skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be slightly off-topic, I'm not sure, but I was just reading Apple's patent on pinch-to-zoom[1], and in claim 8 (which is the one the jury were instructed to rule on) it says:

"determining whether the event object invokes a scroll or gesture operation by distinguishing between a single input point applied to the touch-sensitive display that is interpreted as the scroll operation and two or more input points applied to the touch-sensitive display that are interpreted as the gesture operation"

Now, I don't know how patents works, but on my Galaxy Nexus, you can scroll with two fingers, so this part about determining whether its a scroll or "gesture" by the number of touch points seems to work differently to what is described in the patent.

Does that mean the implementation in the Galaxy Nexus is non-infringing? I mean, if patents are supposed to protect the implementation of an idea, and the implementation is actually different then surely its not infringing?

Now admittedly I only tested a Galaxy Nexus, which is stock Android, so maybe Samsung made their version in TouchWiz different. Or maybe the implementation changed in later versions of Android, I'm not sure...

[1]: http://www.google.com/patents/US7844915
Flip it around: what advantage does a "nice graphical UI" give you for what is fundamentally a text processing problem. Except for the most basic stuff (starting, stopping, setting a breakpoint at a line, looking at a variable value) everything you want to do in gdb involves something approximating a query language: set a watchpoint on the 32 bit quantity stored at this address; dump memory from this pointer; call this function (e.g. strstr() on a memory region) and tell me the result.

Watching your code run and hitting a "next" button repeatedly isn't really a good use of the tool.
For those of Python/rst leanings I've simplified the process for you :)

https://github.com/mattharrison/rst2epub2
Well there is an interesting one - you have the gene that causes huntingdons. You are born with it. That's about as Pre-existing as it gets - ante natal. Now please give me my insurance at nominal rates. I will be collecting soon

what is Pre-existing. The symptoms? But symptoms are just a means to tell a disease exists. The gene for huntingdons - is that a symptom?
I had Pandora in Canada years ago.
Another book recommendation:-

Girth Control: The Science of Fat Loss & Muscle Gain - Alan Aragon

This is the bible, it has absolutely no fluff/filler content.
I think Apple's patent is actually multitouch on a resistive touch screen. They do not have a patent on implementing gestures by measuring the speed and distance of multiple touch input points.

The later is what has plenty of prior art and the former is exceedingly trivial and really should not be patentable.
While I think I understand what your point is, I'm not sure I agree.

In the company I work for (about 80 people here), it's not the university rookies that I have problems with: some are weak, some are excelent. But most of them come with a desire to learn, and will in most cases be exploited by PHB project managers that make them work very long hours. Have seen it happen again and again, with no productivity gain whatsoever.

But then, when that really excelent rookie hire appears, with an outstanding ROI, we just can't hire him/her or give him a decent salary, because of all the 'historic' figures that are on the company forever. That's why I cannot agree with a simplistic "juniors can't expect to earn the same salary as someone that has more experience". Some fully deserve it, don't get it, and then become just another layed back demotivated worker.

Thus, "It's all about being a worthily asset for the company, other than just being an simple asset.", can I assume that you offer stock options? Clearly defined rewards if success is reached?

Of course that its not all about the money, but so many portuguese bussiness owners like to forget about their employees once they reach success, and maintain the 'just an employee status'. Thus, it goes both ways. I'm not saying it is your case, but I could not infer otherwise from your text.

And finally: "that they really need to work had to make a difference"
What's working hard? To so many people working hard is working long hours almost every single day. My personal experience tells me most of the people that work long hours are either slackers (lots of coffee, lots of talk) or workaholics that do not always play well with others.
One legitimate line of this critique, though, is the quality of (peer?) review at the patent office. Is it doing the job at the right level?
We can all see you believe that Apple is deserving of all the patents it has been awarded.

So the question is this: Do you think that for the next 20 years Apple should be the only company with large rectangular multi-touch phones with minimal buttons, grid based icons, and pinch-to-zoom?
And the consequence of that is that the "new" page is less and less interesting.

Perhaps submissions should indeed have a "karma cost". Perhaps only if you submit more than once a month or so.
Your video fallback behaviour seems superfluous. If you want fullscreen on a video, why don't you just request fullscreen on the video rather than its container?

Having the fullscreen request shift to the descendent video also breaks the case where you actually have an element containing a video that you want to make fullscreen, for example if you have custom controls for your video element... This is simply impossible with your API.
None of which disprove my main point that motion control _for gaming_ is DOA. Just like 3D.
"Networking" Cannot Replace Skills
Yes :). I'm not exactly sure of the details, but I certainly want to try! See https://github.com/mrbrdo/rack-webconsole: there's already a rack-webconsole-pry, so it should be an easy step to hook it up to past exceptions.
Even a non-profit insurance company would want to know about your genetic sequence; if nothing else, it would help them predict how much money they need in order to treat you over the course of your lifetime.
We are working on it :)
How about

- make your classifier get to 100% accuracy (or close enough).

