skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some of these strike me as pretty horrible ideas.

(1, 6) video and/or infographic resumes: please, no! that just adds visual clutter to an already tedious process. if you want your resume to stand out, find a more-than-usually interesting and informative way to write about your skills and experience. sell me on the content of your resume, not its style.

(2) use the company's services in some way to present yourself: cute but gimmicky. it does show that the applicant has taken the time to learn about and use your service in a deep way, but personally i feel that the extent to which i'd be impressed is not proportional to the effort it would require on your part.

(5) conduct a reverse job application: not a bad way to get yourself some publicity and come to the notice of several companies at once. might also move you up the interview queue if well done, and will almost certainly not be a negative.

(3, 4) demonstrate your skills, suggest improvements/fixes: i would definitely be impressed.
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Well, i'm not aware of it existing on 'windows rt' (no one has it for starters), but firefox works on both linux ARM and windows x86, so i'm sure that could be ported without too much trouble.
On a more general note, is anyone else tired of seeing "X uses Y" posts? It feels more and more that, in the Valley, namedropping is a way to ensure your own relevance, whether you're a business or a landing page or a person, and I'm getting tired of these appeals to popularity.
This is really interesting, I use Corona SDK to develop iOS apps and there is no way in Corona to manipulate images directly in this manner.

Dave
All life is misery.
All misery comes from longing.
To long for happiness causes misery.
To long for misery causes misery.
To long for not longing causes misery.

I wrote a much longer post, but it seems I can't properly phrase anything without it sounding like someone blended together a lot of (bad) introductory pamphlets on ancient philosophies.

May you find the things you need, not so much the things you seek. :)
Old Slashdot joke. Sorry.
Political consulting and the corruption of American democracy
> going after the cases that annoy them.

Perfect definition of "focus". One of the key components of success.
There's no perfect answer to this particular situation. If you make losing plaintiffs pay, you basically give large companies free license to misuse the intellectual property of small companies. "Loser pays" is proposed in many different contexts (e.g. tort litigation) and has been rejected for the same reasons. In the US, we perceive it to be more fair for defendants to have to deal with litigation costs than to stifle meritorious litigation against deep-pocketed defendants. It's a trade-off.
The top bar and the left side is still from Facebook, Bootstrap is used within an iframe that's actually the whole main column.
The back button issue for me is the biggest one. The back button is such a useful thing to have, but the inconsistency of its behavior is sometimes mind-boggling.
The Apple Reaper
While this is certainly a good idea, what happens when one member from the organization tries to sue another? Back to square one?? I'm just curious, I'm no patent lawyer either.
There are two sides to every coin.

"The purpose of the Sedan explosion was to determine if nuclear devices could be used as cratering or earth moving mechanisms [for construction purposes]."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1o38Yo5OhY
It's theoretically possible with deconvolution, but I don't know that anyone's had much success there without a bunch of MATLAB coding and a perfect impulse of the room.

There's a newish plugin called Zynaptiq Unveil that claims to do "blind" reverb removal, that is, without having an impulse response. I haven't tried it, but there's a demo version:

http://www.zynaptiq.com/unveil/

Other interesting conversations about de-reverberation:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.music-dsp/775
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/60299-convolu...
What's to stop patent trolls from forming a corporation with no assets, suing people, and then declaring bankruptcy if they lose their case? They could forfeit their patents, but it would be worthless anyway if they lost the case.
I think it's a big thing for Bootstrap as a project and for its creators and contributors when their work is used by giants like Facebook & co.
A few such organizations exist. For instance, see OIN.
Like all religions the tenets of Buddhism don't hold up very well under inspection. (Unlike most religions, the founder of Buddhism anticipated my reaction and was OK with it, so he gets that much credit, at least.)

At the moment, I am, in fact, not suffering, so it can't be true that all of life is suffering. I am sure I will suffer later, but that's a question of thermodynamics, not karma. It only means that suffering is inevitable, not ubiquitous.

