skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be a pedant. It's distracting from the actual discussion.
Privacy aside, if this feature didn't exist, you'd have people complaining (hey, even i'd probably be one of them) that applications they paid for are obscured from being found again.
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> reform the patent system.

It is very curious that the cries to reform the patent system have risen simultaneous with Google's need to copy Apple in android, and was started by Google's lawyer.

>There seems to be a misconception that it's about Apple accusing Samsung of patent infringement

Apple is accusing Samsung of patent infringement, and has provided evidence proving that Samsung deliberately set out to copy Apple's products trade dress. Samsung only counter sued to try and save face.

>Samsung accusing Apple of patent infringement, so at best it's a pot-kettle kind of situation.

No, there's a huge difference. Samsung is attacking Apple for patents that Samsung agreed to license on FRAND terms in order to get them made part of standards. Apple never made such an agreement to license its designs-- but when it discovered Samsung was copying it, it offered Samsung a license, which Samsung refused.

> Apple fired the first shot.

No they didn't. They were sued first, by Nokia and first by Motorola.

They only sued Samsung after offering a license and having it turned down.
Lived just outside KC for most of my youth, part of my adult life. Moved west to Seattle, and haven't looked back.

Kudos to the locals for trying to pull young entrepreneurs to KC. The town needs a jolt of options outside the typical corporate-IT-office-park-in-the-burbs.

One thing about KC is culture. The people are really nice, but the midwest is so substantively different from the coasts. In Seattle and the bay area, technology is king -- it's dominant from an industry perspective. Not the case in KC, and it's not going to be anytime soon. Whether you, as a possible startup entrepreneur, care about that is personal, but make no mistake -- the local culture is not around tech.

A second knock on KC -- the good local talent doesn't hang around. Historically, competence in technology has not been rewarded; thus, the good companies tend to see young up-and-comers depart for greener pastures.

Want to start your technology company in KC? I would say it's a bad bet. Cost of living is cheaper than many other places, but you get what you pay for; expect access to technical talent to be challenging.
Yep, I have a samsung flip phone from 1996 that makes calls just like the iPhone!
BSD on the desktop is possible, especially if you use something like FreeBSD where the hardware support is generally ahead of NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and OpenBSD, and support for newer technologies is more available (binary drives from NVIDIA are pretty important as well if you want 3D acceleration), sadly though support is lacking for a lot of drivers. FreeBSD for example is just getting around to implementing the parts required for Intel graphics [1].

However compared to Linux I wouldn't use BSD as a desktop/laptop system. Linux is simply further along in supporting what is required for power saving, for clocking the cpu up and down, newer technologies and even older technologies if you are using older devices (in [1] for example, only gen4-6 graphics are supported, so if you have older Intel it won't work, or not correctly).

The other major issue is that many of the projects such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE and others have started using so many different Linux only interfaces for which no good documentation exists to replicate the functionality in the BSD's that you will find that certain features just don't work. See for example [2] which is a post from a Xfce developer on why XFCE had to drop support for the BSD's... on that same post you see a comment from Warner Losh the creator of devd(8) on FreeBSD asking where he can find good documentation on udev in Linux so that he can implement the compatibility stream on top of devd(8) [3].

No, I would not use BSD on the desktop unless it is by purchasing Mac OS X. Personally I am a HUGE FreeBSD fan, I absolutely love it. I run FreeBSD almost exclusively on my servers unless a specific piece of software very specifically requires Linux. I build software for FreeBSD, I deliver to clients FreeBSD installs and do consulting based on FreeBSD. FreeBSD on the server is absolutely fantastic, it is rock solid, I've had machines running for years on end without issues (no, not internet facing ones, yes they were all patched for remote exploits, local exploits I cared less about in this particular setting). Unfortunately I no longer run FreeBSD as my desktop, I used to for the longest time but unfortunately that time has come and gone.

Personally I am currently using a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8 for my desktop/laptop needs, which provides me the same interfaces as FreeBSD does so it makes programming fairly simple. If it compiles/builds on Mac OS X it is almost guaranteed to compile/build on FreeBSD and run without issues.

[1]: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU
[2]: http://gezeiten.org/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-on-BSD-flavors
[3]: http://gezeiten.org/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-on-BSD-flavors#c14...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_process_theory#Systems
I would love to know how stable Dragonfly is and how its hardware support is. I have read that they regularly pull changes from FreeBSD. So I expect it to be almost on par with FreeBSD. But since they have significantly modified the kernel and they use NetBSD packages, I can understand if they lag behind given their limited resources. Ironically, I am running Linux on my laptop and I am using FreeBSD on my netboot, which I may replace with DragonFly.
If you have an idea for a product and can talk a good game, build some mockups or a basic prototype and try to raise with that.

