skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so it's not that they'll sue you if their seeds blow onto your property, it's that they'll sue you if their seeds blow onto your property, you harvest, separate and and save the seeds from the plants that grow, then you plant 'em.

I'm still not sure that counts as infringement, but hey, who am I to disagree with a Canadian court's interpretation of Canadian law?
Data points on the fund raising environment
Well, it makes sense. A suit just means you claimed something; winning means you were right in somebody's eyes.
It blows my mind that there are people on HN confusing opposition to the horrific practices that Monsanto uses with opposition to GM crops in general. I am a supporter of GM strains of crops, because I think they have proven environmental benefits. However, what Monsanto did to the seed cleaner is no different than blaming BitTorrent for piracy. The only difference is that BitTorrent sites actually have a somewhat possible way to determine copyrighted works from open works.
The seed cleaner is being sued simply because his services are utilized by people trying to cheat Monsanto as well as those who are simply seeking to continue growing their heirloom strains. This isn't justice. This is simply a huge corporation with vast legal resources doing whatever is necessary to prevent theft of their IP rights, even if that involves trampling people that committed no crimes. It is cheaper for Monsanto to put every seed cleaner out of business than to go after the actual IP infringers. But it is not really legal, and only holds up in court because the seed cleaners can't afford to fight Monstanto's legal shield, and too few judges bother to inform themselves on the topic.
Stores have to pay to use Visa, etc. So you're still paying for that credit card via slightly higher prices.
What Does New Twitter Bird Signifies
You can already drop a pre-configured Windows 2008 Server VM already before this news was out.
what is HSI? these days I have to join various groups/lists/ircs/etc to interact with embedded world, but nothing like hacknews to spur innovation and new ideas...
i have been thinking about building a vendor-neutral site for folks that want to bridge web/UI to embedded devices.
I don't spend all day reading HN but I'm here quite a bit ... can someone explain the "and deluded database CEOs" reference?
Yes. If you knew someone was trying to bring a legal case against you, wouldn't you research them and keep an eye on them? It would be irresponsible not to.
IFTTT Integrates With Bitly, Hopefully Placating the Internet
The Curious Case of Internet Privacy - Cory Doctorow
And what does THAT have to do with THIS story?
It's strange to say there is no market for a car that has a 10,000 person waiting list (with a $5,000 down payment to be on it) before anyone had actually gotten behind the wheel. I'd say that's pretty damn good and already close to a billion dollar market.

Mercedes "only" sold 9,804 S-Class models in the US last year. Maybe they'll step it up.
>> "I would argue that the main problem is so many queries: rather than arguing about ORM dispatch speed it's almost always better to make fewer queries"

In Python there aren't many queries! That's the issue!

Let me explain better. Django ORM is converting a few lines (and sometimes ONE - like user_token.delete() ) of python to tens of queries. These tens of queries take around 200ms (or more) because each query takes around 3ms/10ms

user_token.delete() was taking 300ms (I wish I was kidding)

"Similarly, 1s to render a template sounds rather unusual - if that's not just something like not using the cached loader on a slow filesystem it's screaming for logic to move into the view or a template tag."

No, not cached loader, not slow filesystem. It's a for with an inner include.
I'm not sure. Someone posted an invitation here a few days ago, but it seems to be sold out.

http://register.meetwindowsazure.com/?invite=17ae2e27-2b9d-4...
You are making the point for me, thank you. They do love the tech, first and foremost, and don't want to sell out for a quick buck because they know money is not the thing that makes you happy! Wealth is different then money, building wealth is valuable for them, not money. Big difference.
I think Andy has a point there, but it is interesting to note that the whole "NoSQL" thing is really a misnomer in a sense... SQL is a pretty reasonable standardized query language... the bits of "normal databases" that the NoSQL guys seem to really care about having gotten rid of are schemas, referential integrity and (some) transactions.

This "movement" (if it deserves such an appellation) should probably be called "NoRDBMS", or "NoACID" instead.
The problem is that you may have to keep this code for a VERY long time (people don't log into sites for 3+ years and expect their old passwords to still work).
Lugging around legacy code is never a good idea.
If this happened to be on or close to April 1, I would have never made it past the picture of the guy on skis.
The top end Model S has a 85kWh battery pack and can get 265 miles on that charge according to the 5-point standard for MPGe set by the EPA. That's equivalent to just under 3 gallons of gas using the GGE conversion mechanism.

That's an amazing efficiency win.

So far, the biggest downside is the extended charge time. To fully recharge the car using the fastest charger, it's about 4-5 hours.
You could argue that he was smart enough to say things like that. Who wants to hear a rich guy say how much he loves having such a shitload of money that most people could not even imagine it?
We actually have some stuff in place to do things like that.

