skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence room for the correct answer: we are built to consume both plants and animals, but different people respond differently to particular combinations thereof and thus have individual reasons to tailor their diets differently.
Should have ruled that each CEO gets to kick the other in the 'nards, alternating until they quit this nonsense.

Oh, well. There still hope the US jury found the 'nard kicking check box on page 256 of the jury verdit form.
India has 22.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status_...
Going from Kickstarter/prototype to China is too big a step. Small companies can not manage the constant hops across the Pacific to keep things moving.
Prototyping shops like http://www.techshop.ws/ are/will feed directly into US-based contract manufacturers that specialize in building the supply chain, assembly instructions, QA/QC checks, and the myriad details that can then bridge to China when volumes are sufficient.
The new Microsoft logo
Exactly.

There are tons of great, non-intuitive, ideas which aren't patentable (and this is very intentional).

[Apple has a lot of these, which is why their constant complaints about copying, while understandable, are not particularly meaningful. Copying ideas is OK (and indeed, good for society)...]
I always feel sad when I see someone who is completely unaware of what is really going on. But then I realize that a much smarter being than a human might feel the same way about us. Maybe we look just as tragically sad to some genius aliens.
It would be difficult to perpetrate this kind of Hoax in the US (though not impossible). On the whole a lot of people would try to find some other source to back up the SMS after the number of Hoaxes they have been subjected to.

Unless there was a really coordinated campaign that used multiple media platforms to reinforce the message....
I reckon this was simply a first-pass readme -- hands-up, who likes writing those?

I submitted a pull request that tones down the hyperbole somewhat: https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition/pull/5

I sense it's essential for them to keep the project focused on the software. Partly what makes this interesting is managing the partisan nature of discourse. That's a unique non-functional requirement here.

It's a good test for Github as a collaboration platform.
a Hari Seldon style video/letter/audio would be totally cool, but I'm mostly sure it would be only a letter. Still Cool.
> Changing topic slightly, how is a jury supposed to
> decide "non obvious to a person skilled in the art",
> anyway?

Juries are supposed to decide based on the evidence presented at trial by the opposing sides. The job of a jury during a patent case isn't fundamentally different from that during a murder or theft, except that the laws are more complex.

Note that the article says the Korean case was decided by a panel of three judges, not by a jury.
This should give every coder a moment of pause.

Consider. Here we have a $2.5 billion interplanetary mission that is easily the most ambitious space exploration mission since the Apollo project. And it's using a completely new and untested landing system. Only bits and pieces of the landing system have been physically tested, and not even remotely all together. Because it turns out it is rather non-trivial to simulate an atmospheric reentry from an interplanetary trajectory, in the Martian atmosphere, under Martian gravity. In the end it came down to relying on our prior understanding of the Martian environment and simulations and measurements of the landing system and trusting the software to do its job. Because the round-trip delay for a human to be able to effect some part of the landing is nearly half an hour, and the entirety of the landing would take about a quarter that much time. Indeed, by the time we on Earth would receive a signal indicating that the atmospheric entry had begun in reality the entire landing would have already occurred several minutes in the past.

If you ever thought that a lot was riding on your code, this will certainly put that in perspective.
The idea often isn't obvious (except in hindsight) ... but ideas aren't patentable.

The implementation (that which might be patentable), on the other hand is typically something any bozo could code up in half an hour without referencing anything, and thus "obvious."
Alright guys, get ready to bought out by Apple.
Really not bad looking. Amazing what you can do with MSPaint these days.
Careful... for "hn duckduckgo interview", at the moment, DuckDuckGo shows a HNSearch widget with three (stale) results, none of which is this page; no relevant results appear in the main listing. Google has no special widget, but this page comes up first in the main listing.

To digress a bit, zero-click is great when the information you want is actually accessible with zero clicks, but it's very, very limited: as soon as you need to click through to a website, special widgets can't compete with a solid backend for regular search results. That's why I can hardly imagine switching to DuckDuckGo...
I actually enjoyed browsing through this. I can see how a well researched and written article augmented with media elements such as video can be something people are willing to pay for. I think I would.

Edit: But you can say, so can any other page on the web. What I actually appreciated about this was the care that had gone into preparing the content. It would also mean that content becomes more individual rather than placing text in a box standard framework like a typical news website does.

Edit 2: I can see how e.g. a news site can have publicly available content and content behind a pay-wall that is prepared like the content illustrated in this example. More magazine style content.
Zeus IDE - Version 3.97n Released
How is someone like Psy even represented by the GEMA?
Zeus is a language neutral programmer's editor for the Windows platform.

This latest version improves support for the Go language.

NOTE: Zeus is shareware, runs natively on the Windows platform and can be run on Linux using Wine.

