skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to get disputatious, but the tangible/intangible distinction simply relates to whether one can physically touch something and (at least in my mind) has nothing to do with whether something should or should not be a protectible form of property or whether it does or doesn't have value making it worthy of protection.

Society, through its laws, must make judgments about what "bundle of rights" it wants to associate with any given form of property and whether recognizing and protecting such bundles of rights will promote individual happiness and social betterment, including economic prosperity. I think the experience we have all seen with IP rights falls decidedly on the side of promoting social betterment as well as individual happiness. The point might be argued to the contrary, but I think the contrary argument is a far weaker case and, in reality, virtually unsustainable (though one can of course argue with more force about limiting individual IP components such as patents).
If it's B2B software shoot me a product description and screenshots, and let's discuss the terms. It would be easier if you have a CJ account.

Affiliate marketing is what you want, offer a top commission and give more freedom to publishers.
MUJI & LEGO
Well, I'm a bit more cynical than you. However, Jack in the Box is probably one of the least likely chains to experience an E. Coli O157:H7 outbreak (since 1993, at least).
I have to second the recommendation for The Pentium Chronicles. I bought that book at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and thought that it looked a bit overpriced at $35... but it was worth every penny.

Robert Colwell tells the story of the P6 architecture with a collection of anecdotes. It's full of insights and easy to digest at the same time.

For example, many of the issues in processor design stem from miscommunication about how functional units communicate. Since units on a processor can only communicate with their neighbors, they arranged the teams in the office to reflect the actual die layout. This way, teams responsible for a functional unit could always communicate directly with their on-die neighbors!
EVL's LambdaVision - a 55 LCD panel, 100Mpixel tiled display
I think it's more of an observation about which of the two are _real_ men, and less an observation about Google.
If deliberate, humorous exaggeration in argument is wrong, I'm in some great company! e.g. Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, yaddayadda.

I'm not saying I'm half as good as they are, but your assertion that it shouldn't be used comes across as rather strident.

And by adding your new programmer/what's SQL? argument, you fell into the same trap yourself.

We're not going to agree, might as well not bother.
It sounds like whoever bought that site may have made a bundle off of him. Just a few 301 redirects in the old .htaccess file and the new owner was back in business!
There's something to that, but for a Management Consultant like Bryce to accuse another profession of faddishness is rather rich.
Not to worry, Square has them covered. https://squareup.com/
[insert evil laugh]
The bank analogy is interesting and a good point, but the reality of ISPs is that they are less reliable, and less regulated, than banks.

If my income is dependent on data, I make sure it gets backed up. If it's an active project, I use my backups to build my dev environments so it's fairly obvious when a backup has failed.
I thought Apple had a patent that covers display sensors integrated into a flat panel display:

http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/19/sensing.display.paten...
Nice but, anonymous recursion is possible with arguments.callee.
I think they are taking recent Eric Shmidt's quote too firm :-).
It has to do with maximizing the return per employee, so to say. Otherwise you might as well fire the employee and save 100% of the salary.
but moving currency between people, for "trinkets" is called "trade". trade is not a zero sum process. it creates wealth.

so, i buy something from you for $20. then you buy something from me for $20. although the currency comes out equal, we're both ahead. there's no scam here, no incentive or advantage for low scruples, no problem at all.
My colleagues - researchers - that are not here on student visas are here on H1-B visas. Those that are on student visas will eventually need H1-B visas after they graduate. I take their objections to be anti-foreign worker.
Brandt’s Law of NDAs
I find it completely and utterly mind boggling that anyone would find this useful. Spending habits are private: tracking your OWN is useful. But sharing everything publicly? It's insane. Guaranteed you are going to be embarrassed after you reveal your $200 purchase at the Love Shack or once your friends realize you eat at McDonalds 3 times a week. What happens people start tracking down gifts or you blow the surprise on your engagement ring?

People want to share some of the things they buy to show off, but no one wants to share everything they buy. From the mundane to the inane to the embarrassing, it's a wide window into your private life that very few would feel comfortable opening.
I think this says it all:

"Interviewee: Yes, that was actually an .htaccess thing I forgot to do. You can do a redirect - there's a few types of redirects you can do, there's like 301s, 401s, and there's one, there's a redirect that you can do in the .htaccess file that says, "Hey, this page is gone - not missing, it's over here." And we didn't do that, and I didn't figure that out until a month later when it was too late, when the old design, when the old site was already gone."
Restaurant of the future?
blah blah blah. If you are waiting on that, you'll be waiting a long time. Dude..I've done this for too long to even attempt to come to a forum like this and do sh*t like that. I'm just offering an honest view from the other side of the table. Honestly..I don't like recruiters either. Which is why I started my site. Have a great weekend.
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Yes oral contracts can be enforceable, but (i) there are limits to the types of oral contracts that are enforceable (see statute of frauds) and (ii) even for an oral contract the parties have to show that both sides clearly intended to be bound by a contract (there are some exceptions to this, but they do not apply here).

