skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Without business.txt he would have to go to all the websites like Yelp and Foursquare and..."

No. No no no. This is not how the Internet is supposed to work. I search for a restaurant online hoping they have a website with this information on it. If it's a chain, I can find the local location and know the information is correct. If it's a local place with a website, the information is probably outdated anyway because they don't edit the site when their menu and hours change ... which means they're not going to edit business.txt to reflect the changes. So I'm really trying to find a phone number to speak to a human or listen to the answering thingy so that I can verify their hours.

This proposal is to help automate updates on other sites when the restaurant changes their menu or their hours. The only way this is going to work is for the computers that help manage the restaurant are also providing information to the website. Need to change the menu? Great, the changes are also pushed to the website. Changing the hours employees can clock in? Comes with a requisite change to operating hours and is reflected on the website.
WSJ-style portraits in Mathematica
Winners and Losers in Apple/Samsung case
I agree it's the end-to-end execution that made the iPhone a success. But Samsung had a completely different end-to-end execution, right?

I agree with being able to sue for a complete copy of end-to-end, or even an attempt to. I just didn't see it in this case, especially with all the prior art. I don't understand the recipe analogy, to me it's like Bush's Beans suing another bean company for the inclusion of cocoa in the recipe. I'm baffled that you feel pinch to zoom should be patentable.
In terms of software, I agree. iOS was revolutionary.

In terms of hardware, I disagree. None of the hardware on Apple devices have been invented. The fact that they are specifically produced for Apple doesn't mean they were invented. We can't count A5 as invention because most ARM licensees design their own SoCs anyway. Samsung's Exynos isn't an invention either, it's just another ARM SoC. But if, for instance, Apple manufactured/designed a new kind of display (like Samsung's AMOLED) then that would count as inventing something hardware wise.
You are right... Moreover I see now there are motherboards with display port :)
Pretty sure the big deal, if you break it down to component parts, was actually having a capacitive touch screen rather than resistive. Fingers instead of styluses opened a whole new world of phone interactions.

If they had patents on multitouch hardware itself, power to them. But software patents? Meh.
No, its not IE this time, as with Raphael for example I can use VML. The dog here is Google with Android.
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Isn't scoffing at a new competitor just going through the motions required of you? No one is going to say "darn they beat us to it" to the press.
Obviously, if you had a 6' fat sedentary person suddenly start walking 3 miles a day, they would lose weight. That's actually -not- the claim of the paper. The paper claim is that total energy expenditure is largely uncoupled with physical activity levels. For example, within the Hadza they found no real difference in energy use compared to different amounts activity. They also found no relation between body fat percentage and total energy use.

What this points to is that if you give the human body time to adapt to any set of conditions, you'll likely end up burning roughly the same amount of calories.

Here's the actual paper by the way: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.po...
I wish they wouldn't censor it at all. Working in network/information security, when I see one of these posts the first thing I do is go into our SIM tool and look to see if any of our clients have been seen talking to this address. I then do a reverse-DNS lookup to find the domain name they have censored to see if our DNS has been talking there. Censoring it just makes my job harder, and defeats the point of the entire blog post.
> As an aside, it's not clear how Samsung's legal team let this guy onto the jury in the first place.

I think it has become clear now :)
Sadly, I believe a lock down of computers is inevitable. Look at what happens when there is a security incident or some perceived violation of privacy. Lots of press and a visit by your company's C-level executives to Capital Hill so lawmakers can put on a circus. If you believe Android will continue to be more open than iOS, then I would just say a couple of more visits to DC will cure that.

I wonder how many fortune 500 address books kept in Outlook of their salespeople were uploaded by an Windows app? Put the machine in your pocket and the cries for safety and privacy win. These Post-PC devices are amazing tools except for the people who make them sing and dance.

I really would love a open hardware platform just for programmers.
Why would i need ten? I'm fine with one.
Job offer for hackers in Barcelona, Spain
TiberSynth, a real-time vector synth for the web browser
Brudgers point about browser support is the main reason. However, earlier versions of IE had VML, which is very similar to SVG.

Take a look at [Raphaël.js](http://raphaeljs.com/), which conveniently wraps up SVG and VML into one library. There are some minor quirks when dealing with IE, but nothing that can't be worked around. I've used SVG is most of the commercial work I've been doing for the past 2 years with great success.

On the performance side though, there is a noticeable performance hit on mobile browsers. Also, Google made the odd decision to leave SVG out of it's mobile webkit implementation in earlier version of Android. And because Android adoption rates aren't great, it has been an issue on some projects. However, it's possible to fill that hole using the canvas tag.

