skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of "defensive patenting" is completely wrecked by the presence of non-practicing entities. You can't bargain with patent trolls because they have no need for your IP. All you can do is pay them to go away, either before or after a jury of hayseeds in East Texas forces you to. And there is absolutely no guarantee that the patents you file while working for XYZ MegaCorp will not end up in the hands of a non-practicing entity before they expire. Even the largest companies may be sold, merged, spun off, or liquidated multiple times over twenty years.

All software patents are bad, just as all slavery is bad. And the only way to keep bad patents from being granted is to document and publish your work as widely as you can... which, of course, leaves you even more vulnerable to attack by both trolls and practicing entities.

In summary, the only way to win is not to play.
Don't say that to an architect or a master carpenter or a...

Seriously who says things like this outload?
Exactly. Whenever I see someone make the "technology destroys jobs" argument, I always think of Kurt Vonnegut's first (and worst) novel, Player Piano. The disruptive change in 1952 looked just as scary to those being disrupted as it does today.
The problem with the Bitcoin approach is not so much the money, but the time and knowledge needed to set up a wallet, buy BTCs and then perform the payment. And as long as it costs money it would still hopefully stop trolls.

The only provider I know is Fortumo[1], but I'm sure there are others. It seems pretty easy to integrate with a website[2] and as far as I know there is no way for the client to issue a chargeback.

[1]: http://fortumo.com/
[2]: http://fortumo.com/api
Comcast and Verizon both do this. Verizon's been pointing to YellowPages website with a frame above notifying the user that the domain does not exist.
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"(...) Oracle must be aware that some of the unaddressed criticisms seem, at least on one reading, to have merit, so it should proceed with caution (...)" - It's with judges like these that we could sort the patent mess.
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"substandard conditions"

this needs to stop. you compare the working conditions of the laborer in china with the laborer in the US and bemoan the conditions. instead compare the laborer in china with the country field worker in china.

you can't magic a billion people into the middle class lifestyle that you find the minimum tolerable. the 2000-2010 has been the greatest decade in all of human history in terms of the overall raise in the quality of life for humanity as a whole.
I get an internal error?
The DoD is the ultimate Waterfall Method practitioner.
Technology does not necessarily lead to efficiency. In the immediate, it leads to greater productivity. The same people, the same place, doing more, in the same period of time.

True efficiency emerges from high productivity when the technologies employed are thoroughly understood and applied properly. And that takes time.

Disruptive technologies increase productivity too, but stunt the emergence of efficiency by hindering the thorough understanding needed.

The last significant disruptive technology affecting jobs was the adoption of the internet -- circa 1997. Since then, organizations have had a lot of time to understand their technologies and improve upon them. I believe the layoffs we have seen in recent years, both in the office and on the shop floor, reflect that.
You can do most things with either language. If you feel that both languages are sufficient for the job, the first tie breaker would probably be library support. What kind of support is there currently for the problem you're trying to solve? If you're working with others, you'd be best served with using the choice they are most comfortable with, provided it meets your basic criteria.

If you're unable to make a decision, go with Haskell.
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Yes, I agree, MMA is more a sport, but as I mentioned in other posts in the discussion on what constitutes an 'art', what are considered 'martial arts' don't really have the 'fighting' aspect as a central goal any more. Which is OK, I'm not making a moral judgement against traditional martial arts, I'm merely classifying.

And yes, some of the rules of MMA make it so that some techniques (groin shots, hair pulling, nipple twisters) cannot be used. But if the underlying suggestion is that there are somewhere out there in the jungle people who do use these techniques but they just have to suffer their superiority in solitude because their lethal pinky fingers prevent them from having interactions with mere mortals, I strongly disagree. My point throughout this discussion is (and I guess it's way off topic for this site...) that 'martial arts' have had their time in the context of systems who claim to contain or teach effective fighting. They're OK as systems of ritualized techniques to be practiced recreationally, but have been proven as in the best cases inefficient and in the worst cases wrong when it comes to teaching practical skills.

The early UFC fights (for all their faults) did show conclusively (at least, I don't really see how to explain it differently, nor have I ever heard anyone doing so) that one-sided training and a reliance on stylized movement are inferior, even when deployed by top practitioners, against techniques that were trained and developed in circumstances that mimic 'real' fights more closely. And I do understand the apprehension the more traditionally schooled feel against the new breed of fighting styles; but that's just another manifestation of man's natural tendency towards conservatism, I guess.
Are they redirecting MX records? What would happen, for example, to a Google Apps user in this situation? My understanding is that the entire online infrastructure would disappear for a Google Apps user without some intervention by Google.

