skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard enough in this day and age to make something using its patent as a guide, even though by definition that's what a patent is supposed to show you how to do.

The reverse is next to impossible. If I had an Apple A8 chip from 2019, I might get some good ideas on what it's made out of, but not what processes Apple used to make it. Furthermore, many of the patents used in 5-10 years have already been applied for.

Playing time-traveling patent troll is also fraught with other problems- many innovations come precisely because they aren't already patented by someone else. Rather than giving into the extortion they may just push their research in a different direction and still achieve their performance goals, making your patents somewhat worthless.

Licensing a patent for free is silly- just abandon it when your 7.5 or 11.5 fees come due.

The one thing that would have significant resale value would be the supercomputer's software (assuming it wasn't something really esoteric), since 5-10 years' worth of hard work on the part of thousands of programmers could be skipped. That's assuming that was included with the supercomputer and you don't have to send for it (Doc Brown style).
That was a bit shady if you're buying stock, but I've never had any trouble buying a groupon, getting a groupon redeemed, or getting one refunded. Overall I think Groupon is pretty legit for its customers, and businesses actually get paid (whether or not they can support themselves with the kind of clients Groupon brings in is another issue).

If you have to read mice type to find out the full T&C, there's something less than reputable about how you do business.

EDIT: Just looked at the FAQ on the site, they are up front with their 2 options. The shoes are $39.95 if you sign up for the VIP program, otherwise they're full price. So if you want the sale price, you've got to sign up for VIP.
http://www.justfab.com/faq.htm#Q02
This looks pretty clear in the FAQ on their website. Every month that you're a member, you have the option to buy one of that month's items at a discounted price. If you don't take that option, you get a credit to buy additional items in subsequent months. If you don't want to sign up for the membership then you can select that option at checkout (and pay more).

Did it take your girlfriend 8 months to notice this recurring charge on her statement?

I have a story about forgetting to cancel my online newspaper subscription. Look for that on HN soon!
VCs investing in con artists are scum.
Currently in Paris : on average ~5s to load a page.
How could they rip off ideas from Halo so blatantly!!

Kidding of course. I don't think I had consciously acknowledged this, but @paulsutter is totally right. I think the only vision of the future from recent times that I can think of is the "Minority Report UI" ... and we've pretty much already achieved that (NUI, iDevices, Kinect, etc.).

Can anyone give any contemporary examples of what we imagine the future to be like (aside from a blade runner-esque dystopia)?
Charge-backs hurt their credit score, I believe, so it's going to hurt them well and proper, if it keeps happening.
Ask HN: I have a finance web site I want to promote, can you help?
ASK HN: I have a finance web site (http://www.mibian.net) and I don't know how to promote it, can you help?
The difference is Clippy tries to grab your attention, most likely without making a contribution. Google Now doesn't try to grab your attention, just show you information that might be helpful.
So the site doesn't force you to join the VIP program? The way it is structured would definitely see a lot of people check it and click through without checking. In my experience stuff we make a lot more obvious than this is plain ignored during checkout.
Eclipse 4.2 SR1 silently released
Very right - it's called accountability.

At the same time (at least in Germany) they want to force citizens to use email (accounts) where they have complete control of the servers / infrastructure it is provided from.

In the US they are e.g. strangling GAO that has at least in the past created some level of accountability for government dealing. Other means of oversight are also step-by-step turned into false fronts.

If you go from email (for which regulations for record keeping exist) to other means of electronic communications (e.g. rt-messaging, encrypted messaging with personal / keys linked to your gov. position) you at best increase the efforts for recovery to a level that it becomes infeasible in most cases or make it impossible when [due to strange coincidence] the crypto-keys have been lost.

Guess it more-and-more becomes clear where this is leading to in the long run - zero accountability and arbitrary state power where you have to prove that something is not right (which you then of course can't).
Ruby port of Scala Option
It only shows up if there are traffic delays or public transit schedules.
Adopt a Vertical Oriented Design Strategy along-with KISS
Thank you for posting the screenshot. A clear example of a UI anti-pattern IMO.

http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Main_Page
Java + lambdas
Just tried it without the checkbox ticked, and it does appear to be mandatory.

"You must read and agree to the JustFab VIP Membership Terms of Service."

Which makes sense - I bet they're making a killing on zombie subscription fees and little on legitimate users.
Yeah, I think it's just your barber. I go to a barbershop, and they have a point of sale system, and a receptionist to grab everyone coming in.

I've also been to another barbershop where it's as described: 3 barbers, they have to remember the order. However, this place would not go with any computerized sale system. That's because they were going for the "old time" barber feel -- there wasn't even a credit card machine there.
I thought Groupon only got 30M...
If your newspaper had a skeezy way of disguising a subscription as a purchase these things might be similar.
People on clojure forum were not very nice. I am learning scala with https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index. Scala guys are very nice and the language is really awesome.
There is no way to get zero government for urban issues. Urban living naturally means an overlap between private property rights, public commons, and governmental infrastructure efforts.

