skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, gold isn't for times or turmoil, it's for when things quiet down again--seed stock for rebuilding your life once stability returns.
One of your responsibilities:

Identification of product and services potentially infringed by IV’s patents
I'm not sure about your prediction.

I have been hearing impaired since birth, and I wear hearing aids. However, I 'evolved' to lip-read and read body language. School was invaluable to me, for making friends, figuring out how to deal with jerks and asking lecturers and tutors the right questions.

Not until I was in my 4th year at uni that I realised something was _very_ wrong - how did I know what to ask, if I didn't realise I'd missed it? :-)

These days, I am in a programming job, however I quite often hear something and go, "what the hell was that". However, with Khans offering captions for everything I pick up such tiny details that suddenly blow my mind and I feel very humbled. It feels like I'm learning backwards.

I hope that in the future, people don't rely on online classrooms, because then they will miss so much other things, that they simply won't realise until it's rather late.

"I have to... TALK to my colleagues?!"
This is getting really boring.

I see "teach how to code" articles all the time.

I understand that Paul Graham thought it is important, but come on, not every day!
How to deal with crappy people
So let me get this straight.

Half of your thesis is that gold is great because you don't have to do anything but sit on it and hold it, unlike stocks (we'll pretend that index funds don't exist in your fairy-tale world). The amateur investor can just buy and hold, no rebalancing necessary.

And then you turn around and, as investment advice, essentially say "The trick is to, without the benefit of hindsight, figure out what each next bull market is going to be, buy it at the bottom and sell it when it's at the top."

Fantastic fucking advice. Mind if I borrow your time machine sometime?
Ummm, according to the San Francisco heat map, Hunter's Point looks like a very safe area while China town seems way more dangerous. I don't know how accurate this is.
Yes!

It's a pretty big risk too. But for a digital project like this with a limited number of physical rewards that risk is pretty small.

For a project that's about physical production there are serious risks that smart folks should be wary of. It's one thing to produce a limited run of products (say, a few hundred) it's another thing to have to produce tens of thousands in order to satisfy pre-orders. For example, you might have a small team manufacturing stuff and you might be able to stretch out your production run from a minimum of a few days or weeks up to a year or so and that'll buy you a factor of 10 in production output, but if you get 100x or 1,000x pre-orders you may have to go to a dramatically different production system and hire staff, which could be enormously risky.
Yes, thanks!, this is fabulous, between the backbone recipes book (http://recipeswithbackbone.com/) and this, and the absolutely fabulous book by Alex McGaw (author of Spine, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018421.do), my JS app mojo has been steadily improving!
The base salary for a police officer in this area with five years experience is $108,000. That does not include additional benefit costs such as pension (after 20 years) and complete health care coverage. Throw in higher ranking officers and overtime and you get the figure mentioned previously.
Ask HN: What's with the sudden explosion of "University Memes" Facebook Pages?
In the last day about half the posts appearing in mine and my colleagues' news feed are images from "[University-name] Memes" pages on Facebook. The images are the usual image macro jokes, referencing campus locations and university traditions.

Was this a planned marketing stunt of some kind or is this an "organic" craze? Any insights?
Curiously enough it's more difficult than you'd think. According to Sports Illustrated, within five years of retirement 60% of NBA players go bankrupt (although I'm not sure how reliable the source is).
Sounds like we're on the same page. Legislative drafting is often overlooked in these things, I agree. A legal friend in the UK friend told me that way back when, the very best lawyers would get recruited to work at parliament writing and 'debugging' legislation, in order to maximize its legal reliability. Around the 1980s this came to be regarded as a waste of money and the budgets were slashed, and intead of the best lawyers legislative drafting fell to those who were unable to get decent jobs in the private sector...and the quality of legislation fell accordingly, while the cost of litigation soared. We're seeing a similar problem in American lawmaking nowadays, as best I can tell.
C# for Gaming: AltDevConf This Weekend
State of Data This Week - #85
I started blogging about 375,000 words ago (about three full-length novels… crikey).

I think it's time. You definitely should get a book out - there's plenty of material. I would preorder.
Musings on Preprocessing
It can be argued that making sure that you're not that losing player is a skill as well. There is a game called Family Business that is almost entirely based on this concept. Each player has a gang of mobsters, and on each turn you get action cards. The game revolves around the "hit list". You can put enemy mobsters on the hit list with action cards. When there are 6 or more mobsters on the hit list, a "mob war" starts, and on each turn the topmost mobster on the hit list is killed. The mob war continues until the hit list is empty. There are also action cards for removing a mobster from the hit list, instantly killing an enemy mobster, blocking a card that puts a mobster on the hit list, etc. The key to winning this game is convincing your friends to collectively screw over another friend, and to convince them that it is a bad idea to kill your mobsters by using the right tit-for-tat strategy and using intimidation and bluffing about which action cards you have to take revenge.

