skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice idea. I built a one part device.

Sadly it looks like there's a bug in Google's saving code, so there's an extra (completely unnecessary) wall.

https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmd...

If you're going to share your output, make sure that what you're sharing is what you saved!

Edit: And on top of that, it depends on your screen size. Hopefully the registration system doesn't have as many problems!
A few years ago there was rampant speculation that Apple was going to bless some other language to overcome the deficiencies in Objective-C. Now it seems they're just amping the compiler with things like this, and the adding things like ARC to the runtime.
School makes 6th grader give up her Facebook password
A response to the president of the Author's Guild on e-book pricing
How about we recommend Denmark to start extraditing people to Iran and Saudi Arabia for Muhammad cartoons? I'm sure it's possible to find a nexus there, if that's all it takes.
Death by Internet? (Tyler Clementi’s suicide)
Thomas Jefferson's 1788 quote, in a way, portends this: "the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." The dictionary definition of government ("authoritative direction or control") ostensibly extends this to encompass corporations. Patents are merely one of many tactics for corporations gain control; it's nothing new, and it ought to be expected.

Notwithstanding the foreseeability of patent warfare, I remain despondent toward "unwritten rules" in American law. Yes, they exist; it's no surprise that defendants in criminal cases who assert their 6th Amendment rights to a speedy trial that they subsequently lose will suffer a heightened penalty. The seminal case on this subject, Bordenkircher v. Hayes, specifically endorses threats of stiffer sentences to entice criminal defendants to waive their right to trial and plead guilty to a lesser offense. One can model this as a game of imperfect information, with society reaping the rewards.

So the author's reliance on this de facto "rule not to litigate" is flawed. The real problem arises when companies exclude others from practicing a technology in which that company's property interest is a mere subterfuge. Rarely do companies practice the technologies for which they've secured patent protection, and that brings me to my last Thomas Jefferson quote:

A man has a right to use a saw, an axe,
a plane, separately; may he not combine
their uses on the same piece of wood?
He has a right to use his knife to cut
his meat, a fork to hold it; may a
patentee take from him the right to
combine their use on the same subject?
Such a law, instead of enlarging our
conveniences, as was intended, would
most fearfully abridge them, and crowd
us by monopolies out of the use of the
things we have.

However, we should be careful not to criticize the managers of these companies too much: they have a fiduciary duty of care to the corporation. Is there another "unwritten rule" that shareholders of a (struggling) corporation won't launch a derivative suit against the board of directors for failure to assert the corporation's patent rights against an infringing third party?

So in my view, the solution isn't at the corporate level; it's at the national level. As such, patent reform should be a national issue addressed by politicians. Patent term length [c|sh]ould be proportional to the research expenses actually incurred. Alternatively, we might want want a "patent abandonment doctrine" that moves to public domain those patents whose rights haven't been enforced (almost like in trademark law). Even still, we might want to wholly abandon the right to transfer or sell patents (and for that matter, all intellectual property) entirely. I haven't researched the ramifications of these potential solutions, so they're offered merely as points for discussion.
This blog posting certainly makes me believe he does not.
Has Apple's Enterprise Domination Already Begun?
> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

Taken from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Design from the Gut: Dangerous or Differentiator?
That ARS writeup is pretty one-sided.

I love how they paint him up as a poor student, and don't mention the $250,000+ he made off the site. This was absolutely not just piracy, but PROFITING from piracy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9013803/Student-R...
Attack of the Startup Clones
CSS3 Interactive Calendar
>This is completely out of hand now. The US is now a country where you are guilty until proven innocent.

Am I missing something? Has he been found guilty? Why is an extradition the same thing as being "guilty until proven innocent"? By definition, extradition is before a trial has occurred. After he has been extradited is when the trial will occur.
The current political and legal sell-out to the US makes me, and I believe many fellow-Europeans, increasingly angry in a way that is fundamentally different from any anti-American feelings for instance during the Bush-years.

Disagreeing with US foreign policy is one thing, but being on the receiving end of US meddling through political and legal corruption in a way that undermines our civil rights cuts way deeper.
If I recall correctly he didnt break any laws in the UK.
I'm pretty sure the basic assumptions of the economics y'all are discussing are not met because they require concave production functions. According to micro theory (I'm trying to recall Mas-Colell here so maybe way off), a linear production function as we have with internet distribution results in corner solutions of 0 or infinite production, and either way can't be priced (taking record production to be a sunk cost, which it is by common definition).

Point being, any argument that relies on a micro framework is bunk because we've reached a level of technology where convex production sets are no longer an obvious assumption.
Which part of the ecosystem is holding you back then?
For traditional wafer processes, you consume a great deal more feedstock than goes into the active portion of a wafer, and even then you may end up grinding away much of the material such as in the case of backlit imaging sensors.

