skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty much the same as the other story on HN right now:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120426075025438

Oracle goofed and premised a lot of their copyright arguments on something that was not supported by their own copyright registrations. Unless they can find some documents that prove that they have registered what they need to, they're in big trouble, because it's too late to fix things.

I think the judge said they would be allowed to introduce any new evidence, assuming they can find anything that says they own what they need to. But unless they can do that....
For those in this thread that are complaining about RSS UI and lack of better way of consuming RSS content, we were trying to address some problems with consuming information when oversubscribing to RSS feeds in Smart Reader. Please check it out and provide any feedback :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3895662
I don't understand how the fact that Inform 7 syntax looks like natural language means that "you don't write any code at all." It's actually a really interesting domain-specific language, though I don't know how well its lessons generalize.
A desperate plea to Mr Bill Gates
Oh, now I know why it is not showing up in the app store, I set the release date to 1st June 2012. You may still use the promo code to download the app as few of my friends have been able to download it.
installed it but disappointed as my wireless doesn't work. Thought it did work on 10.10 but NOT on 12.04.

Poor Quality release!
#2 was 100% real. Yes, it was a joke, but it's only the kind of joke you make if you have absolutely no intention whatsoever of inviting female hackers to your event. The humor didn't cross the line, the being explicitly uninviting to women crossed the line.
It's not about webkit, as we're planning to actually replace webkit.

I think this kind of action coming from somewone like microsoft would be seen as another proprietary software imposed to the web.

We have not tried yet, as we did not have anything relevant to work with. We really have no idea how we can do that. Maybe you can help?
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I guess the investment part is a bit crazy (how would you even manage having thousands of "investors"), but the pre-payment part doesn't seem to be.
I consume a lot of stuff from Amazon, so I initially thought I'd just pin whatever I liked and use an affiliate link. That way if somebody else liked my image recommendation enough to chase it down over on Amazon, I'd get a small cut.

But Pinterest does not like you doing this. Somebody said they were stripping out your affiliate code and adding their own.

I thought about the 10 million ways around this, but at the end of the day I decided that if I controlled the content on my own site, I could do damn well what I wanted with it. Plus over many years it might start picking up search traffic. Who knows? And when the next whiz-bang super cool social site comes out, I still have all of my stuff in the same place.

I have no intention of spamming Pinterest, but if I'm taking time to participate and add my recommendation to some product, it kind of rubs me the wrong way that they would so directly take control like that.
Sidenote: You should update your wp install, 3.3.2 is out. chicky chicky boom boom.
(blog author)

Yes I didn't mean that; I'll rephrase

Good catch.
Since upvotes are hidden: I'd love to have a way to stop/continue the animation as well.
Thanks for the repsonse I'm one of the other MusicMind team members. We'll definitely work on making this more concise. We're referring to creating a way to store your complete music collection in one place without the huge price tag.
I appreciate it.
2 weeks pay? How is it supposed to work? I believe you are basically stuck with a bad hire for at least one performance review period, plus some time on top of that. Anything less and you have a potential wrongful termination lawsuit on your hands.
If you're looking to curate bookmarks for self/private use you could try Springpad. It does a lot more than just bookmarks (photos, notes, tasks, etc.) but it surely could be used to just organize that kind of data.
Maybe something like this http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/b10648-3
Thank you so much for your reply. On the first point.

We decided to use Launchrock because we were tired of spending so much of our development time on building a launch page (maybe because we're not designers). We used Launchrcok because we were pre-launch and believed that we could communicate effectively in one paragraph what we are trying to do. But if the sentiment is so anti-LR, or it causes us to look fake, I guess we will change.

On the second point. We're a social network for people to listen to their music, share their music, and connect with their favorite artists. This is beneficial to you because you are supporting artists with your song purchases vs streaming, you can consolidate all of your music listening and sharing in one place, and we allow you to connect with artists.

And on the third point. This is a really interesting point, which we haven't considered before. We'll try to do this.

We really appreciate it.
Technically ActionScript is ECMAScript which JavaScript and AS3 are both dialects of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
I suggest you mock up your idea in Photoshop and see if it excites people.
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As someone who worked in finance and realizes that it also has problems when it comes to these issues, those tweets are exaggerations/parodies which play into the bankers being sociopaths/douchebags trope. Half those things said in the workplace would get you sent to HR in a blink of an eye.
Animate Sprites with Jquery
Ask HN: Sub-$250k investments - Where are the micro-investors?
YC recognises that good teams can get started with just enough funding to work uninterrupted for several months on their idea. Building features and talking to users - full time.

Being as though YC's model is held in such regard - aren't there more angels/investors considering higher volumes of smaller funds?

Is it just not worth writing out the paperwork for such sums of money?

There's this huge chasm between bootstrapped startups, few & far between incubator places and so called 'small' seed rounds starting at $250k.

