skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The government is definitely capable of doing that, but think about the consequences. If the government were to spend without any limits at all, it would push aggregate demand to the point where the economy cannot grow quickly enough to satisfy the demand. The result will be inflation."

In other words, deficits [can] matter. Where do you think we are right now?
I have a couple of hair-stylist friends who've been dying for this kind of service - there's almost a kind of lock-in with the salon that they work out of, where changing causes them a great deal of frustration. Having a direct line to the service provider would save them (and their clients) a ton of hassle, and also even up the power-balance. Everyone wins!

I'm personally a little bit jealous about Opez though - building a product by establishing relationships to the best bartenders, servers, etc.? Must be awesome :)
Yeah, I've been thinking about how perverse legal systems are by fundamental nature.

Laws are made (to some large degree), argued, and adjudicated by lawyers. The more laws there are, and the more complex legal system as a whole gets, the more we need lawyers and the more lawyers we need.

Seems to me like the definition of a vicious cycle. There are no controls. Are controls even possible?
> has been experimenting with using a harmless version of the HIV virus

I wasn't aware such a thing exists. Anyone care to elaborate? Is it harmless or probably harmless?
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I'm not sure that "they have shut down" should count against Google's APIs... because the ones that shut down are no longer Google APIs. Sure, count it against Google's services that not all of them have APIs.
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Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2872831
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Samsung Galaxy tablet is banned in Europe, Well done steve
Me too, I'd like to know whether a consensus exists that this HIV is harmless or whether it's just these researchers' opinions.
I just use a password manager like laspass or 1password. If it has submission automation, you don't even need to type your password.

Just choose a nice strong master password.
>But the ICQ sale illustrates the problem Israelis are now trying to address, namely that there simply haven’t been enough boffo success stories like it.

Surprised not to see Quigo (another AOL exit, actually) mentioned here...especially since I know of at least two Outbrain people with Quigo roots.
Vlingo nabs victory in Nuance patent spat
Personally I went from a 24" and a 24" that I would use equally to a 27" and a 24" where I hardly use the second monitor now. The 27" does most of the work. The resolution is just amazing.

Just don't get one of those upsized 24" screens that's still 1080p at 27".
srand in awk is platform specific. on most recent is isn't a straight call to srand().

I have another version that I use that stuffs srand but in the end I figured srand from a 250k dictionary is still better than picking words out of your head from a ~1k dictionary
It's a nice idea, but I suspect that if you were to tweak copyright law to apply to chemical compounds used as drugs (e.g. field of use restrictions) you'd end up with patents.
I personally find the RLO / LRO issue much more concerning. I just tested Chrome and Firefox and found it works in URLs. You could rewrite pyapla.com to paypal.com and phish people easily.
I actually meant the company recruiter, so I guess it technically is the company. They did mention the word "legally" though, so I dunno if I can contest that. What are the odds that they actually can't disclose it?

Otherwise salary and benefits are okay (a bit below what I earn now, but I expected that anyway) and it seems like a really established startup with a lot of potential, so this just strikes me a little weird. I'm not sure I'd forfeit the offer just because of this, but I just really don't want them to be shady about this, or anything :\
You need to get a Dualhead2Go from Matrox which splits a single DVI signal into two screens by emulating a double-sized display.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/

Newer Thunderbolt MacBooks can do this by chaining displays.
The biggest problem I've found with the facebook api is their sloppiness in documentation - they often have multiple conflicting versions of api documentation online, with no structured versioning in place.

Several times I've seen functionality removed with nothing in the documentation indicating what had changed.
One possible solution is a class-action lawsuit against the patent office.

The patent office is causing harm left and right by granting multitudes of ridiculous patents. If it won't stop by itself, everyone that has been harmed by such patents should join in suing it.
The results of this sound amazing, but the article is frustratingly vague about what role the HIV virus plays. The interviews in the video don't mention it at all. I think most people will assume the patient is being infected with some variation of the virus, which seems rather scary, but it doesn't sound like that's the case.

Since the emphasis is on genetically modifying white blood cells and injecting them back into the patient, which doesn't seem to need a virus as a delivery mechanism, I'm guessing the HIV's role is somewhere in the genetic modification?
I'm the developer of Clarity, a Facebook Client for the Mac (http://www.clarity-app.com), and yes, the Facebook API is the worst I've ever had to use. Words fail me to explain how bad it is.
As well, I've venture to say that for the publisers, like FT, who are spurning Apple - they already have fulfillment companies to take care of their payments, customer service etc. That 30% is truly hosting the app and app store promotion. Not to say that isn't valuable, but its certainly too big a chunk.
Thing is, even if the HIV were as deadly as regular HIV, it'd likely give them a longer lifespan than they'd have without it.
OK, but what's stopping the non-technical project manager from passing the credentials on to the team, contractors, etc.?

