skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's turn this around: are you asserting that Congress did anticipate in 1990 that personal jurisdiction would extend to almost anybody with a website without requiring specific evidence of any actual commerce with the district or state in question? Because the case law on that was certainly a mess in the subsequent years, and it doesn't look like it's even been taken up by the Supreme Court.

What is necessary under Federal Circuit law for an e-commerce business, for example, to avoid falling under the personal jurisdiction of Eastern Texas for a software patent suit? And do you believe that such measures—if they exist—do "not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice"?
Ask HN: What happened to Express.js?
I just noticed that the last commit on Express repo was at least 3 months ago. That is very unlikely for a project like this.

https://github.com/strongloop/express/branches/active

What's happening here? Anyone has any clue?
Can it be proprietary?

... can it cost more than my contribution?
git remote add xxx git://xxx.com
git push origin xxx
Germany’s Tough Line on Data Transfers to U.S. Is Criticized
Thanks for the compliments!

Installation difficulty seems to very much depend on the environment. On many systems, it's trivial. A couple commands, and you're good to go. On others, it's far more difficult.

I'd love to hear where you've hit problems. One of my primary tasks at this moment is improving our installation story for the systems where it's more difficult, and knowing what problems people are hitting will help me in that work.
At least horsecarts had their day, and took millions of people for a ride to their destination.

Klout tried to take people for a ride, but nobody would hitch their wagon to them, because it was horse shit.
With bg, it is likely to suspend itself again by attempting to read from the terminal (which a text editor is likely to do basically all the time).
I've always considered "bumping" to be the perfect scaling algorithm for content sorting. If a comment is added to a thread, it will show up at the top of the page until a comment is added to another thread. Thus the probability of seeing a thread on the front page is proportional to the responses it gathers. New threads will be seen immediately and will generate responses if interesting. Unpopular threads will still get a small chance at reaching someone rather than never being seen by anyone. Finally, two threads that would otherwise generate equal number of upvotes or stars would be scaled by how deep and worthwhile their content is, since a simple like is less meaningful than a like and a long comment.
Nuclear energy is also technically fossil, it wouldn't last much longer than fossil fuels if employed on the same scale. What prevents the use of nuclear energy are worries about it being used to make nuclear weappons, which means that being dependent on nuclear power means being dependent on one of the nuclar power countries because you need to buy fuel from them.

Solar energy is on the other hand for all practical puposes inexhaustable. The equivalent of ALL fossil fuels hits Earth every few days. It won't run out in foreseable future and if it will, we are done for anyway.
take a lot, give a little...
There is no reason for -9 here - all the major unix editors happily exit on SIGTERM.
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There's a hard rule for clang-format to only change white space so as not to accidentally make semantic changes. There is however another tool, clang-tidy, for that use case.
I can't explain the lack of repo activity, but Strongloop did publish an Express 5 article recently: https://strongloop.com/strongblog/moving-toward-express-5/
I do wonder about the possibility of some sort of causation (in either direction) with the dementia sufferers.

I could well see an experiment that says "chronic low-grade hypoxia causes brain damage that looks like dementia."

I could also easily imagine an experiment proving something like "dementia sufferers' brains run in a 'battery-saver mode'; have lower resource demands on their bodies", where the "resources" are nutrients and, surprise surprise, oxygen. Dementia patients would then be comfortable in regular- or low-oxygen environments, while the rest of us are only comfortable in the regular-oxygen environments—making it look like the dementia-sufferers prefer the low-oxygen environments. (Such an experimental result would also suggest that dementia would tend to make you gradually become fatter or darken your urine, because you're consuming the same nutrients but using fewer of them.)

One thing I heard a while back was that dementia happens almost inevitably in the elderly if they lose their teeth and end up on a liquid/parenteral diet, rather than using dentures. I've always wondered if this implied that regular jaw pressure was necessary either to drive (g)lymphatic clearance from the brain, or oxygen to the brain, or both. It seems like another associative data-point in the "chronic hypoxia <=> dementia" correlation, at least.
There is always <iframe>. You can easily embed a youtube or vimeo video even if your core product is not displaying videos. I always felt that iframe is a bit of lost potential, what it needs is a javascript api so that you can communicate back and forth with the frame/plugin, last time I checked this was not allowed due to same origin policy.

After the communication channel is in place it needs a few standard interfaces, maybe there could be some video player interface with play/pause/seek functions. These dont have to be included in any w3 standard, its more of a de facto standard or agreement that if you make a video player and don't implement the IAwesomeVideoplayerInterface, websites will not allow embedding of your product.

