skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get a balance you need to read both (well actually even more sources).

Or neither. However if you had to mix one of them in your daily feed mix, Groklaw actually seems to be based in the here and now, while FOSS Patents is just generally horseshit (we could go through the history of both that would quite amply prove this out. FOSS Patents is the worst sort of garbage the net produces)
On the other hand, Groklaw does have a history of predicting future events in these court cases that FOSS Patents can't pretend to match. Don't blame Groklaw if the reality of the law has a strong bias in their favor.

You don't get truth by merely reading opposing viewpoints and taking the average, you get it from synthesis. In this case synthesis might involve discounting the opposing viewpoint in the end, on the merits.

Yes, Groklaw is a vociferous advocate of FOSS in this sphere. Learn to tease apart the fact from the opinion. But that's just ad hominem until you catch a flaw in their fabulous coverage.
Awesome. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks
I often-times argue with myself over this. I do agree that one global template dir is nice but it makes the apps less copy-and-paste-able and I feel like Django apps were meant to be somewhat self-contained.

However, sometimes you have so many cross-links between apps in Django projects that taking out a single app to use in another project basically breaks most of the functionality.

There are big pros and cons for doing it either way.
Why switch? Use both!
OKCupid came to exactly the same conclusion in regards to dating; strongly appealing to some people is much better than generally appealing to a lot of people.

(For anyone not familiar with them, they are a dating website that periodically mines their database and discusses observed trends in their blog)
In this case, though, copyright infringement is already in principle illegal whether a work has been registered or not; the registration requirement is just a procedural requirement that bars collecting damages, not something that makes the action legal or illegal.

However U.S. copyright law does have a statutory limit on how retroactive registrations can be. If you file a registration within 90 days of first publication, the registration is retroactive to the date of publication; but if you file more than 90 days from publication, registration is only effective from the date of registration.

Fwiw, even with unregistered works you have some options available to you, just not damages. For example, you can file a DMCA takedown notice.
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I think his point was that if we shun them, and they wither and die, then their shunning of a gender ceases to be an issue.
That's not what I said. I said that the defense should be valid regardless of the identity of the critic.
doesn't look this would have helped: "Note that for the 7u4 release, Java plugin and Java Web start applications are not supported."
Thank you.

I wish you all the very best.
I signed up for Google Drive, but only as a formality - Dropbox serves my needs well and has a much nicer interface, and doesn't have an awful privacy/data ownership policy.
To put some context to this post, he's replying to a post (which I deleted, because I realized I didn't know enough about the field) in which I asked about the differences between flash orders on ETNs and on exchanges, and what they have to do about NBBO rules.
The likelihood itself is a single number, but the algorithm is maximizing the likelihood based on a vector of 993 parameters representing the quality of a seat. Each x,y coordinate represents a seat in the ballpark, and each seat is mapped to one of those 993 values. The heatmap evolves as the vector approaches maximum likelihood.
As long as we're being accurate:

> His single greatest achievement — the creation of the world’s first web browser, Mosaic — took place under the auspices of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.

All correct, except for "first". The world's first web browser was WorldWideWeb[1], written by Tim Berners-Lee. But I suppose it is true that Mosaic was the first browser that got noticed by anyone other than the Chosen Few.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
Above are online interactive tutorials for learning Python vs. Ruby. Learnpython.org isn’t ugly exactly, it’s just that Try Ruby is so much more polished. It’s obvious that a professional designer had a hand in Try Ruby, whereas the design of learnpython.org was thrown together by a programmer who later slapped a few ads on it and called it done. Which tutorial would you rather use?

It depends, if I'd want to learn webdesign I will probably use the well designed tutorial. If, on the other hand, I'm interested in learning a programming language I won't be concerned with the site design but rather with the quality of the tutorial.

A good design does not guarantee a good content ...
What We Look For (David Lee of SV Angel)
Because they has been busy updating gmail design.

To me it looks like Google has stopped caring about what their customers want and is focusing instead on things that they think we want...
LOL, also, that's ok, I don't enable java plugins on the web anyways.
Problem: Crowdsourcing-for-equity quickly will result in >500 investors. This requires a C-corportation (not an S or an LLC), and requires full SEC filings and regulation. This means the company will be going public with no product, customers, or otherwise.

Honestly, I think there's a role for a Kickstarter-like fund for startups (as opposed to Kickstarter's focus on creative projects). Still no equity--the "prizes" generally would be promises of receipt of future products. But without equity, there's none of the legal wrangling associated with going public.

