skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copyright and trademark are just tools to be used by those who can. Case in point --- Apple uses any music they want in their TV commercials and never pays to license it. Apparently, in their opinion, the artist deserves nothing more than the opportunity to benefit from increased exposure. I suppose that's why they pick more obscure music (CSS).

Another interesting point is that, for some time now, movie distributors have used the FBI seal without licensing it. But that seal sure makes the video piracy warning look official! http://www.sonnyboo.com/images/tips/FBI.jpg
And that works both ways. We've had several new hires who didn't last a month. Does the hiring company still pay the full price in those cases?
I forget what year it was, but I basically stopped visiting after they changed over to the current design that was, for me, impossible to use. I find it sadly humorous that they still have those ridiculous "you know how to type...slow down!" posting barriers.

If anything explains /.'s decline, it's the incredible friction they've imposed on participation. It's inexplicable.
Thank you, this makes it a lot easier to select which JavaScript to run. (I needed to enable wealthfront and cloudfront.)
http://browsehappy.com/?locale=en, for those who don't speak 日本語. Interesting to see a Japanese site like this, considering that the Japanese aren't very enthusiastic about using alternate browsers.
http://www.postalmethods.com/lp/postcard-api
http://www.viapost.com/

I know there are others too but I can't find them at the moment.
I'd use it, especially if you can somehow connect it to HelloSign. This is something older people really need, at least from my limited view of my grandparents. They get so many forms and if I could help them fill them out and send them remotely this would be worth real money to me.
"watch video", but it's already playing!
Introducing the Humble Indie Bundle 6
Yes, I've seen them, but not what I want, I want a food subscription service, solve me the "I've ran out of X" problem, keep my fridge full. just like the minibar in a hotel.
The Alibaba CTO is pretty sly. He's clearly trying to make the label "Google OS" stick, which undermines the open image that Google is trying to project.

If he succeeds, the term "Android" will get co-opted to cover all forks, including Aliyun and Amazon's. This would subvert Google's trademark, but that can't be enforced on the press and the blogosphere.
Well, that's actually possible. You can limit the number of backers for any pledge level. So you can have a maximum of 50 supporters backing you to receive a "foo" and another number of "bars" for a different price.

So the usual place where you see an unlimited number of backers is for digital products. See the Amanda Palmer or the Planetary Annihilation: They had limits on any backing that required a physical or personalized goods, but unlimited pledges for digital-only pledges - and there the assumption of "the more I sell, the more I gain" holds true.
Ok,so there is a difference when the person making the pitch really believes (perhaps foolishly) that they can do what they say they can. Its one of those "That doesn't look to hard ..." kind of situations.

That said, investors do serious due diligence (usually) before investing and ask hard questions. We don't see those questions on Kickstarter so you cannot make a more reasoned choice about investing or not investing.
A few API's like this have been posted (ha) before. I investigated this just a little bit since at one time I had an idea that upload a postcard image and mail it to anywhere in the world but I never really found something I liked.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=postcard+ap...
The name isn't enough of a clue?
Rackspace accused of patent infringement
A designer's feedback - The site's design is not very interesting, in the sense that:

1)The homepage doesn't explain anything about what the product is clearly.

2)I'm forced to watch a video to get to know what the product is, which is a very bad UX.
This is great. I can see myself using this daily
Unfortunately, if you do ever want to sell, the setting is essentially worthless. Almost all of the cost of the setting is in the labor, and, as the article explains, those who buy "used" jewelry are almost certainly going to part it out and melt it down. (That is, unless you're talking about really high end estate jewelery.) So, for the $3-10k you'll spend for a nice setting, you'll probably get back 20-50% of the price of the stones, and maybe 60-80% of the spot value of whatever metal you choose, which again, is far, far less than the cost of the setting.

