skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that is the original intent. But now the wording of patents is deliberately vague so as to make them mushy and somewhat meaningless, which is intentional to increase their collision cross-section for use as weapons against other companies.

Patents are no longer just used to protect the Widget. They are blurred into generalized legal bludgeons using the widget only as a pretext.

There have been oppressive regimes that distorted the existing legal framework to use as a pretext for oppressing dissent. There have been nations using various combinations of fact and lies as a pretext for going to war.

Laws are fine, but laws subverted to be used as a pretext are an abomination.

National sovereignty is fine as a foundation concept in international law, but deliberate distortions that use the protection of sovereignty as a false pretext for war are abominations.

Patents that truly respect prior art and are crafted to describe a specific mechanism are fine, but used as a vague and mushy pretext to enable large companies to arbitrarily bludgeon you with their legal department are an abomination.
This is a prime example of how to not write a correction piece.

The gist of the story is that they used a screenshot to verify somebody's identity, and it turns out the person faked it. However, instead of saying "we made a mistake and didn't verify our sources properly," they go on to spin stories like "But is Steve a prankster, or is he a spammer having second thoughts" and "Regardless of its validity, Steve’s story helped expose a very real issue for Pinterest." Both could possibly be true, but they are just speculating to save face.

The part that annoyed me to make me comment was this paragraph:

"So who is this spammer? Unfortunately, there’s no way to tell right now. Even if another person claiming to be final-fantas07 came forward, the only way that individual could prove his or her identity—a screenshot—could be faked (again)."

Really? A little bit of critical thinking and you could have him make a post using one of his bots' account, or delete a post, or use any other more reliable, actually verifiable source.
If there's someone I'd trust to do a project like this through Kickstarter it's Yehuda. And since his time isn't cheap I understand the $25,000 price tag.

To me the elephant in the room is simply would people do this for free like most open source? The Rails community is large and dedicated. If the core team started this as an official Rails project would the result be at least the same, possibly taking a little longer?
Even if poltician won't admit it among one of the more negative election season America economy is improving and become less reliant on China that being said we are becoming more confident in the fact that sooner or later we won't need them and that we won't have to keep taking these attacks because of our dependence. Hopefully we can improve our defense and maybe do some offense.
I don't know if that is the case with state ships. Recently Spain has recovered a gold and silver treasure from the odissey company(they recovered it from a spanish sunked 1800s tall ship)
Interesting point. Of course a wind-powered device cannot extract all of the power of the wind; the power goes more like v^2 times (delta)v, where the delta is basically how effectively the device can slow the wind. Of course, one might expect this term might be proportional to the original windspeed, so it still goes roughly as v^3. For a related analysis, see Betz' Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz_law
You're talking about SQL Slammer. The whole virus fit in a single UDP packet. Wired had a pretty good (if slightly sensational) writeup at the time:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/slammer.html
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Reminds me somewhat of the "rapture" city in the game bioshock.
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I agree. Nasa makes a lot of searching for life in various places, but I reckon it's something for media soundbites than the actual reason they explore places. For example, they're still searching for life on Mars. Google "nasa life on mars" for examples.
Actually, if you go read my source code, you'll see that the emulator DOES in fact emulate a framebuffer. In fact I even have code in place to output the image. I just didn't connect a graphical LCD to this particular built. It is, however, supported.
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but i bet you never request your money back after an action movie depict a bad guy in the desert wearing a turban, right?

yeah, i thought so.
I'd agree I almost never burn out because I workout everyday. I really believe the studies that says fit people are happier because nothing clears my mind like working out or playing basketball especially after a long coding session.
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I handled it thusly: while reading or writing RAM, interrupts are off. Between bytes read they are re-enabled. This means that the longest refresh delay is the length of a ram read/write. This is why my refreshes happen every 62ms and not every 64ms as the DRAM datasheet specifies - to allow me this leeway to be a bit late with the refresh.
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Yah, rather then funding a project to make Rails easier to install on OSX (because it's not with the plethora information guides and bootstrap scripts), why not tackle real problems like concurrency and websockets in Rails.
The trouble is that the default setting, the do-nothing, don't-care follow-the-norm setting, is anti-feminist. It's the "double standard" in dating. It's women as decoration. It's compulsory sexuality. It's misogynist porn. And, as here, it's sexist jokes. This is why feminism says we live in a patriarchy still.
The article keeps using "scam" and "spam" interchangeably. As far as I can tell, no one's actually getting scammed in any way, it's purely spam.
Here you go, courtesy of bing cache:
http://pastehtml.com/view/bswjqr9ry.html
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I did a quick and dirty port of obtvse to jekyll last weekend. It still needs some work, though. It's here: https://github.com/drewinglis/obtvse-jekyll
Yeah, it could also be an ongoing funding partnership. My impression would be that this is something that Heroku et al would be very interested in supporting, and even developing themselves.
Seems like this is connected to rails 4 release:
sidebar:
"and your input will guarantee that Rails 4 is as great for beginners as it is for experienced developers."
Windows Phone challenge attracts a bad element: Lawyers
Dr. Dub is a #montreal startup NLP hippie. Just sayin'.
And Steve Jobs never wrote a line of code for the iphone. So he didn't create it right?
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From what I understand at this point, Adobe’s decision seems to want to nail Unity by confusing its developers when it comes to the new licensing scheme.
It is very important for Unity to (over)explain the terms.

