skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just launched an ebook on this very topic:

http://www.sideprojects.com

37 side projects, many of which are from Hacker News.
A name or logo doesn't have to be registered to be a trademark. Note that it doesn't say "registered trademarks". It's completely valid and legal. (IANAL)
I'd call it SwampMonster. ;-)
Well I think this question keeps many companies (not only startups) from moving into the US-market. Everyone is afraid, that one lawsuit can financially destroy the whole company.

In Germany for example there are insurances, that will cover your costs of lawsuits etc. when you accidentally infringe IP / patents. They will also cover if a client sues you for lost business because your product somehow failed in a bad way. Some of them will offer worldwide coverage, but every policy will exclude US lawsuits.
i liked it besides the name. It's a nice try of standardization of home made solution on top of WS.
the name though is bad, but it seems he has registered it :P
Interesting question, is anyone here using the Usenet for something besides binaries?
That seems like a silly argument. The amount of time a person has to invest to be trained sufficiently to fly an airplane is huge. The amount of time required to then have to pick up completely different user interfaces probably doesn't seem very large by comparison.

But could you imagine having to spend large amounts of time training for every mundane interaction with technology around you? The way aeroplanes work today there probably isn't a way to make flying them intuitive to a novice, but that's not an argument to make everything else painful to pick up when it doesn't need to be.
I guess, one problem is that it is really hard to get contracts with all studios or even just the major ones. If one studio does it on his own, everybody would just complain about the lack of many films. If you do not care about legality, it is equally easy to get stuff from Universal as from some afghan studio with two movies.
I'll go ahead and do a little research. My comment might've come out a bit blunt but there was no negativity implied. More of a partly sceptical tone as to where the seemingly hip term came from.

I'd love to discuss the good and the bad with the trait itself but I should probably do some reading first to verify that it's the same trait that I'm referring to.
Leaving Portugal to UK was the best thing I have done for my career as Software Developer.

In Portugal I could't go any further because I didn't hold computer engineering degree.

In UK, I've reached Lead Developer position, and now Technical Project Manager. By contrast in Portugal nobody would even invite me in for an interview because the degree was a requirement.

Moving abroad hasn't always been easy. But I've found that beside the language everything else is purely down to your performance and personal ambitions.

Regards
I think Android should implement a clock-wise single finger "circle around an object" to zoom and counter-clock-wise to unzoom. Just like the "undo" option in Paper. That's pretty cool.
FreedomBox v0.1 released
I found this a very intrusive site - I really dislike these animated slide in fade in distractions.
Timestack - jQuery plugin for generating pretty, clickable timelines for the web
Unfortunately you'd still have to contend with the trolls if you wanted to sell your product/service in the USA.
Long term todo lists wouldn't work with me. In about a week I end up doing much more than what would have been on my long term list, and that boils down to the list never getting done and me getting frustrated at the process. But we definitely have something similar to your Trello bucket for 'future enhancements' or 'quick-wins' that we'd like to complete within the next 3-4 iterations, or 2-3 months, etc.

Daily todo lists have always been a value to me, but I rarely have to actually write them down because of work order tickets or bugfixes semantically being the same thing (to me).
Religion ? Nice.

Actually the FACT is that a company is required to defend their trademark as a condition of it being granted. Also a cease and desist isn't a lawsuit.

This is well established law.
The 1 billion dollar lawsuit was in California. Ignoring Texas wont help. Software patents is a US problem.

Chances is it will be a driving force in taking innovation elsewhere.
That first one isn't related to multitouch, it's about bounce-back when scrolling with a single finger.
Not only the slide-in nonsense, but also the wiggling "Try Me!" arrow on the right. "You may also like" panels are becoming the Clippy of blogs and news sites.
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Unfortunately that debate rarely happens as business priorities are always in the immediate.

Elegant solutions tend to have to be part of a phase two initiative to be refactored at a later date.
+1 @emikil
"And the United States isn't even at the top of the world league tables in obesity."

True, but only just (according to the WHO). The only countries that beat it on overweight or obese percentages of population are Saudi Arabia, Panama, or have a population under one million.
well. apple did not create webkit. they copied khtml and improved it into webkit. so it would have been pretty hard to patent. (not that apple would not succeed in doing so though...)
It depends on where your customer is located. Selling to a USA customer is opening you up to the US legislation for that specific transaction. IANAL.
1 billion dollars for a teenie-weenie software UI implementation detail in a otherwise huge and complex device which is made of thounsands of major and minor components, both software and hardware.

