skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, the trial isn't completely over. My non-lawyer understanding of the current state:

The district judge reduced the judgment from $675,000 to $67,500, citing constitutional concerns analogous to those that were found for punitive damages in BMW v. Gore (1996), which put a cap on how big a multiplier punitive damages could be over actual damages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_of_North_America,_Inc._v._G...). The Appeals Court reversed on somewhat technical grounds, arguing that common-law remittitur (a process for reducing excessive awards) should've been pursued before considering the constitutional question, under a doctrine of avoiding unnecessary constitutional questions. So on remand the District Court will be able to reduce the damages as excessive on non-Constitutional grounds, but in that case, unless Sony agrees to the reduced damages, they could ask for a new trial (whereas, if Tenenbaum had prevailed on his constitutional argument, that'd be that).

People were hoping the Supreme Court would take the case mainly as an opportunity to extend the reasoning of BMW v. Gore to statutory copyright damages, rather than only punitive product-liability damages. It's possible the Court didn't want to do so. Or, it's possible they wanted to wait for at least another Circuit Court to weigh in before looking at the question. Also, it's possible they thought this issue about whether to pursue remittitur first added an unwanted complication to the case that made it too messy to hear as a test case (the court often looks for test cases that cleanly present a Constitutional issue, free of entanglement with subsidiary questions and procedural messes).

edit: The introductory section of the Appeals Court decision, which is the one the Supreme Court declined to review here, is actually fairly readable as a summary of their holding: http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/10-1883P-01A.pdf
I had this problem on Mac as well which is why I used it for all of 15 minutes before giving up. My colleague tried it against my recommendations and before the end of the day he experienced the same thing.
We can help with that. What benefit do you see to having t.co shorten your links instead of us? :) A redirect is a redirect, no?
I think this private situation only became public when dan mentioned it? if it truely is private why not have that trump whatever public business expectations there are. if it's private, it's private. my personal taste is not to use private situations as pr.
Yeah, why do you ask? It really doesn't matter... at all.
Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
SpokenLayer Wants To Add Voice To The Web
Red Hat CEO: The nuts and bolts of open source
The blog post mentions that it supports GitHub enterprise. You can clone from the web ui or drag and drop existing Git repos.
White House petition to bring down paywalls on taxpayer-funded research
Yeah, I need to add a robots.txt/sitemap.xml, I'll do that tonight. The paginated pages I've actually set to noindex/follow so those shouldn't be an issue any longer.

I'm not sure what you mean about not submitting a reconsideration request, ie., how would that be a problem? Unfortunately I'd already submitted the request.

I don't really care about rankings or anything like that, the core of my product is private code storage so for the most part this process has just been annoying. Obviously I don't want the site wiped off the face of Google :)

Thanks for the tips!
The Oatmeal - Tesla response
To provide a counter point, Twitter generated me 50% of a $10,000/month revenue business. All I did was search for people discussing a topic, and answer their questions. Sometimes I'd plug the product, but most of the time I'd let them discover it naturally through our answers.

I tweeted about 1000 times a day.
This is a metaphor bug in the UX. In git's original terminology a "pull request" (a request from a subsystem maintainer to pull new stuff -- usually from a branch named something like 3.5-staging-for-linus or whatever) is different from a "patch set" (a single submission of code from anyone, often via email with "PATCH n/m" subjects).

Github treats them essentially the same, which is just wrong. It's the patch set that is the unit of code review. It's just plain never correct to review a "branch", you review specific suggested changes in isolation. The idea of pulling branches is to merge already-reviewed code from different trees.
This is the guy who turned down an opportunity to settle at a much lower price point in hopes of creating a legal precedent. I remember at the time of the original trial people were saying that his lawyer should be disbarred for negligence. Kinda sucks that he has to pay this much, but I like to think I would have settled if it had been me.
The problem with commercialized research is more the attitudes of the founders than what they're building. They usually approach starting a startup as a solution in search of a problem. Sun (and Google) were exceptions in that even while working on the project within a university, they were building a product. We'd love to fund that kind of project, but they're rare.
... spending all their 2011 profits: http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-files-ipo-reveals-...
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Google China's Doodle
The money isn't taken out of your account until the project is successfully funded so even if you contribute $350 that $350 doesn't get taken out if the project fails to reach its goal (at least this is what happens with other kickstarter projects)
The hundreds of hard science teams I see every year don't send you applications.

