skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason people don't seem to be calling for those applications is because of family ties and connections, there was certainly never speculation that any of those men attended college on a Foreign Exchange scholarship.

I am not a fan of all the political hogwash about Obama not being American etc. I have plenty of gripes with just about every president on their politics alone and he is certainly no different, so for me if I am going to complain it will not be about where he is from or speculation about his birthplace but about his Senate voting record or the fact that his healthcare bill has little to do with Healthcare for the majority of the 2,600+ pages.

But honestly there is no reason to get upset that people are asking. The entire time Bush was in office people were speculating he was a C student and wanting his transcripts, they talked about how he only got in because of being a Legacy etc.

The only real difference was that apparently it was ok to pick on Bush, just do not do it to Obama since that somehow is not fair?

When you take the highest office in the land you open yourself up to scrutiny if you or your supporters cannot handle that then simply do not run.

President Obama was one of the MOST critical people of Geroge W Bush as a sitting president, he of all people should understand people reserve the right to be critical of him as well.
It's specific yes, but it is also obvious.
The funny thing is that 'acquisition' is, most of the time, also a failure. Here we get spoiled all the time with the big time acquisitions, but, in reality, acquisitions happen more often at a lower scale, I can tell you that because my company is getting acquired, not for a price I'd like to sell it but just to get it out of my way to attempt other endeavors.

I know of espectacular failures that end in acquisitions, I'm talking about companies raising tens of millions of dollars and sell for six figures.
Having individuals tip is great but I think Gittip needs to support corporate sponsors. That's where it could turn from $50/week for someone to something quite a bit more substantial. I can see companies supporting projects on which their company depends.

Case in point is VMWare supporting Redis. It's an extreme (they hired @antirez) but I think a developer could make a living off a handful of companies all pitching in a couple thousand dollars a year.
“We’re obviously in the middle of two awkward transitions: toward all-Retina screens…”

Maybe you didn't read the same review I saw. In what I read, he chose the right resolution for different uses, his unique choice out of many potentials. Yes, I'd rather that apps for Macs be written to be apps for ALL Macs. But life has a way of sorting that out.
I agree with you, before I just wanted to say that people were/are still educated in a anti-capitalistic education system while we still live in a capitalist country/world. This is very typical from south european contries and the root of their problems probably as escape to past right wing regimes mentality.
The idea is they come basically for free with your processor, bundled in, with the additional advantage of not requiring more space for a separate graphics unit and additional GPU memory plus associated cooling.

For some applications this is an enormous benefit. For an office computer, which doesn't require high-end 3D to start with, the HD4000 will be more than good enough.

They're meant for gaming, but not performance gaming. You can play something like Starcraft 2 on it without much trouble if you tune it down to "Low" settings. It just doesn't look anywhere near as amazing as it would on "Ultra".
I think Gittip is starting out amongst the Python community because it is built in Python. One of the signs Gittip is maturing will be its prominent use by another dev community.

I appreciate the work prominent OS contributors have made, and I hope that Gittip takes off.
Same here, the presentation looks really well designed but the "slide" when I wanted to look at the screenshot was really annoying. Maybe just smooth scrolling and below-the-fold text would have been better.
There's a wonderful book about this, Built to Sell, written as a story but based on a business seller's experiences:

http://www.builttosell.com/

It's a good read even if you're not thinking of selling because it covers creating efficient processes, delegation and general streamlining. (No affiliation, by the way)
The table and lists parsers are exactly that. Syntax transformations after I have a list made of dom nodes and binary elements. I can make a DSL parser attached to any tag I make. I just don't know what else would be useful.
...is not Reddit. Stop that.
Concurrency in Common Lisp with ChanL
Really interesting read. Thank you for posting the link. I certainly would have missed this otherwise.
>So do you have some evidence that they ignored the proper damages awarding process ?

