skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest players have most to lose from IV. IV in fact must target big players to extract largest sums possible. Big players also often have diverse profitable products making them much more easier target. In return, big players can't sue IV because IV has zero products on market.

IV's business model is this: Hire 30+ full time staff to do nothing but idea generation. They do some proof of concept to show off to journalist in attempt to clean their image as trolls but in reality they have no plans to make any products whatsoever. In addition they have 100s of other people which had previously included some well known researchers and experts to "generate ideas". All of these ideas becomes patent. They also but entire portfolios from other trolls.

So the name of the game is to some how collect 1000s of patents in just few years. That increases your potential target domain. Now you go to actual businesses and demand "protection money" like traditional mafias and gangs used to do. For a much lower "subscription" cost you can avoid multi-million dollar suits.

Another twist in the business plan is that the "member" companies can use IV's portfolio to attack non-members. Imagine Samsung using IV's patents against Google. That increases incentive to become member just because you don't want to be attacked by other members.
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Japan is bigger than Germany

However, I believe there are a lot of mountainous terrain, and a lot of small islands as well, which is difficult to populate

I believe the tendency of congregating into the same place ends up coming from the culture as well (to find "the best place")
You Thought 4K TV Looked Real? This One Goes to 8K
you might also want to use [1]
xmpp, starttls, proxy support with valid tls records, custom palyoad and stuff.. configurable via cmdline options.

[1] https://gist.github.com/tintinweb/10411753 | hb-test.py aka heartbleed.py
There is just too much of "me too" in design nowadays.

I was really dismayed when MS came up with Metro/Modern and suddenly most vocal designers flipped switch and started to produce designs inspired by the new MS's design language. No creativity there at all, just plain boring simplistic uniformly colored boxes.

I guess even Apple caught the metroitis with iOS 7. No idea what went on over there, from UI that was appreciated as the most beautiful, polished and envied it just borrowed approach from the most controversial that many find disgusting (hey, was the default color palette chosen by color blind people?).

We had the same problem when hiring designers for our creative product - most designers just flat out copied all sorts of ugly trendy flat designs. I really don't want my app to look like it was designed by the 5-year old Miró that just discovered boxes in MS Paint.

What is happening in design? Is it the same thing that happened with classical music when modernists completely broke historic standards and started to produce "intellectual" music that maybe 5% of population can appreciate, the rest just suffers through?

I can automate creation of ugly boxes/flat stuff myself, I don't need designers to do that. From a designer I would expect something original, expression of craftmanship that will discern my work from the others. Not uniformity.
Everyone misses the point. Japanese are innovating, but the ingrained American values make most of us blind to the Japanese approach to innovation.

Japanese aren't copying they are embracing an idea, comprehending it, and improving it. They could be inspired by anything, like any of us, but there has been much to be inspired by in the US over the last 50 some years. We all do this, but while americans focus on price per unit, Japanese focus on quality.

As I've mentioned elsewhere the subtle but powerful core difference between Japanese and Americans (quality vs quantity) form the foundation of two different emergent systems. Although it sounds simple it is a profound difference at scale.

This is why Japanese are very innovative, but most americans simply don't see it. Japanese had broadcast HD in the early 90s, and phones that could play TV 6 years before the iPhone.
Ah cheers, its probably just a codename for now anyway, I couldnt find any domains I like. I liked it being named after a satellite since its used to communicate between 2 instances 'on the ground' (offline)
http://i.imgur.com/cLpWHc2.png

Here you go, a test run for private quant machine learning delta neutral trading algo for sp500.

Note: The numbers are for this short run only so don't draw any conlcusions from the training range shown etc.
Has anyone used RubyMotion and RoboVM?
"Bill the Lizard" and his cohorts shut down the site from being useful long ago. No news here, move along.
Just in case anyone is wondering, it is possible to compile Java to native code without a VM. I had to write a Java to MIPS compiler in uni, once in C++ and again in Java. Painful and hard without the luxury of LLVM but doable.
Ask HN: Are these forums modern letter writing ala Jefferson?
http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

For no particular reason I was browsing Jefferson quotes and realised - who talks like that? These are not the letters and writings of private person to private person in any sense I understand - but seem more like workings out of personal philosophy on a semi public arena - written as if expected to be read my more than the recipient.

And it struck me that is little more than what I do here.

Just a Sunday thought.
Random Snowflake Generator Based on Cellular Automaton
A non-lawyer is going to have a very hard time ensuring they understand the consequences of a contract if it's cleverly written to fuck them.
Slightly tangential, but I have almost the same setup (Arch + Thinkpad) and I've noticed slower shutdown times since ~3.12 due to systemd taking down oldroot. Are you experiencing the same thing?
Ask/Show HN: Hackers in the Shires
After inadvertently discovering some other HN readers living locally to me, outside of a city, I thought I'd try something to help surface more people like that.

