skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article, but I think it takes a short-view of the future of Microsoft.

Microsoft can't continue charging the OS prices they charged in the past. Android on tablets and the potential for Chrome to take a big bite out of their bread and butter business in the next 10 years is a huge risk. I believe Microsoft recognizes the threat, and is throwing everything they've got at maintaining their market dominance in the OS race in order to just be in the race in the future.

Also, I'm not sure I agree that there is no profit in the surface. Though the author could be correct that the $499 version without the cover could have low or 0 margin, I doubt many people are going to by the coverless version. I suspect that was a marketing decision so they can have a $499 tablet, but realistically, 95% of consumers are going to by a cover, and if the keyboard cover is a great product, it makes sense that would be the default purchase.
"The list of numbers may contain duplicates, which I must not discard."
In particular, as 'tzs has been at pains to point out on HN for years now: AIA first-to-file means that two competing claims to the same patent --- two people rushing to file the same patent on essentially the same idea at the same time --- can now be adjudicated a simple, predictable measure rather than by "first to constructive invention". It is probably not much of an exaggeration to suggest that the previous standard was, in effect, "the party with the best lawyer wins".

First-to-file only matters when you have two parties eligible for the same conflicting patentable idea. It does not create some new gold rush of patentability; it applies only in the tiny minority of cases where two people are filing conflicting patents simultaneously. It's possible that there hasn't been a single widely-known trolled patent that was obtained under these kinds of circumstances.

MEANWHILE: AIA also includes provisions that prevent trolls from joining together defendants in suits into a single case in the troll's jurisdiction. Since that was a major part of the litigation M.O. for patent trolls, it's hard to look at AIA as a win for trolls.
Yes, that is what I am asserting. The quoted paper says the same thing:

> A more troubling question, the authors acknowledge, regards the white students whom these black students displaced.
Patience is important. I bought a Sherline mill and converted it to a 4 axis CNC setup. The challenge with these small mills is rigidity vs material. So if you're making something in Aluminum for example you still need to make a lot of really fine cuts rather than just plowing in and throwing chips like you can on a 'real' mill. That said if you are willing to wait for it (and with a CNC setup its really a time tradeoff) you can get good results.
Dear Would-Be Entrepreneurs Wanting to Use Buzzwords:

It's not peer-to-peer ("P2P") if peers are not communicating _directly_. If they are using your server to communicate, e.g. post ads, then it's NOT peer-to-peer. It's a bulletin board. There is a difference between a) a switchboard, b) a bulletin board and c) a person-to-person telephone call.

Sincerely

End-User Looking for REAL P2P Services Not Fake Ones
Vodafone, Starbucks, Google, Amazon, eBay.. As a person with a few companies in the UK that pay tax, it seems that the big companies can get away with whatever, where as last week I had someone from HRMC actually turn up at my house demanding payment because there had been a mixup with a £4k PAYE payment.. It beggers belief
Whatever happened to the NoteSlate?
the one on the left is much nicer, but seeing as the device has been out for such a short period of time, can we tell which device was actually manufactured first?

Or is this a case of different suppliers having slightly different parts? which seems unlikely for a new Apple product, but the one with the gap between the aluminium and glass seems all kinds of wrong anyway.
The Rise of the Indie Writer
As a parent whose startup and child are the same age, it's difficult.

But that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
see, here's a problem: in the time it takes to find a malaria vaccine, thousands of lives could be saved by things as simple as a mosquito net. In the time it takes to perfect cold fusion, the greatest energy savings will come from industrialized nations turning their A/C down a couple of degrees.

Humanity is served by both the incremental steps and the big dreamers. Let's not create a false dichotomy and end up discarding the lives of millions just because it's hip to be the next Nobel prize winner
Link bait is not going to go away as long as the standard metric for "success" is page views. It's what blog sites and MSM sites tout to their investors, board members, and advertising clients.
I think a certain cynicism has developed/is developing in social network users. Certainly almost a great deal of my peers have come to a state where they generally loathe facebook and merely tolerate G+. In fact, it seems that the only market segments where facebook is still wildly popular are the 50-somethings who are enthusiastically posting stuff the rest of us saw months ago on reddit or pinterest.

IMHO the next "great social network" will be hard pressed to shake the feel of corporatism, because users are slowly coming around to the idea that they are the products being sold to advertisers.

Any new mobile-first social network will have to be platform-agnostic and maintain (the illusion of having) grassroots status.
I guess the googlers woud answer having "0:1" for duplicates.

Big problem #1: insertions for 1M integers would take ages.

