skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point about neighbors is moot.

i hate all of mine. But the hotels have nothing against them. so i will have to live with them. that's life.

If you could choose neighbors... the world would be very empty because everyone would be living alone.
From the blog post: "Now I’m wondering if I had continued to work on it, if I hadn’t neglected it could it actually be a useful successful, dare I say profitable project?"

I'd argue it's likely successful just for the mere fact that he _hasn't_ touched it in four years. Had he actually tried to monetize the project, he probably would have just gotten in the way and screwed something up. This gives evidence to the "simple is more" rule.
I've started on this. Want to mentor me?
Does anybody have a positive experience with publishing to the Windows app store that they'd like to share?
I fantasize about computers too. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see.
You Are Not So Smart not only features great content, but it's also written in a very readable and understandable style. He also links to multiple high quality sources for every article. His pace has slowed down now that he's finished his book, but the backlog is well worth reading.
Hah meant droid 3
I am not a programmer, just a normal computer user with above average knowledge compared to the bog standard users. I love this site because i learn something new every single day. Same with Hackaday. I find reading articles on things you know absolutely nothing about, makes them that much interesting. For instance, i love glossing over C or ASM code, but i couldn't understand it if it depended on my life; i know nothing about programming (i can make basic applications with Visual Basic, which is looked down upon on every forum i've read).
> Why is this bullshit platitude always a response to anyone complaining about a patent?

Because "the claims" define what the patent actually covers.

Note that the claims can't be read in isolation. The words in the claims get their meaning from the specification. For example, a claim could use the word "lawnmower" to refer to what you and I would call a banana by defining "lawnmower" appropriately.

Just looking at the claims is better than nothing, but is still basically useless.
Check out this hysterical video from Twitter
It would be really nice to see a bigger comparison. Between not only different version of PHP but also include in there Python in PyPy, Ruby , and some Java alternatives for good measure. It seems If I am sticking with PHP this might be nice, but if i need to do some re factoring to get it to work I want to know how it compares to the speedup I might see from re factoring to a different platform.
I'm not sure why they don't just pull the app. They admit that it's bringing them virtually no users and it's a frustrating experience. With only a 1.3% market share (1), what reasons can there be to bother with it?

(1) http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=32494
HN and all other web sites are there for whatever purposes their users wish to use it for, within the constraints of whatever actions are implemented on a site.

This is one of the things that infuriates me about StackOverflow and its army of article closing moderators. A real community will change its practices and perceptions over time according to the needs of the community. If you have a subset of people who decide what a site is for, forever and ever without change, then it's not a community, it's a cast. Or it's a system of castes.
This could be very useful. From what I've seen of most intellectuals' personal sites, they are generally not that interested in putting too much work into a website for their material, they just want it on the internet so that it can be referenced and read. If you can make a functional, good looking, and easy to update site like this, it would be of great benefit to everyone involved. Readers get easy access to material, and intellectuals get an easy place to put their work and self promote.
So my prodigious gut agreed strongly with you and I was all psyched up to write a snarky comment with Archive.org links to other, better-designed search engines --- because I remember simplicity being one of Google's hallmarks when they launched.

But no, it turns out, 'thaumaturgy is right. Go look at Lycos and Altavista. It's hard to make a concise and compelling argument for Google's design being worse than its competitors. This was what professional web designs looked like in 1998.
Ask HN: A Shared Memory In Process Database
I have been looking at Databases like LevelDB and Kyoto Cabinet looking for something that would give me an in process key-value store that could share memory with another process. That would allow multiple processes to use the same memory to access the data. I saw a ruby implementation on localmemcached but that used multiple instances of mmapped files. Does anyone know of a project like this ?
There is a lot of literalism among technical people. It goes with the territory.
They say it's the same problem they would have with the apple/andorid store.

Big corp doesn't have nice ways of changing shit, this isn't specific to M$.
I'm not sure your State analogy works. From what I can tell this is a private party agreement, which is essentially a contract. It has nothing to do with justice or laws of any sort.

You agreed that you wouldn't pirate content, when you signed up with your ISP. Your ISP has the right to terminate your service, and so this is just formalizing how that termination will take place with another party.

