skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on the first point, but completely disagree on the second. If the patent is valid to begin with, it doesn't really matter who owns it. It's true that a crap patent owned by a deep-pocketed litigant can be more dangerous than the same patent owned by a poor inventor. But the problem is the crap patent, not the deep pockets.
This one is easy. Nexus X.

Imagine if you are Samsung and you now must compete with Google releasing their own phone from google owned motorola. All those non-Google companies that now release Android phones should be looking past Android to something else. If they aren't, they are going to be extremely sorry in 2-4 years.
I mean the harddisk or mainboard could go wrong anytime. The Distributed model seems more stable.
Most shops that use a compiled language like Go take advantage of the fact that they do not need to take the risk of storing source code on production hosts.

The deploy process is most likely an scp or git pull, etc from a binary/asset repo. Go binaries are statically linked to you have no dynamically linked libraries (.so/.dll files) to worry about either.

If you have the binary you don't need to use "go run" which is a compile and run, just run it (nohup ./myProgram &) or run it with which whichever supervisor script/daemon/etc you use for other services.
Isn't it a bit early for a phone OS when they still can't get out a version of desktop Ubuntu with battery life equal to Windows/Mac OS X?
I'm not apologizing for gerrymandering in the least, but . . .

http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241

. . . just because you didn't put bias into a system doesn't mean it isn't biased.
I applied to your ad last month and failed to receive any acknowledgment. Is that what one should expect when applying?
How is it vaporware? There was a prototype on a phone already. There is code that Canonical said they would release soon (image for the Galaxy Nexus).

What is missing is a (smart) carrier picking it up and running with it. I for one hope someone like Samsung release a phone with it. I'd buy this in a heartbeat.
A similar incident happened with me also. They keep the domain even if they do not use, and try to sell it @ huge.
Are air filled rubber tires really a good invention? They regularly ruin a decent bike ride. A decent alternative that is readily available (some kind of solid tire?) would make a big difference.
Managing shared expenses
Come back in 1 piece! :P
Interesting question: Isn't having laws that prohibit putting ethnic groups together in an algorithmically generated way discrimination in itself? For example, if the algorithm generates a predominantly black district (that's algorithmically generated and thus unbiased), breaking it up because it is predominantly black is an act of discrimination.
Do We Even Know How To Measure Inflation In The Modern Economy?
> What I'd really love to see is a popular tv show with a loyal fan base but marginal viewers on cable to just switch over 100% to Youtube. Put the episodes in full HD and run regular Youtube ads. Maybe do some in-show advertisement, product placement, that kind of thing.

The budget for one Top Gear episode (for example) is greater then what PSY made from his youtube video with a Billion views.

On top of that, even the smaller networks enjoy a built in audience of hundreds of thousands (if not several million) viewers for each new show they put out there. If you start a show from obscurity it has a much steeper hill to climb.

If you take an already existing show, like you say, it will lose most of its audience because people will think "whatever happened to" and promptly forget about it. That's how good stuff like Firefly gets killed, you move the schedule around a bit and ratings tank because people don't keep up with that.
Nexus 10 Tablet Back in Stock From Google Play
> And of course, there's other explanations besides gerrymandering...it could be that the RNC and its financial allies spent more savvily in tight races and pulled through.

Yes, this issue is incredibly complicated to analyze - for example, in the House, contentious bills like the ACA are oftentimes passed with ~220 votes (usually ~217 defines a majority). That doesn't mean that only 220 people would have been been willing to support the bill; just that the winning party didn't need to waste any resources whipping another ten votes in excess of what was needed to secure a victory.

Just looking at the final vote tally is misleading, because if the threshold for passage were higher, it's very likely that the actual vote tallies would miraculously adjust accordingly.
Perhaps less popular in this audience, but it hard to find many live streaming sports (legally) without a cable subscription. The Rose Bowl, for example, was on ESPN yesterday and they did not offer a live stream, afaik.
Linux is Garbage
Could have an accreditation process for non-practicing patent holding entities.

Or only make accreditation for those non-practicing entities that purchased the IP rather than inventing it.
Sure, I can make more. This post caught me by surprise. It's odd to see your own blog post from months ago on HN.

I sorta gave up on the project seeing as nobody other than myself used it. (I have zero watchers on github)
Social Media and Extremism: Sideshow or Center Stage?
Really no.

The first railroad companies, with total individual rights of way typically of 10-30 miles, were just starting to get organized and begin operations in 1830. It wasn't for another 10-20 years that significant contiguous trackage existed. The world was very different in 1850 than it was in 1830.
Hey ... I think I already know the answers to these questions, but I thought I would ask anyway:

1) Any upgrades the Picasa Web interface planned?
2) Why when I search for tags it shows everyone's photos by default?
3) Why do tag searches not return all photos that are tagged with the term?

