skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's going to be interesting to watch how Nokia squares up their Pro-Open Source message (see: maemo) with their IP enforcement strategies.

Nokia have of course every right to enforce their IP, but PR wise they look very lame for this move. The timing (just as Apple announces a record quarter) and the fact they clearly have failed to make a competitive product to the iPhone, just makes them look desperate.
And you agree with this point? I just like building things. I will always do this. However, the sheer joy of something i've built and someone likes using is a journey I am loving. I have this theory that if you build something that you can personally use, then you've built something worth while. Now, as far as wanting someone to love you, who doesn't want that? I certainly don't want to be hated. But I also don't want to compromise myself either.
I think the grandparent comment was meant humorously.

Akin to how in Chicago we say, "Vote early, and vote often!"
Oh... I just found this in the high scalability web site (http://highscalability.com/scaling-twitter-making-twitter-10...):

Update 6: Some interesting changes from Twitter's Evan
Weaver: everything in RAM now, database is a backup; peaks
at 300 tweets/second; every tweet followed by average 126
people; vector cache of tweet IDs; row cache; fragment
cache; page cache; keep separate caches; GC makes Ruby
optimization resistant so went with Scala; Thrift and HTTP
are used internally; 100s internal requests for every
external request; rewrote MQ but kept interface the same;
3 queues are used to load balance requests; extensive A/B
testing for backwards capability; switched to C memcached
client for speed; optimize critical path; faster to get the
cached results from the network memory than recompute them locally.
Yes, the idea is, they spent 40 billion creating IP, now they get the government to enforce a monopoly on that IP for them. That's the point of patents.
How to Confuse Investors
Most of my disappointment with the N800 was in the operating system and UI. There was absolutely no support either. I don't think it even came with a manual. It looked like it had been cobbled together rather than lovingly thought out.

maemo looked interesting, but even the firmware update method was archaic and extremely over complex. From what I remember it only worked if you unplugged the usb cable and plugged it in at exactly the right point or something! (swear to god, this was in the README).

Maybe it's all changed now though.
Smashingmagazine.com has a forum.
Successfully overclocking the brain
If Nokia has innovated in the mobile communication area, why would it be wrong for them to use their intellectual property rights.

A separate question is if intellectual property is a good idea at all. But that is beyond the question at hand.

Patent trolls are just a bad idea, but in this case Nokia may have created a foundation that the Apple is building upon. Companies pay for licensing technology all the time. USB, Firewire, Bluetooth, ...
A few of my friends raved about it (Mafia wars) - so I gave it a go..

After enjoying some proper online mafia games it felt like a wet blanket to me :P
Ask HN: Review my app, twitthegame.com (sports on twitter)
I built http://twitthegame.com to try and bring together all the people talking about sports on twitter. I'm hoping centralization will lead to more interesting discussions.

I'm curious to hear what HN thinks. Thanks.
It's a common knowledge - why, for example, most of world's religions claims that fasting are good - fulfilled body is deaf and dumb.

Think about sublimation as a greatest source of power and will.

You need to be starved and in need to get maximum of your brain capacity. Or think about visiting an unfamiliar place (city, country) how you became sharp and alerted.

So, nothing special. Just pathetic.
If I flush 50 million dollars down a toilet, can I too have the government enforce broad patents on software practices that are obvious and have existed for years?
The system is broken. If a company had a successful product, and didn't "patent the hell out of it", others would get those patents, and sue it.

So personally, I don't blame companies for patenting. I do blame companies that sue.

But the system needs fixing.
Funeral Webcasting Is Alive and Well
I think your landing page is slightly messed up. The red "sign up now" button overlaps the r of "for" when there is still plenty of space beside it.

Browser: Minefield 20091021 on Win XP.
So what's left? Is working in someone else's startup a way of "paying dues" to get connected with people necessary to form your own? Suppose that people believe that working for someone else's small company will get them connections to form their own - is this realistic? Is this a typical outcome or is it rare and only read about in post hoc businessweek articles?
I agree with his point and your point. I have done what you are doing: Build something I love. But remember, your customers are not you. When you start selling your invention, that thing that makes you happy, your customers may not be happy. If they aren't happy, you won't sell a lot of it.

The author of the blog post is saying, "If you don't care if your customers are happy with the product, you won't be a good entrepreneur." By good entrepreneur, he probably means sell a bunch of stuff.

Just liking to build things or just liking to build things for yourself is not enough to be a successful entrepreneur. Building a commercially viable product takes lots of iteration and design changes and polish that individuals don't need in product they use only for their own purposes.

