skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[T]o give a corporation more rights than individuals is really saying that the principals, and perhaps employees, of that corporation are given more rights...

This is a common misconception, and probably at the root of the logical fallacy that has resulted in the absurdity of corporations being treated legally as conscious beings. In reality, decision-making and action can be so diffused in a large organization that no individual could possibly be held morally responsible for the resulting collective action. If you've ever been caught in a human stampede, you will understand the feeling of being part of something terribly destructive, and yet helpless to stop it. A corporation (and any other large social organization) is a complex adaptive system, truly a separate entity in its own right. But not an entity with anything resembling human intelligence, and certainly not an entity that can be deterred by legal sanctions any more than a mob can be deterred, short of sanctions that actually dissolve the entity. The best we can do is to deter piecemeal identifiable individual actions, but this does not come close to solving the problem of regulating corporate behavior, and in fact can obscure the problem by perpetuating the myth that for every corporate action there is a responsible human decisionmaker.
The problem is hard. For linux, for example, there's just wuala and spideroak.

http://skeptu.com/secure-alternatives-to-dropbox
My guess is that what happened was the benefits of the monopoly like status vaned off.

We saw that here in DK when they privatized the state controlled telco here.

For a number of decades I guess since the 30s and up till around the eighties those organisations where stable enough with few enough "paradigm" shifts in technology that it would make sense to maintain an R&D division with a long outlook.

But after the internet revolution it's my guess that they couldn't maintain the 10 year horizons they often had the luxury to work within. The competition is now constant and the "innovation cycles" narrowed in which means that you will miss out on revenue each paradigm creates.

I think this is why ultimately places like Bell Labs and Rank Xerox makes no sense anymore.

The irony of all this is of course that in some sense it slows innovation down because each new trend is being sucked dry before the industry moves on.
Ql2500-firmware (crazy package update details)
what do you mean? "cat > file" allows you to create simple text file not just empty files. As long as you don't need advanced editing, it is the quickest way to do it (well I think).
Both coffee script and sass were already were receiving massive uptake before they were included in Rails.

TDD as a cultural norm was Rails' biggest contribution. That was a good thing and was an opinion that few developers with argue with.
Depends on how much you believe in what you're building.

If you think it's really that great, you should jump in, slash your expenses to the floor, and work 100 hours per week. Particularly if you have no family / kids to take care of; you can afford a greater level of risk.

If it's not that great, consider not doing it at all. Save your investment (time, money, heart, etc) for something better that will inevitably come along.

If you're not willing to suffer intensely, if necessary, for what you're building, it might not be the right thing to dedicate your time to. Sometimes it takes an extreme amount of sweat to get to the finish line, you have to factor that in if you're going to run the race.
Singleness: The Merry Happy Life?
Naw, if you work with Ruby, I'd just work on creating an ecosystem of interchangeable parts around Sinatra.
An overview of Memory Management Changes in iOS 5
Keen to learn about Building a Search Engine
NodeJS, CoffeeScript, & Cross-Domain DataServices | Rich Experiences on the Grid
Don't forget "tac" - the reverse of "cat".
DeepLinks with Flash & Swiz IoC
The death has to be possible; Light tests out the limits early and finds IIRC that if you specify an imprisoned criminal dies outside the prison, the Death Note just gives up and kills them normally or something like that. 'Batman' and 'space laser' are right out, as is making criminals solve NP-hard or Halting problems.
> USS liberty was an accident that happened 40 years ago

The sale of the Phalcon radar to China is recent.
The AIPAC espionage case is current
http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2009/09/01/steve-ros...

Why aren't these big news?
Do you want more examples?

> But any case your tripe does not belong on Hacker News! Go back to reddit!

Your tripe belongs on http://masada2000.org/
What is and is Snot Your Product's Job
In the Midst of The Digital Transition for Journalism
Fimally? Finnally? Big typo on "handwritten" note?
I'd say I'm pretty heavy keyboard user - a touch-typing programmer, about 15 years in the profession. So what do I have to say about this? When your RSI begins, ergonomic keyboard may help you, may not help you, and often can make the problem even worse.

The way I see it, there are 2 main causes of RSI:

1) you work under stress, and you are hitting the keys much stronger and you are flexing your muscles much more than when you are more relaxed - this is a tremendous strain on your hands,

2) you are using a certain keyboard shortcut or successive combination thereof, or you are repeating certain specific movement which is causing you the RSI, while the RSI feels as if it's coming from the general usage of the keyboard, from generally using it too much.

3) (bonus point) It's something unrelated, like a missing vitamin or mineral in your body, or a heightened presence of a free radical or some other negative element. (I'm not a doctor so I won't elaborate here.)

