skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No, I'm saying that if no money flows to developers, it's suboptimal because consumers lose out too.

But that's my point, Linux/Android, and by extension most of opensource, work mostly outside of IP protections and are able to match closed source and compete. I see no reason why Google wouldn't be able to use it's business model without IP. So even now it works, without IP the entire industry would be forced to restructure.

Again - the demand doesn't disappear - you just need to find new ways of satisfying it while making a profit. Just because it's not obvious and would cost a lot of companies their business doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Apple is sitting on billions of dollars in cash on hand and protecting "multitouch". Apple's profit is largely due to it's IP monopoly, if knockoffs and iterative improvements were allowed under different brands Apple's competitive edge after the first mover advantage wears off (and seeing how long it takes phones to hit the market with Android for eg. it's a significant window of opportunity) would be efficient production, more innovation and marketing, all of which create extra value to the consumer. So they would be forced to invest in product more aggressively, margins would shrink without innovation - you would have a more competitive market. Production would have to be restructured to even further protect trade secrets (which would screw cheap China manufacturers because they can't be trusted with IP sensitive jobs if they can sell knockoffs). Conversely they would need less to protect from legal threats.
Spot on! This is exactly my problem with this.

I have a Nokia 6303. I press a couple of buttons and I'm calling the person I want. It's so unbelievably solved.
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Promising interview, but then he quickly devolves into the typical soundbites and catchphrases popular in politics (e.g., tax, borrow and spend, borrow from china, big government, big brother, moderate Republican) and doesn't really say much as a result.
Have you got a mail address I can reach you on?
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It's great to see knowledge like this compiled into one place. Unfortunately, it looks like the resource is only superficially open source.

I was about to make a pull request to fix a typo, when I found someone had already done so:
https://github.com/rstacruz/backbone-patterns/pull/3

If a objective correction like this takes 6 weeks (and counting!) to be merged, does the open nature of this page really matter?

Not that this detracts from the message, but take the claim "This is a massive work-in-progress." with a grain of salt.
I've suggest you to take a look at this post

http://blog.cppcms.com/post/99
Same as borrowing the stock, although still spread-betting is uncomfortably speculative for me.
Which is a feature I do not remember requesting from Google. Why opt out instead of opt in is anyone's guess.
As the parent commenter, I upvoted you. Yes, you can say that of most technological "advances". I agree entirely.

Very little genuine improvement happens in technology. Most of it is false starts. When it does happen, everyone notices it and everyone uses it.

Some major technological advances in the last 50 years: The Internet, Mobile Telephones, LCD screens good enough to replace CRTs, Vehicle safety improvements.

The telephone paradigm exists virtually unchanged in its mobile incarnation because it was that good to start with. Someone just got rid of the wires.
Just look at the results of patent. Large companies with money copy, despite of patents. Thats why all smartphones look the same and do the same. If its about Samsung against Apple, there will be endless lawsuits. If its Samsung against you, Samsung will go on using your patent and there is not much you can do against it.
This is an old argument: patents protect large companies. It is still true.

Just imagine where the internet would be now, if every website developer had to face lawsuits from various ingenuous inventors, who happened to use his two lines of code before him. It would only be manageable to develop internet code by Google and Facebook, with enough lawyers in their backoffice.
Yes it's a leveraged product but that doesn't mean you need to take any more risk. You can put on the equivalent risk of any physical trade. Tne only difference is you're not putting down the money upfront. And of course you can put on stop-loss limit to close the trade if your losses exceed your threshold.
And Chrome 17 isn't available on mobile devices. A similar feature is on Chrome for Android, but is on by default only if the user is connected through WiFi.
Aside from the other reasons mentioned here, email compresses fairly well so 8GB of email could end up using less disk than 1GB of photos (which are already compressed).
Not only that but mobile networks often limit the number of open tcp/udp connections to an unbelievably low number. You could easily DoS yourself out of the network's tcp stack.

Also, preloading and rendering something like ten pages in parallel when I really want only one implies wasted wattage. There goes your battery too.
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Clearly the patent is invalid: the Internet is represented as a bean, not a cloud.
The phone number exchange protocol you describe seems to demand that at least one of the persons is spelling out his/her phone number out loud ...

What I would expect is a protocol where both just should be able to connect their phones on short distance (bluetooth, whatever) and acknowledge an "exchange phone number with <person>?" dialog ...
They still are used, but just in a digital form. We interface with some unnamed software that requires you to recode data into 80 columns, 12 possible values per word (encoded as 12 usable bits within 2 8-bit bytes -- and only one bit can be set per word).

That turns some fixed-width layout into 80-column groups, with e.g. the requirement that the last 2 columns contain the card number, and the first 4 some record ID.