So: Hackers in the Shires (Editable Google Map)

It's easy to find fellow startup hackers in cities - less easy when you live out of town. So, wherever you are in the world, add a marker with your Twitter handle/HN username/something if you want others around you to know you're out there.

The goal is to help people outside of the dense networks to hook up, talk and maybe even help each other out sometime.

PS: The map is publicly editable, so please, play nice, else I'll just have to zap it.
Thanks wglb and dang. At least now I can stop trying to work out the (non-existent) pattern!
> It would be like being acquitted in russia and then charged in argentina.

No, "it would be like being acquitted in Russia and then charged in Moscow" or "it would be like being acquitted in Argentina and then charged in Buenos Aires".
Creating is hard, copying is easier

And once created, and people get accustomed to that language, it makes it easier for them to use (everybody knows what an x in the corner of a window does)
No time for dreaming, busy patching for IE.
Yes, I'm also very impressed by this. It shows that they have their OPs in total control and know what they are doing.
This is likely true considering how low the house edge is on both Baccarat (1.06% on the banker) and basic craps (don't) pass/come with full 3-4-5 odds (around 0.37%) [1]

Any small positive edge in lossback, card or dice placement will lead to advantage. Some of them can't do math as well as others, apparently. This is how Don Johnson (not the actor) broke a few casinos several years back, including - surprise! - Borgata. [2]

[1] http://wizardofodds.com/gambling/house-edge/
[2] http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/the-man-wh...
After inadvertently discovering some other HN readers living locally to me, outside of a city, I thought I'd try something to help surface more people like that.

So: Hackers in the Shires (Editable Google Map)

It's easy to find fellow startup hackers in cities - less easy when you live out of town. Add a marker with your Twitter handle/HN username/something if you want others around you to know you're out there.

The goal is to help people outside of the dense networks to hook up, talk and maybe even help each other out sometime.

PS: The nature of the map is that it's zoomed in on me right now - am assuming that'll change when there are more points - let me know if there's an alternative way.

PPS: The map is publicly editable, so please, play nice, else I'll just have to zap it.
Warning, rampant speculation:

Say ten people come in with similar symptoms but no certainty of Ebola. You quarantine them all as 'maybe'. It later turns out one actually has Ebola. The other 'maybe' cases are now likely at a very similar level of risk to that which they would have been at had they been quarantined with definite cases.

Yes, quarantining them separately is better, but probably not much better, and in many cases probably not sufficently better to consume considerably limited resources.

Summary: I don't think this warrants 'DUH!'.
If Akamai realized there was a major security vulnerability more than a year ago why didn't they share this information with the OpenSSL team?
How does Akamai's "secure heap" patch to OpenSSL work?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/003qnx5b8fftwl7/screen001.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/55qvqn273rw99t1/worldgen.png

I am slowly (due to eleven month old twins) but steadily working on a new version of my now-ancient but still active (in a niche sense) multiplayer political strategy game.

It uses a pretty cool random world generator (second link).
Might as well.

http://imgur.com/9XRwLNk.png

Fixing up Drag and Drop File moving. bacon.txt is being dragged from /home/lerc/Notanos/apps and being held over ~/Notanos The dashed line around the window indicates the destination for the drop. (holding over a folder icon would reduce the dashed border to just around the folder icon)

[edit] And because I made this screenshot just after midnight, I spotted a bug in the clock display. hour 0 should display 12 for am/pm mode.
Compare: How London Looks on Google vs. Paintings From the 1700s
You need to grow a pair or you'll be crushed by people like this.
>Why do people want everything for free when other have put a lot of effort on making it?

I don't think that's the problem. People will pay if what you build solves their problem. More specifically, they'll pay if they see that what you build solves their problem.

Before building, you should check:

1. Do they have a problem?

2. Do they know they have a problem?

3. How much of a problem is it for them?

4. Who, exactly, has the ability to act on this problem?

5. What language do they use to describe the problem?

6. Do they have any requirements that aren't obvious to me? Can I incorporate them into what I'm building?

If this sounds like marketing, it is, but it's the good sort. Building something people don't actually want is a perennial problem.

Rather than trying to sell what you have, figure out what they want. Then you'll know whether to:

1. Change who you're talking to

2. Change how you're talking about the product

3. Modify the product

4. Abandon ship
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Same goes for conference badges, which is similar. There is dedicated hardware (printer that fits the size of the badge) which is sold together with its accompanying software.

Consider that programming it made you learn new things!
It is also funny to the original that asked if japanese can essentially do "Lean".

Umm, Lean is just a copy of the Toyota Way that has been infected with american/euro values.

