skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your lawyer or a consultant does a technology audit. I used to do these on behalf of VCS on young startups to ensure they had not infringed on a patent that would put the investment at risk.
Ask HN: Is Now.JS Abandonware?
Against our better judgement, we're using Now.JS to power some side projects. But their blog hasn't been updated in > a year, and their main website seems to be down.

http://blog.nowjs.com/
www.nowjs.com/.

I thought they raised funding?
Let me get back to you about your questions. Still not sure how public I want to go with this.

I mentioned briefly in the intro about the issues with my own University. In theory I think you're correct about the difference between a university and company environment, adaptability-wise, but in my own experience, I've been really shocked by the treatment I've been given by my University. I've spoken to my old advisor and a number of departments trying to figure out what I could do to start classes again. They're even getting tripped up on things like, what does the registrar do when someone takes two classes and gets two satisfactory grades? I actually don't believe auditing is free, and they've been telling me that were I to go this route, I wouldn't be able to take exams, homework, and so forth.

Sadly the whole experience has really turned me off to the University route, well, at least in my former program, but were I to figure things out finance-wise, switching fields seems like a pretty good way for me to go right now. I haven't particularly got my eye on anything, but at least starting fresh would free me from some of the issues that are holding me back.
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Reminds me of working at Noom. The management were complete crooks. They'd lie in job ads and justify it by saying they get more people to apply, agree to things in public company wide meetings then quash them in private when it didn't look as bad, pirate software then toot their PR horn saying if any employee needs any software for their job they'd buy it, frequently forget to pay you or pay too little unless you fought for the right amount, etc.. Very difficult culture for someone who likes logical connection between things and details that all make sense put together.
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So basically a lot of NDAs ;) We're going to be doing feature lists for our last project before going to marketing, so I guess this is as good a time as any to make sure the lawyer combs though them.
I'm for sale - Creative jobs vs. financial security
The first and most important thing in living an extraordinary life is being able to describe things as they are without guilt or moralizing. For most of us there is a seldom considered disconnect between who we are, who we think we should be, who we want to become, and who we can become. You're already farther down the path of seeing yourself as you are than most people.

Is this excitement and burnout cycle innate to who you are or part of how you are now?
What advantages does this cycle have?
What does it say about you that you're uncomfortable admitting?
Is this behavior leading to progress against your goals and values?
If the cycle is innate, how can it be harnessed, trained and controlled? Can you cycle on a weekly instead of a yearly basis?

I'd posit that to make a real dent in financial independence you'll have to learn to work through the boredom phase, or choose bigger problems at the start.

I relate to a lot of what youre saying. The hardest thing for me personally is choosing only one thing for prolonged, multiple year, commitments of time.
Would there be any obvious problems with defend-it-or-lose-it laws around patents, like there already are around trademarks? Seems like it would kill the submarine-patent market entirely, and would discourage companies from bothering to file for patents they didn't plan on vigorously defending (I could imagine drug companies continuing to file; software companies, not so much).

I don't tend to hear this suggested in patent-reform discussions, though, so I assume there's a reason not to go this route.
The book mentioned in the article - it is incredible !! It is very short - I'd highly recommend it (just finished it). Thank you OP.
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An old one: Canter and Siegel (the latter posthumously) for the infamous first massively cross-posted commercial USENET spam.
For some audiences I'd agree, but I think the current presentation works well if the target audience is people who already believe that functional programming matters, but are skeptical that concatenative programming is an interesting or important concept. For that audience I think the presentation starting from the familiar type-signature notation is effective.
I found a bunch of old love-letters in my house, kind of like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I thought they were kind of funny, so I can be relaxed about it :)

That sounds like a pretty different experience though. Honestly the best way to explain it that I can think of, is imagine that you used to be some Gold Metal Olympic runner, and now you're fully paralyzed and slowly recovering. It's just humiliating and frustrating to take these baby steps when you know that you have this past standard to look up to. You want to be happy for your friends, who are running local races, even jogging, but seeing them pass you by while you're still just hobbling is so, so, painful.

The different field is a really possible idea. I guess I'm just hindered by the fact that I apparently enjoyed my job, I was good at it, and I still have a lot of technical knowledge that wormed itself into procedural memory...I could find jobs well suited for me and jobs that were flexible, and I was intellectually stimulated. I don't know if I could say that for other jobs.

