skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confidential my ass: Samsung lawyers leaked terms of Apple-Nokia patent license
couldn't agree more that it ain't much without tooling -- RAML's been out for only about 24 hours, but open-source tooling is right around the corner (weeks, not months).
This is also interesting that he waited to push for this until now.

It just goes to show that no matter how rich you are, you have to understand your value. If he had pushed for this change in Season 1 - which I suspect he may have - he probably didn't get anywhere because the show could always replace him.

Now that he has become synonymous with Shark Tank, he has much more leverage, along with the fact that maybe this clause has increasingly become an issue for companies.
Having to use a demo VM that has 2012 installed at the moment and I'm finding it incredibly annoying

While Metro/Modern/Whatever is incredible annoying in itself when not on a tablet, having it (which depends on screen-corners) running in a VM which is typically window'ed brings the madness to new dimension.

For minimum frustration, I recommend fullscreen.
This is more true than the idea that there's a competitive advantage. We would love to open-source more of our stack (and are working towards it), but it's all very tied to the rest of our cluster environment. Piece by piece.
Git sucks. It ruins my process. SVN has great integration with eclipse .
Quick note - your email is not in your profile(unless I'm missing something)
Once they know for sure they'll find something, it's easy to bootstrap a stop and search from "little white lies", about subjective or unverifiable things. (The car was 'erratic'; there was a 'smell'.) The lies no longer have any risk, when they're only used to set up sure things.

After the search hits paydirt, the petty fabrications used as a cover story to create probable cause seem credible, and the perp's denials flimsy and self-interested. And since the prosecutors and courts only ever hear the surface story – the original illegal evidence is never revealed to them – they don't even know they're looking at a "parallel construction".
I agree with freyer here. Unless you have a business that won't benefit (or will be harmed) from massive exposure I don't see the downside.
I wonder what would happen if parties to a civil suit were required to split their expenses with their opponent. That is, for every dollar you spend you pay a dollar of your opponent's legal expenses (and vice versa).

It would discourage using an army of lawyers against a small opponent (because it would allow them to hire an army as well), and might also help keep legal costs down in general.

I'm sure it's something that'd be a hard sell, and lawyers would probably hate it, but it's an interesting thought experiment.
Think of it as a variant on 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.'
It's worse at cost control than other countries, even for comparable cohorts.
FWIW, we have a lot of these things done internally, but not in a releasable form yet.
Seems to be broken on Chrome... Currently checking it out...
No I don't at all, not at least without serious oversight by a federal judge and even then I'd prefer not to have to rely on that

If the data is being acquired under EO 12333, they don't have to report anything to the FISC nor Congress. Where do you see "serious" oversight occurring?

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/10/02/james-clapper-proves-in...

http://www.techlawjournal.com/topstories/2008/20080731.asp
A man called Sir Bacon, if we can't follow him, who can we follow?
There are considerably more cars on the Left GIF though. I guess if the number of cars in both lanes and in both GIFs was equal, the average speed of cars in the right GIF would be lower such that flow (throughput) would be the same.
Prismatic's Engineering Practices on Clojure design choices and conventions
You're right... however I can certainly imagine every country of means jumping on the surveillance bandwagon if they haven't already.

