skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this, it's a great collection!
I always thought coders had the ability to sniff out a BS software patent a mile away. But with all the pro-Apple patent comments, it seems software ignoramuses and revisionists have taken over HN. How can anyone "skilled in the art" stand by Apple's patents as non-obvious?

http://www.erwanmace.com/2010/03/apple-did-not-invent-apps-a...

If such innovations weren't obvious to someone in the mobile industry given all the prior art out there, they've got to be a complete idiot.
"Hate" isn't even a strong enough word for how I feel when that happens. The cognitive dissonance is so strong and discomforting that I don't even have a word for it. I mean, there you are, looking at a bit of code that absolutely, totally, could not possibly work, and yet you know that it has been working. When I encounter that, I suspect I feel something like what the characters in H.P. Lovecraft stories[1] feel when they come face to face with some terrible, grotesque, eldritch being that could not possibly exist.

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos
Startup developing GMO silkworms that spin super-strong spider silk
Interesting find: "Sherlock Holmes" avoids the Argument/Philosophy loop; "Poirot" does not.
Oh, we have enough infrastructure in the rich world to make flushing toilets work.
There's so much to hate in Romney
> Were they allowed to remove potential jurors from the pool?

Of course, but each side has a limited number of times to veto a jury member. Those run out pretty quickly.
Here's a new Supermicro form factor that I really like that wasn't mentioned in the post:

1U with 2 CPUs, 10 x 2.5" drive bays, redundant power

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/1027/SYS-1027R-...
I recommend getting this in the App Store so musicians can start using this. Even for a very simple version, charge at least $1.99.[1] Don't over engineer it in terms of features within the app, but make sure the core functionality works as advertised for a broad range of folks. There is a massive novelty factor here which I think will create a viral growth of sales. This will allow people who can't beatbox to experience the joy of beatboxing. :-)

If it continues to works as advertised as it evolves, I think you could quite easily find yourself either in a licensing agreement (or small acquisition) with Apple. Their Garageband app is packed full of "smart instruments" that are in a very similar vein as this. Most of them are quite awesome. My son is obsessed with playing them. They allow even kids to have fun making music and experimenting with sound. Something like this would be a real improvement from what they currently do for "smart" drums.

So, I think there is an initial awesomeness which is that you could have a successful app, which in itself would be a real accomplishment these days. This concept definitely has the potential. However, I really, really hope to see this picked up and incorporated into a larger tool for creating music in a fun way.

Best of luck, guys. Great job.

[1] Might be a bit specific in terms of advice, but not knowing your background/experience building and marketing apps, I thought I'd throw it out there. Coming in with a price tag that's at least $1.99 gives you flexibility with promotions, etc. down the road. Furthermore, something like this definitely provides at least that much value/entertainment.
Are there any major articles that don't loop?
Will it run on HP Touchpad ?
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=michaelochurch
Yes, fairly similar but not the same.
Looking at Windows Azure Mobile Services with Fiddler
I wasn't joking, but now I am depressed.
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I think that works for CC because the people using the license are using the license and not the summary. It's ok if a third party to the licensor provides a summary.
real cool app!
It may have helped that we were already on ~12 servers but I don't think they're discriminating, they have terms like unused credit not rolling over so they can't be expecting everyone to use it all.
To the relief of physicists, time really does have a preferred direction
Or freemium servicing.
Now that is an interesting story, and one I've never seen before. I'll have to keep that in my back pocket.
As somebody who took an offer from Google a year ago: I debate the merit of point #1. I openly shared what I was making (including bonuses), and I got an offer that I was quite happy with. No negotiation required.

In fact, I do make a point of telling HR departments that I don't negotiate. They have one shot to make me an offer, and either it's good enough or not. As far as I can tell, this has worked fine for me so far (25 years and counting) - and takes the entire haggling component off the table.

