skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're reversing what I'm trying to say, I'm saying that verification or invalidation causes citations to occur, not that citation is verification. And that work that doesn't get validated dies out. Even work that gets "invalidated" in some sense can reveal other truths, or necessary changes in paradigms.

This is why scientists check the citations of a paper when considering its contents. It's important to ask if other people followed up on this, and what have they found if they did follow up? New papers, without any citations, must be held in a state of meta-information, until there's follow up papers. Old papers with few citations, and no validation citations, must also be considered as in a state of meta-information. Sometimes, really important things like Mendel's genetics get lost for decades in this state, until they are rediscovered, but it's fairly rare.
Check out http://www.cofounderslab.com/ if you haven't already. It is the one place I know of that seems active at all.

I'm looking too, but I live in PA and would like someone who is more of an expert programmer and/or has experience with the payments industry.
Node might make more sense in your case. It's almost too easy to throw something together in drupal. You never actually need to touch PHP or JS. From my (admittedly shallow) exposure to node, it seems to be a healthy mixture of minimal boilerplate and actually writing some code ever. You'll get the experience of doing for yourself rather and than buying into a preconfigured, but ultimately limiting ecosystem.
Top Phone Companies Sued Over Patent Infringement
GhotiFish,

Why do you give snarky trolls like kevinxucs advice on how to avoid/circumvent the hellban? If you took the time to read his post history, you'd see he's exactly the kind of 1 line, trollish, thoughtless commenter that we don't want to see in HN.
I disagree with you regarding Android. Albeit a different platform, thats a bit like saying Windows was never a success and couldn't be because it was closed source and no one wanted to work with them.

In a world where Android didn't exist as an open source solution, if the value proposition was high enough, there still could have been a chance a closed source license OS could have succeeded. We'll never really know.
Sure, I think what you say is reasonable. I don't know how much I like the ideas in this article to be honest, and I'm not really qualified to judge them. I do like the fact that people are throwing out ideas and discussing them, even if they're not good ideas.
The Affero GPL is partly motivated by this use case. It doesn't fully solve the problem, but it means that your competitor who grabbed your code base and set up an open-source clone, will at least have to keep open-sourcing all their stuff, too, leveling the playing field a bit. Alternately, it can serve as a kind of poison-pill to keep some competitors and would-be competitors from using your tech.
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This looks very close to what I'm looking for, thanks!
Not even that, just the current word I am shooting at. Sometimes when it would pick one I didn't intend, it takes too long to find which one it wants me to type among the soup of words.

EDIT: I mean I would like it off to the side, not just highlighted in orange.
It says right at the top of the article that it appeared in the print edition of Forbes.
Jack was my graphics professor. After taking his class, I realized that I was never going to be a guru in the subject. :( But I did learn that a v1.1 of a C compiler (Borland Turbo C) produced much slower code than the highly optimized Turbo Pascal, then at v4.0
Shortening David Heinemeier Hansson to DHH should do the trick for getting another name in there.
I think the idea is that you keep it sealed until it is needed, then open it in some way that creates a legally admissible proof of the contents (maybe opened by a notary or something; and examined for postmark/envelope tampering by some sort of expert in that field, who can testify his training leads him to believe it is authentic.)
Australia is not on the brightest of trajectories for stability at present. Who needs a brutal civil war to set you back when you just stop replacing your population? At a bit under 1.8 total fertility rate they're doing to their country, over the next generation, the equivalent of loosing 15% of their population, far more than we've lost in any single war. If the numbers on the civil war are correct, with 2% of the US population lost on the front lines, the present demographic condition of Australia will have more than seven times the impact on their society as the US Civil War had on ours in terms of lives not realized.
Milestones based on how far other players get would be great for this. I had a decent time playing when my goal was to reach wave 17, which another commenter said they reached.

The game could list four milestones: the highest wave ever reached by other players, the median wave reached, and the 75% and 25% quartiles. So the goals for expert mode might be wave 5, wave 14, wave 21, wave 53 (making those numbers up). And those numbers would change as more people play the game.
I used to work at Sourcefabric (sourcefabric.org) which pays you to work on open-source projects. They have offices in Berlin, Prague, Toronto and Romania.
I just went to my High Schools website and it looks TERRIBLE!
Yeah, same here! They have soooo many pages on a dinky little Google sites website, its really out of hand!
> The court wound up ruling in MGA’s favor and last January awarded it $137 million for legal fees. But the judge left the door open for Larian to refile his suit against Mattel. Larian vows he won’t let the matter drop until Mattel comes crawling to him: “If those guys want me out of their hair, they’ll apologize.”

Sounds like the best client ever.
Say someone publishes a paper that has the conclusion: If you preform procedure X, you get carbon nanotubes with property Y.