What's sad is that it seems like vendors are trying to move away from this model, Facebook is the prime example of this with hosting of a copy of embedded videos and displaying linked news inline in their own format.
Don't misestimate 4chan.
clang-format actually only uses clang's lexer, it does its own parsing. It does this so that it can be applied to code snipits and so that you don't have to provide the full include paths and command line options required to correctly parse the file.
There are so many colleges in Boston, though - probably MIT is the most stressful place in the Boston area :)
Presumably the machine wouldn't have Internet access.
Can't wait to see how this will be applied to general AI.
Definitely a feature not a bug.

:'a,'b!longrunningcommand

oh, wait, that was not the right thing...

C-<longrunningcommand finishes>c
As one of the lead software engineers on both the original Microsoft Band and now the Microsoft Band 2, I still sort of feels surreal reading a review from a news outlet that I've trusted since I was a teenager. A lot of what I first learned about CPUs, pipelines, and memory systems, was from Jon "Hannibal" Stokes.

I am happy that the Ars review is the one that reached the front page here. I appreciate the work that all reviewers do, but I am always giddy to read what Ars has to say.
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:q! if there are changes to discard in vim.
The Toshiba Chromebook 2 ( http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-CB35-B3340-Chromebook-Celeron-... ) has a great 1080p IPS screen, 9 hours of battery life, and, from what I can remember when I played with it, a good keyboard and trackpad along with decent build quality, for $290. It's got a decent Bay Trail 8W Celeron processor, and 4gb RAM (there are also models with faster processors). There are Windows laptops around that price range also, but AFAIK none with that combination of hardware quality and specs.
Hold on, I think you think I meant APL was obfuscated in a negative way. I love APL, I love reading IOCCC. It's not enterprise or team-project compatible but there's so much beauty in there. We're in agreetion, aren't we ?
Not sure what to think about the Kim Dotcom projects. They all seem to be short lived. What about that mega.co.nz thing he launched lately? I read that he sold it and distanced himself from the new owner already.
I hope it's not a fools errand, as I'm currently attempting to do just this. I have a SaaS product that currently profits about £400/ month, and I have about £20k saved. I'm aiming to be living from my web app in 9 months.

If you're interested I'm doing a completely transparent blog series about my progress - https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-... and https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-...
"Surfing sucks. Don't try it."
I think more important than exiting insert mode is (as I described in a peer comment, hopefully clearly) killing foreground processes you've spawned out of vim. 1) With exiting insert mode there's the option of using escape instead (or capslock or jk or whatever people bind it to), and 2), I think most importantly, with killing processes there's an actual race condition: if the command finishes after I decide to kill it and before vim registers my Ctrl-c, exiting is totally the wrong thing to do.
Can you please expand on "getting a welcome package from a patent troll?" What would such a troll have patented -- the concept of in-app purchases? Is the "package" a lawsuit over the use of something which they claim is patented?
70+ virtual companies share how to measure productivity in remote workers
If they count shit, it's no wonder Justin Bieber had such a high score.
People know you're not a poseur by how you act in the line-up, and how you surf.
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If multiple software companies have successfully trademarked the exact same single word, does that matter or not? (They're all sharing it already.)

Yes. As someone who owns a trademark, I can tell you it does matter. Pick a new name.

I would guess that all of these matter by degree, and potential trouble only depends on an adversary's willingness to litigate, but am hoping for some help or guidance in what is a complicated (and frustrating) aspect of our business.

Trademark owners must defend their trademarks against infringement. Expect litigation, every time.
I get a Vail "Epic" (season) pass every year for a Christmas present. Experiences, not things.
Indeed we are! Apologies for misreading you.
"health improvements on a matter larger scale"

A weak aspirational statement.

This is a western consumer device/application and as such why should it have to improve everyones health?

What is interesting is it allows individuals (rich in your terms) to use some pretty sophisticated electronics along with consumer software to monitor their health without having to see a health specialist. The data alone could be useful for individuals medical practitioners.

I stand by what I said above.
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Deriving logic operators from peano's axioms
I have seen many forums where this is exploited by users who like to keep their threads on top. They do not submit the whole story and then keep adding new pieces into comments, bumping the thread whenever it gets off the front page.

So, I wouldn't call it perfect.
I dont think this is the imposter syndrome. Do you feel like you're not capable as your position and peers think you are?

Seems like you're more than capable and are pointing out flaws, only for them to go unheard. And most importantly, you recognize and know this.

I think you're just working for a big web company that isn't as good as you thought it might be.
IANAL, but my understanding is that you can be compelled to give evidence if you are given immunity from incrimination from any evidence you give, directly or indirectly.
LEGO-like surfaces are more difficult to make than you might appreciate. (Smallworks.com)
TCPMUX implementation (mutliplexing TCP connections on port 1)
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I think it's "testing equality in timers that aren't guaranteed to fire inside any particular bound".
"I suspect though, CPU clock ticks are measured in nanoseconds or something smaller than a millisecond so this while-loop shouldn't miss its exit criteria on any modern machine."

