skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that a jury from nowhere can judge on a technical case between two companies scares me. This is not an individual person vs. big corp.
I don't get why every science article gets negative comments like this. Just because something doesn't have immediate practical applications doesn't mean its not interesting research.

Of course it's annoying when they are overly optimistic(either because of journalists trying to make the finding interesting, or researchers trying to get more funding), but that's to be expected.
If I had to guess, I'd say the extra geometry is useful because, 1: the dotted pattern is less likely to be confused with user writing/drawing, and 2: they have one specific notebook that they know works seamlessly with their current algorithms without a lot of extra field testing against different notebooks.

It most likely helped a good amount in bringing this feature to market as quickly as possible, and it'll be interesting what they do with the dotted pattern concept in the future (I see it either fading into an edge case of the software that becomes a technical debt for the remainder of its lifetime as the algorithms for handling the base case of any arbitrary notebook paper improve, or evolving into the base of an Evernote certification process for notebooks).

Personally, for me this feature is the tipping point between "yeah, Evernote seems kinda cool" and "I'm actually considering using Evernote (assuming the feature finds its way to Android)". The only improvement I would make that would really seal the deal would be the ability to fax all my notes to Evernote instead (seems like much less a pain in the ass for digitising volumes of notes than meticulously photographing each page), though I suppose that as long as they support manual uploading of images through their desktop site this would be fairly trivial to script myself.
I got one of the pre-release notebooks at the Evernote Conference yesterday. You can reset what tags the stickers correspond with in the desktop and mobile apps.
I think it was a joke. Regardless, the correct response is to say nothing.
You are clearly avoiding the point about a patent for rounded corners and rectangles, and instead relying on ad hominem attacks without providing any supporting evidence.

Your post is a blow to innovation.
If ever use Google Docs, there is a complete revision history of all changes made to the doc. Neutron Drive implements this feature and keeps revisions for you also of any file you edit.

If you ever need to go back and revert to an old version of a file you can just review all your old versions and revert.
What's Wrong With TPP?
How is the article class warfare or leftist? The article seems banal and centrist to me.

Kicking in open doors and saying we should help poor people not go hungry and invest in education is what every politician does.
Wow, you really know your definitions! Way to go!
This is great news, as sailing is a wonderful sport, and the TV coverage of it in the past has often been hard to find, quite inconsistent and very poorly done.

I don't know why WIRED is increasingly becoming such a snotty, hostile and tabloid publication. I guess it's cool to hate on Ellison for putting money into a wonderful sport.

While we can't afford these huge multi-million dollar boats, we can have much of the same excitement in our own lives racing $20,000-$30,000 boats. And you don't even need a boat-- since crews tend to be 5-7 people owners are often looking for crew!

Good coverage of the Americas Cup will hopefully help bring more people into the sport of racing.
> You really don't have a clue what I'm talking about.

Hahahahaha. Oohhh, but I do, because I've debated your kind more times than I care to count. It's you who doesn't have the wit to see we're talking past each other, again, due to differing philosophical premises. The difference is, at least on an intellectual level, I understand the premises underpinning your philosophy (provably erroneous though they may be), whereas you're not even capable of understanding mine.

> I don't give a shit about the founding fathers.

Welp, if you live in the US, you might consider finding a new country of residence, as they're the guys who set down the rules for this one.

> I am philosophically asserting that positive liberty is a legitimate philosophical concept

Are you familiar with the term 'cognitive dissonance'? As soon as you assert that the government's responsibility is to provide for the 'greater good', you lose all practical constraints on its power, and end up in a society like the one we have now, with eminent domain [1], civil asset forfeiture [2], the war on drugs, the war on terror, indefinite detention, etc., etc.

> The bridge between our species right now and our species in a Star Trek future is our recognition of positive liberty as a human right.

Riiiighhht... because governments are known to do such a great job at tasks that don't involve breaking things and killing people. Hell, even space travel (a product of the Cold War, let's not forget) is now being primarily taken up by the private sector.

"This post brought to you by Statism: ideas so good, they have to be mandatory." [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJd4Q4u5cqU
[3] https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-InolyZZdONU/UACaMEHsPmI/A...
Acquihires tend to be poor returns for the investors in my experience. The VC interaction is mostly just hoping for a soft landing for the team rather than an actively pursued goal.
Isn't this kind of a stupid question? If age were truly just a number, I don't think people would bother asking it.