Lets then go on to say that someone publishes a paper which states: carbon nanotubes with property Y will theoretically allow us to do Z.

If Z is something interesting and worthwhile, it won't be long before people read both papers and decide to try using procedure X to make Y nanotubes and then measure their ability to do Z. If no one can actually get to Z, then one or both of those papers was wrong, and the field will recognize that. The papers may not be formally retracted, but everyone will move on and stop referencing the incorrect papers.
Microsoft, Oracle, HP, IBM, and others also hold a variety of patents related to garbage collection algorithms. The legal risk isn't limited to C# on non-Windows platforms; I'd guess that any garbage-collected language is potentially open to litigation: C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Haskell, OCaml, etc.
> ".NET applications only run (officially)" -- what's that even mean?

If MS feels threatened by Mono, it changes its runtime and kills interoperability. From that point on, Mono is playing catch-up and who knows what happens to the users caught in the middle.
That's drastically oversimplifying things. GM vehicles are not uniformly poor quality (GMC trucks retain very good ratings, for example, as do many Chevrolets).

GM was illiquid due to the 2008 financial crisis, that set off a downward spiral of cash flow.

Letting GM die would have had massive systemic effects on the economy: suppliers and dependent businesses would have also gone bankrupt, and an estimated half million people would have been out of work. The combined lost GDP and higher unemployment, would have led to a much more severe downturn and a much higher federal deficit than the $10b lost on the bailout due to the automatic stabilizers for UI, food stamps, and medicaid, along with the reduced taxation revenue of individuals.

None of this would have made sense of GM were not a going concern (i.e. it couldn't make money anymore). Clearly it could, but it had massive issues that made it fragile. Now it is less fragile.

The government probably could have tried to hold onto some of the 60% of shares it owned for a profit, but politically, unlike Canadians or Europeans, a partially nationalized firm is not something Americans enjoy ("Government Motors"), so it made sense to take a loss early to save the political face.
Congratulations to the person behind this project. He seemed to understand the importance of relationships in the execution of an idea, and seems to have spent some effort in finding great judges.

I am sure it also help that he has a vision that high profile people share with him.

Good luck with your project.
Naoto Fukasawa
He was likely carrying car keys, a cigarette lighter, and some duty free alcohol as well…
jsgrep looks very neat as well. I like the patch syntax. However, I don't think this example is quite equivalent. In the grasp example, it replaces every binary operator, not just that specific call. Could you show how to represent the same thing in jsgrep?
What about a two player mode? Where when you type a word, it sends it over to the opponent? My favorite typing game website is http://typeracer.com where you are a car and you race to complete sentences and paragraphs against other people (wpm is car speed).
in a related note a friend of mine that's rails core member is interested in getting a job working full-time in rails, anyone want to hire him?
Great game, horrible title
The Upfront Software Price is Now Free
Don't Be Afraid
Here's an explanation Paul Graham posted ~6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17705

The short of it is that HN uses closures stored server-side to maintain state in various places throughout the site, and purges old closures regularly. As usage has gone up, what counts as an "old" closure is now probably unreasonably short. Restarting HN also invalidates all existing closures.
The World's First Computer Virus (video)
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Chinese appliances are shipping with malware-distributing WiFi chips
failure of 2 servers is a risk for the proposed design. for a v2, the system could use Reed-Solomon on the backup-server to add entropy and support the simultaneous failure of N servers.

Yes, a distributed design with the backup blocks distributed across servers would be adequate as well, even without the RS blowup factor.
Also a sophomore in high school, but I'm not doing anything as cool as this! Congrats! I'd love to chat with you sometime. Drop me an email at luke@simplyluke.com
For one thing there is no 8GB Nexus 5. For another, anyone following Google's Nexus product lines knew that the $199 and $249 price points were obviously clearance prices to move the last bit of inventory out of the pipeline and make way for the Nexus 5.

It's silly you'd even argue this considering there is no other phone you can buy for $350 that is anywhere near as capable as the Nexus 5. It is competing with phones with an MSRP of over $500.
Single page link for those who don't want to read an article that is broken into five pages:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danbigman/2013/10/30/how-general...
My for fun NodeJS/Twilio project is making money
Okay, that's odd... it's working fine for me on my tablet, and also working fine for me on my Pixel now that I'm testing again. Must have just been some sort of temporary glitch.
Very clever --things have come quite a ways since Mavis Beacon. I see the WPM in this, but what about accuracy? Should you be able to recover the word when you mistype it?

In any case, a fine example of game-reward theory tying into feedback loops for education.
My school has a Mapquest Map. I didn't even know MapQuest was still in business. My buddy and I are looking at his school and there is a tree drop down menu that stretches beyond the bottom of my retina Macbook Pro.
GM did not lose that money, that was the money lost on government stock sales.

