skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They make life and death decisions in criminal cases. Why not make decisions for a few percent of companies turnover?"

I don't know if you intended that to be comforting, but I really can't see it that way.

And that is even if I ignore my suspicion (hope?) that the average juror will tread with more care if they are considering the life of another person, than if they are considering a corporation's money.
iOS privacy app returns as a web app

Bitdefender says that Apple removed the application, which previously was a paid product, from the iOS App Store in June, but hasn't given it a reason for doing so. A potential cause could have been that Clueful tried to auto-detect a user's installed iOS apps so it could then display information about them.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/iOS-privacy-app-r...
Recruiting is a very interesting process. Unless you happen to be pre-IPO Google/Facebook/Hot Start-up, you are typically constrained by the following:

1) The kind of person you want to hire is either too expensive or unattainable. Let's assume this person's output equals 100%.

2) The person you can afford to hire probably grades out at 50% to 75% output of the ideal hire.

3) The minimum output you need to justify paying another person is 40%.

I'm just throwing numbers out there but this is directionally the situation you're dealing with (especially in a hot market). Some would say #1 is a '10x' player and the actual gap between #1 (what you want) and #2 (what you can afford)is much much greater than what I lay out above.

If that's the case, you can begin to see why hiring mangers aren't opposed to hiring #3's (or training someone up to #3 output) who have #1 potential over proven #2's with (perceived) limited upside. Of course the process of identifying candidates with #1 potential is a separate matter.

Ideally you can hire #2's with #1 upside but it's hard to get people like that since more often than not their current employer makes a big counter-offer and/or promotion to keep them. Consequently, you end up in a situation where you can hire someone who is 1) unproven with upside or 2) proven with limited upside.
IOS privacy app returns as a web app
I am using Firefox 15 on Windows XP. I had no problems whatsoever.

I opened up windows task manager, and watched the mem usage for firefox.exe. Before navigating to that webpage, it was using 150 MB of memory. I went to the webpage and scrolled down as expected, and saw the mem usage peak at around 430 MB when the page first loaded, then as I scrolled down and sat at the bottom of the page, it stabilized at around 300 MB.

After closing the tab and going back to leave this comment, firefox is back to about 150 MB of mem usage. I think there is a problem with your particular installation (or add-ons or drivers), not a general problem with Firefox itself.
Indeed, college algebra students typically struggle when trying to tie in the concepts of factoring, x-intercepts, remainder theorem, and zeros of a polynomial. Lots of gnashing of teeth in this chapter.
Never thought about it as a finite state system, but that's a great way of looking at it.
Yeah, I meant that the lawyers should have used a "peremptory challenge" rather than "strike for cause".
In fact, according to a crawl of the Wikipedia database from May 2011, nearly 95% of Wikipedia articles will take you back to Philosophy.

- Always interested in the backstory of folks that sit around thinking this stuff up (and then testing it).

http://www.syndiosocial.com/the-philosophy-of-networks/
This is unfortunate. I worked like crazy yesterday to get a build out only to be thwarted early morning by this. Just FYI it seems like distributing an ad hoc build without validating doesn't work. The app won't run on the device.
Interestingly, things like "Hat", "Shoe", and "Human" end up in a Psychology/Emotion loop, rather than the Philosophy loop.
This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from "Harvey":

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In
this world, Elwood, you must be ... you must be oh so
smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
Nice catch! We thought that was quite the color name.
Mainsplaining
What is AI about it? There have already been a few audio to midi plugins.. How is this different? Can it detect more than bass, and snare?
I don't know enough to truly defend Apple's actions, but given that they started working on the iPad 10 years ago, and even when it was announced no one could figure out why it was a good idea until they used one... Apple has likely poured years and buckets of money into R&D full of trial and error, like a pharma company trying to hit on a chemical formula, and a good amount of that work can be copied for free by competitors in the absence of patent protection. In that way, what Apple is seeking is exactly what patents are supposed to provide.

For example, I still remember how incredibly novel it was to use a web browser on an iPhone and be able to zoom in to click on links, double-tap, etc. This isn't a superficial feature either, as it required a beefy graphics chip. Putting a powerful GPU in a phone and using it to zoom in on web pages and PDFs may have been as innovative as putting a hard drive, and wheel, and a graphical LCD together to make the iPod.

On the other hand, maybe "inventing" a form factor or a user interface paradigm and getting exclusive rights to it is as preposterous as it sounds, and the ghost of Steve Jobs should be content that Apple used its prescience to buy up all the high-res LCD panels. They have capitalized on their innovation quite well.

I do see Android as basically a piece-by-piece copy of the iPhone. I'd trust Google to build a JVM and throw together an API, and not much further.
Really? Do you have evidence for your statement of fact?

