skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said many things that were pro-Android. Endorsements, explanation, etc. it doesn't matter. What he said was not a license.

What questions? anyone can fork OpenJDK and release it under a different license due to the classpath exceptions, and if they pass the TCK they can call their software Java. If not they cant't. but PhoneME doesn't have the classpath exception and that's why Google didn't like that.

Here's Andy Rubin's email:

"We are building a platform where the entire purpose is to let people differentiate on top of it," said Android chief Andy Rubin in an August 11, 2007, e-mail that Oracle is touting in its case against Google (PDF). "Sun chose GPL for this exact reason so that companies would need to come back to them and take a direct license and pay royalties."

so what is your point?
runs everywhere Chrome runs.

Does it run on ARM?
I disagree with everything you say here. I seriously doubt you've been using databases for 20 years. Which databases have you used? How many hours experience do you have with each of them? Just because some people do it wrong doesn't mean you should throw out the baby with the bath water! In every stack I've used the database has been the most robust and amazing piece of technology and it's been an absolute dream come true for every project I've been involved in. (SQL Server / PostgreSQL - 10,000 hours experience)
Lots of applause lights in there (http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/). I'm pretty sure things are not nearly as bad as you seem to believe.
Douglas Crockford: Why I removed comments from JSON
If I remember my health-nut mythology correctly, the theory is that inflammation (and especially inflammation related to blood sugar spikes) is believe to be a contributing factor to a lot of bad stuff: diabetes, cancer, aging, and so on.

Is daily inflammation a normal thing...? Maybe I'm just not observant enough, but I notice inflammation most often when I cut, bruise, scrape, or otherwise accidentally abuse my body - in which cases, memory tells me that (in the mild case) that's the right response.
Show HN: My API literally puts you in the game
Video and bandwidth are impressive - 1995 was still painfully slow for many people. People maybe had 56 kbit/s, but perhaps that dropped back to 33.3 kbit/s because of noisy lines. (v90 was approved late 1998). I was stuck on 14.4 kbps for ages. Oh god. ("Sloppy" is apparently a modem speed simulator. (http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/) )

But I think the magic would be video and bandwidth on a handheld device?
Where are the Apartment List supporters coming from? They only have around 300 followers.

EDIT: Could it have been Mike Larsen that caused the swing? https://twitter.com/#!/Marleybonez/status/196998708292894720
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It's a niche job board for SAP Consultants. I know the design isn't quite up-to-par and there can be additional features, but is it a viable MVP?

http://qchirp.com/

Any feedback is appreciated.
Oh I absolutely agree. In fact any sort of voting where the only authentication for the constituent is an email address should never be used for anything. It is entirely possible to fabricate a million users in the blink of an eye. Even ones that use a variety of web mail services (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Etc) Not to mention that its pretty trivial to set up your own domains and create mailbox farms with automated responses clicking on authenticating links.

I am speculating that this sort of abuse will lead to the emergence of a nominal digital ID implementation. A point where an individual will not be allowed to participate in some online activities that they might wish to participate in because their lack of proof that they are real, and unique.
Every business and business model is different. This should be considered with a grain of salt. It is not a one size fit all
How is it a monopoly? In countries with strong national healthcare systems (eg Ireland, the UK) there's private insurers as well. And from the consumer PoV, you get sick, you get treated, there may a small copay, the end. The amount of administration that gets shoved onto patients in the US is staggering, and health insurance companies are about the least customer-responsive businesses I have ever encountered.

When you can assure me this won't happen, I might start supporting universal health care.

Why don't you just go somewhere that has it available and observe the results for yourself, instead of making up hypotheticals? It costs some more money in taxes, but delivery of service works nicely in practice and patients aren't required to become expert in billing administration.
I often fail at being polite to people online, and people like you are the reason.

Trust me when I tell you this:

Google will never steal money from your bank account, by using a password recovery link that you had emailed to your GMail account.

Does that really need to be said? Do you really need CONVINCING of this?
If Instagram had been charging for their app, it would have been very hard for them to get to the scale where they would be acquired by Facebook, especially for anything near the $1b. I'd say everyone who had a piece in that deal is flabbergasted too, but for different reasons.

Is this a strategy people should always aim for? No. But there are legitimate reasons why revenue should not be the top priority, and this post does a good job at narrowing it down.
Since the article didn't mention it, there's http://rizzoma.com/ which hosts a rather nice version of Wave.
>Since 1980s, the decision power in US corporations started to move to the hands of shareholders.