Well, there's the part where they awarded damages in at least one instance where they had not actually found infringement.
Can't a GitHub account be a corporation? AFAIK it can.

So where's the holdup?
This is not true. If you think it is, please provide a link to the Apple dev documentation that proves it.

I'm not an OSX developer myself but plenty of my friends and colleagues have written "scratch the itch" Mac apps for themselves without paying $99.
This has not been true since late 2010, the rule is now that applications cannot interpret scripts downloaded from sources external to the app. Embedding an interpreter in an app is fine.
Anecdotally, I've met many well-educated Russians who left in the mid-90s. I think, though, this was mostly due to fear for personal safety and a sense that their country was in a unrecoverable tailspin.
Nice post, I can relate a lot as a fellow engineer and a wanna be runner. haha I think in software a lot of what impedes progress is attitude and reputation protection. Since we assume there is a "correct" way to do things we spend a lot of time trying to learn that instead of just shipping something. My thought is that we have a fear to put something non-optimal out there because we think another engineer is going to look at our code and assume we are an idiot if we didn't execute every detail to perfection, or didn't use some particular pattern that's popular. I think this is kind of sad since solving problems and creating something interesting is really what software is all about. When you're starting to be a runner I think the attitude is different, people respect the effort of just getting out and doing something. We also know the body isn't going to respond instantly, pushing too hard to fast will cause injury instead of improvement. Yet somehow in knowledge work we assume learning time is zero, even though we know this is never actually the case. Hopefully some day the culture will shift to more like that of running, until then it's more of an individual battle to have the courage to just ship something.

- Dave Mathew (@mathewda)
That would be true if this was just copying files. It's obviously not.
Method Combinators in CoffeeScript
So, is P vs NP not useful enough for DARPA? Or is it just not a sexy problem anymore?
That's a great idea! That way you'd have the worst of possibilities: software upgrade hell all around ("company X is not upgrading the OS Y on devices Z and W anymore"), hyper-confused buyers (most consumers can't even insert a sim-card without help, let alone pick an OS) and an all-around tendency to nightmarish support experiences ("we don't fix X phones if you install Y on them!")

That would be a huge step back from a consumer perspective, IMHO. The "mobile revolution" is in full effect because the devices have got SIMPLER, not "more open".
But I'm sure Stallman and others of his kind would LOVE it...

edit: removed "neckbeards" reference that could sound offensive to more zealous uber-nerds.
>Tap to zoom, pinch to zoom, bounce back, rounded rectangles with glass etc. are obvious features people expect in a touchscreen device that is manipulated using fingers.

These are obvious features now. They weren't obvious in 2007 when the iPhone was released. Apple basically dictated the language of the consumer smartphone when it released the iPhone in 2007.
Enjoyed the post thoroughly. Been working in software for 6 years now and I can remember countless instances where I could not get working code out because I wanted to achieve perfection. It wasn't until last year when my mentor told me the same thing, don't be shy of typing, write the damn code. I am happy for you that you have this figured out early in your career.
Let's acknowledge that Samsung "copied" Apple's trade dress, even though no compelling evidence was brought to court. How does your idea solve the issue that Apple is:
a) licensing patents that are overly broad and, quite frankly, frivolous
b) creating an artificial financial advantage for their OS?
If you're working in a field which is positive-sum and produces a lot of good, performance enhancements of any kind make sense. The idea behind athletic competition is that it's just an arbitrary competition, so having all competitors agree to some restrictive rules (like no drugs, no motorcycles in the race, etc.) is worthwhile within the competition.

I'm fine with Elon Musk cheating as much as he wants to get a mission to Mars accomplished -- sending multiple rockets, using robots to make fuel, etc. If someone needs/wants Adderall to do good and is willing to take the health consequences, go for it.
Old news.

Reads more like an advert for the Philips bulb, too.

