skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Founder Institute: Calling All Women Entrepreneurs
Did not see link to source code on home page. Is this closed source?

If no, where to download code to play with?
The app store is a walled garden. the web (Safari) is not.

You get the best of both worlds with iOS without the pain of fragmentation and virus/malware/spyware/etc.
ManageWP Reaches 2000 Paying Customers: The Journey
Mark Randall on How Human Creativity Is Changing
Which is a typical way of reversing the argument. The whole point of copyright and the free market is to do exactly that: to have as the end result consumers that can get what they want at an affordable price whilst allowing the original creators to make a living.

Copyright violation is not "sin" like theft, respecting it depends entirely on actually making it work. If copyright is the only thing that actually stands in the way of that, it is being abused.

To paraphrase the author: The world doesn't OWE the copyright owners enforcement at any cost. If you can't distribute it under your 100% terms, you have the free-and-clear option of not publishing it at all.
Happy to answer questions, as always.

By the way, roughly 3/4 of A/B tests I participate in (my own and for clients) fail to improve business results. This compares with approximately 2% of A/B tests I've ever seen with in-depth blog posts, so I tried to redress the balance here.
While the common meaning of the word 'transmit' generally implies wireless communication nowadays, it can also be used to mean any transfer of information - wireless, wired, even written letters sent over snail mail. The text of this bill uses the word 14 times, and in almost all of them, it's clear that the latter meaning is the intended one. It's used only once in reference to these black boxes, in a section that starts with:

Data recorded or transmitted by such a data recorder may not
be retrieved by a person other than the owner or lessee of
the motor vehicle in which the recorder is installed unless--

And proceeds to list a bunch of limitations that all sound fine to me. It's essentially saying that the police need a warrant to retrieve the data (duh), and that if you rent a car, the car's owner can't use the black box to monitor you without written consent.

I see nothing in there to imply that these devices must transmit wirelessly. Much more likely, the device will transmit data the same way an airplane's black box does - via some sort of physical port that you have to plug into.
The Oatmeal, aka Matthew Inman sold a pretty sizable dating site. http://0at.org/pages/about

I'm pretty sure he's in the group of more money then time these days.
It doesn't require transmission ("(4) may require an interoperable data access port to facilitate universal accessibility and analysis.", as you saw) --- but note that if you're worried that the government might try to slip medium-range RF into the recorder standard, there's a Rulemaking procedure yet to come that could mandate wireless access to the boxes.

Which doesn't mean "start hyperventilating", of course.
So I guess you would bet? That's bold.
>Really?! How dare they!

How dare the executives lose shareholder's money by refusing to allow new customers to pay for the content and so make profit.

Preferring instead to stick to cozy little cartels where they sell content only to the same cable stations that they used to work for, and will go back to when their bonuses clear.

Remember it's not 'their' company - the company belongs to my pension fund - 'they' are supposed to be working for me.
Get Your Garden Room Right
I know. I don't make any bones about this HDCP stuff being bullshit. They are screwing their own, paying customers. That's terrible.

It's just that I really have no time for this entitled attitude that content owners are obligated to sell their wares to us when we want, how we want, at the price point we want.
The perils and promise of high-resolution displays
How SDN/OpenFlow can solve consumers' broadband woes
Except Google's Drawing is a simple drawing, not a diagram.
A flowchart for changing a habit
I have to admit that my experience has been the exact opposite. I've seen the whole flex time system work best when everyone is an interchangeable factor cog and completely fail when people are useful knowledge workers.

My hypothetical example would be writing a search engine. You have two brilliant knowledge workers. Alice is a brilliant algorithm specialist who has a new way to sort lists in O(1) time. Bob is a genius data center guy who can split anything across any number of servers. The only problem is that Alice is a morning person who works best from 7am to 5PM, while Bob's brain doesn't even start until 4PM, though he'll still be wide awake at 2AM.

Alice understand the theory behind parallelization, but she doesn't have the experience to truly write great code on the massive scale you need. Bob can find his way around a tree, but the fiddly details of O(1) search are beyond him. Thus, you really need both of them working together to make any progress. However, they're only together for an hour and Bob's always deadlocked by his inability to get answers from Alice while she sleeps. Similarly, Alice can answer his e-mails in the morning, but anything she write before Bob arrives will have to be thrown out because it won't scale properly.

Now, if the office forces them to work from noon until nine, then you'll get nine hours of work out. Granted, for four of those hours, Alice will be tired. Bob will be tired for another four. Still, if they can even work at a quarter capacity during those times, you're still getting three times as much done, while simultaneously giving both employee's back a full hour in each day.

How do you handle a situation like this?
Black boxes are already in use here in the UK.

They're actually a new initiative provided by the 1 insurance company, fitted to cars owned by young drivers. The data indicates your driving style in an attempt to bring car insurance down for more responsible young drivers. There's even an online dashboard to track your own info.

