skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I don't have an idea of what are you trying to say or imply.
They are all 4 of lodsys' patents according to wikipedia.
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What happens if you look at even earlier music?
Raiders of the Last Nerd
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Silly Asus makes sexist tweet
The trolls trolling the trolls.

I don't understand why they need to sue anyone. Looking at their financials - they look like they are doing fine.

I always thought patents were meant for defence when you are making money, and attack when you are losing money (my observations - not fact).

Looking at Oracle's cash flow/balance sheet -> they are definitely succeeding.
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Your font doesn't look good on my browser (Chrome v19 on Windows 7) :(
http://screencast.com/t/DPuvV2Z9
Oh, yeah, good point, attack me instead of the argument when you run out of things to say.

I have 3 kids. I trusted in fate to take care of things I had no control over, and was lucky they lived to be healthy confident adults.

I know of super-careful parents that raised precious children frightened of the world. That loses something too - like the purpose of living.

I know engineers want to solve everything with an engineering solution. That way leads madness. Next we'll be sticking monitors in the womb, because, you know, sometimes the foetus doesn't develop right and maybe we can do something about that too.
Companies like Lodsys are a cancer.
Data is the new oil: know sooner, act faster
Despite potentially talking myself out of work, I highly recommend this approach.

Sysadmin is something that you can learn by doing, and any competent software developer should be able to pick up enough knowledge to manage the kind of simple deployment that a freshly minted startup needs.
Nowadays, you use adaptive optics to correct atmospheric distortions. Consider this January 2012 press release:

http://www.nps.edu/About/News/NPS-New-Home-for-Giant-Segment...

("National Reconnaissance Office Deputy Director Air Force Maj. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski [...] officiated at the unveiling of the Naval Postgraduate School’s latest high-tech research and teaching acquisition, the agency’s Segmented Mirror Space Telescope. The Naval Postgraduate School is the proud new home for the Segmented Mirror Space Telescope (SMT), designed and developed for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) as a technical demonstrator and experimental testbed for cutting-edge space imaging technologies.")

These instruments are making single-mirror telescopes (like the ones described in TFA) obsolete.
I agree with you that they are not necessarily removing developers from other projects to work on licensing. However, a percentage of code in Windows is dedicated to validating licensing and preventing piracy.

> In fact, there is no company or software community anywhere that writes highly complex and bug free software. It's not possible.

I agree with this point. For this reason, the point I'm trying to make is that reducing complexity is a key way to make software more secure. And when reducing complexity, we should look at what is in the user's best interest.

Code has bugs--that is an unescapable fact for the foreseeable future. Therefore, any code running on your computer makes you slightly less safe. Therefore, any code on your machine which is not accomplishing something in your best interests could be considered an unnecessary security risk.

I am arguing that it is not in your best interest to insure that you bought a little certificate from Microsoft before your computer operates the way you have configured it to.

After all that, of course it is in your best interests to have Microsoft grow its war chest and be a healthy company that can employ tens of thousands of smart developers to write good code (which we choose to keep using year after year).

But, every time a product breaks because they have to make sure I'm not a criminal, and the way they do it is sloppy, I get upset, and I think it's rightfully so. Usually it is small, proprietary CMS or CRM software that drives me crazy. But today it's this issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_(satellite)

100+ meter diameter radio telescopes pointed at the earth. That's the same size as the largest steerable ground-based radio telescopes. Makes you wonder what they can hear.
Luck is too broad a term.

I suggest that success is down to two components: alpha, and creativity.

Creativity is whatever value you create with your own talents and your own hard work.

Alpha is whatever opportunities come your way, which you need to seize to benefit from.

Obviously some people are just born in a better position to capture/generate alpha. And also you can work at gaining a better vantage point for seeking alpha. But seizing it still takes skill (and most of it goes unrealized), and people can be rightfully proud about that (as long as they don't confuse the alpha component with the creativity component, which would be somewhat tiresome).
Sorry, quick p.s. after playing with it a little more. I found my new list under my user profile page. So, I need to create a new list with the link up top, then figure out that RePost at the bottom right really means Add To A List. Then, if I go to my own profile I can see my list, and can remove videos within it, but I haven't figured out how to remove the list itself yet. Now that I know all of this I can remember it, but I mostly figured it out by clicking random buttons. The user should be able to grok it from the labels and relative positions.
Building a Plane on the Runway
The awesome part is how they force you to download an additional signed WGA validator exe before the site coughs up the patch, which itself is signed. If I was the attacker, I'd definitely be MITM'ing this page.