Also, do it automatically

- use a unsupervised learning stage - then a simple a classifier (so you don't overfit). Repeat, growing the size of your unsupervised, followed by simple classifier, until you get 100%.
I haven't done this yet, is it still online?
How difficult is it?
I didn't mean to make it sound easy. But running a business is difficult and that is only one problem to overcome. If you can't solve that problem for a pretty short amount of time then maybe it is not the right time to create the business.

After YC it is not like you can go home and do nothing. If anything things would get much more difficult. Especially if you raise money from investors.
Dogs Can Shake 70% of the Water from Their Fur in 4 Seconds
I might do that. Thanks.
That article underestimates the level of muddled thinking that exists.

There are people convinced that they can gain weight on a hypo-caloric diet. Of course this is easy to do, drink a glass of water, but that isn't what the muddled thinkers mean.
Entrian.com - goto and comefrom for Python
Has anyone ever tried reading through patents for implementation details? They are so vague (it's like technical writing translated by lawyers to be purposely vague) that it's completely useless.

The vast majority of times, there is nothing in the patent that can't be learned from just interacting with the patented object.
They're from Waterloo not Toronto.
This just shows the homepage for me?
I just found this

http://searchengineland.com/google-tweaks-keyword-tool-and-t...

The Traffic Estimator will now be available only to
advertisers logged into their AdWords accounts, because
it will begin using each account’s performance history
to come up with its traffic estimates. The standalone
Traffic Estimator is being retired.

If this is true, than it seems to reconcile all points of view. Traffic Estimator gives different information based on past performance of the adwords account, so if you've had unsuccessful campaigns in the past, it assumes you'll be unsuccessful in the future. It does this using the success rate of the account itself, rather than looking at any particular landing page quality, which it can't do, since you're never asked for that information.
But NDAs are for trade secrets and DMCA is only for copyright.
It's a project made in my spare time, using open source libraries... I don't know, charging for it was not in my plans. However, if I add push notifications I'll probably charge to cover the expenses.
How many of those people do you think follow the advice of a dietician even 25% of the time?
Mobile Apps: HTML5 vs Native
I won't lie - when I moved to the US for a job offer out of college part of me was excited that I'd finally be able to order from amazon.com.
This isn't a direct solution for you since your material is already in HTML. But LeanPub[1] is one simple way to get ebooks. You write in Markdown, and they produce pdf, epub and mobi formats.

[1]: https://leanpub.com
The theme between these efforts seems to me: Instead of a separate language in a separate world, our views are normal objects/data (in all their glory and power) that happen to know how to print themselves as html.
The sad fact is that UI patents are even more bullshit than software patents. Does Apple have the legal high ground here? Yes, they have a patent on rubberbanding scrolling (among others). Arguments about 'prior art' and blah blah are pointless because they have been granted a patent on a UI design -- an idea, not an implementation, and not an invention. Yes, that's not what a patent is supposed to be, but that's what they've been given.

Was it a good idea? Yes. Should it be protected by a patent? No. I'm sorry, but no (and I say this as a UX designer).

Patents exist to incentivize effort. I would really like to hear someone argue that, without UI patent protection, Apple would have never bothered to implement rubberbanding scrolling. Even typing it sounds ridiculous.
I think for UI elements the standard should be slightly different since a work of fiction can detail the entire thing. So in you example the transporter would be patentable since there no real info on how to make one. However the 3 finger slide gesture they use to activate it shouldn't be since that's the entire thing.

Disclaimer: I'm completely against patenting UI elements. I'm of the opinion that once they come into existence they're language and patenting language is anti-social behavior.
I asked a friend who is a sports medicine doctor about this. She said pretty much what you said:

1) Injury rates are about the same no matter what shoes you wear. (or don't wear)

2) Quick changes in intensity (couch to 10k etc...) often lead to injury.

3) Cross training reduces likelihood of injury as does proper stretching.

4) What works for some people doesn't work for others. (eg. for some people barefoot running is better but that isn't true overall)
Wanting to have a beer with him is certainly not a colloquialism for approval rating. It is about him seeming like a cool guy on a personal level and like one you'd like to have a one-on-one conversation and hang out with.