The government chose to sell its shares underwater for political reasons. Americans, unlike Europeans and Canadians, don't long tolerate partially nationalized companies, even if it makes them money.

The $10b loss is probably a lot smaller than the impact on the deficit if GM were allowed to go bankrupt. Keep in mind that most US deficits these past few years were not due to the stimulus, TARP, or any Obama legislation - they were due to the automatic stabilizers (medicaid, EI, food stamps, etc.) that have been law for decades, and skyrocketed with the financial crisis due to the vast numbers of people (over 1.5% of the entire US population) dropping out of the labour force between late 2008 and late 2009. It's up to 2.8% now.
What's the sound of one hand texting? Mindfulness is Getting Attention
This is not just a geek thing. Everywhere lately, the here and now is the place to be. George Stephanopoulos, 50 Cent and Lena Dunham have all been talking up their meditation regimens.
The Nexus 5 denotes its hardware generation, not the screen size. So, technically the Galaxy Nexus would've been the "Nexus 3".
Hey man, I'm trying to form a teen developer community over at http://teen2geek.com similar to HN, so maybe you could check it out. I'd love to see more people our age there :)
Great! Thank you for doing that.
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> the idea that government is the sole entity that can be relied upon to solve it, as claimed earlier post

I presented my argument wrong. My position is that the government is the only entity that can be relied upon to solve it entirely, not the only one that can be relied upon to help solve it. Private entities are too small to institute the broad changes needed to solve this, as has been demonstrated in the past, when they had the chance and failed.

My complaint was against the people who are convinced that the government must not be involved in any of this at all, because Socialism Is Evil.

> But what actually happened? The government was shut down briefly, then all went back to as it was. The GOP looked like even bigger fools.

The GOP only looks foolish to the people who were against it to begin with. They look like Brave Freedom Fighters to the people who voted them in, and will vote for them again in 2014, simply because they stood up to the Black Muslim Fascist Socialist (who is Black, by the way).

> Yes, but my belief (clearly not argued well, I concede) is that many times things get halted because the majority has, for political reasons, decided to acquiesce, not because they lack the means to overcome the resistance of the minority.

If the non-Tea-Party majority of the GOP in the House decided to risk being primaried en masse they could, indeed, kill the Ted Cruz contingent. I agree with you there, sure. But that's an extremely hard road to follow; it's a classic Prisoner's Dilemma, something right out of a game theory textbook, and politicians are trained to be risk-averse. (Which, in other scenarios, can be a good thing.)

> even if the government, in the abstract, has the means to accomplish something in practice they cannot be relied on to do it, because of political self-interest (including, for example, being beholden to their campaign financial sources)

And here is where I disagree with the Libertarians (including the Tea Party, which are Libertarian on this issue): The Libertarians say that if the government isn't perfect, it can never be part of the solution. I say that if the government isn't perfect, it's time to improve the government.
I'm surprised at how little traction this gotten here.

You all like to think that you have it covered. This guy did a lot of the work that is the basis for what you do.

Go read it. If you don't understand how to do time in a distributed system you suck. He figured it out before you were born.

Edit: sorry, should have read the comments first.
> criticize your ideological opponents (who don't disagree with you on this matter)

Yes, they do. The ones screaming about Socialism damned well do disagree with me on this issue.
It is help and completely focused on this topic, there are no many companies focusing on bringing APIs for closed desktop/server applications.
An interesting performance difference between perl and awk
I disagree. The failure of the Constitution is pretty broad and varied, but its failures have definitely been apparent to those who know it and are paying attention.

Separation of powers has effectively failed due to the Supreme Court's supreme reliance on precedent, or stare decisis. One bad decision, unless explicitly overturned, has ripple effects on every decision that follows it. Because of SCOTUS' strict adherence to precedent, and their relative unwillingness to overturn bad law except where they absolutely, positively have to, we have a ton of bad precedent on the books, and everybody pussyfoots around them, which leaves more and more resultant bad decisions in their wake.

The second amendment has been as flagrantly violated for years as the fourth is now. "Congress shall make no law" is obscured by endless debate over whether the right belongs to a militia, or whether it is an individual right. After the Heller decision, that debate has shifted over to whether or not a given piece of legislation is "reasonable", as the Heller decision declared legislation must be. This of course ignores the text of the Constitution, that Congress shall make no law, but because they have made laws, and some of those laws have been upheld by bad precedent, we have a circular logic in place. Congress shall make no law, but the last law that was made was upheld, so no laws can be made, so long as they are reasonable. Further, SCOTUS has thus far passed on newer, more updated challenges in the wake of Heller.