This 'exfoliation' approach in some ways plays into the concept Elon Musk floated about SpaceX - the actual atoms in a booster are relatively simple, they just need to be arranged in the right way.
Where did you see newsletter at?
Bush launched directly into his answer before hardly taking a breath, spoke hastily, tripping over his own words, pausing frequently and inappropriately during sentences in ways that did not suggest composure but rather confusion and incompetence

I pretty much had this speech impediment and had to see a speech language pathologist to get it fixed :) Your description contrasting the two types of pauses nails it.
It's possible, but there's still a lot of details that need to be worked out. For example, how do you deal with projects that don't spend all of the money that was collected? If you've raised $100M to make a movie, it must be tempting to only spend $10M, and pocket the rest.
Ask HN: Why we estimate software products?
I don't understand why we estimate how long software product takes to be ready. Other than for clients who want to know how long their cash will last. Software developers will of course add features to the product as long as you have cash to pay them.

Building software is not like building house. When you build a house you can easily calculate how many wooden blanks, bricks etc go into the house. From that you can calculate how long it will take to finish.

For simplified example I want to build a house 170 square meters in size. 3 meters high. I want the outer wall to be from planks and the indoor wall plasterboard and 100 millimeters of wool between them.

Lets say the 170 square meter area is divided to 5 rooms, kitchen, living room, large bathroom with sauna, two bedrooms. The kitchen is 30 squaremeters, the living room is 55 squaremeters, the bathroom is 25 squaremeters, both of the bedrooms are 40 squaremeters.

The wooden planks are 3 meters long, 10 centimeters wide and 22 millimeters thick. The whole outer wall will take 3400 wooden planks. I nail one in 10 minutes. It will take me about 600 hours to make the outer wall. Then I do the indoor walls by putting the wool. I place one wool in about 2 minutes and the wool is 600x600x100 millimeters in size. It will take me 49 hours to put the wool. 55 hours to put the 1,2x3 meter plasterboard. All of this can be calculated easily from the size of the building area and the size of the materials.

This does not work in software projects, because there exists so many ways to create one kind of software. Software is complex and it will get even more complex. We don't even have good estimation system for the size of software project, so how we are so focused on estimating how long it takes to create one?

Of course we can give estimates on how long the project will take to build from similar past projects though I never will estimate how long a specific project will take to build. I can tell a customers we will build it as long as they have cash to give me.
Micro-Volunteering as Part of Your Ambient Mobile Platform
You are probably talking about apt-xapian-index. It rebuilds its indexes once a week, consuming all system resources.
I had an old notebook, which became unusable every weekend. I did not want to buy a new machine, so I simply deinstalled apt-xapian-index package. :-)
I don't know about beauty, but I realized I was done with math during my functions of a real variable class when we did a proof to the extent of, "There exists a rational number between any two irrational numbers. There exists an irrational number between any two rational numbers. Prove that their are more irrational numbers then rational numbers." Re countably infinite versus uncountably infinite.

Thankfully my crypto course came along a few years later and restored my faith in math.
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No it isn't. It's usually a fund manager spending other people's money; if s/he strikes out too many times, the money leaves and the fund closes down.
It wouldn't be possible if you government didn't cooperate. They're just as much to blame in this case.
Microsoft warns: Expect exploits for critical Windows worm hole
That's what BlueStacks claims it will deliver:

http://bluestacks.com/ces/
Couldn't it also hint that Windows Phone 8 will have the same core as Windows 8?
Brits have been complaining about this ever since the treaty was signed. I think generally we're currently more concerned about changes to our health system.

Plus the USA is hardly the PRC.
Correct because in the UK members of parliament are not elected to represent the complete morons at the MPAA and RIAA.
So his domains and servers are seized while the "investigation" is pending?

The UK could've done their part and stopped this from happening in the first place. They are way out of bounds stepping over into other countries to pursue legal action for this. The site wasn't operated in the US. Who was threatened by a link site? There's much bigger fish in the sea of copyright infringement.

SOPA and PIPA may have gotten shelved, but this just proves US will do what it wants anyway.
Brian Fargo heads up Wastleland 2 kickstarter - raises $200k+ in 7 hours
> The kid made $230,000 by helping users view copyrighted material they did not pay for. That sounds pretty jail worthy to me.

Sounds like an entrepreneur to me.
Its not waste. Research and innovations help society. They use the massive cash pile to innovate in newer areas rather improving the same product for years. Failure does not mean loss always !!
Typesafe Stack 2.0 released
It probably is, but trust me, you wouldn't want to use it. Because it does hardware level emulation, the Android emulator is unbelievably slow. Way too slow for normal use.

