skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sarcastic or trolling. Can't one hold a patent and also offer the product for free, provide open source code, and allow others to do the same?

On the flip side, suppose the patent holders do lock down this idea. Do you really think that humanity (or the US) is going to benefit from competing copies of a program that changes the color of our screens?

Are you truly concerned that the patent is going to take this program away from us? Have you contacted the patent-applicants to ask what they plan to do with the patent? Why is the pantent-pending "pretty important" for this piece of software? Why not patent this idea? If the only answer is "software patents are bad!", then it's worth thinking about these questions more.
FlightFox was really an eye opener for me when I learned about that 6-continents trip that some agent had planned for $1730 (originally linked off HN)... I basically realized these guys have so many tricks up their sleeves that the more flexibility/variables you introduce the wittier they can get with their planning...

So yea, with simpler itinerary they probably have less wiggle room to find some loophole or deal, but my hunch (haven't tried it yet) is that if I said "I want to go to LA sometime in June" that the time flexibility would be enough to give them room to find a great deal. I'm sure one of them could comment more on this.

As far as finder fee I just used the default one since I never used the site and our trip was fairly simple, but would likely adjust based on how complex I felt the trip planning would be...

The biggest annoyance of FF is you have to carefully follow directions to book but the potential savings is worth it.
What is your target demo?
For what it's worth, Apple replaced my Retina iPad that had a single stuck pixel, and it was only noticeable on a dark background in a dark room. While it's a small screen, the number of pixels is about the same as on the 27" Cinema display.

What their official policies say and what they actually do are pretty different, it seems.
Why is it highly likely, you think?
Rrst! Could this spell the end of Forrst?
I can understand your frustration. Given the ready supply of programmers who want to make games, the games industry seems to take advantage of programers to a degree that other places don't and can't.

That said, I'm not sure that your suggestion would really make a difference. It might be more useful to educate folks on the realities of that industry. Those realities that might make the craft unenjoyable aren't programming's fault.
Safari is released to the world
Ask HN: Interesting Lisp/Clojure articles for experienced programmers?
HNers, are there any interesting articles (or short books, or chapters in a book) that would show me the power of Lisp/Clojure, and make me really want to learn it?

(Better if a free resource, but not really necessary.)
This proposition provides far less value than hmexx's.

I understand what you're saying about "execution" being more important than the idea - that is true, but execution also means follow through. Building an MVP and then ditching it to pursue "the next project" is not execution, that's just pure labor, which anyone can find for far cheaper on elance.
Not sure why you'd have to download and recompile your old gems again using plain old Bundler.

The strategy I've been using (and I think is becoming more popular) is just to install all of your gems in one big pile, and use `bundle exec` to run your app in the limited environment provided by the Gemfile.lock. So if the update doesn't work out, you just twiddle a line in your Gemfile and `bundle exec` will magically load the older version (after `bundle install`, of course, which in this case will do zero network I/O).
The first is hard to ascertain without a conversation, and it's very hard without a conversation to convince many people (myself included) that you didn't just drop out because you couldn't handle school.

I try to shun away from dropouts because school signals, more than anything else, an ability to slog through tedious tasks. And unfortunately, not everything you will do is glamorous.
That will not work. You, unfortunately, need the expensive USB powered/assisted adapter. (I have both. Had to buy the other to drive the high resolution.)
Relative to the cost of manufacturing, all toys are highway robbery. You probably don't want to know what the wholesale costs on di ecast toy cars are, for example (it's effectively zero).

But that's how the economy works, there's a profit margin at every step. If there wasn't people wouldn't sell things or do things.
International Mathematics Tests Are Not All the Same
I wrote a slightly different article: http://bottledup.net/2013/01/10/bundler-and-gemfile/

It focuses on Bundler and your Gemfiles so that people understand not only how to update rails, but their other gems too. Personally I don't like rvm gemsets for bundler controlled apps (like rails) and think that rvm, bundler, rubygems and so on only serve to confuse the same part-time and hobby developers.
India opens data
I work in deep packet analytics and have interacted with several telcos and vendors. If you are developing a packet analytics or metrics product the temptation to tap into your production traffic, if only for validating your product is too strong. In our segment, access to live traffic is the primary "raw material" to develop, test, and enhance the products. So they may not use your data to "spy" but there is no protection against your data making it into packet captures (tcpdumps or pcaps) which then acquire a life of their own. I am not saying Nokia does this, but that any telco/vendor including this one who makes packet analysis products has to fight the temptation not to do it.