This isn't to say that you're not right on from a signaling standpoint, just that if you think you might have the need to resell the ring in the future (or perhaps borrow against it), you're better off getting a better stone than a fancier setting.
Applying for a patent is a costly and tedious process, so it's not strange the there are companies ready to take the work from individual inventor's hands. If that weren't allowed, large companies would have an advantage since they have a legal department. In any case, making a law against patent trolls would be difficult because if you require a minimum amount of non-patent work from them, they would simply meet that amount and keep on trolling. I think the solution is not to make rules against them specifically, but to change the incentives. First make sure patent applications are non-trivial. Second place the initial burden of evidence on the plaintiff to prove that their patent is actually being infringed.

But you're right, these people have no shame. But it's just not the patent troll, it's also a host of lawyers and judges who have interest in this stuff going on.
Universal Audio’s Thunderbolt Option Card
If I'm going to use this soon, now's the time since I'm prototyping out a web app. I'd love an early invite while the timing's good. (The email I signed up with is my username here at gmail.)

Edit: Either you saw me or I just got lucky. Thanks a bunch! I'll be sure to share feedback (even if it's just saying good job). :)
I like the idea, but so far at least on my (slow) connection, there is a big lag when I type, making it less useful.

Good idea otherwise!
It would appear, based on many incidents underway at the moment, that the software patent apocalypse is beginning.

All software infringes something, so it should get interesting. Hopefully the absurdity will stink so badly that even the U.S. congress will do something.
http://browsehappy.com/ is in English for me.
I hope you're right! I got the invite so I'll try it tonight
Did you check out the new Twitter Profile design yet?
+1. Better UI design = win!
I heard this about the Webby Awards as well...

https://www.google.com/search?q=webby+awards+scam
I originally started consulting in 2009 after being laid off; I had a client in two days (acquaintance already) at $50 an hour. Three and a half years later my advertised rate is $125/hr or $800/day, with a few clients being grandfathered into lower rates (usually only if I know they're on a tight budget and have a decent amount of work in the pipeline).

Don't misunderstand me: I have lost clients because I raised my prices. Maybe that was a failure on my part to adequately explain the reasoning behind the increase and the value they were getting. Regardless, those aren't the kinds of clients I want anyway. I don't want to deal with someone complaining their invoice is $1480 instead of the $1450 I estimated.
Another link-bait post title. Just like the Manchester getting rid of airport scanners (catch: to be replaced by another type of scanner) and Russia's secret diamond field (catch: of hard to mine industrial-quality-only diamonds, which wouldn't affect the market).
Bootstrap isn't here to replace high-end designers. It's here to replace the myspace and geocities school of design...
I have been reading "Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance" since I got it couple of days back. I must say that the first chapters of the book are teaching me a few new things. The ability to see things for not "what they are" but "what they mean" is some new gum for me to chew on.
Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: PostgreSQL array support
With Firefox: instead of a simple bookmark or the browser homepage, I added a bookmark with a "g" keyword ( http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html ).

Then I can use the GitHub launcher without having to touch the mouse:

⌘+T, g, ⏎, my-github-command, ⏎.
Apple’s Jonathan Ive to Design a Single Uber-Limited Edition Leica M
NightPro.co Explainer Vid
This reminds me of PhD work of Srinivas, using sheaves for KMP style pattern matching. It requires a bit of category theory but the core ideas are accessible. If you google "Sheaves KMP parsing" you can find it in ps format.
I don't have sufficient knowledge to say that you're wrong about this, but I DO know that the largest banks ALL allow you to change your PIN. Examples:

* Bank of America
* Chase
* Citibank
* Wells Fargo
Kinda like www.deathbycaptcha.com ?
(Found this article online)[http://www.m-cam.com/patently-obvious/you-re-pirate-mr-grinc...] about PersonalWeb Technologies. I assume these suits are still going, anyone know anything about it?
I have my doubts about this. Disclosure, I work for a Careers 2.0, but little of my thoughts are biased by that in this case.

For starters, this doesn't even seem to fix the problem stated, "The top developers are 25 times more effective than the average developer, but their salaries don’t reflect that". So you give a guy $3K pop if he would earn a salary of 100K... great, but that doesn't even address the differences in salary unless he continually changes jobs. I am also not convinced this service raises the average amount developers would make.

