skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patent trolls need to go to court in certain states to be effective. States like Texas are a big part of the patent troll problem. The courts there welcome the insanity with open arms.

If we could clone Posner and put him in every state, this type of ridiculous patent litigation from IT companies would not be such a viable course of action.

Maybe it's not a question of what one justice can do, but a question of people taking a greater interest in their local and federal court systems. Are the courts in your state giving the go-ahead to frivolous patent proceedings from IT companies? Do you think that is a good thing? Is the time and expense for the courts to hear these cases warranted? Take an interest, as you did with SOPA. Imagine if there was a calling campaign to state bar associations instead of state politicians. Believe me, it would get noticed. Most people just do not care about this stuff enough to take an interest.

That said, there are a lot of people who support this patent trolling nonsense. It doesn't fly in Chicago, but it's par for the course in Washington and California. Good luck rallying the troops in those places. Many of them are part of patent trolling machine. It's what their employers and clients do.
I agree that thousands < millions, but was there a study to see how those millions feel about the UI? The change was from beta to RC. Was there really a study done in such a short time to ask those millions? If such studies exist then why even bother asking for feedback in a public forum? Anything you'd get would be statistical noise.

Since the changes were quite drastic between beta and RC, my guess would be no, there was no study. If there was a study then I would question the competency of the people of carried out the study given how off the mark the results were (VS beta UI).

My guess is that the UX/UI people didn't really know what they were doing. They saw the massive backlash and went "Oh OK, I guess we were a little bit off. Let us remove most of these upper case captions, but we can't get rid of them entirely, so let's change the menu to upper case." When the second wave of backlash came (over the menu) the UX/UI people already had their pride bruised so they couldn't back down again.
Where are you getting the song data (title / artist name) from? If it isn't scraped from YouTube, how do you match up the search results with YouTube videos?

Good work!

P.S. When viewing source (on Chrome, OS X) it shows the .search and .mixtape divs as blank! Is there a reason for this?
You can take a look at RealStudio. The Web Edition is in the early versions and is still a little rough around the edges though their Mac/Windows desktop development environments are much better and have been around for many years.

Link: http://www.realsoftware.com
I just can't imagine how that meeting went ... this was planned by someone, more than one person even. How did no one say, "hmm, maybe this isn't the most tactful approach".
This is cool - but how is it different to Chosen?
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It goes to show the diversity in careers pursued by among MIT alumni.
If things are as presented, I think you have a clear legal case. This is precisely the thing that trademark was created for - preventing confusion for the consumer.
This site is pretty much broken on Mobile Safari. The top banner in purple is cut off on the right and I have no way of scrolling over. :(
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I am not saying that it will work for everyone as it did for me, and I know how fortunate I was. But I do know the system really well enough to get through the process. I actually come from a country where it is extremely hard to obtain a US visa from and so going through the process was not as easy as my first comment had made it seem.

As far as skilled tech labor goes, that is more of an H-1B cap issue, which the US should increase. Ironically, in 2007-08 when they were about to increase it, the great recession hit and not enough people applied to it. As such, they never got around to increasing it to the substantial number that they should
Actually it looks like it was updated to version twice since then to version 0.5.0[1], the latest update being 7 months ago.

[1] https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/downloads
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Voxels would be too heavy. I have worked with volume rendering before and it's way too expensive to do it at this scale (although their scene with the light passing through the volumetric smoke column kind-of defied this).

Some real-time version of PRT? "RTRT"?
> a kind of sideways inheritance where you could override an ancestor in a package, but not have to override all the descendants to have them inherit the behaviour - really handy for third-party plugins

This sounds like the virtual classes that Tim were talking about ten years ago. (For the curious, the first programming language with virtual classes was BETA from Aarhus University.) They never made it into UnrealScript. His language research after that time was less incremental and sought to uproot almost everything about programming games. He moved away from object-oriented programming and more towards functional programming, specifically type theory. When I arrived in 2004, he was all about dependently typed languages, the big inspiration being David McAllester's Ontic. For a long time his plan was that his new language would be used to implement most if not at all of UE(n+1). Eventually that ambition had to be tempered by reality and thrown aside; I'm not sure if he's still working on programming language design.
nice idea!

but be prepared for lawyers ... these guys send ugly letters with long numbers :/
It looks like youtube. If you check the network tab in Chrome.
I actually got it on the first go which surprised even me. Though it was more of a testament to how thorough my lawyer was.
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Why dont you just email me (address in profile), and I will help you the best I can
Search doesn't work; It just spins indefinitely.
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Yes, he needs to add "no copyright intended"
to protect himself.
Well, "DOM ready" isn't really a thing -- but assuming we're talking "DOMContentLoaded", then you're absolutely right. It doesn't have anything to do with other resources (images or CSS) being loaded or not. It'll execute as soon as the document is parsed.

