skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That prizes are "usually not" enough to recoup the cost of the R&D does not means that prizes can't be raised to where they do recoup the cost.

Furthermore, the probability of not winning exists in all R&D: A lot of it fails, or they're beaten to the punch by competitors. Whether the potential payoff comes from revenue from patent encumbered products, or from a government prize fund is irrelevant.

Investors can further correct for the risks of the failure of any one company involved in a prize attempt like that by spreading their investments over multiple participants. It's not like these kind of investment scenarios are unfamiliar to the financial markets.
If the apartment really looks like the photo, the poster does not and will never have a girlfriend. Bed frame and at least a love seat are a must for dating, even in San Francisco.
Strongly disagree. Riot/LoL is like the exact opposite of what Rovio is as a brand.
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The link at the bottom ("I believe HyperDex documentation to incorporate these principles") is wrong: it should be /doc/, not /docs/.
It's reprehensible that they aren't directly funneling all profits to the creator of the Box2D framework. All they did was skin a few Box2D function calls.
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I was fairly "loyal" to 960gs, but when Bootstrapped was released, I switched right away. Bootstrap was responsive, which was a huge selling point, and contained a few components and javascript features, which were nice to have all bundled up in one package.

Bootstrap's documentation was another big advantage. It's a larger library than pervious grid systems but it's modular structure and excellent documentation lets you get started easily, while adding in deeper features with little friction or confusion. I also think Bootstrap's roadmap looks positive, as it is placing a larger focus on making quality mobile experiences as simple as possible.
I too would like to patent the emotional response to seeing something that brings you joy or amusement.
Any Turing-complete language has the requisite functionality to support liveness, but something like Time Warp support by the OS/VM would make it easier. But honestly, at this point, even designing the experience (vs. implementing it) is hard enough, and we owe a lot to Bret Victor's talk here. Hancock's thesis sets high standards on how the feedback must be comprehensible (as opposed to some random lights flashing on and off).

I wrote a lengthy post in the history article you linked to. Its just not the live programming history that I'm familiar with, they seem to be falling into the same smalltalk mechanism trap that I was talking about in this thread.
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CloudRoulette - A wake up call for Internet privacy
Simple. Web sites that are terrible in mobile will die, and will be replaced by better ones.
Not owning stuff doesn't necessarily mean consuming less, quite the opposite. If you don't have the tools to fix things that break then you have to hire other people to, have them travel out to your home etc. Others have mentioned how he must eat out a lot, which again consumes a lot of resources at least as commonly implemented (canteen-style food might actually be more efficient than cooking for yourself, but I've never known anyone to happily live on such for long).

If you enjoy this kind of lifestyle and can afford it then great, go for it. But don't pretend it's a more efficient or better way to live.
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Open source software packages typically have a hard time competing with commercial solutions. This is a perfect example of such a case. Commercial carrier-grade softswitches typically include HA, but FreeSWITCH (the best open-source alternative softswitch) does not have that functionality. You can use 3rd party programs like Pacemaker and Corosync to bridge the gap, but they are complicated and time consuming to correctly configure and test. It makes the whole solution feel "custom rolled" while most companies want something that feels "commercial". They want a "finished product," not something they need to bolt other pieces onto in order to get their desired features. If you are an entrepreneur, you will recognize the opportunity to take such sets of packages and roll them into your own "commercial" solution which you sell at a significant discount to other commercial solutions. However, this just propagates more commercialism. For those of us who want truly free, well-engineered solutions which feel "commercial", we are often just out of luck. So we turn to rolling our own. I started writing mod_ha_cluster for FreeSWITCH to help bridge this gap between an open source solution I feel could compete with very expensive commercial alternatives if it had such functionality and what's there today. If you are interested in VoIP in general or FreeSWITCH more specifically, please check out the project and help support it any way you are willing and able to do.
In Japan, I think that's a result of people not having proper kitchens in their very small apartments.
Google Maps "Street View" of the Grand Canyon
This post is the third installment of a special Hn series on optimizing your material possessions.

