skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But being able to legally take all the data out and making your own database (or other thing) with it (which you state is fine) is exactly what makes CC-BY-SA pointless/inapplicable to databases of open data.

See this discussion of why CC-BY-SA is unsuitable for OpenStreetMap (which mentions the case law on phone books you refer to):

http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Un...

Wikipedia says this on Fiest vs Rural and collections of facts:

"In regard to collections of facts, O'Connor states that copyright can only apply to the creative aspects of collection: the creative choice of what data to include or exclude, the order and style in which the information is presented, etc., but not on the information itself. If Feist were to take the directory and rearrange them it would destroy the copyright owned in the data.

The court ruled that Rural's directory was nothing more than an alphabetic list of all subscribers to its service, which it was required to compile under law, and that no creative expression was involved. The fact that Rural spent considerable time and money collecting the data was irrelevant to copyright law, and Rural's copyright claim was dismissed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
I'll third that, with a request for an audio book version too.
Not only a nifty idea for fuel, but a way to deal with our ant overpopulation! As with other biofuels, it may have the downside of increasing the price of formic acid as a foodstuff.

And if you've never tried ants over shoe-string potatoes, you should -- they add a delicious, lemony flavor! Just remember to check your teeth for ant-legs after dinner. :)
The writer seems not to consider several other models such as

PUT /orders/42/payed
or
POST /orders/42/paymentprocessor

, which in my eyes would be both restful and true to the business model.
India’s First and the Cheapest Android 4.0 Tablet Launched – Specs
Everything I've heard is that it is near impossible to find talent in Silicon Valley. I've heard it's also the same in NYC ... shit, it's the same everywhere.
> This says Toy Story had a budget of 30 million dollars.

How much would it cost today?

Yes, animation has gotten better, but is state of the art animation always necessary? How much less does it cost to be a generation (or two) behind?

Suppose that Toy Story was first-released today, with its ancient animation. Who would care, and how does that affect box-office?
Interesting read.

I suppose this error only occurred for people that use Linux, installed this Linux specific Chrome extension, then change to a Mac or Windows desktop where the extension was automatically installed?

Also, is it the website owner's responsibility to solve errors like this? It would take a lot of time to fix other people's extensions. I suppose if everyone's using a particular extension, it might be worth dealing with, but then I'd hope that extension would be somewhat more stable.
Agreed. In fact, none of it is indicative of terminator development. That's a totally different DoD initiative.
Why Are People Leaving Twitter?
It's never occurred to me to think of Oracle as being a company concerned with any of those things. It seems totally outside their character, everything they do screams "huge, established customers only".
Totally agree - buy RIM, ditch the Blackberry phones, take BBM onto WP7, and use the infrastructure RIM has developed as an enterprise backbone for WP7 with MS-exchange. They'd need to decentralize it a bit, as the network architecture is a bit vulnerable at the moment, but it could be done.

My guess is that if MS is considering this they'll wait until RIM hits rock bottom.
I really like these articles; it's nice to see how things like this are done from scratch. The firewall step may be unnecessary in AWS though, because AWS already has a firewall enabled by default through "security groups."
Maybe, but that was't the proportion I saw.
That was a fun weekend!
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I stand corrected. I guess Haskell before H98 was a very different language than it is today.
In my case it's not available in the local Amazon so I think i'll do the same
That's likely too. It could be the Chrome sync thing that must've spread the extension across to Mac and Windows.
I got mine almost 2 weeks ago. Didn't read much, I skimmed through alot of it and read around 80 pages (it really is a reference, a manual, not a textbook that you can read linearly and quickly). My first impressions were:

1) it is a pretty big book;

2) So far, its text has been easier to read than "the 4 steps to epiphany";

3) IMO, its "killer feature" is NOT that it integrates Business Model Canvas content into Customer Development Model, but that it discusses and exemplifies the application of the Customer Development Model to offline businesses as well as online ones.
I agree - I think no matter the intent wide open laws like these are ripe for abuse. My only point here was that nextweb was just leveraging people's dislike of SOPA to get pageviews on something that is clearly a non-issue. If you want people to behave like adults (and pass adult laws) it makes sense to keep the discourse at that level.
Does anyone have any advice for a computer science student seriously looking at the field of computational biology as a place for a career? I'd all but forgotten about biology until reading The Diamond Age right before seeing a video of ATP synthase in action [1].

Now, I know stuff like that doesn't have a lot to do with what is done in computational biology, but it did fire the imagination. I'm working my way through Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences - Computer Science and Computational Biology by Dan Gusfield [2], and have implemented (with tests) all of the algorithms encountered thus far in addition to some of the exercises [3]. So far, I really enjoy all the material.