It's actually been well received especially since normal yearly insurance costs for teenage boys can be 3x the price of your first car!!!

http://www.co-operativeinsurance.co.uk/servlet/Satellite/128...
The bill does not require event data records to transmit anything. The word "transmit" in the subsection of the bill pertaining to event data recorders is a restrictive clause; the effect is that if your box happens to transmit anything, those transmissions are covered by the privacy provisions of the bill.
Apple and the myth of "The law of large numbers"
You are really using that awkward mobile interface of Google Reader? Why wouldn't you use an app like Reeder that is synced with your Google Reader account and has all your RSS needs covered.

For me following my Google Reader subscriptions via Reeder is a daily habit. I guess I use it more often than Safari on my iPad.

That said I would absolutely miss RSS if it was gone.
The point he's missing is that we're in a global village. If your friends watch it, you'll know what happens because they will talk about it. Maybe you won't care, maybe you will enjoy it a little bit less with no suspense - depends on how social if your typical series watching.

I don't see anything wrong with the approach though. Noone's saying that people won't buy the series on netflix once it's finally available. Although we know how likely that is...
One of my friends makes a living creating graphical assets for court presentation: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/april-tishler/18/162/94b

http://www.capitalnovus.com/divisions/novus-trial-consulting

http://www.a2lc.com/
Interesting angle, I've never seen someone come at it from the POV of the shareholder. If you're unhappy as a shareholder with HBO's strategy, I can understand that. Do whatever shareholders do in that scenario, I guess. (Vote? Sell?)

From the consumer side though, HBO has no obligation to do what a bunch of people on the internet who think they understand HBO's business better than HBO does think they should do.
How efficient is this compared with running your own cluster? 2x slower? 10x? In addition to latency between nodes, surely you're paying some kind of performance penalty for virtualization?
My interpretation of your quote is that the feature is there, but if the LHS is undefined, then the error is caught by the compiler, rather than at run-time (what is the falsity of an undefined value?)
>But the border can always change tomorrow, or even be in two or more places at once as neighbours do not always agree on such things.

That's true about borders and about many other things in life. Things change in life. We get older every day and thus change. If I took your stance on borders and applied it to a life, I could say, life is uncertain because we are in constant change. Yet, we exist and we plan and so on because we expect there to be some dependability (on things continuing as we know them, for the time being).

Just because border lines on maps are the abstract representation of actual boders doesn't mean they do not exist or there is ambiguity about them. With satellite technology and telemetry, borders are pretty exact --with some disputed exceptions.

Numbers also don't "exist" in real form, but we know they "exist" and are quite real in other ways.
Did you tell them you were going to move all your banking, mortgage, RRSP, line of credit and credit cards to another bank because of the poor customer service and failure to resolve the issue of the chargeback?

I've found that when you come in to your bank to close out all your accounts, especially with an ATM card/freshly filled out paperwork for another bank they usually ask if there is anyway they can keep your business. At such times they've been known to recall that the #1 policy is making money, and they don't make very much money when your accounts are at another institution.

It's good to move your accounts around every now and then someone's always got a free iPod or whatever.
Does anyone have any feedback about OpenShift by Red Hat?

They were at PyCon and it sounded interesting. I tried openshift and heroku, and heroku was easier for me to get up and running with, but I am still interested in OpenShift.
And how terrible a world it was when people mingled and watched TV at their friends houses -- reducing, NO STEALING, profits from the HBO...

I am a giant theif, I take so much revenue from companies all the time, I need someone to sue the shit out of me for the following (to teach me a lesson and put me in my place):

* I loan out my $1000 worth of rototillers to friends all the time, the manufacturers and rental agencies are losing piles of revenue from me.

* I let people use my truck, and/or help them move things regularly. That is dozens of car purchases or rentals

* I help my family and friends with computer issues and build them free websites occasionally -- dirty dirty hippy crap, poor companies are losing service calls all the time.

* I cook meals from my garden, and invite people over to eat with me, grocers and restauranteurs probably should lynch me for denying their revenue.

Stupid sharing and human kindness. Obviously we are just a bad, evil species.
Abercrombie france
Awesome idea!! I wish this comment was an actual item in the top news of HN.
You cite this like it proves that the headline isn't worrying.
It's really a hosted app, which I am planning to have a very low price for. You can create a new blog, just by typing a name in the big text box on the home page, you don't need anything else to try it out :)
Hmm... maybe some kind of "creative" :)
Yup, that's the right term for what I meant.
this is a transitional release. giving it a big version number bump wouldn't make a lot of sense.

and since when do users start using a software just because the version number changed?
The frustration isn't that HBO is demanding money for content. Many of us would happily pay for episodes of GoT as they're released, or even signing up for HBO online and paying a monthly fee.