It's currently limited in scope to things like recipes and a few other things, but it's very much on our radar as being useful.
Flame: UN urges co-operation to prevent global cyberwar
"Respond to ads where people are seeking roomates. If they respond back, game on." I've seen most posts ask for not non-solicitation.
Because if Monsanto wins then the farmer is guilty, and I'm not interested in condemning Monsanto for suing in cases where they've actually been legally wronged.

(If you wanna debate whether the law should be different then that's another argument.)
Or it's symbolising a desperate bird among many other birds trying to get some food from a feeding hand.

Joking.
Yep, my startup business Powered Now is pure B2B. The same methodologies apply regardless of the market, however I take your point about stable processes. I think (and would love a discussion on it) the idea of a "stable process" comes with scale, the larger the orginisation the less likely they are to consider adapting or trying new things, although that might be a sweeping generalisation.

Regardless of the size of the business there are always people on the cutting edge, the early adopters you need to find and involve.

Best of luck, I'll watch this thread with interest.
Those people aren't typically hackers.
As to your first argument, I don't think it's quite the same. This is like saying that when I buy a song I can freely resell it. Farmers aren't buying the crops and using it for personal use and giving it to friends for personal use. They are buying it and selling it on the open market.

If I personally went and bought Monsanto seed and used it for my own plants the I ate/gave away and gave it to friends who all used it for personal use, Monsanto would be hard pressed to stop me/they probably wouldn't bother.
I think Craigslist is a good model: Stay lean, and find one or two small areas of the site that people are willing to pay for, then use that to fund the rest of it for free.
Your comment, apart from "pretty nice summary", is talking about something totally unrelated to the posted article. You should have made a separate "Ask HN" thread.

As far as discussing hardware goes, you can post articles yourself.
Thanks to the work of an anonymous user researching who you work for at Harvard, you have been revealed to work at a lab which receives funding from Monsanto. I'm not saying this discredits you, but you should state this up front.

I have sympathy for geneticists who have to deal with the anti-GM knee jerk reactionaries, but Monsanto tramples on constitutional rights of small farmers who don't have the legal resources to defend themselves. The fact that many of these farmers are guilty of stealing IP doesn't change this fact.
Interview with founder of Soar gives interview on artificial intelligence
"Designer - Makes a product look pretty". Ugggghhh... obviously not a big deal (very tongue-in-cheek) but this rankled me even as a non-designer.
Of course they did, the whole point of patent law is that it restricts what you can do with your own property. I think it would be nice if ignorance was an excuse in patent cases, but the fact that it isn't is a big part of why our current patent system is so toxic in general, especially in software.
Linq and list comprehension for C++
Who cares what Schmeiser did to the plants GROWING ON HIS OWN LAND? Why must he explain his reasons to anyone for dealing with a predatory invader?

Analogy: someone accidentally drops a backpack containing DVDs in my front yard. Am I now licensed to make and sell copies of the content on those DVDs?

Anyway, your argument is with the Canadian Supreme Court, not with Monsanto.
Citing billionaire succes stories leans a bit heavily on survivorship bias. As an individual who's not yet financially independent the expected return on trying to be Patrick McKenzie or even Joshua Schachter is much higher than the expected return on trying to be Bill Gates.
Ask HN: Using "for Facebook" in your app title
Does anyone know if you can legally use "for Facebook" in your application title as Color "for Facebook" has done?

Do you need special permission?
Machine Learning in Java has never been easier
He proved through is way of living that he wasn't about the money. He lived by all metrics a fairly simple and humble private live far from the Ellifsons out there.
Global Internet Map 2012
it sets a legal precedent. This is why companies love to settle out of court and to not admit any wrong doings. This is how finance companies are investigated by the SEC, pays a settlement, declares nothing wrong was done and continues on with the practice that got them investigated in the first place.
I don't disagree with the intent of your comment, but I think you are arguing your point in a poor fashion. Even if guns were only ever used for target practice, you would still see excessively designed guns. Just like, and for the same reasons as, you see excessively designed cars; people find them fun.

I know a guy who hunts with an AR-15. Is that necessary in any way? No, I don't expect so. He seems to enjoy it though.
Not a lawyer, but using a couple of sprite rips in the process of learning sounds like it ought to be fair use to me. Are you a lawyer?
Chris Mason Of Btrfs Is Leaving Oracle
Amazon's affiliate program

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting...
This has got to be the most naive statement i've ever read on the internet.

If so then you are certainly on a different internet. His statement is very valid or logical. He never said DOW was responsible, but they were acted unethically. Someone could write a computer virus that would wipe out the US government dataset for $1B then proceed to say "I was paid for it, I should not go to jail because I did not click START." They would be right, but they would also rank high on the list of most unethical individuals.
I hope nobody thought I was suggesting they actually do that. It was purely a matter of personal curiosity. Entropy is perhaps the most interesting thing in the universe.

