skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That didn't really happen with Psystar, did it?

If Apple's got a serious chance at a long-term disruption of their competitors' business, then giving them a short-term publicity boost is nothing to worry about.

Of course, if this lawsuit is just a stalling tactic to interfere with Samsung for months instead of years, then the payoff isn't as big. But Apple still has the highest profit margins and the most cash available for tactics like this, so they're not really in much danger of shooting themselves in the foot.
They'll trace via downloads/torrents of the plans, natch.
You raised the subject, now you're just being rude.
Let's just be fair here for a second: I was paying for maybe a 16th of what you would get on Mediatemple for half the price.

But I'm taking people's advice - I will now look into paying over $10-15 per month - I don't want to risk something like this again.
I'm disappointed in you, HN. Not a single one of you mentioned Baumol's cost disease.
If ssh servers and clients didn't use their own "keepalive" messages, you'd be able to do that anyway. TCP is supposed to be able to pick up right where it left off, so your ssh connections shouldn't die if you lose connection for a few minutes.
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On the contrary, I would think people would be be quite inclined to commission this developer so that the work would be done, and then they could just leverage the open source version he releases when they don't pay.
Does someone know under which license is this released? Could not find this anywhere. Without the license specified, the author still retains the copyright.

Also, assuming this was a work for hire, not sure who the copyright belongs to (the author or the client) given the non-payment.
Yup, Kolmogorov and Fomin -- NICE book. I never learned from it, but I believe that eventually I got a copy, looked through it, and liked it.

If Boyd has some nice engineering applications, terrific!
Debatable that it's bad for the client, since he didn't disclose who the client is.

It sounds to me like the guy was trying to scrape together funding while he was commissioning a developer to work on his "great idea". I was almost caught into a same situation once.

I'm vary wary of anyone who calls himself an entrepreneur.
The client likely can't afford to pay anyone to continue (and they should ask for payment upfront now, knowing their reputation).

They probably can't maintain it themselves either.
Yes, I've noticed something similar, although I do not let it store my ssh password on the login keychain. First time I ssh after a reboot, it asks me, I enter it.

Pre-Lion, it was then good until the next reboot. In Lion, it occasionally asks me to re-enter it. As you noticed, this seems to correlate with coming back from sleep or screen lock. It doesn't seem to happen every time, though, so I'm not sure what is going on.

According to ps, it is using the -l option to ssh-agent. The man page and the usage message of ssh-agent do not admit the existence of such an option. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
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> Where is a good place to learn the ins and outs of contracts?

Law school. ;)

Okay, okay. Seriously, besides getting a lawyer and have them draw you up a standard contract, there isn't much you can do to "wrap your head around [contract negotiation] for good" as there's just too much to learn. Some of it comes from experience (you'll start getting a radar for certain kinds of clauses), and there's no quick fix for getting experience besides the passage of time. Specifically, make sure there is a provision in there for getting some of the payment up-front (as grandparent suggests), and specify a late fee % for any overdue bills.
Wouldn't a lawsuit be more damaging? Would future clients be wary of someone who appears litigious?
Any reason that my comment was shadowbanned and showing up as dead when I am logged in? Have I angered someone with my comment below with my previous account JimmyMCN1?

Is there a list of HN mods somewhere?

Comment:

I think I have a better solution for stories from Gruber, Asymco and Marco. Have a checkbox in the user profile indicating if you're a Apple fan and only those people see the stories from the above sites.
Instead of trees of discussions and accusations of downvoting, we could have just a flat discussion and mutual upvoting undisturbed by counter arguments.

Won't that work fabulously and prevent this nonsense of people having to respond to actual discussion with actual posts instead of just handwaving with one liners?
Oh. Yeah, I guess you're right. Oh well :-)
There are plenty of scrappy competitors out there, but they're generally a bit farther behind than SpaceX. SpaceX chose to use the most straightforward rocket design conceivable and develop it as cost effectively as possible. So far that strategy is working very well. Other companies have chosen to pursue other designs, generally more reusable in nature. They also don't have the cash that SpaceX does, slowing their progress a bit. In a few years we may start to see their work come to light.
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When it comes to patent litigation, it's safe to assume that they all are, or will be, bi-directional.

Unless one side has no products.

If one side merely has no (relevant) patents, it usually just means they're going to go buy some patents and then make their counter-suit.
Medicare/Medicaid, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, and government gauntness of student loans.
would be interesting to see the various balance of profitability and growth of competing groupon clones. maybe groupon can shift their emphasis from growth to profitability before time runs out.
They make that because the evidence is given under oath and it’s supposed to be a quick (and preliminary) decision.

