skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we really need are patent co-ops.

The problem as I see it is: patents exist to allow innovators to get paid for their inventions (setting aside the USPTO not being able to do its job correctly due to under-funding and granting bad patents), patents therefore have a monetary value, however that monetary value in fact scales with the monetary resources of the company it's held by (i.e. small companies cannot legally afford to enforce patent claims against behemoths that decide to fight), therefore there is a market incentive to create patent trolls (which increase the value of all patents by pooling them and amortizing prosecution cost/risk over a larger number of patents).

It would seem like if you instead pooled patents in a co-op arrangement, retaining ownership by their original creators, but pooling them with others for efficiency / risk purposes and to obtain the necessary scale for optimal enforcement. Then work out some amiable proceed-sharing method on the backend.

Win/win, and reducing the incentive for patent troll companies by providing an alternative. (Caveat: bad patents still need to be fixed at the USPTO source via additional funding / subject matter expert examiner requirements)

Is something like this at all feasible legally? Or does something prevent the batching together of patents from various actual owners under a single legal proceeding?
My current residence was built in 1890 and I would not consider it 'hopelessly outdated' or in need of rebuilding.
Imagine you're a bank calculating the interest rate to offer on a loan. Do you think that rate will be lower or higher if you believe there are circumstances wherein the government would unilaterally allow your borrower to cease payment?

Obviously, if the government could be metaphysically certain of the loans that would never return another penny and only cancel those, there's no net loss to the bank. But there's no net gain to the borrower other than a potential psychological effect.

Risk of government-sanctioned default is the same as any other default risk, and will be priced into interest rates, hurting especially those with marginal credit whom the banks judge most likely to be the "beneficiaries" of some future forgiveness.
Why are most developers so bad at communication?
> Football is very boring.

I agree! Why spend time on something that I have no effect on the outcome of? That's why I prefer gaming (especially online, against real other people). (Some people think online gaming is boring. But the fact that I do not understand how someone could possibly think that, is not an argument against their opinion.)

> the action flows pretty constantly

Ah, yes, those gripping 2 hour matchups ending in a score of... 2-1. :P

> Pittsburgh

I like Pittsburgh! I have a couple of good friends who live there.
"free for personal, non-commercial use only. All you need to do is allow sharing your usage statistics on a social network."

Hmm. So "free" as in "we get to post to a social network from your account"?
hopefully the patent is for iphone displays ;)
All of your points are off:

1. Java is not "a stack". It's a platform with multiple JVM, even more languages and numerous frameworks/languages. There are a lot of agile Java stacks out there.

2. Java is very strong in open-source, including companies that contribute to it: Redhat (JBoss), Spring Source, Apache (https://projects.apache.org/), IBM (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/find/projects/). Java is #2 OSS language on GitHub (http://githut.info/).

About Java community not being as huge as Ruby, Python, JS: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/

3. Just browse links above to see thousands of Java projects that are constantly being developed by thousands of contributors.
Make sure to check that the IP addresses are yours. Gmail loads images to their own servers and then serves them to your Gmail UI from there, so trackers shouldn't get your actual IP.
Meet the World’s First Ubuntu Tablet
I dunno - I paid off my mortgage. Now I'm not beholden to anybody.
Also worth noting is that Assange has said repeatedly that he would leave the embassy if he is given written assurance that he won't be extradited to the US.
There's also the choice not to buy a TV. A large high quality monitor hooked up with a chromecast is far better, imo.
Deployment with modern Java platforms/frameworks is simple. With Java EE you can create a runnable fat JAR just by running `mvn package` with WildFly Swarm. Spring Boot also has that capability and Payara Micro lets you deploy any existing WAR just by adding it as a command-line parameter.

Even a couple of years ago when this wasn't the case, it was still usually as simple as dropping your WAR in the autodeploy folder of your favourite app server (e.g. JBoss, WebLogic, GlassFish) - the main issue was that it was different for each app server even though it was (in theory) the same framework.
I would add that setting up some captures[1] helps a lot. That way you can easily add notes or tasks while working on other things.

[1]: http://orgmode.org/manual/Capture.html
> The idea was to invent a system that anticipated and rose above bumps in the road. A little like riding on a magic carpet.

This became the Bose Ride seat for commercial trucks.

http://www.boseride.com/

It has a linear actuator that is run by a computer monitoring a set of accelerometers.
I am! :)
The problem is defecting becomes valuable. If I have a great patent, then selling to a troll let's me 'cash out' without needing actual customers.
You know that US had in the past kidnapped people multiple times right? And sometimes they ended in torture chambers.

Also, Chelsea Manning stupidly believed that there would be fair treatment in the US, and ended in solitary confinement for life.