Clearly reading a textbook is not enough to break into a field, but my degree is one in computer science and pure math with an internship in the HPC field. It's getting bit late to throw in a minor in biology or anything like that. However, all of my research-leaning friends in physics and such tell me that what everyone wants is someone who knows how to code, which is certainly something I know well. Is that similar to the situation in computational biology?

Any other advice or knowledge of what it's like to work in the field would also be greatly appreciated :)

[1] http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/node/448

[2] http://books.google.ca/books/about/Algorithms_on_Strings_Tre...

[3] https://github.com/ahelwer/IvoryTower/tree/master/ASTS
It's only Bay vs NYC? Why not stay in Austin? Every startup here is hiring. Why not Boston, Boulder, Seattle, or Portland? Not mentioning other cities seems shortsighted. Online startups can exist anywhere. If you're not interested in groupthink considering other cities seems very reasonable.

I also don't buy your SF commute argument. There are tons of startups in downtown SF. You don't have to live in the bay area and work in the valley. If I were to move out there I'd live and work in SF, I wouldn't even consider SV.
I'd really like to see the source of the data and what exactly is being measured. The implication of the title is that these are new physical books. If that's the case, I guess I'm a bit skeptical.

I suppose it's possible that there are an outsize number of books published between about 100 and 150 years ago that get read for school and the like, which would account for that big spike. But these books are mostly not all that cheap just because they're in the public domain. And, presumably, the number of different titles still being read from that era is relatively small. And the top n% (where n is a small number) most popular titles from any era are mostly still in print, whether they're out of copyright or not.

Now, on the other hand, if this includes e-books, there's a pretty simple explanation. Many of the pre-copyright titles are available for free and very low cost and most of us with Kindles and Kindle apps have downloaded quite a few even if we haven't gotten around to reading all of them.

(I'm not arguing against shorter copyright terms by the way. But my personal experience is at odds with the suggestion that there are vast numbers of 20th century books that people would be reading in droves if only there were in print.)
Yes - causes some confusion now and then. At least I'm not autoflagged by spam filters like the poor OP, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
To be fair, if you were researching computer languages and rewrites, you would be looking at Python 3.0 and Perl 6.0. I believe both will be successful in time, but for business planing, it looks like a lot of problems and a slow evolution will work better. Oracle is pretty comfortable with the slow evolution route.
Hey, Google: Here's one problem with your "social" program. Your support is anything but.

Seriously. Stop and think about that, for a minute.
I want an online university that teaches Psychology. Anyone know of one?
University students sms - Student sms
Will the bandwidth not cost way higher on AWS than the $15 mentioned?
Reminds me of a TED talk[0], about how we'll probably have to eat a lot of lower-trophic-level food in the next few decades, as the population of Earth increases -- stuff like crickets, and other insects.

[0] http://www.ted.com/talks/marcel_dicke_why_not_eat_insects.ht...
At first I thought this might be an early April Fool's Day joke. But I don't think it is.
I saw somewhere that a kindle edition is incoming.

For the older book, he refused to publish one, because he thought that it was more like a workbook, you're supposed to dogear it, take notes on the margins, color code, put postits on the pages, carry it around with you.
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I am an independent contractor.

There are two types of contractors, and I have been both:

1. The "warm body" that does indeed just sell hours, usually via a labour broker or development house. They fulfil a "development resource" capacity required on the project, and typically there is already a project structure (plan(s), schedule(s) and management) in place. They are not directly responsible for the deliverables of the project. I am a warm body contractor because (2) freaks me out.

2. The "development house" (can just be one person despite the term) who initiates and manages the project in addition to doing the work. They have to define the project, agreeing on scope, timeline and budget because they are party to a contract and are directly responsible for the deliverables. If they screw any of these parts up (and that includes due diligence, e.g. can the client actually pay them, and how can you answer that question if you have no idea and agreement on project duration?!), their business stands to suffer losses. This has nothing to do with predicting success -- it has to do with contractual obligations and legal liability. They get to charge higher rates than (1) because of this additional skill required, risks involved and the associated differences in supply.

If you are a non-technical entrepreneur with no idea how to run technical projects and you seek out a warm body, you will get burned because that is not what you need (and this is part of what the linked article is about).

If you are a warm body who accepts such work - just selling hours and not a plan, a schedule and budget, yes I believe you are unethical because you are not ultimately providing what somebody expects, despite knowing their expectations, and that's the definition of misrepresentation (it's like selling somebody a car without a working engine and not stating that anywhere).

If you explain to them the risks, give them a plan that you honestly believe you can meet, and they still want to go ahead, shrug that's fine. But if you just say "yah I'll build it" knowing full well it's not going to be useful, or worse you're too naive to know how to manage projects but you're selling yourself as a professional developer that'll deliver, you're unethical.
There's no problem with open source contributors making money from their work. The problem is, there is a chance that this subtle change in perspective will evolve into an unhealthy culture.

