skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue it's still a case of deception. The fact that the patent is poorly titled doesn't change that. If the patent were titled "wheel and axle" but contained its current content, it would still be misleading to say that someone had patented the wheel and axle.

And no, I don't feel like digging through a bunch of anti-patent articles looking for misleading claims. Even if this were the only example, the point would stand that using misleading claims makes it harder to trust the movement.
I have switched to Firefox 8 nightly 64 bit 2 week and never turned back to stable release.

Firefox 8 is current state is performing an order of magnitude better than the current stable release.

They are definitely improving at an escalating pace ever since chrome and safari started eating into their market share.
:-) This is what keeps DEA agents up at night I suppose.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of them were born in the US.
IPhone App Simulates Teen Dating Abuse
Without a doubt. I was only commenting on the HIV vector because there are so many that say, "What the hell?" when they hear "HIV."
Hey HN...There have been a ton of cougar sightings around where I live. I thought why not aggregate them all onto one easy to view map. Let me know your thoughts!
$10K? A bargain if you ask me. Especially considering the current cost of Leukemia treatment.
>> ...several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research.

Great! No greedy corporation to patent it and sell off the method at overpriced rates.
Looking forward to more...I would particular like to see coverage of how speed hacks and warping hacks work. I don't understand why those aren't easy to catch on the server without undo resource use.

For instance, when a player loads a new zone, why not do a simple check of where he was 30 seconds earlier? If he was not near any official portal, and did not use an official port spell or recall scroll or some such, then he must have used a warp cheat.
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This just reminds me that, like Derek Sivers says so well, you can't predict the future.
When I first heard Sandy Clark (one of the authors of the paper) talk about this I was pretty amazed. One would presume that "most" use of the system is as designed but alas no.
Either you're incredibly involved in the Mozilla codebase, or you're misusing the word "re-entrant" [1]. Since you're asking about development status, I'm going to assume the latter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant_(subroutine)
A simple text-to-html parser written in Perl for WordPress
That doesn't make sense. The article is about a piece of research that seems to indicate that people enjoy reading "spoiled" books more.

That doesn't imply that this is true for you personally, nor does it make a value judgement on how people should experience fiction.
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W.H. Auden
I agree. The focus on "desugaring" and building up from the basics was key. Most of the time we're using "conveniences" without knowing what was made convenient!
I've used Firefox under similar conditions.

Some people might not know that it actually includes a feature specifically for this use case. If you start to type in a URL or page name similar to one already open in a tab, the awesomebar dropdown menu lets you jump to the already-opened tab.
You know the one thing most people forget about the valley was that HP really did well due to their government work. And in return they took that wealth and put Stanford on the map. When you look at it that way while most Americans started to become aware of silicon valley in the late 70s it had been in fact in the making since World War II. So if you want your city to be a silicon valley you need at least twenty years and a ton of hard work (and a culture of nerds) to succeed.
Documentation's a first, because there's no proper reference, and sometimes the thing you want is buried within another page. Or there are conflicts.

There's a certain lack of clarity and even when you can figure it out some of their decisions are strange. There's barely anything on performance and caching and overall they appear to have geared the API more towards the copy-paste plugin generators they have. I've never seen a 3rd party FB app (apart from the one linked on this page, Clarity I think, which I've only just heard of), and all the Android ones I came across were just site specific browsers wrapping the mobile page.

Compare it to Twitter, which has supported countless apps on practically any platform you can think of and appears to have actually considered a developer will use it. It's nicely laid out and appears to have proper thought put into it.
The spoiler wasn't for his father, it would have been for him:

> I thought it was a brilliant move and I certainly would have been sad to know it was coming. When an author is reversing tropes and dumbfounding your expectations, when you're suspended between possible outcomes and don't know what's going to happen next, that's the golden time in reading.

"My pleasure would have been reduced to know about the spoiler in advance."
If only more employers hired like this...
Actually, statistical significance has a definition. Not to be snide, but you should look it up before commenting.
Scientists Pop Atoms in Microwave, Out Comes Quantum Entanglement
My "how to" summary: prolific blogging.

Write. A lot. In my case that means spending years chattering online on various discussion boards & blogs about whatever interests me. Use argumentative realms & subjects to hone the art of clear concise replies. This forces attentive writing in a forum where perfection isn't required (so what if you screw something up, it's just a blog post) but close thereto helps (kudos for a clear & helpful explanation, or delivery of a devastating retort, is satisfying & encouraging).

To wit: Gladwell's 10,000 hours. Wanna write fast - well? Then write fast - a lot.

