skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well Ryan's meetings are every 2 weeks, that's probably too often for the no-agenda check-in you're talking about. Calling them both 1on1's is the real confusion here.
I was a participant in the Chromebook pilot program and I received a CR-48. When applying for the pilot program you had to agree that you wouldn't sell the device to anyone else (I don't know where the ToS for that is, but that was the gist). The terms implied that you weren't really receiving the device for "free", you were receiving the device on the terms that you will test it and provide feedback. I suppose it would depend on the ToS of the Google Glass pilot program, but I don't forsee Google smiling upon this as selling CR-48s was strongly discouraged by Google.
Why aren't you using Facebook's Partner Categories yet?
I think that's common characteristics in downfall of large companies and nations. Once ambitious managerial types without a viable enthusiastic vision take over, it's a long, hopeless decline; when the innovative types are punished in order to preserve power status quo, it's over.
Those aren't examples of perfect stores of value. It actually takes energy to merely maintain the fat used to store the energy bears use to hibernate (after all, fat left outside a living body will quickly turn rancid). It might be an efficient store of value, but that's not the same as a perfect store of value.

The overarching problem is that people see currency as something of value, as opposed to a proxy for goods and services. When you view currency for what it is--merely a proxy, the idea of currency that doesn't inflate is exposed for what it is--silly. Say I bake you a cake in return for weeding my lawn. With a non-inflationary currency, you're saying you should be able to "bank" that cake, and come back and ask for it 5, 10, 50 years into the future. With a deflationary currency, you're saying you should be able to "bank" that cake, and come ask for two cakes in 5 years or 5 in 10 years.
That wikipedia page quotes an article by John Barton that argues that the criteria for obviousness should be restricted. The particular quote you cite is from the section where Barton explains his proposed criteria, rather than the current criteria. The full sentence reads: "Only research beyond that done as part of normal product design and development should be rewarded with a patent. Routine redesign should not be enough, for there is no need for monopolies as an incentive for such research." [1] The word _should_ is key, it is what Barton thinks _should_ be the case, even if it isn't today.

In fact, the law as described by Barton in the earlier section of his paper shows that the non-obviousness criterion was deliberately weakened over time, specifically when the Patent Act was passed in 1952 that eliminated a requirement for a "flash of creative genius."

Anyway, I am not a law expert. I am an entrepreneur. My interest is to be able to invent without fear that after I invented and researched and showed that some form of product was viable, some large company (Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc) or a competitor or any other group would then replicate it, claiming to have arrived at the product independently. The bottom line is that it wouldn't foster innovation, it would hinder it. I would have no incentive under the patent system to go to investors and secure funds to do research if in the small chance that the research is fruitful, I will not be able to protect it.

[1] Draft version of Barton's article: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/bhhall/ipconf/Barton901.pdf
He also implies bidding fraud.
I've been monitoring this for years, what's changed recently? I'd be looking for some web development options, ruby, python, console, vim, before i use it a on a daily basis.
also getting multiple levels of redundancy doesn't necessarily need 1 X redundancy_level physical storage. see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Comparison
Amazon Expands Global App Distribution To Nearly 200 Countries
No, but it's interesting to ask why, for instance, Sony lost its position as the number 1 cool gadget inventor. There are many reason for this, including politics and sticking to proprietary technology for too long, but I agree that a lack of focus on software is a big reason.

The PC market is commoditized as well, but that hasn't stopped Apple from capturing the high end (and increasingly the low end with the iPad).
> It was to point out that your initial comment made you sound like a dick.

On that basis, you believe yourself to be in a position to criticize my posts based on their tone? Your sense of irony must have been surgically removed.

Your correction is an error masquerading as criticism. A password requirement can possess one or more criteria. A single criterion is that it must be at least eight characters in length. Multiple criteria might be that the password must contain punctuation marks and be at least eight characters in length. That means you are wrong, and you have yet to locate an error in my posts.
How is that article remotely related to this? He was flagged by a fellow passenger and no terrorist activity was actually occurring. There is no doubt that the perpetrators of these crimes were at the scene and are likely somewhere on camera.

