skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play devil's advocate:

Why should someone researching battery materials, testing various combinations for charge holding and minimal voltage fluctuation, etc., be rewarded with a patent when someone doing the same with DNA sequences for increase grain yields be prevented from getting a patent.

What about a new type of phone closure mechanism. There are thousands of patent applications (or were in my day, though I never worked on this material) for phone flips and sliders.

What about a qubit based factorisation circuit - and then how about the completely novel software required to pass instructions to that circuit. The hardware interface between qubit and IC, how about when it's done using FPGA (effectively software).

How about software alterations that alter the battery use in a phone through microswitching that extends the battery life beyond the benefits of the new materials in my first example. Why rule out software that can have a greater hard physical effect and allow hardware that may not make as good an improvement. (note "technical effect" is a route to getting a software patent in Europe).
Any ideas how much Google made from the deal? If they did the same that AOL did, they made out okay on their investment despite the lower sell price:

> The Google relationship generated $678 million in revenue for AOL in 2008, $642 million in 2007, and $573 million in 2006
Evolutionary psychologists are the establishment. :-)

If you want to contradict, do you have some references from non-idealists that aren't discredited (like Buller)?

By the way, the author of the article was "downvoted" on Pharyngula, last time she wrote about evolution...

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/01/sharon_begley_how...
I just sort of realized how sick apple makes me after I "synced" and deleted a bunch of my apps off my iPhone from iTunes. Stuff like this doesn't help. I don't really think I'll be staying with them after the contact.
I'm a good cook, but can get distracted when I'm working on something. I have burned up more pots than I like to think about. Now I only cook on a stove top when I'm actually going to be in the kitchen. Microwaves and slow cookers are the greatest inventions ever for someone who lives alone and actually tries to get other things done. Also, cooking a couple of pounds at a time of dry beans in a slow cooker is even cheaper than buying beans in big cans, and many supermarkets have a better selection of dry than canned beans.
Sounds like a cool thing, but may I suggest finding a better name? Not sure what Clojuratica brings to mind, but it doesn't make me think about Clojure or Mathematica or their combination. Some sort of conjenital ligament problem?
Still advocating the bouillon cubes?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526850
If the DDOS attacks have been occurring for several weeks, why didn't they take down the servers earlier?
I'm sure there is a "yes" or "no" out there that wins.
Rather than refusing to work, doesn't it make much more sense to refuse to use credit cards and refuse to buy a house on credit (as much as possible anyway) ?

After all, the credit card rates you pay reflect their defaults. So just use cash or a debit card or other means until the credit card industry quits giving cards to those people. Your mortgage rate and "mortgage insurance" and other fees reflect the defaults of sub-prime mortgages and other unwise decisions; rent until you can buy a cheap house on a 15 year fixed rate mortgage, or perhaps you have enough savings to buy a house at foreclosure auctions.

Of course, if you are frustrated because you are paying interest on a lot of credit card debt and have a high house payment for a bigger house than you need, perhaps you are more part of the problem than you think. Perhaps by holding on you are just becoming the last level of a pyramid scheme.
There's gotta be a way outside of the App Store to get software onto the iPhone, right? If nothing else, developers gotta test their apps out. If that whole process (whatever it is) were wrapped into a neat little app, an entirely new distribution channel could be opened up. Has this happened yet? And if not (I assume not), why not?

edit: not an iphone app, a regular-type computer app.
You could ask the guys on the ISS or those that did the experiments in Russia on close-quarters living in prep for a Mars mission. Or submariners, lighthousekeepers ...
Because capitalism is built on a series of MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL transactions. So when I buy a product - I gain something because I now have the product and the company gains because they've sold me that product presumably at a profit. The reason I buy something is because buying it makes me better off.

I like things that make me better off - therefore it is perfectly reasonable to like companies - esp ones that make important/complex things that I derive a lot of benefit from.
It's really not that complicated.

People are walking away from debt obligations.
- mortgages (12% of all mortgage, 50% subprime, 50% options)
- credit cards (13% default)
- personal bankruptcies (up 28% in second quarter)

federal/states/local governments are walking away from debt obligation
- pension reduction
- massive printing of dollar, $250B treasury selling this week

Companies are walking away from debt obligation
- commercial mortgages delinquency up 586% this half
- pension discharged by bankruptcy

Guess who's paying for this. That's right; the taxpayers.

So. Are you the sucker that's gonna keep on paying taxes?

