skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickable to Watsi: http://watsi.org/

Clickable to original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424081
A World Without Software Patents Would Be a Perfectly Good World
Figurepool can be very handy for mindmapping, actually the 'fork icon tool' was added with mindmaps in mind, you just click the icon tool and a new already connected box is added. Just double click the box to add new text label to it.

The scrolling issue seems to be an OS X related bug. I sometimes observe the same. The fact that sometimes two finger swipe is recognized as back button is a Google Chrome on OS X feature. I was able to get around the zoom/scroll issue by pressing the Shift button. Not sure if it'll work for you though. At least you can give it a try...
Have you actually been to Mission Bay?
The guy who _made the website_ that outputs PDFs of boarding passes was the one who got raided. It wasn't "present[ing] forged travel document[s]".

My point stands. If anything, you just reinforced it by pointing that out.

The people at the RNC _were_ arrested.

And then what happened to them?

The reality is, one nanny state is as good/bad as another. You can point to no objective evidence that Germany is a more enlightened, tolerant, or liberal nation than the US. It's great that you're happy there, but you shouldn't have to indulge in rhetorical gymnastics to affirm your decision to stay... and you can't possibly expect such cherry-picking to convince anyone else.
I'm curious: where would Pinterest be on this graph? If Microsoft was for a few 1000 users, and if the best ideas are "organic," would Pinterest be bookmarking naturally "evolved" or did it pivot to a website for curation, sharing with like-minded individuals more recently [1]? It seems to me what's more important is tackling an emerging field (like Microsoft did) than a declining one (which some "organic" companies may do if they are too late into the game). Also, what do you guys think? Do the "sitcom ideas" have it easier with raising money, and finding their niche after?

[1] Read Ben's email here: http://spectralight.com/myblog/2012/11/09/the-secret-is-expo...
"When Qurve got involved with the Charm project the site was being alpha tested by a handful of early adopters, but a months away from being ready for public consumption. Qurve was brought on in a Ruby on Rails development role to help fix bugs, complete the necessary functionality and ensure the necessary code quality for a public launch.

Over the next few months our role expanded to include a complete rewrite of the user interface, a reimplementation of the credit card billing processor and a few more major changes."

http://www.qurve.com/clients/charm/
You're saying arguments are more convincing if it wasn't for ad hominem x? Says more about you tbh.
isn't that the point of headlines?
Essentially this sounds like preferring pointilism paintings instead of realism, because the former medium couldn't convey detail as well.

Just because you're tied to one interpretation of the art style doesn't mean all artists are.
as a tech/product/marketing guy who used to run a PR firm, I can say this is one of the best summaries of how to get effective PR i've ever read...
Does anyone with half a brain really need proof that email isn't dead? Aside from the phone, email is one of the most intimate forms of communication that we have.

Social Networks like Facebook will always have their haters and lovers, but email will be here to stay for the long haul. It's the true neutral medium of the internet.

Anyone who has used the incumbent tools knows they don't work as well as they advertise. ConstantContact is a behemoth that fails to innovate. MailChimp has a cute monkey but the product is less than compelling. Kudos to Sendicate for creating something unique, because this is a space that needs to be taken to the next level.
I doubt it is the case of the few -- it is much more likely to be the case of the vast, vast majority. If not, you would hear from the good ones far more often.
Microsoft is building an Xbox set-top box, coming in 2013
10 dream directors to replace George Lucas on 'Star Wars: Episode 7'
Ironic that the parent split the rest of this conversation thread into two unwavering camps about whether "unwavering" is a good attribute or not.

If you see Stallman's role as the personification of an ideal, you probably laud his "unwavering" position. If you see his role as that of a pragmatic politician, who should try and find small wins when large wins are out of reach, you see probably find his "unwavering" as impractical.
Patent-encumbered industries are industries where innovation is not occurring due to patent strangulation. Patent-intensive industries are those which require patent protection to protect the R&D investments of corporations and ensure innovation.

Patent-encumbered: mobile phones

Patent-intensive: artificial joints
I read the tldr.io of this TL;DR service first.
BTW - after seeing MI:4, my pick would be Brad Bird. As much as I'd like to see Guillermo or Chris Nolan do it, I just think they'd bring the wrong energy to it. SW is supposed to be Fun, not dark and brooding (part of why ep1-3 suck so much IMHO)
I don't know how prevalent it really is, but I was once labeled "disloyal" for looking around at other internal positions. Needless to say, I got out of that company (though it did take almost a year from that incident to do so).
Haha, yeah. I used to pay $1500/month for something only a little longer than the one in the article in a basement in Chelsea. It was actually a really nice place in my mind because it was very cheap for the area and I wasn't stuck with a ton of roommates like most of my friends.
> misunderstand what America is: a coalition of independent states, with different agendas

Are you saying the agenda of Louisiana is to have murder rates, poverty, health and education comparable to undeveloped countries?
Ask HN: How can I identify which problems I should solve in my spare time?
More specifically, web projects.