From the employers perspective, it's ridiculous to determine how much you'd pay someone without interviewing them first. People develop the longer they spend time at a company, and if you expect them to be worth your original offer in a few years, you are now forced to hire them for your original amount (by over paying for their current skill set) or just decline them an offer. Now if I'm not mistaken, that's encouraging employers to overpay for less productive talent... which is in direct contrast with the goal specified above.

This seems more inline with just increasing the overall salary for developers, and that's laudable, but you cannot build a developer job board claiming to just sell the best talent. When good talent does go on the market, it's generally pretty good at selling itself.
Reality is that which is practical for us to concern ourselves with. When there is an indication that such a notion might be practical knowledge, then I'll give it some consideration.
Jason Scott is currently heading the project along with three other members "The Board". They are doing their best to get stuff out to backers, read more about this project here: http://ascii.textfiles.com/schuyler-towne-kickstarter
If the Many Worlds interpretation of QM is true, then there is no wave collapse.
Not that you necessarily feel this way or aren't doing something about it, but I think it's important whenever someone brings up the "us not graced with ..." argument that we point out that at one point and time those graced with it didn't have it either.

So, the logical question to ask is "What are you doing right now so that in 2 years you are graced with it."
An Angel Investor's Eye-View on the Chicago Start-Up Scene
It's also a statement that's qualified in an absurd way: "would-be businesses".

Even then, there are at least a few very successful videogame projects that fit the bill, Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry and Jane Jensen's Pinkerton Road being the most prominent.

I think it's worth looking at Kickstarter for different industries in very very different ways. For hardware manufacturing (which seems to be the only thing discussed on HN), it's a huge risk. For just about everything else, it's well-established and fairly predictable.
You think (based on nothing) that "most" consumers have never tried an iPhone?

You might want to think different (sic) about that for a moment, given that there are hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there in use right now.

Virtually everyone who can afford an iPhone either has one already, or has at least tried one out a bit.
Do you really think it is because they supposedly don't understand technology? I've read that they are simply particularly "sympathetic" to patents over there, which is why there are a host of patent trolls / NPEs that have their mail address over there. This American Life had a good episode about it.
Generation after generation of brain wash, there is nothing you wouldn't believe, such as Kim Jong Il is the savior of the world.
Awesome! Another "I don't understand writing good code in language X, thus that language has 'hidden' deficiencies." post.

You can write non-performant code in any language you'd like, and obscure it in non-trivial ways. That's not the fault of the language.
Humble Indie Bundle #6 launched
Detecting valgrind
Hmm...

As an investor, I'd rather capital was reinvested at Alibaba than at Yahoo, though I'd prefer a dividend to that.
The "Scala Worksheet" feature of the Scala IDE plugin sounds pretty nice. Apparently it's a multi-line REPL, where changes automatically get compiled & evaluated upon save.

I'm having some trouble figuring out how to get it installed in my Eclipse, though. I already had an older version of Scala IDE installed, and apparently this is a fairly new feature. I tried the latest milestone, which is supposed to have it, but I don't see New --> Scala Worksheet when I try to create one.

Has anybody fought this dragon and won?

Edit: I have found my own answer. The trick was to use the following URL as the "update site" when installing ScalaIDE. When you do, the "Scala Worksheet" plugin will appear under the list of available software.

http://download.scala-ide.org/ecosystem/dev-milestone-2.9/si...
I respectfully disagree with both of you. This shouldn't be a case of not having enough time, make time and get both parts to a decent level. Creating a bespoke splash page should be the easiest bit.

You need to take your developer hats off and put your salesmen hats on if you want to sell your product.
Obviously not the OP but I'd like to offer my experience. I've told every client of mine they'll get a 15% payment off any referral's first contract (ongoing if it's a retainer), and offered the same deal to many friends who know the business I'm in.

