skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is slightly off topic, but did anyone else have a completely different idea of what they thought this company did based on their name? Never-the-less, it's an interesting concept.

With in regardless to their TOS, I would imagine it's best to do as they wish, and give them no further press by linking to their homepage.
Wildseed was bought by AOL in 2005.

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/AOL-buys-mobile-so...
Check out the following condition:

"In no case shall the viewer, visitor, member, subscriber or customer have the right to go to court or have a jury trial."

Just because you say I can't, doesn't make it so.

I do like that the fact that they haven't stated that if one part of the contract is made invalid then the rest of the contract that is enforcable will remain valid.

Whoever wrote up this legalese has missed something important, but included something ridiculous. Whoops!

P.S. Oh, and I also like they have included most of an episode of Seinfeld above their legal policy. Copyright violation, anyone? The irony...
Since when is a soldering iron high tech? Since when can't you solder SMD chips due to the small pitch? They're not BGA, so you can solder them, even with that pitch.

Dear HN "hackers". Removing and adding RAM from a fool-proof socket that is found on most motherboards isn't hacking. Figuring out pincompatibility, configuration and (de)soldering SMD chips: that's hacking.
If you’re using any Unix at all, then ed really will always be there,
no matter how old or limited the system.

So as it turns out, my Arch Linux setup does not actually have ed.
"ed really will always be there"

When I set out to learn ed, I was surprised that it was not included by default on my Arch Linux install. It was easy enough to add via Pacman but it still surprised me.
Watch plastic break, bleed, and heal itself
How long does it take to boot an AppleII? My system boots in around 15 seconds (i7 +SSD), but you can boot to a command prompt in less time.

PS: It actually look less time to install windows 7 ~15 minutes than it took to boot one of my old windows 95 machines with far to little ram and a antivirus software.
I don't understand why any one would do put any restriction on linking to their site.

I can understand banning linking to certain sites from their site, but the other direction? It's a bit like paying for billboards and painting them and then covering them up.

Can anyone explain why any party would think it is a good idea to have policies that will reduce the possibility of news sites/random blogs/whatever linking to them and so reduce their page views?

(And thinking that they can get people to pay for the "privilege" of directing possible customers their way?)
When I saw this headline, I thought that a new technology that does away with finger sticking was becoming available. The new technology uses a small flourescent tattoo that contains nanoparticles that flouresce differently depending on blood glucose levels. The researchers are using a detector attached to an iPhone to measure the flourescence, and convert it into a glucose measurement. This isn't continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), but it would be an order of magnitude less expensive. It would allow for much more frequent glucose testing, without the pain of finger sticking, and without the ongoing cost of test strips.

For more information, check out this post: "http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/08/the-tiny-tattoo-that-cou...
"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."

iPad Killer? If that does't qualify as "gratuitous editorial spin" I don't know what does. Even if Microsoft does come out with a tablet on monday it will not be an iPad killer at all. Apple has cornered the market on tablets and I know of a fact that it would be impossible for Microsoft to even get close to the iPad in terms of functionality let alone price.

So once again: No Microsoft will not announce a "potential iPad killer". Ars Technica didn't call it an iPad killer for the exact reasons I mentioned above and because they would be the laughing stock of the tech news world if they did.
I haven't heard of this company before. Is this exceptionally out of character for them?
Heh. You want to see generic, check out Verisign's applications. '.com' in a whole bunch of scripts other than Latin - they've applied for the Cyrillic script 'ком', the Hebrew script 'קוֹם', and what I assume is the same thing in a bunch of languages I don't read.

On the other hand, I'm sure they'll make them publicly available - for the right price.
Increased integration has been the goal of most everybody involved in designing and building computers, since before transistors were formed into integrated circuits.

At the same time, a goal of less necessary maintenance, too.

Vacuum tubes (valves) are gone.

Connectors and moving parts are removed.

The field-replaceable units (FRUs) get larger and larger, and whole peripheral units get swapped where that's possible.

It used to be that you swapped a head-disk assembly within a disk drive. That you had periodic maintenance visits to clean or replace the air filters on your servers and clean out the dust bunnies and dust rhinos. That you isolated to the board and repaired it, or used a wire-wrap tool to fix a loose wire on the backplane. That you unscrewed and swapped a switch. That you modified configuration switches to re-address I/O cards.

This trend is all part of what was once known as solid-state electronics. Where a designer looks to remove the "stuff" that fails and that takes up space and time and manufacturing effort, that requires stocking more SKUs in manufacturing, whether that's connectors or CRTs or disk drives or daughter-cards or whatever. And you work to remove the humans from the repair and maintenance process where you can, as that's a source of problems, and costs.

