jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are definitely some things missing from his analysis, but at least he links to the appropriate court documents so you can ignore his analysis and do your own if you're so inclined.

The real questions are things like what version of Linux infringed? Has that code been removed yet? I have to think it would be removed the minute people found out. Was the infringing code part of the main kernel, or something else? I seem to recall a mention of RHEL, so maybe it's specific to that.

That said, it's a real danger. Even if the patented code is removed, they can (and will) go after people for past damages. They're a patent troll, that's what they do. And you can expect all future cases to be filed in East Texas. There's also no more escape clause, because they'll just sue batches of people who are distributed all over the country or world and claim that East Texas is just as good a place as any because no forum would be more convenient.

The best fix for this is to get the law changed to eliminate software patents entirely. Maybe, just maybe, i4i will help with that, but I'm not sure. Reexamination requests are also in order. Hopefully this patent will get busted soon

Ultimately, this is just another reminder of why software patents are a bad thing.
Soot is one of the blackest materials known. It absorbs light in a very wide range.
I really dislike driveby statements like "the cloud saves money". From my use case when I ran a high traffic site, it was several times more expensive than normal dedicated servers.
"tax revenue is 18% of GDP no matter what tax rates are"

Not really.
http://www.angrybearblog.com/2010/11/hausers-law-is-extremel...

"it is corrupted by government regulation"

It is corrupted by people. If we had no government it would still be corruptible.

"These are basic economic principles."

Like if I have a bigger gun than you, I get the rewards? Oh, you mean principles that we agree to in the form of government? Principles which are arbitrary and chosen by humans and vary from market to market! Yes, those "principles".
If you read into what Forex is you'd discover that what you're speculating about actually happens, for pure profit, many many times over on a daily basis.
Consciousness uploading?

Consciousness uploading is to the iPod as interstellar starships are to commuter aircraft.

Actually, it might be worse than that. Right now I think we have better ideas about how to build an interstellar starship (Orion nuclear pulse propulsion, light sails, etc.) than we do about how to upload human consciousness to a computer.
I didn't say I can't tell the difference. All I meant was at the end of the day, if I watch a soccer game (for example) in "standard" definition versus HD, I still watch the same game without any loss of useful information whatsoever. Why does HD make my life better?
'I don't get all this passive-agressive "holier-than-thou" attitude towards Gladwell being famous I've been seeing lately. Who cares if he's famous?'

It reminds me of what PG said about this in his "why to not not start a startup" -- he is successful for what he does and they don't think he should be because he writes about things he doesn't do professionally or something.
People rarely date someone who's very significantly more or less attractive than they are.

People are also much more likely to date someone of their own race. Should OkCupid segregate by race as well? Oh wait, that's a social taboo, whereas discriminating against the ugly is considered perfectly acceptable.
I want to comment on how pretentious that website title is ("three standard deviations to the left"). I took that to imply the author (or his intended audience) is three standard deviations above average (intelligence?).

Anyway, he says he am IB teacher... not surprised, this attitude of intellectual superiority is an IB hallmark.
"How much should physical attractiveness play a role in relationships?"

It matters as much as nature intended it to. Regardless of what the womyn at Bitchmagazine think about it.
I was about to post this. Alienate users for 1 day by showing them how crap backgrounds can be, everyone hates it (even if just on principle) and then if they ever visit Bing they'll say 'this is like the day that Google went crap', negative feelings all round towards it.

It is brilliant.
Before anyone starts talking about full disclosure or Microsoft or whatnot, just know that whether you agree with Tavis' logic or not, not giving Microsoft a couple weeks to patch a remote is a breach of protocol.

Tavis is one of my favorite researchers to watch and I'm not going to say anything negative about him or how he played this. But if I was Google, I'd be treading very, very, very carefully here. Google's gotten a lot of talent lately, but Microsoft has them way outgunned. We don't need these two companies setting up opposition labs because of a document that ends with "greetz".

Or, maybe we do. Depends on your politics.

(For what it's worth: http://twitter.com/taviso/status/15887290335S)
Who cares? I didn't get any mail saying I'm beautiful. But I still see plenty of pretty girls that are a good match. So whatever.
Congratulations! You are more attractive than 70% of the population! Just like everybody else.
Wear a high vis jacket and carry a toolbox and most people in most places won't give you a second glance.
"Like how the Magic: The Gathering people have undermined "rare" cards by just printing so many they can never be valuable."

I don't believe that that is the case ... Alpha/Beta/ArabianNights versions of currently printed cards are quite a bit more valuable ...
I know change is slow but I can't help but feeling this goal is unattainable. In my own very environmentally concious state two versions of a carbon tax failed (one libertarianish leaning the other more green new deal like). France utterly rejected a climate focused gas tax. With fairly liberal populaces rejecting the economic commitment to addressing climate change It's become very hard to imagine how we'll ever get sufficient numbers of international polities with more conservative leaning voters to ever agree to do something.
Regardless of hardware capabilities, I remember the TI-89 capable of solving some computer algebra problems that I couldn't get even Mathematica at the time to solve.

