skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> There is one thing the jury won't know: the issue of whether APIs can be copyrighted at all is actually up in the air. It's a legal gray area that will be decided by Judge William Alsup—but only after the jury gives its verdict in this case. (When that happens, even a jury verdict in Oracle's favor could be a hollow one.)

which is exactly what felipeko was referring to.
It could also be construed as an arbitrage opportunity vis-a-via the time value of money.

Obviously some parties to the transaction might be unaware that their device is still under warranty, but the OP is providing a valuable service allowing them to liquidate their broken iPod into immediate cash and avoiding the risk that the warranty might be void, as well as the delay between sending and receiving the repaired unit.

The OP didn't force the people to put their broken iPod on ebay, he's merely taking advantage of an existing offer.
You can file bugs on the chromiom-os project.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/list?can=2&q...
Actually, why would people be happy in this society? What is the higher meaning of working for low to medium wages all their lives just to be able to pay the bills every month?

Who becomes happy from that? Mankind is not doing anything worthwhile on this planet right now. We are in the dark ages.
Link to actual op-ed: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-kin...
Except that you can't copyright a language specification - just the implementation of it. And even if you could, copyright law wouldn't prevent you from re-implementing it!

I mean, look at it this way - GNU is almost completely compatible with Unix, but it was rebuilt from the ground up. Even if AT&T hadn't given out the license for free, you'd have a hard time convincing me that GNU breaks some sort of copyright - the entire damn codebase was rewritten from the ground up. The design of the operating system may be the same, but copyrighting that is as ridiculous as patenting a geometric shape.
Thanks! Tried to find it in your comment history, but it was a while back ;)
Or you may have different tastes from the DJs.
This reasoning sounds a little lacking, but it's probably a disconnect from my understanding of "mobile" and "cloud" vs. the commenter's intended meaning. Clearly we need different form factors. We have smart phone size and tablet size. We definitely need workstation size. But I see mobile as a natural part of the evolution to the cloud. If data and apps can live in the cloud, then we're not tied to a machine at a desk. We can carry devices with us. And then when we get to a desk, we can keep doing what we've been doing, just on the larger machine. That's what cloud computing keeps talking about. But mobile computing is a piece in the cloud puzzle. Who cares about keeping data in sync between all your computers if you only have one desktop machine? I only care if I have a machines for each form factor and/or location in which I may want to do work.

Also, one possible technological scenario is that our smartphone acts as our central profile repository and when we get to a desktop machine the smartphone talks to it to connect to data, apps, and log you in. In that way the desktop becomes a seamless part of the mobile experience, providing the larger form factor as needed.

So you can actually implement this as all mobile and no cloud, or all cloud and no mobile, but the two are rather synergistic when combined, since mobile devices talk to the cloud and download software from the cloud. Whether the desktop gets my user data from a phone or the ethernet port doesn't matter, but I suspect it could very well do both, using the phone to handle recognizing it's me and logging me in, then using the internet connection to download my desktop apps and larger data. Dropbox can sync data between devices on the same LAN or the internet as needed, so we can do the same for desktop-phone synchronization too.
Personally I think you and wavephorm are going to be getting a very nasty shock in the next 2 or 3 years.

Firstly a browser based application is always going to suck because it's based in a browser. Reflect on that, it's an application running on an OS inside an OS. It doesn't matter how fast it gets, it's a subset of a subset of controls.

Secondly, and this I'm not so confident about, but still believe in. Browsers have sucked at apps for the last 10 years and are going to suck for another 10 years because the HTML standards committees move so slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. That's why Flash dominated and why native apps are going to dominate. HTML finally has moved to take on Flash just as Native Apps killed flash. They're a whole generation behind!

And the third reason? It's all based on javascript. It is practically impossible at the moment for normal programmers to write medium complexity javascript. ECMA 5 has been released with a whimper instead of a bang. It's pathetic. So anything written as a web app will be inferior to the much more manageable programming languages on the native apps, even though it's [cry] Obj-C and Java. Javascript is an order of magnitude worse for complex apps than those two.

Finally, the growing number of OSes. It ultimately means a growing variance in the quality, speed and modernness of HTML implementations and support, you're always going to get an edge going native on every OS. Previously we had Windows. Then Windows and a little Mac. Then Windows, Mac & iOS. Then Windows, Mac, iOS, Android. Then Windows XP, Windows Vista+, Mac, iOS, Android 2, ICS, Kindle Fire, etc. The OS market is fragmenting.
Speaking of using other tools for testing and prototyping, there are REPLs available for Cocoa.

My personal favorite is Nu[1] with Nutronic[2], though you can do similar things with MacRuby and PyObjC.