The decision-making power was always in the hands of the shareholders. They own the corporation, fer chrissake.
We tested it using Optimizely, what we use for A/B tests, but rather doing a true A/B test we made into a sequential test (by manually setting all traffic to go to one variation versus another). It took a couple days to test and it's tough because since it's sequential traffic spikes will screw everything up and you'll have to start all over. So basically we compared two weeks with "average" traffic: running $5 plans one week and free plans the next week. Obviously if anyone noticed we allowed them to switch their plan to free.
Not a bad article, but the frameworks are incredibly similar, which meant every section boiled down to "Spine does it like this and so does Backbone". And the eventual conclusion didn't really highlight any meaningful difference between the two.

From the conclusion: "...when the key thing is simplicity, file size or CoffeeScript integration choose Spine. In most other cases [use] Backbone." Simplicity, however, is highly subjective, and certainly from reading the article I saw no clear differences. As for Coffeescript integration, as anyone who's tried will attest, Backbone integrates perfectly with Coffeescript. And finally, the articles treatment of file size was deeply confusing as to which was actually smaller but at worst the difference is only a couple of kb.

In short, there's really not a lot of difference here, which makes it all a bit pointless, I fear.
Programming in Lua seems to be the best choice, but mostly by virtue of the very small number of coices. It was most recently printed in 2006, but there were few breaking changes since then, and you won't run into them very often.

To be honest, I learned it using only the tutorial here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaTutorial and google.
Roberto Ierusalimschy's Programming in Lua, 2nd Ed. is an absolute gem. Well written, concise and very authoritative (he's one of the language's co-creators).

One thing worth knowing though: he's working on the 3rd edition (updated for Lua 5.2), though I'm not sure how soon that is expected.

The first edition is online, if you want to get an idea what it's like: http://www.lua.org/pil. In addition, the language's refrence manual is freely available online as well. Depending on how you learn, that would get you started very quickly. (It's a small language and very much follows the principle of least surprise - except for indexing arrays from 1, but you get used to that.) http://www.lua.org/docs.html has the full reference manual for 5.1 and 5.2.
Another kind of evil (but effective) approach is to allow the user to do all those post-signup activities (like set up a dashboard or create some content), and then say "now sign up" at the end.

They're already invested, so you get better conversion.
Let's say there's a kid who plays tennis for hours every day. Tennis is how he plans on making a living, and he already makes a little money at it. He hits a great one-handed backhand. When he's in school, he has a one-hour tennis class every day where the coach makes him hit a two-handed backhand because that's what they teach at school. You test the kid and wouldn't you know it, he's a lot more consistent with the one-handed backhand than with the two-handed backhand. Now, would you take this as evidence that there are any particular difficulties in teaching a two-handed backhand as compared to a one-handed one? Maybe you would conclude that the two-handed backhand is intrinsically more difficult to learn because the reduced reach requires better court positioning and footwork, which are less concretely related to the task of hitting the ball over the net.

Or maybe you just conclude that the kid practices one skill for hours every day and the other skill briefly and sporadically.

There's really no need to construct a reason based in armchair cognitive psychology to explain why kids are better at a method they practice a hundred times a day than at methods they might practice a few hundred times a year, assuming they go to school regularly and do math problems every day while they're there.
Nothing ever is which is why I wrote the answer to "when revenue" is: it depends. I wrote this post because I talked to enough people who thought companies not charging was completely irrational. I believe most people, including politicians, are rational actors you've just got to understand their motivations and goals.
That's what I was thinking. During the bubble unhappy people would quit and find another job (usually in the reverse order). Now they're stuck, because they can't find anything else. So you'd expect the average level of worker happiness to go down even before you factor in companies trying to take advantage.
luajit2 in interpreter mode is also very fast, originally written in x86 (Mike Pall has probably finished the arm port by now). But I've never heard of any benchmarks between the luajit2 interpreter v. havokVM, that would be interesting to see.
>or even any evidence that such a phenomenon exists.

You have evidence of your own consciousness, just as I have evidence of my own.

>we must assume that a self-aware AI is entitled to the same rights as any other self-aware being.

What's your testable definition of self-awareness? Is the 'top' command self-aware because it can see its own process?
Not sure how this stacks up against other fair use guidelines, but I'm pretty sure a 3-10 second sample is within the allowable limits of copyright law[1]. However, there are other qualifications, such as reduced quality that might disqualify his work.