BTW: Stephen King's "On Writing" is marvelous. Most of it is interesting autobiography, but the slim chapter on "toolbox" is worth more than the book's price.
I know I did, until I read further into the article.
Review of new Philips 17W LED (75W replacement)
How do you guys plan to monetize this?
The Lazarus Sign
Seems like there's a hidden benefit to always keeping a tab with the hosts file open in notepad++. I use the hosts file from time to time, and I just leave the tab open, never thought it could help me out security-wise though.
I think you should put that energy into making a great product and marketing to get the word out! Look at it my way:

If you spend 40 hours doing A/B testing that could be 20 hours adding that one cool feature and another 20 hours doing PR to get the word out.

Yes if you've already spent $100k to build your product and another $100k for a banner ad campaign then put up that wall and hold onto each body -- but if you aren't that stage really focus on making something great.

You'd be better off getting people on the site to tell a friend than to drive away each person with a signup (look at dropbox as an example).
I believe in situations like this that it's customary to give the code to be evaluated to an outside expert in order to protect both parties from the risk of theft of intellectual property. Is Google's main objection that they would have wanted to approve of the expert witness first? That seems unusual.

(Disclaimer 1: IANAL)
(Disclaimer 2: I work for Microsoft, but I know nothing about this matter.)
How many SMS messages are send monthly?
guess I'm really wondering why this exists -- seems like maybe the idea originated back in early twitter days and devs just decided to see it through now all of a sudden?
Strange Planet is Blacker Than Coal
This resume has source code in it. (just the code)
Sorry, this patent is invalid, but your prior art covers a different invention. Page 19 shows a singly-linked list. Page 20 shows nested lists (a list where some elements are also lists). I don't see anything in this document that covers the same type of multiply-linked lists that the patent claims.
Maybe he learned to mix a mean shirley temple.
>is that he's a curmudgeon

No, he's a troll: http://scripting.com/2006/06/09.html

edit: sorry arn, I was revising the post while you were writing yours. The scripting.com link above does have a link to the original .mov video, your Youtube link will likely have better compatibility with non-Mac users.
I really liked StreamDialog( http://twitter.com/#!/streamdialog ) - good pitch, nice idea, simple product and i was suprised with their end-result and partnership with vkontakt.ru (russian facebook), and all happens in 12weeks.

I think, BusFaster ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xzvm6IOk1g&feature=playe... )is perfect example how to kill real pain.
How Products Evolve (or, you say Pivot, I say Mutation)
1.2.4 and all the other versions that are built are also available. They aren't linked from the site, but are get-able with a little URL munging:

http://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/django/1.2.4/django.pdf
I looked at the trunk code for gawk on Savannah when I wrote the above. It passes the output of time(0) straight into srand().

The size of the dictionary doesn't matter (given that it's more than about 70 words); the limiting factor is the entropy in the RNG seeding.
here it is on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHzHVF-4Mg
Because features you might have opted in to originally didn't exist when you joined?

They can either promote new features on the site and hope you notice, force you to update your settings and make a decision, or just opt you in which is less work and ensures higher adoption for them.
Breakthroughs usually come from unexpected sources that are not in the mainstream thought. Mainstream funding will only fund mainstream thought.
Firstly: You're right; I am ill-informed on this. I haven't any doubt that you or your colleagues had and continue to have strong humanitarian convictions in your work, and I was out of line to speak so broadly.

I recognize that the argument I made earlier is something of an old saw. But you and I both know that businesses on the scale of most pharma companies are not run only by researchers and engineers, and that the explicit reasons for business decisions anywhere often stem from any number of unspoken ones. I don't imagine even the coldest of bean counters ever says "we need to make sure this research doesn't lead to a cure," and I doubt such a black-and-white assessment of a complex R&D process even occurs to them. But incentives are incentives, and humans are masters of rationalization.

I'm heartened to learn that your teams never felt pressure to put business interests ahead of patient interests. I sincerely hope your experience is common.
http://www.styleseat.com/ recently launched but more of a boooking tool.
I just spent one hour playing your game, love it ! (will play again)
The casual fast-paced rogue-like style is very neat ! I've never seen something quite similar

Not having to care about picking items up and choosing the best one to equip is very clever. It weirded me out at the begining but it really helps to build a spirit to the game.

The magic system, while not being the most intuitive thing in the game, also participate to the ambience. Bravo !

The major caveheat is really the absence of auto-saving and resuming a game. I already lost 3 characters beacause the game crashed,
I've read here that it's in your TODO list, and I really think it should be your top priority, it will very fast get on players nerves.

