skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how do you see these inline results? I'm told cmd-enter or cmd-shift-enter will evaluate code; on Windows 7, for me, none of ctrl-enter, alt-enter, or windows-enter seem to do anything. ctrl-shift-enter in a .js file creates a checkmark next to my first line, 2+3; (though not the lines I'd written after it). Trying to create a .clj or .cljs file, by 'Create a new file' and then 'Save file', it remains as 'untitled', and ctrl-shift-enter doesn't seem to do anything.

Anyone else on Windows at the moment with tips?

(The 'bindings' command lists things like Cmd Enter; since it lists Ctrl for other keybindings, I'm guessing that's meant to mean Alt.)
It's The Commit
A prison where the prisoners constantly feel dread and suffering? Welcome to Azkaban.
After restarting, I can't reproduce it anymore. Maybe it was a caching issue with the previous version of Light Table I had.

Thanks very much for Light Table! I'm loving it.
I would argue that it is more readable to do:

if request.pipeline.command_stack:
request.pipeline.execute()

rather than

if len(request.pipeline) > 0:
request.pipeline.execute()

thoughts?
I was skimming over the claims of the patent. Starting at claim 23, they basically go on to claim all sorts of behavior commonly seen in podcast players, e.g.:

The audio program player set forth in claim 23 wherein said display screen displays the displayable text describing said particular audio recording file when said particular audio recording file is being reproduced.

I really don't understand how the USPTO approves claims filed in 2009 that describe concepts which were in peoples hands for the preceding five years. Perhaps those will be the first claims invalidated, but it just further highlights the mind-boggling logic of the USPTO.
How to end the "work from home" debate
Bloomberg & Gates: Our Plan to Eradicate Polio
However we feel about it individually. I am certain that in the long run Brain-Computer Interfaces are an inevitable outcome.

I also believe that becoming "Borg" is inevitable for at leas a subset of human population. Furthermore I think that it will be a good outcome. In the long run.
Why we have our best ideas in the shower: The science of creativity
A quote: "The mission plans to use a modified SpaceX Dragon capsule with an inflatable living module attached. It will be mostly carried by gravity [sic] on its way to Mars and back home"

A spacecraft on an unpowered trajectory between two planets is not "carried by gravity", it proceeds by way of its own inertial momentum -- energy it's been given by the launch and route insertion process.

A quote: "... the difficulties of a Spartan and low-gravity ship environment ..."

Not low gravity, but essentially no gravity or microgravity -- only the gravitation of the spacecraft for its occupants and vice versa.

A quote: "... as a ‘free return’ trajectory. The same approach was used for NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon."

False. The Apollo craft had to be inserted into, and removed from, lunar orbit by rocket burns, then the separated lunar landing craft required two additional burns to get down to, and back from, the surface. Even the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission required a correcting burn on the moon's far side to get on course back to Earth.
It is a good definition. Something about influencing/shaping the experience should be included, too.
On the one hand, what Mayer does with her money is her business. It is actually kind of nice that she built a nursery for her kid - it shows that she is taking her parental duties seriously (unlike most CEOs who get tunnel-visioned into their work and ignore their families).

On the other hand, it would have been nice if she petitioned the Yahoo! board to spend company resources to build a larger nursery, one that can be used by regular employees. That way, it would have come across as, "we are eliminating the work-from-home perk for everyone, but we understand that this is tough for employees with young children, so we built this nursery they can use free of charge." That would paint her as a no-bullshit CEO who is also attuned to the family-related needs of her employees.
"Women should have the right to take lengthy maternity leaves without the fear of corporate ostracizing."

They do in the US: http://fmlaonline.com/fmla-pregnancy/

Before you reply with potential handwaving theoretical issues with it, bear in mind I am answering your point as written: They do indeed have the right to take leave without fear. It may be infringed, but it does exist and redress is available if infringement can be proved to a judge's satisfaction.
Google demo slam
Businesses Buy Differently
Anyone know a similar service that has an address in the east coast, preferably NYC, Boston and/or Massachusetts?
This is some extraordinary claim. Do you have any extraordinary evidence besides her pregnancy?
As I'm scanning those, I'm forced to wonder: What exactly is a patent supposed to do? Do the good folks at the patent office even know?

