skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn't mention an important variable here: time. The less light you have, the more time you need to achieve the desired effect. I leave my lights on all day and they work to reduce my SAD.
"the triple-damages rule, which says that if you're found to infringe on a patent willingly then the damages are increased, while if you didn't know about it, they aren't."

That's the triple damages rule as invented from whole cloth by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the patent court.

The actual law is that "the court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed" (35 USC §284). There is no special rule about knowing infringement or willful infringement.

The CAFC has been limiting triple damages because having no standards in a free for all of triple damages based only on judges' feelings would be terrible. So the CAFC picked out one egregious behavior by rich infringers -- willful infringement -- and limited the triple damages to that offense. It was a reasonable compromise but has no support in the text of the law.

The Supreme Court looks askance at such compromises outside the statute and may decide to overturn this one. That will lead to more shopping for district judges inclined to cheat and abuse the defendants in patent lawsuits now that there will be no limits on tripling. And that points to -- you guessed it -- the Eastern District of Texas.

There is another case before the CAFC -- not the Supremes -- TC Heartland scheduled for oral argument on 11 March, where the CAFC could simply abolish Eastern Texas patent litigation with the stroke of a pen. The law (28 USC §1400) says that you can be sued over patents only in your home jurisdiction and not in East Texas (since tech companies don't start up in Texarkana). The CAFC abolished that law by simply choosing to contradict it a couple decades ago and created the troll jurisdictions. But now the CAFC is considering bringing it back and obeying the law as written.

It's interesting to see the CAFC in both cases being the sane ones. For the most part historically the CAFC has been loony and corrupt in promoting maximum damage to innovation for the benefit of patent lawyers with no respect to the law or reason. Some of the new Obama appointees and the resignation of the Chief Judge Rader under federal investigation for corruption last year may have reduced the lunacy temporarily.
I believe kinky Friedman was writing about this lawyer, when he wrote something along the lines of:

..he got a charge of sodomy reduced to a charge of "following too close"
Thanks - I will take a look.
> I wish we pushed for a law that said you can only serve a warrant for a data request to the person whose data you want

Among the potential problems with such a solution is that it gives the government the imperative to adjudicate the "ultimate owner" of data. It will not always be obvious, and when it's not, it can surely be decided in such a way that tramples, rather than bolsters, individual rights over data.
Do you pay for his use or does he pay for yours? Or is the circuit breaker somehow before the mains panel? (Which I find hard to imagine, but then again your situation is already quite strange.)
Uganda bans housemaids from working in Saudi
I guess those kettles could even work in USA on a 30A circuit. Electric tankless water heaters, which amount to the same thing, also need such circuits.
South America Takes to the Streets Against TPP
Bacteria resisting last-resort antibiotics in China is Now Everywhere
Merkel: Anti-Semitism more widespread than we imagined
What do they want to hear? One and only one thing. How will you make them more money. Either lower their cost of operation or bring them more business. That's it.
Hipster kids can't code (efficiently, or at all, depending on your definition). In other news, Pope is catholic.
"Finnish researchers found that a vegan diet changed the gut microbiome, and that this change was linked to an improvement in arthritis symptoms."

I had a suspicion when I started reading this article that the simplest solution would be to cut meat out of the diet.

It's astounding how many problems are solved medically, environmentally, economically, and of course ethically if we simply stop consuming meat, or at least stop consuming it at such extreme levels!
I find that argument to be bizarre. You can do computer science on paper.

As long as you can write programs and run them then who cares whether you compile them directly to the hardware or interpret them, or whatever?

Apple locks down its distribution platform. It doesn't lock down your brain from thinking or writing programs, and it doesn't lock down its computers from running them for you.
In other words, the statistical power of such studies is so low, that it's like social science at best: a galore of false positive over true positive effects.
No, it's valid. This same person hasn't ever apologised, but then turned around making out to be the bastion of womens' equality. The hypocrisy is stunning.
Utilities may be included in their monthly rent.
Personality would be expressed as interperson variability in certain parameters or connectivity of the brain model. It's not at all mystical or hiding in the subcellular structure.