At least the US has a constitution that forbids this. It's a good time to take a stand. It won't be solved globally, but piece by piece.
Quite, celebration would have been Kapersky forcing it to trial and leaving lodsys a smoking hole in the ground.
I was at a y combinator hardware hackathon in march and a Stanford team was doing something similar as well. Probably they have a patent on it.
So if I understand this correctly, great API design is all about naming conventions! Sounds easy enough!
In short, we wanted an API spec that was much more readable and efficient, showed the structure of the API more clearly, and promoted consistency and reuse. We wanted an API spec that was intuitive enough to just type out in an editor when designing an API. And we iterated on it quite a bit in real-world cases to be really convinced it was worth introducing this different approach.
Technology is eating our souls.
We (lmctfy team) are in the middle of designing and adding namespace support. It will start trickling in soon.
If the stakes are high enough, ...
Was it a disadvantage for all those people who got to play great games or watch video on the web for years before HTML 5 added the canvas or video tag? Would we have half the features in HTML 5 if they hadn't been proved by plugins or implemented as experimental by proprietary browsers?
For what it's worth, TeamPostgreSQL is also a GWT app. Also, GWT apps are not JSP based, they are pure HTML and JS for the client-side.
I personally know a guy who almost went down for manslaughter which the police knew he couldn't have committed (he had been arrested for something minor on the other side of the country at the about same time the incident occurred). It took him about a year and a half to clear his name even though the police had documentation proving he couldn't have been there. They wanted him to go down for it that bad. They also beat him during questioning and tried to pressure him into a confession. He's a real quiet harmless guy too... So... There is NO WAY I'd trust the police.
WikiPedia leaks user passwords to volunteers with access to the Wikimedia LabsDB
We'll put a kernel image on the site and the set of google-specific patches. In process of cleaning them up to work with some of the upstream kernels.
Show HN:DakWak-Launch in 30 markets quickly
Those are coming too, they just take a bit longer to release. Most are things we've shared before though.
Could A Shorter Commute Save Your Relationship?
No, they snuffed out the gag order today and the judge unsealed some stuff.
I think this article does not do the svn workflow justice.

Svn was designed with the inherent assumption that the context of a developer within any single codebase would be linear

This may be how the engineers in question used svn, but that's certainly not how svn was designed!

Creating a branch in Subversion is not difficult or expensive. It's natural for each engineer on a team to have a separate svn directory containing "private" branches. If engineers are committing unstable code to the trunk, they're doing it wrong.

Git branching is also cheap and quick, unlike svn in which a branching creating a new copy of code. Git also preserves history when branching, unlike Svn.

Subversion uses copy-on-write when creating a branch, so it is not expensive. Subversion also records the branch event in the file's history.

It sounds like the team had a flawed understanding of svn, and was using a terrible workflow. The benefits of the switch are not due to git, but to investing actual time learning a scm tool. That same time invested into learning svn would have paid equal dividends.
I've worked with Smalltalk for four years now, and for what you write, I guess you haven't been keeping up with our progresses. Take a look at:

http://amber-lang.net

http://www.redline.st/

http://pharo-project.org

Saying Smalltalk hasn't kept up with computing progress is an old argument that doesn't make sense anymore.
Definitely should be it's own product. Only snag I found was for double byte characters. Can anyone give me a hand with getting the titles and desc's to pull in properly if the language is in double bytes?
Greplin Founder's amazing story behind building the company [2011 Interview]
I'm a big fan of loser pays their own expenses + min(their own expenses, winners expenses). That means that you're at worst on the hook for twice what you put into the legal action, making it harder for large companies to price people out of the legal market with high-priced teams.
SoFi raises $500M to fix the broken student loan market; the student loan bubble
Airplanes are designed to be stable if you let go of the controls.
The Seemingly Ordinary Man Who Allegedly Ran The Internet's Biggest Black Market
Customer Support for Bootstrappers
Ask PG: Any new thoughts on single founders + YC?
I know YC has always been reluctant to accept single founders, but now that a decent number have come through over the years, I'm wondering if this still stands? A handful of single founders are accepted with each batch - any new data points here? Can they succeed alone, or do you still push for finding cofounders?
It would be more accurate to phrase that not as “Git sucks”, but as “the EGit plugin sucks”, or, if you must generalize, “Git’s ecosystem sucks”.
I stand corrected. I don't mind giving him publicity of the "this guy is a complete idiot" variety.
A 23andMe Patent
Bugs in your D3.js app? You need a screenshot
Yes. And seriously, when I saw the first Light Table demo and everyone was so amazed with it I thought "man, that's how we code every day in Smalltalk... what's so new about it?"
We're doing quite well, as it so happens.

