skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantum Teleportation Leaps Forward
For some people, social media is a bigger time suck than the TV ever will be.

For me, it's this site and Google Reader.
Well good thing the author of this post bothered to talk to anyone before throwing this out there on the internet.
Wow ... this is shocking! Can someone explain how this is even remotely trademark infringement?

I'd also suggest you dig up research papers in conferences such as UbiComp and Pervasive. The "who is near me" app has been around for years. Also, check out papers on the cooltown project. I'm not totally sure what a defense to a trademark infringement claim would be. Perhaps if a researcher used the same name in a paper, that might help?
Twitter expects $1Billion in revenue on ad growth in 2014
That's the thing though: we have 0 movies marked as NSFW from TMDB in our database.

We'd have to have a 'Report as NSFW' link somewhere to achieve that, and that seems easy to abuse.
I did a fizzbuzz of my own last night http://neilkod.posterous.com/just-had-to-give-googles-blockl...
I appreciated the examples the author cited. So often we see posts that layout generic advice by non-founding writers, its important to back your points up with case studies and examples.
Yes I did, and have for quite some time now too. I try to make it a point to let those site owners know that there is a growing percentage of people who see a lack of a policy as a problem -- and one they can easily fix.

Bottom line is that I strongly believe there is an opportunity to build trust with users that many are missing.
Show HN: dexy.tv -- legal movie search like it should be
The real danger is that it's not just mom and pop that rely on the $25 anti-virus that came pre-installed.

Does your doctor use a mil-spec antivirus developed by the NSA? What about the police, the paramedic dispatcher, the control system for your local water treatment plant?

How many of these machines are connected to the internet AND to infrastructure that could cost lives ? How many have people who use the same USB key they used on their machine at home?
UK: housing cooperatives are incorporated as Housing Associations. Many in the Scandinavian countries as well. I thought the values of the coop movement would translate to US quite well (independence, responsibility &c) assuming you are in US. Coops are fully mutual, you can't buy only rent, but there are self build schemes for participant purchase as well.

I do envy the rental sector in US. UK has issues with artificially high prices (my opinion) preventing a free market rental sector from emerging.
Does LoveFilm not work in Europe?
It's very simple. As a creative person, who produces creative work, I desire a world in which it is possible for me to make a living doing that.

To put it in terms HN might be more comfortable with - how would you feel, if you operated a subscription website, if someone came along, and swiped your code and content, and put it up for free. Would you support that?
"It's a Kickstarter for legal fees" in 1...2..
I'm clueles, but what if you hired a lawyer for equity, then raise some money and utterly crushed them? Obviously there's a valuable market and you are good at what you do. So, is it unrealistic to think that's possible?
I know that prefab homes have a reputation for poor quality.

But I see no fundamental reason why this must be true. Automation in every other industry increases quality, and certainly predictability. In current home construction, quality varies erratically all over the place, even in the same home, even in expensive homes.
I think so, although there is always two sides of the story, so I would reserve judgement for the next couple days.
Your censorship analogy is flawed, since copyright infringement is not legal in any country (im not sure, but Ethiopia might have started recognising foreign copyrights now)
I hear http://www.dexy.tv/ is pretty good at that - dude just contacted me, we'll work together to bring that info over to movies.io for legal alternatives.
So what they're saying is: "We can't possibly defend against any attack if the attacker bothers to take the time to test their attack against our software."

That's a startling admission, not just because they're saying "our software ain't that good" but because they've also gone and told you exactly how to defeat it.

[insert conspiracy theory here]
> If someone had a silent computer to code on in there, could they crank out code for a couple of hours without nuisance, or would something bother them? If the latter, then what exactly would bother them?