If you're a person who actually enjoys negotiation, this is obviously not valid for you :)
Code For Twilio's Free Fantasy Football Draft Room App (Node.js + Redis)
The Net or the Jet
This is a superior visualisation in my opinion - it actually builds you a tree of links as you enter subsequent searches. Quite interesting to see how article chains cluster into 3 or 4 different "main branches".
It's true: C++ is probably going to own AAA games for a long time, and, for desktop applications, you're going to tend to use the "golden path" dev environment for each platform (ie, ObjC for Mac apps, C++/Managed C++ for $50 Windows desktop apps. Right now, I'm not sure I know of a desktop app environment where Go fits on the golden path.

And, I'll restate: from the 1000-or-so lines of Go I've written so far, I'm pretty clear that I wouldn't want to use it for frontend web stuff (anything with serverside templates). But I'd probably use it before I would use Node.js for a backend web service, or maybe even for a single-page app.
"Investors were looking at this company as they did many other things they invested in."

tl;dr: Investors were looking for the IPO pop and then dumping it. Problem is, if everyone follows that idea, there's no upside left.

It was obvious from when FB first started trading on SecondMarket that the "IPO pop" would happen before the IPO. The IPO pop stems from a supply/demand mismatch (lots of people want to get in but are unable to). And because the accredited investors got in before the IPO, the only people left were "retail" investors (and we know how that story ended). Many analysts and investors don't understand that key point, which is why a lot of people were caught with their pants down.
Tapping the Power of 100 Suns
And: specific to your question, I don't believe the PA distinguished between one-finger and multi-finger gestures, though I'd have to review it more closely.
New Blog: Words
The OP says they can spin up a new bare metal machine in 10 minutes. It's likely the performance hit from running in a virtualized environment isn't worth shaving time off the 10 minute build.
And how's that working out?
Thanks! What direction would you take it first?... We´ve jotted down a few "product" ideas in the blog...
So can some humans... If you look at the video referred to by that link it's pretty clear that it is the tigers front paw is what is 12 feet off the ground. I believe I've seen footage of someone jumping to touch the top of a basketball backboard. This is massively different than someone jumping _over_ the backboard.
Well at least one thing to note there, is that post is from several years ago... both virtualization technologies have gotten better since then, as well as processors.

I think there are certainly specific web and db loads that aren't going to work as well under VM scenarios, but on the whole our experience has been positive. There will, I imagine, always be a slight 'slowdown' due to VM but with the gigantic push toward 'the cloud' right now, it seems to me one of the last things on the minds of most (and obviously Xen is highly used in that field, which is also what we use).

The bigger question I think is if you are using a highly CPU bound task which VM isn't always very good at. According to Etsy they are very CPU bound, so it makes some amount of sense.
Shopify's ideas seam pretty awesome. The last two startups I worked at had open-floor plans, both of which made it incredibly hard to focus. I was constantly getting pulled into conversations that didn't involve me. And I'll be the first to admit, I was part of the problem too: causing distractions for other coworkers when I was having a conversation. It's just a natural temptation when you're sitting across from someone.
This is the shortest one I've found so far - http://wikiloopr.com/monty%20python
Yes, it's quite a drop but I think it will keep dropping until reaches $10. It's a matter of time really.
The benefit is not in the data set size, it's in performance of querying. 63ms vs. 0.03ms is a HUGE difference.
I wasn't meaning on the jury so much, was meaning all the lawyers and judges and stuff, so that that all those qualified to act in court are able to recognise stuff that doesn't make sense, or is physically impossible.
Yokum's blog post on the instrument is here: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2012/08/31/what-is-conve...

I don't think that investors call debt at maturity in practice (in general - I have heard of one Midwest-based investor that used default to pretty well screw the company), but this reduces that risk.