I'm a front-end web developer who's looking to brush up on back-end development. Stuff like Rails, Node.js, Ember.js and so on.

I've been trying to work out what to build next, but I have writers block and it's very frustrating. I'm not expecting anybody to give me an idea, but I was wondering if there's anything I could or should be doing to muster up some ideas.
Although 220 square feet isn't a great living environment and certainly not one I would want to be forced to live in long term, I don't think it's unlivable especially if you're only "living" there when you're not at work or school. I live in England and space is quite expensive here if you want to have quality too, for example I pay $2500 per month for ~<600 square feet apartment, an apartment I was looking at in London was ~$4200 per month for 800 square feet (it was a high quality residence). America is very spoiled with space, it would be impossible for me to get a 1500 square foot apartment anywhere in England unless I was willing to live in the middle of nowhere (the only apartment I found this big was 20 miles from the nearest city in a questionable area).

The issue may be that this will raise prices of bigger apartments, but if they're reasonably priced ($1000 per month?) I can't see how this is a big problem. For someone that spends all day inside they might not be ideal, but someone who treats their apartment as their "base" for sleeping and eating and nothing more it shouldn't be a problem.
You always have different distributions running different versions of everything. Each software project makes progress on their own, then distributions periodicly take the newest stable version of stuff, make sure things work together and make a new release. If you want cutting edge software, use a cutting edge distro.
In your second paragraph, you have affect in the first sentence, and effect in the last. They should be reversed.
> Lots of cities in Europe are filled with buildings of that height and it doesn't seem to hurt their quality of life too badly.

It's actually pretty common for European cities to limit high-rise condos/office buildings in the city centers (usually with limits around 5-8 stories). To still achieve dense housing, tall condos and office buildings are usually built close to public transit somewhere a bit outside of the city center, plus the suburbs don't start as close in, so there's a bigger urbanized area. The Manhattan/Chicago/Vancouver style of a downtown characterized by skyscrapers isn't very common in Europe; more of a North American invention, particularly in the Chicago/Vancouver form where there's a high-rise downtown that quickly turns into suburban homes within a few kilometers.

The SF equivalent might be to not allow condo towers in SF, but to urbanize the areas a few BART stops out: why are there single-family homes, not denser housing, in San Bruno, West Oakland, and Daly City? But of course, the Peninsula is even more anti-development than SF is, so politically that just trades one source of opposition for another one (to take another example, people have been trying to convince Palo Alto to allow more dense housing near downtown/Stanford/Caltrain for years, but Palo Altoans want to keep it suburban).
It's only an offensive move if you consider battle 'N + 1 == N'. Google didn't start this war.
60i video, because it was much cheaper than film and no processing delays.
Everyone Should Be Learning Technology
> As Stallman is fond of (rightly) remarking: Linux is not an operating system.

"Linux" is commonly used as a brand for the ecosystem of bits, media, and community around the kernel. It makes sense as a default meaning, so that's how most people use it.
When my paypal was broken into - it was immediately used to order from a EU based usenet provider.

Paypal reversed it for me, but I wonder how much of this is fraud related?
Evernote, Dropbox, Zite, Expensify, Yelp, Flashlight (yup), Words with Friends, Lyft, Kayak, World of Goo

Oh, and the one I built (natch): NextGuide :)
Isn't the McCabe metric simply a measure of software complexity?

This method is designed for individual modules. Here you've applied for the complete system. What sense does this make? Resulting metric is not conveying any meaningful information.
And higher numbers mean its not necessarily worse; it just means the program is more complex, which may be due to more functionality.

Right way to compare it - Level the scope of the frameworks (e.g. add SQLAlchemy to pyramids) and compare again. Bring all to equal levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCabe_Metric
Election 2012 and Social Media in 20 infographics
Linux is just the kernel.

The same as with WebOS or Android.

Any of these OS can decide tomorrow to change to another kernel, and Linux is history in the mobile space.

If this ever would make sense this is another question.
Yes, he said to try new principles, he also said not to expect them to really work, which undercuts the motivation for finding really difficult to discern principles.
Congrats on the great work! Just a quick question; have you considered making a WordPress plugin to display today's top causes?

I worked on a project similar to that for Oxfam Novib (Blogsfam) which didn't make it due to organizational friction but won several awards nonetheless.

