skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another one alternative, rump kernel[1], mentioned in commentary to original posting about "direct" network processing[2]. The recent development was discussed in LuaJIT mailinglist recently (the thread is interesting by all means in "minus OS" context by the way)[3]

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/docs/rump/

[2] http://erratasec.blogspot.ru/2013/02/custom-stack-it-goes-to...

[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.luajit/2493
They said that about 4G and about higher screen resolutions, and about higher display dimensions.

They will innovate.
>> How about V for Vendetta then, the original book had a much clearer idea of anarchy, totalitarianism and the consequences of each than that watered down movie.

This is why Salman Rushdie sold the movie rights to Midnight's Children for only $1. On the Daily Show, he said he wanted to maintain creative input into how the movie was made. I'm sure he gets compensated by being a producer, but it shows how much he was willing to give up in terms of money in exchange for this ability.
Having spent a fair amount of time around hot metal, I would not recommend replicating the author's choice of apparel for this task. It is not unusual for small bits of metal to go flying as you're hammering. If one of these lands on your skin, you're in for some pain.

I was torch-cutting the bolts off of a commercial mower (like the ones they pull behind tractors) once, when a BB sized ball of hot metal wedged between the tongue of my shoe and my foot. My pants leg had managed to tuck itself inside the tongue of my shoe, providing all the opening it needed to get in.

The shop foreman had previously recommended the use of work boots (with a high ankle) and welding chaps when using the cutting torch. I ignored his advice.

On that day, as I squelched my foot in the toilet (it was the nearest source of water), I learned the value of proper attire in a working environment.
You are just assuming there is some contractual tethering ban. It's a data SIM designed to go in a usb 3G modem or a tablet. There's no contractual agreement between Google selling an independent computer and a telco in central Europe as far as I am aware.

Edit:

Therefore Google should prioritise me and not the profits of another company.

What's the company going to do, ban non-contract devices from their services? Another company will just scoop up all those users.

Google is disadvantaging me and trashing their own brand for the profits of another company. Nobody in this thread has produced any evidence Google is legally required to do this in any jurisdiction. And if they do have a compay-to-company contract with them it certainly wouldn't be a disadvantageous one, it would likely be a contract to do this so that the telco would have the Nexus 7 on their paid plans too. Again that's Google crippling my device for their own profits. Again it's a deception, and again it's on their head.

I don't know why people are coming into the thread here so strongly to defend huge corporations that are selling computers and Internet connections and arbitrarily cutting people off from legitimate features. All the bandwidth is metered anyway so it doesn't matter whether the first device or a second device via the first uses it anyway. Or they could readily implement shaping (as in Australia, full speed to Xgig, slower speed thereafter) and just state it openly.

There is no reason for any of this besides naked profit taking and deception.
> It’s tempting to say that the lonely were born that way—it’d let the rest of us off the hook. And, as it turns out, we’d be about half right, because loneliness is about half heritable. A longitudinal study of more than 8,000 identical Dutch twins found that, if one twin reported feeling lonely and unloved, the other twin would report the same thing 48 percent of the time. This figure held so steady across the pairs of twins—young or old, male or female, notwithstanding different upbringings—that researchers concluded that it had to reflect genetic, not environmental, influence. To understand what it means for a personality trait to have 48 percent heritability, consider that the influence of genes on a purely physical trait is 100 percent. Children get the color of their eyes from their parents, and that is that. But although genes may predispose children toward loneliness, they do not account for everything that makes them grow up lonely. Fifty-two percent of that comes from the world.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the math is wrong. Assume prior for being lonely is 50/50. Now, if 100% of twins reported that they are also lonely, this would be proof that loneliness is genetic. If it was 0%, it would imply some sadistic inverse relationship, but one that'd still be genetic. If it's 50%, the same as the prior, it means no relationship. 48% is pretty close.
Sprint has no data cap...
Or being hyper-social puts way more pressure on you in the form of keeping up appearances and maintaining expectations.
While I agree that you should validate your ideas before spending copious amounts of time programming, I don't think that you should sell people on an imaginary product. Unless you already have an established reputation, it's highly doubtful that people will pre-order something on mere talk alone.

I think that it's a better idea to stick with the MVP (minimum viable product) model and iterate rather than try to figure out revenue and customers right off the bat.
Bookshelf only focuses on the relational aspect of the ORM, sitting on top of an full featured underlying query builder, http://knexjs.org. It handles eager/nested eager loading properly, as you'd see in something like Ruby's DataMapper or Active Record.
It also defines relationships with named methods on the model, which allows the creation of really dynamic relationship with different constraints, etc.

It also has support for handling database transactions, which seemed to be missing in any other libraries I had looked at, and also doesn't force you into a particular way of doing other things like validations or typecasting (though it does provide hooks/events for handling both).