I don't know how many ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft I destroyed while I was still on PC, but now I'm on a MBP 17" and at one point I had to work with a bandage on my left hand, in pain. Turned out the cause were the shortcuts for application and window switching on OS X. This was CMD+Tab and CMD+` (on an US keyboard layout, so the both Tab and ` are kind of higher). So what I did, I searched for an app[1] to remap the keys to a much more sane[2] combinations, and that fixed my hand.

[1] KeyRemap4Macbook, my config here: https://github.com/ypocat/misc/blob/master/keyremap4macbook/...

[2] this just made me realize the default shortcut combinations for app and window switch are in fact insane. And I don't think Lion solves this with the 2 finger swipe, which is one hell of a long movement, if you have to do it hundreds(?) times a day. At least the swipe gives you a switching direction, as otherwise, generally, app and window switching is one of the weakest design points of OS X, IMHO.
This has been going on for quite some time at the WSJ. The only truly newsworthy part of this story is that, after being frustrated by a partial page teaser, the author actually coughed up $260 for a year of WSJ when he knew he could wait for an offer of $100 less. Rupert Murdoch must be rubbing his hands.
I do work at Google, and I'm saying that Norvig's description is still accurate. It was true when I was hired in 2010, and it's true now for the candidates I interview now.

I'm not sure why it's relevant that Google has sometimes hired sub-standard people. Of course it has. Interviewing isn't perfect, and sometimes we make mistakes.
That does not work, but

:>foo

(the happy file creation operator) does.
Not sure who kiss metrics is and I'm on my iPhone so not gonna check before posting, but this looks like a shitty Jason calacanis, mahalo style content farm article. There probably is something to the thesis "graphic design doesn't necessarily equal higher revenue" (I mean duh, see digg) but this post didn't support the thesis in a meaningful way.
Finally, a reason to force myself to touch-type numbers.
I thought he meant doing it manually. Using XHR is trivial isn't it?
Has the entire population of HN suddenly lost the ability to comprehend English?

Demanding unpaid labour has nothing to do with you or anyone else volunteering labour. My words cannot possibly be construed as saying volunteer work in open source is slavery.
A Better Responsive Image Format
We varied the price of one of our products. What we saw was that pricing was perfectly elastic. In other words, our gross revenue would remain constant...There's no way to use price to increase or decrease the size of your business.

I really wanted to say something pithy and wise here, but this subject truly confounds me. I have many types of product out there: websites, apps, and e-books. I charge nothing for websites, nothing for apps, and a good bit for my e-books.

I have to say as a content producer, I'm much happier selling ten copies of my book about being a ScrumMaster for fifty bucks each (shameless plug: http://tiny-giant-books.com/scrummaster.htm ) than I am having 20K people visit my wife's recipe site each month where I might make 40 bucks from ads. (http://hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/) Of course, she feels much differently about this!

I've been reading about startups and pricing for some time. It's my conclusion, for what it's worth, that you have to experiment and figure out this stuff as you go along. It wouldn't surprise me if different people with the same kinds of content have completely different pricing models. Looks to me like the pricing model is based more on how the usage scenario fits into a particular user demographic than the type of product you are selling (apps, content, books, services, etc.) The average usage scenario of a technical person wanting greater efficiency from his expensive set of computers is completely different than somebody looking for a list of instructions on how to prepare tater tot casserole. Or somebody wanting to share a random 140-character quip.
Programming language readability: Python vs Haskell
I hope the price wars don't affect the reliability of those services. I'm a heavy user of dropbox and the most important files I have (family photos etc) are also stored there.
You have utterly lost the context of the thread, which was an insufferable fool whining about developers welcoming patches instead of doing whatever is demanded of them.
Some Good Deeds
Microsoft replaces the power adapter.. in case you are using it in India and bought in US
Oh no... I hate the small tabs on top of Windows. By making them variable size, you always had to hunt the functions on the right part of the tab.

But I agree it was beautiful. Back then I made a BeOS theme for my Windows NT 4 box.
At first, I really agreed with this piece. I think it's an awesome point that the overuse of the word innovative deflates its meaning, just like calling every programmer a "hacker" or saying "let's do this 'the hacker way!'" makes it less meaningful, or calling every member of the military a 'national hero' is maybe a little degrading to purple-heart recipients.

But on a second reading, this article really uses a straw man. Comparing a facebook and a few cherry-picked innovations from Bell Labs is a little disingenuous for a few reasons.

The most obvious comes from the fact that there were a lot of people working at Bell Labs. See that first picture? Halls so long they ended in the vantage point? There were a lot of ideas that never quite made a splash in the 70 years of Bell Lab's heyday.

