skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the "problems" you state are valid, but targeting patent enforcement to fix the problem is like trying to stiffle a food poisoning epidemic by changing the way people eat instead of fixing the source of the problem which is in the food prep.

Patent trolls are succesful because of the millions of worthless patents issued (i.e. scope that actually does overlap prior art, such that people think they have broader protection than they actually have). The other reason is that people are filing patents (and getting them granted) based on concepts that seem viable in principle, but which they haven't actually distilled to practice (ahem - Magic Leap).

All of these issues can be greatly mitigated by reinstituting (1) the rule for inventors to actually demonstrate the technology they're patenting to the USPTO.

1. https://www.uspto.gov/custom-page/inventors-eye-what-are-cur...
> statistically humans have one testicle. It's statistically true but pragmatically useless.

A funny quip that highlights more misapplication of statistics than a deep truth of the quantitative realm. Yes, the mean is a statistic. But bi-modality is also something good statisticians (and economists!) pay attention to.
I like to keep track of all things: shopping list, payments, projects, appointments and so on. In doing so I know when I'm way behind as there is a pile of items in "pending".

So I use Trello (most tasks, projects) integrated with Calendar (appointments, due dates) and Google Sheets (all payments, due dates).
Gonna leave this here:

https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen

Yeah, it seems dodgy. But he moved to focus on his Patreon page as his older blog got spam flooded.
Combination of Todoist [1] and Google Calendar. To make up for my poor memory, I've started to put everything I have to do in them.

For example, I have annually recurring tasks in Todoist to get Father's/Mother's Day gifts two weeks before the actual days and then separate tasks to call my parents on the actual days.

While it has been very effective for me, it might be leading to a Google-like effect [2] where my memory seems to be getting worse because I know I have a crutch.

I am also trying to maintain a daily routine (to make sure I do important things like exercise) and to finish unpleasant tasks in the morning before all the fun stuff.

[1] https://todoist.com/

[2] http://www.yalescientific.org/2013/05/is-google-ruining-your...
Also: It is rare to use `do`.

#lang racket
(require math)

(for ([i 100])
(displayln
(cond [(divides? 15 i) "FizzBuzz"]
[(divides? 3 i) "Fizz"]
[(divides? 5 i) "Buzz"]
[else i])))
I've made $64,000 so far this year working online and I'm a full time student. Im using an online business opportunity I heard about and I've made such great money. It's really user friendly and I'm just so happy that I found out about it. Heres what I do,
•••••••••>> http://www.joinmate2.com
You can't talk NK down without making concessions. Diplomacy isn't brainwashing.
I can't do any of the todo-list stuff after work, for the basic reason that it also feels like work when done this way. Also I usually spend too much energy at work so afterwards I don't have any left to motivate myself etc. Ergo: Zero effort or it won't be done.

So the first thing I do is I put reminders where I see them. For instance there's a contract for a telephone provider I need to quit. The box connected to the provider is laying right there next to the computer I'm typing this on. This way it gets into my head and if I don't have higher priority tasks I will think about it regularly, without ever actually pushing myself to it.

Then instead of already resolving the issue (which in itself would cost energy) I procrastinate by planning or doing simple steps toward the goal. In this case it may be checking out on the website of the company how their quitting process works. After that I feel like I achieved something and successfully avoided doing actual work at the same time. That's the best reward for doing part of the job, feeling like you cheated your boss (in this case your inner moral guard).

And when there's really not anything left it most often means that the last step really isn't any effort anymore. So when I have everything prepared I just need to write a short text, and send it to the company, and be done with it. Because everything was planned out and prepped already.

Last but not least, if I really can't convince myself to even do a small step like googling the website of the company, then it probably means I'm too exhausted and instead of doing any serious tasks I really should take a walk and a nap, which I then also have motivation for since it also avoids doing the painful highest prio task.

