skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key point here is that the police can lie to you. They can tell you they have evidence that you did it, they can tell you that your buddy is blaming you, they can answer your phone while they're in your house and pretend they're you, and so on. The police are not obligated under any kind of ethical rule to tell you the truth. Deception is fine.

Of course, if you like to a federal agent, it's a felony. That includes everybody from tax collectors to folks from the Farm Bureau. If you lie to state or local policemen, they can use that against you as evidence that you were trying to be evasive. This is true even if you accidentally omit something or just get confused. It's all free ammo for them to use.

This is why the only thing to do when questioned by the police is shut up and ask for a lawyer. Even if you are innocent and have nothing to hide[1]

[1] Admittedly this is very difficult to do in situations where you are completely innocent and a life is on the line, for example if the cops are looking for a missing person. Personally I try to help all I can. But from what I understand you are gambling here that the police will intuitively grok you as a "good guy". If their perceptions change, even in error, informally cooperating is a fool's game and you could get screwed royally.
I don't understand this at all. How did the 4 year development cycle of Fez get funded, if not out of Microsoft's pockets? I don't think Fish & Co. were bootstrapping it. If anyone has insight into Polytron's financial situation, I'd be interested to hear it.
You're missing the point. I'd argue initiatives like these should have the aim of educating as many people as possible: things like a 'cat signal' may undermine that effort.
What's the purpose of leaving the browser open for several days?
You certainly get notified when AIO O_DIRECT writes complete, so it is possible to benchmark AIO. For example, using fio.
Interesting... and somewhat worrisome for Dropbox.
As a dev I moved to chrome for all the reasons everyone else did. Now I'm seeing chrome renderer chewing all my ram across multiple processes, and actually have had it crash a number of times. Google, don't think I won't switch again, because I will.
Sounds like a cargo cult: always X, don't ever think of anything else.
I love Inconsolata, except for one small thing: the curly quotation marks.

If you have that same quibble, good news: Inconsolata-dz[1]. Inconsolata with straight quotes.

[1]: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...
Ask HN: Is there any relation between number of users and ad revenue?
Just to understand more of an app revenues.
Say, a simple mobile utility app or game is used by certain number of users. How would that be related to the revenue from that app. I am not looking for any social side of the app to generate more revenue.
I am only looking for ads that display on the app while users are interacting with the app. Can we guess something like if the app has 100K users, it will have revenues like 100bucks per month? I know this is a very dumb calculation, but want to know the criteria that derives ad revenue. Here are couple of things pop out from me.
Is it the number of users?
Is it the amount of time users interact with your app?
Is it the frequency of users that come back to app in a day?
Any others?

If so, how much weightage can be given to each of these?
> 8. Agencies - This ranges from people who want to build your product to those who want to file your R&D tax credits. You can spend a lot of time talking to agencies, as there are a LOT of them around. Some are genuinely useful partners. You’ll often have speakers at Hacker News London espousing the benefits of using an agency that worked wonders and had aligned incentives. And that is the key, make sure your incentives and those of people you work with are aligned. Bonus structures do not work. If people fail, there’s got to be pain. There will be for you, after all, if your startup fails.

Well, I hope GrantTree falls into the "genuinely useful partners" category! I'm not a fan of development agencies for startups, but for tax and grants getting a specialist firm involved makes sense, imho.

Not sure about the title, btw... are those really ways startups get screwed, or just aspects of running a startup?
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For old style senators I am talking about basically any person over 35 that has no idea what reddit/ twitter/ cat facts are and who will find that ridiculous. Yes Senators and representatives are supposed to work for you, but it's like for everything they have to take you seriously. We belong to the Z generation but in order to talk to other generations we have to use common references and avoid cats or internet memes or super hero folklore for what it matters. Serious business in two words.

OK, I don't disagree with the general sentiment of what you're saying... but I think you overstate the extent to which you can generalize the youthfulness of the audience here, and/or the extent to which the Internet is only know nto the young. As a 39 year old "Gen X"er, I'm aware of plenty of people my age who know and use Reddit, Twitter, etc. Plenty of people roughly my age were in college in the 90's when the Internet was first becoming widely available, and are 'net savvy.
"Buffoon"

Disclaimer: I work in the same building as Steve Ballmer.
He's right about some of those but others are just ridiculous. Sure, being home with your family or socializing with other people at an event might not contribute much to your startup, but you need to relax sometimes. It's dangerous to confuse that with work but if you don't want to burn out, it's also dangerous to work all the time without any break.
Windows instruction set support, by version/release
victork2 has a very good point. There is a massive disconnect between the online nerd world and the offline non-nerd world.

