skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yipit is an aggregator, so they actually arent a daily deal site in the traditional sense. Since the space keeps growing and more sites pop up, Yipit becomes increasingly more useful to consumers (in finding deals) and to the providers (they have a data product)
All you say is valid but if you are going to argument that A > B, you cannot say that one of the reasons is "because I like A" or its equivalent "because A just work"
excellent. Maybe now there well be an elegant way to go from .markdown to .docx
Don't forget about the time period - 2006.
Earth currently has two moons, or even more, depending on how you define "moon": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_moons_of_Earth
The problem isn't on roads where you can turn left at all. It's a highway problem. And in the Northeast, it's standard for any three-lane road to have trucks in the right two lanes. Having trucks solely in the right lane leads to merging problems.

It seems like most of the folks who've commented with such authority ("there is no reason", indeed!) aren't really familiar with why the rules are as they are.
They're being painted as a victim because they are. Patents are BS and continue to hinder innovation.

They may be anti-competitive in other areas (although I don't know specifics). Can you provide some sources?
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technology is an inherently fiercely competitive landscape--a missed technology cycle can materially adversely impact a businesses operations.

coming out of the 2008-2009 recession, companies are flush with cash, of which shareholders encourage companies to invest in various operations, assets, etc. using these cash stockpiles to buy nortel patents and prevent google from enhancing their dominance / protection against litigation in the android space is a form of competition. it is all a game.
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I changed my name when I got married. My maiden name is linked to my current name in a lot of these databases - typically the legal process where you change your name is open, and they just mine that piece of information as well.
a tough topic/post to go front-and-center public with. a bit surprised to see it coming from Google. Guess it is the CLO griping.. but the multiple sides of this coin are hard to ignore. Coin being an operative word as much of this calls into question the nature of business and competition
The UK government loves putting cameras on down hill sections of roads.

Anyway, my point was they get angry you are not speeding, not the method you use to prevent speeding.
So my friend is driving his big rig, probably been driving for about 5 days. Tooling down the highway in his lane during the day. Suddenly a car cuts right in front of him and he can tell the car is going to hit him. Split second decision time:

A) Attempt to slam on the brakes and watch as 40 tons plows into the car. The truck will sustain minor damage and the car will sustain heavy damage, possibly killing all the people inside. Assuming the truck doesn't jackknife.

B) Swerve onto the shoulder and possibly off into a ditch, saving the car and possibly killing himself, and possibly others if the truck jackknifes and other cars hit it.

I know a lot of people have no sympathy for truckers, but take the time and actually talk to one. They put up with untold amounts of bullshit just to make a living. It's not a bad job for someone who might be too unskilled to get another job, but it sure is grueling.

Another thing I find some people tell me is how every time they drive next to a truck they almost get run off the road. Truckers actually try really hard not to kill you. The easiest thing you can do for a trucker is not drive next to one. Either pass him or sit behind him, but not next to him. And if you see one with his blinker on, please, get the hell out of the way.
Starting anything and seeing it through takes courage. However, it doesn't seem more courageous to me to start a company with, say, $200k in the bank than to start with no money. Runway matters.
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Good to see Google speak out against the patent trolls that Microsoft and Apple are, shame on them.

Edit for people downvoting: As I say in my comment below, this is one of the definition of a patent troll according to wikipedia[1]:

> Purchases a patent, often from a bankrupt firm, and then sues another company by claiming that one of its products infringes on the purchased patent;

This is what Apple and Microsft did by buying Novel and Nortel patents, making them de facto patent trolls.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll#Etymology_and_defi...
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if Google had won the patents, they wouldn't attack Apple or Microsoft.. they would've use them just for the defence..

i really hope everything will be ok with android and all this patents troll.. otherwise it ruins AAPL and M$ image.
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Google will be screwed. If something that works significantly better comes along, that money will evaporate very quickly. And when you take into account Wall St's grow or die mantra, the results would be catastrophic for Google.

However, I'm not sure it's possible to disrupt AdWords. Disruption in the classic sense implies "way cheaper, but not as good". You can't make advertising "way cheaper" without leaving metric tons of value on the table, and nobody is going to do that. After all, the quality of advertising is the price you pay for customers.

More likely is a scenario where everyone else catches up - but that's a slow process and will give Google plenty of time to find another trick.
This isn't true. Auto drivers pay more than their fair share for the roads-- the gas tax actually also subsidizes some passenger rail and other forms of transportation.

Again, just because heavy trucks pay extra taxes doesn't mean that they cover their impact on the road system.