It’s also not the final decision. The evidence will be examined again at a later point in time and Apple is liable for all damages should the court decide against them at that point.
I don't think the design of Samsung's tablet, accessories and it's packaging is a coincidence. While you can't blame Samsung, or anyone, for the general shape of a tablet, I do think they crossed a line here.

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/10/article-131298380918...
I didn't say anything about the debt ceiling deal.

edit: Pointing out that NASA is not likely to keep the funding is not the same as bringing up politics. Pointing out the likely factions responsible for it would be bringing up politics, but I didn't. Because it would be better suited for a whole new submission, not a long tree here.
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This would be awesome :)
Yeah, the idea is that you ensure that the "master" channel; the first one, is always backgrounded (and connected), otherwise I intercept the ssh command and have it spawn a new master first.

The biggest downside to ControlMaster in general is when you accidentally close (well, kill) the master session, and everything else dies along with it. The usual behaviour is to close that channel on EOF, but wait until all other muxed connections are closed before actually exiting. If you forget it's the master and Ctrl-C it, bye bye sessions.

My backgrounding stuff is currently a horrible mess of Perl scripts, and a bit flakey when it comes to hostname/option parsing, but I might give it a tidy and stick it up on github at some point.
If this is how things went down I see just about equal fault on both sides (contracts aside, I'd guess suspension of all accounts is in the "if you don't pay" part of the contract if not then there's something there for sure).

When the accounts were suspended for non payment instead of telling the host to "fuck off" they could have attempted to arrange an alternate payment method. If they were going to antagonise their former host (I say former as the obligation to host the data presumably ended on non-payment) then they could have used their CP, it seems, to download backups - then they could profane their host for wanting payment in return for service happy in the knowledge they were untouchable.
http://vimeo.com/22053820

This is a good video about contracts. It's targeted for designers, but I think most of it still applies to developers. I think the best point in the video, have a good lawyer.
man ssh_config:

TCPKeepAlive

Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the other side. If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one of the machines will be properly noticed. However, this means that connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people find it annoying.
"Certainly nothing beats a good book, but often a good lecturer can give some intuition or motivations that are not customarily written down."

You are correct on both points. Early in my learning, I found both points to be important. And, for a beginning student, both points can be crucial: Without the second point, it is far too easy for a student to get into some not very good material or into some good material but, still, lost.

Eventually I got away from your second point.

Still, there is a version of your second point that lasts: For research, seminars and conferences are good, fast ways to keep up, see the forest for the trees, pick new research directions, etc.

When my company is successful and I retire, I will return to mathematical physics and, maybe, attend research seminars in, say, Boston.
You want to make college costs come down? Make college loans dischargable in chapter 13 bankruptcies after 7 years of the date of graduation, or 12 years from date of first attendance
http://img.tfd.com/cde/_PROGMN2.GIF with 32bit color and higher res icons.

http://www.androidtabletfanatic.com/android-tablet-news/16-o...
As I understand it, there are two people here. Guy[a] didn't pay, and had his account shut down. Fine. Guy[b], who is Guy[a]'s friend, simply bitched them out on twitter, and lost his account - along with ALL of his backups - in the process.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I were Guy[b], I'd consider googling lawyers.
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> C is something that works better for the average user.

difficulty of using vs. difficulty of using correctly.

(And I'm not even sure worse is better makes sense in a modern context).

Difficulty of using a programming language (regardless of results) is inversely proportional to the amount of time spent writing code in that language. If the majority of users writes C or C++ code all day, C and C++ become 'better for the average user.'

If the majority of your users write Common Lisp or Scheme all day, CL and Scheme become 'better for the average user'.

C and C++ are much more difficult to actually use correctly (without regard for who the average user is), mainly because there are many more ways to screw up when you are working at such a low level.

The myth of Lisp being difficult makes me boggle. There isn't even a syntax to memorize!

Speed, safety, flexibility, dynamic debugging and compilation, optional static typing... You don't even need the higher level aspects of the language to reap benefits from these features. With Quick-lisp if I need a library I just load it and use it (plug and play).

Why not replace my C++ and scripting languages with Common Lisp if I can get the best of both worlds?