Jussi Jumppanen

Author: Zeus IDE
Seoul court rules Samsung didn't violate Apple design
This HTC One X Clone gets a 12 mega-pixel camera and 1.2ghz MT6577 CPU
The chips that used the patents were licensed.
Lance Armstrong's Statement
Amazon DynamoDB - Support for Binary Data
Start-Ups Emerge as Tech Vendors of Choice
Life of female coders in startups
Blocking the UI with requests is a UI no-no.
Android has the market share, iOS has the usage share. Lots of people get android phones who have no desire to use it as a smartphone, they just get a free phone that happens to be android. iPhone users actually use their iPhones for Facebook and web browsing and other smartphone tasks.
I haven't done enough pull requests to comment on the author's experiences...but one of my only was a trivial change...almost one of personal taste...to Twitter Bootstrap and I was disproportionately excited when it got acceptd. I'm assuming there's a disproportionate letdown for the inverse situation
Well perhaps it is - I can't use adblock on Facebook mobile.

I still can't send messages with return, though, which is a huge pain in the ass.
Man, I really wish that my grandfather had that. For the last few years of his life he was completely stuck in the 1940s -- he woke up from an accident and believed he was back in a field hospital during WW2. The homes he was in were sterile, unfeeling places; I would've loved for him to have something there. I don't know how comfortable he was there, but I certainly wasn't when I visited; getting him out and about (I hope) helped though...
Why I have my own Android game framework
Please link your fork! Heck, maybe Travis-CI will let PHP projects take advantage of it.
When you rely on another company's platform you are betting everything on the health and future of that platform. HTML will be around and Obj-C will be around. Will Parse? And if it isn't can you switch away quickly? I wrote about this last week, actually, if it is helpful: http://eliainsider.com/2012/08/17/live-platform-die-platform...
Check with your school's financial aid department; there may be grants and scholarships available. I know this seems pretty obvious, but many of my former classmates never even attempted to check.
Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely.
"In exchange, the 'hacker-entrepreneur' is expected to buy their own food, build a startup in town, and 'pay this kindness forward.'"

Sounds like after 3 months, the now-established startup is expected to host a new startup.
...or the playground.
Especially when it happens so that you are working in Space or Defense industry...
Is a screen with a rectangular shape that you can interact with a patentable object?
My guess is that it is collection of letters by people about the historic value of the day. It must be something boring like that otherwise he would have kept it for himself.
Easy enough to call his manhood into question, but pretty ridiculous when you immediately say that "Not that the campaign against him wasn't overzealous and clearly politically motivated, etc."

The abuse of the EAW and general excessive response are reason enough for to fight it.

As for salvaging credibility; a vicious media campaign had begun against him long before the extradition proceedings reached these dramatic heights — it's not a conspiracy either, it's just a lot of journalists are pricks.

I doubt going to Sweden would have changed that.

So, it's very easy to say he 'probably… made to face a comparatively light penalty', but when getting that judgement wrong means trumped-up espionage charges, it's a very different proposition altogether.
What kind of projects do 'hack' on?
Be honest. You've felt that way about other humans sometimes.
What are you testing your app on? JQMobile on my new Samsung S3 looks and flows very well. Where as my old android would have had trouble loading it.
It's an old cycling joke.

How do you know if someone in Tour De France isn't doping?
They come in last.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nondoping-cyclists-finish-t...
OT, but that is one hell of a hierarchical URL
Not sure why this is on hacker news, other than the fact that an epic athlete will be stripped of his honor and have an asterisk next to his name. In the footnotes it will say, "See Barry Bonds"

But his excellence and story is what we all pay to see. We don't really want to know. And who's to say those that receive Armstrong's awards weren't doping, too? Not trying to dismiss the situation, but PEDs are absolutely saturating ALL of sports today, no exceptions.

EDIT: Armstrong's response http://lancearmstrong.com/news-events/lance-armstongs-statem...
Kauffman Foundation, great BBQ, an innovate sports franchise (Sporting Kansas City playing in probably the most wired stadium in America), Stowers Institute for life sciences doing basic research into curing cancer with world class scientists, built on a star line which creates public-sector competitive pressures which businesses can play to their benefit. Huge tdevelopment alent engines in Sprint, Cerner, Garmin and access to talent from Omaha, Des Moines, Lincoln, Columbia.

It's not SV, it's not Austin, but it has a huge reach for a lot of talent and it is starting to spawn dividends.
It might be an application of forward error correction, using the redundancy inherent in written English. Instead of interpreting pressing the 'F' key as the letter 'F' with 100% probability, one could interpret pressing 'F' as meaning a 60% probability of 'F' and 5% probability for each of 'E', 'D', 'C', 'V', 'B', 'G', 'T', 'R' (the surrounding letters on a QWERTY keyboard). Concatenate successive key pressed to form codewords, then use FEC to find the dictionary word which has the maximum likelihood.

