skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the specific points to note to those who haven't seen the episode:

a. IV uses shell companies to sue others, by selling their patents to these companies, get a cut of the eventual payout in any lawsuits, but I guess in the process have some amount of immunity against countersuits since the suing party is a shell company.

b. Lodsys is based out of the same building and suite in Marshall, Harrison County, TX, where, according to the episode several "patent troll" companies were incorporated with no visible indication on-site of actual employees or a business.
It appears that that story about the director of the Patent Office saying there's nothing more to invent is mostly made up, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Duell or http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/22779.html or the most detailed debunking: http://www.myoutbox.net/posass.htm
This is about as reliable as Phoronix's annual "Steam is coming to Linux and we can prove it this time!" story. Inside it reads: "We talked to someone at Valve and they said Steam is coming to Linux!!1"

I have heard such rumors specific to Netflix in the past, but really, "I talked to some guys from Netflix and they said so" does not meet the standard of proof expected to publish such findings in a public pronouncement not clearly marked as rumor.

Also, how many Netflix employees that would know about this project were at OSCON? You may be exposing them even if you don't post their names.
LikeALittle People Uses Your Interests To Connect With The People Around You
Not paying the tax is illegal, but it's a state crime, not a Federal crime. Trying to flaunt Federal tax law can be very, very risky (just ask Al Capone), but it isn't as big a risk to flaunt state tax laws. That doesn't make it right or risk free, but you won't be looking at Federal prison time because you didn't pay your state's use tax on your most recent Amazon purchase.

The amounts in question, though, are usually pretty low. Most people don't spend tens of thousands of dollars on internet purchases, so that lowers the incentive of the state tax agencies to pursue these transgressions with their limited resources. (Remember, they don't have easy access to your out-of-state spending records, so they really don't know whether you've spent $5.00 or $500,000.00 online.)

Also, there's the whole burden of proof issue involved here. You want to charge me with a crime? You need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that I committed that crime. In practice, that means that you'll be flying in a record keeper from Amazon - and putting her up in a hotel - to testify at trial. Maybe someone from Paypal or my credit card company, too. (As a defense attorney, there's no way I'm going to stipulate to that information.) That makes prosecuting smaller violations more costly than it's worth.

(For the record, I declare and pay my state's use tax every year on my tax form; I put my internet purchase receipts in a particular email folder to make calculating my costs super easy. Not paying the miniscule tax simply isn't worth the potential hassle to me; lawsuits are a major pain in the rear whether you win or lose, especially when the charges are criminal.)
So far they haven't touched hers, and I would be pretty pissed if they did. I need to find a way to download as much stuff off of there as possible in case they do decide to remove it.
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Normally I think your posts are very thoughful, but this time you are attacking a straw man. The OP clearly indicates near the bottom of the post that it's not about working for the betterment of humanity, but about work he personally finds fulfilling. Serving ads is not fulfilling work for him. Morals don't come into it.
If you're lucky enough to be using PostgreSQL with pl/python, you can write your stored procs in Python

https://www.postgresqlconference.org/content/speeding-django...
I really didn't think the GP would get an answer to that extremely specific question. Thanks, and I'll be checking this out.
I launched http://www.vidergy.com - a "Pandora for video" site. It was mentioned on GigaOM, but sadly it was a subscription only piece.

I just launched it about 2 weeks ago, and I am trying to figure out the best things to do now to market/develop the product.
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I don't have the technical expertise for my ideas.
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I think it's just that he's trying to raise the barrier to entry a little higher. If you know you'll get a response in a few days or weeks on paper, instead of a day or two later in your email client, that makes you look for other, quicker ways to get the answer you're looking for, which reduces the load on Knuth (and his secretary).
I disagree with the notion that you "need" to sit or stand. I've been standing while working for over a year now. I stand for 8+ hours a day, and even when I take a lunch break I find myself standing while eating.

My standing desk is just a normal desk put on top of cinder blocks so my drawers and surface are all setup for standing.
Andos, I don't feel his humility (expressed here and elsewhere) is at all disconcerting. I feel it's both endearing and appropriate.

