skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enthought Python Distribution 7.3 and 8.0beta released
Best case: judge concludes that the 37 APA packages are purely functional and hence not protected by copyright. Ninth Circuit precedents (in my view) preclude him from doing this as a categorical imperative ("all APIs are inherently unprotectible by copyright") but nothing prevents the judge from saying, in effect, that the experts are in essential agreement that the "structure, sequence, and organization" of these APIs plays a purely functional role (to facilitate calls to an underlying black box that has the implementing code) and is therefore merely a method or system of operation under 17 U.S.C. sec. 102(b) (meaning, Congress has denied copyright protection to such elements of a software program even if it otherwise constitutes a form of original expression). Such a ruling would be entirely consistent with Lotus v. Borland (a First Circuit case affirmed by a divided Supreme Court) but would depend heavily on the judge's assessment of the factual evidence (i.e., what the experts testified about how the APIs work within the Java context) and not on categorical pronouncements about APIs generally. In my view, the Ninth Circuit precedents would block a generalized ruling but not a fact-specific one. That is why the judge had to kick down the road so often. He had to wait until all the evidence was in to make a final assessment. Because the ruling would be fact-specific, it would not be an all-out victory for interoperability but it would still be very strong.

If the judge cannot reach such factual conclusions from the evidence, then he is left with concluding that the SSO of the APIs as represented in Java do have expressive elements and are hence protected by copyright. This would mean a retrial with instructions given to the jury much as before and with a heavy fight over fair use.

Of course, in the end, who really knows. It is clear that the judge has done extensive homework on this and that is perhaps the best sign that the decision will be well thought out. Only time will tell.
Maybe not - it might be derived from an Indian head waggle? That is much more neutral-to-positive than "no".
For over 90% of the households in the US, it's not "80+/month", it's $15 – for four episodes a month.

Furthermore, HBO provides all of their Game of Thrones stuff on demand, you only need to get HBO for 1 month to actually watch everything, if you wait until the last month of the series.

HN people (at least in the US) are in a bubble when it comes to cable TV, and the economics thereof.

This comes to mind: http://xkcd.com/793/
Proj Mgmt For Small Business - good for start ups 
Note this is a link to Adobe Connect video and powerpoint notes presentation.

I attended a talk today in Calgary at Calgary Small Business that was presentation on Project Management for Small Business .. but I thought it was a great talk that would apply to start ups. I have been to a lot of 'how to' start up seminars recently and I thought this talk had some of the best advice on keeping focus on the plan.
Not supported for my operating system. (I run Linux.)

I thought this was a browser plugin?
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Yep, group B here too. Coincidentally, I clicked on one video and not the other...
In effect, Zuckerberg just took an enormous salary in the form of exercising options. He has to pay tax on that income.

Let's say he exercised options that earned him $5BB. (I don't know what the exact amount was. It was in the billions, no doubt.) So let's say maybe he owes $2BB in taxes. As for the rest of his shares and what they are "worth", those are going to fluctuate in value, based on the company's performance.

Now, let's say you are a FB shareholder. Ask yourself as a shareholder if the FB CEO has earned a $5BB salary. What has he done for you? How is your FB stock doing? OK, so let's say you think he is a genius and certainly deserves $5BB. Then ask yourself why he would want $5BB in income in _one year_. He wants it all right now. That's an awful lot of income. And a lot of tax to pay.

Why the rush to cash out?

Whatever happens to Facebook, he is set for life. Good for him, but not necessarily good for Facebook shareholders. He has little incentive to deliver.

Wall St. is going to love him, I can already tell.
Adblocker, maybe?
He's not really a project manager for Linux, to clarify what was said above; he is the coordinator of development of the Linux kernel, the very heart of the GNU/Linux operating system. For what it's worth, this is the largest software project that has ever existed by several orders of magnitude; it's seen hundreds of changes to its source code per day for the past decade. This is not a small project, and managing it is not a figurehead role.

