laptops are either produced by Apple or they are Windows machines produced by the four companies he mentioned.

> better yet, make a more thoughtful case

I would say the same to you: why should I know who I am "name-calling?" You haven't told me any reason that his opinion shouldn't be taken at face value.

[2] http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac?mco=OTY2ODQxN...
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Ugh. “Obsessive control”? “Obsessive”? It’s a (very smart and seemingly unbeatable) strategy to limit user actions on these devices to known-safe actions, to prevent users from e.g. changing how the system itself works. It keeps down things like: User confusion, malware potential, customer support, third-party developer testing (heterogenous devices), etc.

I hate when bullshit business rags ascribe a quality like “obsession” (with the connotation of OCD or some sort of mental imbalance) to a booming business like Apple. As if they know better in this matter, despite the way Apple’s competitors in the market are making crazy little money in comparison…
> However, all companies will eventually fall to competitors as t approaches inf.

Depends. There are other ways for companies to fail, too.
Is it now.
Is Airbnb Full Of Fake Listings?
Apple iPad 3 prototypes everywhere
"Steve Yegge is always right; unfortunately, sometimes he's right too early."

What year do you think XML databases will take over?
You could say that about almost every adjective. Your logic seems to imply that no one should ever dare hold an opinion or make an assertion.
Hey Swizec, great point. I think that in order to keep your commitments, you have to make sure you are not over extending yourself. Just because people expect you to make a commitment does not mean you have to make it. It's important for your manager / team mates to have realistic assessments of what you can do, when you can do them and what in fact IS your top priority.

If you don't make the effort (and muster the courage) to align expectations, you will encounter these frustrating situations. If you work in an environment where this honesty is not valued and appreciated, you should consider toughing it out until you can find new work - or be willing to compromise your integrity indefinitely.
Who cares about design or coding skills? Apple should hire him to help improve security, if only by doing what he does right now and sending results back to another team at Apple!
How so? How does eliminating first-to-invent not remove the ability to contest a patent based on prior invention? It seems like a necessary effect.
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Because to a user that barely understands tabs as it is, it's simply not going to fly. And yes, many nontechnical users do struggle with the idea of tabs.
> For instance, if you came up with a novel software process, didn't patent it, and went about your business, it should theoretically be harder for another company to come along and patent your work.

First to file doesn't change this. Prior art is still prior art.

This is slightly simplified, but here's the gist. The only change is when Inventor A comes up with an idea first, Inventor B comes up with the same idea (independently!) later, and they both file for patents, but Inventor B has the earlier filing date. Under the old law, Inventor A wins; under the new law, Inventor B wins.

If you're not in that situation, first to file doesn't change things.
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tl;dr: this article provides no new information.

While I agree the story has reached the mainstream through the magic of CNN distillation, I think it's safe to say that many readers of HN, myself included, are all well-versed and thoroughly informed regarding every known aspect of the Airbnb situation and are eagerly awaiting more news to sink their conspiratorial fangs into, not a recap as presented to the average CNN reader, many of whom would have no response to the unlicensed B&B phenomenon currently being exploited by methamphetamine users.
Nice concise writeup. The only important thing he missed as far as I can see is that the '..' operation can create anonymous arrays of sequences of characters too so 'a' .. 'z' gives you an array of all the letters between 'a' and 'z'.
That sort of thing is not going to work much longer. Now that the 2nd has been incorporated against the states via McDonald, bans like that are outright illegal. I expect the first time a public servant is held personally liable for damages via a 1983 civil rights lawsuit we'll see an end to it pretty quickly.

There are a handful of cases which ought to end the question on carry in the next year, as well. Either Williams or Masciandaro may do so this year providing SCOTUS grants cert.
The earlier invention can still be used as prior art against the later filing, assuming there was some publication or public use of it. See my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834229
>For instance, if you came up with a novel software process, didn't patent it, and went about your business, it should theoretically be harder for another company to come along and patent your work. Since our patent system is broken, it hasn't always (maybe usually) worked that way. With "First to File" all you need to do is be first to file. And at a mere $15k to $50k to file, this is an undue burden on startups who are inventing things.

Did you publish it? Was it put out into the public space? If so, it's prior art, and evidence that the patent should be invalid. This HAS NOT CHANGED.

If I make a piece of software, put it out for sale, then someone files a patent after my software has been out in the open, the patent is not new and novel. It should be thrown out.

Again, like tzs said, this only applies if two inventors invent something simultaneously. Under First to Invent, each inventor needs to prove that they thought of the invention before the other. Under first to file, the patent is granted to whoever patents it first.
If you are a US citizen, you have COBRA coverage. Which can get pricey, but at least its something.