I would think both are a factor.
I should quantify this. The pointer/counter bug was fixed a long, long time ago, but at the time slipped through the net with regard to being published on the known issues page. That was a very unfortunate oversight. Sbahra emailed a few weeks ago to inform me of the issue (and the others he raises) and I checked the existing code base, to see the pointer/counter issue already fixed and the other issues unclear (specifics were not given). I replied, but no reply - but sbahra is a busy guy and also very competent, so I consider it likely his comments have merit; I will look further into them once I've finished my immediate release 7 work. With regard to adding the pointer/counter issue to the known issues page, this I did today - I thought about it earlier, but release 7 was is so close to coming out and the bug has been present for so long, it seemed a pretty moot point (actually of course that's completely untrue; people using six need to know, so they can know to update their code).
You are aware that Samsung had counter claims too with their own patents, right?
Last week I was using grooveshark at home, when suddenly it opened a new tab showing that malicious "Windows Update" virus advertisement. This has been a problem with grooveshark in the past, and it's very ridiculous that they haven't sorted it out yet.
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Require those involved in law to have wider education with study of history, science and maths as standard so that they have no excuse not to understand things that are useful to their job, like ballistics for instance, or logic.
When the price drops to a normal level I will pick some up for long term holdings, not because I want profit as much as I like the way Zuck thinks and reacts.
Sorry, that was my point, but upon re-reading I agree I was not clear. There are many little computer/network/internet startup niches where one can build good businesses still out there.
How does sharing their previous salary benefit the prospective employee?
Of my latest versions of Opera, Firefox, Chrome and IE, only IE handled this to perfection! (it was IE10)
True -- I got overzealous with x^5, some (not all) can be factored. I'll reword to "some more complex systems.
"Now imagine a world where instead of starting Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Elon Musk would have built a social media news aggregator."

Good point
After having twenty tries that got me into the philosophy loop, I started to think what are the most basic concepts that philosophy is "made of". Maybe I could escape the loop that way?

And lo and behold, I tried word "word" and it loops between "emotion" and "psychology". http://wikiloopr.com/word
They should just start charging a couple of bucks a year to use the damn thing. They have so many users even if some drop off they would still be making money.

(I don't use it so it's easy for me to say)
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Yes. But the question is "how much?"

If I offered you FB stock at $10,000, what would you say? "Too much", I hope.

If I offered you FB stock at $0.05, what would you say? Probably, "Hell, yeah, that's a bargain".

So there's a rational price that the market agrees upon, within certain boundaries. The market seems to agree that the IPO overpriced the real market value of the shares. It's a real time machine that tells us what people think the shares are worth.
ah so thats why the degree is called Doctor of Philosophy?! Thanks for the enlightenment! I've wondered quite a lot of times why I'm a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, and not Doctor of Computer Science.
Looks like a cool tool! I have been in the business of email for quite some time now ( I was sending 3M+ email / week not too long ago ) and I wish I had your tool back then.

I'm going to use it on couple of upcoming project. But after testing out the demo, it works like a charm!

Final question, how are you going to monetize this service?
If anyone should be punished it's the judges. When lawyers tried to use copyright arguments where they should have used patents, Alsup was all over that. Where Apple should have used copyright claims if they wanted to talk about similarities w/ icons, etc., Koh should have been on that. Koh's leadership of the courtroom was weak, she let too much slide. Alsup made sure everything was by the book with no emotions. Koh's courtroom was an emotional soap opera, which Apple thrived in since legally their case was weak. Emotionally, they had the jurors. Yes Samsung copied, but copying by itself isn't illegal. Koh compared to Alsup, showed that she really isn't fit to lead such a high profile case, or any case for that matter.
Tons. The whole theory of IIR filter design is predicated on understanding the effects of the transfer's function poles and zeroes (generally complex numbers) on the behavior of the filter. Pick up any book on signals and systems like Oppenheim to get the details. Julius Smith's online books are also very good albeit terse.
Should someone add a FB ticker to the HN home page? :-D

But seriously, is there something about Facebook that hit the news that is leading to this drop and is worth discussing? Or is this just to spur some discussion on stock price speculation? If the former, what's the news? If the latter, what's the point?
This is anything by easily readable. Ugh. And its not even internally consistent - somewhere down the scroll, the questions fade away and are replaced by the same old lawyer-ism that characterizes most TOS.

I recently re-wrote ours to be more useful and I can't help thinking that whomever did this was rushed and/or got bored or over-challenged by the task about half-way through and just published an incomplete draft. A for effort, C- in execution.
So, gambling.

The something we're talking about has as much chance to go below X as above. You don't seem to be considering that, as your theory could also explain people picking the "sure thing" on the grounds that the other thing might not reach its potential.
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You're right, what apple patented is exactly what software patents are meant for. These apple patents are the cream of the crop of software patents.