It seems that there are are a variety of situations where having your domain cut off would result in significant data loss. This might even be a blessing in disguise for people facing charges in court. "No your honor, I can't give law enforcement access to my email - they were deleted by Google when you seized my domain, since I was no longer the verified owner."
It is deviating pretty far from compiling to readable, standard JS, but again ... as a fork or a plugin, I'm all for it. The reason why the entire CoffeeScript source is annotated is to make variants like this easier to accomplish.

That said, statically marking your variables with "types" (where types are incredibly weak and limited in JavaScript) isn't going to be of much use to you, performance-wise. Modern engines like V8 already unbox local variables where possible, and do "hidden class" analysis to give a "type" even to regular unstructured JS objects.
The definition of "public works" is building things using State money. There is no way to build roads without hiring people. This is an empirical fact.

Unless you know of some way to maintain or build streets without hiring people?

Again, it is an empirical fact that public works create jobs. At least public works that require hiring people. It's not hard to understand. Work needing to be done creates jobs, whether that is financed by the government or private industry doesn't change the fact that the work needing to be done requires employment.

You can debate until the cows come home about whether specific public works are worth the money, but you can't debate whether or not they create jobs. Its a simple observational fact. Especially when the vast majority of public works require manual labor.
If you went to a VC and said "Hey, I have an idea for a new printer!", do you think you would be taken seriously?
Probably not.
Whereas there will be a role for printers for quite some time, "printing" will eventually become nearly extinct in a digital world.
I am guessing they are getting the shit grilled out of them on their roadshow and I doubt it will help when these numbers come out showing huge losses.
Get rid of the handwriting story and start with the Apple part 30 seconds in.
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Website seems down, here is a cache version : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YkwoGRQ...
Sure. That doesn't change the fact that they create them.
Prosecutors have absolute immunity which is incredibly difficult to overcome. Even falsifying evidence doesn't seem to do it unless there's a "pattern of abuse" which is practically impossible to prove.
http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Pottawattamie_Coun...
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I am an optimist. It helps that I have seen this cycle before in the late seventies. People spoke then of the new normal and that's a phrase that is trending once again.

I spent my early youth in the newsroom and the tools I used everyday have become a trip back in a time machine for todays students:
http://journoterrorist.com/2011/08/02/paperball2/

Technology and entrepreneurs will bail us out once again. Lots of fortunes have been wagered and lost betting against America.
I'm pretty sure you're not right about research use. Wikipedia states:

cisions later distinguished between commercial and non-commercial research.

'In 2002, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dramatically limited the scope of the research exemption in Madey v. Duke University, 307 F.3d 1351, 1362 (Fed. Cir. 2002). The court did not reject the defense, but left only a "very narrow and strictly limited experimental use defense" for "amusement, to satisfy idle curiosity, or for strictly philosophical inquiry."'
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This is why we defended Lori Drew's right to free speech after her cyber bullying of Megan Meiers
PG, what probability would you assign to the propositions "This time things are different" (empirically: the jobs won't come back 5 years from now) vs. "This time things are not different" (empirically: the jobs will come back 5 years from now)? Warning, if your probabilities are extreme enough, someone might want to bet you on it.

Presuming things are different, I see five obvious answers to the original question (and "all of the above" is also an option).

1) The amount of regulation and regulatory burden has increased sufficiently between then and now, that new business relationships have a much harder time replacing old destroyed business relationships. I.e., it's now more expensive to hire a new employee.

2) It's a novel change in the financial side of the economy. Like, capital-holders now try to make killings by investing in the right HFT funds instead of trying to go out and invest in new businesses. Implausible? Maybe, but finance has changed a lot recently, so the difference, if there is one, might be there.

3) The amount of re-education required to get a new job has increased enough to be a killer barrier to re-employment, whether because of employers having imposed an arbitrary demand for bachelors' degrees or because the jobs are actually more complex.

4) Ricardo's Law does allow individual regions to lose as a result of tech improvements, because if someone else beats your comparative advantage, people will want to trade with them instead of you. There's nothing ahistorical about the Rust Belt having a persistent recession within the US. This is now happening to the whole US; people no longer want to trade with us, but China is growing plenty.

