skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't say that at all, it just targets one spam pattern of many. violentacrez' guide looks at a bunch more: http://www.reddit.com/r/Moderating/comments/cz6zu/identifyin...

And of course that's not even comprehensive, it just focuses on the obvious per-user flavors. When you look at things like domain history, domain registration, hosting, the 3rd party services they use etc you can start identifying bigger efforts.
You should be happy that he actually took the time to respond to an un-intelligent troll like you instead of saying something simple like 'GFYS'. Now don't ask me what that means or it would be embarrassing for you.
Google is pretty much rocking the world these days, or at least it seems like it. I do think they are positioned amazingly well compared to other big players like microsoft and apple, especially when one looks at the upcoming 10 years and the rise of mobile and cloud computing. The question I have been asking myself is who's going to come along and be able to compete? Its almost impossible at this point, probably will be 10 years from now...
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The result feels a bit like David vs. Goliath, but only because it pits one of the most talented and influential software and hardware firms against one of the least talented and least influential.

But it's important to remember first that Samsung is a massive, massive company. They are the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, and made $6 billion in profit last quarter. It will take them two weeks to pay off the damages from the lawsuit.

Second, it's important to remember that Samsung deliberately and shamelessly copied Apple's products, and they have a reputation of doing just that to their competitors in the mobile industry. They were warned by Apple and by Google to stop what they were doing, and they ignored those warnings. That's how we got to this point.

Third, it's important to remember that Samsung is a terrible software company. Companies like Palm, RIM, Microsoft, and Apple have made real and important innovations and contributions that have moved the state of the art forward and have inspired countless new innovations. What the hell has Samsung done? I've been following the mobile software industry for over 10 years, and all Samsung is known for is selling other people's work and piggy-backing on others' brands.

Finally, I believe Samsung's inevitable fall from the top of the smartphone industry will come not as a result of this lawsuit but will instead be driven by the carriers, who still control most of the cards and have a long history of moving against manufacturers that become too big and assert too much power. Samsung will be replaced by another Android manufacturer, or perhaps even Nokia.
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Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) RIP.

I hope we will return to the Moon or better go to Mars before the last Apollo astronaut has died.
It appears you're lumping the "BBC" in as one entity, when it is in fact many entities. World Service and the Domestic BBC are separate entities - and World Service's profits go back to the domestic BBC so more revenue beyond your license fee is available.

What are these general taxation revenues you are talking about? As to why the content isn't available, you didn't pay for it, so what's the problem? I'm willing to bet it's not available because of some rights restriction.
It ended up being fairly accurate (and in one of the lower percentiles)
Yeah i really concur with the idea that the website needs more social buttons. I want to tweet about this website!
First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82
Yea, I need to make that clear because definitely my logo will not be on it. And the postcard frontside is randomly chosen as well - to one of the random background images you see when visiting the site.
I can't make this stuff up
That's funny. For me it had the opposite effect. Obviously he has a conscience, for anyone with an intellect who is not the least bit offended by Zynga-ism is, arguably, lacking in that capacity, i.e., in need of a real conscience.
Interesting fact on how desperate people can get to be better at games. The lack of in app/game purchases in MMOs created a whole industry called "Gold farming" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming
The talent market is going to stay frothy until engineer salaries adjust up to stable equilibrium. The market is doing the rational thing, when Acquihires are worth $1M/engineer with a 3-4 year lock-in, while 'normal' salary offers are $150k. If you're talented enough to make a startup that can get acquihired, you absolutely should do it. Best case is you build a profitable company, worst case is you get acquired.

Acquihires are also not the worst thing ever from an employer perspective. Big companies can easily spend $10M on failed initiatives that go nowhere. It's much easier to buy a startup that proves it can execute.
that tweet is protected but.. OH MY GOD!
You can definitely do it of your own accord for now. :) There is a tweet button after purchase.
What's the front of the postcard like? It'd be awesome if I could choose from a few different designs... or even upload my own image!

Great idea!
LIFE on the Moon (1969)
My God, that guy is annoying.
I think I've read somewhere that none of the jury's had a Samsung phone or an iPhone and that few of them had smartphones.
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Cool from the outside. But a shitty place to work and learn. Only the New Media Lab is worse: all glass, zero privacy.

Form should follow function. Especially for something that will last unchanged for decades.
"In fact we skipped that one," Ilagan continued, "so we could go on faster. It was bogging us down."