Paying fair wages means better work output, which means you can get higher quality results, and actually means lower total cost. It's better business than trying to scrape usable results out of bottom-dollar markets like Turk, and far easier, to boot.

We're growing fast and hiring: https://www.mobileworks.com/careers/
> You offered the laser-sharp insight that hey, people can ignore the rule of law, so don't say they can't! It's a semantic distinction and I am taking it to the extreme where while it is still valid, it is ridiculous.

I don't know. Do remind me, how many US government officials got punished after being caught doing illegal warrantless wiretaps?

You can ignore the rule of law, as long as you are the government, that's not an issue as long as you can bleat "national security" enough times.
MEMS camera - but no microSD slot.
You appear to be missing the point of parallel construction. The point is that they show a true, but-not-the-whole-truth "hand" (the parallel construction) while obscuring the full truth. That is, you spy on someone, and obtain a bunch of evidence, either illegally or that is fruit of the poisonous tree. From that knowledge, you construct a (fictitious or only partially fictitious, but plausible) story about how you gathered enough evidence to incriminate your victim, without revealing that you came across this evidence illegally. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction.

Yes, they are legally obligated to not lie about the true means of how they came to have the evidence. But if nobody can prove you're lying, they can't call you on it.
I saw your post, went to rally.org, and saw that the campaign was exactly $159 short of the $50000 goal, so I donated $159.

It looks like there is a new $96000 goal... someone else will have to do their share to pitch in.
I would agree, There is nothing that can beat the Git-cli at least for now.
Suppose you're a typical nerd who lives buried in software all day long with relatively little contact with the big bad world. (Need any more proof of Levison's nerdiness? Lavabit used to be called Nerdshack. By the way, I don't mean anything negative by "nerd".) All of a sudden, you find yourself in the middle of the Snowden controversy, with a very real possibility of going to prison. You don't have much money, either. You don't know what to do. Under such circumstances, are you sure you would respond any more "maturely" than Ladar Levison did?

Levison made mistakes. Today's Wired article makes that clear. He was probably scared and confused. He should have sought legal counsel as soon as he received that first court order, preferably by calling EFF right away, but for some reason he didn't seem to have done so. His failure to work with a competent attorney (or maybe he ignored good legal counsel) probably caused more damage than what was strictly necessary.

But what happened, happened. What matters is what's going to happen next. If we're willing to stand up for a child pornographer's right to keep his hard drive encrypted, I think we should forgive Levison for his confusion as well. Thanks to his blunders, the case has now blown up into something completely different: for example, the Government's right to require the disclosure of SSL keys.
What a way to have a debate. Your comment totally proves GP wrong!
Sub par is an understatement. It is completely useless.
> Well, you ought to know that Smalltalk is focused on relatively small snippets of code, held together in consistent OO structures. There's hardly any point in fancy text-editing features when your methods are generally 8-12 lines long!

This! And also, in Pharo 3.0 there's being a huge push towards better text editing, although I've never ever needed more than what Pharo 1.0 did already provide...

You don't work with text in Smalltalk.
For those companies that are already public (so not dependent on ability to raise capital), why don't just move all operations overseas and get immune to U.S. government? Prohibitive costs of bandwidth?

You can't fight things like that in court, it's as hopeless as Khodorkovsky's attempts to defend himself. Only things that work for businesses is moving out, for people - using strong encryption on personal level.

