skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hardly say he did his best. From a previous groklaw article [1]: "The foreman told a court representative that the jurors had reached a decision without needing the instructions." The jury then doesn't follow all of the instructions. Sounds to me like a jury that just wants to get out as quick as possible, not do their best.

[1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012082510525390...
Introducing the In-House AppStore
yes, things are not so simple. This man is not an idiot. He understand that raising the price could bring in more money with the same number of clients.
That's good to know! I won't be making it there, but I would very much like to spend some time watching the talks.

Are the talks from previous years available? I could not find any links on the website.
A fair argument would be that author of the article interpreted the question differently than Hogan did, and should have been more charitable to Hogan.

But your argument that the Groklaw commentator interpreted the question in the same narrow way as Hogan, and does not understand the basics of patent law, is ridiculous.
Apologies, I switched servers last minute, so now we're back in business!
For sure, treating a pointer as an integer and incrementing by a fixed number of bytes each time is fine, but more often than not languages have this implemented, just as a JIT or compiler optimization.

And here, you've inadvertently pointed out one of the major pitfalls (and amazing virtues) of pointer arithmetic: in C, pointers increment by the size of their data type. You don't add some number of bytes to the pointer, you add the number of elements by which to increment.

In other words, incrementing a uint8_t* will add one byte to the pointer address, but a uint32_t* will add four bytes, and a pointer to a 64-byte struct will add 64 bytes.

Here's an example. This code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <inttypes.h>

struct foo {
char bar[67];
};

int main()
{
struct foo monkey[60];
struct foo *zoochild;

printf("sizeof foo: %zu\n", sizeof(struct foo));
printf("sizeof monkey: %zu\n", sizeof(monkey));

zoochild = monkey; // child points at first monkey
zoochild++; // child points at second monkey
printf("(monkey + 1) - monkey: %zd\n", zoochild - monkey);

printf("(bytes) (monkey + 1) - monkey: %zd\n", (uint8_t *)zoochild - (uint8_t *)monkey);

return 0;
}

produces this result

$ gcc -O4 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c99 ptr.c -o ptr
$ ./ptr
sizeof foo: 67
sizeof monkey: 4020
(monkey + 1) - monkey: 1
(bytes) (monkey + 1) - monkey: 67
I think part of the problem is having someone without correct technical knowledge of the subject matter actually making decisions. It is not the foreman's fault for being picked for this task, however, his lack of competence is a perfect demonstration of why the system needs to be fixed.
It definitely addresses their target audience. They're a web design firm that claims it has a reputation for designing "flexible websites that look fabulous on every type of device."

Being a design firm, their use of eye candy works for potential clients who may not be too technical, yet realize there's this need for "making my web look good on my phone and computer" (as one former client once said to me).

And it's pretty nifty eye candy too. It's the first time I've seen someone change an illustration based on a viewport size. Not groundbreaking, but a pretty neat idea.

Oh, and to address your question about who would ever resize their browser to see this - only developers would do that. These could be developers working for their potential clients, which means this eye candy can be a good conversion tool.

End users wouldn't resize browsers like this, of course. An end user would see just one of the illustrations, depending on which device they used. On an iPhone, they get the thinnest illustration. On an iPad and some laptop browser windows, they get the middle illustration. On large screens, they get the largest illustration.
The studies were not public and were part of research projects and relevance insights I had access to in prior positions.
"In the entire world, I am sure there are at least 300 people that would gamble on a $10 digital download to see if I could make, at least out of the 100 minutes I promise, 30 minutes of music they like. I know those people are out there, but fuck if I know how to find them."

I'm sure a lot of very large, successful, companies would like the answer to that as well.

It sounds like you don't have a following yet, and I think you're trying to cut out the hard work of building an audience, hoping instead that someone else (Kickstarter) will do the marketing for you.

Note, I'm not trying to be mean, but I'm coming at it from the perspective of someone who has watched people struggle with music, video, comedy before finding supports. And most of the time they started out (or are still) doing stuff for free.

I wish you the best, but if you really are niche, try putting your stuff out there for free first. Yeah, it sucks, but as an artist I think a part of you, if you're in to it, would be willing to sacrifice for your art.
My problem with his interviews is that he comes off very smug, self-assured and condescending (for instance suggesting others read up on a law he himself clearly doesn't understand).

I realize, as you said, he was just the guy that got picked, but he is also the one granting interviews, claiming he has expertise in the area because he is a patent holder, etc... It is a fairly well known that juries can be heavily swayed by one or two confident/aggressive people, which is why each side tries to eliminate such folks early on (to their own benefit of course).