That characteristic may or may not have anything to do with how good you think they are doing being POTUS. I thought he was a terrible President but still would love to have a beer with him and shoot the breeze.
I posted effectively the same story from a different source two weeks ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385352

No upvotes, no comments. I wonder if this title will fare better. It's all in the title, timing, and toss-of-the-coin.
It seems like everyone is ignoring or has forgotten the death of Ilya, one of co-founders. Be as disappointed as you like but the psychological toll of this probably has more than a little bearing on the situation.
Yeah, Sony's requests were regarding the tools that, at the time, could make any PS3 crackable from official firmware.

A year later they have all those old PS3's off the shelves and none have firmware 3.55 or lower, so they appear to not care as much.
>" Canadians don't spend as much"

compared to who?
Enter "Obama" in the Facebook search bar and press enter
Is it just me, or does this type of monetization detract significantly from the user experience?
good, this explains it :)
Read it again, more slowly. There was empirical evidence that contradicted his flawed theory.
Is it right to assume that you are a mod based on the fact that you have no down arrow?

edit: Ah, thanks benologist :)
MeeGo handsets will run android apps
While it may detract from the user experience, hopefully it improves my shareholder experience :)
Thanks for the kind words!

The $800 price tag was just a kickstarter only price, since we were still largely in the development phase we weren't sure of final pricing. Now it looks like a UV capable scientific instrument with a chinese grating would cost around $400, if you want the same optics but U.S. made it would be around $900.
I love this plan. I can relate all to well to these sentiments. Is it common for smaller agencies to feel like they have to do this to keep up with corporate giant clients? I'm working on reducing my stressful late nights in the office.
"The system was set up to foster innovation, not grant free monopolies willy nilly. I've yet to read any convincing argument about how this verdict will lead to more innovation, but there's a very clear way to see how it could lead to less."

The patent system does not grant patents "willy nilly". Whether you agree with the outcome or not, there is a (rather lengthy) review process, and it was followed. And if the verdict is consistent with the patent laws, then your objection to the case is irrelevant -- your proper complaint is with the system, not the actor.

"I find it very hard to believe that had Apple not been granted these patents, or if the patents had a much more appropriate 12-18month validity period, they would not have shipped the iPhone and forgone the massive revenue and profit stream."

Again, you have complaints about the patent system, and I empathize. I don't like many aspects of the system, either. But I also don't begrudge Apple for acting rationally within the rules established by the system.

In this case, in particular, I believe that the patent system is being used in a legitimate way, to protect a company that has made some true marketplace innovations. It's decidedly sub-optimal that Apple has to resort to patents on rubber-band scrolling to protect something as core to their business model as "look and feel", but that's the system that we have. I don't think it's fair to make Apple a villain (and Samsung a hero) just because the laws are flawed.

Said another way: don't hate the player, hate the game.
Nope, the Karma has a big four cylinder engine too, two liters of displacement.
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Most entrepreneurs I've met want to "build a company, any company" rather than "follow their life-long vision". That might not be a bad thing.

Idea generation is a learnable skill, and once you can generate a bunch of viable ideas, you can select the best one. I think this is better than going with the first "brilliant insight" that pops into your head and deciding it's your lifelong passion.

Also, lean works outside of tech -- remember those infomercial products that took 6-8 weeks to order? That's because they didn't get the products built until they received enough orders. And while they might not change the world, AirBnB, Heroku, Dropbox, Reddit, GoCardless, Exec et al. seem set to leave pretty big craters in it.
I highly suggest you read the above quoted book by the American Bar Association on drafting patents. Emotionally repeating your own personal definition of the word idea helps no one. When we use the word idea in the context of invention, we are talking about the idea of an implementation. For example, the idea behind a steam engine, it might be at its most general: driving a piston with steam. If this idea did not have prior art, you most certainly could patent it as the idea embodies a technique.

Unfortunately, I don't have a good go-to source explaining what computer science is, but I assure you that computer science does not involve writing science fiction novels.
The Shor algorithm has been run for the first time on a solid state device
>Special effects are not prior art.

Special effects can be prior art, if they are sufficiently descriptive. Just like drawings, sketches, and textual descriptions can be prior art.
Well that's so much harder than picking a group of consumers and then browbeating your staff to come up with every combination of features possible in hopes of snaring them. Even worse, it puts blame at the bizdev level rather than sales/eng. The externalizing machines (aka management) typically don't have the humility to tolerate that. /op-ed
GitHub's San Francisco Office Is A Monument To Fun, Drinking, And Coding
LaTeX=TeX+some macroes+some fonts. Make a Web service backend for kpathsea, then you can ship a single native TeX binary, and download fonts, format, macroes and other support files from the Web service on demand, cache them on your iPhone/iPad. Over the years the whole TeX ecosystem has developed into a huge, bloated mess (ever noted the size of latest TeX Live release?) and most users only use (and understand) a tiny part of it, and there is always something broken unless you install the full distribution. I actually miss the simplicity of those old DOS ports such as EmTeX. I used to conciously choose to run a DOS TeX (compiled with Turbo Pascal from the Tangle'd original WEB source) in my OS's DOS emulator. It's simple, fast and beautiful, unlike those modern monstrosities. The whole post-Web2C TeX world is just an ugly hack. I wish someone could go back to the root of Knuth's original WEB distribution and make a minimal TeX, which could then be relatively easily ported to major mobile platforms. If you must stick with the bloat ware way, at least hide its ugly butt in the cloud.

