skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People get tied up in knots about the Efficient Market Hypothesis. The factor that often gets ignored when approaching the problem is the costs factor. Trading fees, Analysis, Commissions, etc. make it very hard in practicality to beat passive investment with the markets only being passably efficient.
I think the TouchPad is a cautionary tale that exemplifies something Apple does right:

Don't ship broken hardware.

I have a tech journalist friend who knew I was extremely interested in the TouchPad prior to launch, and let me play with his review unit for a bit. I was ready to drop $500 on one at launch, and walked away crushingly disappointed. The software clearly wasn't ready and with the product launch only a few days off, it was clear that HP was pushing this thing out the door too soon.

Here's the thing - I could tell that the problems were software-related and could be fixed by HP down the road. But HP went from a willing customer with $500 cash in hand, to one that two months later says "eh, maybe I'll pick one up if I catch one of those $350 sales." And I'm sure it's cost them sales since my tl;dr when people ask me about it is "absolutely brilliant interface, awful performance. I wouldn't buy one yet."

If HP had left the TouchPad in the incubator another couple of months and sorted out the performance issues before kicking the thing out the door, the reception would have been very different. I really, really wanted to like the TouchPad, and HP blew it.

You don't get do-overs on first impressions. Apple gets that. If the rest of their competition would figure this out and push out complete products rather than rush them out on an arbitrary time scale, Apple would be a bit less dominant than they are now.
Blach hat hires: can the benefits ever outweigh the risk
article discusses and rebuts claims made in a ZDNet article by a Fortinet regional tech manager that "reformed hackers bring another dimension of expertise to organizations". The security skeptic article questions whether black hats know the tricks of the trade better than white hats and whether the claim that black hats would be cheaper to hire than PhDs.
NorCal Transplants in NY Tech Meetup
SEC Fail - Toby Scammell
Bees and the travelling salesman problem
Bethesda bought id in '09, so yes they do.
This article is missing the best tool of the bunch: virtualenv. Part of the fundamental reason managing python packages is such a pain (or perl packages, or ruby packages, etc) is that they're installed once for the whole system.

Virtualenv allows you to sandbox all your packages in a directory local to your development/deployment environment. You no longer need to install anything on the base system, and you can have multiple virtualenvs side-by-side. In addition, you can copy a virtualenv from your build environment to your production environment by just copying the directory.

This gives you huge wins in versioning packages, testing out different versions alongside each other, and being able to strongly validate that what you tested in your staging environment is the same thing that got deployed to your production systems.

In general, I'm a very strong believer of pushing _everything_ your production environment relies on to a single directory on your production system, rather than installing it on the base system. It's actually rather surprising more people haven't moved to this model, and that there aren't better tools to support it.
This is great public service. Filled your survey and left my email address for more.

I need some advice. I am 21 and I'm studying IT Engineering at university at the moment, my second year is starting. Though before university I completed Information Technology 3 years vocational school and even before that I had been learning about technology and programming since I have been a kid. I went through the vocational school even though I knew most of the stuff before hand. Now the same thing is happening in the university. Though the laboratories are nice. I have three years left to study there for my bachelors degree.

What I really want to do is start earning money from my programming abilities, but I don't have the money to start limited company and I don't want to start the personal business thing, because liability things. I've been trying to look for programming work locally here in Finland and there does not seem to be any close to me and I don't want to stop my university to move ~200 kilometers for work. I've been trying to look remote jobs, but can't find them.

So what should I do? Try still to get some work and while not finding any work, work on my portfolio. Another option is to focus fully on the school and live with 20 euros a week for my pack of cigarettes and food.

#define job on_bed

#define my(job) sit(job)

Thanks already and sorry if this is late for your session. :P
Was the fall of 2008 "extremely close" to optimal?

Home prices crashed and then more or less stabilized. So yeah, I'd say the crash was close to an optimal price correction.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/SPCS20RSA?rid=19...

I'm a little confused how why you would believe people who follow Hayek are unfamiliar with questions of information asymmetry and borked incentives. After all, don't they form the basis of "The Road to Serfdom"?
Best Practice Recommendations for Minimising Harm in small ccTLDs
This "RFC" recommends a series of practice that should be implemented to reduce phishing attacks and other criminal activities involving domain names.
Does text-overflow:ellipsis Work in Firefox Yet?
LinuxCon 2011 talks streaming live Aug. 17-19
It's a trademark, not a copyright. Trademarks are intended to protect consumers, not companies. Legally, it's only infringement if consumers might be confused. So I can say the word Facebook here, and as long as it's obvious that I'm not claiming to be Facebook, or diluting the brand, it's OK.
At this point, I find it unfathomable that Congress doesn't seem to have even noticed that the tech industry is imploding on itself with the ridiculousness of it all.

