skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She's taking the position of someone who can't understand "use search then download". I think it is reasonable to say that if you are concerned about filtering, you need at least that level of competency to bring a computer into your home. Some tools require parental supervision and you are expected to know how to provide that supervision.
I'm no expert either, but http://www.khanacademy.org/ has a lot of great videos on economics.
I don't think that's anywhere near a correct summary. First of all, AFAIK Apple and Nokia settled out of court. So there was no legal precedent.

Second, it was already well-established that FRAND patents could be worth silly amounts of money, not just a cross-licensing poker chip. For example Qualcomm and Nokia had an extended series of lawsuits over 15 years, including exactly the kinds of antics that are going on now (e.g. complaints to authorities about misuse of FRAND patents). The final lawsuit was settled such that Nokia licensed Qualcomms patents for $billions (much more than Apple paid Nokia), while Qualcomm didn't license Nokia's patents (giving Nokia the option of going after Qualcomm's customers).

Third, the amounts that Google is demanding aren't actually ridiculous by the standards of the industry. And sure, what Google is really after is likely a cross-licensing deal, given Apple's and Microsoft's patent extortion rates.
Blatantly sensationalized headline, packed with 1 incorrect capitalization, 1 misleading ministry title, 1 misquote, and 1 completely made up false fact: #1 on HN.
Yeah, one of my primary use cases is saving PDFs from my ScanSnap, so the free bandwidth totally doesn't cut it.

$45/year for a pro account is completely offset by the time saved with the full text search alone.
I'm sure you mean well, but people as capable as you have gone into business with the same intentions and failed.

Not to mention, the Kickstarter's "risks" section is precisely meant for what you just wrote above.
Not at all, as long as you as the parent decides what can and can not be viewed by your children. What is authoritarian though is the government deciding that for you and imposing that nation wide.
I've been reading the early release. So far it's the best resource on C I've come across, although I am a C beginner. It's quite practical, focusing on basic tools at the start and then getting into syntax, code structure, and libraries.
Reminds me of Christine Albanel, former French Minister for Culture, talking about the "openoffice firewall".
There is something fundamentally broken in our democracies, in that politicians are not appointed on the basis of skill/experience in a domain but on the basis of their importance within the party.

There are of course exceptions, but I observed that the less important a field is (and politicians view the Internet as NOT important), the more true this is.
This is probably my favorite comment of all time on the internet.
You guys realize that the "shadow minister" of anything is not really in charge of that thing, right? A shadow minister is an opposition MP assigned to harass and criticize the real minister of whatever it is. IN US terms, making Paul Ryan the shadow Secretary of State would not actually put him in charge of US foreign affairs.
Was Friedman wrong then? Is inflation not always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon?
Quick design note: on your web page you need to track active page in your navigation: currently Overview is always active (different color link)
And alas, they are not the Twinkies of my childhood. Tried one a couple years ago, and don't recall them being so "oily".
"Look here you little shit," says Bizarro Rich Hickey, "In the last few years I've made a new programming language used by thousands of developers and a powerful new distributed database. What did you build? Before that I did C++ and Java for many years. If I want to insult some aspects of C++ or Java or software engineering methodologies or hey, even PHP, for whatever deficiencies they have (this has nothing to do with popularity!), or if I just want to bemoan the fact these other things are still popular and have glaring deficiencies, I'll damn well do it."

I'll submit that BUGHUNTER's comment was really just a less coherent version of this http://briancarper.net/blog/497/im-turning-into-a-lisp-snob applied clumsily to the new PHP release, and he's unhelpfully using the rhetorical pattern of "sigh, why PHP?" without elaboration of why he thinks PHP sucks (left to others who are not downvoted to oblivion). I'm glad he's getting downvoted since you can look at past HN threads over the years about PHP and see even less coherent snide (and sometimes just plain asinine) comments being upvoted. I'd agree his post serves little value here. But my main point in this reply is that, how can you tell, unless you know who BUGHUNTER is, that he has probably only ever written toy projects in a "cool" language? Hell, he might even just be a Common Lisp guy, how old is that language now? It's not even the latest coolness! (Has it ever been cool?) It's really easy to turn into a smug lisp weenie even while at the same time building shit: http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-biggest-lisp-pr... So again, why the personal attack on the supposed lack of coding chops on you presumably don't know?
This concept been covered on Hacker News so many times before. :(

During a similar conversation 70 days ago, I left a detailed comment that is also relevant now regarding how RFC822 is actually totally irrelevant for the concept of e-mail addresses: what it specifies is how to escape the field values in MIME headers, and thereby has a bunch of rules for how to format an e-mail address that are really "how to embed an e-mail address in a MIME document".