Each of us who have accomplished much less, but have boasted of much more, need only keep Knuth's example in mind as a guide for our future lives.
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Hi HN! I'm Jesse, one of the founders of Everlane.

http://www.everlane.com

We're trying to re-imagine retail online and make it easy to find products that match your taste and style. Right now we're focused on mens fashion, but our ambitions are much larger.

pg did a good job of explaining the opportunity, here: http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html

We're building a members-only club where each month we produce and release a new collection of mens accessories and apparel. Yes, we're selling our own products, directly to consumers.

This lets us offer a tie you'd buy for $80 at Nordstrom's for half that. To produce in-style products we have a team of curators, run the largest men's fashion Tumblr, and are generally data-savvy people.

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http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.h... if you're in to that sort of thing... (some people prefer buttons, no judgement here.)
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Yea but on Facebook I'm being blindly targeted with ads where system thinks it knows what i want. but it doesn't know.

If this is the same thing than facebook and goolge have very crapy advertising that don't work for me if i am targeted (I know because I'm not being "connected" to what I want), maybe only if i try to advertise something to someone But in that case it is very hard to use.
The majority of Interstate (YCS11) is PHP and our codebase is well structured and the code is pretty.

PHP is a fine language if you write code properly.
This article is riddled with typos and grammar errors. What is wrong with the Atlantic?
Because those companies also benefit from patents. It takes people who are willing to give up the patent system all together to fix it.
I disagree. A better model helps them better understand customer behavior.

Disclaimer: I work at Kaggle and have been involved with setting up the competition.
Previous submissions of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827861

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827882 <- This one has the comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830614

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831344
Could be good. The big questions are a) who are the firms involved and b) what's the cap?
PLEASE integrate these things carefully and in a sensible way. If I have to use "dev tools" for x, b, and z and firebug for a, y and c that's going to be annoying as hell.
Instructables has done a phenomenal job of connecting with makers. By acquiring them, Autodesk gains expertise in building and maintaining their user community while creating a new, more approachable face for their DIY customers.
Who 'gets' free - paid billing user experience?
Do you know a company that does freemium conversion and billing right? I'm looking for examples of web sites that seamlessly take customers from a free trial to a paid product .

1. An easy way to start your trial (no credit card, etc.)
2. A simple, non-threatening way to start paying

Submit your favorites...
We (BakedCode - YCS11) launched Interstate which is a project management tool that provides a way for businesses and developers alike to plan and share their development progress.
Prediction #9: Apple’s laptop sales will exceed those
of HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell and Gateway combined by 2010.
Reason for prediction: Macs rule. Windows laptops are as
exciting as a shiny disco ball in the ceiling.

Honestly, to me, that's just absurd on a fundamental level. And the reasoning just reeks of fanboy-ism (note: I have no idea who Steve Yegge is - I just clicked through out of curiosity).

I tried to actually Google the market share for Macbooks,
but it’s probably impossible to find an absolute number.

Not hard. Found the following with two searches in just a few minutes:

Circa Q2'08 (so, four years after the prediction) [1]:
Apple laptop North American market share 10.6%.
Dell and HP are both 21%, Acer is just under 15%, Toshiba is 9%, and "All Others" are 22%.

Circa Q1'11 Apple Notebooks are 5.7% global market share
[2] and Apple is 8.5% of shipped notebooks + desktops [3].

At best, Apple COO Tim Cook says in Oct. 2010 that 20% of sold laptops + desktops are Macs [4].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/09/apple-gains-us-mar...

[2] http://www.ventureoutsource.com/contract-manufacturing/taiwa...

[3] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-loses-its-Q1-2011-market-s...