Yes, they have lots of fish to fry right now, but if they can spend time arguing about incandescent light bulbs [1], surely there must be some time on the legislature to sort this mess out? The whole thing has turned from skirmish into full-on war in less than a couple of years. I can't imagine how much worse it's going to get.

[1] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58964.html
Well good. The nuclear war has finally started. Once everyone is obliterated, maybe some real change can finally be made.

Nobody is going to 'win' this war. Everyone who participates will be a loser, and at this point, nobody can afford not to participate.

If there aren't some serious cease-fires real soon, this is going to be a bloody battle.

In case anyone isn't following along: Imagine a scenario where every major piece of electronics equipment has been banned from sale in the United States.
In the year 2015 will it be possible for newcomers to start new businesses?
Patents seem to be reaching a point where companies are grabbing everything that can be thought of and everyone arriving late to the scene is accused of thoughtcrime. Someone more charismatic, persistent and eloquent than me needs to start civil disobedience against patents.
Of course they would ... I can understand why China, as the government entity, benefits from a strict control of information flow, but that still doesn't mean that people benefit. If a billion people one day decided to throw a revolt, that would be very troubling for China and the rest of us, so securing peace in the country is important, but not this way.
Gamescom Hosts Fight for the Games Market
The thing about these patent suits is that they (almost) end up being settled out-of-court in a cross licencing deal. The terms of the deal are (almost) never public, which makes the patents seem more valid (the company can claim they have been licensed for huge amounts of money the next time they sue another company over them) .

The court cases are usually just a way of changing the bargaining position.
Chris Hughes's Jumo And GOOD Join Forces
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"(...) the court focused on prior case law holding that mental processes standing alone are not patentable." I hope judges will support those statements more and more. Really good news.
If you can find a niche around American Baseball, the summer months are the most active for them. Could help plug the gap.
Am I understanding this correctly that skype is getting into the business of selling WiFi access?

If so, this is a brilliant move. Can I actually open up my router and sell some of my bandwidth?
Looks like a possibility.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/skype-
access/

Very smart move.
Wouldn't you think that "mentally" includes the use of pencil and paper? Given enough of that and time I can simulate any classical computer.
China to UK, "Would you like knowledge sharing? We have plenty of experience in hanging and executing civilian."

"Hell yes, we surely need that knowledge. Next time around we are going to let the riots run its course and then use your experience to hang as many as we can.", UK to China.
He's not the author, but he's "the face of Dota" at this point.

(Well, he's "the person of Dota", at least. Mr. Ismail is far too reclusive to ever show his face.)

Unfortunately, it pains me to say this, but this is the truth: If you tried to commercially release your own DOTA, and if you'd copied skills/heroes/items from the original game, Valve, or rather Ismail, would sic lawyers on you immediately. I know this because they tried to do it to S2, the creators of HoN (a very similar game).

So it's unfortunately not true "There really is no rights holder to the game". Valve/Icefrog hold all the cards at this point.
I'm surprised too. Anybody who thinks they should get MPE for free just because they bought MC is delusional. I have a hard time modifying my world view so that this is justifiable behaviour.

How many people really thought along these lines when buying MC alpha? I'm pretty darn sure that when people read "all future versions for free", it meant "Alpha, and everything up to and including RTM for free", and not "Everything MC related, forever".

Heck, I think Notch threw in expansion packs for alpha purchasers. They should consider themselves lucky that he did.
Europe's hottest startup capitals: Tallinn
WebCL extension for Firefox "is 50x faster than JavaScript even without GPU"
Actually I agree, that's why I put "groupOn's claim to scale". They clearly mean economies of scale when they refer to Amazon, so that just adds to the sloppiness of the article.
Amazing! I'm guessing 99.9% of Groupon users don't know this. I also can't imagine why Groupon is so generous in this respect, relative to other companies (even if it's clearly the "right" thing to do).
Exactly. I only really lob softball queries at DDG. I use ! to go to the first result on queries I know are going to have the right match first. Everything else I proxy to google through !g. DDG is great but the search quality (or perhaps the size of the data they index) is just not nearly up to par with Google.
Amazingly, webOS/palm got a do-over, in the form of HP buying them.

"We're too small to compete" was the Palm motto towards the end, and HP buying them was seen by the faithful as a way of "getting it right" - more money and resources behind them, they'll be able to really get webOS out there.

And they did the exact same stuff they'd done two years earlier.

Announce and briefly demo a product at start of the year? Check

Delay getting SDK to developers? Check

Ship poor hardware with buggy software to retailers later than anticipated? Check

WHAT THE HELL? The entire webOS unit got a do-over, and still hosed it, with the budget/muscle of one of the largest companies behind it. Of course, that doesn't mean HP actually was really supporting it as much as people expected.

