skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of consumers, certain clauses restricting consumer remedies would be unlawful due to legislation protecting consumers in any event.

This includes removing implied terms like the implied term to exercise reasonable care and skill in the provision of a service. A consumer could argue that a developer has failed in this duty if they provide software which had an avoidable defect. As the article identifies, the problem is it would be a difficult process to identify what is truly avoidable. Due to the complexity of software and the ingenuity of hackers (for want of a better word) certain flaws will always be present. There is also the issue of contributory factors like the user's own failings in updating etc.

In reality, I think the main barrier to consumers bringing an action would be the cost and expense of litigation, not necessarily the terms of a EULA.
Nice metaphor.

To paraphrase Pollan: "Listen to people. Not too many. Mostly local."
I could use Linux but then HR wouldnt be able to schedule me for sensitivity training. (Snide but true.)
This reminds me of Paul Miller's ongoing "Offline" series. http://www.theverge.com/label/offline (older articles at the bottom) He's a writer for tech blog The Verge, but he's taking a one-year break from the internet. He's also really good at writing about it.
Yeah no. Rent-seeking would be asking $250,000 just for the permit to run their hacker-space. The city is only requiring that their public space be safe and accessible, not telling them the contractors they should hire and where they are required to spend their money. Heck if the dojo members were dedicated and diligent enough they could do most of the work themselves, probably for a lot less than the estimates they've received.

Frankly i don't see where any of this outrage is coming from. They've already raised most of what they need from private donations. It seems unlikely they will actually be shut down. If they were somehow unable to raise the few tens of thousands more they needed to get up to code, it would be due to the greed and stinginess of the well-off so-called pro-business types in the bay area. If tech investors cared a fraction as much about promoting startups and the economy as a whole as getting equity and a solid return on their investment, fund-raising for this sort of thing would be ridiculously easy.

Alas most all wealthy individuals are stingy as hell; they might give you $100 if you kiss their feet and carve their name in stone. Otherwise go back to your ghetto and quit bothering them.
> If you’re poisoned by a burger you can sue the restaurant that sold it - so why can’t you take a software developer to court if their negligent coding lets hackers empty your bank account?

Whoever came up with this example doesn't know much about law (and IANAL). To prevail in a court of law, the hamburger plaintiff would need to show a violation of prevailing standards of behavior, for example, health codes. But if a threat is unknown at the time of the injury, the defendant is generally held blameless.

An example is Legionnaire's Disease, which was ultimately traced to a decision to turn down water heater thermostats to save energy during the 1970s oil crisis. The hotel operators could hardly be held accountable for "negligence" in a case like this, where they had no possible way to anticipate a side effect of a reasonable decision.

It should be the same with software -- if a developer writes code in good faith and meets prevailing quality standards, he shouldn't be held to account for an exploit that arises later.

If the developer worked in collusion with hackers, that would be different, but it's not what's being discussed.
...um, no.

I live in the inner city. I'm white. My apartment is in an urban area, meaning I'm surrounded more by buildings than well-manicured streets and houses. I live in an urban environment. And we have people of all shapes, sizes and colors here.

When I lived in L.A. (North Hollywood, specifically), it was the same thing - urban (meaning, "of or pertaining to a city," look it up), but much more run-down. Not a lot of black people. More hispanics and white people. Myself included.

Communication depends on a common language to make it work. Just because you've decided that a common word means something different than its etymology - or its definition, even - doesn't make it so.
For me, it stated that Javascript for Safari Mobile was turned off. Same result, though; remove two overlays -- one for the JS message, and another that simply masks the underlying content, and that underlying content is perfectly visible.

I guess it's kind of pointless to comment, but I continue to resent the applicationization of basic content (data). In good part because it remains a security concern.
You can say that it's a new type of blog building tool which allows you to publish your own online social magazines with content you identify through your social media feeds, discover on the Web or create yourself. You use PersonSpot if you are looking to express, promote, define yourself or your business, and ultimately create value for your personal brand by informing others (magazines)...
> Alas, WASTE never caught on, in large part because it was disavowed by AOL shortly after it acquired WASTE developer Nullsoft.

Does the author imply that Nullsoft was acquired after WASTE's release ? Because I am almost certain Nullsoft was already a part of AOL at that time (and that the waste source code was online for a very short time before being pulled of).

Confirmed by wikipedia: Nullsoft was acquired in 1999 and WASTE released in 2003 (Justin Frankel left Nullsoft/AOL that same year).
My Favourite forgotten technology is the dialup BBS. It's like facebook, if it wasn't designed by your accountant.

There were dozens in any medium sized city, all with different flavours. They hosted ANSI art, message boards, walls(!) and online games. Exactly like Facebook, but 20 years earlier.