If you looked and felt like you were 30 at 130, would you say to yourself, I've lived long enough? You could have several careers. For example, you might decide to be a writer or do research that takes decades when you are 80.

How much imagination does it take to want to live for centuries? I just bought a Wacom drawing tablet today. I can't draw a straight line. I think I'll need a decade just to learn how to draw.
I couldn't agree more. There is a massive survivor bias in the "follow your dreams and be successful like me" school of advice.
There's a difference between charging a lower price because you have innovated, and charging a lower price because someone else paid for your R&D.

Samsung is able to charge less money because they didn't have to pay for R&D, market testing, etc. They just copied a successful product.
Apple's recent settlement of $1B puts this thought in another related perspective.

Consider that we've lost over a third of an interplanetary mission in pointless legal battles.
I saw some of this at the ballpark this afternoon. It was pretty nifty, and the boats are unbelievable. Helped that it was gorgeous out.
Wow, this is a pretty depressing response from the ycombinator crowd.

I wonder what you guys think about this?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N...
Can we fire the author?
You don't get it.

Samsung COPIED Apple, so when you enjoy your Samsung phone, you are enjoying the fruits of Apple's research, development, design, market testing, etc.

The majority of the creative, intellectual substance that is contained in the Samsung phones originated in Cupertino. Point being that if we want companies to create new things rather than just copy old things, we need to give greater rewards to the actual creative people who take risks and come up with the new ideas. The people who jump on board and say "I can copy that!" really deserve no consideration at all.
Audio latency is better but still not very good, compared to iOS/CoreAudio. I suspect it will never catch up simply because of the underlying design, Google simply does not have the knowledge necessary to implement low-latency audio.
For point number 2, simply delete the "rescue address" and then change the primary ID to that email address you just removed.

Primary contact on the account has now been changed.
Huh? How is it "doing it wrong" to live on two continents? Apple may not be the optimum choice for the poster, but perhaps they should tell you that when you're browsing stuff in the Apple store.
Well, you'd have to work out the details.
There is a bug because I win points "standing still"...

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/k6ejH.jpg
I do this as well when approached by a recruiter who has obviously read my resumé. I always am grateful, and polite, and usually try to set them up with someone in my network (after checking with that person first, naturally). I haven't worked with a recruiter in maybe ten years, but I find that, you know, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, and I've accumulated the contact info of a bunch of classy recruiters if I ever need help.
I'm just going to say - walled gardens suck when they have bugs.
"I guess it's cool to hate on Ellison for putting money into a wonderful sport."

There're a lot of better reasons to get your hate on towards Larry Ellison, in my mind.
I think you didn't pick up on ddlatham's sarcasm. :)
Tropical weight worsted, seersucker, linen, all work pretty well. Tropical worsted in particular is what I steer my friends towards usually as it looks about the same as a normal worsted but is much cooler.
>> the jury consisted of untechnical people who would be the right types of people to make this decision. If the average Joe thinks that the Toyota is the Ford, then I think it goes beyond the line of emulation.

Demonstrably false. The foreman, for instance, is the owner of a patent for a variant of DVR ("Method and apparatus for recording and storing video information").

>> Old people there are even less respectful, they just don't care you exist.

Agree to disagree.

>> Samsung even uses Apple icons as part of their wallpaper at their own "white" brick & mortar stores....I don't understand why Samsung would have to make their brick & mortar stores identical to Apple, and even have the same style of genius bar inside...In the countries where the name "genius bar" is not a registered trademark, Samsung actually uses that exact name. For the countries that have the registered trademark, they call them smart tutors. It's
crazy how deep the copying goes.

You seem to think that this judgment is "fair" because Samsung is a "bad cloning company". That's fine, and you are entitled to your opinion. Please understand that their evilness is not really central here.

I don't think anyone here is arguing that Samsung is a particularly innovative company. However, their brick & mortar stores have very little bearing on whether or not UI elements in rows of 4 consist of an infringement on Apple's IP. Routinely bringing up their company (or country's) culture as an example for how terrible they are is essentially an ad hominem attack.

The fact is that the court did come down strongly in Apple's favor, and ruled that quite innocuous and non-obvious elements of Samsung's design were an infringement of Apple's IP. How anyone can think that this may not have far reaching implications for technological innovation is beyond me.
First reaction: What kind of stupid question is that? I want to live as long as possible.