Also, Denmark admitted that the US planes parked there are CIA planes that are waiting to kidnap Edward Snowden in case he go Denmark, Sweden or Norway.

What makes you think, that Assange is immune from that treatment? The CIA planes are already there! If Assange go to Sweden, the US can kidnap him very easily, Denmark+Sweden authorizing it or not, and historically they have authorized quite frequently (maybe every single time).
Play probably is the JVM world's best answer to Rails/Django, but it's neither as complete nor as frictionless. Source: I use both Rails and Play at my day job.
Not really sure about the JVM's tuned memory usage but for web applications, you likely won't come near 800MB with Python.

For example a Flask project that I worked on had about 30 top level packages, and the entire web server used 55MB of RAM running with 1 gunicorn worker.
You do understand that the $8000 tax credit just made houses more expensive right ?
Who wants to buy stupid Twicsy? (attempt 2)
While 'debt' might be inaccurate, keeping lots of ideas in head definitely cripples you in my experience. They force you to always consider them as an option every time something new comes up and that quickly leads to decision fatigue.

In the meantime 'idea investment' is spot on.
How do you decide who are the experts?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/jury-apple-must-p...

"East Texas Jury"...
Python on windows is a special case. Don't try to use pip/easy_install(setup tools) for anything that has extension modules, or needs compilation rather. Just find the binary distribution for your CPU architecture for windows and install using that.

Pip and setup tools were not made for a windows-type environment. I.e. Where you have don't library dependencies automatically installed and you require a compiler. Windows is a second-class citizen when it comes to those things, but it's getting better with cygwin and all that.
Pip comes installed by default with python 3.4 and 3.5. Not sure about the latest 2.7 builds, but I expect it's bundled there too.

EDIT: For the general case of Python on windows, it might be worth looking into [Anaconda][https://www.continuum.io/downloads].
But HN isn't because this keeps coming back. Good lord. It's an Android tablet behind a two-way mirror, and it's been posted here a lot.
Christians outside of the US are rarely that conservative or judgemental of others' choices. On the contrary, being able to accept those differences is one of the core beliefs.
I'm surprised of the negativity towards this action, but I guess I shouldn't be. A lot of you are in a very different situation than me and this will affect you directly. However, warning people away from being potentially tricked by these deceptive ads is a very good thing.

Tons of sites out there that turn a blind eye to such ads and that's bad. Yes, there will be some unfortunate pain for sites that responsibly attempt to block these ads as they come up. Assuming the blog post is correct and Google has implemented this correctly, it should be minimal for those sorts of folks since they claim the penalty will only occur if users are consistently getting social engineering ads. (I suspect Google will ratchet up the rate over time though, assuming these ads become less common as a result of this and similar efforts).

EDIT: See below. I'm convinced and with y'all now. Google--this is a step in the right direction and I support this action, but you do need to get your own house in order too!
Fast and Furious 9 and 10 Release Dates from Vin Diesel
I'm not defending reliance on high oil price as a good long-term strategy. In any case the money was used to improve the living standard of a lot of people, and that's something I cannot disagree with. Still I would have used that money to diversify the economy reliance on oil and make sure we had funds for the future, but that doesn't make the same political impact.

And the dozens of other socialist revolutions that have been tried all failed because they have been all boycotted by capitalist nations, with war, arms race, space races, illegal embargoes, and whatnot, not because the socialist system is not sustainable. Socialism cannot compete with capitalism in term of generating huge amount of capital and growth because it is not the goal of the socialist system.

Still, examples like Cuba with a 50-year embargo from the world superpower manages to have the best health of all latinamerica, and even a lower children mortality than the USA. I totally disagree that this is a failure. The USSR also went from a absolute monarchy slavery behind-time empire to a world economic and military superpower with one of the best health and education systems in ~30 years, which is an unparalleled impressive feat.
'JRebel has changed the way developers code in Java. Never again will you need to redeploy your application to see the impact of code updates. Make changes and JRebel applies them instantly to your running application.'
Well that's why God invented OpenJDK.
But Oracle did win a patent suit against Google for Android's implementation of the JVM ABI.
One view: this article is "an economically warped account that leaves important policy options off the table."

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/new-york-times-bank-b...
Just a bit of background on this service...

As a preamble: I was really struggling to keep up with the news. There is just so much, and so much noise. It’s not easy to find out what articles are the most important ones and it’s time consuming.

I thought a simple and efficient approach would be to analyze what the leading experts themselves read and recommend.
And Forereads was born :-).

Forereads generates specialised “news round-ups" to help people navigate the constant flow of stories published every day.
The curation is done by the best experts on the premise that if several of them share the same article on social media, it is likely an important read.
And Forereads does not just feature links, it adds context as well: what did these experts say when they shared a specific link? Can it help me understand the article better?