First of all, I'm seriously disappointed I can't test this because no computer is quiet enough. Second of all, I can't stand working in sound-proofed rooms. I much prefer working in an environment with (non-distracting) ambient sounds.
Glad to see Laurent open sourcing this piece - hopefully it will lead to even deeper community involvement. In the few short weeks since it was released, RubyMotion already has a really impressive community behind it and I'm excited to see what the future holds.
ICloud: A Black Box That Needs a Few Dials on It
Wells Fargo probably doesn't actually own your current loan, but are being paid by Fannie Mae to service it. I know Bank of America unloaded my loan to Fannie Mae a week after they gave it to me.

If that is true, their negative answer to you is probably not predicated on the interest income stream you are giving them now, since they are receiving only some of that.

As for withholding payment, here is what I believe.

If we assume that Wells Fargo does actually hold your loan, and you stop making payments, the bank has two choices. Foreclose or negotiate. If the value of your house is less than what is currently owed on it, it makes sense for them to negotiate. This is the situation that has allowed this "stop making payments" meme to spread. However, if the value of your house is more than what you owe, and after 6 years, I suspect it is, than I believe they'll foreclose and flip the house.
Water isn't copyrighted.
Are there any similar technologies available for the Microsoft stack?
It only seems to get use on torrents that use open trackers, with no originating website.
I know it shouldn't, and I know the "hacker" or VC communities are huge with tons of diversity, but it annoys and saddens me to see some people just being bullies and jerks like this.
I stopped reading when I came across Lightbank. I've spent time in Chicago, got to know a few of those guys and companies they've funded, and have since stayed as far away as possible. Anyone in the area should do the same.

Curious? Look into their deal structures.
Wikipedia says that WhosHere was founded in 2008 and launched their app in 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhosHere

If that's the case and their app predates Who's Near Me, I have to say that the OP is probably going to lose this. The names and apps certainly do seem confusingly similar.
Off-the-charts awesome!
Map Simplification with Visvalingam's Algorithm
Wow, top voted submission. I'm rather disappointed with the HN community. I guess it's time to stop visiting this site.
UK/DK/DE/SE/NO only it seems. And probably very limited catalog, but will check it out nonetheless.
I'd kick in a couple of dollars for your legal fees if you get a donation page up
In spite of only having one side of the story I'm going to decide to choose my ground and ask this:

What if we started a Kickstarter campaign to fund the legal fees to counter-sue this company? The precedence set in a success would be profitable to the builders of the startup community. And I'd sleep better at night.
> Simple solutions. Designate random computers as secure.

Well, I laughed.
The Cruellest of Internet Hoaxes
Python’s Thread Locals Are Weird
Work the PR front, in addition to all the legal work you need.

Ideas:

-Start tweeting about it & create a hashtag #WhosHereThieves

-Get in touch with the TechCrunch author who wrote about about your app. This story is a big deal

-Reddit post

-Accept donations page

-The VC probably doesn't know anything about this, but they might respond if included in all the negative PR
You want to completely buy in to one side's story without any context or response from the other side, then start a Kickstarter to fund a legal assault upon that company? Really?

Not only are you surprisingly easily manipulated, apparently, don't you have better things to hack on?
I like the high resolution background image, maybe you could find a more graceful way of introducing it. Try fading it in after it has finished loading, like bing.com, instead of making the user watch it "build down".
Yes magnet links do not make things more secure to the user. It has advantages to the user, the torrent site they use is harder to shut down.
Twitter getting fatter.. though google suffers a bit recently due to spam full of ads they are receiving.
I know the developer and I just let him know that he is getting attention here ... and to get a donation link up ASAP ... He is a good guy and this has been an awful experience for him ... I've told him to get an account and start posting to this thread, so hopefully he'll be here soon ...
really? Confusingly similar? How about Who's Online, Who's In Town, Who's Out Tonight?

Genuinely curious. Do you think they have owners ship of "who" in the context of a social network. Surely using such an obvious descriptive name should count give you less rights to similar names. IE If I have "The Family Teacup Company" I can't complain about "The Swedish Teacup Company."
Yeah I was gonna recommend contacting https://www.eff.org too.
> Plenty of projects are using Haskell

Is this new? I had it in my head that Google only allowed C++/Java/Python/Javascript (and I guess Go now), but I may have mis-remembered that.
To what extent did they 'agree' to the change of name a year ago? You say you 'agreed' to do it. But did they agree to the new name? Eg did you inform them
about your name or reach any sense of resolution.