[4] http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/App-Store-comes-to...
I did. I was even in a shared cube environment so I couldn't even raise the desk surface. So instead I got some boxes and put a piece of plywood on top, then put my monitor/keyboard/mouse on top of the platform. It looked pretty weird, but after about 3 days two other guys on my floor copied my bit. Now I'm at home so I have a better setup, but I'll never go back to sitting no matter where I work.
This might help: http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/
The other replies seem to ignore the fact you are presenting, they don't give you administrator access to a device they sell you, but retain it only for themselves. You're right in saying that this is just in general an untenable situation given just the general problem is as you say, the potential attacker and potential customer are potentially the same person.
What is your estimated combined monthly bill for all those AWS services?
The shortlist would be: speed, standards compliance, UI, and developer support (I love that Chrome has built-in dev tools -- I know firebug exists, but compared to CDTs, again, it seems clunky).
3,500 Person Flash Mob Synchronized by MP3 File [video]
A friend and I launched a chrome plugin/bookmarklet for recommending songs for turntable.fm at http://www.turntaste.com. It also gives you a list of rooms that are similar to your current room, and shows the top songs played in those rooms.
He's a well-known figure in the indie Mac & iPhone communities and is a co-founder of Tapulous and also worked on Delicious Library for Mac. If anyone in this community could do a good job in this fight, it's Mike.
Would it be beneficial to know this alongside of Python, or is it more used instead of Python?
> Notice they have a pretty effective iBooks test

Well, it's not that effective; it was worked around within days of showing up. Interestingly, to my knowledge, Google's similar check to prevent rooted devices playing movie rentals hasn't been worked around yet.
How does it differ from http://www.mindmeister.com/ ?
>Eve is hemorrhaging accounts and the player outrage from the aftermath of their attempts to directly monetize the playerbase beyond PLEX accounts make them a VERY bad example to follow.

I would argue CCP's issues are more with their marketing and customer-facing people than anything else. Valve did that with TF2 hats(some cost $20 or more to buy), and didn't have nearly the same level of fallout with it. Blizzard's done the same thing with purchasable vanity pets and in-game mounts, and hasn't had really any backlash from it.

CCP was charging US$70 for a virtual pair of jeans, then made forum posts trying to convince people since people spend that much on actual clothing, they could charge the same thing for the virtual item. The userbase, predictably, wasn't happy with this idiotic argument, and the fact that a LOT of development time went to these features versus things that actually impacted the player's experience.
Not necessarily nonsense: figuratively, you can (and should in many cases!) be putting as much of the data as possible, as far away as possible from your code with divide and conquer to work on only a fraction of it.

But anyway, that's what indexes are for in RDBMS, so you still have a point, even figuratively :)
I hope they don't get rid of the ability to have extra toolbars since I use the web developer toolbar quite a bit, and adding an extra step to get to it would be very annoying.
Well, they are to a lesser extent; they allow an attacker with physical access (a spouse or colleague, say) to compromise your device.

Defending against physical access-based exploits is likely always going to be ultimately futile, though.
Thus far mine have been MVP/launch, first trial user, first paying user, profitable.

The next milestone I'm hoping to achieve by the end of the year is "paying for my living expenses"
from the article: "Imagine using the heat generated from your laptop to charge it as well? Or charging your car’s hybrid battery by using the heat off of the engine?"

Wish the author had rephrased these in view of The Law of Conservation of Energy. Don't want to give the impression of developing a perpetual motion machine.
He's awfully skeptical considering he was one of the people who donated.
SEEKING FREELANCER - HTML & CSS, maybe C as well.

Looking for someone to potentially make our WebGUI look "sexy" as our colleagues in California would say. We have reached the limits of our HTML and CSS know-how.

The current WebGUI can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y5tUtx63Tc

The article that was posted on the Intel website:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/parallax-parallel-c...

If interested you can contact me at ian.seyler@returninfinity.com
Not impossible, I'll grant you that. It's also possible that the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center was the work of aliens. There is some evidence that aliens have infiltrated the U.S. government, and this would go a long way toward explaining why the NIST report on the WTC collapse -- clearly manipulated -- doesn't even mention the possibility of controlled demolition, let alone the involvement of extra-terrestrials.

Have you looked into this possibility at all?
original article link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/sun-free-photovoltaics-07...
You don't need to sing up for develper program to start hacking for iOS. But if you want to run your code on real device or make it available in App Store you will have to do that.
Setting up new Mac is really that easy. You can just launch Mac App Store application, press a button to download Xcode and when it's done lauch the installer.
GiftRocket's new design has launched
What does the word 'democracy' mean in a society where an unelected member of the cabinet is allowed to force through legislation unopposed? Setting aside the debate over the electoral system, what does your vote count for when so much power is held by unelected peers, civil servants and 'advisers'?
From engineering point of view, the sad thing (and danger) about Google, Twitter, or Facebook is they will get in trouble as soon as some other company figure outs more efficient advertising model (and starts eating their revenue).