As a marketing strategy - and let me be clear, this is a marketing & people problem, not a technical one - you need to be able to reach the "Joe the Plumber" types. Someone who checks his facebook & email on the weekends, possibly forwarding glurge. Someone who does not own a smartphone, because they are confusing. Someone who will not get troll culture, memes and lulz, seeing them as juvenile foolery.

Put another way: a campaign like this needs to drive on many fronts, including the internet culture drive, the corporate drive, and the blue-collar drive.
References are severed. There's no way to stop it.

You'd have to copy out the data you want.
12 Lessons From Lean Startup Machine
Anti phone-spam company exposes 400+ email addresses to non-spam companies
Interesting that this comes from URL techupdates.com, not zdnet.com. Same article:

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-readies-wedge-mouse-wedge-mob...

Whois techupdates.com:
<WhoisRecord>
<createdDate>14 Jan 2000 02:08:00</createdDate>
<expiresDate>14 Jan 2014 02:08:00</expiresDate>
<registrant>
<name>BuyCheapDomains.com Gerlantin Avram ()</name>
<street1>160 Essex Ave.</street1>
<street2>Suite 518</street2>
<city>Richmond Hill</city>
<state>CA</state>
<postalCode>L4C 2B7</postalCode>
<country>CA</country>

Whois zdnet.com:
<WhoisRecord>
<createdDate>1995-04-27.</createdDate>
<updatedDate>2011-12-26.</updatedDate>
<expiresDate>2013-04-27.</expiresDate>
<registrant>
<name>Domain Admin</name>
<organization>CBS Interactive, Inc.</organization>
<street1>235 Second Street</street1>
<city>San Francisco</city>
<state>CA</state>
<postalCode>94105</postalCode>
<country>US</country>

Article links to The Verge:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/18/3166768/microsoft-wedge-mo...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/18/3167857/microsoft-wedge-to...
But then again we're asking a lot of people in a lot of jobs to fuck up their bodies in order to make a living. Think about jobs involving large amounts of manual labor. However, even hackers have job hazards like repetitive strain injury. At the end of the day, being a professional athlete is just a job.
I think we basically agree, it's very easy to miss high calorie foods that can totally throw your calculations out.

And you shouldn't use a slow metabolism as an excuse for accepting a certain state, maybe that's easy for you and me to say as we both seem to be lucky enough to be healthy.

But since you can alter your metabolism it can be a useful tool as part of weight loss. Do weights, increase muscle mass, increase metabolism, lose weight. In terms of time spent weights are very effective as well - 3-5 workouts of 45mins per week is plenty.
> However, if they attempt to entrap another person by faking emails, they run into the classic entrapment defense.

So they can do it with a cell phone (in the article), but not an email?
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UK startups all get medical insurance for free. It's called the NHS, and yes, it rocks. Not having to worry about that is definitely a plus while running a startup.
But advertising in the traditional way isn't blatant manipulation of the mob? Sorry, this doesn't pass the laugh test.
Agreed, that is what it looks like.
What did you think it was selling?
"has Apple really been more litigious with their patent portfolio than Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and Google"

There's no question that Apple has been more litigious than Google. Google stands pretty much alone these days as one of the tech giants who hasn't been an asshole when it comes to abusing the patent system.

Example: Hadoop is an open source implementation of Google's MapReduce and GFS papers, both technologies are patented by Google and were huge competitive advantages for them in their main business. Did Google go around suing people using Hadoop? No, they granted Apache a liberal blanket patent license to make sure anyone who used Hadoop would be secure in knowing they weren't going to be sued for it.

Up until fairly recently Microsoft was also pretty good with patents but lately they've become schizophrenic (some groups in the company have been doing good things to calm fears of patent suits stemming from Mono, some groups have been shaking down Android licensees for patent fees).

IBM has a long history of patent abuse. Oracle too (though not to the scale of IBM in their prime).
Microsoft Completes Its $1.2B Yammer Acquisition
In "Indie Game: The Movie" he mentions that their initial funding came (partly?) from a grant from the Canadian government, to promote creative development etc. What happened after that ran out I don't know.
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> Monopolies are not inherently bad.

Yes they are. They are bad because they are a massive risk center to their customers. For a small industry this is just kind of annoying, but for a massive one it can have a detrimental effect on the entire economy and not having massive single points of failure in your economy should be (and sometimes is) considered a matter of national security.
That's a cool blog post, and kudos to the Mozilla people, but I have to wonder about the mindset of the user whose stuck with Firefox even as his setup was unusable to the point of needing to install a restart button add-on. I mean, I know from being habituated to a given routine, but that seems particularly self defeating behaviour, especially considering that decent alternatives to Firefox exist?
That's what they do.

USPTO: "The mission of the patent business area is to help our customers get patents; its performance goal is to grant patents to inventors for their discoveries. "

http://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/ar/1998/a98r-2.jsp

I think it is significant that the mission is not "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by [whatever]" It is simply to "help our customers get patents."