There isn't even any meta-data for that file, so someone out there must be sitting connected to a mainframe and punching in what card 1, position 5-7 contains US State ID or somesuch, before running the cards.
I use it for financial data on compagnies. For example, you can find out that Apple makes 521,000$ profit per employee per quarter: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple+profit%2Femployee...
Serious question: How easy is it for your friend to call you back immediately from the same device? An hour later from a different device? A week later from any device? If the convenience doesn't flow both ways, it's not a solved problem. [It might be, I really don't know.]
so whats Sundar Pichai - the guy who convinced goolges top management in 2008 to kill - the ready for launch - GDrive because files are "deprecated", "ungoogly" and a "thing of the past" doing nowadays?

according to his linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=5635&authType=na... you should contact him for "career opportunities"
I've been using the nick 'brk' for maybe 20 years, but I still frequently come across random places where it has already been taken.

So, you'd need a nick registry, like domain names, and you'd run into issues with your friends that have "common" nicks having to register and use a different name. I think this merely trades one well-known set of limitations for a much different and less understood set of limitations without actually truly solving anything.
Any idea abt cost of this replacement?
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket. This pretty much sums up why I will continue to use, and pay, for my Dropbox service for documents. I do not see how integration with Google's other services is a useful thing. They are just files. Now my photos and music, well Google already does that.

The good news is that Dropbox should integrate search soon. They will have to in order to keep up. Competition is a good thing for consumers.
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Let me introduce you to a world of people with laptops (bigger screen, easier to type on, supports actual work) tethered to their phones.
Remove money from the picture entirely and ask yourself what you'd like to recieve in exchange for your work.

If there is not a "fair value" then it probably shouldn't be being done. If it's for personal interest, don't expect a fair value for it.

People expect and somehow manage to get money at the moment for shit which is the problem.

When you put something on the free market, you are opening it to opinion and other people deciding the value. Think carefully first.
The last commit is the January 29th, I guess he just didn't notice the pull request
Google employees get to have a nice fat fiber-optic pipe to their offices. The only broadband I can get in my office park is a 1.5 mBit ADSL pipe. We also run phones and conferencing over that so QoS gives us even less. Sorry, but I have a right to be concerned.
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That's a new phenomenon though, people had to remember more phone numbers before mobile phones or built-in address books.

From muscle memory alone, I can still finger dial about a dozen phone numbers belonging to friends when I was a kid, even though it's been 28 years since I last called them. Funny thing is that I can't recall the numbers without mock dialling them.
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We made it work for emails.
And guessing an email of someone (which is hard to do) something that stopped us to adopt emails.

if its someone you have him in your friendcircle->app

I believe we need a proper open identity system in general but this could be a start.

The solution wont be facebook.com/nickname nor vox.io/nickname

It will be providerOrContextOrWorkplaces.com/name maybe
> ... but that's probably an intractable cryptographic process.

Not always.

Algorithms that append a hash to a file, preserving the same hash, i.e.

hash(s) == hash(s ++ hash(s))

http://stackoverflow.com/q/4823680/12048

A program that prints (though does not contain) a hash of itself:

http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html

(edited for formatting)
Any time you have a textarea element on your page.

Imagine you're writing a long response to a blog, and just as you are about to hit Submit, the page crashes. Now you can reload the page and your text will still be there!
It sounds like an interesting idea for auto-saving article text or similar longer submissions, which are sometimes lost if you accidentally quit the browser or something else goes wrong.
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This tutorial reminds me of Python reference by new riders from which I picked up and started coding fresh literate python in 2 days, writing code that worked and without bugs. I guess if you can show commonly used idioms and supply edge conditions such as "NaNs are toxic" - language learning happens in a snap. big thumbs up for the tutorial.
And we should have a lesser user experience because of that? No. Stay on Chrome 16 and quit complaining.
Absolutely agree.

I can also agree that since phones and the global system is important infrastructure, it would probably be a disaster to disrupt it for the sake of a modest convenience boost that is only applied to the world's wealthy. So, the suggestions aren't there yet.

But, man, haven't you felt the phone number system is 10 times as archaic now that cell phones are around? I can never call my credit card company with questions, because they ask my phone number for verification, and I can't remember which is on file (/slight exaggeration)! That became such a problem that governments decreed people were entitled to keep their number when they switched cell providers. We want to be tied to a single, convenient contact identifier, I think.
Dude. What is wrong with a JAR file?
An etc/host file is easy to use when you got it set up. Thrn its just a few clicks.