Unless they could somehow prove you have wilfully be continuing to violate their trademark I don't see how any damages are valid. I would certainly not give in to their threats.

What about the origins/timeline of the name and the trademarks. Who was using it first? What exactly is their trademark?

Subject to answers above, and given that this is a side project to you - I would suggest you simply write back stating you don't feel you are violating their trademarks, but would consider a rebrand in your mutual interests to avoid any potential for customer confusion provided they contributed to the cost of paying an advertising agency to create a new logo and other menu costs and estimate their share of those costs as $5,100 (eg they pay you what they are asking from you)
Not to mention all of the legal solutions give you crippled files with DRM.

Also, I find my tracker has a better download speed than any of these services (though that's not really an important point.)
Incredibly annoyed. In such cases, I use an alternate account no one follows and my perception of the company takes a big hit.
Oh. It's not possible to down vote such a comment. I guess it's time to stop visiting this site.
Reverse engineering and the cloud
The trademark wasn't filled until February 2010. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4003:5a...
The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol' Dial-Up Modem Sound
And yet somehow the human race produced creative work before the existence of copyright laws.
He says he made the app 2 years ago, where as WhosHere is from 2008. If it is in fact a trademark issue, sounds to me like they beat him to the name.
Great presentation. It's very inspiring to a new coder like myself. You've added a huge amount of value to our class at Code Academy. Thanks
Out of curiosity, which AV company do you work for? I want to make sure I never recommend that anybody purchase your products. Any software that exploits security flaws in OS or other system-level software needs to ring every alarm bell you've got. Sure Stuxnet, et al, target specific systems and hardware that are unlikely to belong to your customers, but Stuxnet's escape into the wild shows that mistakes or false assumptions were made by the designers and implementers. The software may not be intentionally malicious, but it's already behaving in ways not predicted by its authors. Yet you claim that I should just trust them and not worry that their software might be running on my system against my wishes? That's not what I, as a hypothetical customer of yours, pay you for.
> If Hollywood made this exact same product but with pay buttons, why would I as a user choose it over movies.io.

Same reason you buy stuff instead of stealing them?
To Go Where No Math Has Gone Before
Because you want to support those who produce the content, if you like using it. Not supporting them while using their creation is sheer disrespect, regardless whether piracy is illegal or not.
Apple bet against this notion and they won pretty big.
Last I heard, coop housing has serious barriers in the U.S. I think those barriers are largely rooted in the housing finance infrastrucure born post WWII.

The "boys" came home, often had high savings and no kids, "Rosie the Rivetter" was encouraged to quit her job so a man could have it, many women did so quite happily so they could have kids and the fulltime mom thing. Prior to the war, we were deep in The Great Depression and many people moved every thirteen months to take advantage of one free month's rent if you could pay rent in full and on time for twelve months straight. People were doubled up in small homes, etc.

Levittowns were born to meet the sudden demand for single family homes. The nation created finance mechanisms to facilitate the birth of these instant suburbs. We are still living with the legacy. It can be extremely difficult to arrange financing for anything other than a single family home.
Modern Java and .NET VMs still have latency issues under GC pressure that were equally visible in Emacs Lisp a quarter century ago.

Aren't you jumping to conclusions a little bit too fast? That there are still issues in some applications means all the work on Garbage Collection was wasted? I would like to remind you that modern GC-ed Java programs are often close in performance to C++ code with hand-written memory management, this clearly was not "visible in Emacs Lisp a quarter century ago".
Original author of the article here. I used the 1910 Lionel Giles translation.
The work is farmed out to the National Labs and federally funded RDCs from a coordinating office:

"Olympic Games borrowed some for what they termed "destructive testing," essentially building a virtual replica of Natanz, but spreading the test over several of the Energy Department's national laboratories to keep even the most trusted nuclear workers from figuring out what was afoot."