I can set up individual accounts for a normal FTP too.
Hmm, how exactly do you do that? Browsers are supposed to verify certificates
But there's a long tail of song lyrics. If you pick something obscure, the odds of the attacker even having heard of it become very small (particularly if the attacker is from a different culture than your own). Pick something arty and incomprehensible, and the odds against someone else accidentally stringing those words together in some other context become astronomical.

For instance, I'd wager no cracker has ever heard the song containing the line "We barter images on the matrix". And that's one of the more intelligible lines from the song in question (from a 1978 album by the little-known prog-rock group Happy The Man). Pull it up on Google and you'll see what I mean.

If you don't know the song, of course, lines from it will be about as hard to remember as randomly chosen words. But if you do know it, you have a good mnemonic.
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The HIV is used to modify white blood cells .. so I'd wager harmless as they are not putting the HIV into the patient.

This is why I changed the title after a little nudge, to avoid people getting the wrong end of the stick.
Well, it would be nice if they kept it up more often. In my experience with Facebook, they have a severe problem with maintaining uptime. Facebook is synonymous with breakage for me.

http://api-status.com/6404/50042/Facebook-Graph-API
If you look at the filing it is not even a patent - it is called a "community design" - whatever that means - and it consists of just 3 line drawings that look so generic they could cover any tablet out there. Ridiculous to say the least!
There have been a few things that facebook has done that have been annoying, but...worst? Is everything else really that much better?

Honestly the only thing I've noticed that has made me mad was that they started requiring a permission called "group_access" to view what are normally publicly available groups.

To be honest, I actually like the graph API. I think it's really intuitive, and it make perfect sense to me.

If I had to say "worst", I'd probably pick grooveshark, or twitter.
When Enough is Enough
http://prohackingtricks.blogspot.com/2011/08/hackivist-group...
Perhaps it is just me but that check box was not checked by default for me. I don't remember doing anything specific and am not a paid subscriber.

The only thing I vaguely remember is setting this "Turn on/off enhanced advertising" to OFF sometime ago. So, it possible that this only happend for users who had accepted "enhanced advertising".
Ask HN: Looking for easy to config form builder for lead gen
I'm looking for a service similar to formcomposer.com where I can configure a 3-4 pages with a bunch of fields and then https that data to my server and wait for a url to redirect the user to. Any suggests?
If Rdio is doing that, they are violating the policy.
Street Fighting Mathematics: The art of educated guessing
Summary by one sentence of the article: "Now, I’m not a software developer, mathematician, or patent expert". That reads in other parts of the text... and even in the poor choice of patent excerpts.

Some parts are naive at a rare level, e.g.:
"Those rules might actually solve the software patent dilemma for us if we just wait long enough: the gold rush to patent all these fundamental software technologies means that they’ll all be public domain prior art in a few years, and any obvious improvements won’t be patentable. The pendulum swings both ways."

And the long rant about software patent not being explicitly defined in the law and that fact being considered as an important advance in the discussion -- well did anybody did not know that? And even if it was the case, does that make the general discussion about the goodness or badness of patenting software irrelevant in any way?
One thing I was left wondering about and maybe someone here can shed some more light on this, what happens to the supposedly enormous amount of "serial killer" white blood cells after they're done with the cancer cells? Do they function normally, until a new "infection" comes, basically serving as a permanent leukemia antidote?

(I hope no one is offended by my quite flimsy grasp of medicine and the human body)
That's an awesome idea and I hope it works out well. I'd love to be able to follow my favorite hair stylist and beautician around.
I also hope my customers will want to follow their favorite database consultant :)
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How does one setup a US branch of a foreign company? Who does the setting up? At what point do US citizens need to be involved?

To me that's the interesting aspect of the article. Taykey has US investors, is that the key? What's stopping an Indian or Chinese company from doing the same?

More interestingly, are these so-called Israeli companies actually US companies from the getgo? Does that make them more acquirable or floatable?
I am a tab hoarder also but personally i'm quite impressed at the speed and responsiveness of FF when restarting with 100-or-so tabs.
The speaker list is just those confirmed so far. It will grow as we get closer to the event.
The real value of non-agile plans
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Pretty much agree on most of the points in that blog post + the one that Paul Allen mentions - the Developer network and APIs will be huge pluses against Facebook. Again it is the same reason that Apple will eventually lose out to Android - closed systems/walled gardens and proprietary stuff will always lose out against open systems that does not restrict users and developers.
What I said is

>> Both are living happily and have 10 hours a day of free time.