I personally think it's SVG's time to shine. HD graphics present a huge problem which SVG goes some way towards solving, and it's a great replacement for some of the stuff that was previously the sole domain of Flash.
Put it on Cydia?
you can use the _style attribute with any element. For example {b_style="font-size:20;font-family:Courier New" content}. I intended it to work with other html attributes, so using multiple attributes would look like this {b_attr1='asdf'_attr2="asdf" content}. It would be just like html almost except for the quirky syntax. I only allow syntax for now because it's intended to be safe and I didn't want to allow things like onclick or anything javascript. Allowing a class attribute is also easy, but for now I didn't want to because the site I will be adding it to soon could use a previously defined class that's width 600 or something. Right now style is well controlled if you try to make things too wide or use something like display:none
The jurors in this case were reviewed by both Apple and Samsung legal teams during the "Voir dire" process - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voir_dire#Use_in_the_United_Sta... .

The process goes like this: each party, taking turns, gets to ask a question about potential jurors background or their current situation. Jurors that show potential bias or inability to deliver an independent ruling are thrown out (either by the judge's decision or by using a limited amount of discretionary vetoes that each party has).

It's a major failure for Samsung's legal team to allow Hogan to stand, considering his background. I doubt these lawyers to be ever able to represent again a tech company in a court of law.
MathML is not a substitute for TeX.
The gist of the article is this: the reason people are fat today is not because they burn fewer calories per day. In fact, they burn the same amount as hunter gatherers. Thus, the reason people are fat today is because they consume more calories per day.
Long time ago, as a kid, my uncle took me to a soccer match in the Santiago Bernabeu. I've never liked soccer, so I spent much more time looking at people than the game. When the game ended, lots of people were red-faced, incredibly angry, neck veins sticking out, shouting all sorts of rude and terrible stuff at the ref. I was scared, I thought they would riot, jump the fences and kill him or something. As soon as he disappeared from sight, everyone relaxed and smiled, laughed to each other and said things to the effect of "that'll teach him."

In Spain most people are more preoccupied with being seen complaining than with doing something about that which they complain about.
Ask HN: Is it possible to implement a mach kernel (microkernel) in Golang?
Historically, we have seen full blown Operating Systems bieng implemented in Oberon and Limbo.

Also referring to this link http://devcry.heiho.net/2012/07/golang-mach-programming-model-in-go.html?m=0
Is it possible to write a good microkernel in Go?
Is there a cache on the "original thread"?
You skipped "ruin your credit"
I certainly hope that patents aren't intended to protect realizing that something has economic value. I personally hold "This is an obvious way to do this" and "I can make a lot of money if I do this" to be nearly orthogonal. I'm a little tired of people claiming Apple deserves government protection because they discovered a market.
Research paper on "opinion spam" (fake review) telltales
It should say that then:

"Would you participate in such a project for free or would you require some kind of reward."

The biggest problem is the perpetration of the myth that hacking is "penetrating security systems". A hack is a "quick but brilliant" solution to a problem. Hackers were people that could do this over and over again.
hostname.com/business.txt is wrong.

You are supposed to use the /.well-known/ subfolder.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785

If you plan to implement a "standard" please try to review the RFCs that have covered this ground before. There's probably already a standard which may fit. If not, there's probably one that's close you could propose a change to. And if you're trying something genuinely new, you'll at least be on the right foundation.
Distributed (in-memory) graph processing with Akka
"Jurors are free to ignore them, and should ignore them when justice requires it."

And justice required them to use the courts to "send a message" and punish Samsung with more than "just a slap on the wrist"?
Why? I've had to switch between a few different gym companies over the years and never had any trouble.
You'd rather a robot hit your frontpage— and by association, your application- than hit your 404 static page?

Instead of generating errors from 404s (a lot of noise), try generating errors from the same repeated 404s.
I believe they used this trial to buy some time. They have many grounds to file an appeal now (think of the evidence they introduced too late, which was rejected). Until then, the verdict will not be final. Meanwhile, their old products which infringe can be phased out of the market without much cost. The newer products have their own style (Galaxy S III for example).

The biggest danger they face now is the potential blocking of their most profitable products from the US market. But they likely can fix this all in software in the time until this ban can come into effect.
Solar for the 99%
It is up-to-date during the season, while Netflix is always a season behind. In the summer off-season, not much different.
I find this particular slide interesting:

The academic system does not respect practitioners' knowledge (or timescales).
I know whereof I speak.
Practitioners don't understand that computer scientists don't care about building software.
They are about the science of computing.