See http://www.marco.org/2012/07/31/two-new-led-bulbs (and the earlier review, which included this Philips bulb) for some views and pictures of the differences in the colors.
I can attest to your last line with my wife- when I talk of the OS on her and my Android it is way over her head. The concept to non-technical users is unfortunately something to be taken care of ahead of time.
> Most phone users never see their sim card.

That's a very US-centric statement. In Europe, and other places where border crossings are a daily occurrence, switching SIM cards is a part of life if one wants to avoid huge roaming fees. There's no reason Americans couldn't learn to deal with the same sort of thing.

Moreover, in Europe and other places, contracts are not common and phones can be used with any carrier, so people buy their phones from electronics stores, just like a PC, and then buy a SIM card from a cellular company, then put the SIM card in themselves.
The big issue here is that they still have the same limit on the max they can donate, $24 a week. Which, while fantastic! Isn't enough to move the need in the way the parent poster was discussing.
Why a Used Ebook Ecosystem Makes Sense
Ruby has had these type of libraries for years. The original is probably Markaby, but today there are alternatives that are both faster (https://github.com/camping/mab/) and has more features (http://erector.rubyforge.org/).

It's an interesting concept, but I find that (1) it's hard to work on it together with designers and (2) for larger templates I don't find it that elegant.
"Take the patent system away"

Yeah, and Apple also isn't the 800lb gorilla when I can fly around on magic monkeys.
That is a reason to be angry; tax increase is needed to 'save Spain', but... What pisses me off is the corruption levels; if I can be assured my tax money goes to better roads, healthcare, stabilizing the economy and so forth, I am happy to pay increases. But i'm not sure of that and I really don't want to pay for the new private helicopter of some gov contractor CEO who happens to be friends with some gov official (and delivers shabby work as cheap as possible).

In the town I used to go to in the Alpujarra (Sierra Nevada) they 'lost' E2 million town hall money. Lost. And what's being done? Nothing. Someone is driving a souped up Veron drunk into a canyon while the children in the village might be losing their school. That makes me angry.
You can hurt your knees quite easily by "grabbing any pair of shoes"... like I did. It took me 3 months to recover.
Before you start running, buy a pair of shoes that better fit your body type[1]

[1] http://www.therunningadvisor.com/running_shoes.html
I think you might be right. Here's my short rant on the issue.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110745064115147792537/posts/14WN...
While most of your argument is solid, there's no need to bring the level of discussion down to Reddit standards by using terms like "neckbeards". Your last sentence overshadows an otherwise good comment.
That is true, but even so, acqui-hires are good for all of us, because they make investors less cautious.
CP vs. TOA: Considerable Efforts on Missed Chances
getting your name inadvertedly hijacked by a term that suddenly becomes popular is a pretty unique situation.

I'd love to read a blogpost about how it affected your site and business.
I am a bit intrigued by the number of extremetech articles that make it to the front page.
Stripe Integration in 3 Easy Steps.
It could hurt some of the big guys. Whoever gets sales blocked in their biggest markets could suffer big time (or even go out of business)...

That "Apple is the bogey-man and they'll eat anyone that does pinch and zoom" argument is turning into a hollow fallacy. It's not just Apple and they won't sue everyone - it's an all-out war against very specific players (Google, Apple, Samsung and a couple others) that was even announced by Jobs before it happened. Not like they're moving entirely to the business of "patent trolling the world". "Innovative startups that try to disrupt anything" will be safe, IMHO... (except, of course, if "disrupting anything" means blatantly copying everything, from hardware design to icons...)
Thank you. This has been my main worry with this situation. MPEG LA been very successful preventing competition in the video space because, to quote Steve Jobs "all video codecs are covered by patents". Microsoft has tried to scare Linux startups by claiming it infringes on their patents. Honeywell claims to own smart thermostats and is suing to secure its position.