This is just another instance of a pet peeve of mine, the "everyone's an expert" phenomenon where people have some familiarity with an area and then extrapolate that into some kind of claim/belief in their own deep knowledge (see also: Dunning-Kruger, lots of tech bloggers, New Scientist's "Instant Expert" section, etc...)

Edit: rayiner claims below he (the foreman) may be correct in his statement about the patentability question. If so I retract my statement that he "doesn't understand the law himself" and submit perhaps I don't :) His statement on interchangeability and non-answering of the proposed paradox which arises between his belief and the ultimate verdict still stands as fairly stupid though.
I renewed my passport about a year early as the chips were going into the new versions, though I hear a little percussive maintenance solves the problem when it arises again.
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Us:

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Then you get either marked for absenteeism, or hit with criminal penalties for "tampering with school property."
The judge will address that question in the opinion. The opinion has not yet been released. That of course makes all the hubub premature, since the jury verdict has no legal force in and of itself until the judge renders an opinion, but the tech media wouldn't be the same if it didn't continually jump the gun.
The frequency of van/von as part of last names is irrelevant because this is mostly about first names plus possessive markers. Dutch has genitive case on names as well (name + s), so I don't see why 'von' should be less frequent than 'van'.
I'm always happy when a geek makes money, way to go!
Would you mind sharing the library used to generate that cloud? It looks awesome
We do not store your CVV, actually. We just don't use it. Interesting that this leads one to an uncomfortable conclusion -- thanks for the feedback.
Since I haven't done traditional publishing, I don't really know. But I do know that in a traditional format it would take a lot more work for considerably less revenue.

I really think for technical books/guides like this digital publishing is the way to go.
> How is the color adjusted?

An adept user of programs like Photoshop can manipulate the colors of an image to meet any imaginable criterion:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/curiosity-sharp-ba...

A quote: "The colors in this image are not what a human standing on Mars would see — the presence of dust in the atmosphere would make the scene appear much redder. Instead, the pictures have been white-balanced to show how it would appear under typical Earth lighting conditions. This will help the Earth-centered geologists who are trained to recognize features based on how they look using more familiar light."
This is amazing! How can I create a book like this myself?
What mess is that comments section?

The design (chronologically threaded rather than rated, large repeating personal signatures, offtopic designated threads) puts its worst foot forward. Maybe I'm pampered by Reddit and ArsTechnica, which let relevancy move upward or be promoted, but Groklaw's comments section is ugly.
The problem is people don't want to pay a storage fee for leaving value on an exchange; they think they're getting ripped off because they're not earning interest like they would at a bank engaged in fractional reserve banking. Since the exchanges don't make money on deposits, it's tough for them to spend money to protect the deposits.
On Writing Technical Articles for the Nonspecialist
The udids have already all been hashed. It is the hashed values only that are stored on the site. The only piece of information sent to the site is a hashed udid (the udid is hashed on the browser before any information is sent over the wire).
The author of the article clearly posed a question about subject matter patentability rather than patent validity, given the terminology he used. Hogan responded with a correct statement of the law of subject matter patentability.

If the author had intended to ask a different question, he should have asked a different question. In general, the Groklaw coverage suffers from a lack of precision in writing. Law is all about breaking down a complex dispute into distinct questions, answering them separately, then synthesizing a result from answers to those distinct questions. Groklaw's coverage is very fuzzy about which legal questions it is talking about at any given time.
patio11, pg, tptacek... who is the fourth?

I'm on the lookout for more very high quality contributors; sticking to their feeds instead of the front page (I still check front and new, just not as often) has greatly increased the value of this site for me.

(Thanks Patrick, Thomas, and Paul!)
> This is a blog, not a high level advertisement.

That depends. Do you actually want people to read what you write, or is this all an exercise in lexical onanism?

> If you want to comment about it, read it so you actually know what you're talking about.

Your problem is not that I didn't read the article. Your problem is that I did.
The actual application form is on news.ycombinator.com, so it's got your cookies. Crafty, pg. Crafty. :)
These RFIDs are even easier to disable than cell phones since they can just be kept in a metallic pouch when not needed,

Hey guess what? If they can coerce you into carrying the devices, they can also threaten you with penalties -- ranging from marking you as "absent" or worse -- to deter you from shielding them.
Non techie startups in S12
are there any non tech startups in S12 . I think 'vastram' is one.
I lost a lot back when they were ~$20 a pop and you could still crunch them. I lost enough to put me off completely. Nice to know my caution isn't entirely paranoia induced.
You're absolutely right, people don't go to search engines to look at ads: they go to search engines to find the most relevant answers to their queries. In many commercial query cases, the most relevant/useful links could be paid search links that an interested advertiser thinks is super-relevant to your query, enough so to actually put down money to pay for you to click over and see their site.

