skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the pinnacle of hypocrisy.

I issued countless document requests to Facebook in the course of litigation over the FACEBOOK trademarks (see http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92049206). I am not a known felon, I have no criminal record, and the claims were legitimate enough that Facebook eventually settled. I responded with hundreds of pages of categorized documents to Facebook's requests. To this day Facebook has not provided any of the documents I requested, even though they clearly exist.

It's nice to know that Paul Ceglia is the con man we already knew he was, but let it be known that Mark Zuckerberg has behaved repeatedly in the exact same manner as the con man he detests.

Here is how Facebook responds to valid document requests:

"Facebook objects to this Request on the ground that it seeks discovery that is not relevant or reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. Facebook further objects to this Request to the extent that it seeks documents protected from disclosure by the attorney-client communication and/or attorney work product privileges. Subject to and without waiving the foregoing objections and General Objections and Responses, Facebook responds as follows:
Facebook has generally objected to Petitioner's First Set of Interrogatories...and has no obligation to respond to Petitioner's First Set of Interrogatories at this time."

Even after filing a Motion to Compel Discovery (see http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92049206-CAN-24.pdf) I never got to see the documents.
As long as Exchange is set up with the imap button checked, mutt works great. I don't know of an open source MAPI connector.
Oh purleez. There's only one, and it's in context.
New Zealand recently passed a law (which the US government asked for, according to a Wikileaks cable, and the government here rolled over for them) which creates civil penalties for being an 'account holder' with an 'Internet Protocol Address Provider' if the IP address is found to have downloaded copyrighted material.

So when the law comes into force in New Zealand, there will be no need to prove who 'used the Internet' - only who the account holder was for a given IP address, and that the IP address was involved in transferring material owned by the plaintiff (and even then, not really prove - having sent a notice to the defendant via their ISP creates an assumption of liability that has to be disproved by the defendant).
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Quantum randomness. Hate to break it to you, but not happening.
Recommendation Engines: I am integrating recommendation engines to google spreadsheets ,any pointers?

http://www.quora.com/Recommendation-Engines/I-am-integrating...

1. It ll have n+1 sheets ..
2. Like a 3d periodic table for methods
3. every step begins with a new row every block of which in a diff column will contain a symbol/operator/number etc.
4. first n sheets will contain n methods to solve problem x,with n*m(i) error functions .[m(i) number of steps in ith)
5. n sheets will be connected semantically and contextually optimized
6. combinations of steps.
7. on n+1 th sheet user feeds his problem ,
8. If the context is matched,he is asked to feed his method steps to
solve the problem on the RHS of the n+1 th sheet he gets validity/proof
of his steps and recommended steps for optimized error in terms of
contextual tolerance
9. #example spreadsheet
https://spreadsheets.google.com/...
assume that recommender is added to this sheet's back-end
Look at this sheet
now if i want to make a new sheet to strategize say my academics
and start feeding parameters to this new sheet
[switch to listview of spreadsheet]
when i click a drop down in list view i ll see the recommended data formula to feed with it's row*column location.
10. I find it related to structured prediction
11. #use case
12. think of toy design or drug formulation companies.
##They have vast unorganized history{across past aand organization} of methododologies and results ##
which can be converted to methodbase ,
just as documents s are converted to knowledge base using machine learning semantics .
this method-base is comparable to the old sheets on the example spreadsheet i messaged you earlier......
The
charles sheet on the spreadhseet was comparable to GUI of the product
where the drug formulator /toy designer feeds his objective and blocks
of procedure( steps of solution ,methods, images etc }
this gets compared with what is recorded on old sheets[method-base]
and
on the RHS of Charles sheet recommended steps /methods appear such that
noise/signal ,learning curve,resource stress ,risk and error count is
mitgiated .

--

jasitis@gmail.com
It's very difficult for anyone to get into the media, so don't think it's Anti-European feeling. To minimise anything European about your offer, emphasise that you're worldly than Europe-centric.

That said, you seem to try to appeal to mainstream early tech media. What about personal traveller blogs? Ask American travellers where they get their information from. Go from there.

Talk to your potential customers.
Carmack on "why static analysis": The very best programmers always make mistakes
The problem is that they haven't updated or made any splashes since the launch. Yes, the Mango update has been floating around but consumers are always asking "what have you done for me lately?"
The DefCon wireless is nowhere near as scary as people make it out to be. Making people believe that something is scary is part of the fun of it for those of us that help run the con.

Currently at con, on my laptop with OpenVPN and tethered to my phone because the DefCon wireless is overloaded and not handing out an IP address.
What always boggles my mind when I read this kind of article on an 'enterprisy' site is the comments. Many of them are extremely quick to defend Microsoft in the face of what they consider biased reporting. And J.Q.Public promises that MS will fix any problem mentioned. And that MS will come to dominate the field as soon as they chose to 'really turn on the pressure'.