The TouchPad (and webOS stuff in general under HP) seems to have been treated about the same as every other model of HP laptop/desktop rollout they do. Just another SKU on the balance sheet, it'll be on the shelf for a few months, then retired and shifted to overseas support.

Amazingly infuriating to watch company after company claim to want to be a player in the mobile/tablet space, and fail continuously against Apple. It's far less that Apple's doing so much right, but everyone else keeps getting it so wrong, even with successful competitors to copy (this isn't revolutionary groundbreaking stuff any more, launching a tablet).
The viable business model for Groupon is to shed 90% of it's 7500 employees, improve business satisfaction and let the businesses come to them. This may be hard now that Groupon has such a bad reputation amongst businesses.

Groupon was too enthusiastic to become big rather than good. I understand why they thought it was necessary and to some degree I agree that it was the correct game to play but I think they have destroyed their chance of retaining the customers (businesses) they acquired during their growth.

Seriously they need to downsize quickly and fix their customer satisfaction (taking a smaller cut would be a start). It would be rough but at least they might turn a business loosing a $100 or so million every quater into a profitable business.

I have a feeling though what's in the hearts of Groupon's leadership is not the desire for a profitable business but a pump and dump.
Why Pierre de Fermat is the patron saint of unfinished business
I understand the reasoning behind this (make the demos as cool as possible!) but I think you'd run a serious risk of high returns - if you take it home and it doesn't run as well as the one in the store, you're going to mess with it for a few days, get increasingly frustrated and eventually take it back.
My bad. I agree the article is badly written.
UK is supposed to be one of the most socially advanced countries in the world. It is sad that Cameron has to give out such comments and China...there are no words for what china ever does.
Internal Google email may be key to Oracle patent lawsuit
100 Twitter followers in 24 hours, just by following people
I created a Twitter account, followed 400 people, and got 100 followers in return. That's a 25% conversion rate-- maybe this is normal, but it seemed really high to me.
I don't know about AdMob, but AdSense and others prohibit the ad URL being opened in another tab in their TOS. Basically when the ad is clicked the user should be led straight to the advertiser's site in the same browser window/session. That can become an issue if you're using a web view.

CPM based ads might work better.
I knew there was something not entirely right with my statement.

Thanks for pointing out what.
I do? I think the parts of the browser that aren't the rendering engine are important too. That being said, I honestly don't really care about the original argument. I agree that Safari should be included as open source.

My point was just that I think Chrome is measurably more open source. I know that's vague and you can quantify by number of lines, whatever. Since Chrome is "more" open source, wouldn't someone be able to fairly draw a line that includes Chrome but not Safari?

In my mind where one draws that line is completely subjective. I think where you draw the line is equally subjective.

The part where you were treating Chrome and Safari as equal in terms of open-souce-ness is what I disagree with.
This is why you don't release a broken product hoping to fix it later.
The text is in Esperanto, the comments are a Befunge program. Anyone willing to post an executive summary?
That is why you don't steal from a Hacker
Me too. On the blog side, I had went with the shorter title because I hate how it looks when it wraps. However, I just checked and that fits so I changed it to your title.
Well, at least you're honest in your ignorance.

Trademarks and copyrights are two totally different things. See here: http://www.lawmart.com/searches/difference.htm

tl;dr: Trademarks are more to do with logos and branding, their intent being to allow a company to distinguish themselves in a market with a certain identity. Violations of Trademarks are usually linked to consumers being mislead into believing a product is from one company when it is in fact from another.

T-Mobile does not own a copyright for Magenta. They don't own Magenta. If I want to make Magenta chairs they have no say. They would never receive a Trademark on black, however.

If you start making magenta phones, it's reasonable to assume that the average consumer would confuse them with the already popular magenta phones being promoted by T-Mobile, and this might damage their brand, given that your phones might not work to the same standard.

It's generally not good to form an opinion of topics before you actually obtain a relevant amount of education. It can lead you to making yourself look really stupid.
The court cases are usually just a way of changing the bargaining position.

What do you mean by this exactly?
Er, okay. That seems unrelated since they never "made Quake" and likely have little/no influence over Carmack himself.

But oh man: Carmack vs Notch. Imagine it.

Nevermind, I hope Bethesda can somehow persuade/pressure/bribe/extort Carmack into that. Because... C'mon. Carmack vs Notch.
Now sudddenly Nokia doesn't look too dumb right? Replace HP with nokia and webos with symbian and this could a story we'd be reading sometime in future.
Most people use R and SQL for data mining (45% and 32%)
IANAL either, but here's my armchair analysis:

1) Independently of whether a contract exists, the developer owns the IP. By failing to pay at the agreed-upon time, (possibly even before that if you have a good lawyer) the entrepreneur is in material breach of any verbal contract that existed and in a material breach situation the developer has no obligation to "perform" (transfer the IP). The developer is of course entitled to a legal remedy, that does not mean he is obligated to seek one--he has apparently chosen the remedy of open-sourcing the software.