I'm far too lazy to do anything other than slap bcrypt on it, unless there's a pressing need to do something else, which there never is.
What are (or should be) the core characteristics of a startup accelerator?
This is a great article, Sidu. All of your points speak true to what I have learned going through the same process. I've only been doing the business thing for about 10 months, but already I notice a difference in perspective when speaking to non-entrepreneur engineers. Thanks for writing this.
There's a massive gulf between "shouldn't" and "isn't". :/
Samsung to build $1.9 billion logic chip line
I think I'm using it just fine - talking out my ass.
So presumably you're against fanfics and sprite comics too? As with everything that can be copied (digitally or otherwise) and used in derivative works, fair use et al. concerns apply. (Hence the other commenters noting that it's common and fine to do this for self-education.)
P2P Youtube: Chrome extension to get videos faster via BitTorrent
Wasn't there a Firefox extension that would save every single page you visited? Disk space is cheap and plentiful now, no reason not to.
Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”
I'm really surprised that people think consoles are currently a niche market for games, after an example like Call of Duty selling 8.4 million copies in the US in a month, with almost all of the copies on consoles, not PC. And if ever there was a PC-friendly genre, it's the first-person shooter.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31995/Exclusive_Black_Ops...
A testable hypothesis whose result will either support or falsify a theory is the very definition of science.

Note that this theory has nothing to do with whether or not one likes the experience. Someone very well may like the experience with more frustration more, for whatever reason. The theory is not "This is why Diablo 2 is better than Diablo 3," but an explanation for why many people may feel less satisfaction playing Diablo 2 than Diablo 3.
This is a good user security test...

I would've called it Ieakedin.org, as the "I" will appear to be a lowercase "L" in the sans-serif fonts typically used in a browser's addressbar
I believe the purpose is just to make it harder (which, really, is the purpose of security in general).

Of course if a spammer wanted my email address there would be little I could do to stop them, but a script kiddie that just learned regex and does a preliminary `wget | grep` won't notice my slightly obfuscated address missing from the list of billions of low hanging fruit.

While I certainly see your rationale for not "break[ing] the internet," there are sometimes more important things than usability. If someone can't be bothered to retype my non-mailto-ified email address, chances are high I'm better off not being bothered by their email.
Really? We're talking about an article that claims Monsanto is, "responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes?" In the very first sentence!

Sorry, I don't care how relevant or accurate the other information is, but it's not valid after that. Monsanto may or may not be evil, and the farmers may or may not be good, but you certainly can't (shouldn't) form any opinion based on this junk.
Unfortunately I have no wisdom to offer, but that guy's enthusiasm was inspiring.
Sure. There's no single feature improvement that is much better, but when considering the improvements together the difference is striking.

1. The search term is highlighted.

2. The search is far more discoverable, its key binding means you can stumble across it.

3. The up cursor key is a better key binding choice.
Pressing up without a search term may be considered as searching for commands that match "", namely everything. This conforms with fish's aim for orthogonality.

4. (Most importantly) The up cursor key has a natural undo button, down. Quick quiz: if you type "Ctrl-r foobarbaz", how do you get back to a terminal you can type in, preserving your search term? You can't. Pressing "Esc" dumps you in the middle of your history with something matching the first few characters of your search term. (Assuming you have nothing in your history matching 'foobarbaz')

Similarly, if you press "Ctrl-r foo Ctrl-r", you will get the second item in your history that matches foo. There's no way to get back to your first search result without repeating the search.

5. You can use previous commands as search terms. For example, I ran "mvn clean install", then hit "Ctrl-C" when I wanted to skip tests. I pressed "<Up> <Space> <Up>" and I was searching through all my history that contains "mvn install ". Using "Ctrl-C" I'd have had to retype "mvn clean install ".
I think winning is considered important because of the mistaken presumption that this has some bearing on how Monsanto is conducting itself or the guilt or innocence of the farmers involved. The unfortunate truth is that Monsanto will probably never lose such a case, they will settle or drop a case that they think they have any chance of losing. The legal system in most of the world is such that just threats and intimidation is enough to "win" because of the costs and damage just having a suit drag on will bring a favourable result for Monsanto.

These are not two equally equipped sides engaging in a fair judicial process to settle a contract dispute, pretending that it is such a circumstance is overwhelmingly unfair to the farmers involved.
"Better" implies enjoyment, among other things. It does not mean the message stays with the viewers.
> I think the problem is rooted in the business model that seems to be preached by Y Combinator: build a great product, choose investment over income, and exit as quickly as possible.