Yeah, it's a slow process, but it actually hacks your brain into doing real work while it thinks it's procastinating, instead of the other way around.
Thank you, my big anxious horror was relieved by knowing I'm not the only one.
Now they're all in Texas. Guess the relevance engine isn't perfect.
Why are these women bringing their husbands/boyfriends along at all?
I haven't heard anything neither, although I tried hard to call everyone. Maybe some portion of prepaid tariff sim cards could be having it as they had some other types of ads in the past. Maybe you're right, could equally be "fake news".
How ready are North Korea for a North Korean missile attack?
> The Guardian is a notorious proponent of central economic planning

Do you have a citation for that, please?
Here are some reasons you should have a website
I wonder if you could make a go at private cloud installs. Contrast synology and a roll your own NFS server. The former has perf analytics history, auto update, auto scrubbing, well supported apps, bullet proof certified hardware (as much as you'll find in the < $1000 range).

There is not a great solution for well-curated (read: backed up, encrypted and updated in a standard way, and works on the first try) dockerfiles. I'm to the point where I'd pay ~$10-100 per service for that at home, and I run about 5 services. Presumably the SMB market will pay more than me.
Mainstream economics is a bit of a cult due to the identifiability problem. This is the problem that empirical evidence is ignored in most econometric papers and there is usually no way to identify economic events discretely that correspond to the ones mentioned in papers. Paul Romer, a professor at the Stern school of business, has published a great paper calling this out (pdf: https://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/WP-Trouble.... ) .

Central planning has and always will be an epic failure. The economic calculation problem always leads to its downfall.

The Chinese banking and finance model, which is akin to largely privatized central planning, is the only real alternative and it is ignored, though it seems to have solved the business cycle, given that western observers have been predicting a Japanese style prolonged financial crash for 30 years and instead there's been continuous growth.
That was insanely painful to watch, thank you.
(this article can be read by searching for the title on http://twitter.com/, then opening the link in a private window)

> Two doses of an injectable form of naloxone, Evzio, cost $4,500, up from $690 in 2014. The price of other forms of the drug, including the nasally administered Narcan, typically range from $70 to $150 per dose, officials say.

The cost of naloxone [1] is an insignificant part of the cost of reviving an addict. The rest of the costs mentioned in this article are pure profiteering.

[1] http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/n7758?lang....

If you buy 5 grams from Sigma Aldrich, a 2mg dose costs $0.588. Add a few more cents for salt, water and packaging brings the cost per dose to $2. An EMS supplier sells a single "kit" with an intranasal atomizer for <$48 [2]...

Someone on Reddit sent me 4 vials of naloxone. I sent them <$20 to cover postage. [Edit: these vials have .4mg naloxone. Needles were also included. I think the standard intranasal dose is 2mg.)

[2] http://www.dixieems.com/Economy-Naloxone-Kit.asp?pid=2086

Naltrexone is very similar to Naloxone. It is used to keep people from getting high on opiates. Big Pharma has found a way to jack the price of this generic drug too. 15 days ago I posted about the Naltrexone rip-off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14672338
he overestimates her power the same way he overestimates his own.
Fair Representation Act (HR 3057)
I'm using Things 3 for the moment. It's nice because it integrates also with Gmail Calendar and iCal.

Truth is, I'm cycling between to-do list productivity tools every few months. OmniFocus could do anything you want, but can get quite complicated too. Things and Todoist are simple and straightforward, but are missing some essential (advanced) things. I can't seem to find the tool with that right sweet spot. I guess I love procrastinating with fiddling for the best tool configuration.

That said, I also often fallback to using pen&paper, and writing in the morning the 5 things that really should be completed today, and that seems to work very well too.
+1 for taskwarrior on Linux shell for work and personal tasks

+1 for daily meditation (and task list reflection)
Of course! Great design starts with UML.
these are the kinds of pictorials that cause me to discard the "America is the most creative" narrative i've been hearing all my life.

yes. America is creative. but so is, like, the rest of the world 'n stuff.