I bet the police and FBI are very interested in these pictures.
It isn't quite obvious from the kickstarter, but it doesn't seem to be decentralized and anonymous like Freenet (dont know about WASTE), which I thought was the main point of Freenet.
You probably just spoiled Google's April fools for next year.
Another addition that would be nice to have and informative: a small badge or counter with the number of people currently editing the document? Not sure if that's easily done or more trouble than it's worth!
A quick note for that first tutorial (which is quite good already):

Right up front, you should really be introducing people to the idea of using get() and set() rather than accessing properties directly. From the video (and accompanying text) it's actually not clear why you did that and it's one of the most critical pieces of Ember's "magic sauce." Aside from the data binding itself, it also ties you into things like computed properties and every introduction I've seen simply glosses over these methods. To me, they warrant a reasonable explanation so they don't appear to a newcomer as needless indirection.
The point is that your backups would be replicated to blobs on other people's hard drives, so you'd still be able to recover your data.
I can see the auction has been removed now for that exact reason. My main issue with it was that it is not fair for other people that entered the the program for a trial pair of the glasses. The guy has clearly stipulated it was to pay for his student debt, doesn't seem fair for people actually wanting a pair for genuine reasons.
Ember.js adds to much boilerplate to the application, I like simplicity, that is why I like Angular.js more.
Head of Amazon Web Services on Finding the Next Great Opportunity
>If your government owes IOU's that it can print itself (fiat currency), it can never default on those IOU's.

People like to repeat this as if it's somehow insightful and helpful to the discussion, but it's vacuous. Yes, you can always just print away debts denominated in a currency you control. That says nothing about how much you fuck up the economy by doing so. That's why some countries that could print their way out of debt (Russia '98) default anyway, because even a default might not be as bad as (the risk of) triggering complete collapse of the currency.
Where's the outrage here about first sale doctrine and how a ToS shouldn't be able to dictate what you do with 'your' property.
Really cool! Can you give a rough sketch of the aritechure?

Are you using an API for do you code right to the bitcoin protocol?
I was expecting a blogpost about it with explanation like Cloudflare always has. But no, Google's not like that I guess.
Calling Public Transit Lovers
Yes, I don't know if MS makes it or another vendor, but you can get IE version whatever with an embedded IE 6. I've been at two companies now where this solution has been proposed.
Anyone know what the business model is here? How can I expect to be monetised once I'm tied in?
Congrats, porting a Java codebase of that size is no small undertaking.
Residential Services, Inc?
Solid point I considered carefully. I decided to bet on people watching the second video and keeping the first as bare-bones simple as possible.
http://hackernewsers.com/
Alright, what did the guy from Microsoft say on twitter to get him fired?
This wouldn't happen if the initial allocation of Glass units had been done in sane way, like setting a market-clearing price, rather than basing it on Twitter follower count.

(And yes, I'm pissed that I didn't get one.)
List of open source academic or personal operating systems
That is pretty interesting. The wikipedia edit time example is particularly revealing. The AC hum stuff is truly fascinating!
It would be nice to compare it to the old version. At any rate, it seems like it's a lot more competitive with Java in performance and it uses a lot less memory:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

It's certainly much faster than the fastest "scripting" language:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
I believe they broke that scheme using other methods, which I can't recall.

Edit: They changed how it works on the server side, without going into detail. It's discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483053
It's 100% an availability problem, and integrity of the network is important. Desktops/laptops would give ~20% availability, a dedicated device will give ~80%. Think of how much the common user leaves a computer on vs a router or NAS.
Yes of course. Pretty much all of algebraic geometry (the study of curves and surfaces defined by families of polynomial equations) owes its current life force to the sweeping reforms it undertook by utilizing category theory in the '50s and '60s. There are a number of conjectures (most notably, the Weil conjectures) whose proofs are attributed directly to the use of category theory.
I think the implication was rather that Java dudes would be uncomfortable working with a modern JS library, and here is one example of why. Normal people don't have to run.
Too fast on hardware. I now recommend PBKDF2-HMAC-RSA2048HASH.
Haiku also, far more than BeOS ever did, follows POSIX. Porting Unix applications to Haiku is actually fairly easy these days.
There are time when split personas just cannot be justified.

The Microsoft guy was their Creative Director for Xbox Studios, and he made a comment about his employer's product to a very large audience under the said persona.

For people like me, the OP, it's fine. We don't have high ranking positions in multinationals. Our opinions are unlikely to matter (but of course there are exceptions) when tweeted, blogged or emailed.

There's a time, place and persona for everything, Adam Orth decidedly chose the worst of the three to use.
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/05/microsoft-studios-creative...
I run bitcoind --daemon and use the bitcoin API through JSON RPC. So, the website connects to the server and pretty much has complete access.
I remember having to give up playing RuneScape back when I switched to a Mac many years ago, due to how poorly Java integrated and performed within the available browsers (not to mention the glitching hardware-acceleration support).

While I have generally lost interest in these sort of games since then, this is exciting enough to make me want to try it out again.
Orth was a Microsoft employee discussing rumored Microsoft decisions. I doubt he would have been fired if the discussion were about Playstation decisions.
Bitmaker Labs Wants to Make Toronto the Next Silicon Valley
Please don't turn this into an angular v. ember thread. They are both excellent frameworks.
Can a Puppy Sell a CMS?
> Younger Japanese are much less willing to work with the dedication their parents and grandparents had.

