skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably costs FedEx the same regardless of whether or not the address is business or residential these days,

I sincerely doubt this is true.

There's probably significant economies of scale when delivering to commercial properties where the drivers can drop off multiple deliveries at once as opposed to home deliveries which would usually get a single package per stop.

Id think that the drivers that deliver to offices can drop 5-10x as many deliveries in a day compared to the residential drivers
Just happened to me too. There is no better way to piss off your uses than deleting all their email. I could see having a 2 year deactivation, but 4 months? I'm sure the storage space isn't an issue, so this can only be a ploy to try to force users to log in.

Marissa Mayer has her work cut out for her. This, along with probably 10,000 other things, needs to change if Yahoo wants to compete with Google (and Microsoft?).
Nope, personal use of the internet was banned too. Although that rule didn't seem to apply to anyone over a certain paygrade.
ARM x64, wow. Is this really necessary? Or just a prelude to some new applications?

When i think of ARM i think of Mobile Phones, total ram isn't an issue(yet?) Are there other advantages?
What happens to the Heisenberg principle ??? :P
Thank you for taking the pains/effort. :-)
Too many of these items are redundant...variations of saying "Is your message clear?" I guess some startup creators need that question drilled into their head?

But the main issue of this checklist is that its items are too broad in scope and too subjective...The bullet points of a checklist should be concise and easy to answer with "yes" or "no".

I'm thinking along the lines of the famous hospital checklists written about by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...

The checklist is not full of items like: "Does the patient seem healthy?", "Is the patient overly nervous?" "Do you feel well-rested?", but "Did you wash your hands?" "Are you wearing a sterile mask?" "Did you apply antispetic onto the patient's skin?"
Re-read the post you replied to. It did not say what you thought it did.
If you own a patent, and someone is infringing on your patent without paying you licensing fees that you would normally require from them, this is legally a form of theft and you have standing to sue them.

Standing is not, therefore, a problem for this kind of lawsuit.

(I am not a lawyer, nor is this legal advice.)
Any kind of file?
Maybe these start-ups will be something extraordinary.

I am sure most of us here have looked at a particular start-up and thought 'No way in hell that will fly!'. For me it was Facebook.

I am not sure of which ones you were talking about, but I did see the one on curating info for start-ups. That could turn into an interesting business: link it with the the topic on 'how would I get started' and it could turn into an uber FAQ for start-up newbies (maybe even keeping HN clear of some noise) Breed it with the idea of stackoverflow and you could have an interesting site which collects info instead of creating new info (there's some great stuff out on the web, but, there is a lot of it). So who knows what it could become.

So three in a week isn't bad. It could be great in the end.
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Care to explain the negative voting?
We let them form same-sex partnerships and adopt children.
The harm is straightforward -- the lost patent licensing fees the infringer would have had to pay to use the patented invention. An inventor who has no money to take his invention to market licensing it to someone that does is part of how the patent system is supposed to work, so the fact that trolls also don't take their own inventions to market isn't anomalous in that regard.
Noted. thanks :)
Do you keep a plot in your head, or a story? Not doubting, just curious.

If you created and memorized your entire story, word for word, without it ever being put to paper, that is very impressive.
> We might reconsider this size due to the fact that some just want to share their holidized logos on social channels and therefore need it bigger.

Or anyone utilizing larger sizes for retina.
The presence of competition does not imply a fairly priced market, e.g. US telecom companies.
Perhaps you should use WebKit or Chromium as your browser then.
FedEx were sued for breach of contract. Presumably the plaintiffs shopped around and compared rates before entering a contract with FedEx.
I'm really sorry to say, but: too late.
Literally 99% of those I know used to be a Yahoo Mail user (Y! Messenger still biggish in Romania, though loosing ground quickly to social networks), but a big part of them are using GMail now.