America is just kind of whatever plus guns.
I shall be extremely surprised if this does not turn out to be the case for all sorts of other animals too.

I have seen dogs, cats, and rats (yes, rats) perform complex, planned actions clearly relying on good models of who were now and would later be looking at what.
> because the medium was largely out of the direct control of most citizens

This is still the case with the Internet. Who do you think subsidized the construction of the physical Internet infrastructure?

And most of the major pipes and cables are owned and operated by large megacorps that work closely with governments.

It's not like citizens ran the fibre optic cables themselves and now the government wants to come in and take over.
Sounds like you would find Steve Keen's work interesting then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Keen
Is no one else getting really fed up with this discriminatory dimming feature on HN? It's basically "Many of us don't like what you're saying (OK) and will therefore make it difficult for those with poor sight to read it (not OK)". What is it but weak censorship? What about an alternative?
Shit. I did not think I was the only one, but I have many people around me who make it seem like 'it is just something you do in between' and was worried that was reality. Thank you for formulating that.

To say it in less poetic English than OP; I just don't do them (well, a bit, but could've just as well not've done them) in the end. But do stress about them first.
Public debt, yes. Private debt on the other hand...
I work from home and do the 60 work 15 no work. For those that never heard of this practice you spend a certain amount of time doing work then take a short break. I spend at least 60 min working no matter the pain and suffering or any other distractions that may come my way. Then I spend 15 min doing something else that doesn't involve sitting at my computer. Those 15 min are typically spent on cleaning something around the house like throwing in a load of laundry, vacuuming the floor, and such. You be surprise how more productive you are taking a short break from time to time, and how much you can get done in a short break.
Ask HN: Why not generate strong passwords for your users?
I think the risk that terrorists detonate a dirty bomb in urban areas or poison the water supplies (which is actually really easy) is much higher and more alarming than anything North Korea has ever done or will do.
>The AES instructions (which are on any Intel chip after 2008) help out immensely compared to using just a generic router.

Be careful, this isn't true... most low end Intel chips (Celeron, Pentium, i3) don't support AES-NI. Starting with Skylake chips (2015/2016-era), the whole processor line supports AES-NI. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set
I really enjoy how most of the abstracts in these papers are more like ELI5s, or just plain understandable. I think having an understandable abstract would be valuable for many papers to have to make large complex sciences understandable for people not in the field. Would there be any downside? The only one I can think of is that conclusions could sound more convicting in a simplified summary.
Amazon possibly working on new stand-alone messaging app called Anytime
I'm considering it.
One issue with this approach is that refactoring can cause bugs or a change in behavior so you're risking bugs twice (initial write, then when doing refactor+teats). If you could guarantee the code was testable from the start then maybe this would help with the approach you outlined.
I have my own set of tools to try to help me in that regard. I keep iterating on it to try to find a flexible solution that covers as much as possible, long term goals, short term goals, projects, etc. I use https://everydaycheck.com to list all the things I want to work on every day, and https://multikanban.com to manage my multiple personal projects. In the end, one divides to conquer, while the other helps me sure I conquer at least one task a day!
I also am a huge fan of Seven Habits of Highly Defective People! It changed my life.
Why not take a laptop to the mall and work where you are?
Ever since i learned realizing any dream i have by coding. boredom has been absent from my life.

PS: Objectifying Guys as something to be stored, is okay. And we demand guy-stuff-quotas in every female clothing store.
> would be less skeptical if there were not apparently at least two schools of economists, producing diametrically opposed analyses and recommendations for any situation.

What you perceive is large part politics, not academic economics.
In North Dakota, at Concrete.
Clearly you miss the point of the outrage over this.
Drip Irrigation Design Guidelines
How Siemens Is Using Big Data and IoT to Build the Internet of Trains
> Idiomatic rust avoids heap allocations, but it very much encourages immutable stack allocation...something that OCaml also tries to encourage.