Incredible.
his comment is nonsensical. it doesn't have anything to do with anything. not sure where he got to pacman.
It will be the same photo as one of the randomized background images. That's something I need to clarify with an adjustment to the design.
We use JsPlumb to lay out all our search results on DistilBio - http://goo.gl/PW3iu It's a slick library
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Doesn't this whole case "encourage" Samsung to innovate, rather than copy?
That way there would no progress at all. When Windows 95 came out, there was a huge bunch of folks that wanted to stick to Windows 3.11 because Windows 95 was a big change. There was even an animation at boot-up that pointed to the Start button saying 'Click Here'. If we listened to those folks, we would not even have a task bar that no wants to switch from now.

Also, see the below:

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. -- John Dvorak
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Elon said in a video interview that he's hoping he can convince Neil in the future because he was a large hero of his. It's slightly sad that it looks like he won't get his chance.

Edit: it was his CBS 60 minutes interview that can be seen here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7410538n&tag=cont...
see 12:20 mark. (you have to go through 2 commercials, unfortunately)

Edit2: more direct link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbIcqTEuxvw near end (only 1 commercial!, but only less complete excerpt)
"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

--- Neil Armstrong.

An inspiring man. RIP.
That's funny, I'm noticing cooldowns across the board when using ML on my Mac Pro over Lion, although it's a Mac Pro 1,1. You might consider trying iStat Menus and using it to narrow down the problem, it gives you all the temps of the various locations in the Mac Pro. It will also let you adjust fan speed.

Make sure you reset the SMC too.
Your business model may eventually morph into an advocacy site. Have a bunch of campaigns running with postcard size messages and a pay to send mode. Let users sign-up with data to verify their riding and send to appropriate representatives. Lower cost as much as you can by being able to bulk send. Try and figure out what your best services and business model will be. Building a user-based site with social network plug-ins to drive viral growth will probably be key. Enable posting about sending the post-card and an in-site functionality to track campaigns and whether you inspire others is probably a promising way to go after end users.
US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies, first man on Moon
"I found myself being asked time and again about what life is like as a contractor/freelancer."

This was the same impetus behind indieconf, the conference I run in November (shameless plug - http://indieconf.com - we might even get bdunn speaking this year).
Yeah, we had some discussion about 2nd page and some people suggested to remove it.
you might notice that the entire problem is inside of the free market system itself, in which innovation arises from an internal zeal towards personal gains. If this is an intrinsic human trait, then it would seem their might be another way to utilize it so we could divert the entire problem inside of the system, or perhaps some other economic system could be devised.. does anyone know of ANY viable alternatives here?
Wait for ten years. If that doesn't work, twenty. In that much time, something is bound to change.

(This may sound impractical, but it's the approach I'm taking. And, hey, it already worked for discussions involving Microsoft.)
Totally agree, pagination is painfully broken on HN.
I came to say the exact same thing. I hate almost any form of in-game currency, and the "rise of IAP" coincides with me stopping downloading games at all (I think the last was Death Rally).
I use http://shelfari.com

It is quite good, integrated with Amazon and even provides some stats.
According to the comments in the post, this is one of the infringements: http://androidheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/thumb...

If this is true, then it's hard to give this decision much weight at all. These two phones are vastly different and one literally says SAMSUNG on the front.
I listen to a lot of music during my work, many many hours per day. But its usually optional. Its horrible when you have to wear head phones permanently. The pressure on the ear alone is something I need a brake from. Also, when solving a hard problem I need silence and I'm not an exception for sure.

I only once worked in an open office space, at BMW and absolutely hated it. They actually realized it was a mistake and introduced closed rooms with hot-desks which they called "thinking cells" (Denkzelle).

I believe the decision for open office space is often an example where the stated and actual goal are far apart. The managers want to save cost and scram more people into a cheap to build room. But they sell it as "creative" or "productive" workplace.
Line-by-line flames are seldom necessary, but are often fine examples of their literary genre.
Ask HN: Should startup entrepreneurs read tech blogs/news regularly?
Hi Guys/Gals,
I wonder what you all think about it:
Should startup entrepreneurs spend time reading tech blogs/news regularly?
Mostly these are one/two people with a lot to do. But we find read stuff like HackerNews and TechCrunch because it is "work".
On one hand, often better ideas emerge out of reading these blogs since we get to know of new technologies and trends.
But this can also be huge distraction and you end up wasting time not just reading all these blogs but also analyzing new unrelated technologies and product ideas.
I do end up reading these blogs regularly, so my vote is that it helps.
Wonder what you all think.
Most certainly. Armstrong embraced danger and the risk of failure.
Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface
Won't replace Emacs for me for a simple reason - even if this editor supported rebinding keyboard shortcuts, the platform - Chrome - won't allow to bind some key combinations, like CTRL+n. It's a failure of the platform, not the editor; web version of Emacs (featured on HN some time ago) is also unusable on this browser.
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Gatekeeper only runs the first time something is downloaded and has nothing to do with it.

