skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it's a design patent you would have to be really, really, close to the design laid forth in the patent to infringe it.

Will this invalidate all search type pages with a logo on top, an input box, and a search button? No. Will this stop a company named go0g13 having a home page with a search box, and two search buttons under the box? Most likely.

Honestly though, there is no need for internet outrage about a design patent, taking off the "feeling lucky" button and not having a multi-colored logo similar to Google's should be enough to skate around it.
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You're totally nuts. And can crash at my place for a day if you end up in the silicon valley as well.
Google Voice Alternative Line2 Is Now Live On The App Store
There is a setting in Adwords for "rotate my ads evenly over time" that is necessary for accurate A/B testing. By default, Google shows the ads with the highest click rate more often, so you'll get a bias.
We already acknowledged the possibility. Our production of a simulation in no way affects the possibility that we're in one now.
The point of doing it on such a small budget (besides being how much I have) would be to force me into making it up on the fly. The project is deliberately structured to be somewhat open-ended.
You might want to invite the EveryBlock guys, they're pretty much the defininition of what you're looking for :)
You need to do some more research, I am Turkish i have Kurdish friends i do not think less of them they do not think less of me. If i come over to United States try to take over Texas kill innocent civilians then you guys kill me and my friends. is this atrocity or self defense?

There is no Turk vs Kurd fight going on its just an up moron brain washing people and turning them in to each other.

Get your facts right.
Right. Now I am really confused. You went out of your way to build gem building support into GH. You run a fricking gem repository, probably the largest after Rubyforge itself. If you honestly agree that using Rubygems is "utterly insane" then .. wtf are you doing?

And Rails uses Rubygems. Of course. Its ease of use is one of the reasons Rails, and indeed Ruby itself, is so popular. Is it "utterly insane" for Rails to use Rubygems, too? And if all the core members are so against it, why does it? Why is Rails even in the gem repositories?

What am I missing here? Seriously, I just don't get it.

I'm currently kinda mentoring a friend of mine who's just getting started programming (my 3rd student!). I can personally attest that Rubygems is an invaluable resource for the beginner and intermediate Rubyist. Have you considered the possibility that your ultra-expert status has blinded you to the needs of the lesser 99% of programmers?
I rarely see any well thought out, cohesive arguments for re-structuring wikipedia.

I see no reason for an internet encyclopedia to copy the shortcomings of a paper encyclopedia as closely as wikipedia does.

Paper and shelf space are expensive and limited, you have to limit the articles and the article size.

On the other hand, HD space is cheap and text small and easily greatly compressed.

Searching in paper is hard. Searching on a computer is easy. There's no reason to have one article be THE article. Articles could be write only, unmodifiable, and search-able by their contents, their ranking by the general public, their ranking by a group of experts, their ranking of any selected group, by the hash of their text, etc.

There could be some built in redundancy, like a short encyclopedia style article on top of an incredibly deep Ph.D level dissertation article.

In short, I find wikipedia cludgy and inexplicably mimicking the short comings of paper.
Feedburner is Google's biggest screw-up to date
thumbs up for UIUC. :-)
I am working on a few of the features of chcheck.com for Daniel, and I also helped him out with another project. We have been using chcheck checklists and to-do lists during the actual development of chcheck.com, and also with the other side project. Shared checklists were quite useful, as we used them for planning, bug testing, deployment, etc..

I'm looking forward to seeing the finished site with all of the features Daniel has in mind fully implemented
The study showed that males who were able to problem solve in order to remove red objects from their nests, got the most mates.

In this case the smart birds got the girls, but it doesn't follow that smart humans have the same sexual selection.
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The user's quota was exceeded.

http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/
Let's say person A claims we are all living in a perfect computer simulation, and person B instead claims the world was created by a pink unicorn. How do you construct a rational argument about which one to believe?
True, but the only thing I was evaluating was what it looked like.
Wheego Whip EV: Function Follows Form
Does anyone else feel like lately Google is looking more like Microsoft?
No one has suggested, is suggesting, or will suggest that you stop using Rubygems. That is not what this is about in any sense of the phrase. Everyone loves Rubygems, including Ryan Tomayko.

This is about the best way to use Rubygems. Check out Josh Peek's recent article: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/1/gem-packaging-best-pr...

There are ways to use Rubygems without putting "require 'rubygems'" in your code. Those are the correct, most portable, least painful ways of using Rubygems. Learn them and cherish them!

That is what this is about: how you are using Rubygems, not whether or not to use them.
> For one, Sony's players have supported mp3 for at least the past 3 years and possibly longer.

Last time I checked they said that players 'supported mp3', but what that really meant is that you had to use their software to load music onto the player, and their software transcoded from mp3 -> ATRAC. They just don't announce it outright that internally the player is using ATRAC.

