skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally don't think anyone should be worried. HTC/Samsung et.al are big companies with their own patent portfolios and deep pockets. At the worst they will pay the cartels and move along - business as usual.

If you were to apply the "oh $CORP got sued and lost a patent lawsuit - I might want to dump $CORP product" uniformly - you will be left with no products to buy in the mobile space at least!

Why is HTC being sued and not Android - Because HTC is an corporate entity that makes money off Android - Android isn't a corporate entity on its own - who would they sue if they wanted to sue Android?
Backbone.js on Rails, a book by ThoughtBot
Comparing the unemployment rate (still bad) to the recovering GDP is sort of comparing apples to oranges, since total employment has to keep increasing in order to keep up with a growing population. Its easy to imagine a situation where our employment levels have tracked our GDP perfectly, and our high unemployment is due to a recovery that took too long rather than a shift in the economy. However, the actual data is consistent with his thesis, as shown by this graph he should have used:
http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=w...
Didn't you notice every second link here is about Google? It's not permitted to say anything bad about Google here.
I'm still testing, so any and all feedback is appreciated
I think that it would be productive to reframe the usage of plagiarism-detection services such as Turnitin away from a "gotcha" on cheating towards teaching students to properly cite their academic work. For example, I have heard of professors requiring their students to print out the originality reports themselves and turn them in with the assignment in order to promote accountability.

In addition, the turnitin service itself has its own quirks. I remember when we used it back in high school, it would pick up direct quotes even if they were in quotation marks and use those matching strings to contribute to the total "originality score."
There is a no reason a government has to increase taxes to function.
What was I wrong about? I shouldn't expect humans to be capable of overcoming instinct? I don't think I can ever apologize for having that sort of expectation. I wasn't disagreeing with silverstorm's comment, in fact my comment implies that I agree with silverstorm's point (that human behavior can be heritable). I'd really like you to tell me what I am "that" wrong about. (Not sure why "that" is quoted?)

Additionally, is your second comment directed at me as well? I guess maybe you'll say it applies after what I just wrote above, but it's not like I came back and responded to these other comments wit "NO UR WRONG IM RIGHT!" I haven't been on hn for a few days, so I haven't even had a chance to respond. When I haven't made any additional comments, why is your first instinct (relevant!) to presume I'm refusing to "own up", rather than "given that jordan0day hasn't had any additional activity in this thread, perhaps they haven't read these responses yet?"
For those who looking for the JavaScript way of the examples; https://gist.github.com/1090228
I repeat myself here for purposes of emphasis:

We don't know which of the claims of this patent bound on HTC.

The initial independent claims of patents are deliberately written to be as broad as possible, to insulate the patent from technological changes. The IP lawyers who draft Apple's patents go way out of their way to make sure that first anchoring independent claim is as general as possible.

A reasonable expectation is that it's not simply the initial independent claim --- which, by design, is the claim mostly likely to be challenged as over-broad --- but a combination of independent and dependent claims that actually bound HTC.

Given that, I'm super not interested in discussing whether a court is likely to find that any computer ever built running Linux violates this patent. I'm strongly inclined to believe that no, your infringing product needs to embody a purpose-built device.

I think your logic about "huge amounts of modern software patent language" pertains to the patent description, not the claims.
Jobs are just one way to distribute wealth. Technology has made many jobs unnecessary: it doesn't mean distributing wealth has become unnecessary.

We will eventually have to come up with other, possibly less fair, ways to do the distribution; the reason for that won't likely be because it might be considered ethical by some but because it'll cause much more trouble to not redistribute that wealth.
I understand how this might work technically, but don't see why an ISP or heavily trafficked web-business would be motivated to deploy and maintain one of these Telex stations over the long term. You'd be adding an extra point of failure, cost for maintenance of the Telex stations, most likely some latency, and you'd have to cover the cost of bandwidth for traffic not headed to your website... all while running the risk of being blocked by the censoring country.
Gluster: GlusterFS
I agree with this, but, as a nerd, I have a hard time letting go of people who construct arguments like the one that roots this comment thread.
The next version of Visual Studio will have something similar: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx
What a rubbish article. 1000 words to sum up something that most people probably know. With absolutely no analysis or details or links into anything interesting. Press release journalism at it's most boring.

(Yes I know it's not technically a press release)
If they can undercut CourseSmart's prices, this would be huge. I just paid CourseSmart over $100 for a semester virtual rental of a textbook, and that's way too expensive for an eBook. I don't mind paying for quality content, and purchase apps and eBooks. But $100, and I don't even own the book, when the paper copy costs only 20% more and you could keep it forever or resell it? That doesn't make sense.
> Trust Guard's emphasis/value appears to be sales conversions, not security per se.