Constant improvement is Japanese. Americans use it to drive the cost low in order to maximize profits, japanese use it to maximize quality in order to maximize profits.
AGPL is based on modification rather than public performance or use. You don't have permission to modify copyrighted things by default so if you do modify, then you either comply with the AGPL or violate copyright law.
I agree...

I visited Stockholm in the 90's and there were many many young people there that were defacto hipsters in they way they dressed, bought vinyl, used old film cameras like lomo's etc. etc. way before I saw the same in London or New York.

I have this view that the individualist fashionistas all around the world are in realtime creating a movement like hipsterism without realising it, and for the most part people think they look like idiots, but every now and again the right person hits the right look at the right time and there's suddenly lots of people copying it, and validating the look creating a movement.
And here we are, install script Hiawatha-PHP-FPM-MariaDB Debian7 x32/x64
Overall, I have no problem with Marc's suggestions from a credibility/benefit POV, and I don't think he's making those comments to further any strategic position for himself.

"People in SV generally consider this unethical and abusive."

But this comment stood out to me. In my interpretation, this translates to Marc saying the civility and integrity of the benevolent overlords of Sili Valley are the true standard bearers of how to operate in the technology capital business. Further, anyone who doesn't follow that protocol is out of bounds.

Marc even calls out how the market will take care of this problem and that tech companies will need to do their own due diligence on investors. The implication: tech companies are obviously not smart enough to do that on their own, so I better let them know. Really...if any company taking on significant investment doesn't execute their own due diligence on their investors, well you get what you get.
And "we" would like to thank you for your continued blind fanboyism. The article he linked to describes various issues with the language itself, which is something that the OP completely failed to address and stands as a major flaw of PHP. Reading is a wonderful thing, try it sometime.
The employees of tech companies with charismatic leaders sometimes elevate their Great Leader to legendary status in their field of expertise, whether its true or not. Worshipping is part of the tech company cult thing - you do see the parallel of course with cults and tech firms? There will be plenty who believe the Zuck is the best coder there or amongst the best at least.
I really like this idea a lot! Please continue, and I hope you release soon.

I'd throw 3 bucks at that! 8)
Yah, when I get my hands muddy playing in the dirt, a few wipes with a paper towel and I'm set for the day!!
Looking at it another way, the existence of the packaged systems probably validates the market and the developer's intuition that it scales. Likewise, his experience that people use Photoshop to hand craft ID's shows that it is underserved.

Sure, a Windows app won't own the market. But there are may be many small organizations within and without the education sector that could streamline their organizations - conference organizers, wedding planners, caterers etc. Think mom_and_pop with XP not organizations with IT. Think Bingo Card Creator[that's HNer Patrick McKenzie]

There's money in the long tail where integrated solutions and government contracts are rare.
Looking at it another way, the existence of the packaged systems probably validates the market and the developer's intuition that it scales. Likewise, his experience that people use Photoshop to hand craft ID's shows that it is underserved.

Sure, a Windows app won't own the market. But there are may be many small organizations within and without the education sector that could streamline their organizations - conference organizers, wedding planners, caterers etc. Think mom_and_pop with XP not organizations with IT. Think Bingo Card Creator[that's HNer Patrick McKenzie]

There's money in the long tail where integrated solutions and government contracts are rareLooking at it another way, the existence of the packaged systems probably validates the market and the developer's intuition that it scales. Likewise, his experience that people use Photoshop to hand craft ID's shows that it is underserved.

Sure, a Windows app won't own the market. But there are may be many small organizations within and without the education sector that could streamline their organizations - conference organizers, wedding planners, caterers etc. Think mom_and_pop with XP not organizations with IT. Think Bingo Card Creator[that's HNer Patrick McKenzie]

There's money in the long tail where integrated solutions and government contracts are rare.
Looking at it another way, the existence of the packaged systems probably validates the market and the developer's intuition that it scales. Likewise, his experience that people use Photoshop to hand craft ID's shows that it is underserved.

Sure, a Windows app won't own the market. But there are may be many small organizations within and without the education sector that could streamline their organizations - conference organizers, wedding planners, caterers etc. Think mom_and_pop with XP not organizations with IT. Think Bingo Card Creator[that's HNer Patrick McKenzie]

There's money in the long tail where integrated solutions and government contracts are rare

http://www.kalzumeus.com/
>Why do people want everything for free when other have put a lot of effort on making it?

people don't. There is a market and you have to understand it before making your product.