Also, please note that Linus' way of interacting with other people online is, at least according to him, a calculated strategy which is part of his management style. For more details on this, it's instructive to read over his brief and entertaining (to me, anyway) document on kernel management style. [1] Here, he says revealingly that he doesn't think it's possible to be polite all the time, so it's better to try to criticize everyone equally "so evenly that nobody really ends up feeling like they get unfairly targeted. Make it inventive enough, and they might even be amused." He also says that politeness usually masks honesty, and that he doesn't think anybody is likely to trust you if you spend a lot of time being polite.

I think a lot of this has to do with his character, but it's worth noting that he is not oblivious to the way he comes off. He believes he's come up with an effective strategy for managing the incredibly large and important project he's in charge of, and it's hard to argue that it hasn't had some spectacular results. Even if you disagree with how he approaches it - and I emphatically would not approach any management job the way he does - you have to admit that he's conscious of what he's doing and he believes it has a purpose.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/105375/
A lot of people here are negatively judging this product on the basis that it's from Yahoo. I think that's extremely premature and close-minded. Give it a chance will you?

I personally think the iPad app is fantastic. The ability to pull down search results and visually see their content was a great idea and I think this makes Axis much more appealing to use over Safari. I think I'm actually going to replace Safari with Axis for a while. It's a shame that you can't switch search engines, but I'm willing to give Yahoo search another shot.

On the other hand, I'm not really impressed with the Google Chrome toolbar. I think it's annoying to have something overlay my browser on every page I visit.

I haven't tested out the iPhone app yet.
I might be alone here, but the ability to do a search then page through the results without the normal "back, click new result" or opening multiple windows is a win for me.

The visual preview stuff isn't bad either, and makes it easy to determine is a site is "spammy" or not.

I just wish I had the functionality in the top search bar not through the bottom one. If this functionality was built into a forked version of Chrome I would switch to it in a heartbeat. Add in a way for other search engines to supply the results and I would be very happy.
Wow, they fucked up. If someone uses axis now, can they legally just do whatever the hell they want?
Apparently it's perfectly okay for him to post lists though?

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=overrated_sandwi...
Because we haven't received a single complaint from users or seen any decline in the way people listen to or skip music since implementing that feature, and like 4 people here today complained about it. Not to mention, just generally there is a ton of new Feedbackify today complaining about things clearly for the sake of it.

Edit: One of the complaints is so golden that it's almost a blog post in itself, and the person said they came from HN.
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Want a Facebook botnet to do your bidding? All you need is 10 minutes and $70.
Sorry for the stupid question - how can I watch the talk right now? The "CLICK HERE" didn't bring me anywhere.
Hate to be that guy but, I just played it fine in IE9. I don't have chrome on this box to test.
Really? I think results are always a good reason to question values. Note that libertarianism is an Enlightenment ideology too, just an older one (19th-century liberalism).

We know these things, so what are we doing about them? Replacing projects with Section 8? That would be fine if the problem was architecture, not Enlightenment ideology. If you read that cop thread you'll see what they think of Section 8. Here's what the Atlantic thinks:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american...

It's best to examine all these Enlightenment experiments from the standpoint of the debate between their critics and proponents before the experiment was tried.

If the results bear out the critics, not the proponents, what on earth are we doing when we persist with the experiment? Was it really an experiment at all? Scientific thinking may be better than nonscientific thinking, but nonscientific thinking is better than pseudoscientific thinking...
On software communities, "Rock star" programmers, and... Linus
The biggest point made here is the following: whatever perception you have about money, you are right. If you think you can't make more than $1k a month, you are right. Same with $10k, $100k, etc.

The author stunbled with this by accident. I bet you he will now focus on finding another product that will allow him to repeat that.

Another minor point is that marketing works. Its up to you to find what. So don't stop when your ad words campaign fails. Keep iterating.
HP to lay off 27,000, profit slides 31 percent
HealthIT is terrible. That's good news.
Very slick setup && service! My one question: are there any safe-guards against people sharing sensitive information hidden in the html, e.g. user-auth tokens (like the ones you can find in HackerNews up-vote links: http://clipboard.com/clip/LQjwmHJQNjxVAYYPgQzmbPAYrMjpkkHdOT...)? Is this even a practical security concern?
Um, it is an extension for every browser.