RFC821, the SMTP specification for how you actually send e-mail, is closer, but has different rules about what is allowed because SMTP isn't MIME. A couple things aren't allowed, and some other things now are allowed and don't need to be escaped. Why people think users should type e-mail addresses in RFC822 escaping and not RFC821 escaping makes no sense to me.

However, the real punchline is: why are you asking users to enter e-mail addresses escaped at all? If you have an HTML form, for example, you don't need to escape them, as there is no higher-level protocol in which they are being embedded: the box can contain any characters that are needed, and there are no concepts like MIME comments, etc..

Asking a user to escape their e-mail address in that box is as silly as asking them to escape their username or password according to HTML or URL or some other escaping rules. Or, imagine if they had to enter their full name, but escaped using MIME encoded words... =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A1Hola,_se=F1or!?= makes about as much sense as escaping your e-mail address.

My original comment, which contains many more details about which specific RFCs are involved and what they mean, along with specific examples where things can get different, and a discussion of the context, here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486872
Different tools for different tasks. Autotools is horrible, but there are times when it is less horrible than any other options. The same is probably true of CMake.

Personally, I stick to POSIX make for most of my code -- and handle cross-platform issues by assuming POSIX compliance and telling people to fix their damn OSes if they're not POSIX compliant.
Y Combinator, circa 1977
GM and ABB repurpose used Chevy Volt batteries to provide home backup power
latest version of Chrome, on OS X 10.7.5 and it's only rendering wireframes.
There are huge drawbacks to early detection, though. Surgery, radiation therapy and chemo-therapy are very invasive techniques, doing huge amounts of damage to a person's body as well as to the cancerous cells. It very often is the case that the cure is worse than the disease. Early detection also submits people to the huge mental stress of thinking that they're going to die soon.

And that's the case even if the early detection techniques were perfect. They aren't, far from it. They have a significant false positive rate. Many people who don't have cancer are subjected to the mental and physical stresses of cancer treatment. They then think that this treatment saved their lives, so they say to everybody they know: go get tested!

The other problem is the prevalence of cancer. 80% of men in their 70s have prostate cancer. Some of them will die from it, but most will die from heart disease or another cause. Treating them for prostate cancer will cause a huge decrease in their quality of life for no benefit.

Yes, early detection of cancer is a very potent tool for saving people's lives. But it's not a panacea.

[EDIT: the article actually does discuss most of these issues, I just wanted to try and balance things. Read the article.]
Facing Irrelevance, Microsoft Tries To Reinvent Everything
I think democracies suck - they are popularity and wheedling contests that put the charming or greasy folks in power and very rarely someone who is equipped to do their jobs.

Would love a meritocracy where people who campaign for posts must really satisfy some educational or excellence requirement.
This looks fabulous; I am currently working on a site that uses Django and Bootstrap (my first site with Django actually), and I haven't veered too far from what comes standard with Django. I hope to try plugging your templates into our site this weekend!
Samsung's 840 Series SSD reviewed
What aspects of this are not compatible with other browsers?
I'm a college student, so I use it to take notes in all of my classes. Since it all syncs between devices and I can access it from the web, I have access to my notes wherever I am and with any device I have. It makes my life easier because if I'm going to the library to work or meeting with a group to work on a project, I don't need to lug binders or even my computer around. The photos feature makes life easier as I can just take pictures of whatever is on the board.
The emotional drain came as a bit of a surprise to me, and I am not even invested much in this forum or the idea of making a career via YC. I too have built and exited startups previously (without the warm embrace of an incubator) and some rejections from dealing with investors do happen due to the nature of the game but I cannot remember it ever having felt hostile in the way submitting to a black hole and receiving an automated form letter response from it does.
Definitely, working on a more accurate risks section now!
I agree, the quote:

> It was an untenable proposal for our people

I figure unemployment would be untenable.

After spending the past 6-8 months hearing about jobs from the election coverage, stuff like this just bugs me.
AWS re: Invent Keynotes Live Stream
It supposed to be wireframes. There should also be some fog that's not? Try chapter 3. Has loads of colour once you get started.
Well how about that. Guess I had assumed there was a website field on the profile.
What totally crap photos that don't show the dimensions/structure well at all. And only two of them.
Dissecting Scalable Database Architectures
> Sure there are advisers and whatever but surely before you approve say a £10B pound submarine project you should know something about submarines, who builds them and what is a reasonable figure to pay?

I think you kind of answered yourself. No one can know everything about everything, that's what "advisers or whatever" are for. Their job is to educate the advised enough so that they can effectively make decisions, which is what they're (supposed to be) good at.
There's a very nice function in PHP that validates emails.

filter_var('foo@bar.com', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);

The actual beast: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/filter/logica...
I second that. Good luck all of selected teams!
WebGL isn't supported by IE. Firefox and Safari have patchy WebGL service.