It's not a busy-wait. What matters is not CPU clock ticks, but how quickly an eligible-to-run program gets scheduled. That's still not going to be terribly long, of course.
DST is basically forcing everyone to get up an hour earlier which I'm not a big fan of. If people want to see more daylight in the summer, they should just get up at 5 am voluntarily.
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Neat stuff. The ACM link is broken, and I missed the link to the detailed PDF the first time I looked. Here it is in case you missed it too: http://hpi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/fachgebiete/baudisch/pro...
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Looks like a fantastic device!

I'm just disappointed that Germany will again be left out, after initial speculation in the news that we will be included this time.

Maybe the Band 3.
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> An interesting factoid:

A factoid is, formally speaking, not a small fact, but instead something that appears to be a fact but may be false. Similar to how an android is not really a man, and a spheroid is not really a sphere.

That said, I love the self-referential truth of:

"Saying 'a factoid is a small fact' is a factoid."

It works whichever definition you believe in :)
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Unix pipes only work in the CLI with a text based interface and even then they break down when the applications aren't able to parse the data.

So one always ends up massaging the data to make them be understood.

Piping concept was actually more powerfull in Xerox PARC systems by using the respective language REPL and do LINQ style data transformations.

However the problem of the article is that once you scale out of the CLI, you need a standard communications API to this type of stuff.

One that is able work in distributed systems, dealing with all types of failure issues.

If anything, native programming on the mobile offers some kind of piping thanks to intents, contracts and extensions.
A survey is not a valid Show HN. Please read the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
FreeBSD is not developing nosh as a replacement for init.

Someone in the FreeBSD community is developing nosh, and it might, someday, be a replacement for init. Might.

(I'm responsible for the IPSec bits in that report, and one of my employees did the Allwinner A10/A20 stuff listed there.)
The site and app look great. Very promising. I suggest going with a copywriter to help you craft your message. I'd start with your USP.

Again, fantastic job. I signed up for the Android version!
You have to account for trolls though. There is also often a naysaying or nitpicking thread on HN which explodes in reply count as people quibble back and forth over definitions.
Very well put!
Zombie bumping can be a problem. find some controversial thread from a year ago, bump it, watch people not reading the year date stamp and replying to it as if it's a new thread.

And rewarding bumps usually means rewarding bickering flamewars.
tcl.tk has meanwhile been restored, but the account for tclers.tk is still unaccessible.
My guess is that that repo is only for actual releases of express. Everything else is offloaded to npm modules under the expressjs organization, and those have been updated pretty recently.
We do support setting the Band UI to German! :)

(I am so sad that none of the reviewers mentioned our language support!)
The method described here is simple because it's only looking at the mean of the belief about each item; it uses the prior belief as a way either to sandbag new items or to give them a bump. I tend to advocate methods that take into account the variance of the belief in order to minimize the risk of showing bad stuff at the top of the heap.

I have a newer article (not mentioned here) that ranks 5-star items using the variance of the belief. It ends up yielding a relatively simple formula, or at least a formula that doesn't require special functions. Like the OP I use a Dirichlet prior, but then I approximate the variance of the utility in addition to the expected utility:

http://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.ht...

The weakness of the approach (as well as the OP) is that it doesn't really define a loss function for decision-making (i.e. doesn't properly account for the costs of an incorrect belief), which one might argue is the whole point of being a Bayesian in the first place. In practice it seems that using a percentile point on the belief ends up approximating a multi-linear loss function, but I haven't worked out why that is.
I dislike stuffy rooms, but I personally hate natural light and a view of the street or even outdoors at all. The room I work in at my job has no windows at all (either to the outside or to other parts of the building), and it's fantastic for me.
Water power seems sufficient. I mean, I've not done swab tests post rinsing. It strikes me as better than smearing with paper until I can see any more residue on the paper.
Cheap op amps made everything in electronics work better. In the tube era, an op-amp was a huge device. It's also hard to make a DC amplifier with tubes and have the output voltage be near the input voltage, hard to get enough gain, and hard to keep the zero point from drifting. Tube op amps were used only for analog computers, including ones for gun aiming.[1]

Negative feedback was rare in the tube era, because gain was so expensive. An op amp with negative feedback throws away gain to get linearity. In the tube era, that was wasteful. In the IC era, having a few stages of amplification to get some insane but nonlinear gain, then throwing it away to get linearity, became a win.