All these you can google yourself (too many links to list here) I didn't come here to list all the bad things, since I doubt you even comprehend 1% of the atrocities. Therefore, I kept it simple for you.
I hope so. I'd like to be proven wrong on that. I have a Pre for work -- it desperately needs good third party apps.
Water usually, occasionally with Berocca tablets (not sure I've noticed any energy benefits, but they taste nice).

A nice hot cup of tea with milk and sweetener at around 3 or 4pm every day - and no caffeine any later.

Diet Coke or Dr Pepper zero when I need to get some serious work done.

Starbucks skinny caramel macchiato when I want a treat, or their latte to wake up first thing. Occasionally Innocent smoothies as well, or homemade blends.

I only drink alcohol if it's free. This rule has kept me sober for months, but lets me get away with a glass or two when it's a networking event or dinner ;)
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This is about the thousandth time I've seen this idiotic proclamation. There's a difference between screenshots and mockups. Screenshots are shots of what is actually on the screen (a.k.a. the program running). Mockups are created in Photoshop from a number of elements.

These are mockups, not screenshots.
My 'no offence intended' reply would be - does the poster have any trouble sleeping?

I used to drink a ton of fizzy drinks - all diet, but I noticed a significant correlation between insomnia and pop. Drank nothing but water (literally) for 6 months and suddenly could fall asleep before midnight...
Right now, there's just no market; being an early adopter sucks.

Sure. I'm just annoyed that, out of the box, the silver MacBook delivered less functionality than the slightly cheaper white MacBook. (what, exactly, was I expected to plug into that port, if at the time 99.9999% of the world's displays didn't use it?) I certainly don't feel that Apple had an obligation to include an adapter, but it didn't make a first good impression.
Sex-drive is a product of evolution, certainly. Rape is byproduct of that evolutionary trait (among others; rape in modern humans is a complicated thing).

But there are many compelling reasons why rape is not evolutionarily beneficial to humans, among them, that strong family bonds seem to be important to our mutual survival, and that rape is an end-run on an extremely important mechanism of natural selection: a woman's desire to mate with a male with "good" genes.
And thank god they actually used something plain (like the google results) instead of the visually detracting CNN screenshots they used last time.
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Dude, let the dog go. That is not an appropriate decision. If it was a person who was hit, then it would be ok to borrow at that; but I pay property taxes so the county hospital will fix the broken bones of indigents.

Unless the dog brings in income comensurate with that, like a high-end herding or show dog, it is irresponsible to spend that much on a pet. Even if you had the $4,000 sitting right there.

If I were judging your credit card application or a loan application and I had your post in front of me, I would be inclined to think that you did not make responsible financial decisions and not approve your credit.

P.S. I like dogs.
Combo stop/refresh/go???

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
"If that whole process (whatever it is) were wrapped into a neat little app, an entirely new distribution channel could be opened up."

Yes! And then that app could be distributed through the App Sto... uhhh... hmmm... err...

"And if not (I assume not), why not?"

See above.
I have met female help vampires. Unfortunately, they are related to me so there's not much I can do.
Is there any kind of application, for which screenshots are less important than a browser?! Look, it displays google results just as every other browser AND it has tabs!
I soak them then cook them in a slow cooker. Because its easier in large batches (I use 2# of beans at a time), I divide any I don't use immediately into quart containers and keep them in the fridge, or even freeze them. That way I have it readily available, usually in a fair selection, when I want them. I have been thinking about beans and rice a lot lately since I got laid off a few weeks ago.

Also cooking time varies by types of beans. Roman beans are probably the quickest. Limas, great northerns, black beans, and pintos in between. Kidney beans never seem to really get done, which is why they are often used in chili, you can simmer the chili for hours without kidney beans cooking apart.
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iPhone Intelligent Object Interaction
By using the word 'collude' you are implying that AT&T and Apple are acting illicitly. While I do find their actions extremely objectionable I doubt any of this is illegal.
Oh man. That actually looks pretty neat. I've got some anal dislikes, but they've removed almost all of the things that were red flags for me.

I'm just hoping they nativized the Mac version; I'd love to have a fourth major browser for tinkering with stuff.
I'm wondering if the Tesla could be charged in 10 minutes with a 350kW power source/station.

Also: Another hitch is the cost of the battery array. It runs about $80,000

Cheers to the MIT students for their great work, but it doesn't seem like they'll be "easily competing with petro-based vehicles" so soon.
If you have talented folks, #1 shouldn't be a concern.

On the contrary; we don't expect programmers to master design and become Photoshop gurus, for example, so why should we expect designers to master what is, essentially, programming? There's a lot to be said for having different groups of people whose strengths are in particular domains.

If you have a view which fetches some data, that same view should be re-usable for an API as json or xml or whatever you choose.