Firefox works but grinds to such a slow pace, so we disabled it.
> Perhaps in the future, we no longer position our monitors upright all the time

Some manufacturers are working on heading in this direction. Exhibit 1, the new Dell XPS One: http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-one-27-2710-aio-t/pd?&~ck=m...
How China Became Capitalist - at 101, Ronald Coase discusses his latest book.
Open Source Project Help
Hi all.

I have decided the best way to get my career back in order would be to join an open source project.

Can anybody recommend a project that deals with Business Intelligence, Big Data, or Social Network Analysis (or the intersection of all of the above)?

Thanks in advance!
After two bankruptcies and a major strike, perhaps pulling the plug was the only solution.

Side note: this is a terrible submission title. For one, that's not the headline of the linked article, and two, these brands aren't "history" -- they will be sold to other companies just like all their other assets.
The number of people wanting to emigrate to prosperous countries probably outnumber the people in those prosperous countries; let alone the number of people that want to emigrate from a prosperous country to a less-prosperous one.
Is there an alternative that actually works?
I think Kickstarter's innovation is in building a brand that people/press know and trust, their design of forcing time constraints, and the ability to add demand for an offering. My money is that they continue amping up social features to allow more gamified sharing and the like which will only increase the attractiveness of their proposition.
Webcam Proctors Watch Students in Online Courses
Did BP Use Wikipedia to Estimate the Size of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
Unicode is part of the TOC. That's a good sign.
SlickFlick Lands Seed Round To Let Users Hollywood-ize Their Photos
I read that list as prefixed with "learn to...". And getting a basic grasp on autotools is certainly useful, as it enjoys a pretty large market share. Everything else would be rather opinionated. Just like Java's maven, you have to at least wade through it before picking something else, if you're able to do that at all in a given project.
Would Github Gists [https://gist.github.com/] solve your problem?
Apple stock analysis: Apple is tanking – is the end in sight?
The downside of warp drives: Annihilating whole star systems when you arrive
This is really quite wonderful. For a while now, I've wanted to hack together a system for rapidly flipping through a set of street views based on a list of locations I provide. This seems like a great start. Is any of the code open source?
Yeah: make and knowing what you are doing.

I've built some seriously complicated stuff which builds on Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD in the past with no autoconf magic required.

Autoconf is just a massive Rube Goldberg machine in disguise.
Call of duty: Black Ops II sales hit $500 million in first 24 hours
100% agree. As much as I love CoffeeScript, the intellisense and type hinting is an invaluable aid to our team. TypeScript is the answer to team collaboration on large projects. There's no more guessing what the arguments are, whether an argument is an object or string. Source maps is icing on the cake.
Ask HN: Rate of first-time applicants accepted?
We all know that pitching and hustling is a daily routine for us - and each time we do it, we get better at it, and that multiple tries is almost a rule of thumb for 99% of us.

With that in mind, how many of YC alums were accepted first time they applied?

Does anyone have an insight into that? Personal experience?
This is all very nice, but they still don't have a linux client.
The windows 8 app is half-assed though. Funny they push things so hard for one platform while ignoring the other. And mind you, windows 8 provides a better experience any day and will provide them with better benefits in the long run.
> they are forced to use it, since they must pay taxes in it.

Last I checked, people use US Dollars for a fuck load more than paying taxes.

> How to tax the beast.

Cash is and was even more so in the past harder to track than bitcoin and yet somehow the "hooligans" managed to collect taxes.
Thanks, I saw those but none seems specific enough. I've taken courses in macro and micro economics so I'm looking for something deeper, just on currency. I did also see khanacademy's lectures on currency relating to china, but it would be cool to find a reputable book.
My political bias is pre-disposed to want to blame the union for this, and I'm sure the truth is more nuanced (more competition with healthy snacks, etc), but man, the things I've read so far sure aren't helping... Sure, a ~10% pay cut sucks, cue discussion about stagnant wages and all that, but if your company is struggling that's gotta be better than a 100% cut.
Aren't MPs are responsible for talking to potential contractors about the non-specifics of any contract. That is to say that they receive indirect favours from a number of potential contractors, and then decide on which contractor provided the best schmooze.

If there is a draw between contractors then whoever went to Eton with you shall win. If both contractors went to Eton, then whoever fagged for the other, automatically loses.
Just curious, what's wrong with glib? I happen to like it a lot, and it's a good option for getting access to data structures that other languages take for granted.
Fbootstrapp  
Fbootstrapp is a toolkit designed to kickstart development of facebook iframe apps in both relevant sizes. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more, styled in the typical facebook look and feel.
In the top menu

View > Sidebar Options > Show Notebook List
This is the side effect of who is in power in Washington. Labor unions have been steadily growing stronger under this administration.

We haven't seen companies shutting down because of labor unions at least in a while. Yes there are strikes at companies but it finally works out.