"Passenger vehicles account for 93 percent of all vehicle miles traveled on public roads in the United States. While large trucks account for just 7 percent of the miles traveled, they account for the most damage to the infrastructure."

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/otps/costallocation.htm
Here's a great Coding Horror article on shrinking Windows XP. Jeff got it down to a 243 MB compressed image, for an XP virtual machine.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/creating-smaller-vi...

Really cool stuff.

edit: s/XP/NT/
Most of the anger I see at trucks (and truck-drivers) is just ignorance of the physical limitations on trucks. They are big, so the rules of inertia mean they take longer to speed up and slow down, and they have limited visibility on the sides. Often the stories I hear about people nearly run off the road by a truck begins with the car hovering in the truck's blind-spot. I've seen drivers pull in front of a truck and then slam on the brakes to make a turn, almost causing an accident with the slower-stopping truck. Or passing a truck on the right as it is making a wide right turn. Good way to become a subcompact-sandwich. My favorite is when a truck turns on it's signal to change lanes prompting the cars around him to quickly fill that lane in an effort to 'not be behind a truck'. Awesome to keep the truck from making his turn/exit guys.

If you have trucker-angst I suggest you go rent a large vehicle - like make a road-trip in an RV. It'll open your eyes on how poorly the cars around a large vehicle will accommodate you. And how what you thought of as 'bad truck driver behavior' may just be the physical limitations of the vehicle he's driving.
I read it through the RSS feed at

http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A...

which includes the text of the article in the feed. So I read the ones that interest me right then and there, and then open the link to read the comments afterwards.
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It's weird.. I feel slightly annoyed every time I even look at the steam store because either I've bought a game then bought it again in a bundle, or because I expect it to be in a future bundle. Now, you might as well just buy the next one, or the one after that, not good for sales.
They sure touted their PageRank patent.
(Just wanted to point out that this clearly was a joke) I hope you weren't offended by it :)
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It can feel that way for some startups. I was at one early startup and the direction was constantly changing, with feature and code thrown out weekly, or daily at some point.

The problem was the founder wasn't being honest with himself or us. He should have said, we didn't know what we were doing and we were just exploring, throwing anything on the wall to see what stuck, rather saying we were on a sure path and we were building software for real. We were really building demoware or PPT, not real software.

The cost and effort in building demoware is vastly different from building real software. It became incredibly frustrating to have misaligned goals.
How are you proposing a moon be defined? From the Wikipedia article: "There have been large generic searches for small moons, actual proposals or claimed sightings of specific objects in orbit, and finally, analysis and searches for those proposed objects. All three of these have failed to confirm a permanent natural satellite."

Also from Wikipedia: "A natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet".

There have been no other confirmed moons of Earth besides 'The Moon'.
Good find. I don't know too much about FBO, but I recently read an awesome article about two Miami guys who exposed the lack of diligence in the contract award process. They became arms dealers. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-stoner-arms-de...
I was commenting on the tone of the article. That's how the article reads.
Your innuendo doesn't prove any 'anti-competitive' practices, consorting to band a patent cartel in order to strangle opensource on the other hand is.
It's especially interesting because this same idea is also responsible for saving Rails 3's ass from being far slower than Rails 2. Read through this discussion of how Rails 3 queries were sped up by using an AST decoupled from its final use: http://www.slideshare.net/tenderlove/zomg-why-is-this-code-s....
Well that's exactly the point...most people don't want to learn, regardless of geographical location. The trick in traffic engineering is to devise solutions that are inherently simple and require little or no training. To use the modern roundabout example again: people are initially confused because it looks complicated from the outside, but when you drive it, it's fairly difficult to mess it up.
If the patents were used to block android out of market, then maybe it is harming the consumers. But I see no problem with demanding license fees and maintaining certain feature exclusivity, even that means Android become not so free or less user-friendly. Google does not represent all people and Android has no inherent right to be free.
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Natural user interface is a red herring, what we really need is a Dyson sphere
So my question is why not throw away Windows, start from scratch and build new state of the art OS and then HV for backward compatibility?
Thank you. We're trying.
Docco does: http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/
If you were guaranteed $250k a year with potential to receive more every 5 years or so, were able to buy a house, nice car, and support a family without worrying about any financial hardships, you think it would be _easier_ to quit?