They disappeared in the late 90's as the internet became popular.
This has got to be the smallest OS update in recent history - 7.28MB did not feel right!
Cheaper at what cost?

China is subsidizing their solar manufacturing industry...

They spend $100 to manufacture a panel, only to sell it at $50. The government then gives that manufacturer $60 to keep them operating.

Their game is to keep doing this until the rest of the world can no longer afford to make domestic solar manufacturing viable.

This practice kills the US industry, and doesn't exactly lead to cheaper anything at the end... It just removes competition and establishes a monopoly that then gets to decide the price all by itself.
Gmail Is 100x Cheaper To Run Than Your Own Server
I heard the Save As... hack/fix was being modified to not write over the original. Crossing my fingers!
Still no fix for dropped Wi-Fi after waking up from sleep... I spent 15 minutes (really, I timed it) this evening closing and opening my MBP's lid until I could finally connect to my wireless router (which is literally 7 inches to the right of my MBP).

If you don't know what I'm talking about, read this: http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/06/lion-wi-fi-problems-solution-... - About 300 people have posted on that topic, it's really widespread yet it hasn't been fixed after 15 months. You can also google "lion wireless problems" to see literally thousands of post on online forums about this problem.

And a good news to all fellow iOS users: This "feature" (read "cancer") has spread to iOS 6 betas as well.
Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs
Actually, I think one of his strongest points is about making mistakes -- everyone does them and everyone makes the most amateur of them. If you haven't tried running SCA on your code, try it sometime. I've got a ridiculous ego, but when you get hundreds of warnings on your code, you realize just how imperfect you can be and how impossible it is to be cognizant of all things at all times. This is why teams are almost always better, and I'd prefer to review and be reviewed by someone else -- I'm my own biggest blind spot.
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

That would be a great book though.
> You may feel fixies are impractical but they carry benefits. The primary one being better power transfer.

Huh? The "chain loss" is the same during power. There's some friction loss when you're not pedaling a "not fixie" but there's also a "friction loss" in your legs when you're spinning just to keep a fixie's wheels turning.

> Second, you can often make a cheap fixie by finding an old frame, refurbishing it, and replacing the rear hub.

A coaster hub isn't that much more expensive and the user-experience is much better for most people. (That said, a coaster hub with some gears is reasonably cheap.)

And, replacing a hub is work (or expensive). It's often easier/cheaper to just find a rear wheel.
Good change!! the new logo is simple and direct the point.
>How many people here think Google should change it's logo? The logo itself lacks any sort of design principles and very clearly was created by a techie with lack of graphic design. So why on earth hasn't Google changed it?

They have changed it. They subtly update it every couple years to keep the shading and the bevel in line with current trends.

In any case, you're either missing my point, or you're missing the point of the scene in the wire. That was about a brand escaping their old image. Microsoft isn't doing that. They're embracing their old image, celebrating their old brand, and remaining recognizable as who they were before, even though they had the new logo. That's pretty much the exact opposite of what worldcom and the barksdale crew were trying to do. If they wanted to escape their old image, now would be a perfect time to do it, with their most different products ever, but they are sticking by both the windows and the Microsoft brands.
Hacking Instagram: release your photos under Creative Commons
Actually I noticed that they've recently started leaving off the .aspx extension on their MSDN pages.

For example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tt0cf3sx
Both MS and Google colors come from children's blocks, to convey ease of use.
Those are wholly related. Were the quality of Apple's hardware or software to decline my goodwill towards them would take an immediate drop. The one and only reason that I use their things because I find those things, and the support behind them, to be the highest quality.
But Visual Studio Express is also free.
Thank you! This was the first step towards amazing Prismatic clients for different screen sizes and platforms.
Even you say Opera did not invent "modern" tabs, so that means they did come up with the precursor. We owe atleast MDI tabs to Opera
Thank you! We hope you love the app.
Public transportation in America might as well be non-existent, and American suburbs which is where the largest portion of the country lives in, are un-walkable. You can't do anything if you don't have a car. I think this isn't clear to people who live in the few very large cities in the US, or live elsewhere in the word where public transportation does a good job of getting you around in a timely manner.

To give you an example, I live in San Jose area. To get to downtown san jose, it'll take me less than 10 minutes in a car on the high way, 45 minutes on the bike through the streets, or 1.5 hours on the bus.
The original Apple phone patent
That is not surprising, as you can buy it from the App store, too.
Why I Love Disney World
Is there a reason that you have to open/ close instead of just giving airport a kick in the pants?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system#Orga...
I read the article and understood what he's saying - but how exactly do two ugly parents make a beautiful baby?
Why Global Variables Are Bad
With European roulette, you'll win 47.30% of the time.
With American roulette, you'll win 44.74% of the time.