So what you're really saying is "Private Parties shouldn't be allowed to gradually phase in contractual agreements". I think we can all agree that regulating private contracts to this degree isn't something we want to see the US government engaged in.
I am more aware of when it's acceptable to wave my hands and when it's not. I find myself looking at my writing more critically. HN has been a conspicuous influence in that.
this building gets mentioned in a lot of management books and "where good ideas come from" to illustrate a good collaborative environment. it has been replicated by quite a few places with various degrees of success. its main function is that there are no permanent work places so that people are forced to collaborate. This has not always worked out well.

could it be that MIT happened to have a lot of smart people and they created good things while working in building 2.0, and they would have created just as many great things if they worked in another building?

maybe im just extra skeptical because im currently reading "Fooled by Randomness" :)
These trolls haven't been appeared from thin air. The same (giant) companies are behind them. See here for example: "Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed With Thousands Of Nortel Patents" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027246

(And don't think Facebook or Google are any better than Apple or MS. They just don't have enough patents.)
You want missionaries, not mercenaries - Vinod Khosla
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And now he's blocked me because he doesn't understand copyright law.

Is there a fan club? Do I get some sort of t-shirt?
It know it's one of those irrational "the things you can't say on TV are the things you can't say on TV" kind of situations, but sexual innuendo and financial software don't mesh.
I'm saying that "phasing in" punitive measures, by any authority figure, under any legal or moral basis, doesn't really sit well with the population subject to those measures.

Human nature makes everyone who gets punished in an early phase very irritated by the fact that others, not subject to the early phase, but to a later phase, do NOT get punished for the same actions.

No lawyering or contractual fine points or legalistic thinking necessary.
No, you don't have it right. First of all, I don't see how "rights" ever enter into it. How is it a right, in any sense of the word, to have hidden when you've read someone else's message? That's what this is about.

>and you also think it's ok to just embed your vision of the world as a framework

Just.. no. I never said that, or hinted at it. Stop reading motivations into my beliefs that do not exist.
Funny thing is that the ancient, discontinued Windows Mobile has 2.9% market share, more than twice of that of Windows Phone 7 Mobile Pocket edition, released October 2010 (21 months ago)!
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I don't understand why people are so quick to cast aspersions.

It's not "fishy". It's a huge undertaking. Regardless of how much they've built, there's no way the product is "already basically finished" (as if one could know that), it almost certainly will need work to accommodate the change in focus, and technology is not the hardest part of the challenge anyway.

The thought that went through my mind when I saw the number is that $500K is awfully low, given the scale of what he's talking about. But then I read more and it's clear that he proposes that number as a sort of idea validation. One can argue for or against that but you have no cause to impugn his honesty.

I don't fully get the idea yet; "API-oriented Twitter" only gets me so far. But this:

fired me up so much about this proposed service that I have had trouble sleeping

... I recognize and immediately sympathize with.
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I see an environment that values females sexually. Yes, there are plenty of instances where males are rude to females, but the reverse is true as well. Have you ever watched the way some females gun down males in a bar, even when they approach kindly? This is not sexism, it is sexuality. We are attracted to women, and in fact often give them special bias due to their sex (do women hold the door open for males? Who pays for dinner more often, males or females? Who buys the other person a drink? Who buys the wedding ring? Which sex is allowed to slap/punch the opposite sex? Who has to resort to saying "yes dear" more? Which sex gets let past the line in a club? Which sex apologizes more?). Just because there are isolated incidences of sexism does not mean that the US as a whole is generally sexist (I assure you, it is not - the male race cannot afford all the lawsuits).

If anything, the sexism is in favor of females, as no one would call it sexist if a female groped a man, invited them to a pillow fight party, etc.
It's always tragic when the profit motive gets in the way of making good products that people want to use. Like in the case of Apple and the way it has made it impossible for them to make great products. Oh wait.
I know, I thought it was a bit too much. They really can't see how some people might be offended?
Why are we assuming men wrote that particular piece of code? As one of the OPs comments points out, 'men are not the only gender who appreciate breasts.'
Are you sure he didn't block you because the avengers came out on May 4th?
T-shirts and common schwag excite more people than one might think. Ask designer(s) to to donate something beautiful.
So much for Balmer's "developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers...."
awesome thanks!

also, if anyone wants a nicer icon i made @mattrossi's dribble shot (http://dribbble.com/shots/530208-Google-Drive-FREE-PSD?list=...) into an .icns file you can easily replace: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8875810/google-drive-icon.icns
It may be less dense, but it takes up more space. Water expands when it freezes. Density isn't the issue, I'm not sure why you bring it up.
Only if you're Japanese. I don't see how I, as an American, am legally obligated to pay them in order to display that symbol on my website. And how would someone in Japan know whether the L Mark on my site is legit or not? Seems like a pretty big loophole.
http://www.rand.org
Yea, the SmartScreen filter is based on the reputation of the publisher, and the certificate is used to identify the publisher for this purpose.
"The Vengeful Public Licence" does have a ring to it, although "The Ghetto Public Licence" might be more apt.
The wording in question:

5. The copyright holder reserves the right to revoke this license on anyone who uses this copyrighted work at any time for any reason.

