skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even patenting a formula's application is becoming more restricted. In Australia and the US, the two relevant tests seem to be whether the formula does something a human can't, and whether the formula is used to 'improve' the operations of a computer or machine (e.g. if it made your hard drive faster or controlled a robotic arm).

I had to look into this regarding an algorithm we're building and whether it's patentable. If your formula is a mere scheme or method implemented in a computer, it's likely to be rejected. The following links add detail:

http://www.fisheradamskelly.com.au/2015/12/full-federal-cour...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Intern...

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/05/13/federal-circuit-says-so...
It's a little disappointing that it takes so much bravery to disagree in Silicon Valley. Supposed, it's a place of brave ideas and independent thinking. But in reality, there's a giant groupthink going on there.

Disclaimer: I don't live in Silicon Valley but I mostly admire it. Also I disagree with Thiel myself though I don't hold it against him.
> He said on Morning Joe that Trump Sr was not part of this conversation and his head would be rolling for suggesting such a deal

Probably true, I didn't see the follow up.

> What makes you think this is Trump Sr's style?

Nearly every solution he offers up is "I can hire the best people for the job". What is he personally going to do? What position or opinion has he personally offered up that wasn't batshit insane? He called for a "total ban on muslims", for months on end talked about deporting 11 million people, tapped an anti-gay VP. I really don't see how this man is qualified to lead a superpower.
I think he is taking Trump's POV that it shouldn't even be discussed by either side and whole thing is stupid.
Reddit is, was, and will for the foreseeable future be, a giant pile of porn. Denial of that fact shows a fundamental lack of knowledge of not only Reddit but the internet as a whole..

I can understand that this idea would be extremely unpleasant to a lot of people. And a slow migration to curated content may seem more wholesome. But it doesn't work that way.
Again, you're pointing out issues that are about a specific implementation of low-density living, and not inherent to the concept itself. Why can't we have suburbs with sidewalks, for example?

FWIW, the suburb where I live is on the edge of a wilderness area. There are several great walking, cycling and hiking trails within a 2 mile radius. Some of those are fairly steep, too, so even one mile provides a good workout. I find that I engage in these activities far more often than what I lived in a large city, and had to drive for quite a bit before getting anywhere bigger than a tiny block-sized park.
Yes, There are many that want to argue about whether Bruce... err... Cate Jenner using the Womens' bathroom is some sort of epic battle for civilization, meanwhile we've doubled our national debt, the % of people working is the lowest its been in 40 years, and the world is so destabilized we have refugee crises across multiple continents. Honestly, if you aren't in the 1% who wants four more years of this?
I can't remember where I read it earlier today, but there was mention of landing on Styrofoam skids.
That's exactly how he plans to help the working class no? I don't want to get in to whether it will help, just pointing out that you're basically saying "my biggest problem with Trump is the part of his platform you find redeeming".
No, the status quo was that you used the bathroom that matched your external physical genitalia, not what you "identified as".

Your claim is untrue on its face.

Now, if you want to argue that it should be otherwise, you won't necessarily find me in disagreement, but claiming things that are contrary to facts does not lead to a productive conversation.
My comment is obviously a simplification and was meant to be somewhat provocative. I also haven't run a survey of all republican voters, so I don't know, perhaps you're right. The crowd's reaction certainly seems to contradict you though.

And looking at say Trump's website -- https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions -- none of this is even mentioned. Sure, maybe in some outlier areas, mumbling something about overturning nationwide gay marriage will get you a few votes.

But I think that the average republican couldn't care less, and it's a shame the relatively minor outliers keep on being brought up, ruining any interesting discussion in the process.
Is trump for protectionism or for fair trade deals?
Any chance there really is a peach water tower in Gaffney? :D
"I dislike the complexity of Rails and wish to make my own way of things."

..three years later...

"We are upgrading to Rails."
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Racist!
Please don't bring someone's personal details into an argument on HN. That's a breach of civility.
Your argument is a non-sequitur. Bunnie's lawsuit, and this guy's situation, are not about using something they haven't paid for. In fact, they are about having the full rights to use something they HAVE paid for. You, as someone off the street who would like to use Uber's software, haven't paid for that right. Nobody here is suggesting that businesses should have to sell off their proprietary systems to anyone who wants to buy them.
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Wow. I'm speechless.

I get that everyone's on edge, but please, "PUT AWAY THE GUNS".

America has many consensual crimes (drugs, prostitution, etc.), and that makes a very large percentage of the population criminals who must live outside the law.

