skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And that is valid in what way?

Here's your quote: "And the reasoning just reeks of fanboy-ism"

You didn't call him a fanboy, but that's just a technicality. You implied. Therefore, the objection is valid. Before you name-call, know who you are name-calling. (or better yet, make a more thoughtful case)

Personally, I downvoted you asking about the downvotes. Just suck it up and stop whining. (Incidentally, as is often the case, plenty of people came along after and, caring more about the rest of your post, upvoted accordingly.)
Until one of the "us" is someone who's recording the exchange, and is willing to provide the evidence.
But the content producers are worried, and they are the ones setting the bar for DRM. So if they nix the DRM on Linux, that's it.
The sole reason I'd like to get leadership in some group with a goal is to implement futarchy and see how it works.

That said, there are other frameworks built to improve collaborative decision-making. I also like the Persian method: If an idea comes up while the group is drinking together, discuss it sober as well, and vice-versa. Only implement ideas that meet approval both times.
Keep in mind that the standard for "First to File" is actually present in much of the rest of the world. Large US corporations have argued that this switch will make our companies more competitive. What's happened is that American companies see a unified global patent system eventually taking hold and they want to use their resource advantage to dominate a future marketplace. They're primarily concerned with establishing market leadership lock in. Innovation as a desired outcome for the advancement of mankind couldn't be further from their thought process.
Concerning "Prediction #4": I have the impression that the author of the article look at the global Java market share whereas Steve Yegge speaks of the market share of java on the jvm.
A new kind of interchange eliminates left turns.
Which is exactly why they don't want the patent system abolished or dramatically crippled right now. I don't think Google would care as much if the patent system is abolished. As far as I know they don't license their technology to others and they haven't sued others for patent infringement. They only use them as a defense against others, but it would be a win for them if all software patents would be abolished. They might not push for exactly that right now, but I don't think they would be very upset about it if that happened.
I remember a discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2801109
This isn't really a gift certificate to anywhere. It seems more like just paying your friend to go somewhere. They can redeem the gift, then spend the money anywhere.

Also I may be wrong, but 99.9% of physical stores don't accept Paypal, so your friend would already have to have the gift amount in cash or credit/debit.
What happens when Adwords gets disrupted? Well, first, it will take a long time for the competitor to establish itself. Businesses don't change overnight. Second, even if the competitor manages to steal ALL of Google's income overnight, Google has billions in the bank.

There will be years for them to find a way to recover, or, in the absolute worst case, years for you to reinvest.
I opened up http://affililink.com for user feedback. Have had it in private beta for a while but now accepting sign ups. Currently working on my marketing to gain new users.
Because clearly people never change their weight dramatically over 10 years.
That depends on what you want to do. If you want to do things with text, especially transforming text, Perl is IMO opinion better at that task. Perl has been the scripting language for me, but I'm thinking of changing to Python because of NumPy, SciPy and the libraries for numerical analysis and scientific computing. Python seems to be better than Perl in that area. This is a library issue whereas when it comes to text processing it's more of a language thing.

I think Perl and Python have a lot more in common than differences when it comes to what they are good at. If you know one scripting language, you don't gain as much when you learn the next. My recommendation is to learn something different, C, Haskell, Lisp or Prolog for example. That would make you think in different ways.

Also, chromatic (a Perl developer) gives a very balanced answer in a sibling to my answer, so I won't repeat what he said.
Who Uses Google Plus? Male Geeks From the US [Infographic]
In between (1) and (2), the "military family" had experience with fishing in the area, and with pirate radio (from boats, and from other platforms (unambiguously in UK waters).

Pirate radio was big because there was no popular music or commercials on UK public radio at the time; pirate radio was largely killed by removing both of those conditions in the UK by the government, not through regulation. (although they did increasingly ban it)

(4) didn't work out for a combination of internal reasons and the macro implosion of both tech and the bandwidth/colo market (we started working on it in 1998/1999 when stuff was going for $2k/mo; by 2002 it was $150/mo, and our cost basis was high.

Our biggest fundamental problem was not having a payment system option; I wanted to fund an anon ecash development thing out of our first investment, but cofounders vetoed that. This led to really limiting the kind of businesses which could operate "purely offshore"; they all had to incorporate in places like Nevis just to get a bank account, at which point they could just host there (or in Canada, or whatever) for a whole lot less.

5) The platform was basically restored to the mothballed condition it had between the end of pirate radio (early 1970s) and HavenCo (2000) after 2002; there was a fire, which caused damage, but didn't destroy it. It's still there; just irrelevant.

