skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll need to find a currency exchange, open an account, and buy BTC with your 10 USD. It's the same thing you'd need to do if you wanted to buy yen or euros.

http://www.mtgox.com is one such exchange.
Here we go again.

Firstly, Apple didn't invent IP ownership, pioneer it or is the leader of it by any stretch. That award most likely goes to IBM.

Secondly, it is a myth that Microsoft's 'investment' in Apple is what it kept it alive. That money was in effect a settlement with Apple to drop the UI lawsuits. What kept Apple alive was the iMac.
And it's still unavailable on Windows Phone...
Some time ago I wrote a system to collect performace statistics for my company's internal use (we have 100+ application servers - 4-6core 2xcpu hardware servers - and 1 server running the statistics). And then we released it as open-source.
Our system shows not only by-service- or by-source-script- statistics, but also which services are used by a particular script.
Drawback: all information is in russian.

pics: http://imgur.com/a/idFF6
https://github.com/mambaru/btp-daemon - and google-translated text https://gist.github.com/3139890

Anyone interested? Is it worth to translate it to english?
Basically 3/4 of smartphone patents are Computer Function X, This Time On a Phone!1
Example of being done before ?
It's mentioned some editing was done to make the wait seem shorter.
Yes, it has the signature of a submarine patent, one of those that keeps getting amended and amended based on what is going on in the industry, only goes to 'issue' when the owner needs it to put the smack down on someone.

I wonder though if it will work against Apple. Reading through it, the claims seem to reflect a lot of what folks 'skilled in the art' might equally have done. Since it will no doubt be brought to the frontlines right away and put into the battle we should be able to see how well it holds up.
That title is a bit misleading.. On some platforms you can already use Firefox to do >2GB uploads, but there is still a 4GB limit..

If anyone wants to help beta-test a HTML5 uploader that calls archive.org's S3-like endpoint under the hood (no IE or Opera support yet, though Opera 12 is now working..): http://archive.org/upload/
Enough prior art ..... like ?

Provide an example of disappearing scrollbars on a touchscreen device prior to the iPhone.
If it matters that your cron jobs not run simultaneously, you need to use a mechanism that actually ensures that. This is not getting "more complicate," this is the absolute basics of effective concurrency. Your example will fail if two jobs perform that test simultaneously, because neither will have created the file when the check is made. Not to mention the chaos that will ensue when your system shuts down or crashes while one or more jobs are in progress...
It is worth pointing out that designing deliberately low-yield nuclear weapons, like the one used in this test, requires significantly more technical know-how than a higher-yielding basic design.
Yup. That's what I was referring to!
> 4 months

If you're talking about the `134 patent, it was in the USPTO's Track One program for expedited processing. Basically you pay a fee and get a much quicker examination.
Smalltalk 80.

http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html
> My understanding is that patents are pretty much awarded without any kind of real validation step and it's up to future litigation to decide what's valid and what isn't.

Your understanding is correct. This doesn't mean squat. It just means they filed their application correctly and it passed the most minimal levels required. If this stands up in court, that would be a different and truly unfortunate matter.
You can edit your own gists; not sure about others.
Read the claims. They're not anything like Palm's devices.
HOPE 9: Why Browser Cryptography Is Bad & How We Can Make It Great (Video)
What can I do to help stop this madness? Enough is enough.
You're awesome. I watched the full vid of that talk a month ago or so and it really hammered home what matters.

What we do as developers matters. Our time on this world is short enough already. What reason is there to spend years of our lives to further the aims of a company that doesn't share our goals and hopes, and in the end may be acting completely opposite to what we believe is fair and honest competition? What a waste...

Looking forward to seeing more and more of the OpenSolaris/SmartOS/Lumiere innovation spread to the rest of the community now that Oracle has caused everyone to jump ship. In some really cool technical ways SmartOS is really advanced, but the usability definitely needs work... things should improve as more people start hammering on it. Would be good to see more cooperation/coordination between SmartOS & Linux distros.
If you have the prior art to "demolish this easily", why don't you push it into reexam? Is it because you actually don't have the prior art?

