skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My apologies; I must have misread something in your post.

Validation can be a strange thing. Sometimes you'll make a little change that seems inconsequential, and it will make all the difference. If nothing else, look at it as a fun opportunity to try to find those seemingly tiny differences that end up being huge to potential users.
Ask HN: Tech journalist asks, What prompted this fuss over patents?
Hello HN Community,

I am a dogged Hacker News browser, a startup founder, and a contributing editorialist at a small Chicago-based tech news blog, Tech.li. I've noticed, over the past two to three months, that intellectual property matters (particularly software patents) are a "trending topic", if you will, on HN.

If I were more adroit with code, I'd us the HN Search API to get all the instances of the words "patent" "software patent" "patent troll" and "intellectual property", and come up with a nice graph showing, as of late, a precipitous increase in these words' occurrence on HN. I invite someone to undertake this little project. (I can do all of the data, I just need the data.)

But, I'm not here to suggest an interesting data visualization project.

I come to the community asking a couple of very simple questions.

First, what precipitated all of this attention to software patents, and intellectual property in general? Granted, I've been living under a rock for the past few months (startups tend to do that, even for people on the "business side"). It could be that I missed the big event which prompted this debate.

My second question has two parts: Why is the US government so recalcitrant when it comes to changing an obviously broken intellectual property system, especially as it relates to science and technology? And, other than writing vitriolic blog posts and inveighing against the USPTO and so-called "patent trolls", is there anything else we–innovators, technologists, hackers, artists, and what have you–can do to change things?

A third question goes out to those in the HN community who hold patents, whether hardware, software, or (as is often the case) vaporware. Why did you patent your thing? Was it on the suggestion of a lawyer, your investors? Did you file a patent application without any advice, just because you wanted to? I'm curious.

Anyways, just a few questions. It'll be interesting to see how the discussion unfolds.

Best,
Jason
But enough people do. Time to get on the bandwagon.
Seriously ? One dude built ActiveX and DCOM ?! Wow...
That said, Notch is a pretty unflappable guy in the face of daily hordes of criticism and whining.

I actually aspire to Notch levels of sanguinity, as a software developer & community wrangler.
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Sure. But be prepared to have it deconstructed.
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Makes me wonder if the "bubble" is over with all this talk of a double-dip recession and Groupon/SEC ordeal.
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Wow...

You begin making a big about you (false) assumption concerning my location. That might be clue you could take a look at the world outside the one construct in your head. In any case, considering that your solution won't happening in any industrialized country, I most looked at this abstract proposal as a chance demonstrate how the intentions of would-be tax-creators often go awry. As to your arguments, the fact that we are having this debate shows that legitimizing patents is still a challenge in the US and it is Econ 101 that monopolies pass-on price increases.

Your initial false assumption might be a clue to your excessive in your own mental constructions.

1 - The point is that software are specifically on things that on can't easily work because they are so. And they sue the companies after their software is implemented.

2-3 - The fact that we're having this debate shows that the question is still in play

4 -

....

Considering your solution will happen in any case, my point were mostly concerning
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Fair. Based on the excitement and carnage from the downgrade, its great that theres a dialogue going on about the politics behind the situation, including the S&P's errors and what the rating really means.
He is using parentheses instead of square brackets, so the code is actually using a generator expression which will produce each value lazily.
Wish I had come across BagCheck before. It looks like a great site!
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Why? It resolves to the same underlying value either way.
I don't have time to look into the actual project, but a few comments on the web site. The logo is quite nice (really, I like it a lot), but the page design is so sparse it's hard to read. One's eyes don't really have anything to focus on -- there are no clear lines or markers of any kind to help divide the page. Honestly, in my first few glances I thought your "Subscribe to..." options were actually Google ads!
It seems that something like this might run foul of compulsory licensing.
Great webcast. Placeholders are important right from the get go.

I just ported Robohash to Perl using Mojolicious and Moose. You can see placeholders in action here:

https://github.com/grokify/Robohash/blob/master/webfront.pl

GitHub URL: https://github.com/grokify/Robohash

HN Robohash Article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742367
I suspect that it's a risk thing, new internet IPOs probably have the highest risk considering what they do and how new they are.
The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing

Priceless...
I think you're making the classic mistake of assuming people who disagree with you are stupid. Specifically, it seems fantastically unlikely that the average Chicago school academic would be unable to explain in detail Keynes and his theses.
I wasn't getting into the question of whether IP should be taxed, merely replying to this statement:

If they insist that its intellectual "property", then they'd best start treating it like property.