Also, it appears sets the date for capital gains tax treatment to be earlier, which is a win for the investors. (Although the "probably" qualifier in TechCrunch and in Yokum's post scares me a little.)
Works for:

* Carly Rae Jepson

* Paul is dead

* Telephony

* Easter Island

* Drum and bass

* Sunglasses

* CAT 5

* Willy Wonka

* Black hole

* Vancouver

* Cloud Cuckoo Land

* Bacon

* Radish

* Brunette

* Dunning-Kruger Effect

* Lady Gaga

* Sailor Moon

If the chain hits Philosophy first, it converges on Philosophy/Argument. If it hits Fact first, it converges on Fact/Truth.
Misultin development has been discontinued.
http://wikiloopr.com/whale

"Whale" leads to the "pinniped"/"marine mammal" loop. How about that one?
So, me and all my coworkers are enjoying this thoroughly :)

Great layout, guess you would look for it to be ad supported? I would like this better than imgur for gifs.
Every American Is Being Lied To ...
Microsoft Windows 8 Preloaded with Games from Xbox Live Announced
Will definitely keep my ears open for further announcements. As much as I avoid webOS due to the lack of quality apps, booting into it even for a short while causes me to realize just how smooth its UX is and how awkward and backwards in a lot of ways the other mobile OSs are.
Way to go! Web OS always had such promise -- I hope that it can make a bigger impact now that it's been freed from the shackles of the dying Palm.
Maybe I'm just really oblivious or quite lucky personally, but I feel like people who are hyper-concerned about being taken advantage of make themselves way more miserable than if they just relaxed and stopped worrying about other people. If you act out of fear that people are talking about you or taking advantage of you, you are likely to make that happen.
You presume that relatively soft plastics are the only things you can print.

Remember that there are strong ceramics and metal alloys that can be easily powder-printed or laser-sintered. There are also strong plastics and epoxies that can be produced through various curing processes that can be performed on the same level of detail as other printing techniques.

And I can imagine a gun design where a disposable/replaceable receiver and/or barrel can be designed out of weak materials and mass-produced.

You also presume that recoil impact will hurt your hand. There exist a number of gun designs that minimize recoil impact by increasing the motion of the gun or relocate/reorient the barrel to minimize the motion of the gun. See, for example, any women's purse pistol, palm pistols, or a Rhino revolver.
Linux and Convertible Tablets
I've been following IFA here and there and I've noticed that manufacturers are moving towards this tablet/laptop convertible form factor. I think Windows 8 will make this form factor be the defacto standard in portable computers. What are your thoughts on how Ubuntu (or any other distro) will adjust/adapt to it?
Reminds me of a children's joke - which i didn't even think was funny at the time - but enjoyed anyway:

"Dr, Dr! Every time I drink a cup of coffee, I get a stabbing pain in my right eye..."

(google it if you don't remember)

Exhibits, the same kind of ability to see the whole situation and make a diagnosis
$5 it's a good price for me :)
Yeah the "data" thing is just a rule of thumb, users aren't usually interested in data in and of itself, but how they can use it.

Creating a tool that is an expose' of how you are having your privacy violated by Facebook is a noble idea but you run the risk of creating a site that is creepy and discomforting. You run the risk, basically, of people shooting the messenger. So, tread carefully :) For example, if you're going to go that route, make sure people can only see their own results, not other peoples' (and, most importantly, they realize this is the case), and that you provide overt and helpful information on how to lock down their privacy. (Nobody likes to feel helpless, especially immediately after realizing they've been exposed.)

To me a much more attractive proposition is to figure out what parts of the W|A project (or things you've done) are non-obvious but valuable applications of non-trivial data analysis of the Facebook graph that many people would enjoy. Building an experience like this would avoid the creepy "I'm just telling it like it is" factor as well as open up the possibility to sharing each others' results which takes the experience to another level.
Being pleasant is often smart.
Not as dramatic but http://wikiloopr.com/Nelson ends up with Great Britain (and then claims it loops to itself with no intermediaries).
Hall of Infamy: Sites that charge for reviews
Genuine question, from ignorance: How does Go create less garbage than Java? I can certainly appreciate that a lot of the common frameworks used in JEE development may be memory-hogs, but the language itself?
I was there for 18 months or so. Google is absolutely a great place to work. I remain very fond of them and an organization. Lots of awesome people.
Yes, this describes how I prepared. The questions were not as difficult as the topics Steve listed.
I hope this cheered you up. :-)
1) the sewage treatment company uses lots of energy and fairly clean (often drinkable) water to transport the sewage to their large-scale plants.