Let me know what you think. Thanks!
What are 'Sony Z3C foxfooding devices'? Sony Z3 Compact smartphones? [1] They are my favorite smartphones of relatively current crop (powerful, compact, great battery life - as compact and great as it gets nowadays, anyway) but I haven't heard of them being used for Firefox OS.

[1] http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z3_compact-6538.php
> A few more emails/phone calls laters (this became a theme) they finally made their first offer. It was around 3.5x revenue.

Is this the standard opener now? Also, is that 3.5 annual or monthly revenue? For centuries I believe that 20x annual revenue has been a rule of thumb for properties, companies &c.
Am a firefighter...

Always Try before you Pry.
Have the Halligan and Axe in standby.
If that was true the US would have A LOT fewer ads.
From the VirnetX website:

http://virnetx.com/company/virnetx-promise/

"Cutting-edge secure communications technology is only one of the essential elements of our products – another is integrity. ..."

lol, what products?
I have no doubt Assange would end up in similar conditions as Manning, but I don't believe there is any chance he'd be executed.
No.

I'm saying that the legal system (flawed as it is) is the best way we have to determine culpability. I am capable of making moral judgements on my friends, but it is much harder to make moral judgements about public figures. I don't know them, and I don't know their accusers. Either one, or both, might be lying.

Until such time as I have evidence, I have to conclude that the accusations sound bad, but I have little reason to believe that they are true or false.

From the public statements I've seen about the three cases mentioned, there seems to be significant flaws in the accusations. Simply believing one side over another "just cause" leads to lynchings and public panics.
Ooops. Originally posted the manage posting link and people did the expected and helped make a few changes...
Setup tools doesn't have distributions for 2.5 anymore. You have to download a "bootstrap.py" type of file and run that to get setup tools instaled.
Ask HN: Why is “My Bathroom Mirror is Smarter Than Yours” being posted so much?
This has been posted so many times-possibly dozens. Why? How?

Is someone trying to game this Medium story for some reason? If so, why does HN keep allowing it to appear over and over?

(14 times at last count, with tweaky URL settings to deliberately bypass HN's dupe posting filter.)
Of course I'm making assumptions - the biggest one is that quantum chemistry works.

If you are now retreating to thermal effects, they a) can be easily measured and b) are vastly smaller than effects like wearing tighty whities or walking past a radiator in winter. Is your sole claim that using a cell phone might have an effect 1/100th as large as blow drying one's balls after a shower?

Let me reason by analogy, to explain the probabilitistic intuition here. Study: we threw golf balls at aircraft carriers and cargo vessels, and concluded that they are an effective naval weapon. The probability of observing this result by random chance, assuming golf balls don't sink aircraft carriers, is 2%.

Would you draw the conclusion that golf balls are likely to sink aircraft carriers from such a study?
This, this is probably the biggest and yet least recognized obstruction for wannapreneurs. I know because I've been there myself for years and have only recently realized what I was doing. I would get really excited about an idea, start working on it, only work on the interesting parts (not on what actually had to come next) and then let it fizzle away as the next wave of emotion came with another idea. I would justify this cycle with the emotion dip itself, if the next step in the process was not interesting or uncomfortable, that I was my reason to leave it. Surely the next idea won't have any of those areas.

The author mentions piles of lore and doing research. For me, research was basically entrepreneurial porn. My mind thought I was getting something that it really wasn't. I thought I was making progress by researching everything but in reality, I was just building piles of lore. A company I'm currently working on, with all this in mind, I've decided to do no extra research beyond what is needed in the moment. Forcing myself to steer clear of the research trap and instead only work on what is going to get me to the next point.

I could go on and on about this topic, it's not talked about nearly enough. It seems like everyone has an idea for a company, app, startup, etc. Us developers sometimes roll our eyes. We think it's their idea that is bad, or that they're just following the startup hype. In reality though, none of that is true, the reason there idea isn't coming to life is because they're simply not doing it.
I had the same question, but I would suppose he just had his own reasons for wanting to sell.

The cool part of the story is that even though it took him seven frustrating months to close the deal, he was earning money every month. Theoretically, with that kind of revenue stream he could have dragged things out for months or years, and the buyer probably understood that.

A great position to be in, and to be so young, too. * envy *
:)
no, the hockey table thing is a convenient (but unnecessary) side effect.

Moving the air from front to back (with a pump) is needed to compensate for being in a partial vacuum rather than a true vacuum. Without the air pump you don't have a hyperloop. You just have a maglev in a tunnel.