It might be an interesting addition to your platform...
What's your definition of a tablet interface?
And you think it is a good idea to replace a non-optimal system by a guaranteed-to-be-worse one? Really? Really??
The only failure this person has made is wallowing in self pity. Why is he just letting everything wind down? It's like this founder doesn't understand how his first company began, and so is unable to try try again.
Sure, but those people should learn how to say it properly.
Indieconf 2012 recap
You mean a massive operation similar to the scale of the federal government?
Yes you can limit the problem until we can get something useful out of the other end but it is very very hard. Here is one of the latest works on the topic: "Accidental pinhole and pinspeck cameras: revealing the scene outside the picture" (Torralba & Freeman).

http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/publications/shadows.pd...
Exactly. There's loads of Unixen they could have tried. There's also tons of people running Rails. Though I'm not a big fan of Rails I can't deny there's a lot of it running successfully. There's got to be more to this story!
Rendering Buildy’s satellite view: PhantomJS, Beanstalkd, Leaflet, and PIL
Most of us like handling computers more than humans but it's not really that black and white. In order to get the most out of your career you will need to learn how to handle humans too.

That of course doesn't answer your question. You can probably keep your job whilst having poor communication skills but that will be a (significant) limiting factor for you.
>>> Personally, I'm moving away from using frameworks.

if i'm not mistaken, that is the entire point of Flatiron. just a collection of independent modules. use as much or as little as you want.

from first paragraph...

"Philosophy
No one agrees on frameworks. It's difficult to get consensus on how much or how little a framework should do. Flatiron's approach is to package simple to use yet full featured components and let developers subtract or add what they want."
I've been following Watsi for a while, and it's great to the continued success. They're currently tied for first in a HuffPo competition to win $10k which would help them reach even more people in need of medical aid. If you want to help them out, you can vote in 10 seconds for them here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/millennial-impact-c...
I live in NJ now, but grew up in Northern VA, and went to school in southern VA. I went back there a little while ago, and realized something. Bare with me, it's a half-baked theory, but I think it may be on to something.

There are a lot of anti-intellectual places in the US. They drive out their smart people, who don't want to hide their intelligence on a daily basis. They have to leave: every time you hear a nonsensical but popular argument, it hurts not to say something. You can only do that for so long. Now some choose to stay, mostly by learning to suppress (or avoid learning/thinking about) intellect in many areas, and then focusing all that in a small area. That way, they can fit in with everyone else at 90%, and fit in other people's ontologies as |normal +x|. Of course, that means living a mostly-lobotamized life.

My concern with Silicon X-type articles are when they're happening in areas that may be anti-intellectual. Are these funding vehicles for the few "closet intellectuals" (if you'll forgive me for using the term) who don't want to leave, combined with a larger population who only see the outputs (jobs, spending, fame, etc.) without understanding or caring about why the original Valley formed?
I was at the 2001 Melbourne Grad Prix in view of the marshal that was killed. Pieces of the car came down through the trees like it was raining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-AcTjAgac

It was very sad, and the drivers didn't spray champagne after the race.
Indieconf 2012: How to Form Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
"[U]nfortunately, the patents purchased are not likely to be useful (in the sense that the creation of that patent brought value), and i think this is especially true in software patents."

That may very well be the case; I was clarifying the incompleteness of the argument, not advocating software patents.

"In a real arms race, the race to produce weapons might induce economic activity because metal needs mining, manufacturing and jobs. This does stimulate the economy, and you can construe that theres some benefit to be had.

"For software patents, it does not stimulate anything! Perhaps lawyers who gets paid drafting it, but actual creative output isn't there, and so it is a net drain to even create the patent."

Please explain the difference between paying a lawyer to write a patent that adds nothing, and paying someone to dug up and manufacture a bullet that sits in a chest somewhere, serving as a deterrent.

Two things I can see are 1) the people being paid to mine and machine are probably less well off than the lawyer, so there may be an (arguably) helpful redistributive effect; 2) mines and machine shops have huge fixed cost - having invested that, other tasks may be able to piggyback. I am slightly hesitant in concluding 2 - while the effect itself seems reasonable, I may simply be unaware of useful infrastructure supporting the patent process. Is there something additional that I am missing?
Same here, beta releases of major games and operating systems are free to select people; and I'm about to do a beta release of my company's first product to which I'll give access for free.
What he was doing certainly fell under the auspices of "hacking". I don't think there was any fraud. If you read my response, I make it clear it's the sort of thing I might have done if I had idle time on my hand. Well, except I probably won't anymore given the potential criminal sanctions.

Realistically, there isn't any legitimate reason for me to be doing this to AT&T's website anyways, other than idle juvenile curiosity (which I'll admit to having an abundance of).
which plugins?
I read it more like, to use your examples:

"Mass is awesome. What if every object in the Universe had mass [and did not have liberty, only mass]?"

"Liberty is awesome. What if there should be no such thing as slavery and every human being should be free [and had no mass, only liberty]?"