I have a few "salary man" friends in Japan, and they work really really hard. Like "hard to imagine anyone working harder".

However, if my experience working in (non-tech) companies in Tokyo has taught me anything, it's that people have to work so hard because of some startling inefficiencies (and some serious peer pressure) and a great resistance to integrating technology into the work flow (e.g. this is the first year I received internet in the office).

This sounds hard to believe as Japan has produced some amazing technological innovation, but there is a really strange mindset in the higher ups concerning digital conveniences, and they appear to be influencing protocol. For example, ATMs have working hours, and some are not available on weekends at all, and others have higher fees the later in the evening it is (and this is a cash dominate society).
Matter and Medium
It's hard to predict the emotional response you might get - nothing is for certain until you are there. Right after 9/11 I was numb, but I didn't have a major response going back to our offices. My company at the time shut down not long after and I started working in midtown. It wasn't until the year anniversary that I decided to take a different route in to work, just to go by the proceedings down there - my emotional response was bad - I went to city hall park and sat there, reflecting for a good half hour before I could continue to work. I remember vividly an elderly woman coming and sitting next to me to make sure I was ok.

It takes time. The "what if" feeling is an awkward one to deal with - but instead of worrying, live life to the fullest. That "what if" will always be there for so many other reasons.
Westminster is "special" in that it is very dense, has a lot of violence compared to its affluence (due to the amount of nightclubs and bars etc) coupled with a massive amount of high priority buildings, and the combination of that means that it has far more government controlled CCTV than pretty much anywhere in Britain outside of City.

Westminster and City are probably the two small parts of London where there'd be a reasonable chance of "total surveillance".

But even Westminster is also chock full of CCTV dead zones due to the narrow streets and complicated building facades with lots of nooks and crannies - it might be "easy" to get coverage of people moving along the streets in Westminster, but incredibly hard to eliminate opportunities for people to hide away.
He's taking the auction down apparently. Here's his rant:

"Please note: this auction is being removed, due to finding out that Google Glass cannot be resold once obtained. Since I have not received anything other than confirmation from Google that I have been selected for the #ifihadglass contest, I was not given the terms of service agreement that those who received the first batch did indicating the device could not be resold. So, all of you who apparently have no life aside from posting in forums about this auction can sleep well tonight knowing that the glasses will not be sold. Thanks to Patrick Nugent (eBay user torwolv) and the many others who have driven up the price for their own amusement. #ifihadalife Sorry for being a recent college graduate that was hoping I could possibly resell my Google Glasses to help pay down my student debt. Yes, I am everything that's evil in the world. Anyway, nothing to see here anymore. Take a screen shot, it will last longer!"
Did you see the list of people who got them? A significant number had no followers at all. I doubt the median follower count of selected accounts was much different from the median follower accounts of the active twitter population.

> setting a market-clearing price

That would be _way_ less of a random sampling than what they have now. You don't get good feedback by having it available to such a tiny segments of the population.
Bitcoin miners generating high energy bills
On the other hand, people outside the USA weren't allowed by Google to sign up for the Glass trial program. This gray market could provide access for those who couldn't get one.
I agree with the first point, but the second is fairly redundant. Bitcoin is a value transfer system much as the banks have value transfer systems in place between accounts. Chargeback on a credit card is implemented at a higher level, based on a system of trust between the card processors and banks. There's nothing stopping you implementing an escrow service on top bitcoin or a similar irreversible cryptocurrency which is functionally identical to the current credit card system. It requires users to trust you, but then so does the current credit card system.
> Those aren't examples of perfect stores of value.

In fact, they are. They meet the evolutionary requirement that brought them into being, meaning not too much, not too little. If more resources were expended, that species would be outcompeted by another species who expended just the right amount of time and energy. That's what makes them perfect -- they're ideally suited to the environment and its requirements.

> When you view currency for what it is--merely a proxy, the idea of currency that doesn't inflate is exposed for what it is--silly.

But a noninflationary currency doesn't undermine the paper money thesis, all it does is change the rules by which one maximizes utility. A steady-state economy, one in which the value of a loaf of bread doesn't change over time, alongside a paper money system in which the value of a dollar doesn't change over time, works much like this one, but with some small differences, like the fact that one can hoard currency without seeing its value erode.

If this were not true, people wouldn't invest in gold. Think about it.
As somebody who currently lives in the Twin Cities I can vouch for both the upside and downside. So far this year the weather has been awful (we're about to get hit by a wintery mix for the next two days) but I think that's true for many places this year. The summers are shorter but beautiful. Spring and Autumn seem to be the shortest seasons. I personally love the Fall up here. Out-state weekends trips to the lakes are awesome as well.

