skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I wrote it, it was a preaching article. You're right though it would be great if someone wrote that article, with all the facts.
Mobile First: It is time to persist, not pivot.
Safe bike, yes-- but in the two shots where you see the rider's head, he hasn't got a helmet on.
Workday is basically PeopleSoft in the cloud. I really like Aneel Bhusri's attitude towards business in todays landscape:

http://www.workday.com/company/leadership_team/aneel_bhusri....

Highly recommend watching this video: (especially if you're a techie interested in this area)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWawiKa50Xo
The point is; no one would being paying anything unless it got so popular. And, it was allowd to get so popular because no one pettily went after "small fry" infringers. They let (encouraged probably) it go "viral". Let it be mixed, shared, performed, Let it become part of our culture, almost in The Commons.

And when it was good enough to be shared, massively, they reaped the just rewards.
Ah, the downsides to stability.

The particularly unfortunate part is, as much of the world's commercial hosting runs on RHEL, it's the world that doesn't get this until 2020. Well, except for services that roll custom kernels.
I can't edit to clarify now, but that statement is meant to be an assumption rather than of fact for use as a toy example for a line of reasoning.

If I could edit again, I'd make it read as "For instance, let P <= BPP <= NP".
A hypothetical example is if each carrier makes their pricing hard to compare with the others.

Combining weight, maximum size, distance, overseas or not, time, reliability and customer service gives carriers plenty of room to confuse customers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Table_o...

Ubuntu 12.04 uses version 3.2, 12.10 is on kernel 3.5.
hi -the emulator does take keyboard input - press page down once you've selected a textbox.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh134796%28v=express...
Anyone here who uses Yahoomail? Just curious. I stopped using them long back when they charged for some features while GMail still had them for free. Anyway, could anyone let us know how the new version is? I think my account has been deactivated due to inactivity (another irritating 'feature').

Their homepage doesn't clearly explain what has gotten better, and if it all, it is better than GMail. So would love to hear some feedback!
I make ~$200 from a browser app I wrote a couple of years ago.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/17/windows-phone-7-will-work...
>"Mitt Romney Style" would certainly be considered a fair use parody and since the video was also parody, the need to license was avoided.

This is far from a certainty. In fact, the court could very well rule against College Humor et. al. if Psy and his folks chose to press the issue.

The major issue here is the legal difference between parody vs. satire. In parody, you're using Psy's own work to criticize Psy. In satire, you're using Psy's work to mock someone unrelated (i.e. Gov. Romney).

Excerpting from page 2 of http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellectu..., emphasis mine.

"[i]f the new work “has no critical bearing on the substance or style of the original composition, which the alleged infringer merely uses to get attention” [...] the work is less tansformative, and other fair use factors [...], loom larger. [...] [A] parody targets and mimics the original work to make its point, [while] a satire uses the work to criticize something else, and therefore requires justification for the very act of borrowing."

But like everything in the legal system, it's in shades of grey.

"A parody that more loosely targets an original [...] may still be sufficiently aimed at an original work to come within our analysis of parody. If a parody [...] runs the risk of serving as a substitute for the original or licensed derivatives [...] it is more incumbent on one claiming fair use to establish the extent of transformation."

I think there's a strong argument that an English-languge parody on a stremaing video site that gets money for its adroll could be a replacement for the Korean-language (or theoretical officially-licensed English-language) song on a streaming video site that gets money for its adroll.

I, of course, am not a lawer. If I was in the business of using copyrighted works in what is legally defined as satire, I'd be playing it very carefully. Psy has (seemingly) no interest in suing these people, and is probably a safe bet. I'd be a lot more careful about using a Ted Nugent song to support single-payer healthcare.

In the end, the American Bar document (http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellectu...) is a really interesting read if you do care about what could qualify as fair use and what might not.

edit: in fact, what the heck, I'll submit it as a story. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4905613)
Just press 'page up' and the Windows Phone emulator will let you type with your keyboard. It does get annoying when you have to do this every time, but I think the Windows Phone emulator beats Android's significantly in terms of speed and stability.
Just another reminder that our top business leaders are taught on a fundamental level to leverage. Whether this is good or bad it certainly separates a lot of the rest of us from those in the driving seat: they are willing to take on massive debt obligations for themselves and for the companies they run, and understand the world of leverage and all it entails/empowers.
Twitter vs. Instagram in a knock-down, drag-out filters fight
Neverware hopes to save schools millions by making old PCs run like new
I really wish we put more focus on discovering strengths from a young age and developing upon those in students. College really is not for everyone.