And yes, the hobbyist and enthusiast market has different goals and designs than the mass market. If you're looking to tweak and incremental upgrades (short of swapping FRUs), then you probably won't be buying a MacBook Pro Retina.
How would it be illegitimate? Mining bitcoins is based on math, and if they do the math they have earned it.
Haha I created this repository now in the morning and was already about to change the Rails version. I did not know would have an audience so quickly. I'll switch to Rails 3.2.x
I'm not sure if any will be valid on their own just yet, but I really wouldn't surprise me if it was the "next step" in TLD/hostname branding.
While it could be reverse psychology to troll HNers to linking their site, it's also bad publicity among hackers, and the argument breaks Occam's razor.
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I'm not being sarcastic I swear, but just do it, your brain will catch up. That's how I learn 99% of any thing I study. I'm not saying reading and soaking in information isn't vital, but practice makes perfect they say.
yes ! i'm already changing all the structure to support rails 3.2.x . Thanks for the tip!
I realize that the this is the article title, however, Geek Hours must be quite dense to use "iPhone 4s" to talk about multiple "iPhone 4"'s. It is very confusing.
Even assuming that this kind of TOS is valid, the damages clause is not likely to hold in court. For a clause like that to be valid, it must (1) be a reasonable estimate of the likely actual damages for violating the contract, and (2) actual damages must be difficult to determine so that agreeing to a fixed amount in the contact will save significant effort at trial.

Neither of these applies here. It is hard to see how most links could cause anywhere near $100k in damages. Worst case would be a link that results in a DOS from heavy traffic, but the actual damages from that are not too hard to figure out--overage charges from their hosting company, plus costs of overtime for hourly employees who have to deal with the DOS, plus profits attributable to the business they normally would have gotten during the downtime.
If someone copied my sites' designs, I don't think I would be too bothered as long as I wasn't materially harmed. I can think of two possible ways I might be, though, that don't really apply to, say, torrenting movies:

1) Since the two sites would look the same, I could be mistaken for the copycat.

2) My users who go to both sites could be confused, possibly thinking they're related.

Those are two differences I can think of, though I don't particularly support torrenting, either.
gareim suggested the HTC Rezound and Xperia S below. You're right.
I don't see why they won't be valid hostnames as long as they resolve to an IP address. "localhost" is a valid hostname, too. A lot of existing software, of course, will complain that it's not a valid FQDN.
Wouldn't they sue HN? Better to out the link on your own site, and the submit that link.
My GF who is pretty computer savy have a hard time understanding it too. She basically don't trust it even though I have told her that it has multiple safety measures and the fact that it's on more than one machine (we have 8) is actually making it better. There are of course issues with regards to syncing but besides that.
What is written in the first paragraph is used way too often to excuse plagiarism. The probability that starting with a blank HTML page and working honestly you will end up with a design that similar to somebodies else one is very, very close to 0 even for simple pages like this one. Completely the same menu item width, pixel by pixel the same drop shadow, same fonts, same widths etc. There are literally at least millions of variations of a design similar in style with various small subtle differences, there are too many tiny decisions to be made (with many outcomes being pretty much equally good) to make similarity that close just possible by chance and to make 3 or 4 differences plausible evidence for this work being original.
You have to fill it out once and thus your keystrokes kan be profiled.
It is a very sad and distressing trend that some Linux distros don't include ed in their base systems.

Ed is as essential to a Unix system as cat or grep.
Bare with me on this one.

I think in that situation your design can be effectively stolen - if you can no longer use it, because someone else in your field is using it and your own use would look like plagiarism. They have it and, crucially, you can no longer use it with commercial effect.
> The main problem is that if you own the majority of the hashing power, you can rewrite history. You can make all the bitcoin ever mined owned by you.

No, this is completely wrong.

If you have majority hashing power, this allows you to

a) entitle yourself to a greater proportion of the newly minted bitcoins (though you actually can not increase the global rate of creation), and

b) undo already "confirmed" transactions, within a small timeframe. This allows for double-spend attacks, but you can only do that if you owned the coins in the first place. Nothing, not even hashing power, lets you use other people's coins.

In particular, you can't "rewrite history" arbitrarily, due to hardcoded hashes in the Bitcoin clients. You also can't "make all the bitcoin ever mined owned by you".
also there is another very nice solution for creating rails apps (using templates, too):

http://appscrolls.org/

http://drnicwilliams.com/2012/04/10/instant-new-rails-applic...
I don't remember now. It was some academic website with crime stat analysis, and it matched my mental estimate of a conservative number. Frankly the true rate is likely to be quite a bit higher.
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If you get a spammy link farm to link to a website, Google will drop their rankings. So, some people do this to their competitors.
Lawsuit between origami enthusiasts unfolds
Manage your bash prompt
It doesn't matter if the resulting design is a common form if there is evidence the file was copied then the copyright in the file itself is demonstrably infringed.