For new companies, such an entity would give: 1) market validation based on the number of financial contributors, 2) market research based upon feedback of pre-sale customers, and 3) relatively strings-free funding. In fact, I thought heavily about announcing my current project on Kickstarter until I read their terms and conditions. I'd definitely be using it to fund a new company, and funding one that would be difficult to call "creative".
Political popularity is hard to quantify. But for whatever they are worth, I have three points in support of my claim that President Bush's policy was (and is) "popular", one factual, one which I believe to be true but have no data for, and one anecdotal:

1) President Bush won reelection quite easily,
2) The "War on Terror" had and continues to have bipartisan support, while many other policies introduced since it began (such as the actual wars) have been wildly polarizing, and
3) In my personal discussions, I have found it very difficult to persuade most people that our response to 9/11 was anything but correct and justified.
Groklaw certainly does have a slant and, in this case, the slant is toward Google. However, reading two partisan sources, slanted in different directions definitely doesn't make any sense if what you're after is the "Truth". You know this, though, based on your parenthetical.

But really, unless you have a major investment in the outcome, it doesn't matter where you get your news. For me, and I suspect for many, following the day-to-day updates in a case like this is sort of like watching a professional sports game. We'll find out the definite, official, outcome at some later time, but for now we're just watching (more or less) for the entertainment value.

It's quite common in professional sports for an announcer or analyst to have well-known loyalties or preferences. Many are even employed by the teams themselves. The partisanship of the announcer or analyst (provided the commentary isn't completely crazy) really doesn't impact most of us because, unless we're placing bets (legally or otherwise), we're just there to have a good time and enjoy an impressive spectacle.
Groklaw has no need or position to launch immature attacks like this as well:

> Interestingly, the judge was able to come to this easy conclusion despite the insistence of self-described patent expert, Florian Mueller, that the court would certainly allow Oracle to break its word.
Can you elaborate a little more on the reverse proxy tip? Why the double nginx, varnish in-the-middle approach? I'm not familiar with this technique. The rest of your comment is really good.
Sure np. I just sent you an email. :-)
I think oracle is actually bringing a decent release cycle to JDK on mac. Bout time!
Sure, go ahead and sue me for my money that doesn't exist! Paper millions != real hard millions
Another option might be to just let redis swap, and run it on its own VM.

It should perform similarly to most disk-based dbs.
http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
U.S., Russia near deal to lessen cyber-tensions
Note that both provide the original legal documents if you are interested.
Curious, would this case be different if the song was a Mashup? I suspect so, right?
That probably just means the 'hibernate' option was removed from the dialogs. You should still be able to invoke it from the power management tools via a terminal. I'm not on ubuntu but does this still work:

'pmi action hibernate'
> And I say lawyers ruin everything because the legal profession has a vested interest in keeping the lay person from being able to understand and use the law effectively.

This may be true, but it is not the reason law is hard for the lay person to understand.

Western legal theory has taken "justice" to mean that, given the same facts, and irrespective of the personal opinions of the judge or jury, the court should reach the same decision. Just think about that for a second-- it's not an easy problem. In fact it's a fabulously difficult problem, even before you add the condition that the system should remain fair over time in excess of a human lifespan.

The (clearly sub-optimal) solution we've arrived at over the past few thousand years is basically to implement an enormous natural-language virtual machine in which individual agents (lawyers) execute programs (laws) using a very precisely-defined instruction set (legal jargon) which is very similar in structure to English. The reason the laws cannot be written in English is that English has natural ambiguities; this is fine for conversation, but is absolutely unacceptable when human freedom or livelihood is on the line.

The obvious downside is that it means that average citizens can actually not learn the law simply by reading the law. To mitigate that, we've constructed an execution context in which a separate lawyer represents each interested party, with a judge acting as a neutral third party present to represent the interests of the law. The jury is asked only to establish the facts; understanding of the law is not required. It's really all pretty clever.

Obviously it's not perfect. But, before you criticize the system wholesale, remember that law didn't always work this way. Time was you would just take your grievance before the king, and depending on if he was feeling merciful or surly or liked your family, you would either get what you wanted or not. If you were lucky, there would be rhyme or reason to the king's judgments, and you might be able to predict what he'd say. If not, well... sucks to be you.

The complexity of the law, the cost of employing full-time legal scholars for every interaction, and the occasional abuses of the system-- these are the price we pay for fairness.

I'm not saying I think lawyers are awesome, but a world without them would be a hell of a lot worse than most people think.
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"FOSS Patents is just generally horseshit"

If you stay away from his cheerleading there's a lot of good analysis and useful information.

I read both Groklaw and FOSS if not daily every other day and I wouldn't say one is significantly less biased or useful then the other. As I've said recently[1] I wish there were a good daily source that isn't overrun with bias but I haven't seen one yet.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3866508
Actually I think it is quite normal for almost any kind of transaction not to get broadcasting publicity. I fail to see how that is shadowy.

