skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit brash, but if you're referring to the grey text at the bottom on my footer. It's simply that, a footer, and hardly anyone clicks on it, and they shouldn't.

But if you're referring to my overall background being black and then the content BG (white) coming in a bit late-- Sure I was a bit lazy on the code but merely wanted to get this up and running asap.

And no, I don't think you should take my advice because you apparently don't need it. I was simply sharing my post in an effort to expose myself for criticism or web nerds to talk to.

Cheers.
Is the site/app targeted towards educators or students?
You'll need to remove fashion from that list, patent litigation is becoming much more common:

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/12/design-patents-and-t...

http://www.elle.com/news/fashion-style/lululemon-sues-calvin...
No, sandeepshetty is right.
Another go at the Next Big Language
Groklaw's approach worked well in SCO v IBM because SCO was a fraud so the story was entirely one sided. Unfortunately not all cases lend themselves to the open and shut "us vs them" mentality. Basically they've become the MSNBC to Florian's Fox News. Which is to say more sympathetic (Florian is a paid shill after all, a revelation we have Groklaw to thank for) but still not what I want from a legal tech news blog.

That analogy is not perfect, I do read and find value in both but the bias can be horribly grating and would love to find a reliable substitute.

Speaking of which The Verge's coverage has been excellent although there's a lot of forced false equivalence and it's pitched to a slightly lower information audience (I guess this make them CNN in my bad analogy?).
You sir, are correct. If you have an interest in disrupting telecom, let me know. I am part a start up looking to crush them.
If you need to store arbitrary JSON fields in the database and index them, then you indeed are better of with some NoSQL database. But I strongly disagree with the statement that all new startups deal with that kind of data organization. Many problems have good structure and can benefit from imposing structure (schema) upfront. In which case any JSON you get will parse in the application, map it to your data organization and store in a clean strict relational format, with all indexable fields extracted to separate columns. I do not store my logs in Postgres, but I do store my billing transactions in Postgres. There are many different types of data with different tradeoffs involved. For most, Postgres is a great choice.
This is, perhaps, an extreme view

No, it's a dead common view. Maybe the very commonest view your could possibly have: "I don't agree with the general policies of X, therefore X is wrong."
Basically, supply and demand. Let's look at advertising, since it's still the major way for publication-oriented websites and consumer webapps to make money.

1. Demand as in demand for advertising.

This is actually a proxy for the ultimate consumer. Advertising demand is driven by the amount of money that can be made from the viewers of the advertising.

But this changes relatively slowly. With 2 billion internet users we've either reached or are fast approaching the inflection in whatever sigmoid function describes the growth in users. After that taps out growth will rely entirely population growth -- ie, internet businesses will be constrained to the same dynamics as everyone else.

2. Supply as in the supply of "inventory".

Inventory is just ... a box where you put your add. Inventory does not require 9 months to create followed by >10 years to raise. It is being created fantastically quickly.

So if supply is expanding exponentially, but demand only sigmoidally ... well it's not pretty for anyone outside the top few percentiles.
Lawyer for Assange detained at Heathrow
Right, because once that chef figured out just the right twist on those common ingredients no other chefs in the world were allowed to make mayonnaise any more and we would have no fine cuisine without extensive IP protection enforced by law.

Oh, wait...
Glad to see this got some discussion. Someone else commented on the blog post suggesting I open a pull request, correclty pointing out it would have taken the same amount of time as writing the post. I'll paste my response to them below to clarify why I chose the route I did-

Well aware [I could have opened a pull request] thanks Carina. I took a gamble that this would be a more effective route after opening an issue here https://github.com/resume/resu... and noticing 19 others open, many around 2 years old with code attached and no response. Not sure if you've had a very different experience but I'm pretty cognizant of those factors when choosing who to bother submitting code to at this stage.

I actually did spend a little time putting breakpoints in Chrome before posting, but based on circumstances felt that my best chance to get it addressed was to shed light on the underlying issue in a way that might get a volume of other folks involved.
VideoCore version anyone? :-)
"Steve Newhouse, the chairman of Advance.net, decided very early on that his company would not be the blob that ate Reddit, and for the most part, left well enough alone. “We had some ideas about what would be good, but it might not have worked,” Mr. Newhouse said. “We paid attention to the community instead.”"

I may be remembering stuff wrong, but wasn't there more tension + conflict during the period right after the acquisition? Didn't Reddit struggle to pay for basic infrastructure stuff due to their new parent company's skepticism about its viability and perception of its value?

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html

And it was a long while until it got spun out. (http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/06/reddit-break-conde-nast/)

Not that there's anything crazy in any of this. Just that the NYT story paints it like right away they 1) knew Reddit's worth and 2) knew to have a hands-off approach.

I'm far from a Reddit power user, happy to hear other perspectives.
>No they didn't.

