skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this means folks will have more opportunities for appeals on cases that were managed under less knowledgeable judges.
Connecting small RNAs and Aging
If you add the shipping costs, those offers are usually more than what prime offers
Progress is slow when it comes to patent reform. Judges have a lot of control over how fast it happens, since they're really the only ones who can make binding decisions.

Of course it would be great if the patent office had made better decisions in the first place, but that ship sailed long ago.
The biggest things for me are:

* Setting up several statuses (more than in the default) to reflect backlog, selected, in progress, testing, deployed

* Creating an appropriate board which splits everything into columns by status and rows by user

* Setting up a few quick filters to find things like anything which has been in the backlog for more than 6 weeks or bugs which haven't seen activity in the last 48 hours

* Integrating GitHub. Being able to kick a ticket over to QA from your commit message is awesome.

Beyond that, I mostly focus on stripping out default things to make the workflow simpler. I don't need my software to enforce that I can't move a ticket to deployed straight from in progress, and stripping out those extra rules makes it easier to deal with.
I've been using Asana for about two years as my work-related feature rich TODO list. I've learned that if I'm extremely diligent about putting tasks from my email inbox (or meetings, etc.) into Asana, then I don't have to ever worry about dropping tasks when things get hectic. For me, this is a pretty huge deal.

I'm very impressed by the introspection exhibited by the Asana team, illustrated by the following quote:

> [W]hen his friends introduce him to other people, they whisper: “Give the guy a chance; you’ll love him once you get to know him.”

Until this week, that’s how many of us felt about our brand and our product.

I've been on the sending end of this conversation very many times. Because of my success with Asana (and the fact that it's free), I've recommended the product to many people... and invariably been met with the same skepticism, based in the lack of a contemporary UI. I've convinced people to give it a shot anyway, but it was always a bigger road block than I would have imagined.

It's awesome that the Asana team realized this, and fixed it. I'm sort of indifferent to the UI at this point (although it does look nice), but I'm sure getting new users will be much easier from now on. Huge kudos to the Asana team!
Great until they decide to offer their own line of merch and yours isn't allowed in the store any more...
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So...they're going after Teespring?
So $18-$25 an hour plus tips. To drive maybe 24miles or more per trip not sure and on top of that considering car expense you'd have to pay driving that many miles, gas oil-change maybe tire problems or engine problems driving that far distances everyday could really start to add up.
A point of controversy is whether or not the 43 students were incinerated. The indedentent experts (GIEI) report insist that it was impossible:

> Dr. José Luis Torero, an internationally recognized fire-investigation expert, was hired by the GIEI to conduct an independent examination into the incineration scenario. Torero, a Peruvian who participated in the forensic investigations of the World Trade Center attacks, has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously a professor of fire security at the University of Edinburgh. He currently heads the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia. The incineration of forty-three bodies in an open-air terrain like that of the Cocula dump, Torero concluded, would have required some thirty-three tons of wood or fourteen tons of pneumatic tires, along with the same amount of diesel fuel; the fire would have had to burn for sixty hours, not the twelve that the P.G.R. claimed it had, based on the confessions of captured Guerreros Unidos sicarios. The smoke from such a fire would have risen nearly a thousand feet into the sky and would have been visible for miles around; no such pillar of smoke was spotted, or even captured by satellite imagery.

The pro-government media is pushing back that its just one scientist's opinion, which is at odds with the opinion of scientists at UNAM (national university of mexico) who participated in the government investigation and concluded that the missing students _were_ incinerated.
You could extend git-lfs "pointer" file to support secure distributed storage using Convergent Encryption [1]. Right now, it's 3 lines:

version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
oid sha256:4d7a214614ab2935c943f9e0ff69d22eadbb8f32b1258daaa5e2ca24d17e2393
size 12345

By adding an extra line containing the CHK-SHA256 (Content Hash Key), you could use a distributed p2p network like Freenet to store the large files, while keeping the data secure from other users (who don't have the OID).

