skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I thought prior art doesn't matter anymore? In 2013 the US patent system changed from first-to-invest to first-to-file.
I had an NBA League Pass subscription last year, and it was absolutely fantastic and WAY better than the cable offerings (even if I paid for every single extra).

However, it's too expensive for me (I had it as a gift).
You mean Twitch and eSports? Or alternative leagues?
Differences Between Startup Life in New York and San Francisco (2013)
How do you define society then, and what's the role of law, order and cooperation in it?

> Not only do other Swedish cab companies retain proven homophobic islamists as drivers, they actively hide it[1]

And Uber had their share of rape accusations, but I personally think those kind of arguments are too easy to state and too hard to prove, so I'm not even digging them up. Every organization hiring humans will have such cases eventually, but what I'm concerned with are the company-wide problems and their impact on society.
"But if this offseason is any indication, max players are the bargains once again. Forgive me for sounding like a bad Internet headline — but you are not going to believe how underpaid Kawhi Leonard is, despite his new max contract. The same salary cap spike that’s made this free-agency period so wacky is shifting what the league’s players are worth yet again."[1]

[1]http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/kawhi-leonard-like-all-t...
We are working from a different definition of fail.
Maybe some sort of extortion scheme? Send an email to a small business person that isn't very technically savvy, say you have just erased all the search results for their business from Google, provide link, demand a Bitcoin to return the results.

Maybe a low hit rate, but if you could automate it, you could run the scam on a lot of places.
It is unfortunately hidden at the bottom as .mov in the supplementary information section: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15180#supplementary-infor... .
In this case it certainly wasn't a serious bug. However it suggests that they did no testing at all on Windows, so in the future they may not be quite as lucky.
Well, this is definitely not a politically correct paper.
This seems obvious to me. Humans are not very durable. Most of the complexity of space travel is derived from trying to keep squishy fragile humans alive, and even then they die of old age before they can get anywhere outside the local system anyway. We already know sending robots is much easier, cheaper, and sustainable. A sufficiently advanced machine and software could repair/improve have no concerns about an 1000 year trip.
Interesting development!

As an inventor aiming to build some prototypes, would it make sense to reach out to some of the 3D printing type companies for mock-ups?

I figure my ideas - consumer devices for home use - don't really fit the Etsy platform for sales. However, after a couple rejections from investor platforms, I'm definitely willing to strike out on my own with some patience. Does anybody think going to one of these entities might be a viable path?
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bja/181249.pdf. In 1987, there were only 3,100 prisoners in for-profit prisons world wide. Between 1960 and 1987, the U.S. incarceration rate doubled, while the violent crime rate almost quadrupled. The chronology makes clear that the increase in incarceration was, up until the late 1990's, driven by dramatically higher crime, and that prison privatization was a follow-on effect from companies taking advantage of the government's need to house increasing numbers of prisoners.

Sometime in the late 1990's, the incarceration rate caught up to the violent crime rate. Crime rate started going down in the late 1990's, while incarceration rate started to go down only in the last few years. It's reasonable to argue that the for-profit prison industry has played a role in keeping incarceration from decreasing in step with crime.
> and quite small and isolated features or fixes.

This is simply not true. Jon wrote a parser for the new .sublime-syntax files, rather than using .tmTheme files.
if you don't like comparing USPTO with government building inspectors, feel free to compare them to any other government official of choice.

What about environmental protection official who issues a faulty decision and cause a ecosystem to take significant damage? People do not need to die before we want there to be some responsibility in governmental decisions.
I think Kubernetes on top of Mesos may become a reasonably common set-up, largely because it allows diverse workloads that can drive better usage and efficiency.

I'm not sure what the trade-offs are with running Kubernetes on Mesos - that would make for an interesting article.
How many people actually need this level of scale vs how many people are implementing this because its $BUZZWORD
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/02/12/275922026/episo...

http://regressing.deadspin.com/how-much-is-lebron-really-wor...

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2013/5/1/4291088/lebron-james...

And many more...

It is generally agreed upon that in a salary capped league, and especially in basketball wherein a single player has a disproportionate impact on the outcome of a game, salaries are depressed in comparison to what teams would pay for his services on an open market. Lebron guarantees a competitive team no matter where he plays and significantly increased revenues and franchise values when leaving for Miami and returning to Cleveland.
Ballmer Says 'People Don't Want to Work' at Amazon
In Amsterdam - third most expensive place in the world to take a cab - a government enforced monopoly was broken down at the end of the 90s. The result was that prices actually went up and service went down. Also, special staff has been appointed to allocate taxis at taxi stands, otherwise taxi drivers end up fighting over clients. So, this situation is indeed quite suitable for Uber to take over, but it is not because of a government enforced monopoly. I guess most people in Amsterdam are nostalgic about government regulated taxi business.
There should not be any communication between the lawyers and investors, and that rule should be enshrined in the ABA Code of Conduct in the same way that ethical walls are a requirement.