On your computer, axis is a plugin that easily works with
your favorite browser. As you can see, Axis is at the
bottom of your screen and stays with you as you browse the
web.

Starts at 1:25 in the video.
I've been using clipboard in the beta for a while now, and there is a lot I like. I have a few people I work with who also use it, and my biggest piece of feedback is that while it is very handy for me and for creating "boards" of things I can show someone, I still don't feel like I know how to use it in a team or company setting. We end up clipping similar things or tagging almost-but-not-quite the same way, and in the end I don't have a way to coordinate across accounts on a team.

All that being said, I love sharing design samples with Clipboard when I am kicking off a project with a customer. It helps us scan the landscape and discuss the early plan. So it is useful for work, but I'd love if there was an easier way to collaborate. Or are there features I should be using differently?
How is it in the interests of the united states to support Dr. Afridi? Does this mean it's OK for US citizens give information to a foreign government to perform extrajudicial covert operations on US soil?
Nothing happens when I click the "Request an Invitation" button.

Edit: There it goes, but it took a few seconds. Also, when I mashed the button four times, four "Email Address" boxes popped up: http://i.imgur.com/Y1s9q.png At least give me some indication that something's happening if you must delay like that.

Edit 2: Same thing happens when I "Submit" my email address, again with no indication that you got my address except for an unfriendly "Invitation already requested for....." message.

I'm on Luakit (which is just webkit, like chrome)
It's a good idea in theory, but I don't see it being realistic in many cases where your legally under-represented plaintiff would be able to win.
First you have to get the other party into arbitration. At this point they have already breached their agreement, so even if it is a clause in a contract, who says they are going to participate? You would need considerable leverage to compel them to spend the $149 to end the dispute. And then assuming you do win, what compels them to honor the judgement? I did read the FAQs, but if I have to go to a court to effect a lien or seizure, why did I spend $149 on arbitration when I could have spent $50 to file in court in the first place?
Chrome and the Chrome Beta on ICS have this built in.
Just say "No" [to Yahoo Axis]
Yahoo! never cared for Linux users. Remember the Linux version of Yahoo! Messenger? It lagged behind the Windows version so much before being quietly removed. Coincidentally, I never care much for Yahoo! anymore.
> In the end, over compressed songs are penalized.

OK, that's what I'm saying though. You can attach 'loudness scores' to songs all you want, but eventually you have to pump it through a fixed-range DAC and have to make some tradeoffs :).
Group C

I stared at it, grunted a bit, then went off and made a cup of tea.
Gelato Cups and Spoons — What They Say About Your Business
Whether it’s a hot afternoon, a sweet treat at the end of a fun evening with your better half, or an indulgence paired with a fancy meal, nothing beats a cup of gelato.Since gelato is whipped differently than traditional ice cream, it’s a whole lot more dense — meaning that you need to have special gelato cups and spoons to handle it.
Agreed. All the hate is unnecessary. Give it 5 minutes before pilling on Yahoo and the past decisions of it's board.

The idea of taking browsing with you is nice feature that Im suprised hasn't been implemented so well by other operating system / browsers. As such, I'd expect Windows8 and WindowsPhone8 to have tight integration and hopefully have features like this.
How-I-Met-Your-Mother-Seasons-1-7-DVD-Box-Set
The year is 2030. Ted Mosby is relaying the story of how he met his wife to his daughter and son. The story starts in the year 2005, when then twenty-seven year old architect Ted was spurred on to want to get married after lawyer Marshall Eriksen and kindergarten teacher Lily Aldrin, his best friends from their college days at Wesleyan and Marshall who was his roommate at the time, got engaged after nine years of dating each other. Ted's new quest in life was much to the dismay of his womanizing friend, Barney Stinson. But soon after Marshall and Lily's engagement, Ted believed that his life mate was going to be news reporter and aspiring news anchor Robin Scherbatsky, who, despite having had a romantic relationship with her after this time, ended up being who the kids know as their "Aunt" Robin. As Ted relays the story to his kids, the constants are that their Uncle Marshall...
I see you are using Node and Express on the frontend - what other Node modules are you using or found useful?
I bet you on iOS it's a UIWebView.
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg accused of misleading investors
Can someone explain database scaling issues for web?
I don't really understand the technical challenges behind scaling, when people talk about using NoSQL or Redis.

