skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "prior disclosure" here. They filed a patent application: those are supposed to be public. The prior art Joel used was the documentation of the Win32 API from 5 years previously (and I'm pretty sure we've been using variable-resolution apps since earlier than 2008, and not just in Windows -- this was just an example). Could you clarify what the problem is?
I added your observation. I didn't know about this. If you'd like me to add a name/link, I'd be happy to do it.
I bet there will be more now.
Is it going to use normal glibc EGL drivers for GPU, or it will use bionic ones with libhybris?
I was going to say that in the UK the two are the same, however it seems we have adopted the USAian usages. Apparently, my knowledge of tax law is stuck in the 70s...
I wasn't speculating that rapes would go unreported. I was pointing out that laws often have unintended consequences. I would be much more worried about innocent or incidental witnesses being prosecuted over-zealously or maliciously.

For instance, until recently it was illegal to make an audio recording of another person without his or her express permission. These laws were put in place to prevent criminal "wiretaps" (for purposes of blackmail and the like). Of course every parent who recorded his daughter's dance recital was also committing a felony, but since no one was ever charged for that, nobody complained.

But then the police realized that if they wanted to prevent someone from recording their illegal or embarrassing activities they could arrest the person for illegally wiretapping them. This led to a string of arrests and prosecutions for doing nothing more than documenting police brutality, incompetence or corruption. The point here is that laws have a way of being misused and some laws are easier to misuse than others. Censorship laws are in this category, so special consideration should always be given to the possible unintended consequences when such laws are considered.

Perhaps over-zealous or malicious prosecution doesn't happen in the UK, this seems a bit far-fetched to me, but maybe it's true. It certainly happens in the US.
Quick, everyone fork.
HN filtering is not about "censorship". It's about elevating interesting material and hiding braindead crap. Which is what it's doing in this case. "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!" Really?
It might be a streamlined way of applying some of the existing criteria from the skilled-migration points system.

The existing points system gives you the majority of the education points (15/25) if you have a "Canadian post-secondary degree or diploma for a one-year program" or something that you've gotten certified as the foreign equivalent (19 points for a 2-year degree, 21 points for a regular 3-year bachelors, etc.). I wonder if this is just intended to set the threshold at 15/25 but ease up the requirement a bit by allowing you to count 1 year out of any degree program as equivalent to a Canadian 1-year diploma, since many countries don't have actual 1-year diplomas.
Curious idea. Signed up to see what you're planning.
OVH has come a long way. They used to be cheap and bad at service and totally incommunicado about any issues. Then a few years back something changed and they started to work on their image. Their still cheap, but their service is good and getting better and they seem to have nailed the communications angle. Good for them. Between OVH, Hetzner and Leaseweb the EU hosting space is doing fine.
I had to do the English test as part of my Canadian permanent residency and it was oddly terrifying. English is my first (and only) language.

Luckily it turns out I can speak the English reel gud. I now have a certificate to prove it!

There were other people in my test group who couldn't follow basic instructions that were given out before the test ("Please wait over there", etc.). I imagine they didn't do so well.
Brilliant! Too bad however that so much energy needs to be wasted on SHIT like patents.
The guy gives many advices and mostly forget to follow them himself.
RuneScape 3, completely rewritten in HTML5, is now live
It's permanent. Even if your business fails you keep your permanent status.
I think I can explain how to get started with require.js pretty quickly. I've attempted to do so with a short gist: https://gist.github.com/willurd/6054834 (much shorter than the OP and a higher code/text ratio).
If they really had any standing, wouldn't they have sent the DMCA takedown request to github instead? Or are they just afraid it would be negative on their part to be permanently in https://github.com/github/dmca?
There's quite a difference in degree isn't there? Violent movies typically feature death but briefly and without detail. Rape porn involves detailed and explicit humiliation of a single subject.

Movies of that nature would face the same uproar, and indeed have (the idea of 'snuff films')
Actually you typically apply for citizenship after you become a permanent resident, and it takes less effort (from the candidate, at least). But in any case, it is the same service that is in charge of both citizenship and permanent residency, and they are understaffed. Perhaps they will give more priority to Startup visas processing than to other types of visa.
"Where in any of my responses have I said anything about a conspiracy?"

as if the scientific consensus emerged from political donations...
...it's only in climate science that we see people actively fight
the broad conclusions of the scientific community as a whole.
I would have linked to an actual announcement from Runescape.com itself, but the site seems to be all but down right now.
Oh, absolutely. I'd love to have a phone that I can use as a phone, insert into a "laptop dock" (like what the motorola atrix had) and use as a laptop, and insert into a more traditional docking station (to which I've attached a large monitor, ethernet, etc) so I can use it as a desktop.