Yes. If he was being paid $250K/yr, that means he did a great job while he was there. It would not be that difficult for him to return to finance. I've quit my job a couple times to travel and when I returned to the workforce my new position paid more than I made previously...
We're talking about patents here. Even if what you say is true, does that mean they "deserve" to be crushed by bogus patents? Bogus patents aren't helping anyone, and in at least several cases they have been used by others to hunt Apple and Microsoft, too.
You have to be careful throwing around the "patent troll" label or it'll lose all meaning.

Microsoft and Apple actively ship product. They're playing the patent game but they're also doing real shit that impacts users every day. This is a far cry from the Intellectual Ventures and Lodsyses of the world.
That's what I meant with b), which is how we do it too. But it's not the best solution, which is direct manipulation – no 'form window' to edit the content of a page.

Which, as stated, is hard when you got demanding customers with very different needs for a website.
They are proud of it, for sure. But have they ever used it to sue anyone?
If its vague, get a lawyer to look at it and see if it's valid. If you have a dynamic IP you may ask ATT to prove it was you at the time.
Patent lawsuits are probably filed nowadays how you would threat opponent in a game of chess. You just need to attack to maintain the strategic position. You need a lawsuit in an advanced state as a strategic asset. I don't buy that Google is really any better in a moral sense.

I do believe, though, that there are plenty of people at the companies driving these current litigations that hate what they are doing. It's just the rules of the game that let aggression emerge.
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http://www.progressiverailroading.com/news/article.asp?id=16...

According to that 2008 source (which appears to be pro-railroad) freight rail is up to four times more fuel-efficient per ton of freight delivered than freight trucking.
You won't always enjoy what you are doing, even if you are really passionate about your work.
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Yeah, railroads were the most screwed up business in the USA for a long while (I got a story about a "missing" soybean car that is truly unbelievable), but they have actually gotten quite a bit better in the last decade. Some of the railroads now have agreements with different trucks to do complete run. I haven't been near the industry in 3 years, but I know it was getting much nicer than before 2001.
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Based on what they publicly said, it would probably be something like granting a license to anyone who asked which would be revoked if they sued Google. It would probably have been very much like the license for WebM[1].

[1] http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/
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the one thing almost EVERYONE seems to forget is there's a lot of space in between that truck and the car in front of him for a reason - he needs more space to stop than that little car. Don't squeeze your vehicle in that space, give him room, then get over so that when you have to slam on the brakes for the exit you almost missed, he'll have room to not rear-end you.
Ah, I was bitten by not being a native-speaker. I've interpreted "hibernate" as the same thing my laptop does, when it hibernates. And cats do that all the time, right? ;-)
Humm. My experience are completely opposite. In my experience firefox breaks down quite fast and chrome has always been many orders of magnitude better than any browser I've tested (firefox, (safari), opera, IE).

I have about 500 tabs in chrome now, never been close to that with any other browser, granted the computer is barely usable now as chrome takes pretty much all resources so I'm working on closing some down :) But 2-300 is no problem at all and chrome is the only browser that's capable of that (without serious performance issues) on my machine (64bit Win7 8 GB ram).

And the comments to the article resonates well with my experiences:
"Another test, maybe closer to reality: open many tabs, close half of them, open many new tabs, close half of them, etc… And see how your memory gets lost, until you finally have to kill the Firefox process to get it back, so you can open other applications."

And many others that mention that firefox can't handle being left on for days without breaking. I have hundreds of tabs in chrome for weeks at a time, sometimes probably longer but every now and then I feel like letting it update... (although it is a pain to start it with hundreds of tabs and I often get blocked from HN after I start chrome (guess I trigger some dos-filter ;P).

Also, any browser that doesn't run flash in a separate process (that you can kill yourself) isn't usable at all (that is, if you have flash installed (flashblock only delays the inevitable)).
Even with few tabs that is a total deal breaker (and really has been since the day chrome launched).
I do the same, though I guess this is more the fault of current web-based editors than of HTML itself.

I'm trying to explore some ideas of simplicity in browser-based HTML editing with Hallo (http://bergie.github.com/hallo/), but remains to be seen how well that works out. In the meanwhile there is always Markdown. And Vim.
Would love to hear about your experiences using Foursquare Business Pages.
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I use this technique on my bike at night. I have rear-facing red LED tail light on the post of my bike seat, but it is not visible from the sides. I attach a clear small-size coke bottle of water to the fender over the rear tire, with a bungee cable - in line with the LED light. The light from the red LED lights up the water bottle and makes it visible from both sides, as well as from the rear, like a big red tail light. It's cool and quite eye catching (that's the goal) when I set the light to "blink" mode.
I'm pretty sure he is, I remember his name.
side-projects for now..hope to go full time when my spouse gets done with grad school.
The patent is owned by Stanford. From Wikipedia:

The name "PageRank" is a trademark of Google, and the PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999). However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google. Google has exclusive license rights on the patent from Stanford University. The university received 1.8 million shares of Google in exchange for use of the patent; the shares were sold in 2005 for $336 million.
Are we getting dumber? (scraping/OCR/analyzing Google books with linux magic)
science likes its proof no matter how messy
To me, that one seems to actually be a non-obvious, patentable idea. It made the world a better place. This isn't 1-click checkout or clickable phone numbers on a smart phone...