It's still pretty sad. Shows like The Daily Show rely on fair use for a lot of their content and it's hard for me to see a difference between this and much of what they do. Fair use shouldn't only be available to people with expensive lawyers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Music...
[...] it would have been very hard for them to get to the scale [...]

Without revenue you can say it would have been very hard for them to, you know, exist as a company for some period of time.
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Screenshot of their call-to-action on this?
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Hey - of course - you've helped me tons in the past on the IRC channel, good to help out.

Definitely interested in seeing moving averages as these help give some perspective on getting better or doing more fitness. I've used moving averages before on weight (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html) and definitely found them useful.

Site seems to be down for now - though from memory what i'd like the graph to do is be able to compare data this week to last week / this month to last month...basically anything that lets me feel like i'm doing better than before.
people who didn't read/didn't follow the directions.
Even if you don't care, I think the media does. The cost of entry was pretty low, though (200 or 300, I think) - certainly a lot less than any ad buy. And you get some great ego stroking if you win as a bonus :-)
Ok, perhaps Safeway isn't the best example, but hopefully my point remains clear.
> Hypocrisy and contradictions from the free market zealots is nothing new.

It is not hypocrisy to suggest that the people who banned drop side cribs are unsuited to guard the public health.
Of course, but look at the concept of "loss leaders" in retail. Or even in gaming, where the manufacturers lose money on the systems, but make it back on licensing and game purchases. Isn't it helpful to understand when a counterintuitive strategy is a good option?
What is the start date for the next class?
The same magazine that name übersatanic corp Monsanto 2009's company of the year.
Once poster child of crisis, Iceland recovers
Agreed; defining that stuff is up to an higher layer - we just need to make a standard for that too.

JSON-LD, for example, has typed datetimes, links, etc: http://json-ld.org/
Spine's hard-coding of "id" is unacceptable, especially when what they're really referring to is an ID.
I think you make a good point, but it still leaves open the idea that groupon may have made these changes to combat a (perceived) weakness in the committee.
"Quality" is subjective.

More relevant is _accuracy_, i.e., you get what you specify via search operators, and results are not influenced by all of Google's silly "factors". You know what you're looking for and how to frame the query. But Google assumes you're dumb and thinks it should decide for you.

Alexa Top 1M is a nice filter because the data comes from the Alexa Toolbar which only the most braindead web users would have installed. So you are in effect avoiding sites that the web's most braindead users would often visit.

Ranking sites based on "popularity" is great until you reach the point where the majority of users are not very intelligent. (cf. search engine users in 2004 with search engine users today.) When you reach that point, you get results where "quality" is determined by idiots (and SEO hats), not a group of intelligent peers.
Actually most of the early investors who would have won in that deal got a lot of money out from the later stage investors and more in the IPO.

I'm not sure they'd have made more in that deal. Honestly most of the folks invested early made a ton of money and now the guys at the backend are looking for a chair as the music ends.
Another Cool feature could be to exclude sites that use Adwords or Paid Search from the list too. Then it would really just be legit sites.
That's very unnerving if it's true, because, by going along with "Groupon is worth $6bn because Google offered that to us and we turned it down", implies Google had a hand in creating that extremely high perception before their IPO.

If Google did infact have the chance to look at the books (which I'm sure they did), and then allow that "$6bn meme" to circulate -- well, that's evil isn't it?
Seems really unlikely, as there is no mention of the "forward your email confirmation" scheme anywhere related to this video.
Yes, but Rails is a known quantity; everyone is aware of what's provided for you in a Rails app and can judge accordingly. It's harder to judge someone's work when you know it was written as a school project but you don't know which parts were theirs or how much guidance they were given.

As far as the educational values involved, many profs distribute their handouts and assignments relatively freely, e.g. the Berkley Pac-Man projects I linked above, but are wary of having solutions floating around online since that enables cheating. Personally I think this is probably a lost cause, but you can at least understand why they might be resistant to the idea of having students' solutions posted on github (and it's not reasonable to say that teachers should re-develop new projects every year; coming up with good projects is a huge amount of work and it usually makes much more sense to have a single set of course materials that you continue optimizing/refining over time).

Of course none of this is meant to apply to open-ended, student-driven class projects, or to work that students do on their own time while being enrolled in a university. I think most people would agree that such work is unambiguously the property of the students that produced it.
You can say that, yes. But as a company with almost $8m in funding (prior to the $50m/acquisition thing; http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instagram) and low costs, they can defer revenue for a while.
An excuse to visit friends in NYC?
Sorry, not yet. My algorithm had far too low of a signal/noise ratio for me to be confident in showing it off.