This seems to me a scheme of reinventing existing inventions with the injection of paraphrases and more sentences. It's not even "X on a network" or "X on a computer" any more, it's just a vague reiteration of technology already in use for years, if not a decade or more.

The entire patent system is a convoluted web of things which potentially exist which in turn is built on a deeper layer of things which potentially exist and so on... and how exactly is innovation supposed to happen when a non-trivial percentage of the links on those interconnected web are based on obvious things that should have been rejected?
It's interesting to see how the word "Design" is getting a more and more specific definition related to people and cognition.

As an engineer, I'm starting to be forced to call my designs "engineering designs", because people already associate "design" only with visual/industrial/interaction design.
No, we're calling them nasty names for setting up "coming in to work" to mean one thing for them and another thing for their employees, and then saying "Why is everyone complaining? I have to come in to work too!"
Cover Letters, then and now
So do these bank to bank transfers allow escrowing funds? If so, the hits keep coming. I'm amazingly impressed not only with their customer service but ease of use settings things up.
How are they able to change the video frame to show the motion amplification. In the last example, they are amplifying baby's breathing and showing it using some changes into the video frame itself. How are they able to stretch baby's cloths and body without knowing its 3D geometry, even wrinkles on the baby's cloths seems to shift. I am puzzled.
It is hard to believe that it is officially linked to Google and still using 2011 copyright .
Both RProp and Conjugate Gradient are descent methods-- they find a path to a local minima from the starting configuration. They do not help with finding the global minimum.

Using simulated annealing to guide random initializations can help find a better minima, but to get the global minima with simulated annealing takes an inordinate amount of time.
Are you saying this service is illegal without the money transmission license?
yes, you can enter a wildcard record yourself, and that will override the name.com wildcard. Is it irritating that they do that? Sure. Should they be doing? probably not. But it does have a pretty simple fix.

Personally, I use a third-party dns service. Seen too many registrars play with DNS. Don't know why anyone would trust them.
Just in case somebody else living in ROTW was also wondering about availability, the most important piece of info for us is hidden here: https://www.balancedpayments.com/help#22654897

"Sellers/merchants must reside in the US, have a US mailing address and a US bank account. Buyers can reside in nearly all countries and use any Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover card (debit and credit)."

This isn't exactly a surprise, but I would really appreciate if you guys (and all the other payment processing services out there) could include this information a little more prominently.
Yes I am--not to pick on them though. They are one startup of many and if everyone pretends it's not an issue then the law will never get fixed.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=fin...

Assembly Bill 786 is about to make it a lot worse.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_7...
It seems like this "diametric incompatability" could be a good subject for case study blog articles.

Off the top of my head is the shifting of "sponsored links" to take over the initial position in some Google search results. It seems like you'd have a lot more examples of "where these companies get derailed". I know I'd find value in that. :)
Can't edit my previous post, but here the reddit discussion of it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/13k2sm/growing...

Notice how many posters go from "I'm indignantly concerned about the poor in San Francisco" to "How dare you suggest there are significantly less expensive ways to provide them the same benefits" ... and which way the voting skews on that issue.

Edit: I love this part:

>After five months in a shelter and more than a year in transitional housing, the family has moved to a one-room rent-subsidized apartment in the Tenderloin — a neighborhood synonymous with drugs and violence

Gee, you don't think subsidizing long-term non-earners in the same area has anything to do with the deteriorating conditions? Nah, it couldn't be. Any time now, these buildings on the world's most valuable real estate, stocked with people who can't find entry level work, will blossom into another Marina or Nob Hill ... just a few more dollars, and we'll be there!
The title of the article deliberately played up the "perversion" angle, though.
MetaLayer makes the world's information easy to understand and visualize
My wife's reaction: "it's great, but [she] should have built on-site daycare for everyone to use." (Profanity edited).
it's not currently configurable, but I agree that the highlighting should be more like that. Filed an issue to track it: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/277
I've never seen anything like it. It is also interesting that such a massive phenomenon is not well understood.
Where I work, it's perfectly acceptable for people to bring their children in. But it would be impossible for me to get anything done if I brought my two kids in, other than taking care of my kids while they're here. It's also disruptive to the other people here, so out of deference and sheer common sense I don't bring them in.