I would never ever use a service that decrypts HTTPS traffic. How do we know that the other side is encrypted ? For all you know, the other side of the proxy could not even use SSL for services that offer both modes (google,facebook,twitter, etc etc).
We focus on groups of 2-9 people. Any less, and it's not a group, any more and a travel agent might be able to get you better prices.

Our initial marketing campaign is targeted at people getting married and their friends. We figure we can make payroll just with bachelor(ette) parties in Vegas.
"save your eyes" - huh? (I've used the program and like it).
Just launched my first sci-fi themed iOS game. Feedback? Thoughts?
I am totally getting that Weber grill/wok setup.
I would actually prefer to hire a drop out over someone with a degree.
Vietnamese. It isn't expensive. Put it in everything.
The Thing the World's Smartest People Don't Get About the Fed
Thanks for the plug. I am strongly considering applying to your school.
Wake Up Club for PS Vita
It won't be long till everyone is making their own legos at home with 3d printers.
The Joy of Clojure is fine, and maybe even exciting in parts. It's worth the money, or you can have mine (hope that's not discouraging).
A Field Test for 'GeoPush' Ads That Pop Up on Your Phone
I do. Did anyone told you about creationism?
In 2nd Look, Few Savings From Digital Health Records
I wonder how the performance of your partial index would compare to a pgsql materialized view implementation? [0] Did you by chance explore such an option?

[0]: http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/attachments/63_BSDCan2008...
Heroku sending out e-mails to all app owners regarding rails vulnerability
Microsoft Surface jailbroken... can run Mac OS? Wait, What??
Though it may not rise to the airy ranks of the front page, thank you.

It is an interesting idea.

Edit: Thank you for preserving a mortal hand's revenge.
http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-joy-of-writing-by-wislawa-sz...
The graph tells otherwise: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/embed_chart/digg.com
Ask HN: Solo startups? What have you built all on your own?
I've been thinking about websites and start ups and the limits or bottlenecks that are associated with them. I'm wondering if there are many people who have worked alone and succesfully built up a website or a company.

Is there a limit to how far you can go alone?
Japan's Philanderers Stay Faithful to Their 'Infidelity Phones'
What are the profit margins for toy making companies like? Do they lose out much if the toy doesn't sell well? How is it when the toy sell well?
I worked on a project which was indecently large/successful that ran on awk. No details (NDA) but there, you now have confirmation that there exists a production system on AWK. Obligatory disclaimer, quoting Chris Rock: "You can drive a car with your feet if you have to, but that don't make it a good idea."

There are SUBSTANTIAL advantages to switching to e.g. ruby, which gives you all the fun of scripting languages and also a community which has already poured thousands of man-years of effort into making stuff you can use for web applications, rather than you spending time implementing e.g. the world's first (and worst) oAuth/Twitter wrapper for gawk.
Wrong. It is an MITM issue. GMail and Twitter are free to offer non-SSL service but they choose not to.

Also I'm very doubtful about the economics of offering a phone with a weak CPU and memory configuration. Aren't screens a big chunk of the price?
So heroku runs multiple apps on one box. I assume they are using linux and each app is under a different user account.

However if any of those apps are vulnerable doesn't it mean the attacker has access to the box as a user? From there it is just a local privilege escalation (which are pretty common) and you have access to everyone else's apps right?
"I remember when the Desktop Publishing market was new"

So do I. Remember Pagemaker vs. Quark Express?
Ask HN: How do we solve the decentralized social network issue?
I've been studying on these decentralized services and learned that like a lot of types of web apps, there are a bunch of them claiming "we made the best service!" Personally, I would love for a decentralized social network to get traction, and I think the only think close enough is status.net/identi.ca (with about a million users on identi.ca). Ironically, app.net is obviously the most famous because they dared charge money. Can we developers unite under one service?
You should ask the specific companies. Some titles don't have accepted meanings but will mean something to a particular company.
I must say, its not nearly as slick as the article's linked, and it uses flash
First of all the same problem exists with hmexx offer -- he can stop putting any work in and will still be the 50% equity cofounder.

Second, if the business is promising and I have a significant equity in it, of course I'll pour more work into it. I'm on the next project only while the other party does their part marketing until we evaluate in a couple months if it's working out.

