skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the Oracle rebuttal published in Forbes is 404ing (Taken down, or just moved?), but appears to be in google cache still:

page 1: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

page 2: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

I have to say, the tone of both articles seems strangely...petty, for such huge enterprise organisations. Odd.
Alameda county is considering purchasing one as well: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alameda-County-sheriff-se...

Drones don't appear to be covered by the public domain airspace laws in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights

Airspace under 500' AGL is traditionally considered to be under control of the landowner - unless they are near an airport and the airport needs right of way for passengers. While the FAA technically controls ALL airspace, they can only use it for right of way purposes when dealing with passengers. It doesn't appear to be valid for unmanned aircraft.

The FAA has a few things to say about drones here: http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=68004. There doesn't appear to be a specific drone law in place by the FCC, only waivers to allow flying the drones by an agency.

That poses the question whether we are within our property rights to shoot down any drone flying around inside it? Given the FAA is limiting these drones to operate below 400' AGL, they would appear to be a fair target.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover#Goals_and_objec...

Curiosity has 8 core objectives, it's probably related to one or two of theses:

Biological
(1) Determine the nature and inventory of organic
carbon compounds

(2) Investigate the chemical building blocks of life
(carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen,
phosphorus, and sulfur)

(3) Identify features that may represent the effects
of biological processes (biosignatures)

Geological and geochemical
(4) Investigate the chemical, isotopic, and
mineralogical composition of the Martian surface
and near-surface geological materials

(5) Interpret the processes that have formed and
modified rocks and soils

Planetary process
(6) Assess long-timescale (i.e., 4-billion-year)
Martian atmospheric evolution processes

(7) Determine present state, distribution, and
cycling of water and carbon dioxide

Surface radiation
(8) Characterize the broad spectrum of surface
radiation, including galactic radiation, cosmic
radiation, solar proton events and
secondary neutrons

We have heard some reports on (8), but other objectives seem like they might take a while. Plus the rover is not in the richest part of the ... theoretical river delta so I would suspect that NASA would hold their tongue on confirming (2) and or (3) until they are deeper into the mission, but (4) still seems likely, unless (2) and (3) are plentiful at this point.
UK Payday Loan Firms Warned Over Lending And Debt Collection By OFT
The cost of compliance should be considered in determining whether a rule of law is ultimately to the net benefit of the economy, but if the net benefit is positive, the fact that compliance might put small players out of business shouldn't be a determinative objection. As an economic matter of fact, businesses that can't comply with generally beneficial regulation should go out of business.

So the debate should be about whether patent rights are in fact legitimate and beneficial regulations, taking into the cost of compliance but also taking into account ways in which those costs may be minimized through the structure of the law.

I think there are ways to structure the patent law, with bright-line defenses, so as to make defense of a suit extremely quick and cheap even by pro se litigants. One example would be requiring some sort of evidence of intentional copying as is required for copyright infringement.
Looking around the site, it uses GPS data to verify that you are in the correct store. Stealing the code would give you nothing, since it won't authenticate unless you're physically in the correct location. It matches the three authentication factors: what you own (the phone and the app), what you know (the code on the stamp), and what you are/do (where you are physically). It's straight up multi-factor authentication from where I'm standing.
yup, was about to respond until I saw the "remotely" part.
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It's interesting to think about what can happen after the collapse of a startup, particularly when we tend to give so much of ourselves to the process. I think it's inherently a regenerative process, though. A company may disappear but the lessons stick with you. I'd guess it's not easier but perhaps more familiar the next go around. That's comforting.
Not true.

GET /distance?cities=San+Francisco,Los+Angeles would suffice. city1=modesto&city2=fresno might be preferred if you wanted to support form submissions, too.

Query strings are perfectly restful.
> [4] This gets harder as you get older. While the space of ideas doesn't have dangerous local maxima, the space of careers does. There are fairly high walls between most of the paths people take through life, and the older you get, the higher the walls become.

Ain't that the truth. This footnote stung a bit. Take advantage of the flexibility of youth!
We are in agreement there. It was my impression that Germany just doesn't recognize scientology as a religiom, period.
Check out github.com/RestDoc/specification, it's a project that got started after a few people (myself and Zac included) realized we were all solving the same problem. It's been languishing in relative obscurity because most of us don't have the bandwidth to properly promote it, but more contributions are very welcome!
That would suck if they scooped up fried the last (or first!) living organism on Mars.
Absolutely, but they do tread a fine line. Many public radio fans (of which I am one) would be turned-off by the sort of rampant sensationalism and would stop listening and/or donating.

Humorous Example of the non-sensational image NPR has managed to cultivate: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/162075221/jack-white-disappoin...
Nicely written and invokes a bit of an emotional response from me. But just a bit...

