skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its counter intuitive, but brilliant. Goverment goes to court to "give away" things they do not own, to a party that does not want them. For the benefit of re-appropriating those assets to use against the parties that do own them. Oh, and these assets? Copyrighted, published works...
Millions of people also have back problems, anecdote is not evidence :P
Ask HN: How to shape company seed stage "culture"?
I've worked and lived with my cofounder for almost 5 years now. In March we brought on another guy. Culture here so far is very loose without a set regiment. We try to do a status update everyday in a 10 to 15 minute standup meeting but that's all.

We're about to make a few more hires both in engineering and marketing (bringing it from 3 people to 6 people on the team). How do I shape culture of the team? I see a the Treehouse guys doing 4 day weeks, the Stripe guys throwing dream machines at their devs but I don't think we can afford some of those perks.
Exercise for exercise alone is reason enough to keep doing it.
>>Placing a bicycle outside with no brakes hooked up is a far cry from rigging a spring loaded shotgun to the door of an unoccupied building.

Until the lack of brakes causes you to get hit by a car, or crash into a pedestrian and cause severe injury.
I love these little notes that they (FB Engineering) have been posting. It gives some nice insight into how at least larger companies develop the products (both technical and non-technical) including what they take into consideration.
Merely staying on any kind of feeding schedule while including any amount of food-pyramid thinking has had the most dramatic effect for me.
The Importance of Silence
The fact that the 1960 design is still used doesn't make it non-iterative.

It simply makes it the final iteration in that development branch.

Edit: and it has in fact been improved in several regards, mostly materials: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/garden/dieter-ramss-606-sh...

I'll add another quote: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

Eventually you get there. Or close to it.

Too: Rams worked in physical media. Eventually you've got to ship, and in his case, he couldn't push updates twice a day. This happens even in software and web design. The "bones" of Linux were layed down in AT&T's labs over 40 years ago. For mainframe computing, history starts over 50 years back.

Even today's major websites have their own mass and inertia in the form of their code base -- you can push changes every 12 hours, if you like but things have to work together, and either modularity or fragility will impose limits on what you can reasonably change and expect to have functioning, stable code.
Actually, that's the beauty of shipping new design tweaks or features frequently. People are slowly introduced to changes and are eased into a new design instead of one day waking up up to a completely new design they have never seen before.
One Google search uses the computing power of the entire Apollo space mission
Out of curiosity, how exactly does one go about creating a "different" dock that also has a glass pane underneath? Different colour? Or angle of the pane? Different shape (which Samsung's version has)?

I'm wondering how much Samsung could do here without being accused of copying, other than removing the pane altogether.

EDIT: I do realise I'm nitpicking, but can someone also explain what the author means with this sentence: "Samsung’s designers have no taste, or ability to come up with an original idea that was inspired by others without just completely ripping it off."

I understand the point, but the wording is rather confusing. They're coming up with an original idea by ripping off another one? If their designers have no taste, why are they ripping off supposedly well-designed products (i.e. iPhone, etc.) instead of poorly-designed ones? They must have great taste in phones, if they keep copying the iPhones. Can an inspired idea truly be original?
In the comments the author states that his private key is inside a TrueCrypt-folder, and that folder is on Dropbox.

I know that's reasonably secure but it feels terrible.
Aerial Survey of Bay Area's Natural Background Radiation Levels
If you put it that way, I wonder how much it is worth a day to not read HN..
Funding An App On Appstori
This needs to be reported as an invalid story to HN.

This is a case where the submitter has not read the article. The abstract clearly states that the intervention is NOT exercise. Rather it is "encouragement" to exercise. Basically they're nagging you to take a walk around the block.

So I'm not surprised that nagging a depressed person to go to the gym helps in any way, shape or form. It's pretty sad that someone would do this study, really.

Regular exercise is, in fact, good for the body, heart, and brain. I would get at least 45 minutes of exercise a week, although I've heard that more is better.
> He had to learn a life lesson a little earlier than I had liked - that there are some people in the world who are just plain mean.

We live in a complex world full of complex people with countless motivations. It's always tempting to dismiss someone as "just plain mean", but it's rarely accurate.

I realize this is somewhat off-topic. Just stood out to me.
Samsung says it will modify phones to avoid Apple ban
I was contacted initially after he was referred by a former colleague to me. We had a great Skype meet and greet, became friends and he recommended me to his client. It was a great fit.

Now we all have children together.
Killing non-stock UIs might be the best thing Apple ever did for the Android community if this happens.
For music (ie, audio only), SoundCloud is very popular. 120 minutes free, more storage and features as you pay more. It's a bad fit for podcasters, though.