Codesigning does verify programs each time they are run and this has not changed in many OSes.
What do others think of Hogan's patent?

http://www.google.com/patents/US7352953

It strikes me as just recording video and doing the standard things that people do with digital video.
You get what you pay for. It's past time to pay minimum wage for jury duty.
TechCrunch writer sulks about product they like over 12 measly hours
One element of the memo I was happy to see, was the dogfooding of Yahoo! Mail/Calendar, as in, people at Yahoo! will start using it rather than Microsoft Exchange. Sometimes I think powerful personalities at Yahoo! IT, with a bit too much money and people working for them, have caused a not insignificant amount of the downfall at Yahoo! by treating the company like it was a financial firm, or the Department of Defense, instead of a digital media destination. The Blackberry was an awesome communication devices from 1999-2005, but, 2008/2009+ (and certainly not 2012) is not the appropriate smartphone for a company that wants to be using the same system as their "digital media savvy" customers.

Those two steps will tell me if Mayer, a supposedly "technology" focussed CEO will be able to go head-head with Yahoo! IT. (It should say something that I even have to suggest the CEO of the company needs to go "head-head" with the IT organization)
The goal of reddit has always been to provide something good to read when you're bored. The policies are optimized for this use case.

The goal of reddit is emphatically not to provide a promotion vehicle for a given content producer.

In other words, if the reddit listings are dull, that's a major problem. If a particular site isn't making it through to a particular listing, well, if there's time someone might look into it. But it's just not a top priority.

And frankly, if you only participate in the site to promote your own content, I'm not so sure I'd call the spam filter wrong in this case.
It's my fault for not being more precise. It's an early 2008 (3,1) Mac Pro with 3 Nvidia GT 120 cards. iStat is the tool I used to determine which areas/fans are running so high: it's the "Expansion Slots". Resetting the SMC was the first thing I tried, it did nothing (which is not unexpected since fan speed starts out normal after startup, then increasing to an uncomfortable 1600 RPM after about 20 minutes).

At this point I'm considering locating the temp sensor to stick a piece of gum on it or maybe disable it outright.

I'm a little ashamed to say that the other alternative is a downgrade to SL, which for the purposes of making peace with a once beloved OS I shall refer to as "The Good Old Times" from now on.
Windows 8 privacy complaint misses the forest for the trees
No way. It's children. Boys age 9-13 are Minecraft-crazy. Anyone with a server can tell you that.
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Recreational Mathematics - Parabolas
Statement from the Family of Neil A. Armstrong
Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dead at 82
Many people like to talk up things like the iPhone as "betting the company", maybe rather than being idiots, these cell phone CEOs realised that the easiest way to make money was to milk their mostly captive audience for every cent they could? Why risk something new? And why does every narrative about the iPhone have to involve everyone else being idiots and Steve Jobs and (via some associative magical thinking) iPhone owners being so clever and tasteful. It's all a bit transparent.
For a more in-depth consideration of Armstrong's life, there's an excellent profile written in 1999 here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/space...

"Pilots take no special joy in walking," Armstrong once told a group of well-wishers at an air show who wanted to hear what it had been like to walk on the moon. "Pilots like flying."
Samsung's own words:

The verdict form in this complex case necessarily spans 20 pages and requires unanimous answers to more than 500 discrete questions across 5 different legal disciplines. (Dtk. No. 1890.) The likelihood of an inconsistent verdict is a possibility despite the jury’s best efforts.

"DESPITE THE JURY'S BEST EFFORTS"

Groklaw even linked to the source of the above quote: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/ApplevSamsung-1927.pdf

Seems like a classic case of confirmation bias, by both Groklaw as well as a bunch of people here.
IPad Mini
Finally decided to poke at it a bit. I hit login bugs, an infinite redirect loop, really inefficient UI, unhelpful graphs (where they were graphed at all - I filled in a week of fake numbers, it just spit it back out in text, and didn't even validate a number field), and a cost that isn't even remotely justified. It looks like a short-term project that has been left to rot.

tl;dr: no thanks. Daytum is infinitely better, and cheaper.
Have you checked out http://khanacademy.org/cs?
> You can't compare the motives of an upper middle class suburban American kid with the popular view of China/India/"Over There" where everything is copied, cheated, and broken down in a dog-eat-dog society.

Wow, you just insulted a significant chunk of the HN readership.

EDIT: You should carefully consider your words before you speak, and perhaps also re-consider your values and opinion of other cultures.
I'm not arguing for patents, merely attempting to explain to the OP how to evaluate what they cover. You're ranting to the choir.

