skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kinda-sorta-almost the Open Innovation Network (OIN: as mentioned in the linked article): http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/

Patent pools aren't new - the MPEG LA patent pool (http://www.mpegla.com/main/default.aspx) is one that has gained a lot of attention over the last few years, and they are actively seeking others. MPEG LA is slightly different to OIN because it seeks to raise money for companies in the pool by licencing the patents.
The "you" innovates and gets a patent to restrict others from exploiting your innovation.

The "pool members" innovate and get patents to restrict "you" from exploiting their innovation.

Can you oppose one of these actions but not the other?
Except if you consider that Branson is actually the CEO of his empire. He seems to draw the line of what products needs to be. Telling the story is the CEO job and he seems to be in charge here. I'm referring to some letter send to the virgin airline lately here.

I agree with you though that the tech world love to believe CEO are useless.
I believe Tyler Cohen's "The Great Stagnation" arrives at a similar conclusion, but I'd like to see hard numbers. In regard to entertainment, it'd be interesting to see a nomalized total $/hr comparison of various activities. For example, compare a standard movie in a theater to playing Dragon Age. That'd be roughly $15/hr (adding popcorn) vs. (120 hrs game play / ~60$ for the game) ~$.50/hr. That seems impressive, but .50/hr is still much higher than the 0$/hr that free broadcast television offers. I'd be curious to know how all these different types of media consumption shake out in the long run.
I thought the same. The animation does scale quite nicely though, which I found quite impressive.
What makes you think they shot some fat guy, and not some skinny guy?

bonus tip: linking to youtube videos called "9/11 CONSPIRACY: THE BIN LADEN TAPE IS A FAKE!" marginalizes yourself, no matter the content.

Edit: seriously now. I'm not getting this. The public thinks that osama is tall and thin, regardless of whatever video bush was pointing at or whatnot. If they shot a tall thin guy, nobody would think anything of it (except perhaps the people that are predisposed to making "CONSPIRACY" videos on youtube...) If they shot some fat guy (which wouldn't even make sense to do, since the public doesn't recognize him as the guy...), then that should just match up with this apparent evidence video.... which is no big deal?

Explain this to me, if you are going to downvote me.
Very nice. I think the website itself provided the best answer when I visited the page: http://cl.ly/8wTr
(unedited: scout's honor, and you can tell by the pixels)
I don't see why someone would consider executing their script on your server rather than their server. If it's just for fun, I don't see the fun in sharing random scripts - GitHub is already a full-blown library repository to find the script that I need - also your site doesn't allow people to see the source code of each script. But I suppose if you're not a programmer and want to simply run some calculations based on some input, this could be sort of helpful.

Anyhow, cool concept and good work.
Not from a vending machine, no.
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I am a anti-tax libertarian type and also a affiliate marketer but even i think its an unfair advantage eCommerce companies have. Creating a nationwide eCommerce sales tax system is the best way to solve this
If there are copycats, you can just join them. It's easy to make one big pool in the end.
Tell him you'll make sure he'll lack the numbers to get elected.
That's exactly what I was thinking. He's telling us to stand up and do something he's not willing to do himself?
Very nice UI, except that it uses the dreaded scroll wheel zoom. Especially annoying for magic mouse users.
Treating as void the election manifestos of coalition parties could be quite interesting given the Salisbuty Convention which limits the extent to which the House of Lords will oppose legislation that was in a manifesto.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Convention
Quick few points

* Using scroll for zoom in a 2d workspace probably makes sense with a mouse, but with the macbook touchpad it was rather annoying to be unable to pan around (as moving quickly around is rather a benefit to flicking through a mindmap). Not sure how to fix that, but my inclination would be to offer keybinds for zooming in and out, or an option to allow panning with scroll.

* Behaves badly with browser zoom, you probably want to do some kind of dpi detection and rescale the interface as required.

* Possibly allow moving of the central idea.

* Showing/hiding child branches is very nice.

* Select a links child if you click on it? (as link settings are associated with the child) Also, possible to update the link colour immediately?

Overall very nice.
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Nothing exists in a vacuum. You will presumably infringe on other patents in the pool for dumb stuff everyone needs like search boxes, buttons, and scroll bars. Put one in the wrong place or put the wrong label on it and you're suddenly infringing on a "one click" patent or something equally asinine.
As a ballpark estimate 2 days worth of video in multiple formatats is around 24 blue ray disks @ 25 gigabytes per disk or 600 gigabytes per minute. (Note: most of their video is not HD yet so this is a fairly high estimate.) That means a 2TB disk lasts around 3.3 minutes and they need around 150,000 disks per year. Which including redundancy is in the right ballpark for 900,000 disks. But, they could easily have 6+ disks per server.

