skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be the West Virginia Supreme Court, not SCOTUS.

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/state/090605-rutherford-statet...

And in any case, arguing around the edges of self-defense is a far cry from the sort of felony paperwork violations that got us into this discussion.

So perhaps the most clarifying question I could ask is: how many examples can you find of case law criminalizing paperwork mistakes with no criminal intent or intent to harm others, as compared to how many examples of that are there in statute law?
Classic WTF: Symbolic Installation
Streaming works fine for me with mplayer on Linux. I have no idea what might be the problem.

You could try http://mirrors.basedrive.org/har2009/m4v/321_l3156_Unusual_l... instead, that's (apparently) DivX and AAC in lower resolution (but maybe better sound).

The submitted link might be the original streamdump file instead of the proper archived one, I am not sure.
Ask HN: Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign)
Give this alternate file a try http://mirrors.basedrive.org/har2009/m4v/321_l3156_Unusual_l...
Strange, for me, it's very easy, which doesn't seem to fall in your range. What's wrong?

Throw out working solution after 25 years of development, with all the codebase and everything, that makes perfect sense, of course. You are arguing with one particular case, which is most likely just an implementation shortcoming of your drivers (because it works for me, and well :-P), that doesn't justify throwing out thing like this. X was extended so many times, old stuff was replaced with new extensions, and eventually, it should be scrapped because someone can't configure two screens with it! Oh.

Can you name one thing that is fundamentally wrong with X and cannot be simply replaced with a new X extension, or fixed in the implementation?
Brian's Transient Brain
Google, Verizon Sign Android Phone Pact (Google Voice included)
I completely agree. What do you do when you have 3 37-cent coins?

Theoretically, it wouldn't change much for the end-user if s/he was always trying to use the coins they already have (which probably doesn't happen that much). But for banks, stores and everything else, it would be a mess, because there's no easy way to put the coins in rolls of "easy" values of a round number of dollars.
I think HN has one of the web’s most successful communities, but my interests skew more towards the front-end and I’ve wanted to create an HN for webdesign for awhile now. At the moment I’m the only one posting links and designs but I’m hoping the site could eventually gain enough traction to truly thrive on its own.

A couple of potentially interesting design decisions:

* Points for both links and comments are hidden until after you vote

* Uses oAuth and OpenID exclusively (even though none of your personal info is displayed and you can still choose your username independently this may be a big turnoff -- but I also think it’s potential for keeping out spam could outweigh its potential drawbacks)

* Was contemplating creating a sense of scarcity by limiting signups to 10/20/whatever per day. Of course at the moment it wouldn’t matter either way, but could be an interesting way to drum up interest

Anyway, it’s just a side-side-project and may not appeal much to this crowd, but feedback is appreciated.
They just raised a couple hundred million dollars. It's not a good sign that they had to raise the money but they have enough cash to stick around for a while.
Oh sure, and feel free to link us, but kindly leave my name off the webpage :)

FierceMarkets, and we're in a bunch of industries. For example: http://www.fiercebiotech.com and http://www.fiercetelecom.com

One interesting thing to note is that pretty much everything that's in the email newsletter is also posted to the web (and there's even a full text feed!), but lots of people prefer getting it as an email anyway.

We now obviously make money from web ads, webinars, conferences, etc. But for years we were only an email newsletter company.

Incidentally, we're one of the very few media companies (let alone b2b media companies) making money right now.
Rendering the Structure of the Universe in your Spare Time
Oh interesting, didn't know that went on.
London Stock Exchange goes open source
95,000 of those geeks made their "game" by stacking a bunch of HTML pages on top of each other.

4,500 more are in "beta", which means they didn't finish making it.

400 more were built by people who didn't understand CSS, and so are ugly and Times New Roman'd.

70 are blatant copies of other existing games.

20 are played by a small group of friends, but didn't spread beyond that.

5 thought they would make money by selling t-shirts or something silly like that.