Superb game anyways, shall I hint you contact the people behing TIGDB (The independant Game Database) ? I would love to leave a kind review here :)
RIM: BES image flaws open door to attacks
That was no spoiler at all, however it was so shocking when I read it that all of the second book was read with the anticipation of literary pain.
I think I will organize a pilgrimage from my school's CS department.
I don't believe running marathons is considered healthy. Actually any kind of intensive (I don't know the English term for it) sports would be considered not good for longevity most research says. I've seen (semi) prof runners, rowers and a badminton player in my own circles die of heart attacks and cancer (long) before their time, while people who never did much of anything sporty (and smoke + drink) are currently over 90 (yes, I personally know far more sport/health people dying before 60, and 50, than I know people who live unhealthy; no-one unhealthy died before 80, while in the 'healthy' category, I've had a lot of deaths). This all doesn't prove anything, neither does this article, but the lack of sleep would've been more interesting if the guy would be 'normal', aka, not running marathons, but play the weekly rounds of squash and golf.
Ah, John Dvorak. I seriously think you'd be hard-pressed to find a man who is so wrong so much of the time and be so well-paid for it.
Did you read Mozilla's version number announcement a few months back? Version numbers aren't being used in marketing material anymore, so the user will rarely see them. The change in the version numbering corresponds to a new rapid release/update cycle. From the user's perspective, there are no versions, there is just Firefox.
Wait...Google objects to the outside expert Microsoft hired to look at the source code because he's worked for Microsoft before on legal cases?

Surely Google doesn't expect that every time a company needs an outside expert to look at source code (which they have to hire an outside expert for because they are not allowed to see it themselves) they need to find a new expert?
Hypothetically:

There are 50,000 great Python programmers available and 5,000 startups using Python.

There are 10,000 great Perl programmers available and 50 startups using Perl.

Which is going to be easier to hire for?

There's no real technical benefits of Python over Perl. If anything Perl has the edge due to Moose/CPAN, etc.

The biggest "problem" is the stigma and that's only an issue of perception. Users don't actually care what hammer you use.
I can only imagine how much more I would've enjoyed it without the spoilers.

Ah, but you're arguing a counterfactual. The study suggests that you wouldn't have enjoyed it more without the spoiler. Similarly, with The Sixth Sense, you might enjoy seeing how Shyamalan puts the story together and imagining how a naive viewer would try to reconcile things.
I think that most people would prefer a job doing something they feel is useful. Heck, I'd take some moderate risks to feel like I was earning my keep.

I think this is why most public assistance programs in America have been tied to 'service' of one kind or another. It's why social security is at least partly tied to your taxes while you were working. We've got our pride; and yeah, I agree it's irrational, but that's just the way many of us are.

Actually, I got one of those hiring bonuses last year; I mean, I didn't know that I'd get it, and it was only a few hundred dollars, so it didn't factor in to the hiring decision, but I did make someone an actual employee, and my accountant told me I got a credit for it. (The guy was a contractor before, but he did get a substantial raise, and a steady salary rather than a varying paycheck based on hours worked.)
1. Spec the job - page count is good, but how complex are those pages? Make a wireframe which shows EVERYTHING. And if there is something you can't show (example: "a logo flies onto the screen") make a note of it.

2. Show your well thought out spec to any designer and ask for an estimate!

3. Eve if you designer is a kid out of school with no experience you can make them take a guess on each page.

4. factor in the fact that there will be a number of revisions after the designer shows you something. Figure at least two to three rounds.

Just so you know, as a designer I can tell you that so many people never bother with step #1 and waste money and have their projects go off the tracks as a result.
Seems like it would simply delay the issue, being, once you've gotten an overly broad and generic patent through the system (however long it took) you can wield that weapon pretty broadly.

Reduce the length of time the patent is valid or remove the benefits of software patents, and you'll reduce the pressure on the USPTO pretty sharply.
Would people be interested in a Downloadable HTML version as well? RTD only offers PDF for the moment, but supporting a downloadable HTML zip would be pretty simple to do as well. I note that it's the other part of the OP that isn't supported.
Fonts increasingly venture outside of locales. Its very common for one font to have all western-European characters, or even all European (including Cyrillic) characters. This is especially true for the default system fonts.

CJK fonts often include not only CJK, but European characters as well. Almost always at least ASCII.

Ultimately, having a single font for all characters is desirable: Having to go track down more fonts because you're seeing � in your text is a pretty bad experience. Substituting other fonts is at best a kluge, as it often looks terrible.

Projects like DejaVu who plan to eventually cover all living scripts (http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Plans) are not only a good thing but they are also making substantial progress.

Also, even in ASCII, there are a bunch of confusing characters (all depend on which font, of course): I (eye), l (ell), 1 (one), | (vertical bar); O (oh), and 0 (zero); {} (braces) and () (parentheses); 5 (five), S (ess), and $ (dollar), rn (r-n) and m; vv (v-v) and w; etc.

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Google releases Games for Google+
Yeah, a lot of my passwords look like "securesecretpassphraseA1!"