Having read the article: less than 1% share my view. Yikes.

I think for most people, questions like this are what I'd call a "philosophy landmine"; say certain things and it causes people to stop thinking and repeat some standard cultural tropes or go spinning off into faux-philosophy-land.

Kind of depressing.
+1, BUT here is what I want to see:

I want an App that lets me join a "ring of awared" and execute an action, leveraging the power of Web 2.0/Social.

Very simple example: recently you had something called SOPA being pushed through. You would go to the App and create a thread "call representative X and tell him you are against SOPA". You put Rep name, phone number, and click "submit the project". Then everyone that feels compelled to participate, joins the "ring". Then simple algorithm puts everyone that joined into a chain: now A is calling rep. Once A finished his call, A press the button "done" and focus is switched to B that is notified via email/inapp notification/ etc that it is his time to call. If he wont do it in 10 minute timeframe, system moves forward to C, D, E ... n.

Sorry, but nowadays I think its the only way to get some traction. If rep staff memorize those $1.99 postcards, they will be simply throwing them without even reading, which is the same as clicking "trash" in your gmail judging just by subject/sender.

If you wont get the ICE/DHS ceasing your domain and servers due to "domestic terrorism", this could go viral and grow big. Perhaps then, overloaded with phonecalls from people that care about their future and future of their children, those in charge would start to care.
One other problem: You cannot change the credit card details on your account if you are currently mid-way though a TV season you have purchased
Translation of Samsung's Response
I agree wholeheartedly. That there are lazy recruiters should be no more of an indictment of technical recruiting than the current state of iTunes is of software development.
> nor must a credit card remain on file to keep an iTunes
> account active.

There is no way to delete credit card information from an Apple Store account, that I see. If you know of one, please do let me know!
What is this garbage doing on Hacker News?!
hm, blog is hammered, anyone have a cached copy?
Yes. This is a "no such file" error.
Where headline is not accurate, it bears pointing out. I had no idea that this is not in fact a visible light lense.
> "Ants have discovered an algorithm that we know well, and they've been doing it for millions of years," Prabhakar said.

Isn't it more like we discovered an algorithm that they know well, considering that they came up with it first?
How I went from concept to a billion dollar company, in 5 days
SPELLING PEDANT IRONY: you (rightly) upbraid recruiters who use sloppy spelling, but you misspell "hustle" in the same letter.
Exploiting SHA-1-signed messages
But Metro is not to blame... When most people think of Metro, they think of rectangular boxes, Segoe fonts, and not much else.

Whatever people think of Metro as being is Metro's fault. Metro is the "design concept" or "design language" and so whatever is communicated as "being Metro" is exactly Metro's fault.
Less than 1 percent embraced the idea that people might avoid death altogether.

Actually wasn't Kurzweil promoting the idea of a downloadable brain? Is this just wishful thinking or is there actually any hope for that?

This would be somewhat an acceptable alternative, i.e. to live forever as a digital element. Otherwise I guess by best try is still with the cryonic guys.
I met a delightful recruiter earlier at an event, they understood the startup ecosystem, don't cold call and only caters to startups and with applicants that fit in the startup atmosphere. More recruiters should look at people like her as an example.
This article confuses learning Linux with learning network architecture from layer 7 on down. The bulk of the internet, and every service on it runs on Linux for reasons that are fairly obvious to anyone here. But there is nothing special about Linux other than its ubiquity, meaning there is nothing fundamentally "Linux" about the internet, nor about the application stack of the typical web service, nor the underlying protocols upon which they are built.

"Knowing" Linux does not mean you "know" the internet, nor vice versa.
well, yes, it's millions, but attorneys who bill $1000/hour are pretty (extremely?) rare. Most attorneys I know are $150-$400/hour, which even considering 'full time' billing and top end, is < $1 million.

Contingency or percentage of settlements probably represent a larger portion of attorneys who are bringing in 'millions' for an employer.
I have thought about it as well. I got as far as a bit of searching for sources of ISBN data[1]. It looks like the only place in the US to get it is from the entity that manages the US ISBN database -- R.R Bowker[1].

[1]: It seemed an ISBN stream was the best input to act upon at the time -- Amazon API might be another useful source, but then you would be beholden to a vendor's api requirements/restrictions.

[2]: http://www.bowker.com/en-US/products/servdatalic_license.sht...
Do you have trouble understanding that other people have different opinions than you?