I'm still sort of interested in interesting jurisdictional arbitrage (free trade zones, differences in laws across places, multi-national structures), but I'm much more interested in purely technological solutions to problems (i.e. using crypto, hardware, etc. to solve the same problems as sealand)
Off-the-shelf software is somewhat less of a consideration for Macs anyway, so this makes an odd kind of sense. DVDs might be more of a factor.
Ask HN: how do yo connect with Angels investors in Bay Area with no network?
Hi,

Recently moved from N.Dakota to the Bay Area, to expand and build my startup. The problem I am facing is that I am not sure how to connect to investors. Cold Calls - Cold Emails ?

I do realize that network referrals work best, but my network is small and mostly all if them have little or nothing to do with IT.

So what were some of the strategies and methods you used to connect with the first Angel or VC you talked to ?

Thanks
This article doesn't really explain why computers have two zeros. It just talks about their existence and usage.

Does the ACTUAL reason have anything to do with 2's comp?
Does this have something to do with the release of Lion? Maybe most of the users who upgraded decided to try Safari for awhile to see what changed?
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PHP/JavaScript/HTML/CSS developer. I'm based in the UK, and happy with local or remote work.

I've over 5 years experience in PHP, and have used many frameworks, including CodeIgniter, CakePHP and Zend.

I've also got a lot of experience with CMSs including Wordpress and Expression Engine.

My email address is on my profile.

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They should just roll this into a CloudFlare plugin so you don't have to modify your site or depend on their servers.
I dusted off my old copy of Diablo 2 last summer and played for a little while. The entire multi-player experience was dominated by bots spamming ads or bots that instantly pick up any rare items that dropped.

The botting was completely out of control.

I chatted with another player who used bots to farm for rare items and he claimed to have 24+ instances of the game running 24/7 split across several machines. He would check once a day to see if any of his bots managed to get a really, really rare item.

Kinda crazy... =]
This sort of thing is spelled out in the contract. If you aren't signing a contract, you should be.
You only really need one guy to hack the DRM and it's game over, since (a) he can share how he did it, and (b) he can freely share the decrypted files. Not that it really matters on Netflix since just about everything is already on DVD (and thus on torrents since CSS is cracked) anyhow.
In theory, a patent is supposed to be specific enough that the patent itself accurately describes the object, to the extent that a reasonably knowledgeable person could actually manufacture the object using only the patent as a blueprint. In other words, you would not be able to write the patent application unless you had actually invented the object in question, because otherwise you wouldn't know how to describe the theoretical object well enough for a person to manufacture it. Therefore you cannot patent imaginary future inventions.

In practice, this rule is effective only to the extent that the Patent Office enforces it.
You know IE9 has the fastest and best canvas for gaming, right?
I've done that by setting an alarm on my phone before a conversation I expect could get awkward. It got me out of a couple of unpleasant dates before I met my wife. Unfortunately, my in-laws aren't so easily shaken.
Right. I see that this is a distinction from just sending my friend money via PayPal. However, it (1) requires my friend to have a smartphone and (2) makes them get a PayPal account, which most of my friends have never heard of. Also, the idea of sending a gift card through email seems very tacky to me. But then again, I may not be your target audience.
Googlenet runs on '900,000 servers'
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Over the past week I've read "Modern Perl", and will finish it later today:

http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/

The ebook/PDF edition is free! It's a great book for learning (modern) Perl basics if you're already familiar with programming concepts and another language like JavaScript (which is where I'm coming from).

Actually, I think the knowledge and best-practices gleaned from the book will help to make me a better programmer in a general sense (not just in terms of the Perl language). It's well written, a pleasure to read and I highly recommend it.
I don't understand why providing a relevant set of ads in the shortest possible time is unrelated to encouraging people to click on ads. It seems clearly to be quite closely related to me -- provide a better ad experience, and people are more likely to make use of the ads. Whether the engineers optimising the system realise this or not is somewhat irrelevant.
It's the favicon of a site that is pinned as an "app tab".
Where does he work?
phenomenal post, thanks for sharing. I really liked the outline of how you actually executed your idea.

I have a question though, I skimmed through a few more blogposts of yours and you seem to have a very product-centric approach eventhough a lot of entrepreneurs/VCs seem to advocate a customer-centric approach. Why did you choose product, and how do you reconcile those two, assuming you think a little bit about your customers ? ;)
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> GiftRocket uses my location to check I’m actually at the pub and
> when my location is confirmed I get my gift. The GiftRocket
> amount is transferred into my Paypal account and I pay as normal.