The question is whether you have a democratically-run municipal or regional/county government with the power to make urban-planning decisions, or whether you instead resolve everything through a tangled network of property-rights lawsuits.
The most effective terror weapon against its own work force
I train with weights as well, but I do a whole body routine regularly. It's not very hard to remember the weights (at least the ballpark). I think if you do isolated exercises it'll be harder to remember the weights and a log will certainly help.
Those ringtone companies were just promoting ads and whatnot to get people to 'buy' something that made them, on average - what? - $70? If the cost of customer acquisition was, say, $20, they're making $50/head. For many people, having an automated business making $50/customer profit is pretty good.

Not every business is 'sustainable' through repeat customers - funeral homes come to mind. However, if the only way to be sustainable is to break laws, that's where the problem lies.
It probably tells you more about the VCs who invested rather than the company. The opportunity cost of where to deploy their money is likely higher these days and a VC who is investing in a fairly scam-ridden business is probably looking to capitalize on a quick exit.

In this case, everyone knows the jig may be up quickly, so they're looking to expand quickly and leave before the known end.
Clojure has a fully optional, very grokkable and well-defined map from Clojure to Java, in the form of protocols and gen-class. Protocols are a natural part of the language, and if you need a concrete gen-class, because Clojure is functional it's easy to plug whatever Clojure functionality into a Java interface.
I think it depends a lot on what you're wanting out of the language.

If your primary goal is Java sans pain, then Xtend, Kotlin, or perhaps Groovy should fit reasonably well and have a gentle-ish learning curve. Both Xtend and Kotlin seem to be designed particularly for this niche, with a dash of Scala-is-too-complex mixed in to their marketing materials.

If you're wanting an interesting new language that goes beyond traditional Java thought patterns, however, Scala (or Clojure) seems like a much better option. Both Scala's type system and its deep and insightful fusion of OO and functional thought make it a far more interesting language to think about and work with.

IMO, YMMV, etc. of course.
Will Rails be the new PHP?
Riiiight. So I should have to scour FAQ pages and TOSs in order to disambiguate that this is an opt-out-only membership-type club with recurring charges? Go to their home page and tell me it doesn't look like another zappos. Does zappos continually charge me if I don't come back? No. Then click on "How JustFab works"...does it say ANYTHING about recurring membership fees? No, it makes the site seem to be just some kind customized shopping service.

JustFab isn't going to help disambiguate their business model up front because that would hurt their bottom line.
My girlfriend was studying in the US at the time, she didn't have a SSN, she was using a visa card issued by the china construction bank, her father paid the bill every month and didn't notice anything unusual. She finished her study and returned back to China last month, only then did she find out the $39.95 charge for the last eight months. Basically JustFab robbed her $320 for nothing.
I think it's very tough to make the case that America is uniquely bad in this regard. Do you seriously think that Europe is a political utopia that elects people who only do the best for citizens, or that entrenched interests haven't captured public power and funds??
Simon Cowell, Will.i.am create "X Factor for Tech"
Thanks for the screenshot. This is outrageous IMO. Few people will notice that the TOS checkbox actually reads "JustFAB VIP membership program". Most people will take it as a normal TOAS checkbox that you have to agree every time you order from any website. So, yes, the page is designed to be misleading a.ka scam some subscription fees.
This is as useful as saying "Fix the problem."
I think this is the main advantage of Xtend. Xtend compiles to plain Java classes and uses the same typesystem as Java. This way you get excellent Java interoperability, as Xtend classes can be used seamlessly from Java and vice versa. This goes so far that I usually mix in my projects Java and Xtend code. I recently wrote a blog post about this topic, as well [1].

[1] http://sebastianbenz.de/5-Things-that-make-Xtend-a-great-Lan...
Scala to me feels like the C++ of Java. There's a billion language features and each time I try to learn a new one, I run into gotchas and inconveniences. I'm not convinced an average or even above-average programmer can keep all that stuff straight in his head, cognitive energy that's better spent on actual programming.

For instance, what the heck is the method

GenTraversableLike.++[B >: A, That](that: GenTraversableOnce[B])(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[List[A], B, That]): That

? That is all one method definition. Famous Java-isms like Enum<E Extend Enum<E>> are tame in comparison.

Things like this are the #1 reason I haven't embraced Scala, despite this constant itch I have to learn strongly typed functional programming. And who knows if they might capriciously change Scala tomorrow, like the time they decide to break binary compatibility of type signatures in compiled Scala classes, after which I spent an hour trying to figure out why the heck my IDE was reporting type errors everywhere.
There's no way for me to know the min/max size of a window in order to verify it can be automatically inserted into the grid. A lot of mac apps set their minimum window sizes to an annoyingly large value, making tiling those windows impossible on my 11" macbook air.