The cases where the new terms will apply seem to apply primarily to paid flash-based games.
The problem is: who does pay for flash games? These games are not on mobile devices and on my browser I have never felt the need to purchase a Flash-based game.

So, to me, it looks more like a scare tactic aimed at Unity’s developers.
This will protect the development tools that Adobe is selling.
Let’s be frank: you either provide the tools for free and charge for the distribution (the Apple way)or you charge for the tools and provide the runtime/distribution for free (the Adobe way).
It might be a generalization, but the gist is there. Is Adobe planning to give the tools for free? I am sure as hell they’re not.
So, we should start complaiing that Adobe is not open and that they are imposing unfair controls on developers. (Does it ring a bell? – Adobe vs Apple)
You can mark a class as static, then it will only allow static functions or members:

static class Math
{
static int Pow(int a,int b)
{...}
}
The new iPad to better handle the normal resolution images
I just got my new iPad (it is actually my first one so I have nothing to compare again ) and I have been like everybody blown away by the quality of the new screen. But after few minutes i leave apple wonder world, launch safari and go online and as everybody is blown away about how crap the images look. Every image is so blurry.

I have read many article online on how web developer could deliver high res images etc ... But my question is the following , wouldnt it possible to have better anti aliasing system in ios to properly handle the normal resolution images?
At the end of the day the 1 normal res pixel should only had to be replaced by 4 high res pixel of the exact same color. But obviously it is not what is happening here otherwise we would see this blurry effect.

If anyone has any information about this topic I would thrilled to read about it.
Invite only?
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I've built a production entity resolution system using 100% Go. It implements a map/reduce model with many workers and multiple (for failover) masters. All data is held in memory for speed purposes. Things that are amazing about go: fun and fast to develop in; beautifully designed (rockstart founding team, than you!); RPC, net channels, and maps and strings, to name a few. The ability to quickly create servers to host business logic. Interfaces and "inheritance" model are both very elegant and clean. Compile times rock. Everything was built with the standard Go (pre 1) install; not a single other package was needed--the very complete standard lib is a blessing.

Two "could be better" points. Go has a hard memory limit per instance of ~ 15 GB; bad when you want to pin lots of data in memory. Russ says this issue is being tracked (2142) and will get fixed after Go 1 gets out the door. So patience will fix this one.

Second, there needs to be more examples of Go code out int the wild for others to share and look at. Using the template package got me stuck, for example, and seeing code cleared up my issue but that was hard to find. This we can all help with by using Go and talking about it. Again patience takes care of this issue as well.

Other than these items, do yourself a favor and start using the magic that is Go!
Reflectors, actually. While normally an irrelevant detail, the distinction is quite important here: lasers reflected on mirrors reflect at a complementary angle, lasers reflected on a reflector reflect right back at the source, allowing us to actually detect it.
There is a slot on the donar list for larger sponsors. I like this model, because the demand from the community will encourage those sponsors to participate. It would have higher risk of return if it wasn't in this public space.
Use this knowledge to trick yourself into doing what you want. Or said another way, to make yourself enjoy doing what you already need to do.
"It was 130 hour weeks. People say, 'there's only 168 hours in a week, how can you do it?' Well, if you're strategic about when you shower and sleeping under your desk, it can be done."

Why would you give this much of your life to a company that will replace you in a heart beat? Not to mention all of the negative health benefits that comes along with these kinds of habits. Your life just isn't worth increasing the company's net worth by a few more dollars.

I would be resentful about working over 40 hours and not owning a majority share in the company. Is she going to fix that for me too?