Optimize for Quality: http://dcurt.is/the-best

Optimize for Experience: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-worst/

Optimize for Utility: http://teddy.fr/2013/02/10/about-not-owning-shit/
Reading can be harder than writing, especially if the writing is very bad and you must understand!
That's exactly what I thought- I don't own much, but if you're a musician you have a guitar, an amp, some pedals, some cables... and I read, so I have some books... and I like music, so some records... could call it 'shit', but it's hardly the end of the world.
I love the facebook story but installing a camera with high resolution and zoom ability in an area where it's just supposed to be general watching is like putting an ICBM on a router to the internet (and I sure hope that's just physically impossible).
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this same thing has happened before, ie. when they tried to legalize USPTO software patents in the EU reissued by the EPO.
What makes Wooden Floor Lamps so Popular?
The statistics in the article trumps your anecdote. Yes, only a minority (large minority) feel jealous, so it is certainly possible not to.
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Now contrast that with how often TV-less people hear about what everyone else is watching. A "fish doesn't notice it's in water" scenario.
Actually a lot of EU directives are relatively easy to read. It only gets complex and legalese when national governments transpose them into national law.
I've heard some good things about OpenNLP as well
http://opennlp.apache.org/

but haven't had the time to look at it with any detail.
Politician in "doesn't understand the internet" shock. It's an old story, I agree. Like when they wanted to "turn off Twitter" during the riots...
Ask HN: What enterprise problems do you face?
If you run a small/medium business, I want to know the things that really annoy you on a daily basis?

Dealing with employee schedules? Processing payments? I think with the great crowd of people that read HN we should be able to come up with a pretty comprehensive list.

I'd really appreciate your opinions. Thanks!
The electoral boundaries set based on who was in office in 2010 have a way of sticking around in most areas. I note that in 2012, Democrats won the sum total of House votes 48.8% to 48.5%, while the Republicans retain the House by a significant margin, 232-200 actual Congressmen. The Republicans invested heavily in winning state legislatures before this period, and are now reaping the rewards in gerrymandered districts.
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Matching The Topics
Great idea, however you should use a transform rather than font-size, so the line breaks won't change.
One thing worth noting, in my opinion, is that this has an API. The official Minecraft build is supposed to be getting an API as well, and I'd suspect that it will be similar to this API (but I could be wrong).

Also, here's a guide someone wrote up on using the prerelease pi.minecraft API, which might help you get started: http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2013/01/raspberry-pi-minecraft...
Yes. My family has one television and we maybe watch one or two hours of television a week using rabbit ears. It's not even about what shows they are watching, it's "have you seen that commercial for X where Y?" No, I haven't.
In other news, you guys crashed the server. It will be up again soon.
We just went live in the App Store. We also have a complimenting mobile web app when you use your smartphone to access the site. We (2 iOS devs) rolled the app/site in 6 months working nights and weekends while keeping our day jobs. Looking for critiques to help us polish the product.
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Ask HN: What is a better recruiting strategy, casting a wide net or targeted?
This is a recruitment funnel:<p>Potential candidates
-> contact and hope for a response
-> phone interview
-> on-site interview
-> offer
-> hopefully acceptance!<p>Each step has a conversion rate. There are basically two strategies:<p>Casting a wide net: Mining LinkedIn, github, your networks, using external recruiters and so on. The point is to increase the number of potential recruits at the top of the recruitment funnel. The problem is the conversion rates are usually very low, either because of a lack of response, low candidate quality, poor fit, unavailability, etc...<p>Targeted: This approach is the opposite of casting a wide net. You instead trying to find the most relevant candidates with a given set of experience/skills for a particular role. For example, if you are building a web based CAD tool, you find the 10 people in the world who have built webGL modeling tools and explain to them why you would be perfect together. You will have to spend a lot more time finding the right people and spending way more time on each one to convince them to join you, but hopefully the success rate is much higher.<p>In your experience, as someone who is building a team or as someone who has been recruited, which approach is more effective?
I don't think the parallel is accurate, in the sense that arms-dealers provide the arms with which you can then inflict damage if you choose to, and patent lawyers are only needed when you already have the "gun", I.e. a patent, and also have chosen to fire it. To put things simply, without the arms dealer you are not a threat, because you have no gun, but with or without the patent lawyer you HAVE the patent and thus can be a threat.
Compare Javascript and Java Bytecode. The respective virtual machines are IonMonkey,V8,etc vs Hotspot,Harmony,etc. All those VMs are pretty portable across various architectures and operating systems. The syntax is C-like vs binary stack machine code. Both languages come with a documented standard, reference implementations, and standard libraries.

Sure, Javascript is somewhat harder to parse than Java Bytecode. Java Bytecode usually runs faster. However, from a high-level software architecture perspective there is not much of a difference. And the parser is usually not the performance critical part in any VM.
Outside of the phone games and some pictures of merchandise from Finland, I had no idea how big their reach was. Then I saw my 5 year old Nephew recently and was covered head to toe in Angry Birds stuff, coloring a Star Wars Angry Birds coloring book surrounded by Angry Birds toys.

I asked my brother how good my nephew was at playing the games on the phone (considering my brother and his wife don't have smartphones) and he responded "they have games too?"
Whereas actually they are comparing the speed of Unity in 2011 (notoriously slow) with KDE. This is really dumb, they should be using the same window manager at least.