It seems that crowd-funding is the only thing bridging such a huge gap.

What funding sources do you know of that offer basic just-enough-to-get-started type funding?
I think the friction of reporting could be replaced with slicker access to information. For example, a taskbar or smartphone widget that tells you how many calories you have left to consume, some sort of UI giving you information as you are selecting a meal (rather than later during self-reporting), or emails/text messages when you go over your target.

Also, transparent information gathering could be useful for later investigations. For example, you might eat normally for two months and then analyze which calorie sources you'd be most willing to sacrifice.
True. I think the point is more that these companies made no profits while they were independent and then continued to make no profits after they were acquired; thus in retrospect the acquirers must have overpaid.
Jonathan Schwartz says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs
I speculated that this might be the case.
http://baus.net/instagram-is-twitter-the-loser

Strangely, Chris Sacca and Jack Dorsey were both investors in Instagram and they still lost the deal. I suspect it just got to rich for them. I don't think this bodes well for Twitter.
The statement above from your other team member was pretty good, you should use it: "We're a social network for people to listen to their music, share their music, and connect with their favorite artists."
Wow. Thank god they didn't set the minimum price of bread at $5/loaf and 35% more than any neighbouring state.

I have a feeling it's not easy to run a startup in Portland.
I posted a response on your blog, but I'll add it here as well:

Go into developer tools and make sure the rendering/compatibility modes are all the same. I've run into those issues before, and this was always the case: The rendering/compatibility modes were somehow set differently for different PCs.

However, in a general sense, I share your overall frustration and lack of faith in IE
There's a typo in your meme.
Actually, I guess we really weren't clear in saying this, but this is a pre-launch page, so we're really trying to just gauge interest an get emails. I'm sorry we didn't say this well enough. Thanks
An interesting post would be on the state of the semantic web today. A lot of people still claim it's not all that.
It'd be nice if the "Official Site" result was bigger. When I search for "Sensei's Library" for example, the official page is the first result on google and has extra links within the page. On DDG, the official site is thinly sandwiched between the wikipedia entry on it and the rest of the results. This is more of a user interface issue to me than a relevant search results issue.
How Mobile, Cloud, Are Transforming Healthcare
At his old company everyone had a public email address which was their first name + last initial, and a "private" one that was the public one preceded by the letter "p".
Apple building a 21,468sqft cafeteria to hide from eavesdroppers
re: "(31) What do you not know yet?"

That is one hell of a tough question. Anyone care to elaborate as to what the answer might be for selling widgets in a new way online?
A stupid nitpick: those download buttons have confused gloss effects.
That...is awesome. Will take some time to wrap my head around.
How the Internet Fails Us
MongoDB Atlanta 2012. Comprehensive Session Summary
I would like to know how anybody thinks they can determine the nationality of a hacker smart enough to penetrate government websites in the year 2012.
We need more like-minded individuals like Jason Freedman, people who see a new paradigm of social interaction with socially connected people. I am fantastic with customers/clients/guests and the like, I never bring problems to work as I start every day as a new beginning. But when it comes to interviewing, I have a hard time plugging in keywords that an interviewee while in a closed eerily quiet office. We all need ambience, lets have an interview over lunch with an optional beer. Hell I'll pay for it. It would be a supreme first impression for both employer and employee, as you would learn a little about how each others' mindset works...OK I'm done.
To me, the difference lies in starting a "company" vs starting a "business." For the former, you need do little more than fill out some paperwork.
I had similar thoughts while reading the article. If the market is rewarding people who are not creating long term value, where does that leave innovators that do?
Facebook hacker tells all
The modifier you're looking for is "first graphical WWW browser".
Just so you don't feel like the whole world is against you (I have no idea if / how many downvotes you may be getting) -- just wanted to chime in that I approve of your behavior completely, as well as the reasons for which you choose to downvote.

Thank you for trying to keep up the quality of conversation here.
Here's a quote from another mattpeckham article:

When you type something like "www.yahoo.com" into your browser, for instance, your request hits your Internet service provider's DNS server, which translates it into a numeric IP address. If you plug that IP address into your browser's URL bar in lieu of the web address, barring any IP tricks, you'll land on the exact same web page.

End quote.

Matt, have you ever run an http server? Did you actually try the experiment you describe? Yahoo has long required a Host name in addition to an IP address. No Host name, no dice.

Most http servers are serving differing (or the same) content for a variety of Host names. The buzzword is "virtual hosting". The person running such a server may choose to accomodate the situation where no Host name is provided, and serve you some "default" content. Or he made not. Where the web (http) is concerned, IP addresses alone will rarely suffice. The web of course is only a small part of the internet.

Also, would you care to elaborate on what you mean by "IP tricks".