4 make money, but not a million dollars worth.
The parable of object-oriented toast...
This would be a great plot for an Evil Overlord.
Top 15 Things To Do Before You Launch a New MVT or Split Test
What is the difference between the boxes that have text and the ones that have images?

I got a little overloaded looking at it; but I'm also not a designer.

I think the site looks nice... just a little overwhelming.
the funny thing is that nobody actually cares what a browser is...
And a little more detail http://www.ibspublishing.com/index.cfm?section=news&acti...
AT&T greenlights VOIP for the iPhone
Given the number of retailers that end prices in 9 or 5, one could probably calculate a better model of efficiency based on real world distributions. The secondary problem would be that tax is applied after the nominal price, and local taxes vary considerably.
I figured that the Google Voice issue would be brought to light with this announcement. But, the Google Voice app should have technically been accepted before 3G Skype calls: it doesn't really use data like Skype does. It seems (I don't have it) to be more of a convenience for the user so that he doesn't have to call his GV number and then dial the number he wants to reach, and instead accesses your address book and dials everything for you.

If this shows anything, it's that Apple is really behind the refusal (so far) of the GV app.
Ask HN: What phone systems do you use for your business?
- Consumer-style services like Google Voice or Skype?

- Small business hardware solutions like Avaya Partner ACS?

- Enterprisey hardware/software combos like Cisco CallManager?

- Hosted VOIP vs. in-house hardware?

What are your likes, dislikes, pros, cons, etc.?

What would you recommend to a company of about 10-15 employees that has low call volume (about 60-70 calls/day).

Thanks for any suggestions and ideas.
so it sounds like you are agreeing that stating its on in prime time is, good enough?
most microcontroller ISAs are just not designed with compilation in mind

This is true, but the AVR's architecture was specifically designed to be friendly to C. That was one of the reasons I became interested in it: after years of programming HC11s and HC05's in assembly, I had had enough :-)

For me code size has almost never been an issue (and only then when I needed to add a bunch of features without changing the hardware): the MCU memories are getting bigger all the time.
I dunno, I'd kinda like a pound of mercury. Apparently, my grandfather used to have like a mason jar about half full of mercury.
I once walked up to a university helpdesk to get them to allow my wireless card's mac on the wireless network. I told them that I was using linux and they said "that's OK, just open the internet". I hadn't heard that reference yet and it took me a few tries to figure out what they wanted.
I've been going to a lot of Symbian events in the Valley and have been watching closely how they're trying to reinvent themselves.

They've got some great people involved, but it's hard to shake the feeling about how the Nokia mindset is always lurking in the background.

Nokia's involvement is both a boon and a curse to Symbian, but this author articulates two points that are always on my mind when thinking about Symbian:

1. "but that can't be achieved in three months. 'In three years time,' is what I wrote in my notes. That is simultaneously very honest and a little scary."

2. "Nokia could decommit from the OS (or just waver long enough that developers lose faith)"

Nokia moves like a battleship with course corrections spanning years, and while Symbian tries to be nimble, I keep wondering if Nokia will pull the plug on Symbian before anything worthwhile materializes.
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manuals
Nissan uses robot team to make more nimble cars
I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix
The idea there is to feature more than just articles, so the user can submit designs, too. I'm not sure that'll stay or not, it's just an attempt to appeal to the visual person a bit more.

Re: overwhelming - Yeah, I agree, I've tried to keep everything toned done as much as possible, but there's probably still too much visual noise.
Intel 64 is often referred to as amd64. IA-32 means i386.
Probably. Hell, we could all just start using Euros (or whatever) for cash, and then exchange our Euros for plastic-only US dollars at changing booths (which would suddenly become a lot more common).

