skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Here are some thing I've learned:

-- Stuff takes more time than you think.
-- Get everything in writing.
-- Make sure you are legally clear to build a business on the side.
-- Schedule and plan in advance so you dont waste time.
-- Schedule free time so you can relax.
-- Remember to eat well/exercise. Good health is important.
-- Dont talk about your business to your co-workers/boss. Tell them you are taking a pilates class or whatever kids these days do.
-- A business is 99% business and .5% coding with a .5% margin of error.
-- Remember to smile and listen. :)
-- Hire contractors instead of employees. Cheaper, less hassle.
-- Get a lawyer and acocuntant involved ASAP.
QED is consistent with Special Relativity. The standard introduction to QED starts with the successful attempt of Dirac to create a "covariant" version of the Quantum Mechanics that is consistent with Special Relativity (in that process he explained the particle spin and predicted the positrons).

Then it's necessary to make the theory more complicated to explain some experiments, but the final QED theory is consistent with Special Relativity (or "covariant" in the jargon). The extensions that involve the weak and strong forces are also covariant and they form the Standard Model (with the slightly hypothetical Higgs boson).

Any reasonable extension of the Standard Model is "covariant". And it would be very difficult to make the physic community consider seriously a no "covariant" theory (nothing is impossible).

Nobody knows the quantum version of General Relativity, so perhaps there is a very tiny loophole, but I would not be very hopeful about it.
Open-sourcing some games seems like a really good idea, but I think a lot of the Humble Bundle games typically fall into a category where design is much more significant than technology. It's one thing to allow modding on the Source engine, which would otherwise be out of reach for most developers. But given the code for Braid, how would the community improve on it? It's clearly the vision of one man, and it's been developed fully. A lot of indie games focus on fine game balance, distinctive graphics design, or plot to differentiate themselves, where I think of Open Source as a very technically-oriented model. Do you have examples of games you think would benefit from being opened up?
Interesting. What are the benefits to any of these approaches in your opinion?

What seems key to me is having a large enough energy output to harness without waste in the flare window while being able to manufacture fuel in sufficient volumes to power the sucker.
No. I work a lot, but I make sure to automate a lot of work. Basically, just automate what you can, look for ways to automate what you can't, and keep working towards automating everything. :)
As others mentioned, this has been attempted in various ways, but not really succeeded. Perhaps it could though if done properly. I am skeptical though and think something else is needed.

First is some form of legal ju-jitsu. If you are sued by a patent troll, you need to make it so they have no chance of stopping your business. One possibility is to dissolve and reform your company in some manner, perhaps moving it to another jurisdiction in the process.

This would at minimum cause a lot more work for trolls. It also causes hassle for you, but perhaps a business model could be built around this - imagine if your small startup could be legally dissolved and recreated, with all current legal structure in places like equity, somewhere else, perhaps as a division of a larger company. With the option to reform as an independent company whenever you want. Just moving around would make troll's lives much harder, and this could be much cheaper than fighting in the courts.

Another interesting idea is, as mentioned by others, that you can be sued for patent infringement even for products you use but didn't make. Everyone uses Windows or OS X, and they surely infringe many (ridiculous) patents, so even patent trolls are vulnerable to this. Microsoft and Apple do provide protection though, so this might be problematic.
the plot would make a great deux ex live action movie.
A Note on Rich Hickey
The 4 finger gesture doesn't work, but you can double tap the home button to do the same thing (on iPad too; that's how I do it because I don't like the 4 finger gestures).
That doesn't carry for me. For example, the famous trapdoor expose is trivial. The complexity is in the song-and-dressing, which most their tricks have.
By this logic, is anything but a Macbook comparable to a Macbook? How would you compare build quality objectively? I think it's safe to say if you're paying extra for a backlit keyboard, you're throwing around money.
I tend to agree: each has it's own positive and negative points....

I own an iPhone 4S, Galaxy S3, and a Blackberry Bold 9900 - all for testing. In terms of usability, I also put them in this order. Don't get me wrong: all three have good UI points (ahem harder to find in the Blackberry sorry), and all three have bad UI points (a blog waiting to happen for iOS too? e.g. you can't see the message above if you've typed a long message in Messages in iOS). But regardless: the 4S has much better usability guidelines than Android AT THE MOMENT. Namely, regrading the things the article brought up (e.g. icon sizes - come on...)