While the connections it found made sense it was effectively no more than string matching in most cases. My hypothesis was that using something called a "dependency grammar" I could quickly extract relations between nouns in a sentence. My running every sentence in a document through that I could construct a map/reduce algorithm to build a map of entity relations in a document and further reduce that across a set of documents.

I used the Wikipedia article on World War II and every article linked to from there as my input set.

Though I'm done with the "thesis" portion of it, I'm working on ways to rewrite it. I have a few ideas involving machine learning that I think would significantly improve my results.

I wrote it all in Scala though Play was only used to display results from the database.
> Single payer enables the capitation model of service, where people are rewarded for staying healthy.

Please explain how capitation will get people to cut way back on carbohydrate consumption and exercise every day. Those two factor cause the majority of morbidity and mortality in the US.
Open-source matters because it's free to play. Anybody anywhere in the world can open up a browser and get access to the best thinking / practices of projects in esoteric languages all the way through common place languages.

For people who open source systems/ideas/etc (think DHH and ruby on rails for the current hotness, they get thousands of people to play with their framework and make it better. This benefits DHH and colleagues while benefiting everybody else).

For those who contribute, it allows them to show off their knowledge and/or skills. By contributing you get to meet and chat with all kinds of intelligent people as well as learn best practices.
Do you know anyone else who can confirm who has been on this site for a while, or at least give some details? No offense, but a confirmation from a user on their first post just after creating the account is not exactly convincing.
PostgreSQL is awesome (I really love it), now let's do some complaining:

* I'm not fan of doing backups with pg_dump. I think it would be a lot more awesome if I could tell the database to back itself up in-band. Even better, I would like to be able to ask the database to schedule its own backups, instead of having to set up my own cron jobs (or equivalents). Commercial databases can do that.

* The sad state of libpq (the C API). Libpq is where PostgreSQL really shows its age. It's very cumbersome to use and can't do (or can't do well) a bunch of things the raw protocol is capable of. Since almost all PostgreSQL bindings are built on libpq, none of the bindings support these features either.

* It would be cool if it was possible to kill sessions in-band (other database servers can do that). With PostgreSQL, the only way to shut down misbehaving sessions is sshing in to the database server and doing a `kill` on the process of the session.

* The infamous COUNT(*) fiasco.
Yeah but he doesn't have to do straight puts. He ca do a synthetic short. The June 9 puts are a dollar, as are the 11 call. So you sell the 11 call & buy the 9 put with the proceeds. Essentially you pay absolutely nothing. On June 12, if grpn stays below $9 you make the difference. If its between $9 and $11 you are ok as well. If its above $11, you cough up the difference. (Am NOT endorsing this trade - just pointing out that it does exist.)
I noticed a lot of those tweets promoting the video contained the word "Advertisement" - anyone know where those come from?

As peer comment mentions, though, there's no mention of the confirmation scheme on that video or the related site (assuming no retconning).
It looks like you can get them for $30/piece, if you buy 5 (i.e. $150, total). Perhaps these folks could go into their BOM costs, and show that the seeming-premium is for forward compatibility going w/ BT 4.0. It seems like whoever is selling the 4.0 ASIC (Broadcom, CSR, etc), is recouping their initial costs as fast as possible.
Find the solution of the main mystery of Da Vinci..
Ask HN:  How much ownership is reasonable for a technical co-founder?
Typical scenario: I am potentially about to partner with 2 other gents who will be the "business" half of our proposed startup while I will be tasked with building and launching the actual app. How much ownership is reasonable here?
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Can you explain to me why that is evil? I'm sincerely interested in hearing that thought process.
How confident can you be that voting percentages found through a neat hack can be reliable? If the percentages were taken down, the Webby admins could have been doing anything during that period, under the assumption that those percentages wouldn't be seen (and therefor didn't need to be accurate).

Here's an alternate explanation to the events observed: The Webby admins started removing what they considered to be fraudulent votes during the blackout period. Most of these removed votes came from PadMapper and Zillow, which increased (linearly) Apartment List's percentage.

Full disclosure: I have no dog in this fight. I haven't used any of the services mentioned, and I've only really heard of Zillow.
Does anybody know how much the Webby folks charge for a nomination?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
http://spnsr.tw/ kicks you to http://sponsoredtweets.com/ so I'd say it's them.