So it's essentially a money transfer between two people but GiftRocket takes their vig and the recipient needs to be at a certain location (or fake the location) to receive the transfer. Depending on the percentage, this could be abused to launder money through the pretense of a gift purchase.
Is the background blue check thing a Lion desktop picture or just something blueprinty that moz are using for this? How do I get it (with nothing drawn on top of it)?
obviously in such a small (in terms of computing in general) discipline, a general purpose language might not be the best. Now if you want to publish your results to AWS and a website and pull data from a website front-end, etc. You can probably do it quickest with ducttape.
Java ecosystem has a lot of static analysis tools that can integrate to almost all popular IDEs and Continuous Integration systems. Findbugs, PMD, JDepend, Sonar (recommend to check Sonar).

Checkstyle is another tool that I use since I'm kind of the annoying dude when it comes to code-style. (Have you seen GWT API code? it's like written by one person as opposed to a few developers with different perceptions of "readable" code. I like that kind of thing).

There are a few reasons why startup/individual dev would choose Java:

1) Previous experience in Java

2) Java fits better for the type of problems to solve (intensive computational that requires Hadoop like infrastructure)

3) Emotionally attached to static/compiled language with nice IDE so that one can navigate the source code easily whether the code base is large or small (sometime not all decisions are rational and I'm okay with that because developing software requires more than technical skill; it also requires passion).

4) Marketing (if you're targeting the enterprises). Zimbra, Jive Software, Compiere, Alfresco, Day software, Liferay, Salesforce used to be startups.

Java ecosystem seems to learn and grow in a much better speed thanks to the following actors:

- Rails (Spring Roo, Spring MVC, JPA 2.0, and possibly MVC framework from the upcoming JEE releases)

- C# (Java 7 new features, Java 8 closures/lambda. Yes, Lisp does this first, but I think C# forces Java to implement closures more than any of its competitors).

- REST/JSON/WS (Check out the latest JAX-RS, supports REST, JSON, XML, Atom-Feed, and JAX-WS)

- I/P/SaaS + Cloud Computing (Targeted for Java EE7, deployment, infrastructure to support multi-tenant, etc).

NB: Just so that I don't sound like a Java fan-boy, I use Java by day but I use and help to promote and organize Python community overseas (of course by not comparing Python vs Java :)).
AdWords is a natural monopoly, so it is unlikely that someone will ever create a successful competing keyword driven advertising network. In order to generate high prices for the search ads, Google needs to have multiple bidders competing against each other for each keyword. Advertisers will only bid if there is lots of inventory to buy (lots of searches on those keywords). 10% of the search market does not generate 10% of search advertising revenue because of this lack of market participants -- on second tier pay-per-click advertising networks whole swaths of keywords are not competitively bid. The Bing-Yahoo search merger was an attempt to address this problem, but it hasn't worked so far according to the most recent financial reports. Google still generates 50% more revenue per search than Microsoft due to the network effects.
I did some digging around -- it should start appearing in Firefox 9, 10, and 11 (i.e. it will probably be complete in the Nightly channel before the end of the year, and in Beta/Stable builds next year some time):
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/91652-mozilla-unveils-n...
There really isn't anything to consider. Excel wins by a mile.
He didn't necessarily say he wasn't going to go through with idea if it was shot down... He seemed like he just wanted help finding where the holes he should be guarding against and planning for were.
I'm not sure that's true. Any time you ask what someone's social status is, you have to qualify that question to within a particular group. If you expand the group to "everyone on the planet", I think you're talking about fame, which seems different to social status.
I don't, but here is a content-aware filled version (using PS CS5): http://i.imgur.com/t72Z8.jpg
Step one: have a really really cheap startup idea.
I've often wondered what's the commercial and political mechanism that controls patent legislation and the lifetime of a patent. I mean, we're still at a mere 17 years with patents but Mickey Mouse is at roughly 95 years by now. Why is it worth lobbying for copyright extensions but not patent lifetime extensions?
With the exception that the pool is essentially made of bogus companies that never produced anything and never will.
I'm not sure you can make this assertion. If you still shop in stores, then yes, you probably buy advertised products. But if you just buy everything off Amazon or niche stores like Whole Foods, it's very easy to buy without having been exposed to advertising.

Also, I don't watch TV commercials and I use AdBlock, so even if I'm buying advertised products, it's not because of subconscious conditioning. It's random chance.
Ask HN: How to prevent stealing of Android app assets/code?
I'm an iOS dev, and occasionally think about trying Android, but then I read something like this: http://www.mhgames.org/2011/02/the-sad-state-of-the-android-market/

Any advice on how to prevent this? In an Apple world, you could ping Apple (ignoring the jailbreak world). But the problem above seems to be that people are selling stolen IP in the Android Market.
now I know !!! lol
Perhaps you're thinking of PLEAC?