I'm fully aware that I'm a statist. You think I don't know this?

To say that statism is philosophically indefensible is complete bullshit. Tons of philosophers have defended it and it's very much alive and well. Statism remains the most popular form of government in the world. Statism has produced the greatest governments in history.

In conclusion, I think it's quite sad that you don't even realize people like me exist. You seem to think that my existence as a calm, confident, well-informed statist is somehow impossible.

You really don't seem to be listening to me. How many times do I have to say that I find the arguments in favour of statism and positive liberty to be convincing and valid?

Honestly, classical liberalism has been tried and it is bullshit. It was a good idea in its time but we have surpassed it. There are better forms of government.

Also, I don't give a shit about the founding fathers and I'm under no obligation to. They were smart back in their day but now they are old and dusty and should go die. Humanity must progress.
Sorry! I was unprepared.

How about this:

https://gist.github.com/3473504
Here's another post that discusses the same technique - extension attacks on SHA-1-signed messages. https://blog.whitehatsec.com/hash-length-extension-attacks/

The idea is that if a message is being signed using SHA-1 to prevent tampering from the user side, given an existing message/SHA-1 hash combo and the length of the secret key (which you can guess after a few trials), its possible to craft arbitrary messages and sign them without obtaining the secret key.

This came up while I was doing the Stripe CTF 2.0, and I thought it was an interesting read.
Aubrey de Grey cataloged 7 main ways people age, and he thinks we can fight all of them. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81752 So we could live (more or less) naturally, and stop aging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...
It might be just me, but I can't see what the shirts look like in Chrome.
I think Tyson is using hyperbole is what I think. National boundaries on science are completely arbitrary. He's also making the same damn mistakes that I listed in my above comment - growth measurement without understanding starting points and growth ratios will lead to faulty reasoning.

China/India are growing fast - but then again they are third world nations - they are starting from zero - grow 1 point and you've just doubled in a year - vs. mature America which is already running at 100% (how do you grow 100%? - you can't - you can only stabilise or fall).
Ask HN: How are you using App.net
I have my App.net account, but I hardly use it. I was wondering how you guys are using App.net? Who are some good people to follow? Do you post to App.net and Twitter or only App.net now?
I suspect that when you ask someone a question about something that is far outside their range of experiences, exactly how you frame that question is going to make a big difference in determining their answer.

"Would you like to live 500 year with the body of a twenty year old?" might give different results from "if the technology existed to avoid aging, would you use it?" and both might give different results than this poll.
Whether you merely hold a press release saying that you have perfected cold fusion, or if you land men on the moon in front of the entire world, there will always be people who find something, no matter how minute, to question.

Of course in one extreme the questioning could not be more justified and in the other it is bordering on mental illness... but don't let that distract you. Surely everything in this world is black and white.
We are the 99%! What do we want? To die! When do we want it? After 80-150 years of life, but no more!

We've had enough life and we're not going to take it anymore! #occupyCemetaries
For the first question, there was no guarantee that aging would be slowed. You might feel very, very old and infirm at 150 even if you could take pills that keep you from dying. I think the responses reflected pessimism about quality of extended life.
I'm a big fan of being nice to those who have to deal with people 24/7.

+1 for Sartori Bellavitano, it's amazing
Hi, sbierwagen.

This is certainly beyond my field of expertise, but I don't see how the inability of this new lens to focus in the range of visible light detracts from the main point of it being a distortion-free lens whose "focusing power approaches the ultimate physical limit set by the laws of diffraction."

Although I agree that the press release makes it appear as if this will have direct implications on imaging in the lay sense (this isn't going to make a future iPhone the perfect camera), there are certainly applications of such technology that aren't consumer-focused and don't require visible light that stand to benefit from this research.

As blacksmythe notes, the lens created is not your stereotypical refractive lens, but is more along the lines of a Fresnel lens or zone plate. I'd be interested in hearing more about the differences between the two, especially with regard to the limitations of each. Would anyone who read the write up in Nano Letters or has a better understanding care to
comment more on the implications?

I agree the press release is a tad sensationalistic and possibly (intentionally) misleading — but what do you expect from a press release? Although the findings presented may not be as earth-shattering as a mass-produceable visible-light metamaterial, I still think it's a noteworthy development that shouldn't be dismissed so easily.
Frankly if walls of text can turn you off something, you are probably not Groklaw's intended audience in the first place.
First is best