The engineers working on the P-1s are employed by Sandia, ORNL, LANL, Mitre, RAND, SRI, etc and are in the dark about project specifics due to compartmentalization. Want a job:

http://www.sandia.gov/careers/students_postdocs/internships/...
Helpfully, the final paragraph of the article seems to contain its takeaway message:

"So, comparing A/B testing and multi-armed bandit algorithms head to head is wrong because they are clearly meant for different purposes. A/B testing is meant for strict experiments where focus is on statistical significance, whereas multi-armed bandit algorithms are meant for continuous optimization where focus is on maintaining higher average conversion rate."

Like any business owner, at the end of the day I care more about conversion rates than about statistical significance.

I'm not a scientist trying to advance the sum of humanity's knowledge. I'm a business owner trying to find the shortest path between what my customers need and what I can profitably offer them.

In a way, statistical significance strikes me as a bit of a fool's errand, because significant results in one context may not be generalizable to another, which means even if we know for a near certainty what worked best, it's hard to apply that knowledge reliably in the future.

Of course, with MAB we could still wait for statistical significance if we want it, before turning off variations that are performing worse. And we can certainly still try to draw conceptually useful conclusions by designing our test variations in ways that facilitate easy comparison.

But with MAB and Myna it sounds like we can pretty well count on higher conversion rates at the end of the day, as well, and that counts for a lot in a business context.

I'm grateful to the VWO team for writing up their analysis and findings, and being so frank about the relative advantages of A/B and MAB. Their summary above tells me what I need to know.
I would love to see RubyMotion find a way to open-source its entire stack and still be able to monetize.

Ideas:

- Only charge a license fee if you intend to publish to the app store. True, this would be hard to check, but I think it would let the ecosystem flourish

- Give away the platform, sell premium documentation, screencasts, books, etc. (Although I can't see this generating enough revenue. Maybe when combined with some other approach?)

- Make one kick-ass IDE that's leaps and bounds better than XCode (including a better interface builder). Sell that. I favor this idea :)
A serious solar storm could damage the power grid more severely than a deliberate attack. If power surges burn out more transformers then it's going to take a long time to bring the grid back in some areas.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/solar-storms/ferri...
I'm no expert in entrepreneurship, but have to believe this is true for the most part. Before leaving, most people probably have a vision of something to start on -- but without (1) building the real product, (2) dealing with the details, and (3) interacting with customers, its only a vague vision. Along the way, things will change, people pivot, founders get new ideas, etc.

Here's another way to think about it: there is probably a good reason behind YC accepting people without an idea.
This is absolutely huge.
I appreciate what you're doing, but you just wrote an essay full of legal advice, including conclusions on how the proceedings will go -- something you really shouldn't predict. By putting the words "this isn't legal advice" before your comment, you aren't magically making it okay to give your opinion in the guise of advice. Just be aware of that.
Murder, With a Side of Porn
" The Cryptoanarchists’ Answer to Cash " is a bit loaded.

Are we going to call the Euro "the complete and utter morons answer to cash"? What about the Greek Drachma2 ?

There is more to a non-government currency than - OMG drugs and terrrrrrorists on the internet what about the children.
Facebook virals can definitely work. I know this because I'm the PM for an app that has grown virally 1.75% a day (on average) over the last eight months.

People see a disconnect because they think that the mere presence of like widgets or some open graph actions will cause viral growth, and then when it doesn't happen they get frustrated.

What works for virals isn't obvious - the app has two FTEs working on virals and the results are consistently counterintuitive, but the nice thing is that what works does seem to be consistant across apps.
The current Udacity exams take about 10 hours of coding to complete, so it sounds like these are actually going to be significantly less difficult. Still, I think this is a step in the right direction. Of all the online education programs out there my money is definitely on Udacity (or at least the Udacity model) to be the winner, and I think ten years from now people will recognize that this announcement was every bit as big as the X-prize or the recent SpaceX docking.