Similar strategies can work for Settlers of Catan as well. When a player does something bad like block you with a road and you're playing at a disadvantage, then you can sacrifice this game for scaremongering and do everything in your power to make the player that did it lose (block him with roads and always use the robber on him). Next game people will be more careful ;)
It's even worse than that. You would specifically be one of the minions analyzing code that you can claim infringes IV patents.

Doing the devil's work indeed.
Im still walking the backbone path so this is pretty useful.

Im curious how one would setup a instant search using it? I have done it previously by attaching a jQuery keyup event listener but I know I should be using a view. I have had a poke on google for this but haven't turned up anything.
It'll include desktop support, but Microsoft will be the only one allowed to release desktop apps for it, which makes it rather less interesting.
Like point systems, achievements, leader boards, etc.
What better use of one's money than to change the world? To help get something created that you will enjoy?

Imagine if the world didn't have ice cream or steak? How much money would you pay to live in a world with those things?
Yes, absolutely. If the initial HTML page is heavy, and can be cached for all users, then separate makes sense. If the initial HTML page is light, or user-specific (the usual case for a backbone app) then bootstrapping in a single HTTP request makes sense.
Before I had kids, I knew that having kids made it harder to do great work. What I didn't understand was the way it happens. Before I had kids, I thought of kids as a distracting responsibility. Now I realize that the reason kids take up so much of your time is that you enjoy spending time with them.

So for me at least the answer is not merely that I can't focus on work to the degree I used to, but that I wouldn't want to.
Would you consider rephrasing that? I don't understand what you are trying to say.
I never said we should have browser monopoly. I said, a 0-day covering 100% of browsers compared to one covering 40-50% of browsers ain't much of a difference.

That said, a single browser engine used is not a browser monopoly.

For one, because a browser is more than the browser engine used. So you can have browsers with the same engine (Chrome, Webkit, Konqueror, ...) competing on the GUI front.

Second, you can even add new rendering features and options ON TOP of the same rendering engine. Webkit has stuff that Chrome does not, even in the browser engine department. It just means that you have the bases covered with ONE codebase, with more compatibility, and you don't have to reinvent any "wheels", ie. things you have to get working the same way anyway, as is the rendering of a DIV, for example. So this also takes care of the "competition" in HTML implementation issue.

Third, a monopoly (when considered a bad thing) implies some way to abuse that power. The use of a single open source browser engine provides none, since no one in particular controls it. Besides, anyone can still write a better browser engine if you want, and even cherry pick parts of the single 99% popular engine.
Pretty sure that's totally not true, but, boy would I ever like to be proven wrong about this. As I understand it, and excuse the language, but attribution has fuck-all to do with the rights to music.

There's a whole market for "royalty-free music" (all of which costs money, but at least doesn't cost money per view) that exists entirely --- again, as I understand it --- because you can't just use random copyrighted songs in presentations, on websites, &c.

Sliderocket even links to some of these sites on an article about adding audio to presentations:

http://www.sliderocket.com/blog/2010/07/incredible-presentat...

Note conspicuous lack of "and if you like Apples In Stereo, just drag an MP3 into this window and make sure to say thank you in your presentation". :)

In any case, so I don't sound too much like a message-board-crazy, let me at least commend you on your taste in music. At least it wasn't Ke$ha.
Taking advantage of a broken system to make a profit isn't demonic, it's capitalism. People and companies respond to incentives, so if we want these types of companies to cease to exist we must destroy the incentives that caused them to exist in the first place.
Impact analysis of filesharing 3 strikes law (hint: file sharing doesn't stop)
plug: my Settlers of Catan strategy guide: http://blog.oarsum.com/post/263227690/the-weasel-guide-to-se...

Might come in handy for some...
Your patience apparently didn't carry you to the part of the post where she got the job because of this presentation.
Life is too short to do what you say. I want just to start. I can't wait anymore. I'm already 25. I'll die soon.

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

TL;DR - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEiSa6_EPA
I disagree. Going for the low-variance option is a good idea if you do not want to lose, but not one if you want to win.

