skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of things:

1. If you get sued and don't show up, the judge might or might not enter a default judgment. Think of a lawsuit as a road rally. The plaintiff has to hit a number of checkpoints. In federal court, one of the first checkpoints is that the complaint---that is, the plaintiff's formal statement of its claim---must allege enough facts to set out a plausible case entitling the plaintiff to relief. (This is the Twombly/Iqbal standard established by the Supreme Court a couple of years ago.) Even if the defendant doesn't show up, usually the judge and his or her law clerk will still read the complaint, to see if it passes the smell test, before granting a default judgment.

2. They can sue you for buying a router, but under section 2-312(2) and (3) of the Uniform Commercial Code [1], absent a proper warranty disclaimer you would normally be able to pass the buck to the seller, by filing a cross-claim for breach of the implied warranty of noninfringement. Of course, that too would require paying a lawyer, unless the seller stepped up and voluntarily assumed the defense of the infringement suit (which is not uncommon; vendors want to stay on customers' good side).

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/article2.htm#s2-312
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After getting sued a good course of action would be to sue the manufacturer for loses incurred. At least that would get their attention. Somebody could start a class action lawsuit agains the manufacturer.
Probably a combination of both, but I doubt it really matters either way—at the end of the day, they had a poor experience with an Android phone, and they don't want to have that happen again.
Why does that make you suspicious?
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I get really excited with the concept that our minds shape themselves around the tools we have available.

I was going to start this reply with: where is there a forum/IRC/blog to work on this?

And then I realized those might not be the right tools at all to try to clean up technical debts.
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Early D.C. Facebook hire departs
ARM thumb is a 2-operand (i.e. one of the registers is the destination) instruction set over 8 registers, just like i386. It has similar code density to x86, at the expense of fewer instructions per cycle. It does lack x86's fancy memory addressing modes though.

And I wouldn't say PPC lost. IBM has competitive CPUs in the market, they're just not in consumer devices. But they're just that: "competetive". They aren't much better (actually pretty much nothing is better than Sandy Bridge right now).
"Large Pizza, Breadsticks, and 2 Liter for $20.99" when ordering each of them individually adds up only to $19.99.

This goes for every fast-food combo meal, as well. IME it's just a dime or so off the a la carte sum.
Not poster but in a similar position myself.

What about incomplete projects? Messy/hacky experiments? Completely idiotic/backwards stuff done for fun? Play-projects purely attempted for "ha I did it!"? Legally-grey (or blatantly illegal) projects? Or even school projects? I have hundreds of projects that fit in those categories, and none will ever be made publicly available. Sometimes it's just not good form to make a project public, other times it's clearly harmful to do so.

Nevertheless, I preserve my projects privately just in case I ever resume work on a whim, or want to reference what I did in the past (or more likely, what I did wrong). And now I can put them online privately for free, sharing with those I deem appropriate.
FeeFighters isn't arguing that they're a victim. They're arguing that they're the good guys, as evidenced by how obviously BBB is acting like the bad guys.

You're missing the fact that FeeFighters thinks BBB accreditation is laughable. They didn't write this post because a cosmic injustice was done to them. They already felt like the BBB was a cosmic injustice, even when they were accredited. They're gleeful that BBB is so willing to play the villain, and absolutely are willing to twist the knife into BBB's self inflicted PR wound.

If you're getting downvoted (I didn't), it's probably because you're missing the subtext. The BBB is worthy of mockery; this post mocks it; you seem surprised... why would anyone mock the BBB? Click click downvote.
How the patent war is stifling innovation in Silicon Valley [infographic]
Talk about a misleading title... Although it was completely accurate :)
Customers are loyal to the iPhone, not the network it runs on.

I left Sprint to get an iPhone. If I need to rejoin Sprint to get the next iPhone, that's no problem.
Yeah, I don't consider Heroku or the platform-as-a-service providers good for hobby projects, esp. something like a forum or blog where you can just get a cheap VPS somewhere.

The sweet spot is having very reasonable billing like $15/month for a 20GB database (5MB free) and $35/month for a 2 dedicated workers (or free for 1 which needs to be spun up and is ~10 seconds for the first request). My current use case is projects which could become small income earners, where ~50/month to experiment is dirt cheap if it saves me hours of setup time.
Does Adobe have a strategy to fight HTML5 or make good progress with open standards b/c of the Typekit purchase? We don't want Adobe to shut down Typekit by any means b/c of how awesome it is and I'm afraid Adobe is resistant to HTML5 as an open standard. Please don't throw money at solutions to killing amazing products which enhance HTML5.
Not to mention, Microsoft and Oracle are busy strong-arming Android companies like Google and HTC to making Android not cheap.