I don't know if the memory will "come back" as such, but from past experience I've been a lot faster picking old things up. Just getting past this block is what's hard.
Great answer, thanks. It makes me think about sudden domain shifts. "Fetch the list of users. Locate the user matching the description. Push the user object onto the stack." The last item shifts from the business domain into implementation details, and it probably shouldn't be "close" to the others.
Like Google? http://www.behav.io/ (recent IP/engineer acquisition).

"Nadav holds multiple patents in areas of social mobile networking, machine learning, network algorithms, and sensor technologies. His work has been featured in both academic and popular press (Technology Review, Businessweek.com, Wall Street Journal, Wired UK, and The Associated Press, among others), and received awards of recognition (including Best and Distinguished Paper awards, Knight News Challenge, SXSW Accelerator, IPSN Extreme Sensing Competition, and three Google Research Awards)."
I was looking for such a thing tonight and ran across this AppScript trick http://www.crossbrowser.net/290/using-friendfeed-to-automati...

It's less likely to be blocked by Twitter because you have to register and use your own client ID. I couldn't get it to work for some reason, though.

I was installing because there are a ton of tools that rely on Twitter RSS, e.g. to auto-post to Facebook and the like. Those are broken now.
Yes a billion dollar fight would skew the average a lot. Several fights between porn companies and streaming media changed the numbers as they were in the hundreds of millions range at that seriously messed with the average. The typical need not be so high.
I have a barely-related anecdote.

I once tried to read two pages at a time (one with each eye) because I heard that the rain man was able to do that. So a grabbed a small paperback and focused one eye on either page (as one would do with a magic-eye picture).

I was able to essentially line up two words at a time in my vision and alternate my focus between the two, but after about 20 minutes I started to get a headache, so I put the book down and went to the couch in the other room. I sat down and looked out my window which has vertical bars on it. My vision suddenly latched on to the vertical bars and began flickering between normal focus and the magic-eye focus. I started feeling dizzy, my heart rate sped up and I started sweating a little. I closed my eyes for some time and was able to relax but still had a strange headache for the rest of the evening.

I felt fine the next day, but then a couple days later I was in a hotel with black and white tiled floors (diner style) and I had a sudden recurrence of my focus uncontrollably reacting to the pattern of the floor. It wasn't as intense as the first time, and it hasn't happened since, but it freaked me out.
Thanks, thought it was appropriate :D

I was about a year ago. Acted like a teenager in the beginning! I've since developed a few scribbles here and there ;)
This is so trivial that I wonder how this got any comment at all ;-)

The real challenge is to build arcade games such as Pacman or Space Invaders: http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/
The original point was put quite simply and your "summary" has messages the original didn't. Just seems a weird way of adding your own opinion as when you start with "let me put _your_ point in plain words," you imply that you are still keeping the point the same, just rewording it, not editorializing.
How not to loose motivation about a side project?
I always loose motivation about side projects.How to solve this problem ?
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I've never worked anywhere that code reviews were more effective than communication (ideally pairing). The process feels like a kludge to try and solve code quality. Rather than fix the problem (code quality going in and communication about changes) you place a barrier to entry for submitting code. Anything that prevents me from doing my job (shipping code) is going to cost the company money.

Good quality staff, pairing and making sure test automating is in place are way better practices than code reviews.
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was about to post this!
How you are supposed to know if you are not infringing? It's simple. Do you do anything? If yes, you are infringing.
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You should probably checkout http://getprismatic.com/ if you want to try aggregating twitter content from your feed.
What if I told you the economy engages in boom/bust cycles and there was one oh right around the late 1990's that caused everyone to ratchet up pension benefits then wiped out a ton of retirement account value, setting the stage for dodgy investments being made in the 2000's trying to recover?
But did you, unlike the author, understand how your firm was making money? And were you okay with that?
Survive the Botnet Apocalypse
Yup. The Facebook Home pretty much communicates directly with the Facebook App which has all the permissions needed to be a Home Replacement/Launcher.

This is why Facebook Home does not need any permissions.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.h...
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While I don't totally disagree, I interpret the "same thing" referred to in your quote and the "same reason" he's failing as two different levels of the concept of sameness. In my mind the insanity quote applies to a much stricter sense of repetitiveness (e.g. trying and failing on the same project/idea while using the same approach over and over) than repeatedly attempting to reach financial independence via different side projects.
Somehow I find that "easy" attitude to mean something different. lol.

