skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor you, it is obvious that one needs a real keyboard to code, any touchscreen just won't let you type quick enough.

The iPad is no good for any kind of authoring. I own one, love it but can hardly make myself even type a 3 sentence email on it, let alone code.

I'm afraid you've waisted a year.
Well, it's obviously invalid because no space trajectory is in the jurisdiction of any nation that grants patents. Space trajectories are, after all, located in space.
Time to stop reading HN!
From a technical point of view it has little merit, granted.

I think from a legal point of view though , you are expressing your desire to not be tracked.

This would be preferable to legislation dictating that the user must manually approve all cookies etc.
Given that Google is perhaps the only company whose main business is online ads and ads relevance is crucial, it is natural that they cannot give up the opportunity of tracking profile of ads viewers as easily as other companies.
Anyone sent in a RFC for using code 666 for "Server is evil and does not support Do Not Track headers".
> It's a patent on a process to move a spacecraft from one orbit to another by firing rockets at precise times.

What else would you suggest?
Only paranoid geeks browse without Javascript.
attention. notoriety. ad revenue. it's fun. boredom.
any of the above.
It's called 'playing'.
I still haven't heard a cogent explanation of what this is supposed to do.

"Do Not Track" sounds nice, but seems no easier to scope than the initial problem of excessive information collection. I think it's safe to say that I want companies to 'track' me in order to keep me logged in for a session. Likewise, I hope that my bank keeps logs of visitors, so that it can respond to abuse / hacking attempts. Is this aimed only at behavioral advertising, or is it meant to have a broader scope?

It seems like the technical execution is almost misguided without having the policy discussion first and figuring out what it is we disagree with. Without that, I don't feel like this is going to draw a strong enough line to separate people abusing tracking from the legitimate uses.
> In most societies there have been some form of "release valve" to keep everyone from ending up in permanent debt.

This is called "bankruptcy". AFAIK US has bankruptcy - both business and personal.

> Under the new law it's much more difficult to get one's debts discharged and almost impossible to get student loans discharged.

Getting loans discharged is supposed to be difficult. If it were easy, nobody would pay them and there would be no credit market. As for student loans, what did you expect when you demanded unlimited lending at fixed interest? That banks would lend out all that money, take all that risk - and then allow people to just tell "oh, nevermind, I'm not really gonna pay this"? How that business is supposed to work then? The non-dischargeable debt is a direct consequence of the fixed rate (meaning, no ability to risk-adjust) and broad availability (meaning, no ability to reduce risk). It's either that or complete nationalization (read, global bailout) of all that debt. Arithmetics is a dismal science, you can't have 2+2 equal more than 4, however you try. If somebody took the money, the money have to come from somewhere. If you allow people to take money and not repay it, this money have to come from somewhere.

> I think a Jubilee of some form would be an excellent development.

I agree. I can't wait for such law - imagine, I wouldn't have to pay my mortgage and those pesky credit card bills - I'd just have to throw all mails from the banks and credit cards companies to the garbage and wait for the Jubilee. And then go buy another house and more stuff on my freshly renewed credit. In fact, I don't see why I would need to work at all - I'd just come into the store, flash my credit card (no need to even run it through the terminal - nobody would pay it anyway, so why bother?), take whatever I want and walk away. The Jubilee would take care of the rest. I think it's a great idea, indeed.
Might want to stop same IP from posting over and over again...
The new app was originally written with d3 but, by the time of deployment d3 was responsible only for scaling the axes, and the rest of the graphic was built largely around custom code written around canvas elements.
I think you may have misunderstood. I don't think that the $100k–$500k figures refers to the debt of one single particular person, but rather a bunch of individual debts sold as a block by the creditor. Also, I don't think that this is meant as a business plan. As far as I can tell, the OP doesn't plan on making any money on this.
I'm not getting it. I lived abroad a lot before moving to SF, and so I picked the Mission because it had a lot of immigrants. I think it makes a place more interesting.
who's to judge 'useless'
I think it would be prudent to not use the service until this is resolved in court. I already was worried enough before this to not use p2p car rental services, but this data point shows they carry inadequate insurance.
You say that several times, but the only time I've seen that it worked out the other way around. The conference had twice as many attendees as the hackathon; it was clear what more people were interested in. I realise one data-point is not proof, but you also haven't produced anything to back up your assertion.
The people I know who've come a cropper due to personal debt have ended up that way because they made poor financial decisions. It's a touching story, the one where people are forced into spending on their credit card because of INSERT PERSONAL TRAGEDY HERE and it spirals out of control from there. I shan't say it never happens, just that it is not something that jibes with my experience. The people I've known with debt problems just like to spend money that they don't have, because they want to own things that they can't afford. Then they complain of the injustice when repayment falls due.