Other companies provide a day care service, which I hope becomes a bigger trend. Goldman Sachs has one that employees have a certain number of days that they're entitled to.

I too am glad that Marissa is doing this. She, like every parent I know, is trying to find a work-life balance, and she is in the privileged position of being able to do it her own way.
The worst part is, as far as I understand it, the person who let this go through is simply not going to be reprimanded or face any consequence whatsoever.
Jesse Thorn, one of the podcasters in contact with the EFF, is asking for anyone who knows of prior art for podcasting before 1996 to get in touch. Hopefully someone on HN will be able to help out with this.

https://twitter.com/JesseThorn/status/307141009815531521
Awesome - this could be great for helping reduce cooling related energy use / slowing global warming, but control of a relatively benign chemical will be hard to force since and it's 280-320x worse than CO2 in terms of Global Warming effects if released....per MSDS
http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediawebserver?mwsId=SSSSSuUn_z...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5213771
The more I look into this story (albeit half-heartedly) the more confused I am.

I'm not clear on exactly where this nursery is. In the Yahoo office? A building next door? Private just for her kid or can anyone sign up?

However it's set up, this PR fallout seem obvious in hindsight (should be obvious in foresight too).
Sounds to me like your proposed claim would cover more than just speakers; I think all audible sounds would open up the listener to liability.

Good enough to send out shakedown letters, and see how much cash rolls in!
I could use your email address.
They are Masters of the Universe. Have you ever seen how much attention public company CEO's pay to analyst reports by 20-somethings not that long out of school?
A grammar for programming
Way to jump to conclusions of sexism against all evidence... Carol Bartz (former CEO of Yahoo) was also a woman. The reason you hear about Marissa Mayer a lot is because she had a sudden, high-profile transfer from Google to Yahoo, and had high expectations by some of making big changes at Yahoo in an attempt to turn them around (as well as expressing the intent to do so).
AT&T “Hacker” Andrew Auernheimer’s Sentencing Scheduled For March 18
Big accomplishment that's been in the works for a while. It'll be interesting to see how this will affect mobile payments. It's not a payment app in the traditional sense, so it may find its own niche.
> Your job, as a business owner, is to set your price based on the customer, not based on your costs.

That's true, but customers will consider your costs when deciding what price they think is fair for them to pay, so neither metric is isolated from the other.
Toggle Fullscreen should fix that.
You don't gain much from having root or kernel level access if you're just sending spam from a machine running an OS that isn't typically checking for malware. Windows is a much more attractive target because you can also get user's bank and credit card details, but doing that entirely in userspace will get you picked up by the (now fairly ubiquitous) malware scanners. There's a strong incentive to move yourself into the kernel there.
Meet A1 MoufPiece, the Search-Optimized Rapper
> Problem for me is, I actually don't think there's any moral imperative for Yahoo to make life easier for working parents or people who have some need to telecommute.

It's not any more or less of a moral imperative than having bathrooms. It's a concession to the structure of human society, and is arguably moral in that sense.
Yes, you charge a card or debit a bank account and the funds flow into your escrow account within Balanced. From there you can credit it out to bank accounts.

Funds for credit cards are available to use 2 days faster than any other competitor (that i'm aware of) e.g. instantly and bank account debits take a couple of business days to clear since we're utilizing the ACH network underneath.
Because I assumed that this would be "call us to negotiate a price", which doesn't exactly help. And looking at the posted links that seems to be correct.
Dungeon Fury: 3D Browser Gaming Arrives on Mobile
Unfortunate timing:

> Application Offline for Maintenance
Not to mention the fact that she _IS_ getting a lot of criticism (and she's not even pregnant anymore...)
for developers those things are somehow usefull, but it is not enough...
First of all, you would need to describe the file formats with its definitions, like heder file, and other things...
Some things, it would be nice to show some things like programs, classes for C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic and so on..
Vice Magazine & Dennis Rodman play basketball and get drunk with Kim Jong-Un
I think you just obviated about 200 years of economics debate.