As for downloading CSS -- it won't prevent your JS from executing, but it'll block page rendering until all the stylesheets have been downloaded and parsed.
So far I really like Project Bubble, it is simple, has time tracking and looks to be more freelancer oriented.
The OP is describing what he believes to be an emerging trend.

Specifically, he is challenging the stereotype that technology is still a male-dominated market on the consumption side. Part of his argument centers around the fact that because the production side is heavily lined with men, they can be partially blinded to the fact that women are becoming a very important tech market.

To piggyback on the above, consumption logically would precede production. Most of those working in technology today had some interest in it prior to their career. If the author is correct, we can probably expect to see the gender gap narrow over the coming years.
Customizing it with less is really pretty straightforward.

You can also generate custom css from the website. Just click the customize tab in the topbar. You can bump up @baseFontSize. 16px works very well. You might also want to increase the @baseLineHeight a bit as well.
Pretty easily detected. This is a bad idea. Amateurs need to stop attempting their own patchwork solutions to their already bad fuck-ups.
Reminds me of the first iteration of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxtape
So that's where Aqua went ... they're working at Microsoft!
MSG basically IS glutamic acid, with Na+ ions.

"MSG is the sodium salt of glutamic acid"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate
I would be interested in net immigration statistics restricted to G8 or G20 countries. It would surprise me if the US wasn't in the top 5.
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>When people feel that the VS side has their fingers in their ears, one needs to yell louder to be heard.

The problem is the people they are 'yelling louder' at are not the people making the decisions, they are simply the ones that have to/volunteer to face the mob. I try and be civil in my feedback for products I use even if I am pissed off because I know there is a human being at the other end and they are more than likely operating under similar constraints/deadlines/rules as everyone else in the world. Sometimes I disagree with their decisions, sometimes violently, but I try to approach the conversation from the mindset that they aren't simply doing it to annoy me, because they aren't.

>Claiming to paying attention to feedback when clearly not doing so is also quite frustrating.

Not sure how we could be considered to be ignoring people. Have you seen this announcement? Have you seen the massive UX changes due to Beta feedback? The only thing I can think of is the ALL CAPS issue, but that actually came in RC itself, and as someone else pointed out in the GP of this thread, that is also announced as being something that users will be able to tweak.

>A counter-example is how ScottGu handles situations like this -- or used to, nowadays he doesn't seem to have that much free time.

ScottGu is a VP now, he likely doesn't involve himself personally in many issues like that anymore as it doesn't scale and his time is more valuably spent in other pursuits.

>On the other side, one thousand people ask for the same thing and they're being ignored. Do you see my point?

I would if people were actually being ignored, I don't see anything in any recent announcement that would indicate that. Care to point out an issue with lots of feedback that is being ignored? And to be clear I don't consider "ignored" == "not doing what I want them to". Feedback can be given, even at large volume, and not result in a change of course. If the people making the decisions feel, even in the light of the feedback, that their course is correct that is their decision to make. Ignoring would be simply not even addressing the feedback at all and just blindly going about your planned course as if the feedback didn't exist.

If I think to the major feedback points I recall they were

Feedback: Don't like only being able to make Metro apps with Express.

Conclusion: See the post this thread is located in.

Feedback: Hate (dislike strongly) the UX in Beta.

Conclusion: See the RC release.

Feedback: Hate the ALL CAPS menu in RC.

Conclusion: See blog post where it was said officially that there will be a way to tweak this (not sure what that way will be, but it will be present).

Feedback: Hate that I can't build things in C++ that target XP using 2012.

Conclusion: Still sad panda (I have no hand in that matter though so I can't speak with any intelligence on it).
Is it really fixed in ICS? Last time I tried my test case with my ICS phone it was still happening. Further, the iPhone wasn't exhibiting the ghost click behavior.

I really wish Google would make the Android browser blow mobile Safari out of the water. It'd be good for their business. As someone who used to do mobile web development full time, Android felt like IE 6/7 half the time.

I say this as an Android user.
Is the "easily detected" part really a problem? The idea isn't to try security by obscurity.