The second part is that the innovations of Bell Labs may not have been lost, but transferred. There's still quite a lot of research done in this country, although most of hit has slowly been shifting to universities. I'm not sure if this is better, but no one can say there isn't tons of cool stuff being done for the "understanding" and not the short-term profit. I think there should be more, but that's not the point. While we're cherry-picking, I might point out brain machine interfaces that let monkeys (and soon humans) control prosthetic limbs directly from their brains, nano-scale machines a few molecules large, quantum computers. These things are anything but short-term profit focused, and everything but falsely innovative.

Finally, the real straw man lies with the fact that Bell Labs has the benefit of hindsight. We now know the transistor was an incredibly useful invention. Before we knew what we could really do with computers, it wasn't quite so obvious. It might end up that facebook doesn't turn out anything more innovative than extremely well executed social networking, but that's going to take more than 8 years to find out.

Don't overuse innovation, but don't become so narrowmindedly awed by the past that you don't take part in the tumult of things that might (or might not) share the same sentences as the transistor when someone write an article in 30 years wondering why we don't have the same pizzazz as those Silicon Valley entrepreneurs at Google.
They appear to be charging for commercial use only.

What do you think a reasonable fee would be?
Flexible Rubber eInk Reader Video
as much as it says that in a fielding-style rest system the URLs and verbs are opaque, he spends a lot of time nitpicking over the format of urls.

unless the resource in question is exposed as an endpoint, the url and verb are handled by the link or form discovered by the client, and invisible to the client.

as for versioning - versioning the mime types is a useful thing, but it does still make sense to use a different url if you are using different links and forms to navigate the service.
This being an article by KISSmetrics, I was disappointed there were no actual numbers or research done for the article. Unless I missed something, not a single statement was backed up with actual data. The only study mentioned in the entire article was in the context of ad copy and was done over 30 years ago (I'm assuming they're referring to a study from Ogilvy on Advertising [1] but I could be wrong).

For example:

If the images you’re using are not clearly tied to your value proposition, or to the central theme of your page, then they will only confuse your readers. At best, they’ll be pointless distractions. At worst, they’ll give the wrong impression and lead readers to feel tricked or disappointed.

In my experience, the blog posts I've written gain much more traction when they have images, even pointless stock images (I have experimented with this). So while I agree, that ideally, images should provide actual value to the story, I've found that a couple pointless stock images are better than no images. This is why I would have really liked to see actual evidence to back up their claims.

EDIT: Also, while we're on the topic, I also hate including all those social sharing widgets, but viewership takes a dramatic hit when they're not there.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Ogilvy-Advertising-David/dp/039472903X
What if someone makes a better-designed iTunes that happens to work using piracy instead of legitimate sales? Or comes close enough that $0.99 isn't worth it?
Regenemies: A very simple game in Clojure
> I, for one, copied a lot more sex moves from films I'd seen than I did karate moves.

That is probably because you are biologically inclined to do so (and the "moves" are just how you do it, not when or why)
| cat > file vs. touch file

With 'cat > file' you can actually type in the file's contents (then press ^d to finish). 'touch file' merely creates an empty file. (Not that I think 'cat > file' is much faster than 'vi file')
Samsung Galaxy Beam (GT-I8530) (with built in projector)
ps has a nasty habit of truncating its output. Piping it into cat is a way around this. E.G.

$ echo $COLUMNS
118

$ ps -fp 14706
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 14706 14705 0 Jan29 pts/3 00:00:00 sudo -p [local sudo] Password: python /usr/lib/sshuttle/main.py pytho

$ ps -fp 14706 | cat
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 14706 14705 0 Jan29 pts/3 00:00:00 sudo -p [local sudo] Password: python /usr/lib/sshuttle/main.py python -v --firewall 12300 0
What do you mean it doesn't work? ">file" will work on all POSIX shells, it even works on Solaris /bin/sh!

Also ":>" is not an operator, it's ":" (a built-in command that does nothing and returns true) and a redirection.
You don't need the dash. This is enough:

cat | grep "something"
I lived in Bergamo a few years ago and fell in love with that city. I also had the opportunity to visit the San Pellegrino casino and spring. So, in the name of nostalgia I have an excuse to obsess over it right?

Si, sono Italiano
This is a good question. Everyone's situation is different, but if you are young with no family to support, I think it's best to minimize expenses so you can minimize time spent at a day job, and thus maximize "free time" to work on your project. You may have to be creative and/or lucky about finding a free or cheap living situation, that is still conducive to productivity. If you are really passionate about your startup, though, it will be worth it; you'll know for yourself what sacrifices are worth it to you.

If you can find a part-time job with relatively high wages per hour and some flexibility, that's a good compromise between working a full time day job and being completely unemployed.

Depending on your personal risk tolerance and risk attitude, you can supplement/replace your part-time income with savings or credit.