Big problem #2: And some distributions can't be covered this way. For example, 1m integers with distances 0:99 (e.g. +99 each one). Now think the same but with random distance in the range of 0:99. (Note 99999999/1000000 = 99.99, so it's possible input)

Google's approach is nonsense, too.
Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk
Hey Aston,

Glad to be of help. As a side note did you use a template for your ebook at all to get started? The headings look great & it has a nice flow, thanks.
Chris is telling you that compared to the lives of a huge number of South/Southeast Asians, even those living "below poverty" in the US are wealthy; by and large, the American poor can expect electricity, running water, shelter, some form of nourishment, and even school for their children. The poorest people in India have none of this.

From another vantage point, as a health economist recently said: vis a vis access to health care, you're better off as a homeless person in the United States in 2012 than President Dwight Eisenhower was during his term of office. Meanwhile, the rural poor of Asia are probably still nowhere nearly as well off as Ike was. They still die of polio.
Please clarify: Is [a-zA-Z]*SQL a query language or is it software (i.e. an implementation of an interpreter for a language)?
Is your Terminal.app window "skeuomorphic"? Is xterm, or Putty.exe? No? Then I don't understand your argument here.
I still never understood how having cable or a tv complicates people's lives. Besides the inconvenience on the day it was installed, it has essentially been no hassle. The money comes out every month, I schedule some shows I like and watch them when I can and that's it.

All the purging and living with no items type of lifestyle is nice for me to think about but I have hobbies that require stuff like rock climbing, backpacking, play guitar, etc. so I can't really just live in an empty room.

Instead of trying not have stuff in general, I try to not have things I don't need or want.
The people making the accusations include Human Rights Watch. Are they lying? Are they shills for the MEK?
Didn't Facebook originate from wanting to make it easier to scope out the good looking co-eds?

Tte point is, a lot of meaning comes out of what started as a seemingly trivial pursuit. If Mark Zuckerberg were to have followed your advice, there wouldn't be a Facebook.
Well put, given that I've never seen any co-founders go through starting a company together and not bumping heads on all sorts of topics. You have to test the waters to see just how compatible you are and whether the fit makes sense given the long journey you will take together!
I'm a (29yo) dad to 2 young girls, working 12-16 hour days on my own startup for the past few months, and I'd say I struggle with some of the same issues as the author. Staying a part of my kids' lives is still critically important, but it's insanely hard to balance the two, even with my wife being at home full-time.

Even though they are not old enough to realize it yet, my kids were the ones who inspired me to start something, and they are still my biggest inspiration. When they're older, I want them to look back and be proud of the (albeit tiny) dent that their dad made in the universe.

I really do hope that the concentrated effort now will lead to much more shared time and adventures down the road.
This post reminds me I have been meaning to re-read Asimov's Foundation series. If you found the post interesting and have not read it I suggest doing so.
I've just had all my boxes of photos digitised and synced to Dropbox and stored the originals at my mums. It was quite satisfying to know I don't need to worry about losing them.
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
-- John Maynard Keynes, also attributed to Winston Churchill

... that's the take-away from this. There is no way at all we can have opinion X about the future and then stick to it when the future doesn't turn out the way we expected.
How are you preparing your fresh food solely with a microwave? Do you follow a raw diet? Or do you steam vegetables in a microwave? Interested to hear.
There is a reddit dedicated to this at http://minimalism.reddit.com but sadly it has become more of a "look how cool I am because I only own 4 things!" type of community in recent months.
It just cracks weak TrueCrypt WDE passwords. That's all. You'd be amazed how many people still use 'password' as their password.
I lost a friend (55) to a brain tumour. From initial diagnosis to funeral: 17 days. His last words to me were 'I'm going to fight this thing'. He never stood a chance.
It's also very interesting to note that we have a cabinet who have themselves been involved in fiddling with their tax returns. The very same who have proposed and implemented big austerity measures.

I think it's good the public are aware what is happening with tax from corporations to cabinet ministers to the people. I know a few who wouldn't have any idea this is a standard thing and probably outraged that the public are being hammered for tax and large corporations pay relatively little in comparison (and if they don't, they may have it waivered).

There is another one about how Vodafone owed around £6 billion in tax and it was let waiver whilst big crackdowns on tax cheats were in progress. I might have my facts wrong here but most people I speak to about say the same thing: "it's unfair". This also may be terribly biased though, most people I speak to are working class and support Labour.

On the flipside, I can imagine some kind of rebound effect if any sort of big policy was made against it, where big companies are simply less inclined to do business here, with our economy suffering as a result since we're £100m out of pocket rather than £6bn up per co.

I don't know much about politics or economics, I merely reiterate what the majority of people say about it all and my own perspective. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
About the books; I ended up keeping only the books that I felt 'defined' me. Those that shaped my life in some meaningful way.

Every book I own now I'm able to enthusiastically tell someone about if they would ask.
Harbour Crane Hotel - Holanda
Lol. Do you actually know one woman of color in technology? Perhaps you should consider speaking to one (or several) over theories you read in a journal (we all know how objective every single academic paper one reads is).