If the client wants to manage the relationship with investors, set expectations for success, returns, etc...that's one thing. But the lawyer is an advocate for the client, and that relationship is compromised the moment s/he begins feeling pressure from the investors.
How many prisons are for profit? How many prisoners are in for profit prisons?
You may find this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
Agreed.

Modern cars, even the modest ones, are fast enough that they can get out of control very quickly. While the brakes certainly can slow a vehicle with its throttle stuck open, the real question is what impact does that stuck throttle have on the average driver? When the brake doesn't work as expected, does the average driver continue to brake? Do they pump the brake pedal? Something else altogether? How long does it take them to regain composure and act sensibly (in this case, putting the car in neutral while continuing to brake aggressively)? If that slowed reaction is more than some fraction of a second, accidents will happen.
Really, this whole concept is similar to torrents. Either ratio-based (upload at least X % of what you download), or HnR based (don't download something and refuse to seed it.)
Yeah, I spent more than a few seconds making sure that my browser window was selected, that my JS blocker wasn't interfering with the page, etc. before I gave up trying to get a hover text.
I think that's backwards. We had society first, then we had laws. Laws exist to serve society, not the other way around. When a law stops being useful to society, we get rid of it.

There's absolutely no evidence to suggest that disregarding one law that's considered unjust implies someone is going to disregard ALL laws. Rosa Parks didn't immediately decide to start murdering and raping people after she sat in the front of the bus. Uber does not promote "fuck the law". They promote "fuck this one particular law that sucks for everybody except a few who benefit from it".

Maybe we could have had a long, drawn out process where the taxi system was slowly dismantled over the course of several decades, but who benefits from that? Not the customers who are stuck paying for overpriced, inefficient taxi service. Not the many drivers who are able to get flexible part-time work.
The quest to discover Earth’s bigger, older cousin was a fight against the odds for the Kepler mission.
> The CSU wants nothing more than an escalation

This is going too far. The CSU is against immigration so they would prefer if the refugee crisis would be over. They also really _are_ scared of not "integrating" refugees properly, so the idea that they would prefer a failure seems far-fetched to me.
That was released in "Build 3084 / Release Date: 8 April 2015". I'd also count the "new regex engine" as a major feature, landing in 3085, 5 May.

Since then, for 7 builds, it has been small scale fixes and minor improvements, even them stopping altogether around July 10.

http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev

I also remember what the development pace was like for ST2 -- those builds were coming up several times a week even, so that's something to compare against.
Actually the ones which are losing in this deal are the people who will pick the tab, in this case, ESPN's customers because they would finance the deal out of their pockets if ESPN decides to pass the costs as usual to the end customer i.e. cable TV users.

Regarding the laid off employees, as much as I hate to hear this but their loss is temporary and not permanent as long as they could secure another job soon and not burn the severance compensation or their savings quickly before landing the next job.
Faxes from the far side of the moon
Japan startup gets bank money as entrepreneurship grows
My guess is things like rugby could suddenly become popular if ESPN were to get the rights.
That's a lot of testing.
The largest cosmic structures in the universe don't really exist
"I’ve been raised to consider the police my friend. I understand the notion of them being in office to protect and serve the people and I have felt comfortable in the presence of the law as long as I can remember. Naive[sic] as ever I went into this experience just like that… with the police as my ally."

OP should write a nice thank you letter to the München cops for disabusing him of this notion. It was his responsibility as an adult to have learned long ago that the authorities are not your friends and the cops are not on your side.

Just imagine the nasty policies of total fascist police empowerment that he's probably been voting for with ideas like that. Maybe a little education will have straightened him out a bit.

Really, people who expect an encounter with the cops to be respectful, convenient, not humiliating, fair, decent, honest, voluntary, or inexpensive are a part of the problem. I'm glad OP is wiser and I hope he will now run his life with due consideration for how things are instead of some childish fantasy of how things should be.

It's imperative to memorize the rules of legal limits and rights you have with cops in any country you transit often. In those you visit just once, memorize the phrase "I demand to speak to my embassy immediately," but learn to be patient because it takes a very long time to work. In America, learn to say "I do not consent to a search," and "I want to speak to a lawyer," and "am I free to go," and don't say anything else.

I don't know the rules for Germany, but OP needs to.

So go look them up, OP. It's your responsibility now that you've been educated. Also, if there's a citizen grievance procedure, it's your immediate responsibility to file one.
Oh, thanks! I didn't understand that part.
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I've actually never heard of formspring. I guess the differentiator between formspring and twitter is that twitter is more mainstream. It's popular with celebrities, kids, etc. Formspring seems like a very specific niche market.