TI calculators definitely do seem like dinosaurs in many ways, but the TI-89's CAS was seriously impressive even when disregarding the pitiful hardware it was running on.
I expect sshd to be rolled into systemd any day now.
The first version of factorial in SBCL takes less time and processor cycle,

CL-USER> (time (fact 5))
Evaluation took:
0.000 seconds of real time
0.000002 seconds of total run time (0.000001 user, 0.000001 system)
100.00% CPU
1,550 processor cycles
0 bytes consed

120

compared to second version of factorial

CL-USER> (time (fact2 5))
Evaluation took:
0.000 seconds of real time
0.000027 seconds of total run time (0.000027 user, 0.000000 system)
100.00% CPU
64,240 processor cycles
0 bytes consed

120

How it works for other lisp implementation. However when I reach for bigger number things looks different.

CL-USER> (time (fact 10000))
Evaluation took:
0.044 seconds of real time
0.045335 seconds of total run time (0.036745 user, 0.008590 system)
[ Run times consist of 0.021 seconds GC time, and 0.025 seconds non-GC time. ]
102.27% CPU
111,336,538 processor cycles
69,739,552 bytes consed

CL-USER> (time (fact2 10000))
Evaluation took:
0.021 seconds of real time
0.021083 seconds of total run time (0.020312 user, 0.000771 system)
[ Run times consist of 0.003 seconds GC time, and 0.019 seconds non-GC time. ]
100.00% CPU
51,983,719 processor cycles
78,751,760 bytes consed

I wonder some kind of compiler magic kicks in, for higher number.
What would a hedge fund do with his data?
IANAL, obviously.

1) these are not very uncommon, in my experience they're pretty normal

2) if you tell them about your friend's experience, and explain that you're willing not to work with a direct competitor but you will need to make it clear you still can seek employment as a programmer so this needs to be narrowed, they should be willing to modify the language

3) if they say "my way or the highway", even after sharing your friend's experience, that tells you something about them as a potential employer

4) but from their point of view, developers get to look at a lot of the innards of the company, and they aren't crazy or mean to want some protection from you just walking away with a lot of the value of the company in the form of IP, trade secrets, etc.
I would be careful to use this without validating and normalizing the unicode prior to passing it to this parser. Not saying that it's a bad design, but big flashing security warnings should be used so that people are aware that higher order unicode can and usually is normalized prior to JSON parsing (so that, e.g. producers that use full width quotation marks can have their json parsed correctly rather than not have the double quotes recognized) and this consumer can only handle fully normalized and validated UTF8
IIRC the the highest price an app could set at the App Store launch in 2008 was $999 or $999.99.

This was someone putting a drawing in an iPhone app bundle with a funny name and charging the highest price that Apple allowed developers to set.
Texas government website describing the validity factors for non competes in Texas: https://www.twc.texas.gov/news/efte/conflicts_secrets_non_co...
Better is to use a service like https://anonaddy.me for email forwarding.
I think about 95% of preparing for Tunguska-type events is to be able to see it coming before it hits, so you can get out of the way or hunker down. I'm not sure where we are on that front in general, but the collapse of Arecibo means we've lost our most powerful terrestrial asteroid-tracking radar system.

http://www.naic.edu/ao/scientist-user-portal/planetary-scien...

It's also worth noting that there's a reasonably good chance that we might prevent one or more future Tunguska events by spotting asteroids not right before the collide, but much earlier when they're on a trajectory that will eventually collide with Earth years or centuries in the future.
It is not Russian. Source: native Russian speaker with a knowledge of Russian scripting systems dating back at least 1000 years.
Do these photos and the way they were shown in the news not look upside down to anyone else?
You can mint NFT's on Kusama for pennies, a Proof of Stake network by the original CTO and co-founder of Ethereum Dr. Gavin Wood http://kodadot.xyz/
The simple solution would seem to be setting the clock first then doing the packet capture instead of setting the clock in the middle of the packet capture.
Would you then predict that Detroit will become a center for the arts, or has it fallen too far behind in basic services already?
When I was buying my last house (in boring suburbia), for fun, my wife and I looked around the U.S. at what our money would buy in other places.

In L.A. it bought an empty lot with a rusting fence around it, perhaps 10m x 20m in size.

In NYC, a similar story, but the lot was smaller and had lots of rubbish you had to remove.

and so on...

