skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that Microsoft has not actually engaged recently in anticompetitive practices. Some of the concessions they were forced to make in the EU go beyond mere antitrust into the realm of taxing their success under the guise of antitrust protection.

The Intel case is different. Intel _has_ done anticompetitive things. For the sake of we consumers, it's important that they be brought to justice so that they and other companies are less tempted in the future to do what they have done.
Former Miamian. sadly have to agree. it is, unfortunately. I can't ever remember a time when it wasn't. Maybe back in the moonshine and Al capone days. But this city just goes from one corrupt trend to another.
Where is the money?
Correction: two cancers, not all cancer.
My name, available only to those who can translate ascii.
Coke consolidated the image of Santa Claus and popularized that exact image of him. They didn't invent the red, but without their work it would not have become the de facto standard.
The problem is not that Zynga won't be scamming anymore.

The problem is that they wouldn't have gotten this far without scams.

Is it now acceptable to scam your way into profitability now? Zynga is now telling every startup a resounding Yes.
Shallow? Not at all. It's an irritating visual disruption that you see every time you interact with a web page. Those small things make the most enormous difference.
Inside the bad-ass world of military research projects
AdWhirl Spins Its Own Open Source iPhone SDK And Server
Bike wheel stores energy from brakes, collects data, shares with iPhone
Chemical as in simple compound? No. I have no idea what the worst mutagen in cigarette smoke is but there are lots and their effects are going to be random statistically, sometimes they'll change this gene, sometimes the other, though some sections will be especially vulnerable/likely to mutate in a specific way.

I could see some bloody complicated RNAinterferase thing working as a targeted anti-mutagen, in theory. But if you can deliver an airborne, persistent heat tolerant RNAi cancer is at worst a chronic disease like diabetes is now.
I don't know if it's just me, but this page isn't loading:

http://www.getuncommon.com/customize/product/13/
more info here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10415648-76.html
ok cool, if I stand corrected that would be awesome, cheers
My first startup failed and yet I was labeled as tenacious with regards to it.
The model was built to fit the data, which isn't difficult. The hard part is getting it to predict anything, which this model has not.
Haagen-Dazs bans Indians from their new store in India.
Not sure whether this is appropriate for HN. But I thought since we do discuss business practices from time to time, some people might be interested.
Click&Clean 3.6.4.2 for Google Chrome
Added support for Chrome Portable
Juniper ? I looked at the reviews for Cisco. I guess that's why people are leaving for Juniper.
I think you could easily substitute 'a public repository of your code and open-source contributions' for 'Github' here, but the former is shorter and conveys the same idea.

You also seem to imply that experienced developers [i]wouldn't[/i] be using a cutting-edge tool to share code. Why wouldn't they? Does 'experienced' have to mean 'curmudgeonly'?
BTW, don't downvote the preceding comments complaining about this post. They're responding to the article that was here before I replaced it with the one anigbrowl suggested.
They don't even know which are DNA mutations, and which are systematic sequencing errors.
> Everywhere that implemented them had their scientific, economic, and artistic progress completely stunted

I think you're dismissing a bit too easily soviet russia.
Under communist command, russia rised to the status of superpower.

As far as I know, khmers rouges were "reactionary" marxists : for instance they refused western medicine and dubbed peasants as "old men" and city folks as "new men".
This is not what marxism is about.
T'is teh awesome for clojure!
Detoxing
I understood him to advocate the overthrow of the "bourgeoisie".

This is mostly correct, although the correct translation for him would be the ruling class.

It was far more broad, attacking ones citizen neighbors simply because they were landowners, for example.

Never. One's neighbors are one's allies in the class struggle against the ruling class. Landowners would never be the "neighbors" of a peasant in Czarist Russia. More precisely, it would be a war waged beneath the underclass (in Russia, the serfs and such) and the ruling class. I think you have your view of history tainted by modern preconceptions. Also, you have to be careful of certain translations. Das Kapital and Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei in the original German lead to certain nuances of language that can be lost in a poor translation. Moore's is probably the best, although not perfect.