Big, ugly ads and an "anti"-spam engine that makes SpamAssassin look good; what's there to come back to?
Plus everyone has a smartphone/tablet now and what's that without a Google/GMail account?
Yahoo has become irrelevant.
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It is especially shocking since a very compelling case was made (with actual evidence and everything!) for quiet and against open plan layouts back in 1987.

http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S...
Firefox Sync is written in JS, not C++, so segfaults are unlikely.
How do you get your project manager to love being lean?
Actually, the v7 has paypal and google checkout integration.
"Certainly there's a way. I left a comment above that a number of cc payment providers, those who cut you a check instead of making you bring your own merchant account, take 15%, without any of the other things Apple is doing. Rep'ing someone's product should naturally cost more than that."

Sure there are. There are also plenty that will do exactly the same thing for 3%, give or take.
It was as if a million moans cried out in ecstasy and were suddenly silenced.
All good points. But ask yourself, 'What's in the best interest of the wealthy and powerful, who get what they want?'. (They own a lot of real estate) Sorry if i'm too cynical.
AMD has announced that they are going to start shipping 64bit ARM systems in the near future(a year or two out).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6418/amd-will-build-64bit-arm-...
Chromium has the same code.
People here would know anyway
Better performance, and yes, it won't be long now before mobile devices ship with more than 4GB of memory.

Don't forget AMD's announcement about ARM64 based servers.
My 2007 Nokia N95 was in many ways way ahead of the 2008 iPhone with a 5mp camera (zeiss), front-facing camera, video calling, MMS, 3.5" headphone jacket, cut&paste "technology", GPS, FM radio, Adobe Flash support (gasp), 8GB storage, and many more things. I was streaming live footage online with Qik and uploading videos to YouTube while the iPhone couldn't even record video! It took Apple several years to catch up with some of these features. This phone was a beast but the only thing it didn't have was a great UI/UX.

So yes, the iPhone doesn't even come close to the birth of the smartphone, but it did a whole lot to make it main stream.
A one time pad consumes as many bits as the message length. It has nothing to do with the bits of information that can theoretically be stored in a deck of cards.
My mother-in-law was in a hotel room on a business trip just in the last 3 weeks where they had the lock vendor reprogram the door while she was in the room because of "some hacker."

I had no way of asking her if it was Onity after the fact, but whoever it was is actively working on the problem. It takes a bit longer to push out something to millions of non-networked devices than it does to just fix something on the App Store.
I have had a different experience - I have gone longer than 4 months between logging in and have not lost everything. Unless of course I have some box/account/app somewhere out there logging in unbeknownst to me :)
Only if the post followed it's own checklist. I get this is not a landing page with the intent of capturing new users. But it kind of is.
I think the page layout is funky (I can undertand it's a template), the paragraph's are too long and the actual list is below the fold.
So if you're going to tell the world how to do a landing page, then show by example.
As far as I know you shouldn't even be making WP8 apps, because they are not compatible with any WP7 device. So developers are stuck with building WP7 apps that also work on WP8 devices, because most WP devices are WP7.

And I don't think a Windows 8 app can be the same as a WP8 app either. At the very least you'll need a whole new UI and design, and most likely quite different code, too. It's not as easy as Microsoft says: "write once, publish to all our platforms with Windows in their name".
Just tried to log into my old yahoo account to see the changes and despite knowing the password it asked me a security question from 2009 that I cannot remember the answer, so I guess I'm never using that one again (it locked me out for 12 hours).
No amount of efficiency in a new version will instantly get all the old devices upgraded. Froyo will live as long as most devices it came preinstalled on.
You should test it again, it changed so much in the past months: https://www.openerp.com/saas_master/demo?lang=en_US&modu...
Or hang a sheet across the living room and rent out the new extra "room."
she just announced it :)
Maybe MS should've bought Yahoo after all, if only so the Windows 8 mail app wouldn't be such an irredeemable, worthless piece of crap.
>I think it's unfair to say it's an inability to design a decent office environment.