Also keeping track of individual windows through the accessibility api is not a trivial task
Some VC information on this page if you're interested.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/justfabulous
Puran Registry Cleaner, un simple outil de nettoyage des registres Windows
I googled to see whether this was creativeness or just copying stuff from the net, and came across http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.arithmetic.p.... It states:

"Operands of modulus are converted to integers (by stripping the decimal part) before processing."

=> 4.5 % 1.5 is zero, as is 4.6 % 1.9. So, in the world of PHP, there may be logic in that strpos approach. As far as I can tell, it certainly isn't much worse than http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?76114-Work-... advocates.

And no that is not worth much. I know almost nothin about PHP, and prefer to keep things that way.
And there does not seem to be any opt-out option in the profile settings (at least not without having completed checkout).
Reminded me of the Citadel from Mass Effect. It's beautiful!
The app has a GPS import feature that can import from Dropbox or iTunes. It's not supposed to be used with the phone constantly on the person.
Google has a similar thing for middling successful AdWords advertisers (including me): they've got a deal with a bank for a subsidized AdWords credit card. 8% interest, credit limit is your yearly AdWords spending, works only on AdWords.

I was thinking they could go one step further beyond just peeking at my AdWords data and conclude my Internet footprint justifies a $500k limit at 4%. (I.e. Now they're underwriting) And one step further than that would be "Make sure you pay your bill on time, because we wouldn't want anything to happen to those rankings." That strikes me as unGoogley but you never know.
IOS6 html hardware acceleration changes and how to fix them
What should they use for password resets?
I don't know but these renderings put me in mind of Freeside from Neuromancer.
Avatar had some pretty awesome user interface/interaction device concepts.
Yes, you are absolutely right!

Me: "Suche nach Häcker News"

Siri: "Das Web nach Hecker News durchsuchen"

Googles Search: "Meinten Sie: Hacker News"
class action lawsuit - dated oct 2011 though - http://www.scambook.com/blog/2011/10/justfab-com-justfabulou...

and some more people with similar stories:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/justfab.html

http://www.scambook.com/company/view/146/JustFabcom

http://forum.purseblog.com/the-glass-slipper/justfab-com-sca...
It reminds me more of the book catalogues. 5 books for a pound or something as a joining perk, but you then had to buy a book a month for 6 months or they would automatically sell you the default book etc.

I never thought that was a shady business model, per se, and whilst it wasn't entirely intuitive how they worked to a 14 year old, I blamed myself for screwing up by joining- not the company.
I think you might be thinking of Norway on the oil part. Denmark produces some oil, but not a particularly large amount, and almost entirely in the past 10 years. Tax/royalty revenues to the state now amount to about 3% of the state budget, which is a nice cushion, but not really the main source of funds.
Yes, like that. Oh did I mention that it uses GPGPU accelerated cloud computing?
No, the solution sounds obvious to me: build more housing stock. Otherwise, the established real-estate values of the Baby Boom owners can never be realized as sales. A commodity that's too pricey won't sell, and the prospective seller will go broke. Only way is to lower the prices.
About a year ago, some university released a study showing that standing for long periods of time is just as detrimental as sitting and no advantage is gained from doing this. Also, someone on a blog who worked at a company that had a number of adjustable standing desks noted that no one used them after some period of time; that they preferred to sit.

What I would prefer to have is something adjustable where I can sit when I want to sit and stand when I want to stand.
Depends what you mean by contemporary?

The Culture is very optimistic, and features engineering on a scale that makes these concepts look like iron age coracles.

A personal favourite of mine is Schismatrix though. It's set almost entirely in space habitats similar to the ones featured here.

As Neuromancer's lesser known cyberpunk contemporary, in places it's very... 80s in tone politically. But it's still a great setting, I'd highly recommend it.
My mail server encrypts all of my email with my public PGP key on the way in. So even if you gain access to my email account, you still can't read my email - https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E...

Public key crypto has many usability problems, but it solves a lot of other problems. I wish some of the big mail providers like Google would throw some money and people at it.
Just to add more to that list, there is also Fantom (my choice of a better Java) and haXe which also deserves a mention, for managing to hit five or six different platforms.
You better. I'm subscribing to that repo.
You can ramp normal speed bumps pretty easily. Hit them at 35-40 and bah-bump you're over them.

So its only the 'vicious' ones that have any effect at all.
Of course, in Australia you can cast a null ballot. Given that, I quite like the Australian system.
I don't know about the US, but here in Germany you can't put that kind of stuff into your terms and conditions.

Well, you could, but those terms would be ineffective. Of course, this doesn't help if they succeed to intimidate the victim. But if the victim doesn't pay, there's nothing the scammer can do, because this case would never succeed in court.