Sad but true. Most of CS class taught the theory and algorithm part (compiler, OS, data structure, algorithm, etc) but only a little give materials about programming and writing good code (I think it's called "Software Construction" in Code Complete?). I never understand this, because isn't the point of computer science (or software engineering - the course is not that different, at least in my place) is building software? Seems like many CS people love doing anything but programming.

I kind of hope that one day I'll learn an actual architecture design class for example, because most of my class (both on undergraduate and graduate school) teaches nothing about it. You are expected to write a compiler, but not graded by your code quality. As long as your code works, you pass. It's sad.

Maybe we should start teaching about programming and Software Construction early, so we can actually talks about architecture and good code on OS or compiler class.
Move your feet
Postini competitors go after Google's customers
I think that this is an interesting experiment, and reminds me of Clojure's hiccup[1] library.

In hiccup, you model html to be rendered as nested vectors and maps, such that

<span class="foo">bar</span>

becomes

(html [:span {:class "foo"} "bar"])

Where this is a real win is when you realize that it's just data:

(html [:ol
(for [x (range 1 4)]
[:li x])])

Lisps are well suited to model html.

[1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
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I'm not sure why the author is so afraid of the chargeback process. If you request a merchant to stop charging you and they refuse or don't acknowledge you, your credit card company will contact the merchant on your behalf to cancel the relationship or block future transactions. It only takes a few minutes to submit the request.
I like to get in here through the URL 'hackerne.ws'. It's shorter and easier to remember than 'news.ycombinator.com'.
Little weekend project for those of you upgrading to VS2012
People were right to hate the cellphone industry 5 years ago. The best things available were Nokia candybar phones -- approaching the Ford Escort in terms of reliability -- and the Palm Treo, which was more or less the apex of combining a PDA with a phone without actually doing much integration. People are currently right to hate cellphone service providers.

As later history would reveal, BlackBerry executives were entirely correct to consider the iPhone an "impossible feat of engineering" -- from their point of view. RIM had huge market share, yet couldn't engineer its way out of a stapled paper bag.
I'm a big fan of Vividchalk - it has a lot of contrast, and the colors are well chosen. It gives a different color to everything, which does make your terminal look like a chrismas tree light explosion, but that color does deliver extra information (which is the entire point of color highlighting).

I tried Solarized for a short while, and while I appreciate the logic that went into designing it, the lack of contrast made me switch away from it pretty quickly.

I think font choice also has a lot to do with this - some of these schemes look far better with antialiasing turned on, or larger font sizes. Inconsolata 13 pt here.
Did you see how Samsung emails noting Samsung was told by Google to back off from copying Apple and they didnt is what persuaded their decision?
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses [1][2] is long-overdue. “There is a current, established format for international addresses” is probably one of them.

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

[2] http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...
Pinch and zoom in 2001 on a capacitive screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waSXkJBKT1s&t=2m19s

This was presented in the case. Apple argued it didn't represent prior art because:

1. The screen was a projector and therefor this showed two devices. (Capacitive CRTs have excited since the 80s)

2. Samsung didn't present the code for this implementation in time, so it could not be proved that this was either object oriented or event-based.

So Apple's non-obvious extension of prior art was to 1. do this exact thing on a non-projector device, 2. use event-based code.
Microsoft and Sony didn't copy Nintendo outright.

Stagnation. That's what you get when people duplicate ideas instead of leading with their own.
These jury instructions were not 100+ pages of narrative. They were mostly "check the box" questions. I don't know if it's unreasonable to go through them in a few days if you already had a general feeling that Samsung had done wrong.
>>>>"Of course, if we push our bodies hard enough, we can increase our energy expenditure, at least in the short term. But our bodies are complex, dynamic machines, shaped over millions of years of evolution in environments where resources were usually limited; our bodies adapt to our daily routines and find ways to keep overall energy expenditure in check."

And yet how do we get from a modern man spending most of time sitting down spending the same energy as a Hadza walking ~100 miles a week to a modern Olympian swimmer supposedly spending 12,000 a day and maintaining 8-10% body fat while swimming 50 miles a week? Does 10+ years qualifiy as 'short term'?

http://www.michaelphelps.net/michael-phelps-diet/
I would say that the screen size and rez are not comparable. That the Macbook Pro Retina has 3 Million more pixels than the Zenbook. And that 11.6" is still awfully small for a primary machine.

I'd also say that the Zenbook has a dual core i7 with 4MB L3 cache. The MBP has a quad core with 6MB L3.

I'd also say that the SSD on a UX32 looks like it's 128MB standard, half what comes standard on the base MBP Retina.