Your theory is a good one. It's a theory I had 3 years ago and pursued and now I have something I love and my customers love. The problem with the theory is that you loving it is not enough for your customers to pay for it.
Maybe it's not a lame greed lawsuit? Nokia has IP in every GSM phone... Perhaps Apple isn't licensing like they are supposed to? We'll have to see how it pans out.
But it's crap in terms of performance. And you have to layer it many times to get it to work even decently. Those layers add up when you get down to it.
"Software Patents were a mistake..."

Have you seen some facts that this would be about software patents? I would guess it is a mixture of hardware and software, from the press release:

"The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption..."
"You need to be starved and in need to get maximum of your brain capacity."

Are you serious? It's when I haven't eaten enough in hours that my "brain capacity" gets to an all-time low. Observe how nothing ever really gets Done in societies with extended periods (ie. days or weeks) of fasting during that period. Go to those impoverished areas of the world where people still suffer from hunger and ask them about how their brain capacity is at a maximum. Human beings need food, news at eleven.
Did anyone else find the website really slow (constant buffering) ?
Body needs a lot of things that can become poisons if you overdo them.

Constant drinking of water (forced or induced by failure of some physiological mechanism i.e. taste) will eventually lead to liver failure and death by poisoning. IIRC Chinese used this as a kind of torture/execution tehnique.
California Investigating Voting Machine Audit Log Issue
IIRC Jekyll has a WordPres importer, which I presume does something similar.
His twitter updates have been reflective/borderline depressing lately as well. A lot of mentions of divorce. Clearly the guy's going through some stuff.
Well I'm all for seeing somebody beat Apple at their own patent game, but like somebody said in another comment, this is probably just going to result in a patent sharing agreement. As such I dont really see the need to get so worked up. Besides it would indeed be unfair to the other 40 or so companies which have signed with Nokia if Apple gets away with this.
I think Cisco even had a product named iPhone...
Early BugZilla was pretty painful
Yeah and apparently Apple stock fell after the announcement.
Not really. The other one is a Nokia press-release. This is, I suppose, a more balanced point of view.
http://www.qbn.com and http://www.yayhooray.com are by far the most legit ones, you'll also find a bunch of them at http://www.qonversation.com now, but you need to get an invite (for both qonversation and yayhooray)
I'm going to pretend you never said Civilization is available on the iPhone, because I enjoy doing schoolwork and not being expelled.
I believe the patents Nokia speaks of were neither obvious, nor existed for years when Nokia originally patented them. Nokia's IP is present in every GSM phone.
If there was such an issue they could have sued when the iphone came out. To wait until now is proof positive that it is just a harassment action.

And do you really think that 40 BILLION (not million) is required to implement GSM, UMTS and wireless lan ?

That's just handwaving to convince the gullible that this is a case where nokia has the moral highground.

All of this stuff is about interoperability in the first place, patents really should have no role to play there.
Hacking the University: Moving Beyond the Course to Micro-labs
WebEx in general is just a mess. Why do I have to call in just to get an audio stream? If I have a microphone and speakers, can't I just use that? Of course not. WebEx is 2000's technology, held-over.
Proof please ?
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/update_on_ciscos_iphone...
That's how Movable Type used to work. People complained how it took forever to regenerate a big site on a shared host.
I believe that was pretty much his...point.

Nerds have become a culture all their [our] own. Us trying to be 'cool' in the eyes of people who aren't even members of our little society is kindof silly.
Actually, I'd love to find out how many designers of diciplines not directly connected with the web read HN?
A few chapters of a database book published by Wrox Press about 10 years ago, but they wouldn't put my headshot on the cover as I had a mohican...
There's more to momentum and innovation than piling on more syntax.

In fact putting restrictions on things (such as you can't add syntax or break backwords compatibility) can engender more innovation than letting people do whatever.
I was just thinking, so we could share a piece of paper to draw on. But those reasons make sense too.
Actually, I'm particularly proud of stopping publishing content...
farmville is a great game. m(o.O)m
If in a town 50 merchants pay the local mob to not have their windows broken do you think it is unfair for someone to not pay the mob ?

Software patents are just a tool to extort, not an incentive to innovate.
Microsoft Has a New Windows Mobile, but It’s Still Clunky
While that may be true, I don't think anyone knew enough about web design when these technologies were created that they could've done any better.
Is this just a project? Or, is it a start-up?

If it's just a project, then it's probably just a hobby and you can make the decision based on how much you enjoy your hobby.

If it's meant to be a start-up, then I think you need to focus on producing some hard data on market size and potential revenue before you even start thinking about the possibility that the space is too crowded. Whether or not the market is too crowded depends not so much on what features you can offer over your competitors' products, but on how much money you could potentially. Can you compete in this market and cover your development and infrastructure costs? Beyond that, do you think that you can eventually make enough profit that the opportunity cost of pursuing this specific start-up is worth it?