For video, I don't really see anything wrong with Vimeo aside from its lack of critical mass. YouTube still has 99% of the content you want.
The best designs copies nature. Nature is lazy (energy-efficient) and elegant.
Example. Soap bubbles quickly settles in shapes that are most efficient.

For us humans we're not as intuitive with nature. We have many distractions and conflicting goals. It takes us more, and longer, iterations to figure out these things.
We're just not lazy-enough.
A woman at work had her bike stolen in SF (off the front of a bus if you can believe that) and decided to go to every flea-market she could find in Oakland that weekend. When she found the bike she just took it and dared the guy selling it to do something about it. She just rode away. :)
So is piracy on their shows.
Deaf preschooler asked to change the sign for his name due to weapons policy
The bit about code/processor interchangeability is actually between 3:00 and 3:30.
Yes, this is the sad thing. You have to prove that the jury tampered with itself or was too stupid to or too biased to do its job. Very hard to do. Alsup, in the Google trial, showed some great strategy here where he told the jury "assume you can copyright apis" while reserving to make a judgement as a matter of law on the issue later. So the Jury could say "guilty of copyright infringement" and he could say, "Thank you, oh by the way you can't copyright APIs, but if you could you would have infringed."

If anything Judge Koh seemed more inclined to put as much into the juries hands as possible.
Page scrolls left and right as I move around. E.g. white borders appear on side of screen.

Also, lots of other bugs. :(
> To his chagrin, it took CloudCracker just 89 minutes to crack the 10-character, all-numerical password he used, although because the passcode wasn't contained in the entry-level, 604 million-word list, I relied on a premium, 1.2 billion-word dictionary that costs $34 to use.

There are 10 billion (10^10) possible 10-character all-numerical passwords. Can anyone explain how it was cracked using a 1.2 billion-word dictionary?
Taptalk app developer rejected by Apple over a dozen times before approval
The Kindle Wants To Be Free
> It's quite possible that fixing some of the social problems would be a way more powerful motivator to stop bike theft

I want to live in a society free of crime. Where children and other vulnerable people move free from violence and theft.

Is that unreasonable?
It's not very well documented, but at least on Linux you can do this:

$ tar xf firefox-nightly-whatever.tar.bz2
$ cd firefox
$ mkdir /tmp/temporary-profile
$ ./firefox -no-remote -profile /tmp/temporary-profile

No "profile manager" dialog, no interaction with existing profiles, it just creates a new profile in the directory you specify and starts up.
Huh, it wasn't when I posted this several hours later. Thanks for pointing that out! Can't edit my comment above so will let it stand.

For the record, I'm glad they changed it and I apologise for coming across a bit strong above.
I'm not convinced. The AMD product line fell into a ravine very soon after the acquisition -- CPU design has a half a decade of lead time, so their problems predated ATi.

I think AMD success is simply better viewed as Intel stumbling. The P4/Itanium split product lines were designs defined more by marketing and ideal market segmentation than they were by engineering, and they both also had some really bad design decisions. This caused Intel to fall from their technology leadership position for ~5 years, during which AMD produced steady, if slow, improvement, eventually overtaking Intel. After Intel got it's act back together, AMD hasn't been able to catch a break.
Look up "standing", in the legal sense.
Beating Up On The Small Gal.
I switched back from chrome to FF few months ago, well I never left really due to firebug and client certs, but now I really don't use chrome anymore. FF is as fast as chrome to start, ie turning off tabs autoloading. I never lost my history with FF while it happened too many times with Chrome. Extensions integration is a lot better in FF, try LastPass for example. FF can have multiple rows of tabs with an extension, I don't think that's possible in Chrome. chrome text search is light years back from FF. And finally, Chrome way of hiding privacy settings, ie delete cookies, is annoying, obviously Google doesn't have any interests on my privacy.
FF has been terrible and slow for at least 4 years, but it's back!
A peeve of mine is the dismissal of engineers who are also good designers - there are plenty of them. Sorry to burst that bubble, but one of branch.com's designers is a CS graduate, the other specialized in HCI, both could be called front-end engineers if you wanted.
Also, they outlasted the DOJ in that 13 year antitrust case. If dedication is the key to success, IBM's legal team has it.
"[Millenials have] seen home prices collapse unexpectedly, leaving millions of people with immense debts."

I have to quibble with this. Regardless of the resale value of your home, the balance on your mortgage is the same.
That was also the conclusion I drew, but it makes me wonder why that would take too much power to be practical on a smartphone as the article suggests. It seems like it would only need to capture the text of the question and push it over the network to IBM's servers.
Citation needed

No it isn't.

you claim

No I didn't. I was very careful to make clear this was my opinion only ("I suspect" and "I can imagine scenarios").