OK, pinch to zoom was invented even before Microsoft used it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch

A big part was the rounded rectangles. Apple claimed it and the jury supported that claim. That's reprehensible garbage, and no legal system should support it.

You're revealing yourself as an Apple fanboy; claiming that a rounded rectangle with black borders (that looks identical to previous years-old Samsung products!) is now OWNED by Apple is not sane and rational.

The LV logo is distinctive. The shape of the iPad is at least as similar to products before it as the Samsung products that came later. You can't (or SHOULDN'T be able to) take ownership of a public domain design just because you've created a popular product that uses it!
>Is it possible that Canonical is actually moving away from Gnome and taking things in-house to avoid exactly the problems that Miguel de Icaza is underlining?

I do think this is part of it though they probably wouldn't say it way. They certainly do want a consistent user experience - and they want one that rivals OS X.

I don't understand why people complain about using software they haven't learned how to use yet. It all takes some getting used to for a new user, including OS X. Now I can definitely understand the frustration though of someone who just upgraded their OS only to find they don't know how to use it anymore.
I did comment on the HN post, and also opened an issue on the repo (see my comment on this thread,) and based on the many ignored pull requests and issues on the repo and watching my comment go unnoticed in the original hn thread decided this would be my best chance to get a change implemented.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I would appreciate it even more if you that that I was impressive for shipping stuff and gradually doing process tweaks targeted at things that actually matter. People jump directly from "X is a god" to "I am mortal, and therefore, cannot be like X."

Pretty much all HNers capable of shipping product are equally capable of doing the sort of things I do to tweak those products' success upwards. There's not really any secret sauce or black magic involved, and to the extent that I'm better at it than other folks are, that's largely a function of a) having six years of practice and b) actually using the bag o' tricks. (Most common process failure with A/B testing: not A/B testing. Most common failure mode for lifecycle emails: sending 0 emails. Most common pricing mistake: doing no work on pricing whatsoever. etc, etc)
99% Positive with critics on Rotten Tomatoes:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jiro_dreams_of_sushi/

Available for free streaming with Amazon Prime:
http://www.amazon.com/Jiro-Dreams-of-Sushi/dp/B008ODZEQ0

Or streaming for Netflix subscribers:
https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Jiro_Dreams_of_Sushi/7018...
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One could discover a gene sequence that ... oh, wait.
SASS/SCSS is preferable, but the point is no one should be writing pure CSS anymore.

Using something like Livereload (or Compass.app) is pretty amazing. Watched folders (automatically compiles SASS > CSS, changes instantly reflected in the browser.
not that I mind a little traffic to my blog, but as I've mentioned in a few spots now this was more of a strategic choice in the sense of how I might incentivize the repo maintainer to give a crap.
I think it's a shame that Reddit sold so early but at the same time they can think of the users (Until Conde Nast gets involved). There's no question about their valuation and how they'll monetize. They as a company can work on that and build a great product but there aren't daily blogposts on TechCrunch about it.
for 7 figures a year I don't care if the company is missing diligence, I want to meet them as far on their side as possible
PJ hid her identity for a long time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw#Media_controversy and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Jones#PJ
As the OP, would also appreciate Reddit dev input into what they're using now... I am summarizing a summary of a Reddit talk from 2010.
Get your shit together, people (seriously)
New computer memory material goes easy on the juice
Ask HN: How skilled should I be before going to a hackathon?
Hi. I taught myself Ruby and Rails, and have some basic PHP and javascript, but wouldn't be confident in the latter two. Am I just going to get in the way at a Hackathon?
> created on the fly (a crime for which any DBA would have you put to death, normally)

Is the crime in creating tables on the fly? Or creating tables of identical structure on the fly?
True enough, it's not about how 'legit' the service is though. At the end of the day the domain resume.github.com looks official enough, and it boils down to what url someone is handed, and what their personal preferences are. That's why I gave the example I did in my blog post (remember the imaginary hiring manager happens to prefer viewing via the github resume repo...)
The TMS 9900 (and its predecessor, the TI 990 minicomputer) had a similar sort of idea, except back in the days of less layers of caching. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9900#Arch...

(Of course, those days, there weren't orders of magnitude between the time to execute a single instruction and the time to access DRAM or ROM.)
Now that I have your attention.. my site: http://www.golfingstat.com

Should I quit it (brokeback style), spend some time making it mobile + setting a annual fee and trying to find the magic adwords amount to grow my userbase without losing money or keep on keeping on (trying to make some ad revenue with my current userbase of 150ish)
Actually exist statements from Apple that say "We invent this" when in fact not?