I never implied that moving the air provided the motion.
They were distributed to several hundreds mozillians last year. I used one for a while. Excellent device, very responsive with FxOS on it. If it had enough apps, it could have been competitive...
Don't be jelly
I don't know how having a chancellor who is member of a party bearing the word astrology in its name makes a country more or less "advanced".
Looks like this is to focus on their subscription model or something along those lines.

Haven't tried Autodesk's subscription, but I will say that I (unlike many I know...) am extremely happy with Photoshop CC. $10/mo is trivial for something like Photoshop, and it still works without an internet connection, so I'm not sure what all the hate is about. General mistrust of the business model?
> The problem as I see it is: patents exist to allow innovators to get paid for their inventions

That is not why patents exist. Patents exist for the good of mankind to convince innovators to share their trade secrets with the public. Paying those innovators is not the goal, it is the means by which the goal is achieved, making the inventions public. You've confused the carrot for the end goal.

Anyone wanting to think about how to fix patents needs to first understand what the goal is, and paying inventors is not the goal.
That would make sense if the reasons behind both were the same. But it seems to me that you have mostly arbitrarily grouped "restrictions the government does that you don't like" into the category "nanny state"

More specifically, this article suggests the changes in Sydney are partially as a way for "evangelical christians to implement a framework of religious policy" and "actively shutting down any small business that it can find that doesn’t agree with its small minded evangelical 1950s view of the world."

As far as I can tell, that is completely different than the reasons for higher gun control laws in Australia. For "nanny state" to be meaningful, it must be able to encompass both movements.

But the article also points to Amsterdam and other places which have an active night life and strict gun control laws. Thus, it can't be that both are the result of some "nanny" tendency by the government.

Which is why I don't understand why "nanny state" makes sense for both cases. Well, other than for some libertarian philosophies where nearly all government regulation is classed as being part of a "nanny state".
Interesting seeing this posted here.

I've spent the past decade+ as a firefighter with the FDNY and this is always a go-to book (at least for monday-morning-quarterbacking how somebody did something). It's one of the few times a book does a good job at mirroring actual practice. We have a lot of other books on tools and procedures, but this one is more interesting to a hacker's mindset.

Some notes:

- trying the doorknob is indeed important advice. I think the ones I've forced have always been locked, but there are plenty of times I can't guarantee 100% that I checked the doorknob first.

- always good to jiggle the door before you attack it to see just where the locks are locked on the inside.

- the halligan tool is perfectly made, but the different ways of increasing leverage are always useful (like marrying it to another, or chocking the door with an axe (or wooden chocks) to maintain progress and you "work your way up").

- breaching a wall is sometimes an option. Sometimes a $1000 door has a $10 sheet of drywall right next to it. Only needed to do this a few times but makes you look like an animal when you do it.

- no matter how hard a door is, the hydra-ram is almost always guaranteed to open it. but we usually use this as a last resort or for emergencies where you can't waste time "d&$*ing around".

- never give up your tool. basically, if you are working to force a door, but it's taking some time and someone says "let me give a try", don't take the bait. If someone else pops your door for you, you will never live it down.

- on my first run ever, a gentleman from my company showed me how to twist off padlocks like in the example on the bottom of p.122. An obvious trick, but worked well though my career and I got to show it to a bunch of people. Trivial example but I only mention it because he died last year of WTC-related-illness.

- I always had a tool like this: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Estwing-10-in-Pro-Claw-Moulding-P... in my coat pocket (a little better model though). Worked great for lighter doors with minimal locks (staircases, internal offices, closets etc.)
It's disappointing there really isn't a great high-end Android phone these days that's competitive with the iPhone 6S. All the mainstream higher end units either have screens that are too big or lack something in features IMO.
Ah! That's why they put me off, when I contacted them about working in one of those divisions.
That's a little bit too narrow. There are lots of companies out there that manufacture products but derive a large percentage of their revenue from patents. For example, the chips that Qualcomm makes have been described by some as a loss leader to hide and justify their very lucrative patent licensing business.
Apple getting trolled sucks for the rest of us too sometimes. FaceTime was going to be an open standard.
I am using the same algorithms I developed for Game Of Angels (http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/25/game-of-angels/), where I was mapping the tech influence networks.

In short, it looks at a bunch of social media signals to see who interact with who among people in a certain industry.
Lessons Learned from Asana’s Email Specialist
That's one reason why I'm a little annoyed personal websites went mostly the way of the Dodo and you can only expect friends to check things out if you give them direct links to some trusted site from a site they use all the time, like a link to a Youtube video from Facebook, or your Medium or Tumblr entry from Twitter.

I still like designing personal websites, but it seems like a waste of time now.
I'm sure he has invested some very serious cash into something he should not be spending that much time looking at, and now he wants a return on investment by building a readership; cue the submission bots/friends/family to spread the word.
ES6 `const` is not about immutability