I'd much prefer to have a single trusted device than spread my digital life across "a cloud".
"Written" as in sent you a registered letter? Or was this an email?

I don't know anything about the Snapchat API but if it's simply undocumented I don't see how that would be a "technological measure" of "effective control."

If you had to sniff or crack an API key of some sort, maybe that does.

In any event, it seems like a friendly enough request, maybe take it down as a courtesy pending their clarifying exactly what "technological measure" of "effective control" they think it "circumvents." Depending on their response and how much you think you want to push it, you can then decide what to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds
Your complaint is because US based developers are expensive? I hope that you don't think developers in Canada are dime a dozen.
Wasn't there a recent thing with their CEO hating Github because of "Githubs agenda of poaching developers" or some shit like that?
The big part is this: you get the equivalent of a green card - Permanent Residency. The Minister's office actually did a lot of research into this thing before launching it, and consciously didn't want to put talented people into the awkward position a lot of H1B holders have when their visas expire and are forced to pack everything up and head home.
Permanent residency is the major step towards canadian citizenship, and the biggest bottleneck. Citizenship is (from what I heard) relatively straightforward after waiting the necessary number of years.
Node-flux - Fluent Regular Expressions
I didn't think from reading it that the two groups at MS were the same - I assumed they were independent parts of the org, in which case it was fairly clear that this was an idea that various people have had without direct communication, and thus throws serious doubt on "non-obvious". I'm pretty sure that you could find plenty of other people who've had the idea.

Companies like Akamai used to (probably still do) have image resizing proxies which took something like a multi-resolution TIFF file as part of their extended CDN features. I can't remember when I first saw that in action, but I'm sure it was pre-2011.

I'm also not sure why using a researchers own publications to kill a patent would be bad in your eyes. If you think something is really, truly patentable you'd keep it under wraps until you did so, as far as possible. If you only decided later, once you'd published research and people were productizing that research - and you then patented and sued them - well, that's exactly the kind of thing that should be stomped on!
Researcher admits to hacking Apple's developer site, meant no 'harm'
Assuming you can find a buyer for the house. My parents could absolutely not sell theirs, there was no buyer, because anyone could see there was no money to be made. You need a buyer to sell.
RollerShoot - Episode #14 Special Edition 07/22 by MichaelPorter
If you fast-forward the evolution of the GMail interface it is like watching a drab green Jeep being turned into a chromed Jeepney. Complete with three tiers of honking-subsystems, 18kW worth of blinkenlights and a whole dash full of Virgin Mary bobble heads.

But mind you: the rims on the thing have a carefully selected hue of blue that was found among 39 others to be the one hue that gave the best ct rate on ads, so it isn't like the process was random or anything.

I have a very simple test for product usability: it must not confuse the hell out of my parents. Gmail makes my parents shot profanities at the computer. Test failed.

(Okay, there I probably managed to offend at least one ethnic group, one religion and I said something that is almost certainly ageist. Feel free to be offended while I shall busy myself not giving a fuck)
Every application develops until it contains a sketchy rewrite of apt-get. Not just languages - WordPress and MediaWiki are going that way too. We really need a bunch of standard interfaces to package management.
Yeah sure, doing evil because it's your job to do evil is very normal, very human. The practice still merits criticism.
High Frequency Trading: Is Additional Regulation Really Necessary?
This is really, really cool.

Its actually some part of governing delegated to the public. A part they can be good at. I wonder if the crowd can be authoritative, rather than just helpful. That would let them tackle obviousness, not just prior art I could see a stackexchange-like. It might be that they can tackle it now, if good methods/guidelines exist for objectively determining obviousness.
I think the larger problem is referential transparency: most OO languages allow two objects that represent the same states to have distinct identities, even if compare-by-value claims they're equal.

Of course, it's not impossible to have referentially transparent objects. I wrote such a language (Reia)
My guess is that's part of the purpose, to use the visas as a carrot to improve deal flow to Canadian angels/VCs. Could also be that they think companies funded by Canadian investors will be less likely to jump ship to the U.S. later, versus if they were funded by a Valley-based firm.

(As for why the investors have to be from an approved list? Probably to avoid sham "angel investors" fake-funding their acquaintances, or outright selling visas.)
In the white trash southern town where I grew up being a teacher at $35k/yr is considered one of the better jobs available. Military service is the best option for young men who want to provide a living wage to their families, especially since no education is required. A few dozen doctors and dentists and veterinarians make bank and live like kings (not really joking... think giant sailboats docked at their beach mansions with 4 car garages), but a big part of the problem is that there is no middle class. There's a huge chasm between $35k and $350k, with no opportunities. In a community that is that poor even entrepreneurship seems like an impossible choice. How can you make money in that community when nobody has got 2 pennies to rub together?