A friend of mine in high school wasn't the brightest guy when it came to the core classes, but was hands down THE guru in auto shop. The guy could disassemble an engine entirely and put it back together squeaky clean before he could even drive a car himself while I would (and still do) struggle to even change the oil.

He's now doing just fine for himself working as a manager at a local auto repair shop, and will most likely be happy doing that the rest of his life.
Switching from iPhone to Windows Phone: a personal journey
Hmm, a load balancing bug which eats several production services for lunch and has a bunch of second-order effects. I wonder if it involves running a script and pushing the output without looking at a "diff" view to see what changed, and they managed to push a config which sent all of the world's traffic to one location.

It seems like just the other day when I was thinking about this very thing. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/11/19/lb/
The law doesn't require you to do anything with your property rights.

Even if true in some technical sense, the whole point of laws, government, and so on, is to structure society in a way that works well. If that isn't happening, the law is, defacto, broken.

Given that NPEs, systematically, are able to drag down other businesses without doing anything useful themselves, this is clear evidence that patent law, "right" or not, needs to be changed. Strongly.
Apple's share of smartphone profits
"there must be an iOS equivalent of the <strong> tag, right? Apparently not."

Just use three labels, with the middle label set to bold.
Still no archive button, still get spam, folders are mutually exclusive... Has nobody learned from GMail?

EDIT: Just unsure about what they added... looks like a standard webmail interface?
HP has announced plans for power-efficient ARM-based servers with their "Project Moonshot" program, and starting with their "Project Redstone" Calxeda ARM server development platform:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/techg...

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-9839ENW.pdf
Lapka now available (environmental sensors for iOS)
Harvard as Hedge Fund: Harvard Replies
How to test XCOM “dice rolls” for fairness
> For something so important it should be at a national level.

Could you elaborate on this? To me, the conclusion would seem entirely opposite: a single, homogeneous educational policy would prevent meaningful variation, and thereby make the status quo all but immutable.
You have to understand how the system is supposed to work. Imagine a world in where all patents are valid and legitimate. You're right that even in such a world, it's not practical to just troll through existing patents. So you proceed blithly ahead until someone realizes: "hey, this guy is making a lot of money and I think he should've gotten a license from us." They send an e-mail saying: "hey, you owe us some money." The recipient says: "oh, I think you're right." They do negotiate a license, and go on their merry way. This isn't "waiting under a bridge until the 'victim' is most vulnerable." Rather, it's like "lazy loading" of libraries. You avoid doing the work of determining what patents need to be licensed until the last possible moment. But the retroactive effect of any demand/suit should be similar to just having licensed that patent in the first place. Moreover, there is absolutely nothing illegitimate about only going after people with deep pockets in pursuing patent infringements. I don't sue the neighbor's kid for cutting through my property, but I'd probably sue anyone who drove a truck through it!

Using terms of "victim" and "vulnerable" are really inapropos here. A lawsuit is not an "attack." It's a "hey, I think you owe me some money." These are businesses all trying to make profit off inventions. If the patents in question are valid and legitimate (and I think a lot of them might not be, to be fair!) then there is no illegitimacy in a non-practicing entity suing to enforce their patent rights, because ultimately those rights derive from the original inventor. The NPE might not "create anything of value," but the inventor did, and the NPE bought out the inventor.

Now, to be fair, lawsuits are in inefficient way to transact in property rights, even if they are a legitimate way. Most people who believe in the patent regime think we need to develop things like patent markets to make it easier for companies to find and license patents without resorting to lawsuits.
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ZenPayroll raises seed round from the Mt. Rushmore of Valley entrepreneurs
Exactly. I don't use chrome sync, never observed this crash.
Thanks -- can you mention any actual numbers (vs just the percentage increase)?
MetroRadio

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/metroradio/0caac...
> and it drags states with good education systems down.

How does poor-quality education in one state adversely affect better-quality education in another?
That's why it is useful to have different browsers, some of which aren't as connected as Chrome is.
What would it take to "compete with the likes of SAP" in your view? I know almost nothing about ERP but a close friend is a SAP consultant and provides daily tales of super-Lovecraftian horrors so fantastic that it's hard to imagine why people use it. In fact most stories make me think "it would be orders of magnitude cheaper and more fun to implement that from scratch with Python and some open source tools".
Basically, there's a fine line between "giving information" and dispensing "investment advice". The former is protected by the constitution. The latter is regulated by the SEC, and requires you to be certified to do that (and there are similar requirements in all western countries).

In other words, if you in any way say "I think you should buy this", you raw afoul of the SEC, but just saying "I just bought this, and I think it's a good idea" you probably don't.