I have a bigger problem with "tech journalism" like this than I do with Google Drive and other cloud storage nonsense.
This is a very good thing inside a company who can only grow through innovation. Imagine Zuck starting to become laid back and happy about what he has achieved.
Facebook would be obsolet within 1-2 years. He has to be on the lookout all the time to kill threats to his company whenever he can.
If the buy decision was based on paranoia, and Facebook was that worried that Twitter acquiring Instagram was enough to topple Facebook - then how in the hell can anyone justify a $100+ billion valuation of Facebook?
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It's much easier to read when scrawled on a napkin and avoids the thousand/million ambiguity. 30MM is 30 million, 3BB is 3 billion. I learned it from a business professor.
Staying on track with a goal or two is easy. The hard part is that when you have enough goals, they all compete for time. So choosing which goals you want to follow becomes the ultimate problem.
Folic Acid possible link to cancer
I can think of a few more:
- inability or unwillingness to adapt to market changes
- creating the wrong product
- setting the wrong prices

In fact, I would venture to bet that this list could go on near indefinitely.
Yes, it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking
Lock-free skiplist priority queues, incidentally, become very elegant if your processor supports even the most basic hardware transactional memory.
Several months ago, I bought this and used it with great success to navigate the upgrade as a newbie to Rails in general.

Thanks again!
One of the projects in my very first CS course in college (based around SICP) was to write a text adventure game in Scheme. It was certainly an interesting project and a good introduction to OOP, but also a little tedious. If we were working on our own stories instead of implementing the map and objects from a project spec, it would have been much more interesting.
How often do you take an app, drop it somewhere, and never modify it? I stick to "my way" because I always end up modifying the hell out of templates.
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On the Naturalness of Software
Not in that case.

I think it's really algebra that looks very different after the 50's.
There is a difference between want and need. 42Floors WANTS the best and brightest, but really only NEEDS solid players to be successful.

That said, if you only WANT for solid players, you usually end up with crappy ones.
Map Reduce Star Trek Fan Fiction
Fun for you NoSQL trekkies - this post creates a cool narrative around MapReduce.
This forum details the answer quite well: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=460147
>We wanted to use Javascript so that the game could run in your browser.

But there are already at least two javascfipt interpreters for games written in Inform 7 already!

http://code.google.com/p/parchment/

http://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/quixe/
When was all this? I just graduated from there last May. I didn't see a lot of this, but I also didn't look and fore the most part didn't socialize with people in my major. And I did avoid certain professors.
It's nice of you to put your recruitment email at the bottom of the post, but the only message I'm getting from this post is that you needn't bother applying until you're already a startup founder, or have written several books, or have a million downloaded app, or whatever the qualification is these days.

Is that really the message you want to send? "Hey, Almost Everybody! We're not interested in you!"

All the programmers who go to work everyday, do a damn good job, but don't follow it up with a daily blog post, or a screencast, or a brand new Haskell library. Are we not worth considering?
F.T.C’s Hiring of Prosecutor Signals Gravity of Google Case
Sorry do you live in some dream land ?

The majority of the world's enterprise web apps run on Java. There is ZERO chance that Java is going to be retired anytime soon if you look around at the languages available today. There just simply isn't anything available that can compete with the breadth of libraries or developer base.

The fact is that if Android no longer runs Java it is going to be a big blow no matter which way you spin it.
What do you think about replacing social network with website?
Node.js meets its match with Vibe.d
Apple is 10 years behind Microsoft on security, expert says
Fair enough. The thing about women was actually something I was told happened after I left. Will edit the comment.
Edit: sorry I missed the edit window.
first impressions:

1. Very cool concept and good execution. Your site is well designed.

2. On the homepage, it says "A ditto is a virtual you.", but it's not immediately clear why I would want one. Maybe change the copy to "Create a virtual you to try on glasses online." or something like that.

3. I expected to be able to click on "Free RX Lenses", "Free Shipping and Returns", and "Fresh Styles". This should take me to the "Learn more" links.

4. When I went to create a Ditto, I was confused by the "You'll need a (webcam) + (credit card). I almost bailed at this point because I thought I'd have to pay to create a Ditto, which didn't make any sense.

5. Otherwise, great job and keep up the good work.
I really don't get why startups completely repurpose their blog for HN. What's 42floors supposed to be exactly, randomstartupblog.com that secretly rents office space?
I'm a Dropbox user with 5gb of space and while I have installed Google Drive, I see no real reason to switch from Dropbox. First I can earn more space on Dropbox if needed with more referrals and second Google doesn't have an iOS app available at launch (however it's coming soon).
People that actually use Java know that what Sun/Oracle do is to a large part irrelevant. Likewise for Harmony.

OpenJDK is the default for Linux and soon to be OSX and most development projects are still targeting Java 6. The innovation happening on the Java platform is not going to come from Oracle.
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Thanks for your thoughtful comments!
It struck me that "unlimited vacation days" also seems like a way to make sure that when people quit, you don't have to pay out a vacation dump. And if you have a team of workaholics who never take time off, then those payouts could get big.