The main advantage is that it would still keep people from using precomputed rainbow tables and slow down brute force attacks with a minimum of additional code, wouldn't it?
(similar to the switch from DES to triple DES back in the day)
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This is a bit old but it's a very interesting way of looking at startups.
Be right back, moving to Chile. Knowing several people who've acquired visas, it seems slightly less than the headache it's portrayed as in this article. Admittedly, the US could do better but unless you have funding or partners here already, why would you choose to build a startup in the US when they are never going beat the lucrative options of other countries (many of whom have lower costs of living)?
Did the same thing for my wife...I await her response. ;)
this was the shit when it came out. i wish i had taken screenshots - really admired muxtape (and a similar website.. i think it was called favstar?) for the incredibly clean UI and UX
Cygwin goes to heroic lengths to try to turn Windows into Unix; from what I've heard, it even splices a DLL into every process on the machine; if you want a less intrusive solution that just gives you a Unix utilities under Windows, Gow looks good.
E2 only requires 50k to 100k?

I looked into it a couple of years ago and was told by a lawyer "substantial" means around 500k.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I will make good use of the Network tab going forward :) I had only ever really used Console and Elements in the past.
Only because the article under-analyzes things...
having the same issue
Is there a hackernews that isn't focused on consumer software?
I agree that the camera is rotating. I guess the follow up question would be: why isn't the Earth rotating as well about the same axis?
There's an open source clone if you want to sate your nostalgia: http://opentape.fm/mixtape/
The title is a (depressing) quote from a student who apparently didn't understand enough math to understand the problem with their position.
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Rainbow tables are the least and most trivial of your problems to solve.

Using a fast hash algorithm for storing passwords is fucking braindead and a DOA decision to make about security.

Your "solution" doesn't solve anything.
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oh wow... nostalgic indeed. thanks for sharing!
I don't now much about Flame, but I would assume that messages are sent using public-key cryptography in such a way that they can't be spoofed. Maybe a replay attack would be possible though.
>>B) stop being a nancy boy.

That's kind of rude, and very sexist. Please be polite, and maybe re-read this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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>When the second wave of backlash came (over the menu) the UX/UI people already had their pride bruised so they couldn't back down again.

Possibly, but I suspect it is, as they have already stated, driven by the desire to align some UX look and feel consistency across 'major products'. I don't know if I quite 'buy' the idea that all caps menus in VS and all caps menus in Office give you any 'alignment', but you know, I am but a dev not a UX person :)
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Parts of the footage really had me convinced I was looking at an ordinary film recording of a human being, which is pretty damn impressive given that it's actually a textured 3D model - and they seem to be doing post-processing on it to make it look less than real. I can't wait to see what's possible with the inevitable 'second generation' of Kinect (that probably includes a better depth camera).
Agreed. As I personally can ratify, it takes a great deal of intellectual and emotional investment to be tied to the fate of our employers. The gamble impacts every aspect of your life, from having a family to buying a car or house. I am incredibly thankful to this country for the opportunity, but I think I've proven I am a good candidate for a Visa that provides me peace of mind.
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Oi, not this again. Let not a single comment be directed at a specific gender, ever.
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You can apply for a green card at any time while on an H1B as it is a dual intent visa (i.e. they don't think its a problem if you tell them you want to stay permanently unlike E2). A shell company is highly unlikely to get an H1B petition approved

How quickly/successful you are with your GC application depends on whether you can qualify for EB2 or have to go through EB3. EB3 is backed up for years. EB2 is current (therefore around 12 months wait) if you are not from india and china but you need to have a masters or 5 years of provable experience (letters from previous employers) in an area that the petitioning company cannot find an American will the same skills.

The E-2 can be a bit of a trap IMHO. If your business fails or you sell it, you have to leave the US. This might seem reasonable until you consider someone might run a small company for years, build a family, settle, and then have to leave because of economic downturn or because they sell their company. I don't know how easy it would be for someone to move from owning/running a company under E-2 to H1B employee of a new owner.

tl;dr? There is no clear path from E-2 to green card.
Sencha Architect is the equivalent.
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That's what I thought. Which means the original post makes very little sense- if your <script> tags are just before </body> there's surely no real delay between that an using DOMContentLoaded?
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No, thank you, I won't trust you on this. I've been a fairly loud critic of ORMs since the first time I was exposed to them (Hibernate, as it happens)--having seen them in practice hasn't changed that a bit. The conventional opinion on them may have changed, but mine never has; mutable data structures increase code complexity and greatly increase the surface area for state changes in places it wasn't (or shouldn't have been) intended.