Thw fundamental problem is the same Numbers are a techincal layer i as a user dont zo know about
Thanks, the intranet business makes a little more sense.
This is also how the tabloids "hacked" peoples mobile phones. Many mobile telco voicemail systems are setup to recognize an incoming call to the VM system from a mobile # as being the owner of that mailbox.

I'm surprised this worked so well for the OP and you didn't just end up in everyones VM box.
Loading Google Maps plugin...

If you're using HTTPS Everywhere please disable it for
GoogleMaps since it makes the authorization request fail.
Tools Menu -> Add Ons -> HTTPS Everywhere Options -> Search
for 'GoogleMaps' -> Click on the green check mark to turn
it into a red x.

Is this a problem with the google maps 'plugin' or their implementation?
Branching strategy is not a remedy for instability
great reply. thanks for that!

reg bookmarks:
bookmarks is nothing you type in and make work. Its shortcuts to your favourites. And you dont bother about technical layers below.
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Wow! This comment prompted me to check how much of my gmail storage I am using, and it made me realize that my google account through Cornell gives me 25GB of storage. Oh how I wish I could use this 25GB as cloud storage.

http://i.imgur.com/ixlZ6.png
I don't know science so please pardon me if my comment makes no sense in this context.

What if by some stroke of luck, Challenger was extremely lucky enough to not explode on that 1st launch...What would happen to these righteous people such as Roger? Condemned by the people around them as some over worrying, insane self righteous people who thought they know everything. If you get what I mean...

It's sad that the challenger explosion happened, but at the same time it helps to highlight an important issue which may otherwise remain buried.

In software/web development context, it's of course harder to say this thing is going to blow up because a serious technical debt usually only climbs in after a much longer time for which by then, the people responsible may have left . Leaving the next victim to clean it up. This also is a sad state when it comes to final year projects, where students try to do everything that could impress to the graders on the outside to get the top grade. While students who make the extra effort for a clean and maintainble backend did not get the top grades because the lecturer only looks at the outside during presentation.
A viable solution going forward is to have browsers implement both the vendor-prefixed and non-vendor-prefixed versions of a property, but use the vendor-prefixed one preferentially. That would allow developers to use one non-prefixed rule in the common case where all supporting browsers implement the rule in the same way, but developers can target particular browsers if they deviate. Or if you're worried about the standard deviating, support vendor-rule and x-rule at the same time.

For the current webkit- mess, it's probably best to just have the vendors implement each others prefixes on a case-by-case basis (when you know the semantics are the same). There are way fewer browser vendors than there are website developers, and it's much easier to get them all in a room to agree on something.
These are not problems with phone numbers.
20 years ago I knew all phone numbers from my friends and kept them on paper.
I still keep them on paper.

The points you describe could also be said about e-mail addresses and website addresses.

This is about people putting too much trust in (electronic) technology.
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Does Google add protection against harmful websites? What if I typo a URL and it starts pre-loading a malware-filled website? Just curious.

A cool feature, but I think this should be opt-in.
Is this a joke? Chrome is known for its seriously agressive update system. Meaning staying on Chrome 16 is nigh on impossible. Not that I really have an opinion on the auto-loading of URLs mind you.
Why is HN letting me submit this link?

Has it never been posted here before? I really doubt that!
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Is there a java library to directly create spark lines in Java? https://github.com/holman/spark
Reducing Firefox startup I/O on Linux.
Imagine if you're replying a long thoughtful reply to this post and you lose because you close the window, or your browser crashed. Load the page again and it'll be there.

We use this for Teambox, where users type long long descriptions for some things.
The return path works just like normal. Just hit the dial-back button on your phone or VoIP software and the phone that I used to phone you will start ringing. It gets interesting when we both have SIP/ENUM. I could call you from my mobile when I am at home and, when you ring me back, my home phone could ring because my SIP preference says to use that first.

The only tricky thing is your own SIP/ENUM preference. It needs to know where incoming calls need to go. But that can be automated (e.g. your phone sees your home wifi network and thus sets the preference to ring the home phone first).

Other neat stuff is possible too. One of my coworkers has linked his home phone to his cellphone. When you call his home number, both his home phone and cell phone will ring, even when he is at work. Whichever device answers first gets the call.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3560455

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3553776

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3546472

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3570484
> Telephone numbers need a DNS system!

LOL. Apparently the author is too young to remember phone books.

As an aside: Older folks will remember Sun receiving a lawsuit from the newly disintegrated phone system regarding their use of "yellow pages". They issued an update which took the "yp" prefix out of their commands.
"I trust Dropbox way more than Google."

I'd be worried about Google doing the wrong thing correctly and Dropbox doing the right thing incorrectly.