Megaupload was killed due to piracy issues. A bit different.
"blame on 'evil racist cops'"? They're employees. Doing what the bosses say; hired by the bosses. If they're racist, guess who selected for that trait.

If any enemy country had these outcomes, we wouldn't talk about police psychology or the comforts of prison life. We'd talk about the nation's distribution of power (history of slavery and dominant "white" race, systematic inequality, etc) and figure it out with cold rationality.
The story of the Watt patent holding up steam development has been busted as a myth:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589712

The Wright patent certainly was influential and used all over the place. Their litigation did force the invention of alternatives. Innovation through forced workarounds had long been one of the rationalizations of patent systems. However, very few of them were non-infringing. Indeed a criticism of their patents was that they were way too broad and covered everything, but courts time and again gave them broad scope because they were deemed that inventive.

As an aside, before anyone brings it up, the related story that the Wright patent held back the US airplane industry has also been shown to be a myth, as demonstrated by industrial data fun the period:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355673

If you think work is stagnating in video codecs, it's mostly because the low hanging fruit had been picked.

Examples of the patent system creating benefits (as well as costs) can be readily found by searching ssrn for keywords around patents. Focus on studies that use empirical data. Also if one study looks too convincing, look for others that cite it, there may be one that busts it :-)

A lot of the conceptions people have about patents are based on falsehoods and uncritical acceptance of what somebody on the internet said. This need not be the case when we have a number of relevant studies to look at.
Any thoughts on comparisons of these vs Amazon ECS? I know it's not open and portable, but still interested in understanding the differences.
"a beam of invisible light"... invisible? can feline eyes see a larger section of the electromagnetic spectrum than humans?
Car manufacturers have made giant leaps in driver safety though (going by NCAP star ratings and the like). Drivers can now walk away from what once would have been a fatal crash - are you comfortable forgoing all those advancements?
That's where I left it!
Pay per view might work, but there is zero chance it would cost $1.99. Right now ESPN is effectively subsidized by cable bundles, so if that all collapses expect sports to get a lot more expensive before they get cheaper.
I joke sometimes that its the intersection of nominally left/liberal American pundits with sports fans. The political blog Lawyers Guns and Money being a good example of it-people you wouldn't think would have those views, but when it comes to professional sports, all of a sudden self proclaimed socialists love themselves a free market.
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Myanmar's military elite and drug lords run £20bn jade trade, report says
I'd love to pay $5/mo or something and get live motorsports racing, preferably most with commentary, and a slick archive of previous broadcasts. And it has to work on Linux without Flash.

And I want a pony.
This will be fun to watch, but the reverse auction will not work. It will get bid to $0.01, by someone looking to get a "foot in the door" with the government.

Watch this space, with enough marketing, you are about to see all the 1000s of companies constructed with no real skill, only certifications (Veteran-owned, HUBZone, Woman-owned, Alaskan, Minority, etc), flood the market with unrealistic bids.

The critical path issue with government procurement of information technology is not cost alone... it's with the insistence of the customer to require a custom solution, and the inability to describe the requirement, and thus, technical acceptability.

What this project will do, is show that even when boiled down to very micro, unscalable size, "lowest price, technically acceptable" (LPTA) is an inappropriate purchasing pattern for non-commodity information technology, or more any non-commodity, really.
> Not to you, but to your users. If you don't care about your users' well-being, well...

They can still use my MIT licensed code which gives my user more rights than AGPL ever will.

> Yes, hiding the source code and forbidding them from copying the source code is mistreating them.

Now you are arguing against closed-source, not liberal open source licenses.

> There's a popular kernel called Linux that is copylefted and gets tons of industry-backed patches.

Note that you can use Linux on your server without announcing it to everyonce who acesses it. Also another reason for why patches are submitted are because industry hope their patches will be mainlined so there will be less maintenance.

That said, GPL has worked well for the Linux kernel, possibly better than BSD. (I'm mostly arguin against AGPL.)

> Mailpile got that threat when it switched to AGPL-only and so far its contributions haven't slowed down.

Now that is interesting.
I'm not sure who else would be to blame. I would like hear your theory on who is committing crimes if it's not the criminals themselves.

Since you accusing me being a simpleton, you are going to have to explain what you mean.
Technically, my favorite tasty beverage is poison.
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While I have my issues with OAuth, I think it depends on the use case more than anything. For example, I have written a custom ticket system for my current company, and since they have drank the google coolaid, everyone has a google apps account, so using OAuth2 to provide an easy login that doesn't require the often clueless users to remember yet another password. (working on pushing pass management, yubico integration and other two factor). It was simple to implement, gives me information that is helpful (the person who submits the ticket doesn't have to tell me who they are, I already know.), and just works.