> Second, options like Microsoft's Zune Pass let you do both: paying $15/month gets you access to the entire catalog of music, but you get to keep 10 of the tracks (in a no DRM, quality mp3 format for most songs) every month -- making it equivalent to only paying around $6/month for the subscription.

In that case, it's not really a 'subscription service' but a hybrid 'subscription/pay-to-own service.' More like a 'rent-to-own' service. {edit} Not to mention that Zune is Windows-only. {/edit}
Scientists Seek Warning Signs for Catastrophic Tipping Points
Quote from the introduction (emphasis mine)
" Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race. It is then possible to argue that, if this were the case, we would be rational to think that we are likely among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we don’t think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears. That is the basic idea. The rest of this paper will spell it out more carefully "

To distill the above:
It is possible that some people are simulations. Therefore it is likely we are simulations. Therefore if we don't think we are simulations, we are not entitled to believe our descendants will run simulations of people.

Not sure if I even need to critique the logic behind that.
I love to watch my Sims playing the Sims on their little computers :)
You, monsieur, are mistaken about the provenance of the word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallah_%28arabic%29
Project Natal Milo Demo from E3
When I was traveling in Central America last year, I saw a number of Israelis with Zunes.
Back to School/Do the Math: Counting too much on calculators
Do it, because you'll not get time to do five years from now, and you might even meet someone who'll want you for a job. Just don't expect to necessarily return from it.

~Matt (met my wife while travelling and ended up in the USA)
Since you can't end up with more entropy than you started with by using a deterministic process, if you're going to do that you may as well use the bits to seed a random number generator.
"Probabilities" are deceiving here. It's pure speculation and so any talk about probabilities is only adding a pseudoscientific veneer to what is really a high class entertainment.

Science fiction minus fiction does not equal science.
Reading a few of the comment here...

I feel bad for some of you. This isn't serious (at least I hope not), this is the sort of thing you get to toy around with in your head when you're driving on a long road trip or coming home from a long day at work.

It's fun to think about this sort of thing (for me and, aparently, a few others at least...)...the way some of your are commenting on this makes me feel like you would be the type of people to ask

"Why? Are we going somewhere?"

of an invitation to go for a walk.
von Neumann is credited with coming up with the fair toss trick:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_a_b...
I don't see a contradiction here. Can't a pink unicorn run a computer simulation?
Does TechCrunch reflect or shape early adopter interests?
For example, does TechCrunch report on twitter frequently because early adopters find it interesting or because it wants twitter to succeed by shaping early adopter interest?
I'm happy to help. I like this idea a lot.
That's what noscript is for.
Whenever I try to do 40.reverse, the thing errors out on me, and it wont let me progress any more through the tutorial. Kind of disappointing. I remember doing this thing before and it was quite fun.
This article is fluff. There is a superficial exploration of the development process, punctuated with non-descriptions of the actual coding. Screenshots of nested items is not news.

The entire content is that FogBugz has met a routine feature request. This belongs in the FogBugz changelog, not on a news site.
You can't really trust anything they give you (they could have copied and pasted it from something interesting that they Googled, or for that matter any open-source project), so you have to judge code in person.

And you can't, because a whiteboard is not a place to write code.

Instead, ask them to describe their accomplishments in detail, including the approaches they took to achieve those things. Ask them how they would solve some hypothetical problems that you pose. This kind of discussion can't really be faked, and tells you immediately what kind of thinker they are.
If you have shell access to your shared server, I'd recommend getting in there and doing some more Ruby commands (via irb).

If not, I'd recommend getting a slicehost/linode account (even if only for a month or two) and practicing there.

From there, learn how to install/use gems, various Ruby libraries, and the structure of Rails apps.
The World's Wisdom Reduced to Lists
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That one does seem unfair. To get to the bottom of your issue, you have to figure out how to deal with the case of what if you later choose to become a permanent resident/citizen? Would we need to collect a large sum of back taxes on you?

Are you certain you get no benefits as a temporary worker? I am looking into getting my wife non-permanent-residency in the U.S. One part of this is me proving, through prior tax filings, that I live well above the poverty level for a family of 3. The reason for this is once she is here, she can file for welfare and such. So apparently, a new resident, even non-permanent does have some social benefits: welfare, emergency health care, etc.

The tax structure is complex, uneven, and government spending is not well controlled. I feel that if we fix issues like we are trying to do with offshore banking, we can get to the next part, which is determining more fair taxation. So long as there are ways out for some, there is not enough force to fix tax fairness issues.
The mathematical points are correct. But miss the key educational fact that the ability to learn abstraction seems to be tied to puberty in most children. Therefore drawing a "gentler slope" of slowly increasing abstraction pre-algebra will cause problems for many children due to developmental limitations.