This, of course, doesn't make life any easier for anyone, except the jerks who already use cards for everything (aka the jerks I always get stuck behind in line while I wait for their little receipt to print and get signed).
DRAM errors vastly more frequent than previously thought
I noticed this earlier today. 95% of the time I use Google I use the search bar, but earlier today I went to the Google homepage expecting to click on a link - I thought something was wrong with the page and/or Safari at first. It took a few moments before I moved the mouse and everything faded in.

If it confused me, I'd have to wonder what less experienced users' reactions might be...
You're right, my bad. Hopefully my point stands intact, which is that even for a cut-and-dry crime like murder, court precedent defines a fairly complex shadow law --- self defense, intent to kill, competence, etc.

Like (I think) most reasonable people, I'm not in favor of criminalizing paperwork mistakes with no criminal intent.
Oh so there is an option to submit a design.. is that for a live site? That's a pretty cool idea.

Hopefully you can attract a healthy designer community there - one of the things that seems like a recurring theme around here is that there are very few designers in this crowd. I can think of maybe 2 or 3.
I assume you mean "How many cows does it take to make a hamburger?" A good question with a disgusting answer. According to the same NYT article on the E. coli-ridden burger that paralyzed a children's dance instructor, "a single portion of hamburger meat is often an amalgam of various grades of meat from different parts of cows and even from different slaughterhouses." Sources vary on the precise number, but on average they report that in a single burger there are parts from 50-100 distinct cows. That number ignores the pieces of still other cows ground into the food eaten by the cows in the burger.

Better answer: Zero! Eat delicious veggie burgers instead.
In light of the Vonage app which was approved the other day, I don't see what possible objection ATT/Apple could have against the Google Voice application.
Mmm, chi-square.
Cannot speak with authority here. If your lead is of importance to big global or regional events, a best bet would be approaching someone from a news agency. One place to find those folk is lightstalkers.org, although it is by no means comprehensive.

For local news, try starting with the best newspaper in your area. Editorial contacts is usually listed in paper's exit data, sometimes along with a contact for tips.
WebOS developer site: http://developer.palm.com/index.php

Palm apps are "cards" that consist of html/css/javascript. All programming is done in Javascript. WebOS apps use the Prototype javascript framework, and you make calls to Palm's Mojo API to instantiate your app's widgets, push between screens (scenes), and access the device's services (location, storage, calendar, telephony, orientation, etc)

They offer a free SDK which comes with a Palm Pre emulator which runs in Virtual Box, and there are a handful of sample apps available. I've been working with it for a few months and I can say that while it's not as easy to use as other more widely used programming environments, they give you enough to get started and build some simple apps.

It can be frustrating at times, but I think this is mostly because of how new the programming environment is. If you want to learn Python or Rails, there are books, screencasts, examples, blogs, etc. If you want to learn WebOS, well... there's a developer forum and a smattering of beta documentation - good luck!
I would split out design based voting and leave interesting news as text, HN-style. The way it's currently presented just doesn't incite me to really click or interact, and seems weird - reminds me a lot of Evernote, actually. I may be an outlier, though.
There are many different (and perhaps more practical) criteria than average coins per transaction. For instance, I don't like a lot of coins in my pocket at once. And, I always want to get rid of coins when I use them! So, what are the least number of coins I can carry to guarantee that I come back with at most the number of coins I started with (after change is given)?

On the other hand, sometimes I only carry coins to get rid of them! With the current system, I need to carry nine coins to guarantee exact change -- what system maximally reduces this?
Creative Genius needed...
Anyone interested in a weekend project, try developing a simple educational widget for Colabopad: http://www.colabopad.com/dev/dev.jsp

Physics widgets would be nice:)
One nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself
The scientific evidence supporting the similarity of other animals' experiences of the world to humans' experiences is indeed "mounting." It shouldn't have to, because the incredibly evidenced theory of evolution -- the single unifying idea behind all modern biological understanding -- necessitates that such is the case. But scientists are also species-ist, even when the truth stares them right in the face.