Personally I'd love to see Android up it's game, and since Matias Duarte has taken the reigns I think that we'll start to see it's usability become much more consistent - hence evening the UX playing field. I also really REALLY hope iOS fixes some of the annoying things in it's UI interface. Personally, I look forward to a greater UX experience all round - thankfully, arguably, that is already happening.
I think there's a little self-selection going on here in that the people being asked are all at least moderately successful - at least enough so to enjoy a whitewater rafting trip. I'm willing to bet that if you asked the same question at a local prison or drug treatment center you might come away with different ideas about life decisions and regrets. It's no surprise that someone who has generally had things go well will regret not taking more chances. Further more, "I wish I'd tried harder to be a rock star" is a lot easier to say in a group setting than "I really regret embarrassing mistake X, which took years to repair / recover from".
Yup. I agree with Hilary and Diego. Optimizing for the clickability of the ad is shortsighted. Yahoo is an advertising company.

Optimizing for revenue via delivering valuable clicks to your ad buyers seems more a right choice. That speaks of good placement and excellent targeting (better CTR) combined with an overall good experience (to attract/keep users in the first place).
This. The back button is one of the most powerful feature of android. It has always been great for navigating between apps even though it is a bit confusing. Adding a _second_ back button (a third if you count the home button as a long jump back) was the worst decision the android team ever made.

I mean, I understand where they were coming from. When a user jumps between apps he or she might want to be able to navigate inside the apps not just between the apps. However, a single back button with an already too flexible implementation was confusing enough that adding even more navigation options was a terrible decision. One back button forced apps builders to make their app usable within a single thread of history which is a Good Thing.

When a user jumps from app to app and suddenly decides she doesn't want to follow the current line of history, it is not unreasonable, and much less confusing, to make her go through the device home screen to get access to the start screen of the app and its full navigation tree.

When an app opens another app it should be only to give access to a particular section of the second app that is relevant to the first app.

A single back button also helped with the recent apps list mismatches. The mismatches happen when an app is opened from another one and happened less when this type of navigation was for limited specific actions that brought you back to the original app.
Its very possible that many vcs passed because they know how much trouble music licensing is and how expensive it is. Put it this way, Pandora, even though it is one of the best at monetizing advertising especially affiliate advertising, still hasn't turned a profit.

Now you have to realize that the project they pitched with may have been very shaky or just may have been outside the partners expertise
Probably not. There are lots of virtual stock trading platforms out there (using actual, same-day prices), and they're easy to use... I played around with some when I was 10-12. Not sure of the benefit to making a kiddie version.
No. Good developers work their ass off to make their dream come true.
I was very excited about Apple for about a decade now, but this walled garden is really getting to me. I doubt I'll be buying any new Apple hardware in the future, and I'll pivot to developing for the web instead of making apps as soon as I can.
We've put a lot of work into our system so far; I don't want or plan to switch over to GitHub for my private projects anytime in the prospective future.

My co-founder and I run under the philosophy that we create tools that we ourselves use. Legit Teams is no exception; we believe in the service and have no plans of discontinuing it.
That would be so tasteless as do undermine decades of respect Teller has earned as an artist and a person.

Penn, on the other hand, would tell you he is going to lie about it, lie about it, then tell you he lied about it, and you still wouldn't be sure if he was lying about lying.
Evergreen is an Acme-inspired editor with a similar philosophy:

http://software.jessies.org/evergreen/
>the very idea behind IP laws in the first place was to protect effort //

The idea from the point of view of the populus is to encourage innovation and open cultural expression. A corollary of that is the protection of livelihood of creators/inventors if that is required to support the general aims.

So are illusionists who're creating innovative cultural expressions of their art ceasing to create for want of funding and because others are following their lead? Or are such illusionists who create, model and use novel illusions able to generate a reasonable return for that good without additional IP protection and thus with the addition of such works entering the public domain at the earliest possible point.

[I concede I've not read the article yet (shock!) as it was blocked for me].
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/unempl... seems to suggest otherwise.
He's not the odd one. I did not experience any issues whatsoever with tapping on my trackpad. Not even with two-finger tapping for right clicks.

Then again, I'm using a Macbook Air, which has a highly-rated trackpad.
As an iPhone user at first I thought "yeah, I'm sure I could come up with a similar list, some stuff does bother me as well there". But then I read about those rather mind boggling issues. 'Voice'? Inconsistant UI windows with the same function in the same app? Disappearing status bar? Broken rotation animations?

Who the hell is doing QA at Google?

And that thing about the back button - it seems to me like the interface guideline designer had a good intention that was shown to be not feasible (imagine MS Windows gave application developers control over the behavior of the start menu button (oh yes, I will miss you, love)). Why haven't they changed it to something more reasonable by now? From an implementation standpoint they could just use the back button for in-app purposes only (like the software back button in iOS) and take away its application switcher capabilities. Isn't there a shortcut to recent apps like in iOS?
Lobste.rs has an interesting way of handling the influx of trolls and such by making the site invite-only. If someone ends up being banned, so does whomever invited them.
I always assumed this was part of the reason they developed iplayer. A trial run in order to offer the same thing overseas at a cost.
Images of dark energy captured for the first time
Apple partner says new Maps app in iOS 6 is terrible
dang and all this time I've been doing this all this time:

echo '{"hello": "there"}' | python -c "import json, sys; print json.dumps(json.load(sys.stdin), indent=4)"

Thanks for the tip!
From RSS to sharing on social networks - phantomjs?
How would you automate posting the title / description / short url of your blog posts to your Facebook / Twitter / Google+ / ... pages? The sites we are sponsoring or helping with have 10+ RSS feeds and 30+ possible social network page destinations.