Especially since this is coming from Yehuda Katz. I've seen several people using things like Gun.io to fund patches and small additions to open source libraries, but it always seems to come from people you never see in the community - outsourcers, or people who just aren't that into coding but still code. But once a leader in the community does this... It's up in the air what this will do long term.

Here's one possible outcome. It becomes "cool" to crowd fund open source projects, so a few of the up-and-coming coders with new open source projects start doing this too. In a year or two, a big chunk of the top coders are charging to do open source work. It's a badge of worthiness... Coderwall.com get's it's "$25k+ achievement" badge.

Then one of two things can happen. The unlikely thing is, it evens out, there's a happy balance - some people charge, some people don't. Much more likely is people either start charging ridiculous amounts, the quality of free open source projects drastically decreases, or people start keeping their projects to themselves. This eventually leads to rebellion, and the true ones left start ANOTHER Free Software Foundation that gets back to the roots.

This kind of stuff happens, out of seemingly innocent and well-intentioned moves.

Like everyone's said, companies like 37signals and all the companies we work at fund open source projects, so one way or another we're getting some sort of payment. It's totally cool to make money off your open source work like this, nobody really sees it even though we all know. It's this indirectness that keeps the community healthy. It creates a feeling of open-ness. A culture. Asking for money directly like this doesn't make things feel open anymore, and like everything it will spiral.
I fail to see how the article you link to supports your opinion in any way, and neither you or Siracusa offer any arguments why Objective-C needs replacing. At all.

You can summarize Siracusa's piece as 'Objective-C needs automatic memory management, it needs automatic memory management, and all the other popular languages have automatic memory management, so yeah, Objective-C needs automatic memory management'. He then rejects the fact that Objective-C on OS X has had garbage collection for years because 'it is not a no-brainer because not every developer uses it' and because iOS doesn't support it. Guess what, ARC is now the default way of 'managing' memory on iOS and OS X, and it has some very clear advantages over garbage collection. I wrote 'managing' with quotes, because with ARC you don't actually have to do anything as a developer, and if you don't pay attention to anything it is just like writing code in a language that has GC.

So unless you have some actual arguments why Objective-C needs replacing or what important features it is missing that other languages do have, it is very hard to take your 'No and No' very serious.

Just out of curiosity: did you actually ever develop anything non-trivial with Objective-C, and if so, what part of that experience makes you think it people would not use it voluntarily?
Technically unsound: RDF is a relationship model and a meta-model (think XML Infoset), SKOS is a vocabulary (think XHTML) and JSON is a serialization format (think XML or RDF/N3).

The question is which schema, ontology or vocabulary will they use to express their data? Who will develop it? Or will they reuse other vocabularies? How do they intend to extend them? If they are RDF based, how will they project to JSON given that there are a dozen different conversion methods?

How can that document not cite DBpedia, a project that is extracting structured data from Wikipedia infoboxes and has years of experience in doing that?

The fact that their technical proposal document is quite confused about these ground technologies makes me fear that there is more wishful thinking than past experiences.
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Textmate.
Indeed, that is exactly my belief at the moment. Thanks for saying it as I should have. :)
Yeah, I just wasn't very inspired. They were all companies I've known, or undifferentiating copies of companies I've know.

On the plus side, I was encouraged about the odds of getting funding.
David we're in the same boat: i've read Rob Walling's "Start small stay small" and other stuff on the net and now I'm thinkin about this Steve Blank book, hoping it will help to develop the Customer part of the project i'm thinkin about.
Why setup a firewall when it's hosted on ec2? It's all firewalled off by default.
This is quite interesting .u could such a setup to run your prototype without breaking you bank account.
It's very exciting to see usage of DDG increasing and the service getting more and more recognition. I've been using DDG for almost two years now and love the service. The privacy is what drew me in, but the goodies are what made me a user for life. It's the default for my browser and I use the iPhone and iPad apps regularly. Keep up the good work DDG! I'd be happy to lend my sysadmin skills to help :)
Adobe's latest critical security update pushes scareware
I disagree. NBC, and others, put exactly this sort of magnitude in their push for SOPA - it seems only fair to push back just as hard.
Nokia 700 Smartphone Reviews
I would definitely get this; already considering vasectomy.
More discussion from Java vets: http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracle-discusses-features-jav...
Premature much? Apple was dead once too.
Where can I get live sports scores to use in an application?
Is the ditching of the penny an alarming event like the addition of a zero on the largest denomination of currency? Why do I work hard to exchange my labor for money that is being inflated on purpose?
Duplicates:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2095628

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2998973

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775943
Implementing Skew Transformation in WPF
The rotation can be performed on the x-axis or may be on y-axis. he term Skew means to turn or place something at an angle or on its side. In this article we are implementing the Skew Transform in four different different directions.
I think Python 3.0 is really well executed. With such a big ecosystem this takes a while, but when you wait too long somebody else eats your lunch.
How to make your github static page a blog
Engineering Asset Maintenance Management (1.2 CEUs)
Everything you wanted to know (and more!) about the LAB color space.
Why we should adopt a non-Turing complete language for client-side scripting
RIP Edd Gould, 1988-2012 - The Explosm Fora
Mmm, your right it'll cost something, though AWS free tier covers 15GB per month of bandwidth, then 12 cents per GB after that, so I'd expect it to be a few $.