Personally, I can understand Apple fan-people (after all, it is kind of magical). And Linux fan-people (after all, the whole Freedom thing is kind of magical).

But defending Microsoft (or Blackberry, to take another example)? To me, it seems like being a huge fan of Gap fashion (sorry, for the comparison, Gap). Or Con-Ed.
Looks cool, maybe i'll go solve a few of these.

Please log in with google.

Never mind.
This was a breath of fresh air. I think someone could do great good to take, say, 15 or 20 seminal papers in computer science over the last 60 years and turn them into a book that teaches history and its discarded ideas.

I still think one of the biggest pieces missing from the puzzle here is the problem of notation. Kay's examples seemed to largely still be stuck in the ASCII paradigm, and I think we need to raise the abstraction so appropriate notation can be used without any restrictions.

To quote Whitehead: "By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race."
I could be pithy and answer "No", but in my maintenance of Windows in various contexts I rely on that shim of DOS emulation, Start -> Run -> cmd.

I feel like I get much of the quick info (e.g. ipconfig, net) I need here faster than I would get it from Control Panel -> Network (something) -> (forget the next bit).

Does Windows still rely on DOS? No. Do I? Sure.
From their demo test:

Your test consists of 1 programming problem
to be solved in Java, C++, C#, C, Javascript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or VB.NET,
It's a pretty sizable deposit, but it's underground. That means it'll be pricier to extract, and not all of the ore can be mined. Looks like lower grade than the Chinese deposits currently mined too, and it's a different mix of elements.

http://www.quantumrareearth.com/projects.html

http://www.iamgold.com/English/Operations/Operating-Mines/Ni... - a similar deposit in Quebec.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs087-02/fs087-02.pdf - good summary of REEs
My mistake. After looking into it further, it seems it was initially ASP and then they switched to PHP around the time they got into Y Comb.
> I work as an iOS app developer, a role which didn't exist just three years ago.

I respectably counter your statement with the idea that the job category existed, just not the platform specialization.

> I wouldn't have a job now if I weren't for the iPhone

You could have been able to find a job. What was your background before iOS development? (or was iOS development your first job)

I'm not trying to disprove the fact that your source of income is iOS specialization. If you are indeed making the majority of your revenue from your own apps, big congratulations! My point is even though Apple created a tremendous ecosystem for independent developers, it may be a less than net zero gain (e.g. jobs in Visual Basic programming were lost and either there are much less new jobs in the new ecosystem and/or previously gainfully employed developers are unable to develop iOS competency and proficiency (no mean feat).
This is why X allows you to copy text by highlighting it, and to paste text by middle clicking. The problem was solved a long time ago. Just grab the mouse and stop being a keyboard elitist.
My little brother found this awhile back. I never thought it'd be interesting enough to put on here.
How can high net-worth individuals help the US economy?
Fukime - hacking Hacker News with a cool startup name
But this is how arguing about the law so often works. It's not clear what the law should say in a new case, so we make analogies to cases where there's precedent.

The question falls into the general class of problems "If you provide the tools for someone else to break the law, do you have any responsibility when they do?" And that's a huge class of problems, with precedent both ways for various subcases. You are partially responsible if you leave a loaded gun lying on a park bench and somebody shoots someone else with it. You aren't partially responsible if someone breaks your window, picks up a piece of broken glass and goes on a stabbing spree.

It's further complicated, here, by the fact that it's possible to claim "it wasn't me, it was someone else stealing my wifi" when it was, in fact, you.
you can't assume that printing money here will incur inflation, as money is being just sucked up by the system right now - a lot of it in the form of housing prices falling (and thus falling off the assets sheets of banks)
This is not quite accurate since the smartphone market is growing... fast. This means that Microsoft sales might have grown, but they still don't get up to the smartphone market growth. Android and iPhone began from 0% market-share and they climbed quick. There is room for another Operating System and may be more. Microsoft brings up something different. It's not as open as Android and not so closed like Apple (At least, you choose the device).

It's too early to judge. Also Microsoft has lots of cash to advertise its' smartphone platform. That's something that not all of the competitors have.
Although I guess you could say that for comments on most article on CNN.

I would say that for most comments on the internet.
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I'd bet there are more Mac users on HN than there are at DEF CON.
I don't think it's your computer joining the network that's the issue; the network itself is likely tainted. By extreme example, a rogue cell tower was demonstrated last year which monitored outgoing SMS messages. Your phone would automatically join it because its signal strength was greater and it had all required information.

The issue with Defcon Wi-Fi is that you should assume all outbound traffic is captured. Are you sure your mail notifier, Dropbox client, IM client, etc, aren't sending credentials or some kind that can be (at least temporarily) exploited?
To me, Neil always seems like he's talking to children.