And you may not need mutability for EJB, but it's almost always the case that you have it--it's partly a side effect of having to deal with people like you who consider it "not a big deal" and partly because JavaBeans are completely misused[1].

(For those following along at home, who might not be familiar with the culture of Java programmers, mutability in absolutely bizarre places eventually ruins your day at least once. See, for example, the Date[2] class, which for some very Java-y reason is completely and totally mutable. Questions related to the Date class are among my favorites for determining whether a Java programmer has any concept of mutability, and why "do you use Joda Time?" is a decent barometer of basic not-going-to-kill-your-project competence.)

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Seriously, though: is "just get it working" the entirety of your defense for diverging from good practices? This isn't just me calling it "good practices," this is what Bloch says in head-shrinking detail in Effective Java and what pretty much everybody else who's had to write Java in anger eventually agrees with. This[3] isn't the best thing in the world on the topic, because I'm not going to quote Effective Java at length, but if you can read that and then come back with "just get it working," I'm gonna have to go light a candle for whoever inherits your code down the line because I've been there (still am there, in the day job) and it's hell.

[1] http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=84

[2] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Date....

[3] http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=29
Ya, I tried to do that in Chrome Devtools the other day, failed, and was all "Wut. I could do this a decade ago..."
It's not quite clear what point you're trying to make here. This is a lot of text, and it's clear you intended to contribute to the discussion: can you clarify what you sought to contribute?
This is really interesting. I know a few other places with up or out cultures and that tends to leave only high performers, though that's usually after 2 years, not 1 month!

I'm not sure if a 1 month up or out is causal to a good company, or just coincidence, but thanks for sharing.
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Ya, the biggest issue is that it makes tacking on tests a lot more tedious/challenging. You have to Crete the seams where TDD evolves them via API.

I generally agree with the notion that "exploratory spikes" are much needed. The trick is to toss those in the rubbish bin and TDD the real API. Bet of both worlds.
>Feedback: Hate that I can't build things in C++ that target XP using 2012.

lol. I apparently need to come give the VS team a brief on the VS team decisions. They've reacted to that crticism as well and are going to release an Express SKU with Desktop support.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/08/visu...
thanks :)

here's an archive of the original UI:
http://justinouellette.com/muxtape/
Listening to customers is not the end all or be all of UX or product design and neither should it be. It should be taken into account, but UX experts surprisingly know better much of the time. The one constant is that people don't like change, whether good or bad, and that decision cannot be made by listening to a vocal group of commenters.
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"never wait for "DOM Ready" for an application to startup"

We've linked page load times directly to lower sales funnel drop outs, I would warn against this for some people, as you will be blocking/delaying rendering of the DOM for code that is ultimately not impacting the UI

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/payl...
Yeah, whether or not you can run stuff before DOM ready is often one of those questions where most answers are right 99% of the time and piss off your customers the other 1% of the time. Have fun debugging your little optimization when you literally can't reproduce the bug in your own debugging environment.
Maybe it depends which country you are from? I have been told that ~100k was possible.
The most sensible rotation in the photo is the one of the ISS around Earth, not Earth's own rotation. The orbit doesn't need to be equatorial.

(Edit:) About your other question: the middle of the circles is the ISS's orbit pole.

(Edit 2:) OK, I get what you find weird: the fact that stars's circles and land ones don't have exactly the same pole. That's because Earth's rotation.

IIRC, a very low orbit object makes a circle in 90 minutes. I guess IIS is higher so it would orbit in a few hours. In these few hours the traces of land lights result from the composition of orbit and rotation, while the star's one only from the orbit. An angle of, let's say 20% of ISS orbit with equatorial plane would explain the difference.

BTW, I don't think the camera is rotating. Something, maybe an antenna shows in the photo against the star background. The ISS must be rotating in the same period of the orbit, so it always shows the same face to Earth's surface.
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> [on placing a script before the end tag of the body element] what's the point [...]? Neither much better than just waiting for dom loaded.

I'll take sane, library-agnostic script without event listeners for $500, Alex.
Don't you have to basically prove associativity to show that matrix multiplication is a function composition?
Only if your classmates can do better than 90% of the rest of the developed and emerging world.

THAT is the real question. And, frankly, for the vast majority of Americans... an honest answer to that question sucks to think about.
I read about this is the latest issue of Wired. This looks amazing.