Thanks.
Canals were absolutely huge, yes.
The github project does have examples in standard javascript as well:

https://github.com/deanmao/node-chimera/blob/master/example....
Your mileage may vary. I have a laptop that dual boots: 7hrs Ubuntu, 5.5hrs Windows.
why not take a cue from auto industry and have a recall campaign for existing one's. It should be default for new ones!
I think this kind of view point is mostly influenced by having to deal with poorly designed ORMs and (tho occasionally very necessary) convoluted database designs.

> For world-facing code, ORMs are risky unless you've got someone on the team who knows it and has the ability to ensure it doesn't suffer from these types of design flaws.

This I think is wrong, for the same reason you don't want to be putting together your crypto package. If anything, these kind of security vulnerabilities demonstrate just how hard it is to get all of the subtleties pinned down. Rails is used widely and has been inspected by far more domain experts than you'd ever have on your team and yet.

Sometimes ActiveRecord gets a little in the way - especially back when has_and_belongs_to_many associations were considered best practice - but for the most part I haven't been able to empathize with these kinds of claims. AR is really flexible and gives you a lot of functionality for free.
The broad and vague ruling that enables the TSA to do anything they want in airports[0] can (and will) be applied to just about any public event. It's probably just a matter of a few years or so before the TSA is searching us at virtually all public gatherings. And there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.

[0] http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/2010/11/20/how-...
I don't get it. Why would I use a view instead of the dictionary itself?
The ideal phone wouldn't need a protective case. This is a standard perpetuated by the sleek and thin aspect to flagship phones, and I personally think it's obnoxious. What's the point in having the world's thinnest smartphone if you're going to keep it in the world's thickest case all the time?

I'd prefer a phone that is built from the ground up to be secure without a case. My current phone is a Nokia Lumia 920, which can withstand some pretty substantial forces [1] without breaking and without needing a case. And sure it's thick compared to a naked iPhone or SIII, but it's thinner than those phones with a case that would allow them to withstand the same kind of impact. Why do people put up with buying a phone and needing to immediately wrap it in protective rubber and plastic to keep it from shattering? Don't put up with it anymore! Demand reliable hardware! How well it works with a case shouldn't be a determining factor.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3c8il_Q6SU
Fair. The second sentence hurts that suggestion, though.
You don't need high-speed exhaust, and in fact there are good reasons (mostly noise abatement, but also efficiency improvements) to reduce exhaust speeds, which is precisely what turbofans and exhaust bypass systems on modern day commercial jets do (military planes don't, but they operate without noise controls and in a high-performance envelope in which efficiency is a secondary concern).

What jets offer over propeller-driven aircraft isn't efficiency, but speed, and power-to-weight ratios. Propeller aircraft are limited by the tip speed of propellers (they have to be below the speed of sound), but are often much more efficient especially at lower flight speeds.

In terms of efficiency, jet aviation has largely just managed to catch up to where propeller-driven aircraft were in the 1950s, when general-aviation jet aircraft first came into general use (barring a few failed Comets).

I agree with you that electric aircraft are not particularly feasible, small drones excepted.
What Is an Assange?
"Vic Gundotra, who is in charge of Google+, says he sees little in-house controversy today. "There was more resistance two years ago," when the project wasn't well understood internally, he says."

This is absolute bullshit.

As I've mentioned before, I quit about 1.5 years ago, around the time the G+ fiasco was starting (and partially for that reason.) I also know, directly or indirectly, dozens of people who still work there. I can tell you that, if the internal complaints have died down, it's only because of the pervasive feeling of futility about it within the company. The engineers are most probably still not happy about the creeping Social-ificiation of everything, and they're not going to be happy, but they're also well aware that the company does not give two shits about their feelings on the subject.
Those sizes are what they are because of the way lumber is produced. When the mill mills them they're 'true'. But they're also rough. So then they get planed which takes a bit of wood away from all four lengthwise sides.

The keep their name though. This is a convention and a quite confusing one if you're not familiar with the process.
Love it. It's that way with range, too, right? Does one end up casting things to lists more often if so much is naturally an iterator?
> A library that can generate opcodes without exposing all the fiddly mod/rm stuff is probably just as good as the preprocessor tool.