2) chances are that users will feel more responsible for a local, small-scale system, and not 'kill' it by flushing down all kinds of chemicals.
Using Bezos as an example of "kind over clever" is a mistake.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0423/ceo-compensation-12-a...

#6 “Our culture is friendly and intense, but if push comes to shove we’ll
settle for intense.”

Data reigns supreme at Amazon, particularly head-to-head tests of customers’
reactions to different features or site designs. Bezos calls it “a culture of
metrics.” With dozens of these gladiator-style showdowns under way each week,
there isn’t much time for soothing words or elaborate rituals of social
cohesion.

[...]

Feisty debates over what metrics to watch are Amazon’s way of life. “There’s
an incredible amount of challenging the other person,” says Manfred Bluemel,
a former senior market researcher at Amazon. “You want to have absolute
certainty about what you are saying. If you can stand a barrage of questions,
then you have picked the right metric. But you had better have your stuff
together. The best number wins.”

https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...

In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better
regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs.
"HTML5 Canvas" gets into a loop on Truth ... Fact ... Truth. Not the usual philosophy loop.
I wish we could validate (or invalidate) the benefits of IP and copyright protection, given people speak about the benefits as if it's fact. Too often I hear garbage along the lines of: Without patents there would be no innovation! Without copyrights there would be no art!
Open webOS Beta Is Here
We need a longer school year
I've catalogued a number of other icon sets for iOS at http://www.iconmaven.com, and I'd love more submissions from folks.
Thanks for the informative answer. A consumer app is pretty easy to build. I imagine the MVP for facebook is not quite difficult compare to the MVP of Google which requires sophisticated algorithm.
Adobe Flash Player returns to Android store in UK
You factor a complex polynomial to decompose it into the product of a set of simpler polynomials. You want to do this because a) you know all polynomials can be factored in this way, b) you already know how to find the roots of each of these simpler polynomials and c) surprisingly, any one of the roots of these simpler polynomials just "happens" to also be a root of the complex polynomial.

This works because just as in functional programming, where (in most cases) functions are just functions of functions, polynomials are really just (simpler) polynomials of (simpler) polynomials. It's a tower of turtles, all the way down to the simplest, linear polynomials. The factoring is just a simple way to reverse engineer the internal structure of a complex polynomial by going backward into its building process.

I'm trying to make things complicated here, in the hope of showing a tiny bit of the deeper theory behind high school algebra. There is a very beautiful theory called Galois theory behind all the polynomial stuff. Take some time to read and you'll love it.
Waiting for someone to port this to the Nexus 7...
Totally agree. I can't tell you how many times I tried to close apps on my android phone by swiping upwards after I started using WebOS.
Customer Relationships on the Web are Broken (and CRM might be the answer)
I thought it was just a regular joke. I'll try to make it less reddity next time.
If eBay, Amazon, Yelp, and Craigslist all disappeared today the only people who would be really affected are on the selling side of those services. That would have some ripple effects to be sure, but most consumers would, at most, be mildly inconvenienced.
I particularly liked the Circuit Cellar where he had to break into his own house because he left the stove on. By the time he could disarm the system, the stove would start smoking which would auto-dial the city fire department.