I haven't gotten a single call or email about it. If people like you, they will refer you to everyone who will listen. If they don't, they'll talk bad about you to even more people. Offering a few hundred dollars or even more is, in my experience, not going to sway them one way or the other.
it would be incredible if the command bar could be integrated into my chrome omnibar... with the prefix github.com:

that way i could naturally use the power of the commandbar in my browser without having to go to github first
Rackspace isn't the only one being sued by the troll today.

Rackspace[1]
Nexsan[2]
Yahoo[3]

It also appears that this is the second round. (From 2011)

Caringo[4]
NEC Corportation[5]
Google[6]
EMC/Vmware[7]

[1]http://www.scribd.com/doc/106190890/PersonalWeb-Technologies...
[2]http://www.scribd.com/doc/106190872/PersonalWeb-Technologies...
[3]http://www.scribd.com/doc/106190829/PersonalWeb-Technologies...
[4]http://www.scribd.com/doc/75152879/PersonalWeb-Technologies-...
[5]http://www.scribd.com/doc/75137853/PersonalWeb-Technologies-...
[6]http://www.scribd.com/doc/75142772/PersonalWeb-Technologies-...
[7]http://www.scribd.com/doc/75152912/PersonalWeb-Technologies-...
antirez -- load81: Lua programming environment for kids
Stock Android Isn't Perfect: These Are The Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean
Your best bet might just be to install a different browser and see if they notice.

There is probably an opportunity here to create a firefox or chrome extension that makes the basic UI Mimic Internet Explorer exactly so people don't notice.
The same underlying point can be made in such contrasting styles: Linus ( http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus ) vs the OP.
Thank god for this (coming from Excel)
Looks like they're really going "all-in" on the CLI for web app concept. I'd expect to start seeing this type of interface really taking off for a lot of developer facing services. What's old is new again...
Of the commonly used Lisps today, only Emacs Lisp is dynamically scoped.

That's not quite accurate. Common Lisp and Clojure are both lexically and dynamically scoped. In CL, things created with def* (defun, defparameter, defvar, etc...) are dynamic, while function arguments and things created with let are lexical[0]. In recent versions of Clojure, it's necessary to explicitly make a symbol dynamic with metadata.

[0] This is probably not entirely correct or complete, but should get across the general idea.
Thank you! This is a nice hack. Going to implement this at home.
The closest I've seen/done for this is a $1.64 stamp for first class 1 oz. Agree, this would be very nice to have
>>> Access to data items uses names based on the data in the data items;

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/26945978.jpg
Hehe, I suppose I was trying to allude to more extreme feminist leaning people.

(Pedantically, I could claim we are all feminists, after all, nearly everyone here thinks women should be able to vote. But that wasn't the meaning I had in mind initally)
I used wifi on a flight for the first time a few weeks ago- it was fantastic. Not perfect, but it converted six hours of dead time into productive time.

It got me thinking about how driverless cars will represent a similar change. They seem like they are one technical innovation that we'll definitely see in my working lifetime, and I'm looking forward to it. Imagine being able to start and end your working day on a laptop in the car, rather than wasting time commuting.
GoldieBlox: The Engineering Toy for Girls
33 words from an unknown source (private collector) from an unknown context, and "Because chemical tests of its ink have not yet been run," this still has a long ways to go ...
Planning on offering int'l but starting with domestic
Interesting post, and interesting blog generally: well written, nicely presented, and informative with it. My compliments.

At the risk of going off-topic, I'll share some hopefully constructive feedback on the main Intercom site. This was my experience (as someone who is working in what appears to be your target market):

1. Read "Intercom is a next-generation CRM and messaging product. It helps web businesses build relationships with their users and turn them into loyal customers."

2. It's all empty buzzwords but the blog post was interesting, so I'll take a look.

3. Look at mostly illegible slides on home page.

4. Read jerky scrolling thing on home page until literally feeling sick (less than one minute).

5. Still have no idea what Intercom actually is (app? web site? back office tool?) or what it does (empty headlines are empty; how does it actually work?).