Especially since there is not really any context to it. Also kind of strange how the only ones who are rebellious are US?
First you'll need to decide where you want to be and when that is, i.e. set some goals. Next, exhaustively assess your remaining skill set in order to figure out what you don't know. Third, devise a plan for getting to your goal. Last, be willing to alter the plan as you learn and grow.

This might seem oversimplified, because it is. The plan is simple, the reality of execution is not.
Finally, an alternative to google reader.
It's pretty much the only thing left they didn't already require, so no big surprise here. Perhaps it's time to switch to only using the web version on my phone...
I'm going to look across the Hudson in awe. Well, technically, I can't see Roosevelt island but you get the idea. I hope they do some awesome meetups there
Spreadsheet is a great model for software.

I hope designers iterate on it more in the future, with better engineered and more domain-specific products than excel.
Ranking user comments as a multi-armed bandit task
Oracle Corporation has taken a public stand against the patentability of software and has forsworn use of its own patents except to counter-sue in infringement claims.

Now this is really a great quote from that article!
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The increasing number of permissions that appear to be out of place for this app is exactly why i hit the "force stop" button for the app about a month ago and then went on to hit the uninstall button for it about 3 hours ago.
I would like to continue to use the facebooks messaging features though. however their need to include the read/write/edit your SMS/MMS messages permissions is a serious put off and causes me not to want to install it.
One person has an exposed webcam in what appears to be their bedroom! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22San+Fran...
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This has been posted here before, and I exchanged a couple of messages in the comments section with the author to clarify some misconceptions. If you read the claims (as everyone always should but nobody ever does), most of the patents he mentions are actually pretty "decent", some of which are discussed in the comments.
Well it is no wonder they had 'Too many methods'[1] in their Facebook android application if they've packed all the features into their facebook client, and left their messaging and launcher applications as thin wrappers around the core application. Is there any good reason they don't split the functionality to the appropriate applications? Then maybe they wouldn't have to hack dalvik to run a simple facebook client.

[1] : https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...
I have a beef, but with inefficiency due to wilful stupidity.

You could be right- there was even a well written essay I read about how governments could try and turn bitcoin into an oppressive financial system, due to the ease it provides to track every transaction.

Maybe I'll have a beef with capitalism if, after the implementation of a system which trims down what I perceive to be a self-made problem (inflation fuelling governments destructive policies), I still notice persisting issues. I can't say for now. The experiment is just beginning :-)

I hope I do not have any blinding faith in any political system. It just seems to me that capitalism is what works best, and could work better with a libertarian approach. Just like Thomas Sowel says - I don't have faith, but proofs. (Still, this doesn't mean there can't be better proofs or better things we just don't know yet.)

So I would not say I hate the banking system, no more than I hate horse buggies : it just seems to me that cars are more efficient. I would hate it if horse buggies were mandatory and cars forbidden, because it would be a loss of efficiency for society.

The current banking system performs an important role, in an efficient way, but it will hopefully made obsolete and replaced by something more efficient.

It is likely that governments and capitalism will still be involved, but between governments and capitalism, I know what I fear the most.

It's not the self interested capitalists who acts following their best interests, doing things as you said, like taking away someones houses, but the governments who takes a "moral superiority" position, use their power to benefit some well connected ones, pretend to act in the common good and violating both the letter and the spirit of the law - all the while doing the very same things.

At least the capitalist doing these things is honest in the reasons why they are done. And the "good ones", Ayn Rand style capitalist, do worry about the letter and the spirit of the laws and of a contract.

She said that beautifully : "I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows."
Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities
Neat. Raleigh, NC was on the first page and I think I remember that exact camera. We used to post webcam feeds when I was an undergrad at NC State. In fact, this one time was pretty amusing (and there's a long story associated with it): http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/120_540487511649_... http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/112_540487222229_...
I'm currently hiring at my company. If you want to have a chat we can try to see if an internship or a part-time job with us would make sense for you. Just let me know! Wishing you the best of luck!
The question is, does the policy prevent highly trained testing staff who are willing to donate their time to developers for free from helping developers (but for their own reasons wish to remain anonymous).

It's a trade off, and real name policies don't only exclude negative posters.

(To expand: I tested someone's js project on reddit just yesterday, offering my platform, multiple browsers, a decent writeup, images/screenshots etc. But my reddit account is fully anonymous. If my real name was required, s/he never would have gotten that free help)
Fascinating! Any comments on how difficult/easy you found it to do a thorough search, and how often you found patents that you thought to be risks?
You can also check your most used commands with huffshell (gem install huffshell), it also suggests you some aliases.
An interesting read is "Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent" by Meredith Small.