What I won't consider is a cable subscription, and lots of us feel that way. I don't want all those other channels. I just want HBO. Or better yet, just certain shows. I have money, they have content. Let's trade, yes? If not, torrenting episodes as they're aired is an attractive proposition while we're waiting for the season 2 DVDs to go on sale.
How do you break that news to clients after they've paid $$$ for your services? Do you heavily caveat the potential before the engagement?
"Do you live in the United States? I ask this seriously, not sarcastically."

I don't live in the United States now, but I have lived there and seen elections and politics at close range.

As to the rest I guess we will agree to differ on the idea that Israel (or any other country for that matter) has significantly cleaner politics or that United States pols plumb some depths of evil that politicians in other countries don't. YMMV etc.
Yea, you're correct. This has been one of those "duh" moments. Thanks for the reply!
The headline was intended to worry you. It's bait. Don't be a sucker. BGR is selling you to advertisers by getting you riled up about nonsense.

I'm not saying it's not great we're talking about the implications of event data recorders. Upthread, someone noticed Honda selling you out to marketing companies. That's good to know. It's great that we're talking about this stuff.

But that BGR story is horseshit, and you should hold it against them in the future. It is a bad thing when businesses spin up bullshit stories to profit off pointless outrage.
A car could be in a crash even when it's not turned on or driving.
The scary thing is how Reader seems to have been so suceessful that it has become almost the de facto RSS reader. After Bloglines went offline it has become the only usable web-based mainstream feed reader. Reeder, the best feed reader on the desktop, even relies on Reader for the feeds. If Google decides to kill it or -- God forbid -- integrate it into G+, then RSS maybe threatened. I'm hoping some new player will show to disrupt RSS, because it's needed to fix Google's virtual monopoly.
Why does it matter what OS my toaster runs when all I want is a bagel?
User-friendly Android monetization SDK
The "share" icon/menu-item is very common in Android applications too. Seems like the more modern apps and OS's are on top of this and desktop browsers just need to catch up. Firefox does have a "Send link..." menu item, but that appears to assume one means to use email... a somewhat dated assumption.
It may be a Seattle-area thing. When I worked at Microsoft, the "super excited" phrase was a bit of a running joke, but it still didn't stop us from using it at every conference, in every public e-mail, hallways, etc.

Search for Microsoft AND "super excited" and you will not be disappointed. You will see both modern hits and results dating back to the dark, dim days of web indexing, from which results are rarely returned.
It's not entitled bullshit, that is a false dilemma and a strawman. It is pointing out hypocrisy. If they make it very hard to give them money, why the fuck should it be valid when they complain about not getting money?

It's like a bum complaining it isn't enough when you give him your spare change.

edit: accidentally a word
Fark.com founder links patent trolls with 'terrorists'
> [HTC G1] grabbed a certain contingent of user who understood Android, understood the framework, and would follow Android to the grave [...]

Somehow I have a hard time imagining a future where someone
would say that about Windows Phone.
And armchair C-level execs criticize without understanding the reasoning behind the decision.

I don't like that I can't just buy a subscription to HBO Go (I recently dumped cable) or buy HBO shows on iTunes the day after they air, but there are lots of revenue-related reasons why HBO is restricting access to its content.
Wow, THAT is how you read the article? I feel kinda sad for you.
My point is that having 80 characters as a hard limit sometimes imposes some linebreaks that negatively affect readability. My mention of the screen sizes comes from the fact that the 80 character limit originally was set to fit the code in a 80x24 character terminal without non-explicit line wraps.
Standard APIs that are shipped with the programming language, are part of the language ... just like English words are part of English, the language.

Oracle tries to draw a boundary between the language and the APIs, but there is no boundary to be drawn.
List comprehensions iterate in the same order as the for loops. If it helps, stick a mental newline in there :P

[(x, y) for x in range(10)
for y in range(5)...]
Once the data is recorded, it's only a matter of time before it becomes convenient to use in wider and wider contexts. The problem with requiring transmission to begin with is the infrastructure (business, legal, etc., not just tech) for all that doesn't really exist yet. But if in the future your fridge has an IP address, it's unlikely your car won't. With both data and connectivity, it would be a small decision to put the two together - an over the air firmware update and your car could be compliant within a few weeks of a new law.
Spotify overhauls Android app, beta available now
>HBO has no obligation to do what a bunch of people on the internet

True - but any company that refuses to listen to existing and potential customers has to raise concerns.

unless you are Apple of course and then you can do what you want ;-)

I don't know if I am a shareholder. But most shares are held by pension funds so when the boss of a company like RIM/Nokia/Sony do something stupid it's not the CEO that suffers.
Verizon activated 3.2 million iPhones in Q1, outselling all other smartphones
The third industrial revolution
Indeed, I have been vague on number 3. My take-away was more like: "Here's a cool user base, let's see what else we can do with it", thinking also that these new features could open up the spectrum of monetization possibilities.
Maybe you covered this before and I forgot, but how did you arrive at the number you use for the max cards creatable with a free account? I get the 'more than the # of kids someone would have in a family' but 15 seems... high.
EU approves Sony's acquisition of EMI
I took a very small salary (min wage) to get by and pay bills, not much else in return for equity. My co-founder has already offered to sell our software to another company for ~$10k which is why it's not an easy choice to give shares away for me. I may have to come up with a number that makes sense.
Nothing says the current user of the machine is the tech-savvy installer. My mother's comp has no-script on it, but she is in no way strong technologically.