As a result, the question of how to minimize suffering in the here and now is of greater interest to me than how to escape from some kind of abstract cosmic cycle of attachment.
No, they didn't, actually.
Interview: Gold, Silver, and Bitcoin
I'm pretty much 100% sure Facebook is not name-dropping Twitter.
If I'm interpreting this correctly, each liner is a one-use consumable and all of the power it can generate comes out in one big burst. How does long-term power generation work in that scenario? Is there a big feed tube that drops liners into a chamber, fuse them, then dump them out the bottom?
I think you've summed up one of the major problems precisely, yes.

Ideally, such a transparent attempt at patent trolling ought to result in a pierced corporate veil and personal liability on behalf of the owners, but in practice that seems unlikely to happen.
> do the things you want to do but are afraid of doing.

Perhaps this advice works best with people who have no self-destructive desires. For those of us who are merely human, though, we have to compromise.
Enem - Tudo sobre o Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio
O Enem é uma prova realizada pelo Ministério da Educação do Brasil. Ela é utilizada para avaliar a qualidade doensino médio no país e seu resultado serve para acesso ao ensino superior em universidades públicas brasileiras através do SiSU.
C Web Services - Hello World in 5 steps
Depends on what you can do on that site. Around my part of the world:

* Phone/number that is redirecting a call pays for the redirected leg of the call

This leads to a lot of creative hacking on trying to program a phone to redirect calls to expensive service numbers or foreign numbers. And many operators lets you administer call redirection on their website
Ironically, this was more or less the original business model behind Intellectual Ventures themselves. I guess they quickly figured out that the money is on the other side.
> We know Mark Zuckerberg did not build Facebook to get rich. His vision of “making the world more open and connected,” is Facebook’s real raison d’être.

Sounds like ex post facto rewriting history bullshit to me.

You start companies to make money (otherwise you'd start a non-profit). You may or may not have other reasons for starting the company. However saying that you didn't want the money after you become rich is false modesty and a form of social signalling.

Founders may or may not want to change the world - but they unequivocally want to make a lot of money regardless of their other reasons.

Indeed, most of these other reasons should be classified under the "reality distortion field" umbrella.

These are used so that founders can say "Come with me and help me change the world!" - when what they really mean to say is "Come make me filthy rich and get paid less for pleasure of doing so you ingracious B player!".

Psychological arbitrage is a real factor in start-ups and a lot of social negotiation. Be careful when dealing with others and remember - everyone is trying to screw you in some form or another (see Facebook founder fight over rights to stock).

Trust no one (this is a PR piece and I'm 100% biased).
Notice that there is nothing in this blog post that indicates how vigorously they will fight the lawsuit and certainly no bravodo type language. Only essentially a call to action "We encourage all of our customers, partners, open source collaborators and friends to support Reps. DeFazio and Chaffetz in their effort to discourage these abusive patent troll lawsuits."

I takes this as potentially meaning that they might very well settle this out of court w/o paying -or- they are planning some other atypical legal action and don't want to telegraph anything. Even if they get this dismissed because of the github assumption that doesn't prevent it from being refiled correctly I believe.
It's a Twitter project, it's not like bootstrap isn't being used by "giants" already.
SourceForge may have started as something else, but it was already SourceForge by 2000. Check out my account, created January of 2000: http://sourceforge.net/users/nitrogen

It's not my intention to try to one up others with my four-digit UID. All I'm saying is, I was there, I was heavily involved in Open Source at the time, and SourceForge was critical.

Edit to add: Geocities was pretty important to the development of the web, too. Part of me prefers the days when everyone made their own eye-gouging web site instead of relying on Facebook. There was a much more eclectic selection of content available back then.
Don't get hung up on "years". I didn't mean that I wish all feature advance had stopped years ago, I meant that for several years now I have been thinking about perfecting one thing before moving on to the next.