And then I realize that this person (whoever s/he is, real or fictional) has suffered from the fundamental problem of all business: profit. For some reason, the IT industry as of late has dismissed profits and traditional business rules for the sake of fictional ideals like pageviews, user signups, and such. And while the latter things matter somewhat, there must be a directed line from those metrics to dollars and cents, because utility companies (electricity, Internet, water) like to be paid in dollars and cents, not promises and wishes.
...and the carriers will push the update in about 6 months.
"No public cost or new tax is involved. All the infrastructure is already in place. The technology has been developed, and the tools are deployed: all we have to do is lift the ban on using them."

Nice. Now I'd love to read a followup that discusses how to address the tragedy of the commons problem that such a lift of the ban would clearly lead to.
We have very similar histories. As an assistant manager at a Dominos I had the entire store's books ran on 123. It was an enchanted experience to take the drudgery of the daily, weekly, and monthly paperwork and make it all magic. Very good times.

I did that again with DBaseIII for a small trucking company. After a third time, I finally figured out that programming had selected me, whether I wanted it or not. It was just too cool (and lucrative) to turn down.
Lessons from Zynga’s continued struggles
Algorithms for Less Meat, More Flavor » Food+Tech Connect
Further edit, to reply to the first kind reply

I might be alone in this, but I really prefer replies to replies instead of piling edits on top of edits. Much easier to follow that way.
This. After seeing the URL posted above, I clicked the link just to see if it was Steve's book. Disappointed he doesn't put his name prominently on the landing page.
It seems to me that the probability of life independently developing along similar routes is hard to really peg a probability on. We only have one example of abiogenesis to study right now, but evolution of earth-life could give us some basis to reason about independent instances of abiogenesis.

Certain "features" just make sense for life on Earth, and have evolved numerous times independently. Flight is a classic example, having evolved four completely separate times (bugs, (extinct) pterosaurs, birds, and bats). Complex eyes also seem to have independently developed many times.

Similarly, it seems fairly reasonable that certain "life chemistries" "make more sense" than others. The extent to which that may be the case could also be up in the air I think. Maybe 'carbon with a water solvent' is particularly common, but amino acid based is less so. Or maybe amino acid based life tends to naturally follow from an also likely carbon based chemistry.

It will be exciting to see what we uncover in the future. I think either two cases of abiogenesis or a solid case of panspermia would be pretty wild, for their own reasons.
Absolutely. The claim that the form of government in the United States is a "democracy" is one of the most impressive propaganda successes I've seen.
Boris Strugatsky: Russia mourns death of sci-fi writer
Due to the dynamic nature of python, static analysis to determine CC is hard.

CC is useful for determining number of tests for complete branch/path coverage if you don't pull out the switch on dictionary tricks (among others).
Maybe the 'django [reusable] app' terminology?

One of the first few pages in the tutorial includes:

"Django apps are "pluggable": You can use an app in multiple projects, and you can distribute apps, because they don't have to be tied to a given Django installation."

and I guess it might be possible to mistake 'manage.py startapp ...' as some sort of internal packaging thing if you don't look too deeply.
Project Butter did really well (although I hear rumblings of regressions in 4.2).

It's frustrating that this happened in Ubuntu as well. They spent a couple of releases focusing on fast boot times, and it paid off. A few releases later, and now boot times are slow again.
Does anyone else know of open source (or not) tech that would easily allow live streaming like color did? I'm sure it needs some kind of beefy backend, no? Use case: Local sporting events with smartphone holding spectators capturing different "views".
A republic is nine wolves and a sheep voting on who will decide what's for dinner. =)
I've been using this feature for a while (weeks?)... was it in beta before? Or am I mistaking this for another stream-like feed in Mixpanel?
But how can you tell if the browser has support for the native picker? You can't.

That's what I was wondering. If there were a way, it'd be pretty awesome to use a library like this as a polyfill rather than as a separate thing you attach to text inputs.
GET being cacheable/idempotent is part of the HTTP spec, and has nothing to do with REST: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13...
What terrible news.
I'm not going to argue with your main point, but I think that closing Guantanamo has proven to be more difficult than merely inconvenient.
Harsh: Color Stop Gradients with SASS mix-ins
You wouldn't think they'd let the database guys write the blog posts though. ;) Especially at Microsoft, home to some of the most sanitized corp-speak I've ever read.
When does a startup stop being a startup? 60 employees and $750,000 per day seems to me like just a normal successful company.
It's a better story when there's a looming deadline. A story about something that doesn't seem urgent isn't going to get many eyeballs.
> "This is an instance of a more general rule: focus on users, not competitors. The most important information about competitors is what you learn via users anyway."