Zombies in the compound indeed.
As sad as it gets, from the 17th century:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMoRPxLdSQ0
Isn't it so disappointing that on all of your comments on HN, you are consistently discriminated against and censored? I mean, it's obviously done because of the politically correct anti-intellectual crowd on HN, whose only recourse is to write ad hominem attacks on your character. Since you're obviously always correct and you have a perfect grasp of the world and the way it works, isn't it annoying to deal with all these stupid morons who have different -- and therefore obviously idiotic -- views of the world?
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A similar sentiment is expressed wonderfully tersely in Lemony Snicket's notes on Occupy Wall Street.

http://occupywriters.com/works/by-lemony-snicket

There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You probably baked it yourself, in an oven of your own construction with ingredients you harvested yourself. It may be possible to keep your entire cake while explaining to any nearby hungry people just how reasonable you are.
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Is that sarcasm? Steam is DRM. If Valve decides they don't like you, they can delete all your games. If Valve goes bankrupt, they can delete all your games. If Valve gets bought by another company, they can delete all your games. If you like paying full price for a game rental with a variable return date, then Steam is great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
You realize, you already have to be infected with the flame virus to work, right?
Researchers devise hack that sneaks Android malware into Google market
Using the official Twitter client for Android, I just share the tweet to Pocket and it parses out the link for me. I can't comment on it for iOS, but it works great on Android.
Timesys Pittsburgh, PA (intern, full-time,remote)

We are a small, fast, profitable company providing embedded Linux solutions to big and small customers all over the world.

We are looking for embedded Linux kernel developers, build system gurus, gnu tool experts, userspace application developers, and support engineers.

We have a great team, a fun office environment, and a lot of interesting problems to solve.

http://www.timesys.com/company/careers
The Garden Gates Planter – More Than Just a Container
Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems
They went after the low hanging fruit, I imagine.
Legacy DX Filters Removed from IE10 Release Preview
If you're designing the UI first, you're not "hacking" anything.
I found it very hard not to disagree with this. And I won't try. The only thing that makes a console different than a phone is the interface and the display. To which I much prefer a console on my big (and yet inexpensive) tv.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_E2vRrPVBA&t=03m55s
Want to share a workspace in the Bay Area?
We're a bootstrapped startup, looking to team up with another group. We figure it will be fun, productive, and cheaper. We can furnish most of the place with desks and a big lab table. Our preference is either Oakland West, or somewhere on the peninsula.

scott@stampur.com
can earth survive during the next 7 billion years?
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This looks really great, solves a lot of big problems.
Real Clojure. You have access to more of the language, better tools, more libraries, better performance. Anytime you target JS it's like running with lead weights around your ankles.

I think the argument for Node.js was that it is typically difficult to write asynchronous code, and they made some effort to make that better, and the one language across front end and back.

With Clojure you can write asynchronous code just as easily with much better performance. I can also share code bases across my backend (cascalog, storm), mid-stack (noir), and front-end ClojureScript.

The arguments against Clojure is that some people have difficulty learning it and functional programming in general.
ACID-Transaction-with-REDIS
The author paraphrases "spacetime tells matter how to move, and matter tells spacetime how to curve". The torsion axiom extends this to "...and matter tells spacetime how to curve and twist". The way he explains it makes it sound like an elegant way to complete the General Relativity hypothesis, which Einstein described as "the happiest thought of his life". If an axiom has a certain elegance about it, then perhaps a quantum theory of gravity without torsion is adding the complexity, not the other way around.
If you care about the discussion that occurred before a voet was proposed, it took place at http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00048.html
Perl has this: https://metacpan.org/module/Getopt::Declare
Hofstadter: What are the letters 'A' and 'I'?
What the heck is wrong with ICQ as an "MSN replacement"? If the new thing (MSN) sucks, and the old thing (ICQ) still works, why go to a NEWER thing?

Now, I have no trouble understanding why you'd eventually go to gChat; it's clearly superior.
I believe the point is well-expressed at http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00061.html

"You can't have an open and welcoming environment if you're open to people
who work to make the environment non-welcoming to others. It is, like
most things in life, a balance.

There's an old saying: the problem with an open mind is that people throw
all kinds of crap into it. Neither one's mind nor one's community should
be too open. Inclusivity does mean telling people who are not willing
to allow others to be included that they should find a different project
to be part of.