Because my perception is that people accused apple of that, but I don't remenber them saying that...
All about this but when I see 2 year old issues on a repo with code attached that have not been answered, I generally don't hold out high enough hopes of getting a response to justify forking cloning editing pushing and opening a pull request. At least with the blog post I had a chance to rally enough attention to make it the maintainers best interest to fix.
see my other comments- not moaning and issues and pull requests are only as effective as the maintainer is willing/interested to respond.
That was a temporary stopgap to circumvent the injunction on sales until they came up with a permanent solution.
Yeah... I'm glad more people are utilising precompilers for CSS, but SASS is far superior for the operators you can use in mixins alone.

And a lot of other reasons. One of those is Bourbon. Do yourself a favor and stay away from Compass though. It's very bloated and... just not good.

Good luck going forward!
In the UK some high profile cases indicated a lack of understanding of essential statistics on the part of many in the legal fraternity. Judges in summation often unwittingly misrepresented probabilities, or allowed tenuous statistical assertions to be left unchallenged in their instructions.

This was not unobserved by statisticians, and some effort had been made to redress this situation.

For example, see http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~cgga/Guide-2-WEB.pdf
Groklaw has always had an outspoken editorial stance (in favour of FOSS) rather than being impartial.

I made a similar criticism of its editorial stance 750 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603929).
I read the article. Good stuff, and well written. Apologizes for being "brash", but this is how it looked when I first went on your website, even after multiple refreshes.

http://i.imgur.com/KVk82.jpg

I thought it was some new hipster theme where you would have to highlight the text to read it. Thankfully I was wrong. :D
JustGage.js - Badical Javascript Gauges
Can Intelligence Agencies read overwritten data? A response to Gutmann
Basically they rediscovered RDF.

They should switch to an RDF triplestore, at least they would be able to exploit some of the RDF-only optimizations and their validation tools.
Dave's a nice guy, interviewed with two sigma a couple of weeks ago, didn't get an offer but enjoyed the experience.
I watched this movie on a flight home recently and loved it. Loved the man, loved that he found a calling and stuck to it, loved that he never changed a thing and won worldwide acclaim because of it.

Then I got home and read Ebert's review. This paragraph hit me like a punch to the stomach and put it all in perspective:

"Even at the high prices of his premium fresh ingredients, you realize he must be a rich man. But to what end? The existence of his sons are an indication that he has a wife, although we never see her. He must have a home, although we never visit it. There must be hours when he cannot be at work, but the film indicates no amusements, hobbies or pastimes. The idea of his courtship of his wife fascinates me: Forgive me, but I imagine that even while making love, he must be fretting about the loss of valuable sushi-making time."

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20...
Honest question: isn't hardware supported by Linux strictly a superset of OSX? I.e., is there any Apple computer you cannot install Linux on? I've been running Ubuntu on a mac mini and I know others who do the same. Is there a problem installing Ubuntu on a macbook or an imac? If not, then this whole subthread is moot, no?
Really? How does a course about developing an operating system not have anything to do with operating system development?
Do you judge each article from the Onion on its merits? Because the Sun is closer to the Onion than the New York Times.

I agree with what you're saying in general, but if a paper makes stuff up for a living, there's absolutely nothing wrong with discounting what they say until a better source comes along.
Additionally to directly address your reference to "negativity on HN" - as someone who submits their side projects here I'm all about fostering a supportive environment, however I don't think the same rules apply if your website includes a profile for me that I did not create and is effectively misrepresenting me. Wouldn't you say so?
Both.

Except the second one would be a crime even if not on the fly.
> UI and UX are innovations

As a UX designer, the idea that UX can be patented terrifies me.

It's like patenting a specific color of paint. shudders
No, you won't just get in the way. Hackathons just aren't that serious - they are essentially a more organized venue for a particular hobby. Go ahead and go. You will likely learn something. As long as you're honest about what you know and what you're capable of, the worst thing that can happen is that an asshole will be an asshole, which they probably would be anyway.
Worth Kickstarting? A virus that kills cancer.
> And they can empanel expert witnesses to describe the kinds of errors that are typical of the method

Presumably that's beyond the reach of a defendant on legal aid.
I've been saying for a long time now that people with the ability and motivation to make money in tech could probably easily do as well or better in other avenues. Tech entrepreneurship has its own rewards but on average it's hardly easy money.
Why is it ranting? They still post insights of how the law and the whole process works which is very useful for us lay people. Her arguments are still well formed and she makes good points, regardless if you agree with her bias. A biased post can still be insightful and useful.