I've known people like her. Work addicts. It's as much of an addiction as anything else and shouldn't be considered "normal".
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I'd say that when comparing sexist and non-sexist behavior, only one of them is necessarily wrong. That being the former in case you're missing it.

Indeed, by posting feminist quotes rather than something equally but oppositely sexist, I'd say she de-escalated the situation. So she in fact did not take the most annoying way out.
Nokia won't license 'essential' patents if Apple's nano-SIM standard is selected
> 2. It is a black hole, a programmer sink. People start using TeX and curse it, then they learn it, and by the time they know its limitations and are ready to take on a job of writing something better, they are proficient enough in TeX to stay within it. Many systems suffer from similar fate (think Emacs).

I don't really see this. Tex requires a huge investment to learn, but so do most programming languages. That doesn't mean the languages are bad or need replacing. I think that the high cost of entry to tex programming is not necessarily a tex problem -- it's difficult to visualize a system with equal power being much easier to learn. (Though the rough edges could be smoother.)

More importantly, when you say "Take on the job of writing something better", I have to believe that there are very very few who are up for this task in the world, and it would probably require their combined efforts. It doesn't seem likely at this stage. Maybe eventually, though.
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Agreed. Resentment can certainly be a problem, but it's not the sole cause, or necessarily even the primary cause, of burnout.

I've definitely gotten burned out doing work I very much wanted to have succeed.
I wish I could make them read this: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/03/retracting-mr-d...

So they can learn something about journalism.
For me, I was imagining a scenario similar to Top Gear driving a Fiesta and a Corvette through a shopping mall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7R3y-qwZ0
This is one of the slickest apps I've seen lately. (No affiliation.)
Yes. Canada.
Odd that they didn't label any of the cities in the places that seem to have the greatest generation potential.
Uh huh. What's a well-known site elsewhere on the Internet that looks more similar to Dustin's than yours?
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I'm a solo founder 2/3 done with beta. I have contracted developers (12spokes) and designer (Joe Wilson) that I'm very happy with so far. I met with OMM two weeks ago about connecting me with VC's. They stretched our 30min meeting to 80min with questions and interest, but said that my number, $85k, is too low for their people. Thus, I want to talk with you guys :).

periclesproject.com

pericles-staging.herokuapp.com - alpha site that hasn't really been used in last week.

The Pericles Project prioritizes news, analysis and evergreen content by your subjective definition of quality. You will get a far, far higher ROI on your news reading time with us than anywhere else. Another way to imagine it is getting the cream of the crop news from your brightest friends in several different fields, all vetted multiple times before it reaches you. The big differentiators between us and others kicking around in this space are:

1) Our algorithm is hyperfocused on quality (your unique, subjective definition) rather than topic, keywords, etc.
2) Our social aspect dynamically adjusts the influence of your friends and other users, elevating friend a's tech recommendations (you like) but screening his political stuff (you don't care for). In our beta testing, the most pleasant surprise for me was how much I enjoyed/got into different areas of the news that I did not previously follow now that I had it vetted by people I trusted.
3) In politics, we show the best arguments of left, middle and right all together so that people can control bias, etc.

Where we're currently at: After a great month in beta testing (very high interest, and a lot of great, constructive feedback), we shut it down last week in order to:
1) not have people form an impression of a party while we are still putting up decorations/before a critical mass shows up.
2) to be able to focus on those other two items without trying to host the party simultaneously.
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It's a proper use of "intellectual property", but they're not talking about movies and books.
I appreciate the jaundiced eye looking for a profit motive, I do the same thing myself. All I can say is that my blog is intended to help spur entrepreneurs to make products that create healthful habits while informing user about the way technology (and the companies who use it) can manipulate us. As one of my readers told me, "It isn't a superpower unless it can be used for good or evil."
Exactly. The premise that you can allow businesses to operate outside the interference of government by setting up a new government is a category error.
I agree. My point is that when big bubbles are forming there is a almost general consensus that it is a good and secure investment and everybody should get into it. There is not much evidence to argue against it and the minority that have the ability/vision to perceive it are considered pessimists by the majority.
Today it seems to be at least 50/50, those who believe in a tech bubble and those who don't. This is too much people believing it is a bubble for it to really be. So my guess is it isn't.
and if nothing else it makes a great excuse for sys/network admins.

"I can't get online!"

"Yeah anonymous took down the internet"
I used this guide: http://pragmaticstudio.com/blog/2010/9/23/install-rails-ruby... when getting started, which was pretty painless.