The point of a diversity statement is not to accept all behavior of any
kind. It's to make a positive statement about what sort of behavior we're
actively seeking out and want to align ourselves with."
looks okay for me.
They don't need to sue anyone, but their customers have asked for protection as they are being threatened by Lodsys for using Oracle products, as far as I can tell. So this is a mixture of customer service, P.R. and flyswatting.
I suspect it's a reference to 'the Maginot Line':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line
The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack
I go to MIT and have taken graduate courses in OS design, database design, and distributed systems. I am more than aware of the issues of byzantine errors, fault tolerance, and replication, etc; however, my post is not about that. My post is about how to approach "hacking" a minimal viable product together and guidelines for making that process efficient. The issues that you present are not relevant to this post and can be abstracted away for this context.
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1 Year later, Internet Explore is just 5% of our overall visitors.
It would have been nice if apple could have done this months ago when Lodsys started going after mobile app developers. Nice move by Oracle.
No offense but I can barely read that text, you might want to darken that shit. Cool library though
Steam is a great delivery platform which handles most but not all DRM issues. I've bought several Steam distributed titles that were very strict about re-installs, something only apparent after I'd bought them. Thanks Ubisoft!

Even as painless as Steam is, there's still the driver wrestling, yak-shaving that is maintaining a properly working Gaming PC. Some people enjoy the challenge. This is not going to fly with those used to the "put in disc, play game" crowd.

In time the "PC" will slowly fade away to be replaced by other things just as the precursor to the PC, like the "Minicomputer" and the "Mainframe", will become an anachronism. I'm not saying this will happen tomorrow, but you'll see a shift over the next ten years.

There comes a point where the performance advantage offered by the PC, which is considerable, is negated by the fact that developers can't make use of it. What good would a graphics card with 3,000,000 shaders be today? Why should you need a 256-core CPU to play games? If your equivalent console had only 1,000,000 shaders and 64-cores, which would surely attract scorn and derision, would you really be missing out on much in the scheme of things?
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I am not suggesting people form corporations as a first step, only that they come to a general consensus on equity and commitment as early as possible. Personally, I've had long discussions with potential cofounders who suggest exactly what you say, and when pushed they offer 2% because they are the great idea and execution genius who can pull funding. All those people failed to find competent partners or raise money.

Had these founders not had an agreement, corporation or not, the founders who left would continue to have a very substantive claim on the business as part of the partnership.

You can read here about what happened in one case when this went wrong:

http://www.milwaukee-business-lawyer.com/what-happens-when-o...

Courts hold that a partner who leaves a business lacking an agreement does not lose rights to their portion of the business. If it can be proven that there is absolutely no relationship between the old and new product, perhaps it could be shown that a new partnership was created. This is not a lawsuit you want to deal with.

That is why pretty much anyone giving competent advice instructs partners to decide how they should split equity and on a vesting agreement ASAP. That doesn't mean these agreements can't be changed as commitments and roles evolve, but the existence of an agreement makes those conversations necessary. Without one, fundamental disagreements often lurk.

Over and out.
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Inheritance - A must to prevent for Java Programmers
Holy crap! That actually makes sense. The EM books they are working.
"With his paper, Ari Dyckovsky has helped show that you can have quantum entanglement with vastly different particles, not just particles that are similar."

This was pretty much the summation of his research at least from what I noticed in the article. Can someone explain this for me, please?
"But now I bought a router and the manufacturer of that router has no obligation not trying make my life a living hell for even attempting to control my curtains with it."

really? You would have no objections to the router manufacturer trying to make your life a "living hell"?

For the most part manufacturers don't really care about people re purposing their devices for other goals unless it potentially leaves them legally liable for something (e.g a children's toy with small parts being repurposed as food).

People naturally re-purpose things all the time, for example using a bank note to do cocaine , an AOL CD as a coaster , a newspaper or deodorant to kill a wasp etc etc.

In fact a huge amount of human innovation comes from taking an existing thing and using it for something else, going back as far as the original hunters who took tree branches and used them to kill dinner.

The critical thing about computers is that their entire reason for existence is to be repurposed, a computer on it's own is useless.

What we in the software industry are in the business of doing is finding ways to repurpose computers and their entire appeal is that this is so easily done.

I would hate to live in a world where everything has one discreet purpose regardless of it's physical abilities, for example imagine having to purchase a separate TV for every channel you wish to watch.
And here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UbdDAmYbbk
presentation starts at 10m32s
Creator not the Teacher
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Nah. They don't care what that crowd thinks. I think PJ got it right in the article. Lodsys is probably threatening Oracle customers with patents that cover Oracle software. If that's true, Oracle is suing to take away the threat from Lodsys. They also get to signal to customers and trolls that they won't put up with this sort of thing. Makes a lot of sense.

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It's a really great book, is all.
It's not just the convenience in installation. It's the whole experience from purchase to download to re-download. Everything just works. Buying CDs and punching in codes feels so quaint.

Clearly, if you hate DRM for philosophical reasons, you will hate Steam. If you're pragmatic, you may love it.
There's no content in the article about which four patents are at issue or what their significance is.

There is a link near the start of the article to groklaw's coverage of lodsys and their patents. http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2011061523...