I don't say that legal way should not be taken, it is still good but just to show how far the government is willing to go to defend it's violations of human rights - which should make things clear to those who are still in doubt.
After the article pumped up the gravity of the fire, I had to check out the video for rubbernecking value, but I was not prepared for how underwhelmed I was going to be. That was a pretty mild fire. I've personally seen several worse fires from gasoline engine cars. This is a real reach and I would expect shares to rise from this. Even if the batteries do really have some issue with difficulty being put out, what's the big deal. Once a fire has progressed to that severity, the car is going to be totalled whether or not it burns for longer and is hard to put out. Furthermore, if the cause is just a piece of metal, that's a much easier problem to solve with a protective metal plan then lets say a fundamental problem in their battery tech.
Gee, parallel construction sounds an awful lot like money laundering except with my bytes. :|
> Subversion uses copy-on-write when creating a branch, so it is not expensive

It doesn't matter what the server does, it's relatively slow on the client to either switch to or checkout a branch.
"Subversion uses copy-on-write when creating a branch, so it is not expensive"

Agreed - it's a constant-time operation according to the documentation, and took about 5 seconds for me to branch a copy of thousands of small files.

Git does have some useful features (e.g. committing part of a file), but a change of VCS will not magically solve all your problems if the flaw is with your workflow, code or internal communications.
Why? I personally don't use Eclipse but I'm sure there is a tool out there to provide similar functionality.
Branches may be cheap in SVN, but merging is not[1]. This means that from the point of view of a developer - branching isn't cheap.

[1] I believe SVN has improved their merging code in recent years, but this happened after I switched to git.
hiring and onboarding 300 "hot" mobile developers (well more probably something like 100 devs plus 100 PM/mgr/etc plus 100 GSA) - this way they paid 200K/head and have them from day 1. Add client book too.
why should a peasant understand the reasoning for the king's tax?
The MsSQL locking problems is just because snapshot isolation is disabled per default: http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2011-06-24/dear-database-...
Yep. AidaWeb and Iliad (plus many other smaller ones).

Although Iliad is not about generating clean URLs (it can, though), but more about being small and understandable, plus having Ajax for free and being pragmatic.
Now this is really good as the Technology that we create is not only for people with everything in place but also for people who really understand tech and can not accomplish simple things which tech can solve.

Was reading the Web Accessibility Guidelines and was checking this ... http://www.w3.org/WAI/ ... So this is great news for me :)
Well, I read your comment as saying that TOR should be seen as compromised. Your comments about other market owners only seem make sense if that was what you were saying. I just pointed out that the previous attack you mentioned was a bit of a one off, and any repeat would need its own unique set of vulnerabilities. Hence so far as we know, no virus on SR.
How to Make High Quality Screencasts in Linux (and Put Them on the Internet)
magit (https://github.com/magit/magit) is unequivocally better than the Git CLI if you use Emacs.
If it appeases the rights holders into allowing their video on the web I'm happy.

Users want to watch videos, they don't care about the technology under the hood.

Do you ever try and watch youtube videos that say, "this video isn't available on your device"...
It can. Although my understanding is that if one side purposefully generates high costs then they can get in a lot of trouble for doing so.

It's also worth noting that the UK is lowering the amount of fees you can get back. There's an upper limit on the percentage of fees you can get paid by the other side. This is essentially to introduce a higher cost to litigation through the courts and encourage sides to settle or go through an arbitration process.
The main issue we faced wasn't really branching, but the merging that needed to happen after that. It was a real pain.

Here is a detailed explanation on why it sucks
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2472251/492561
True but this isn't exactly a normal meeting. It's 10-15 minutes of television coverage in front of ~6 million potential customers. Estimates have put the value of that advertising at about 600k. 5% of one's company is actually a pretty good deal for a lot of small B2C businesses when you look at it that way. If you already have a product being sold and it would do well on a show like QVC then the deal was pretty good. If, on the other hand, your company is B2B, or too big, or the product isn't being sold yet, than it's a lot more questionable.