I found this to be the strongest way of saying don't obsess about your competition. Focusing on users will probably help address other issues as well (i.e. working on the wrong problem, building the wrong thing, not making as much of an impact as you could be, etc).
Is this PhilterIt plugin compatible with Raportive? Couldn't find any info on the website..
Slightly OT but hilariously spot-on about many gentoo-isms: http://funroll-loops.info
Holy ... jacobian replied me.

To answer your question: I am an idiot and I didn't know much about Django. I did once find djangopackages or something like that and simply jumped to the conclusion. Big and Unwieldly is the brand perception I had.
> How many decades of tapped phones, illegal body searches, and indefinite detention and/or torture of political prisoners are you willing to wait for reform before you declare the US an unacceptable place for good and reasonable people to continue living in and paying taxes to?

So, if things get tough you typically quit? Only 8 years? There are isolated cases of each of those occurrences, and while just one is unacceptable, this country is far from uncorrectable.

There are quite a few citizens of the USA that waited a lot longer than 8 years for rights we all are born with and take for granted today. I find it perfectly reasonable to both have the determination to stay active/volunteer as well as the patience for the process to work.
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It's not even the software industry generally. My background is in embedded software (military radios, heavy-duty network infrastructure), and I never saw that kind of opposition. I got my degree in aerospace engineering, and even among university kids nobody ever questioned the validity of the patent system or the fact that the university took out patents, etc.

I think the difference is that most engineering industries are very capital intensive. Defending the occasional patent lawsuit doesn't seem so onerous when your capital expenditures are measured in the hundreds of millions or billions.
One lesson that can be learned is to give less of yourself to a startup until they prove their worth, and that they're worth it.
Not necessarily a bug, more often it's just something not working the way you expect. Documentation is always ambiguous when you get down to the fine details and even in a very well documented project like Django there is still a whole lot of code surface area that is not documented other than an autogenerated API listing.
This is most likely just a desperate grab by FB. Such a bad financial year with the stock debacle.

They know they have let artists freely gain fan bases on facebook for years now so they are able to control it with an iron fist. A good temporary budget increase for them is to take that iron fist and grab all the artists by the balls and squeeze them for all they're worth. Which when I put it that way it sounds an awful lot like blackmail... ahem anyway...

Will it get them a burst of money? Sure. Will it hurt facebook in the long run? Probably.
Does it really matter? Only time will tell.
Transcript of the actual speech: http://www.uspto.gov/news/speeches/2012/kappos_CAP.jsp

He doesn't seem to understand what's going on or why we're angry.
I visited KyivPy where the author of Wheezy.Web described his project. So I want to share own thoughts about it.

It has all basic things you would like to have. I mean you can work with templates engine you want, forms, middlewares etc.

Speaking about Django we can find it is not just Django. It is also hundreds of django apps like django-social-auth, South, django-celery, django-mptt etc.

This new framework has no such huge community for now. On the other side the author did a good work. You can use pretty complete framework on Python3 when the most of others can't offer the same. And it is not 2to3. If I correctly remember impressions of the code it was written on Python3 and then ported to python2.

So, I like it. You can use classes or functions for handling requests. You have modules so you can install just wheezy.http and not so many other parts and I believe we should choose the right tool to solve the problem. In one case it can be Django, in others we can take Wheezy.web.
My Raspberry Pi Post-Mortem
Ask HN: Patent Renewal Request from Patent Holding Company
Back in 2001/2002, I got a patent while working for a company, which later filed for bankruptcy. As part of that process, a patent holding co. acquired my patent. Since then, every couple of years they have been adding some new claims and resubmitting it on my behalf, with my signature, and are paying me amounts $100 -$250.

I just received a similar request. This time I decided not to sign, but asked for much larger amount. They have refused, and they are saying that they would proceed without my signature. What is my downside?

Do I lose my patent?

I came to know that adding these new claims is way of diluting my original ownership, so that they will eventually own it and go after someone co. that might be violating it. Is this true?
great template
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Yours was only the 2nd comment to this article. The first being "that was ridiculous!".

How did you so quickly draw a bead on HN, and manage to decipher what the rest of the audience thought about it?

For my part... I think these guys are simply Zynga without the rumours of an oppressive workplace. They have 60 employees, and a business model identical to many others. I'm not sure what if anything makes them into a startup.
This essay made me purchase "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". A few pages in and I am glad I bought it.
270M per year in revenue on ~12M in expenses (assumes $200k/employee) certainly isn't "normal". That's a huge hit.

And of course it won't last for the whole year. These are spikey products, and sampling the biggest hit at any moment tells you very little about the value of the company behind it. You don't have to look any farther than Zynga for proof of that.