The results of "communist" revolutions of the 20th century are orders of magnitude greater than the fallout of any other revolution, before or since.

Oh, so the October Revolution (Октябрьская революция) had many more casualties than the American Revolution? Or the French Revolution (Liberté, égalité, fraternité!)? Or the American Civil War? Well, no. The incidents to which you refer are the massacres conducted by despotic rulers in so-called Communist countries. In fact, they weren't even called "Communist". They were Stalinist. Or Maoist. You hang these acts around Marx's neck like a noose but he didn't advocate them and would never approve. Marx didn't advocate massacre or mass slaughter or starvation (of the proletariat, no less!). He advocated violent revolution. Once that was done, however, the state was under the control of the people and no more violence was necessary than that needed to keep the peace. And Pol Pot? Pol Pot wasn't even remotely Marxist. Most of the Khmer Rouge attacks were targeted at the intellectuals. The intellectuals?! These were Marx's people! The intellectuals were necessary to help build a global Communist free state. Marx certainly didn't advocate killing himself.

You see, you have mistaken the acts of depravity that are the responsibility of the ones who committed them as done under the order of the "eternal Marx." In truth, Marx was nothing more than a name and a scapegoat. The people who committed these actions were stark, raving mad and committed most of them out of personal prejudice and thirst for power and control. As far as history goes, nothing out of the ordinary.
Chinese Government To Police Social Games
8-Bit Christmas Music - Supporting "Childs Play" charity
FWIW, Andy Sack, the Executive Director is a great guy with tons of operational experience. I fully expect this program to be fantastic.

Full disclosure: Andy is a GP at Founder's Co-op (http://www.founderscoop.com), which invested in my startup.
Could you add a couple from multiple angles (including front)? It's not clear to me what the whole case looks like.
Agreed, but for a slightly different reason. I often find the inconvenience of very small payments online to be more annoying than the payment itself.
Do you have an affiliates program?
Looks like apple officially released it?

http://twitter.com/Synt4x/status/6736462043
What? YC funds an startup that does exactly that: http://octopart.com/
From The Register...

AWS says that it can currently support stored, on-demand media now but will support the streaming of live events sometime in 2010.

Here's the link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/aws_s3_cloudfront_me...
The iPhone Goes to War [literally]
Whitney music box
I think I prefer "make something at least someone loves". That's more accurate because if 1 or more users love your product, you can get to 40% by getting rid of enough users who don't love it.
The data available is insufficient to reproduce the work of climate change research centers, which is the whole point of any criticism and the motivation behind FOIA requests that scientists illegally acted to obstruct.
It's very appropriate, at least now I know what brand of ice-cream to never eat again.

I spent 2 years backpacking around the world and have seen this crap sometimes; it's not an India-only thing.
What do you like about SmartSVN over TortoiseSVN?
Totally agree with you here. Microsoft acted swiftly and aplogized. If plurk's try to litigate here, it would lose major points with me and hopefully with others also. They should be happy that they got some attention and should let their code/business do the rest of the talking instead of the legal team.
he difficulty comes when you suddenly find yourself having to debug generated code and you find that it has become impenetrable and unreadable

So don't do that. When you find yourself doing that, you know you've gone too far.

I think maybe you've misunderestimated me: F# is a functional language. It'd be easy enough to abstract my way into all kinds of scary stuff.

Code generation is a form of meta-programming and abstraction. I find it useful in certain circumstances, like when I'd like to have types to inspect that are going to match up perfectly with my persistence framework. Language-level abstraction takes away the touchy-feely inspection I like, and there's no point re-inventing the wheel. Simply kick out a template and don't worry about it.