Regarding revenue:
What is your business model? Do you charge people for your application? Do you count on advertising income? Is the application designed in a way that generates revenue through virtual currency purchases or pay-per-action? Have these revenues been growing in line with your user base?

Regarding market size:
How many Facebook users do you think will eventually use this type of application? How many of them do you think will use your application? What percentage of invites to your application are accepted (are conversions)? When you graph your new users and your conversion rate, are they growing exponentially (like any tech start-up should be initially)? Or, it is only growing at a slow increment, nearly flat, or declining? They graphs would help you determine your overall growth and what percentage of total Facebook users you may be able to convert. That would help you answer the most important questions (those regarding financials).

If either the growth of your income or your user base are not growing exponentially, I would suggest that you think about possible ways to increase both to that level of growth and factor the amount of work required into your decision.

If you're not able to make both your user base and your income grow exponentially, I'd suggest you seriously consider pursuing a different start-up idea. You may be able to achieve the creation of a lifestyle business (one that would pay you a reasonable salary - $150K USD/yr) with just fast, but non-exponential growth at this early stage. But, that would not be the kind of life changing start-up that I, and many others on HN, are after.
Thanks for the heads up. We fixed it.
Skiing Robot Not Very Useful But Totally Fun To Watch
because most projectors are still 4:3?
Vim and Emacs modelines
Reasons why Apple should add "Gift This App" to iTunes
Actually, that's inaccurate. Please do read through the entire post. Although it begins with correlation data, the conclusion reached halfway through the post is that more sophisticated models are required, which is where the machine learning is put into use - a large number of features about links and on-page elements as well as derivatives of these features - modeled against training data (10K SERPs), then shown against a different set of 10K SERPs.
One downside of encrypting everything is that you're providing attackers with a very large body of known plaintext.
May be it was my 'incredibly ignorant statement' :-) May be it was the title of the post.

Your post looks pretty relevant, related and good. I have voted it up if that helps.
Absolutely! I can't promise we can divulge everything we're doing, but I know that Ben (who runs these models) would love outside opinions and critiques. You can reach him via Ben at SEOmoz.org.
Windows 7 Whopper and other bizarre Microsoft marketing stunts
Asking people what they would pay is pointless. People don't know what they would pay. People lie about what they would pay. People lie about pirating music. This is why surveys suck. People are just going to lie... even if they don't intend to.

Music pirates are not immoral cheapskates. They are normal people who occasionally engage in immoral, cheap (and I would add self-destructive [if the music industry dies, so does your access to music, pirated or otherwise]) activities.
Nope, but others have recommended them to me. I haven't even signed up yet - I was just curious because I will likely have to look for that kind of work sometime relatively soon.
1. I would like to know what I will be able to do after i login before i actually go through with the login

2. Would like the automatic follow to be optional.

3. How are you planning to popularize this ?
Community college alumnae earn $6k more per year than high school grads
It may not be worth it monetarily, but you will meet a lot of people and learn important things like:

- dealing with high pressure
- finding a market where one might not exist
- wearing dozens of different hats
- making difficult prioritization decisions with limited info

Basically, seeing up close what a founder has to go through will show you whether you want to deal with it or not.
Okay look at it this way: I spent 40B euros digging a well to get water in my extremely parched village. I would prefer to be able to make some of that back by charging others to draw water from my well. What is wrong with that???

This is not like Nokia went and patented something that was already existing in the market and is trolling. They poured their own money into it, so why would they let a competitor, esp. a very succesful competitor use their tech for free???
Whoa, now I feel old. Drum machines show dedication to music nowadays?
Lesson I learned a long time ago: sell things people want.

It doesn't really matter why they want them, or whether they need them. If they want something, and they know about it, they'll buy it.
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Both MS PowerPoint and OO Impress can create 16:9 slides.
the reason they don't is probably why promo codes are capped - to prevent possible abuse.
Not as fun as the "Robot Cop" in Wallace and Groomit "A Grand Day Out".
I tried to find a bit of the movie but no luck.
Also included are new Tuple types and Action, Func delegates that take up to 16 parameters now.

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942829.aspx#id040...
Be careful not to become too uplifted by his words or you'll get all happy about yourself and loose your drive.
Another oversimplification and bad at that.
What tech would that be ?

The patents listed all contain stuff that seems to be pretty obvious when it comes to mobile communications.

Yes, you need encryption, thousands of manyears of work not done at Nokia preceded that. Yes, you will need GSM, which is unfortunately patent encumbered, but since there is no other option that makes any patents on that tech a simple matter of extortion.

WiFi ? How else will you connect to a lan from a mobile phone ?