Forget about the bill and currencies. These are abstraction layers we made to make small exchanges possible and fast.
So your mandatory TSA rape before your flight might last longer than the flight itself? On the bright side, the baby sitting next to you won't even have time to start crying.
I was eight or nine, around 1996 or 1997, when Beanie Babies were THE BIG THING. I made a Beanie baby fan site, complete with a members-only section that you had to log into through some cgi script I found on the internet. And a guestbook, and obnoxious hit counter.

I also made a website for my soccer team around the same time, which we actually used for quite a while to post schedules and pictures. And of course a guestbook. :)
1000? Try 600 million passwords a second.

http://www.elcomsoft.com/lhc.html
This is very exciting. Anyone have any thoughts on the extensibility of this to treating other cancers?
According to this article:
http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/hiv-virus-used-to-tur...

"More good news stems from the fact that the modified cells remain in the body and have been seen to reactivate and kill new cancer cells as long as 12 months after they were first injected."

Incredible stuff :)
Here is some sound reasoning on the topic from Larry Lessig:
How creativity is being strangled by the law

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs
the Nature has perfected the viruses as effective delivery system of genetic material ("DNA patches") into cells. We just need to produce correctly working "patches". Another example:

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/smnrescue.htm
It's like with their iTunes Music Store selling DRM'd AAC tracks which "infest" users' libraries... Apple doesn't care that you rip your CDs (an iMac commercial from 2000 used the tagline "Rip. Mix. Burn"), or even if you pirate them.

However, with Android rising everywhere, and Google spending billions on developing Chrome, ChromeOS and Android HTML5 capabilities, they may feel it's dangerous to cede the playing field of native apps.

HTML5 apps can and will exist for iOS devices, but I posit they will always have a shittier experience than native, and some apps will never be possible as HTML5 only.
Please read these topics on options/equity and the like:

http://gigaom.com/2011/06/05/5-mistakes-you-cant-afford-to-m...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/An-Introduction-to-Stock-...

It is important also for other hires that are offered equity/options, so you will probably have to explain it to other people.
ChromeOS gets updated to latest stable version
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I am fairly new to JS and have read a number of articles on how 'this' works over the last few months after getting suitably confused by the (apparent) 'inconsistent' behaviour.

I think this is the best presentation of the concepts I've seen since it builds everything up from the simplest primitives ... either that or I just hit the critical number of repetitions to actually understand it!
Random idea: What if all software patents were required to include an executable code example demonstrating the patented concept?
It's certainly more harmless than most types of cancer.
I wonder how/why people end up typing á in that URL - on my machine, it takes extra effort (OPTION-e a) to enter that.
Preschools for children from low-income households also have a good return on the investment, according to that Planet Money episode... see them for their sources.
So TwitPic failed because Twitter copied them, so their response is to copy Twitter? Let me guess, the strategy is to build a product identical to Twitter, somehow hope it blows up and becomes better than twitter, then re-introduce twit-pic so that their lovechild can spread its wings and fly again?

wat
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To clarify, the modified HIV virus in this case was used as a vector to deliver an antibody specific to the cancer onto a T-cell. The T-cell then goes on to destroy the cancer. HIV is one of the most efficient vectors for genes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentivirus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimeric_antigen_receptor

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1103849

EDIT: Also note that the HIV vector is used to modify the T-cell before it is inserted into the human. The HIV is never actually inserted into the human (in this case).
I don't see what is odd hypothetical about having one hard technology but not another hard technology.

Intersteller travel is only hard from a physics point of view if you want to go from X to Y and then back to X, with not too much time elapsing on X. If that isn't a constraint, it's just engineering and biology:

1. If you need to get back to X, without too much time having elapsed on the ship, you just need to go fast. Time dilation keeps the trip short for the travelers.

2. If you are willing to make a one-way trip, you don't need to go fast. There are a couple of approaches:

2a. If you need the original crew to arrive at the destination, then some form of suspended animation (cryogenics?) will do, as well extending your lifespan.

2b. If you don't need the original crew to arrive at the destination, then you can do a generation ship.

If/when we do encounter aliens, I would not at all be surprised if they aren't much more advanced than us. For instance, a civilization that recognized an upcoming planet-wide natural disaster that they could not avert (e.g., big asteroid on collision course), and abandoned their planet on a fleet of generation ships, each ship wandering the galaxy looking for a habitable planet to take over.
Thanks for the comment. I personally would never want to create one but somebody has offered me what i consider very good money to make one that would leverage the same code base an online dating site would. wondering how efficiently I could do it.
That actually sounds more like a skip list than a linked list.
How many failed 0x202Egp registrations do you suppose there have been in the last hour?
Thanks - good idea!
All students who have suffered through the shit-tastic Blackboard course system (protected by software patents on a client-server-based app for anything school-related, despite prior art from decades before!) could join in …
Does anyone else here not really remember their main password? Mine's all in muscle memory and I can't write it out unless I imagine a keyboard.
Ah, that makes sense. I didn't think that text selection defines end points and everything between the endpoints (in the physical text) is highlighted. So, if you have:

Hi RLO elgooG
^ select ^

I expected (everything between the logical end points selected):

Hi Google
^^^^^^^ (selected)

In other words, I expected text selection to obey RLO character as well.
Patent application
I have a tiny company, and any automated emails always have written at the bottom "If you have any questions, simply reply to this email"

People are always slightly surprised by it, in a good way.
Anonymous is not a group. They do not have leaders, or spokespeople.