This is great for children. But as an adult who already knows 95% of what he's talking about it comes across as a bit grating.

Carl Sagan could tell you what you already knew, and you'd still be happy to hear it, because he'd just remind you how awesome this stuff you already know actually is.
It must be disheartening to be losing market share after launching WP7. That said, these numbers are a bit deceiving for two reasons:

1) WP7 + Windows Mobile is probably still growing in absolute numbers, but just being outpaced by Android and iOS growth

2) These numbers only represent consumer devices, not business; from the comScore report: "Data on mobile phone usage refers to a respondent’s primary mobile phone and does not include data related to a respondent’s secondary device.". In particular, many people have iPhone's for personal use and a BlackBerry/Windows phone for business use.

edit: formatting
Well, when I upgraded to OS X Lion the installer failed because of a problem with the BOOT.INI file on my Windows partition. Imagine my surprise at seeing "BOOT.INI" in the Mac OS X installer logs. For a split second I thought that OS X was just a shell on top of MS-DOS.
Oil doesn't have to run out to drastically change the economy. The new methods of extraction are more expensive than the old, and the price of oil per barrel is a lot higher. One can easily imagine a system where the equilibrium unemployment with oil (ie: energy) at $X+10 per barrel is much higher than one with oil at $X per barrel.
But then they couldn't go fearmongering to get more ad impressions!
Where would we be if Tim Berners Lee had patented http ?

Google need to win the 'make patents irrelevant' battle not the 'my bullshit patent portfolio is larger than your bullshit patent portfolio' battle.
But the answer is still no. You are not relying on DOS. You are relying on a command line interpreter that ships with Windows. It likely has nothing to do with DOS unless you are using a very old version of Windows.
Generally there are contractual obligations precluding sharing work. No need to risk a lawsuit
To be fair, assuming you are a developer or an entrepreneur, your basic job description could be boiled down to either constant self re-education (coding skills transferred to platforms that did not exist when you started) or adaptability.

I feel, being in this field that requires constant learning (there are some jobs that require only static ability, e.g. COBOL mainframe), that we have a jaded view of what it takes to learn something new. Going from accounting to HR is a big leap, completely different domain (not like picking up iOS after doing server-side Java)
It is almost always the case that "too high for measurement" means "the guy with the meter is telling you a fish story" or "the guy with the meter doesn't know which end to hold."
This is generally not a criminal thing so I'm not sure the police or DA would get involved. You might consider small claims court or maybe a collections agency.

Have you turned over whatever you were contacted to do? So it's a real person who is actually conducting some sort of business? I suppose there's an outside chance you might be get some funds but doesn't sound too good. As you know now, the research would have been better performed in the beginning.
If these numbers are for Windows Mobile as a whole, is this attributable to the old Windows Mobile finally getting tossed by people?
Good chance the comments you're talking about are from paid shills. There are a lot of un(der)employed bloggers these days, and Microsoft has never been above such tactics.
Knowingly writing a check with non sufficient funds is criminal in most places.

Yeah my work is up and live. He's on the record with complimenting it.

There is no way you can search thousands of court databases each time you take on a client. I just ran into someone who told me which dbs to search to pull up dirt on him.
There is always hope for Microsoft based on the following points.

1. Its early days for the smartphone market.

2. Nokia+Wp7 has a good chance of not flopping due to Nokia's reach, relationships and repeat customer base in countries outside of USA.

3. They have lots of cash

4. They've done this before (Xbox entered a fairly mature, very competitive market)

5. They have platforms they can leverage/integrate more (Xbox, IE, Windows 8, Facebook)

6. They haven't targeted the low end market yet.

The mass market (people not like us) still views Microsoft and Nokia as good brands so in that aspect Apple and Google phones don't have the same brand equity that keeps them super loyal/rabid to like us geeks.
Ah, that sounds perfect, actually. Thank you.
Is it really random or is it that we don't know how all the rules work?
Working with HTML Fragments in jQuery
Indeed. I first encountered DOS in the 3.2-ish days. I'm pretty sure the manual did not include 'net' or 'ipconfig'...

But the current Windows command line that has taken on the guise of DOS is useful to me.
Sounds like you're making Eliezer's "Why our kind can't co-operate" argument: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/
From what I saw, the Android doesn't seem to give any warning about my contacts going to them.
I've switched my FreeBSD machine over to clang and have been successfully building most ports with it. It really is ready for prime-time :-).
I think that's misleading. There are 3 agencies, and only one of them felt that the US debt wasn't the highest investment grade status.

Maybe you should mention that, as well as what the credit ratings are (S&P, Moody's, Fitch), what goes into the decision, and how it affects normal people. Start with a reliable wellspring of information. Then I could send it to some of my friends who ask me about the whole situation.