I'm skeptical that such a library could have a very simple or clean interface -- the "mov" instruction alone has almost 40 variants, all encoded in different ways -- but if you ever create such a thing I promise to check it out and give it a fair opinion. :)
As long as the interactions you're working with don't implement the same methods, it would be trivially easy:

class Account; …; end
class Withdrawer < SimpleDelegator; …; end
class Depositor < SimpleDelegator; …; end

acc = Depositor.new(Withdrawer.new(Account.new))
acc.withdraw(40)
acc.deposit(100)

At least that's how I understand it. I'm not convinced that DCI is worth it, but…I don't yet have a need for it in the application that I'm working with.
The illusion of Quantitative Easings and Fiscal Cliffs
While I understand the sentiment that it's wasted effort to propose impractical solutions, it is important to know what our ideal is before deciding what is possible - otherwise we are condemned to incremental change based on pessimistic assumptions of what is possible that are baked into our ideation process.
Seriously? I live in Vancouver and used to live in Toronto. I don't know anyone who can live comfortably on that amount. Hell I couldn't even live comfortably on that in Nova Scotia. You must have some extreme couponing skillz or something because 1k a month barely covers rent on a 1 bedroom in the burbs here. Would love to know how you do it.
The attack is targeting a secondary method signature that #find_by_* can hold with the express purpose of executing arbitrary SQL. That is, when #find_by_* is invoked with a hash with a key such as :select or :conditions it expects a SQL string, probably hard coded.

The bug however is that it's possible for user input, with a session hijacking, to provide that hash with symbolic key. There is no SQL injection, this is straight up arbitrary execution of SQL.
The most rudimentary phonograph I've seen: it's made entirely out of paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiyegMUKNPs
Schumpeter’s Demon
If this film were instead about how proprietary software people, who are never, ever going to disappear, and free software people, who really want them to, could get along and work together for the betterment of computing over ideals, I'd donate 1% of the funding goal right now. I'm 100% serious and have the $1,500 ready to draw a check upon to put my money where my mouth is.

As it stands, it's instead about digging in to the trenches and going to war against proprietary, making proprietary evil, brushing aside the genuine problems with free software to laud it as the one true path; because of that, I hope the funding fails and it goes nowhere. It's just more of the same rhetoric that hasn't worked, and that free software cried foul about when it was turned upon them ("Linux is communism", "Gmail can suspend you and you disappear", different FUD, same tactic).

Watching proprietary/free slug back and forth at each other for most of my adult life has been just as tiring as watching red/blue snipe back and forth in U.S. politics at the expense of progress. Just look at the fiscal cliff drama and the numerous partisan battlegrounds before that. There is no progress in a war[1]. Period. Full stop. You make this fight, you impede the very progress you seek to suddenly enable. It's just a contradictory position. You get one or the other. You get progress or a battle. Pick one. Spoiler: if you pick the battle, it's never going to be won by either side.

It's why I voted for Obama, because he promised to bring each side together -- naturally, he hit Washington politics and couldn't do diddly-squat of what he promised, but I still had hope. I think working together between these two camps is much more realizable, and the time for "it's us or them" is long since past. The book makes the claim that free software will pave the way of progress, but to get there it has to defeat proprietary software first, which is also capable of its own progress in a way.

I already hear you slamming "reply" to tell me why moderate is not an acceptable position in this fight, and I fully expect the talking points from either side on why. Just know that I realize them to be talking points even before you've typed them.

[1]: Except for those making guns.
It's not piracy, it's online content sharing.
However, by all accounts, this one appears to be illegal.

From post below (soon hopefully to be 'above'):

"> (5) Importers shall not generate RINs for renewable fuel that has already been assigned RINs by a registered foreign producer.[2]"
wow this is exactly what I need, thanks!
If you need a great html parser, I also wrote a library for one of those: https://github.com/deanmao/node-hubbub

It's merely an integration library for the netsurf browser. It's the html parser for a real browser. I considered using the parser from other browsers like firefox or webkit, but netsurf had the fewest external dependencies.
Yeah, I like:

z=dict(x)
z.update(y)

It's clear and concise, and it's obvious which one gets precedence, even if it's two lines.
Districts should be deprecated altogether. Instead we should elect representatives via proportional representation.

When we we had approximately 30,000 citizens per representative there was a chance at your representative actually knowing you, but at this point we are more likely to have our views represented by a third party.
Sigh... Page dedicated to trolling?
Germanium-Based P-Type Transistor Sets Records
I can make more. After about 3 months with no github watchers, I figured the only person reading the docs would be myself.
I feel the Need to also mention simperium. https://simperium.com/
The OP is saying we should not use terms like 'Your Mileage May Vary'. Instead, we need to just say which solution is better. I'm pointing out how this isn't the correct way to go about it unless you specify the exact circumstances.

And this is where I agree with you completely. You can't say that because someone is making a blog they must use WP as it is the correct choice. You can say 'I believe WP will be the correct choice in making a blog but Your Mileage May Vary depending on what you want to do with the blog and if you are more proficient in Ruby than in PHP.

This is exactly my argument, as the OP says you can't do this kind of thing and need to give a concrete solution. However, this kind of thing is incredibly necessary, and saying to use WP for every blog is just wrong.
Right, that's about as many reversals as I can handle in one thread. Good luck with the job hunt.
It's a programmers' version of "a picture is worth a thousand words".