So regardless of whether IP should be taxed, the argument for taxing it is not that all property is taxed - because it isn't.
Is English not the author's native language, or was this written hastily? This answer is littered with awkward grammatical errors.
Feels very native~ The finger sketching is smooth and I enjoyed the experience. I tried googling for the dollar gesture library but no luck :(
Actually, I don't get what's wrong with using sudo for the use-case of installing an executable system-wide? In principle that's what every installer does, even the MacOS-installer when installing system-wide applications. The only other option would be to install system-wide apps in a directory where every user has write access - a situation I'd find far more problematic.

However, if you'd like to install the gem just for yourself set the proper environment variables and install to your home folder.
> I've yet to see a single factual report showing Android's numbers being any higher than average for tech devices.

Then don't read these, or you can't say that any more.

Here's the NY Post, citing two research firms, ITG Investment Research and iSupply:

The Galaxy Tab, Samsung's answer to the iPad, might better be called the boomerang as one Wall Street firm has found that an eye-popping 15 percent of those sold are being returned... The 15 percent return rate, which covers sales from its November debut through Jan. 16, compares to a 2 percent return rate for Apple's iPad...

Rhoda Alexander, an iSuppli analyst, said, "There are a lot of issues with Android tablets, not just Samsung. A lot of those products have difficulties with high return rates or with not moving off the shelf.”

http://m.nypost.com/p/news/business/galaxy_tab_dim_bulb_KbD4...

More detail from AllThingsDigital's coverage of the ITG report:

Buyer's Remorse: 16 Percent of Galaxy Tabs Are Returned – ITG Investment Research tracked point-of-sale data from nearly 6,000 wireless stores in the US from the Galaxy Tab’s November debut through Jan. 15 and found the device to have an unusually high return rate. According to its estimates, cumulative return rates for the Galaxy Tab through December of 2010 were about 13 percent. Worse, that percentage is growing as holiday purchases are returned. ITG figures cumulative Galaxy Tab return rates through January 15 were 16 percent.

http://allthingsd.com/20110201/16-percent-of-galaxy-tabs-are...

"Point-of-sale data from nearly 6,000 stores" and "unusually high return rate" sounds both "factual" and "higher than average" to me.
No, he was part of a team.
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Genuine question: are any of these worth to be proud of? Besides the shipping of the actual product.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393587

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626305
129 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393587

Never to be discussed without bringing up The Treacherous Optimization - http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/05/30/old-age-a...

Edit: and TTO's discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627367
I feel the "without a shark cage" claim is a bit misleading. While she won't physically have a 100% protective shark cage around her, she has a crew of experienced professionals protecting her the entire trip, whose sole purpose is to ensure she doesn't have any encounters with sharks.

Isn't that basically a "shark cage"?
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Just bought a coffee in the UK thanks Jonathan
Http://irishado.blogspot.com for a picture of the two Starbucks staff that served me in Birmingham, Victoria square

[EDIT] -> I bought a tall drip coffee and the balance dropped from 54.90 to zero between two twitter updates. Now with 2,756 followers on his twitter feed I'm not surprised that 50 dollars dropped that fast. Don't forget that twitters API only allows a certain number of calls per hour. So it is very possible that people are using it properly but its giving the impression that someone is draining the card. Don't forget that as per the statement that someone made about someone buying a coffee machine and paying the rest on their visa. That's a big risk to take there could be only $5 on the card and they would have to pay the rest.

The Twitter feed is not per second transactions. It would be great if Starbucks could give an API call to Jonathan to pull out once per hour the transactions + store location information for that hour which could then be put into a global heat map and would show very interesting results.

Thanks again.
While I agree that installing programs as an unprivileged user is appropriate, installing programs as an unprivileged user to a global executable directory is misguided.

`/usr/local/bin` is typically in root's PATH, so root will faithfully search for programs in this directory. If root (or an admin group) does not have sole write privileges to that directory, it becomes a very easy to exploit privilege escalation vulnerability.

What _is_ risky about running `sudo make install` and the like, is that the Makefile may have malicious / risky code that may get executed as root.

Summary:

If you trust / verify the code you are installing, and you want it to be globally available, install it with sudo.

If you aren't willing to install as root, but want it to be available to a group of users, install to another directory not in root's PATH.