Whether 60 employees constitutes a "startup" or not I guess is a semantic thing. Back in the 90's, that was routine. Now the YC model has downsized the concept such that you stop being a "startup" (in the hipster sense, anyway) once you land funding for real employees.
Also as far as the post office is concerned: one troubled branch of the government != indictment of all government involvement in public utilities (which is what a government-operated payment card system would amount to). Not every government project is a bureaucratic failure. For example, this internet thing we're using to argue about how the government can't do anything right...
From the article: "5 out of the 8 founders and executive team are from Digital Chocolate, the makers of Galaxy Life".

So it's a pretty large mis-representation to say they copied another game, as they were on the team who built said game (granted, the writer doesn't do a very good job of conveying that). MUCH different than cloning a competitor.
It makes my Chrome and IE9 freeze because of an infinite loop at #228 in the demo.
Shooting them down could likely be described as vandalism or purposeful damage to police property.
I have never met an ad company that would let you use a bitmap file, or a tiff file, or any such format as your creative.

They typically allow GIF and JPEG.

Some do allow flash, but those are few and far between and even they heavily vet those who use Flash and require only established (and presumably honest) companies to do so. It really cuts down on the malicious usage.

If someone is running 3rd party ads with unvetted systems, its probably because they are (a) ignorant of others (b) seduced by the high pay rates or (c) did something to get themselves blacklisted at more venerable agencies.
This is why we used a Trello board. These can move around, and all the votes for i18n help us prioritize it against other items.
No offense, but I'll quote Rebecca Murphey: do we really still live in a world where a jquery datepicker plugin can make it to #1 on hacker news?
French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy's computers
I (the OP) don't know why it was posted either, but the post is proven correct, so far. The great performance over the past 3 years was made possible by the terrible performance in 2007/09. The market still hasn't reached its high of the past decade. In fact, today's level of 1387 was first reached back in 1999, so that's 13 years with a flat trend and counting.
Note to people in positions of authority: people have to actively want to use technology that lets you surveil them for it to work.

Note to entrepreneurs: build such technology and you'll get rich.

Note to people not in positions of authority: don't be so naive.
Absolutely, and if I were you I'd suggest not working with that SEO since there's likely going to be problems down the line.
This story mirrors my startup experience exactly, including the moment where I had to lay off my friends, took a last long look at "our place" before turning the lights off, remembering that this was what I had sacrificed my relationship for, including the ending where I thought of nothing but the crushing mountain of personal debt. In some ways, this is the archetypical founder's nightmare, and it's happening every day in a lot of places. If you're doing a startup, this should be the one scenario that haunts you and motivates you to do better.
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Done:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812223

It is even done without html5 input/type=date so probably is compatible with IE4
Is it just me or does this not seem like a big deal? Yes, they didn't comply with the law, but they appear to have done it out of laziness rather than trying to hide something. After reading the full FOIA request linked in morisy's comment, it seems to me that they were responsive to the request, but not the the extent that Muckrock wanted. They didn't want to go dredge up the footage video that the drone sales team gave them. They probably didn't really know where it was. But they did say that they didn't purchase any drones, and acknowledged a sales inquiry.
no, instead the IRA were religious radicals that thought it was OK to place car bombs in Central London, Manchester, and countless other cities, murdering hundreds of innocent people going about their daily business.

The Taliban have a clear military objective too: remove the infidels and their supporters from the country that was formerly theirs.

quite how this is any different from the IRA, semantically or morally, I'm really not sure.
I recall reading somewhere that the distinction between a framework and a library was that in a library, you[r code] calls the functions it needs, whilst in a framework, it calls you.

Often, bugs in your code will manifest as the framework throwing exceptions somewhere internally, often with difficult to interpret stack traces until you're familiar with how things work and what parts are safe to ignore.

I've not had much success with interactive debugging in django (recommendations/howtos would be hugely appreciated), but I can imagine a similar situation in which you have to learn what is safe to skip through (and maybe how to automate that to break only at points of interest, especially those points which are in some internal django setup methods)
Thank you for the bug report!
The problem with a 60 person team in a volatile market is that they're going to have a hard time weathering the spikeyness. It's not like two guys in a garage who can leave and come back to it. These people are buying houses on the presumption that they'll be employed in 12 months, when the revenue stream dries up it's going to be trouble.

I wonder how these social game companies get so big in the first place. I thought it was all but proven that consistently being successful in this space is almost impossible. If it's VC funding, what's the exit? They all seem to run into the ground. In this case it seems like the founders had enough capital from the last time they shipped this game. Personally, I would seek a more stable space after hitting it big once.