When it comes to the cities themselves, just like anywhere else there are some spots that are better or more trendy than others. St. Paul is an older city but in a well maintained, charactery sort of way. Minneapolis is a small city, newer feeling, much cleaner than some of the bigger cities. Their are lots of small areas within each of the cities that are pretty popular. The suburbs are constantly being built out and are very convenient to the downtown areas.

There's a number of other great things about the area to help counterbalance the weather as well. The one thing that really gets me though is that NOBODY knows how to zipper-merge.
I'm just wondering what is the appealing of Ember.js, I need some enlightenment.
Before you can have due process, we need to catch the criminals that did this. I don't see how a crowd sourced examination of the publicly available evidence is a problem.

Absolutely no one should decide to take the law into their own hands because of these pictures but if they provide real leads to the terrorists, I'm all for it. There is no doubt that the bombers where in the crowd and they are likely caught on camera. Anyone carrying a large backpack or bag has to be considered a suspect.
"Google reserves the right to deactivate the Device"

Wow, is it even possible for Google to do this? I mean, if they can do it for pre-release versions, how can I be sure they won't deactivate mine's whenever Google want's
I absolutely agree, it got much more interesting as I started fleshing out my thought process.

As for the motives, for a simulation to be helpful, it would have to run at greater than real time, no? Which.. is surely impossible, at least for a complete 'perfect' simulation. Right? Imperfections (and the limit of a simulation having to be simpler than its host) would infer a finite chain of simulations, which would vastly reduce the likelihood of us existing in a simulation.

Also if these wars (etc) exist, the simulation is going to be knocked offline at some point, destroying all descendant universes, shrinking the pool of possible existent universes much further still.

So (AFAICT) we have gone from it being almost a certainty we are part of a simulation (only one true universe from infinite similar simulations), to being very unlikely.

I may check out the culture series, but i'm not one for reading much fiction, sadly.. impatient internet world that has formed me and all.
Saying unpopular things on Twitter isn't trolling. You stand with people who speak their mind in public. I'm not sure you mean to stand with the trolls. Those people usually aren't speaking their minds.
All 37signals Apps Were Down
While it's true that you shouldn't HAVE to hide behind a persona in order to speak your mind, the Microsoft guy was free to do so. Why couldn't he just as easily say what he had to say under his 'randomMicrosoftEmployee' account instead of his public one? Simple. He wanted an audience. This is very reminiscent of the high ranked guy of some company who went off on a random chick-fil-a employee in the drive thru, posted it on youtube for the world to see and got fired over it during the whole 'supporting a anti-gay organization' thing. No one is saying you can't have or share your opinion but use common sense and decide HOW you'll share said opinion as well as the possible consequences.
Wages for engineers in Japan are nowhere near equal to those in the USA.
It's whatever Google wants, because they can "hack" your device and kill it if you assert your property rights.

And no company has been charged with the CFAA.
Get Help, Give Help: Boston Tech Responds to Marathon Bombings
Fair point. But if BTC "stabilizes" to a "VIX" of ~15% (where Gold and Oil is right now), that is a hell of a lot better than its current volatility of something like 80%+.

Its all comparative. :-p It will still be more volatile than currencies, but a hell-of-a-lot better than it is right now.
Does this shared editor have advantages over etherpad?
Believing in pretty lies is neither worthwhile or praise-worthy.
They launched and won the Launch Conference. That doesn't necessarily de-risk their plans from a technical perspective, but they got some validation from those who vetted the team and product already on the conference and judges panel side of things.
Want to beta test a puzzle game where learning how to play is part of the game?
Goodsie - The most powerful and intuitive e-commerce design system yet.
Sadly, our government is still reactive with a put-a-bandaid-on-it mentality. It's a lot easier than dealing with the underlying flaws allowing anyone to corner any market and manipulate prices, and you don't have to fight against your donors.

The Onion Futures Act has a lot in common with Dodd-Frank - the act passed after the housing bubble. Both go to extremes in one area, but fail to address the underlying problem.

Do we need rules that run deeper, or do we just need more practical wisdom? (http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_using_our_practical_...) I'm honestly not sure.
> Now he’s been fired, do you think that means that anyone with his opinions is going to be fired as well?

> No.

As much as I agree with the rest of your thesis, you can't argue that a very strong message hasn't been sent to the people making decisions at Microsoft - on this issue, there is an extremely vocal group who disagree with this position. It's dishonest to suggest that this will not have an effect that the people who disagreed with this man will appreciate on the final product design. It will.
Beta testing URL: http://tflig.ht/L2WTlE

Your feedback would be appreciated!
Ask HN: Resveratrol, Longevity Genes and Non-Traditional Supplements
I am curious about the HN crowds stance on 'newer' supplements like resveratrol. What supplements do you use and for what reason? Or are you a whole foods fanatic?

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