Actually, this only works in the most trivial (and thus non-real-world) of situations. Usually, API access needs to be mediated through additional logic (authentication, access control, rate limiting, etc.).

Forcing all of that logic into template tags is just silly.

I have to admit that I don't really know what you're getting at here. If you do have a case that's as simple as "use another template", well, you use another template. If you don't, no amount of program logic in templates is going to save you.

Anyway, here's how I see it:

1. Django's template language is designed to permit enough logic to handle presentation, and to be easily extensible for cases where you need something more.

2. Jinja is designed to permit quite a lot of free-form programming constructs, and is not particularly easy to extend when you run up against a wall.

These are fundamentally different approaches to "templating", and what I've found is that people who prefer, say, Jinja tend to just use it and move on. The people who stick around to argue are the ones who think that some particular tag or extra bit of logic should be made available by default in Django, and so are arguing about differences of degree rather than differences of kind.
Anyone know what the status is of a Google Voice client for the S60 platform?

It seems far less restricted than most of the other smartphones, except perhaps Android. It even comes out of the box with a SIP client, and you can toggle a setting that uses SIP preferentially instead of making regular cell calls, if you want.

If Nokia is willing to develop and include a SIP client, which I can only presume the cell carriers wouldn't be thrilled with, they don't seem like the types to block Google Voice.
Code needs to be signed to run on the iPhone unless you've jailbroken it - which most users don't do. So a key step in developing your neat little app is brute-force reversing Apple's private key (or stealing it, I suppose).
I agree. They do not necessarily talk about the making of a company, essentially because there was no company. Only people trying to raise money for it.
2 big glass of iced coffee, and the rest is water.
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Mirriam-Webster disagrees in that collude necessary implies illegality:

Collude:
Definition: conspire, plot <colluded to keep prices high>

Collusion:
Definition: secret agreement or cooperation, especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose.
You can jailbreak your iphone and then install apps from a number of repositories. This, however, probably voids your TOS and warranty agreement.
It's a cable! How incompatible with something can a cable be?

Quite. Analog or not, cables carry a lot of technology these days.

To attribute this to some DRM effort is quite a large assumption. I wouldn't recommend writing off a company like Apple based on an assumption like that, considering it is almost certainly not true.

Granted, Apple does not usually go out of their way to make sure 3rd party accessories are supported on future devices. They can be a bit reckless about modifying interfaces, which tends to accidentally break 3rd party products (which Apple doesn't even always know exist). Heck, they frequently break compatibility with their own older products.

I think there is a tradeoff here, though. MicroSoft is actually darn good at backwards compatibility, and Apple is good at innovation. Striking the balance is tough.
polygraphs are also pretty useless when it comes to catching who is lying
I think your observations are probably correct.

When I was trying to learn basic accounting / bookkeeping, one of the best guides I found was some State's "Women in Small Business" or something similar commission, that had a very short down-to-earth guide to doing enough bookkeeping to keep you out of tax court.

This also reminds me of the buzzword "lifestyle business" that was going aroudn a while back.
I think the idea of charging in 10 minutes is that it brings it into the realm of service stations and out of the charge at home model where it takes all night. (However a good slow charger would still be an option.)

Traditional electric cars charge at home or at work because they could only accept a charge at a fast enough rate to fully charge over hours. Household 220 was up to this task but was not the limiting factor.

It takes me 3 to 7 minutes to gas up now. If it only took 10 minutes, an electric service station would be feasible. It wouldn't be that difficult to build a station that could supply a dozen multi-hundred kw charging stations. The stations would probably love it because, unlike gas, you wouldn't have to stand there and watch it for spills and 10 minutes is just enough time to run in and pick up a latte.
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"the moan of doves in immemorial elms and murmuring of innumerable bees"
"the fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free"
That's alliteration.
'long slow slog' is "misremembered the cliche 'long hard slog'".
At least it's Clojure and not SciPy :)
A big part of the hype machine is producing a product that people are satisfied with and will recommend to others. Word of mouth is better than any amount of TV advertising. For example, as an easy way to avoid being free tech support to my friends and family my default response for the last few years is "I dunno... I use a Mac. Maybe call tech support?" and suddenly most of my friends and family have Macs.
Check out Cydia and Icy:

http://cydia.saurik.com/

http://ripdev.com/icy/
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Oh man, AT&T might be rotten, but Verizon is actively evil when it comes to this. Like cackling Emperor Palpatine levels of evil.

They heavily modify the software running on the phones they sell, and they don't allow any others on their network.