5) The Thiel hypothesis: Recent technological developments are intrinsically more boring than past technological developments; people are trying to build web apps that will sell to Google for $10 million instead of trying to invent the next "microchip" or "electricity". It's not that the 21st century poses a novel obstacle to forming new business relationships to replace old ones; rather, 21st-century technologies that obsolete jobs are missing a wow factor or wealth-generating factor that previously increased demand or increased total wealth at the same time as obsoleting jobs.
I understood the whole article is supposed to be about them, except that this fact is very much disguised by a poor quality of the article.

The statement of "DNS server in question not passing the query directly to the search engine but through a host of other URLs" is factually nonsense - DNS server only is supposed to pass the query (that being a query for an A/AAAA records in the browser case, not the search query as they imply) to the authoritative servers within the hierarchy.

I think what this article means is as follows:

- the browsers try the name lookup on the DNS before treating the contents in the address bar as a search query.

- this treatment happens if the DNS replies NXDOMAIN

- if the domain exists (the browser gets A/AAAA record), the browser contacts the server in the reply.

- so the malicious DNS servers take the queries for which they are supposed to return the NXDOMAIN and instead interpret them and return the A/AAAA answers pointing to the servers filled with ads related to the keyword which was present in the DNS query.

- this is bad.

Of course this kind of "setup" breaks other applications besides the web - but, HTTP being north of 90% traffic volume, no-one cares too much, probably.
Have you seen FastSpring?
Nokia C5 Price
Now lets have a look on another low budget Nokia device C5. The C5 has a very decent look and in my opinion it will fulfill most of your smartphone need in a much positive way so its time to extract more out of Nokia C5 for your convenience.
Trying to mask the reality is never a good thing...
They should make billing choices as easy as accept a connection request. Forced continuity is the domain of Girls Gone Wild DVD memberships and scam artists.
I switched to Safari this week because Chrome Dev build had so many problems particularly with broken gestures. And now I'm trying out Canary.

My only gripe with this new Canary build is that the pixel width of the URL bar + tabs are now actually larger than Safari when they are in fullscreen. Disappointing considering that I love Chrome because it has lowest pixel width.
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This reminds me of the time back when I used to post on Something Awful, when SA members put together a fund to buy armor plating for a member who was going to Iraq and his platoon.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/update-from-frontlines....
I found myself with the same problem:
And first, I tried to see it the most objective way I could.
I had to ask myself if my product is simply a piece of shit or this person just can't see the potentially good thing I have in my hands.
After analyzing the meeting with this guy, I found that I actually I learned something!
What I disliked the most was his lack of objective arguments to tell me why he thought my project wasn't good enough so I dismissed that part and started paying attention to the objective aspects of the conversation. I realized that I wasn't prepared for some of the questions he asked and that I had to focus in that aspect for the future.
The only advise I can give you is that you should always try to see your project outside the box and analyze the feedback people tell you about that, always try to take something you can use out of any conversation to have more tools in your favor in the future, good luck
I am not disturbed. Why would a human driver be driving an automated car? What is the security mechanisms that allow such cars to be in the streets? Isn't there a need for independent monitoring for such experiments?
Ask HN: How to Build a Dashboard for your business
I sometimes see in articles about Square or Facebook the mention of a custom dashboard usually presented on some big flatscreen in a common area of company-specific metrics. Like for square it might be a live transaction count, along with a daily and cummulative dollars processed (for example), among other things.

My question for HN - how many of your companies, either startups, your own thing, or established firms have these kind of dashboards, and:

1) How transparent is it? Is it in a common area where all your employees can see it? And if so, do you hide some things or does the cleaning lady see everything the CEO sees?

2) Do you have any advice or best practices for creating such dashboards? What technology did you use to hack it together, or is it a collection of third party tools you are some how parsing, like Google Analytics and Flurry, etc.

I'm in a big old company, and I'd like to establish a dashboard for us that's transparent and covers our website and app performance. I'd like this data to help us be better at carving out strategy and promote ideas from all employees. I feel like things are so siloed and mysterious.

I'll take any advice I can get. Cheers.
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So, like Quartz.

http://quartz-scheduler.org/overview/index.html
Project specific git author, without the gas pains
So far in the 20min discussion, I like this answer best as it tries to outline the factors for even a crude estimation. I do have another variable to add that nobody has mentioned.