It's 6AM here and I'm typing this longer than necessary comment when my girlfriend is sleeping besides me. It's OK because I'm typing this on my iPhone's touch screen with sounds turned off. If nothing else, that could be one excuse to port TeX to touch screen devices!
My favorite was the bitcoin one. The complaintant (?) used DMCA to protect the MIT license on some code he wrote. Nice!
Portion control is actually one of the primary issues, less so than the actual food being eaten.

Many people will eat relatively healthy, but due to poor satiety or portion control, still gain weight.
Chrome can no longer side-load Extension's CRX files
Go and read the book "The Lean Startup." Then ask yourself the question again.

Explanation: Have you teste dyour hypothesis? Why are you so sure you would need more than one person working on the startup? What made you reach that conclusion? If you are just going by what everyone says, then allow me to challenge your train of thought. You do not need a team to build a startup. It is more efficient if all members are working in unison towards the same goal, but it is more effective to have one person applying lean thechniques than two applying non-lean business knowledge.
This is all just a figment of my imagination if I can't get readers
CanCon doesn't apply to the internet. At all. It is zero percent to blame for any content site being unavailable in Canada.

Canadian rights holders have been notoriously reluctant to sign internet distribution deals. CTV and Global dragged their feet for years on iTunes TV distribution rights for a number of popular shows.
Sublime Text 2, Less, Twitter Bootstrap, Font Awesome and jQuery.

The backend framework typically dictates how files are organized. Usually ends up with css/ and js/ folders, and I put the LESS source files for the stylesheets in css/less/.
Twitter removes "via" text from Tweets
You can't downvote direct replies to yourself.
Twitter Removes 'Via' Stamp From Web Client
Really enjoyed the CTF, thanks for hosting it! Had to run my code twice to get the last chunk on level 8, not sure why though... Was it jitter? Also, will you be sending confirmation e-mails for the t-shirts?
It took you that long into an article on 'Scientific American' to realize it was an American article?
There are also some differences in pricing between the two donation options. Crowdtilt is waiving its fee for its service for this collaboration, but charges 2.5% for credit card processing. Dwolla is free for transactions under $10 and 25 cents for those higher. Meanwhile, Stripe is 2.9% + $0.30 for any transaction.

This has the potential to be really powerful. More frictionless sharing.
From: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/yr71h/html5_game_en...

"To answer your questions: By "Android/ios native" we mean running a JavaScript Interpreter (or JITer) on the mobile device with direct bindings to OpenGL ES. It works like CocoonJS or AppMobi DirectCanvas (or iOSImpact like you mentioned)."
You've brought pachinko to mind: "Directly gambling on pachinko is illegal in Japan. Balls won cannot be exchanged directly for money in the parlor. The balls are exchanged for tokens or prizes, which are then taken outside and exchanged for cash at a place nominally separate from the parlor." (quote from Wikipedia)
thanks man. and while we're on hackernews, we might as well use this as a good opportunity to say something we've been dying to say for a while... perl, bitches! :P
I was one of the ones who went through those three levels with the session cookie bug. How many people reported it? Do you have a problem with me posting a write-up on the bug somewhere (now that it's fixed)?
If you have custom controls, putting that element in full screen will work if the browser you're in (and/or the iframe you're in) supports the newer fullscreen API.

It only falls back in the case where that doesn't work (older browser, no allowfullscreen attribute on the iframe) and supports the older API that is just for video tags.
As a recently-ex-Vancouverite, my impression is that there is a small go-local movement. Even among CityOfVancouver white young union(hippies,hipsters) who see themselves as educated, it's a minority position, and I strongly suspect that it's even less popular among all other demographies.

Unrelated to my opinion about that, I'm curious what local registrar and hosting provider(s) you trust, and how much of a premium you're happy to pay to get your local-ness.
How many rounds should be used with PBKDF?
We fixed it as soon as it was reported, and have probably gotten four or five independent reports at this point. Feel free to post away!