To be fair, the 2011 annual report says the mission is:
"Fostering innovation, competitiveness and economic growth, domestically and abroad to deliver high quality and timely examination of patent and trademark applications, guiding domestic and international intellectual property policy, and delivering intellectual property information and education worldwide, with a highly skilled, diverse workforce."
http://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/ar/2011/mda_01.html
New Apple Patent Will Mean More Patent Infringement Suits
London 2012: The First Social Media Olympics?
How do you propose to make web games? Flash? Read Knuth and then use Flash? Abandon web games because it's too messy for you? Please be more specific about what you propose instead.
The parent post is a perfect example: An informative comment that nearly no one will read because I posted it too late to catch the organic influx of readers, and I didn't invest in other means of distributing it to an audience.
Flickr vs. Google+ Last One Year
It may not be even close to unbreakable or torture-free as the author implies, but this encryption system (or similar approaches) could work to tighten some classic security flaws with passwords.

For instance, this could prevent employees of a large corporations from writing down or sharing a password with a coworker, or even spelling out their password over the phone to a bogus "support engineer" -- although probably fingerprint/eye/face recognition systems are more practical and easy to implement than a "guitar hero" learning session. But then the OP method has an advantage over those: you can change your implicit-learned password easier than your face or fingerprint...
We Failed So You Don't Have To: Four Ways To Avoid A Lame Kickstarter Campaign
> What a load of shit. What happened to “great artists steal”? Great art must be stolen to inspire new, greater art.

You'd be totally cool with me stealing the side project you've poured heart and soul into for 5 years, to sell it to an overseas company that floods the market for 1/10 the price?
Start reading a physical encyclopedia from cover to cover.
Start reading things you don't understand to make you open-minded and tolerant and hopefully humble. (specialization is not for insects)
Start gardening, insects are found here. Only rarely downvote on HN, as that's the modus operandi of the Renaissance Man - positive choices and preferences, not caught up in condemnation.
I have a bunch of custom addons that I have written for my workflows - moving to other browsers is not an option because they arent as easily extensible as firefox.
The War on 'Free' Clicks: Think Nobody Clicks on Google Ads? Think Again
The only known recording of Sigmund Freud's voice
I think that would just be cult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
LINDSAY Software Represents The Future Of Medical Education
They're most likely referring to the spill and fires set by Iraq in 1991:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_oil_spill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires
Javascript MVC tutorial: Create a todo app using Stapes.js in less than 100 LOC
My thoughts ran to whether Google might want (in part) to ensure that credible competition exists/continues. There's been a lot of "monopoly" language and perhaps imminent regulation flying about.
But didn't the US government just change patent law to first-to-file?
I'm voting buried. No way Big Pharma is letting this one see the light of day.
The point you should take away from this benchmark is that a 3 year old Centos 5 kernel with no tuning, no filesystem tuning and default mdadm options did 100K IOPS or 1GByte/sec pretty much regardless of the benchmark options in use. It just needed enough concurrency to load up the disk. There are many other options on iozone for using different variants of posix IO and threading. I showed the basic options and the mmap option. So with careful tuning you could do IOPS more efficiently, but what I found was very accessible out-of-the-box performance.
The key consideration there is how many consulting hours will you need to figure out how to build up and tear down whatever Oracle/SAP/etc software that you need to do your financial calculations on the EC2 VM.

You may find that Fusion-IO is cheaper than $50 + 3 months of consulting time.
I'm glad to see that article gets it right with "The so-called “mascot of paedophilia” has become an internet meme and shorthand for 'Stop being creepy about kids.'" and not something inflammatory about it being a badge for pedophiles or something of that nature.
Entrapment is a hard defense though. The burden shifts to the defendant to show that he/she was not willing to commit the crime.

For example:

Cop: Hey, want to buy drugs?
Defendant: Sure!"

Not entrapment.

Contrariwise:

Cop: Hey want to buy drugs?
Defendant: No way!
Cop: Come on, you could make lots of money reselling it
Defendant: It's not worth it man
Cop: I know it's risky, but you could send your son to college!
Defendant: I guess... okay

Maybe entrapment
Chaque goutte d'eau est un raz de marée en dénie.
I'm curious who they'd tap for the job -- My money would be on someone high profile, but who that is would be nothing but speculation I suppose.
They would just threaten with torture unless you play the "passgame", just like they make you enter your password.
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>they complain about paying to be a platform exclusive.