Getting fancy, one could use the results to train the system, fine tuning the probabilities as it goes. In this way, it doesn't matter where you type (or even the spacial relationship of the "keys"), as long as the location you use for each letter averages out to be reasonably consistent. In time the system will train itself to so English words come out, meaning the key mappings are probably correct.

For example, one could start typing "QWERTY" style, change to typing "Dvorak" and the system would put out gibberish for a while, then start putting out English again as the probabilities converged.
He describes a social problem which is very dependent on the actual maintainers, but blames it on the mechanism.

Yeah, some projects have prickly/uncooperative maintainers... so what? That's true regardless of the collaboration mechanism used, and there's no obvious reason why pull requests make this problem worse than other mechanisms.

Indeed, I would guess that pull requests make things better than many other methods, because they (1) make it much easier to review changes, (2) make it much easier for the submitter to update his changes in response to comments, (3) handily keep the discussion and patches all together in one easily accessible place, and (4) maintain a record of the request, helping to avoid the "forgot about it" problem that you get with e.g. patch requests on mailing lists ("Subject: ping" :).

Frankly, given the attitude in his rant, it seems pretty likely the problems he apparently has with maintainers aren't entirely the maintainers' fault...
I do a lot of reversing and security analysis; from web apps to game protocols to electronic locks. So it'd be nice to have a place set up with all my gear and just go focus on breaking product X.
It's ridiculous that the government pursue these charges as criminal. Any such issues should be dealt by the sport's own committee and not by a government body.
The DVD Is Dying. Hollywood's Plan? Do Nothing And Cede Ground To File Sharing
FWIW, I forwarded the article and these comments to my friend who works in the energy sector in South Australia. His comment:

"The comments talk about electric cars effectively being used as batteries to help supply the grid during peak times which is a concept I haven’t heard of. Electric cars being plugged in overnight to increase the night-time demand would certainly help as you would significantly increase the base-load demand, thereby improving the load factor of the network. This then distributes the fixed infrastructure costs over a higher number of kWh lowering the per/unit cost of energy."
Anyone else remember Al Capone's vault?
Alexanderh's main concern is he doesn't want to choose who gets treatment:

>This type of charity should be first come first serve to be fair. Not some bidding war over who's the most sickly (but still cute) looking child, or who has the most compelling story. A human is a human.
The good intentions are there, but something about the way this website presents itself is twisted. Why should any of these people receive preferential funding over any other of them? Why should I get to choose? I'm not an expert on their medical conditions, or who needs more help than others. If this gets people to give money to a good cause, thats fine. But Idk. Still seems odd.

Can't you also provide a way to pay to a common pool? People who are uncomfortable with choosing can contribute to this pool. You can take money from that pool and forward that to patients who urgently want money for treatment? And people who contributed can see where their money got used (if they want).
Not sure if you're confused about what Parse is or whether you weren't being precise with your words, but Parse _or_ native iOS app development isn't comparable.

Are you asking whether it's safe to depend on a service like Parse/Stackmob as your backend or are you asking about the pros and cons of building native apps vs html5/hybrid?
I was thinking the same thing! Big buildup and nada.
I suppose you never learned about monads and monoids.

But seriously: what is patentable in video codecs? Isn't it just math function? Give input in the domain of function and you get output.

Beside side-effects are only reading input and writing output - nothing else is side-effect. We already figured I/O almost 50 years ago - nothing novel here (the moment you get touchscreens is the moment kbd on touchscreen is created as it is obvious)
Electronic Glove Helps Doctors Diagnose Breast Cancer
Human frailty can happen to anyone, any time. I have been on Hacker News 1376 days now, and over the years I have seen highly educated people here believe absolute nonsense on many (and, alas, repeated) occasions. Our best defense against our common human cognitive bias of believing what we want to believe, or what fits our preexisting prejudices, rather than the truth is to have communication with our fellow human beings about what the facts show, and which facts are most reliable, and how all the evidence fits together. In the best case, Hacker News discussions can be practice in learning how to think twice before believing the latest new story on the Internet. But already today, and for every day thereafter, we will continue to see examples here of people whose minds are already made up before they've sufficiently examined their own beliefs on some controversy, and who will gladly pass on a rumor as fact.
For what it's worth, I have (older)relatives in Sweden who still write like that, with a ballpoint pen. So i don't think it's necessarily that it was written with a fountain pen, although they may have learned with a fountain pen and just continued writing that way.
This paragraph in the article seems off:

Education is the “obvious outlet for the money Millennials can spend,” Perry Wong,
the director of research at the Milken Institute, told us, noting that if young
people invest less in physical things like houses, they’ll have more to invest
in themselves. “In the past, housing was the main vehicle for investment, but
education is also a vehicle.” In an ideas economy, up-to-date knowledge could
be a more nimble and valuable asset than a house.