But you can easily handel that much bandwidth on 5% of those disks so aslong as your not trying to fill up one disk at a time it's really not an issue.
That's a really good question. I have no idea what the ad revenue per hour of TV watched would look like, but Quora might know:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-typical-ad-revenues-per-p...

(Edit: I came up with a very rough estimate of $.20 of ad revenue per person-hour of TV time. I have no idea how accurate that might be.)
I think the value comes from having so many useful scripts together. You (theoretically) get a bunch of traffic raising the likelihood that your script will be used by someone instead of just sitting unused on it's own site.
Japanese blood type profiling (even on FB)
As cool as the red drop drag is, implementing some standard keys for this will help those who do a lot of mind mapping from the keyboard only.

Other than that, looks good so far.
The article relies on major features of Oracle in order to "bust" the myth of the unmaintainable stored procedure, which leads me to believe that these are big band-aids over what is still a difficult problem: maintaining database changes and getting developers to put database changes into version control. Unlike the author, I am not fortunate enough to have Oracle, and am instead using MSSQL for our database with 500+ stored procedures. Here's my experience:

Even the first "myth" that was "busted" had me cringing, putting all the stored procedures into individual files and using a source control system to manage those. The person I replaced had done the same thing with 500+ stored procedures and still had never bothered to actually update the files. He just updated the stored procedures on the development server. Partly because he was a massive fuckup, but also because it was "out of band" management.

I ended up moving the code out of SourceAnywhere (an all around terrible version control system and company) and placing the code into Github, and cleaning up the database so that it could actually be dumped to an SQL file and then loaded from that file as an NUnit test, run by the CI server that I set up.

Even with these huge strides forward, it has taken me months to clean up and fix these problems, while still adding new features to the existing code and database. The experience has left me feeling that the low quality of code that crap coders can get away with in stored procedures, and the lack of testability still leads me to strongly avoid stored procedures because I ended up having to fix them with sweat, tears, and blood.
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I tried it on 3 different Android phones, with various resolutions, and it worked nicely. Did not use a Samsung, but HTC and LG phones seem to display it fine.
Interesting hypothesis.
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Now, to be put into that category of one of the best books of the century, that’s a little bit embarrassing as they rank me with Einstein and Feynman - I’m not in that league really, I just didn’t have as much competition - they had to have a token person in computer science!

There might be a little truth here but, nonetheless, his devotion to those books made him a legend of our field. And to think people—well, I!—brag so much about so much less. His humility is disconcerting.
I feel that with the public having voted against AV, the opportunity to improve the situation has been lost. MPs simply don't care about individual voters unless they form the majority. Therefore they currently care about less than a half of the electorate, and this is only to be expected.
Facebook will destroy your children's brains
HubSpot starts software developer 'prison break' campaign
As an iOS developer, this is probably the best comparison between iOS and Android development that I've read. I'm pretty scared of Eclipse and the slow-as-hell emulator doesn't sound fun, but coding layouts that don't involve lots of "how tall is this text for this given width?" calculations is a welcome addition.
I don't know how they're going to manage this with the money-laundering/fraud angle. This makes Epic Boots of the Whale into a transfer medium for money between virtually anonymous endpoints, including internationally. (Long story short: You can run an auction which is honest or you can run an auction which is anonymous, but you cannot do both at the same time. Virtually any information flow from the system to any participant in the auction compromises the anonymity, since the attacker has perfect knowledge of the state of the system from both ends of the trade.)

That is guaranteed to draw heavy adversarial attention from both the bad guys and the good guys.