This smells wrong. There's absolutely no benefit for the developer to release an exclusive game on a platform if the developer is paying the platform holder for the exclusive rights. The only way exclusivity benefits a developer is if the platform holder is paying them to stay exclusive.
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for example the mmap read test used
/opt/iozone/bin/iozone -w -s 2G -r 4k -i 2 -B -t 60 -F test0 test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 test11 test12 test13 test14 test15 test16 test17 test18 test19 test20 test21 test22 test23 test24 test25 test26 test27 test28 test29 test30 test31 test32 test33 test34 test35 test36 test37 test38 test39 test40 test41 test42 test43 test44 test45 test46 test47 test48 test49 test50 test51 test52 test53 test54 test55 test56 test57 test58 test59
Can you help me understand the association between this article and HN?
I guess it's productive to surf reddit every now and then
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If the cops have a warrant for your postal mail, then yes they can do that, even if they have no warrant involving those you are communicating with.
I think one advantage would be that they can force you to enter it… but only you. They can't get the password and kill you afterwards:)

Yeah, it's not described too well in the article but I think there are some users for this.
Higher Highs & Higher Lows S&P 500
Markets are higher once again as the intermediate term pattern of higher highs and higher lows remain intact. If we are to break key support levels then it would be time to become defensive, but not bearish as the daily charts are also constructive. Although I believe that low risk entries and strong risk management are more important than price targets I have included a few below.
Asus EeePad
Any idea on how this league will be governed? Does each participant vote on what should become actionable? Will it's governance be by elective representation?
IBM prepping augmented-reality app for retailers
People doing online marketing should be familiar with online memes.
I do this too. The only problem I have is that, for my larger sensitive folders, any small change will result in Dropbox having to sync the whole (often multiple gig) volume. Which is only really annoying if you're trying to access these things through a slow connection.
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User-centric vs. Enterprise Products or a Small Utopia
I agree. Also, it's possible that his work will actually directly lead to a test for pancreatic cancer, though that would take more work to establish, obviously.
You can send samples off for testing to find out what's actually present, at least in the UK.
I think he said he uses Backblaze (on a different episode), but don't quote me. It's either that or CrashPlan.
Are these people aware of the Rumplestiltskin strategy? dropbox@, linkedin@ both fit that, but what about the other addresses? Unless your e-mail address resembles what's currently considered a Strong password, you're going to get spam.
At the end of the day that's why I'm perfectly happy with Greenpeace/etc doing their battling from the web. They get the ego rub they desperately desire and no fingers are brought close to dangerous machinery.
Pre-Internet Companies Rebranded as Modern-Day Start-Ups
> Multi-touch is big though and I at least have no recollection of prior art.

For anyone that doubts this, checkout the iPhone announcement keynote one more time. It's really worth watching again.

The first time Steve slides to unlock, and the first time he "flicks" to scroll with rubber-banding the crowd is floored.

It's worth watching for the "stylus" gag alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uW-E496FXg
> If you use a lot of tabs and don't close your browser for long periods of time Chrome is vastly superior to Firefox (and all other browsers) in terms of memory use and stability.

That has been the opposite of my experiences, I am sitting on 100 tabs with 800MB of memory used in firefox. Sometimes I have 200+ with 1.5 GB of ram used.

Actually, just looking at chrome://memory-redirect/ in Chrome, it compares firefox's and chrome's memory usage.
Chromium 1,394,260k 877,088k (about 40 tabs)
Firefox 889,576k 62,692k (about 100 tabs).

Now this is on Linux, but I haven't used Firefox on windows recently to compare properly. One good explanation for all this is that the tab-per-process model means that you have a memory overhead for each process, so you naturally have more memory usage per tab.
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This cat league stuff is marketing for the network itself, the actual message that will be sent over the network will depend on the specific issue being addressed and will probably be tailored for a more mainstream audience.
Am I correct in detecting sarcasm? It's ironic that the journalist writing about someone's lack of understanding is himself lacking understanding on the very same subject.

Anyway, the article gets more than one thing wrong, and makes me think this is the Daily News of Australia.
They contacted people to see if they "needed more" ? So the cops initiated it?

Can someone (qualified) describe how that is not entrapment?
I included Inconsolata in my programmatic comparison of programming fonts:

http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...

Consolas vs. Inconsolata: http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...

Droid Sans Mono vs. Inconsolata: http://1overn.com/2011/01/31/iterating-on-font-pair-comparis...
The iPhone bashing was just pathetic, I remember watching the presentation and thinking that it was going to change everything and then Ballmer responded by talking like a delirious apple-hater and mocking the price.

It is hard to innovate if you are always one step behind and need to shoehorn everything into Windows and Office.
The VERY SAME happens even when lawyers are involved. If you're naive, paying a lawyer doesn't protect you from that. But ASKING people who have been there and done this (and made mistakes) DOES protect. Far moreso than a lawyer who is just regurgitating template documents.

$15k?? Only in the US. It costs £15 to incorporate a company in the UK... maybe a little more if you want 'extras'.

You are RIGHT about making sure the incorporation is done properly, but that is not the same as hiring a lawyer to do it.