Every company is different, every product is different, every user is different. Attempting to speak in absolutes like you are simply doesn't work.

As for your suggestion I forgoe a decade of advance in phones... uhh no. A moderately buggy phone from 2012 is still a thousand times better than your puritan "calls and texts only" ideal phone.

The thing is, it could be much better with a little attention to detail.
Next auction is launching towards the end of September. If you send me an email -- matt@sitename I'm happy to have a closer look at your profile.
> Many of them use closed-source or even binary-only libraries that have no freely available replacements.

How do they port it to Linux, then? (They have to re-compile it right?)

I've developed games before and I can tell you, if you're not using propitiatory platform-dependent libraries, porting your game is a piece of cake. What I've noticed is that most of the games on Humble Bundle use a library known as SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer.) SDL is a library that handles two main things that aren't platform-independent: creating a window and receiving events (keyboard, mouse, e.t.c.) The rest is taken care of by the cross-platform OpenGL, OpenAL, etc. libraries.

In addition, there's an even better library than SDL called SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library). SFML is much more fully featured than SDL, and is C++-based and OOP. With both SFML and SDL, all you have is _just recompile_. And done!

So really, it's not that hard to port a game. "can't justify sinking man-months of effort into a Linux port" sounds a bit stretched. There are plenty of free libraries available for game dev (atleast 2D game dev), like Box2D, CEGUI (Crazy Eddie's GUI), etc. so if from the get-go you plan on supporting multiple platforms use some of those libraries, and porting will be a breeze.
>They are just another patent troll attempting to take advantage of bad law. It is their nature. They look for opportunity, and patent litigation can be very profitable. The real problem is the law.

Disagree. Assholes will always be able to abuse the law. We should name and shame the trolls responsible. The lawyers and investors behind patent trolls should have severe social consequences.
All Special Relativity requires is that space be more or less flat between point A and point B. It doesn't matter if the information travels from A to B through a wormhole and then into another universe and then out the butt of Dumbo, if it ends up at B before light would, then causality has been violated.

If, on the other hand, your FTL drive bends up space all around us to be like a giant hyperspace pretzel, (1) we're going to have a lot more problems than just a little violation of causality, and (2) causality still ends up being violated via General Relativity.
I understand Teller wants to protect an idea he came up with

Given how much Penn & Teller built their careers on exposing the tricks of other magicians who had guarded their secrets for decades (and getting a lot of stage magicians made at the duo), it's pretty ironic for Teller to now decide he wants government protection for a trick of his.

Disclaimer: esquire.com is not working for me right now so I haven't read the original article yet; I'm basing this on your comment.
When did those two organizations become non-practicing entities? How are they relevant to a discussion on non-practicing entities who sue startups for protection money?
Gangnam Startup Style - Silicon Valley Loves PSY
Can you find the 5 ways we made this video subversive for Silicon Valley?
Wifi on a lamp? Really?

Wifi is probably overkill on a lamp, but it's not completely without precedent. High-end LED aquarium lighting setups (the kind you need to grow exotic corals) often have wireless interfaces and/or dedicated controllers.

If money were no object, I would have these panels all over my house. http://ecotechmarine.com/products/radion/
Mruby for node.js
Stripe, Balanced, WePay for Payments: Not big enough to #fail
The bird is native american, Sandia is in New Mexico. If you are unfamiliar with the USA, there are vast swathes of the desert southwest that are milititary and mixed-use government land. White Sands, for example is also in NM. Not too far away, is Trinity site. To the north, is Los Alamos. Etc. There are only so many places you can test rockets and fighter planes due to the extreme speed, etc.
What's true for magic is true for tech: "Invention is all fuzzy, sloppy stuff"
First and foremost, dependencies.

My apps cannot have third party services that it relies on. that would give too much problems with our own SLA's.
If the SAS goes down, you are responsible.