If you're really creative, you can do something akin to Airbnb's cereal stunt to raise money. :-p

Again, the answer to this question is going to vary depending on your situation, and even for the same situation, people will have different advice based on their own experiences and values.
So how did they test whether swapping it had no effect?
I'm not sure it would work well with tiling windows. Tiled UIs must adapt to very different window sizes and, probably, switch layouts accordingly.
Anyone who missed it: the link in there to TDD Sudoku is well worth a visit: http://devgrind.com/2007/04/25/how-to-not-solve-a-sudoku/
Custom verbs aren't really necessary. You can do some of your "method" naming in the URI. One example could be: /sum?number=1&number=2 which, when a GET is issued, will return a representation of 3.

If you need to perform some action that can be expected to take time, you can issue a POST request, which can give you a new resource that reports back on its current state. An example could be: POST /printer with the request body containing the document to print. It could assign a URI that tells you the status of the document (location in queue) and you can DELETE it if you no longer want to print the document.
Ok, I should read more carefully. I thought the article uses cat > file followed by ^D to create empty files.

Of course when having some text cat > file is just fine.
You can also check the GTK theming tutorial (for Gnome 2 and 3):

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes

or get in touch with the design team at Canonical:

http://design.canonical.com/
^Malcom Gladwell's "Blink"
It's all in your head. This is a must read for any stressed out programmer, founder, new parent -

http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...
Yes, but what is the basic intent? It is to make/keep things reasonably available (in the constitution (USA) and/or the standard economic view) . . .
I don't get it. I thought Galaxy Note clearly referred to the medium-sized stylus-driven PDA replacement - why would they compete against their own Galaxy Tab brand? Does anyone know if there is a technical reason to separate stylus-driven and multitouch devices?
Agreed. Lets not forget that Google has X labs, and while secretive, we at least know they will pave the way for augmenting reality and self-driving cars. That's pretty innovative.
Can We Just Eliminate Textbooks?
What's wrong with CamelCase names?
Availability varies significantly by region. For whatever reason, some parts of the US are Coke-centric and others are Pepsi-centric.
Can you shed some light on what percentage of the company do the investors own now? How did you or they did the valuation?

I see the funding numbers everywhere but rarely see how much equity was given away in the transaction.
Movie Download Sites
Everything I know about Haskell leads me to believe its purpose is to be a research bed for functional programming concepts. Correctness is first; speed is a nice thing that happened later. And readability is even less important. This is like comparing granite to glass regarding translucence.

And, actually, if you do it right you can end up with readable, imperative Haskell.
Earlier submission and much discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3635489
Great interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker highlighting the hypocritical nature of the MPAA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzblNKjsO0
People !== users
I've used it on both Windows and Linux and sync works pretty much flawless.
As a person who's spent over $1500 of time trying to get synergy working (Time I could have spent on customer projects), I'm purchasing 3 copies of this on monday.
Science isn't a finite spectrum, so of course there's much to be done in all fields. But this article specifically laments the fact that the term "innovation" is no longer strongly associated with substantive breakthroughs in relatively unknown areas.

Bell Labs pioneered many practical applications of microscience; nanoscience is the next level down that remains vastly unexplored and has very few practical applications associated with it (yet).
> The sale of the Phalcon radar to China is recent.

You mentioned the USS Liberty and then I mentioned that it happened long ago. Then you mention something completely different and unrelated. Don’t change the topic and just answer me this:

1. Did the USS Liberty event happen more than 40 years ago?

2. Was it an accident?

> The sale of the Phalcon radar to China is recent.

Israel did not sell the Radar to China, you are lying to me.

Israel wanted to sell the systems to China and asked for permission from the USA. The USA denied it and they didn't sell it.

So what? The biggest trading partner of China is the USA. Do you see China as an enemy of the USA? Should the USA stop trading with China?

I would say that that is pretty nice from the sovereign state of Israel to ask for US permission first.

> Your tripe belongs on http://masada2000.org/

Again you accuse me of being either Jewish or a Jewish puppet. This is pathetic of you and I am quite sad of what has become of Hacker News.

I know it is quite fashionable for people with too much time on their hands to jump on some PC bandwagon such as Israel bashing. I just don’t think that you are ill informed, extremely naive and a hypocrite.

Hacker News was one of the last social sites where this tripe has been kept at bay. It is just sad that the likes of you will now also ruin HN.
I've been using GeoNames for this functionality to allow users to auto-fill their location & timezone using geolocation for browsers that support it.

Their API endpoint is at http://ws.geonames.org/timezoneJSON?lat=&lng=

I've been using it for so long that I don't even know where their docs are anymore.
The author seems to confuse natural selection with evolution.
I think that was called Napster...
ssh othermachine x2x -to :0 -east
The fact that they had Shockley tour-guiding Richard Feynman shows that Bell Labs was more than just a big pile of patient capital.