Perhaps my experience is different from that of most other people. It is certainly possible. But I don't claim to speak for everybody, only for myself, and I speak based on my experience. And, based on my experiences, and speaking only for myself, I can't help not caring to spend any of my money on complete strangers' debt problems. They have already spent enough of other people's money. It has to stop somewhere.
You mean materialized view, right?

Anyway you just demonstrated my point: in this case NoSQL may be a more flexible (simple) option.

Another relational solution is to use a single entity-attribute-value table and drop the strong typing.
It's easy to belittle something when you don't know the solution.

Go to 'Window' -> 'New Window'

Open as many Windows and Modal Dialogs you want.

And as I can see from all the jokers who agree with your opinion - none of them actually 'tried' to find a solution either.
It is a fun little site, I really enjoyed playing with it.
You really need to add some spam prevention, title & comment length limits, fix exploits, etc.

I wanted to play around with it some more, but it's just pure spam now.
I have no credit report, in spite of living 35 years in the USA. My friends with bad credit and bankruptcies can buy cell phones, rent expensive things, get apartments, get mortgages, and deal with other life activities much more easily than I can.

So there's your answer: you'd rather lend money to the known deadbeat than someone with no credit history.
Neither are under-powered motorcycles in the US. But where any vehicle is allowed, it's responsible.
It’s largely coincidental though. The Mayan script was carved, while Latin, Greek, and Phoenician were all originally pressed in clay with a stylus. With few limitations, you can use any medium to convey any script. I don’t think the original design constraints have much bearing on that.
I do not pretend to understand very much of the original post. The TorrentFreak "translation" did make it a bit more clear, but I'm pretty much boiling this down to, "somebody is trying to poison the Internet -- if not now, then sometime soon".

It's easy to forget how young a medium the Internet is and that there are going to be a lot of pitfalls along the way that we haven't begun to imagine. This seems to be one of those. I guess the question that I have is simple: what happens next?
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This is misleading. The important actors in the "who supports Do Not Track" is not browsers but websites. "Browser support" just means "we'll tell the website that you'd rather not be tracked". If every browser sent this header, and every website ignored it, it would be a complete failure.

So what, if any, websites support the "Do Not Track" header?
Far more interesting to me (since I knew about the real history of the printing press) was the linked article[1] on the "tweets" scribes would put in the margins of books they were copying before the press came to Europe. Amazing how similar they sound to today's workplace griping!

1. http://io9.com/5896008/medieval-monks-complained-about-their...
Some years ago, I belonged to a forum where two of the top dogs in the forum basically challenged me to post a nude photo of myself. I do not think either man was intentionally trying to be sexist but I read the situation as a group attempt to say "You cannot run with the big dogs. You are just a girl." It was a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation -- a put up or shut up challenge where I should have "lost" no matter how I responded.
I would count this is as relevant feedback. sgt provides one reason why.

To me, seeing something like this gives me the impression that the screenshot is not polished, that this detail was not paid attention to, and makes me wonder what else might have been missed.
I just added a basic spam detector and truncated title lengths :|
Not just the Mayans.

The Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Chinese, medieval Christians... all of those civilizations would periodically wipe all debt away. If you have heard about Jubilee years, in large part they involved all debts being forgiven.

See the truly excellent book Debt by David Graeber for a very analytical take on debt and how our modern understanding of it varies greatly from how it was originally conceived.
Also I had to upgrade my RAM pretty fast haha. Should be better now.
I'm reading it on an iPhone and I got the whole thing on one page. Maybe you're using a browser the site doesn't recognize so it's sending you s version optimized for a "least common denominator" mobile browser? I know some old phones and/or plans couldn't handle large file sizes.
@Futurebot

You should get a degree if you can, period. Whether you work as a fry cook or not. Education is worth it. It has value, to you and to society, apart from its utility as a factor infiltering people for job positions.