Maybe some of them should. Sure, the direct experience of most of the YC partners is web-centric, but they're connected enough in SV that YC might be a big benefit, especially if any of those teams are amenable to a 3-month build cycle.
Keyboards are the also the only way ( until now) to input textual data.not implementing that makes this at best a companion device to existing setup and not a replacement.
[edit]. voice to text transcriptions can be an alternative..
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Aside from the lego route, you have another option.

Parallax, the basic stmap guys have a robot for beginners. Its already built and the body is covered with a plastic shell. It is programmed using basic.

Great people too.
Neat. But hyperbole makes me an anti-customer.

"Anybody (with an iPhone)" is a far smaller set than "Anybody". Also some peoples fingers are just too short which nothing can help and/or they lack musical "sense" (hearing, rhythm, whatever it is that makes me suck at anything musical) which I doubt this setup helps.
Read my answers to this comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4001959

Openness of the code is only part of the problem.
I don't actively use any git GUI client, but my reaction is to the style in general rather than anything git-specific.

I don't claim to be a design guru, but it looks like somebody was going for minimalism, but used a nuke instead of a scalpel. My eyes don't know what to focus on, there's limited indication of what things are, and in places it's hard to tell at a glance where one component ends and the next begins.

It's not so much ugly as it is intensely vague and somewhat undiscoverable.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don't want this to be seen as a criticism of this app or its developers specifically, I'm operating under the impression I'm getting from other commenters that this is very Windows 8-ish in general, so take this as bewilderment at the Windows 8 style.
Chrome beats Internet Explorer in global Web browser race
I think we are mainly talking about the kind of editing where you delete an entire section because it never got interesting.

Unfortunately, these are live podcasts for the most part so there is no real incentive to do that... you already put it out once as a finished product so why spend more effort on it?
Lessons I Learned at McDonald's that Help Me Build Software
An argument against Jobsian personality cult leadership
What he should do is send small checks (a proportion of his pay) every week directly to the artists involved, and of course get as much publicity by blogging and writing about it, until the bad press gets to be too much.
Yes, I read through it and followed the conversation. I am not pretty sure you can say they were actively working on it. Yes, they prioritize on Win & Mac, but it seemed that Linux wasn't even in the loop.
It was a peer-to-peer network. Would they sue every single person for sharing with every other person, over and over again? (E.g. if there are 10 nodes, would every one be sued for sharing 9 copies?) That doesn't make much sense.
"if it's a disease that carries a stigma. God, I feel like such a dick writing this."

Not disclosing something that carries a stigma could fall under the "better to be thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt" type thinking about information disclosure.

But it could also be in the opposite direction. (And I'm thinking clearly hypothetical for the purpose of a discussion on the "stigma" topic you raised.) Could be something underwhelming with no stigma and a chance to garner sympathy.

(Keep all hands off the downvote button). I'm not
saying that is what he is doing. I'm simply pointing out that people also act in this way.

As an aside Kara Swisher referred recently to the fact that she had "a stroke" which gave people the impression she had the type of stroke that you really fear (with paralysis etc.) But Kara actually had a TIA which is a "mini" stroke that quickly went away - not the type people think of when they hear that (same as when people hear "Doctor" they generally think "Physician" and not "Phd".

The "mini stroke" story originally:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/kara-swisher-stroke...

The latest, saying "I suffered a stroke":

http://allthingsd.com/20120514/yahoos-parting-with-thompson-...
My own personal prediction is that it will be something in the embedded space. Some interesting things are starting to happen there (see: the response to Pebble, Arduino, etc).

But it is anyone's guess at this point. The people who are working on the next big thing, at this stage, don't even know it yet. These bubbles are born out of people exploring new spaces, with, once a market has been proven, everyone else jumping in to try to take control of that newly discovered space.

I think these bubbles are apt to continue so long as new mass-markets for software continue to be discovered, and will continue to pop once a definitive leader for that market has been chosen.
That's a hard question. I'm big on search, because people are more actively looking for a solution. Posting a question on Twitter is more passive. Setting up Google alerts on forums and blogs would be a wiser investment.
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For learning individual songs, learning to read real music would be an improvement over tabs.

The problem with arguing that the GTar is easy for learning songs (and it is) is how much information is lost. Sheet music contains a ridiculous amount of information. Tablature does not. Lights on a wooden stick contain even less. At what point are you doing a disservice to the aspiring guitarist by taking away information?
JQuery helper for settings large number of event listener.
Structured light?
Pardon my ignorance: what is interesting about Pinterest stack?

I think by now most startups, YC or not, in Silicon Valley will pretty much have a similar setup:

1) Choose the main web-stack (Rails or Django)

2) Choose the API framework (node.js, or something else)

3) Memcached for caching (or some NoSQL)

4) A message queue (ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, or something ...)