As I noted, lime wasn't obviously beneficial, because Semmelweis claimed it removed the "cadaveric particles", and yet people were still dying when there should have been no "cadaveric particles" around (ie, no one had died).

It's like the story of how scurvy started happening again in the early 20th century with Scott in the Antarctic[1]. In the 18th century scurvy had been defeated by drinking (fresh) lime juice on long sea voyages, without a correct understanding of the mechanisms involved.

Read the linked article about how it happened.

[1] http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
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New Actionscript compiler from Adobe
Would anyone be surprised to find out that externally facilitated exercise, as offered in the study, has different emotional effects than self-motivated exercise?
$6 Million Gets You Into 1% at 40, but Not at 60
U.S. Sets Much Higher Fuel Efficiency Standards (54.5 mpg by 2025)
I don't give a damn about statistics. I want to be able to live anywhere in the US safely.

Would you allow your 6yo to walk alone at night through any city in the US?

I think you should be able to. I think a person should be able to live anywhere in the US without encountering violence on a daily basis, without hearing gunshots every night.

Because that isn't true, I think there is too much crime.
Gmelius, Gmail Desktop just got a bit better
PostgreSQL table Inheritance Without Problems with Keys
This is a great example. I think some of the disconnect with other commenters is thinking that sending email is trivial. It isn't. Even at small scale, deliverability starts to become a problem, there is infrastructure management (for example, this why people use heroku rather than just AWS) and receiving and tracking email requires managing all sorts of email weirdness that are not addressed by using software libraires (this is analogous to html parsing - getting all the non-standard or ambiguous cases right is hard).
I completely agree. Wells's proposal also contradicts "Good design is thorough."

If a design is thorough and long lasting, then why would you need to iterate, much less "ship every day"? Sure, iteration might eventually lead to a good design, but the intervening designs by Rams's definition are not good.

The exception would be when each iteration is thorough and each successive iteration represents a new innovation (principal 1). But most iterative development is not a sequence of distinct innovations. It is a sequence of partial or tentative designs either because there is a business need to ship prior to arriving at a complete design or because the complete design hasn't yet been figured out.

Wells says that the design of physical things can't be updated often, if ever. He says, "This doesn’t work for software anymore." But perhaps that is the problem with much of the software we produce these days. Quantity (of updates, frequency of new features) supercedes quality (of both function and design).

Wells does not seem to quite get Rams.
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The Github app for Macs is just too bare in my opinion.

With that being said, I use SourceTree[1] every day and love it.

[1]http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
Wow! throughout the interview the guy looked extremely confident. It was as if questions were pre decided and he was given time to prepare answer. Like the comment about punishment and not compensation for infringement. The quickness with which they made the decision and haste with which they decided to overlook 'debates' or point of contention is sad. Debate in this case is anyone arguing that patents are not valid. This guy with his immaturity and pre notions have set back tech industry and slowed its growth something on which all tech knowledge workers depend.
Obviously the only way to know for sure is for it to happen, but my money is on there being no way in hell there would be a conviction.

A concealed spring-loaded shotgun hidden behind a door is, without any doubt whatsoever, intended to maim an unsuspecting person. A bicycle placed outside without breaks though? There are far too many plausible less than evil explanations for that to say with any certainty that a jury would side with the plaintiff. (Unless the shop did something particularly stupid like admit they put it there in that condition with intent to harm...)

Now, could the guy still sue? Yeah, of course. He could also sue if a perfectly normal bike that he stole gave him blisters. That would be pretty dumb, and he wouldn't win, but he could still do it. The only thing that really matters at the end of the day is "can you get away with it".

If there are better cases than the shotgun out there (and I imagine there should be if it is really so easy to sue for things like that), then I will of course re-evaluate my position.
I'm annoyed that the study does not go into details about what the "physical activity" consisted of. The only thing it says is "self reported level of physical activity (≤1, 2-3, ≥4 days per week, with at least 30 minutes of moderate or vigorous intensity physical activity)" which does not mean much.

Anecdotally speaking, lifting heavy weights vastly improves my mood. This is in contrast to, say, cardio, which simply makes me feel tired. I wish the study had accounted for this too.
Right off the bat, this study hasn't been replicated yet but it's being reported as if it's solid proof. There's a non political problem before you even take a glance at methods...
The emergence of “platform first”
Thanks for the response. I'm working toward building out an agency and your thoughts are really helpful in thinking about a solid approach.

I suppose I should have said that a good agency will be able to get a design to a point where it doesn't need to be iterated on but can be. It's certainly an important thing to acknowledge that getting a 100% perfect release is difficult with budget and time constraints.