No, it is perfectly fair and accurate. You can still collaborate just fine without an open office. Read peopleware, noisy open offices are detrimental to productivity, even for the people who claim to like them and "need" them.
I too am interested in this
It's called Oligopoly, which is much better than Monopoly, but still far from a competitive market.
The real problem here starts when the big guys realize they are all untouchable, and start fighting proxy patent wars with each other by brutalizing small defenseless companies.
it will be oil on fire, and you guys will already downvoted me into oblivion, but the truth is the same, the paper has several typos, which makes in unquestionable that it did not see a spell-checker.
Would this event be streaming anywhere? Would love to watch or read what gets worked on.
It would be even more compelling if Yahoo start to offer free email service on custom domain as Google apps is no longer free. For the interface, I am not saying the new interface is bad, but even Yahoo! can make it as good as Gmail (forget the search first), still not a reason to switch..
The problem is that they were tacking surcharges on that didn't apply after signing an agreement. That's breach of contract, which is somewhat different from just charging high prices.
It's 2012 and Yahoo Mail still doesn't use HTTPS. Shame!
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You've answered your own question, Northwestern isn't a troll because they had no intention of holding a patent long term.

Actually, this isn't a good example, as a new drug is such an established item that it's not really a new invention as such, and there's no reason they couldn't just be copyrighted (with less term).
>> Always fun to know about non-determinism at the hardware level.

Strictly speaking, the non-determinism isn't actually in the hardware, because the OS schedules thread context switches ;-)

Assuming the CPU is running a completely single-threaded program or uses a deterministic way to schedule thread context switches, the result should always be perfectly identical.
My knowledge of ConTeXt is pretty limited, but unlike LaTeX you don't need to be an expert to get good looking results. I find ConTeXt a lot more intuitive.

I got a book on TeX coming soon because I want to get better at ConTeXt. ConTeXt is not shy about telling you that for better results you need to understand TeX and use it appropriately. I find it kind of absurd that I've been using TeX for so many years without actually understanding it.

I have been curious about roff since trying to use Plan 9, but in a pretty absent-minded way. They're quite unashamed of providing roff at the expense of TeX, and I believe all of its documentation is roff-formatted, including the technical reports, but I could be mistaken about that.
The only time it would make a big difference would be if you were doing a lot of small memmoves in a tight loop. In that scenario, you mispredict at the end of the loop within memmove/memcpy anyway. So when the outer loop comes back around, the pipe is already empty and any mis-predict on the pointer comparison is basically harmless.
Sounds nice, good find!

I dug up the commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git... which seems to be a bit older than I would have expected. Of course, this being Linux, "old" means it's from September 19th.
Anyone interested in the early days of personal computers should check out Triumph of the Nerds. It's many of the same people but interviewed 16 years ago. Awesome stuff.

First Episode on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFL9IyJ_qHk

Wikipedia Page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds
Companies in Europe generally avoid the kind of hyperbole marketing that's more common in the US, for a number of reasons. We find it a bit crass, we don't like to blow our own trumpets too hard, we view what's termed "extending the truth" as plain lying.

But, one of the most important reasons, as OpenERP have just proved, we're often crap at it.
ARM processors are used for servers too.
If all you need is the kernel, then you can use the one provided by the elrepo.org project.
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Dude don't let this guys negativity get you down. I love the show HN, as do many who visit here. There is a reason they get to and stay on the front page.

Build it, ship it, see if it floats. Ignore the generic haters.
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Question for the groff experts out there:

XeLaTeX has finally moved LaTeX into the realm of directly embedding virtually any true type font into the final document. Literally 5-6 lines of LaTeX commands and you are done! I was amazed when I first did it. It was so convenient, when compared to messing with pfbs, then afms, and then.... you get the idea, no?

Is there a similar groff mechanism to pull TTF/OTF fonts into the final PS/PDF document with similar minimal effort? If, could someone be kind enough to point a resource to me. Thanks.

