skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's every established. Go build even a basic list with a slide transition, wrap it in Phonegap, and deploy it to an HTC device from the last year running Android 2.3. It won't work well on 90% of the smartphones out there. Simply put, even the latest devices struggle with basic CSS animations/transitions.

Hell, scrolling isn't even smooth on most devices for even a fairly simple DOM.
Sure, and Portsmouth, Worcester and Providence are all a part of Boston too, when you look at it from a financial perspective. But they're not. They are their own incorporated cities with elected governments, complete with by-laws and regulations, independent agencies, school systems, taxing, licensing and terms for residents and natives alike. Just like Bostonians and Cantabrigians. So no, not even in the remotest of terms, are Boston and Cambridge the same. They're not even in the same county.

And when you're writing a piece that even you know stretches the known boundaries of truth in order to promote your events publication, the least you can do is aim for a little bit of accuracy, even if it's just to save face. Truth isn't trivial.
The main point is still the same though: the debt ceiling has already been hit, the popular perception of the significance of the August 2nd date is incorrect.
Exactly, it's all posturing, but when it comes down to it, they'll cut a last-minute deal to keep things afloat.
The newly released affidavit was offered in support of a search warrant for the home of an Arlington, Texas couple and their son, who were among the July 19 targets, and have not been charged. The house was the source of 3,678 packets in about two-and-a-half hours starting December 8.

So they're going to arrest a kid for sending an average on one packet every two seconds, over the period of two-and-a-half hours?
For every indie dev getting a letter from Lodsys, there has been 100 indie devs that have failed for reasons unrelated to patents.

I'm not saying that lawsuits don't happen, but they're rare.
but I think that is irrelevant since their licensing actually prohibits supersets

Android/Dalvik isn't a licensed Java implementation so the irrelevance is irrelevant ;)

The original statement referred to the license to use a Java compatible API, not to be a Java licencee.
OmniWeb's site preferences feature is my weapon of choice against illegible Web pages. My default colors often make the hard work of the Web designers look totally ridiculous but then again, I'm reading the page to read, goddammit.
Bitcoin befuddles US customs agents, thwarting visit by digital currency guru
This feels just like the prelude to WWII with all these conflicting alliances or maybe the Cold War is more appropriate.
Bit of a chicken and egg question, isn't it?

IP trolls only really come after you once you have enough success to be worth suing. The value that IV gets is from a license or a settlement, both of which require money. And to have money, you have to have... success.

Why didn't Android get sued before being bought by Google? Because no one cared.

The time to start thinking about licensing from a troll is the minute you think you have enough to defend yourself against one.
High Traffic Content Site - Who to sell to?
If we have a high traffic content site, lets say alexa 2500. In the entertainment industry, making us ad revenue in mid xxx,xxx a year, who can we potentially sell it to even for 3x yearly revenue? I want to cash out and get in on a new idea I have and use money from this sale. We are in Toronto, and our site is about Celeb/Movie etc, we can keep running it, but its becoming problematic. Should we approach say Cable companies? (Rogers, Shaw?) (CBS?) Just wondering how companies like Sidereel or MetaCritic where able to sell themselves...
Sigh. All that happens is that we have to pay more to service our debt. Please explain to me how that hurts rich people, and therefor why this is going to be a problem for anyone but tax payers and their children.

As long as the media does its job of focusing the uneducated on taxes and not on debt spending, this shit is going to keep happening:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmcneill/5976977015/
I have never worked on a project that did not include numerous patented technologies, and neither has anyone else here with more than a couple years of experience. It is only by luck that I have never been sued or extorted into paying licensing fees; and that's true of anyone working in software.

It is simply impossible to write software of any size and complexity that doesn't include ideas that have been patented, often being covered by several patents.

As companies like IV grow, and prove that the patent troll model is legalized extortion for companies with enough money to buy patent portfolios, the number of people who can answer "no" to this question will dwindle to nothing. Patent trolling, as Myhrvold claims, is new. There aren't a lot of companies doing it yet...but, all that money is an awful big lure, and even people who don't seem evil (like Myhrvold probably seemed to people who knew him in the past, and as I would have assumed before IV was founded) can fall prey to the desire to legally practice extortion.
Cool iOS app allows you to hold concerts on the iPhone
Or even better: What you might be able to do (pending royalties, patents) tomorrow with HTML5, you can do with Flash today without worry of being pursued by a consortium representing a specific codec you may or may not be allowed to use.

The "my fan turns on when I use Flash" is weak. I use a MBA and I can tell you just about anything involving video or any sort of high resolution graphics gets "the fan spinning".