I mean, they should at least install the same packages on each system if they want to compare "BSD" with "Linux", otherwise this benchmark is spectacularly flawed.
The guys at Somewhere are doing some pretty interesting things: http://www.somewherehq.com
Is a house actually necessary? I've been content with living in a rented flat so far. Or is that mainly an American thing where outside of larger cities space is abundant?
Yep, and they did it brilliantly and then promoted and sold it brilliantly. Technical stuff isn't worth that much money on its own.
I recommend to everybody Keith Ferrazzi's book "Never Eat Alone", which is like a modern "How To Win Friends and Influence People".
Agreed. This practice helped reduce my sh*t collection by quite a bit.
Well, and I'm pretty sure Joomla! and Add To Cart don't belong in there either.

Pretty much any web corpus will contain lots of this text, alongside lots of other random things, so statistical translation will produce... this.
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My apologies if you're joking or being sarcastic and I didn't detect it.

I suppose if that's "all they did" - any of us who could do that could've been sitting on that 3 billion, right? Heck, even the Box2D guys could've done it.

There's a small difference in saying "they should've employed the Box2D guys" or "generously funded the project" and "they should funnel all profits" - perhaps Rovio deserves some credit here for turning a little casual iPhone game into a household name.
The title of this has been changed and is wildly misleading.

New AMENDMENTS being proposed by some MEPs are taken from lobbyists. These are amendments to the presently extremely pro-consumer proposal that are trying to water it down.
I think alot of that revenue was from toys and stuff too.
I think you mean when the EU overlords give directives and then the slave countries are forced to manipulate language and law to make those directives legal in their nations.

Hyperbole? Only sorta.
I think that google uses a lot of machine learning for translations. From the translation results of lorem ipsum, I think we can conclude that their engine uses websites for training data. Websites that have lots of "under development" texts and mockup buttons, and also lorem ipsum.
So true. I've "missed out" on so many products, services, movies, games, and the like that I will never notice passed me by. I'll just have to find solace in my fuller wallet. :)
How Do You Do The GMail Thing?
Yeah, that's a great example of how people think not having stuff is freeing, but it's actually incredibly limiting. Having no stuff is choosing to not do anything when you are at home.
Very true. I get wordy when I'm pressed for time. If you write a new, simpler, easier version (Gideon's?), I'll put one in every hotel room.
Parent should really adhere to Poe's law of internet trolling.
Bootstrap attaining its current level of traction is quite remarkable and a blessing to the web.

The idea is taking hold that a web designer doesn't have to build everything from scratch in order to still be a respectable designer. The advantages of drawing upon a standard collection of reusable constructs are becoming clear to designers and non-designers alike. I've likened Bootstrap to jQuery with its wide adoption and plugin ecosystem. We've already seen the Bootstrap community form around the project in a similar way.

Writing a layout from scratch is sort of like writing a program in assembly language. That's where I feel like we're still at. I imagine that at one point there were people opposed to high-level languages like C because they abstracted you away from the raw nit and grit. Though you still have to write HTML and CSS with Bootstrap (especially if you want to customize the look), you are abstracted away from the tedious boilerplate code.

There are other frameworks in this space but none have inspired so many people to change the way they tackle web design. I look forward to a future where more is accomplished on a shorter timeline, thanks to efforts like this project.
Even without looking at the ethics of all this, you're exactly right. At the most basic level, why do governments do things that are against the national interest in favor of multinational corporations or other countries?

I think the answer probably has to do with who is picking up the tab. Politicians are owned, even more so the higher level you get.
I tend to refrain from telling people how much TV I don't watch until they ask about a show or commercial they have seen or are following and wonder if I follow.

Please don't downvote me but what's that saying again?...

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

I would place discussing TV shows / commercials, unless they spark discussion about ideas (like "that's an awesome marketing strategy/use of psychology" or "do you think the world could really be headed towards that scenario?"), somewhere between average and small minds.
They probably used Deshaker or similar software, but you can even do that in the youtube editor now.
One thing I've noticed about the latest tech bubble is that nobody has any hobbies, besides going out to restaurants and maybe (no offense) bicycles.

In the past bubble it seemed like 65% of the programmers were artists or musicians and had really involved hobbies like motorcycle racing, flying helicopters, target shooting, archery, paragliding, building their own kiteboard equipment or violin or solar car, etc.
I'm having trouble understanding the claims and drawings of the US6289362 patent, especially all the AUA stuff.

i) It feels a lot more relevant to something like Pinterest.

ii) Isn't the product they're describing just a copyright violating website?

iii) Isn't the core of the product, the AUA, just a list of URLs? Isn't this just a regular CMS? Were there really no CMSs before 1998?
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Google Still World's Most Popular Search Engine By Far
How to go from zero to 400,000 push notifications in one day
I genuinely like that Rovio is making good money, however it's this type of hyperbolic growth that is (1) not realistically reproducible and (2) makes people think that it's reproducible. In other words, an outlier. It once again reinstates the idea that the general public thinks this stuff is built over night and an app can be made with $10k.