And I also want to point out that my work is not something you can buy on elance at all, and most definitely not for cheap anywhere.
Launching a site to track Australian startups - add yours to the list
Seth contends that designers must see their skill set in a new light - as 'visual catalysts' in the growth process rather than mere web designers. I think he's right - we need to re-imagine and broaden the roles of designers and developers to be architects of growth rather than just code or logo monkeys.
"A NDA, a No-Compete Clause in a contract"

A valid point of course but in reality anyone needing this type of arrangement wouldn't be in a position to sue to enforce the contract. Unless the idea turned out to be so super successful and if that were the case I'm sure money would be forthcoming to avoid any problems.
I bought Apple's dual link adapter (http://store.apple.com/au/product/MB571Z/A/mini-displayport-...) . Was on special at a local store. It's not without problems, particularly awaking from sleep sometimes leading to "static" image blur requiring reconnection of the adapter.
F.lux doesn't seem to support my multi-monitor configuration.

I have three monitors, one at the bottom and two above it side by side (top ones are primarily used) and F.lux only works on the main monitor. :(
Portrait mode will screw subpixel rendering of text.
We are also thinking about setting up an internship program for the summer and this is useful. Does anyone else have any other tips not mentioned?
He wants two (or more) big screens.
Just adjust your location so that you are 4 time-zones behind.
I'm sorry but this is is possibly the most ignorant post on startups I have ever read. To quote Pauli it's not even wrong.
Interesting! Well best of luck.

(If you ever want to market to a small travel community of 18-35s, let me know...)
The Ten Most Habitable Exoplanets
This book was my functional programming gateway drug. I couldn't (and still can't really) get into Lisps, so I wanted to learn an ML. Haskell was still too far away from my imperative background to fathom at the time, so LYAHFGG sat on my bookshelf for a while. However, somebody recommended this book for me. I cracked it open, and by that I mean clicked the read link, and was astounded at how simple it was presented.

It presents Erlang in such an easily consumable way. Learn You Some Erlang introduced me to an incredibly powerful language that was unknown to me before I started reading. The functional paradigm, concurrent processing model, and the OTP framework are presented and explained in ways that I would use to explain to someone next to the water-cooler at work. Out of every programming book I've read, Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good easily sits within my Top 5, no, Top 3 programming books of all time.

It's easy to read, informational, and funny. Consider me sold, mononcqc. You're a fantastic author, and I thank you for your work!
My Debian testing installation runs 2.8.2. Is Debian actually ahead of Ubuntu for something?
I mentioned it in my own comment, but here you are http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/14ccan/lego_super_star...
The Case for a Teacher Bar Exam
eps is a format most people without vector can't deal with.

Any change we can get this at 128 * 128 and 32 * 32
Send me your idea as well. I like what you've done so far.
I'm sure Trader Joes can (and maybe does) do this internally, but it's unlikely that they'll share that information with a third party delivery service.
I built my company solo for about 1.25 years, got a cofounder for half a year (who then quit for a company who could pay more), so I'm back to being solo again on my company WeddingLovely. http://WeddingLovely.com was built entirely by myself and there are also five other vendor directories (http://WeddingPhotoLove.com and others). There's also a wedding blog at http://WeddingLovely.com/blog/ that I maintain and post 2-3x daily.

Being that I continue to build, market, and grow my company while solo (revenues going up every month), I'd say I both came very far as one person and still have much more to go before I hit the end. Don't let imaginary limits discourage you. :)
Do keep in mind that a floating point buffer is 4 times the size of a normal buffer.

And an alpha mask can be gray scale, or even one-bit color.

Not that this couldn't be a good use of floating point textures for other reasons (A full HDR pipeline for example) But it sounds that using floating point textures is actually the real waste of space.
I don't think the issue is quite as black-and-white: does the physical location where a computation is performed really of any importance in this case?, You don't have control over what's going on in the hardware anyway. I'm not condoning Nokia, but I really don't see any difference here.
These 27" 1440p displays are still only 110 PPI. Compared to tablet screens surpassing 300 PPI, reading on lcd monitors becomes so painful when you get spoiled on those tablet screens.

I'll be interested in 1440p when the displays hit 22 - 24" inch range and the PPI approaches 150. I'd really like to wait for 4k resolution displays to take off, and get shrunk down to 27". That would be much more reasonable pixel density. Using classic displays (or heavens forbid, an 800p laptop at 17") is just so jarring compared to my 250 PPI tablet.
Profit has little to do with it. Price is determined by supply and demand. Legos are expensive because there is a strong demand, and through branding Lego has made them into a non-fungible good over which they have a monopoly on supply.

The same is true for most toys. Kids don't ask for "dolls" they ask for "Barbies" or "American Girls." These companies use the resulting pricing power to set prices to maximize profits, which is a point higher than it would be if they were competing to supply fungible "dolls."
I believe the price is $10, one-time (not $10/month).
Ah, got it. That is a different approach. It's about highlighting benefits rather than talking about features.
Thanks.
A great example is "cloud" or "web scale" etc.
Someone on Slashdot made a pretty good argument that this is an brick factory in decline.
According to one of the leading experts on influenza (Tom Jefferson) there's no good scientific evidence that flu vaccines are of much use [1].