2) Absent an in-force contract (see #1), the status of the copyright falls to statute, which says that if no money changed hands (and sometimes even if money changed hands), the developer retains the copyright.

3) Defamation in the US requires the plaintiff to prove the defendant's "actual malice". If the developer is spouting a legal theory that he in fact believes to be true, a belief that would survive a preliminary hearing, he's not being malicious. Lawyers don't get defamation lawsuits for advocating a legal theory. He is probably wise not to name the entrepreneur to avoid a lawsuit, but that does not mean he would be by necessity a libeler.
The Y coordinate is constant, thus giving a 1D feel. But yes, technically speaking, it's still a 2D game, with 1D movement.
It'd be nice if Congress didn't stick its nose into the patent business until the dust clears and the best way forward is obvious to all. Given their recent history, it'd just turn into a fat-fingered partisan fight otherwise. :-/
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There's also a persistent rumor/concept among Linux aficionados that some or all of the worst profanity spouting, knuckle-dragging, "Sodomize Microsoft!" fanbois are actually paid-for "reverse shills". That is, some vague conspiracy finances trolls to make the rest of Linux advocates look stupid. This rumor seems like an example of "Poe's Law" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law) in action.
Oh, I just came across this link on TechCrunch. Perfect example of the human story, even if it is completely off topic and unrelated, it made it on to techcruch because it is something funny, and most importantly human relatable. http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/16/jeremy-and-his-mom/

We've all had times when Mom embarrassed us because she wanted us to call, right?
Can Recruiters Work With Startups?
Microsoft dissed tablets because they were not winning at it. Remember they were the first ones to bring tablets to the market. They screwed up on the form factor and the overall experience though.
I love TiddlyWiki! Great work guys, it has allowed me to create very simple and manageable process documentation for coworkers.
You would probably fair better doing some research for yourself.

Here is wikipedia's entry on the first U.S. lawsuit that established that color could be trademarked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitex_Co._v._Jacobson_Produc....
A pretty significant piece of Android/Droid's success that you don't mention is that the Droid launched on the biggest U.S. network essentially without a competitor. If you wanted a phone with a decent browser on Verizon (and Sprint/TMo) in 2009/2010, it was Android or nothing. That's a luxury none of Apple's competitors have now.
(There are global TS/SCI networks, e.g. JWICS, UAV feeds of TS missions, etc., but definitely not connected to the Internet...although even the unclassified DoD networks are connected to the Internet only through special firewall/proxy things now.)

I don't think any of the Amazon GovCloud stuff will be used for anything classified, at least for the next few years. It will mainly be used for Sensitive but Unclassified or For Official Use Only type data, which is the vast majority of day to day data processed.

What probably will happen is FOUO/Unclass apps will be developed for GovCloud about 80% as well as on the public internet (which is a huge improvement over things now), and then the users who also have classified needs will complain about how crappy their classified apps are by comparison, then ask for a solution -- which probably will be an EC2-compatible classified cloud owned by the government and operated by a contractor (such as "Amazon Federal Systems" or an Amazon, Inc. partner). It might be dedicated per agency or command. It might just be an EC2 rack appliance in existing DoD datacenters.

This is a great first step toward that.
A User Manual - Hiut Denim Co.
Tech M&A In Q2 Stays Flat At $26 Billion
Why the Act of Giving a Bribe should  be Treated as Legal
I worked with them for a few months doing a contract job and I can say that it really is a great place to work. If I wasn't so obsessed with starting my own company, I totally could have seen myself working there longer term. I think they hit the nail on the head in the video, they get s*$! done while having a good time. Good stuff :)
Synthetic Legs, Real Athlete – Oscar Pistorius Qualifies for the Olympics
U.K. men get 4-year sentences for Facebook riot posts
The space industry: Satellite states
10 years is too far out for me to speculate. In 5 years, I'd like to see us have significant market share on desktop, mobile and tablet. To get there you'll see us focus on the things we've been focusing on, i.e. working with partners and our own indexes to deliver way more and better instant answers from a variety of sources; way less spam; real privacy; and a simpler UX.
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Originality is the key to a memorable comedy these days and that 2011 has been a lot of R rated comedy released one after another only two of them have the opportunity to be remembered years.
Crowdmug Launches the First On-Demand Visual Updates App
Anyone ever tried playing chess in one dimension? I bet that would melt your brain. Ok, that actually sounds like it might be fun to mock-up.
TheStyleCure Provides A Simple Social Shopping List
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Do you consider 'Google' competition or is your product/vision/direction so unique that they might be a complement?
What Does A CEO Coach Do?