Second: my stuff needs to be able work offline (at least o some degree) :)
The back button in previous Androids was mostly fine with a few overloaded functions that led to some understandable inconsistencies. It might get stuck going backwards in the browser or it might dismiss a dialog or keyboard instead of going to the previous screen, but the annoyances were minor.

To fix this they inexplicably added a second iOS-style header back button (which is called Up even though it is normally shown with a left pointer). The combination of two back buttons and the difficulty of understanding it, even for developers who have read the long style guide[1], is an absolutely baffling design decision. There is no way that users can intuitively learn what these buttons do. Add the inconsistent implementations and it's a usability nightmare.

[1] http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html
When I was a child my dreams were far simpler than pilot's licenses and such (although what kid doesn't want to be a fighter pilot one day? Especially if Top Gun just came on the telly when they were ~5) ... all I've ever wanted was having frivolous amounts of money. The kind of money where I could buy fancy sports cars without batting an eyelid.

What do I do to follow those dreams?

Oh and I've always wanted to swim in a sea of gold coins just like that duck ... but I don't think that's physically possible. At least not on Earth.
Big deal. Facebook uses a lot of JS and CSS from all over the place. Not sure why this is a big deal.
"X - the Y for something" is even more annoying. Example from first page: "EasyPost - the Stripe for postage"
I wonder what she pays her PR staff. Every time she has a bowel movement, it seems to show up as a businessinsider.com exclusive.
Sounds great! Cannot wait to see some source.
Baseless Patent Suit by World's Largest Scientific Society May Cost It Millions
Compromise is pretty much exactly the thing you shouldn't do.

Is there something you really, really want to do that falls into this category?
Back Pain During Pregnancy
>same types of issues

Elaborate please? The only common UX issue i can see here is the back button, most are aesthetic.
His basic thesis holds. The 47% are mostly in red states. And in Mississippi $30k-$50k are almost certainly part of the 47% (since with children they would likely have zero income tax liability) and vote Republican. So basically you could still make the point that Romney is criticizer his own voting base with these comments.
As a person who's never had an iPhone/Mac, I experience the same foreign feeling when I use an iOS device. I'm pretty sure this feeling is mostly due to unfamiliarity and not superior design on either side. Although it is worth noting that whenever I've borrowed someone else's Android phone it can be a completely different experience from my own Android device, whereas an iOS user borrowing an iOS device will know exactly how to operate it.
Bank of America and New York Stock Exchange under attack
> "but statements like "Apple won on their patent for a rectangle" are factually wrong."

Who made that statement, exactly? The furthest grandparent post said that, "Apple patented a rectangle, and I haven't seen much rise in awareness." and I've said nothing more than to give the jury's own verdict on three of Apple's design patents.

For the second point, I've already said that rounded rectangles are just one part, though the original post by marcoamorales is incorrect insofar as it implies that the design patents cover only that. It's pretty much inarguable that Apple asserted design patents with rounded corners as a key design feature. It was important enough to the claims that there was a prior art search for that specific element:

[1]: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120817121126489

The fact that they were such an important part of that design patent is probably what helped Samsung win on the D'889 issue, one of their few victories in the entire verdict.
Just needs to precise definition of patent troll to be right and only have the cross licensing in place when specifically defending against one.
Ask HN: Has anybody develop their own business while on a job? got tips?
I see that they have not delivered their product yet.
RPX Corporation was created to be the white knight that you describe. It is a for-profit company with a $600M mkt cap. Kleiner, CRV and Index invested significant capital in it (I believe Kleiner incubated it).

Basically, your company pays a % of revenues to be part of their patent protection scheme. They get to license your patents, which they allow other members to use. They purchase patents outright as well (though haven't been able to compete with bids from Apple, Google, Microsoft and the like).

From their website: "Our pioneering approach combines principal capital, deep patent expertise, and client contributions to generate enhanced patent buying power to manage patent risks and ongoing costs. By acquiring potential problem patents, we significantly reduce patent assertions directed at our client network. We will never assert or litigate the patents in our portfolio."