Then put some ads :)
When I saw the Simon Sinek video on leadership (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4), it quickly clicked with me that the supporters of Apple are also people who above all want a quality product, that has beautiful design and is easy to use.

Also, people who support Google believe in what Google believes - freedom, openness, personalization, and not getting overcharged and arm and a leg for the service they provide.

But when I thought of Microsoft, I couldn't get neither a quick answer, nor a good one. What are Microsoft's beliefs? What is their mantra? Why do they exist? I couldn't really come up with an answer - except "making money". 15 years ago Microsoft's mantra was about putting a computer on every desk. They've pretty much accomplished that mission. But Microsoft doesn't inspire that in me right now - what they inspire and makes me think about them is that above else, they want to make money.

Every company wants to make money, but we "believe" in the companies we love for different reasons, not because they want to make money. We love the companies that share our beliefs. What exactly are Microsoft's beliefs nowadays? To kill Google? Is that what makes whatever fans they have left to still love them?

I don't think that's enough to win over a larger crowd in the future, as they start losing their monopoly on "computing machines", and all the negative sentiment they are gathering with the patents right now, will come back to haunt them later and create a negative halo around all their products. They're forgetting "Android users" could very well be customers of other products of theirs.
It's debatable whether the application is entirely separate from the RPC layer. For example, when writing a RESTful API, would you really want the server to respond with 200 for everything, even for "Resource not found" errors?

In web applications, HTTP codes and application codes are quite integrated. Of course, you do need some extra error info, as HTTP error codes can't possibly cover every error in your app, but 422 with extra info as a catch-all sounds like a reasonable compromise.
Speaking of that I've played with it in the past for building things, but haven't in about a year. How is it doing performance wise these days?
GUI tools can scale well for complexity. Just look at how an experienced user can drive CAD or finalcut. It is just a matter of learning the interface, and understanding the domain it targets.

I would argue that the real hurdle to learning is accessing and understanding the documentation. In this respect CLI has the advantage with man pages. With UI the easiest way of understanding is to ask another human, which has obvious limitations.
There's a startup in this, somewhere.

Has anyone tried the YC startup http://www.rescuetime.com/? (I've been meaning to try it myself, but they want my credit card to begin.)
Some of what you are reading out here actually is not true. In California, willfully writing a bad check can make the payer liable for 3 times the face value.

My suggestion: consult an attorney, not the internet.
> Average personal savings rates in India and China was: 30% and 50%

Yes, but if you take into account the 9% inflation in India, the savings might be a net loss.

As was pointed out to me earlier in another HN discussion, the only reason why the Indian government guarantees a seemingly too good to believe interest rate of 9% for the savings accounts of their senior citizens is because that rate cancels out inflation.
Learning Lisp (from 1984)
"This material has NOT been updated from the original 1984 text which I found it completely by accident in a tarball at this address: http://venus.deis.unical.it/manuals/llisp/index.html. There are many errors and typos, and the version of lisp (P-Lisp, which ran on the Apple II) predates commonlisp, and no longer exists. So I strongly encourage you not to actually use this to learn Lisp!"
97% of production is in China, mostly from Bayan Obo and illegal operations in the south. They're thought to have 30-40% of identified REE reserves because the cost to mine & process them is prohibitive. China fixes REE prices to keep competitors out of the market and promote domestic manufacturing.
From the official site:

Content available in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, German, Italian, Czech, Bulgarian and Turkish.

Internationalization is one key thing the alternative version is missing.
Not to be that guy, but technically (0.999) = 1 - 10^(-inf).
When there are so many people in this world in need of a friendly visit, or assistance in some way, shape or form, doing nothing is irresponsible.

Bottom line. HN pretty much qualifies for doing nothing. We should all abandon HN immediately and forever and get on with our lives.

I dare you.
A pure CLI is an arbitrary constraint on program design. CLIs and GUIs are not adversaries or mutually exclusive.

I see no evidence that designers are opposed to command interfaces given that many of the graphical programs I use incorporate them where appropriate.

The world isn't black and white. GUIs can be fast and pointing can be faster than typing. In other cases, a written command is fastest way to get exactly what you want.
In California this is a criminal offense and the DA for the County where he is will have a bounced check unit. Contact the DA. It is a slam dunk.

Do. Not. Threaten. To. Go. To. The. DA. "I'm going to the DA if you don't pay me" is stoopit. That's blackmail and you will be the one in trouble not him. Just file charges.
Was it work for an one-time on-completion payment?

Sorry to hear.
How is it possible that someone with "decades of industry experience designing and implementing very complex systems" can't code their way out of a paper bag?

Also, if > 80% of the programmers can't code, who the hack has been employing them all these years?
But there is no reason why it should look so ugly in 2011. Linux and OS X have much nicer versions of DOS, although I don't know why they removed the 'dir' command...