Business-wise, even Blizzard is going to eventually bow to reality and realize that INSERT ... INTO ITEMS; is the most profitable line of code any game company can ever write. They've experimented a few times in WoW with making folks pay for e.g. cosmetic mount improvements. Eventually they're going to realize that their core audience pays hundreds but values their gamerhood at (conservatively) thousands, and start monetizing that gap. After doing so, they'll be able to treat the base product as "Free 2 Play", assuming they think America has enough bandwidth to play their games without needing the assist from a truck of DVDs shipped to every Best Buy and Walmart.
How the Debt-Ceiling Debacle Will Spark a Short-Term Drop in Gold Prices
Although gold prices have zoomed in recent weeks in response to worries about the federal debt-ceiling debate, settlement of this contentious issue will actually bring about a short-term drop in gold prices. However, even though the relief rally in the dollar and in U.S. Treasuries due to a debt-celing deal will lead to a short-term drop in gold prices, the debt the U.S. government has taken on and the inflation that's likely to take hold can only mean that the long-term trend for gold is bullish -- meaning gold prices will head higher.
Will Apple Buy B&N or Hulu? No.
And Quakers, as well as some historical sect that no longer exist, as well as a number of non-christian eastern religions. But I think that the grandparent's point is fair: most religious and non-religious worldviews allow at least for violence in self and national defense.
Google's estimated power usage is not hearsay in this case, from the actual article (linked to):

"To my knowledge, this is the first time that Google has revealed specific details about their total data center electricity use (they gave me an upper bound, not an exact number"

In doing the electricity --> server guess, he gave them up to a 30% credit for self-assembled vs. off the shelf servers.
Eventually maybe. But I haven't died, yet, and I know plenty of people who haven't either.
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Google has moved past GFS, but the basic concept is right: every machine in the cluster is a storage server.

There are some machines that are equipped with more disks than others where local density is needed.
All is a kind of some.
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Facebook killer video scam spreads between social networkers
Facebook killer video scam spreads between social networkers
Al Qaeda confirmed his death.
Google Emails Come Back to Bite in Java Patent Case Over Android
For this year's Django Dash three of us made a little web app to help freelancers and small companies manage proposals to clients. Maybe some of you would find it useful.

The code is at https://bitbucket.org/dwaiter/proposalmatic if you're interested. Warning: there are definitely a few messy sections since it was built in two days.
But if that ends up happening anyway (people finding other jobs), then what is wrong with it? Should we stop progress because we want everyone to keep their current jobs for life?

The only "problem" that is see with this is when these shifts are on a massive scale and happen in a very short term. Because it has the potential to leave a lot of people unemployed before there is an alternative for them. So Governments might be able to help there with free training programs for jobs that are in demand and on a growth trend.

If I look at the trends in the past, to me it seems automation has always led to more jobs. In the industrial revolution, 25 million jobs were lost, but 44 million were created. So you should always look at it from that point of view. The industrial revolution led to the progress of mankind, and it did kill a lot of jobs back then, but it also ended up creating a lot of new ones, too.
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philwelch is right on, but to give a less technical explanation, it's a signal to pronounce the world (co)(operating) instead of (coop)(erating).

The New Yorker does it for all doubled vowels that aren't pronounced as long vowels.
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It's largely been supplanted by Ruby?
If you hit the pay-wall try this link and then clicking on the article from there:

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helmehn,

I founded Collective Idea (http://collectiveidea.com) a successful and growing Ruby shop in West Michigan (Downtown Holland). We are actively looking for programmers, and I know many other companies in the area that are too. The ones I've talked to recently are looking for Ruby, Objective-C, and PHP, but I'm sure there are many, many more.

West Michigan is actually a fantastic place to be a programmer right now. We have dirt-cheap cost of living, beautiful scenery and a number of top-notch software companies working for major companies. (We count Fortune 100 & 500 Companies in our active client list.)

How do you get a job here?

1.) You could have emailed me. My email is on our website, and so are the heads of companies at our competitors. I have interviewed a number of people over the years even when we weren't hiring. I talk with our competitors frequently, so I know who's hiring and will gladly recommend people we can't hire.

Software companies are hiring. Ad agencies are hiring. Manufacturing & Medical companies are hiring. Nobody needs to leave Michigan to get a great job.

2.) Go to meetups.

Grand Rapids has a large number of great meetups and user groups for Ruby (http://www.meetup.com/mi-ruby/), Python (http://www.meetup.com/grpython/), Linux (http://grlug.org/), .NET (http://wmdotnet.org/) a new and huge Web Dev group (http://grwebdev.org/), Software Craftsmanship (http://softwaregr.org/), and many more (http://conga-wm.org/group-list/). The annual BarCamp is in a few weeks (http://barcampgr.org/) and we even have Y-Combinator style seed accelerator, http://momentum-mi.com/.