I'm not sure I'm following you here; one of the more common criticisms of OCaml is generally that it (unavoidably) puts too many values on the heap. I mean, even floats get boxed by default, unless the compiler can avoid that.
Ask HN: Package and sell self-hosted web-app?
I'm working on a SaaS product that, by the nature of it, doesn't make sense to do a cloud model. Instead I'd like to sell yearly licenses for it, and distribute a container or some easy-to-consume image.

The Docker store seems perfect for this, but I'm not seeing a lot of containers people charge outright for (which gives me flashbacks to the App Store). I'm wondering how folks here package up a server+DB for distribution and sale?
I don't think that's dating if they're already a couple. That's just going out together.
Oh of course completely agree. The problem though is that it then comes down to the individual rather than the field as a whole.
Rei Ayanami – Evangelion – Set -
I agree with the rest of this, but CI isn't hard on a monolith, and it's well worth it. (CD is a tradeoff. If you understand why it's important for you, it might be worth it, but does add complexity.)
Nobody would burn a CA just so they can inject some ads into Google. They'll be able to do it for 24hrs max before somebody notices (less if it's a google site, because chrome reports rogue certificates to google)
Pretty much all of his stuff is amazing. He did Dumb Starbucks awhile back if you're familiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_deCOd1HU

One of my favorites is Souvenir Shop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBzW1xUjwew
War is going to look like nothing compared to what happens to civilization when the ice caps have melted.
This is not true, since Preact only implements the same software interface. Its internals are fundamentally different and not a derivative work.

Software interfaces cannot be patented - this has been upheld in every court, most recently in Google V Oracle.
For more in a similar vein, see

* Debunking Economics by Steve Keen. It's rhetoric aside, it provides strong arguments that the basics of economics are simply...wrong.

* Misbehaving by Richard Thaler. A history of and introduction to behavioral economics, it has many amusing stories about interactions with economists behaving badly.
I outsource them to my spouse. I pay with her rage.

But seriously: I routinize. Saturday is cleaning day, every four days I go get groceries(our fridge is rather small).
I would love to learn more and have an exchange of ideas. amonxnye@gmail.com
So you'll download an app, find it brillant (see how many 5 stars it got), and then remove it ?
Well if this is so, it's surely some form of cheating. The question is : is Google have a system to permit it or have it been misused and abused ?
I believe it's the second option (as explained on other comments) but either show there is a problem with rating.
The real irony would be that if I found this video hosted anywhere else, it would be IP theft because the creators post it to Youtube. Your comment is unnecessary.
Human like beating heart was 3D-printed
Trello + Google Calendar
Do you highlight all the text you read?
We've begun work on a NativeScript integration that would meet this need. It's early stage though.
There was an article last week out there about people with bad memory, for it not being bad, but rather a sign that they focus and find alot of things - not important enough to remember.

I can't find it right now, the Google results show alot of well-ranked SEO-optimised sites instead about Alzheimer.
Very similar story here. We got married a month ago. We did everything ourselves (plus friends & family), and we started too late.

We started using Asana so that we could stop having nervous breakdowns every week. It worked. Now we use it for stuff like coordinating anything that doesn't fit on a notecard. Shopping lists generally are just on a kitchen whiteboard and you take a pic before you leave.
I like how this thread is supposed to be for good advice, but you just described 90% of the people here.
"probably a man standing in front of a mirror posing for the camera"