The ORM is also just a single ~900 line file that takes a lot of inspiration from Backbone as being a library you can easily read through and understand, and focus on the important parts of database interaction, rather than trying to provide the kitchen sink.
XMPP for the web
Thank you for doing that! As a freelancer, I'm much more willing to try a product out for $45 than anything above $100.
It's actually pretty simple and almost all in this file:

https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy/blob/master/macropy/core/...

Those already familiar with the imp mechanism and AST module could probably infer it from the description.

An absolutely beautiful facet of Python's nature is that with relatively little background, it's quite straightforward to know how all sorts of 'magic's and hacks work at first glance. :)
I don't think it's a simple as that.

Firstly, Drive is still catching up with Dropbox's software. I tried to move from Dropbox to using Drive and I couldn't. Drive just isn't reliable enough. I've had problems with several files that wouldn't sync until I updated/restarted the Drive client. They'll fix these issues, but I still don't trust it as much.

Secondly, Dropbox offers services Drive doesn't, such as it's API for iOS and Android apps. I use the iOS App with several other apps and it's not clear either if Google will ever offer an API like that, or if they do whether independent developers will adopt it the same way they have with Dropbox.

I think Dropbox have established a pretty secure niche for now. If I were them I'd definitely be concerned about Drive, and it's possible they'll get squeezed out if they don't continue to innovate (I hate typing that word, it's so over-used), but Dropbox must have always known that if they stood still they'd be roadkill eventually.
the license was violated here

I can see this point. Contracts should be honored.

However, the string "patent" occurs 96 times in the ruling in question. ("licens" occurs eight times.) It is difficult to credit that this was a case about licenses rather than one about patents.
Tag Cloud Library for iOS
> If you actually have a family connection to agriculture, you know that outside a few sheltered crops like avocados, "family" farming has been steadily supplanted by corporate farming.

Gee asshole, it's almost like there's a fucking reason I said my grandpa's farm is small.

And it's not unicorns, it's horses, beef cattle and some heifers, and the hay required to feed them (and the alfalfa needed to restore the fields while they lie fallow).

> Monsanto already make a killing selling Roundup, to which these seeds are a completely complementary good. If Monsanto were good at business rather than evil at business, they would increase the price of Roundup and give the seeds away. (That would still be bad for both the environment and agriculture, but it wouldn't be as bad.)

That might apply to this case, but that doesn't answer the general question.

Let's say some Big Pharma spends $15 billion to develop a cure for acne by using genetic manipulation techniques, but the cure has to be delivered by a refitted retrovirus and the retrovirus can be "farmed" by anyone with an incubation lamp and a supply of eggs into however many doses are desired.

No side product here, just the acne "cure". How do you allow for development and marketing of that? What's your solution?

Patent is what we have for short-term protection. I don't think any of us want to broach into the realm of infinite-length copyright. Do you have a better idea?
When google first started, or more accurately when Brin and Page were first working on PageRank, much of the content of the web was still written by hobbyists and professors. Sure there were web-rings and the like, but by and large putting together a page was a manual labor of love and linking was a personal endorsement.

Now the function of a link has changed entirely. Many of them don't even exist to be clicked, and many of those that do are either advertising or the functional equivalent.

There are a few places where a link really is still an endorsement: for example if I put together a hacker news comment that links a blog post I think is informative. Or a (genuine) blogger that writes about a topic.

However, anytime there's a useful signal to be found in something like that the SEO jerks come and flood it. That's why we've got comment spam, we have reddit sock-puppets, we've got blogvertisments and so on.

And the so-called white hat SEOs aren't much better in this regard. They are pushing their clients to go write mediocre "content" that is largely duplicative of what's already out there. People should only be writing content if they have something -- preferably interesting and/or informative -- to say, not because it means more people will visit their brochureware site, and certainly not as a means of getting (tricking?) people to click on no-value-add affiliate links or AdSense ads. That's putting the cart before the horse.
BrainPort lets you see with your tongue (2009)
Fair enough, but if forum links aren't white hat then 99% of SEO companies/freelancers are black hat. I have yet to hear an SEO company say "We'll make your product great enough people will link to it organically."
Mark Cuban turns to Spec Work for Mavs Redesign
I hope no one hates Hipmunk, it's the best way I've ever booked a flight, bar none.

I just hope the sea level holds up long enough to retire to some tropical island.
Microsoft announced a Windows Everywhere strategy in the 1990s, and Windows has taken its annual turnover from $1bn to $74bn. (That includes doubling under Steve Ballmer.)

Some people would call that "putting all the wood behind one arrow."