[1] http://programming.nu/

[2] http://itfrombit.github.com/nutron/
I suspect what you write would only be one of those three things.
Hopefully this will get some attention and they'll do some checking to get rid of fraud votes.
Why bother? Make a space ship instead, that would actually not suck.
You sound as if you aren't living it. There is compassion, but in a large part, when everyone is stressed (including the kids) by schedule or performance there isn't enough time to really gain rapport, and contempt sets in for the ones who "can't handle it".

This is the logical conclusion of not spending enough time together, or time spent together while one or more of an organizational unit are under serious duress.

The way to alleviate is to enjoy "quality" time together - guess what folks don't have time to do when their stress levels are up?
I think their issue was not having control over when they leave the vehicle. If the locks are computer controlled, there's risk of a false alarm preventing your exit, potentially in an emergency.

I agree that this is better left to a warning indicator.
It was incredibly inconvenient you mean?

In the mid-90s, before broadband proliferation, I managed to get from London to Manchester via train (200 miles) which takes bloody forever. When I got there, I realised I'd forgotten the damn software I was supposed to be installing (100Mb of deployables). That resulted in an additional 400 mile round trip to London and back via slow train.

A 2 day install job took 4 days and several hundred pounds.

Now I'd just log in to their kit and install it from the comfort of my favourite chair in 10 minutes :)
1.90英雄合击
Getters and Setters?
It is true, unless you do some preproccesor hacking(Type arguments can have no * or spaces), or use void* at which point types become useless.
He also mentions it in the very first paragraph:

I just won't use the internet in my personal or work life,
and won't ask anyone to use it for me.
Designing For Emotion By Aaron Walter - Review
http://www.codepo.st/2012/05/01/emotional-design-review.html
How To Block Unwanted Calls On Your iPhone
Rumor: Digg to be acquired by The Washington Post
KV stores are painful to use. Only huge applications that are DB-bound have the problem of scaling database and they usually have a lot of money. Also you don't need your replicas to be as strong as your master db server.
I'd like to know the reason that was downvoted...
You just said that you've just learned about lua used in games, and then directly propose Corona as the only place where you can use lua.

You can embed yourself lua, and that's it's power. It can go down to 30-40kb (without parser), and run on PS3 SPU chip (256kb memory).

It does not use any globals, all goes through a state structure, so you can have multiple runtimes (and different ones, HavokVM, lua reference, luajit) if you want at the same time.

Don't get me wrong, Corona is cool, but there is also moai, and tons of other toolkits, and hundreths of other games that are using it - for scripting, ui layout, configuration, many other things.
You have to admit that a 20 year old app with over a PB of data and millions of lines of code is not exactly typical. For most apps the benefits of a structured database outweigh the costs.
"And so all these Android phones are going to be incompatible."

He seems to be confusing Android with Java ME. Android has a few portability issues but it's light years ahead of anything that Java ME ever did.

Gosling seems to have a very strong tendency to badmouth his former employers (first Oracle, now Google), which made me lose a lot of respect for him.
Indeed, exclusion constrains are really neat! FTR, here's their description in the PostgreSQL manual:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createtable.ht...
I wholeheartedly agree.

To those saying "who cares" consider that you may wish to use this extension on a computer where you don't feel comfortable issuing your Google login credentials.
On Apartment List's blog, they are claiming that they asked voters to forward their confirmation emails to them, so that they could confirm votes right before the voting ended: http://blog.apartmentlist.com/the-2012-peoples-choice-webby-...

Based on the dating, it looks like it was posted before this PadMapper post.
I'm counting 34 circles in your comment. License them or lawyer up, freeloader.
You are right about the timing and it not just being a UI design issue and I certainly didn't mean otherwise. But could you build J2ME apps that were elegant and WORA without pain? Android mostly makes that a piece of cake. Do you think J2ME kept up with times in the post iPhone era? Do you think if it wasn't for Android, under Sun/Oracle J2ME would have been competent in 2012? Fact remains that J2ME was mostly a failure and even with the hardware and UI advances it hasn't improved. There are reasons for that.

Failure of J2ME had to do with the flawed process, the technology, the design, the backwardness, the inability to keep up with times, the failure of the WORA promise, the fragmentation and Sun's management lacking any and all vision. Licensing from Sun would have likely meant Google would have found itself in a déjà vu situation. That was the point I was trying to make :)
Not all of them, maybe I should have been more specific. By personal I was referring to apps I have For sale in the App store, apps I developed for clients etc.. What I have decided to do is start offering tutorials/projects showing the really difficult bits that are not on the web. You get pieces here and there but few offer the complete implementation. So I plan on helping pave the way for those who will follow. ;)
That is awful. Honestly, the idea of APIs, and not their implementation, being copyrighted makes no sense to me, since it goes against the fundamental principle behind copyright law (versus patent law).