I'm glad they made the change. We'll probably start seeing a more diverse range of companies appear on the show.
The NYSE processes millions of orders per second, MtGox hundreds per second. So you have machines which work over a protocol (FIX) to establish the price mechanism. In a exchange system there are limit orders and the limit orderbook. You basically have a timestamp problem, which is kind of prependicular to the bitcoin system. At every point t in time, there is a fair value of BTC-USD. And a system which solves that problem will be highly centralized, by definition. So unless you come up with a new system for processing limit orders, people will be arbitraging between a slower system and MtGox, Bitstamp, etc.
As someone soon to be entering the job market, can you suggest a good way to look around? All the dev positions I see around are just generic enterprise Java/.NET/etc for some corporation
Skyscanner lands Sequoia investment at $800m valuation
That 100GB+ guide has re-appeared at a new URL:

http://blog.mongodb.org/post/62899600960/scaling-advice-from-mongohq
You'd be presuming the rules behind social programs are logical, they are not, they are designed by committee and as such can be haphazard and often illogical.

The same can be said about labour laws, including minimum wage; by that argument, any discussion on policy change is irrelevant.

And some social programs do paint a better picture, such as the EITC[1].

Besides, my argument is more general than whatever US social programs happen to be in place, since I'm not even from the US or living there.

So until the safety net is more logical and lets you work without putting you in a worse position, then it's rational to simply not allow jobs that don't pay a living wage.

And maybe I would agree with you if I was a labour legislator but had no power on safety net policies. But since my (and, I assume, your) power to change any of them is the same, I don't see how is that relevant.
I have a battery monitor that plays a sound when it gets to a certain level, then I unplug it.

I charge it when I'm at the computer.
I do understand SVN branching/merging is expensive when compared to GIT, But in GIT day to day activities like(commit, push and pull...) is expensive than SVN.At the end we have great eco-system for SVN. what about GIT?
The question that the wording of the appeal raises in my mind is: if the warrant first presented to Lavabit related to a non-US citizen who was using the service, would Mr Levison have followed the same course of action?
Amazing Computer and Network Security Lectures
With respect to the references to FriendlyChemist, why didn't the government charge him with attempted murder on top of his other charges? I'm no lawyer, so my understanding of criminal law is limited. Is it likely the government will add additional charges when this goes to trial?
Why the @#$@# did they let this guy go free for almost 8 months after this?

It was long enough that he attempted to put out another hit... it looked like a con in retrospect, but someone might actually be _dead_ because of this delay.

What were they thinking?
Intellij and other IDEs from jetBrains have pretty good GIT integration that works quite well and is similar to the GIT-cli
Awesome story ( http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/feds-take-down-online-fra... ); this will keep the feds busy for a while :P
Never did. But my point is that evidence of innocence should only be necessary as a counter to evidence of guilt, and if there is no evidence of guilt, one should be considered innocent, at least legaly, even without evidence of innocence. That's the principle of "innocent until proven guilty."
This is a worthwhile article to take a look at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...
The next Silk Road owner will call himself the "CEO" of his operation and won't do an interview with Forbes, but an AMA on Reddit. Strange times.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fwi48/im_the_ceo_of_a...
6.00 from MIT and the Udacity courses about CS/programming might help bring you up to speed, and 6.00 is periodically offered at edx as a full online course. Wish you luck!
Linux workstation here but run a couple of Windows VMs for browser testing and Windows only apps.

EMS looks pretty feature rich, thanks for the tip.
How is commit, push, and pull more expensive in git than SVN? In git commit, diff, branch, merge are local operations. The server only needs to be contacted on push and pull.
I expect there will be a new lib to replace that, I guess this would bridge the gap for those who don't update. I doubt ming would target this runtime though, would be very inefficient.
On the plus side, you can have multiple local branches side-by-side with svn easily, which is much easier to work with for beginners as they can just view and compare the trees in the filesystem. With git, such a setup requires more understanding on how to make a local clone instead of fetching the full history from the server multiple times.
"Always put one in the brain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfZTzcDFZ98 (graphic)
What, like a Merc driving in to a tree and weirdly blowing up?
For all you (almost) burnt out founders
Biggest learning after 10 years of programming
IS ANGELA?HITLERS DAUGHTER?