I don't want a world where after the first 5-10 years of an industry no new players can enter because the entrenched companies own it legally. Patents as they exist today don't translate to the fast iterative software world. We need to restrict patents to 2 or 3 years. Give the innovator a runway, first-mover advantage. Owning a scroll animation for 20 years is insane.
NASA to send Google Nexus One to Space in Satellite
TextTeaser is my thesis! Details about in the IndieGogo link. Contribute some or share it to others! Thanks.
Two reasons:

* The torrent sites don't have to spend money producing content. If they had to actually make the content they were promoting, would they be making a profit?

* Even if it were possible to make money under this model, it would be much less than the big media companies are making now. Why would they switch?
There is an issue for this already:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/221

In general Chad is very receptive to suggestions and discussions and there is quite an amazing log of ideas surrounding Gittip in the github issues already.
Those are great questions. And I don't think they have easy answers. For me, the motivation is to eventually get to a put where this can replace my day job. Until it can get there, unfortunately, it's an awkward balance to not let the money affect your contributions, and still do something useful with it; see my other comment for more thoughts on that.
I understand this as a good hack, but I don't really get why anyone would want to run TeX on an iPad/iPhone. I mean, phones and tablets seem to be good at everything except for extensive typing. I would never want to work on a paper on my tablet, I can barely type out a long email on it without getting frustrated.
For me, personally, seeing gittip's come in is both a form of validation, and also at a certain point it can "free" me from the choice some of us who are full time employees, and then over-full time OSS/Community workers from having to decide between:

1> Do community/OSS work - the former being, well, highly political, painful, slow and yeah.

2> Drop the community work and just pick up paid contracts on the side to help my family.

I'll always be part of OSS, no matter what - but there's a point at which the time/benefit ratio (depending on what you're working on) becomes on of "how much time can I rationalize working on this when I have other things to deal with".

In my case, albeit a fairly unique set of circumstances, it's a choice between time with my girls, medical bills, etc, etc and the choice to dedicate a lot of time working on things a lot less sexy than code.

Sure, as others point out, I get paid a salary, I have a full time job. But as I also point out in https://www.gittip.com/jnoller/ - I've got a lot of other "full time jobs" not including family time.

Just some thoughts - for you, using the funds to go to conferences, teach and do things your current funds would not cover or allow you to (say, taking unpaid leave to do a workshop someplace) would be a fantastic use of it.
Spherical glass solar energy generator
http://easyretirementplanning.ca - Not only is this a side project, it's also my first foray into web development! (I am a chemical engineer).
Xcode is a free download. The Apple development documentation is available for free on their website. You need to register in both cases but it is a free registration.

In addition, Macs ship with a certified compliant Unix interface, and a wide variety of developer tools such as a powerful CLI shell (only recently added on Windows), compilers, vim, etc.

And unlike Windows, Apple donates quite a lot of their code to open source, including the kernel of their OS. Does Windows do that? I don't think so.

http://opensource.apple.com/
I'm really sorry, mentioning Stallman always brings out the worst in me...
Get Ready For Another Forty Years Of Corporate Copyright Bullshit
You have a mistaken idea of genius as someone who is good at everything. They just have to be exceptionally gifted in one or more things to get noticed in history books.
JKat - A Concatenative Language on the Java Virtual Machine
No matter what Google says now, this sets a bad precedent and some of these patents could be used to go against Google on a trial. Wether or not Apple chooses to do so is another story.

I see this trial as a missed opportunity to rethink patent law in the US. However I don't blame Apple on this one, I blame Samsung. They made it so easy for Apple to make a case that now these patents have been somehow ratified. Had they not make their products so damn similar the jurors would have probably thought twice before the verdict and its implications.
The form is also quite different. I cannot run on a treadmill due to my gait (though while I run outside I do concentrate on improving my form).
There is a spectrum of openness when it comes to computing devices. At one end you have computers that are very open, with all of the problems that come with that, and at the other extreme you have fixed-function devices such as printers. In between, you have things like game consoles, smartphones, and other mobile devices.

iDevices are more closed than computers, sure, but they are much more open than say a Nintendo DS, whose SDK costs an order of magnitude more than iOS devlopment. This is as it should be, as iDevices are more flexible than a games console.