WebOS may not be as widely deployed as Android, but it comes with a patent portfolio that may keep it cheaper than litigation/licenses.
Sorry didn't see this at the time. Just for the record, I wasn't saying lower than 100% success rate is worse than useless. I was saying 95% success rate is worse than useless. I didn't set up this false equivalence, the OP did. I know that 100% is a tough or impossible goal, but you really do need to approach 100%. 95% is nowhere near close enough.
Why People Will Buy an iPhone 5 Regardless of Features
@Maxwellelliot explains how Apple designed a product where the physical features are meaningless relative to the social and emotional aspects of the product.
If you consider it as a mobile version of AIR (http://www.adobe.com/products/air/) then its relevance should be apparent. Not sure why AIR is important to them in the first place though.
I'm up for renewal and its perfect timing with my move to Bay in a month (and the crappy 3G coverage AT&T has there).
I feel sad for anyone who refers to emacs and vim as dinosaurs. I feel sadder for anyone unfamiliar with emacs and vim dismissing because they're old tools, and missing out.
Excellent news. I'm just starting to learn Scala as a natural evolution to Java. The pace of Heroku rolling out new language support lately has been great. I'll be playing around with Heroku more, but I have to wonder: should I be expecting to pay something to use Heroku as a side learning exercise?
Of “Mausam,” Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Creating for the Ages…
They're holding the ring over the fires of Mount Doom. THROW THE RING IN, SHEEL!
Thanks for the short write up. Pretty simple and to the point. I like the part about building a demo, I think it shows ambition, drive, and vision on many levels. Thanks again.
What web development frameworks would you recommend then if everything from RoR to Scala is too complex to survive the test of time?
This plagues other industries as well.

Instead of, say, adding a new feature to a large project, let's lay a new subway line in New York. Better make sure that it works with the current signaling system, and can accomodate every train that's on the lines now. Oh, and before you start digging, you better check that you're not cutting across existing power, water, steam and gas lines. Not to mention other tunnels, building foundations, mole people colonies, etc.
Sprint goes all in on iPhone, commits to 30.5 million handsets
Design heroes
I work on self-developed projects as a consultant that I don't have the rights to open source. Because of that, I need to use Github's paid account plan, even though I'm the only person who contributes code to that project. So, I'll be seriously considering bitbucket as an alternative host, because it could save me ~£85/year.
Designer’s block: A Q&A with Jon Contino
Brooklyn-based designer Jon Contino’s work can be found among various brands. But much of the freelancer’s creative energy is funneled into typography-centric menswear label, CXXVI Clothing Company, where he is the co-founder and creative director. He describes himself as an Alphastructaesthetitologist (say that five times fast).
I'm planning on applying for the Summer 2012 round as a single founder, plus a friend who helps me with marketing (whom I had a prior agreement with). After reading the essay on the main page, it left me a little unsure about the chances of getting in whilst applying solo.

Although after reading this post, I feel more sure of myself about the issue. Mainly because he didn't mention anything about the number of founders per startup, but purely the quality.

Glad this was posted.
I was thinking "rsync -auvz ftw", but the crontab addition would make the sentence too long
I'm convinced they are going to just kill it. $199 and access to all of amazons stuff, really gonna being interesting.
They both have nice API's and are both only available for US based businesses, but otherwise, its kind of comparing apples to oranges.

There's a recent post in Quora comparing the two that does a great job of breaking it down.
http://www.quora.com/For-payment-processing-how-do-Stripe-an...
How iscow certificates webshop
Search goes up on tablets at night
Just added LinkedIn export. They'll dump out a ton of data about your connections... http://export.synack.me/linkedin/
My take-away was not about the lack of ease, but the lack of elegance. That we have foregone Truth for the fast buck.
I have engineering training. But to really tell you whether the Prius is an improvement or not over a non-hybrid Corolla -- I'd need engineering data Toyota isn't going to release.

And just narrowing it to that comparison is going to turn off a lot of people.
The End of Evil?
Apple App Store Rentals comming soon ...
We're using tumblr for our blog if that offers any insight. Otherwise I'm not sure what could be causing this.
[Disclaimer: My business licenses fonts via Typekit]

Blaming Typekit for bad design is an interesting choice. Might as well blame browsers for giving designers access to millions of terrible color choices via CSS while you're at it. Blame bad designers for not knowing how to use fonts.

The community was not doing a good job with custom fonts for headings, pull quotes, etc. @font-face works pretty well, but foundries clearly weren't willing to sell licenses for it the same way they do for print/commercial use. It's not a difficult thing to explain to clients - it's a recurring fee just like hosting, SSL certificates, and domain registration. It handles all cross-browser issues, saves bandwidth, and gives you, the designer, easy access to a rather large library of fonts at no cost to you. Clients that can't afford the $2-8/month probably can't afford good design to begin with.