Edited to add: There have been efforts to build android simulators, i.e. compile android for x86 and don't do hardware level emulation. This is how iPhone and WP7 testing is done already, and would run perfectly fast enough.
When the extradition process is started, it is because the relevant authorities have already decided the individual is guilty. Otherwise, they would not bother spending so much time and effort trying to apprehend him. Juries are invariably biased against foreigners, so the chances of an acquittal are basically zero.
I dunked my phone into my water to try this, but I cant get the camera app to come up any more.

JK -- this is actually really cool.

There is something else that would work too. This weekend I took my daughters to the Exploratorium in SF - in the little shop, my oldest wanted this book which was a "friendship bracelet" kit.

It included these clear plastic "drops" which you place over the stickers you choose to place on the bracelet, thus magnifying them.

I would think that one of these could be placed over the lens and act just the same as the droplet -- although I am not sure on their clarity.

I'll have to grab one when I get home to test it.
Robots take a giant leap
Heh, he criticizes silicon valley for "indifference to copyright" for being actively against SOPA/PIPA? I think it's more like "acutely aware of how overzealous copyright law extension will doom the world."

The only issues which are legitimate are corporate governance -- the dual class share and other voting structures of Google, Facebook, etc. In practice, they're that way because public market investors (and boards of public companies) are basically incompetent at exercising effective oversight, so a smart CEO/founder is a lot less objectionable than a random selection of pension fund representatives. I'd prefer a world with working boards.

It's also kind of indefensible for boards to keep such huge piles of cash (>$100b at Apple alone), and for some kinds of executive compensation decisions (at failing companies, or in the form of golden parachutes). Defective corporate governance is not a silicon valley specific problem, though.
But, OTOH, you learned how to use EC2 while still making a profit. So not entirely bad.
What it boils down to is the scale that these organizations operate and the limited investment in customer service means that CS operations can't spend the time to understand problems. They build a decision tree that doesn't capture the subtleties of the real world and then implement it in a draconian way giving no autonomy to the people implementing the decisions. This is how a Strad copy violin can be seen as a fake when copying Strads has been a common and accepted practice for centuries.

I always said that the service of all online companies is great until something goes wrong. How they handle mistakes and problems is the real test.
> Without copyright, for example, movies would have to recoup (most of) their production costs before ever showing the film to the public.

Kinda true, although lots of films make more money through merchandising than the box office.

But even in that situation, why can't movies be funded by crowdsourcing? I'm sure there's lots of fans of LoTR who'd be happy to crwodfund The Hobbit, for example.
For reform, the trick is to find a solution that works at two ends of the spectrum:

1) A pharma company spends $1B on R&D to develop a drug and get FDA approval. If someone could knock off the resulting compound at 10 cents per pill, we wouldn't have the drug.

2) Software companies, where there are hundreds of potential patents to file or infringe on, and there is tons of iterative evolution.
Whats the iPhone/iPad's lag?
That only works in desert type environments (i.e. little to no cloud cover) where the temperature goes up and down each day.

Where I live if it gets hot it says hot, day and night. And most of the country is the same.

Although, obviously, incremental improvements are great even if only some people can use them.
Does not work in Opera... until "masking as Firefox". Then it's just slow. Still don't get why to block it out though...
Java EE wins over Spring
> There are very good reasons to not cover 100% of the cost of education with "free money" -- bringing it down in cost to the point where the poor can afford it at some acceptable sacrifice should be the goal. Lowering the actual cost of delivering community college classes makes more sense than trying to use federal money to subsidize inefficient producers, too.

I think that you shouldn't have to sacrifice anything to become educated. I think that would mean the poor are always sacrificing relatively more than their richer contemporaries. If we don't cover the entire cost of education for those most unable to pay then we are continuing the stratification of higher education.

Say the cost was covered at 80% for individuals coming from families making $40,000 or less per year. This family is probably already struggling to save money while paying their bills, and having to divert any amount of money to the continued education of a child is probably off the table. This requires that the child work while attending school which takes valuable time away from studying and getting enough sleep. Lots of people work while going to school and end up dropping out or going every other semester because they don't make enough in their low-paying unskilled labor job. This is a vicious cycle which results in the poor staying poor because they can't make enough at the job they must have in order to pay for education.