I love the "you can't play Flash video for more than 6 hours on mobile devices!" argument, too. You know what else I can't play for 6 hours? Angry Birds, Netflix, Sonic All Stars Racing or even TuneWiki (audio) or any of the other semi-demanding apps I use. So Flash is supposed to be better than all that?
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Verizon has all but abandoned their FIOS deployments. I wish there were more companies like Sonic doing fiber deployments in high density cities. I assume that isn't happening because of the Telco/Cable duopoly that controls easement rights in almost every city.
Sexist examples ruin your presentation
First of all, hitting the debt ceiling doesn't mean a default. Period. The US will not default because of hitting the debt ceiling. They will be unable to pay for other programs. There is a strict hierarchy of who gets paid, and debt is at the top.

This is true: "if Congress does not get its act together, there are going to be a whole lot of folks who will wake up and find themselves with no job, no cash, and very shortly thereafter, no home and no prospects". But it fails to mention that those people are exclusively government employees. When I see unemployed IRS agents begging for change on street corners, I'll know that we've finally turned back the tide.
Yeah, Diplomacy is one of those games that you know you have been back-stabbed and there are no dice to save you. I will say it is a fun distance game with a group. Diplomacy is a marathon and Colonial Diplomacy is a sprint. Playing Diplomacy with a judge and only 1 area of visibility is a true treat.

If you want a game that can seriously lead to violence then try Junto, History of the Roman Empire, or TSR's Line in the Sand when Israel gets the "Ancient Israel" card with USA getting "Global Policemen" (these are not compatible and leads to nukes and fists).
Sorry, but wiode isn't an "IDE" to me. What's "I"ntegrated? Where's the "D"evelopment "E"environment? While I do appreciate and like the push to new technologies, let's keep the terminology straight....

Coloring some keywords might make things look pretty, but it surely doesn't make it all by itself an IDE or even a good text editor. Line numbering isn't a 'feature', that's a basic necessity. If these things are taught as 'features', what else is a 'feature' then? The ability to save the text without errors? Let's raise the bar here, please.

For me, Eclipse or VisualStudio is an IDE. Aptana (now Appcelerator Studio) is also more than just an editor. TextMate, VIM, Notepad++, UltraEdit and the like are not IDEs. They are (mostly dumb) text editors.

Personally I draw the line at whether there's contextual code-completion provided via instant introspection or background compilation.
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Does anyone have a good list of sites to block?

I know that, on the face of it, sounds dumb, but there's some that annoy _everyone_.

experts-exchange was the first site I've blocked, for example. Anyone have a list of those annoying sites that pop up when you're trying to search for some obscure error message etc? I'd love to be a bit proactive.
"If you don't like a site that appears in your search results, you can block all the pages within that site. Then you won't see any of those pages when you're signed in and searching on Google. If you change your mind, you can unblock the site later.
Sites will be blocked only for you, but Google may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall.
You may block up to 500 sites."
Didn't notice that. Thanks!
I'm going to improve it (:
I appreciate that, but I'm not saying I want to be apathetic. It just seems that we should think of something better than a letter. I wouldn't write a letter to an engineer asking them to "please not make the building collapse." I don't have a strong view about how they do it, I just want them to not screw it up. Maybe that's naive of me, but we all have tough jobs to get done around here in this world, and it's not someone else's job to tell us to take responsibility for our actions or inactions when we screw up something that harms people.
Another awful iPad experience.
risk has both those properties, while being a lot faster-paced and less boring than monopoly.
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We'll default? GOOD! Let the stock market crash and burn. Let everyone become poor. Let all the venture capital dry up and people start less companies. Less competition for me. Buy low, sell high. Why the heck not?! I don't want the damn economy to be so high right now.. I want it to be LOW now, and high LATER when I sell out. I'm just starting now, baby.
Not all processes blocked on I/O are in D state - for a common example, processes blocked on I/O to a network socket or terminal will simply be in the S state, and not count towards load.
Wow, I just bought a late model VW Golf and didn't want to spring for the factory bluetooth upgrade (500+ AUD). I'm definitely going to look at this more later tonight! Thanks for the tip.
>Or is the logic here as simple as "if blowup, vote for non-incumbent"?

I suspect the logic amongst the Tea Party crowd may well be that, given enough disinformation, people will follow that logic. Certainly the driving logic behind Fox News is that, if you can claim that everyone else has a bias and nobody tells the truth, then one man's truth is as good as another's. The Tea Partiers can claim that this is Obama's fault and do what Boehner did after Obama's speech: obfuscate and obscure with half-truths and red herrings.