Which is why i think that if this is the best software patents as a category have to offer, the whole category should not exist.
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38 dollars per share was the price that the institutions who participated in the IPO paid. Facebook received slightly less than that.

Investors who paid 42 per share at the IPO received shares from the underwriters.
Facebook puts fraudulent “Likes” on notice
Actually, from conversations with the Android team, Android system and apps code goes to great effort to use manual free lists and object recycling to avoid allocations during animations. Manual memory management is necessary to compete with the manually-memory-managed iOS frameworks. And Dalvik has an incremental, generational GC...
Facebook limiting games using FB Connect instead of canvas
"Nematode" and "Flow (psychology)" stop at "psychology" which I think is just another example of that discipline putting on airs.
The number of legitimate business customers that are terminated is very very small relatively to the amount of money they are generating on this. I used to handle the investment of negative working capital in short term T-bills at a social gaming publishing company I used to work for. When we become really profitable, asked me to figure out what we should do with the money that we didn't have pay developers for 90 days. I don't remember the exact figures, but with a $4-5 million/month run rate, the 90-days of interest on 50% of it which was paid to developers earned us a significant sum in pure profit relative to the net profits from our core business of game publishing.

We were investing in 60/90-day Brazilian T-bills at the time because that is where we were earning the money, so the interest earned was much higher than what you can currently earn on short term securities in the US, but when you are handling the quantities of money eBay is handling, the amount of interest that can be earned on 30/60/90-days securities is very very large.

This same approach applies to the money Groupon holds that belongs to small businesses. Whatever amount isn't being used to pay operating expenses is probably invested in some sort of short term securities.
How many nodes did you say you were going to use that you got accepted so fast? I've been using Rackspace Cloud and AWS for small demo deploys, but we are still shopping around for a cloud provider.
The loop found for "Psychology" is pretty neat: http://wikiloopr.com/Psychology

Edit: Looks like somebody is editing certain articles that don't have philosophy as the first link to have it. Psychology used to loop with itself through like 5 intermediates.
Maybe they did the maths and it turns out even with many clients, the current costs are too high (just an hypothesis)?

Or it would take much more time than allowed, even with some outside funding?

For sure, I find the site is really, really beautiful and polished for a bootstrapped venture. It could maybe have helped to have something less polished but focusing on selling subscriptions earlier on? (no sarcasm really here, real question).

If one of the founders is reading, as a bootstrapper myself, I'd love to hear more about the underlying reasons to close.
Stupid... waste of precious time..
The first word I tried — jeans — and it failed to make philosophy loop :) Apparently, any articles from generated list will fail too.
Obama answers a planted question in his reddit AMA - nobody notices/cares
Good point, I should have been more specific and not say "personal hygiene" across the board.

My problem is when people cut their nails in the office let them fly all over the place without cleaning them up. That's the image that came to mind in the parent's comment and it grossed me out.

Essentially, if whatever you're doing involves leaving visible bits of you behind (e.g. nail cutting) please do it at home or in the bathroom at work.
Funny, I just today found Splunk, when I was searching for sparkline implementations and theirs was open sourced. I browsed a bit and thought this is a cool company, which I need to evaluate for investing. A tad too late to benefit from today's spike in SPLK's price...
(Apparently), people don't always understand that ax^2+bx=c is equivalent to ax^2+bx-c=0.

So they don't see how factoring the latter reveals anything interesting about the former.
Supersonic Flying Wing Nabs $100,000 from NASA
Determining if a company is currently viable is pretty easy maths in most cases.

But most likely you could have written it "whether a company could become viable soon"?
I think you missed the entire point. Someone could have demoed this on an i386, it doesn't mean implementing it on ARM is a novel, patentable invention.
I actually think that's how all political campaigns should work as well. Be funded only by individuals, just like votes are done only by individuals, not corporations, and the donations should be capped at a few thousand dollars at most.

The way political donations work right now it's like a parallel voting system, where instead of each vote being (more or less) equal, the discrepancies can be enormous. One can donate millions or tens of millions or dollars, while others are donating a few tens of dollars or none. Who do you think the politician will listen to first? They'd rather listen to the guy who gave them $1 million, than 1000 other people who voted for the opposite position.

The system is incredibly skewed because of this parallel "faux voting" system through huge money donations. It's almost like the "real" voting system doesn't matter anymore, and the more donations come through the other one, the less relevant the first one is.
The reason why this cross is important is because it dropped more than 50%. Regulation T, which governs margin requirements in most accounts, says that you are allowed to borrow up to your cash balance to buy shares. So if you had 1900 dollars in your account (for simplicity of math), you could borrow 1900 more dollars to buy FB shares (3800 dollars = 100 shares). Now that FB dropped below 19 (and it looks like it'll close below 19), basically those investors lost ALL of their money (the value of the shares is now 1825, so your equity in the position is 1825[current value] - 1900[borrowed money] = -75) and we should expect another wave of selling pressure as those investors are forcibly closed out of their positions.