But you're absolutely right that in general, copy-and-pasting and code generation are signs that you are doing bad things. Just not always :)
... which would be relevant if it was CPU bound.
Great find. These'll get a run in my classes for sure...
Management's Dirty Little Secret
One would have a cached answer to a problem if the circumstances and question were identical, i.e. same function, same input. In normal conversation, these are almost never the same. In addition, language is faulty and ambiguous. As an astute reader, one has the responsibility to attempt to understand the argument in the full complexity of how it was meant, not just how it was said. To this end, there are very few identical answers to identical questions. Certain answers may be similar to answers given to similar questions in the past, but they should never be knee-jerk. Instead, they should be reasoned and polite with as much understanding as possible. Of course, everyone responds out of frustration at times, but this should never be held to be ideal.
I think you're right. :)
RedLaser was released on May 15, 2009. It works with original, 3G, and 3gs iPhones (although it is faster on 3gs). It was released for the pure need for that scanning barcodes was very subpar on the iPhone. They were the first (and I think still the only, most others license their tech) app on the iPhone to do barcode recognition straight on the phone (no need to take a picture or send it to a server to be 'read'). Until very recently that wasn't possible with horribly slow Android SDK.

Read Occipital's story on their blog http://occipital.com/blog/2009/08/01/2009-at-occipital-from-...
"Based on its density, scientists think GJ 1214b is made up of about three-quarters liquid water with a solid core of iron and nickel and an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium—not unlike Earth."

what

This is either terrible writing or terrible science (on the author's part, not the scientists', I would imagine). About 70% of the Earth's surface is water, but only a fraction of a percent of Earth's mass is water. (http://bit.ly/7Gfk8V, total water volume from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water#Water_on_Earth). And the Earth's atmosphere is definitely not primarily hydrogen and helium.
They are only showing that the size of attack is predictable, not the timing...
This is because results don't matter under liberalism, only intentions.

edit: Well there are lots of reasons, actually, but I think that's one of them. I think the article makes a really profound point in passing: "Government is now paying the tab for services that used to be undertaken by families, churches — or, frankly, no one."

Now, I'm sure some of this can be attributed to the fact that San Francisco attracts a lot of out-of-towners, because of its beauty, history, jobs, etc. But I think part of it is also due to the ruling liberal ethos of radical individualism, where everyone must be free to do as he wishes without constraint (as long as he doesn't infringe on anyone else's right to do the same). Such radical autonomy must invariably involve the rejection of social obligations. After all, no one chooses into which family to be born, and most people don't choose the church they will grow up with, either. Follow this logic to its conclusion and all you're left with is democratically elected government, expressing the "will of the people".
2009: The Year in Downtime
That's not correct. I have read that it's only about ~ 89% of bloggers who make them up.
Would it have been better to simply submit a new article?
How is orbited different from BOSH+XMPP?
Well of course, my example is an exaggeration, but the idea is that this exposes the poster without them knowing that they are exposed. At the same time, so do a million other things like your IP address in Google's logs on the way to the comment you made on that blog. Let's face it: there's no privacy on the Internet. There's just varying degrees of completely exposed to sort of in the shadows.
But the blogpost is arguing that it is the tangibility of vinyl that is its savior, comobined with good sense of record labels to also provide the download...
It seems that IE has been a consistent impediment to web based technologies for upwards of 10 years now.

This is patently untrue. In 1999, IE was the best available browser (Netscape would have been your other option).

It wasn't until Firefox in 2005 that a real alternative emerged (IMHO).

Sorry to be nitpicky, but it matters.
The Swedes Have Invaded Apple Headquarters
This last item hits me rather personally. Last year I was paying $1,500/month for a room in a tiny apartment to live across on Laguna and Hayes, right across from the housing project. It was like somebody drew a big line and put all of the yuppies on the Octavia side of the street, and all of the drug addicted permanently unemployable old women on the other side of the street .. Quite a dichotomy.
Offensive but insidiously clever: they'll build up the hype as an exclusive, "foreigner only" location and few months later will open the floodgates to locals. The approach will ensure high profit margins for foreseeable future.
Open Source Success Metrics
After reading the article, apparently the conclusion was that a local Haagan Daz franchisee (The store had local ownership by an Indian Citizen) wants to introduce the Haagen Daz Brand in _India_, and the "International Passport" idea was there to talk up how premium the brand was.