"Most everyone knows that half.." - I think that statements needs to be qualified because as far as I have observed, only tech people approach targeted Google ads with this much skepticism that 50% of ads are scams and 50% are dubious.
Beyond the skill of art, I would imagine that an advantage of a practiced tailor is also that you get to benefit from their knowledge of which styles or cuts would work well for your particular features, intent, and life story. Software can get the geometry right, but it's hard to program taste.
I appreciate you taking the time to read the feedback. Under my psuedonym, I do all work as open source and free. Last year, I released an album for a hacker friend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman at http://sirvaliance.bandcamp.com/album/a-waltz-for-len about a year ago. The demo is free, and I hope to release the result of this for free.

The truth is, I don't care about the money. I just care about it enough so that I can execute what I planned.

I don't think you are being mean at all, just as practical, rational, and reasonable about it as I am trying to be. I don't want to cut corners, just have the resources to execute how I envisioned.

I get that Kickstarter is not there to build a fan base, but where does someone with as limited resources as me find a way to make the music I planned and find an audience. I cannot figure out how to do one without the other.
Faraday shields in 3, 2, 1 . . .
Right.. and it's that peakiness factor that really kills you.

PS: If you were 'anonymous user 21' looking at the spreadsheet around 20 mins ago, sorry I was screwing with things, making all the bills look like $0, it's fixed again now.
Thanks for posting this theme. Here's what I've been doing for quite some time now:

- Terminal: ir_black, monaco 11 pt.

- Vim (console): ir_black, monaco 11 pt.

- MacVim: molokai, inconsolata, 14 pt.

I've been using emacs lately, though, where I've been using the twilight theme because zenburn wasn't working for me from the marmalade repo.

This theme is going everywhere. I really like the chalkboard/pastel color combo and have settled on this for now since it nice on my eyes.
Since several of these utilities you mentioned have to do with piping, I thought I'd mention a bash trick that a lot of people haven't heard of. You can take (almost) any command that takes a file name to read input from, and substitute that file name with:

<(command_name)

This will run the named command, send its output to a fifo (named pipe), and substitute that fifo's file name in its place. This is useful if you have to feed output from more than one command into a program -- for example, "join" takes two files, only one of them can be standard input. But if you want, you can do something like this:

join -j1 1 -j2 1 <(cat somefile |sort) <(cat otherfile |sort)

Or, if you want to see syntax highlighted diff output:

vim <(diff -uN file1 file2)

And it is also nestable:

vim <(diff -uN <(command_1) <(command_2))
Reply from Jebus (who has been hellbanned):

Would you mind sharing the library used to generate that cloud? It looks awesome
This is a complete tangent, but is anyone else getting tired of the growing number of Svbtle blogs? They all blend together, with only the upper-left image to tell them apart - and sticking them all into the same circle makes those images all have the same silhouette.

The first appearance was cool, it was distinctive and unique. A breath of fresh air, even. But now it seems like a third of the links I hit from HN are Svbtlr blogs; it's starting to feel as generic and indistinguishable as last year's Wordpress theme.
> Well when you consider that a traditional bank has teams of security experts, spend millions of dollars on security infrastructure

Those banks are often guarding a considerably larger amount of money, which is something to take into consideration. I think your point still stands though.
No worries at all, I was trying not to swinge accusations at your company :)

I don't use my CC that much online, but I can't remember the last time (if ever) that I wasn't asked for a CVV on a future purchase after saving my details. Amazon still requires it for transactions even though my details are saved.

It makes me a bit more uncomfortable, because it removes that extra security layer between someone breaking into my account, and someone buying something. In another situation they would have to have my account details and my CVV (which may in fact, not be that hard to obtain, but it's a little more peace of mind).

Just some food for thought. I do like your site!
I just bought a copy. Looking forward to great designed apps.
Wow. Even if this doesn't speed it up, it's scary how many connected apps I had that I'd forgotten about.
Disappointed that it took me about 5 minutes to figure out why this was so important to HN. Neither the title or the link gives much information about what this is or why it is so great.

Maybe I'm just dumb.
Also among the blog commenters is NDE (Noam Elkies), who was my Ph.D advisor.
Thanks! I'd love to know what you think. My email address is nathan@thinklegend.com
> 1 work email on Google Apps at 10GB, 1 personal on normal Gmail at 3GB

My account experiences the slowness the OP describes:

- Seconds to open a conversation, often punctuated with messages indicating that the operation failed and must be retried.

- Sending mails fails, and must be retried multiple times.