It is entirely possible (and consistent) for one group of people to claim that they do not do such things under the name of anonymous and for another to do otherwise.
If there are many defendants, they could work together to find prior art. Crowdsourcing might also be an option - for example, ArticleOnePartners.com pays cash rewards to individuals who find prior art.

Mandatory arbitration (prior to trial) might also be an interesting alternative, especially with the burden of proof on the plaintiff.
Unless I'm missing something, they don't seem to send any of the data to advertisers as they host the ads themselves. It is just a ad template that has {user_photo} and {other_users} in it.

I saw something similar on Facebook ages ago.
I'm in a remote area with limited Internet - 364 kbps down 128 kbps up shared among 20-30 office workers and over 100 residents. My computer can handle keeping tabs open in case I didn't properly solve the problem before, or if something similar crops up.

So, I have a lot of reference materials open on my desk, and I keep them open because finding the page I was on takes a long time, and loading that page takes even longer.
This is not a patent on the linked list. It's a patent on a modification of the linked list that provides a secondary (and possibly tertiary, etc.) traversal path.

The patent should not have been granted, and should be deemed invalid if it ever goes to court, but it is not a patent on just the linked list. The anti-patent crowd makes themselves look bad by trotting out examples like this and being deceptive about the actual content of the patent.
Congrats.

On Chrome, when I click to the right in the screenshots, eventually all screenshots get shifted over to the right by half a screen.
"Though there appears to be an actual company behind it, just not Ragnarok Online's actual developer, I'm not quite clear on whether there's a business here."

Thinking about costs and benefits isn't just for businesses, it's for every programmer. Things like opportunity costs are always present, even when money isn't.
Yes, I think once Google+ releases their APIs (what is taking them so long) one can see hundreds of new apps popping up - not just for the web but also for the mobile version. Also the group video chat they have (hangouts) is actually Google+'s killer app - can already imagine many cool apps using it (customer support, training etc).
patents protect the mode of action rather than the compound, and the term can be extended in court with simple little changes

it isn't as cut-and-dry in the pharma business, which is why most patent lawsuits and active trial involve pharma. the patent system is supposed to be simple, but the companies and the generic manufacturers are suing each other all the time.

copyright would just apply per-compound at a fixed term. the other way to do it is for the FDA (who are already approving drugs anyway) grant exclusive periods to new drugs before generics are allowed
Oh those sweet summer children.
that was issued.
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Szh4AAAAEBAJ
It's extremely common and it pays pretty well, although it's not working as well as it used to. I blame google's increasing anti-webspam abilities for that (which is a good thing, I suppose).

There is a small industry catering to this market, including sites like http://linkworth.com, who has made a product out of what you're describing.
Application number: 10/260,471
Publication number: US 2004/0064448 A1
Filing date: Sep 26, 2002
Issued patent: US7028023 (Issue date Apr 11, 2006)
Yes, the math he shows there from Apple's patent looks very obvious. Anyone looking to implement detection of multiple touches on a touchscreen would end up with basically those equations, or others that are functionally equivalent to them.

I want to give TFA's author more credit, but I worry that he is just copy-pasting some math, in hopes that math will just look incomprehensible and hence novel. But that a patent has some equations in it doesn't make it novel. This math certainly isn't.

If you want an example of a patent that actually does have nontrivial math, then the MP3 patents for example qualify. (Whether you think even that should be patentable is of course still an open question - but at least the math in the MP3 patents isn't obvious.)
I've been in the testing labs of InSitu, the company which makes the logical descendent of the Aerosonde (ScanEagle). I'm a software guy, and know nothing about engines, but tacked onto the door was a reminder that each paper clip's worth of weight that was shaved off the vehicle extended its range by something like 50 km.
Perhaps, but they suck at doing anything about it.
Any chance of live streaming the event this year?
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But do default windows ones? I think (hope?) that the hosts file is hosts on every system, no matter which country or locale you selected - instead of, say, хозяин.

Perhaps limit system folders and files to ascii-only. Doesn't solve any of the picjpg.exe issues, but it's a start.