Oh, and I would like to take a moment to point out that humans, via that supposedly morally superior "sapience" (talk about a circular, species-indulgent term), have used their intelligence to needlessly torture and kill tens of billions of fellow creatures every year in death camps, and to cause the only mass extinction of life on Earth ever initiated by a single species. If moral status comes down to what you do -- not what you are -- then humanity has a lot of work to do, and a lot of sacrifice to make, before it can claim the mantle of special moral worth.
Do any of the moderators want to comment on this?
Thoughts on Silverlight
I never use the homepage unless I want to search 'news' or 'images'. All the rest trough the browser bar, but for follow up searches I'll use the form on the results page.
Once you factor in the parts included in the kit, the prices aren't that bad. Compare the USB kit to adafruit's USB Arduino kit: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&... . The nerdkit is slightly more, but includes an LCD screen.
Or perhaps rephrased as the 'odd one in'...
as a front end guy myself, I like it a lot

whats it built on?
Commercial speech is already regulated. (unless you're also suggesting that all commercial speech be unregulated) It is inconsistent for you to suggest that bloggers should be given an exception.

Anyway, I'm not worried about the regulation bogey-man here.
New bloggers aren't going to be paid by companies to promote their products. If they are savvy enough to get a paid contract, it shouldn't be too difficult for them to publicly disclose their conflict of interest.
Five Second Test - Run Five Second Usability Tests
It's styled after grid-based approaches like the NY Times' article skimmer:

http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/

which I personally find pretty readable. But the appeal of that experiment is probably due to the fact that it's less busy than Webdesignerd, so I'll work on that.
Eric Schmidt: We paid $1 billion premium for YouTube
In regards to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848065, I thought this might be an interesting take from a less potentially-biased studio.
The Cringing Point
On first open, I immediately thought "whoa, I'm lost."
Then I thought... "way too much effort to parse this information."

Of course its almost surely because I am so used to the HN simplicity and directness. But it is indeed hard to parse for me. Lists are very very friendly. I find myself being able to parse HN very fast, starting from the top left, reading each listed line until it loses my interest, and then proceeding. Very hard to do on your site since much of my effort is ignoring the design aspect and also the fact that I have to scan so wide horizontally does not help.

Much easier for my mind to know that each line is its own concept, and a newline refreshes the concept. With your box model, my mind has to consciously give meaning to the structure and boxes. Same thing for hierarchy. There is an assumed, implied, and very natural order with a list. Not so with your box model.

Perhaps I'm just thinking too much but for usability, your site gets a "too much effort." and I'd much prefer HN.

Of course as you may have guessed, I'm not a design guy.
I can appreciate and love good design, but my take is that design should complement the goal in not only an aesthetic but utilitarian manner.

I feel there is just too much benefit in using the HN list model to go with anything else.
> Is that for a live site?

Yeah, the user just needs to submit the URL and it'll be screenshotted, the idea being to post nice designs and talk about them.
I like how it's pretty egalitarian and even (gasp) gives IE as an option. Clearly they want to move away from it, but it's nice that it's not yet-another-anti-IE site. Hopefully education like this will help people make more informed decisions. Certainly going to try it on my granny, who understands what specific different programs (email, Skype) are but hasn't quite got the web browser part down yet. Next step: explaining what a web site is...
Eolas sues Apple, Google
Thanks, Django.
Exactly the point - that call takes 11 parameters, many of which are complex structures themselves. Compare that to:

pid_t fork(void);
int execve(const char filename, char const argv[], char *const envp[]);

The idea is to have several simpler system calls that you can wire together to get the complex effect you need, rather than trying to build an ultimate CreateProcess function that can handle any case of infinite complexity.
Yes the odd one out is the only one that isn't odd in some way.
The top management of any large company receives input and advise from their underlings. Those underlings are more likely to propose controversial changes to corporate strategy if they aren't getting tarred and feathered by the outsiders they're trying to work with.
Really? I didn't realize most people were that ignorant. I've always typed then hit enter and everyone I know does as well.