So for fun we looked "out in the country". One listing has stuck in both our minds, it was an aerial photograph of a some dense forest and a few houses on it. We didn't get it, which house was this for? We reread the listing several times to eventually parse the description and realized that it was for all of it. 140acres (56.6hectares) with 4 homes and 2 other structures.

The only way the listing agent could get a picture of the property was to get in an aircraft and take it from above.

We almost toyed with the idea of moving there, but an extreme lack of jobs in our field (and low pay) kept us away. But it's tucked in our hats as a retirement option down the road.
Precisely. One wonders exactly what Lovecraftian horrors Microsoft will have in Windows 10 that will allow them to compete with the new levels Google and Apple have reached.

The dreamy days of OS X Tiger on a G4 PowerBook now seem like they must have been figments of the imagination.
If your in any need of an extra Microsoft Stack developer, please reach out. cheetahtec attt gmail.com 10+ years of experience here with .NET and Mobile.
I don't have a strong opinion on DNSSEC itself. It seems like it might be a good idea for email, at least.

I don't have much sympathy for network admins who block TXT records because it doesn't currently seem to break anything. TXT records are part of the spec, and if some of them have configured something to block them, that's not a good reason for everyone to not have secure systems.
There's a "social capital" thing going on here. Your friends are usually willing to make some amount of effort to talk and hang out with you, depending on how close friends you are, but there are limits to that. Nobody wants to get together with someone who insists on doing everything their way every time. Most people don't care to spend what social capital they have getting their friends to use a different messaging app. You're only burning even more social capital if you try to lecture them about things they don't care about, such as Facebook having their personal information.

Particularly, this social capital is at its minimum when you're trying to develop new friendships. Good luck starting any when you refuse to use the app that everyone else in the area uses to communicate.
He seeded the Signal Foundation with $50M.
What a lazy and unhelpful response.
When someone buys a share of Tesla for $800, that money doesn't disappear. It's received by another person. Very little work is done from this exchange, so it doesn't make any difference for the single mom or government.
this is a fair point, the acceptance of BLM calls for violence, rioting, and looting by the media and Democrats makes this a much smaller event than it would have been otherwise.

What happened was a failure of adequate planning and execution by the police to control an unruly crowd.
Very much like saying, “my vehicle will outlive yours. No, it doesn’t have wheels or axles, because my vehicle is the human legs.”
It's just an observation that this switcheroo of Wallah/Voilà seems regional to that area of the world - would you say that's not true? No insult intended.

Other seemingly American conventions include saying: 'would of', 'could of', 'for all intensive purposes', 'I could care less', and plenty more. I travel to the US a couple times every month and notice things like this!
When your credit card expires, the CVC code is re-generated and changes. I assume that does not matter for Stripe, as CVC is only checked at the initial tokenization not re-charges.
This is a great link... My father is a Radiology Engineer and I will defiitely be sending this his way.
I think .co.co is a reserved Second level Domain
Or you could just type in the URL. Oh wait, that's exactly what Twitter is doing.
This, monsieur, is the dream. I applaud 37signals for starting this series.
Good on the Australia Ministry of Tourism using ordinary people to make something really cool.

The professional artists/photographers mentioned in the article seem to just be whinging because something they took for granted is being taken away. Its just like the newspaper industry, technology and society is passing them by and they haven't worked out how to cope.
Instead of all this complexity, why not simply NOT COUNT the characters of any URL? There is no reason anymore for 140 characters.
You can avoid any major SEO problems by only serving the modified version to iPads (As long as it's providing proper user agent information, that's easy, but there are other ways to detect it as well).

In fact, if you really want to go all out, you could just serve the entire website as a rendered image to iPad users.
DataMapper is the most serious alternative to ActiveRecord, the de facto standard Rails database layer.

Its most notable difference, besides a simpler and more modular architecture, is the fact that it defines its own schemas from properties of objects (in other words, it generates its own migrations).
Here's the link to the actual story:

http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13534628

From the guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In Submissions

...
Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.
book recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Clifford-Stoll/dp/06717268...
This i believe is the point of creating a new browser. Here are things I hope they borrow heavily from Chrome:
1. Very short (uncluttered) "right click" menu
2. Simple setting menu - with search
3. One-click uninstall of extensions

One thing not in chrome I'll kill for is the ability to set HTML5 videos and audios as "click to play."
You're absolutely right.

Freedom isn't the ability "to do" something or anything, it is simply the absence of coercion. Blocking someone's ability to navigate on public property is coercion, it is not a right, it certainly is not freedom.

We are not more free if people can block your path because they're unhappy...which is what some here are arguing.
You can manually set the memory cache in Preferences.

I figure that unused RAM is wasted RAM. If I've got 4GB of RAM and all that caching allows to browse faster (going back a page in Opera is lightening fast), then I applaud it.
This is almost 4 years old. This isn't "Hacker Archives", it's "Harcker News".
So would you predict that people offered $100 for an accurate self-assessment would be well calibrated?
I've had the same experience happen to me. Bad service (which is quite a feat at a serve-yourself buffet), so no tip, then chased outside with the waitress shouting through the establishment "YOU NO PAY FOR SERVICE!"