There's also passing off to consider.
Dear Internet,

This is what we call free publicity by dragging this into the spotlight again and again. Support The Oatmeal if you want financially, then kill the attention on this story.

thanks.
I think there's still a lot of potential improvement to be gained by increasing reuse. It seems to me what we need is to take the CPAN to the next level: to have a readily available, heavily tested repository of libraries that work with all major programming languages. Think of all the effort that's currently duplicated over and over again, once for each existing platform...

Mind you, I have no idea how to do it. It's one of the goals Parrot was aiming for a decade ago, but Parrot doesn't seem to be particularly close to being a good answer yet.
The Tragedy of the Commons and naming systems
Very good tutorial for vimers.
As far as I'm concerned, this is a superior piece of literature, a classic blog entry for the museum, and a very important idea as far as the progression of personal information technology.

Having said that, I have to say that it also exemplifies an attitude and culture that is disconnected from reality.

There are still many hard fundamental problems and wheels being reinvented on the web and in technology in general. Many of our popular tools are obviously severely lacking. We should solve those problems rather than wallowing in decadent perfectionism.

Beyond the web and apps, the planet is faced with brutal inequality as well as economic, ecological and philosophical crisis.

While I've accepted and enjoy my daily use of hundreds of times more resources than a significant portion of the population of the planet, and I am happy to stay in my privileged first world bubble, I have not let myself fall into dream-like state and forget what's outside of it.
I actually meant this as a negative. I view chargebacks as a pain point in many cases (for merchants etc) not a positive. I was hinting at the the fact that this system probly has chargebacks and again is no better than before.
While the article has parallels in software copyright, I +1'd this post because it has the best title ever.
Yes, I'm a user of ed regularly as well when I would like to mingle interacting with it with my other before and after command line use. If you use vim then `:set t_ti= t_te=' may be of interest to stop it switching to the terminal's other buffer and back; that way on exiting the file's content remains to copy-and-paste from.

The article was OK. I'm not sure it mentioned addressing line 0 for the start of the file, and comma is more common than % for all lines. ed(1) is brief and lots can be learned from it.

As for structural regular expressions as used in sam(1), see Rob Pike's paper. http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/
Google's Changing SERPs. US Open example. No Ads. No Google+??
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There is no "I agree" button, no way to indicate consent. A reasonable person linking to the site might not even notice that these terms were in place, so they can't be binding.
E-Commerce Is Head Over Heels for Pinterest, and for Good Reason
I think this is it. Square probably means that as they read the bits from the reader they are being encrypted, then sent. Not stored and plain text then encrypted before being sent.

There are already plenty of examples of people hacking Squares[1], mostly to use them as credit card skimmers though. This is one of the coolest most creative hacks I have seen for it though, bravo.

[1] http://cranklin.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/hacking-the-square/
Yet again the G-WAN devs come of as incredibly arrogant and tone deaf. What is it with these people? Is there some cultural thing going on that makes them behave like this?
Here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3707.msg53879#msg538...

"The best thing about my water cooling and floor heating is that my wife keeps nagging me to buy a second 5970 to make the floor warmer. Beat this with a air cooled system."
I think I'm too stupid to follow that conversation.
Slashdot discussion:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/06/12/167227/inventor-of-e...
Is there any possibility of checking to see if "my" bank or financial institution is covered without having to sign up?
Excuse me, but it's NOT legal. It's not legal to produce and it's not legal to sell or buy. Therefore, it's not being produced or sold by legitimate operations. THAT is why Mexican drug cartels still traffic it. Because it's still illegal.
The test strips for my former meter are $64 for 50. Sometimes I just don't test; I can get away with that because I don't use insulin.

Kroger (King Soopers in Colorado) has partnered with Wave Sense to sell a cheap meter (most meters are cheap anyway); the test strips are $34 for 100. I test a little more now.

Not a startup type disruption. The pharmacist told me Kroger just wanted to help out.
Honestly - punch cards are brill and don't use any of that new fangled electric stuff.
The point is that the Internet allows us to search for freakishly unlikely events. The only valid way to decide whether those events are acceptable is by comparing them to events we have already decided ARE acceptable. We have decided that it's acceptable for a few dozen American adolescents to be raped each week. Increasing that rate by at most a few percent is not a cause for panic, nor a reason to put them all under communications house arrest.

"... otherwise wouldn't have had access to."