They've made the same side-steps on gay marriage. A favorable decision has been reached, but there's no teeth in place to prevent states from re-interpreting the decision however they like, and everything moves so slowly that political parties can reap the rewards from both the passage of a bad law, and its repeal. The democrats passed DOMA, to great acclaim. The democrats claimed success when DOMA was overturned, to great acclaim. The Constitution's purpose is to prevent legislation from catering to the whims of the people, and it is clearly not doing a great job there.

It's hard to imagine that any originalist text or intent would condone today's perennial slaughter of the fourth amendment, but on it goes. People stake their claims on individual words in the clause, while ignoring the text on the whole. This is done on purpose, because there is no penalty for violating the Constitution, and because even if we were to attempt to hold those accountable to the text, it's so easy to say "Well, I read it differently."

The problem is that the Constitution, for as much as we might all love it in theory, is written in plain English, and is subject to interpretation by lawyers. There's a reason lawyerese is used, and it's to prevent plain English readings from being interpretable. But we elect those who are, for better or worse, the most likely to be able to twist its words into meaning whatever we want, and we either can't, or don't hold them accountable for anything above and beyond the next election cycle.

Sorry for the rant.
Submitted to see if the local Perl hackers have a better take on the author's script.
3876 points, 95,3%, 57 wpm
loaded very fast, executed without lags on chrome,macbook air mid-2011
another popular example from Latin:

occido (short i) - verb, "die"

occido (long i) - verb, "kill"
Using Chromium on Linux Mint (an Ubuntu-based distribution), the loading bar freezes near the end. Firefox works fine.
This looks really, really cool. The challenge for this month, revamping a high school's website, has been something I've poured many many loving hours into over my sophomore and junior years (I am now a senior) in HS. I wrote it for free, open sourced the entire thing (http://github.com/aroman/keeba), and now most of my school's student body uses it every night.

I would be positively elated to get my project even looked at my the judges, but I don't know if I'm eligible.

I wrote this message to the organizers via the site's contact page, reproduced verbatim below. It is my hope that posting it here will give it a better chance of being answered.

___

Hello!

First, this initiative looks really cool — thanks so much for organizing it.

Second, I am a HS senior and during my sophomore and junior year I took it upon myself to rewrite the student-facing part of my school's website. I have completely open-sourced the code, and the website is daily active use by the majority of my school's student body.

It is a complete alternative to my school's custom homework website, written and designed completely by myself. It dramatically expands the functionality and usability of the existing site.

I did this purely out of my own desire to create and to impact my school community. I was not asked to do this, nor did I receive any compensation for the work.

You can see more about the project, called Keeba, on my website here: http://aviromanoff.me/projects/keeba/

It has links to both the site and its source on GitHub.

*THIS IS MY QUESTION: Am I eligible for this challenge, being as how I've already created the website? It is of course still under active development, but it took many months to create.

It would mean the absolute world to me to get my project looked at by some of my heroes — the Python sabdfl and John Resig, as well as the Khan Academy crew and DHH. I sincerely hope this is acceptance

Thank you very, very much for your consideration.

Avi Romanoff
aviromanoff.me
You mean for the law firm? I would guess he has in house counsel for that lawsuit.
Interesting, and nicely stated! I wonder what it would look like if funding and publishing could be made to incentivize really valuable pursuits, rather than rewarding trendiness, novelty, and shock value.
Callism makes your phone a phone again.
Crazy. I was just thinking about doing this in my place a few months ago. I was going to actually build a little container that fit in a window and have a HEPA filter from McMaster-Carr (or wherever) sitting behind computer tower cooling fans, as these fans are designed to be quiet and low-power. This design has a ready-made chassis, though.
Drupal and node.js are not really directly comparable.

Drupal is really just a (complicated) CMS. Starting with version 7 it is now flexible enough to be a framework, but it is S-L-O-W. Every sizable Drupal site depends heavily on caching to maintain acceptable performance. I don't know of anyone but Drupal shops (like Phase 2 or Acquia) who have built actual software products on top of Drupal.

Drupal is developed in PHP, but its codebase is well behind modern programming practices. The community is only just now introducing object-oriented architecture in Drupal 8, which is still in alpha development. So: if you learn Drupal, you will not have easily transferable skills. But the demand for Drupal devs is growing fast, at least on the east coast, so you could have a very rewarding career.

Node.js is a lower-level framework. You could use it build a CMS (and some people have [1]), but you could also use it to build a lot of other things, with a good chance that it will be performant. And since it's based entirely on javascript, and is seen as "hot" and up-and-coming, there may be broader opportunities for you there as a programmer.
Hey! I work on the BD team at TokBox - we're planning on having an archiving beta on WebRTC by the end of the month - if you want to know more feel free to drop me a line at edward [at] tokbox [dot] com!
Also would love to know more about why TokBox doesn't fit your/their needs!