It's not a question of how much effort you put, it's how much value the customer can see in it.
This is my side project. https://github.com/ragsagar/django-tasklist
It is in a very infant stage. We used various task management apps, But most of them were too complicated. Gradually our IT Manager started using google spreadsheet to assign tasks which I didnt like much. So I started this side project, which we are using it now for managing our tasks.
Screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ragsagar/django-tasklist/m...
Perhaps the essential question we should be asking ourselves each time we approach a new site design project is: why would we not choose to be different?

Isn't this an obvious, if unfortunate, commercial reality? The fact is that cheap, mass-produced products have a large market that is willing to pay for them.

If you can make such products with less time and money than you would need to create original, thoughtful, customised work for every job, then you have a viable business model. Moreover, your business model can be implemented by people who don't have the skill and creativity required to do bespoke work.

Fortunately, there will always be a market for premium sites, with original designs that are carefully planned with the site's goals in mind, and with a look and feel that are matched to the client's brand. There will always be clients who need a completely custom web app to fit their particular needs. And these kinds of client will always be willing to pay a premium for good work.

For better or worse, there are simply a lot more clients who don't have that kind of budget, and for whom a site that is built from a decent template with a basic CMS in half a day does the job well enough. And there are even more who don't want a template that is exactly like everyone else, but can settle for the work of a newbie web developer who doesn't know much but can manage to fire up Yeoman and throw together some HTML5 Boilerplate and Bootstrap and a couple of jQuery plug-ins.
The power of STM semantics
Google App Engine now supports naked domains
What myth?
How Zebras Got Their Stripes
I don't think they knew about heartbleed. This is stopgap to protect against leaking private keys via memory bugs.
Working on a new pelican (python static site generator like jekyll) theme with a minimal old book style, with renaissance serif fonts, text decorations, etc. Not a designer, so I'm having a bit of trouble but I think I did fairly well so far! Comments appreciated.

https://github.com/makmanalp/fleuron (screenshot included!)
There is a heavy Pascal influence in Nimrod.
Fully agree. I wanted to recommend Django for a friend to get started in web development but it's such a hassle to get started, I'd rather have him start with flask or even PHP..
The Windows taskbar and start menu allow for certain levels of usability and efficiency.

The approaches offered by newer systems like Unity, GNOME Shell, and Windows 8 all fall well, well below these levels set by the earlier approaches, however.

They're seen as "problematic", to use your terminology, because they are inherently inferior to earlier approaches in many important ways. They leave users worse off. So of course they will be seen in a negative light.
Indeed it's a very good thing, especially if the actual resume can happen in that time span.

Sometimes it's frustrating since it looks like frozen.

Sometimes it's misleading, e.g. when you see that you didn't get an email or a IM notification, and then you realize it's because your e-mail/IM app is not really running yet.

Or when you take a quick glance to the wifi indicator and see that there are many bars and then you go away assuming there is connectivity but when it actually awakes you are not really online.
What, exactly, does this do? The ReadMe is somewhat terse.
Microsoft didn't invent flat design or Swiss typography. These are just old ideas whose time came around...again. Design is not about recreating the wheel or even invention, but tasteful application of ideas (most non original) to provide the best experience to the user. Being inventive doesn't guarantee (or even help) with that.
I'm guessing from the author's writing that he/she isn't from the US. A quick stalking suggests India. This is important because the the market is much different in places with low labor costs and many eager and able workers. For example, cutting grass next to the highway in the US is usually done something like this: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4710027673_eff0b14e9e.jp... (with a tractor) but in other countries it is often done like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lWs-yzp5oV0/Tn93Q7_ZQwI/AAAAAAAAAL... (with a "weed whacker").

This matters because we cannot think of the software in question as having the power to reduce costs by very much. If Photoshop is being used, it may be an unlicensed copy, and if a person has to do this job 10 hours a week, it may cost about 1200 USD per year.
To me the right customers are bosses who are making the cards...or rather owners who are doing so. This is a tough sell to a bureaucracy because it's a bureaucracy.
I haven't worked for Akamai for more than a decade, but at that time, I can assure you that not only were there lawyers who thoroughly understood the GPL, but there were many, many engineers who would not have remained silent for a breach of the terms. Assuming that culture to have continued -- and I see no reason why it would not -- Akamai should be up there with Red Hat in terms of license compliance.
You can modify copyrighted things, you just can't in general copy your modified version.
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A CDN writing a custom malloc sounds kind of crazy, but I guess it paid off.
Although it's Sunday, I'm a bit late but I liked the idea so much. I found some of the projects listed here extremely interesting.

I'm in the (unfortunately long) process of learning rails among other things. I'm building a small medical office/patient management application based on what I'm learning. Here is sshot[1].

[1] http://atmosx.clarify-it.com/d/9mgq2c
I'm a researcher married to a designer. My wife has many more creativity constraints in her job then I do in mine, but she builds usable products for today while I get to think 5-10 years out.