Microsoft did try developing a new and different technology for different use cases with Windows CE. That's what it's replacing with Windows 8....
http://www.economist.com/node/107364
You’re misunderstanding “heritability”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study#Methods

The study in question: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17564516

PDF: http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/jtcre...
Last Friday was Cornell Tech's Demo Day
So what do you folks do to combat loneliness? I've tried meetup.com but the groups I joined haven't quite worked out for me. Outside of work acquaintances and classmates, I don't socialize.
This is great advice, does anyone have some resources on how to pre-sell or pre-validate a product without much to show? I mean, I've always tried but if you describe something to someone and say "do you want this? Will you pay $20 for this?" they always say, "cool! sure!" and then don't answer when you come collecting product in hand.
His name probably has immunity, just as most large brands do. Small/er sites are fried. Deep fried.
GTD Hack- Big Project Day
It's a short opinion, written in fairly plain English, and worth reading: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-796_c07d.pdf.

The most salient points are on page 9-10:

"Still, Bowman has another seeds-are-special argument: that soybeans naturally “self-replicate or ‘sprout’ unless stored in a controlled manner,” and thus “it was the planted soybean, not Bowman” himself, that made replicas of Monsanto’s patented invention. Brief for Petitioner 42; see Tr. of Oral Arg. 14 (“[F]armers, when they plant seeds, they don’t exercise any control . . . over their crop” or “over the creative process”). But we think that blame-the-bean defense tough to credit. Bowman was not a passive observer of his soybeans’ multiplication; or put another way,the seeds he purchased (miraculous though they might be in other respects) did not spontaneously create eight successive soybean crops. As we have explained, supra at 2–3, Bowman devised and executed a novel way to harvest crops from Roundup Ready seeds without paying the usual premium. He purchased beans from a grain elevator anticipating that many would be Roundup Ready; applied a glyphosate-based herbicide in a way that culled any plants without the patented trait; and saved beans from the rest for the next season." (9)

"Our holding today is limited—addressing the situation before us, rather than every one involving a self replicating product. We recognize that such inventions are becoming ever more prevalent, complex, and diverse. In another case, the article’s self-replication might occur outside the purchaser’s control. Or it might be a necessary but incidental step in using the item for another purpose." (10)

"We need not address here whether or how the doctrine of patent exhaustion would apply in such circumstances. In the case at hand, Bowman planted Monsanto’s patented soybeans solely to make and market replicas of them, thus depriving the company of the reward patent law provides for the sale of each article." (10)
Here's a blog via snail mail service for the incarcerated. http://betweenthebars.org/ It's been running for 3 years.

Incidentially, one of the the people who runs it was a good friend of Aaron Swartz. http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/aaron-swartz
I got this: Please let me know if this isn't what you're looking for.
Is that true? I might be wrong about this, but I think ActiveRecord checks for uniqueness (and other constraints) in application code, generating an extra database query if needed. If you _actually_ violate the unique index, a PGError is raised (if using postgres).
When it has external impact. Leaving your own door unlocked is very different from leaving everyone's safe deposit boxes unlocked.
Wow, I love that prison has a less restrictive arbitrary length limit than does twitter!
Please paste the letter not facebook crap!
I'm not sure about that. The more likely reason is that someone has to read those emails and authorities did not want it to become a huge burden on the reviewers.
Point taken. But it still seems he had a direct relationship (the license).

My point still stands. If I, having no relation whatsoever with Monsanto, buy random soybeans as feed, then plant them, then spray them with Roundup to weed out the non-Monsanto seeds, then save the seeds selected for resistance, I believe that the Court would not have made such an "easy" 9-0 decision, assuming they tried to sue me at all (rather than the granary or someone else).

The intuitive purpose of the patent protection for RR seeds seems to be preventing a different genetic research firm from creating a similar seed and also selling "Roundup-Ready Seeds" -- not preventing some random Joe who selects some unidentified seed stock for resistance to Roundup to better his yields. The fact that we should all know there may be Monsanto seeds in the mix is (or should be) irrelevant.

So it seems to me that we're still waiting for a "real" case that deals 100% with the genetics and patents.
That's obvious that not every developer could solve 10M problem on x86 commodity hardware, of course. But obviously there are particular cases where it's worth it clearly.

"Debug normally" isn't the case with BigTable or any other MapReduce implementation, is it? Do we think Google and big bunch of others made a mistake with it? Obviously not.
I can't find the system requirements. It's difficult to buy software you'll run yourself without understanding what dependencies I'll need to support in order to host it.
With real property, you can't get sued for negligence just for having lax security. You can incur liability if somebody gets onto your property and hurts themselves (the particulars of which I'm not familiar with since IANAL), and you may lose some protection for property damage/loss, but the standard for that is also very much in favor of the property owner.
1) Appointed by Bush, but a Democrat donor:

http://www.allgov.com/officials/shulman-douglas?officialid=2...

2) No one has (yet) suggested that this went all the way up to the Commissioner level.

Nice spin attempt, though.
Projects:

-MyChannel learns your media watching habits and presents a custom channel to you.

-Using data from National Weather Service alerts and actual storm data to predict storm severity.