Anyway....
Why server-side Javascript
> Hackers nowadays take free software for granted, but without rms, it may well never have happened.

Maybe, but this does not mean that Open Source would not have happend.

Project Gutenberg, for example, was already started in 1971 to to archive and digitize cultural works. The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) started in 1977. The GNU project, however, started in 1983.

In other words, the idea of sharing copyrighted works such as literature and software was known before Stallman. Basically, Stallman was quite late in the game. Additionally, other attempts to freely distribute code started after the GNU project, but independently of Stallmans ideas. For example, the Apache project, IIRC.

Overall, it's save to say that we'd have some sort of Open Source movement, due to earlier examples of code sharing and independent attempts, even if Stallman would not have done what he did.

Maybe, we'd even have a "better" Open Source movement.

Also, the ability to have an ideology does not deserve respect, per se. There were quite a few people with ideologies who made millions of people suffer.
Of course that wouldn't work for a rich or famous person

Martha Stewart might disagree.

In many ways, the rich and famous actually make perfect targets. Prosecutors and politicians can stir up some of the general contempt that many people still quietly harbor against the wealthy. It can be a great way for a budding prosecutor to break into higher office (c.f. Eliot Spitzer).

Your observations are otherwise completely sound.
Thanks a lot, apsurd, I agree with a lot of that and if that's the overwhelming feedback I'll reconsider.

I just dislike how images look to the left of the text on Digg, Reddit, etc. so I wanted to try and break out of that a bit. But if it's unreadable it's unreadable.
I think the opposite is true here. Inspector Javer will always make it his career and his life to chase Jean Valjean. It doesn't matter whether there's 5 laws or 50000.

There are certain people in the world like this. There always have been. Unfortunately, they seem to be drawn to law enforcement. The best any system can hope for is to minimize their impact. I do agree that our current system does a very poor job of it.
Yeah, that's my guess. Might as well get out in front and score some PR points for being open since it seems to be only a matter of time before it's a mandate. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/genachowskis-open-intern...
True. But in general things may be more complicated.

On a typical test, when given a similar problem, I would have to try and figure out the thinking style of the test designers.
While jeremymims didn't explicitly espouse a vegan viewpoint, he did mention the "slaughter [of] 10 billion sentient, thinking animals", an emotionally charged choice of words which in my experience is a characterization that only ever comes from a vegan viepoint. Serious moral consideration is a whole different story than "don't eat them". This article, and thus my statement, has nothing to do with the torture of animals.

Most of my meat comes from local farmers, people I know personally, even places I worked when I was a kid. Cattle can and are raised in humane conditions. But when a cow can push against an electric fence, recoil from getting shocked, and then push on the fence again, there is clearly something missing in that cow brain that accounts for learning in other creatures. Cows are not intelligent creatures.
more info here: gizmo5.com and their blog: http://gizmo5news.blogspot.com/
quite cheap indeed.
Exactly - in the real world you only need 99c and 1c coins.
"Feeding the trolls" in real life sure does make a mess of things...
What was python being promoted as in 1996?
"Delicious" is certainly up to interpretation. Additionally, if "meat is murder", then why so many "fake murder" products?

I don't really see what the issue is with the article. So hamburgers are a homogeneous mix of meat from multiple cows. I never had deep-seated convictions that they only came from one cow in the first place. Does a bag of frozen vegetable medley come from one plant? Does it even come from one plant per type of vegetable?
Those sorts of questions always bothered me in IQ tests too. I was also always bothered by questions like:

"What comes next in this sequence? 1,4,9,16,25,"

Sure, the answer might be 36, but then again maybe we're looking at some subtler sequence of numbers than that. Maybe it's "the number of bald men who walked past my house every hour since 5am". Maybe the next number is 345 due to the annual Patrick Stewart Lookalike Parade. Who knows?