Modifications include:
* Shoving their logo into every orifice
* Leasing you access to the GPS chip in your phone (or even the E911 data)
* disabling all file transfer methods to try to get you to pay for MMS
* disabling native Exchange support to upsell you to enterprise bullshit
* blocking any media content that doesn't come through their bizdev
* Still pushing motherfucking WAP (Gopher over telegram, I tell you)
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I don't rinse the beans from the can; the "bean sludge" you refer to is what makes the juice thick and hearty. Also, in beans (as in rice and other plants) a lot of the trace vitamins and etc are in the hull, and if you are on a rice and beans diet you don't want to be avoiding that.

The introduction of polished rice into asian countries caused a rise in a disease called beriberi among poor people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriberi

I also endorse frozen or dried beans. Frozen ones are about as fast to cook as canned.
Did you mean physicians? If not, I would not put much more stock in a physicist's opinion about sweeteners than any other random person's.
Note however that: 1) the get-rich-quick stories are irresistible. ( Hurry up and approve my app so I can make a million in six weeks like SGN!! ). 2 ) huge, wealthy customer base.
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Tabs on bottom is the current norm in Firefox

Am I the only one who likes my tabs on the bottom, meaning under the content, above the status bar?

Much less mouse travel when switching apps and then switching tabs.. (I'm trying to use the mouse less and rely just on the keyboard, but its tough)
A good lesson for those who think governments should be trusted with managing dossiers of any kind about their citizens (e.g. health care records).
Indeed. I intended to convey a secret cooperation that is not beneficial to their customers.
For any kind of regular sized bean, such as pinto or red kidney, you can't just dump them in and start boiling. A lot of people have told me that you can, but those people's beans have hard centers that don't digest well and give you a tummy ache. There are also people who claim it helps to dump them into boiling water, then turn the heat off, and they can then soak for much less; this also fails in my experiments.

I believe that dry beans have to soak a long time cold because you want them to actually start to sprout. (I know from experimenting that dry beans are still alive and can be planted.) I think, like malt grain in beer making, they need to start to activate so they make the enzymes that are going to turn all the starch to sugar; then when you slow cook it, those enzymes work and break everything down a lot more.

Also, I think if you cook on a wood stove you will find that too hot is more of a problem. Keeping an even simmering temperature requires constant attention.
Apple is trying to lobby the government into making it a federal crime to install your own software on the iPhone. I love this digital millennium that we live in...

Anyway, it comes down to -- what do you want more, pretty icons, or your freedom? Right now, the majority of phone users seem to want pretty icons.
So you don't have to borrow $1000 from a guy who will take $950,000 of the million later.
While Apple would deny warranty service if they discovered the phone is or was jailbroken, a full restore from iTunes completely reverses a jailbreak, so as long as your phone is either dead or restorable, there are no warranty issues.
I would miss the page 'title' -- my tabs are always too small to see more than the first letter or two. An optional title band under the URL bar, adjacent to the page content itself, would more than make up for the loss.
The equipment is not so important. I have written some great applications hunched over my 9" eeepc. Generally, I use a 24" monitor and happy hacking keyboard, though; which definitely makes things easier. (It also makes it easier to get distracted by HN, though.)
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

The Stop Button, Reload Button, and Indeterminate Progress Spinner all represent exactly the same thing -- whether the page is loading shit. You only need one, with a lag between stop and reload to avoid accidental fail.

They also finally put the progress bar in the address bar, another Safari innovation.

I've used TinyMenu + StopReload + Fission, along with shoving the few UI elements I want into the "File" toolbar to get this UI in FF for years.
Yes, because thoroughly corrupt officials in remote parts of China are exactly like Government officials in the US.

My God! Your post is a good lesson for those who think Internet commenters have anything valuable to say.
"I think the pitfall you are alluding to is hitting ramen profitability and then spending all day fire fighting rather than creating new features."

I don't think that's what he's alluding to at all. He's talking about business success, not how you spend your time. There are plenty of people who create products for small markets and can't make the growth jump past that early small market into a larger one. This isn't always (or even OFTEN) a feature-creation problem.

Here's some cool math: If your acquisition is linear ("we sign up 3 paying customers every day") and your churn is percentage ("we lose 8% of our paying customers every month") you will eventually hit a point where your growth STOPS (unless you can fix one of those two stats). The zombie state Drew is talking about (I think) it where your revenue is largely not growing, you can feed yourself but no one is ever going to buy you, and you've run out of "move-the-needle" features/efforts that can improve acquisition or retention. "Walking Dead" is what investors call it.
I also found this to be a good intro to R: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Verzani-SimpleR.pdf
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
Thanks for the link. It reminds me that I should really wall-mount my LCD.