A "mom-level" user may well enable scripts when prompted by an artful redirect like say:

1. A clone of your bank website (if you were headed there)

2. A page-not-found or server error page that looked normal..

3. the old "virus alert" scam
static/media files are served from CDN so if you have anything that breaks because of CORS you need to add some code to serve static files through gunicorn.
Which bit is bullshit? The bit I'm concerned about is data recorders in cars. Once cars start recording all that data, it's game over, as far as I'm concerned.
As far as I understand it, this still means that the copyright mafia needs a court order to get the info. The EU case was about whether or not a court can give such an order at all. And the answer is, yes they can, if the law ensures a decent balance between privacy and copyright protection.

Even though I would have loved to see the EU court rule otherwise, this still constitutes due process, not the total circumvention of the judicial system the copyright mafia is trying to achieve.

As long as the Swedish courts demand solid evidence of copyright violations from a given IP address, I don't see a big problem here. Of course then we get to the question of proving who was behind that address when the alleged violation took place....

Edit: Apparently there is a legal twist here that Torrentfreak doesn't report: the only reason why the ISP still has that data is because it was stored under the EU's telecommunications directives. These where intended to support law enforcement in fighting serious crimes (the usual terrorism and child porn excuse), and politicians in several countries have sold this to the public with the assurance that access to that data it could not be used for any other purpose.

This has now been exposed as a lie, which does make this big news that could have major consequences in the whole of the EU, exposing several government as having mislead parliament and the voters about the reach of these laws. (Which in turn is nice timing, short before the vote on ACTA which comes with similar "assurances" and promises...)
This is logic that suggests we should also outlaw hard drives. Who knows what the government might find out about us in the future by passing some terrible law?
We've developed a high-level query language, http://htsql.org, for complex reporting of medical informatics data sets stored in a relational database (Sqlite, MySQL or PostgreSQL). I'm not sure how this might fit your requirements, but it feels like 2012 to us -:)
Believe me we tried other combinations but Face and Book are not accessible so we can't call an app anything like PinBook og Faceterest :)
Both things can be true.

The parent is right that pirating content and not paying for it is not morally defensible if you believe that intellectual property has value.

You are correct that people often do immoral things. A refusal to believe that people often do things which violate their own moral code is a denial of fundamental human nature.

A smart distributor will say, "if we make barriers too high to easily own this content piracy rates will rise" while a smart pirate would say, "my actions are morally wrong but I don't care because it benefits me."
<shameless plug>

That's exactly what I thought and that's why SockJS is there: https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client

a) start using SockJS

b) wait until enough browsers supports it

c) drop SockJS.

SockJS has a websocket-like API so no need to do major code changes when you switch.

</shameless plug>
THIS is exactly why PG made his call to kill old media. HBO could be making bank by allowing either PPV online, subscription online or commercial supported. They have some of the best shows ever. But for whatever reason, out dated contracts or old thinking they are throwing money away.
Who's hired a SMM (Social media marketing) expert before? Reviews?
I was talking to a friend today who recently invested in a nightclub near Santana Row. We talked about various things, and hiring a social media marketing expert was one of them. He claims that one of the main reasons why his nightclub was successful, that it wouldn't have worked without someone who had all the right connections to spread news about his business and promote to people over social media platforms.

Now my question is this: Have you ever hired a SMM to market your tech startup? I realize that incubators like YC automatically generate a lot of free traffic for your startup, so I'm more interested in startups that are just starting out with not many connections. How was your experience with hiring a SMM, if you did?
"You have 20 seconds to comply": South Korea unleashes robot guards
BitInstant is first US bitcoin exchange to be federally licensed
Very nicely done. I like how the menu work. Especially how the Open and Save mapped to browser's upload and download. Excellent work!
A good example of deferreds can be found in jQuery - every AJAX method returns a deferred that you can chain success, error, etc. handlers to. So it's not like this idea isn't a mainstream one.

The main problem I see is that very few libraries handle receiving promises as arguments, probably because there isn't a standard/widely-used implementation of them. So your logic ends up being backwards, e.g you'd chain Mustache.render off of a jQuery success promise, rather than just passing the success promise in.