If that's not Wall Street-level, I don't know what is.
Scientists are just like Machine learning pixie dust. It's fun to say, but you'd be hard pressed to find a small business that needs an astrophysicist. I don't mean to pick on astrophysicists by the way, pick any random phd, a small business probably doesn't need that.
Blogs are still relevant after Google+
Only 150 dollars and an invasive background check to be treated as I should be, and as I would have been as little as 10 years ago.
Or often even without any (noticeable) key word that they might respond to, presumably sometimes they just tweet random accounts.
Ask HN: How can I sell these charity shirts?
I work for a sustainabke denim start-up, and our company is selling shirts on our site with profits going to charity that helps builds sustainable nutrition in African schools, + we're adding a $5 donation from ourselves for each shirt. We misjudged how popular they would be and havn't sold many. Any ideas for how to move some shirts?
Because in real life, there are plenty of laws that prevent invasions into privacy. Also, the people capable of doing the same in real life don't have the tools to create truly personal advertisements.

For example, a supermarket chain might use an aggregate of purchase histories (i.e., products most often purchased together) to influence product placement in the store. They won't re-position products for each customer as they walk in the door, though... Online, this can, and does, happen.

It might not seem like a big deal when it's useful. However, there will be many instances of people trying, and failing, at creating a useful product. I think that's a valid point of distinction: when people fail at adopting new technologies right now, the results are mostly harmless. If they fail with machine learning, there could be some major privacy concerns.
Replacing Excel with the Eighteenth Letter of the Alphabet
Why is HTC being sued for something the Android OS
is doing? Is HTC infringing, or is Android?

Because you can sue anybody that distributes an implementation of said patents. Heck, you can even sue users that bought Android phones.

Yes, patents are fucked-up like that.
From what I've heard, the consensus among economists is that the high unemployment rate isn't about lack of money or lack of will to hire. It's about lack of consumer spending. Right now, Americans are actually starting to pay down their debts and save money. This is a good thing in the long term, but makes companies hesitant to hire in the short term.

I have difficulty believing that hiring is slow due to technology. The fact of the matter is that you don't climb out of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression overnight. We just need to have patience. Some economists have estimated that it will take 10 years before our economy is fully back on track.
Is this the new natural unemployment rate? No. Is the unemployment rate ever going to return back to 5-6%, highly unlikely. Yes, similar things were said after every revolution like the industrial revolution or the invention of agriculture but what you have to realize is that once we got over those job issues they didn't simply vanish. With more and more efficiency from these revolutions comes more and more difficulties for the common worker who has no particular skill set. The real issue that this latest recession displayed is that people who are running these small businesses and even large corporations alike have learned what running "lean" really means. They have now realized their most bare essentials to make it through these hard economic times and now that the bar has been set it will be incredibly difficult to lift it to the previous level.

I had a discussion with a Fixed Income Desk Manager when I visited MorganStanley a few months back about this very issue and we both agreed that companies will never return to the previous level of employment. The job market is fundamentally changing and this idea that everyone has that jobs are around the corner I feel is naive. Could their possibly be an uptick in highly skilled areas of the market? I think so but besides those areas I think unskilled laborers are in for a difficult time. There will always be room in the economy for people that can do hands on jobs because somethings cannot be left up to technology alone i.e. construction or landscaping but beside these things we are moving towards a more skilled society and I think the only way the economy improves is if older unskilled workers eventually leave the job market and make way for younger more technologically savvy employees.
I think adding Tame style CPS to CoffeeScript would be amazing; it looks like an incredibly clean way to write the async code necessary for complex Node apps.

From my understanding of the prior work the issue with adding defer or <- to CS was that it required too much overhead to get right in all cases. Does TameJS' approach improve that overhead in any way, or is this essentially the same work that's already been explored for CS, broken out into a dedicated compiler?
Nice idea, but the problem for me would be the screen. I used to spend hours staring at my textbook back in the day. Hours spent staring at a backlit screen like a laptop would give me a headache (and does today, when I spend hours programming). But the e-ink offerings aren't there yet in terms of usability for textbooks. They're great for novels, where progress is linear, and bookmarks are search are rarely needed. But for a textbook, where I'm often flipping to the index, back and forth between subsequent pages rapidly, need color diagrams or big tables and diagrams (600x800 is often not enough room for a large table or diagram), or flipping to one of the hundreds of bookmarks that I've color-coded, e-ink and specifically the Kindle UI just can't do it. Tablet-type hardware might have a better chance, but at the cost of the backlight.

So if I was back in college, even though today I do all of my pleasure reading on a Nook Simple Touch, I would still buy paper textbooks.
Could you please explain what this patent entails then?