I think the sentiment, not explicitly conveyed in the article, is that "there are less jobs for the number of employable people". And there lies the rub. Perhaps net total jobs is still on the rise, but the rate of population growth is that much faster than the rate of jobs created. And it's not flat rates, but changing rates as well. When technology provides efficiency (I'm thinking scale, atm), it would probably push rate of jobs create slightly lower. With more people on the planet, instead of competing with 1 other person for 1 spot, a person might be competing with 10 other people for 2 spots, hence the sense of joblessness, and a culprit to blame.
I love the random guesses in the comments, despite any actual facts in the article. I literally don't know what caused the crash - did the human drive have total control and bump someone?
The dirty secret is: it isn't effective. It's just that the funnel is the only channel incumbent sales and marketing people allow to exists (hence the bonfire), so for lack of alternatives it just seems effective.

Basically the author is describing how to construct and maintain a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The fact that this whole funnel is completely superfluous for almost anything but bespoke services has been proven by the internet for while now. Anything from online shopping, booking vacations to self-service advertising works just fine without hordes of salespeople.
Also submitted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849372
In SouthAmerica the ISP "Speedy" (Owned by Telefonica) also does this, here's the domain they use for this: http://www.ayudaenlabusqueda.com.ar
It looks like the submission of the same story almost half a day later is the one that's got the discussion - go there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2851573
> This new category called Social Gambling Games (“SGG”) will disrupt both the gaming industry

> Betable is working on developing a platform for legally integrating real-money play into Social Gambling Games

Nice blogspam.
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All Google self driving cars have a human driver who can take control at any time. I don't know if the human was driving the car when this accident occurred, but so far there is no evidence supporting the notion that Google is lying to the cops (which would be a crime).
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What I'm after for typed annotations is integration with the closure compiler to give me static checking, so in large codebases I get that type safety, even in javascript.

Thanks anyways though
Why is gender still an issue in 2011?
It's OFDM based transmission so OFDMA would be trivial to implement on this. Like on Wi-fi.
everyone should just become a computer scientist. problem solved
Yes, apparently it is ok to have airplanes carrying hundreds of people fly themselves but cars driving themselves, well that's impossible!
Also submitted:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850815
The security mechanism _is_ the human driver, for now - the only reason they're legally allowed to run these cars is because there's a human standing by to take over control at a moment's notice.
Here's my project, it was one of the first:

http://opensource.appleseedproject.org
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Oy. Every single allocation of surplus is Pareto efficient, and every single allocation can result from the right Nash equilibrium. The 50/50 split of surplus is in no way anymore justified then any other. You have to reach outside game theory for that.
The one part of his post that had some substance is that we're not participating in free trade on a level playing field because the Chinese won't freely float their currency and instead have it pegged.
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"I can replace my watch with a smartphone app. That means the watchmaker, supply chain, retail store, and clocksmith are all out of business."

I work as an iOS app developer, a role which didn't exist just three years ago. There are millions of developers out there on the various smartphone platforms, a market that Apple spawned after seeing what hackers could do by jailbreaking iDevices and loading apps on the iPhone without "permission".

I wouldn't have a job now if I weren't for the iPhone (I live over 5000 miles from Cupertino) and there are many like me all around the world. Meanwhile, I can't think of a single watchmaker that has gone out of business.
In reverse order.

2) Using something like Geckoboard would probably be helpful. http://www.geckoboard.com/

1) The ones I've seen (not in person) are for the purpose of informing the entire team about company/project status at a glance. Presumably when everyone sees the stats, optimizing for them is much more top of mind.
This isn't an article on how to get rich. This is an article on how possibly you might not be poor. The rich invest. The poor and the middle-class try to get this thing called careers and earn paychecks. The rich make paychecks and move, create, or destroy careers. Do you want to be a paycheck signer or a paycheck earner? A career seeker or a career maker?

If all you can think about is saving money, then you'll never think about how to use money to lobby congress and entertain foreign officials.

If you want to save money, why not do as the rich? Hire a top-tier wealth manager, and put some of the best accounting firms on your retainer.
> Why would a human driver be driving an automated car?

Because Google cannot legally operate the car in the streets without a driver. Therefore they put a driver there and it's on him to choose how to drive the car.

> What is the security mechanisms that allow such cars to be in the streets?

The wonderful security mechanism of liability, lawsuits, and insurance.
The US is somewhat of an outlier; it moved from 'top of class' to 'comparable to the EU as a whole' in a few years (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index...., figure 3)
To be fair, maybe they just wanted to strangle a bunch of popular open source projects.
Seeing the life go out of the eyes of Hudson might have been worth a lot of scratch :)