Everyone reading this knows you have never had one single conversation with a black/native american/latino woman of color in technology.

I'm sure your next comment will be something like "that's irrelevant".

You remind me of Americans who don't have a passport yet go on and on about how "under-developed" the rest of the world is.

And by the way, do you know how many women and/or people of color are on this forum?

They continue to stay anonymous because of comments like those you make.

Quite frankly what I sense in your comments is nothing short of fear.

Fear that the status quo is being disrupted.

And guess what? It is.
Similarly, you should check browser support with window.notifications as well, rather than just window.webkitNotifications.
Political entities try to create an air of inevitability for their eventual victory. You can see this at work right now in the spinning of various polls.

Manipulating the data used to create a prediction is a variation on that theme. If they could reliably do it, they would.

Influencing search traffic statistics could be done pretty low-cost, so the return wouldn't have to be that high.

It's all part of the gestalt they try to build anyway.
Yep- why?
Subsidiary companies often reduce their profitability by licensing or purchasing materials from a parent company located overseas in a low-tax region. While this is usually a relatively legal way of transferring some profitability abroad, most countries also have regulations which specify that the relative contributions of various entities in complex corporate structures have to be reasonable and reflect the location where value is created. So while things are murky with IP licenses, increased news coverage and public pressure can succeed in calling attention to particularly egregious situations.
I formerly read TechCrunch for Arrington and MG Seigler, since they were both pretty "entertaining" (read: ridiculous).

With them and that drama gone, there's little reason left to visit.
Not bad, but you've got a two sided marketplace you need both people with stuff to rent and people who need to rent stuff.

I'd start with a metro area and get ahold of existing rental places and get their inventories listed to break the chicken/egg issue you face.

Rgarcia makes a great point, you should think about focusing on a specific vertical as it will make it easier to get both sides of the market jumpstarted.
Crime: Charles Manson Suspected in 12 "New" Murders from 60's "Helter Skelter"
Be Inconsistent? No. Be able to admit you were wrong and make choices that contradict past believes after learning or observing something new? Yes.
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I tend to think the space race as a very smart viral campaign. The space is not free; it lasts only for two years, and then you have to start paying for it.
> The information contained in the ordering is lg(10^6!)

Can you point me to a resource that discusses the information theory behind this claim? I'm interested in learning more, but don't know what to search for.
These are separate studies about specific cancers, and interesting.

But the biggest point in the study I remember reading was that it mixed up all the "not easy to treat [1]" cancers together, pondering each cost and survival time with the cancer incidence. It gave a better picture of the "less known" cancers - which is addressing the real question with universal healthcare.

I mean, if overall the expansive cancer or deadly cancers are rare they we can afford them - but they weren't, and overall outside specific case, even if one tried the best healthcare, it was not a very efficient outcome.

I'll love to find it back - that or a study sharing the methodology. IIRC it was in USD.

[1] : by easy to treat I mean cancer which is very unlikely to reoccur if properly treated, for which one or more therapies are known to be effective, with costs and morbidity well known - like skin cancer.
Soooooo cool
I think the most useful thing is that you can easily start a new search about the title of one of the results.
Perhaps it should be possible to open these new searches in a new window, so that you wouldn't have to start again.

Also I appreciated the RESTlike interface, kinda cool you can share searches on facebook or twitter (G+, no one cares :D!)

The graphics design: it's a little bit messy, I'd like to see a more coherent style.
It seemed like Bezo's was trying to get at the idea that its okay to revise your thoughts, opinions, course of action, ect. and be open about it. I think he's trying to promote thoughtfulness and contemplation ahead of pure conviction.

I don't think being "inconsistent" in thought is what he's getting at.
The argument that HTML5 apps cannot provide sufficient quality is growing increasing weak. There is no question that native apps provide better UI's, especially in the case of iOS.

As for Facebook, they built a terrible iOS app and blamed the technology. It doesn't matter what technology you use: own up and build good products.

HTML5's problem is mobile browsers. They are all non-compliant with a myriad of quirks. You can build nifty native-like UI's in the iOS browser, but it takes lots of time to understand exactly how Mobile Safari implements 3d transforms and how they are so terribly bizarre. I won't even start with the Android browser because the situation is significantly worse[1].

We can build good mobile browsers. The problem is that mobile OS venders have had little incentive to build browsers capable of hosting competing apps with their respective marketplaces. They all build browsers that can view traditional webpages well, but no more.

[1] Anyone who brings up mobile Chrome will get a mouthful about why that's terrible as well.
I'm working on a startup now to help people find these types of resources (often hackerspaces, but elsewhere too), so that people interested in DIY can make more things easily.
And that's why the self storage business in NYC is booming.