From what I read it seems that neither party treated the relationship as if they are bound by a contract. On the contrary it seemed like they proceeded under the assumption that they will negotiate some type of a deal in the future, but currently did not want to bind themselves.

None of this is legal advice, etc.
This is one of the classic ways people hook you into giving up your privacy, by talking about only the benefits and not talking about the costs.

I don't deny that amongst the buried millions of transactions this system will most assuredly generate, some minute fraction may actually benefit somebody by showing Comcast shenanigans or something. But... at what cost?

Sure, consumers might get some small amount of "empowerment", and all it took was handing large amounts of empowerment over to Blippy and whatever "affiliates" they sign with next month. Wow, what a deal!
Buy Local, Act Evil
Ask HN: How does your group celebrate success?
My group at work recently brought up the point that we don't celebrate success. We get so caught up in schedules, putting out fires and working to meet the next milestone that we don't stop to celebrate any of our successes. We could blame senior management for not setting the right atmosphere but we also determined that "we" should be able to celebrate success on our own. How DO YOU celebrate success within your own groups? Any feedback, recommendations or other ideas are welcomed. Thanks in advance.
Did you contact Twitter? If yes what did they say?
transcript is wrong, he says $75,000 in the actual interview.
Very cool. This class consistently produces great projects. You can see all the projects since 2006 here: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/ece576/FinalProject...
Does anybody else think its wrong how he blames his loss of $2mm on his website falling on Google's rankings?

Umm... maybe he lost $2mm from all the crap he bought!
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Becomes Poster Child for New Privacy Settings
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It will all end in tears.

It will middle in tears, anyway.
Quite interesting. Both Rathakrishnan's remarks and TC's suit suggest the falling-out was over who would have majority control of the venture.

Incidentally, Engagdet has been all over this particular story...does someone there have history with TechCrunch? They seem to be very much on the side of Fusion Garage, for some reason.
The article covers this: you register one of your cards, and use that for public purchases. They plan to provide a sticker for that card to make it more obvious.
It isn't likely that he didn't think to make a contract. More like he wanted better terms and thought he could jerk them around, and they thought the same thing. In the end they both win a dead product.
Great points. Earlier today I read an AP story before seeing this (now COB Friday). While I have not gone through the posts at TC, the AP story appeared to have checked/ covered/ summarized both sides http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=990515

Interesting Arrington said neither has rights to the product. Just pointing out from an independent AP source instead of TC.
Local 1337 demands more red bull and pizza.
Uh, what?

Unless this reveals actual information about the valid account, this a sev:informational finding on any professional assessment. In other words: you probably wouldn't even list it as a vulnerability.

I'm not sure I've ever seen an application that didn't have an account ID distinguisher somewhere in it. All you need is a place that generates "Permission denied" instead of "Not found".

Publicly calling out Dropbox for something that has extremely minimal real-world impact is bad form. Dropbox might care that there's a method to count accounts (I doubt it, since most of those accounts are free, so you can't work them back to financials), but it's not a matter of Internet safety and hygiene.
Twitter can't fix this, unless the FB application is only using Twitter's authentication system to ensure it's properly linked.

Facebook twitter apps can just scrape twitter for your most recent status update -- if that's the case, they don't even need your twitter password to get updates.

(I don't know how that twitter->facebook app works, but given your situation, that's what I'd guess. So there isn't anything Twitter could do to stop it.)
I'm ny particularly pleased to burst your bubble, but this spirit is alive and well even here on HN. I know it's more fun to think of this as a bastion of rationality and reason, but it's not. Mote importantly, holding rationality and "facts" above all else is another source of different but related problems.

Not involving elephants.

Remember, the more sure you are of
something, the more you are likely to be blinded to its flaws.
I'd be interested in using it, but I'm a terrible predictor of what other people will find interesting.
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I switched twitter names a while back, and even if I un and re install the app, it still won't update my facebook status.

I pretty much just gave up.
Apple fires back at Nokia in patents battle
It really isn't a relevant question. Anyone who self-identifies as a geek has skin in the game when it comes to my article because it's so much more about (self-limiting) self-image than my conception of what a geek
is.

Hint: if it pissed you off, it hit a nerve.
he's back: http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/6581734847
Study: More Than 50 Android Phones to Ship in 2010
Hmmm. I didn't interpret the article as stereotyping, but rather a writing style I think of as "Making room for skepticism." Basically sympathizing with the (stereotype) profile/skepticism/opposition the writer anticipates before putting a forth an idea.