A lot to think about.
Not at all. We understand PAM and we plan to release a version that works with PAM. But we don't like passwords, we much rather use public/private ssh keys instead of users with passwords. It's not only much better user experience but is also much more secure.
I like that people outside of academia do this :)
I grew up in a poor rural area where lots of people (including lots of wonderful families) had broken cars in their yards. In case anyone is baffled by this, the main reason is that they can be mined for spare parts--for you or your neighbor. It's about holding onto a hundred things because you don't know which one is going to be useful and the storage cost is essentially zero. If you are well off then the price of spare parts isn't a concern, so it's worth it to you to have a clean yard.
Exercise does relieve, at least, some stress, but that does not mean that it will make you less depressed in the long run. I think these are somewhat different things, the depression being a more complex issue that seems to depend on more factors than stress.
We need an app to stream movies from Usenet. There is so much freaking bandwidth on Giganews and they have like EVERY movie ever made. Instead of -> download -> par check -> combine -> unrar -> watch, it should just stream right from the rar files.
"Protecting" the citizen.
Rhino55 - your account appears to be banned, your comment is showing as dead.
We will also support unstructured storage in the future so if you don't need rich querying you can use that too.

I got excited for a moment. I've been using Azure for a few years now and I was thinking that this could have been a hint of them offering something more similar to MongoDB in the future. But, then it hit me that he's probably only talking about the Table Storage (Now called Table Service?) which I will never touch again.
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This is all my personal experience, but while struggling with emotional problems I tried exercise (cardio/weight lifting at the gym) for a period of 6 months. Although the exercise itself was not helpful in lifting my mood, having something to do (a routine if you would) helped me keep my mind off the "bad stuff". That itself was a plus but I could have easily replaced exercise with WoW, gambling or piano lessons and the result might've been the same.
The basic reason is because we don't use passwords.
We always use public/private certificates on all of our machines.
With PAM you have to use passwords. We'll release a version soon that works with PAM, but I recommend you switch to using authorized_keys with certificates. Not only is it much more secure, it's also much nicer to use.
You know, these trends are like a rollercoaster. Wallspace used to be preferred over open spaces, then people started clamoring for open spaces (call it "loft envy"), walls got torn down in old houses, new houses got built without walls. If you wait, the trend for more rooms/walls will probably come back again, though I personally prefer the large inside open spaces.
So, if this is the new precedent, and a new processor means that we can disregard all prior art, am I correct in assuming that all I need to do to keep from infringing is to run this "ip" on a different processor in the future?

(I am well aware that "legal reasoning" and real-world rationality umm... walk different paths, I'm just sayin'.)
Good tips overall.

I'd recommend a couple of changes though.

"Don’t Touch the Doc (Unless You Have To)"

This should say, "Don't Touch the DOM (Unless You Have To)". The reason is that it's almost never referred to as the Document, and always referred to as the DOM. If you have programmers new to js, they will find much more info when using the correct terminology. Since we're in the spirit of education, lets teach the right things.

I'd love to see this less in paragraph form and more in code form. Programmers are used to skimming through code. Eyes start wandering when having to extract programmer concepts from dense text. This is, of course, my own opinion and totally subjective.
I think you got the point! I truly agree. Hobbies are for life, for self-esteem and usually allow us to make some money. One point I'd like to emphasize is: Having stuffs and spending some time looking for it, enables you to create some expertise knowledge and make "business", why not?
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Great information, and nice job!
I agree. I always feel great after a heavy set of power cleans or deadlift.
Note this study was targeted towards clinically depressed people. Whether or not it relieves stress in non-depressed people is a different topic.
It'll be a while before I'll take medical advice from a machine that "thought" Toronto is in the US.
You cannot dismiss a jury member's own experiences from their decision making process. It was the attorney's job to vet for the jury for problematic backgrounds, and to toss out those that they were concerned about. The fact that this person was on the jury tells me that they were comfortable with his background.

Also, four of the jury members work for high tech companies, including Intel, AT&T, a circuit board manufacturer, and a hard drive company. So while the foreman was unique in that he holds a patent, many of the jurists have had at least some exposure to technology products in their professional careers.
Is funny how the two sites self select.

If you want to share film of yourself lighting farts, you put it on youtube.

Whereas if you want to make an detailed animation about philosophy's relationship to the colour blue, then you put it on vimeo, and if it is any good then someone else will put a badly transcoded version of it on youtube, which is where most people will watch it.
Google Glass aimed patent grabs auto-recognition of everyday objects
It literally would have been more coherent if he had claimed that his aha moment came when he realized that both products had black bezels and that did it for him. For all of the informed thought that went on, it seems that we would have been better off giving vote clickers to monkeys. This reminded me of Vicini reasoning during the 'battle of wits' in The Princess Bride.