Another problem is that the culture does not value those things which empower young people to rise. Even among the top 5% of my high school class, I knew people who turned down full tuition scholarships to the flagship state university because they wanted to follow God and marry a nice boy from their church, or needed to stay home to help care and provide for members of their family. It's traditional and tribal, and looking off toward the horizon and going away for fancy schooling just doesn't rank highly on most peoples' priorities. In a community where many kids' parents attended the same high schools and the grandparents are local, wanting to leave is considered odd.

The only reason I'm not still there today is that for some reason, as a nerd and social outcast, I rejected that path from an early age and my top priority out of high school was to get the hell out. School was hell, but I consider myself fortunate not to be working minimum wage jobs and living in a trailer park like two of my siblings.
The interactive map is an amazing "infographic". What's interesting to me is the big band stretching from Duluth, MN to Midland, TX that's the most "upwardly mobile" for essentially all income classes.

An important note, though: While this data is useful for relative measurements, the absolute gain or loss in income % is less meaningful. For one thing, they're comparing ~30-yo's today to their parents in the "late '90s". Let's say I was 32 in 2012, and we compare my income with my parents' in 1998. In 1998, I would have been 18, which would mean my parents were likely at least 38, and had a few more prime years of earnings growth racked up.

Relatedly, my understanding is that there is a long-term trend towards later earnings years, tied to more professional and graduate education. Today's 30-yo just graduating from medical or business school might be primed to make great money later even if their parents were making more at age 30.

Just fascinating data.
The Ouya micro console rival made in south Wales
I would guess that it serves as a risk mitigation strategy; if business was unsuccessful, you'd have some 'know-how' to survive with very little dependency on the social system. Just my $0.02
Will all parents have the same views on what "porn" is? Will they agree with the government?

I'm normally very far from a Libertarian but I get very hesitant whenever the government weighs in on issues of personal taste. They can't get it right by definition, because there is no consensus on what is "right". For example, see the debate over the ".xxx" domain name, which failed because no-one could agree on what belonged on there.
I'm gathering that the handset makers and carriers and VCs laughed them out of the office, so they had to go this route.

I would have expected to read something like, the phone is an enhanced version of x/y/z with these features, we got a great deal from (manufacturer), but we need 50,000 pre-orders to proceed.
IMNAL, but if they aren't filing off a DMCA notice (but asserting it's a DMCA violation), why care?

I persume they can't file a lawsuit without filing DMCA takedown notice first?

If so, when they'll file the notice, GitHub'll take it down (as they usually do). Then you may consider filing counter-notice (if you can afford legal action) or, I guess (IMNAL!) ignore the whole affair.

Anyway, you'd better consult a lawyer.
There are some hoops to jump through but I've got lsyncd working on my Mac. I think you have to compile it with fsevents. I think the README actually details what you need to do.
Leap Motion Controller is a great toy, but not yet the future of interaction
Exactly, and if your monetary stream is inconsistent, then 3-6 months should really be considered insufficient. You're shouldn't be regularly be eating into your emergency fund.
32 million dollars? 830$ for a device, when high end MTK based phones cost max 300 (Zopo, THL, etc.) on the European market, and less than that in China?

They haven't got a clue... Why don't they start making working ROMs for existing phones. If they targeted a few existing high end phones and the ubiquitous and cheap MT6589 models (quad core, many with full HD screens) they might have a better chance of starting to spread their OS and intriguing users and developers.
Pretty ambitious. Presumably they are not going to build the phone, they will do like Google and Apple and Microsoft did and find someone who is already building phones, to build them a bespoke phone. One then wonders how many units you have to commit to buying for LG to spin a variant of the Nexus 4 for you. Certainly its more than 100K phones, which gets you into the 'best' price for components (some vendors of phone parts (like some of the flash chips) won't talk to you unless you order 100K pieces).

Clearly there is a value proposition to having knowledge about all the bits in the phone, but as I discovered with the Android phones, working at Google, there are some bits which are protected in a variety of ways (basically most of the radios in phones these days are all software and that blob (the stuff that makes the radio 'work') is strictly licensed. It was, for me at least, an unexpected additional cost for the radio stuff. (I imagine that business model started with soft modems where the line access chips were $1 and the code to turn them into a 56Kbit modem was another $9 each).

Regardless of outcome, this will join a number of attempts at making a Linux phone. I wonder if anyone has collected all of the attempts into a single space.
>it is a scene where a sapient, intelligent being subjugates a 'lesser' creature using a sexual organ for their own goals

If you take out the "sexual organ" (I partially disagree with that term as it is also used for the transfer of thoughts) how is this any different than a human riding a horse? In both situations you have a sapient, intelligent being subjugating a "lesser" creature for their own goals.
Yes, I did the same thing. Case is such a useful disambiguator in English... all the more reason to hate title case.
Both are caused by good parenting.
> I'm pretty sure this rule also extends from my countries intense fascination with secondary education.