Viewed as a continuum of openness, Apple's products seem to me to be exactly where you would expect them to be. You could argue that they should be alittle more open, some even argue that they should be more closed, but overall their success in the market would seem to bear out the theory that they are roughly in the right spot.
South Korean court rules in favor of Web freedom of speech
One of the top givers is currently workforpie, which is a company, so it is already happening.
That should not give them exclusive rights to making what can be called a smart phone in 2012. Also both pinch to zoom and rounded rects have a solid prior art.
Like Alex, I replied elsewhere (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4439026) - I fall into both of your categories. However in the latter case (passionate individuals) there's a lot of work out there that doesn't fall into "cool new sexy code with lots of followers) and rather falls into the "sweeping the floors, working out outreach and fighting stop energy in various things) that are a lot less emotionally and tangibly rewarding (in fact, they're more draining than coding) than shipping awesome code.
Anybody who confuses say... a Samsung Galaxy S II for ANY version of the iPhone is just plain stupid.
I'm working on http://twitcherhq.com - social media analytics and monitoring for startups and small businesses.
That sounds like a good thing to do. I shall do the blog post soon. Thanks.
Hacker Calendars
This is the big deal.

If you use Apple App Store you accept in the Eula that Apple could use any of your ideas or patents without compensation.

But they could tell you to pay more to them if you use the bouncing effect in a graph, something I was doing five years ago.

It is true that Samsumg stole a lot of Apple's design but also true that Apple did the same with Google Earth, gmail design, dropbox, OLPC sandboxing and process interruption. Good designers are always learning from others.
I can vouch for this, GrexIt applied to present at my conference in 2011.
That's interesting. It gives the other argument why they withheld the evidence (Apple would have countered it) more weight.
I'd be interested to see some hard proof that an iPad "records everything you do."

I think Cory was making a theoretical point that unless you can open the thing up all the way to the firmware, you can't know "for sure" what it is doing. (An argument than Stallman has made for decades BTW).

That is very different from saying, conclusively, that an iPad is recording everything.
Just because something is required does not make it better. I doubt many Europeans would complain if they didn't have to switch SIM cards at every border.
>> the only party that will be hurt in the long run is the consumer.

Even this remains to be seen.

I don't think vanilla Android is going to be affected very much. There might be a chilling effect on anyone trying to re-skin Android as an iPhone wannabe, but that's probably a good thing.

I'm an iPhone user who thinks that some of Samsung's older models were blatantly trying to knock off the iPhone, but on the whole, I don't think that Android itself does, especially with the more recent releases of the OS.

Samsung just got a deserved spanking for some past bad behaviour, but even they have moved past the "aping" phase and have been producing non-infringing phones lately.

I don't get all the doom and gloom going on here.
In fact, Russian 'intellectual elite' lives a cross-border life for decades. Markets for their work are mostly abroad, their cultural interests are abroad as well, Russia is just a sort of a big 'commuter town' or 'sleeping block' in Russian terms. They are not tied to Russia never financially not emotionally, and for all practical purposes can be treated as emigrants except they are still Russian tax residents (you will be surprised, but Russia has an exceptionally light taxation for self-employed).
Except that autism doesn't have a single mutation that has been identified. Even if it did, autism is not purely a negative: for those who are able to cope it produces world views that can allow us to escape local maxima.

Eradication seems an odd goal. Treatment and support are more realistic and less creepy-eugenics.
Distributed Denial of Service Prevention Techniques
Title misleading in two ways:

1. I read "Ethical" as "Legal" myself, but that's a minor point

2. FACT didn't shut them down, they shut themselves down because they are scared of FACT
I've started loving this new series started by Aaron. Thanks a lot, Aaron. Keep 'em coming!