Otherwise just install to ~/bin
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the |> operator is very very simple. ocaml implementation would look something like:

let (|>) a b = b a ;;
Why would I want to use this instead of using Google Authenticator with RFC4226 or TOTP (http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-mraihi-totp-timebased-06.txt) ?

Looks like Duo has more options for receiving the code as well as the ability to enable manual approve/deny for another user role. It also looks like a private service I have to rely on though.
Implement Facebook Connect: 5 minutes. Implement own login system (with login screen, register screen, forgot your password screen, CAPTCHA, and making sure BCrypt is working properly): X hours. I'll do the former, even if it annoys 0.1% of possible users.
ianaee, but the board from the led bulb looks just as hand soldered as the board from the cfl. I don't think the following argument holds up very well.

"I was quite impressed by the use of connectors in this bulb rather than relying on low-cost-labor for hand-soldering which has been used in the manufacturing of CFLs."
Looks like just a talent acquisition of one developer. The other co-founder, Luke, is not even joining Twitter. If I would to guess, the acquisition is sub $500,000. Any other guesses?
If by "crushed in sell-off" you mean "declined roughly as much as the market as a whole", then that's true.
So I guess we won't be getting a great, Luke-designed interface at Twitter. It's all in the API, guys, it's all in the API.
I was thinking of getting a Samsung Galaxy S II next, but maybe I'll just go with HTC again... Hopefully the custom ROMs will have even better support for HTC phones now.
This doesn't seem particularly connected to the S&P downgrade, despite the kind of vague implication in the article's intro. The downgrade didn't have the effect (contrary to some predictions over the weekend) of causing any sort of Treasury selloff or interest-rate spike, through automatic selloffs or default fears or any other mechanism--- Treasuries are actually up on the day. And it didn't provide the stock market any new information that it didn't already have heavily telegraphed during trading last week. It seems more likely that this is just increasing pessimism about prospects for economic growth, rather than worries about debt serviceability. If it were the latter, you would not expect people to be rushing to buy Treasuries that they thought were going to default.
I view Facebook and Twitter as unnecessary playgounds for me. My objective is to limit my channels of communication so i don't have to micromanage all these unproductive services. I don't see why you'd want to limit your user base like this.
My take has been that good tech companies are maturely valued, and bad ones are in a bubble. I'm sticking with that.

Money has to go somewhere. I would still rather own a good, expensive, tech company than treasuries or other low to negative yield investments.

The good tech companies can be profitable with some adjustments and don't need IPOs to survive. The best hardly need outside investment. That doesn't make for much of a bubble.
Perhaps even more interesting would be "what would they look like if unconstrained by technology"? A lot of science fiction proposes the uniformly glowing ceiling. This would provide a very consistent & uniform light without the eye strain caused when you look directly at a point source.

Another common idiom in science fiction is to replace your windows with giant transparent television sets, functioning simultaneously as window, television, telephone, artwork and light bulb.
I think StackOverflow has; GitHub still seems a bit biased towards scripting languages like Ruby or Javascript though. In any case, since you show the graphs from the various sources, I don't think it matters if one source is more biased than another. If, for example, you used CodePlex as a data source, you'll see a huge bias towards C# -- but visitors to your site could simply draw their own conclusions from the charts.
To the observation that this has been submitted before, agreed. Contributions to those previous submissions is now closed, however, because they are sufficiently far in the past, and I think this subject is worth re-visiting occasionally.

FWIW: I've upvoted the coments about earlier submissions - I'd like to reward such behavior. Not least, searching for previous discussions often unearths genuinely useful material and should be encouraged.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822041
Wasn't this from you?
It's not tied to a Google account, it has a better end-user experience, a better developer experience, and an extremely credible team behind it. That said, if you were using Google Auth and I assessed your application, I wouldn't ding you for using it.
Some of realistic-looking greyscale renders are remarkably similar to those of Lyapunov fractal [1], which is 2D (and whose 3D-ish appearance is what makes it interesting).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_fractal
It actually doesn't work, since the only thing required for a patent is the ability for it to be executed. The patent applicant doesn't need to be the one doing it or need to be working with it. All the applicant needs is the knowledge that an expert in the industry believes it can be implemented.
Review site and PR ideas?
He's just a GM. there are many GM's in WP division. It is really common to see MS GMs leaving for startups.
Daniel_Newby provides an alternative explanation: that it's wave soldered.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2860140
Missing part of the title: "...But We’re Taking It to the Next Level"

And there's no "totally" in the original title.