I don't like putting an equal sign between opensource and github, but that's another story.

> If you were an employer, what would you look at on a github account?

Examples of actual working code, obviously.

If there is some proof of collaboration with other programmers on solving problems together (not only sering as your code dump), it'd be a bonus.
It's getting increasingly common to be able to buy streaming packages if you're outside the normal TV area, since that allows the streaming offerings to be decided independent of TV contracts. For example, anyone outside the U.S. or Canada can get all NFL games streamed on the internet for $280/season. Americans and Canadians aren't allowed to subscribe to that package, due to exclusive licensing deals with TV stations.

I'm not sure that will change anytime soon. NBC pays the NFL $950 million/year for the exclusive license. They would need a lot of streaming subscribers to move the needle relative to that kind of money.
Never click on facebook domain links.
What a waste of everyone's time and money.

This could be brainwashing, but luckily we seem to have developed a sort of banner-blindness to all the visual pollution this kind of marketing had caused.
The more I read these stories (and not just in Rails, though they seem to be the most talked about), the more I seriously consider taking the time to evaluate frameworks such as Yesod where the type system makes these kinds of security flaws impossible.
> That doesn't mean that only 220 people would have been been willing to support the bill; just that the winning party didn't need to waste any resources whipping another ten votes in excess of what was needed to secure a victory.

If they had votes to spare, they'd make the bill worse and lose those votes. Contentious bills have close vote totals because they do as much damage as possible while still passing.
Better DNA test him before and after :-)
Ubuntu desktop is currently the desktop OS that is most user friendly and has the best user experience (IMO). Bringing Ubuntu's design team's superior skills

This is debatable.
Ditto. I'm in Calgary and there is no way you can live off 1k a month here unless your payment free and even then it would be tight as hell on 1k.
Show HN: KokoWare Collaboration Platform
This is exciting, but... I wish they hadn't gone the route of hiding app controls behind a swipe menu. The menu button on Android was one of the reasons apps for so long seemed unintuitive on the platform, and the Windows 8 charms menu has been panned by critics for the same reason. If your users can't see the controls, they won't know they're there — and even though they could open the menu, it won't feel immediately intuitive in the way that just seeing the controls onscreen does. Even a little breadcrumb like the now-common triple-dash icon on iOS or the triple-dot icon on Android helps people find their way around unfamiliar apps.

Android finally dropped the hidden menu after the 2.x series, but it looks like Canonical just walked into making the same mistake.

That said this is very, very cool. Using non-mainstream programming languages on phones will be interesting.
Half-Life WebGL level viewer
NIPS 2012 Trends
Anime/JPop/ProgressiveHouse/Chillout/ClubJazz
I’m Guy Kawasaki and This Is How I Work
These terms have basic meanings that are independent of what you seem to wish they meant. GC is not reference counting, and it would benefit you to put he difference in your memory.
Can't tell if trolling or serious, but I got a kick out of it
Only if their goal is to pass as the worst bill they possible could.
I agree with you that voting systems represent a root-level problem (and in particular that first-past-the-post causes the two-party system, per Duverger's Law), but IRV is pretty much the only voting system worse than first-past-the-post. It allows people to vote for a third party, but completely ignores their preferences among other parties until eliminating that third party; thus, it does a good job of convincing people to vote third-party, but actively works against the preferences of people who do so.
Google+ whatever, the writing in this article is really bad. There are so many confusing pronouns, redundant sentences, and poorly integrated quotes that I had a hard time making it through the article. Whats up wsj?
Which I use at my company and have nothing but praise for.
But who is going to take an pseudononymous (if this isn't a word it should be) review into account.
Fussy coffee is the best - a somewhat battered hot air gun, a wooden spoon, an old colander and a variety of green beans is all one needs to roast for ones self. Cheaper, fresh and, after a time, usually better than what the shop offers. Fiddling the roast time, blend etc has been occupying me for about 5 years now.
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Ruby decouples the method that was requested (the "message" in Smalltalk OO parlance) from the one that is executed. This allows for a number of neat patterns, like forward invocation, where one object can specify a set of messages to be sent to another object (or method!), or delegation, where an object can opt to handle a subset of messages and pass all others on to an underlying object (or method!).

Delegation (especially with the extreme simplicity of SimpleDelegator) seems like the obvious solution here, at least to me, but some people prefer to use cache-busting mixins instead.
That the TSA is expanding its scope should surprise nobody. It's what bureaucracies do. Also it wasn't named the ASA (Airport Security Administration) it was named something much less specific. Probably won't be long before they're patrolling interstate highways in stealth-black Dodge Chargers with officious logos on the sides.
Just so long as they are few in number!
Powerful and Popular? Oh I see you mean China! Patents don't mean too much there...