version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v2proposed
oid sha256:4d7a214614ab2935c943f9e0ff69d22eadbb8f32b1258daaa5e2ca24d17e2393
chk sha256:8f32b12a5943f9e0ff658daa9d22eae2ca24d17e23934d7a214614ab2935cdbb
size 12345

That's how Freenet / Tahoe-LAFS / GnuNET work, basically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_encryption
No, it's not. Mainly because it's not just "adding a directory"
I don't know how the F-Droid community works, but it sounds like this is where we can follow it? https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/maps-me/

EDIT: And here https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues/85
General assembly mints genius'es. I went to MIT and can't get admitted to their program.
... and the legislature can reform all of this over night, but big money and big business won't let it. they like the safety of patents even if they are not going to war with them. same mentally as guns i guess.
If you'd like to follow along on the Firefox side, CC yourself on https://bugzil.la/1185106
>There are plenty of retailers with expedited shipping options now

What about cheap/free 2 day shipping for books? Would love to find an Amazon alternative.
The best bullying prevention is to never sign up for this garbage.

"If you haven’t registered for the site, and thus can’t contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews."
The new look is nice. Sleeker, cleaner - nice. That said, the product feels a lot slower now. They added a lot of ajax-y elements, and something as simple as showing "Later" tasks on the "My tasks" page now takes up to 5 seconds to load (tested on multiple machines and networks).

Also, Asana didn't _really_ need a new coat of paint. It needed (and needs!) a _fundamental_ UX/UI re-thinking. It still feels just as clunky to use as ever - it just looks a bit fresher.
Federal judges are not created with deep and intimate practical knowledge born of experience of the ins and outs of every area of federal law; they get educated by experience like anyone else.
Loophole in 1970 Clean Air Act may prevent criminal prosecution of VW
From "Ghost in the Shell" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6hxB1OK00
You know, it's kind of worth noting that Amazon's not the only culprit for this kind of behavior. Unlike Android, you can't buy a book through the iOS Kindle app because Apple has banned apps that directly compete with its own services.
> For example, if you work in space industry, your salary and benefits contribute directly to the costs of space exploration. This means that ultimately the more you earn the less space exploration we can do per buck.

Doesn't this assume that you the value you create for the company is less than or equal to your salary? Seems like the opposite of reality.

In for-profit businesses, workers should always be a net gain.

Your space exploration analogy would fall apart if you worked for SpaceX, for example. Paying engineers dearly doesn't mean the company makes less money: it means it can get even more lucrative contracts.

So yes, in budget-constrained non-growth organizations like NASA, you might be a net-loss, but that's a pretty special case.
I'd always heard that was to keep insurance premiums lower for those cars, but have no idea whether that's true.
*Systemic corruption won't let it

Let's call it what it is
>Scott McKeown has identified what he believes are some instances of parties not involved in a case of patent litigation using the inter partes review (IPR) procedure to squeeze money out of patent owners who’ve won court cases but haven’t yet received a check. Since IPRs are conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) you could call these operators “PTAB Trolls.”

[1]http://www.ipnav.com/blog/ptab-trolls-going-after-patent-own...
I think discussion for this type of thing is important for myriad reasons.
And if you use anything but their lowest quality shirt and make it double sided then your cut is dropped to about $3.40..true it's more than a few cents but still a pretty small cut per shirt.
You need to wrap in try/catch if you want to handle the errors, which is the same for sync functions that throw to be fair. But most of async operations are somehow expected to fail due to their nature (like network calls) and people usually want to have error handling scenarios. But for sync functions we usually let the error terminate the program because if a sync function throws in runtime it means something is wrong in my program, not in networking...
The first time I heard of async/await was actually with Microsoft C#; so I'm not too surprised to see them prioritize this feature in JS land.