This is just the beginning and there will be many more to follow where a good company shuts down and thousands loose their jobs. In this, 18000 workers will loose their job. Thanks to Labor unions.
Agree with meaty: make and knowing what you're doing is good.

Occasionally, though, my needs will be more complicated than what make can handle on its own (lots of compile-time options, for example, or lots of dependency checking), and in those cases I'll use waf. Waf is lovely and hasn't let me down, and it's easy to use for people who are used to the ./configure && make && sudo make install sequence.
At least they have a fairly decent web client...
Looks potentially interesting, though I think I'd still recommend Zed's Learn C the Hard Way instead. http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ Zed's book is supposed to be a "beginner" book but it sure does cover a lot...
Balanced Payments (YC W11) Raises $1.4M To Provide A Platform For P2P Markets
Calculate statistics online in three steps (R frontend)
I couldn't help but think of The Thick of It.
Formula 1 has never driven production automobiles. Practically every first used in f1 isn't or came from outside the automotive industry. I suppose this car is quite disruptive as it too follows no rules nor regulations.
Aha! I remember Holovaty using a very cool interface (now part of soundslice) showing up the parts and chords of a song on his talk at Pycon earlier this year. It's good to see that it became this really cool project.
I'm so pissed at Evernote for acquiring Skitch and breaking it. I do mean break. I paid for my Skitch software and now it's unusable.
Does it allow you to easily encrypt a notebook yet? (There used to be some support for encrypting individual notes but it wasn't very good.) I don't feel happy about transitioning from storing personal stuff on my disk to storing it in the cloud without encryption.
Some horrible design and so many typedefs (gpointer being the largest yuck if you ask me). Who needs to typedef void* ?

Also it leads to GObject abuse which is harmful to the soul.

Ultimately, the moment you bring glib into a project it stops being C, much like the Win32 API does.

I'd rather pull in libapr and apr-util.
If anyone has invites.... ;-) see profile for email address.
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shit WILL happen.

The reason why the question about risks is asked is because one way you can tell a person with experience from a person without is that the person with experience can speak about risks in more detail than "shit happens." They can enumerate specific risks, make general predictions about which risks are more likely to hit them than others, and estimate the costs that would be incurred should such a hit happen. This indicates that the person has been around the block a few times and knows how to differentiate between large, real, business-killing risks and more theoretical ones.

The opposite approach is to make bold statements like "no matter what happens, I'm going to make and deliver high quality shirts" with an obligatory disclaimer like "small hiccups will happen" tacked on afterwards. This communicates that you're aware that risks exist, but not what exactly they are, or which ones are the most dangerous to your business. Which sends the message that you haven't been around the block a few times. To be frank, it sounds like amateur hour.

It doesn't surprise me that a potential backer would prefer the first type of response over the second. I would too.
WavePayroll Launches in US
WavePayroll just launched in the US. It's much cheaper and seems to have a simpler UI than existing (terrible) payroll solutions. What do you think?
Ask HN: Do you dare to show your PHP easter egg?
I've not been able to upload and share any images with the last version of Skitch and the support team at Evernote wants me to pay them to resolve the issue.
A User-Friendly Invoicing Tools To Help Manage Your Business
Man Accused of Hacking an MMO, Stealing the MMO, Building His Own Clone
Of course I understand why PHP is popular, I've used it for long enough. My expression of exasperation was at the jumps of logic you were making.
Ask HN: FAQ about YC winter 2013 interviewees
It would be great to know a few facts about the first round for folks considering the program in the future.

1.) How many applied vs accepted interviewed?

2.) Histogram of # of founders in each accepted co.

3.) How many that were accepted already had funding?

4.) What was the acceptance rate of co's where one or more founders that were previously in YC?

5.) How many of YC alums were accepted first time they applied? via vkhomutov (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4794413)
First Time, Every Time
Sorry, my time isn't worth so little that I'm going to spend hours writing an article just to prove a point to a guy on HN, but here's an existing example:

https://github.com/angular/peepcode-tunes/commit/87dfa695d99...

Diff stats: 360 additions, 636 deletions, on a total of 628 original lines of JavaScript (app + test code; deletions include redundant lines of template code).
> Correction: higher-band taxpayers might have been paying through the nose. People paying less tax (i.e. the less well-off) were paying less.

Ah yes, because as long as it's those nasty greedy rich people overpaying for inefficient state monopolies, that's fine?!!

If it's considered "extremely right-wing" to believe in the freedom for individuals to own property, free enterprise free market, and smaller government without state monopolies locking out competition, then I guess I'm a right wing extremist.
Paperless. I scan and classify in Evernote every single mail I receive. (tax, invoices, gvt mail, etc..)
>Is nationalisation of the entire economy to state ownership really "progressive"?

>pro·gres·sive /prəˈgresiv/
Noun:
A person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.

Ok, that doesn't completely line up, but you get the idea. Progressive != "progress"