Given that, I'm not sure who I would actually trust more.
I have only anecdotal evidence from people that are masochistic enough to compile their stuff natively, I prefer to cross-build.
> Great social change requires number 1.

Movie studios and the recording industry can, at best, delay the inevitable. Artificial scarcities are against the laws of thermodynamics.

Of all the money these industries make, only the tiniest fraction of it goes to the people who actually produced the good. Most of it is inefficiently applied in side operations such as promoting sales, manufacturing the physical support for the art, moving and storing it and selling it. All these operations can be reduced to a download and, perhaps, a payment.
Isn't .tel a step in the right direction here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel
I'm a bit skeptical. The lines between what makes a language "strong future-time-reference" and "weak future-time-reference" aren't clear cut. All languages have ways of separating future from present. Choosing a slightly different way of categorising languages makes the correlation with savings dissapear.

http://languagesoftheworld.info/language-and-mind/you-save-w...
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Steam is such a good, user-friendly platform

Until you piss the wrong person off(or fate strikes), they close your account and you lose everything you bought with them.
It's a great idea, and I have it queued to be installed to my Android phone.

Q: how does this make money? Do large commercial mailers actually pay to have a streamlined unsubscribe mechanism, or is there another customer that I'm missing?
At least on Linux — default — wide build:

$ /usr/bin/python -c'import sys; print sys.maxunicode'
1114111
I wouldn't be so sure: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/2316022...
Quite impressive! It shows a great potential. A simple editor would make it a killer service. Kudos!
An /etc/hosts file is something you set up locally. How is that different than an address book then? I feel like I must be missing something.
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zipped here: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-viewer.php?dir=/pub/os2/doc&file=OS290-v2_90-OS2WProgramming-rel1.zip
I'd love to build a widget that would inform me of how many years/weeks/days old I am.

As a matter of fact.. to the nerdcave!
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Here's the first four images... ready for parsing by your program:

:::: image 1, left:

s-tac-toe equals minus-dot seven ex comma slash-slash-backslash gamma capital-l lower-j ex slash

:::: image 1, right, downward

capital-t capital-i equals four parallel-lines slash-slash-backslash equals-slash comma s-tac-toe slash-slash-backslash slash-slash-backslash-backslash comma

:::: image 1, left, upper

capital-l divided-by capital-i comma equivalent comma lower-j comma capital-f slash-slash-backslash capital-i squared-capital-n zee slash-slash-backslash-backslash comma divided-by slash-slash comma slash-backslash-backslash slash-slash minus-dot slash-slash-backslash

:::: image 2

plus-dot plus leaning-heart upsidedown-t minus vertical-line ex comma

leaning-heart capital-m capital-i capital-a minus three-peaks comma vertical-line crap capital-b close-bracket plus script-j script-s lower-d comma

u-bar three-peaks capital-i

:::: image 3

capital-l backslash divided-by c-slash-slash capital-i comma capital-i equivalent divided-by slash-slash-backslash-backslash comma capital-i minus-dot three-horizontal-two-vertical ex comma equals zee capital-l

l-in-l 11-over-1 comma y-slash-slash slash-slash-backslash-backslash comma capital-i divided-by comma minus-lower-dot c-omega slash-slash slash-i 11-over-1 slash-slash square-c equals capital-l equivalent slash-slash comma

capital-l slash-slash slash comma l-on-l plus slash-backslash-backslash slash-slash-backslash-backslash comma 1-slash-1 11-over-1 capital-z comma capital-i equals ex comma j divided-by c-slash-slash slash-slash capital-l
divided-by slash-slash ex comma

:::: image 4 (repeats image 2)

plus-dot plus leaning-heart upsidedown-t minus vertical-line ex comma

leaning-heart capital-m capital-i capital-a minus three-peaks comma vertical-line crap capital-b close-bracket plus script-j script-s lower-d comma

u-bar three-peaks capital-i
Really a nice feature, helpful in many scenarios...
It is of course stupid that iOS doesn't sandbox and require permission of apps to access the address book. Apple needs to fix this. But it is not enough.

I keep a lot of data about people in my address book in addition to phone numbers and email addresses: birthdate, names of children and spouses, residential and work postal and physical addresses, gift ideas, group affiliations, etc.

I am happy to click "OK" if an app asks for essentially the social graph information that I've already exposed through Twitter and Facebook. I don't want an app to have the other data I've curated. Even if you can trust the app vendor to not be evil, you can't guarantee they won't leak the data through incompetence.

So while Apple really should require permission for apps to get access to the address book, we really need a new model more sophisticated than all or nothing.
Is the removal process automated, or are you relying on something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
Requires Silverlight (or equivalent - http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ for example)