How old are you? My parents health/dental/vision coverage extends to all children until 26, and I think one of the benefits of Obama healthcare overhaul is that all health care plans must cover children until 26.
That really depends on the idea. Many ideas can't really run and "break even" with a small version. Those that immediately tie into a payment system, maybe, but many, espeically the biggest ideas (say, Groupon, Twitter, Square) I don't think would ever be able to break even or maintain a small profit if launched subscale.
I should add... Seems like it would be prudent to keep the work in the US (where we are located).
Out of curiosity, what do you consider to distinguish one Turing-complete language from another aside from those three traits?
> Once the ensuing tidal wave of patent applications is upon us, the USPTO will have no choice but to drastically lower their (already depressingly low) standards for patent acceptance

Or, you know, the backlog could just get bigger.
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The new information is the fact that it's reached CNN.
Coral cache: http://www.mikekarnj.com.nyud.net/blog/2011/08/01/how-to-lau...
Was it necessary to change the title? It seems from the article that the lottery has been "broken" for quite a while and the organisers are well aware of it. Instead of reacting as I might expect them to do, they instead appear to encourage it, leaving the rules open to this gaming, even though it seems to be driving away some customers. That seems like the real story to me.
That's ridiculous! Inventor A should obviously always win, since he actually implemented his idea before B did. B could have seen A's idea and filed a patent on it.
The nice thing about virtual goods is they can make both the seller and the buyer whole at the same time if they wish by simply duplicating the item/good. The scarcity is artificial.
Definitely true and I agree with all points. I would wonder how much of the overall laptop-buying population is made up of college students, though? Over time I could definitely see a significant effect (and as is stated elsewhere, Apple is growing much more in that market right now than others), but I would expect that to take upwards of a decade, as you can only 'convert' so many new college students each year.

Given the higher baseline cost of Macs, I would expect them to be more prevalent among college students because a) those people can afford to go to college and b) financial aid makes the difference between a $500 HP and a $1000 MacBook seem much less significant. I am still surprised by that infographic, though: 52% OSX wireless users! I probably would have guessed something more along the lines of 33%.
It seems instead of XML databases, we're seeing JSON databases. True that they're far from surpassing or even nearing relational databases in popularity. Rleatoipnal databases are rather fundamental software, and there is such a vast amount of code and habits related to their use, that the prediction that they will be 'surpassed' buy something else only 6-7 years out is rather brash.
The entire Linux community or the US Linux community?
Redefining everything as advertising does not work. I heard of Whole Foods through word of mouth which is not advertising in general. Sure placement can be.
Freshplum has hard problems
Freshplum has hard problems. It's plain md5. Cracked in less than 5 seconds with 16crack.

Edit. See the front page of HN to understand. They posted this: Freshplum has d64a84456adc959f56de6af685d0dadd 8d8a1b73876ca678cc3afa372e5199de

For some reason comments are closed. So I posted the solution here.
You aren't entitled to a patent unless your disclosure is specific and detailed enough to be enabling. If it's enabling (and novel, nonobvious, etc.), then why shouldn't you get a patent on it?
There is a standard way to do this called Taguchi Testing that has been around in the manufacturing world for years. I have a Java API that does it that I've been thinking about open sourcing, ping me if you have any interest in it.
Please note this story is now blocked - it's no longer appearing on the front page (or indeed on any later page, so it's not just been "heavily flagged") of HN, even though it's still getting votes.

That's... lame.

I mean, if you're going to censor something, doing so AFTER it hits CNN is just... I'm getting vibes of Baghdad Bob from beyond the grave here...
Yes, I remember paying for an email account that was POP3 based and part of my ISP monthly fee. I couldn't (easily) access it when away from my home machine because there was no web interface and most importantly - if I changed ISPs, I lost access to my old email address. It's easy for us to forget that permanent email addresses used to be prestige things.

Hotmail with its simple tag line - get hotmail, free web based email was a pioneer.

For me, it was my very first personal cloud based service. At a time when those who had email accounts had them through thick clients like Eudora. It was a big deal. I still retain my hotmail account for sentimental reasons.
9flats.com, wheretosleep.com... they're all the same thing, essentially.
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مدونة يلا جول الرياضية تقوم ببث واذاعة مباراة مصر وبنما بث مباشر فى الجولة الاولى من كاس العالم للشباب تحت 21/20 سنة ( عام ) فى كولومبيا اليوم الاثنين بتاريخ 1/8/2011 وموعدها الساعة 24:00 بتوقيت القاهرة لو بدك او عايز تتفرج على الماتش ادخل و وشاهد المباراة على النت بدون تقطيع اون لاين
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If your scared of Eclipse spend some time with IBM WebSphere Developer workstation (Eclipse underneath, smothered with 10,000 "best in class plugins)[NOT an exaggeration]. Eclipse seems downright zippy in comparison!

Full disclosure... I develop using Eclipse every day.