Anyway, why would staring Netscape not be enough value already? After all he himself wrote the Mosic browser that became the basis for all of today's browser. I think very few people have produced more "value" in their lives.

I also don't like the tone of voice of the article. It's pretty much a personal attack only based on the fact that he makes a lot of money.
You don't see something...Ponzi-scheme-ish about the industry?
I may not be especially familiar with this, but it sounds like:

1. Man makes short-lived company that makes him rich quickly.
2. Man makes money investing in other short-lived companies that make their founders rich quickly.
3. Successful founders grow up to make money investing in still other short-lived companies.

Maybe I'm totally misinterpreting this, but if there's any truth to this version of the story, it seems like it's heading for disaster. I've already met a lot of startup founders who insist that profitability doesn't matter. How on earth is that attitude sustainable?
I'm not answering your question directly, but instead I am posting my experience that it might help you. Feel free to ignore.

I've stopped collecting my links on Instapaper as I hardly find time to read through all the links I save and never found a single instance where I went back to cherish that stuff(at least in the 3 month period that I archived). Instead, I stopped worrying, and started to enjoy the content: read it and forget it and your brain will take the responsibility to spring it up later in the hour of need.

Here's the four step process I'm currently following.
1. If the post is an experience, well, I read it as-is, comment if I may, form my opinion and forget about it peacefully.
2. If the post contains some detailed how-to's that are hard to remember, I spool it.
3. If the post contains links(generally to tools and open source code) that I might need to find later, I tweet it.
4. If the post is really awesome, I blog about it or add to my to-blog list(another way of bookmarking, time taking, but the impression lasts for a longer time)

I now have 18 articles spooled in the last 2 months that I clearly remember why I bookmarked each of them as opposed to several hundreds on Instapaper.(I'm not comparing Spool and Instapaper, I happened to pick Instapaper first and used Spool later when I changed my tactic). Also, I don't try to bookmark everything I find amusing, only those I might need later. Now, I see myself reading and taking more pleasure compared to when I was worrying about bookmarking most of the things I read. Only time will make selection better!
It's not uncommon at our works when we ask a potential employee to come and work for us that they tell us they want to think it over to make sure it is what they want also.

We endeavour to hire talented staff so it's only natural that they have had other offers. From our point of view we have never held the cards really.

I suppose that is why you have to offer health policy's, pensions etc, to sweeten the deal.
Crap..I did not know Dan Shipper was a real person for a minute. I thought Shipper" was a reference to a fictitious person who regularly "ships" products.
I wanted to point out that depending on how rulemaking goes in the SEC this is not necessarily true: the SEC is considering allowing all crowdfunding investors (people who have invested under the crowdfunding exemption in the JOBS act) to be bundled together into a single entity, thus easing the transition from crowdfunding to a Regulation D deal and possibly eliminating the need for a company to incorporate as a C corporation.

In addition full SEC filings are not required under the new crowdfunding exemption.
I agree. The product is very valuable, and with the right execution and marketing they'll do well. But I can't figure out why companies like this--let's be honest, 80% of YC-funded companies-- need the "best and brightest."

I ask this honestly...why would the best and brightest want to work for consumer-facing companies with minimal salary and the equivalent of a lottery ticket for cashing out in 4-5 years? Maybe I just don't get the SV hype--I'm from Chicago. I thought we were past the rockstar/ninja stuff. Don't you just need people who can, ya know, "deliver" and "execute your tasks efficiently." Maybe even scale your app to multiple EC2 servers. And maybe if they're really motivated, contribute to your "vision."

I'll admit that my "lifestyle" business plans are basically the same-- a fairly simple B2B CRUD app that hopefully gains traction when I release it. But I would never even think of courting the kind of talent I would expect to be attracted to NASA, SpaceX, <insert green energy startup here>, etc.

What am I missing?
Thanks! We used a WordPress Plugin called LaTeX for WordPress. I believe it uses MathJax under the hood. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latex/
> But we do know the net effects of sex on developing an interest in programming, namely that there is a negative correlation between being female and having said interest.

Do we? That observation doesn't appear to account for the fact that the numbers are strongly correlated with culture, nor that women's presence in CS has been declining in Western countries but increasing in others.

This is kind of like saying we knew the net effects of race on personal productivity by looking at Japanese internment camps during WWII — it's a very shallow and facile view of the topic.
You're not saying it simply. You're using the word "liquidity" as if it's an abstraction. The equivalent term is "cost of trading". When you replace the word "liquidity" with "cost of trading", your assertion stops making sense; it becomes "trading is cheap enough already". Huh?
The problem is that most of the products on that list are probably tightly integrated with the Google infrastructure. The standalone product of SketchUp was sold off, but now the question is what will happen to the SketchUp 3D Warehouse.
Awesome! If I get some time I might hack this up into some type of self-hosted evernote thing. I just started using evernote and it's nice but most of my notes are pictures/sites and this looks to be a great fit.