I don't mean to sound trite, but that's basically a resolution of the whole debate between the subjectivist/marginalists and the "labor theory of value"/"cost the limit of price" camp.
A baby less than 10 months old does not "run around". Unless they're colicky or sick, very young babies are not hard to keep quiet: if they're crying they're either hungry, tired, under-stimulated, over-stimulated, hot or cold or otherwise uncomfortable. You identify the problem, fix it, and they stop crying. It may prevent you from working, but it shouldn't bother your coworkers. They should certainly be a lot less annoying than the guy next to you chatting on the telephone.

Between 10-18 months they start walking, start getting "opinionated", get a lot louder, stop napping continuously, and so on and would totally disrupt an office.
These are expiring today Feb 28th. I have emailed to everyone who requested one...

But here is a link to a list of the remaining codes that I have. If you use one, please mark down that you used it. If not allow the rest of the community to share.

There are going to be almost 30 codes in the list. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkJ0d72ZbljkdFh...

Enjoy.
"filed in 1996" I recall using a service that saved NPR episodes as huge AIFF files and made them available for download on the same day they were broadcast. That was around 1996, probably earlier, probably prior art.
What's interesting about this case to me is that Personal Audio, LLC is the original assignee for the patent and under the proposed SHIELD act, it would not be liable for paying the defendants legal fees if it lost its legal battle under the newly proposed system.

If the USPTO is willing to grant ridiculous patents that it shouldn't, then the SHIELD act would seem to not make much of a difference at all. It seems to me that the prior art should be a non-issue to produce considering people have been making tutorials on how to make podcasts since '04/'05, but as long as the patents are being erroneously assigned, the SHIELD act will provide very little protection from these types of patent trolls.
That Coursera class has been showing a start date of "Oct 1st 2012" for a while. Does anyone know when the next class might be?
Sorry about this -- we didn't mean to be misleading. What do you think we could do to make our country limitations more prominent on our homepage? https://www.balancedpayments.com/#processing
Great point, but in the analogy the drawing probably still looked like crap ...
I don't see how podcasting is in violation of the patent in question.

I can see how a company like Apple, which does provide an "An audio program and message distribution system in which a host system organizes and transmits program segments to client subscriber locations." That's what iTunes does, not say, the Adam Corolla podcast. He doesn't run the message distribution system, he merely uses that distribution system.

Every single one of the patent's claims talks about the player itself, or the endpoint of distribution. At no time is the media itself being distributed claimed, which is what podcasters do. They create the media, your computer plays it.

They didn't patent podcasting, they patented podcast players. What court would give a shit about this re: podcast producers?

Edit: I read somewhere in all this that the patent was filed in 1996? According to http://www.google.com/patents/US8112504, it was filed in 2009. 2009!
Sure, it modifies Windows. But if it modifies the Windows bootloader, Windows refuses to boot. If it modifies the Windows kernel, the bootloader refuses to load the kernel. If it modifies any Windows drivers, the drivers won't load. So you modify userspace, but under Windows 8 the (signed) malware checker is started before any other userspace.
I have no experience on hardware startups. But my gut feeling is that they do have additional layers of complexity relative to pure web startups. As such it makes sense to have somewhat more co-founders than web startups.

However, the more people you add to a team, the slower it moves and the team dynamics grows exponentially. It will reach a point after which you get diminishing marginal gain, or even negative gain.

For a startup I believe agility is critically important. I would be worried to add too many people from the outset because it is difficult reverse it. It's hard to 'unfounder' a cofounder later on. My advice is to have a core team of 2-3 cofounders to see how it goes. If you really feel insufficient after a while, bring one in one at a time. It is less risky than having too many in the beginning and discover problems when it's too late.