Once op amps became cheap, they could be used routinely whenever you needed some gain. So audio gear filled up with them. A negative feedback amplifier behaves like an ideal linear amplifier up to a frequency limit determined by the slew rate of the device. But for most op amps, that limit is up in the megahertz range, so there's no problem using them for audio. (There is an audiophile cult which denies this, of course.)

Op amps with differential inputs can also be used as comparators; the output goes to one extreme or the other depending on which signal is stronger. Comparator ICs are op amps with a logic gate stage at the end. That's how differential signals such as twisted-pair Ethernet get turned into logic levels for processing. Any interference which hits both wires is subtracted out. This is why we can pipe gigabit Ethernet around over rather ordinary wire, rather than coax.

[1] http://www.analog.com/library/analogDialogue/archives/39-05/...
Go to http://www.openstreetmap.org/, find your street, click 'Edit', login or create an account, and make sure your local area is correctly classified. You can mark an area as a building and give it tags to say what the address and street number is.
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Replying to myself:

Setting drivers MPG as a kpi - best way to do that is not go anywhere.

One of the tragedies of the 1980s was the corporate raider. The quickest way to look profitable is to slash costs. The raiders did this buy shutting down plants. Balance sheets looked good, stock price goes up, sell off the company shares, company dies because of no production.

Profit of a company is really a poor metric for society. If 100,000 workers manage to build products but the company only breaks even is that a successful business?
That's nothing -- if you do observe daylight savings time, you'll see a 100% drop in crime (and everything else) during one specific hour.
Ten years after Sony's DRM-enabled crimes, the fight for user freedom continues
"It will essentially be a war between stupidity, profiteering, computer science nerds installing cryptographically secure jails, and people in the chat trying to make persuasive arguments that yes, in fact, this is the correct command to move on to the next step."

So, life.
> but traditional hiring processes filter out these people

I was interested if this game replaces the "traditional hiring processes". But if the purpose of this game is to just make first contacts - I suppose the contacted pool of candidates are anyway put in that "traditional hiring processes".
Very cool.

This reminds me of a talk by Brett Victor [1] "The Humane Representation of Thought".

Brett thinks we are limiting ourselfs by expressing our thoughts in a mostly 2D scaled down domain.

This protopiper is a great example of what we will see in the future.

[1] https://vimeo.com/115154289
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Are there really 50 different words for snow in Inuit?
I would guess a fair amount of their effort is being spent on their new project, koa - https://github.com/koajs/koa
It's against the rules to editorialize the titles of stories you submit to HN, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This trend can only grow
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This is a recurring theme in that article

she's only ever written one program in anger and that was "functionally a brilliant success but performance-wise it was lousy

Once you have a reputation as "technical" you will never be promoted to senior ranks, esp. not in the UK.
All soldiers rape the conquered women. That's what soldiers do.
Koa is not "their" new project. I mean, yes, TJ Holowaychuk started both, but he has abandoned Express and Strongloop bought it. They are the current maintainer now, which was again acquired by IBM pretty recently.
I tend to advocate methods that take into account the variance of the belief in order to minimize the risk of showing bad stuff at the top of the heap.

Penalizing variance would be the opposite of my intuition. Given a boring low-variance item with 10 3-star votes, and a divisive item with 5 1-star votes and 5 5-star votes, I'd think you'd want the one at the top to be the one with the medium chance that they'll "love" it than a high chance they'll find it passable.

If you further assume that the average person is going to check out the top few results but only "buy" if they find something they really like, the risky approach seems even more appealing. A list topped by known mediocre choices has a low chance of "success". What's the scenario you are envisioning?
You can do a very similar thing in virtual reality with TiltBrush. You don't get a physical object at the end but you do have a lot more flexibility in the structure and appearance, and, of course, the magical power of the undo button. And maybe you could get a physical object out with the help of a 3D printer...

http://tiltbrush.com

I believe 3D sketching and CAD will be the first popular non-game application of virtual reality. 3D CAD with 2D I/O (mouse and flat monitor) has always been a little too difficult for the masses. Virtual reality with natively 3D input and output makes 3D CAD an order of magnitude easier and more fun. It could give a real boost to the 3D printing market too, as once the masses start doing CAD they're definitely going to want to print their creations.
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Factoid is both - Truth & Not-a-truth. But in todays world it usually (actually overwhelmingly) means an interesting piece of trivia.

From Wikipedia:
[Factoid] The term was coined originally in 1973 to mean a "piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it’s not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print." Since then, the term has evolved from its original meaning, in common usage, and has assumed other meanings, particularly being used to describe a brief or trivial item of news or information.
Inspirational, but to be honest, I highly doubt it. Software has an extremely short life cycle compared to stone... The only softwarily architected object I can think of that might come close to the endurance and grandeur of a medieval cathedral is the Internet - but even that is not half a century old yet.
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