Brain upload is a sci-fi invention; using a T1, DWI, fMRI, EEG and behavioral data to build a realistic model of a subject's brain is today's neuroscience.
Heads up this happened a few days ago, not currently hijacked.

Handy tool though, bookmarked it - using the event graph to display route changes as detected over time is a great visualization - would be really cool if there was the same event graph covering the entire internet (though I suspect without some cleverness in both design and implementation, the quantity of data would be prohibitively large for building a useful visualization).
CBD Oil: Seems to Be Nature’s Miracle
Mmm. Yes, could well be.
>Hand braces have remained in use ever since, although they can be difficult to find today.

As bushcraft enthusiast/scout located in a Nordic country, this would be ideal. During a week long camp you might not be able to charge your drill. And during the winter Li-ion batteries die. I've been searching for one with three jaw chuck for some years now. (So it would be compatible with modern drill bits.) I've found one geared drill which had four jaw chuck, didn't hold any bit. And some very old and rusty ones that require special bits.

Seriously sell me one. I'd be willing to pay 30e for one, and maybe more.
But it will scale on AWS....
Mozc – A Japanese Input Method Editor Designed for Multi-Platform
You seem convinced your brain "slows down" after the equinox due to (the lack of) bright light, but it's probably just the placebo effect. Has anyone ever convincingly measured the effect of bright light therapy on mood and intelligence?
A programmable dimmer, such as one of the Casetas from Lutron, would work. Set the brigtnesses to a time to increase over a period of several minutes starting at your designed time.
Academy leaders talk about their new membership policy
Warren Sturgis McCulloch one of the guys who invented Neural Networks was a doctor
Astroturf and manipulation of media messages – Sharyl Attkisson
All you need to know about sorting in Postgres – Madusudanan
How do you go about blinding a study which does or does not shine a bright light in subject's faces?
> A casual browse through the other entries seems to suggest that people mess up BGP announcements all the time.

While true, incorrect bgp announcements happen all the time, I think this is one of the cases that Hanlon's Razor probably does not apply: most of the time they are not a result of people messing up - rather the bad announcements come from spammers/malware spreaders needing new IP space because their current (likely hijacked) IP space has gotten blacklisted and is no longer effective.
I'd put a black crow's feather behind my ear if I thought it would help me get through winter.

In other words, placebo effect is still an effect. The treatment being chemically vs. psychologicaly responsible for that isn't a concern for the subject, only the researcher.
Then you can have as many "customers" as you like and nobody can really tell how many you really might have had

Note that, for this and related reasons, the IRS guides on examining car washes and laundromats (yes, these documents both exist and are publicly available) says to find their water bill from the business' books, look up the price of water in the area, Fermi estimate the amount of legitimate business happening, and compare with reported revenue. If a wash costs $1 and you use 250k washes worth of water but report $60k in gross receipts you're evading taxes; if you report $6 million in gross receipts you're laundering more than underwear.

(A technique with similar impact is "compare with a selection of similarly situated businesses in your files.")
Not sure if we are talking about the same thing, but on a flight with a Boing 777, I found the throw-away headphones that they hand out upon boarding with the very strange connector (dual mono jacks) to be so bad as to be nearly useless.

I tried to cut the cable, remove the isolation and connect my Apple earbuds, which worked somehow but not very well because the (very thin) wires were individually isolated. Did you come up with a solution?
Yes. In particular store forwarding is slightly slower [1] than (or, in Skylake, as fast as) a plain L1 load. This still beats waiting for the dependent store to complete, but it is nowhere as fast as using a direct register reference.

[1] i.e. higher latency.
That's kind of the point. The heavy subsidies brought renewables into competition with traditional energy markets in Texas, and voila, Texans (a state not normally associated with renewables) started buying them up.