On the other hand though, I have two side projects at the moment. A reddit/hn-esque news site dedicated to logical analysis of stories, and an Unreal Engine 4 FPSRPG game.

For the game, I really want to encourage good security, both for accounts (the game website accounts) and for game login (game login accounts). Looking at the issues that the major MMO providers ran into, and for example, Blizzard finally come out with the Battle.net authenticator, but adoption was fairly low, but the important part is for the people who valued their account greatly, it was often worth the overhead. Besides that though, there was just a simple in-house auth. I don't think anyone would want OAuth to login to an MMO, so there it's not even an option. The alternative I have thought of is instead of a physical dongle authenticator, having some sort of two factor built into the login portal. While it doesn't offer the same protection as a dongle, it would be more than the simple user/pass combo to help reduce compromised accounts.

For my news site on the otherhand, I am struggling to decide what kind of logins to allow/seek. Since it would be a social type of site, OAuth could be useful for people who want an account but don't want to sign up for yet another thing. As a privacy conscious person though, it raises lots of privacy and user identity concerns. Reddit free-for-all style user-creation though seems to be too apt to be abused in all kinds of ways, but then HN has a similar system but then prevents that with restrictions on top. (which I think would falter under the same user-load as reddit). In the end I think the free-for-all is probably inevitable, especially if I want to allow tor connections, and restrictions will, like hn, have to be placed on top.

A lot of that is design related. Stories would be wikipedia-esque in that some users could edit, and comments would be a separate section, and I think that's where slashdot style random mods and perhaps user points over time would give good commenting users ability to then do edits... I still haven't ironed all that out yet.

The bottom line is that it's all about use case. And while OAuth isn't perfect, sometimes it works just fine, and in others it won't. Use the right tool for the job.
Source? Would like to read more about this if there's a write up somewhere. My perception was that they were doing was was effective very early on (vaccination drives etc.)
I'm not saying at all that it would be easy to get people to do what is in their best interest; though once they are properly educated, it would create a positive feedback loop. The more you exercise the more energy you have to exercise. The healthier you eat the less you have to spend on preventable diseases like heart disease and diabetes and so the more money you have to spend on healthy food.

The solution to overpopulation, as evidenced by the Demographic-Economic Paradox, is clearly to raise the standard of living by successfully distributing the renewable surplus of food, water, and shelter that is available but wasted every year. This is also an example of turning a negative feedback loop into a positive feedback loop which in turn pays for itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic-economic_paradox

The issues of poverty, disease, and overpopulation are closely interrelated indeed.
Facebook Takes Aim at Search Again
The article says "The police hasn’t taken any real effort to engage in a dialog to discover my reasons for visiting Munich" so I'm not convinced you're correct.
You need orchestration even at small scale (say more than 2 nodes). Otherwise you have to manually take care of container scheduling and failover etc.
> But folks that don't live within walking distance to daily needs like their bank, grocery stores, barber, doctor... are going to rack up extra costs switching to hired cars.

This may be a bit too simple. Technology is solving these problems, too. Online banking continues to improve. Instacart is expanding to more cities. People are consulting with doctors over FaceTime for a flat fee. Many other errands can be batched up into one day a week or month. With all these improvements combined together, Uber becomes an economic choice for many people sooner than later. (I have saved ~60% on car costs over the past year by switching to Uber exclusively. I realize not everyone is in the exact situation I am, but I'm not riding Uber because I have money to throw away.)
I'm not entirely certain why, but the logic you employ here strikes me as very similar to the justifications used to support the Citizens United ruling.

I'm not certain why, either, seeing as how Citizens United was about core political speech, Federal government censorship of a video about a candidate for federal office, which if the First Amendment, specifically:

Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

Means anything, it means such speech cannot be abridged.
This is reassuring. Designers choosing system fonts. As a non-designer, I opted for site-wide Georgia usage recently and was really happy with the result. I was doing it initially partly for performance reasons, and to stop external calls on a HTTPS-only site, in the end it felt like it was more fitting and more characterful than the (pretty, but generic) Source Sans Pro.
Heartbleed is the perfect example of why critical code should be open source. It was discovered by developers who were not the original coders, and they were able to talk about it freely, essentially marketing it to create awareness.

If OpenSSL was closed-source my servers would probably still be vulnerable today.
> There is a reason for higher incarceration rates: they commit more crimes proportionally.

That's not true. At least not when it comes to drug use, blacks and white use drugs at similar rates [0]. Asymmetric enforcement is another explanation.

[0] http://c1.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/pic_corner_07101...