I read this style all the time, and take it for what it is: a construct that makes things easier to digest, even when neither the argument, nor counterargument, apply to me.

Again, I usually find it helpful/intellectual lubricant, and did in this case.

That said, I can't deny your experience. If you felt friction, there must be something to reconsider in this style of presentation. Thanks potatolicious for taking the time to describe how it make you feel. I will consider your ideas the next time I have to present slightly counter-intuitive things to folks. (I often present really technical things to business people who are handicapped not by their lack of technical skill, but extremely conservative approach to risk.)

And thanks as well to ahoyhere, who posted the article. Good stuff.
this is the image on slide 52, provided for your convenience :)

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads...
The really scary thing is that it would probably sell like hotcakes. After all, plenty of people seem to use twitter to show the world what they're thinking (and that seems to be for the most part complete rubbish).

As the cost of a bit goes down the signal-to-noise ratio seems to get worse. Broadcasting everyones spoken words is definitely in our future somewhere if the current trends continue.
I always hate it when people say to use something like "Fh" to jump to the beginning of a section that starts with an 'h'. How much time will I waste thinking about whether or not there is or isn't another letter 'h' somewhere between the cursor and where I want to go? It's easy to construct examples like this after the fact, but it's not going to take me <1 sec to process the entire line for "are there any h's?"

Or am I in the minority here? Do people really think/code that way on a normal basis?
I suspect the facebook app just subscribes to a bunch of giant search feeds for all users and then dishes out any new messages. There's no authentication involved in twitter searches so neither Facebook, nor the author of the FB app, nor Twitter are to blame: you are. You should have deleted the app when you deleted your twitter account.
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I don't understand what is wrong with editing the application settings:
http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php

What magic did you expect to happen to make this right? Should twitter's facebook app have disabled itself? I think that is correct behavior for deactivating an account.

On a similar note, you could control the apps on twitter with this tool:
http://twitter.com/account/connections
[unless you've given out your password, then you need to change it]
Scroogle: Google Anonymously
We'll see if this is later confirmed but, I think it pretty funny that (as of this writing) Slashdot appears to be, well, Shashdotted over this post. (Disclaimer: Obviously it won't be quite so funny if it turns out to be a malicious DoS attack or some quite unrelated glitch.)
I am tempted to make the blanket statement: "Don't let non-technical managers manage technical people."

That would be unfair to all the good non-technical managers out there (I believe this is harder, but still possible). How about "Don't let managers who cannot establish a rapport with technical people manage technical people"?
Yeah, I actually do that. If I see it's an "h" that I need to go back to, I'll do the "Fh". Sometimes it takes me more than one jump to go back though (if any other "h" are in the way).
Firefox has a 47.4% marketshare as of August 2009??? Does anybody know what sources were used? It would be nice to see the same graph but this time with real data...
Seems like a lot of people don't know about this nice service. It's my default search engine in the Firefox search bar:

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
http://github.com/c9s/Vimana referenced in there looks pretty neat. Installing Vim plugins the normal way is indeed a un-fun process.
I also like this one about printers:

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/irm-blog/bryces-pet-peeve-comput...

where he talks about "today's consumer dot-matrix printers".
Actually it is easy to define: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obsolete

The term is misused in conversations that talk about fashion. I like the 100 year rule mentioned there. My hp200lx still has a way to go.
I find that having to concentrate on that actually refocuses me. Sometimes my mind needs a rest and I do it the lazy way, but by-and-large it is an excellent habit.
Let us buy you a beer (or three) (iPhone developers in the Bay Area)
My friend and I have been working on a new way to better monetize ad-supported / free / next-to-free apps, and would love to talk to fellow iPhone developers on how they'd use our API.

We're also approaching that stage where we'd like to pilot the API and would love to get a handful of developers in the loop for this.

If you've released iPhone apps and are in the Bay Area and can make it to San Francisco / Berkeley, then we'd love to buy you a beer! =)

Thanks.
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You can learn the ins and outs of network programming in pretty much any language. When you find yourself needing the level of control or speed which C offers, or compatibility with some platform, then go there.
Unions are great when they are needed. The problem with unions is that once they are not needed anymore they don't go away.
Graphing transit routes with Git and Graphviz
I remember being Slashdotted in 1999. It was a brutal onslaught of traffic. Fortunately, more sites seem equipped to handle that sort of traffic today. (http://slashdot.org/story/99/12/04/158227, if you're curious.)
I'm with ya. This sort of thing can sneak up on you.
Using Firefox 3.5.5 no fixes yet 12/11 for TB & Lightning. What a doozy! Remember satellite to mars, feet & meters? Here is one right on earth.
The repeat commands are your friend: Fh without looking, followed by ; and , if you don't end up in the right place the first time.
Wow. For some reason it feels like such a "low" number. After so many years of browsing /. it feels like there has been so much stuff posted that the number should be so much higher.
Blain is president of WashTech, a Seattle affiliate of the Communications Workers of America.