That's not to say there isn't room for other programs that are run in different ways, not only will there be but many will be insanely successful and profitable, but I think that the Udacity model is going to sort of the default way of doing things that every other program is compared against.
TheFind.com is looking for iOS developers in Mountain View/San Francisco, CA.

Here's the full post: http://pastebin.com/j4DWSzyr
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco/Remote

I'm an iOS/Rails developer with App Store experience who used to work at Hipster (www.hipster.com). Our work was ranked on all of Apple's top lists: What's Hot, New and Noteworthy, and Staff Favorites. We were recently acquired by Aol. Now, I'm freelancing full-time.

I'm capable of creating RESTful Rails APIs to power apps. The only support I need is a designer to create UI mockups.

Prior to Hipster, I worked at Google, Microsoft, and Apple (http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshavant).

Say hello at GarageAppsmiths@gmail.com !

App Store:

Hipster (App Store: http://bit.ly/ouvxl5 | Website: http://www.hipster.com | Press: http://tcrn.ch/ygaTMo)

Timeline Photos (App Store: http://bit.ly/IU9HsD | Source: http://bit.ly/KJz3vv)

WiFriend (Currently developing RESTful API in Rails + iOS App - Mockups: http://cl.ly/0u0E1P3J1b1h2u2F1F0w , http://cl.ly/2E0E213C1b0A1U3N2Q0x , http://cl.ly/0g3f423N0o022h46071D )

GitHub: http://github.com/joshavant
Comics Headquarters is looking for developers, designers, writers and artists! We are looking for our first employees. We are based in Dallas, TX. Interns ok. Remote ok.

More details at this page:
http://comics-headquarters.com/page/jobs/
Why isn't there any pagination on the site? I scrolled down to the bottom and wanted to see more, but no more movies.
It isn't just streaming either. A month or so ago my housemates and I tried to purchase S1 of Game Of Thrones. It has been on TV here, shown a day after it was aired in the US. However it wasn't available on Netflix, Lovefilm, iTunes or any other digital service we could find. In the end we gasp went to a shop (!!!) and bought it a few days later (mainly due to our shoddy internet connection, and Amazon not having an Ireland presence so shipping takes a while).
Build Things that Matter
I own this one:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/0385292163

I liked the interjected additional content it includes, but there are people who hate it, so YMMV.
There's no place in the UI yet—send me an email at kyle@wenthiking.com and I'd be happy to remove you!
San Francisco - Engineer

MixRank (YC S11) is a search engine for ads; we crawl the web and index ads, placements, keywords, landing pages, and pretty much everything that makes up an advertiser's campaign. With all of the data we collect, we provide competitive intelligence and analytics to advertisers, agencies, and ad networks. Along with this comes many interesting technical challenges, like scaling web crawlers, distributed analytics, and training predictive models to make intelligent recommendations to our customers.

We're looking for engineers that are interested in things like big data, web crawling, distributed analytics, and machine learning.

jobs@mixrank.com

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/want-to-see-which-ads-perfo...
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/display-ad-data-intelligenc...
Great concept -- and I'm all about increasing the exposure of startups. :)
There is nothing illegal about this. It provides magnet links, so it is not even linking to the files themselves, they aren't hosting infringing content...
☑ Massive market opportunity

☑ Tons of room for product innovation

☑ Potential for significant revenue

☐ Ability to do business without being sued out of existence.
SilkJS includes a lot of libraries that have different licenses. The idea is to allow anyone to download and use SilkJS and live up to those licenses as they see fit.

If you want to sell SilkJS, you have to pay Oracle a license fee because SilkJS uses libmysql.

Make sense?
Google:
real devices from star trek

Could be that something in the near future as simple as relativity was 100 years ago will solve the hardest ones, namely transporter and ftl tech.

Then again, it was funny as hell to see the flying car in Captain America.
Netflix is available in the UK and IE, however the catalogue is pretty lousy. It is mainly the same poor selection of films they show on TV anyway.
I'm curious if you have a better analogy?