In other words, regardless of all these great things Google is doing and great technology, if somebody invents better ad market than AdSense, all this great technology will not help them at all. That is the problem.
http://blog.mozilla.com/devtools/2011/05/25/the-relationship...

tldr; no. Firebug is an independent (but with Mozilla's support and blessing) project and we're also building some great tools that will ship with the browser.
My (very subjective and not at all scientific) advice is to take it one thing at a time. Find a ticket that looks like a low hanging fruit, fix it, and now you understand what that part of the code is doing. After a few months of this, you'll find yourself with a decent understanding of the project as a whole.

I would also try to push hard for more/better documentation along the way.
Took my standard oak desk, bought $5 in cinder blocks and some MDF (even had homedepot cut it to the footprint of the desk bases) and that was it. Insta-standup-desk for like $30 and all my drawers are standup height also, which you don't get if you do what some people do and just put a riser on top of their desk.
Even if this is true: big fans of FOSS and hoping to release a proprietary client? If you're going to claim whatever social cachet is going for FOSS users, then you really ought to be avoiding those binary blobs.
Indeed. Example: Tumblr. It's all psychological needs. It's not a better CMS than Wordpress.
You will not be annoyed. Promise :)
Prediction #8: Someday I will voluntarily pay Google for one of their services.

Pretty close; there have been recent signs of this. Appengine is switching to a stricter payment plan. Google Apps for domain reduced their free user limit to 10. A lot of free API's are shutting down and some new ones require billing (Prediction, Storage, Search).

Although, in his particular case, it's Google paying him for his services...
If you're starting Android development, just save yourself the pain and just use the IntelliJ IDEA community edition.

The Android plugin included doesn't have fancy UI stuff, like for designing interfaces or visually editing the XML configuration files, but it does have code-completion of XML tags and properties and it works better as a code editor, being less painful.
Recent history proves that Apple is not capable of solving the jail breaking problems with their current security organization. If they were, then their Operating Systems wouldn't be broken so quickly.
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http://mixpanel.com/

We're currently 8 people, all engineers. We're looking for hackers who want to scale.

We just built a new data store that lets us process hundreds of millions of items in realtime with unlimited filtering and segmentation, and we want to build lots of products on top of it.

It's a fascinating problem space and a fun team.

Check out http://mixpanel.com/jobs to apply
Good to know. I should give it a try.
Well I mean see if navigating via hjkl makes much sense on a Dvorak layout.
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hey protomyth, author here. Haha, I see your point abt the conservation of energy. I assumed that everyone would know that law, so I didn't address it specifically. Obviously, the return energy would be less than the expended.

I guess to assume really does make an ass out of u and me.
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He didn't design the interface (Apple did; it's a clone of the App Store, and I guess I designed some of the iPad UI), but he did work very hard to ensure that the user experience was great. There was quite a bit of discussion about that, even: comex spent months porting unionfs for little benefit (right now) than being able to install Cydia without rebooting, so it could look like an App Store installation.
If you're bootstrapping, you may as well partake in Ramendan.
Didnt know you have open sourced this. Awesome.
The discussion from last time this was submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1437430

In particular, here's the WikiPedia article about the design:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange
VC Investments by Date - Visualization.
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You buy advertised products, and you likely "remember" advertised products that you've seen alongside content, on TV, etc. Advertising doesn't require conscious recognition to be effective, and it's very, very difficult to avoid exposure to things that might qualify as advertisement.

There's actually a great deal of advertising related research out there, which might make sense when you consider just how much money is floating around. Here are a few random articles from my notes, they're interesting reads (one of them might even explain why you even consider using the phrase "german engineering"):

http://businesspsych.org/articles/225.html

http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/display.asp?id=8342

http://tippie.uiowa.edu/marketing/research_papers/packaging....
Apple wireless keyboard.