If a juror genuinely believes that the idea of copyrighting APIs and extending that copyright to alternate implementations makes no sense, how can they come up with a decision that's anything but arbitrary? That's like me saying, 'Assume that 1 * 5 = 0, and then decide if if the satisfiability problem can be solved in linear time'.

If you give me a nonsensical set of assumptions, how can I come up with an answer that's not also nonsensical? If you give me some messed up numerical system like that one, well sure, maybe those definitions would propagate though to the definition of polynomial complexity as well. But what does that mean for the real world? Nothing - and law is meant to be applied, not some abstract theoretical exercise.
Usually don't search unless I'm looking for something in particular, but just played with this for a good 15 minutes running random queries. The results are really good and at the same time I'm discovering sites I'd never otherwise see with Google.
Reducing SiO2 to Si requires extremely high temperatures (2000°) and sucks up all nearby carbon (bye bye graphene).

Even most university labs will have trouble coming up with the temperatures required, particularly considering you want to keep the oxygen from air out (and the carbon monoxide product away from air-breathers).
Thanks. I will explore Apache Wicket
Made me think of those sections of freeway (I mostly notice this in SoCal, not sure if anyone is familiar w this) where there are grooves or gradations that sort of slowly drift off of the lane dividers on a curve. People often start to follow the false lanes at first. I imagine such a system would have trouble with that.
Google really does need a way for figuring out the context of my question, so that it can do the specialization part. If they had a better social presence, then they could recognize my interests and habits as part of that context. So knowing I'm a programmer, when I type in "node" they could assume Node.js.

Some context from the question: If they can tell I'm talking about restaurants they can show me just restaurants. If I type in the name of a park, I don't want real estate and insurance companies with coincidentally the same name. Maybe asking a question in a full sentence like you do with Siri gives better context clues? Or maybe Siri just likes to assume a small set of tasks (calendar, looking for a business, making a task) and so is good at guessing those contexts but would be bad at other things. I can't really say much about Siri because I have an iPhone 4 and not a 4S. Oh well.

Google does do a bit of context guessing, like using Geo IP to guess my location, so a business or restaurant name comes up with local businesses.
Physical Review E: walking with coffee - why does it spill?
Humans really are still evolving, study finds
Makes more sense for AOL to buy digg and use it to push traffic and especially SEO juice onto their rags - digg's still a PR8 and still generates backlinks and traffic which is crucial for the article recycling industry.
This is also a pharma company's nightmare. Built and sold cancer reducing drug for dirt-cheap? Ooops.
There is an actual vitamin K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K
ECS touts new "Super Alloy" chokes on their premium motherboards
There is no such a person as "Scott Chase". Maybe you mean "Chet Haase". Chet joined the Android team in May 2010, way, way after Android became the success it is today.

Having said that, you are quite right to credit Romain for a lot of the UI we see in Android, and there's also a reason why he didn't stay at Sun: he was one of the few graphic engineers who actually cared about releasing good graphical user interfaces.
> I disagree. Finding your way around a foreign code base enough to make the changes you need is an essential skill for a developer.

Sure, but a whole lot of the forks are like one line changes, they sit there taking up an entire repo, and aren't particularly useful.
Text it to Me – My Favorite Sleeper Feature
Was hoping this wasn't just a poll. I'd sign up.

In case this post comes to much, I'm a hobbyist pythonista looking to elevate myself to "employable," most likely to do contract work and advance my own projects.

I'm willing to pay. Anybody know anybody?
Pardon my ignorance... who abuses ibuprofen and why?
arguably the arrangement of chapters belongs to the book rather than the chapter

That's a really excellent point, and array columns look like a really cool solution! I suppose the only bummer is that it introduces a way to get things out of sync (I could delete a Chapter row, but forget to remove it from the array in Book), but in general this is a much better approach than the status-quo solution.
I doubt many people would take the deal rather than get a new iPod if they knew all the facts.
repmgr is one option but its still command line. In my opinion Postgres is more likely to gain traction in Unix environments where it can replace MySQL pretty much anywhere and Oracle in quite a few use cases.

I like Postgres, however in my experience, where money is not a consideration, Oracles RAC with its (fairly) easy multi node DB clusters is often the competitive advantage that prevents Postgres from being used more widely in the enterprise - maybe that could be something that the Postgres team look at replicating.
I used to get asked things that were effectively trivia, now I get asked things that are more about discernment.
Could you explain a bit more about the black hole argument?
Well usually I'd expect some sort of limit to be buried in some legal document; it sounds like they called to scare him because somebody never wrote that in.
Y Combinator Tops List of Incubators With $7.8 Billion In Value
I'm assuming they mean it's beautiful in the sense that the css they crafted manages to make it look very close to the wp7 metro controls. Those screens aren't all that sexy I will agree. Here's possibly a better example of a metro app:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd5BVkI3RzI
Tabbing and zoom support did it for me. Very. Awesomee.
> A next step might be something like adaptive cruise control: your CC is set at 60 but the car ahead of you slows rapidly and your car automatically applies the brakes.