Obviously though, there's cheaper options than AWS out there - Linode include 200GB of transfer per month in their $20 option.

I mostly just used AWS because I could start the server, build it, and blow it away, then restart, all without any hassles or full monthly chargers.
You know you're getting old when you are shocked that someone asks what A: and B: are for, having never seen nor conceptualized that they were once floppy drive letters.
Ask HN: How important is it to be social prior to launching a company?
I'm pretty comfortable socially but haven't really been to too many of the startup focussed social events and often wonder how important is it to meet and interact with people before I even have an idea worth pursuing.

Is it terribly important to be out there and known before actually coming up with an idea? Can I postpone this to later? I understand connections are always good but how important are they?
> This also gives credence to idea that obesity is a psychological malady, like depression or schizophrenia. It is certainly as difficult to treat.

I've often thought that extreme obesity (let's say over 180 kg or about 400 lbs) could be an eating disorder. But when I've asked eating disorder experts they say that the research doesn't support that. Certainly there are psychiatric / psychological aspects (depression / low self esteem / etc) to extreme obesity.

And I guess people would say that if there's a brain defect to cause it then it's a neurological disease, not psychological.
Whatever happened to Diaspora? Did that fizzle out?
Apple is the exception to the rule. Very, very few companies recover from such a downward spiral.
Mostly because some people won't be using EC2, and I didn't want to leave them unprotected. I thought I might as well include it - it's a trivial addition after all.
How is access to VC's and other tech investors in NYC?
I have big hands. It looks good to me.

Or maybe not - I've actually grown partial to the Nokia 1100. It's got a truly wonderful feature - 7 day battery life.
"But every new dating site faces the same problem: finding souls to mate." Just ask the new-and-improved Nerve.com!
For practical advice, I'd strongly recommend Nail it, Then Scale It. They go as far as including exactly call scripts / emails to send, for example.

Eric's book seemed more like marketing material for lean targeted at big cos who have no idea what it is.
I completely agree.

I think there's too much in the way of recycling canidates because we can't look past their past work.
What startups are in Austin? I did a quick google search and found this list: http://www.austinemerging100.com/list.php as well as this blog: http://austinstartup.com/

Previously, I thought Gowalla was the only somewhat known startup in Austin, but they sold to Facebook. Are there any other somewhat known startups in Austin?
"The problem is that the relations turn it into the Semantic Web"

Not really. Assuming there are only four or five simple relationships like "Knowing fact X is necessary to understand fact Y", then the whole system isn't much more complicated than trackbacks for blog posts.
Real world antivirus performance: 30 days with 43 different antivirus products
BBM integration with Windows phone sounds compelling for both companies.
The article didn't mention any side effects. I take this to mean that we just don't know what they are yet, rather that there are none.

I remember reading an article about a doctor irradiating children's thyroids. I think the goal was to shrink the thyroid, believing that it hindered speech acquisition. Turns out, all it did was raise the rates of thyroid cancer to something near 100% in the treated children.
If the infected cells tend to live a long time and the antiviral drug kills them all at once then it's a big difference. To see this, take the idea "to the limit":

Imagine if virus-infected cells lived an average of ten years, that the antiviral drug kills every infected cell in the body instantly, and that every cell in the body is infected. The effect of taking the drug in such an instance would be far worse than letting the virus attack the body unchecked.

Now, this obviously isn't a "reasonable" example, but it does show that there are parameters for which there the drug does harm the patient. Determining whether that risk is actually worth worrying about is a job for science.
Let's put it this way. We've all heard of the lone programmer who built something entirely alone and made a million bucks from it. We've never heard of the lone businessman whose idea grew legs and programmed itself to make the guy a million bucks :)
Be careful: I've encountered many plugins that unexpectedly set cookies or session data.
The problem is that the copyright clock starts ticking the moment you've fixed an expression, not from any registration or publishing date. So a creation that is largely done but is being shopped around to publishers, or sitting in a drawer collecting small tweaks and edits is losing its monopoly.

And if you erode much off 14 years, it starts to sound unnecessarily short.

Just ask any writer, comedian or musician how long their original creations were kicking around before they got anyone interested in paying them for it. Several years is common for their pre-discovery work.