And EP, SP, SLP aren't compression algorithms in the sense that any court would recognize. Let's not engage in sloppy thinking merely because we dislike software patents. There are plenty of rigorous reasons to oppose them.
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I thought this was going to be a bootstrap template for building documentation/help for projects.

Someone please make this.
If the iPhone was obvious to many engineers, why did none of them develop a similar product? Why did Google's Android team develop an operating system that resembled a Blackberry, only to transition to something that closer resembled an iPhone after the iPhone's launch?
HN will be full of reports of Armstrong's passing. Here is how his family has asked he be remembered:

For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil,
we have a simple request. Honor his example of service,
accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk
outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down
at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.
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He is complaining about being labelled a spammer on Reddit, writes a blog post with as much substance as a marshmallow and then posts it on HN?

This article should be flagged for spam here, this isn't a venting site for your Reddit frustrations.
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I use cloud9, which has ace as the base platform as well. It completely replaced Aptana (Eclipse based fork) for me. I use it exclusively for development and it works quite well.
The fact that your valid opinion got downvoted shows that the problem may not be an emotionally biased jury in the courtroom so much as many emotionally biased HN users.
I would guess that a lot of the readers of the Times this is really helpful. I don't think most people understand this stuff at all, and the analogy is better than nothing.
Yes some of us don't want single payer healthcare. And I did mean to be snarky.
To people that think that this is about societal norms and people from Asia not understanding plagiarism is unethical ... How can you really believe that? That's just multicultural BS. They understand it is unethical, they just don't care for whatever reason -- they aren't that naive. You'd have to be mentally very childish to not to understand that. The same goes for corruption, people in the third world understand it's not good - they aren't deluded everyone.
Ask Tapbots what makes them more money: The four projects they launched before TweetBot, the aforementioned "project ideas rattling around in your head" or TweetBot. I have little doubt as to the answer you'll get.

Developers are mad at Twitter because Twitter gave them a platform to develop on, one that their users enjoyed and made them lots of money, and then yanked it away. Simply telling people to "let twitter go" is ridiculous. Just because you have another idea doesn't mean it will be anywhere close to as lucrative and sustainable as a Twitter client.

Just like the article says, nobody owes anyone in this situation. Everyone was basically in the wrong. However, devs are still going to be mad at twitter. You don't have to feel entitled to something to be annoyed when it's taken away.
Excellent 4-part interview series with him, quite recent too:

http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.com.au/
> Samsung deliberately and shamelessly copied Apple's products

Maybe I'm missing something here, but if Samsung really copied from Apple, I'd have expected a lawsuit about copyright infringement, not about patents.
There is plenty of talent out there; companies just aren't willing to pay for it. When it's normal for developers to make $300k+ as bankers, hedge fund managers, and corporate attorneys do, then there's a talent shortage.
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It turns out humanity's real soul (at least most of it) is always looking for gimmicks to waste their time - be it compulsive little "games", the gadget of the week, etc, etc.

I wish we had more Armstrongs. Truly inspiring man indeed...
love this quote... "Just as salmon swim upstream"... we gotta go to Mars
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Clearly I think this is an excellent idea. Very nicely done Scott! I expect this will have a long an prosperous life.
NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/science/space/neil-armstro...
The foreman holds a patent that could be the poster child for what's wrong with the software patent industry.

Being a Very Serious Person(tm) in an area that most people, who are paying attention, think has gone insane is generally not the kind of credential that should make people give your opinion more credence.
Apple-Samsung juror speaks out
Wondered why they were calling her "Sweet Mayer". The title was "Sweet! Mayer... "
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What people who have not been in court don't realize is that Apple won on the narrative. Find the good guy, find the bad guy, and the bad guy will almost always be found to "lose."

Many times, patent cases are argued like someone was trespassing: This idea is my property, and you started using it. What Apple did well in this trial is that it portrayed Samsung as a cheater—someone who looked over Apple's shoulder and copied down its answers. This portrayal obviously resonated with the jury leading to the overwhelming win.

Is that right? No, not really, especially for technical issues. Frankly, the most astounding part of this decision was that Samsung's standard-essential patents were not considered infringed. I fully expect Samsung to file (and win) a JNOV (a judgment notwithstanding the verdict) on that issue. But overall, I doubt this verdict will be overturned as a whole.
Before ACPI there was APM that allowed catching it as well.
Can it be proven that you cant do it in five?
Hi - yep, feedback always welcome, and - indeed - the plan has always been to shape future 'releases' of the book based on feedback from this release; that's part of the whole 'lean publishing' thing that Leanpub.com promotes.

In case I miss it on HN, please send it over to feedback@freelancedeveloperbook.com - the same goes for feedback from anyone who's read it.