5) nginx, HAProxy, Varnish, (or similar technology)

6) Hadoop for map-reduce (only if you need to go that path...)
Very very very confused about why they chose to use an outdated logo for the property.
My main complaint is that no one is saying "let's get back on topic" because the topic is whatever the host wants. So you get a 10 minute digression on random crap. That is the "overtime" part. I wouldn't mind 90 minutes of on-topic chat.
When it comes to defining where their priorities need to be, the word "marketplace" says it all.

In order to ensure that app developers get the best chance they can have at being successful, the most lucrative demographics simply have to be prioritized, even at the expense of the least lucrative ones. Doing otherwise would send a signal to app developers that their interests are not being taken to heart, which would in turn discourage them from developing for the platform, which would in turn mean it's more likely to flop.
Europe Offers to Let Google Settle Potential Antitrust Charges
This is relevant for me because I just started trying to teach myself to play guitar at the beginning of 2012. For me, the hardest part was definitely not figuring out where to put my fingers, but putting them there without touching other strings. Even if your finger is just a little bit too close to another string, it can push a note flat or sharp, making the chord sound bad. Learning the mechanics of finger placement is more difficult than learning the basic locations.

The other difficult thing is developing the muscle memory to move quickly between chords. At this point, I can play simple passages from songs, but complicated chord movements are what's most difficult, not figuring out what finger placement is required. This means sitting down and playing the same passage over, and over, and over, and over... You get the idea.

Having played instruments all through school, this isn't a surprise to me, but for a lot of folks it is. Playing an instrument is a skill just like many sports, or even video games. Think of how much better you are on hour 30 of playing a FPS game than you were in hour 1.

The gTar seems to solve the most rudimentary of the challenges, but I can't see where it gets you to "playing songs" (in a real way) much faster.
Another interesting application not mentioned yet is 3d scanning... and their site mentions 3d modeling work as the initial motivation for the product.
You filthy dog. Tesla can by no means be compared to that nut jobs. I don't recall Stevie inventing anything, he just knew how to take credit for other peoples work, and how to sue others who were surpassing his company.
"He chose not to disclose it for a reason, I'd respect his rights to privacy."

But he did in a way disclose more than he had to. He didn't have to say he was suffering from an incurable disease. He's not the CEO of a public company. He could have simply said he wanting to cut back because of either "personal" or "health" reasons that he'd rather not talk about.

If he wants privacy he revealed TMI, info "incurable" that will only lead to more speculation.
t.co is Twitter's native shortener, so if anyone's parsing Twitter's data they will support it. Yours - not so much, e.g. see squarecat's comment on how your domain is blacklisted by his content filtering firewall.
Hey developers - tell us what motivates you
I found some of the responses to be as troubling as some found the original post. The responders made assumptions and didn't bother asking why he called it "scary crypto stuff". He might have had a point since new people to all this might have reacted that way. But who cares about that right?
There is also the consideration that they could extend their offerings. People spend a long time on Facebook, especially when compared with the amount of time they spend on Google. If Facebook wanted to extend into search, or business applications, or anything online really, they are working with a base of close to a billion customers. That's a billion users who they have the opportunity to introduce a new service to.

Any potential new service could provide a more effective platform for ads.
>The price of this is library fragmentation. There's more than one approach to objects, for example.

I've found that to be the case with Lua in general. The language is pretty easy to hack with, and so there's alot of wheel making. Lua has a mantra of "provide mechanisms, not policies", and since there's no formal class system, and multiple ways to define modules it's almost fragmented by design.

I think the designers are working on a better module system for the next release, or did that make it into 5.2?
Waiting for the load to drop so I can try to get a preorder!

Question: How can you render the "other side" of the hand at the 51+ second mark? If this is indeed possible, that's quite a remarkable technology you have.
For $500 you could have a great guitar teacher for almost a year's worth of lessons (maybe more in some areas). As someone who learnt music in the old-fashioned laborious way and know how fortunate I am to be able to sight-read on several instruments, I would hesitate to give this to a child rather than some actual lessons on a real instrument. For a teenager or adult, I'm sure it's great to give you that satisfied achievement feeling but maybe I just think too much of kids and their ability to stick through a few lessons. I've seen how in awe they are when they start to make music just 'happen' through their own musical ability.
Which is why Google is so powerful. People say "SEO is dead! You must diversify your traffic sources!"

This is all well and good, but when 90% of people look for solutions through Google, you're left out in the cold if you ignore them, can't rank high, or are penalized by them.