We already have that.
Fair use or "first excuse"? Oracle v. Google goes to the jury
Hope you're not too committed to this partner. Based on the way you've described it, I'd run screaming from getting in bed with this individual.

Let's try a marriage analogy for giggles. My girlfriend is divorced, and she has a lot of bills from the former marriage. She wants us to get married and pay off her bills because that marriage was similar to what this one would be. She doesn't know much about men and the previous marriage was a learning lesson.
I guess one doesn't need a car at all with a helicopter parent.
I don't know about bleeding, but what about the hearing loss that's associated with regular aspirin and other NSAID use?

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100301/Regular-use-of-asp...
Instagram did just fine with postgresql with 27 million users. Many logical shards spread over a smaller amount of physical ones.

http://www.databasesoup.com/2012/04/sharding-postgres-with-i...
I suppose that means for people who have restrictive agreements, networking and good CV skills are more important.

If you don't have a github (or whatever online presence is being sought after), you'll lean more heavily on places that use a CV, or through your network. Getting in through a network probably means you don't need the github.

Conversely, if you have an awesome github and an awesome network, then the fact you have a github is moot (unless people only know you because of it). You'll get hired anyway.

So the github only really matters for the portion of people who don't have a network, and are applying for companies who care about code they can review before you even talk to them, which is mostly the HN bubble, and not any megacorps.
Could cost you your hearing, though:

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100301/Regular-use-of-asp...
We Need Developers Building More Consumer Health Products
Oh wow. These are pretty wacky/interesting. Also, sign of a well designed API: I think I gleaned more understanding from reading an actual EXCLUDE constraint definition than I did from reading the description of what it does in the docs.
You know what the irony of this is? Show me an Android UI pre-iOS that didn't make me puke.

Google nicked the programming language off Sun and an interface off Apple.
Wish there was a currency converter for VC$ to US$
It may be just a poll for now, but there are definite plans for providing such lessons.
i searched for my site and in teh goog i get first page....here i found nothing....so for me this = no good. I understand the base but i dont understand the result
You would probably get a terrible conversion rate to given most people are visiting the site so they don't have to pay for things.
Hm, interesting. I asked the Webby Awards to investigate before the voting was over, and this was written around that time - I've just been sitting on it, waiting for more info.

I sort of doubt that that explanation is legitimate, since they didn't publicly ask people to do that on any of their voting campaigns and I think the voting volumes were high enough that a secret campaign using friends of friends wouldn't have been able to cause this kind of swing. The Webby Awards admins would likely have the original voting times, though, and if that's actually what it was, I'd say it was a neat hack.
I'm not even sure that their business model is unsustainable. The growth that would be necessary to justify their current valuation is probably unsustainable, mind you. But there's easily a good little business there. It just happens to not be worth 7 billion dollars :)
This already exists for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firessh/
Some people like to argue IQ is meaningless. God loved Jacob and hated Esau. Esau was an oaf. If God gives you something, say "thanks". IQ is a birthright.

God says...
C:\Text\US.TXT

several States which may be
included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding
to the whole number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding
Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.1 The actual Enumeration shall be made within three
Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of
ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Nu

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You live in a democracy. The government is run by the people. Now, if your democracy wasn't so dysfunctional then you probably wouldn't have such a big problem with "government monopolies". So perhaps the first thing you have to fix is non-compulsory voting so that your government is actually representative of the people it governs, then you can get to healthcare.
Fair point: :%s/4chan/reddit/g
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Natural Selection Is Still With Us
Which I agreed with. That's why I said "We'll find out for sure in a few days."

I just posted this to highlight the fact that things are in Oracle's favor.

jury told by Judge to assume APIs are copyrightable.

Since that order emphasizes the importance of the APIs, it probably weighs in Oracle's favor.
And ctrl-s for an horizontal split.
How does this work? Are you using another search engines API or did you crawl the web yourself?
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You're not really providing much oversight if you're only able to detect problems when they're pointed out to you.

Enron's audit committee was later criticized for its brief meetings that would cover large amounts of material. In one meeting on February 12, 2001, the committee met for an hour and a half. Enron's audit committee did not have the technical knowledge to properly question the auditors on accounting questions related to the company's special purpose entities. The committee was also unable to question the company's management due to pressures placed on the committee.[59] The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs' report accused the board members of allowing conflicts of interest to impede their duties as monitoring the company's accounting practices. When Enron fell, the audit committee's conflicts of interest were regarded with suspicion.[60]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Audit_committee