... that's what I thought.
Exactly. Most VC funds don't bring in huge returns, but VCs still get their millions from those 2%.
Mobify.js - Remix Your Site for Mobile Devices
I was referring to capabilities of github.
I might be guilty of something else that is relevant but not previously known?
Why would you pre-target them at Sacramento?
You invest your $10 in these shares of the moon I'm selling. When their value increases, you can buy many bitcoins.
Well done Oracle!
I forced myself to watch about four episodes of Breaking Bad on the advice of so many raving reviews, but I just couldn't get into it. Though I don't enjoy watching much TV to begin with, so I'm probably not the best data point.
Even bacteria adapt to their diet, so I'd guess that at most his genes got him to want two dozen eggs a day. (I'm not a doctor or a biologist.)
Indeed, and the claims in particular.
Nobody thinks of Clinton as committing us to the kind of war which drains our resources. Everyone thinks of Bush that way. Remember Bosnia? That was Clinton style.
McDonald's says they were polite to Steve Mann
You could always just hard-code the username/password into the applet and recompile. That shouldn't be too hard...

Or, if you control the FTP server, you could dynamically add and remove random virtual users/passwords to the FTP server (hopefully virtual users). Then when the client javascript gets the username/password, it could only be used once.
Researchers Say They Took Down World's Third-Largest Botnet
Is a wildly fluctuating valuation supposed to be a good thing for a currency?
thanks WiseWeasel, EasyNip is very close to easypin. are you also developing apps?
I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. Yeah there are a few wrinkles but it's a great start. I can see myself using this. People seem upset that it isn't 100% fully what they would expect. Personally I think releasing it and using customer feedback to help improve it is the only really viable way to develop a product that your user base will be happy with. An impressive tool that I'll be keeping an eye on.
Another factor is that the cost/reward for mining will double (assuming same hashing power for the network) in the mid future. Quoting http://bitcoinx.com/profit/ "When the block count will hit ~200000 some time around December 2012 the generation reward will go down to 25BTC. This might partly be compensated by falling difficulty, raising prices, higher transfer fees, etc."
A Unified Interface for Social APIs with Singly
I don't think you can buy those anymore, unless you go for an old one. The last Dell with 16:10 screen was M6500, I believe. Now the best you can hope for is 1920x1080.
Generally cron will launch two jobs in that time period. However you make a good point. If you need that level of concurrency protection cron isn't the right solution.
That article is talking about focus follows mouse.

Which I fail to see how is applicable for a touchscreen device which has no concept of focus.
I just noticed Steve Mann looks a lot like the Hamburgler.

Maybe this was all just a big misunderstanding.
What's your criticism exactly? What kind of content would you personally like to see more of?
Oh dear, you're not a parent are you.
The reason adults lie is because we want our kids to experience the life we dream of, not necessarily the one we have. Or at least, the best bits of what we have, without the pitfalls that we know are there, drugs, debt, etc.
We understand some of the things we did and do wrong, and what we do right, and we want to give them the tools to avoid making stupid mistakes and focus on things that will bring them success.
Sometimes that means being the boogeyman in order to force them to study or whatever, sometimes makes us appear naive by painting an idyll. But we do it for our kids, not for ourselves. You'll understand that when you have kids.
But, your advice to "question everything" and "explore" is absolutely right. I would temper it with "some things just have to be done, and done the hard way. Grit your teeth, get it done, feel good about getting it done, and move to the next thing".
> also pre-targetted at Sacramento… "Just in case"

I'm at bit of a loss. Just in case what? Sacramento declares secession? Berkeley radicals march on the capitol? Taken over by Russians? Austrians?
thanks sadow, sounds very interesting. i l try it
So they get a free pass because they're just exploiting a broken system?