Sure you can get a ton of traffic if you're a site about funny memes, or viral videos, but everything else, search is the dominant marketing channels. And even if you do manage to get a ton of traffic through other means, those don't convert as well as someone searching directly for what you're offering.
What is your problem with someone being scared of crypto stuff?

I find this shows the necessary respect when dealing with security related tasks, since they are HARD.

I'm not talking about developing crypto related software, but just setting up a "safe" environment where you can store your SSH Keys in a way that doesn't defeat the purpose of using them in the first place is non-trivial, even for people with degrees.

IT Security is a complex field of its own and if a user is afraid of making the wrong choice it only shows that he understands the basics of it.
Heh, nice little cameo of Drew Houston at the end of the video
Oatmeal's respone to Alex Knapp's "Edison wasn't the devil" article
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Maybe that is because your promo site is just terrible. There is literally zero information on the landing page and then I have to keep clicking buttons to read some text in a 100x20px box at the bottom of the screen. Thats a pain.

Maybe all of that is because I was expecting an actual project, not some fancy graphics of something that launches soon (TM). I guess I just don't understand what your goal is with this - it seems like you are wasting the novelty of your project for some newsletter subscriptions.
Flickr 'liquid' design finally brings window-sized images
If you don't remember what mobile phones were like before the iPhone, you must have either a short memory or a revisionist memory.
Visual and Flow-Based Programming Environments in JavaScript
Maybe it could have a better use in a Minority Report style setting, recreating a large gesture based interface without requiring gigantic multi-touch screens.

Sat in front of a desk, with a keyboard and mouse in front of you, I can imagine it will have some pretty attractive uses, but might not be as comfortable long-term as gesticulating at a mounted whiteboard.
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Also consider that the cost of their product will probably go up to cover the costs of the legal team to get this judgement that will never be paid.
Hi captdeaf, would you please email me at liamotootle@gmail.com? Several of my friends are RIT graduates and our circles of acquaintances may overlap. I'd also like to ask some questions about your deaf office and the CI, if you don't mind. Thanks!
Yahoo is Yahoo's own worst enemy
so in other words, the extent to which lockin makes lockin easier makes google quite happy with lockin.
Thank you. For some reason, people come out in droves to correct the notion that copyright infringement is not the same as stealing, but when someone says downloading instead of uploading, it's like, oh, that's the same thing.
How about writing in the large - I am thinking big movements, like when writing on a marker board?
Cool gadget, dumb sales pitch.
I know this guy. We meditate together on Tuesday nights at a Shambhala Center. He just graduated from BU last Friday with a PhD in Physics.

If you have any pressing questions I could probably pass them along.
It's simple, if you cannot endure the frustration and sometimes physical discomfort that is required to learn the guitar then you never will. These toys that make you sound great from the start, never miss a note, and play like a rock start from day one will never truly prepare you for learning the guitar. It cannot replace hours of monotonous practice. Or replace playing bad notes which can force you to clean up your playing. Or replace the feeling of connecting with the strings and fretboard, which help define your personal sound. Lots of people would like to play the guitar but the truth is there are no shortcuts and many people don't have the patience for it. It takes dedication and no cool toy can bypass the very kind of effort it takes to learn the guitar or any instrument. That tenacity to learn despite the frustration is what separates those who'd like to learn to play and those who have. gTar is just a toy.
Apple and Samsung begin patent talk
Slightly off-topic, but the name for the Powershell git scripts - posh git - did make me laugh.
I disagree. If I understand things correctly, the purpose of the IPO is to raise capital for Facebook. As such, if they sell the stock for $30/share, that's what they get. If the stock then goes up to $34/share, they don't get the extra $4. That goes to whoever bought it from Facebook and resold it. In effect, they would have raised 12% less than they could have.

On the other hand, if they sell the stock to the public at $38 and it drops down to $34, it's someone else that's out the $4. Sure, it may create some temporary negative publicity, but, as you stated, they will recover.
The money is in display ads. It's not about intentions only.

You don't buy a can of coke online. But coke definitely want to advertise online and be able to target very specific crowd based on an FB profile.
Google Introduces Knowledge Graph
Knowledge is power and this power is enhanced through search, Google is most concerned about empowering people with knowledge and recently it took an advanced step with the launch of knowledge graph. This knowledge graph will help people to conveniently access latest and relevant information.
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Still need to lift the marker to separate the words. And to touch it back rather precisely so not to have the next word to be an inch below the first one.
What I like more about Backbone is loose that it provides loosely coupled small components. Small components that work well independently. This is a great feature. It makes it easier to adapt them according to an application's model/architecture. To top it off, this has encouraged developers to build a rich ecosystem of plugins.
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