I'm not sure this can be fixed until it is unusual for a police interaction with a citizen to be a police-criminal interaction. If most of the people you meet as a law enforcement officer are criminals who interact with the world of drugs (a world which currently features privatized violence-based contract enforcement), then I guess a person's prior probability matrix gets fucked up.
You know, no one asked you tech people from getting involved in law making. Nowadays, a law maker can't seem to do anything at all without some techie crying foul. Their argument always is some nonsensical technobabble, which the courts can't really understand anyway, often giving in to their demands just to get them to go away.

And it's such a shame, too, since those laws were bought and paid for by lobbyists, and what does it say about the rest of the country if one can't expect to get what one pays for when lobbying at the highest level of government?
That's not a "reasonable view", it's a fantasy that purports to read other people's minds from 10 years ago in order to demean their work.

I'm pretty comfortable saying comments like that don't belong on HN and that we would all do better to think more and inhibit ourselves before posting them. If people want to slag others on the internet, there are plenty of places to do it; here we try for a higher standard.
This isn't how I remember the culture years ago. I looked at reddit every now and then, but I really came over six years ago during the big Digg v4 revolt when Digg fucked up their site. At the time, I remember being really impressed how many of the comments on reddit were more personally supportive, which I rarely saw elsewhere - for example, I learned a ton from r/fitness back then.

Yes, there were the more odious subreddits, but it was perfectly possible to surf around reddit and never be bothered by those.

The culture of reddit definitely seems to have gotten much worse over the past 5 years - to me, it just generally seems meaner, and there feels like there is more trolling overall. Even simple, seemingly straightforward posts seem more likely to spark some sort of vitriolic debate. Perhaps it was inevitable as reddit grew, but it still kind of sucks.
Widespread disability fraud is one way.

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

The fact is that the poor aren't working yet they are consuming.

http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...
Over 60% [1] of Republicans oppose gay marriage

[1] - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-gaymarriage-i...
I must say this is strange. As an Uzbek citizen you don't need an exit visa (OVIR) to go to Kazakhstan or Russia. I guess they were trying to hustle you.

@pavel_lishin: The exit visa costs about $50 -- you pay a fee to the government and possibly a fee to fill out the application. These days it takes anywhere between 2 weeks to 2 months to get it. Depending on the country you want to visit or where you have been previously (based on your application), you might also have to go through a security interview with intelligence officers.
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It seems rather complex actually.
Sorry, which group still hates gay people so much that they would kill them given the chance and supporting mob? The tech scene might have problems but those groups are not even close to each other.
"Look, I have a black friend now! I can't be racist!"

It's 2016 and they just had one guy say he's proud to be gay.

This is progress. It's still a long way from good enough.
I'm well aware. I was talking about old school gotos, I should have probably said that.
B for sure. I still won't do it except when I've had a few beers around friends. The professional backlash has the potential to be pretty brutal. Not to mention how free people feel to call anyone supporting Trump a racist knuckledragger.
The Orlando killer was a democrat who liked hillary more than Bernie Sanders. Does that answer your question?
It's more that the whole crowd is cheering than there being one guy.
The pollution situation is also different in different parts of China as well. http://aqicn.org/map/#@g/27.2404/110.7692/4z

If you around Shenzhen/Guangzhou area the air quality is quite OK
> Going by percentile practically makes it a logarithmic scale

In theory as well. Small changes of the log of a variable are approximately equivalent to small percent-changes.

Edit: Though percentile is a little different than percent-change.
The Republican party has hardly dropped its old social views. Its 2016 platform[1] continues to call for a ban to same-sex marriage, and goes so far as to say that LGBT persons should not be entitled to anti-discriminatory protections. This is despite an attempt by more socially moderate Republicans to craft a more inclusive platform[2].

Its nominee may be an unconventional Republican, but the GOP is still the Grand Old Party.

[1] https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com/media/document...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/politics/republican-con...
On what metrics are you making that assumption? Most people who use Reddit are going to be hitting the "default" communities, which are about as bland and inoffensive (read: has lowest common denominator appeal) as internet content can possibly get.
Competition from the open source world perhaps.
Here's the problem (IMO): Reddit has too many features and too big a userbase to replicate as Reddit itself did a decade ago. voat.co has been in development for years and still lacks crucial systems for things like content moderation, monetization, scaling, etc.

Essentially for a coup of Reddit to occur you have to take a large chunk of Reddit at once. That is very hard to do.
SMILES is usable for any molecule (i.e. any compound with covalent bonds; crystals are generally not considered molecules), though it's most common use is for organic molecules. Parens indicate branching, and cycles are conceptually treated as branches that revisit the same atom twice.
Is trump for protectionism or just fair trade agreements?
This isn't really that interesting. There's nothing here that hasn't been said already or at least very strongly suggested by Musk. The last master plan was interesting because no one had ever really made a successful electric car company, so no one imagined it could be anything but a rich person's toy, so Musk's claim that he could make a desirable mass production car was a huge shock.