I mean at the end of the day aren't you still trying to lookup (or insert or delete) into a very, very, very large list? Is one technique to "flatten" out your entire user database into a tree, say by location and then further subdivide so you just go down the tree to choose which smaller DB to access?

Those are my initial naive thoughts on the matter; could someone help me understand some of the non-trivialities to database scaling?

Thanks
> Cracked at least makes a modicum of effort

In particular, Cracked at least makes a pretty decent attempt to make their (mostly original!) editorial content the focus of their articles. The "listicles" that Maddox is really focusing his ire at here generally have little to no original content at all -- the bulk of their posts are either "borrowed" images or scraped/stolen content.
My 3-year-old Japanese dumb phone does that. It's a pretty common feature.
I came here to say exactly this. Whoever was in charge of their video design failed majorly. The constant head shaking was very disconcerting to me and I felt like he had no confidence in his own product.
Just a minor issue: The default clip titled "Browsing Clips" lists tabs as "Home, Shared, Publish", where the last one should have been "Public".
I agree with these points. It's completely fair for them to have a strong opinion, and express that opinion. I've not felt that any of the stuff I've read from Linus has ever been disrespectful, and they are all well formed and written to top it off. Just because they are not the welcome wagon, does not make them terrible people.
Also note that this is arbitration, which is one way a dispute might be settled. Another possibility is that a court will order a mediation, which is not quite the same thing. In a mediation, a neutral third party facilitates a negotiated settlement between the two parties, but has no power to dictate the outcome. In fact a mediation can conclude with no agreement, in which case the next step is a trial or judicial decision (or maybe an arbitration? I suppose it depends on how the contract is written).
Amazon Web Services: Too Big to Fail?
Yahoo Axis isn't actually a browser its just a plugin which shows in the bottom left hand corner of your existing browser.

However despite the advanced knowledge regarding the launch of this, Yahoo! Axis software license and service terms[1] states:

"Terms will go here."

There's a screenshot which shows it incase they update the page[2].

[1] http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/axis/en-us/

[2] http://i.imgur.com/19asR.jpg
FWIW, Apple's iPad home page features a "Watch the TV Ad" button, although admittedly it's not quite as prominent as this.
Peter,

Looks really interesting. Can you tell me how lawyers are reacting to the pricing you are paying them for being arbitrators? (assuming you are paying them) and if you are not paying them, how are you getting them to agree.

When I look at $300 for a case, I think, well, most attorneys bill at $400+ an hour (many for as much as $1,000), and they may get $100/hour+ personally after splitting with the law firm, so if a case takes more than 3 hours to arbitrate it seems hard.

On the other hand, there are no law jobs out there, so maybe you are getting fresh graduates?

I'm just curious I guess.
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I find it funny how eager the community manager is to admit the flaw.
You can do one better and submit a project with your son. Non-commercial projects that are accepted get in for free. (I'm a grown up and I can't tell you how proud it made me feel to present this year) :)
Coda 2 now available on the App Store (discounted)
I think just as large a part is that it's difficult for multiple designers to contribute to a project in a meaningful way without stepping on each others' toes. Do designers often collaborate in groups of more than two? (Layer Tennis is the only thing that comes to mind)

If I were evaluating a project I would choose a project with a default Github page over a project done in MSPaint just because there's a good chance that the latter was written by a developer who likes the MSPaint logo.
Because actually prevailing in court will cost more than $50, whereas prevailing in a legal claim for the award of a binding arbitration is very inexpensive; in reality, most bona fide disputants in arbitration can be expected to simply pay.
I haven't installed Yahoo! Axis, and I don't like yahoo as a company (especially not after what they did to geocities).