And his explanation from the README:

Lamson is licensed under the license in the https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson/blob/master/LICENSE file. It's a variant of the BSD license that is revokeable and makes contributor's rights clear up front.

It's a phenomenal idea. I'm gonna start buying stuff in revokeable cash.
NBC's Olympic coverage to offer all of London Games in real time

NBC Olympics will achieve a first, making every minute of every competition available live.

"NBC will deliver 5,535 hours overall through its various platforms...An estimated 3,500 hours of that coverage will be live-streamed on NBCOlympics.com. For the first time, every minute of every competition will be available in real time."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-tv-20120714...
A mullah, a scholar of Arabic Grammar, once fell into a filthy ditch and couldn't climb out.

He waited for a while until someone came by. The passerby extended his hand and said "Your hand. Give me!" The mullah angrily told him "Move along. You are not one of our people!"

Some more hours passed while the scholar stood knee deep in foul matter, until another man passed by. He said to him "Here my hand. Take!" Again, the scholar glared "Move along! You are not one of us!"

So this went on for few hours until, finally, the scholar's nephew happened to pass by and saw his uncle in that filthy ditch. He cried out "O dear uncle! Here, take my hand!". The scholar said, "Yes. You are one of us!" and reach[ed] out to his nephew.

But the nephew was weak and he too fell in the hole.

[As related by Mowlana Shamsud'din Tabrizi.]
I thought about the same thing (applications on OCR), the results on the eye chart are impressive. It's almost as if someone made a vector out of the enlarged image by hand.
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IANAL: My understanding is that even if he were to revoke the license, any copies you already made under it would remain your legal property, as they were made lawfully. It's the right to copy (naturally the author's exclusive right) the license is giving you. Revoking that right prevents you from making future copies, but would have no power to make you destroy the ones you already have.

Right?
The copyright holder reserves the right to revoke this license on anyone who uses this copyrighted work at any time for any reason.

Legalese for "a non-open source project that no-one should put any trust in."
The fix will probably end up being a drop of superglue.
i've seen some great software built in vb.net including a real time trading platforms capable of near high frequency execution speeds connected to 10 exchanges simultaneously.

i personally don't care for vb.net because of its notation, but i don't think it's THAT bad. you're making it sound like it was written in vb6
So, does that mean anything up to commit e78520b857384462b9eecdedfc0f8c2e57cdd00a is under the standard BSD license then?
I don't understand copyright law, either.

In your opinion, would it be legal for you to fork Lamson at a version before the revocation clause was put in the license, then distribute the source with that license?
Really depends on how you divide up the market. Mac users will pay a lot for perceived quality, and they will buy upgrades. I'd point you at Wil Shipley's arguments. It might be a lot easier to get $50 from a mac user, or it might be easier to get $5 from 10 windows users. They're just very different. Doing a half assed job on either side isn't going to win you any fans.

But, yeah, if half your money comes from windows, you should really focus on windows, The growth potential there is just staggering.
Apple also provides mail-in repairs.
Ah, fair enough. I didn't really go beyond the linked page for the MBP. The fine print seemed just fishy enough to warrant the notion that it didn't mean exactly what it implied.

Thanks for setting me right.
Yup! In order to form crystals, the water molecules actually settle a bit further from each other than when they're a liquid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Characteristics
this article wasn't that interesting, most of their problems came from them trying to publish from a country that MS didn't want or care about in their store, and when they tried to circumvent it, they ended up screwing themselves in even more.
Actually this "license" is completely nonsensical and in stark contradiction to the Github terms of service.

"Contributors agree that any contributions are owned by the copyright holder and that contributors have absolutely no rights to their contributions."

US Copyright law states that contributors ALWAYS have the copyright to their own work unless they explicitly transfer to another party.
Spelling "boobs" with numbers is a classic joke, acceptable enough that you'll even see it on American broadcast TV in prime time, where they have to cater to the most sensitive viewers. This indicates that anyone complaining about this is probably being ridiculously over sensitive.

What you won't see or hear on American prime time broadcast TV is the word "fuck", so maybe if they are really concerned about offending people, they should take a look at the couple dozen "fuck"s in the Linux source.

And what about the animal lovers that might be offended by the 200 or so "deadbeaf"s in the Linux kernel?
Starting a wiki? I know that wikis spring up for recently released video games pretty frequently, although I'm not sure if anything like that happens for non-video game content.
Apple can treat their developers like shit because they provide access to an enormous marketplace of users. If Microsoft thinks that they can operate the same way, the windows phone platform will be stillborn.
Nope. If he revokes, you lose the licence, and can't use lamson any more. It's how the GPL works, too.