And finally that even Ubuntu/Mint have far more issues than OSX. Things like always reliably coming back from sleep modes. I still have issues with this on Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop machine.

Look, i think the Zenbooks are beautiful and if all you have to spend on a machine is $1300 then I'd seriously consider it vs the 13" Air. I'd probably go Air because I have a lot of Apple ecosystem but an apple noob would probably go Zenbook.

But you can't compare it to a Retina 15" Macbook Pro. It's not like everybody that buys Apple just mindlessly forks-over an extra $900 for the brand name. The machine packs a punch.
The exploit (applet.jar) contains two classes - Gondzz (dropper downloader) and Gondvv (the exploit). Here is the decompiled source code of Gondvv: http://pastie.org/4594319
Line by line parsers are much much more limited. This can support syntax transformations and html attributes. This is more of an html-alternative in terms of capability. Markdown links are ugly and you need double space instead of single space for every space you input. I could do something like replace things nested in as italics but I'd rather have normal characters not turned into formatting. Lisp might look ugly in comparison to python, but not html and bbcode.
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> "I have a hard time seeing how debit cards are worse than credit cards."

In the US, debit cards are generally also credit cards. They can be processed exactly like a credit card, without a pin number, without a second glance at the signature usually, and the money comes out of the associated checking account.

So instead of a fraudulent charge just being a line item on a statement until your card issuer can prove that it isn't fraudulent - it represents actual missing money from your checking account, until you can convince the bank that the charges are fraudulent

I had a debit card compromised in one of the regional card processer hackings and had $1500 [1] of my money tied up until the bank reversed the charges and gave it back. They took 12 business days. That was not cool.

[1] Three $500 purchases of flowers, 10 states away from where I live, each 1 hour apart. How does that not look suspicious? I get a phone call from the same bank almost every time I travel after the first time I use my credit card for a nontrivial purchase. They sanity-check that I really am halfway across the country. That is awesome. That also represents their money being protected from fraud. Apparently, when it comes to protecting my money from fraud, they're not so motivated.
Since this is Hacker News I have to point out that the "weekly interacting massive particle" could be, for example, my over-weight boss whom I have to meet every monday. ;)
Consumers aren't paying to use the equipment. They're paying for the sensation that they care about their bodies and for the peace of mind of knowing that if they had time or motivation they could go work out. Interest in something = spending money on it (at least here in America).
Implications of a busy day
No. That is Groklaw's interpretation of what he said. He could have simply meant that by finding Samsung guilty of willful infringement that they were punishing them.

And I don't understand what you're implying by saying that they rushed through the case. Do you think they would have changed their mind or "woken up to the truth" if they were in the room longer ?
I didn't see this coming. Given their existing userbase, my take is that this is more about "hedging your bets" than anything else. I am still very skeptical that a consortium-led organization is going to be able to effectively compete with Amazon but the jury is still out. We live in interesting times :)
> Today, we know how that story played out. We have PS3 Move and Xbox Kinect

Neither of which has really taken off for gaming. The Wii wasn't really a success either. Sure, they sold a lot of consoles, but the console is sold at - at best - break even (and only there after 3-4 years on the market). All the money is in the game licensing (Paid per copy from the developer to the console maker). Wii owners just don't buy that many games - I remember a study that pegged it at ~half what a typical Xbox owner bought.
Better title: 5 simple tips to turn GMail into a powerful collaboration tool
Owning ten colour schemes is like owning ten cars. They look really nice and are fun to show off, but at the end of the day, you can only use one at a time.
Honestly, the more these cretins open their mouths, the more I think Tim Cook might have to commission an "unsend" feature for Mail.app.
How about internationalization?

Shouldn't this be self-descripting - like indicating language code (use ISO...) of the narrative/description?

Also, how about country codes? I mean - some people use U.K., some UK, some England, some United Kingdom, etc
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All the parties involved are aware what a risk jury trials can be. It's why many companies settle, and Lucy Koh specifically warned them about this before the jury began to deliberate. They made their bed as far as I'm concerned. I do have a problem with the jury being criticized though. This happens in all high-profile cases where some group of people dislike the decision. Judges are very protective of juries for this reason.
Xarn came up with a very similar implementation of an s-expression-based markup language a few years ago:

http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2010/05/25/towards-a-better-b...

It's fun to play around with for a minute, but unless you really like /prog/, you're rarely going to want that kind of flexibility in basic text formatting. Still, a sexpcode parser would make for a decent board gimmick, so I'm kind of surprised that no one (that I can remember, anyways) used it for that.