They are also each referenced more than once in the text of the complaint.
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You should have a look at Stackato (http://www.activestate.com/stackato). While it is Cloud Foundry based, it is a fork with significant improvements, including secure containers, integrated web console useful to both users and admins, user/group delineation, and ... Heroku buildpack support. Heroku-in-a-box, you run it where you want, on your terms.
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This is totally awesome, thank you for writing this Matt.

That said, my argument against Clojure is the sheer weight Java interop demands (I always found myself dealing with far more Java than I would have liked). And with Clojurescript, the tooling feels incredibly raw to me. Getting started sucked up most of a weekend, and even then it was considerably less pleasant than parenscript.

That said, clojurescript really just felt very young to me, and could become something amazing with time and momentum. Perhaps you could write a short article about your setup (backend-mid-frontend), and some tips for people testing the waters? Would be highly appreciated!
I wouldn't call it just another SQL database. The extensible type system is actually really cool and you can do a lot with it, and the same goes for Listen/Notify. It's actually an application development platform in a box.

But I guess here's the flip side. PostgreSQL is another relational database and and that means fundamentally it operates on sets of tuples. For anything where set operations are helpful, the relational model brings something that no other models bring to the table. I doubt I will ever see a viable ERP suite written on a NoSQL system.

OTOH, there are plenty of areas where set operations are not that big of a deal. In this area, a networked, mostly reliable, multi-master replicated store of application state data is a really really cool thing. For example, imagine MongoDB as a backplane for an LDAP forest, replacing local BDB storage for something like OpenLDAP. The source data may be in a more mature data store somewhere and fed into MongoDB so if it gets lost it isn't the end of the world (just possibly some temporary business hicups). Same with, say, Root DNS root servers.
That's exactly it according to GigaOM

> Oracle has decided to weigh in because Lodsys “has repeatedly threatened numerous Oracle customers” such as Walgreens over the use of a web-chat feature Lodsys claims to own.

- http://gigaom.com/mobile/oracle-sues-to-smash-patent-troll-l...
Great work Wells. I wish you the best of luck with the great team @ Kicksend.
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Hopefully they don't bite off more than they can chew and try to run on more than one flavor of linux. Ubuntu AMD64 LTS ought to be enough for anyone.
With Mongo, you don't.

Bullshit.

The sharding impl in MongoDB still[1] crumbles pitifully[2] under load. Regardless of sharding MongoDB still halts the world[3] under write-load.

Their map/reduce impl is a joke[4][5].

If you had done the slightest research you'd know that every single aspect that you need to scale out Mongo is either broken by design or so immature that you can't rely on it.

MongoDB may be fine as long as your working set fits into RAM on a single server. If you plan to go beyond that then you'd better start with a more stable foundation - or brace yourself for some serious pain.

[1] https://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/t...

[2] http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/10/15/troubles-with-sha...

[3] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VHQJkYQ5-dY/TUO3RAn8SNI/AAAAAAAABq...

[4] http://stackoverflow.com/a/3951871

[5] http://steveeichert.com/2010/03/31/data-analysis-using-mongo...
I'm younger than that even, but I think its invigorating there is a generation trying to re-discover the innovations from that era. I wish HN had more links like this, and not just Facebook/Groupon/Bitcoin market-o-rama.
No, you just have to be sharing a network with a host already infected with Flame.
No, expanding a short to int or long is never unpredictable. The C standard guarantees that the expansion will only ever occur if the resulting type can represent all values in the original type, and that the result will always have the same value as the input.

If int is 32 bits and short is 16 bits, then converting unsigned short to int will always give a value in the range [0, 0xffff]. No exceptions.
I'd say it really depends on what you're optimizing for.

When I'm going for a high score, I want the fastest time (and lost games don't count for anything). So I guess a lot, especially in the first few seconds, looking for good spreads and free information.

When I'm in the mood for a logic puzzle, I go for the best completion rate (percentage of games won). Then I click a single corner and work with whatever I get, guessing again only if my remaining options are guesses anyway. (The corner eliminates at least one bad endgame).

When I just want a fun experience, I go for most games completed in a session. In that case, I click all four corners to start to eliminate bad endgames. Those aren't a fun experience.
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Is there anyone collecting all these great Bootstrap resources?
Richard M Stallman Eating
What is RMS eating off his foot?
For what it's worth, Valve has pledged to issue a patch to unlock everything if they ever shut down the steam service.
Now available with new and faster bugs.
Good idea, but apparently much money has been spent on it already. Excellent article on the physics of all things non-invasive (but especially glucose): http://www.mendosa.com/noninvasive_glucose.pdf
The story behind the roman numeral IIII (not IV)