This doesn't solve the problem of large companies litigating frivolous patent claims, though it does fight against patent trolls.
One remark: there's often a general assumption that b/c Yahoo [or any large company] has been around a while, they have a very good idea what's going on. Might or might not be true - many companies often do surprisingly suboptimal things - beware of falling into the "What is, is efficient" trap.
If the "knockoffs" can't capture it, why does it need protection? The logic doesn't work there. You could just as easily defend the cynical interpretation that Teller is looking to "defend" (via the monopoly status of his tricks) his quite substantial revenue stream. That doesn't seem so deserving of protection to me.
I meant other giants besides the company that helped creating it.
so. what.
I don't agree with you that Penn and Teller built their careers on exposing tricks of other magicians.

They do a couple exposures. Cups and Balls, Blast off, and a new escape in their act that you can choose to cover your eyes for or not.

Cups and Balls and Blast Off aren't exactly carefully guarded secrets... what are you referring to?
Can you explain in more detail what it does?
FYI: Facebook has open sourced this tool, you can find it on github. Here's the commit that added Bootstrap: https://github.com/daaku/rell/commit/64bd62d40df54ddc08a9270...
I'm interested in hearing success and failure stories on this topic. Thanks for asking!
There are four possible states for someone in his profession.

1. Identity is secret. This is his ideal state.

2. Police know his identity, drug cartels do not. Not as good as #1, as he has to worry about corrupt police working with the cartels, or poor police security letting his identity out.

3. Police do not know his identity, but the drug cartels do. This is the worst possible case. The cartels can target him, and the police cannot help him.

4. Police and drug cartels both know his identity. Worse than #1 and #2, but better than #3, as he might get some help from the police.

If he had disappeared voluntarily (for instance, if he had gone on vacation), he would have told his colleagues. We can thus infer that he was probably taken by the drug cartels. That means he's in state #3 or #4. By making sure the police know his identity, his colleagues ensure he is in state #4, not #3, which is better for him.

The positive end game for him if he is found safely is moving away from Mexico (or at least from the drug cartel territories), assuming a new identity, and trying to live a normal life doing some job other than reporting on drug cartels. The moment he was taken both his pseudonym and real identity died--the only question now is if that also means the end of his life.
Won't there just be new broad patents? It seems the patent office doesn't really consider prior art.
Rule 110 in HTML5 + CSS3 (HTML + CSS3 = Turing Complete)
While I understand the annoyance, how else could you convey what "the Stripe for postage" says in such a short, succinct way?
If they file bankruptcy they have to sell off their assets to raise money for their creditors- assets which include the patents themselves.
just re-submit
Well . . . use a salt and it seems this patent is trivially bypassed. Voila!
I'm also surprised by the amount of rejections in your examples! That said there's so many elements that need to come together to get your idea over the line (pitch, team, an idea the VC feels an affinity towards etc). Big ideas are sometimes the craziest ideas, so it's best to embrace that and expect rejection as a natural part of the journey. Here's to the crazy ones!
My take on the article was that the fight is against taking something beautiful and magical and making it pedestrian through unartful performance.
Is the mighty Wikipedia down for everyone?
I'm getting a "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties" message with Wikipedia. What's up with that?
Copying is not considered respectable if attribution is given...

The general rule is you are to ask the individual you are copying if you can copy them in which case they will say no unless they sell the trick, or you can argue that you independently came up with the trick, and the person agrees with you.

Copying is always considered "theft" even with attribution unless there's specific permission.

There is a case where a performer does magic to the same song (Shape of my heart), but with different actual magic performance and it is considered copying.

*Edited to improve my tone, the person I responded to deserves good faith and seems quite reasonable.
Vayable is hiring engineers to help change the way people travel.
Yeah, but OP is.