I suspect that a good chunk of the Tea Party crowd would be willing to accept the economic disaster that could result from this brinkmanship, if it meant they could rebuild according to their goals and beliefs. The Tea Partiers are activists in every sense of the word. Primarily, that means that they believe the current system is hopelessly broken, and that it needs to be fundamentally dismantled and rebuilt. As in any revolution, a period of chaos is to be expected, and even celebrated, as it represents the death throes of the old order.

The Republican mainstream won't let that happen. They'll agree to the closure of modest tax holes in exchange for deeper cuts, and the debt ceiling will be raised. As much as they complain about government spending, the Republican mainstream are Old Order politicians, just like their Democrat counterparts. Boehner just needs to ride a fine enough line to appease the Tea Partiers and so carry their support into 2012, which is the only reason I can think of that he's acting the way he is.
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How confident are you in that conclusion?
dsl put one up when the chrome extension block was released:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218528
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0.3 miles is not even close to a mile.
By the same token, a hobbyist robotocist would breeze through engineering courses. I'm sure there are good ways to deal with unequal skills - why not let the skilled people test out of the class and save time getting to a more advanced class?

But the way the article frowns on prior preparation as "gaming the grading system" hints at a desire to trample down the tall poppies rather than to improve everyone's experience.
Well, I wouldn't trust the nightly to be very stable. I'm sure there will be oopsies (internal Firefox joke) to be had on occasion there.

I've been running Aurora since Firefox 5.0 was released though, and I haven't had a crash yet and it has been smooth sailing. YMMV of course.
Mozilla Announces Smartphone OS to Compete with iOS, Android
Just as some people setup companies in the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes (Tax Havens).. are there Patent Haven countries?

Also, if you patent 1 feature, can someone else troll you on a subsection of it? eg troll comes after you on a rotating car door handle, what happens if you prior or subsequently patent on a total car ergonomic system? What happens if you patent a rotating door handle in another country?
For people who are interested in the business story behind the Humble Indie Bundles, the creators gave a talk covering Bundles 1 and 2 at the 2011 Indie Games Summit:

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014437/The-Humble-Indie

One of the take-away messages they had was "always target Mac and Linux, because it's a bit more work but you'll double your revenue".
"Sites will be blocked only for you, but Google may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall."

This to me says "If we get enough reports of a site being blocked, we're going to make sure everyone's Google searches will block you."

I think this is great for spam sites, but for legitimate sites (whether you like w3schools or not) I can certainly see this as annoying.
> MS Kinect hacking is a good example here: users making the tool do things it wasn't intended to do my Microsoft.

Based on your other examples, I don't you should consider this hacking. None of the MS Kinect hacking has made it do anything that it wasn't actually intended to do.

"Kinect hacking" is akin to having a tv that only has composite input, and you figuring out a way to get HDMI input to composite. I guess it's slightly more of a gray area, but the Kinect's sole purpose is to output depth data to USB with the intent for it to be used with motion capture, and that is all that "hackers" use it for.
To be fair, the date isn't as hard as the administration would suggest, but the deadline itself is very real.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/us/politics/27date.html

Otherwise, ignore it until it blows up and/or there's an election. For now, certain people have been elected to deal with this, and they almost certainly will. If they don't, and there's another fiscal crisis, they'll lose their jobs next go-round, which is how it works.

Right. Let's ignore the political process until it blows up in our face. Sure, our economy will tank. But at least I get the satisfaction of voting for someone else come November!
I can take the Red Line from Park Street to Harvard Square. I can't take it to Worcester or Providence.

If Manhattan was its own city, it would still be associated with Brooklyn, because they're one subway stop or bridge walk apart.
Are there examples where the patents they own and monetize actually represent valuable "ideas" and not after the fact claims of invention? I'm guessing not, but open to being proven wrong.

The Planet Money reporters asked this very question. IV offered bupkis in response, rather sending them on a wild goose chase. I only hope Mhyrvold starts patenting culinary ideas, just to spread the joy.
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Firefox was once the "I'm ahead of you" browser of choice for people who need to be propped up by their choices (of software or hardware). Eventually it got popular enough that some subsection of those people had to move on, generally to Chrome. Eventually the same nonsense will happen with Chrome (the loudmouths deriding it publicly for being yesterday's news).

So, essentially, browser hipsters.
They could probably swing it in court as similar to knowingly purchasing counterfeit goods, which I'm pretty sure is illegal. Thus far they're only going after people for uploading because: 1) it's less of a legal grey area and 2) the huge monetary damages serve as a warning while going to prison would probably seem too harsh, even for people that think side with the RIAA/MPAA.
The best course is likely an executive education program with your peers.