There's also a GUI for RVM called Jewelry Box which makes handling gem sets and ruby versions easy: http://unfiniti.com/software/mac/jewelrybox

I think the money would be better spent on creating a comprehensive beginners guide since the 4th edition of Agile Web Development with Rails is lacking.
Isn't stealing information and eavesdropping on communications exactly what the NSA does?
I honestly cannot think of anything since that has rivaled it in terms of sheer audacity and a leap of pure faith.

You'd think with all our technical marvels now, we'd have something that can hold its own against the missions to the moon, but I'm honestly at a loss to suggest anything here.
How does this work with in-video quizzes?
But you already go through the exercise; you compare the cost of adding a server versus the cost of engineering a solution. The only difference is server cost is different. My time's worth $200/hr, what's yours?
You mean capillary action?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action
I think this is somehow linked to viscosity, but I don't seem to find how.
Yes, the problem is never asking questions, it's not accepting the answers.
It would also make an ideal teaching environment: getting students to learn to navigate the Rails installation is half the challenge of getting them started.
Why would you move from Haskell to Go? There's a night-and-day difference between them. I don't understand why you'd switch to a language because of the features it's lacking, unless you think those features are a bad thing (and I have yet to see a reason why generics and TCO are a bad thing).
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I think your percentages and impression of safety are off. Not sure what part of the country you live in but around here(Boston) going only the speed limit on the highways will get you about run off the road resulting in all sorts of unsafe driving. In other words going the speed limit doesn't make you safe, and going 10mph over the limit doesn't mean you don't care, the safest speed to travel is with the flow of traffic.

Additionally I happily drive well over the speed limit when visiting Maine, 2 lane wide highway, nearly straight, 5 exits in 180 miles and nearly no traffic. A speed limit of 65mph isn't about whats actually safe, its about government bureaucracy (and income from tickets).
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Imagine how much of a non-problem malicious hacking would be if the government hadn't started persecuting hackers back in the day. Actual secure software techniques would have been developed out of necessity, and at the very least people would take the concept of an 'air gap' seriously (like perhaps not hooking process control equipment up to the Internet!). But once again, their hubris led them to believe that man made "laws" could declare away an undesirable emergent behavior, and society went full speed ahead in deploying highly brittle systems while the threats were reassuringly out of sight.
Programming != football.
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Today is the Document Freedom Day - from the view of a TeX and LaTeX user
Race does refer geographic origin (among other things.) It does not include career or religion. I don't think that is related to what is being discussed at all.
Agile may well be a sham, but this statement:

the success of the coding-part of a project is dependent on the calibre of the engineers doing that coding and not the process they follow.

seems to me obviously untrue, for >3 engineers, and the larger that count gets, the more process you need. As an engineer I find that statement very appealing, but experience suggests it's off base.
"TL is big because it includes everything possible" isn't the confusing part, what's confusing is why it has doubled in size every couple of years. Is that all from CTAN? The other why could be: why do they include everything when they have a perfectly good package manager? I don't know if TL will do on-demand loading, but MikTeX on Windows did so years ago, so it should be possible.
"Elegance" is one of those empty words that's great for polarizing a debate without really adding any meaningful information.

Neo4j is neat and underutilized. I think rglullis is just saying, if that's why espeed used it, he could have saved three paragraphs of explanation by just saying that.
As godwinesque as this may sound, this wouldn't be the first time group A does something bad just to be able to blame group B in order to receive the powers it craves.
The problem is coming up with a scaling algorithm that works ideally on every kind of image; it simply can't be done. Some methods work better for some images, and other methods work better on others. Wikipedia has a good overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scaling

The scaling in the browser has to work on any arbitrary resizing, not just 2x. A simple pixel doubling only works in one specific circumstance, and would be inconsistent with other scaled images.
Frankly, even if the plugin is available, IMO the GPU drivers are so unreliable that it would be a hell to support and work around all the different bugs for such a limited audience, and I'm writing that on OpenSUSE 12.1 developing in gVim and experiencing random Gnome Shell crashes every 30-60 minutes (shell just shows background image then comes up in 2-3 secs) on ATI drivers. Opensource drivers are stable but have terrible performance with 3D. So even if it runs I don't expect it to be usable on my PC.
Setting up a vagrant script would be worth more. Portable development environment (Ubuntu running in a virtual box), cross platform support, easily configurable and duplicatable, and segregated from host machine.

You never know what kind of things people are doing on their machines, don't deal with that, use vagrant.

P.S. I'm sure a rails script exists for vagrant so he could just improve that with whatever he's going to do.
This is powerful stuff. I hate to admit it because it goes against almost all conventional ecommerce thinking, but I believe you're right.