Jefferson has also concluded the same regarding Tamiflu. Forbes covered this dearth of supportive data in a piece a few days ago [2].

A few months ago the NYT ran an article reporting on the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota announcing the same opinion on flu vaccine effectiveness, (which the article states is apparently heresy in the public health world) [3].

Fascinating that a significant, widely-supported health policy appears to be faith-based medicine masquerading as science-based medicine.

I would emphasize that Jefferson doesn't say the vaccine is harmful or that it doesn't work. He merely points out there's no good scientific evidence indicating it's of much use. If The Atlantic's article is to be believed, that was enough to get him ostracized from the medical establishment:

“Tom Jefferson has taken a lot of heat just for saying, ‘Here’s the evidence: it’s not very good,’” says Majumdar. “The reaction has been so dogmatic and even hysterical that you’d think he was advocating stealing babies.”

Such classic groupthink in an apparently science-driven community is rather troubling, considering the significant social impact of professionals preferring consensus over hard data.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/does-the...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/harlankrumholz/2013/01/08/the-my...

[3] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/reassessing-flu-sho...
Love this idea, really looking forward to learning about your results. I would recommend that in Version 1.1 you clarify the legal ownership & indemnification terms.

$5k to build, with payment upon MVP completion... spend an additional $3k, including costs to establish a legal entity with joint ownership and friendly buy-out terms...

Good luck!
Be careful.. maybe my experience isn't typical but I bought one of these 27" Yamakasi Catleap monitors off ebay about 4 months ago and its already unusable. For a month the monitor was flickering and now the left half of the screen is dimmer then the other because the LED burnt out or something. I replaced it with a dell. More costly but at least I have a three year warranty. Maybe if monoprice gives that it'd be worth it. The display was nice, but man I wish I didn't cheap out originally. :(
I don't consider confusing the potential customer to be honest marketing.
In hmexx's scenario, once the MVP is ready, the developer has received the full amount of cash which is likely the main incentive.

In your proposition, the main incentive is your coding ability.

The key difference is that in the first scenario, the cash is a measurable benefit. In your scenario, your coding ability is uncertain, it could be worth more or less than the cash you are requesting - it's hardly worth gambling 50% equity on ones self-proclaimed ability.
Are you saying being unable to whore out to good, clean and 100% trivial family entertainment, is actually equivalent to killing people?

Why not have Watson investigate murder cases? Or even better, make sense of the words vs. actions of actual people holding power and influence right now? Why am I not holding my breath for this? Because it's hard, or because it's not ever going to be a priority in a million years?

Picasso was perfectly correct when he said "computers are useless, they only give answers". They could be useful, if we programmed them to give answers to interesting questions. But unfortunately most humans are useless as well; they don't ask any questions, ever.
I would recommend that in Version 1.1 you clarify the legal ownership & indemnification terms.

$5k to build, with payment upon MVP completion... spend an additional $3k, including costs to establish a legal entity with joint ownership with no worse than a 50/50 split and friendly buy-out terms...

Good luck!
Slowly replace organics with mechanics until you only have a machine left. If you keep it gradual, you never know when you stop being a cyborg and start being a full fledged android.
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This would be an ongoing project, with a steady stream of work.
took a while to get everything up and running -- works nicely now though.

it'd be nice during setup if you used the non-minified includes for all the scripts, with the minified paths commented out (or vice versa!)

i was trying to change the default search terms and they were stuck in scripts.min.js
Doesn't work on my Windows. :(

>Display device does not support gamma ramps.
>Failed to start adjustment method wingdi.
>Trying next method...
>No more methods to try.
It seems like there are so few teachers now. Maybe the first problem to solve is why we as a nation don't invest more in paying good wages to our teachers.
> Founders should try to see around corners to anticipate what knowledge today will be obsolete tomorrow, and find their place accordingly.

I'm not sure how I feel about the final point in the article. It's really hard to predict a change in knowledge. All you have to do is read the "Key Trends of 2012" articles that were written at the end of 2011 to see how hit and miss we are about predictions. Those that correctly "predicted" a shift look like geniuses. Those that didn't...
"More expensive to make" doesn't necessarily justify "more expensive to buy". One would need to quantify how much more expensive the tighter tolerances and better molds actually make a package of bricks and compare the resulting margin to that of other plastic toys.
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I am mystified as to why someone deemed that correction worthy of a downvote?