One thing that's not discussed too frequently about renewables is that the operating costs are less variable than fossil fuel based systems. You have a pretty good idea what the costs are going to be over the lifetime of an installation and this helps with planning and deployment. Fossil fuel prices are variable enough over 20 years that you can't plan more than a few months out, or you need to have enough cash reserves in place to weather out price spikes.
Unmandelboxing with sound – raymarching with distance fields in 4kb html
How is OMZ being Russian relevant to it possibly being state-sponsored?

Also, it's really not a major challenge to take over someone elses equipment to do this.
It's behind a pay wall. I can't read it. :(
"The case to which this brief is attached is not about software. It's about a new way to attach transformers to printed circuit boards"

As long as the patent bar and CAFC keep pushing their jurisdiction into software where it doesn't belong -- neither by law nor reason -- the patent system will be weakened step by step. Reforms will be demanded by necessity to reduce the damage the patent system does to innovation in software where progress is incompatible with centralized monopolies over concepts and math. Ebay and Alice and KSR and AIA are just the beginning of undermining the whole system just so arrogant greedy patent lawyers that want to tax the software industry can have their chance to attack us.

Thanks, CAFC, Giles Rich, Alappat, and Diehr. Now the entire patent system will suffer.
I wish I could be so confident about what 'there isn't'. There's no demand for a real computer revolution in the same way there was "no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC
About Your Artificial Startup
>and military

Do they still? Couldn't find anything post-1940s supporting that.
Hi,

Thanks for your interest! I have no plans for monetizing the project, partly because I cannot see a meaningful way to do that, but mostly because it is a research endeavour. The code is currently public on my BitBucket repo, and I'll shoot through the URL as soon as I can.

Basically, I want to explore the limits of how graph databases can be applied to the visualisation of history. My immediate goals are to:

(A) expand the range of datasets that are collected; (B) improve the tools for entering and annotating the data to make the process quicker and more automated; (C) to add more powerful data visualisations; and (D) to complete the input of the primary source datasets mentioned and add more.

I want to build a graph database time machine of the Italian Renaissance so you can pick a day in history and see what was happening across Italy with various sources, see events plotted or even animated on a map (e.g., watch a battle unfold or even weather events), etc. The system is underpinned by subject tags which are taxonomically organised in a 'is-a' hierarchy, which I hope will provide a 'semantic zoom in/out' functionality.

I understand that the current platform of C#, ASP.NET MVC, KnockoutJS may be a turn off ... And I am open to other technologies if that is crucial. But conversion to another platform would certainly take a lot of time and manpower. But to be honest I think the hard work is mainly in the product design, the visualisations, the data-entry, and the Neo4j Cypher queries.

What kind of collaboration did you have in mind?
At least C++ depends for its performance on very aggressive inlining of small (often one-line) functions.

It is not unlikely that your hundreds of tiny functions become one massive "function" after high level optimization.
The Socialist Standard digitization project
So come March 9th and if it doesn't expire, we'll know somebody is taking care of things.
I have a similar situation with the Oric-1/Atmos machines in my collection - they're all outfitted with a Cumulus disk-drive emulator. The CPU in the Cumulus is at least 10x more powerful than that of the Oric-1 itself, and has 4x the RAM. Its incongruous - but highly cool - that such an old machine is being paired up with such power .. so I often wonder what else could be being done with this expander ..
Yes, but I'm sure that includes health insurance not on the Platinum level (pays 90-100% of costs) which is even worse than what is described above and truly only for catastrophes. In New Jersey, there is no Platinum health plan < $500 per person and most of the plans, even at the Platinum level, still have outrageous out of pocket maximums, deductibles, or limits on coverage. For example, in New Jersey out of half a dozen or so Platinum plans only one has a nationwide network. It wouldn't matter for a person who gets sick on these non platinum plans because having to pay 20-50% of the whole bill with such high out of pocket maximums will most likely bankrupt anyone who can't afford the premium for more expensive plans.
7 Writing Rules Eliminate Any Failure to Communicate
Helicobacter pylori is blamed for increasing the risk of stomach cancer. My gastroenterologist treated me to get rid of it for this reason.