The importance is that institutions may decide not to participate in future IPOs (or may do so with weak uptake).
There was something floating around on HN a few months ago. I've seen the topic come up a few times. I actually think doctors do have services like this, its just they are a walled garden supported by lots of expensive contracts and sales reps, as all things healthcare seem to be
My thoughts exactly. It's really polished for something bootstrapped. Were there designers in the founders?
This is mostly a straw man. The patent system isn't intended to reward "effort". Apple's work can't be copied "for free" by anyone, nor was it. Apple wasn't the first to put "a powerful GPU in a phone", nor was their browser the first to allow zooming (their innovation was the "pinch" gesture, and even that isn't as clear as it seems if you read the patent).

And if you don't see innovation in Android too, you're simply not looking (let me guess: you've never so much as installed the Android SDK, right?).

I am so tired of all the advocacy, yet terribly frightened of the implications. Isn't it enough that Apple made a great, ground breaking product that enriched us all? Isn't it enough that they're printing money with this device and the biggest tech company in the world? Must they really be a monopoly too? Didn't people learn anything from the 90's?
Great video, I'm already sold.
Software + music is one of my passions, I bet it's yours too, so I'm hoping you guys get traction with this app :)
Good point. Do you happen to know of a list of managed native languages? All that really comes to mind is C# (the CLI really) and Go. Tried googling for a list of such languages but couldn't find any using terms "list of native managed languages" (without quotes).
Thanks! That is actually an area of interest. Thanks for the recs.
The difference there is the evidence is usually quite easy to understand. You don't need to know how DNA is matched to know that there is a DNA match. You also don't need to understand entropy to grasp that if glass is shattered inside the house, then the window was broken from the outside.

However you /DO/ need to understand prior art to rule in a patent dispute. There's no escaping that.

Technically minded people like us often bitch about how the mass media publish misleading "facts" (and often complete fallacies) due to their lack of technical understanding. Yet here we have a jury ignorantly making billion dollar decisions.

It's a bit like asking a group of hair dressers to officially confirm or deny whether CERN's "faster than light" neutrinos were a calculation error or not.
You never know when you might come across a person or idea that might put you back on track. Telling people you're close to closing up shop completely closes off those opportunities.
You're joking right? Oftentimes the fact that lives are involved makes jurors even more irrational. The life of the victim usually takes precedence over the life of the accused.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty#...
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Since I loathe sysadmin, I raised my rate to $500/hour. What would you do?
I detest system administration and prefer programming, research and development but seemed to be relegated to IT. I have decided to stop complaining and instead raise my sysadmin rate to $500/hour. How do you handle avoiding work for which you are unsuited by temperament, and finding work that you do find suitable?
>I personally see no place at all for C++

Application programming in the scale of Photoshop, Word, etc. Video games. All kinds of multimedia apps and video/music editing apps.

C is too low level for those kinds of things, and Go too high level.

Plus it's not just the language, that's a mistake: it's the whole ecosystem that matters.

E.g you're gonna find more experienced C++ programmers to make you the next, say, Call of Duty or Logic Pro 9, than you're gonna find Go programmers. And far more code and libs to leverage.
Bioware close to bring Baldur's Gate to Linux
It's very cool to see these kinds of posts. I always learn something from them and it's always neat to see what others have built to deal with a specific problem.

I wonder in this case why, if any specific reason Etsy is not utilizing virtualization of one kind or another? Basically they're building dumb-boxes that seem a much better fit to have a good number of slightly beefier VM systems and just rebuild bad instances from images (this would be especially good since they're already utilizing Chef).

I know that as an e-commerce firm this has helped us substantially to move toward this kind of a structure.
Here is a similar visualization of the phenomenon from last year http://xefer.com/wikipedia
That's changed now, thanks to me.
Agreed. I'd love to know how many different cycles the wikipedia article graph contains. If most articles lead to 1 out of 20 possible cycles, it's much less interesting than if it's 1 out of 5,000,000.
To clarify my comment above, I was talking about factorising 2nd order polynoms, which is taught at the same time as discriminant in France (I don't know about the way it is done in other countries). This makes sense as they are basically the same thing.

What do you mean x^2+1 is prime ? For me prime only applies to integers or do I miss another way this word is used ?
GeoGebra for the iPad
Cool stuff guys! Can you share more details on the serve side implementation?
Exactly! In the real world you are trying to get some system (x^2 + x) into some desired state (2).

In math class, we usually "pre-optimize" these equations to (x^2 + x - 2 = 0) and they look very different from the situations you have to set up on your own. I want to make the connection explicit.