Consider a game where one player gets two items for every roll above 7, another two items for every roll below 7, and a third one item for every roll that is not 7. With any not perfectly even distribution of rolls, one of the first two players will have the highest production, and the other of the two the lowest. There is no set of throws that will give the last player the most produce.
That is so true.

But the thing is most europeans do not have garages next to their house. They just park their cars on street. I am curious about how they will handle charging system.
> If Google won't do it, someone else should. Hack together a windows shell extension, with git as a backend and an online doc editor.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Insync provide this functionality? It's not opensource, but still...
How is this helpful? On projects I've worked on, I've been able to teach the designers how to use github for Mac and they picked it up really easily and felt good learning something programming-ish.
Given your stated beliefs, wouldn't you also expect Gmail, the Google search engine, etc to be failing too? That doesn't seem to be the case.
Now those firms and their ilk may not fit your definition of "startup"...

This whole debate seems to hinge on the definition of "startup". I'd be interested in historical evidence to back-up or refute the claim 37signals makes: Has the meaning of "startup" actually been hijacked? Or has it always meant what pg (and wikipedia) say it does?
I've noticed this more and more too. Blogs often have the same design/layout as the actual site, but when you click on the company logo in the top left, it links to the blog home page, not the company site home page.

Hate that!
I find that it's not so much a balanced distribution of numbers, but that you don't have to cash in 4 for 1 for a resource that you need.

Also, you don't need a deck of dice - just draw on an old pack of cards with a permanent marker :)
In terms of % chance of a crime happening near you, that's totally accurate. We're working on another companion heatmap that shows the percentage of violent crimes (then, Hunter's Point pops out quite a bit)
C++ AMP open spec published
Lovestagram's great tale.
It's mostly a question whether they store it or not -- although they have to store it in order to support notifying you when new users who are in your address book join the service.

If their servers are compromised, a cracker could still get MOST of the info. Since the hashing function (and salting mechanism) lives on the phone, she could generate a rainbow table of all possible phone numbers and a set of emails for common domains.
This video gets into exactly what I want to know: how can I turn my Arduino-based prototype into a commercial product? The video is really light on details, though.

Has anyone here done this?

I've got one prototype completed, and two others I'm working on. Unfortunately, I'm a programmer type, with very little knowledge of electronics, circuit design, and electronics production. Also, I just ordered a couple TI MSP430 LaunchPads to see if they're capable of doing what I've done with the Arduino, since the MSP430 looks like a much cheaper option.
And reading a few page resume is quicker? I don't think you have a strong grasp as to what the presentation was aiming to accomplish or how the presentation stood out from the rest.
So instead of having a router and controllers, you're just making the controllers do the work of the routers too.

I mean, you can, but why would you?
Since we are talking Sci-Fi scenarios...

It makes a lot of sense to try and carry as much value with you as possible. Conditions during the course of your escape are likely to be difficult and the ability to pay for thing (=bribe your way out of trouble) is likely to be much more useful than knowledge of advanced mathematics or Python minutea.

(Of course, the most useful way to carry value in an escape scenario is gemstones, not gold, since it is much easier to hide during transport).
I've been somewhat involved with the development of http://halftoneapp.com - they focus on collaboration amongst team members and getting feedback from clients.
I'm glad this was posted again, because I was trying to remember the name of it late last year and I couldn't find it.

The reason I was trying to find the site was that some friends and I did something similar (we called it "Vacation Startup Club") in Costa Rica in November. It was awesome.

We rented two houses in Manuel Antonio (these: http://casamonotiti.com/). They were easily the nicest vacation lodging I've ever used, and the view was epic, and with 10ish people, very reasonable.

I was surprised how much we got done. We usually woke up early (it gets light around 6am), had breakfast and coffee, then some people would start coding, or go to the park or beach. After lunch, we'd begin in earnest and work until dinner, then until about 9 or 10 most nights.

We finished our app, and then learned how hard it is to launch one. ;-) But all in all, an amazing experience.
Except that rolling high vs. low vs. a balance of both all have equal probabilities.
> knowledge is a non-rivalrous non-excludable good

You sound like you know what you're talking about here. What you're claiming is that digital media is a public good. I can live with that definition. It's certainly non-rival, and in practice is fairly non-excludable.

You then go on to claim that companies should just find a way to survive without copyright. The problem with this approach is that the creation of these public goods will be far below the social optimum without some sort of market interventions [1].