If what you're really bothered with is the bias. Then I suggest listening to TWIL. They're almost as through, and they at least try to stay neutral. (Their recent discussion on this case had actual lawyers defending both sides, and even those defending Apple agreed with the point PJ is making in this post).

http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-law
So what's the takeaway here? Are you saying that apple deserves to own the concept of, essentially, not being shitty, just because they were the first to make a good tablet? yes, Steve jobs' vision inspired his competitors to make better products. That is the single most fundamental tenet of capitalism: Competition drives all the players in a market to do better. Apple does not have a legal right to remain the market leader: they've show the competition what competitors want, if they want to remain the leader it is their responsibility to continue to produce better products. If every market leader could sue their competition for making decent products, thugs would get pretty stagnant pretty fast.
I wrote an accounts receivable/payable app in Borland Delphi back in 2002. At the time Interbase was the easy choice. At that time, Interbase was transitioning to Firebird. I dropped it in as a replacement and it did its job fine. If you like MySQL, you'll miss auto incrementing Primary Key Columns that MySQL seems to have made so popular. It's not too hard to setup a trigger for sequence types, but it's not built in. (or it wasn't back then) All the tools for management were the Interbase tools. Most of my stuff is either MySQL these days or Postgres when I need good spatial support. I've messed with CouchDB a bit. I just don't see Firebird going anywhere for my needs.
I guess now I know why reddit is so slow.

Among other problems, with a table structure like this it's hard to make good indexes.
Cassandra at eBay
This was my reaction too. I was initially inspired by his dedication.

But Jiro also illustrates that to reach the top of some crafts your dedication must border on sociopathy.
Don't crush my dreams man.
How do you propose to judge factual claims made by the article? Take them to be true on faith?

The issue isn't that The Sun's readers are "festering idiots," or that the stories are typically unimportant. If that were all, you could be forgiven for reading the article in a vacuum and proceeding from there. No, the issue is that The Sun lies when it's convenient [1], and that whether or not a given claim is an outright fabrication by The Sun's writers is not something you can deduce from the article and the article alone.

[1]: Skimming wikipedia:

"In 1987, The Sun falsely accused homosexual pop musician Elton John of having sexual relationships with rent boys. In another story it accused him of removing the voice boxes of his guard dogs because their barking kept him awake. "

'On 17 November 1989, The Sun headlined a page 2 news story titled “STRAIGHT SEX CANNOT GIVE YOU AIDS – OFFICIAL."'

"On 9 December 2010, The Sun published a front-page story claiming that terrorist group Al-Qaeda had threatened a terrorist attack on Granada Television in Manchester to disrupt the episode of the soap opera Coronation Street to be transmitted live that evening."
Was pulling ~$600/month from iOS apps but yanked them all off the market in response to Apple's patent bullying. I plan to port the ones that make sense to Android.
Actually technically jury nullification also applies to civil cases. But the judge has the power to throw out such verdicts.
First, sorry by my English (i'm Brazilian)

Last year i recorded an Joomla course (video) by myself and sold it successful on Google. Made around $500 per month (R$1.000,00), for around six months. Than a new version of the tool was available and my course was out of date. So instead of recording a new one, i build an entire site with PHP and MYSQL (www.cursos7.com.br). There my students can watch the courses online. Right now i have one course, the Joomla one, but it's up to date. It's selling good, around $500 (R$1k) last month (august). Now i'm recording the WordPress one. You see it's not passive income, i have to record a lot of videos, but i'm doing this at my free time (do IT Consulting to eat and i'm finishing my graduation in CS).

My wife have a small food blog, delicie.com.br that's generating $20 per month. I help as web designer.

Everything is very small and new right now, but i think in two or three years we will have bigger numbers to show.
But don't ignore the fact that the Mac rose to prosperty [..] through appealing to a younger generation with access to money a desire to look cool, because they hit that ball out of the park from my experiences, not my opinion

I'm glad it isn't your opinion, because you'd be wrong again. Mac owners, by age, are actually older on average than PC/Windows users.

http://www.metafacts.com/pages/media/tupan06_announce_061129...

As an embedded systems developer, who works in a company filled with EEs using OSX for their personal machines, I can say that what keeps me buying macs is that

* Like Linux, OSX is posix and has a working shell and scripting environment, and

* Like Windows, it has a pixel-perfect window manager and a tastefully designed UI that doesn't make my eyes bleed.
I think you're arguing against a straw man. The idea of pinch to zoom isn't patented, it's specific tricks to the implementation, which the patent explains, that are patented.
It's a bit controversial whether jury nullification is an actual right or whether it's just a side-effect of the fact that juries can't be punished or held accountable for their verdicts. What's the difference? Well, for instance, judges tend to instruct juries only to consider the facts and not the law, and attorneys aren't generally allowed to discuss jury nullification in their closing arguments. On the other hand, the jury will rule however it decides, so lots of things from the merit of the law itself to sympathy for the victim or defendant will factor into their decision.
Do you think Samsung's 3G patents cost Apple as much as they want charge Samsung for rounded corners?
Viewing the world through Google Hangout phone rates
I agree. It really is a pain to build OSS on the Mac, and it's not like you'd ever deploy server software to a Mac.