That's assuming you live in Silicon Valley or can target their investors. Elsewhere, especially outside US, it's extremely difficult to raise any significant funding unless you are already huge.
It might be worth commenting to that effect on the pull request. It'd at least provide a morale boost to the author of the request; and showing that someone out there is already using the changes might even make the maintainer more likely to accept them.
In my hometown in Uruguay we have this monument: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flodigrip/1510286707/ the sphere on top is meant to be open every 100 years. In 1992 it was opened and we could see what the people from our hometown 100 years ago left for us.

They had a letter to us, documents, different kind of money, pictures, etc. Very interesting stuff
I would love to know how stable Dragonfly is and how its hardware support is. I have read that they regularly pull changes from FreeBSD. So I expect it to be almost on par with FreeBSD. But since they have significantly modified the FreeBSD kernel and they use NetBSD packages, I can understand if they lag behind given their limited resources. Ironically, I am running Linux on my laptop and I am using FreeBSD on my netboot, which I may replace with DragonFly.
Folks are focusing on this point unnecessarily. Large scale real-time collection and cracking of SSLv2 is still out-of-scope for everybody, I suspect.

Large scale MITM, though, isn't, through compromised CA's, etc. That threat is much more severe and affects basically all software that relies on SSL/TLS (whatever version) for securing a connection or the CA system for validating the authenticity of downloads. That's a much more serious problem.

If MSFT is indeed not honoring opt-out of CEIP and other programs, the issue is them not honoring that preference. The particulars of the encryption built on top of a broken model are not the issue.
it would be great if pg published these stats
A story that turns that crushing sadness to 11 is Part Four (The Scholar's Tale) in Dan Simmons' "Hyperion", where a young woman catches a strange sickness that has her age backward - each morning when she wakes up she's physically two days younger and has lost one more day of her life memories. I think it's the saddest thing I've ever read.
While iMatix was the original designer of AMQP and has invested hugely
in that protocol, we believe it is fundamentally flawed, and
unfixable. It is too complex and the barriers to participation are
massive. We do not believe that it's in the best interest of our
customers and users to invest further in AMQP. Specifically, iMatix
will be stepping out of the AMQP workgroup and will not be supporting
AMQP/1.0 when that emerges, if it ever emerges.

By the way, the AMQP spec is roughly the same size as the HTTP spec, and the latter spends a lot of pages listing just status codes.

And of course, AMQP uses a model based on Sessions, which is great if the components of the system are static, but not that great if you're talking to a lot of nodes who come and go, since you'll end up with uneven load distribution on your servers.
Regardless of HTTP as a particular implementation, I think statelessness makes perfect sense in a unreliable network of nodes.
Appreciated and will pass it along. Thank you
I too have the feeling that more new features are developed at DragonFly than at any of the other BSDs, but I still prefer FreeBSD because it seems to soak up most of the features of all the other BSDs (including OpenSolaris). And of course ZFS is usable now while I'm not so sure about HAMMER yet.
Chinese dev steals US HTML5 Game engine, US hosts won't close down the copy
Can you also add a daily (next to hourly) amount input?
Because in our case (and I guess other companies/users) a big chunk of servers is running non-stop throughout the day and it is easier to get your mind around this figure.
You cannot speak positively (or even neutrally) about Apple on Hacker News, without being downvoted.

On this subject, it is simply not possible to have discussion. Hacker News has is overrun with android fans who will tell you that 2001: A Space Odessy is "prior art" for the iPhone and iPad... and mean it.

Four years ago, this site would have some good discussion on it, but at this point, most of the people who hang out here can barely remember a time before the iPhone. For them, there has always been google android and that its "silly" for Apple to be suing over this, since this is "how all phones work."

If you talk favorably about Apple you are accused of being "Biased", while the most nonsensical, irrational rant against Apple is upvoted.

I do not participate on this site much at all anymore simply because of this. You can't have good discussions here, unless you happen to hit a topic for which the reddit ideology has no opinion. (I call it the reddit ideology because that's where it seems to originate- it shares the characteristics I see on reddit all the time.)
Its not a phone number, its a code when you enter it at the end of their URL, it redirects you to a charge page.

37 Signals charge page: http://37signals.com/charge

Here are some other examples:

Wufoo - http://wufoo.com/charge/

SlideRoom - http://www.slideroom.com/charge

If you're receiving payments via PayPal its easy to do, all you need to do is edit "Credit Card Statement Name" which is found in My Account > Profile > Payment receiving preferences (Under Security and risk settings).
Seriously, do not discount the weather. It is extreme.