I've never been back, of course, but it always reminds me of the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs.

I am Mr. Pink.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-qV9wVGb38)
The seniority level was gathered by asking each person the seniority they would like in their next job. This suggests that it is more common for people working with Ruby to think of picture themselves in a higher seniority role than their Python counterparts. It is not an actual reflection of their current level.

Also it is completely subjective - Your definition of C/C++/Linux people being more senior to CSS/CoffeeScript/Node.js people is your point of view - other people's views may be different.
In general, I always want the most competent people around whether LGBTQ+, disabled, etc. or not. The world isn't a perfect meritocracy, but choosing people because they have blue or brown eyes, long or short hair, more or less melanin, or closely resemble the hiring manager over more capable candidates doesn't make sense. Healing biases doesn't mean flipping the coin over and continuing opposite ones; neither retribution nor additional discrimination heals. Someone has to draw-up the grace and determination to set down past baggage and show leadership by making themselves immensely capable.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of 'interposition' and 'nullification' -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." - MLK Jr., "I Have a Dream" speech
I think these things go in cycles, and have more to do with stylistic preference than objective value.

I've recently been reading essays by G.K Chesteron and William Hazlitt. They are incredibly verbose by modern standards. They spend many long sentences teasing out shades of meaning and subtle implications. They take extremely long run-ups to their topic, often starting with several paragraphs on something that seems unrelated before cleverly integrating it into the main thesis. Instead of clearly stating a thesis and arguing for it, they often layer related concepts and arguments, and they expect the reader to figure out the associations, analogies, and references. But both writers are widely acknowledged to been masters of prose style

Some people appreciate "a fancy prose style" in the same way they appreciate complex music. It's more about using language and argument to craft something intricate and elegant than a plain information dump.
I dislike the games LinkedIn plays with hiding your phone number and email address. Then you need some level of linking and/or paid subscription to communicate with someone.
Was hoping someone would mention Ada. It's the most Pascal-y of all Pascal's children. I enjoyed my brief time doing Ada. I should look at Nim.
I've done that at Walmart before. Walmart has this policy where if the item you bought is too big to be put in a bag the greeter tries to check your receipt.

You're right - they can't do anything. But it still is a very unpleasant interaction. Also, not very effective anyways. Target on the other hand doesn't check receipts, but they have a well trained loss prevention team that watches the cameras and they know when someone is stealing. The only person who gets a bad experience is the person committing the crime.

Overall though, I just hate the experience of going into stores in general these days. Not just because of COVID, it's because in almost all cases, the staff is incentivized to sell you things that make the company the most profit. Either because they get a commission or because if they don't they get their hours cut etc... They aren't actually trying to help you solve your problem, which is the whole point of having sales associates.

So now I end up doing independent research on whatever I'm going to buy, it's usually cheaper online and I don't get asked if I have a rewards account, what my phone number/email is, what my zip code is, do I want to open a credit card? etc etc...
There's some real comedy in this line: “The Company remains focused on our two corporate strategies of growing our enterprise analytics software business and acquiring and holding bitcoin ...”. What even is the connection!
That's interesting, I didn't know that, thx! Will look it up a bit more.
One of the problems of keeping everything in your head is trust. People forget! Maybe you have a great memory, but eventually it'll forget things. And it should! otherwise there won't be room for any new stuff. I don't think we have infinite storage available; at some point things have to be erased to make room.

But also, keeping that stuff in a system you can trust frees your brain to do other things. Instead of falling asleep reminding yourself to buy milk tomorrow, you can leave it to the system to remember. The system being anything - a notebook, an app, or what have you. There is some good evidence that this kind of delegation allows for more high-level thinking to come about, since your brain is more free to do other things.

Now, as you've touched on - sometimes technology screws you one way or another, and that trust is broken. So if you have no redundancy or backup or plan for that dependency, maybe you'd be better off keeping things in your head.

But you are human and your head is human by extension. it is faulty, imperfect, and not nearly as good at storing things as pretty much anything else. Even if its good now, it won't necessarily always be, and isn't in such good shape for a lot of folk. So I would not paint it in such a rosy light.

I'm curious, Have you done any experimentation with Method of loci?
You really shouldn't use any opportunity to bring on your usual thesis - VCs collude to fund only startups created by "connected" founders - when it is so out of topic.
The warranty has been now updated and a google search turns up nothing in the interim. We are in agreement regarding the obituary of the said warranty. Curious as to how you read the messages (regardless) given that it promises a "declaration" that it does not make. Did they ever make a declaration?