There's the secure piece, and there's the obeisance to the stupid website piece.
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It contains a lot of interesting information. I'd guess that is why it was posted.
Random question for astrophysicists who might see this - what would neutronium actually look like? As I understand it, color and reflection is all due to interactions with an atom's electrons - and neutronium has none.
I remember years back on Wikipedia, clever vandals would play Unicode tricks. It was interesting, to say the least - you'd register a name that looks identical to a real user, vandalize, and hope the administrator would type the name in...

This was ultimately stopped by Antispoof (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extens...) but the bug reports are still interesting:

- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2593

- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2290
Yes. I think this is part of it. Here are the logs from a few weeks ago: http://j.mp/pBqfbx I'd be curious if anyone can figure out why so many visitors are using a browser called Netfront (apparently from Samsung mobiles).
I wonder if there's a subset of people (presumably people who often do puzzles and the like) who run counter to this finding. I often run gimmick car rallyes[1], which is an extended exercise in parsing the rules, and when I've fallen for a good gimmick, I'm more likely to smile once I've figured out how I was tricked.

[1] http://www.therallyeclub.org/what.htm
That's certainly true, but as I understood it, he's arguing that patents that happen to cover software are no different from patents that happen to cover anything else, and then he goes on to describe in detail how patents that happen to cover software are different from others.
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>I seriously think you'd be hard-pressed to find a man who is so wrong so much of the time and be so well-paid for it.

There's always Rob Enderle...
Locking the account is the wrong way to go about it since it makes DoS on known accounts trivial.

Blocking the IP or an increasing time between tries is, afaik, the "right way".
has this method of cancer fighting been only applied to leukemia patients or could it work for other types of cancer as well? since T-cells reach almost every part of the body, couldn't they be reprogrammed to kill some other cells apart from carcinogenic white blood cells?
I can't find the article online (it does say it's "upcoming") but here's the press release[1] in the journal. An interesting comment from the authors:

"Christenfeld and Leavitt conclude the paper by saying that perhaps some of our “other intuitions about suspense may be similarly wrong.”

“Perhaps,” they write, “birthday presents are better when wrapped in cellophane, and engagement rings are better when not concealed in chocolate mousse.”

We might be also well-advised to reconsider surprise parties, Christenfeld said.

But I don't know. Maybe they aren't spoilers, per se, but I know some of my favorite books and movies have me going "Oh! How is this going to end?" or "Oh! How are they going to get out of that!" I'd love to know how much was actually spoiled. Was it, as in the ars article does, "Dumbledore dies on page 596", or like a cliff's notes version of the whole story.

[1] http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/...
"Drupal starts you off with 80% of the product functionally complete (!), for free, and leaves you with the spit and polish jar to squeak out the other 20. I find that this 80/20 rule is true for even very complex products. The lazy developer will never do that remaining 20%; this says nothing about Drupal."

I agree with that statement 100%. I don't think Drupal forces you to build a half-finished site with ten security holes. My problem is that lots of people do anyway. I don't necessarily blame Drupal for this phenomenon. I just think it's emblematic of a culture of quick and dirty coding that ultimately makes life harder for professionals and our clients.
A Modern Look at How the Enterprise Determines What It Thinks It Needs
Why and How to Introduce Diversity into your Start-up
The Art of Assembly Language Programming
A Decade With Dvorak
No, he's just playing the odds. Say everything sucks and hope most things do.
US debt visualized: Stacked in $100 bills
Dup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2864349

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2864531 <- Lots of comments
If accepted, you can crash at my apartment in the valley for a day. I dont have a big place, but I can easily host 2 people. Will go thru AirBnB I guess.
Lambdas For Junior Developers
The original post is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2873040

We weren't trying to bash on Facebook at all (and the survey had nothing to do with which services people liked/disliked).

Our main point was simply that the developer community really seems poorly served by the API players. And that rings true, scientific survey or not.

But clearly there were lots of things wrong with our initial survey (poor questions, limited sample size, etc.), but we'd very much like to run another survey and address theses issues as well as possible.

So please, chime in and let us know how we can take this up a few notches.
You are correct in that the patent covers a multiply-linked list. Specifically, one with two or more pointers, where the other pointers allow you to traverse the list in other ways.

One example would be a doubly-linked list, though they would presumably limit that claim by pointing out that the other pointers allow you to traverse the list in any way, not merely backwards.

That said, I don't think you'll find many programmers who think of this as anything but the obvious general type of a linked list or who are confused about what is claimed. I do get your point that pro-patent types (who seem mostly to be lawyers) will seize on any slight inaccuracy, though.

We see obvious generalities. They see them divided up. We're looking for general algorithms that can make our software flexible. They're looking for ideas that are just different enough to patent.