No one wants to see the US become even more uneducated.If you want to get cynical about the job market (and young people dohave a right to be cynical about it), try thinking of it this way. Nodoubt most have heard the old adage, "You need to sell yourself." Anotherway to think of this is that "jobs" are really a question of convincingsomeone else (not necessarily an employer, but maybe a client) to pay you.That is always what it comes down to. This could be an elaborate processinvolving educational degrees, past accomplishments, recommendations,etc. or, in today's world, it might be something like the startupsdiscussed here on HN: You announce a bit of software and a website,and the thundering herd starts clicking. Some of the herd is willingto pay. If that percentage is large enough, you have a runaway success,something like Dropbox.Those who are paying you are not asking to see your resume. The onlypeople who cared that you graduated from MIT were the VC and their clientswho funded you. That is, if you were funded. Don't kid yourself. The mostimportant people you convinced to pay you werenot the investors. Theywere the customers. In the end what mattered is whether customers wereconvinced to pay you. How they arrived at that decision might actuallybe quite simple (and quite arbitrary).

Now, maybe using the web as your medium you manange to become wealthyovernight. But that does not reduce the long term value of your degreefrom MIT. The degree is not necessarily the cause of your success(e.g. maybe you cannot prove that it was). Wealth can be made withor without education. (That has always been true, otherwise smallbusiness, which is the majority of business in the US, would cease toexist.) Technology allows this to happen now in a way never before seenin history.

But...

Education has value to you and to society because education will makeyour life more interesting and an educated society is better than anuneducated one.These are tough times. But things go in cycles. If you skip education,and then years from now things get better, you may regret it. Get aneducation as early as possible (i.e. if you have the money, do it). Itwill benefit everyone in the long term.

Things go in cycles. It's hard to see this when you are young. This is because you have not yet lived through an economic cycle as a person of working age.
> I do think in Aliens, that part of the mens' and the audience's enjoyment and celebration with Ripley that she ran that loader so well is because she is a woman, so in that respect, it is sexist

Also known as "the soft bigotry of low expectations".
That's not how you make finished, polished, robust software, it's true.

Is it how you try out an idea, play with something new, experiment with a really rough prototype and get instant feedback? Yes.
I worry that those who successfully stop their Internet procrastination will no longer be around to tell the rest of us how they did it.
Well maybe that's because I've never even heard of the Summer of Code until right now, and I would've applied had the deadline not already passed.
I wish they accepted late application, I would love to do open-source work!

-MIT '14
Why not? If it's fun and harms no one, I don't see why one shouldn't create "small useless apps" in her spare time. If anything, you should pat folks like that on the back for trying new things (assuming they're new to the person making them).
some libraries are still quiet, and those are where I've done some of my best work! Try a library on a college campus - they're often open to non-students, and usually still have a culture of serious study, so they haven't been entirely converted into internet cafes.
Even if you plan to run a non-profit, you still need a plan. Charities and nonprofits have business plans too.
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It will make all the difference in a court case when you have specifically denied consent and someone has continued to do something.

If you want to get pedantic about it just being text, all law is just text, books upon books, but its the enforcement that counts. This opens the door for enforcement of other laws.
but will be incorporated by the end of 2012
Right, we aren't making money off this. We'll be transparent as to how much we raise and where it all goes.
This is not new behavior, people have made small useless apps on the weekend for a long time.

This is, however, the first time it's been possible to get such wide visibility of these kinds of projects thanks to HN and the rest of the Internet.
The machines and people sending the commands are on in the U.S. Even if they weren't, it doesn't make the patent invalid, it would just be a defense to infringement in this particular case.
Same here. Chrome on Android, seeing 13 pages.
That really depends, because "British spelling" isn't an all-or-nothing thing -- many of the Commonwealth countries show broad variation in how much they adhere to the traditional UK spellings.

Thus, for example, Australia has a Labor party, not a Labour party (while neighbor New Zealand does have a Labour party), and typically sends people to jail instead of to gaol. Canada usually has tires instead of tyres, and Canadians realize things instead of realising them.
Thanks for the clarification, it was not clear in the original message but makes more sense after the clarification. However, only a little more - among all charity I could do with my money, why should I select this particular one? I still see this would be incentivizing both irresponsible borrowing and irresponsible lending. I'd rather have the same funds go to either helping people in need directly or educating them about their rights and proper bankruptcy debt discharge procedures.

Maybe I'm missing some important points there but it looks like this project is basically giving out money to people after selecting them by the property of being bad debtor (and without any filtering distinguishing unfortunate accidents from sheer irresponsibility). Of course, each person is free to choose his own charitable giving, but so far the case for it does not sound convincing.
With the amount of link spam on the sides and the usage of flash ads, I think they couldn't guarantee you would get to see the site in it's full glory on a mobile device.
Seconding this. I've tried it in Chrome, Firefox, and IE9 and it fails almost every time (strange too that it's inconsistent). IE9 is actually the worst, giving just "The view named 'Anonymous' does not derive from the ViewBase class."
Do not track me for advertisement, statistics, etc. is the intent.
your cafeteria is quiet? In my office, it's the largest source of noise, and that noise carries throughout most of the (rather large, but rather open) office space
This Straight Dope article[1] from twenty-five years ago attempts to answer the same question, with the answer being mostly "we don't know". However, some of the "maybes" in this article are cited in the video as fact.