Children from wealthier families can afford to funnel a bit of money towards their education, and maybe only work part-time for some spending money. Don't get me wrong - highly educated people are great for a society and this shouldn't be discouraged, but I also think we have a duty to help those living harder lives than our own.
True, but open source would continue fine without copyright -- it's just mean that everything was MIT-licensed.
PS: if you are complaining about the price, it's time to show your entreprenerial spirit and organize a free unconference at the same time and nearby. Don't complain, do something!
Maybe reform could happen by fixing how damages are awarded? Like if you infringe on some patent that is a small part of a product, you pay a $100 fine or something? That would remove the financial incentive to sue unless you can prove someone's whole business is built on your ideas...
Quick question: under specs for the M0+ where they say,

>Enhanced Instructions
>Hardware single-cycle (32x32) multiply option

Does that mean their hardware can multiply 32-bit by 32-bit
numbers in a single clock cycle?? I took a computer organization course where I implemented a simple hardware multiplier and it took a lot more cycles than that, so I was curious.
A woman's opinion on dick jokes at conferences
Search FB using the Graph API
Where I come from, what you're describing is called pre-fetching, not caching. That's why your earlier comment confused me.
If he doesn't notice this, feel free to poke me, he's sitting next to me. I'll bug him for you :)
I don't really get this complaint. The spectrum of technical investment in your own devices spans all the way from soldering your own boards and implementing custom hardware logic with FPGAs to hacking together your own firmware for hardware you purchased to installing an OS that gives you low level access to being able to run programs you wrote yourself to having to buy all the software from an app store to having a bread machine with 3 buttons on the top that you can press to tell it what to do.

Depending on what you want to do, any of these points on the spectrum can be perfectly valid. Even the bread machine can have you making bread out of scratch ingredients yourself using a recipe you control instead of just buying a loaf of bread at the store.
Isn't this common knowledge? I'm pretty sure this was something that was mention in a seminar on information asymmetry when I studied Microeconomics 101 a couple of years ago.
Having tried both, I'd recommend atop over htop. There's a great overview of its capabilities at https://lwn.net/Articles/387202/
>When the extradition process is started, it is because the relevant authorities have already decided the individual is guilty.

So, what is the right approach? Start the extradition process when you don't believe the individual is guilty? I would hope not. Taking action to bring someone to trial because you believe they are guilty is entirely different from the claim that in the US you are now "guilty until proven innocent".

Presumption of innocence means that the burden of proof is on the prosecution in the trial. It does not mean that the prosecution is required to not believe themselves that the individual is guilty.
Turntable FM signs deal with all 4 major labels
Actually, given the harshness of the penal system in every aspect including their plea-bargaining facet, the US may as well be the PRC compared to the EU. Also, like the PRC, the US has the death penalty.

Separately, there should be a public interest requirement on extraditions, whether by treaty or otherwise, just like there is on all other parts of the UK justice system.

This is a travesty to the individuals involved in this and many other UK-to-US extraditions and yet another embarrassment to the UK.
The UK made a nice gift to the US on the eve of Cameron's visit.
Just came across your offer, hope you still have time, since I'll be sending an email, too- albeit late to the party. Maybe you'll be over the initial rush of emails by now & it'll work out for the best.

Thanks, by the way. And I second sac2171's sentiment. Glad to be on HN today. :)
well, that's for play 1.
Another way would have been to announce that they won't be giving away any hardware, that would have kept away the "it pays for it self and I get some cool goodies" crowd away so real developers could go.
My new hobby: googling abstract website techniques to see what kind of patents I'm violating on a regular basis. Did you know about the patent on mouseover (but not mouseclick!) dropdown menus?

http://www.m-cam.com/patently-obvious/intellectual-property-...
Apple.com rolls out high resolution assets for the new iPad
Uppermost - Born Limitless

Uppermost - Evi

Ronald Jenkees - Disorganized Fun

Ronald Jenkees - Stay Crunchy

Zircon - Warhead

Zircon - The Art of Zen (and the entire Antigravity album)

Skrillex - Drop Dead (Blende Remix)

Alex Metric's remix of Lizstomania

and drumroll while we're on "push"-themed stuff...
Wolfgang Gartner - Push and Rise

You will get so much done.
The trouble with this is that if the US has a legitimate claim on him, then so does every other country in the world, since they're all on the Internet too. And it isn't reasonable for me to be on the Internet and be expected to comply with the laws of all the countries in the world all at once.

Or is there something specific apart from being on the Internet that gives the US some kind of special claim on him?
Wow - thanks :)
Anyone have a guess as to why they use a jpg sprite instead of an animated gif for the bouncing orb? Is it just a color space thing?
This article demonstrates a very common mistake: People think health insurance covers health bills.

It doesn't. It covers unexpected health bills, which is a very different thing.

Any type of situation that is expected to happen can not be covered by insurance, it needs to be covered by savings instead.

However many people want insurance premiums to be a type of forced savings plan, which is why there is such a huge argument in the US about health insurance.

Those opposed to government regulation want to handle the savings on their own. Those who like government regulation want it to force people to save for health care costs.
"I just want to hand over my money and get one as soon as I can possible have one."

"The sooner I can place an order and have my credit card charged, the sooner I can stop thinking about it"

I interpret that as "I want one, and I want it now". Sounds like that is all about consumption to me.
Thanks very much Nickler, kind of you to say.