The same odds as always choosing black or red.
Instant YC startup: Twitter alternative with free 3rd party app support up to a given volume with dirt-cheap pricing for additional volume beyond that - long-tail your way to success just like an app store. Am I missing something obvious here?
Yeah, that completely threw me off. I thought I clicked the wrong menu item, closed it, did it again, and was thoroughly confused.
And yet not a word about battery power. You'd think that if this is in this one, they'd have it at the top of the list.
You're not alone. I feel bad about the release. It's ok that VMware release 5. But the problem is when you have version 4.1 , why you directly release 5 instead of 4.2? The Fusion 3 is release after Fusion 2.0.6 and I paid the upgrade fee. And then Fusion 4 is out after Fusion 3.1 and I paid the upgrade fee too. Thanks a lot VMware!

BTW, it only costs $29 to upgrade to Lion and $19 to upgrade to Mountain Lion.
A near photo-quality ballpoint pen drawing
Anyone know his current status?
I would suggest watching his entire talk on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk
Now to see if Messages has baseline functionality or if the crippling e-mail issues are resolved...

Nope? OK.
IP-sniffing is evil; I'm not advocating that.

Accept-Language is trivial to change; on Opera, it's one of the three things on the first tab of Preferences, and I can set it for all sites rather than on a per-site basis.
Consumption is the driving force of modern capitalism generally, not particularly related to the current economy. Capitalism relies on surplus; the problem with this of course is that is wasteful but it seems we don't really have an equally successful alternative.
One way to think about it is that there are really three games: game A (a slight loser), and games which I'll call BL (losing) and BW (winning). If you win a couple rounds of BW, the casino changes you to playing BL for a round. But if you don't play BL and instead go play A for a round, then when you come back to the table you'll be back to game BW. So you use game A, a slight loser, to avoid BL, a bad loser.

Playing only A is a slightly losing strategy. Playing a mix of BW and BL is a losing strategy, because BL is so harsh. But if you play BW mixed with A, you combine big wins with small losses, and therefore come out ahead.

This doesn't work in roulette because, no matter what color you play, it's a slight loser. Black and red are both examples of game A, so no matter how you mix them you're just playing AAAAAAAA.
I can confirm that it is NOT resolved or changed in 10.8.1.
Yeah. I got the IBM WorkPad 20x, which was basically a black rebranded Palm III. Used it... very sparingly. :) After a few years of it atrophying in a box somewhere I decided my life would be perfect if I had a Palm Vx. I even got a weird spring-loaded portable keyboard for it that sort of unfolded and docked with it. I think I imagined I would take more notes in class this way. In reality, I played a lot of Bejeweled on it and didn't use it for much else. Based on my experiences with these things, I shouldn't have expected that I'd get more out of my iPhone, but I really do.
Right; in sales contracts, as I understand it, the obligation is that of a prudent person's ordinary care. Virtually everything we do to help secure applications is extraordinary; it's hard to suggest that a standard of care over security that isn't even consistently practiced by banks and by the military could bind on the developers of photo sharing applications.

This all not to mention the explicit waiver of liability that accompanies virtually every product or software service offered in the US.
In your arguments against presales, you haven't said why you think that the other way is better. What's your reasoning? I'm assuming "because one creates better publicity" isn't it, since you seem to have something against the idea for deeper reasons.
I've really enjoyed the build up to the book. I haven't pre-ordered yet (mainly because I wanted to see how serious the author was), but Brendan has been on top of his game. I've received maybe 2-3 emails, each containing great little bits of information sharing info that (I imagine) will be further articulated in the book. The best part: it's hyper-relevant. I'm coming up with strategies for my design business and Brendan's insight has already influenced some early direction.

Give this dude your money (I'm about to), he's doing it right.
Cool stuff! I like that you mentioned mesh compatibility.

Yurt, Caravan, Convoy?
McCann: "I am more optimistic about GNOME than I've been in a long time"
I live in Portland and use public transit every day. On every article about Trimet on OregonLive, there are people that cite the same numbers you do, that say that these services are useless and that nobody uses them.

Until you do use them, and you realize that every bus is full, every Max car is standing room only and for as slow as the streetcar is, it is still packed every time. Considering the growth rate in this city, it isn't surprising that numbers look like they're going down.

I complain about the continuously, almost monthly, rising costs of a Trimet pass every month, but $100/mo compared to the $600+ I was paying for insurance and car payments (and not even including maintenance) has allowed me to live a more comfortable lifestyle. Forcing me to get a bike and living in a city that embraces its bicyclists has even made it a more healthy lifestyle as well.
Maybe he's just trying to manage expectations?
Still using my Trackman Wheel, and I absolutely love it. I dread having to replace it though.
The key word there is "prevailing quality standards". If a developer writes something, in good faith, that's vulnerable to SQL injection, or stores passwords in plaintext on a server, is that negligence?
< Patented algorithms/software usually don't have any physical world implementation.