Go to any of these. Talk to people. You don't need to know "contacts in the industry" you need to meet people. They'll tell you who to talk to, where to apply, and how to brush up your skills.

3.) Write some code.

In the age of GitHub and SourceForge (who has coders in Grand Rapids and is often hiring http://geek.net/about/careers/) there's no excuse for not having code that you've written. Find some small project and make it better, or contribute documentation. Don't get discouraged if you can't find a project to hack on right away, you will. Blog about it. Talk about it.

Michigan, and especially West Michigan has some amazing programming shops, some of the best coders I've met anywhere, and everyone is hiring. I know many people have moved away, but there is no reason to anymore. This is a great state, a bit underrated, with an under-the-radar software scene that is ready to explode.

Anyone know Ruby and want to work for a Michigan company in a lakeshore town? Talk to me.
This is because through a regressive taxation system and very successful lobbying of government they have allowed themselves to amass an amount of wealth so vast that wealth of the 'have nots' simply pales in comparison. I consider your assertion to be one of the more damning pieces of evidence that our system of taxation and distribution of wealth is completely amoral.
>There are good algorithms for RL but I'm not aware of much work that also includes generalisation (aka context or function approximation) in a principled way.

Why wouldn't you use TD-learning? You have what seems like a relatively small state space that conforms well to a table representation. You need to assume it's Markovian, but you can just artificially inflate the state to include 3-4 clicks of history. Seems straight-forward, right?
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I was a little surprised that they used wire-link fence in the simulated compound. Regardless of whether it caused the first helicopter to crash it seems to me a real wall would have made the training more effective.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that defense contractors have already come up with quickly deployable simulated walls.
The fear of SQL, stored procedures, proper database constraints, the love of ORM and the embrace of nosql exists because a large portion of influental programmers just don't bother to understand relational databases and SQL. It's not in fashion, so it becomes a necesseary evil the primadonna rock star will try to avoid at any cost. Just like a real rock star might drop to learn to read notes or sing for that matter. Obviously DB theory should be regarded just as important as understanding the latest greatest language feature and framework.
But they require no government services from states they're shipping to so it's unfair to tax them the same.
What did you major in when you were in college? Finance?
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Personally, I think that this idea of somewhat bogus:

1) In most cases, all of those extra commits are just noise. They make it really confusing to determine what actually changed from point A to point B because of all of the dead ends that were hit and backed out in between.

2) This is like saying that every time that someone produces anything they should be required to save all of their dead ends for people that look at their work in the future. If a carpenter at a building site cuts a piece of wood wrong, should he just recut it correctly, or set it aside so that on the off-chance that someone needs to see how he mis-cut the piece of wood, they can?

3) The fundamental flaw here is that you're trying to use the tool to enforce the workflow. Would you feel the same way if the next version of Ubuntu enforced that no image files could be placed anywhere on disk except ~/Photos just because someone determined that that's what 'makes sense?'
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I've actually used "Who's hiring" in the past. Two things made it very useful to me:

1.) It tells me something about the company. At the very least, it tells me that at least one founder/employee/etc. is reading HN.

2.) I can leisurely check out what the company does without making any sort of commitment (even just a phone call/screen).

Both of those advantages go out the window when recruiters are involved.

And BTW, I have nothing against recruiters. I just wish there was one jobs related page on the internet that didn't have them.
Great UI ... will play with this more.

One thing - if I have entered some text and then click somewhere else it should save the text that have I changed instead of reverting back.
Agreed! I was aware of the salisbury convention but hadn't really given any thought to how it might come in to play with coalition governments.

Thinking through it, I guess the logical expectation is that the HoL will have bigger teeth under a coalition.

That is interesting in itself because the government is currently looking at another round of HoL reform.

By the way, if your interested in all this check out channel 81 on freeview. They seem to be replaying a documentary on the history of HoL reform every few days at the moment.
I agree with the general thrust of what you're saying -- it's a hard problem and no amount of algorithmic finesse can get around the basic problem of the exponentially growing space. In the context of this post, however, I think you can still do a lot better than A/B testing or MVT :).

Here's a paper that I think (I haven't read it in detail yet) addresses the problem you're talking about: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.4871v1

Another approach would be to model interactions as a (undirected?) Bayesian network and try to learn the structure of the network from data. I've had reasonable success doing this in the past but with a much simpler problem.

This is certainly something we're looking at, but I think there is enough work building a profitable business addressing the basic problem.