A link to the opposing viewpoint is cited at the end of the article.

Personally, I prefer to retain all of my bargaining control, rather than delegating it to another entity.

Furthermore, I do not understand the "us-vs-them" attitude that is pervasive in the pro-union mentality. I have stock in my company: I am them.
It looks almost exactly what rsync.net provides. They're established. Why aren't you telling me why your service is better than theirs?

Your prices do appear to be cheaper but as you've said with a much larger minimum quantity. Is cost the only significant differentiating factor?
You can get-by with just read-only C skills. Invest your time learning the ins and outs of python and its performance characteristics.

It's also inevitable that you will have to learn systems programming; POSIX or Win32 API most likely, for Unix and Windows respectively. But not for another year or so.

Have fun.
> MDs and politicians should absolutely be doing cost-benefit tradeoffs.

No, they shouldn't. If I'd rather spend my money on hookers and booze, that's my decision to make. If I'd rather spend all my money on health care so I've got a chance to see my first grandchild, that's also my decision to make.

I expect MDs to be experts on health benefits ("your knee won't be stiff in the morning") and health costs (like "you'll limp if you let this slid"). I expect someone associated to have a handle on how much money is involved.

However, that's not enough information to make a health care decision. Someone has to decide the relative value of those things, to decide if the costs are worth the benefits.

I am the expert in deciding how much these things matter to me. Booze vs grandchild is my call for me. It's your call for you. It's okay that we make different decisions.

If you think that I'm not "the expert" wrt those things for me, who is?

Or, do you think that those decisions shouldn't be made wrt my values for me? I'll be happy to make them for you if you want, but I don't want you making them for me.

> Expecting everyone to be able to exhibit the judgment of a professional in every field is so wildly implausible that I've obviously mistaken your meaning.

Either I was unclear or you don't understand what experts are experts at.

> Politicians should be required to be experts.

It's easier to require them to be unicorns.

As a general rule, you don't get to assume unobtanium even if that's the only way to make your preferred approach work. Any approach that requires unobtanium is, by definition, wrong, no matter how many ponies that you think that we'd get if it worked.
And it is a very badly written article.
I feel for the guy too, but it really isn't the first time in the last couple of months that some service provider fails at their #1 stated goal: to keep your data safe.

And it isn't just the small ones either.

For the love of - insert your favorite deity here - please try to restore your backups, and try to do so on a regular basis. If not all you might have is the illusion of a backup.

It is a very easy trap to fall in to, and I really am happy this guy writes about it because it seems there are still people that feel that if their data is in the hands of third parties that it is safe.

That goes for your stuff on flickr, but it also goes for your google mail account and all those other 'safe' ways to store your data online. In the end you have to ask who suffers the biggest loss if your data goes to the great big back-up drive in the sky, the service provider or you. If the answer is 'you' then go and make that extra backup.
>Some people are afraid to say something about a contract because they're afraid they won't be hired or they're afraid they'll get fired if they're an employee.

This is not a problem I have.

Is there way a union will specifically benefit me?
Just for fun, you might want to drop Olark (http://olark.com) on your website, so when you do get useful traffic you'll have an opportunity to help sell to them -- it's worked out pretty well for us. (shameless plug)
This is why i just do / or ?
believe it or not, this was intentional and an homage to slashdot (the concept of having low IDs that are publicly viewable), however obscure

the public link feature was actually a proof of concept and never intended to stick around :)

but anyway, having this information doesn't let you do anything but get a rough count of our users, so saying it's a security issue is a stretch. there are no public-facing forms or inputs that take these values as input
Old saying is "If it ain't tested, is is broken."
Old corollary: "If it is tested, it might still be broken."
And: "If it is a backup, it might still be broken."

Seems like a good idea to occasionally spend the time and totally fill a sparkley clean image with your backups and see how well it fares.

My sympathies.
My first response to seeing this over HN's twitter feed was "what, only?"
This week Digg posted that they've had over 14 Million stories posted to their site after only 5 years.

Slashdot is probably talking about front-page stories and not submissions, but, if we consider the editorial process, 100,000 is definitely high.

P.S. One of my most exciting geek-memories as a younger man was having one of my submissions hit the front-page of Slashdot.
What about a short movie vs. screenshots?