Too many times discussions on here have been shortcircuited by claims that the complainant just doesn't understand patents. The discussion fizzles and the absurdist situation with software patents continues.

I've read this patent in detail, as gruelling a task as that is, and it does seem to be as trivial as others are suggesting (as is the case for most trivial patents that get criticized on here). The claims that detail, essentially, a computer are boilerplate in 99% of software patents. They are not particularly relevant and add little specificity.

EDIT: Another submitter has posted a listing of Apple's specific complaints, and it is exactly as others are suggesting -- Regex'ing input and identifying types of text.
Google uses separate crawlers for its search engine and its news service. Blocking the news service really would have been a trivial edit to their robots.txt file.
From the link, the system:

"...identifies structures in computer data, associates candidate actions with each detected structure, enables the selection of an action, and automatically performs the selected action on the identified structure... the system may operate on recognizable patterns for text, pictures, tables, graphs, voice, etc. So long as a pattern is recognizable, the system will operate on it.
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The present invention provides a computer system with a central processing unit (CPU), input/output (I/O) means, and a memory that includes a program to identify structures in a document and perform selected computer-based actions on the identified structures. The program includes program subroutines that include an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives data from a document having recognizable structures, and uses patterns to detect the structures. Upon detection of a structure, the analyzer server links actions to the detected structure."

So they "invented" a device that has embedded pattern feature-extraction, communicates with a server to perform recognition on the extracted data, and return the results, with which the device can do anything it wants with.

Yeah, I don't buy that this is an invention in the 21st century, with no prior art.*

This is a patent for integration of prior inventions, and not really an invention itself (hence, not a real patent). Pattern recognition is an invention; putting it on a device is not. Even if we say "yeah, let's grant patents on integration," there is still prior art for this particular one since it is so broad.

*EDIT: it has been pointed out that this patent was filed in 1996.
Thanks for the better link. It sheds more light on the story.

I failed to make my point clear. I guess what I took umbrage with is the lack of imagination with which the homeowner tried to solve the problem. You can react negatively to a situation or positively. From the story it appears they reacted negatively, which didn't work.

"No Trespassing" is completely unhelpful and hostile.

"Google Maps is wrong" is better because it at least touches on how the lost driver arrived at their driveway. Then it offers no additional information so the driver sticks with plan A -- follow Google Maps.

The story doesn't say how the homeowner treats the lost drivers either. Maybe she yells "Get off my property !$#@!%&*^$". That would garner a few negative responses for sure. It's a hole in the story.

I Googled "Round Valley Reservoir" like the story suggests and got the reservoir, in the water. So I guess her opportunity is now lost.
I get that Twitter want to be careful and not accidentally penalise legitimate users, but nearly all spammers I get mentioning me fit the following points:

- 0 followers (ok, sure, if they had to they could start making spambots follow each other to avoid this)
- Account only just created
- Has tweeted the exact same message, with the same link at the end, to 10s or 100s of people, in a very short space of time.

Are there really any non-spam usecases that would fit those points? Can't these accounts just be automatically suspended?
Your post demonstrates a misunderstanding over what the lawsuit was about. Publishers weren't suing to make Google stop linking to them. Google News was displaying full excerpts from copyright articles, sometimes entire paragraphs, and on top of that making money off that content through the display of ads. It was a copyright infringement lawsuit.

There is no monopoly on web search.

Google has over 65% market share in search. Second is Yahoo with only 16%.
This is why I'm so against the luddite regulations of liberals - they stagnate innovation. Obsession over jobs is a terrible mentality - restructuring is extremely healthy and necessary part of economic growth, and trying to stop it is only going to hurt things.

People should be learning skills that are actually useful instead of doing robotic tasks all their lives. Robots will soon be replacing robotic people.
So selling twice the number of $1 widgets at 50 cents fixes something? Or just makes us tread water faster?

How exactly do we compete against nearly free labor in manufacturing from China and Vietnam and such? (answer: we cannot and should not try - we should tax imports and make selling to ourselves cheaper with domestic products vs imports - people will buy from overseas when their widgets are 50 cents and ours are $1 but not if there's is 90 cents and ours is still just $1)
They already analyse tweets in real-time, for example to find out what topics are trending, and what the current "top tweets" are.
> But URL routing in Bottle is more similar to Sinatra than it is to the URL dispatching via a tuple at the top of a file.

Decorators, a Python 2.5 feature, weren't around when web.py was first released, so they couldn't have been used initially. Even after Python 2.5 came out, it took some time for decorators to be widely embraced. But routing and other kinds of dispatching (e.g. adapters and multimethods) are an obvious and indeed commonplace use of them.