I don't care at what "scale" this was. This is ridiculous and we should not have to accept it.
@klarnail will be happy to host the event at our new Tel Aviv office @yuvalsamet
Why we switched from Mobclix to iAd+AdMob
we are turning into communist nut-jobs.
Thanks to the gandhi family and congress.
gandhi family were lead in forming the congress party which was formed under british rule to support british
indra gandhi declared an emergency and edited the constituent of india(made us socialist)
*gandhi brought u features like
no more than 20 SMS per mobile
no more cars below 16 liter/KM average
10^32 scams
a shitty budget that gives average family 1000Rs off on income tax while increasing taxes on corporations by a factor of 2
free mobile phones for poor(lol)
the biggest mid day meal till date(billions Rs spend)
....I can go on all day

It was awesome during Atal Bihari Vajpayee time.

Wishing BJP(ie Modi) to take over...
> UX designers need to protect their work and creativity.

You're obviously not familiar with the spirit behind Intellectual Property. IP is supposed to protect consumers, not inventors. Protecting inventors is just a means to an end. When you say we should protect designers just out of protecting designers' sake. Then you're inverting the logic. We should only protect designers when doing so is in the best interest of users (meaning it will bring more innovation to the market). This is obviously not the case here. So no, designers do not need to protect their work, if that means abusing consumers.
Benefits Combining Functional and Imperative Programming for Multicore Software
Which is hilarious because all of Apple's current products (and those for the next few years) were created whilst Steve Jobs was still alive.

As was revealed in his biography.
> Outlook has an odd limit on the number of columns.

I've had problems with IE itself in the ~<1024 cells range (it was about 900~1000 IIRC. More cells, and it simply drops either the extra cells, or the table itself, I can't recall). I seem to remember the value was actually round in some way.

Use case was a horizontally scrollable day-based timeline, and the user decided to look at more than three years worth of data, which worked just fine everywhere but in IE.
First of all this was not about the US but India.

1) courier companies opening your packages - check
2) problem furnishing address proof if
working in a different city - check

Having experienced most of these things, I totally agree with the article.

The whole premise of stricter laws equals better security is false. These just enable the police to harass the people more.
Yes US has its share of idiotic/draconian(or whatever) laws in the name of security. It doesn't mean India should have the same moronic laws. The difference is that privacy is taken pretty seriously in the US while in India people by and large have no sense of respect towards an individual's privacy.
BTW, no need to shout (if your caps lock was not enabled by mistake).
Clearly you can't be too small for Apple to consider "bothering" with you.

And if this all really about values and not money, as Tim Cook claims, why should it make any difference how big you are?
Yes. In fact, I pay ten Euros a year for access to news.individual.net, which does not carry any binary newsgroups. As I run my own little server, I also get news from eternal-september.org and a few other free, non-binary services.

It's quite reliable, and if your upstreams are good about filtering spam, then many communities are quite useful, too.

A good threading Usenet client like slrn is pretty much the peak of discussion interfaces. Web forum stuff rarely comes close in terms of usability for someone who takes ten minutes to learn it.
The distribution channels for marketing are constantly changing. The marketers that don't evolve with the trends will be soon out of a job. And for online marketing, learning programming is a must.

I do agree that maybe we need some kind of concise way for referring to these marketers with software development skills, but using "growth hacker" is in the same league as using the words "ninja", "rockstar" and "guru". For me it's nauseating, while telling me something about the spoiled brats I'll end up working with.

What's wrong with "marketing engineer"?
Apple-Samsung case is 'far from over'
The news release doesn't tell me about or link to what's-new. That's here:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Whats_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.2
He's suggesting adding them to the article which would have made it less off putting for the other side of the author's political fence....which wouldn't be a bad group to target if you want to actually change anyone's mind.
I certainly don't think world-class marketing is simple at all. You get brilliant people in all roles, and I'm in awe of the best in the business. But most startups don't need killer deep-knowledge marketers who could design a marketing strategy for Coke but have learned to program a bit. Most startups need someone well-versed in technology who knows enough about marketing to move the needle on growth.
Apple probably got a patent on using those gestures on a handheld device, which no-one had demonstrated before because the touchscreen technology required to achieve it wasn't available yet. Apple didn't invent that technology, any more than they invented the gestures themselves, but because they were the first ones to take the obvious step of combining the two they get to patent it and have a monopoly on it for the next two decades.
The correct link: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9...

The release notes are available at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2.html
Congratulations @paraschopra. Really great to the success of your company/products.
This is what I've been thinking from the moment Apple started going after Android manufacturers with patents like these, and it's why the patent system is so very flawed, because it doesn't account for how competition actually works in a market.