If web fonts are too slow for you in all circumstances, how is Typekit any worse than a license from a foundry? Native fonts are great, and should be used extensively, but they really limit your options.
Spine has been out for a while, been 0.0.x for a long time, just 1.0.0 came out today, and was heavily inspired by Backbone. It is essentially a lighter Backbone (no dependencies on underscore, no collections).

I've extensivley used Spine in production environments and it handled quite well. Only recently have I begun using Backbone and I will be sure to post my comparison once it finishes. However at this point, they both feel VERY similar. Will post more as I myself understand Backbone better...
Well, the first thing to note is that Adobe has not and doesn't intend to acquire PhoneGap itself. PhoneGap is in the process of being contributed to the Apache Software Foundation, and will remain free and open source. That said, we're definitely interested in continuing to support PhoneGap's development via contributions from the Nitobi team. PhoneGap Build, the hosted service based on PhoneGap, will become part of Adobe. So part of the value is that service, but the key is simply enabling efficient, expressive design and development across devices, regardless of technology. We're excited to investigate what integrations will make sense, but right now it's too early to say.
I believe you underestimate the general level of discontent with AT&T and Verizon.
Why?

Getting past the normal corporate mumbo jumbo, what did you see in the companies that piqued your interest? Was it a talent acquisition? Do you actually see these technologies being integrated with existing adobe technologies (specifically Flash)?
Scientists reconstruct images from our brains (video)
In Germany, politicians are not "immune to" or otherwise above the law. Parliamentarians (which this gentleman is one of) have limited immunity, as in most democracies, to protect them from arbitrary acts by the executive branch. IANAL, so I'd be curious if this kind of copyright infringement could be acted upon.
Doesn't that kind of take the wind out of Node's sails as far as its claims of being easier for dummies to write non-blocking code, if you have to do all the usual due diligence anyway?

I'm genuinely curious as someone who's only familiarity with Node is hype and through hearing the adjective "evented" thrown around with wild abandon lately.
The name "NoSQL" doesn't give much technical insight into the product, so why name it so?

Marketing, I'd say. It's a very buzz-y term.
> even easier ways to integrate

Good, a pure CSS then. Like all other font services these days.
it's the daily mail. wake me when they accidentally publish a true story.
> Bonus points for you if you render/minify your sass/scss and/or coffeescript as a target dependency.

And compile markdown files to static HTML to be served directly on the target machine.
Sprint's huge iPhone bet: Daring or desperate?
But is the async module itself elegant? I guess it's relative, it's even less elegant not to use the module. The async module is still a hack, the cleanest one Node has.

I think the whole discussion about "cancer" wouldn't have happened if the V8 team added continuations by now. They mentioned that they will so we might be cleaning up big chunks of code.

It's funny how a tech can get so popular with these big warts. Probably because people use it in a very limited way, no one writes CPU intensive code because you rarely need it for serving sites and data. Then the clumsy callbacks aren't so bad.
There's a variety of examples here:
http://www.phonegap.com/apps

I'm also a fan of the Travelocity Android app, which was built with PhoneGap.
Welcome To CrunchFund, MG Siegler
These people are literally selling their souls for money. It's a cliche but seriously, how do these people sleep at night?
Gah, you're right, I was thinking of trademarks. I need to stop mixing trademarks, patents and copyright up in my head.
Just off the top of my head: cheap glow effect, ripple effect (e.g. when a bomb goes off), post-processing filters for things like film effects, etc. You don't need to be doing 3d work to make great use of shaders.
I think you're stereotyping too strongly here. The difference in character between Princeton and Yale is marginal.
Right, submitting fast but incorrect+buggy code nets you -20 points.
Do you think into account the fact that for non-native speakers this is complicated? Our application sounds a lot like a sales pitch but only because we have to train many, many times to make ourselves understood.

Even if we're fluent in english, it's not natural for us to speak it (much less against a camera) so it ends up sounding like we're reading from a script or something.
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Can't ping any of our servers. http://status.linode.com/
Yah, exactly. Most of the people I know still in contract with AT&T are waiting to jump ship to whatever carrier will have the iPhone 5. My gf and I are both a year in on our iPhone 4 contracts with AT&T and we have no problem dumping them.

You have to figure how much is your time really worth?! All the AT&T network b.s. (esp in San Francisco & NYC) that we've had to deal with costs me and my gf much more than the cancellation fee ever will. That said, the cancellation fee is still a load of crap.
anybody knows if this means that something like a lift project or a scala play project now work on heroku? I only see a finagle example but that's not a web framework
Gilt City Acquires Upscale Private Dining Booking Engine DinePrivate.com
The Sprint exclusivity would probably be a short period, like 6 months. Apple could milk payola money from Sprint. Sprint could sell AT&T and Verizon switchers new contracts. 6 months later, Apple lets AT&T and Verizon release iPhone 5s to soak up any cheapskates that want to upgrade but did not want to break their AT&T and Verizon contracts.
I agree with where you're coming from, and I'd certainly rather use, say, rsync to move content to a server than Dropbox (which, given their security track-record, is just asking for trouble), but troff doesn't really solve the "perfectly readable formatted plain text even before processing" niche that Markdown does.