By all means lay as correct a foundation as feasible. But be aware of the limits that children have, and do not set them up for failure by ignoring those limits. (This was one of the failings of the "new math" movement.)

BTW none of this is to say that I'm remotely happy about the disaster that is math education. I just don't think that this is the right solution to it.
Google front page is a patent
Normally I wouldn't advice spending everything to your last penny, but I take it that if you are broke you'll just stay at your parents house?

If I understood correctly, you plan the trip so that 1500$ pays for the trip. So on day 1 after the trip you have 0$? Then what?

That aside it is a good idea, probably you'll be invited to lots of things, get donations, maybe even some chances to work.
You the man Andrew!
Many countries have agreements where if you pay into a national pension in one, it will count as having contributed to the other should you ever return. For example in Japan where I pay into the national pension plan, most of that could be counted for Social Security if I moved back to the States (or, I could opt for a single payment immediately).
Its a tough call as to whether to treat H1-B and Green Card residents in this way. My personal feeling is that people that come here under such programs should be looking to make the U.S. their home and therefore start paying into the system. It clearly is a problem that we make it so difficult for them to complete the process.

So should we:

A - not collect those social taxes until you complete the process and then ask for years of back taxes once you become a citizen?

B - not collect at all and treat them as temporary workers that we can throw out at will with no intention if letting them become citizens?

C - collect the taxes and let them have it back if you leave and don't finish the process of becoming a citizen?

There are other choices, but that should show their are problems with any way we choose.
i agree, there are a lot of people out there who have money and are willing to "invest"/donate in people with passion. create a blog, show your passiong and SHARE your passion and you will find a way to earn money.
Unrelated to the article, but if anyone likes snowboarding, skating, or just being in the water, I highly recommend taking a surfing lesson. Figuring out the mechanics and actually catching a wave are exhilarating! I'm tempted to somehow relate it to hacking, but I won't even go there.
Get a paypal account and put a donate button on your blog as you chronicle this :-) go ahead and do it but keep us posted, you will be fine.
I'd be willing to put you up in LA when I'm down there for school (late September). I can also introduce you to someone in San Francisco who is a UIUC alum and is running a web dev business (I think there's a few other UIUC guys there too working with him). E-mail in my profile.
That particular listing is $45k in this month's Controller. The nearest Микоян parts are sold out of a location in Prescott, AZ. There's a type club in Reno for L-29/L-39s, and it's possible to get parts through a chain there, but MiGs were mass-produced for third world tinpot dictatorship acquisition, with a ready supply of back-compatible parts. There's a reason it was/is the most popular fighter in the world, and that reason is a lot like why Honda is a popular bike.

Either way, it's academic, mainly because you're not getting a jet trainer, I only want to get rated for one and neither of us can afford the fuel besides.
You need to be able to convince your interviewees to participate. What's in it for them? See http://scobleizer.com/ for someone else who has solved that problem.

One problem is timing. It's not sufficient to turn the interviews into enough money, you have to make that happen at the right time.

I think that your budget is a bit low, but that doesn't mean that this will be more doable later or that it's not doable now.
uh oh - Mixergy's giving me a 500 error...
If you're on your way up to Seattle from SF, I live in Portland and would totally let you sleep on my futon. I'd even share some beers for a good story or two.

Good luck, and definitely do it.
"My point is that the massively profitable, "free" website run by three people in a garage is probably a myth."

Why hello, craigslist.
Does it have to be one or the other? I view it as a feedback loop with a high gain.
After reading this article and some of the comments, Yelp reminds me of the Stephen Kaufer/TripAdvisor chapter in Founders at Work.

TripAdvisor was acquired by IAC/Expedia, which made perfect sense seeing as they were pushing so many users over to travel sites for booking.

I'm just trying to see if there's a similar fit for Yelp. Maybe something like OpenTable, although they don't have a huge market share. I don't know ...
Tweeting with brainwaves
If you own a home, even as an investment as a foreigner, you want to make sure it doesn't get burned down or broken into. This costs, and taxes are used to pay those costs. What will happen to the value of your home if the local water, sewage, roads, schools are not maintained? Even if your child odes not go to school in that district, a high quality school adds significant value to your home price.

In China, I pay taxes on my home, and the gov is expected to use some of this money to protect my home there. I'm not being double taxed, I have two homes and pay for each in their respective countries.
He's doing it wrong, if you look at the impressions he's got adwords set so that if a keyword is doing well it gets more impressions. That's the wrong way to do this set, you have to configure it to give each keyword equal coverage.