The economics of this is that if I already know Common Lisp, and am willing to teach those around me, I am a fool to use anything else.
Somebody probably posted a Lisp story early this morning, it got ranked highly, everybody else noticed that and jumped on the karma bandwagon by posting their own Lisp essays or just their favorite bit of 10-year-old Lisp lore :)

Remember, all it takes is one "XYZ sucks" post on the front page to get a front page full of "Why XYZ doesn't suck", "XYZ sucks super hard", "We're using XYZ at my startup", "Successful founders use ZYX, not XYZ", etc.
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For those interested:

Machine Learning - Professor Andrew Ng - http://www.ml-class.org

Introduction to Databases - Professor Jennifer Windom - http://www.db-class.org

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Professor Sebastian Thrun and Dr. Peter Norvig - http://www.ai-class.com
Citation please. I love focus-follows-mouse but this sounds downright confusing. Do windows have different highlights to show where mouse and keyboard events will go?
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Tarn supports himself primarily with donations from Dwarf Fortress enthusiasts.

He's been doing the donation model for years, and it looks like he receives about $3000/month:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87996.0
Anyone else have an issue with this?

What if gMail had blocked facebook invites?

What if facebook builds something that competes with startups and halts sharing of startup invites / news?

I know the TOS have specifics about not advertising competing services, but just blocking users sharing abilities?
I think that Apple's relationship with geeks/tech-enthusiasts has been sour since the beginning. The "I'm a Mac" advertisements make it pretty clear that they definitely don't want to be a "corporate brand" or a "geeky brand", even though they're mainly an engineering and industrial design company.

In fact, the more Apple distances itself from those kinds of geeks/tech-enthusiats, the more successful it is.
So use a better terminal emulator. Rxvt-unicode allows you to pass mouse drags and scrolls directly to the terminal by holding down shift, and since it supports perl extensions, there are many ways to scroll back and yank from the terminal's buffer.

Tmux is great even if you're not using it as a process manager; it dramatically increased my productivity at the terminal (which is most of my day)
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Where is a good place to learn the ins and outs of contracts? Is there a comprehensive website or book that you can recommend?

The freelance kit from www.sitepoint.com is where I learned a lot about techniques for freelancing. That's where I picked up the technique for deposits and milestones. In fact, one of the best pieces of advice I got from there was never to be the lowest bidder. There was a project we were bidding on, and the client ended up going with us even though we were the highest bid ($8000). He showed us the other bids, and they came in at ($1600, $2800, and $4500). He liked our proposal for a few reasons: One, the other 3 bids were just Word documents or PDFs attached to email. Ours was printed in color, bound, and sent FedEx overnight. Another, we had detailed writeups of 3 previous projects with testimonials and phone numbers of the clients (used with permission). Lastly, we had suggestions for additional features to add, with a cost/benefits analysis on each, along with suggestions of features that could be cut to reduce the timeline or cost. All of these were suggestions from sitepoint's ebook.
It's really a shame though - WP7 is a really slick OS. I love my WP7 phone. In comparison, I find my friend's Android clunky and slow. I've also been toying around with the development environment and find it just as nice. Creating apps are super easy.

With Google's purchase, they are now directly competing with some of their Android partners, which should prove interesting. I can see MS courting some of the companies and potentially drawing some away from Android. No company likes to be completely beholden to one provider, and the option of WP7 may prove alluring enough.

Nokia is switching over to WP7 too. While Nokia has been sliding downhill for a while now, the switch should help drive adoption. MS may pull a Google and just outright buy Nokia too.
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They're legally adults, however they don't know the difference between getting an engineering degree from Georgia Tech (best lifetime earning to cost ratio in the country for Georgia residents, equal ratio for out of state students as Harvard) and an English degree from Notre Dame.

Additionally, you don't get the "judgement" part of your brain until after you're partially through/done with college: http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familylife/tech_assistance/etraining/...
Hey everyone,

We (a YC alum with 2 MIT grads) are working on our new project, Midtown Row. We've noticed there are a lot of awesome businesses in our area, but a lot of our friends still haven't heard of them for some reason. Moreover, whenever we went somewhere new, our friends would tell us a dozen places we had to check out while we were there. And when we did, we realized why.

Therefore, we came up with the idea of creating a marketplace to connect small brands and local businesses with customers they typically have not been able to reach (e.g., due to geography, marketing, or something else). We'd love some feedback on our landing page and on the concept.

Thanks
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http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familylife/tech_assistance/etraining/...
Microsoft will basically pay billions to Nokia in deals/cash/promotion and they will allow them to customize WP7 more than any other manufacturer. Plus, they've put a lot of their "former" employees at the top of Nokia.