Etc. If this is Nokias best shot at showing how they're going to 'compete' with Apple then they've just told us they don't think they can. What a total waste of a reputation.

It reminds me of the GIF patent.
There is alot of research. The university I went to did alot of it.

Here is one article: http://www.alive.com/1301a4a2.php?subject_bread_cramb=455

I'm surprised I got down voted for speaking out about the truth:)
I'm still proud of my first (though not most important) conference publication: http://opsis.sf.net
That is very, very hazy. In my opinion the article just says "a machine learning model that maps to the search results and produces a result that's considerably better correlated with rankings than any single metric" without any other information on what the model is, how it is made, what is its validity. Please correct me if I missed something in the article, but where exactly is that machine learning model described?
GoodDoop: A Cookbook for Hadoop
I've started 2 business. The first was renting inflatables for kid's birthday parties. It was a small, part-time business that I started to get experience marketing, dealing with customers, etc. It was fun and quite a work-out (they weigh from 300 to 500 lbs). I sold to a competitor when I moved and essentially broke even. My wife tells me every few weeks we should have kept one (we have lots of kids in our extended family and usually rent one for birthday parties).

My wife and I bought a business that does ultrasounds of expectant mothers (she's an ultrasound tech). It will be 2 years in Jan. Business is still growing, though not as fast as I had hoped. My wife mainly runs it and has learned quite a bit about business. Not yet profitable, but we're hopeful, we're working on getting a lower-cost lease and more clients each week.
10 Wonderful Wallpapers
"We like competition because it makes us better, but we will not stand for companies infringing on our IP and we will use whatever weapons we have at our disposal."

Tim Cook, Apple COO, Jan 21 2009.
"To improve developer productivity, and easier access to server resources, the application should run on the server only"

<facepalm>

What a joke! Writing web applications is genuinely writing a distributed, client server system. There's really no reason to pretend that it's not! Also, how do you write an article about ajax frameworks and completely forget jquery???

"During testing by their users, it was discovered that the performance was unacceptable; users had to wait for more than 10 seconds for 10,000 records to be loaded. Even worse, some old computers actually stalled. Unfortunately, they had to implement load-on-demand to improve the performance issue. But, load-on-demand was never an easy job. It required determining the visible area at the client side, prompting required data from the server side, and rendering the data on the browsers. To fulfill this requirement, his team had to delay the project a few additional months. "

are you kidding me??? a few months? I implemented lazy loading in flex in a week once. It's just paginating database results, there's never any reason to load 10K records to the client at once? Just a bunch of nonsense, through and through.
You like to have rules, but don't like them to be enforced?
I think it might have been their flash video player having a poor implementation. For some reason it pegs my cpu at 100% and starts to glitch.
Fortune's Top 40 Under 40
From the press release:

The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.

--

So these are likely to be more hardware related. That doesn't make the claims any more valid, but I don't think that these will have many (any?) software claims.
I hate to say this, but you are moving into an area with some mighty litigious organizations. They really don't care about fair use (..no account or description..) so watch out.

I like the idea and wish you success.
It's still better than Windows Live Meeting. You are right, I don't know why these services/apps don't have VOIP built in.
Not a very useful article. It doesn't even say what method is used to store the data. They mention spintronics, so perhaps it's STT MRAM.

Anyone know more?
I believe it is something to do with the core "GSM technologies and its evolution to UMTS / 3G WCDMA", an area where Nokia has indeed done a lot of original research.
Yes, evil maid is still possible. It does not however trump the basic use case: lost or stolen laptop. In those simple and common cases, the homedir data remains safe. For now, the hassle of a fully encrypted drive is greater than the benefit of protection from doing so, particularly when the MBR type attacks you mention don't remove the evil maid vulnerabilities.
Have you ever written any ML/Haskell?

It's nearly impossible to get past the type system unless your code is correct, especially for small chunks of code.
Reminds me a little of the SIGGRAPH paper on hybrid images, where the distance at which you view an image determines, for example, whether you see a smiling or frowning person:

http://cvcl.mit.edu/hybridimage.htm
This is one of those "comparison matrices" that obviously cherry-pick the traits to favor one item over the other(s). Flagged.
1. I see what you're saying. Logging in does two things: it tells us who you are so we can follow you, and it let's you post from the app (the page updates in near realtime like stocktwits, so the idea is you leave it open during a game or w/e).

2. The automatic follow is mostly to avoid bumping into our follow limits (following a bunch of people who don't follow you back makes you look like a spammer).

3. That's the hard part, isn't it? We're starting by trying to reach out to the sports gambling community (who are heavy forum users), and have considered a few interesting things like running a retweet contest for football tickets.