This is not an knock on the author, but I think a more thorough report on the years of poor growth Rovio experienced is much more enjoyable and realistic to read. I can't find it right now, but I believe the Atlantic wrote something just like that.

Edit: I should probably clarify, I actually think the bigger issue I have is that the graph is particularly disingenuous, the "hockey stick growth" should follow the company from when they were founded in 2003...10 years ago. It may actually like more like a traditional hockey stick.
A lot of people give Twitter Bootstrap crap because everyone is using the design and they get sick of seeing the design on every website. A lot of people miss the whole point of Twitter Bootstrap. It's a design guide, it's for people to quickly create a website. It doesn't mean it's finished after that.

I think people shouldn't blame Twitter Bootstrap, but the people that are using Twitter Bootstrap. They shouldn't stop with styling and design after Twitter Bootstrap is implemented. They should make the design their own.

Note: I'm one of those people. Sometimes I make a design with Twitter Bootstrap at it's core, and not change the styling of the input fields etcetera to make the design not look like Twitter Bootstrap. But that's MY fault, not the creators of Twitter Bootstrap.
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Networking Best Practices for Large Deployments by Google
[PDF] an interesting publication by Google, Published January 07, 2013
I converted from many years' of using xemacs to pycharm (which is really a subset of the full if Intellij IDEA) and I'm mostly happy. When I started with xemacs in 2000 or so I made a few minor modes and tweaks but with years things started breaking mysteriously; xemacs was also mostly abandoned compared to GNU emacs but many of my settings were not compatible.

Pycharm gave me overall a better out of the box experience, though at a heavy resource cost (I have 3 branches of my project open and use 1 GB of memory). I've paid maybe 150 EUR to JetBrains for that, but there simply isn't anyone that I could pay 150 EUR to to get a similar experience with emacs.

I'm happy to pay JetBrains even more in yearly renewal costs to make the editor even better.
Pork isn't corruption. It's not illegal. It's a part of the democratic process. It is in the bill and it's voted on. It sounds like your issue is with democracy itself, not with corruption.
>However, we are still discussing the subject matter that things like Women's Studies and Sociology deal with, so using the terminology makes more sense than not using the terminology

No, it doesn't. The vast majority of people do not recognize the other meaning of the word. So in a discussion among ordinary people, like the one here, using the ordinary word's ordinary meaning is appropriate. The response from SJWs that everyone is wrong for using the word correctly is not reasonable.
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Heh. It is a lovely example of a game that's almost entirely about the polish, with relatively little substance.

Why was Crush The Castle not as successful? Marketing and polish. If your aim is commercial success, it's obvious what your focus has to be.
you seem to take exponential growth from granted, I'm not sure why. this seem to be the exception, not the rule.
Probably because the name for the groups is something like "Illuminati." It's possible he could just be talking about A and B being capitalists and communists though.
OpenNLP is great. I've used it for a lot of subtasks, but nothing that produces end results as described earlier. It's an amazing library for building NLP systems, but doesn't produce anything directly (named entity recognition, etc) Typically it's coupled with other libraries.

The big problem I think with NLP in general is typically to do anything, you need a pipeline. (Sentence segmentation, tokenization, part of speech tagging) usually at a bare minimum. Then from there you can do named entity recognition or other tasks that produce actual usable results.
Have you tried source maps? http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
While it's possible that some parts of NLTK may be unpythonic, I disagree that it's somehow inaccessible or hard to use. The NLTK project is fairly well-documented, and I've never had any difficulty using it. Also, all the NLTK code I've ever examined looks Pythonic to me, unlike the Java-style Python that I sometimes see coming out of academia; they follow PEP8 and have a developer style guide. There may be pockets of unpythonic code, but I've not come across any.

NLTK is also free and open-source, with a liberal license (Apache), which I appreciate greatly.

Also, I don't understand what you mean by nltk being a library for building NLP solutions, rather than NLP-powered apps. Can you expand on that?

Re: NER, I found this gist (not my own) for a basic example of entity extraction with nltk: https://gist.github.com/322906/90dea659c04570757cccf0ce1e6d2... This looks pretty straight-forward to me. What NLP toolkit are you using for the NER service your Chrome extension calls, if not NLTK?
I'm not that familiar with Haskell and the past week's HN frontpage articles on Monads was just confusing...but what is it about Haskell that makes it more useful for NLP than, say, Python?