Not to mention that there are plenty of tech giants out there who have not been whalin' on every competitor that moves with their tech patents.

Some companies seem to be staying true to the "defensive only" patent policy, Apple is one of the few that are weaponizing theirs to large degree.
I agree with most of it. Plenty of people have gotten "rich" working for someone else. That's undoubtedly true.

Not everyone has the ability, work ethic, brilliance, and 50 other things required to be an entrepreneur and/or and innovator, let alone a leader. Most of the time, people are just lazy and want the easy way out. So they empower themselves with bullshit reads like "start a company and be rich" when they have zero drive in the first place. Most people that are "rich" never became rich because they wanted money money money - they believed in something, worked day in and day out to accomplish when everyone else told them they're crazy. But they kept at it, worked hard, sacrificed, and money was a result of this.
Given the title I was expecting the article to provide a solution.

From personal experience, the bigger the file, the more likely you will experience a connection cut in the middle of the upload. That is why the most important thing it to support resumable uploads.

At the moment there is no clear consensus on how to handle that. Amazon S3 has one protocol, Google uses two revisions of a different protocol, one on YouTube[2], another on Google Cloud Storage[3]. Both work by first creating a session that you refer to when uploading the chunks. There is also the Nginx upload module[4] that delegates the session ID to the client for some reason.

And there is no browser client available to my knowledge.

That's all I know folks

[1]: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/mpUplo...
[2]: https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_p...
[3]: https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/developer-guide
[4]: http://www.grid.net.ru/nginx/resumable_uploads.en.html
In a world where everything ill-gotten is 'stolen' we end up with this:

steal money from confused consumers

If a con-artist convinces you to give him/her your money in return for something that is a lie, it's called fraud.

If a con-artist gets close to you to learn the combination to your bank vault, and then absconds with your cash, it's called stealing.

Sometimes it seems like we're watching the language as it spirals towards Newspeak.
If you were an online gambling company why WOULDN'T you use bitcoin? As long as you're not running a money exchange like mtgox in tandem, doesn't it isolate you much better from legal problems?
Will the stock apps for webOS be updated to use Enyo 2.0?
Sigh. As if Apple needed any more reasons to sue more people. "Portable Electronic Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Displaying Electronic Lists and Documents" seems like the patent office will grant patents on anything these days. Just waiting for Apple to file patents on breathing and the beat of a human heart now, this is ridiculous.
No, Kauffman simply said returns were lower for big funds and generally higher for small funds. But it doesn't really matter - most funds actually pay management fees back to LPs before they're allowed to generate carried interest.

For example, if a fund earns $10M in management fees, it would pay back that $10M from the first returns generated by the fund. Then, only after getting "breaking even," would the partners earn carried interest. If the fund doesn't hit that watermark, it loses money for investors.

There are exceptions, though most of the industry has moved this way.

For those who haven't read the report, it's here:
http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/vc-enemy-is-us-report....

Personally, I don't put much weight into it. It's conclusions are heavily skewed by the decade after 2000, which destroyed returns for most investing asset classes. (Despite the report's claims that it covers "20 years" of funds, most charts and examples, esp about mega funds, are recent).
curl's interface is a PITA for testing JSON APIs. HTTPie's isn't:

http POST http://localhost:3000/person/create name="James"

The "for humans" bit signifies the author has taken care to simplify the interface for practical use, rather than for shell scripting.
Enyo is such an easy and amazing framework!
I'm pretty sure I remember reading in the Steve Jobs Biography that Steve admitted Apple wouldn't survive without Microsofts investment. At the same time, Bill seemed to agree that Microsoft would have been in quite some trouble if the UI lawsuits went through. So while the investment was indeed a settlement of sorts, Apple may not have survived to tell the tale without Microsoft's cash infusion.
AT&T posts 1963 film showcasing computer-generated graphics
One of the earliest CGI films
Yep. MER is Mars Exploration Rover.
> It's the same thing you'd need to do if you wanted to buy yen or euros

No, it's not. I can go to pretty much any local bank and buy euros.
It's interesting that this is generally not frowned upon from the hacker community, even though only supporting Webkit is clearly the same fragmentation issue we've all been upset about for so many years.