Weather events in KC don't just make the news; they take lives. Flooding, ice/snow, wind, lightning, tornados, heat waves, cold spells. You name it, KC deals with it.

It can seem like there's always something to deal with everywhere, but the midwest gets the crap knocked out of it from the weather. It is not mild in the least.
And you've just lowercased the starting letter of a new sentence. If you're going to flag someone over something, make sure you double check what you've typed.
Tambur.io started as a weekend project 10 months ago and now faces the (hackernews) crowd
You can always travel to Silicon Valley, you don't have to live there - we live in a global village nowadays. Even though I now live in Mountain View, the funding attempt I mention in the post was done on a 3 week visit to the valley (from Israel, no less).
Or you can be like Zend Framework and just ignore a ticket with a working patch and then months later have someone else to win a tee-shirt because that someone who has write access to the repository just participate to a bug hunt. Sometimes people want your code. They just don't want you.
Review about an cheap but very good iPhone case Enjoy
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Meanwhile, the visiting tourist is wondering why no bus has come in hours... lol
Sadly this only works in places where public transportation is effective and has been so for a long time.
What happens more often to me, is that the pull request gets ignored. The gist.io [1] repository itself is a perfect example of this. 5 open pull requests, most of them now more than a month old have been completely ignored.

https://github.com/idan/gistio/pulls
For a quick grocery list of servers and costs, to show your team/boss/... in a meeting, this works just fine.
Why Facebook Ditched the Mobile Web & Went Native With its New iOS App
Congratulations on launching. Really interesting idea with lots of potential, nice work.
Your comment is hilarious, so please don't take this personally. It is hilarious that you would say his comment has "too much bias in favor of Apple" and then follow it with a claim of an ideological position as fact.

Your actual statement -- that you "suspect it is because of.." is probably completely correct.

The very idea that you should downvote someone because of "bias" is such a Generation-Y concept. Obviously everyone's biased. I've yet to see an anti-Apple post from anyone (including this EFF post, or any comments anywhere on HN) that wasn't full of bias.

In fact the bias is so blatent it is to the point of simply lying to try and rationalized it-- for example, claiming that Apple did nothing new, or innovative in the iPhone is absurd, since no phone worked like the iPhone at the time it was announced and the iPhone clearly had a massive impact because it was so innovative. Or another example- claiming that the Mac was a ripoff of Xerox.

So, when someone says "you're biased" it simply means "you don't agree with me, and I can't argue against your points, so I'll engage in ad hominem and call you a name"....

But the profoundly sad thing about it is that I really think they think that they are being "objective" when they believe this anti-Apple ideology.

I haven't seen any evidence of actual damage from the "patent wars", and if Apple is triumphant here, it will be good for the industry and good for consumers.

Innovation is Good.

The idea that it "has to stop" or that it is "bad" has only come up at the same time that android has come into existence, and so the motivation for claiming that patents are somehow problematic seems... excuse the use of the word-- biased!
the authors found that participants who had best mastered scientific concepts (determined by their overall accuracy) were especially slow to verify inconsistent statements

I would expect that it's the other way around ie the people who take longer time to think stuff through will have a higher accuracy. Which doesn't make their results all that surprising
Absolutely phenomenal book! Highly recommend reading.
This article would have read better without the SSL related discussion, which I think distracts from the major point.

In general, though, I think we're at the point where we can stick a fork in the trust model we've been using up to this point. 2v3/TLS 1.1/EC+DHE isn't the issue, and the more time we spend talking about those issues, the less time we spend focusing on fixing the fundamentals of internet security 3-5 years from now, which we need to actually get right this time.
You do realize that there where a number of touchscreen phones before the iPhone showed up right? Non of them (obviously) using a camera. A company I used to work for was developing software targeting phones driven entirely by touch back in 2000-2001 (the phones never caught on however and the project was never completed)

But back to the point. Yes the iPhone as a package was unique at the time. Certainly the touchscreen was much better than anything I'd seen up that point, and all the apps kicked the respective asses of what had come before. They where also the first company that managed to make a smartphone that was good enough that people actually wanted to own one. That I suppose could be considered revolutionary.

What specific innovations are you thinking about when you're talking about 'unique' innovations?
related:
http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/26/how-much-is-an-astrona...
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I now live in Mountain View

I rest my case.

EDIT to elaborate: Your case just proves my point. You lived in Israel and failed to get funding from Silicon Valley. Now you're in Mountain View, presumably (I'm assuming a lot here, I know) because there's a better startup climate.

Have you ever tried raising in Israel. I understand the funding scene is very active over there.
You're presuming your conclusion and you've provided no evidence of it.

The calls for patent "reform" came at the same time google decided they wanted to get away with violating apple's patents (and now google has sued Apple to try and do so).