If they are spending their energy on Internet meetings, it is certain that they will have less energy to spend on in-person acquaintenances. There is probably a very strong substitution going on. The teenager who is open to the molester next door is certainly even more open to the exciting mysterious molester from the next town.
Looks at Spolskys article "Hitting the high notes" which is based on Yale prof. Stanley Eistenstat's meticolously gathered data of time spent among students for programming assignments.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2B
I used to use sed, but more recently I've been using 'perl -pe' instead, which is a drop-in replacement for the basic 's//' use I typically make of sed. The main reason is that I've had some performance problems with sed, depending on which of the several sed variants is installed. Many of them seem to have small fixed buffers that really limit throughput when processing large (multi-gigabyte) files, and the performance ends up being really unpredictable, while Perl's regex engine is fairly good and similar across platforms. (Also, I'm trying to avoid having to maintain both POSIX-style and PCRE-style regex syntax in different scripts, but that may be a matter of preference.)
Generic gTLDs should remain free for all to use. Of course, this makes it hard for some companies whose names are generic but to me app.apple is easy enough to remember. Amazon.books? Perfect. Google.books? Works well, too. From a user/customer point of view, making generic gTLDs non-purchasable makes perfect sense.
> 1) BitForce SC Jalapeno: a USB powered coffee warmer providing 3.5 GH/s, priced at under $149

/not sure if serious
I withdraw my position as apparently in error.

Thank you for the exceptionally clear counterpoint.
Methamphetamine is still illegal. That is why the cartels still traffic in it. There is no legitimate corporation to supply it and there won't be unless it's legal.

Alcohol sales are in the billions, why aren't the cartels making money from that? Because legitimate corporations are there to supply it already. (You can also produce your own alcohol at home, but most people don't.)
OK, I see your point. But I doubt browsers will support this by default...
I can't believe every single one of these people is using a Mac...
This is a great way to get all of that boilerplate app code out of the way from the start.

However, I recommend taking a look at RailsApps Composer for deeper customization.

https://github.com/RailsApps/rails_apps_composer

It's a snap to use their DSL to write scripts that generate rails templates like this:

https://github.com/wnadeau/rails-application-templates

Using their composer, I wrote my own "Mailchimp" recipe for bootstrapping a Mailchimp integrated app, including twitter bootstap (customized with Mailchimp colors the general taste of their brand), backbonejs, oauth sign-in all from the start.

Not to rain on any parade, this certainly looks good (and I did actually pull down the code and take a peak).

If you like doing this kind of thing, I think you'll be really pleased with something like RailsAppsComposer.
GOOGLE is linking to Saygent's website...

so Saygent is going to sue google???
Ask HN: Developing and selling apps on a student visa
Hi guys,

I have been considering pursuing an MS in the USA. I was wondering if it is legal to develop and sell smartphone apps (iOS/Android) while being in the US on a student visa. Google searches on the subject seems to turn up opinions on both sides of the table, so I hope someone here can help me out.

Thanks
There's also كوم which is 'com' in Arabic.

I'm not sure how the gTLD are supposed to work technically, but it seems to me that VeriSign made a mistake when registering the Hebrew '.com': Their version uses the Holam diacritic (the dot over the middle letter), which is not used in every-day Hebrew (it's mostly used to teach reading and to differentiate between different words with the same spelling, when such a thing might cause confusion). In any case, most computer users in Israel don't even know how to add diacritic marks, so I don't see anyone typing such an address in their browser.
This is awesome. I'd also love to see a Ogg Vorbis decoder - the Web Audio API is coming to Safari (both Mac and iOS), and it only plays the patent-encumbered AAC normally, without support for Vorbis. So that would fix Safari leaving only IE without support. Also, it might pressure browser makers to add native support for Vorbis - if their browser plays the files anyway, just slower than other browsers, why not move support in to the browser?
New PowerVR SGX reverse engineering project
I honestly don't know the best way to measure popularity, but I'd love to hear a good way to do so

If it can be used in a lot of places. Currently, it can't.
Exactly, I actually have 1680x1050 on top and a higher than full 1080p on the bottom. If you try this, go to the monoprice site and look at the vertical stands they have, they are exactly the same as the costly option HP sells but sold at a fraction under their brand. Flawless really, I have had this setup for 3/4 years now and the neck weird pain never came back. Cheers.
Not sure at all. We are still looking for a silver bullet which may be the wrong path. Pushing the analogy a bit further, if software had behaved like hardware we would have had a constant stream of small improvements over time. If this had happenned C (or Fortran for that matter)would have morphed into a "modern" language (whatever that means).
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What won't be good for years is the battery...
I love ed. A long time ago when I was mastering it, I made an ed cheat sheet. Here it is the article about it:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ed-unix-text-editor-cheat-sheet...

And here is the cheat sheet itself:

pdf: http://www.catonmat.net/download/ed.text.editor.cheat.sheet....

txt: http://www.catonmat.net/download/ed.unix.text.editor.cheat.s...

doc: http://www.catonmat.net/download/ed.text.editor.cheat.sheet....
The reader used in this video an older model. See http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/26/square-adds-encryption-to-...
How I hack: http://i.imgur.com/uh7PV.jpg
Thanks for all tips, i already changed to rails 3.2.x and i'm studying a better way to implement this template without the entire rails structure !
Changed it ! its now at 3.2.x