I imagine if it was "Sorry, we only support IE9" you'd get a different reaction.
How is this any different than any other embedded Linux device? Legitimately curious. The thing that sticks out about the RPi to me is the GPU. I suppose it has GPIO but doesn't every other hobby device like this sport them?
The worst part about this is people are actually celebrating this as a victory for Apple and a vindication of sorts.

We have to realize that every time some patent is awarded, someone has just robbed the collective human knowledge pool, some patent office has just made money off selling something it doesn't own by taking it away from anyone else who could have come up with it now, or in the future.

Kickstarter's model is the way to go. An idea is only worth so much, you ask what you want to be paid and make it if it matches your price. But given how deeply ingrained the inflated value of an idea and the repeatability of charging for it is in our being, a lot of us think 'But, but he deserves the patent! I mean he was the first one to think about such a complex system.'

How to have a sustainable business model you ask? Charge for your idea upfront and do your repeat business on manufacturing, maintenance, innovation and service. This model inherently tends to promote innovation and forces competition in terms of manufacturing, pushing for the improved and more efficient ways of doing anything. This is how humanity collectively progresses much faster than what we see right now.

Even the smartest people get stuck at the thought of software patents not making any sense but somehow non-software patents seeming fine. The problem is in the idea that someone can be arbitrarily given the right to something that someone else can come up with freely completely independently.
If we had one of the surplus Hubble-diameter Naval Reconnaissance Office mirrors orbiting Mars with a suitable camera, would we have better pictures than this?

And could one of those mirrors be mounted in the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft?
The prompt X-rays from the physics package heat up a lot of air very quickly. This expands, producing the supersonic shockwave front.

Then the fireball, being very hot and much less dense than the air around it, rises. Air is sucked towards ground zero, producing the backwash, and the characteristic mushroom cloud of any very large explosion.
Little known fact: most funds pay back management fees with initial investment returns. Partners earn carry after the fund breaks-even. You can't jump into VC and make millions without delivering returns.
Calling bitcoin a "currency" seems a bit off to me. I think of currency as the thing you use to buy a gallon of milk or buy a movie ticket. It's for facilitating day-to-day transactions. But nobody (or almost nobody) is using bitcoins to buy groceries or fill up their car with gas.

Bitcoins are more like stocks in my opinion. People don't use stocks to buy day to day items either. They're investments, some riskier than others. And that risk, which would be catastrophic to a currency such as the US dollar, is much more easy to tolerate if it's just another non-currency investment vehicle that you can choose to participate in or not.
The fullscreen smartphone was a new category of theirs, wasn't it?

The cynic in me would also say that mp3 players that don't have a radio were probably also pioneered by them :)
Ceding your opinions to those who "know" requires first identifying them as such. So yeah, it may sound smart to the layman, but that was just a bunch of pointless sophistry and FUD. Moving on...
I really really wonder what's driving this. Some say it is money flocking to safety from the Euro crisis. I'm not convinced. I'm guessing it's more likely the increased media attention on bitcoin recently attracting speculators.
Not at all. It's completely feasible to perform mutual exclusion in a cron script, just as it's completely feasible to make the same error you did in C. It's got next to nothing to do with the environment.
Of course it has concept of focus. 0-length focus.
It's not 'not guilty' it's 'not /found/ guilty'. Maybe I /am/ guilty.