This seems like a misinterpretation of what YCs investment/mentorship philosophy.
You might use them as placeholders, which I have no problem with, but that quote clearly implies using them in shipped products.
Do you have any context for this link?
Seems like a lot of the issues they bring up would be addressed by using SCTP as a transport instead of TCP. Why aren't we moving in that direction?
The biggest takeaway I get form this is that Opera has done this before but never shared it with the outside world. At a minimum we know that the kind of speed up SDPY proposes is possible and apparently used in production systems.
What data can and cannot do
It's interesting that no one have answered how Quora makes money.

They dont seem to have one yet.

But here are possible avenue they could explore.

http://www.quora.com/What-could-Quoras-long-term-business-pl...
Foxconn: A Very Quiet Riot
But you can see how people (non-corporate persons) might think that sort of extra-judicial asymmetry in dealing with questions of injury between individuals and corporations highly detrimental to any idea of regulating anything that a company wants to do to anyone, right?
The console market is already becoming a niche

Do you think so? I think most males in the 10-40 year old age group have at least one console sitting around at home. Many of them don't play them very often, but they got 'em.

I don't know anyone who plays games on an actual PC anymore. Just buying a PC game seems to require you to carry around an encyclopaedic knowledge of graphics cards in order to determine ahead of time whether it'll run.
AdWords, meet AdMob
Please don't quote anything from RT - it's as useful as quoting Gobbles.

While there is a chance it could be true, the association itself makes anything quoted extremely suspect.
Ugh, MG is so predictable in his slavish dedication to Apple that it's laughable. Is this really an article about some 6 month old market-speak from the ex-CEO of Google?

I'm not going to hold my breath for the upcoming article from him about failed promises from Apple.
Show HN: Bidtrest - Pinterest style searching for eBay
Weekend project 'just to see if I could'. Was pretty quick to build the bulk of it, tidying it up (and keeping it simple) has been a good few evenings in front of the TV over the last couple of weeks.

The domain is an obvious nod to pinterest and bidding / eBay, albeit with a typo (a missing 'e') - probably how I got it in the first place. By the time I realised (and saw the spelling with the 'e' version of the domain had gone), I was so used to calling it Bidtrest I figured I'd just roll with it... :-)

Thoughts and comments most appreciated, happy to answer any questions!
Tesla's 5.6 sec Electric Car Hits the Road
HTTP on most residential networks has a higher priority than P2P.

Combined with the fact that Google use the Google Global Cache (GGC) service inside ISP networks, I don't see how this would be any faster on todays internet.

Cool idea and concept, but don't see it helping.
Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2 - Blizzard Responds
I agree that lugging around legacy code but whats the alternative? (Note I'm not a security expert)

AFAIK its this

1. Continue using legacy, less secure hashing algorithm

2. Upgrade your password storage scheme and carry around some extra code and/or fields in your db.

3. Crack you own users passwords and convert them

Its all kind of smelly but 2 seems like the only option (unless I'm missing an option?)
I agree that lugging around legacy code but whats the alternative? (Note I'm not a security expert)

AFAIK its this

1. Continue using legacy, less secure hashing algorithm
2. Upgrade your password storage schem and carry around some extra code and/or fields in your db.
3. Crack you own users passwords and convert them

Its all kind of smelly but 2 seems like the only option (unless I'm missing an option?)
Its not the language but your framework and architecture and your own proficiency in the language ( whatever that might be) that matters most for a fast web application.

Your code would spend most of its time fetching stuff from DB, external web services etc and rendering HTML. Does your framework allow you to easily incorporate database caches? Does it allow to to cache frequently rendered HTML segments ? Can you offload certain tasks ( such as sending email etc.) to a secondary process via a job queue ?

You could write a web application in C that could still suck big time unless you get the application architecture right.
Just a quibble, but Jobs purchased what became Pixar from George Lucas. Saying that he founded it is a bit of a stretch -- he pretty much just bankrolled it until it finally found its niche with "Toy Story". Alan Deutschman's "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" draws a sharp contrast between Jobs' roles at the two companies:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Second-Coming-Steve-Jobs/dp/076790...
This recent submission is quite relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4065233
Note: The submission title has been changed by the HN editors/moderators. The original title was: "The Worst Ever Infographic - The Startup Ecosystem".

I felt the content and design were terrible. Comparing the startup ecosystem to marine life. Seriously?
As a data point, I'm about to get rid of a car that has a range of about 240 miles or so (12 mpg). I drove it infrequently and for shortish distances so it didn't bother me at all.
LinkedIn should compensate the compromised accounts by giving them upgraded accounts.
agreed that it is more subtle than hammer vs spatula, but just trying to illustrate the point that this general flavor of X sucks compared to Y isn't instructive.

flask is great. but if you want the admin, then you have to build it yourself. i've used django formsets ONCE, ever, but when i needed them I'm glad that django had them instead of me having to build them on flask.

then i've used flask for awesome projects that i knew in advance i didn't need that stuff.

different needs, different tools.