Let's say you have one company "create" a new product category - a new type of product. So they are the first ones doing that, but this is usually done through some combination and improvement of old things.

But then you have to get other companies to do the same or very similar, because that's how competition works, and that's exactly what competition is. Making 90% of the same product - so to be in the same product category - but having that 10% as a competitive advantage over the others in that specific market.

Competition is not overhauling the product 90%. That's just not how it works, and you don't have to take my word for it. Just look around you at any product category you want. They are all 90% similar and 10% different, not just in how they look, but how they function. The only major "overhaul" happens once a decade or so when that specific market gets disrupted, but then that new market is populated by competitors doing the same, too, and the cycle repeats itself.

If you wouldn't have that, you'd have exactly what the article is saying - random "innovations" just for the sake of being different so you don't get sued, less competition from the point of view of the users, because the vast majority of them will prefer a certain way of doing things, and since only one company can own that, it means monopolies will be much easier to form - and it will also be much harder for new entrants.
Which has made it even more interesting, as people are finding ways to pay for an American subscription service and open a VPN endpoint in America to get access to the content. They seem happier to complain about pirate bullies taking their lunch money than to actually take advantage of a giant financial opportunity.
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If you're selling physical goods, then the answer is as soon as your devices are imported into the US.

I once worked for a very small UK company which ran into a patent tussle with a rather larger US competitor, as the former didn't want to exclude such a large market for potential sales. Evidence of prior art was collected, with the outcome being the overturning of their patent - at which point, a nominally amicable resolution was found.

Software patents certainly pose challenges - even if the idea seems straightforward, if it's something fundamental to the design, you'll need to check for possible US patent conflicts if you want to enter the US market, or may in the future.
No doubt the licensing and contractual issues are a thorny problem, but the licensing and contractual issues are generally from the studios who created them. If they wanted they'd be able to get around it, or find a compromise or similar.
I'm surprised Samsung didn't use this at the lawsuit. Or did they? Because I find this evidence of prior art better than that touch table they showed.
Touching the stove, broken glass, and other peoples mistakes
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Great point!

But stop reading when you come to the examples, they just derail the whole thing and everyone forgets what the original point was.

"..the urge is to respond "Martin Luther King? A criminal? No he wasn't! You take that back!" This is why the Worst Argument In The World is so successful. As soon as you do that you've fallen into their trap. Your argument is no longer about whether you should build a statue, it's about whether King was a criminal. Since he was, you have now lost the argument"
But most marketing types cant develope a tool from an bare API - still was nice to learn node.js and mongo.

Though its a pity the api provider didn't impliment a MQ solution
If combined with naps, then, yeah sure, 6-7h. But any less than 7h in total and you find me a walking dead ;) Productivity sinks to the bottom, and mood swings and general anxiety ensue.
They should not track my data. Period.
Yes, so one has to use other means to remain anonymous.
Yeah, it's pretty crappy as the article is actually fairly good but it's buried in excess.
I just started my first side project a few weeks ago:

http://www.social-permissions.com - Unified way to manage the privacy and permssion settings of social sites!

It was quite interesting to learn how to develop plugins for Firefox, Chrome & Safari using HTML & JS

http://www.nowiam.at - HTML5 Based Location Sharing

A proof of concept how good the HTML5 geolocation feature works among different browsers
Hadn't come across listen, that's perfect for what I need. I've used notify on Linux but I wanted something a bit more portable for OS X.
Agreed on US problem.

Innovation could be still developed in US, just all the customers must be non-US. I could be wrong but this has been my assumption.

Some of these non-US customers could be selling back to the US customers and if the number of these resellers is huge enough it's much harder to take them down. Highly sci-fi speculation. This sci-fi could be quickly shut down with the US import restrictions.
I use this to compile my LESS scripts already. I was always getting really frustrated with the options with LESS... either compile in the browser, or compile manually. Both were actually a bit of a pain, (caching being the biggest annoyance for browser compilation).

So I used inotifywait...

It would check for any modifications to my "CSS" folders recursively, and it would then run my custom less compilation script [1] ...

#!/bin/bash
while inotifywait -e modify -r /var/www/site/public/static/css/base; do
cd /var/www/site/public/static/css; node compile;
done

(I also hooked this up to Fab [2], and used a "start"/"stop" script [3] to pause the watch, so that I could manually control when inotify wait would be watching.