Most helpful book to me has been the Gallup research detailed in "12" or "First Break All The Rules". Important piece is the twelve principles of job satisfaction/performance: your employees know what's expected of them, have tools to do their job, have a buddy at work, etc.

Could also try Harvard Business Reviews on Leadership.
Example:
http://www.amazon.com/HBRs-Must-Reads-Leadership-ebook/dp/B0...

Or blogs:
http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/the-one-minute-softwa...
That would be pretty sweet. Fingers crossed.
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Really cool idea. It's great to see transparency in the startup process. Good luck!!
Sorry to be unhelpful. The specific examples I could have given you wouldn't have been useful in your personal job search and giving them would have meant betraying the confidence of close friends and acquaintances. My post's somewhat abstract answer was a common denominator.
I've fed certain videos to XBMC that consistently caused it to crash, this was a year+ ago though, so maybe they fixed it.
yes, hook it into geoip, (something like maxmind)
Ah, the snake game. One of the reasons I was so excited about my brand new Nokia 3310, back in 2003 :)

It was also one of the first games I made while teaching myself programming, in QBASIC, in 1997 or so. No graphics, it was all text.
They probably won't arrest him. I'm a bit surprised that this was enough to even get a search warrant...
There are quite a few fraudsters that use names beginning with "W3" to suggest a connection with the W3C. Dollars to donuts that's the "misleading claim" they were alluding to. (I'm not saying you were trying to defraud anyone, but you've found yourself in kind of a "bad neighborhood," and Google tend to be a little bit prejudiced when they find you hanging out there.)
I was trying not to be aggressive and still make some points that were important to me. Reviewing the post, I'll concede it has a passive-aggressive tone. I apologize.
Monopolistic market share makes that difficult. Every store stakes their business on their electric company providing service.

Poor analogy, but for internet businesses whose prospects find solutions through search, Google refusing service is going to impact you no matter where else you advertise. They're too big to easily substitute competitors.
Is it really an LLC? (See footer.)

That would seem strange for a venture-funded company.
Ask HN: Service Level Agreements - good template?
Does anyone have a good idea of what should be included in a service level agreement (SLA) for a software development contractor?

Any good SLA templates/shared google doc that you guys use?
Yelp. The only site I block, as of about a week ago: http://bit.ly/odVtMg

Background: Had an account since April 2007, had reviews removed, last month had my account deleted without notice or warning. I emailed asking for a reason, but have heard nothing.

Yelp uses its "rank" in Google, Yahoo, et. al to bribe and extort small businesses, to prevent facts from being public knowledge, and to censor citizen reporting.

If a small business doesn't have its own website, Yelp is usually the first thing that pops up in a search; it knows this and milks it for everything it can.
Not surprising. They employ people with below average intelligence who are convinced that the U.S. is such a brilliant country and every single person they come into contact with is from such a terrible shithole that the only reason they could possibly be "visiting" the U.S. is because they plan to illegally overstay so that they may enjoy a much better life in the greatest country on Earth.

...And that's if you are white.
These guys were literally the perfect example of the mythical "starving entrepreneurs" who walk into your office with a brilliant idea. I had to make sure they could eat! :)
You admit to not having used Firefox in recent years, so how do you know that Firefox "doesn't compete"?
Is it not a possibility for you to transistion out of actively running/managing the site and hand it off to someone else who will actively grow the site whilst maintaining the income and allowing you to follow your new idea?

This way you can make sure you get a decent price AND sell to the 'right buyer' rahter than just cashing out and potentially leaving your community in the lurch.
good bye about.com and ehow.com
While Iverson started the work that led to APL while at Harvard, It believe the language itself was implemented when he was working for IBM. I'm not sure where that was, but I suspect it was Armonk, New York, and not Boston (nor even Cambridge).
Sometimes in the middle of a game of Diplomacy it seems worth destroying a friendship if it means finding a way to wrest control of Serbia from an opponent.
Pretty sure you are overgeneralizing there.
djm - This service is not limited to setting up payment plans, and will include education, budgeting, and community. We definitely don't try to push any one method over the other, and will in fact suggest that the customer reaches out for legal aid in certain situations.
Debt Crisis: Why I’m not writing a letter to my senator or congressperson
Whether or not it's legitimate, the number of people that don't find a site helpful, and block it, is probably correlated with the chance that a random Google searcher won't find it helpful.