Kudos!
Problem: I just moved away from DDG. I love it still but it's just not as accurate as google. Overall takes longer to find something. Every non-technical person I spoke to hates it because it's REALLY not accurate.
Hmmm. Supprted Macs: any Intel
Does it really run on 32bit Intels and on Snow Leopard?

Still use a 1st gen Macbook Pro...
Study Sheds Light on How Pigeons Navigate by Magnetic Field
I don't usually either, but I like to use JSPerf from time to time which prefers you use their Java plugin for timing accuracy.
Crap teams suck, no matter what they're working on.

I find it very HN of you to think that programming talent means being able to churn out code fast that does difficult things.

I'm just guessing here, but maybe 42floors want to make good, well engineered software that users love to use and that is maintainable for a while still. This has very little to do with being a "haskell/clojure ninja", yet very much with software talent.
Toronto-based non-profit Ladies Learning Code helps young women get tech savvy
Consumers would buy LTE tablets if it wasn’t such a pain in the ass
Is it safe to use this on servers yet?
Oh, and the real answer is of course "because they can".
From what I hear, they're identical. The whitings although seems to have a display with more resolution, and since it's been around longer, more integration with other apps.
Even if Oracle wins, they may lose.

Imagine if:

Google looses the right to use the Java API in Android.

Google makes a conversion tool to convert the Android API to another API / VM format. (maybe based on Parrot???)

"" releases an ANSI / ISO spec for an improved high level language (not just a C++ replacement like Go), and makes the spec open to encourage "safe" adoption.

"" provides reference implementations for mobile (Android) and server (GAE) type uses.

"" creates a subsidiary to sell and support the SDK to encourage corporate adoption. I'm not exactly sure how this last step supports their core business, other than making sure there is a talent pool available. But as long as I'm dreaming...

THAT is a result I'd like to see. Send Java off to the old programming languages retirement home, where it can sit and trade war stories with Visual BASIC and dBASE.
the <cloud> element solves the problem of polling, it lets you subscribe to feed-updated notifications and read the feed only when it changes.

also, Atom has threading and RSS has some community efforts underway to make "replies" decentralized and aggregable (new word) http://xmlns.inreplyto.me/
That's actually partially what I'm trying to do! I mostly just bookmark a lot of random sites and images and wanted an quick-view Pinterest like interface to put on top of that. If you create some nice features please pull-request. I'll gladly take a look.
I think capital structure is an important consideration in the determination of whether or not a large number of investors is "good" or "bad".

Under traditional methods of capitalization you don't want a large number of investors because each investor is another person that you need to clear important business decisions with (for example if you wanted to raise another round of funding). In this system you can almost view an investor as a partner in your venture.

However there is no need to carry this over to the crowdfunding domain. It can be quite easy to reserve a class of shares with the typical rights that traditional investors would require while creating a new class of shares (with much more limited shareholders' rights) to be distributed to crowdfunding investors.
> you cannot sue for infringement of a copyright work unless it is registered as a federal copyright with the Copyright Office.

I'm having a hard time understanding what it means to have automatic copyright when a work is created... but you can't sue for infringement. What kind of implicit protection does your work have if you can't take such action?
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We want to build the best computers for programmers at the best price with the OS most programmers run on their servers and dev machines anyway.

All the issues you mention and others relating to graphics continue to exist because there is no single organisation focusing on the full hardware+software stack. [1] It is really hard to get everything working on such a huge range of hardware with software that keeps moving so fast.

So we are starting by focusing on just getting everything working on some of the best existing machines - Thinkpads.

If you have any ideas or requests for your ideal setup, please share them here or email me at hrishi@giniji.com.

[1] I don't want to take any credit away from System76 and other similar companies. They've done a great job, but they don't seem to be proactive in pushing things forward.
Don't scare us!
he is including guys who wouldn't work with dickish 'brogrammers'
At first I thought this was to Pinterest what Yammer is to Twitter (i.e. a private ecosystem that companies can use, etc). But now I see that it is only for one person's images.
Thanks for a wonderful gesture. We are more than glad and would definitely provide feedback.
Maybe Duck Duck Go will buy Bing. I hear it's for sale: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/bing-bang-boom-is-micros...
because it seems like half the time, companies are partially bought for the talent...so if you can get a much better developer it helps adds to the valuation.

but yeah quite often it seems like these companies with thousands of developers...could be run with a 20 times smaller team