But calling on people to say 'no' to a product for these reasons is a weird move.

If it is crap then say why the product is crap, not that the promotion, the logo or all the other stuff surrounding it are crap. What is wrong with the product?

And if all that is that wrong, by all means, still install it.

See for yourself, evaluate it and say: 'yes, this really is crap', and for these very specific reasons. After all, it's Yahoo, it would be surprising if they suddenly came up with this absolutely great product. But at least install it and evaluate it if you're going to tell people not to use it.

Apropos logos, that red-and-white logo has some interesting associations.
Even better: You can't even read all the terms and conditions on the iPhone version. It stops scrolling at some point and just cuts off.
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If people on the losing side of a small claims decision are willing to ignore it, why would they be any more likely to abide by the result of a judge.me decision?

(edit: re-reading what you wrote, I think that is your point)
Automatic syncing of bookmarks and open tabs (among other things) is available on desktop and Android versions of Chrome. It's a feature I use frequently.
Windows 8 will integrate, include Adobe Flash
This is the story of how I met Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden's lead singer.
Was classical BASIC ever used for commercial software development?
Internet Explorer 10 will Ship with Adobe Flash Within Windows
When Computers Were Women
Yahoo Axis Software License and Service Terms: "Terms will go here"
He's talking about people inside Yahoo saying no.
Windows 8 to have 500 Million Users, says Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer
If arbitration is with a contract, the winning side might have a stronger case in a real court.
In case it gets updated, here's a screenshot: http://cl.ly/GsAx
Along the same lines: http://geophile.com/osh

Except that instead of bash, it's based on Python. So instead of everything being a string, you have the Python type system. E.g. 50 factorial:

z@minizack:~$ osh gen 50 1 ^ red '*' $
30414093201713378043612608166064768844377641568960512000000000000

This red(uce)s using multiplication the stream of integers 1..50.

Find the pids of python processes:

z@minizack:~$ osh ps ^ select 'p: "python" in p.commandline' ^ f 'p: p.pid' $
(2094,)
(2394,)

This pipes process objects from one command to the next. First select the processes whose commandline contains "python", then run a function that maps the process to its pid.
Google is Turning the Internet into its Operating System
I just installed Axis add-on to Firefox and my browser instantly slowed to a crawl. I have about 20 tabs open, but still. I removed it and everything is back to top speed again.
Yes! I don't understand why this hasn't happened in Ruby yet either. It seems like one of the ideal next places for it to blow up. A coworker is building up to it, but he's yak shaving by implementing good libuv bindings first. :\
Microsoft to Bake Flash Player Into IE 10?
Yeah, maybe it was made by interns brainstorming and was never really meant to be released to the public.
Coral cache seems to work for me. http://www.cs.ust.hk.nyud.net/mjg_lib/Classes/COMP670O/Paper... and http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu.nyud.net/library/nisan01a.pdf
I'll go on Amazon and buy several cheap Kindle books before I travel. Invariably I don't finish them all, and set the Kindle aside for a few weeks. Then I pick it up, see the unread books and read them before buying more

I've always wondered how much more money Amazon would make if they didn't highlight unread books, and how much people would care about the lack of that feature.
Maybe you could get a binding arbitration clause in your employment agreement. Though I don't know who you could suggest as arbiter...
Honestly, I consistently find Cracked 'listicles' more insightful than I expect. It's pretty impressive, for what they are.
I am talking about people inside Yahoo who do not have the ability to say "No".

The product is heavily informed by the ancillary activity that goes on to support it, including the marketing materials. It's called execution. You need an arbiter at the end of the chain who can say, "This isn't good enough." Otherwise, you run the risk of doing something poorly, which is embarrassing and damages the overall brand.

Yahoo, in particular, should be treating its brand very delicately right now.
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