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/

Or perhaps Rosetta Code?

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page
Cool, thanks Kyle...
The author is deeply confused. This part is simply incorrect:

See, “First to File” doesn’t require that you build
anything at all, that you have an intention to build
something, or that you’re getting a patent on something
that hasn’t, you know, already been invented by someone
who couldn’t afford the patent.

First to file makes no changes to any of that. It all remains exactly the same as it was under first to invent.

All that first to file changes is what happens when two (or more) separate inventors, who meet all of the statutory requirements for patentability (e.g., novelty, utility, non-obviousnous, reduction to practice and enablement), both file for patents.

Under first to invent, you try to figure out when each inventor actually started working on reducing the invention to practice (just having the idea is not enough). You find the earliest time T such that the inventor was working diligently on reduction to practice between T and the time of the patent application. T is that inventors invention date. Lowest date wins.

Under first to file, you look at the date on the application. Lowest date wins.

First to invent is problematic because it comes down to comparing two or more vague dates, and there can be a lot of subjectivity involved, such as deciding whether or not an inventor was working diligently or not toward reduction to practice.
I do wish he had mentioned the smart match operator ~~ as it nearly eliminates the confusion between EQ and ==. Of course, if you're dealing with legacy code, then you still need to understand both (or all three), but new coders might be well advised to start with smart match.
I don't think that's what he is arguing. The problem isn't that scientists aren't solving problems well enough: the problem is that those solutions don't get technologized, combined and put to use, through lack of communication, cooperation and coordination between scientists, other scientists from other sciences, industry, politicians and some in between.

A staggering amount of knowledge is being produced and most of it sits gathering dust. We've already reached the point where many new inventions/discoveries turn out to be rediscoveries of something already conceived of, or even thoroughly figured out, in the sixties. This happens all across the sciences, because there is too much relevant information for a single person, or even a single university department, to know of. We need tools to help with that.

My God, as I'm writing this I realize this is the most powerfully insightful thing I've read this year!
Indeed. There is a fine line between sharpening the saw and procrastination. What usually clears it up is drive. It would be handy to have a ghost from our grandparents generation at our shoulder when we are about to go off on another whinge about an imperfect world who says "Get on with it!"
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"That's the largest single increase in a single month for Safari, with iOS devices making up more than a third of the usage for the browser"

So they're adding the iOS browser numbers and making it sound as if it's the same browser and therefore its market share grew.

I find that very misleading. It reminds me of when Asymco added the iPad growth rate (which was something like 200% bigger from a year before) with Mac sales growth rate, which were something like 20% or whatever, and then saying "Apple computers had a growth of 220% year over year!". Very misleading, but it's actually pretty common for Asymco to do this. But what worries me is that I've seen other sites employ this tactic of adding iOS browser share+Safari and calling it one and the same, and then even arguing that it's outpacing Chrome!

The browsers are not the same and they shouldn't be counted together, but if at one point they become pretty much the same, then at least they should do it count their share across all platforms for all browsers, not just Safari.
Well, that's annoying. Now everybody is going to assume that all of the evildoers have been caught and that everything is safe. How long do we think it's going to take for corporations to start relaxing their security?
Arming the donkeys: The Psychology of Punishment
It all depends on how the sale is structured. Not being familiar with any particulars, I would assume it would be work for hire. In the US work for hire means who ever did the hiring is considered the author of the work. In Europe they often have moral rights which can muddy the waters in such cases.

3rd party claims of ownership would be handled just like any other claim of 3rd party ownership.
Perl's advantage over bash/awk/sed is that you can test, organize, and maintain code more effectively. This may not matter if you are programming to solve tiny unrelated problems, but it's a waste of effort if you are doing similar things frequently.

Python is basically Perl but with different syntax, libraries, and community.
On the plus side, it seems like only a small matter of time before this obviously broken system collapses under its own weight, and we're forced to do something slightly more sane instead.

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 due to lack of resources available to check them, and the growing portion of corporate profits evaporating to legal costs will put pressure on some actual patent reform.

Personally, I am angered that inventors will lose a recourse to challenge individuals who file patents on their previous inventions, and I in no way condone breaking the system for honest businessmen in order to make a case for fixing it, but at least I can take some solace in the fact that it will be a quick demise, unless I'm missing something.