Now, would a service like that describe need SEC certification? Would the individual contributors? It can be constructed in a way that wouldn't, but that's far from trivial to either build it that way, or to even be convinced that it is for a contributor.

and re:"the violations of their terms", I meant their copyrights and the TOS you sign on. If I re-publish it (even if it's just by showing the whole world what I did), I might. It's not enforceable, but probably legal, and many such publications assert that you are not allowed to redistribute their advice in any form.
Another similar excellent resource: http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/
At a quick glance, I see that Linode prices start at $19.95 a month. I have a cheaper $12/mo plan with prgmr.com. There are even plans cheaper than $12/mo at prgmr. Are there cheaper Linode plans than what I'm seeing somewhere?
Wow, you take a biased view of this subject. You're right that IF you accept patents as full property, THEN this is not a problem. But that is an if that many here - including myself - are not inclined to grant. And if you DON'T grant it, then this is very much not fine.

You acknowledge this, sort of, but only when using the loaded language intellectual inventions to describe patents. This deliberately ignores the fact that a major complaint about the current patent system is the proliferation of patents which claim "invention" status to things that should not be called inventions.

You then go on to call the question of whether patents should be property a totally separate issue. I agree that it is totally separate from the line of argument that you want to pursue. But, given the opinions of most people on this site, it is actually the central issue. Your sophistry about property laws is actually the side issue that should be ignored in favor of what is really important.

The key question is this, is the rapid proliferation of lawsuits from non-practicing entities a problem? In fact evidence suggests that the companies being sued are generally ones that are creating real innovation, economic development, and jobs. The companies doing most of the suing are creating a tax on innovation. If you look at who is paying the costs, and who is capturing the profits, by and large the patent system is failing to incentivize actual innovation, and is rewarding useless legal activity.

When you look at it in this light, the activity of the non-practicing entities is absolutely the greatest source of the gap between what the patent system theoretically should be doing, and what it actually is doing. Therefore the rapid proliferation of lawsuits by non-practicing entities is direct evidence that our bad patent system is rapidly becoming worse.

Now, like a good lawyer, I expect you to take apart and criticize everything that I've said. After all you're paid to come to the conclusion you've decided in advance to, rather than to find the correct answer. Truth, for a lawyer in an argument, is merely one source of rhetorical ammunition. I admit it. I am not a lawyer. In a war of words, you'll win.

But I honestly believe that the ideas that I am putting forth are correct. And the ideas that you are putting forth are dangerous ideas that currently cost our economy tens of billions per year. Furthermore those costs are rapidly mounting. For decades now, Silicon Valley has been the world capital for tech startups. Some day, hopefully a long time from now, this will end and Silicon Valley will pass into history. But it could end much sooner, and worsening patent laws are on the short list of things that could end it quickly.
The math that goes into making a useful CAS can be beautiful, but "simpler than red-black trees" is not a description that springs to mind. A toy CAS might be pretty easy, though.
Not to be snarky but the E is for enterprise. The overhead of learning and using the software versus the value delivered is not there for your typical mom and pop shop
And then what? He /she will always be a Stanford MBA and as much as some VCs hate them, blue chips companies hire them on the spot. The problem is with second and third tier MBA and Law degrees.

(Maybe VCs hate them since they try to create regular companies and that increases the value before VCs invest in them.)
Make your own browser.
I'll address the possible appeal as a diehard daily motorcycle commuter; from 110f down to 20f, anything except ice and snow.

I invested in a decent sport touring bike with ABS and heated grips, plus riding gear. Yes it's warm and dry. There is some irritation where it takes a few minutes to put on all the gear (pants, boots, jacket, gloves, ear plugs, neck gator if cold, and helmet) over work clothes, take them off at work, repeat on the way home. Cargo can be an irritation, needing tying down. A bag of groceries or case of cans is okay but not much more. I need a better way to carry a laptop. Yes, I dropped the bike once, sudden braking at a stop sign. Yes, it's pretty common.

So an enclosed gyro vehicle would improve these issues for me: convenience and cargo. The tippy thing is a minor plus.

The downside: it takes away most of the fun of a bike. The fun is hard to qualify but it involves being outside, connected to the machine, shifting, leaning, braking, and in general micromanaging your outcome.

Am I likely to get one as a commuter? Maybe. A Miyata or Mini would fill a similar bill and buy more utility.
"like Comcast, is systematically overcharging / under-delivering"

Whilst I understand that Comcast is a really easy target for customer service complaints, I pay for a 27mbps / 7mbps service.

Per my speed tests (not speedtest.net), I get upwards of 40mbps down, 15mbps up on sustained transfers. And service is excellent, on the few occasions I've needed it.
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15% for an end to end service? Citation Please! Paypal, Stripe, Braintree and those guys don't even come close to that. If you are getting charged 5% in fees in this day and age then you are doing something wrong... at least here in the USA.