...which is cool, because using async/await in C# made me realize how much simpler dealing with async code could be (compared to my experience with JS callbacks or Java threads).
But at least you'll be able to return it without hassle if it's not right
While this system would allow for lazy people, it would also allow people to become free to pursue what they find interesting and worthwhile. Motivated, interested and passionate workers are more productive, creative, efficient and dedicated.

I don't think our society could suddenly switch to a basic income system. However, I think a gradual change would allow for such a system to be implemented over time. I think proper welfare and healthcare are good places to start. Gradually adding to it, where people's who's jobs have become obsolete and they are getting too old to re-skill, can get support. Then people who simply lose their jobs from automation replacement or being obsolete, can seek for support.

Eventually we can phase in the base income. If you are smart or lucky enough, you can get paid more. Otherwise you can pursue other aspects of life - entertainment probably being the most popular one.

Now i do think getting the money to do this in the first place is problematic. The only way it would probably function, is if those who work get paid a LOT of money. Therefore the taxes obtained from them cover the rest of the populations base income. Now some would not like this because the few are essentially carrying the many. However, with the number of people and limited work, there will always be someone willing to work to get that money, or those who just have a pure passion for their work. Being highly competitive also means most people probably wont be able to hold down their job for a long period. Others will replace them as they are smarter/younger/better/lucky etc.

Its not a perfect system, but it is probably better than the alternative we face in the next 10-30 years, with capitalisms heavily unbalanced wealth distribution and insufficient jobs to provide an income for people to survive on.
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Maybe it's just me, but in discussions like this, I consistently interpret an expectation of naivety in non-college graduates. In practice, I find it's the exact opposite.

If your mentality is to follow Gates' advice of a “much surer path to success” you've already demonstrated weakness.

Many graduates I know did not have a job before college. You don't learn practical job experience in school, so they're left having to figure it out. For example, a lot of my peers aren't comfortable solving problems in their workplace. After they vent and I recommend making changes, most are unwilling to act; they'll make excuses or expect to be fired. Having experiencing a wide variety of "professional" environments myself, I know where to draw the line, and how to stand up for myself.

I also find that expectations of employment differ. That MS title was hard earned, and gets them into interviews at companies with those requirements, so that's where they go. It's expected that you want a salaried job and will ride it (or similar positions in similar companies) to retirement.

Sure, I may one day be the "old dude without a degree who says he can code", but I'm actually preparing to be the dude who no longer codes because he has skills that apply to many industries. Try diversifying your skillset in your cubicle, or exclusively on weekends; from experience, I can say I'm better off without. In the 4+ years you were socializing and studying, I was already living life (actually, I've been working since I was 15-1/2).
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We build stuff for clients as well as maintaining a couple of internal products. Our clients range from Breastcancer.org to transportation companies.

Our products range from usability testing mobile web sites (http://www.uxrecorder.com/) to navigating traffic more efficiently (http://www.i70app.com/).

We're looking for full stack developers experienced with both Ruby on Rails and JavaScript - http://www.foraker.com/careers/web-developer/
"so that you don't have to travel."

Or perhaps better actually where your attorneys are located?
I was alluding to reports I've read that others, including jurors (I imagine the practical pool is fairly small), are also learning.
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Netflix, (Los Gatos, CA - south bay)
Visa transfers OK.

- Senior Java Backend engineer (OpenConnect CDN)
https://jobs.netflix.com/#/jobs/1693/apply

- Senior Platform Engineer
https://jobs.netflix.com/#/jobs/2240/apply

Both jobs centered around building the Control Systems Platform for Netflix's OpenConnect CDN (http://openconnect.netflix.com)
I helped David from FFVC put this together -- and the topic is near/dear to me, as I'm an agency owner who would rather work on startups :)

Would love to hear the HN community's view on this "cofounding with a dev shop" approach.
New Stagefright Bugs Leave More Than 1B Android Users Vulnerable
I had the same experience - pushing a client to use FogBugz because I knew it was not over-configurable so there wasn't much chance of the management screwing it up. I also found the estimation functionality quite wonderful. Worked well.
I'm far from loving any issue tracker.