Is that really that different? It looks like an unofficial acquisition of Nokia, to me. At least with Android they are selling millions of devices per month. With WP7, not so much.
why are people so afraid of having marketers know what they like? i'd rather be served relevant ads than irrelevant ones.
That's a good point and this would not be practical in a regular browser session but if someone chooses private browsing, an extension could be sure to strip "last-modified" as well as "if-none-match".

Would hurt the server a little and reduce speed because there would not be any caching but still helps guarantee no tracking.
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Ask HN: Ning or WP based membership website?
Hi,

I want to create paid membership based website, I have 2 options

1) Go with usual WP+Membership Plugin+Hosting
Costs: Theme:$35, Membership plugin:$30 to $100, Hosting:$20 per month(Zippykid/page.ly)
Pros: Customization, full control
Cons: I hate WP (bcoz it gets hacked)

2) Ning paid membership addon
Costs: $25 per month
Pros: Peace of mind(no upgrades, no hacking)
Cons: bandwidth issue, lots of -ve reviews, they take 3-4% of ur membership earning :(

As usual I am confused what to do :)

It will be great to hear from you guys
>change in legislation allowing people to be protected from student loans if they go into bankruptcy.

I think there is a balance there, but that is the huge deal: no one should be able to co-sign, and you should be able to go into bankruptcy after a long period of trying to make it work and drop the student loan dept too.

I don't want to swing the other way and see chapter 7 bankruptcies right after school driving rates up to absurd levels.
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Indeed, that makes it useless when the service I want to debug is not one written by me; let's say Github or Notifio.

I could write a service like that in 5 minutes, just wondering it one exists, so I don't have to. :-)
Amazon has a $90B market cap. Google's is $173B. Google can't afford it without taking on LOTS of debt, which ain't going to happen (note that neither company currently has any significant debt).
Wouldn't that just make the cost of borrowing go up?
1) 'Get started by creating your first note' leads you back to the same page. I was expecting to land myself on the create note screen from here.

2) Yeah, something that indicates that the blanks need to be overwritten.

3) the size of the text window kept going up and down. Is this intended.

Overall, clean and functional app. What is the business model here?
After OpenSolaris OS/Net kernel development was closed, 3 forks were made: Illumos, SchilliX-ON and Stormix (sadly, they all seem quite inactive).

There are 3 distributions based on the first one: OpenIndiana, Nexenta and SmartOS. There is also SchilliX (based on SchilliX-ON) and StromOS (based on Stormix).

This is just based on my existing knowledge, so there might be more forks and/or distributions out there.
Thanks for your response. I will check into those solutions you have posted. My initial Google searches exhausted with nothing of discernible value and I suppose I'm anxious to hear about how others bridged the gap.
The bit at the end is a bit FUD:

> but in theory, someone could take the work of Chen and Cai, implement it in JavaScript, and then use it to steal your login details and credit card info when you surf the web

That's only true if the JavaScript can actually get accelerometer data when a password prompt is up. I have no idea about Android, but while the following is pure conjecture, I'd be quite surprised if iPhone gave JavaScript accelerometer access while the page is in the background.
Haven't seen a default configuration of focus-follows-mouse for quite a while on any "big" Linux desktops. I always turn it on manually the first thing I touch a new system so it's not a big problem. However, a bigger problem is that finding a strict focus-follows-mouse is getting more difficult: for example Metacity can't do it, only sloppy focus-follows-mouse.

But the strict one would be the real focus-follows-mouse: with that you never lose the focus unintentionally since the focus is always under the mouse cursor. With sloppy focus, a newly opened window might of might not steal the focus regardless of the mouse position, and I quite often find myself typing into the wrong window after that.
You can buy the MSA + SOW that hashrocket uses with its clients http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2008/09/master-service...
I'm creating an app for folks to get together around these issues and actually start doing something or discovering where action is possible. in a life-game action-sharing way. so all you searchers out there are my ideal target. (but i'm doing it alone the last ten months and could really use some help...)
Looks awesome! Good luck...
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Damn, that's a good anecdote to counter my argument. So I'm going to have to provide my own. I took electrical engineering. In third year I was doing a lab, and the guy next to me didn't know that capacitors are used in analog filters. I would have asked him how he got to 3rd year knowing so little, but I was too depressed.
I'm afraid of the future you offer.

If I was held to the same standard as your last sentence I would've never made it to a quality college when I had many external circumstances that affected my GPA. And yes, I was, and am, still talented.

Where do others like me fit? Are we to be cast aside? Will you push aside the next genius for something that is more 'safe'?
I love this since it's a Rails 3.1 application :-)
Thanks for adopting the existing "standard" for touches, now I can remove some of the extra code I had for F4 mobile.
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