(Just making a point. I am getting a kick out of reading this thread. I own >15 apple devices and every one of them has duct tape over the apple logo because I think their legal b.s. is just that. B.S. In 2000 I was cool for being the Apple guy. Now I'm ashamed of it. I just honestly still believe they make superior products. Show me a non Apple laptop that I can pick up and will feel as solid and sleek as my 2011 MacBook Pro all the way down to the even weight distribution, that I can install Linux Mint on and have it Just Work an ill buy it tonight.)
$150 million is nothing for a company that was looking at billion dollar losses.
The reason this gets programmers upset is because they design shit like this on a weekly basis, I know I do. There is nothing "significant" about this, it just usually day-to-day stuff software dev. No room for a scroll bar? Hide it from view. The patent office is seriously out of touch with what is non-obvious.
Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th
It encourages race discrimination because it furthers the idea that race is a category that we should use to group and identify people. It has nothing to do with me personally.

They are, by their own name, discriminating based on race. Even if it is for a positive goal. The problem is that it reinforces race as a significant distinguishing category when it should not be. Many other categories are far more significant. Like income level. In general, a very poor black girl and very poor white girl will have much more in common than a very poor black girl and a very rich black girl.
It is very interesting how patent law is now entering the greater engineering popular culture with full force. While I hate to be an elitist, I must mention that patents tend to be complex documents and the full scope of the patent is usually very different than what a quick read by a non-expert suggests.

The scope of protection of patents is supposed to be described and defined very precisely. And unless one fully understands that scope of protection it is meaningless to say how important or crucial any particular patent is. In my experience, most journalists and bloggers do not show such understanding (with the exception of a couple of patent attorney bloggers).

I only gave this one a cursory look, but it does not seem to be that big of a deal. It seems like it would not be too difficult to engineer around it.
Actually, most of new laptops do not work out of the box with Ubuntu 12.04 - you need to manually compile and/or install a custom Linux kernel in order to avoid hanging, as it is documented here: http://partiallysanedeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/05/ivy-bridg... and here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2005305.

For some reason Canonical decided to sacrifice stability and focus on something most users don't think they need (Unity).
> i'd also point out that it was the 50's and they were probably all smokers....

So were millions of other people, none of whom were subjected to that level of ionizing radiation. It's relatively easy to control for factors like that.
"A couple of months"? You've clearly never worked with hardware engineers before.
I would imagine it also has something to do with the guy that has been paying people 7% interest per week to hold on to their bitcoins: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822
Didn't mean it in a bad way… I've worked in the information security sector and I feel your pain! ;)
Actually that second video looked mostly fake. Some of the footage was in "The Day After".
These huge jumps (and crashes) in bitcoin valuation are precisely why gambling sites can't use them as proxies for cash... there's just no guarantee of parity between what a dollar is worth and what a bitcoin is going to be worth tomorrow.

Some sites try this schtick from time to time using things like long distance minutes on calling cards, but even those seem to fail fairly quickly because as soon as there is a major price disruption in whatever proxy you're using, you get screwed hard.
Because your customers want local money. They don't understand bitcoin, etc.
> This one is just ridiculous and clearly does not have any kind of an inventive step.

How did you get through a 30k word patent in 30 minutes in order to determine that? That rate is two or three times faster than I can do something easy, like light fiction.
www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf

"In particular, when garbage collection has ﬁve times
as much memory as required, its runtime performance
matches or slightly exceeds that of explicit memory
management."

Yep. Like most problems in life, it's 'solved' if you have the money.
I have x230, and I have to use a custom kernel, as the standard Ubuntu 12.04 kernel (3.2.x) hangs all flavors (standard/Unity, xubuntu, lubuntu).
This idea of friendship is heavily influenced by a western consumeristic culture. Friendship is a transaction, only worth it if we are getting an equal or greater amount out of it. The irony is that when friendship is thought of in this way it ceases to be friendship. It's simply another commodity.

True friendship is based on a covenant relationship. I will be with you no matter what and therefore I am your best friend.
Here's a camera tracking a tank shell, done years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7FMki6dlKg