P.S: I was searching, but could not home in on the right keywords to drive me to an answer.
duh.. a guy patented this more than hundred years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail

tsss...
Obviously, this just 1 datapoint but ...

I still use my original yahoo mail account, and my gmail account did not replace it.

Besides, my yahoo spam filter is not worse than my gmail spam filter (I would even say that it has less false positive).
A number of donations typically come in late in the year - it's really not possible to draw year-over-year conclusions until the year's over.
Note that he has not yet been found guilty.
Earth’s orbital cycles may trigger peaks of volcanic eruptions
If all companies that deal with governments should be sued for going over budget or charging too much after a contract was set in place, then federal contractors would all be in court.
MIT pays a flat ASCAP license fee that covers all its students which probably provides them substantial legal cover for most use.
> that it can be crashed (or self destruct bug, insert your own word here) by a remote server at any time.

It isn't by design that syncing can affect the whole browser; it's a bug in the syncing code which should have been handled. There is no self destruct bug, and calling it that is incorrect. Are you aware of the fix?

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/sync/engine/...

The fix is just checking if the model is valid before making the call which was throwing the out of bound exception.
I have a few free Windows Phone 7 apps in the marketplace. Since Windows Phone 8 shipped I've seen my download rate increase ~50%, and it seems like around 30% of my active users are running WP8. I'm not making any money with these (just fun projects for me), but its a datapoint FWIW
One time pads need to be as long as the data they are encoding. They must not have any repeats. The pad has to be really random.

Thus the maximum length of the message is 54 chars (52 cards, 2 jokers).

And then you have the pad distribution problem - you need to get the pad from Ann to Bob. And the message needs to get from Ann to Bob. So are you using security by obscurity and hoping no-one notices the deck of cards is a OTP?
Wouldn't this conflict with TCP cookies, which were (partially) added to the kernel just a little while ago?
http://xkcd.com/619/
It's hard to make a conversion trying to sell the content that you are actually giving away to make the conversion.

Clips4sale has a good business model. I can see this being the future. But micro-payments in porn are hard.
Apple patents method for intelligent caller ID image selection
AMD is looking into shipping ARM server chips and boards, IIRC.
We are going to publish a blog post (elweb.co) after the event. I don't know about video streaming. Follow the twitter account (@startupsofpr), if we do video it will be posted there.
> But those are both issues inherent to two-wheeled vehicles, and adding gyroscopes won't solve either.

Did you see the part of the video where they pulled the bike sideways with another vehicle and the gyros kept it upright? If the gyro tech they're using is good enough then the issues you mention are exactly what it will solve. The project still seems to be in its infancy though. They need an investor to come in with some money so they can build more test machines and destroy them with high-speed cornering on slick surfaces and side impacts from larger vehicles.
Damn it, where's Yahoo for Linux? And I'm hoping Marissa Mayer decides to integrate it with Google Talk contacts eventually.

And who uses a chat app full screen (like the Windows 8 one)?
You are falling into the trap. Intellectual inventions simply shouldn't have full property right.
I want you for a customer. I'll sign a contract to bill you for $100 an hour. Then when I send you the bill I'll make sure it's for $125, because hey if you don't like the price, you should have used someone else.
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Is writing the same as coding?
Yahoo! Mail has more active users than Gmail; almost double in the US market. It's second only to Hotmail with over 300 million unique users.

http://visualize.yahoo.com/mail/ (see About, or Comscore's 2011 email market share report)
As a developer-type, I'd pick an ecommerce solution like Shopify.com which has plugins like this one (http://apps.shopify.com/product-customizer) which you could either pay for or recreate yourself. I think most ecommerce sites will have something similar, it just depends on your other requirements.