First he invades the yard with its dog-deterrents, then slips into the house bypassing the window sensors, skips over the pressure-sensitive carpets, dodges a bunch of other things, and finally makes it to the basement where the alarm box is. He needs light so he opens the fridge - alas, that sets of the alarm but the alarm doesn't successfully dial. :-)

I googled but couldn't find it online. Good times. :-)
AFAIK, Go does not "mark everything that looks like a pointer." My understanding is that in some specific situations, the Go GC is not precise enough to distinguish between a pointer and an integer that happens to have the same value as that pointer, but I don't think it's right to say it does that all the time. Do you have evidence that it does?
That agrees with my experience. I got team information yesterday and expect an offer today.
I posted my own similarly mysterious story a while ago on here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293849
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Inbox Pause - A pause button for incoming mail in Gmail [Chrome extension]
Ask HN: What would I gain from using Rails over Codeigniter?
I have a few ideas I've been kicking around for a while and I'm having trouble deciding on backend technologies. The backend is going to need to handle authentication/registration, CRUD using mongodb, and have a restful architecture. Most of my experience lies in PHP and Codeigniter. I'd like to know if it's worth it to learn Ruby and Rails. If so, what benefits would I gain using Rails over Codeigniter?
Alright, thanks for the clarification on "free", I realized that is what you might have meant after posting.

That last bit about your logs is surprising, thanks for that bit of info. I may need to go do the same. Either way I use a storage wrapper so I am accommodating both types of users.
Something similar does already exists, telemedicine. A lot of hospitals are starting to experiment with consulting via telemedicine (with robots for instance for video communication and bedside visits) for interesting/hard cases. It's not the same as what you're describing, but HIPAA regulations and how hospitals work would most likely rule out an "open" service like that.
Still the best mobile OS even with the last year being devoted to the open sourcing rather than feature development.

Can't wait to see it on some new hardware.
> Isn't it enough that they're printing money with this device and the biggest tech company in the world?

They are last I checked the biggest company in history.

But apparently that is not enough reward for their efforts, they need the government to grant them a monopoly on some of the most ridiculously obvious ideas of the last 20 years.
In Maryland in order for a school to call itself "Montessori" it has to be approved by some national Montessori association. The sole purpose of this seems to be to make money for national Montessori associations.

My daughter went to a Montessori school for pre-K. Based on my observations of the school it was great for pre-K and K, but awful above that. There were a lot of the same problems you describe. Half the kids seemed to have ADD and parents opposed to medication. Groups of kids tormenting others so that the class will consist only of their group. And teachers that just stand by and let this happen. And in my case, the owners of the school were complete idiots.

Still, for that year in pre-K my daughter got a great education.
Ubuntu has already been touch-optimizing Unity for a long time. Ubuntu (actually the credit should go to Gnome and GTK for smooth scrolling, and Linux kernel for touch drivers) now perfectly supports smooth touch scrolling along with certain three-finger gestures to move windows around etc. They might even be ahead of Windows 8 in terms touch-compatibility. What they should do now is to convince more OEMs to ship Ubuntu devices.
perhaps archive.org?
I never understood how giving things/services away for free made sense to anyone. I still don't get it. Sure you have a huge user base but no way to make money.
I agree with everything you're saying, but would like to add that being factual isn't the same thing as being mean, although it can be perceived that way.
I've noticed over the past few weeks when I've been doing my research a lot of large scale applications use RoR. I haven't been able to find any applications that were built on Codeigniter that come close to the robustness of the apps using rails.
It worked out pretty well for Steve Jobs.
The article specifically points to the webos-ports project for that. There you can follow the 'webOS - Community Edition for the Touchpad' project.
How to get past being a one hit wonder
I'd say there are other reasons behind using virtualization than simply quick system spin-up, such as easier/better integration with (Dev|Sys)Op tools, higher hardware->instance densities than you'll ever see from physical... etc.

I think the performance hit for many people is overstated. Unless you're at the long-tail of CPU bound instances I imagine it won't become very apparent. That said, if I'm missing something/incorrect then someone please correct me!
Ex-Google hiring committee member about job interviewing
Starting Up, Finding A Forcing Function, And Building A Story