Near as I can tell, and from what I've seen in history, patents have worked out pretty well.

They protect the small guy more than they do the big guy, for instance, though this is often ignored or the opposite is claimed.

Why do you want to throw out a system that protects small innovators in favor of allowing a major company-- google-- to get away with stealing innovations?

Apple was ripped off when they invented the GUI, so they knew they would need to protect themselves and they patented their inventions in the iPhone.

This is exactly what the patent system was designed for.

If Samsung wins, then we need reforms to strengthen the system. But if Samsung loses then justice will have prevailed.
IIRC, one of the engineers said that material to make airbags strong enough to handle rover of this weight does not exist.
I love the info bar in the middle of the site; the design is very pretty!

I'd like more information (maybe code examples?) when I click on the sections (Publish/Subscribe, Direct Messaging, etc.) without having to sign up. Right now, you're asking me to create an account without having a terribly clear idea of what I am actually signing up to.

(actually, I just realised that you have a 'how it works' section...that should be easier to find, I think! It is more or less exactly what I want when I try clicking on your 'publish/subscribe' section on the info bar.)

Good luck with your site!
Indeed, I use it daily, especially when driving.

Phone is docked in front of me and connected to car stereo. I just activate her to do things most people are doing less safely like text messaging and looking at their phone for directions.

Siri like technology belongs in all cars, as we are not going to change our (awful/stupid) behavior of texting while driving.
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yeah this idea of "the cutest kid gets the money" is the kind of thing I'd worry about. Still a great initiative though
>Bias like this only helps fuel a flame war.

Then

>They did, check out the Galaxy S3, still a better gadget than your iPhone. Any day.

Hilarious!

But of course, you're perfectly objective, so there's nothing funny here.
And for a peek into where DragonFly is headed, this might be of interest:

"HAMMER2 progress report - 07-Aug-2012"

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-08/msg00...

I've yet to play with it -- but I remember being glad to find a project that wanted to do clustering that at least in some ways is similar to (open)MOSIX.

I didn't realize MOSIX still existed/was updated, though!:

http://www.mosix.org/txt_distributions.html
It would be great to see Windows Azure costs on this calculator. Great job indeed! People usually also use Cloud Storage services (s3 etc), maybe you can do something for that.
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My grandfather was a railroad worker, replicating that would have been a bit more of a hassle.
Not sure what your case is - if read my comment, you'd notice I said I traveled to silicon valley from Israel. Just get on a plane and you're here, if it's important enough for you.

Naturally, I did try to raise in Israel. The funding scene there is not active at all, perhaps you meant the startup scene. There's very few funds that do seed rounds and they do a very small amount of investments per firm (1-2 a year). The angel scene is also underdeveloped. Israel is not a good place to raise seed money.
Norwegian bomber and Utøya killer Anders Breivik ruled sane
Apparently they only use it for DNS stuff though, the number of people using it for actual web hosting seems small.
If the killer was not ruled sane, he could have been set free after his medichal treatment had ended.
I'll likely get downvoted so far I pop up in New Zealand for this - but zzzzz.

These expensive spats between huge companies just aren't interesting, or in any way relevant, to my life or business. They're just billion-dollar corporations flexing their muscles and making lawyers a bit richer every day.

Every other day now, it seems like we get a story about some shiny flashing trinket or other being 'banned' by some judge in $country, or one massive corporation suing another over three lines of code, or something.

It just feels like irrelevant corporate politicking between super-rich corporations, and doesn't have any grounding in the real world.
I'm willing to bet that in a couple years all the kids will be writing with the 8pen...
My impression (from the mailing list) is that HAMMER1 works fine. See eg. this thread:

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-08/msg00...
Do you think that it is ok to copy GPL code and violate the terms of the GPL license? If not, then why do you think that it is ok to enforce the GPL, but not to enforce other terms whereby people reveal their work for it to be extended?

This is what the patent system creates-- an opportunity for samsung to build on top of what apple has done.

Apple published its work and how it was done for everyone to see... and it did so in exchange for a right to license that work to those who wanted to extend it (who could then license their extentions back to Apple.)

Apple even offered a license to samsung who did nothing to extend the work and just copied what Apple had done.

Apple only sued when Samsung refused to license the work.

The patent system gets people to publish their inventions openly, so that they aren't kept secret.

I think a lot of people forget that and imagine that if they got rid of patents people would still be publishing the inner workings of their inventions.

Suing Samsung was the right thing to do, if you want a world where people expand on other people's work and where companies publish their inner workings for others to extend.

Or would you say that you can violate the terms of any open source license?

After all, that's what samsung did-- violate the terms.
Thanks, that makes it more clear!