That was my takeaway. A way to save face with the strong "education or else" group of people in the country, while acknowledging that formal education is not all that relevant to the program.
It was hard for me to ever understand why people preferred OpenGL at the time

OpenGL was elegant and very simple to use, quickly becoming close to invisible. DirectX, in comparison, was layers upon layers of COM book-keeping code.

Of course OpenGL has become like DirectX in more recent iterations, as in the end immediate satisfaction is less important than flexibility.
Ask HN: Best mathematics courses for programming and intrigue?
What college courses did you take that you found to apply to programming (e.g. algorithms, logic) or found to be genuinely interesting?

FWIW: I'm a philosophy major with many courses in medicine, but it turns out RIT doesn't have a medically-related minor. So I'm turning to math. I start my math minor in a month. I've taken calculus and biostats previously. I know Perl, PHP, JavaScript, R, SQL, shell scripting and CSS/HTML. I do computational biology research with a professor and I hope to translate coding skills into an intro level job at a startup like Comprehend.com or Automattic.com.
Oh yeah:
http://www.ovh.com/fr/a1136.interview-github-octave-klaba-ov...

Google translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=ht...
How does that theory jibe with some of the best mobility results being concentrated in places like Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota and North Texas?
You can already do that: HDMI output, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Password reuse is a really bad idea, regardless of how the password is stored. Depending on how the server is comprised, your password could be intercepted before it is hashed. Don't reuse passwords for sensitive stuff.
I posted it. Someone passed it to HN. People hit an arrow pointing upward. That's how anything gets to the top of Hacker News.
Here you go. I'd love to give it a shot, but it does look like more learning is required:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-03-07/marketplace/sn...
It was not sexist.
I had never heard of Origin before this comment, thanks!
The thing that people who don't understand storytelling don't get is that formula are there with good reason. The important part is using the art side of telling a story to make it not FEEL formulaic, even as you use the formulas to ensure an experience that satisfies readers.

There's a great book on how people's brains react to story that I loved, and you might find interesting if the concepts in save the cat! were interesting to you, called Wired for Story by Lisa Cron.
It is hard. At least that's what I read in:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html

EDIT: but not that hard, according to http://prog21.dadgum.com/37.html ;)
It would be great if there were some examples of good and bad buttons and their contexts.
"Famous" is a huge stretch. Say my name to 1,000,000 Java programmers and you're likely to get 100% "huh?"
> a blown PSU (caused by their own inability to wire a rack);

Please explain. I spotted the BGP failure but this happens from time to time with basically everyone.
Snuff films face uproar because they depict actual murder, not simulated. I'm not arguing it should be legal to sell video of an actual rape.
Exactly. "Self destructing" messages are an illusion. Publicizing this fact may be bad for Snapchat's business, but it's good for their users who have a false sense of security.
A concept from a classic Steve Yegge rant, http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
The lambda calculus was the first object-oriented language. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf explains this and proposes a crisp distinction between OOP and abstract data types.
If anyone is seriously considering applying and needs assistance meeting the Canadian angel / VC requirement, feel free to reach out to me, I am based in Canada and active in the angel/VC community. Contact info is in my profile.
The product is untenable, as it is impossible to guarantee that the message is not copied when it is viewed. No amount of pleading or threatening will change that.
Using crowdfunding wastes a huge part of the raised money on taxes. It looks like a sign of Canonical not being able to find investors. Jolla for example did, and I take it as a sign of maturity and expertise in the field.
No, I'd like to be able to bring awesome people from Russia, the Czech Republic, Israel, etc who often don't have college degrees. If Canada would let me do that, I'd move my startup to Canada.
Pure Awesome. Shame there's not a way to do the same thing to existing software patents. There are plenty (~40k/year according to the article) of bad, obvious nonsense patents already out there. It'd be nice if there were a simple process to appeal and invalidate them with similar demonstrations of prior art and obviousness.

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing some Wikipedia-level-OCD focused on this site to stop the roughly 100% of bad applications for new software patents dead in their tracks. Imagine a 2014 where zero new software patents were issued.

EDIT: Incidentally, patentlyobvious.com is just a parked domain at the moment. It seems like the obvious choice for a place to host a site like this.
> My German is nicht so gut, but this early exposure to foreign language study (few Americans begin study of a second language before secondary school) got me started in the process of understanding what it takes to learn another language.

Or at least what it takes to learn another language according to the school system.
I'm not sure I would say that. There's no reason that a single language needs to solve both problems.