This editorializing seems to imply that there's something wrong with competing with an existing business and trying to beat them at their own game, which there is not.
What jurisdictions have compulsory licensing of software? To my knowledge, in the US that sort of thing is limited mainly to audio recordings.
While Hacker News is a great place for finding great links/articles, it cannot be subscribed to (unlike a blog). This makes it difficult to read this through devices like Kindle. So last weekend turned to be pretty productive for me trying to put the two together:

http://hnkindle.blogspot.com/

The application uses a specialized library (boilerpipe - http://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/) for extracting just article contents from links. Also, HN has a lot of links showing up in the Top 30 moving up and down every single day. I have put in place a simple heuristic (which is explained in the app) to chose only the prominent. At the moment, the heuristic is quite arbitrary.

Your feedback is most welcome!
I see this fairly often. Why not make an account solely for auth/signup on these sites. Most of the time people who say this talk about how they don't have the time, don't want to be on social media, concerns about privacy, etc. If you have an account just for logging in to FB Connect, it seems like the problems are alleviated.
Required parity features: bulb form factor, warm white light, dimmable, runs off 115V AC source, screws in to existing sockets. Feature enhancement: long life.
work on it in secret ;]. it's the internet, man.. not that hard to anonymize yourself.
This is untrue on a percentage basis.

lnkd: -14%
djia: -3.75%
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On another note, you know what else could be a great source(s) for data? Google Scholar, CiteSeerX and arXiv. It'd be really interesting to compare the language usage between "industry" and academia.
This is interesting in the context of all of the patent discussions that have been happening lately. Is Turntable.fm a patentable invention? Should it be?

I haven't used it myself and I don't have a fixed opinion on the matter. On the surface it appears to be both non-obvious and novel (no prior art).
My uninformed opinion is that many of these new internet IPO stocks are “greater fool” investments: They were bought for the purpose of selling to others without a lot of regard for their underlying fundamentals.

A general decline in the stock market hits the demand for “fashionable” and “greater fool” stocks hardest, so I expect professional managers to dump them quickly.
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Read the Terms and Conditions carefully:

Dissemination of Personal Data. As a Sender, you
explicitly opt-in to allowing Yahoo! to make available
to third parties, including without limitation Facebook,
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during the course of the Project, in a form which may be
used to identify you personally. You acknowledge that
Yahoo! cannot control the actions of these third parties
with regard to your data.

As a graph-theorist with specific research interests in social networking, this is the sort of thing I'd usually be into immediately. But with those Ts & Cs there's no way I'm taking part.
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I doubt cutting the second half of the headline is editorializing. HN only allows 80 characters in submission titles and this one weighs in at about 67. The submitter may have tried the whole headline first then cut the second half of the headline. Adding the word "totally" seems unnecessary but I think you're reading too much into this.
No, shit doesn't just happen. If you get sued for copyright infringement cause someone else broke into your network and downloaded Harry Potter and you LOSE, well, "shit happens... deal with that" right? NO, when the world isn't fair, you don't roll over and say "Shit happens". You change it and make the world a little bit better. Isn't that the goal of all entrepreneurs? And isn't that the goal of HN then? We want the world to improve and leaving an incompetent teacher in the classroom goes against every thread about Khan Academy or improving the educational system. You want me to be wrong so bad that you've forgotten the principles that HN is about. Entrepreneurship is about making the world BETTER while making some money off of it (or am I naive? I suppose maybe I'm too optimistic) and rolling over is not the right thing to do.

P.S. I dealt with it the best I could. I signed up for summer school then had a talk with the head of the science department who then investigated it. It was revealed to us that the physics teacher would be fired, but then because we couldn't find any replacement for her on short notice and because the science head was about to take maternity leave, the matter was dropped.
The bubble has burst.

- Greece has defaulted. After that, Italy/Ireland/Portugal/Spain/Austria/Belgium will soon follow, and France will be downgraded, and Germany will leave the EU.

- Japan is suffering -5% GDP per year. 70% of the nuclear reactors are offline. Rice/Beef/Vegetable/Water radiations have been reported.

- China's stock market just dropped 30%. The hidden banking crisis will finally surface and blow up alot of banks. The ugly inflation that follows will induce further unrest in a country of a billion people.

- US is about to have a series of downgrades. States and local munis will seek bankruptcies after downgrades. Hyperinflation will start. Social security, medicare will be wiped out.

All signs point to the second dip in the global economic depression.
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I used it for my last Mojolicious API (http://www.fakecall.net) and it's a pleasure to work with.