That being said, since 50% of the world's population have this in their gut, I'm starting to get the feeling that modern medicine doesn't have the entire picture with relation to the microbiome and their are making drastic decisions based on half that story.

It seems increasingly likely that the delicate balance of bacteria inside the gut, or more specifically its imbalance, is closely linked to a variety of autoimmune diseases.

The long term consequences of antibiotics, highly processed foods and sugars, alongside the corn phenomenon is not understood and could well be changing is for the worse.
It's almost completely unreadable on my Android phone. The character shapes are mostly there, but the triangles overlap in weird ways, like vertex order might be wrong it something.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvutftylbj77d8r/Screenshot_2016-01...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3qn9h5pgw2p671/Screenshot_2016-01...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y4h93ycueykrjai/Screenshot_2016-01...
Personally, I use Couchbase for this kind of stuff. Make a Membase (memcached) bucket and all the data is in RAM. Its easy to persist of course, by putting data in a Couchbase bucket as well.
There are plenty of markets that could use a crash in housing prices, not the least of which is the Bay Area market.
Hi Tuvalle, thank you for your encouragement and for the link to this fascinating resource! Can't wait to open up the dataset and check it out soon. May be possible to import this into the Codex if the data structures are broadly compatible ... :-)
> If you use Edit->Copy a lot, you can see in the menu that there's a keyboard shortcut.

You can. And I do. And given your post, I assume you do too.

But did you know that most people don't?

I teach people computer skills (a lot of children, ages 8-12, but other ages as well). Only the very clever ones (those we can expect to welcome on HN in a couple of years ;-) ) figure it out by themselves. You'd be surprised of the in-your-face stuff people simply do not read on the screen. I then point it out, but it's about 50/50 whether they'll pick up the habit.

And it's the same thing with this interface the author has designed. It's all intuitions about how he uses computers, how people like him use computers, and how the self-selected group of feedback-providers use computers. Nothing about the general public. No research, no tests, no reference to classic UX textbooks and theory.

Now if he had stated upfront that those three categories are actually the only intended target audience, then at least he would have acknowledged that this is a possible problem, up-front. Not doing so, it appears he hasn't given much thought to it.

So, sorry but what I see is not a user interaction designer, but a graphics designer with a cute hobby.

If you think that's harsh, imagine he'd have redesigned the user interface of your car. Would you trust the ideas reading only about mockups and "intuitive" justifications? Wouldn't you think, mm-mm yes nice ideas but until you actually tested them on a focus group they could go anywhere and further effort is pretty much wasted until you do. What if you assume his driving style is rather different from yours?
I'm guessing you vary the intensity and spectrum of the light. If the treatment doesn't show a dose-response curve of some kind, then it probably just doesn't work.

Standard academic disclaimer applies: This isn't my field of study, and I'm sure there are many subtle mistakes in what I just said.
> 1. Basic income would need to be more than welfare, if people can't live completely off welfare easily.

Who says you need to be able to live completely off of it?

> 2. Many people oppose welfare that doesn't require a job precisely because of the societal costs to the disincentive to work.

So we're getting rid of all the programs that don't then? Requiring someone to work to receive benefits is unbelievably easy to scam anyway because two people can just hire each other to watch television and have the payments cancel.

It is possible to make the argument that there should be no social assistance at all. But that isn't the status quo, and the argument cannot be made that the status quo is better than a basic income.
If you navigate to that page from the top menu, you'll find that's a hire price.
Unlikely.