As for something standalone, I havent seen anything like it but it shouldnt be hard with some Javascript and backend code that filters and does image manipulation using libraries like imagemagick, etc.
But that's not even the case. If you look at the way things like Intellectual Ventures (This American Life had a nice show on the subject: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w... ), the modus operandi is to sell off, or even lease off a patent to a 3rd party that operates nominally at arms length, and use that shell or shadow organization to go after people.

With that as a recourse, it'd be easy for anyone to essentially create an army of privateers out there raiding your competitors (okay maybe a navy would have been a better metaphor).
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As a dev, I don't access to a reasonably priced WP8 device being sold in my country, and after getting the Lumia 800 a yaer back, if I have to get another phone, the more pertinent question would be how much money I am spending to develop these apps.

BTW, the emulator is horrible.
2 Live Crew won their case when they did a raunchy cover of Roy Orbison's "(O) Pretty Woman." I don't think they had to pay licensing fees, nor does Yankovic.

EDIT: I asked about licensing fees, and Wiki[1] says that Coolio accepted royalty payments for "Amish Paradise." So I still wonder how 2 Live Crew settled their suit, and I need to get back to work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_al#Negative
You posted a thread asking for help on your startup after being a member for 15 days.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4240543

Seems like an unfair rant. Flagged.
I think your outrage is misplaced here. Certainly a browser should not crash if a given server happens to be offline, but we can easily extend that to say that a browser should not crash, period, can we not? But that is a rather arbitrarily high bar. Browsers are in the business of connecting to sites over the internet and if it is possible for such communication to crash the browser (which is likely to be true for almost any browser) then that's a fairly equivalent problem.
(Again, to the best of my knowledge) the paths UT bots follow through a map are laid down by the author of the map. You can go into existing maps and change the bot paths.

I don't know what happens if you put bots in a level that doesn't have bot paths, but it wasn't advised.
Your infringement being of a commercial nature is one of the four tests of Fair Use.
Don't let reality get in the way of your anecdote about what your friends use!

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...

Yahoo Mail is still more popular than GMail.
I was very reluctant to switch from Yahoo to Gmail in the first few years of Gmail. But eventually I did it, and couldn't believe how much better Gmail was at spam filtering than Yahoo - like an order of magnitude better. I never looked back.

Recently I stopped using Yahoo Messenger, too, because they've been adding a lot of nonsense to it lately.
Don't be sad :)

We sure can add some more explanation on the landing page. Regarding the size, we wanted to make it easy when you upload it again to your site. Talking to this community helps understand that we can definitely make it bigger for sharing reasons or just to play around with.

Thanks for the feedback
Not true. Windows 8 runs WPF which is what also runs the UI of WP7/8. The code layer is/can all be C# as well. That means that the compatibility is actually must farther than that of Java/Android/Linux. Not being able to run Android Views on a Linux box being the differentiating factor.
Install ProxMate or ProxTube to get around this.
Well, the idea that the simulators care is the basis for the standard argument that we're probably in a simulation. After all, it's supposed to be posthumans running simulations of their evolutionary ancestors. I don't know why they would do that, but given that premise, why run simulations of your ancestors if you don't care about your ancestors?

Of course, that provides another answer to the problem of pain- that this is how it was the first time 'round, and they want the simulation to be accurate.
Two data points.

I've been using my Yahoo account for over a decade. Why should I switch? I would have to change all the services that use the email. I never get spammed on Yahoo, despite it being a very old account.

I actually prefer Yahoo over Gmail since it has tabbed emails. I can open several emails at once and compose several at a time. Can't do that with Gmail.
To go with the candy bar analogy, it's as if you paid $2 with your credit card, then were charged another $10 a week later. Close?
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from "TCP Fast Open: expediting web services": http://lwn.net/Articles/508865/

> Furthermore, the server should periodically change the encryption key used to generate the TFO cookies, so as to prevent attackers harvesting many cookies over time to use in a coordinated attack against the server.

What is going to do this? I hope this is built-in somehow.