Pure mass without liberty is wrong. Pure liberty without mass is nonsensical.
Gnome Shell is not an extension to Mutter (it once was, but that changed before the 3.0 release; it's still wrong in Wikipedia). Today Gnome Shell is a window manager implemented by using libmutter.
About Are.na
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Arena is created, owned and operated by Arena Digital LLC, a United States Delaware LLC.

It will be funded by J. Stuart Moore until it becomes self-sustaining and will have no investors, no outside equity ownership and no plans to be sold or go public in the future. We will focus on value for users without having to maximize investor return.

Your information will always be owned by you and you may export it or remove it at any time. We are working on making export available by December 1, 2012.

All information in Arena is securely and continuously backed up in multiple Amazon data centers.

The Arena Core Team is currently Stuart, John Michael Boling, Charles Broskoski, Dena Yago, Damon Zucconi and Dan Brewster.

We are assisted by a great and growing group of friends, partners and consultants.

We are located in New York City.
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Microsoft to power data centre with sewage-sourced methane
> he also said not to expect them to really work, which undercuts the motivation for finding really difficult to discern principles.

That would be an argument against science, which labors under the same constraint (i.e. with rare exception, things don't work), but as it turns out it really isn't an argument against science at all, because the rare "thing that works" tends to change the world.
Fair critique. I didn't write about the time we spent contacting our users and enabling the shares to happen. The key is that they expected the site to automate the process, and were always disappointed when they received a manual email from us. We have the relationship, but it's one that starts with an apology instead of a "How can I help you?"
This is what Chrome told me:

Danger: Malware Ahead!
Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on torrentfreak.com.
Content from ox-d.traffiqexchange.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.
Sorry for the inconvenience. I was just testing the poll feature.
>>

Arena is created, owned and operated by Arena Digital LLC, a United States Delaware LLC.

It will be funded by J. Stuart Moore until it becomes self-sustaining and will have no investors, no outside equity ownership and no plans to be sold or go public in the future. We will focus on value for users without having to maximize investor return.

Your information will always be owned by you and you may export it or remove it at any time. We are working on making export available by December 1, 2012.

All information in Arena is securely and continuously backed up in multiple Amazon data centers.

The Arena Core Team is currently Stuart, John Michael Boling, Charles Broskoski, Dena Yago, Damon Zucconi and Dan Brewster.

We are assisted by a great and growing group of friends, partners and consultants.

We are located in New York City.
How to serve Django Statics (and not go insane)
That's an amusingly long URL, given the context of the name...
I understand the appeal of living in a big city with... people and all, but honestly your dollar goes much further outside city limits. $1,000/month for a 220 sqft living space would be met with absolute disbelief around where I'm from (Rochester, NY, USA).

Location really is everything. Around here, you'll get about 2,200 sqft of living space in a less than 10-year old colonial house with a 2.5 car garage, 2+ acres of landscaped yard, for about $1,500/month. That's ownership, and only about 30 minutes from a large-ish metro area (1M in Greater Rochester). Traveling to NYC / BOS / PHL? By car: 6 hours, by plane: 1 hour.

With telecommuting being as accessible as ever, I have a hard time understanding why people pay these prices for such abysmal living spaces.
You're welcome. I love hearing stories like this. There is so many world class thinkers who are just waiting to be found in this world!
Hacker News OnePage - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-onepag...
On Mac OSX - Evernote, Google drive, Trello, Thunderbird, Skype, MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, Transmit, Reeder, Spotify.
Yep - UK, and neither of those things are common over here (I don't know of any at all).

How would the shared heating work, financially? Over here our energy costs are very high so a lot (most?) of our energy bills go on heating and hot water; if you want to save money, you put a jumper on and have a shower rather than a bath. With shared heating you don't have this option, but do the overall savings from greater efficiency (an assumption) make this a moot point?
Why I've Given Up on Coding Standards.
How RCA Lost the LCD
I don't quite agree. While the (relevant clause of the) statue does indeed require the intent to commit fraud, arguably a bit of sophistry by the prosecutors allowed them to sidestep the intent of that requirement in this case. If the law is written and interpreted in such a way as to make that possible, I think it's fair to say there's a problem with the law.
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something" -- Richard Feynman

A name serves to remind you what the variable represents, and serves to represent the variable in expressions.

Reminding you of what it represents generally works best with long names--with the major exception that names that follow domain conventions are often better than longer names that do not.

Representing the variable in expressions, on the other hand, often improves with shorter names because longer names make it harder to see the relationships in the expression.

It would be a big improvement, in my opinion, if variable names did not have to be so linear in most languages. I want subscripts and superscripts. That allows effectively longer names without taking up too much extra space and making it harder to see the relationships in an expression.
Agreed. In this case there just aren't that many exciting things to call a hn reader app, but in general the search is really difficult since the changes this summer. They lowered the importance of the name a lot, so even finding an exact match is tough.