[1] https://gist.github.com/3497304 (My Custom LESS compile Script)

[2] http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.4.3/index.html ( Fabric Command Line Tool )

[3] https://gist.github.com/3497308 (Sample Fab Command )

If it would benefit anyone to know in greater details, I'd be happy to write a blog post about automating compilation using these tools.
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In. Will try to see if I can help secure a space.
I suppose it is a bit like wondering how Boeing got to own using the moon's gravity for orbital maneuvers. - http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Boeing_Patent_Shuts_Down...

I should stop looking for signs of any kind of sanity in the decision making processes of faceless bureaucracies, as it is entirely pointless and only causes me stress.
And this is where serious politicians should step in and, next time the movie mafia come knockin', tell them that there won't be any more copyright-maximalism craziness until they clean up their shit and offer a common platform which is on par with Usenet. Worse, he would threaten to reduce copyright terms and "free" all XX-century content "for the public good".

I know, I know, a guy can dream.
+2 from the IDF
I wake up at 4am to code. Do I win?

Growing up I never could understand why my dad got up so early. Now that I'm just into my 40s I understand why:

1. I don't need as much sleep anymore. I could sleep until noon when I was a teenager. Doing that now would give me a headache and a stiff back.

2. I get 3 hours of uninterrupted kid free time.

You do have to realize that you don't get this time for free. I'm tired by 9pm at night and in bed and asleep by 10pm.
“All the cited apple patents on multitouch gestures appear to be filed since Jeff Han's TED talk”

FingerWorks, a pioneer in multitouch gestures, filed for (and received) boatloads of patents. Apple bought FingerWorks in 2005, inheriting its intellectual property. The scientists came to work for Apple and continued to file patents for the research that they had done since the nineties.

“In June 2005, FingerWorks officially announced they were no longer in business. The founders continued to file and process patents for their work through late 2007. And as of August 2008 they still filed patents for Apple, Inc.” [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
Love the irony :)
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Movies and TV need a Steam alternative.

I used to steal every single game I played. Even games that had online play, I would play on cracked servers.

These days I buy every single game on Steam, and if it's not on Steam I still buy it on Play.com. Steam is easy, fast, convenient, and simple. Games are one click away. My Steam account contains over £2,000 worth of games.

It's easier than stealing.
> JavaScript and CoffeeScript don't separate the idea of a function and a method

Neither does Python, at definition time. All the difference is in the processing performed by the class constructor (`type`) when the class object is created. Before that, it's a bog-standard function.

> which is what allows you to use first-class functional combinators as decorators.

Which is exactly like Python, the original decorators[0][1] predate the syntactic extension by several versions, the original syntax for applying them was:

def some_method(cls):
pass
some_method = classmethod(some_method)

And you could use the exact same syntax to define non-method functions (though not this decorator, of course, as it doesn't make sense for functions)

[0] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=clas...

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=clas...
"When I was a very young web developer of about 12 years of age..."

No. You were a 12-year old kid who knew HTML. Don't insult the profession by calling yourself a "web developer".
My experiences are unlike the blog says. You've got to know your city and where the services, things are not that organized ofcourse. Also, India is big on Human powered telephony search query based services(see 1). It really really works here. For example, you could ask who runs the nearest color copier via phone, and the answer would be SMSed to you.

Also another thing which is unique in India, is the home delivery & pickup culture. You can get virtually anything home delivered like fresh meat, booze, and ofcourse snacks(see 2) etc. Also pickup services like laundry (one of many), are really popular.

Need a new credit card, or a phone connection ? You can have a representative visit you. These kinda of services are primarily possible to India's abundance human resource (and various other factors of course).

In my opinion, these are more accessible that internet based services are they rely on a phone.

Its a pity that blog posts these get a lot of attention because of their extreme nature. Most of the local media tends to be sensationalistic, for grabbing eye balls I guess

My daily reads of good quality Indian news are

* http://www.thehindu.com/

* http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/

References:

1 Eg. http://justdial.com

2 Eg. http://www.delyver.com/
They do! Modern MBA programs focus heavily on a concept called servant leadership. It can get surprisingly in-depth, but on the surface its a simple idea that can be summed up in two steps. First, hire good people. Second, provide the support they need to do their job.

Modern management models have tended to move away from issuing rules and directives. These days its more about designing jobs from which the employee can derive some self-satisfaction and than providing business context so employees can self-direct toward the company's goals.
What's the startup? Do you have a URL? Thanks.
I have a similar plugin: https://github.com/fredwu/jquery-inline-confirmation This and my plugin both try to replace the abtrusive confirmation dialog with something a bit nicer and less abtrusive. Hopefully less and less people would use the default confirmation dialog.
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