Having said that, it might help if the victim complains to the police. Depending on how serious customer protection is taken in the US, this business might be more than merely "unethical".
An IPO Exit Strategy Puts the Entrepreneur at Risk
Pretty terrible of Techcrunch to have a favorable article about it: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/fashion-retail-and-styling-...

That shit is poisonous to the startup sector, some people already think it's some kind of voodoo and this kind of thing doesn't help.
Respectfully, sir, you don't understand what you are talking about. If you had ever built something from nothing, as in, before the first line of code you wouldn't be speaking with your tone. Arrogance in the extreme!

Every link works. There are three million+ locations built into the system to organize content geospatially. When you speak of a broken link, did you get a 404? No! You received no content because you and the other 7 billion people on earth haven't learned what it is and contributed information to your community.

nwzPaper is not another aggregator crawling the web for content. Everything a user contributes is published to our system and that's what enables real-time content publishing around the world. It's all nuance that somehow went over your head.

The blogs you speak of are toast because of the legal distinction the courts have made between bloggers and journalists. The blogosphere is structurally broken because it has no adhesive beyond a search engine and lacks he ability to have a uniform audit facility for users and their content.

Try again. You are the enemy of innovation.
that seems a lot of tea too. The only really good liquid is pure water. I'm lucky enough that we drink water straigth from a spring.
I've wondered if having dendritic, branching neighborhood streets would stop the issue. Main highways would be bigger; all roads leading to neighborhoods would end in cul-de-sac. Only residents and visitors would ever drive into neighborhoods.

Its a minima of road-per-house, thus a minima of cost. More greenspace, quieter neighborhoods.

This American habit of gridding roads everywhere has a huge impact on quality-of-life, costs a bundle, and stems from what? Some surveyors' sense of symmetry?
I think the best set up is the standing desk + elliptical/treadmill set up. That combines all the best research of a standing desk and the benefits of very low movement to increase brain activity.
Hitting Your Stride
You would think that if any page explained how the program worked, it would be this one: http://www.justfab.com/how-justfab-works.htm

but I didn't find a single mention of membership fees on this page.

I'd heard a lot about this company, but had no idea what they were until now. Disgusting.
The amount of energy needed to create this would be enormous. At the rate technology is shaping up, it would probably be money better spent to make it so that humans don't need those monsterous devices just so we can remain alive without an atmosphere and gravity. Instead, we work to evolve an plastic exoskeleton and imbedded "always on" technology inside us so humans can survive in outer space as easily as they survive on the surface of Earth. So you have to fuel up with oxygen and food, but then you are good to go and then you don't need to waste all that energy to move trillions of tons soil into space.

The future is often very different than we expect, we may find out that we explore the universe in 2 foot by 2 foot by 6 foot pods inside of monsterous spaceships with arms, legs, sensors and technology. And we fly around the universe doing what humans always do. The human in the center of the ship, unconscious and living through and commanding the machine. Why carry along the body, just use the brain. Better yet, get 1000 brains per ship. Machines inside controlling the ship directed by the minds.
Subtle point, but your assumption (nearly everywhere else in this discussion as well) relies on paying for content before you've consumed it. I haven't heard much discussion on what happens if you remove that assumption.

If you could attach a frictionless transaction to a "Like" or "Kudos", I would be happy to pay $1 a pop or something reasonable for a well researched blog post after I've read it. Maybe not feasible for a wider public, but certainly might have niche acceptance.
I live in São Paulo, one of the greatest cities in the world and here the maps are shit. In London where I was Friday it's also shit. Both are not your average small German town. For driving directions it's basically TomTom. You're not interested but I am, and not everyone live in a car.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Tropo wasn't capable. I meant that at scale, it's more expensive than building your own.
at least there is good croissant there...
I cannot stress this enough.

If the company continues to receive chargebacks claiming fraudulent charges (which this really does appear to be) they will find themselves in a difficult place with card processors.

Some processors drop clients if they crack 0.5% a chargeback rate.
But at least the book clubs (at least the ones that I know) make it obvious that you sign up for a membership and have to buy something (monthly or yearly).

This site seems to be entirely designed to mislead you into thinking you're just ordering one item, while in fact you are signing up for a membership.

Signing up for the first one (book club) may be a bad business decision on the customers part, but this second style simply seems fraudulent to me.
Using Passbook as a portfolio
Even worse are scams that look like a free service (doing stuff like horoscopes) but require you to enter an address and then send you a bill for a 12 month subscription, and threatening legal action if you don't - quite common here in Germany. There's actually new legislation since July that requires all online transactions to explicitly say there's a fee right on the confirmation button, otherwise they're not legally binding.
Chocolate Makes Snails Smarter
HP releases open source OS