My takeaway (from my perspective), wasn't that "Indians" were not allowed in the store (the entire _purpose_ was to get the Indian Market excited about a Brand) - the negativity is the belief that something needs to be "blessed" by the international market before it can be rolled out as a preferred brand in India.

The whole thing sort of backfired though. I'll be interested in whether this is a net positive/negative for Haagen Daz in India.
Here in San Francisco, "Proper" means "I'm from the suburbs and I'm gearing up to bitch about San Francisco's parking and one-way streets"
Why surprising? I don't think I've ever seen any correlation between greatness and ability to give a talk. I certainly remember at university we had courses by world class leaders in their fields that put everyone to sleep and lectures by recent grad students which where really great.
Thinking a decade ahead
Book Launch 101: Media Hijinks, Amazon Timing, and VIP Treatment for You
> Maybe you should take a look at the healthy San Francisco program, which basically arranges medical insurance for the indigent.

Maybe that increases the number of indigent? Why, in one of the richest, most beautiful cities in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, are there large numbers of feral humans roaming around? Why are entire neighborhoods off-limits to law-abiding citizens?
Yup, you might be interested in checking out our part search API: http://octopart.com/api .

In general there a some hard parts to component search:

- getting complete and accurate data

- setting up a system to store that data in a smart way

- setting up search on arbitrary attributes (text and numbers)

- creating a UI on top of all that

We've been working on the problem of part search for the past few years and we'd be happy to talk.
I enjoy corporate-racism, specially "overseas", where their dirty secrets are usually not spotted. Here is a fun little ad by Vaseline:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rswz0sghYCw

Vaseline is a brand owned by Unilever Corporation, which says of itself: "Ever since the 19th Century when William
Hesketh Lever stated that the company's mission was "to make
cleanliness commonplace; to lessen work for women; to foster health and contribute to personal attractiveness, that life may be more enjoyable and rewarding for the people who use our products" --
http://www.unilever.com/aboutus/ourmission/default.aspx

It's Unilever's position that non-white skin is a problem to be dealt with in order to achieve "personal attractiveness" :-P
While governance and a flawed ballot system are definitely a big issue, the real reason it has been exploited the way it is is that there is no real opposition in SF. And that I'm afraid is because of this particular aspect of San Francisco group think.
I don't understand what's so interesting about MIT's linear algebra course... It seems pretty standard. Penn State and Pitt's cover the exact same course material.

And theirs is pretty equivalent to CMU's Matrix Algebra (which covers a bit more than MIT)
> That is definitely not true. The atmos in the Bay Area is part of the reason SV is where it is.

Right. And the "atmos" of Boston is why the high-tech hub around route 128 is where it is, having of course nothing to do with its proximity to a couple of world-class universities... The "Bay Area" may help sustain SV, but San Francisco proper is a pretty small part of that -- it is a hub of night-life/clubs, an overly pretentious literature and arts scene, and a completely dysfunctional city government. SF is a fun place to live for people of a certain age, but as the better known city in a large metropolitan region it gets far more credit than it deserves for the "atmos" that gives the region its flavor.
The reference to increased sales is true for both VA Smalltalk and Gemstone. Also noted: this growth is consistent in prior years. Those are not opinions without regard to the fact that they did not release sales numbers. I know and have worked for the CEOs of both companies (long ago); they are very honest businessmen. If they claim the growth is real, I do believe them.
If I remember correctly, nothing goes into HTML5 unless it has already been implemented by at least two major vendors.
Whether or not you are serious, indeed they should have something in the works for a standard whose draft specification is dated today.