It's also very sloppy; it's not an actual plan, with goals and steps that logically follow each other. The last master plan had a clear logic to it: you used the margin of each successive step to fund research and development further down in order to increase the use of electric cars and limit global warming. This is more like a wish list than a plan. "We want to make semis." "It'd be great if we also provided the solar part of the stack because it dovetails with this other initiative we're doing." "Once we have solar, we can do this new thing." Etc, etc. Unlike the first master plan, I can't gauge how long any of this will take or whether it is feasible. I can't gauge what the actual strategy is any better than I could yesterday. And isn't that the point of a Master Plan?
Have you actually read his tax plan?

"If you are single and earn less than $25,000, or married and jointly earn less than $50,000, you will not owe any income tax. That removes nearly 75 million households – over 50% – from the income tax rolls. They get a new one page form to send the IRS saying, 'I win,'"

"All other Americans will get a simpler tax code with four brackets – 0%, 10%, 20% and 25% – instead of the current seven. This new tax code eliminates the marriage penalty and the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) while providing the lowest tax rate since before World War II."

"No business of any size, from a Fortune 500 to a mom and pop shop to a freelancer living job to job, will pay more than 15% of their business income in taxes."

I think I'll just leave it there. If you read that and still think "this is the man for the job", then I'm not sure what more can be said.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform
I agree that shutting down certain criminal organizations may be politically infeasible, since they can hold us hostage to keep their gravy train running.

When I say they are criminal organizations, I refer to organizations with rates of disability fraud as high as 97%.

http://mtaig.state.ny.us/assets/breaking_news/Newsday_7-23-1...

http://www.independentsentinel.com/a-must-read-federal-judge...

https://nypost.com/2014/08/06/nearly-all-lirr-workers-have-d...

What I'd suggest is that if they don't cause trouble, we don't send them to jail.
> the only thing that stands between you and painful death are those regulations

Obviously, that is not actually true. Those regulations are a recent phenomenon. But before we had them, very few people suffered painful death from their lack.
There's this place between "create their own curated content" and free-for-all "user generated content" that is "moderated & curated user generated content".
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If entertainment is superfluous then you have an enviable vision of man kinds purpose. As far as I can tell amusing ourselves until we die is our whole deal. Entertainment isn't superfluous, entertainment is the truest and most important industry we have.
what does DMS stand for?
or is "DMS Things" a tm?
>"be liberal in what you accept"

... is a part of so-called unix philosophy, the CAUSE of the internet. The fact that many web developers forgot to become a programmer is just a fun fact changing nothing.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12139625 (posted 6 hours earlier)
People always drag out david duke, but how many Republican offices did that guy ever hold? ZERO.

Meanwhile, how about Democrat Robert Byrd who was an ex-KKK segregationist that was in the senate for FORTY YEARS!

Democrats are the part of slavery and segregation. They fought for slavery, they fought for segregation, they voted against the civil rights acts. TIL.
The story doesn't link to the actual survey data and the actual questions they asked, and I don't understand why.
> Give a cut of advertising revenue to the mods of successful, high quality subs.

No, oh no.

Why mods?

Cuts should go to users posting the content.

Maybe make it so that OC is rewarded [more], karma "farming" is discouraged, echo chambers don't become the only places with activity, and make sure that hiveminds do not drown out all other discussion. Otherwise Reddit just becomes the online cousin of mainstream media, and a more compelling rival will pop up sooner than later.

They could even reward gilded comments that start good discussions, and so on.
CSS encryption on DVDs doesn't "effectively control access to a work" because it is easy to crack. That doesn't stop copyright holders and the DMCA from deeming that DeCSS is illegal.
> Why limit to ASCII?!

Because it's precise and unambiguous, like math should be but often isn't. And it's easy to manipulate with code, so that makes it easy to enlist the help of computers to help with the work.
I hear that sentiment echoed a lot, but is their any hard evidence proving that a diverse staff increases the value significantly to the diverse demographics they themselves represent? WhatsApp is incredibly popular in South America and Africa, were their a proportionate number of South Americans and Africans on the WhatsApp team of ~18 people? Genuine question because I hear this preached like the bible whenever diversity in tech comes up.
We may be in violent agreement here. I agree that the idea being communicated is a cool idea. I just don't think the triangle notation actually contributes much to the effective communication of that idea.
imho, balloon seems to be a better idea.
Yes there are bad things too. I contend the bad things about car societies are worse. Not everyone can afford to not live in walking distance... we probably can't even afford it.
Strangely, generous welfare isn't preventing Islamic terrorists from blowing up Europe on a regular basis.