-AdFilter. Crowdsourcing a blacklist to block only the annoying ads, not all of them.

-Tap Kingdom. Extending @tapestry with a kid-acessible, image-focused authoring tool.

-"Moooh": Massive Open Online Office Hours. Improving online coursework to improve completion rates.
Reading Design
AHA! Thank you. It finally clicked.
Seperate, but informative article about Cornell Tech: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/high-tech-hotb...
Glimpses of a World Revealed by Cell-Phone Data
There's no reason to believe Saudi Arabia is alone in surveillance like this.

Meet the United States:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephon...
nice and slick on my ipad! extra points for the console, worked smoothly after importing my key
Why? This seemed like a good idea to me. I want to be able to decrypt messages sent client-side. My plan was to have a nodejs proxy that gets the data, encrypts it, and then I decrypt client side using this lib. Problem?
I am surprised that this study only mentioned pets very briefly in the end. Pets have been demonstrated to be a very good substitute for social interactions, in fact they can be less stressful than forcing interactions with other people just for the sake of being "social".

I also found something else interesting in this article, the mention of someone being expelled from the tribe and how bad it is. Well, our modern social lives are nothing like a tribe. If it was, then all sociopaths/psychopaths would have been expelled because they cheat, lie, oppress the tribe and make its life miserable. But as we see in today's society is clearly not the case.

Also surprisingly the article does not dwell much on extroversion/introversion which is very relevant, what is unbearable for an extravert, is not that bad for an introvert. Maybe the author of this article is an extrovert and is terrified of being alone, just like introverts are terrified of being locked in a room with 10 chatter boxes that never shut up.

Think about people you are with. You might get married just to avoid loneliness, but if you do not love this person can you expect to escape loneliness and lack of intimacy? You can stay in touch with people you have nothing in common, but does it not make your loneliness even worse? When there is an elderly in a family and no one gives a hoot even though the family is around how is it not being lonely? It is not a quantity of interactions but quality, I am surprised the article fails to make this distinction.
As opposed to using a simple or recursive mutex while forgoing concurrent reads, in this case. There was an order of magnitude speed difference in raw lock/unlock performance.

Obviously this can still be useful in read-heavy systems where the lock has to be held for long spans, but for our synchronized collections, we switched to std::mutex, which was massively faster.
Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler
http://maps.stamen.com shows the same kind of map transformations and is also based on OpenStreetMap. The Watercolor style is especially gorgeous in my opinion.
An alternative which supports other languages and uses CodeMirror rather than Ace editor: https://github.com/HubSpot/executr
As opposed to an ordinary lock which can be acquired only once. Compared to that, a read/write lock can have significantly lower lock contention, since multiple readers can acquire it at once.
How many YC-backed companies are simply facets of the half-trillion dollar global advertising industry, which is rooted in trademark monopolies and has the effect of getting people to pay huge premiums for cheap products by creating artificial differentiation between otherwise fungible goods?
Fantastic! That's nice to know
The US has fully automated machines. They even can read checks.
The source link is [1], earlier sale negotiations [2].

I hope Amazon manages to aggressively commercialize this technology.

Ever since seeing development prototypes in videos I've been smitten. [3]

[1] http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/05/13/confirmed-amazo...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5422937

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf1GjCaYzYg
Fantastic advice. I first learned about this fantastic advice from a blog post by Dan Martell that I read a year or two ago.

Unfortunately, I can't find it on his blog or searching Google or I'd post it. :\
All these faster speeds won't do anything really for heavily populated areas. The most important thing is total available bandwidth (bytes/sec/hz), and it's unclear how better that will get. LTE itself doesn't improve a lot over 3G techniques, the thing that's making LTE faster in saturated conditions right now is that there's just more bandwidth compared to 3G.
PHP 5.3 andy Mysql. I'll add a more prominent requirements section now since a lot of people have trouble finding it.
> I don't see Instagram, Facebook, etc. using that code to secure their apps, they won't license their Android clients as GPLv3

They might license the code under a non-exclusive license with different terms. I.e. the copyright holder is free to license the same source code under various licenses.

So, e.g. I could license some code to the community under GPL, but I could also license it closed-source to a corp for a fee.
You scooped mine by like 20 minutes, which is weird, so I'll just put this here:

http://www.experimentcalculator.com/

*edit: yours is awesome. Nice work.
There's more value in forcing vendors to work with Free Software licenses than in compromising the ideals of open source to allow vendors to benefit without contributing back.

You should be asking yourself how you can change your project so that GPL3 licensed code will be acceptable, rather than asking others to relicense their code.
Great insight! So very true! I feel the same with people obsessing over Perfect "ToDo" app or "Project Management" app.

More than often the underlying issue is lack of discipline and human behavior (or in Enterprise case, "organizational behavior") problems that we incorrectly label as "technology problem".