I definitely don't think that aggressive copyright law is the correct way to address the free rider problem. However, I think that it's shortsighted to create a necessarily inefficient market. It makes sense that companies like Disney want longer copyright, as that's how they capture the positive externalites of their work, and are able to keep producing it. Someone who is politically savvy and trying to solve this problem would look through possible solutions to the free-rider problem [2] and use them to formulate a way that producers and consumers can both benefit from relaxed copyright laws.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#The_free_rider_prob...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Possible_solutions
The vendor prefix mess
I'm sure lots will disagree with me, but I say Javascript.

They already have everything they need on their computer now, and can start right away at JSFiddle and with various online tutorials that run the code on their own machines.

They can do useful stuff right away and share it with people immediately. (for instance, make a little game or graphic gizmo and put it on a web site)

It not only runs on the browser, but runs on the server (node), and in various other environments (MongoDB, Windows 8, etc). So again, their skills can be put to use quickly, and will be useful going forward in the maximum number of places.

There are immense numbers of people out there using it, writing about it, offering help on sites like stackoverflow, and so on.

For kids with short attention spans, the simplicity of javascript is a big plus. Being able to create objects on the fly easily, and not really worry about types and object orientation and all that makes it a lot easier to get up to speed quickly. (yes, there is potential for them to learn bad habits, but I think a far bigger risk is that they get bored and give up)
Submitting your own links has always been allowed on HN. They'll only hit the front page if enough other people like them.
I've always thought, in a working environment, it would be best for everyone involved if designers got up to speed with git. I know git is hard, and I know designers are not necessarily command-line junkies.

Rather, my point is simply: it's worth it.

So for me, downloading a client that syncs, while useful, is not the _answer_.

The answer is for designers to embrace git and also for developers to make git easier to use. Whether that requires a better UI, better documentation, better tutorials, etc.

Git has the power to do all this and more, there just needs to be an intuitive wrapper for the workflow maybe?
I asked the community this question a few months back - small discussion here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2732149
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That would be true only if no one was harmed by your profiteering.
Currency markets exist. USD is an asset that can be traded. Holding USD is an investment -- although, not necessarily voluntary. I don't know why you're comparing gold to a baby p2p app with microscopic trade volume. That just seems odd. Because they both experience deflation? In that case, all inflation goes the way of Zimbabwe and even more worthless than gold.
Why not? I would hope for some sort of certification program.
This might be a good place to get started: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Copyright

Here's some more on "Fair Use": http://www.benedict.com/Info/FairUse/FairUse.aspx
Living the pay it forward mantra. Can't wait to connect people through LetsLunch. Really need something easier than email/LNKD/etc.
Seriously, perhaps you could learn an thing or two about focus. And paying attention.
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My informal testing reveals people think it’s “pixel apps” or “pick slaps”. I’m guessing the creators don’t have “dark” (velarised) L in their dialect, because it’s a lot clearer when pronounced with a non-velarised L.
I wonder what 170,000 tons of paper can produce. Does paper respond to Buffet's fondling?
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Ruby on Rails Developer- Two Full Time Positions Available

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The time has come to port Daily Kos from an aging Perl-based architecture to Rails. The project is a good technical challenge--we get almost a million requests a day and have an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to social network features. We aren't a startup--3 million people a month will use the software you build to amplify their voice in the nation's political discussion--and we aren't wondering where the next infusion of cash will come from. Yet, we also have many of the benefits of a startup--we are redefining everything about the Daily Kos platform from low level infrastructure to software architecture to interface design. We are a small, efficient team, running scrum. We code with jquery, backbone.js, scss, the latest stable version of Rails, and have great automated test coverage.

We’re searching for full stack developers with real world experience developing Rails applications. You'll be focused on building out features as we move them from the old Perl code base to Rails, from markup to query optimizations. We value careful, deliberate developers who take pride in well crafted code and continue to self educate to keep up with evolving technology and practices.

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That's an inaccurate analogy (or rather it make the point opposite to what I think you are trying to say).

Gate's and Buffet's "money" is stored in stock in companies, which add value to the economy - ie, their money is active and productive. That's the opposite to storing value in gold.
Sure it is. It is not the first time i get downvote for just expressing my humble opinion.

By the way, i'm not here by any mean to count my karma. However it is frustracting to see people act this way.

I don't think down vote = don't like. It is not there so you can downvote whenever you don't like a statement.

Just my thoughts.
Tracking Backbone.js "Page Views" with Mixpanel
I saw the early prototypes... it's awesome. I'll be there tonight and will post some photos to @jason
Google Developing Home Entertainment System   *