6. Can't find any more details. Not going to sign up or try anything out without way more than this.

I suspect you have something really interesting in there, and possibly even something one of my colleagues (who deals with marketing and customer relationships) might be interested in investigating. But for a company that seems to be all about messaging, your messaging is... lacking. :-)
This is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/DRm13.jpg
Oh, so the check mark really just means it's valid? So I haven't signed up for beta? If so, it really needs to be fixed.

On "using": I would align the 2 drop downs, either with just empty space in front of first, or put some text like "Let me", or just put "using" on a line by itself.
> There is probably an opportunity here to create a firefox or chrome extension that makes the basic UI Mimic Internet Explorer exactly so people don't notice.

Or easier yet, just install Chrome Frame.
Apparently Mashable even used techcrunch's screenshot..
Git doesn't violate this in any way. Read the claims. They're talking about distributing data throughout a network of servers, using an hash as a key to know from which servers to request the data. It's more similar to database sharding.
Future of the internet: moving content (Javascript)
This page gives another "nice" demonstration of C (in actual usage, not an obfuscated code contest): http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html

What's especially nice is that TRUE is defined as -1 in that source, not 1, which could easily confuse someone who isn't intimately familiar with C's boolean operators and conditional expressions (since something like if((a < b) == TRUE) { ... } would actually be incorrect).

Even with that in mind, it would still be nice to have a "safer to use" systems language than C++ generally available. Perhaps Go or D can fill that role (though good luck making that happen for game development on Windows...)
>Resizing your browser window.

I love responsive design for exactly this. I often have small or large browser windows, and being able to choose instead of being constrained by fixed-width sites is great.
Right. Having a filter of some sort is obviously vital, actually putting in legwork to figure out who is good is expensive, and I agree this is about having something they can quickly implement and not about offending the rest of us. Having said that, it would be a place I would hope they are focusing their efforts, and articles about other changes making things better for the favored few before they've addressed it come off as in poor taste.
Can a Kids' Toy Bring More Women Into Engineering?
So true. Maybe the same can be said of designers wondering if they should take on a client? The pay might be good but if the style the client wants is different from the designers style it might be a good idea to not take on the client.

Since I work alone so often, I always assumed that other designers could do-it-all and mesh with any style the client wants but after a few years I'm starting to realize the opposite is true. Designers have their own unique style that they replicate over and over. We have certain theming and placement of elements that we stick with throughout numerous projects.

Perhaps showcasing our style is more important than showcasing clients in our portfolio? (which I badly need to update)
I think it's perfectly legitimate for a company to just hold patents and sue others based on those patents (or, more likely, license them). That's a core aspect of the patent system.

The problem here isn't patent protections. It's bad patents. We're still going to see submarine patents for the next ~16 years, and I'm sure patent trolls will exist beyond that (unless there is reform), but the patent system isn't the problem here. It's just that so many bad patents get through.
Will it mean any changes for my project hosted on SourceForge?
Apple: IPhone 5 Preorders top 2 Million in 24 Hours
Yeah, that's what my instinct is telling me too.

Have you tried offering professional recruiters a referral fee? I wonder if they'd work double hard getting a fee on both ends? Or is that just not done?
> but I didn't know it had a block/closure syntax also

Blocks are one of the most important concepts of Smallalk. Every control structure is done via blocks in Smalltalk, even if/else is a method (message) on a boolean object, that takes two blocks as arguments: one for the 'true' case and one for the 'false' case.
I have received my Elevation Dock. Also, the guys over at Elevation Dock have mentioned that once they get the new connector documentation that you will be able to swap out the current board with a new board that contains the new connector.

Having taken the elevation dock apart, it is entirely do-able.
Similar list from previous suit here:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111219/02381817122/ex-mor...
Yeah, initially had both name and email so was using the validation. Will just get rid of the validation altogether. thanks for the heads up!
That's actually slightly rude if you ask me.