I don't buy this at all. I think he may be right about Millenials investing in themselves, but I think he's wrong about it being money. Millenials are generally internet natives. They don't need to spend money on self improvement, just time, because so many educational resources are free and readily available on the internet and the quality of those resources is only improving with time.
meh, if it's true he made a lot of money from it. Fraud?
I wonder what they would do if inside there was another package that said "don't open until 2112"...
What a shame for the sport and community as a whole that this happened.

EDIT: HNers might enjoy this [0] relevant Wikipedia article

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_cycling...
The Most Beautiful and Imaginative Public Schools in the World
I think PayPal does take a cut. Look at their transparency doc: https://docs.google.com/a/cordys.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah...
TCP/IP sockets in C#.NET 4
That's simple. Dip and fountain pens allow you to create lines of different thickness, which can result in interesting calligraphy. It's simply impossible with ball pens which produce constant thickness lines.
Doesn't help for multiple <span>s (actually <abbr>s from the post) in a single screenshot, but a bookmarklet or userscript that replaces all <abbr>s with their title attributes would help.
This is going to be awesome. Daniel Lindsley always delivers seriously good stuff.
Opening issue #2 was not a wise or helpful act. This initiative should be encouraged; presumably the government will be more enthusiastic about continuing the experiment if they do not receive the impression that the community of open source developers are childish and counter-productive.
I would for the right team :D
"Yet all of their attempts to break into the US market have resulted in absolute failure (for a variety of reasons that I won't get into here)"

'Absolute failure' only if your standards are impossibly high. Even without Psy, Kpop was making legitimate inroads in the age of YT. TV appearances, concerts, blips on itunes charts and of course they are all over YT.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=2NE1%2CSnoop%20Dogg...
> 2. Real world things bounce. Copying the way something works in the real world and emulating that in software and sticking an Apple logo on it is not inventing something. That's just... building things.

Actually, there's the small detail of knowing what part of the myriad details of reality to imitate. If you the secret or principle that tells us that, please post it here.
I don't think it constitutes as fraud.
Armstrong to Be Stripped of Tour Titles, Banned for Life
This would have dragged on for months and the witch hunt would have found something. Remember the Barry Bonds case took AGES to complete and his case was easy.
Does it bother you that you are subsidizing defective genetics and thus making humanity less fit and thus increasing the average level of suffering?
You might think you are being nice by decreasing the suffering of an individual, but you are also dooming consciousness to suffer being born into a defective host that otherwise would not have happened if not for your subsidization of defective genetics.

I am curious as to what the higher than average enlightened readership of HN thinks on this?

Of course it is very taboo to say what I did as the medical industrial complex is on the side of causing this problem as they are then guaranteed not just one more customer, but a new lineage of customers.
What's really scary is the entire industry is doing their best to make this normal and they've enjoyed phenomenal success so far. This is almost Microsoft playing catch up.
Interesting. The nursing home where my grandma was, had a car in the courtyard for patients with dementia to sit in.
The advantage of sharing the individuals' stories is not only for preventing scammers. Connecting with recipients would be hugely motivating for your donor base. DonorsChoose.org is an excellent example of an online charity that built a scalable feedback loop into its donation process (I ran marketing there for a few years). At DonorsChoose.org, donors fund teachers' projects, and then teachers submit pictures online of the project taking place in the classroom. It brings donors back over and over again.
"The only physical evidence here is the hundreds of controls I have passed with flying colors. I made myself available around the clock and around the world. In-competition. Out of competition. Blood. Urine. Whatever they asked for I provided. What is the point of all this testing if, in the end, USADA will not stand by it?"

I assume the USADA is stating that all these tests we wrong ? Or that his 'doping' technique was too advanced ? Seems a pretty long stretch of the bow in my mind.
Beautiful Tolstoy quote. And I do see the irony in saying that. But still.
The article would be a little more convincing if the author had checked that SmartScreen actually uses SSLv2, rather than simply running on a web server which happens to support the protocol.
Annamarie's 36th Birthday
SwiftKey already does this, and more. You can miss all the letters in a word, and type multiple words without pressing the spacebar and it can still accurately detect what you intended to type. Nothing revolutionary here.
Record pour le trafic dans le tunnel sous la Manche ce mois d’août 
Les Jeux olympiques de Londres n’ont pas été sans effet sur le trafic dans le tunnel sous la Manche. Eurotunnel a eu la surprise de voir défiler les voyageurs par milliers entre le 6 et le 12 août.
maybe not, still makes him a phony.