See this tweet: http://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/223966065091284992
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Indeed. I've only met Kalvin and Jason, but really great, smart people (though, remember to always read the latter's blog with a very open and generous mind =) )
These Falkvinge posts irritate me because of their obvious political slant. Whether or not I agree with the slant is irrelevant - articles on this site are designed to reinforce an ideology, not to inform.

It's on the same level as Breitbart.com or the Daily Kos.

And if you're going to complain about how journalistic objectivity is impossible - I agree, but that doesn't mean objectivity isn't a valuable goal.
It's worded awkwardly, but I believe that a $50 donation is a prepayment for one year of service, so you're not being asked to pay twice.
Sometimes I think it's best for a developer to take a chance instead of playing it safe because it can bring a greater reward. They chose a platform they enjoyed and which they could get in on the ground floor. As they say, fortune favors the bold.

As an example, if The Omni Group decided to go to Windows instead of NeXTStep, there's a possibility that they would never be successful as they are now.
Sure, depending on what the license was previously. I'm pretty sure that's happened before (LibreOffice, maybe?).
Doesn't Ubuntu use dash by now?
Here's one http://www.fourbrosstudio.com/taptitude/post/2012/04/17/Tapt...
It has been GPLv3 before.

https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson/commit/d259a669728a92a386f...
Hi Thomas, just following up on this. After fixing the security issue, we revoked access for all of the potentially affected user accounts and emailed users individually to apprise them of the situation and the steps we took to address it.
too many false positives.

Now, an SD card with a certificate plus face recognition might be ok ;-)
Watch Ice Age 4
Screenplay of Watch Ice Age 4 is by Michael Berg and Jason Fuchs and Cinematography is by Renato Falcão as well as Mike Reiss. This motion picture is distributed by 20th Century Fox under Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation studio which is scheduled to be release in movie houses on June 27, 2012 in Europe and July 13, 2012 in U.S.A..
Who would get offended by that? It's not even close to offensive.
couldn't install: http://screencast.com/t/L9SQeTqQT
Except when you commit something that you don't own (such as the company you work for claim ownership), at which point all sorts of legal shenanigans commence.

This is why most large open source projects have a contributor agreement of some sort, which basically says "I own all of the copyright and patents for this thing, and you can have a free irrevocable licence to use it."
Could it be that the trouble with developing for a mobile OS lumped in the 'other' category is that it is not a major ecosystem?

iPhone and Android app stores are well-worn paths for hundreds of thousands of developers world wide - right or wrong?
I'd imagine the allure of getting in early, perhaps?
Lessons of Scale at Facebook [video]
Note the country list: "Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, United Arab Emirates"
I would recommend randomizing the initial condition for the images you are showing.

Right now you say 'items being referred now' but I refresh the page and it shows the same items sliding of the page again and again... Makes the activity on the site appear fake...
I agree. While the article got me interested, the video was disappointing. I expected Dalton to show me something, not just talk for three minutes. In the article, he writes "This isn’t vaporware." So where's the screencast?

Worse, he's not a very convincing speaker. The impatient demeanor, the failure to look directly at the camera, and the multiple stitched-together takes all suggest a lack of confidence. If you're not good at public speaking, fine, but admit that and pick a better way to present your pitch.

Ultimately, I'm left feeling like the idea is a good one, but doubting whether he is the right person to build it.
No, it's not offensive at all. But software can cast a net across seven billion people and there are plenty who would be upset at the idea of even the slightest innuendo. It's irrational, it's not fun, and it's kind of a sad commentary on humanity, but these are the rules of the game.
That is only the case because you have explicitly transferred those rights to your employer when you first start working for them and sign the paperwork.

That is completely legal. This isn't.
A lot of online licences work that way. If you buy something you have more recourse under law, I think, but IANAL, etc.
This was a joke. :(
Yeah, we wanted to do something cooler. Right now it takes a snapshot of the 200 most recent products and shows them to you, based on when you first hit the site. If you were to clear your cookies and refresh, you'd see something different. I agree randomizing them would go a long way to make it more believable if people do referesh
it could just be emphasizing edges. The very first picture of the baby had a rather overemphasized edge around his face, and yet it doesn't look like a vector.
"All eligible products" - in terms of product categories that EPEAT covers.

EPEAT registry does not yet include certifications for smartphones or tablets.
I was close to being offended before I realized that it was supposed to be an offhand joke. And then I was still a little offended, and I can see how some people really would not like that said about them.

edit: i'm trying to explain what about it offends me. I guess that it's making assumptions about my sexuality which is pretty personal, or making light of my sexuality which is pretty important.
There's even an iOS app called Liquid Scale that will do this right on your iPhone.

http://www.savoysoftware.com/liquidscale/

There may be others but I haven't run across them.