I had to quickly move out of my Brooklyn apartment a few years back, and just had everything I owned tossed into a storage unit, except what fit in my car, and stayed with friends for a couple weeks. When I got a new place, I was surprised to realize I didn't really need, or even want, 90% of that stuff. I ended up waiting a year and then just junking all of it.

It was really liberating to realize I didn't need it, then actually get rid of all of it. Regardless of what I buy or own in the future, I'll never forget the freedom of not having anything, and I'll never get too attached.
They shouldn't completely change what they do but focus on quality valuable content. When I read something on AVC, Paul Graham's Blog or Ben Horowitz' blog I find direct value. I learn something new or how to fix a problem I'm facing. Many TechCrunch posts are "Is Instagram for Video a big market?" or "Why the internet is dead?". You sometimes get clicks but it devalues the content.

I don't mind funding announcements when they're mixed with product announcements or are an overall profile. I like how Sahil did it with Gumroad, he announced Gumroad has raised X amount of money and has launched our product and the article included a video interview. Copying a press release or quoting a company blogpost doesn't add value.

Many people still value TechCrunch, it's source for investors and influencers too, to track companies they may be interested in investing in. If TechCrunch just became editorial it would lose this and most of the value.
> I imagine requiring your users to fake a MAC Address is a pretty effective captcha.

I guess we disagree over the meaning of the term 'captcha' then. Besides that, it is also pretty trivial to spoof a MAC address.

> For Dropbox, it's probably better to reduce the friction in the sign up flow than to prevent against these kinds of edge cases.

Agreed. But there are smarter ways to do it. Take Gmail for example - it normally doesn't require you to pass a captcha. But if you fail a certain number of login attempts, it does. How hard can it be to start displaying a captcha after, say, 5 accounts get registered within 24 hours for the same IP address?
The most interesting part is that MIT uses client side X.509 certs which basically no one ever uses.
Based on the discussion in the W3C, I would expect other browsers to implement "new Notification" rather than implementing the window.notifications factory object because the factory object doesn't really serve any purpose. We'd like to remove the factory object from WebKit eventually once folks have switched over to the unprefixed API.
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Your eyes will bleed after 42 hours.
"My main point is that suppressing ads is one thing but to replace ads with others that deprive a site from the CPC revenue is unequivocally wrong. It may be legal but it's wrong."

This is exactly what I feared: a generation who grew up not knowing any better somehow deciding that simply because things were a certain way when they were 15 that it's wrong to change them. It is not.

The web is a communications protocol. It is not a way of life, the meaning of the universe, or written in stone. There are lots of communications protocols.

I can create content (interactive) or not and surface it on the web for others to consume. How, when, or why they consume it is none of my business (aside from perhaps wanting to control access to my content to certain people).

Look at it this way: who is in charge of my consuming your content? If I am blind, would you require me to listen to ads before my text reader started browsing the site? If I had difficulty seeing, would you prevent my browser from scaling the text so that I could see it better even if it ruined your layout? If I were busy, would it be a crime to have my secretary read relevant parts to me over the phone?

It's clear. I, and only I, control how I consume your content once you make it available. Now you might want me to go to some seminar where they'll hard-pressure me to buy timeshares before you turn on access. Fine and dandy. But once the port is open, I might telnet in and read the whole thing one byte at a time for all you care. Content providers are perfectly free to own and control access. They are not free to determine how I consume their content.

You know, there might be a lot more interesting and effective business models for folks interacting on the internet. Simply because we picked one back in 1995 doesn't make it the optimum for all time.
Java - Playframework vs Ruby On Rails - Stack Overflow
I was a member of TechShop in the Bay area for a while. Unfortunately all their locations are just too far from my home and they have no plans to open a shop in the East Bay, but if you are a member of one, you are a member of all the locations. Two thumbs up.
Apparchy - Connect apps that support the Twitter API to your App.net account
I've been writing a fair amount of AngularjS code recently and have been dealing with this issue. Angular has a $q service [1] for deferred actions, which is a cutdown version of the Q library [2]. I like it a lot.

The nice thing about Angular is that the use of promises is pervasive (eg the $http service) and Angular understands them so:

$scope.projects = $http.get('/projects');

and a template of:

<ul>
<li ng-repeat="project in projects">
{{ project }}
</li>
</ul>

where $http.get() returns a promise just works.

[1]: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$q

[2]: https://github.com/kriskowal/q
Rather than provide an academic argument as to why HTML5 apps are as good as native, it would be better to provide great examples of where it has worked. Even Steve Jobs originally thought web apps were all you needed but he was eventually convinced otherwise.

In short, how about some proof by example? Lots of examples...
ThePirateBay moves to the cloud, but is it really secure? : netsec
I'm not seeing how thick vs thin clients has anything to do with the html5 vs. native debate. You can build an html5 based app that's just as "thick" as a native iOS app, it just uses a different technology to render the UI.