But I don't think Google actually sued anyone when most other search engines started using that method. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Sure! Just keep in mind that a lot of that "trusted JS" is actually just a thin wrapper around C/C++ code, and the C/C++ code tends to be where the problems arise.
In this case, look at the target data that was recovered from a single control server: http://blogs.mcafee.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ShadyRAT_...

US defense contractors; the governments of US, Canada, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, and India; Democracy/Human Rights groups; mining, security, electronics, power companies.

That seems like an unlikely target list for someone who's in it for the 'lulz'.
If the "innovations" in Android were already covered by prior patents; they weren't innovations at all, were they?

Not necessarily my point of view, but isn't that how patents should work? Protecting prior art.
It isn't the demand for fees, per se, it's the intended result of those fees. Those fees are to be charged at such a rate, a rate practically guaranteed by the monopoly promised by the patent, as to make Android infeasible economically. That behavior is at the very heart of anti-competitive law.
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It's blatantly incorrect to say of Apple (and even Microsoft) that "Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation."

Regardless of one's feelings about software patent lawsuits (I'm opposed), a better phrase than "instead of" might be "in addition to".
I keep seeing this idea that Apple is filing patent lawsuits because they are afraid of their competitors and their business is on the verge of collapse, and I just don't understand. Their business is better than ever, breaking records every quarter. I think maybe people are reading too much into market-share figures, or projecting their wishes onto reality.

Also, did Google not just try to buy the Nortel patents? Weren't they in an auction with the same companies called out in this blog post? I wonder if we would be reading this post at all, had Google won that auction.

Ultimately, patents are not good for our industry, obviously. And if Google manages to bring about change in this area, we will no doubt be the better for it. But it just seems a little funny to strike this "patents are bad" pose when they just bid like $3B for a bunch of 'em.
I second this - and add a little more.

I worked with a company - as a contractor - for a number of years in the beginning of their startup mode. Out of the 4 developers in the company, I was the only one that came into the office. For me, it was lame. Everything over email, im, or phone is not the way I like to work. There's something about face to face that makes a difference. I saw many, many times things getting blown up out out of proportion because it was not conveyed correctly over email or im.

I want that social interaction that you can only get being face to face with other devs - lunches, coffee, after work drinks, etc. Not only that, there's all kinds of office activities like whiteboarding, pairing (I know you can do this via remote too, but again, face to face is still valuable), going over to someone's desk and just talking about something.

The other thing I've noticed at my office is we need to now bring in all these other tools to keep everyone apprised of when builds have been deployed, etc. And all these tools detract from the amount of time someone can focus on something - there are guys that have all this hooked into their im and it's really distracting when you're sitting with them.

In closing, I'm of the opinion that I would prefer to have everyone in the office 5 days a week. If someone wants to work at home a day here or there thats totally fine, but overall, I've just experienced it not being beneficial for the group.
Just guessing, but it's almost like you have to have an initial "wave" of entrepreneurs that work hard, make it happen, sell or flip, then stay in the area and want to get into something interesting.

Yeah. The phrase you sometimes hear people use here is "We need our own version of the Paypal Mafia." Strangely enough, there are a handful of locals who made big $$$ after the Red Hat IPO, but few of them seem to have chosen to become active investors afterwards. But something like that would help.. if a company like iContact were to go public and make a bunch of their founders wealthy, you'd like to hope they'd stay here and invest in the next round of startups.

Time will tell, I suppose...
They seem to be taking a defensive stance. The WebM pool is a step in the right direction.

Interesting to see this blog post on the heels of Google buying 1000 patents from IBM.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/in-battle-for-patents...
Well arguably it makes sense to run rail lines to ports (and from what I've seen of ports this is not uncommon), since multi-modal transport is pretty common.
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Yep, I've always thought that if my code from six months ago isn't crap, then I must have stopped learning.