Huh?

Take the "apple bounce" patent. I can see images move on a screen. How did that happen without a "physical world implementation"?

Note that the "cure rubber with heat" patent mentioned abouve covered a process, a set of steps. It wasn't a patent on a rubber curing machine.
dbl checked - purchased june 18. :(

Would still have liked to see a discount price for upgraders, vs full price.
Why Apple's iCloud Doesn't Just Work
How a Mars landing looks like
People also forget that Microsoft decided to tightly couple their browser to their operating system, not for any technical reason but so that they could fight the antitrust charges levelled by the U.S. DOJ due to their bundling practices and misuse of market power.

Consequently, I'm of the opinion that they made a rod for their own back and it became very costly to maintain and enhance their browser. Truly, they were hoist on their own petar!
Quite true.

I remember in the Games Developer Conference Europe 2009, all the Macs I managed to see, where actually running Windows.
I was expecting: Improve Safari Stability.

Safari is crashing way more frequently than it used to.
I was with you until: "So if something is painful to write in Objective-C, just write it in Ruby and easily add it to your project. Super neat stuff."

Nope, sorry. If you're going to write a native app, then write a native app. I abhor ob-c, but I'd MUCH rather not have a patchwork of languages to maintain on an iOS specific codebase.
The data is presented in a neutral way, but from the comments I get a sense that people are happy that other people use what they use. Why is an Apple (or Chrome) echo chamber desirable to having discussions with people that use a variety of technologies and software?
There was a similar issue with Snow Leopard and I would not doubt others had it with Lion. What irked me in my case was my first year i5 iMac (the i5 in twenty seven inch form) was perfectly fine until I upgraded. Then suddenly wireless may or may not work upon waking from sleep. The odd part was, it might work for a few seconds after waking before I would have to manually end it and connect again. It was talking to the Airport Extreme just fine, it could not get beyond it.

The kicker, the copy of windows which I ran through Parallels could connect. I could surf sites and VPN through Windows in a VM while OS X applications could not, until I bounced the wireless connection.
Come hack the auto industry at CarWoo - Product Manager (YCS09)
We're growing quickly. Too quickly, in fact, for our current team to handle...so we're looking looking for an awesome Product Manager to join us and help us scale things to the next level and continue taking the online auto industry by storm.

You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers.

Responsibilities

Work with Michael, Erik, Scott, Rimas, Tim, Andrew, Patrick, Jon, Rakesh, Derek, Todd, another guy named Tim to create a world class set of products. We may be getting a little bigger (9 engineers and 3 designers), but we are a close-knit team that works smart and gets a lot done.

Qualifications

- Be willing to take full ownership and responsibility

- Be incredibly persuasive. At CarWoo! you need to be convincing rather than commanding

- Be an engineer. We don’t expect you to code but we do expect you to enjoy getting into the technical aspects of what we’re building

- Be a risk taker

- Be humble

You get extra bonus points for:

- Ability to write complex SQL

- Experience with Rails development and everything that goes along with it (MVC,REST, relational database design/SQL)

- Experience with iOS development (Objective-C) or Android development

- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS

- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)

- Web service/API development (REST)

- Ability to play ping-pong skillfully and/or drive a go-kart furiously

- Knowing what your Erdos number is (or at the very least what it is without looking it upon Wikipedia)

- Being Canadian and having a sense of humor

Perks

- Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)

- Take as much vacation whenever you want, as long as you get things done

- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)

- A substantial amount of equity in the company

If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something that you’ve built that you’re proud of to peter@carwoo.com.

We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with
us).
Try turning off your bluetooth. I had the same issues with wifi reconnect after sleep and they went away after turning off bluetooth on the laptop.
Upgraded the day it was released, last few days I feel that you could cook an egg on my MBP after 2 hours of working (nothing fancy, IDE and browsers open - no heavy GPU usage). Do more people feel that 10.8.x overheats the machine?
>that could have been formed by hitting keys that were next to the ones you really hit wrong.

Google does this already and I would assume they aren't the only ones.

I once accidentally typed "cinnabd oatterb" into Google, yet it knew I wanted "Command Pattern". Still works today.
The US government should also be subsidizing solar energy. If it's not cost competitive against oil, they should subsidize it until it is. The estimates are that by 2020 solar will reach fossil fuel cost parity. So you're only talking 8-ish years to subsidize the solar industry. But instead the incompetent government lets US solar companies go out of business all the while continuing to subsidize oil companies that import from the Middle East. It all just wreaks of hypocrisy and corruption.
You do realize that most major companies have undergone brand/logo refreshments at some point? Infact its much more difficult to pick out a popular company that hasn't redesigned their logo/brand since it birth. If you think that signals the demise of a company then you should visit thefacebook.com sometime.