Apple has a cost of no more than 2.5% for credit card fees, and its probably even a few tenths lower than that. That I will guarantee (seeing as how I have seen companies in the $5million/year range get that percentage from an end-to-end provider, and Apple is quite a bit more than that in volume).

What I think is really ridiculous is that they want to charge 30% for subscription type services. One time app purchases... ok, maybe I can see that. But for a $5/month or more subscription being bought through there its absurd and making it more of a pain for the user because the app developer is forced to break with the single-billing system due to costs. So, simplicity actually hinders the experience here.
If by preview you mean how OSX has is popup preview? Whenever I hit spacebar on a file it pops up a big window where I preview it's contents. If you have the right apps installed it works for presentations, excel sheets, and videos.

Would this product replicate that functionality for web?
(Wanted) Extended default arguments in C++
How long does it take for a Stanford MBA grad to pay this off? I'm going to guess not very long.
How Travis Ketchum Earned $100K in 90 Days Selling Premium Plugins
In his very first launch, Travis absolutely crushed it and did $100K in 90 days. In this video interview, he walks us through exactly how he did it.
What's with the microscopic screenshots? The hell am I supposed to take away from looking at that?
Satire/Parody Distinction—Can Satire Ever Be Fair Use? (2006) [pdf]
Sorry for being such a noob. But could someone please tell me the difference between "linux" and other linux builds like Ubuntu, RedHat etc?
Lets just jump to the endgame, S2S2B2B2C
Assuming you also worked instead of doing the school, some quick back of the napkin math places it as a $25,000 income for the rest of your life for doing absolutely nothing.

Though I suspect $25K isn't even small a blip on the income statements of these people.
Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions
Hell if it's illegal to rent rooms in SB. What makes you think that?
If you're not getting value out of college, you're doing something wrong. College is a resource, not a teaching facility, and the amount you put in is directly related to how much you get out of it. There are too many people, in my opinion, who take the "$120k for a piece of paper" expression seriously and miss out on the vast number of opportunities that one gets from 4+ years of uninterrupted study.
> Provisioning and distribution is a nightmare

I fully agree. I threw myself in at the deep end - never spent any length of time on Mac OS and only working from tutorials for Xcode, it was atrocious trying to figure it out!
Is the simulation just of us though? Or is the simulation of a much larger portion of the observable universe? We naturally want to be important, but I don't see any particularly compelling reason to think that we are. I don't see any reason at all to assume that if we are in a simulation, it is being run by anything remotely resembling us (or used to resemble us), or indeed by anything at all.

Is that such a strange concept? The prevailing school of thought, if the universe is not a simulation, is that there is no mastermind behind it. Seems natural to me that we would assume the same about any universe simulator.
Yup - I realize it's the stability in trade.

Every so often I am tempted to fiddle with debian, looks like more and more people are thinking that way:

http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/debian_is_now_the_most_popular...
This needs to be emphasized.

US primary education is governed state-by-state. If you compare Massachusetts to the world leaders, you'll discover we have an excellent educational system. If you compare Alabama to the world leaders, you'll see that we are a third-world nation.

States fund education differently. They establish different standards for what children are going to learn, subject by subject. In almost all cases, the basis for these standards is more political (and frequently religiously inspired) than scientific.

Useful reading: http://www.edexcellence.net/publications/the-state-of-state-...

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
I think the big question is it depends on your needs/budget. I use ec2 to test stuff. But I use managed vps for important stuff. It also depends on what your app does and where you expect to bottleneck (cpu/band/disk).

(Disclaimer: this is my startup) You might want to check http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare/#tab2 which compares some big VPS providers. It's rating is based on what people are saying (positive/negative) about the company. I would think of it as 'customer happiness' it's not the end-all of things you should look at, but it should probably factor in.
your pet project doesn’t stand a fighting chance
Ignoring your question, I was speaking more about the whole "US kids are stupid." thing. The average is abysmal, but that doesn't mean that education is bad across the board. Often times, the media makes it out to be so.
I think the author of the parent post to yours meant that if an average or aggregate grade of some kind is calculated for the whole of the USA, then the resulting figure may not reflect the performance of much of the country because of a large variation between the states.

Of course, many of the countries in the study have populations smaller than some states within the USA. Perhaps the comparisons should be conducted at state level?
The vast majority of them have parental funding.

MBA may not seem selective (a lot of mediocre people get in) on intelligence, but the "work experience" bar can be quite high and usually requires a leadership position in an established business (not some acq-hired startup) before 26. Stodgy blue-chips don't promote that fast, so no one gets that without their daddies pulling strings, which means they also come from money.