Does someone have a good collection of PhantomJs scripts?
iPhone 5 review
I'm in charge of IT for an ecommerce company, and I just wrote code for this last week.

We wanted to speed things up by packing product directly into our shipping boxes instead of boxing it up after the fact, and it was a lot of fun solving this problem. I specifically wrote very generic code, so there's no reason why it couldn't run off of any list of products/boxes.

If there was interest into this sort of thing, it probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to turn it into some sort of API over the next few months.
Yeah, and that crappy Harvard social network may as well die in its elitist crib.
The login page on Virgin Mobile's USA site is totally non-functional right now. I wonder if all the curious people trying to recreate this brute force hack DDoSed the site.

While I'm a strong supporter of full disclosure, I'm iffy about this "hack" because hitting any web site in an automated fashion approximately a million times in one day is firmly in the very dark shade of gray areas.
There should be an Internet rule or law named for this
The American system isn't "terrifying" it's just different. You can't look at the European system without understanding that a lawsuit means a lot more in Europe than it does here. Many of the things that Europe does through administrative processes, the US does through litigation. It's easy to fixate on the costs of litigation, but realize that other systems don't necessarily eliminate those costs, but move them around by organizing things differently.

If a suit is truly meritless, it will be dismissed very early in the litigation process (summary judgment) before costs have piled up. The American legal system tries very hard to be "lazy" (in the CS sense), backloading costs as much as possible. Yes, it can cost millions of dollars to defend a suit at trial, but if a suit has made it that far it means that it was not a meritless suit. Why should the loser pay if he brings a meritorious case in good faith? Remember, in the US a lawsuit is usually the process through which the facts underlying a dispute are discovered. It often happens that someone legitimately thinks he has been wronged, but the process of litigation uncovers facts that show otherwise.

Loser pays systems chill litigation against big corporations. People focus on the situations in which they perceive there to be too much litigation, but in many areas there is not enough litigation. Litigation is the process through which citizens force corporations to fix unsafe products or clean up polluted land and water. Individuals are already at a huge disadvantage in these situations, and the threat of a corporation running up the bill in a loser pays system would do great injustice. Europe gets away with it because it has far more active government oversight and prosecution of such things.
As a guy with tremors, the trackpoint is even worse than a touchpad.
Anyone notice the ads when you play some of Yahoo Games (like Spades)? You have to wait 4-5 seconds to view a video ad before the game pops up.

Very very annoying, yet I've been tolerating it because there's very few alternatives when I want to play a simple 15 minute game with other people.
Thanks for the kind words.

I can't foresee all scaling issues that may come to pass; for what it's worth, I can tell you that I have trust in the people behind Legit Teams to solve these problems.

In turn, I can only ask for you to try our service and see if pushing becomes a problem. I'd then love to hear your feedback via our contact page based on your experience.
I have seen happy hour twitter accounts for NYC before, but I particularly like the crowd-sourced idea.

An idea would be to require the submitter to input an actual start and end time for the happy hour. I am already seeing good deals but I wouldn't want to waste my time if it is outside some set hours.
Is Carmack also spreading FUD?

It seems the web people have deluded themselves into thinking they really understand the implications of letting webpages interact with video drivers, and some of the graphics industry were just to happy to help along.

This doesn't change the fact that WebGL exposes graphics drivers in ways that they were never meant to, and that there is no real way for third parties to verify how safe it is to turn on WebGL for a given driver.

The whitelists and blacklists of drivers currently used do little more than to fragment the web and frustrate users.

I'm a big fan of how Google introduced much needed decent sandboxing to web browsers, but what they are doing with WebGL is both scary from a security point of view and depressing from the point of view of fragmenting the web, now to access certain websites not only you need the right browser, you also need the right video card and video drivers, is worse than the "best viewed with" nightmare of the 90's.
ProggyTinySZ or Profont.

Initially used them to maximize screen real estate many years ago. Still use them for their superior readability (ProggyTinySZ being the one of the most readable fonts I have ever used).
I would. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics). For example, if I see someone wearing a YC t-shirt over here in China, I'd most likely strike a conversation. I understand the signal isn't much needed or useful in Silicon Valley though since basically everyone seems to be involved in a startup.
It's a commission refund, the Redfin of recruiting.
Yes, but in a more holistic way than we normally use the word.