One thing the article notes, however:
"We merely observe that whatever yawn-inducing conditions prevail for you also apply to your friends. If you're out late in some crowded dive, you're probably all tired, all warm under the collar, and all breathing the same stale air. You're probably all on the verge of a yawn, too, and the power of suggestion from seeing one person do it is enough to push everybody else over the edge.

Adults rarely catch a case of the yawns from a child or animal, which tends to corroborate this idea. Children usually have different sleep schedules and respiration rates from adults, so you would expect them to yawn at different times."

The "everybody else is probably tired, hot, breathing the same air, etc" always sounded convincing to me. It isn't that yawns are contagious, just that the conditions which cause them often exist for others around you too. I'm wondering what the vsauce guy would say to that. Does anybody know if the "adults rarely catch a case of the yawns from a child or animal" has held up to scrutiny in the last 20 years?

[1]http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/533/why-are-yawns-c...
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Well Twitter won't track you if you have "do not track" enabled.

Unless you have Chrome.

It should be pretty obvious why Chrome doesn't implement it. It's against the core business of Google (tracking). They will only implement if it causes a PR issue (and this very post is a PR issue btw, even thus a small one)
New Zealand, as we are a british colony.
Well, the GSM patents [1] are a series of patents on particular ways to send wireless signals between handsets and base stations. I'm pretty sure that wireless radio is the only way to send signals from a cell phone, but that hasn't invalidated patents on particular methods of doing so.

Again, I'm not saying it's a good thing that this is patentable, but it's not "obvious" that it's not patentable if it's possible to patent (several times over) various ways of sending wireless signals from cell phones, or particular blends of nickel, chromium and iron.

[1] http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=9667
"According to Nielsen, Android has more than 48 percent of the smartphone market, versus 32 percent for iOS"

TC should mention that this is in US only. Outside US iOS has a much smaller share and I believe Android's share is a little bigger than 48%.
You said it - just out of curiosity

Try it sometime. It's fun.
You can already opt out of ad targeting: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/preferences/?hl=en#o...
Very similar to the first app I released for iOS called ChainCal ( http://chaincalapp.com ). That said, competition is healthy and important to keeping an ecosystem moving.

Well done execution on Habit List.

ChainCal has a new version pending review right now for those interested in comparing the two approaches.
Garbage means "shit", it never meant "not very useful".

You being Denis Ritchie's reincarnation or John Doe changes nothing to that, and to the fact that you have been disrespectful of someone else's work.

Personal opinion: on HN you have the right to be disrespectful of a work that is of mediocre quality (which is the case) if you provide the community with more details on why it is bad and how to improve, and, more importantly, if you do not deny being disrespectful just two posts below by changing on the fly the meaning of a word.
...what? I never said I'm not interested in this. In fact, I specifically said I was not taking a side.
It is if you work at Amazon ;)
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Hopefully some BodHTTPsatvas will remain behind to show the way out.
That's the stupidest definition of terrorism I have ever seen.
You could call pretty much ANYTHING slightly subversive terrorism
under this definition.

Movements for social change? Terrorism.

Peaceful demonstrations against government policy? Terrorism.

Any sort of activism? Terrorism.

I stand by my opinion: calling whistle-blowing
terrorism is a ridiculous appeal to emotion, and anyone who even dares
to attempt it should be laughed out of the building.
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You may just be likable as person.

I find often times, regardless of gender, when I like someone as a person before I get an understanding of their skills as a programmer or engineer I'm less critical of their work. When I don't know someone, or even better don't like them, I challenge them to show me their best work.

Of course, well structured criticism is important to grow as a person, the sweet-spot is finding someone you likes you, but is comfortable criticizing you. A really good manager should be this person, they should feel like you fit into their culture when they hire you and they should have a lot to gain from pushing you to do your best work. Of course that's in an ideal world.
The IETF does have a network-layer solution to that.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
The real question is if Lego produces more blocks than a brickyard. Or people than a... maternity ward?

Nope, you're right. It is kind of silly although maybe Lego somehow uses it as a point of advertising pride.