Especially since that's not really how Roskomnadzors blocking works.
Same here, all white on chrome, linux, nvidia proprietary. The previous text rendering demo worked on the same setup.
A kettle wants as many watts as it can reasonably be provided with -- you're heating a fixed volume of water by a fixed temperature rise (from cold to boiling), so the more power the faster the kettle boils (and if you have a lower-power kettle it doesn't use less energy overall, it just takes longer). Thus kettles are typically designed to draw more-or-less the maximum permitted current for the usual UK domestic socket.
I want my tea water and I want it now!

Seriously, mine boils in almost no time. Needs a lot of power to do that.
This looks great, much better than the pgadmin output! A good feature would be an CLI tool we could pipe output to, i.e `psql some_long_query | pev`, which would bring back a URL we could open.
Who+says+that+The+Internet+and+Social+Network+are+God+Gifted?
Acme doesn't have web browser and news reader natively.

For terminal, acme have support for windows attached to programs (if the program is a shell, you have something like a terminal).
From the manpage:

Win creates a new acme window and runs a command (default /bin/rc) in it,
turning the window into something analogous to an rio(1) window.
Executing text in a win window with button 2 is similar to using Send.

Mail client is builtin but only for upas/fs. If you want/need another approach you can extend by external programs.

Some other applications of plan9 have taken the advantage of acme UI (like abaco web browser) but they aren't builtin inside acme.
And there I was hoping for an algorithm that composes renaissance madrigals.
These days, there are plenty of other frameworks for writing native iOS apps in languages other than Obj-C/Swift (Xamarin/Mono, RubyMotion, etc).

This wasn't always the case, but IIRC the current review rules only forbid having a runtime scripting language that isn't JS (since Apple can happily sandbox JS), but anecdotally even that isn't a problem these days (e.g. plenty of games use Lua for in-game scripting).
Works flawlessly here, Linux, Fedora 23, Firefox 42, Radeon HD 7770, open source driver
Me too. The previous version of the demo used to work.

Chrome 47.0.2526.73 (64 Bit) Linux
Something like this should support Pubsubhubbub and rss-cloud. After having implemented something like this[0], I based my own feedreader[1] completely on superfeedr[2], which supports those push notifications as well and crawls the feeds in very small intervalls if not. That get rids of the problem of having to refresh the feeds completely.

[0]: https://github.com/onli/rsspusher, now defunct

[1]: https://onli.github.io/feedtragon/

[2]: https://superfeedr.com/
Could you elaborate on what Ed said to you ?
Hi Ilya,

Thank you for your kind words and your excellent feedback re: the chosen platform and the OSS community. To be honest I hadn't thought about the language and platform angle until you mentioned it, but it is definitely something I may need to consider. C# is a mature language comparable to most other quasi-imperative/quasi-functional ones so conversion I don't think would be hard so much as time consuming. The brain of the system is ultimately in the data structures, the Neo4j Cypher queries, and the product design/architecture.

Can I ask what technologies you think would be most likely to attract community involvement, but wouldn't sacrifice static typing? Perhaps some Java framework for the back end, Angular or React for the clientside framework? I would not be able to immediately convert the project to those technologies, though, given the code count, but something to keep in mind ...

Many thanks,
Iian
A list of Crankshaft bailout reasons with examples
Looking at ToC, the odd thing about Clojure for the Brave and True is that the very last chapter is:

Chapter 13: Creating and Extending Abstractions with Multimethods, Protocols, and Records

... This chapter serves as an introduction to the world of creating and implementing your own abstractions.

Wouldn't it make more sense to introduce tools for creating your abstractions at least in the first part of the book?
Boiling water?

3kW isn't a magic number for the kettle, it's just the amount of power you can get away with drawing when you've got a 240V supply rated at 13A. The more power, the faster the water boils.

As I understand it, freestanding kettles are much less popular in North America, presumably because a hob can draw more power?
Works fine, and is rather impressive, on Windows 10 - both in FF and Chrome.

Doesn't work on iPad - just get blank pages.
Can't resist, one more. Apparently a perfect 2nd hour a snippet in another genre.

http://sampulator.com/melvins_shozin/a-state-of-