I think the bigger issue is that Microsoft doesn't bother adhering to standards;

Or they make up their own standards when there are already perfectly good standards that provide the same functionality;

Or they implement part of a standard, but certain stuff is completely wrong, and when it is pointed out, they don't do anything about it.

And then they force you to conform their arbitrary non-standard stuff, because they can bully you with their 70% market share.

This isn't just about being slow, its about their course history of being slow AND maliciously protectionist AND incompetent.

And they should get ditched if they continue to behave in such a manner.
The policy has already been changed due to the local backlash.. I don't think this debacle is going to help the brand.. I for one won't ever buy it again
Dan Pink has a great talk about motivation on TED.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan%5Fpink%5Fon%5Fmotivation.html
Learning styles debunked
"Link to your code, big and center" wouldn't have been that many more words, if that was truly what was meant.

"You also seem to imply that experienced developers [i]wouldn't[/i] be using a cutting-edge tool to share code. Why wouldn't they? Does 'experienced' have to mean 'curmudgeonly'?"

Straw man. My implication is only that it's foolish to screen for experience using a trendy tool that is adopted by only a tiny percentage of programmers.
I wonder how people would react if folks opened a store in New York City or DC allowing only 'international' patrons, that is, tourists? I can't imagine that causing any fuss but I can imagine the opposite, opening a locals only store, might cause a stir.

(All this is ignoring the fact that both of these scenarios are illegal in the US.)

This seems to be a rather strange business decision. But, seeing as this is a franchise and is likely owned by an Indian, I have trouble getting upset by it.
not GitSmart?
Not appropriate. If you want to read how businesses screw people over there are an endless supply of other websites. Unless it's software or hardware related, it doesn't belong here.
HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet (Reloaded)
Indeed. IE pushed many of the technologies that make today's stuff possible. Divs, usable Document Object Models, vector graphics, and XmlHttpRequest, to name a few.

I'd go so far as to say that it was 2008 before something genuinely better came along in the form of Chrome. Firefox did a good job of getting Microsoft to release IE7, but it was never compellingly better in the way that Chrome is.
And the fact that this was an native Indian's franchise of the brand and not a corporate action:

* Changes your opinion about it in no way, and

* Suggests nothing about whether articles like this are appropriate for HN?
You are paying for all those things. If they are better at all of those than the competition, I'm not sure if they are overpriced.
As in Boston, the atmos of the Bay Area is probably the main reason the universities here are so good. Universities planted in Boston and the Bay Area thrive. Those planted in cities that are bigger and richer, but have the wrong sort of culture, don't do as well. E.g. NYC vs Boston, LA vs SF.
History of Erlang (from the horses mouth)
"Smart git" is also a lame joke if you're from the UK.
in theory, that sounds a lot more like Earth than any other known celestial body.

now, whether or not it's all accurate, we'll find out eventually.
Big Media at White House; Biden Announces Focus on IP Theft
Ask Matt: Essential Gadgets
Apple Moves Toward Music As Service
The startup may have been labeled a failure, but you were not labeled so (at least, not to my knowledge). The distinction is critical to my point.

If that first business were successful, people fond of the buzzword 'tenacious' might label you tenacious, for toughing out the hard times in order to 'win'. Since it failed, they could keep the buzzword alive by bumping it up a level and saying that you were tenacious in pursuing the entrepreneurial dream, wisely jettisoning that failed project and learning great lessons along the way. Neither of those uses of the word would surprise me.

What would be surprising is if the word 'tenacious' were to be decoupled from success. That is, if you never hit it big but were so renowned for your tenacity that you nevertheless got press or recognition for it. Perhaps Daniel Ruettiger (Rudy, from Notre Dame fame) is the best example of someone who is recognized for his tenacity despite not achieving canonical success.*

* = at least, not in football; he is making plenty as a motivational speaker.