I worked for a company whose policy was to cap vacation payouts when people left. The employee handbook stated that you'd be paid a maximum of 40 hours vacation unless state law at your work location said otherwise. If you had more than 5 days vacation in your bucket, well, tough luck. Luckily I lived/worked in IL at the time I quit that job, and IL forbids this.

When researching that, I noticed there's a disparity among states in terms of how vacation time is treated. Some states treat accrued vacation time as earned compensation that just hasn't yet been paid, and must be paid on termination. Other states treat vacation time as an agreement that you just don't have to come into work and you'll still get paid, and the employer is free to pay out vacation accruals however they like (or not at all).

It seems like by providing no defined accruals of vacation time, you step around the whole "earned yet unpaid compensation" and turn time off into an agreement that you won't come in and they will still pay you.
Sure, it's a HUGE leap, but I was day dreaming. Of course, Python can run on Parrot, right? (Parrot, as an example, would be an interesting VM to see pushed into commercial readiness)
Screenshots might go a long ways to making this more popular.
Ninja is a build system of my dream - minimalistic, clean and simple. I've tried it on some small projects about a year ago, and it seemed very fast and stable.

That days I generated .ninja with shell scripts, so now I'm happy to hear of CMake support. Still sorry that ninja build system is not included in most Linux distros, I believe that would significantly increase its popularity among developers.
G-WAN almost *twice* as slow as libsxe using G-WAN's own benchmarking tool
G-WAN might be the fastest currently available web server... but only because nobody has programmed a web server using libsxe :-)
Apple is Mothra, Square now at $5B payments + the Facebook phone is stupid
Really? Car and housing prices have dropped significantly since 2008.

Food prices have dropped steadily for several hundred years (exceptions for misguided policy like the ethanol mandate, which spiked corn prices globally).
I agree it's a lot of FUD around this subject. I started to have some weird thoughts that Dropbox is creating all this FUD
Geek culture scares away far more females than frat culture, empirically.
>To the extent that you can't send multiple requests without getting answers, that's your fault for using synchronous requests, not for using not-a-websocket.

fewer open connections while awaiting results, avoiding browser limitations
I recall reading it somewhere (Apple mailing list?) that Apple resources are working on the openjdk port and Oracle does pull from OpenJDK so I wouldn't be surprised to see features from OpenJDK pulled into Oracle JDK. It would be weird if Apple contributed stuff into openjdk and oracle didn't pull it into their OS X distribution.
"It'd be great if we had multiple review sites."

we do. if you use Google as well as Yelp, every other site on the Internet which mentions the business you are curious about effectively acts as a separate review site.
Been waiting for this! Testing and moving our 50+ Ubuntu 10.04 fat client desktops to 12.04 as soon as I can.
That would be mental! $2B!?
So, in other words, you have no idea if having a wife and kids will affect your hiring decisions?
More ninja benchmark numbers: https://plus.google.com/101038813433650812235/posts/irc26fhR...
Dream land? No, I've woken up in the Java "gulag" for quite a few years now. :-)

The scenario was meant to be a bit "over the rainbow". While it's unlikely, people do sometimes switch platforms given motivation. How many people really were itching to learn Objective C before Apple starting pushing it? (you few "NextStep" old timers in back, I'm not talking about you)

Given a way to do user I/O and data persistance on a sane platform, people are pretty good at making do on just about any platform without the "gift" of a billion lines of other code.
Oh man I'm thinking about SkyDrive as I have 25GB for free...

I'm switching to the first one to implement webhooks for file updates.
And how is his credibility or positions relevant to Groklaw ?

That's the immature part. You can report facts and do fantastic analysis without trying to take shots at your competition.
Talking about text adventures, the INSTEAD project is worth trying. It's a simple text adventure game engine written in Lua and ported to many platforms, including Android. http://code.google.com/p/instead/ Also, it includes some really interesting games.
I was curious if browsing via ip still works, and at least for Y! it does.

$ dig yahoo.com
[ ... ]
;; ANSWER SECTION:
yahoo.com.	1153	IN	A	98.139.183.24

plugging 98.139.183.24 into the omnibar on chrome leads to yahoo just fine [1]

[1] https://img.skitch.com/20120426-gdhrn9wpum12y39ifui3um37b2.j...
You would need historical data then, which I doubt kick starter would provide. Only way is to check the amount and # of backers every minute, on every page, unless I'm missing something. This would be incredibly useful information for people looking to use kickstarter, but I don't think kickstarter would be too happy about that being readily available. IMHO, all the more reason to get it.
The guy in that article you cited turned out to be a liar. See the follow-up: http://www.dailydot.com/news/pinterest-scammer-hoax-controve...