I would hope it could get this one right, there's a massive amount of training data to recognize it.
I think what OP was saying is that yes, it would impress _them_, and it may impress other _people_, and impressing people is generally good for business.
Well, you likely won't have a job, so won't need to worry about going into the office. Sounds a little different when applied personally doesn't it?
Amazon developing its own messaging app called Anytime
One can have the kind of unsafe shared memory like C++ in OCaml by using a library like netmulticore. But the OCaml formalised memory model is offering the same kind of OCaml safety in multicore programs.
For your first point I'm not an advocate of using a single programming language for all kinds of things. But it's just my opinion.
Object-relational impedance mismatch
Historically making concessions hasn't worked either. We made many concessions and the DPRK didn't follow through. I think at this point diplomacy is not off the table, but we have to see some lasting comittment and trust building from both sides.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
Is there opportunity? Sure. Is there opportunity to replace the salaries and tax revenue of 30,000-100,000 finance and finance-related jobs lost to brexit with equally well paying jobs? I am extremely skeptical such a thing is possible for Britain and until that happens the revenue to Britain's economy and tax coffers are undeniably lost and cannot be recovered. You are once again blithely ignoring the fact that brexit directly resulted in finance companies moving out of Britain. There is no backfill by competitors to be had.

In short brexit with regards to employment in the finance industry is a foot shooting exercise of epic proportions.
The phrasing users will be able to sure was an interesting touch. Don’t they mean users will be required to?
I recalled the acronym "VROOM" being associated with Borland's tools of this era, with the "OM" part meaning "Overlay Manager/Management"; a bit of searching yielded[1]:

What is the VROOM in the Borland Turbo C++ ?
9/14/94 3:53 PM

Hi!
I very need information about usage VROOM
in the Borland Turbo C++ or Borland C++.
Thanks. Alex.

VROOM is their overlay manager. That is,
it allows you to write programs which execute
in a conventional DOS memory (aka 640K) which
is smaller than the size of the compiled program.
For example, on a machine with 550K available
conventional DOS memory, you can run a program
1Mb large.
[...]

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9ptZPc...
stpl, a.k.a. SimpleTemplate. It comes with Bottle, which is the project Flask was inspired by.

From what I've seen of other template languages, it resembles Mako the most, though some of the syntax superficially resembles Jinja2.
It depends on how illegible the "designer" has managed to make the base text. Sometimes highlighting is necessary to make it readable.
Its nice to see retail outlets catering to the needs of men for a change.
If you like this, then you'd almost certainly love the book "The Computational Beauty of Nature". It explores a lot of similar themes, and is very visual, too.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computational-beauty-nature
The simple answer to this problem that seems to work for us (married 26 years) is to not go shopping together unless its to look at stuff we are both interested in. Which is pretty rare....
Kindness is Underrated (2014)
They haven't seriously invaded South Korea for well over half a century, so, presumably, threats of retaliation (by the US, likely with diplomatic messages from the USSR and China along the lines of 'if you do that, and the USA retaliates, we won't start a war with them over it') have kept them at bay.

I don't think there is reason to suggest that diplomacy wouldn't keep working in a similar way.
3 biggest things rule.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/todont/
Good to see someone reasoning logically around this strawman of a topic that never quite made sense (the numbers he collected are very useful too).

A few years ago, an 8 year old kid sitting next to me on the plane spent the entire flight making her own animation movie from scratch on an iPad. I don't think there would have been any equivalent 10 years ago, short of drawing a flipbook by hand.

Virtually 100% of teenagers these days spend hours every week framing, color correcting, tweaking their pictures to share them on social media. When I taught film photography workshops to teenagers 10 years ago, only a very minority had any interest in photography. You can argue all you want about Instagram not being "real photography", but the reality is that it has led more teenagers to asking for a DSLR on their 16th birthday than anything else in history.

Modern touchscreen devices have always been for creating, and those who say otherwise - as Benedict points out in the opening - fundamentally misunderstand what "creating" looks like.

Now obviously, there are still gaps - no Hollywood movie has been entirely produced on an iPad yet (although quantities of Youtube videos with millions of views have, so maybe that point is moot), and you can't write an Android tablet app on an Android tablet. But that won't be true fairly soon.
If you're saying that JSX can do more than XML because you can transform from XML into other things, then yes, that's trivially true.