Otherwise what happens is that by pure randomness some of your keywords are going to get less clicks than others, and as soon as that happens to one of your keywords they get "frozen" (i.e. they get no more ad impressions so they get stuck at their "random" low value).
I don't really know who you are. But you can crash at my place, if you drive by Portland, OR. I would agree with others, set up a website. People will pitch in for your trip, funny how it works.
The article is very similar in spirit to my hit 2008 research paper "Forward Motion in Automobiles".

All kidding aside, he probably should have named the article "Static Type-checking in Lisp", and we would have still been just as unimpressed because he forgot to mention Qi; the single most innovative Lisp from the last 20 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_%28programming_language%29
Of course. It's just that it's very possible that it's not a Big Bad Apple Monopoly.

I certainly won't deny that iPod compatibility (or lack thereof, rather) is a pretty big minus in the subscription model.
Fiddler is awesome. Does anyone know of a similar mac tool? I have little snitch, but it doesn't actually let you sniff what contents get sent back and forth. Fiddler killer feature is being able to sniff SSL content as well and decode it (provided you give it the key).
Hmm, that sounds interesting but it seems much more complex than you suggest. Mr Wang died in new Jersey and left no will; so far it seems there has not even been a decision over whether his estate should be divided by up by a NJ or a Taiwan court, which would result in different outcomes since some of his unmarried lovers would have inheritance rights under Taiwanese law.

http://www.probatelawyerblog.com/2009/08/new-jersey-hosts-es...

I also found information about estate taxes being paid in Taiwan, but not in the US: http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xitem=54144&ctnode=419&...

Incidentally, HN readers might be using one of Mr Wang's chipsets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Yung-ching
At this point, my costs are sunk. There's no real benefit to moving pre-emptively - unless I can find a full-time developer who wants to jump into Dawdle. Then I'd move anywhere in the lower 49. (Sorry, Alaskans.)

Yeah, I've been saying that "Chicago is the next Detroit" to kind of drive home the fact that this region isn't well-equipped to deal with non-linearbusiness models (the "manufacturing mentality"). Instead of trying to really go after a change in environment (like North Carolina did over a 20-30 year period with the Research Triangle), we get World Business Chicago throwing money at firms to establish corporate headquarters here. (I admit the Detroit thing is hyperbole; a better example is St. Louis. If we get the Olympics, it'll be Chicago's last hurrah the way the 1904 Games were for St. Louis.)

As for VC, well, I used to work for a VC shop, so I'm not anti-VC at all. I don't blame them for their approach to Chicago; it's up to Chicagoans to get the fuck out.

I started here because I wanted to have a big successful startup, give back to Illinois by providing jobs and opportunities here (I went to IMSA), and then become Governor or Senator or something. Ah, the idealism of youth (I was 26 when I started Dawdle).

Also, please e-mail me (in profile); I'd love to get beers and compare notes.
Advertise what you're working on and maybe it'll catch someone's interest. Are you looking for someone to work remotely with, or someone to be in the same physical location?

Virtual cofounders you can find on here, those you want to be in physical contact with you can try going to local meet ups and events related to whatever you're working on.
Could you supply an example of an "older advanced static typing system"?
Ask HN: Where do you go for web app design inspiration?
I'm currently working on an in-house web app (…which will be released as open source when it's nearing completion), relating to video distributio. Think of it as TubeMogul, without the statistics.

The problem is that I'm mainly a programmer, and not a designer. For this project, I have the responsibility for both. Although I tend to have an eye for design, and I can execute fairly well, I have a hard time coming up with good ideas.

So, I'm wondering: Where do you go for web application inspiration? There are tons of «CSS Galleries» out there, but few/none relating specifically to web applications.
yep, but citizen's services have declined over the years. Used to, I could walk into the main consul and see someone. Now, I have to go to the appropriate office after making an appointment perhaps weeks ahead.

To be sure, much of the reason we have consul services in other countries is not just for benefit of visiting U.S. citizens. We also pay fees when we use such services. Consuls/Embassies exist for business development and foreign policy management as well. A U.S. citizen that has never left the U.S. benefits from those services indirectly.
do it! hit me up when you are in sf - 650 283 6558 / mingyeow@gmail (mrtweet.com/discoverio)

(as long as you do not mind my creaking roof - ear plugs provided!)
The article seems to downplay the lack of SMS and the fact that Line2 provides a distinctly new feature set that Apple may have no intention to provide. Instead they stick with the very media friendly overly simplistic story of "Apple is scared of Google". SMS is a huge moneymaker for ATT and shouldn't be ignored as potentially the primary reason for Google Voice being rejected.
I'm not denigrating the Olark product, but does the world need another chat service? Of all the problems out there that need to be solved, I personally can't get excited about another site feature as the primary product of a startup. This is something that has been done over and over again through the years.