Markdown has also been around since 2004, so it's outlived the 12 month "just a trend" horizon by quite a bit.
you know, I hadn't evaluated it since it was a pure ruby service. It's a bit different with a jvm language where you can get away with 1 worker (threaded request handling) and the db upgrade. $15/month would likely be sufficient for a forum. I'll give it a try and see how it goes :)

I wish there were something between the $15 and $200 db offerings.
Why Apple chose to make the iPhone 4′s screen 3.5-inches
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CPU speed and bus speed is finite on the machine you're running on. Using setTimeout to poll the results of some thread you've spawned to run a calculation is _worse_ performance than just blocking in the first place, because now when you try to profile your application (how does one do that in node.js, anyways?) you're going to be looking at a million setTimeout closed loops.

Here's Ted's entire point: "The point is that the HTTP server isn't the same entity doing the application work."

..which has basically been true ever since mod_jk was created.
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Good advice. Regardless of language, I tend to write a lot of code in a functional manner, which throws off my business partner because he writes macro-style code (where the code is ever-evolving and is practically a media file). So he's about 10 times as prolific and I have a hard time demonstrating why my approach might be better until years down the road. On that note I bought O'Reilly's "Erlang Programming" by Cesarini & Thompson, but haven't read much yet. I'm hoping to find a purer language that can give me some leverage to do what I want with concurrency in the near future. Thanks for the advice on which order to go with.
Couldn't have done it without you
According to Business Week he is a "kid" http://images.businessweek.com/mz/06/33/0633covdc.gif
I can get insanely concise one-liners out of C and shell, but that doesn't make those inherently more-productive languages.

I forget what bash does, but when I write a block of shell in zsh, it is saved as a 'line.' This is a tool issue, not an issue of language expressiveness.

If you can't write concise Python, maybe that's just because you aren't that comfortable with Python... that's a perfectly good reason not to use it but it isn't some sort of dramatic limiting case requiring all system administrators to use Ruby instead.
If you look at the estimates for each item they seem relatively high so I was not surprised when I read that they could easily be making a $50 profit instead:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4228505/Kindle-Fire-...
How about we develop a system that doesn't move the tech industry's wealth from builders to "thinkers who patent their ideas" (or is it just the lawyers doing that nowadays?). Even if 1% of the patents are actually useful, why do companies have to pay for the 99% useless ones, too?

I think we're still at the very beginning of this, and now that they've realized there's a lot of money to be made from buying patents and suing companies, or simply using your useless patents to do that, this madness should increase exponentially in the next few years, until the tech industry can't take it anymore do whatever it takes to make the politicians change the laws.
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too much boilerplate :)

https://gist.github.com/1258982
The one who didn't flame out?
Like everyone else, I'm happy for the founders. But as a Typekit customer, I was pretty disappointed to see their email announcement about this today.

They were doing well and were on to something big - why did they have to sell now? I love their product, but they still have such a long way to go and so much they could improve on. It just seems so early and unnecessary.
"Startups at this stage need to be building their product and talking to their users"

What happens when a startup like ours is not building their product (due to complicated legal issues) but they're talking to customers? How can we show that we've been doing our homework in this regard?
Perhaps the legal system needs a sort of 'reverse class action', so that Innovatio would have to sue the entire class at once, and the class could pool their resources for a defense.
In very comfortable, expensive beds.

But in all seriousness, humans are very good at rationalizing their circumstances. Tell yourself something often enough, and over time you will come to believe it. Even if someone introduces you to an alternative view, alternative evidence, or logic that suggests the contrary, humans are equally skilled at rationalizing away such claims. In the event you were to demonstrate some social ill resulting from the actions of this law firm, the likelihood that you would spark a change in their behavior is low.

I recall an HN post a few months back regarding the ways in which, and rates at which, people dismiss evidence that questions their views, and the ways in which they seize upon and emphasize claims that agree with them. Will edit with link if I can find it.

EDIT: After some searching, could not find the article I was searching for, but did find a number of others addressing the same issue. The best among which were these two:

1. http://whywereason.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/psychologys-trea...

2. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/10/1...
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I just love how startups keep reinventing the wheel
to solve problems that haven't been problems for decades.

Come on, 25 pics + 90 likes per second... that almost like... [wait for it]... nothing.

I'm pretty sure you got your number wrong.
Making money off free content, Boomerang edition
It's against Twitters TOS to provide a service that can present a users tweets as a downloadable dump. This new restriction was brought in earlier this year.
I wonder if a possible defense would be to intentionally trigger some political response via some patent trolling of your own.