But lets take your claim as given, namely that some classes of people are so dangerous if we don't pay them they'll harm us. If I thought you were right, then I'd probably turn to the Brexiters and Trumpkins for a solution. Are you really claiming that the poor are basically just gangsters and terrorists?
>I think I'll just leave it there.

I've found that usually when people say things like this, as if the conclusion is extremely obvious, it's because they actually can't articulate why they have the position that they have.

Could you better articulate your point? Here's what I know of what Trump has said:

1) Yes, considerably less tax revenue
2) Which is justifiable because of a massive reduction of our military, and because of vague "waste fraud and abuse".

I guess what I'm getting at is: every single politician talks about cutting taxes. I think there is quite a bit more to be said on this topic.
You find that power dynamic a lot in linked-community sites like Reddit and image boards. I find that the most enjoyable communities to be in are the ones where the site staff wield their power to make the user experience more enjoyable, rather than treating their users as cattle to be corralled. Acting like they provide a service rather than allowing you in their garden, in other words.

A few Reddit communities sprung up that track content deletions, like /r/undelete, and the sheer amount of stuff that winds up disappeared on arbitrary whims, rather than violation of a stated objective rule, is huge. Coincidentally, when the moderators of those places show up, the attitudes on display are the worst kind of toxic.
Is "grassed on" Australian or British? Never heard this before.
I can’t help noticing that much of your objection applies just as much to return as to throw. Isn’t the point, in both cases, that you shouldn’t need to reason about where you’ll end up?

Either your function can complete its task successfully, in which case it satisfies whatever invariants are required of it and returns accordingly, or it can’t, in which case it can throw an exception to indicate that inability to return successfully. In the success case, the calling code can then continue based on whatever returned value and/or side effects the function was supposed to provide. In the failure case, the calling code may well fail itself if it can also no longer complete its task successfully, and so on up the stack until you reach a level in your design that knows how to recover from the failure or stop the entire program gracefully, which is where you catch the exception.

I’ve never quite understood the idea that exceptions are similar to goto. Other than transferring control over potentially long “distances” within a program, they don’t seem to have much in common at all. To me, a much closer analogy would be returning early from a function on success, if you reach a point in your algorithm where you already know the required answer to whatever question your calling code was asking. Another similar situation would be using a break or continue statement to finish an iteration early within a loop, or adding extra guard cases to stop a recursion early, again if you already know the outcome and continuing with the full algorithm has no advantage.
It was replace by Microsoft Commerce Server which was sold to another company, there is the rest of the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitecore_Commerce_Server
How much does it really cost to run a forum system? Even a big one? Look at 4chan.
> the legal right to fork any IP

Not really useful without any public source code.
While this sounds like a good idea and will probably do well, it also centralizes more critical information and access to one for-profit company and product.

I really wish that we as a community would spend more effort towards better, decentralized systems.
Voice (podcast / video) builds trust faster than print/text; text is better for detailed technical information. Especially for Enterprise accounts this is a complex sale not an impulse purchase and you need to establish trust and credibility. Stanford credibility guidelines are also useful: https://credibility.stanford.edu/guidelines/ your site fails many of these tests.
Would you care to give a true narrative of what you're trying to do? You linked to an empty page where I can request an invite, and the "about us" page just says you're "rethinking" communities online. What is the nature of moderation and communication on the site?

I can glean a bit of info from news sites, but not very much if you say they're fundamentally misunderstanding you.
Use static source code analysis and dynamic web app scanners.

They are easy to integrate into your SDLC, they are not going to replace manual testing or secure development practices but they'll help a lot. They'll pick up tons of stuff for free, they'll remind you best practices.

I have a startup (at least it still feels like a startup!) and we are developing a web application security scanner called Netsparker [0]. It found over 100 zero days in open source applications while testing it [1], including very popular vulnerabilities in applications such as Wordpress and Joomla. I guess that by itself proves how good scanning can be.

If you want to try it on your websites and see it for yourself drop an email / message to contact@netsparker.com with a mention of HN and I'll get you a fully functional trial that you can use on your own websites.

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> (it was by far the largest search result that brought people to Reddit for a long time)

I'm pretty skeptical of this. I can maybe see my way to believing that googling "jailbait" beats out any single one of ["pic" "pics" "funny" "joke" ...], but the normal SFW subreddits have always been vastly bigger than the porn subs. I'm also really skeptical of the causation chain that leads from jailbait -> Stormfront -> general toxic culture. Do you have any harder evidence of this?

Edit: Sorry, "normal SFW," not "normal NSFW."
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