That said, I've used RT (holy shit no), Pivotal Tracker (drinks too heavily from the dynamic DOM/JS koolaid, sucking up all RAM and CPU in the known universe), and JIRA. I'd take JIRA over the others.
Micron Technology on the Rise as It Hits 4th Quarter Numbers
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05363) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper, search for other things by the same authors, etc. Thank you!
> Chromecast only doesn't support Amazon Video because Amazon hasn't made apps (iOS, Android, or Web) that support the Google Cast SDK, not because Google does something to degrade performance.

> AFAICT, essentially the same is true of AppleTV -- Amazon Video doesn't work on the platform because Amazon hasn't bothered to make an app for the platform.

Interesting. Do we know definitively that this is the case? I mean, is it possible Amazon did submit apps and they were rejected? Or in the case of Apple they didn't want to give Apple their 30% cut?

And this may seem facetious, but are we begging the question of who should be supporting Amazon Video in the first place?
And in other news, Teespring is launching an ecommerce store.

Seriously though, the thing that Teespring really nailed for me is the experience. It's so unbelievably smooth, hats off to that team. Every inch of the product is very well thought out.

I just doubt that Amazon can do something as well when it's one of the million things they have on their plate.
So here's the question: If they're getting paid less than someone with a degree (and initial salary when entering the labor market has a very significant effect on how much someone earns over their lifetime since most pay bumps are incremental), will they be better off in the long run getting the degree?

There's a lot of hate on degrees at HN, but I felt like I got a lot out of mine, even if I was bored in of all the intro classes; sure it's not something I couldn't learn by myself, but being employed full time tends to not give you a lot of time to just learn things that aren't necessary to do the job right in front of you.
Fog Creek probably had more resource than Yukihiro Matsumoto, Larry Wall, and Guido van Rossum did.
> the patent describes (...) routine tasks that could be performed by a human.

Is this a good way of defining when a patent is invalid? Isn't everything (i.e.: all computations) technically tasks that could be performed by humans alone given enough time?
Apple and Google aren't dominant in ecommerce the way Amazon is.

The rules are different if a company is considered dominant in its market sector.
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I don’t even see why a macro would come to mind as a first solution when you can just use a fold.
They wouldn't want to confuse their customers with merch that's not compatible with their body types.
I find autocompletion in JetBrains and Visual Studio (disclaimer: haven't tried many others) to be outrageously good. Sometimes, in a dynamic/weak language, I wonder how the hell it can know what to suggest.
Why? Amazon isn't required to carry every product everyone on HN deems important. McDonald's isn't required to carry Pepsi products because someone likes Mountain Dew.

To your follow up: some kind of anti-competitive explanation for why Amazon shouldn't be allow to do this isn't really going to hold any water in this case.
ESLint is nice but it's a pain to setup. A lot of people are beginning to use standard linters built on top of it like `semistandard` [0] .

[0] https://github.com/Flet/semistandard
Oh yes - and not just plaintiffs. Next time you are presented with a contract or user agreement, browse through it looking for the section about 'choice of law', and you'll notice that often you are asked to accept that the rules of a particular jurisdiction will apply in the event of any dispute.
Early low-flow toilets were really poor. Modern ones clog less than ever. I have a 1.2 gallon-per-flush toilet now (Champion 4) and it's never once clogged even under trying conditions.

It's just a design problem to work around.

(Yes, the Prius interior isn't well finished for its price, but they managed to make it roomy inside and small outside even under aerodynamic constraints.)
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The key word is 'routine.' Patentable subject matter is supposed to be non-obvious, in other words, innovative.
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FTC will ruin them, thankfully.

This would be a horrible commercial decision anyway.

It's about as stupid as Google shitifying all of their services to push the (ultimately unsuccessful) G+.
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Wow! This is really awesome! Mind giving a high-level description of the matching process?