I didn't down-vote you. I did get ever so slightly annoyed with your implication that Sinatra was the first to do this kind of thing and therefore necessarily a source of influence. Neither half of this claim is correct. Sinatra wasn't the first. Even if it were, it need not have been an influence; I wouldn't claim that web.py had to have influenced Sinatra just because it preceded it.
From Florian's article (linked from this HN post)
"1, 8, 15 and 19"

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/these-tables-show-ho...

The patent:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Related to that, most of our debt is owed to the federal reserve, which just makes up money out of thin air for us anyway.

Could the federal reserve theoretically give a forbearance on interest payments? The debt owed to the public and international financiers (China,Japan) is fairly insignificant compared to what's owed to the Federal Reserve, and could probably be paid.

What happens if we pay everyone except ourselves?
Your comments on this issue strike me as disingenuous.

By my understanding, the patent claims the (obvious, with mountains of prior art) behavior of auto-generating hyperlinks from text using regular expressions, so that (for example) when you receive a text message with a phone number in it, that phone number can be detected with regex and displayed as a hyperlink. When you click it, it can then say "Call, Save To Contacts" etc.

That's just one of the supposed infringements. Your comments here make it sound like this is a legitimate patent, and that HN geeks are simply too stupid to understand the issues. Well, we may not understand the obscure details of every patent claim, written as they are in fearsome legalese, but we understand very well when a company like Apple is trying to make an end-run around the Patent Office. We grok it. Don't pretend we don't, or that our understanding is somehow skewed.
Fuck the ten-page pagination, full article in one page: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90200-the-history-of-mo...
For the 100th time, GIMP is not a Photoshop replacement. Not even close. I've tried to switch to GIMP like 10 times now, and every time I download the latest version, I give up within an hour.
I don't see a billion dollar business here, but I'd imagine a stable of consultants and the growing power of the nginx brand will be quite profitable for Igor. Best of luck and thanks for saving all our asses!
> Libertarian, maximum personal liberty. If you were a libertarian, you wouldn't care about the cheating.

Not when there is an existing agreement in place otherwise, that being the one between the honest students, the school, and the teacher calling for the teacher to fairly assess performance and grade accordingly. Unless the policy of the school on cheating is "whatever, no problem" (which doesn't seem to be the case), then the libertarian position is to stick to the contract he signed on for. Or is the new libertarian position something more like: honoring contracts is for suckers, screw everyone who hasn't caught on to it yet.
What kind of advertising have you done for it?
How our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being
R really is wonderful. If someone were to make an Excel-like frontend to it, add the ability to natively read and write Excel files, and in general clean up the interface just a tad so it's not as intimidating for end users, I think it would really have the potential to take down the 700 lb Gorilla.
And.... the second PowerNerd has been deleted. (1 new open spot). :-)
I just can't take anyone seriously when they call Gimp "a really solid image retouching and photo editing software".

And it's not about features (apart from the retarded "layer size" micromanagement Gimp forces on you), but the UI is so confusing and inconsistent even Photoshop 5.0 is lightyears ahead.
Well, I guess that's also kind of different in the US than here in EU; you cannot 'lay off' people here like that. You need to give them 2-3 months of pay. And yes, there are economical reasons to be able to lay-off people, but those are really strict; you are really almost broke before you can fire people for those reasons here.
Dealing with LinkedIn invite overload
I hate when people use graphs like the one in that post "U.S. Manufacturing: Output vs. Jobs January 1972 to August 2010" and lead reader to the conclusion that the significant drop in jobs will not adversely affect the output. If you try, you can also see that output, despite the recent jump pictured, has on average started to stagnate and likely is on its way down. Now, I'm not a full-on naysayer. Like the author, I also believe that good things will come, but our economy is not out of danger and the answer is not just retraining of the unemployed to become developers, which is one of the dumnest things that I've heard lately. Our world is basically mostly f'd right now. The economy is f'd. Jobs are f'd. Politics and even war and the military are f'd. But- things will eventually get better.
I'm so utterly disgusted by the whole patent system I care not to read any further. Basically every software patent that starts off with "a method of..." is usually bogus. The whole system needs to be scrapped.
This project is way more than that. Spatch looks pretty awesome as well. Both are tools built on top of this library for doing fun magic with code, though.
I disagree completely. Businesses do this every day, and many hackers here, especially those learning to code, fake it until they make it, learning on the fly.

I'm not saying education is useless, but it's amazing how quickly you can learn when forced to.
Yes, they are back in the index:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388635,00.asp

And in a simple test, it looks to work too:
http://www.google.com/search?q=copiepress+lalibre+critique
The second link (lesoir.be) is one of the newspapers.