- Delays correlate loosely with US workdays (I'm in the US). Performance is consistently better at 1AM EST than at 2PM EST.

- 0 connected apps.

I haven't done extensive comparison to other accounts, but I believe that the number of messages is a cause of sluggishness. My mailboxes are > 120k messages. This causes problems with many mail clients; for instance, Sparrow (iPhone or OS X) is useless.

I'm surprised that the GMail team hasn't figured out how to handle busy mail users, given the propaganda that all Google users use GMail. I'd love to have the option to pay for Day 1 performance in my GMail boxes.
To add data to the pool: I have 12 GB of email (all mail I ever received since 2001) in a (paid) Google Apps account and I do not experience an considerable slowdown for at least a year now.

There were some issues with search before that (no other part was slow though), but that went away over time.
regg.ae
The quote makes sense if you want some plausible deniability for an inside job.
Me too. I love these success stories, so I make sure to share my own revenue numbers.
And I just read your Kickstarter.

You're going at this completely wrong. From what I read, you're expecting failure. There's over three weeks left, but the day you wrote the text for Kickstarter you knew it was going to fail.

I don't know you, so you can ignore me, but I'd recommend asking yourself why you posted this if you don't expect to meet your goal?

Is this something you'd love to do, or just something to do so you don't have to worry about working (since it doesn't sound like you're putting effort into this)?

And I realize that may come off a little harsh, but I'm actually pretty upset about this. You don't have a fan base, you haven't proven yourself, but you expect Kickstarter to help you out?

Set yourself up to win, not fail. Do what your current situation allows, and put your all into that which you wish to occur.
Maybe they can move to a uranium mine:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/05/nuclear-...
I have a question, for you Nathan, or even anyone who has published an ebook. Do you think a large portion of your success is due to the commercial nature of the book? (You help people make better apps, which makes them money) Or, is it just one among many factors?

I ask because I am contemplating writing an ebook, but it's more of a self-help-style book. Nothing cheesy, I promise. But the premise is more of "I'll help you accomplish X" rather than "I'll help you build beautiful apps/achieve Y technical feature."

Thanks a ton, and good luck.
But the blog post headline is "Google Search is only 18% Search," and that's just not correct. I look at the result count to estimate whether I'm into the long tail of results, and I use the left-hand bar a bunch to refine searches based on time. That's all search and it goes toward making the search experience better for power users.

Ads can totally be useful; here's one from earlier today: [att cordless phones]. For Google's web results, we often interpret a query [X] as "information about X." The #1 web search result I see is http://telephones.att.com/att/index.cfm/cordless-telephones/ which does have information about cordless phones from AT&T. But I was looking for which models of cordless phones AT&T has. There's an ad that points to http://telephones.att.com/att/index.cfm/cordless-telephones/... which is actually more helpful because that shows me a bunch of different models.

Now you can argue that Google should be able to find and somehow return the page that AT&T bought the ad for. But that can be a hard problem (Bing returns the same page that Google does at #1 for example, as does DDG). So that ad was quite helpful for me, because it took me to a great page.
These are HID cards we use them all the time to get into secure areas at work. When I was in college we used cards with mag strips to get in and out of our dorm rooms. How is this any different?
Please don't post snarky political pot-shots like this.
> And the highest scientific standards.

Nonsense. Bem's work has been rightly criticized for being statistically questionable:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11esp.html

And replication efforts have failed:

http://www.nature.com/news/replication-studies-bad-copy-1.10...

Unless you mean "the highest scientific standards" among psychologists, which is an entirely different claim, since psychology's research standards are notoriously low.

> It doesn't matter what he believes concerning ESP: no one doubts his integrity, which means the results are mighty interesting.

The interest in his results revolves around how such a study could be published in the first place -- and this is not my opinion, but that of his many critics, as shown in the above linked articles.
Yeah, I basically assume they are all the same person.
It's like watching a live-action case study of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
Read the statement carefully:

“The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple UDIDs was exposed. At this time there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data.”

it doesn't actually deny that the laptop was compromised, or that the FBI asked for and received the data - it just say "at this time there is no evidence" of that.

The twitter statement "Statement soon on reports that one of our laptops with personal info was hacked. We never had info in question. Bottom Line: TOTALLY FALSE" is a lot clearer.

I wonder why they had to move from "TOTALLY FALSE" to "at this time we have no evidence."

There's also a lot of wiggle room there for them to say that the laptop was not an FBI laptop (perhaps it belonged to the NCFTA), or that the NCFTA requested/received the information from Apple, not the FBI.

The FBI may not be lying, but they're awfully good at telling the truth very carefully.