It touches on a lot of the ideas in this article, in much greater depth, and looking across a wider range of cultures and continents.

In short, if you find this article interesting, I would highly recommend the book.
1. Are there any popular apps that consist of a single page?

2. What is the most lucrative single page app out there?
I do this and don't miss the official app. At first I did miss having my contacts synced, but HaxSync does this fantastically.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsy...
You can't change up your sleep for a few days and expect positive results. Even the participants in the study mentioned in the link took several weeks before their sleep habits changed appropriately.
Is there a way (short of writing a script) that will allow me to shuffle windows left and right, and/or move a window and slide the rest down?

Imagine having windows A, B, C, and D respectively in positions 0, 1, 2, and 3. I'd like to move D into position 1 so they end up in this order: A, D, B, C.

Haven't figured out how to pull this off yet.
That 4 billion was just for one year, AFAIK. I don't think this particular sleight of hand was used on a large portion of TARP money, but I also have a hunch there were other ways that TARP money was 'paid back' while still leaving tax payers holding some of the bag still.
I don't get it. This is a small accomplishment the benefits of which likely won't extend beyond a small subset of an already incomprehensibly minuscule portion of business and CS students. This sort of program might be great for Cornell students, but is unlikely to have an impact on education in general. Cornell (as with all Ivies) is in a fundamentally privileged position because it has the clout to court city officials and the endowment to expend billions on land and building costs to open a campus in the heart of NYC. This sort of projects is absolutely untenable for the universities that serve the other 95% percent of aspiring technologists and entrepreneurs. It's a novel idea and I wish them well, but I simply can't get excited about a development that is almost exclusively limited to the elite.
It's not just going over a blacklist though. If you do any form of checking/rejecting a password, you're probably infringing something. And it's not just the checking, the article also mentions "recovery of forgotten passwords, secure password resets, using one-time passwords, account lockout, generating pronounceable passwords, password hints, and even backdoor passwords".
That's a terrible law. It would be useful to look up patent issues not with the goal of willful infringement, but with the goal of avoiding infringement.

There's an old quip about a former president of the American Trial Lawyers Association (now called the American Association of Justice). When it was said that they practically own congress, he joked that he took offense to the word "practically". Even though that's an old story, said in jest, I don't hold out a lot of hope that a group primarily made up of lawyers will clean up a system that benefits their own profession.
But at least these seem to be patents that did require some effort, were novelties at the time and appear to be useful – otherwise that list of awards would be a list of awards you don’t want to receive.

There is nothing wrong with patenting truly new, truly sensible solutions to actual problems, in my opinion. The problematic patents are the trivial ones that currently swamp the software industry.
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Unless I'm mistaken, it certainly wouldn't stop patent trolls, who buy/keep patents precisely so they can use them. The only thing it would stop is companies holding patents for defensive reasons, who have no intention of actively pursuing patent violators but who patent their ideas in-case they are sued by a patent troll with a similar idea/patent. Google claims to follow this in terms of open source projects[1].

[1]:http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/
But is it possible to expose an API for your archive containing all your most recent tweets?

It will scale in most instances, if people provide the first x,xxx tweets, though.
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How about "keeping bad things from happening"? That's only one level of abstraction up from that. Could be lucrative.
AWS provides multi-factor authentication, which I've always used quite successfully. https://aws.amazon.com/mfa/
I have a similar work behavior and I structured my work time in a way that helps me keep focused and not get off track: I usually work on a single project for 2 or 3-day periods, rotating between ALL of my current projects depending on what I feel could use my time the most. I generally try to keep projects interesting by incorporating new things I've recently learned into either the project itself or the tools I'm using. The trick I've found is to never let anything get boring, by constantly rethinking and improving things that have gone stale, instead of starting new projects whenever you get another train of thought.
They told somewhere in their website (or was it in Github) that the project is deprecated. They even don't seem to respond to pull requests, which is bit alarming. The reason for it might have been their new commercial websocket service.

I myself used NowJS in my first websocket applications, but have then moved onto Socket.IO and other more niche kind of solutions. NowJS lacked and still lacks some newer features and it is bit buggy. If I would be you, I'd just try my best to adopt something which is and will be maintained for some time, or just start from something simple and build my own.

To answer to the original question, yes.