Good programmers will minimize the time they spend over the lifetime of a project. This is why you don't optimize prematurely, to avoid wasting time when you already have a solution that is good enough. However, the same programmer will then be diligent about writing modular, easy-to-read code, so that editing and refactoring will be as simple as possible.

Relevant - http://paulgraham.com/goodart.html
Rather flowery language, but addressing the main point...

Time to market is also an objective, measurable quantity. Usually more measurable than coupling. Yet the effect of time to market is visible immediately in the bottom line, while the effects of coupling won't be visible for several years.

I can almost guarantee you that when you see a senior developer choosing to build a tightly-coupled pile of shit, there was deadline pressure involved.

And it's not true that "you couple, you lose; you don't, you win". Much of Google code is a tightly-coupled mess (that's one reason you don't see more open-source software come out of it; the reason MapReduce isn't open-sourced isn't because of policy, it's because it's so tightly coupled to Google infrastructure that nobody wants to spend the time to untangle it). Amazon code, by most reports, is even more of a mess, and Facebook code is the biggest pile of shit there is, except for all the hot startups that you'd wonder how they managed to work if you worked there.

So maybe it's not that the rest of the industry is stupid; it's that you're optimizing for the wrong things.
But the fact that you can have at least one alias for your account (doesn't have to be from any other service), invalidates the issue. It's a social network (according to their definition) AND you can have different "identities" linked to the same account.

Anyway, this kind of disputes won't be solved in an online forum.

Besides, I don't think that MSFT and Google are willing to battle for this kind of issues right now. It could trigger a HUGE battle regarding all kind of assets (OS's, office suits, search engines, etc). Most probably, they would simply make a some kind of cross-licencing and forget the whole thing.
Yes but they cost just as much. As you'll note I said ignoring build quality even though it should be factored in.

If you've ever had a backlit keyboard you will realize the usefulness of them. I consider them as essential as a good screen but again I just pointed out that its a worse keyboard not that the keyboard is make or break.
Meet the Goo boss, same as the Zuck boss
IPhone 5 Meta-Review: A Better iPhone In Every Way
A suggestion which is unwarranted and obviously unfounded to anyone following the case closely.
alias pjson='pygmentize -l json'
Lengthy iPhone 5 reviews in 6 words or less
Is there any way to disable that? I already looked it up but didn't find it.
A competitor of TomTom indicates that Apple is relying mostly on TomTom for mapping data, and says "they've chosen the weakest partner" and "their data is terrible." Not exactly a neutral source.

Not that it's necessarily untrue; they might be gambling like they did with Siri, that the best way to get a service like this running well is to ship it and respond to real-world feedback.
Thanks balbaugh - that's an interesting thought. Definitely something I'll keep in mind. I put this together really quickly today w/ TelAPI and Zapier and was hoping to get some feedback just like that. Thanks!
I thought EMET is something you write on a golem's forehead...
Full disclosure: I'm a dev evangelist at TelAPI
My suggestion would be to have all members agree in advance to submit disputes between members to binding arbitration.

I would also suggest it should be the stated policy of the organization not to defer at all to the PTO on the question of patent validity. Everyone should expect that the arbiters would consider most issued patents (at least, most issued software patents) to fail the obviousness test.
This isn't going to work, the majority of trolls are NPE's and can simply declare bankruptcy. How many defaults on payments are we going to have before lawyers simply refuse to act as defence?

I think we should require half of the money spent on legal teams for lawsuits to go to paying for the other party's legal expenses. I think this would reduce frivolous lawsuits because, whereas now the wealthiest party always wins, if the defendant/plaintiff has equal support the legally correct party might win.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/net-us-microsoft-b...
Are you reading your tweets bottom-up or top-down?
We recently discussed underscore-cli here on Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491058) and I find it to offer more than this, but still a nice tool.

https://github.com/ddopson/underscore-cli
Interesting. Working on a competitor to code.ohloh I always wondered how they got such good hooks into sourceforge, but this explains it. With Black Duck owning them and Koders their strategy makes more sense now.
> Simply switching to another browser isn't a panacea;

That's one of the reasons I simply avoid Windows.
> * The software home button is very frustrating. Miss the spacebar, Im going to the home screen

I hate this one too. I bought this up on a hangout with Google developers (they do this weekly). And they made it clear they're very aware of the problem and even hinted some possible solutions they've been trying, such as giving the user an option to move the OS bar up. One can only hope.
Agree 100%

Apple has had the fortune of having a loyal costumer base that still buys their products even while yelling at them, but Apple needs to start listening to the yelling soon
That wasn't very nice.